Old_Man_Harper

One of the first things I did when I got my 360 was buy Dig Dug, which I always loved . That came with a Pooka gamer pic and I still use it.

I’m really enjoying it, using Tel-Rea in your squad is great fun!

I agree that it needs a patch to sort out some of the issues - the cut scene on returning from a mission is embarrassingly jerky and I would advise BG3-style saving and quitting when you’ve finished as it doesn’t get on with quick resume. I haven’t had any issues with the gameplay though.

I finished Resonance last week and really enjoyed it. I thought there was a bit of a tone-shift towards horror about halfway through and the ‘monster’ when it appears was original and interesting.

It was my birthday the other day, so I bought myself Star Wars Zero Company. Really having fun with it so far. I’ve loved turn-based tactical games since the days of playing the Rebelstar games and Laser Squad on the Spectrum in my bedroom! It’s not as in depth as something like XCOM but I’ve found it more fun to play.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. 🙂

I’ve got a lot to play at the moment but Young Suns seems like something I might enjoy. I saw it was on game pass as a preview, but i didn’t try it as I prefer to wait for the full version.

I’m having a great time with it - I expanded on why in the ‘what are you playing’ thread so I won’t restate it here in case people think I’m an Asobo employee or something! 😄

I’m playing Resonance and enjoying it a lot. It has a Tomb Raider/Uncharted vibe, has good combat, looks great, good voice acting, a likeable pair of heroines and is all done with a lot of style and confidence.

I don’t have a PS5 pro so I can’t compare, but it looks great to me on Series X. I didn’t much care for the second Plague Tale game but I’m enjoying this one a lot. The gameplay style, puzzles and two female characters give it a bit of an Uncharted: Lost Legacy feel.

I’m trying to save up, but I keep finding things to spend them on! I’ll probably end up getting 20-30 quid off GTA.

@VisitingComet1 My character is a warrior but I use them mostly as a sniper along with Yrliet and let Abelard do the tank stuff. I wish I’d taken a bit more time over creating my character, but the game is rather overwhelming at first and I with these things think it’s best just to dive in and learn it as you play. My grinding today produced some very edgy space battles, but hopefully I’ll be able to progress the story tomorrow.

I’m continuing with Rogue Trader. I’ve hit a bit of a wall in that I’ve progressed the story to a point where I need to win a space battle but my ship is nothing like capable of doing so. So a lot of grinding, I guess.

More Rogue Trader on Game Pass. Once you properly get it - and the only real way to learn this type of game is to dive in and learn from your mistakes - it’s a blast.

I’ve particularly liked the spaceship battles, which remind me of the Sid Meier air and sea combat games I used to play on iPad in the 2010s.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.🙂

Played with my friends last night and while I’m still not keen on the other Siege modes (too confused) the Horde bit is actually very good - someone from another team even joined in and helped us for a few waves! After being a bit disappointed last week, I’m now looking forward to the full version.

I’ve had my Series X since launch day without a problem. In fact, it’s been the best console I’ve ever owned! If it went wrong, I’d probably just buy a new one.

Will it be retrospective? I don’t want the shame of Avatar: Burning Earth on 360 to appear on it (ICYW you could get 1,000 in about 2 minutes on the tutorial so the disc got passed around)!

@CallMeDuraSouka I think it’s a pretty small team - the first game was in preview for years.

I’ve played a bit, but like with the first game I’m waiting for the 1.0 release before I properly dive in. Despite the cartoony look the first game could be downright scary! The wolf spider is among the most terrifying video game enemies. Once I found they were nocturnal, I stopped going out at night!

Rogue Trader. Flipping tough to get into - the other day it took me 30 minutes to work out how to give someone a health kit - but once you get used to the systems, it’s all you could want from a CRPG. It should keep me going for a while!

Have a good weekend everyone. 🙂

I played with three friends, and all of us have been playing Horde since it was introduced to Gears.

At times it was a bit bewildering having three games going on on the same map - at the end of one wave I went to get a beer only for someone else’s game to spill into ours while my character just stood there!

The hit detection on the shotgun at close range was pretty rotten and I gave up with it and meleed them instead, hopefully they can tweak that.

The actual Horde bit was pretty good once it got going, shotgun aside. Headshots with the Hammerburst were satisfying and the executions are entertaining. I thought there were too many tickers and juvies though.

To be honest, I largely forgot about the new movement options - my brain isn’t wired to play Gears that way yet! When I did remember, I thought it worked well and you could do some pretty fluid movement.

To be honest, I would have been happier with just an old-school defend an area Horde mode, but then again I remember not liking every new iteration of that at first!

I played Siege tonight with my regular Horde crew. My thoughts: my character felt too ‘light’ - I wasn’t feeling the sense of bulk that Gears characters should have. There were far too many juvies and clickers and it was pointless to shoot at them because it never seemed to do much damage. It was easier just to wait and melee them which you could do with one hit. It’s nothing that can’t be fixed, but the entire mode seems to me like an answer to a question that nobody asked and I hope there’s a proper Horde mode.

Crikey, my disc Series X is starting to look like an investment more than a console! I was also thinking about selling my PS5 - at the rate things are going, I may turn a profit on it!

At some point I’ll start Halo, but for the time being I’m continuing with Planet Crafter. After much work, the formerly arid desert hellscape is now green with moss, grass and trees, and lakes have formed, one of which unfortunately submerged my main base…

There is a story behind why you are there and what caused all the other spaceship wrecks that litter the planet, but it is drip-fed based on your terraforming progress, so the more you terraform the planet, the more you learn and the more gadgets you unlock.

I’d definitely recommend it for people who like this sort of game - it starts off with pretty harsh survival and then gradually chills out and the planet crafting takes over.

