Old_Man_Harper

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?’ 😂

@SigmaTheDJ the ‘French Connection’ achievement was a challenge… 🤢

@Bob_Tempura it isn’t the sort of ‘interactivity’ you’d need to play, say, Hollow Knight, but there’s enough of it to be entertaining. I found the mini-games fun (apart from one which is designed to be revolting!) Even the point and click bits are entertaining because the dialogue and execution is so sharp.

Basically, if you’ve got game pass give it ten minutes. You’ll know by then if it’s for you. If not, you’ve lost nothing.

@Gunonaboat You’d have to be in a pretty sour mood for it not to put a smile on your face.

@SigmaTheDJ Yeah, I’m from the 80s-90s too and was worried that the soundtrack would be obvious grungy stuff, but it was a pleasant surprise, like you I hadn’t heard quite a few of them.

10/10 - loved it. I thought it was a total blast from start to finish, the best thing I’ve played so far this year.

I finished Mixtape (it lasts about 4 hours) and now I’m going to play it again. I really enjoyed it, it starts off great and ends up wonderful. I totally recommend it. It should definitely be in the mix (boom boom) when it’s awards time.

I remember on the 360 there used to be a separate tab on your gamer profile showing games where you’d got all 1,000. They should just bring that back. I’m not particularly interested in having badges or trophies or anything like that.

What a terrific game, it really made me smile 🙂

I was going to hold off trying it, but I couldn’t resist. It’s great! Really quite magical. Annapurna can be a bit ‘boutique’, but this is fun.

Looks good! I’ve installed it, but I’m really having fun with Motorslice and Trepang2 at the moment so it’ll have to wait. Very pleased with game pass in the last few weeks, a good variety of games.

I’ve been playing Motorslice today, it’s good fun - parkour/climbing/chopping up mechanical diggers. It was kind of the game to point out to me that I had a flashlight after my third sickening plummet into a dark void I hadn’t seen!

After 140 days of survival in The Long Dark, my luck finally ran out and timberwolves got me. ☹️

I fancied a change after that, so playing InKonbini on game pass. You play a night-shift worker in a Japanese convenience store - all pretty chilled out stuff, you stack shelves, make sure everything is in the right sections, talk to customers and generally do things around the store.

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!

Oof, that’s big. I’ll have a go, but I lost interest in FH5 quite quickly and didn’t think it was as good as 4.

I’ve played it a bit today - quite cosy in an Unpacking style. Restock shelves, make sure everything is in the right place, chat to customers. Quite relaxing.

I’ve been playing it this afternoon. It’s okay, mostly Tomb Raider/Uncharted style climbing, but there are irritating tricky parts where you have to keep your balance to walk across an ice bridge. This was fine when the game autosaved right beforehand as it did the first time, but the second time it didn’t. So falling sent you back a couple of minutes, because there’s no manual save. I admit that tried my patience…

I’m interested in Aphelion, InKONBINI might also be something I like.

Pushing towards 100 days’ survival in The Long Dark. Spending a few more days gathering up supplies in Coastal Highway before heading up to Pleasant Valley, then, all being well, on to Timberwolf Mountain although I’d like to reach 100 days first.

Oh dear, I’m so sad about that. 😄

That’s great! I dropped to premium (I’ve just retired and want to manage the pennies) but I’ll go back to ultimate now. I never wanted CoD in the first place!

More of survival mode in The Long Dark. I’ve now stayed alive for 30+ days, most of that without a firearm. Ironically, as soon as I found a rifle, I was attacked by a bear and a wolf in short order and damn near killed. Currently residing in a garage on a frozen coastline.

I haven’t seen anything different. Although one thing I have noticed is that the Game Pass section no longer lists the new additions. If anything is added, you now have to scroll through the full list to find it. 😡