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@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. 😡

Great game but whenever I played it seemed to be winter! Living in the north of England I get enough winter anyway. It was like looking out of the window…

After completing the story mode (the final episode was a bit linear, but I suppose that was necessary to wrap it up) I’m playing the survival mode of The Long Dark on Series X.

Fortunately, I spawned in a fairly familiar area, but struggled for a few days from lack of a knife or hatchet. I’d just found the latter when I was attacked by a bear! It was only after I made good my escape that I realised I’d dropped the hatchet and my flare gun so I had to go back to get them. The bear was still there, so I built a fire a short distance away and waited for it to go away. However, the fire in fact attracted the bear towards me, so I legged it, then looped round and got my hatchet and flare gun back. Good, ‘emergent gameplay’ stuff, but in future I’m going to give bears as wide a berth as possible.

Avatar: The Burning Earth is my embarrassing one - back in the 360 days we used to pass the disc of it around because you could get all 1,000 achievements in about 2 minutes!

Yes, I remember playing Call of the Sea about the time of the second COVID lockdown when nothing was getting released. I quite enjoyed it - I don’t know how I missed the Lovecraft reference in the title!

Cyberpunk 2077 on Series X. Just finished the Phantom Liberty DLC which I thought was really good, possibly the best thing CDPR have done and totally integrated into the main game.

One thing I’ve enjoyed this time is that they’ve added an auto drive toggle for vehicles. I never cared for the driving so tended to use fast travel. Using it means the vehicle will drive itself to a checkpoint while you get to enjoy the view of Night City.

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend! 🙂

The Long Dark is well worth a go if you haven’t tried it. I was going to say that they should have finally released the last chapter of the story mode by now, but it turns out they haven’t - it releases tomorrow, nearly 8 years after the first chapter was released! A good excuse to have another go.

Cyberpunk 2077 on Series X. My first playthrough since the game was launched - they have certainly improved it a lot since then and I’m looking forward to the Phantom Liberty expansion.

I’m also very tempted to spend some reward points on Life is Strange Reunion, but I really should get through Cyberpunk first!

Witcher 3 on Series X. Finished the main story last week and got a different ending to my first play through by making damn certain Nilfgaard won the war. Also finished the Hearts of Stone DLC which I enjoyed, but I’m now onto Blood and Wine, which I have to say I prefer because of the new setting. Combat is a lot tougher in the DLCs than the main game and you do need to think more about what you’re doing, which signs to use in order to win fights.

Hope everyone has a good weekend! 🙂

I wanted to enjoy it, but I found it to be just a great steaming pile of words. It never used one if it could use fifty. Like reading the output of a really poor creative writing class. That’s just me. Others may like it! 😁

Witcher 3 on Series X. I’ve played it before but that was on Xbox One. The S/X edition looks great and you get the achievements all over again. Also - apart from the Bloody Baron quest, I’ve forgotten much else of what happened, so it’s as good as a new game. 🙂

He must have made a tidy pile over the years. If I were him I’d have hit the golf course a while ago. Nobody ever lay on their deathbed thinking ‘I wish I’d worked more’.

@Gemini53 By the end of the game my Henry was going into fights strutting like Archie Cunningham in Rob Roy even without armour. I hit Erik with about nine master strikes in succession!

@Sheppard Once you get some decent armour (I’d also recommend a shield until your character is strong enough for a longsword) and learn Master Strike, combat becomes easier, but it’s never easy to fight two or more enemies, and I guess it never would be in real life. So if in doubt, leg it…

Tip: take your time and try to develop every skill, and don’t rush the main quest, especially early on.

KCD2 is a total belter, one of the best games I’ve ever played, but you can’t rush it. I would advise doing a lot of side quests and activities and levelling up in the early stages, especially before doing the ‘wedding crashers’ quest. Otherwise, enjoy!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance on Series X. Henry is currently investigating some dodgy goings-on at a monastery. Much more confident with swordplay now I have learned the Master Strike (done differently in KCD2). Very much enjoying it, but miss the quality of life enhancements of 2, especially being able to swap between 3 outfits.

I buy myself a nice house, an expensive watch and a flashy sports car.

So she’s been a big part of their AI project. Well, if Copilot is anything to go by… 😐

Playing KCD, which looks a lot nicer with refreshed graphics.

I’m very pleased with myself at acquiring a lovely set of armour after I saw some bandits kill a fellow in the ruins of Skalitz. I got them to chase me, kited them out of town then turned and galloped back past them, looted the dead man and ‘got out of Dodge’ before they caught up with me. 😁

I’m interested by Death Howl, which looks like one of those games that you bounce off in ten minutes or end up playing for 500 hours.

Absolutely! If I’m not dead I’ll be there on day one on Series X.

@Nightcrawler71 Yes, rather than using my ‘Henry’s Saviour Schnapps’ to save, I mostly used it with Artemisia for the stat buff before going into a fight.

Yes, but the game has a way of letting you find about half a dozen of them in your pocket pretty quickly, so you have enough to tide you over until you can make your own. There were only a very few occasions in both my play throughs when I felt the lack of them.

@Fiendish-Beaver yes - to save in-game you need to drink ‘Saviour Schnapps’. It isn’t hard to get hold of and once you are good at alchemy, your own brew not only saves but gives you stat buffs (and you make six in one go). Alternatively, you can sleep in a bed or just save and quit, which doesn’t need a potion. It’s basically the way the game gets you into alchemy.

I’ve played KCD2 for nearly 500 hours, so safe to say I think it’s an all-timer! It plays very similarly to the first game and is a direct continuation of it, but has much improved quality of life elements and the combat is more streamlined.

Unfortunately, the premise means that the game is probably going to attract a bashing from the types who rush to leave one star reviews of Game Pass games they haven’t played.

I finished Resident Evil Village, which I enjoyed while it lasted, but I doubt I’d play it again.

I’m currently engrossed with Talos Principle 2 on Game Pass. It’s very satisfying when you solve what originally looked like an impossible puzzle, also the story is interesting.

If I’m in the mood, I might play a bit more Indika as well. Have a nice weekend!

But they don’t appear to have done anything about the sewer that is the reviews of Game Pass games. Every game - no matter how well it was reviewed by people who actually bought it or played it - seems to get bombarded with 1-star reviews and childish comments.

I enjoyed RE Village and am currently enjoying Talos Principle 2, but haven’t had the opportunity to try any of the other ones yet. A good month all told and I gave it an A.