Spent most of yesterday happily playing Planet Crafter without ever being aware that anything at all was happening. Likewise today (retirement is hard!).

I’m playing Planet Crafter. It doesn’t hold your hand much - some of the things it asks you to build aren’t available until you progress your terraforming. I’ve found it more engrossing than Satisfactory (I just didn’t get on with that), but so far my base looks like a rubbish dump on Mars and the sky is still orange!

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

The weekend is happy! 😄

I had a few reward points spare, so I bought Dave the Diver, which I’m having a lot of fun with. It has a lot of depth (no pun intended!) and is often funny and surprising.

Hope everyone enjoys the weekend, I suspect a lot of that enjoyment might depend on the outcome of a certain event in Miami tonight…

After two satisfying playthroughs of 007 was in the mood for something else, so replaying ‘This Bed We Made’.

It’s a point and click mystery/thriller game set in a hotel in Montreal in 1958. You play Sophie, who is a room maid who likes to snoop through guests’ things and in doing so discovers a mystery. It’s long enough since I first played it that I’ve forgotten the details, and am enjoying it again - what you don’t do affects the story as much as what you do.

I used some reward points to get 007 First Light half-price, so when I’m not out enjoying the weather it’ll be that. I’m very impressed - it really catches the vibe of the films and is fun to play. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

Unless there’s some sort of bonus for doing so, there doesn’t seem to be much need to pre-order now that most people just download the thing. I remember when GTA IV came out it sold out in a lot of places. I remember my mate saying he’d go and get a copy after work on the day it came out. I got mine on the way into work, by the time he got there he was out of luck!

It looks great, but switching from 5 to 4-player co-op might lead to some painful decisions for established Horde crews!

Very pleased to see this! I like Senua.

I thought it looked good, although I rather like the cheap and cheerful aspect of the first two. Hopefully it will still put you in the incredibly desperate situations that they did, most often when you weren’t expecting it or pushed your luck a little too far.

More FH6 at some point, but just chilling with Jurassic World Evolution 3 at the moment. I guess I’m a bit boring, as I do everything I can to avoid the scenarios in the movies - i.e. the dinosaurs get out and start eating people. And I’m too nice to breed a super-vicious T.Rex and unleash it on some placid herbivores. Or am I… 😈

Level 159 with about 150 cars, but I mostly drive the dream cars of my teenage years - Lamborghini Miura, Porsche 911 Turbo, Ferrari Dino etc.

Being levelled up is handy for multiplayer because everyone in the convoy can play all the races you have unlocked.

The bit with the Mad Hunter was surprisingly scary.

@Duck_Farmer If only. My wheel spins always seem to end up with 5,000 points or a novelty car horn!

More Forza. I think I need to find a way to make more cash. I had to buy my vintage Lamborghini second hand! I also tried a Honda S800 on a street race. It was an interesting experience getting outaccelerated by a VW bus, a VW beetle, a Fiat 500 and two bubble cars…

@Fiendish-Beaver why would they put FH6 out at the same time as GTA6?

I’m sure there’ll be plenty of other good stuff to play this year, which has already been a strong one for games.

Even the biggest games will get blown away by GTA, so until there’s a firm and final release date for that, it seems safer to either wait or go for next year.

It’s there now for me.

I expect I’ll do a bit of driving around Japan. Odd, when I see ‘ghost cars’ they always seem to be blasting around Ferraris, McLarens etc. I’m happy to gently take in the sights in my cherry red ‘53 Corvette, which can easily reach 100mph on a long downhill straight.

I’ll also be looking to finish off Motorslice, where I’m nearing the top of the megastructure. It is veeeery high up now. When I made a mistake the other day, poor ‘P’ fell for nearly 15 seconds before hitting the ground. I’m poor with heights, so even in a game it’s sweaty-palm stuff.

If I find time, I might also give Luna Abyss a try.

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend (even if their team gets relegated or loses the playoffs!) 🙂

I’ve been playing it and although the beginning is a bit ‘overexcited, hyperactive kids’ TV presenter’, once it settles down it just wants you to have fun and it would be really hard not to like it. 🏎️

I bought JWE3, so it’s not new to me, but it is just as engrossing as the others. Plus baby dinosaurs! Wicked minded people can breed some really nasty ones, but I preferred a happy zoo. 🦕

More KCD, yes please.

Oh just leave it as Xbox. My iPad autocompletes ‘xb’ to Xbox, what more do you want?!

I’ll be splitting my time between two Game Pass games:

Motorslice - a ‘cute tomboy waifu’ (the developers) must parkour her way up a megastructure fighting construction machinery and falling to her death - a lot. I switched the gore off! Some gigantic boss battles and very satisfying when you get a run right. I’ve rage-quit a couple of times but never rage uninstalled and have kept progressing.

Also Call of the Elder Gods - a puzzle game based on the themes introduced in H.P. Lovecraft’s ’The Shadow out of Time’. It’s an interesting story, although some of the puzzles have seemed quite a bit tougher to me than those in Call of the Sea, sometimes feeling more like those in the Golden Idol games. I’ve used hints a couple of times and then felt bad because they showed I’d been on the right lines to solve the puzzle.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

I remember playing Call of the Sea back in the Covid winter 2020/21. Nothing much was getting released so I thought I’d give it a try - enjoyed it, so will definitely give this one a go too.

I really enjoyed it, so did plenty of others. Not sure what the fuss is. I thought there was as much gameplay as - say - What Remains of Edith Finch and that won a ‘best game’ award!

Oh dear, I hope they don’t reveal any spoilers like ‘It turns out you drive around Japan in a sports car’.

@Skinny-Pete Slater’s mum only has a few lines but she cracks me up - ‘Do you kids want margaritas?’ 😂