What games are you playing now?

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Finished Hell is us over the weekend which was absolutely great.

Tried to get back into DK Bananza and ended up deleting it. I think it's an utterly mediocre game and I just don't get the hype. I think it's ugly, doesn't control awesome and the core mechanic is not well executed. It feels like a prototype. Usually when I don't like a game that's hugely popular I still get the appeal and put it in the "not for me" bucket, but with Bananza I just don't see it. I think the nostalgia is doing a lot of heavy lifting here - which is fair enough - but it's completely lost on me. Looking at the Meta I think Nintendo got away with murder here.

I also uninstalled Flight Sim 2024 and re-istalled Flight Sim 2020. It's so much better. 2024 is still completely broken. I'm surprised this isn't talked about more.
 
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Decided to move on to The Invincible, a game I had already tried but most of my half an hour spent with it was trying to work out why it ran so badly on my Deck. Now I'm about 45 minutes in and loving the mystery so far, can't wait to play more, I forgot how much I love good walking sims.

Just finished The Invincible, what a rollercoaster. The path I took was a bit clichéd at times but overall I really enjoyed it.
 
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Since both FM23 and FH5 are just ticking over with no new content, none of the games I have actually played recently (The Crew 2 and Motorsport, TDUSC, Grid Autosport, Project CARS 3) were on GamePass so it's kind of being wasted and I was looking for something on the list that I could fit in.

So I've downloaded Wreckfest and added it to my rotation. I played it before a lot on PS4 years ago, but am starting again on the Series S from scratch. The Tournaments are still running, so I'll be running those as much as possible to get my level up and unlock the Tournament specific vehicles.

Grid Autosport I'm just carrying on running the weekly online events until it goes offline in November.

Project CARS 3 I'm running the rivals events until that goes offline in February. There have also been a few cars at 95% off in the daily discount, so I've got my garage up to 6 cars now. I need to keep a list as the game doesn't show you what you already have when the offer pops up in the Showroom. Today's Vantage was a dupe as I already have one from 95% discount 2 weeks ago. - luckily I remembered I already had it.

Also running the GT7 weekly challenges (usually only 3 races out of the 5 including the Special Events to get the first 2 rewards). At 300k per week, I'll finish collecting the remaining 100 cars in about 2055
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Today I finished the Gears of War Reloaded nostalgia trip on PC through Game Pass. A remaster of an already enhanced game (Ultimate Edition) that ran poorly on PC due to stutters all over the place, regardless of hardware. Anyway, up to date graphics, same story, characters and gameplay, but now runs smoothly. I don't care for multiplayer, so 8.5/10 and I hope they remake/remaster Gears 2 and 3 with a proper port to PC.

I also reinstalled Robocop Rogue City for a refresher before I buy the expansion story. I tried to play now with keyboard/mouse but while movement is OK, aiming is not, as it feels too immediate and twitchy and that's not how Robocop aims and shoots. The controller feels better and suits his very deliberate pacing.

Lastly, I have started AC Shadow's expansion, which opens with a sequence that I wish can be the basis for a new Prince of Persia or a classic Ninja Gaiden sidescroller game.
 
Started Crysis Remastered yesterday, having played the original for maybe an hour back in the early '10s. It hasn't aged well and doesn't hold up, in my opinion. The shooting is dull and despite having the superpowers the suit gives you, you just never feel especially strong - you can be spotted too easily in stealth, killed too quickly with armour, the only real power you have is your speed so I have taken to just running everywhere and occasionally camping in a building to kill everyone so I can do the objective (which is usually to walk up to something and press X or walk up to something and press X then watch a cutscene.)

I've played 3 hours and HLTB says I might have 7 left, not sure I'll make it to the end.
 
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Started Crysis Remastered yesterday, having played the original for maybe an hour back in the early '10s. It hasn't aged well and doesn't hold up, in my opinion. The shooting is dull and despite having the superpowers the suit gives you, you just never feel especially strong - you can be spotted too easily in stealth, killed too quickly with armour, the only real power you have is your speed so I have taken to just running everywhere and occasionally camping in a building to kill everyone so I can do the objective (which is usually to walk up to something and press X or walk up to something and press X then watch a cutscene.)

I've played 3 hours and HLTB says I might have 7 left, not sure I'll make it to the end.
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I know exactly what you mean. I remember playing the game on a friend's high end gaming PC back in the day when it was released and being really impressed at first. But once you've gotten used to the graphics and physics (which tbf are still pretty good, even by today's standards) it's a really generic shooter with completely unremarkable gameplay.
 
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One of the big problem with the remaster is that it is based on the console version of the time, not the PC version. The original PC version + mods/upgrades looks/plays way better IMO, and is not a resource hog for no reason like the remasters.
 
Spending more time on PC this last 10 days or so, playing ETS2, SP Football Life 25 (modded PES) and BeamNG. On PlayStation I've just got the new Skate and knocking up Abarth 500 liveries on GT7.

Xbox isn't getting much of a look in.
 

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