The Gaming Thread

Wally

Started on ‘Stray’ this week which is quite a nice small scale game. The gameplay and the way the environment is used to tell the story reminded me of ‘Inside’ which is an all time great. It’s not up there but it’s still an enjoyably chilled game. Probs need to like cats to enjoy it mind.

nicksneddon

finally got the Spiderman platinum over the weekend, its only my second!

gcw

Wally I’m about 7 or so hours into this and I’m not sure about it tbh. Looks gorgeous on a ps5 but the gameplay is quite clunky, and as is the trend these days the options for weapons and add ons are way top over complicated.

Hope it will pick up soon

Wally

gcw Aye, I felt the same - it takes some time to get into the groove with it but stick with it as it’s worth it. It genuinely gets better and better as it goes on.

LT42

Splashed out on a high end GPU at the weekend so I might grab Cyberpunk to blast it off. Has anyone given it a go? Worth a punt?

Wally

Going through Cyberpunk 2077 now. Decent.

LT42

Wally Sound, Wally. I know it had teething problems but it seems they’ve ironed them out, they’ve had a million players a day for 21 straight days now.

mono-stereo

LT42 Which card did you go for mate?

Amps

Do any of you regularly shop at Game? Ever known them to have a game case on the shelf but the game actually be out of stock?

Wally

Amps They get display copies of games for (amazingly) displaying on the shelves so it’s possible. Was it new or preowned? If it was new, they were probably trying to steer you to a preowned copy since they get all the money.

Console games retail / digital sales for 2022 were 28%:72% split. Would be surprised if game et al are around that much longer tbh.

Wally

Finished Cyberpunk and had a blast. So much so I’m doing a second playthrough instead of moving onto Elden Ring. I know it was rough when it came out but Cyberpunk is grand now. A Next gen fallout. 9 cyberware implants / 10

vinnyt77

Wally Happily didn’t start it until middle of last year, and really enjoyed it. Am on my second playthrough at the moment. Top stuff.

Amps

Wally Was told a game wasn’t in stock when there were four copies of it on the shelves. I though this was a bit odd. All brand new.

Wally

Amps Sounds like they fucked up the grift. Tell the customer they can’t buy it new but they can buy it preowned £££.

Amps

Wally Maybe, the interaction at the till was all a bit odd too.

Wally

vinnyt77 Yeah it’s great. I’m really enjoying creating a quickhacking stealth ninja this time. I wish the game had guided you towards making the custom build you wanted to make as it’s loads of fun I just totally missed out on my first ‘jack of all trades’ build in my first run. I really like you can make a total game breaker character that’s absolutely lethal and can nuke entire groups of baddies in one go lol.

NasserAlazzawi

We’ve just got a switch. Will report in!

(Very excited to learn that Goldeneye N64 is being remastered and released very soon in the Nintendo Store!)

Anyone got switch recommendations? (I’ve not read the whole thread)

gcw

I’m about 60 hours into Horizon Forbidden West on the PS5 with no end in sight! Its a very good game to be fair, although as usual there are way too many weapon choices and add ons etc. Would be good to just have a small range to choose from instead of multiple coils, weaves and valours (whatever that all means)

I’ve also purchased the ps5 version of The Witcher 3 as I keep hearing amazing things about it and it was only £21

vinnyt77

gcw

From what I’ve read, it’s buggy AF at the moment. Might wanna wait a bit till it’s thoroughly patched to get started on it…

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-witcher-3s-big-new-gen-update-is-broken-causing-crashes-and-performance-issues/1100-6510024/

gcw as usual there are way too many weapon choices and add ons etc.

Agreed. Diminishes an otherwise excellent game IMO. Just not necessary. I ended up using the same 5-6 weapons throughout the game, and maxing their capability, rather than bothering with the full range. Pretty standard across most shooters these days though…

Wally

gcw Excellent game. Agree about weapon choices. It’s way more complicated that it needed to be but other than that, it’s a bobby dazzler. Curiously enough, almost all of the improvements it made over the first one were ‘borrowed’ from Witcher 3 which is one of the best of all time. Probs my fave game.

LT42

mono-stereo picked up a 3060ti Ventus OC. The system seems to purr now rather than wheeze, which is a good thing.

gcw

vinnyt77 good to know. Suspect it will be many months before I start it as I have 4 games in front of it once I finish HFW. Hopefully all bugs sorted by then.

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