What games are you playing now?

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Got a few hours in Palia so far, and I am enjoying it quite a bit. Still in the early quest stuff, and it will probably be a while before I start building relationships with the villagers.
 
I continue to play New World. It's a different and detailed game. New things are constantly being released.

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I finished all the story jobs in House Flipper 2, so I've technically finished, but there the flipping houses and sandbox modes/expansions that will go on. Probably the best cozy game I've played.
 
More Nuclear Throne for me, I've reached the throne twice now, something I had never done until this week. I even killed it today, only it killed me in the process - I was playing, of course, as Chicken and it took my head off right before I nuked it (nuclear throne, get it?)

I think I'm going to play The Invincible next, seems like my kind of thing.

Edit: not worth a new post, I thought Burnout Paradise (Remastered) was completely dead but I've been persisting with it and it you're patient you can actually find players, but finding players and completing challenges with them are radically different things. I smashed almost 50 challenges with a couple of players tonight but I've still done fewer than 200 out of the 500 needed to be truly done with the game.
 
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Thought I’d purchase PC3 as it’s being vaporised pretty soon and god dang, it’s actually bloody good fun on my Fanatec CSL DD.
Was thinking it’d be strictly pad leaning given the reaction upon release but it’s an absolute blast in my sim rig 😀 oh, and Bannochbrae is one of the greatest fictional tracks in all of video gaming, I get Driveclub vibes and fond memories of the greatest racer ever in my eyes whenever I’m blasting along this fantastic layout
 
I recently went back to PC3 as well, and it was a time trial at Bannochbrae that reminded me of its qualities - I can’t think of many other racers that feel so damn good on a pad. You can almost feel the car moving around underneath you and can control all the little slides and feel under pinpoint control of the car. It’s a revelation, really. Compared to PC2 which is in so many ways a much better game, but playing it with a pad, even though you can get used to it and make it playable, always feels like a compromise. They did something magic with PC3, to make the controls and handling feel so organic.

It makes me mourn that they didn’t achieve the same thing with PC2, though.
 
Metal gear solid delta: snake eater.
First impressions: Really liking the updated gameplay. Mgs3 was great for its time but for nowadays its feels kinda clunky. Delta gameplay feels like a fusion of mgs3 and mgs5.
The reports of performance issues the game has been having, i seen some fps drops but nothing that disturbs my experience.
Now did we acuallly needed a remake to mgs3? Maybe not.
Mgs3 still looks good and, even though the gameplay is a bit clunky for 2025, its still an amazing game.
In my opinion metal gear, metal gear 2: solid snake (the 2 msx games), mgs1 and peace walker are much more in need of a remake than mgs3
 
Ive held out on buying Transport Fever as i only have a Steam Deck and no PC and didnt think that it would very good on it but I have to say the controls are great and im enjoying the early stages getting to know the game.

How it will perform once it gets to bigger cities I will find out soon enough but so far its good.
 
Sonygamer455
Welp, I had been on a NASCAR kick since early July, which saw my first major playthrough of NASCAR Rumble in 20 years, and even some time on some NASCAR PC games, but as of today, I am pretty burnt out from it. That said, I am moving on to the Star Wars Battlefront series, and I am playing through it right now. Starting with the first game on both PS2 and Xbox, and then eventually I am going to go to Battlefront II on both systems again and do the same. I am basically doing this as prep because I intend to give the PC version a proper go soon and eventually play with a bunch of mods for it, something I've been meaning to do for longer than I care to admit. I guess now is finally the time I do this, since it's been on my mind lately, and I've considered it for a long time now. 😎
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So I said this, and I really was intent on doing it, but things have taken an unexpected turn. Upon replaying Battlefront 1 on Xbox, I ended up having WAY more fun with it than I thought, with every session feeling just as good as the last, and it was perhaps the most fun I've had with the game yet. So much so, it has ruined Battlefront 2 for me, to the point that I kept finding myself wanting to go back to the first since I was having a better time with it. Which is very odd because for many years, I have always preferred the 2nd game over it and only occasionally felt otherwise, but this time is different. :odd: While it has a few things I like better than the 2nd, I've narrowed it down some and I think it's simply because the game goes at a much slower, much more relaxing pace than its sequel, and is easier to get headshots on.

