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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is not a resource hog for no reason like the remasters
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Crysis, the game that birthed the "but can it run Crysis?" meme, not a resource hog for no reason? I remember my PC could run it well enough for it to look good, but as I'm sure most people did I tried turning it all the way up and found it didn't look that great when it completely tanked the frame rate... But the remaster being the console version does explain why I was no longer able to pelt frogs into the moon.

So I took a break from Crysis (possibly permanently) to play Easy Delivery Co. which released the day before yesterday and finished it last night, the store page "hinted" that there was a twist and there is but I had hoped it'd be a bit darker than it was (though it was quite dark). It's a fun little distraction but I got a bit too Death Stranding about it, meaning I prioritised earning over making progress, which meant I didn't spend much time in the third area since I had enough money to buy the upgrades I needed there already. Liked the aesthetic though.
 
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Crysis, the game that birthed the "but can it run Crysis?" meme, not a resource hog for no reason?
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The original was very much ground breaking in 2007 or it would never have become a meme, just a game that ran badly. And much of the stuff that made it special (like the physics) is not in the remasters. Which still run like **** due to CPU-threading issues. That said, for those that never had the original: they're still decent games.
 
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@NLxAROSA to be fair to it I've given it another shot and it has departed from the pretty boring first couple of hours, and performance on my Deck is pretty good actually. I'm still not massively sold on it but at least it has got some variety.

I realised earlier something that bugs me, I should say something that already bugged me but in a more specific sense. I think I already mentioned the weak player empowerment, but what's worse than that is the game invokes Predator too much to then fail to give you thermal vision, or a way to detect nearby enemies before they shoot at you, or enough energy so you can cross an open area in stealth, etc. I mean, don't set your game in a tropical jungle and have unknown enemies violently ripping people apart while your spec ops badasses are out there rescuing a hostage (being picked off one by one) and then be like "press L1 to briefly not get hurt and R1 to briefly not get seen but otherwise it's basically Halo (It's got flying aliens, I drove a tank earlier, I wear a special suit, the VTOLs my side uses are sci-fi nonsense, the pistol is pretty good = it's Halo) with weapon customisation", why can't I have a shoulder gun and the ability to super-jump forwards instead of just straight up?

Anyway. It is becoming less boring as I play, but it's gone from "really boring" to "boring", I'm hoping it'll be about neutral or slightly positive (or finished) in my next session.
 
Jumping between Starfield with mods and Snowrunner. While I'm on the phone for work, I've been on a Dorfromantik kick.
 
Alright well I finished Crysis, it was... OK. Completely unoriginal, except for the fact that the
aliens were already on Earth
, it was clearly inspired by Predator, Halo, Independence Day, any war films you may care to mention and even The Matrix, not sure where the nanosuits were from but I refuse to believe they weren't lifted from something.
I'm astonished it didn't have a "oops you've lost your special abilities" bit but being captured and losing your gear (even if only briefly) almost counts. The zero-G bit was OK, it provided a much-needed break from the running and gunning, but started to drag before long because flying enemies are never fun. Then the rest of the game from that point was plagued by the endlessly respawning squiddies which had me questioning why I was even shooting them down if another would instantly appear. The VTOL section was meh because, again, flying enemies are dull and the controls were awful (I cannot believe the ABXY buttons did basically nothing and yet they used the D-pad to ascend/descend, I don't have two thumbs on my left hand so I just remapped them to the Deck's back buttons, but also the VTOL seemed to be slowly sinking the entire time) and I would've been happy for the game to end there, but the last level on the carrier was aggressively acceptable so I wasn't too bothered.

Another thing it did that bugs me is it has achievements for using all the weapons and another for unlocking all the attachments, I don't know about anyone else but knowing you've used all the guns is a bit disappointing, I'd rather not know. Also there are story spoilers in the achievements which is so dumb. Most games hide story achievements and the ones that don't usually just say "complete chapter x or level y", not "rescue the guy the game told you was dead"...
 
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Alright well I finished Crysis, it was... OK.
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After the alien reveal the game becomes a bit weak, much like Far Cry 1 did. I would have loved for it to be just US against Koreans, but of course that would have left us without part 2 and 3. :P

Strangely, and much against popular opinion, my favorite Crysis is actually Crysis 2. Which is way more on-rails like a traditional shooter, but makes it way more fun to play IMO.
 
I play Stardew Valley at least three hours a day. This is the only game I've been playing lately. We play split-screen with two players. Since it's a pixel game, having two screens improves the visuals. :)
 
@NLxAROSA I can't remember which I've already played, I think it was Crysis 2, but I liked it too. Linear doesn't necessarily mean bad, open world doesn't necessarily mean good! I was going to say I'd move on to that next but it's almost 60GB for some reason so I don't have space, might have to finally get back to Yakuza Kiwami 2 instead. I've also had Destroy All Humans! on my list for ages so I need to work out if I actually want to play that or not as well.

All of these are remasters, yay modern gaming.
 

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