General gaming discussion

^ I see you have been playing Warioland.

My only memory of Wario was a game on the Game Boy. #goodtimes

Just fired up my 3ds for the first time in about a decade. Its a nicer piece of hardware than I expected tbh, I thought it’d feel really cheap in a modern world of expensive iPhones but it holds up well and the 3d effect is still totally unique.

I bought it back at launch and it’s still pretty much pristine, I think pilotwings is the only game I ever played on it, life got a bit too busy for gaming at the time and I kinda forgot I had it.

I felt like some classic Pokémon and never played the ds or 3ds games so went onto the e-store and so many years later every single one of them is still more expensive than a typical next gen console game a couple of months after release. Got to hand it to Nintendo, they really stick to their guns.

True, as evidenced by CeX having no issues commanding €70-€130 for their older Pokemon fare. Insane for games that sold in the high millions, but Platinum through to Black 2 were critically as well as commercially successfully, which just adds to their already insane demand.

For game mechanics reasons? IIRC in the new Tomb Raider series is the same.

Weird how imo Dark Souls is **** but for some its as good as it can get. Almost like people....can have different tastes

I was playing the DLC to Assassin's Creed Origins during the week. It was very good.

Also, Origins was the last AC game I completed. I got burned out playing Odyssey and I never got into Valhalla.

I was the very same, until I got Dark Souls free on games with gold on xbox. Figured I had nothing to lose so gave it a go, its one of my favourite series of all time now. I wont say they're easy, 'deliberate' is the word I'd choose, you cant button mash your way through it, and patience is your best friend. Yes, there is occasional unfairness, or one hit kills, but not that much. They're cheap enough now, well worth a look.

I just quit cold turkey on odyssey. Its not worth the tedium, I quit far cry 6 for the same reason. Life's too short for pointless open world games that are a waste of time really

Yeah I had similar myself recently, which I posted about on the PlayStation forum. Short version is I put about 20 hours into Days Gone, but it was really starting to annoy me so I had to switch to something else and played Outer Wilds. Then after beating it I decided to try give Days Gone another try and just power through to finish it, and after a few hours I decided I needed another palate cleanser because it was annoying me even more than before, so I played The Forgotten City.

Days Gone is an apt name for the game because that's largely how I feel after playing it. Just ended up watching some of the ending cutscenes on YouTube.