I tried staying away from both for a bit in hopes that the kick would wear off and I could properly enjoy Battlefront 2, but it just wasn't doing it for me, and I still found myself wanting to go back to the first again. So I am back to that game again, and while this might not have been what I had in mind, it's working wonders for my mental state, and I am having the most fun I've ever had with the game in the past 19 years I've had it, so why stop? 😎 I guess I'll just keep playing this game until I get tired of it because I don't know what else to do. 🤷
 
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Playing some real old classics, Syndicate plus via dosbox & Syndicate Wars running the hd port mod for SWars so full 1080 widescreen support & zoom in/out mod so it isn't so close & extra stuff enabled that was apparently cut from the original + custom content.

This is it now.


How it used to be
 
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Been many years since I've played the original Gears of War in any form so I got the Reloaded edition. Also seems I had the Ultimate Edition in my library I didn't notice until after purchase, not sure if there are drastic differences between the two.

In any case, it's great to revisit an Xbox classic, had good times with the GoW franchise back in the day. Would be nice to see remasters of 2 and 3 someday.
 
SPhilli911
Been many years since I've played the original Gears of War in any form so I got the Reloaded edition. Also seems I had the Ultimate Edition in my library I didn't notice until after purchase, not sure if there are drastic differences between the two.

In any case, it's great to revisit an Xbox classic, had good times with the GoW franchise back in the day. Would be nice to see remasters of 2 and 3 someday.
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Looks like I need to get this game too. I used to play GoW 1-3's multiplayer with my friends a lot back in the day. Fun times!
 
Imbissbrunto
Looks like I need to get this game too. I used to play GoW 1-3's multiplayer with my friends a lot back in the day. Fun times!
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Feels like a lifetime ago but same here, used to play online multi-player Gears a lot. Wonder if I can convince my old buddies to play online again. Harder when we are all nearly 40 😂
 
SPhilli911
Feels like a lifetime ago but same here, used to play online multi-player Gears a lot. Wonder if I can convince my old buddies to play online again. Harder when we are all nearly 40 😂
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Same, we're getting old lol. I can hardly believe that I'll be 40 five and a half years from now. Feels surreal.
 
At the moment I’m yet again back on F1 2020. I don’t know what it is about this one but it’s pretty much the perfect current gen F1 game in my eyes. Every time I play it I’m struck by how nicely it handles, how pretty it still looks, how good the racing against the AI feels, how annoying issues present in other titles from the series (straightline speed disparity between you and the AI, awkward behaviour on kerbs etc) just don’t really seem to exist on this one for some reason. I’m enjoying playing through the actual COVID season calendar starting with the two races in Austria etc, and I’m having a blast. Sad that later in the season it becomes much harder to replicate the season though because we went to the Nurburgring, Mugello, Imola etc. but hey. And it’s the last one with classic cars, too. The 1994/95 Schumacher Benettons and the Jordan 191 are fantastic additions. I’m not sure why I always keep coming back to this one above all the newer ones, but I do.
 
SPhilli911
Been many years since I've played the original Gears of War in any form so I got the Reloaded edition.
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I completed Gears of War Reloaded already and I admit it was shorter than I remember. Not disappointingly short, but I could swear there was more to it.

Started downloading Gears 4 and 5 since I'm still in the Gears mood and those two I have not revisited since they first launched.
 
SPhilli911
I completed Gears of War Reloaded already and I admit it was shorter than I remember. Not disappointingly short, but I could swear there was more to it.

Started downloading Gears 4 and 5 since I'm still in the Gears mood and those two I have not revisited since they first launched.
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Gears of War relatively short campaign is refreshing when compared with 40+ hrs marathons. The very underrated Outriders has a lengthier campaign with a good story and gameplay IMO (single player looter-shooter with some cover mechanics too, but it will punish you if you abuse it.)
 
When Ready or Not came out on Xbox I took a leap of faith and brought the Deluxe Edition despite never having played the game before. No regrets here I'm loving this. Not a big of fast paced shooters so the whole tense clearing of one room to another is right up my alley. Very well done by the developers. Even the AI are not too bad (bar the random flashbang that gets tossed into a door post not the through the doorway itself).

