faetal on 16/8/2021 at 17:34
I'm playing Dishonoured and Days Gone.
Not much I need to say about the former as it is well known here, suffice to say that I am getting a mixed Thief / DX / Bioshock vibe from it.
I'm not great at stealth, but am following advice to just roll with the fuck-ups rather than save spam and that is working for me so far.
Lots of people are dying mind...
Days Gone is really doing it for me. Feels a lot like State of Decay, but without the pain in the ass base maintenance stuff. It does suffer from being Yet Another Zombie Game, but there are good mechanics and it is pretty immersive outside of some mantling niggles and questionable UI choices.
henke on 16/8/2021 at 18:15
Wait have you not played Dishonored before? And you haven't, like, been chased out of Lyon or anything?
And yeah Days Gone has its charms. I liked roadtripping around the place on the motorbike and the action/stealth gameplay is servicable enough. The whole game was too dang big tho! I'd recommend not spending too much time on sidequests, just follow the main path and hope you get to the end before you get fed up with it all like I did. There were like 3 whole times where I thought the game was about to end, but then it unlocked a new part of the map that's just as big as everything you'd explored previously. It's like an amoebae that keeps doubling in size every time you think it's about to end. And the story ain't much to write home about either with just about every character being so unlikeable. It did have
one really good scene tho. Somehow.
Pretty far into the game, when you get to the army base, John has been searching for his girlfriend the entire game and then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTzzeDsoV4) this happens.
faetal on 16/8/2021 at 20:39
I tried playing Dishonoured a few times before but bounced off, probably due to a combo of not being that into Thief (sorry!), not being great at stealth of a certain style (I'm great in games like AC & MGSV, but not game slike Thief or Dishonoured it seems). But I really want to play all of the games so that I can have proper conversations about it, plus avoid being put in a headlock by the Lyon heavies.
Colone on 17/8/2021 at 09:04
I will be playing Mario Golf first time today, lets see how it goes
Aja on 17/8/2021 at 16:38
On Tim Rogers' advice I got me a ridiculous bougie Xbox Series 2 Elite controller to use on PC, which is both awesome and kind of underwhelming. It feels great, and I'm really starting to like the rear trigger buttons. But I had to return the first one because the A button stopped responding consistently, and a few times a couple of but face buttons on the replacement have been unresponsive, although it seems to be settling in and working properly after a few hours. The D-pad is also a bit wobbly. It's ironic that none of the cheaper controllers I own (PS4, Switch Pro) have ever had these problems. I'm still within the 30-day return window but I'm surprisingly reluctant to use it. The controller is just so luxurious and and aesthetically pleasing that I almost feel I can overlook the negatives.
Anyway, I've been using it to play Control, which I've been enjoying a lot. The maintenance section in particular is brilliant; it really captures the feeling of being lost somewhere in a deep dream. I've been mostly impressed with the writing and voice acting, too, although the story itself is a little silly, and the Twin-Peaksy stuff doesn't always land. The shooting is solid, and it gives you lots of chances to be creative in the way that you deal with a given scenario. But sometimes it seems to want me to press every button on the controller simultaneously, and I get overwhelmed and die. And there have been a few frustrating difficulty spikes (especially when there's a piece of repeated dialogue at a boss you're on your 10th try of). Oh, and the graphics are mostly amazing. I can't play with ray tracing, but at 1366x760 I can crank all the settings. So it's beautiful, but blurry. I'm okay with it.
EvaUnit02 on 23/8/2021 at 07:58
I managed to get The Darkness running pretty well in RPCS3 emulator. The game holds up entirely, fantastic title. It was a real shame that there was never a PC version.
Briareos H on 23/8/2021 at 09:11
Oh cool, there's one I've been hoping to play for a while. Does it run well out of the box? Any support of keyboard and mouse?
EvaUnit02 on 23/8/2021 at 10:13
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Oh cool, there's one I've been hoping to play for a while. Does it run well out of the box? Any support of keyboard and mouse?
You tweak a few options, download a game specific patch to tone down the bloom and it'll run/display fine.
FSR Upscaling is optional, but it helps with the 720p rendered resolution pixellation. (AMD's shittier DLSS 2.0 competitor)
EDIT: For mouse you need to use a 3rd party program to set up a virtual controller and then map keys/movement axes to it. I couldn't be arsed so I'm just using a wired X360 controller.
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Briareos H on 23/8/2021 at 12:50
Excellent, thanks a lot! The sequel was pretty ok but I always felt like I would enjoy the original more.
Anarchic Fox on 24/8/2021 at 21:09
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Trifox - top-down action shooter thingy where you can choose between 3 classes (melee, ranged, and a techy). I only played techy guy and it was somewhat interesting, instead of shooting at enemies you place turrets, walls and mines, trying to create choke zones or defense spots. It looks nice and has potential, but feels a tad bit slow (especially movement contrasted with the fact you're literally a fox). Hard to tell how the full game could turn out.
I have a Steam folder titled "Goddamn Fox Games," which currently has 27 entries, with a dozen more wishlisted. Looks like it'll get even bigger.
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Is that advice still worth following? I grew dubious around the time he said the FF VII remake was "as FF VII as FF VII has ever been."