I also brought a cheap PS4 and a copy of GT7 because I had to scratch that itch. And Forza Motorsport really hasn't done that sadly. Why didn't I do this sooner? This is fantastic. The game is warm colorful engaging and a love letter to cars. Its not perfect but its fun. It brings me joy. Its been great timing because now i have the flu and its been keeping me sane the last few days. I am now scheming on how I can afford a PS5.
 
TXR for me now, as in the new one on Steam early access. I've never played a TXR game before (have meant to for a long time, though) and it feels gloriously nostalgic, exactly like one of those relatively low budget PS2 games that's simple, maybe a little rough, not very well explained, full of Japanese oddness (in this case the interactions with people) and yet as an overall package it's just so much fun and hard to put down. Honestly the last time I had this amount and kind of fun with a car game it was Wreckfest, which is high praise because I loved Wreckfest.
 
I've recently started playing F1 23 and I'm really enjoying it so far. It's my second F1 game after F1 2021, I got it for free from PS Plus some time ago but didn't have time for the game until this weekend. Currently playing through the F2 season before moving up to F1. Fun game!
 
Just bought Ready Or Not for PS5 despite never liking tactical shooter that much.

Wow this game is amazing. Really intense (reminds me of the first Insurgency), the guns are punchy, the AI teammates are useful at times. 9/10
 
Downloaded RoboCop: Rogue City a few months back but hadn't got around to playing it until this weekend. I wasn't expecting much from it, although i know it was well received when it came out, but it absolutely nailed that future-in-the-80's asthetic. The enviroment graphics are spot on and really well detailed but its perhaps let down by some of the characters faces in the cut scenes. They have very detailed textures, but their facial movements and the lighting on them feels a couple of generations old, which really sticks out compared to the level of detail in the background. I've also found it to be a bit glitchy, even in the the short time i've played it, but nothing so far that spoils it.

In a way it remins me a lot of Star Wars: Outlaws, which i played through recently. They both got their respective film enviroments absolutely spot on - i totally felt like i was in the Star Wars or RoboCop 'worlds' whilst playing them, everything about them was completely authentic in feeling. But as with Outlaws i feel the gameplay may quickly get repetitive and the maps restrictive once the novelty wow of the visuals wears off. Still, i imagine it will be a fun if single play-through sort of game.
 
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Downloaded RoboCop: Rogue City a few months back but hadn't got around to playing it until this weekend. I wasn't expecting much from it, although i know it was well received when it came out, but it absolutely nailed that future-in-the-80's asthetic. The enviroment graphics are spot on and really well detailed but its perhaps let down by some of the characters faces in the cut scenes. They have very detailed textures, but their facial movements and the lighting on them feels a couple of generations old, which really sticks out compared to the level of detail in the background. I've also found it to be a bit glitchy, even in the the short time i've played it, but nothing so far that spoils it.

In a way it remins me a lot of Star Wars: Outlaws, which i played through recently. They both got their respective film enviroments absolutely spot on - i totally felt like i was in the Star Wars or RoboCop 'worlds' whilst playing them, everything about them was completely authentic in feeling. But as with Outlaws i feel the gameplay may quickly get repetitive and the maps restrictive once the novelty wow of the visuals wears off. Still, i imagine it will be a fun if single play-through sort of game.
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Mr Grumpy
Playing some real old classics, Syndicate plus via dosbox & Syndicate Wars running the hd port mod for SWars so full 1080 widescreen support & zoom in/out mod so it isn't so close & extra stuff enabled that was apparently cut from the original + custom content.

This is it now.


How it used to be
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One of my absolute favourite gaming franchises. The original Syndicate is probably my favourite game on the Amiga and I played Syndicate Wars to death on PlayStation and PC.

I didn't know about the existence of this mod and now I need it in my life!
 
GTboyz
Just bought Ready Or Not for PS5 despite never liking tactical shooter that much.

Wow this game is amazing. Really intense (reminds me of the first Insurgency), the guns are punchy, the AI teammates are useful at times. 9/10
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Got this on my watchlist. Really like the OG SWAT games and I much prefer a paced shooter, definitely will pick it up at some point*


(* along with the other 20+ games I am watching!)
 

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