General gaming discussion

Each to their own and all that. I loved the 2 Ori games, in my top 10. Apparantly they did patch the Ginso tree, and while I found it initially frustrating, I was enjoying it at the end. I don't remember it being impossible hard, but I do remember people saying how hard that section was and I didn't think the same.

Elden Ring, I gave a good few hours to, no story to speak of and just more Dark Souls with an open world. Not for me. Loved the Arkham games, but no intention of doing the challenges.

I think people are too stuck on playing the hardest mode available. Games are meant to be enjoyable, and everyone gets joy from a different place. Some love the satisfaction of beating something after hundreds of tries, whereas to me that's not worth it. I'm all about the entire experience, and repeating the same thing over and over will eventually put me off, some moreso than others. But I stuck with the Ori games. A mate recently played through the first, on my profile but on PC (he got a €2k gaming laptop!). At the end, he said he died 800+ times, and checked the Xbox version and I had died ~340 times. But I collected everything, so was more powerful in general than his run.

Anyone play Road 96? Out on PC last year I think and consoles a few days ago. Looks like a mix of Telltale and life is Strange. 20 quid is a tempting price and one review said it's 10-15 hours long. Narrative driven but with procedurally generated roads.

Exactly!

Was just thinking that when I was sitting in my house in Skyrim. Also, thinking that roaring fire on the floor of the sitting room is a fire hazard. 😊😊😊

I have done the main game and some side quests but have hardly touched the skill tree.

And I've started using the first person perspective mode.

Was even thinking mods and getting a PC ... But that's nuts 🙂

So, Skyrim until winter, then Starfield, hopefully that's good, then BOTW2 next year and Witcher 3, when they do the next gen version..

I can only manage one open world universe in my poor little brain at a time.

Thanks for the link.

Sticking with XBox Series X. It's good enough for me and it's super quiet!

One thing that takes me out of a game is noisy spinning fans.

But, I've enough money spent on game tech, the PC is a very slippery slope. 😊

Ah ye can't bate Skyrim loaded up with a glorious ENB, looking ultra realistic.

When ye finally sort out your load order and having everything running in sync, fabulous!

Then, scrap it 5 hours later and start all over again! Its a disorder! :pac:

If you are on PC - Installing using Wabajack is the way to go. It makes a life a lot easier.

I also have Xbox Series X but I had never noticed that fans are noisy.

Yes, SX is super quiet. I love it.

But, a PC to play Skyrim with mods etc etc will be noisy. That's why I'm sticking with a SX.

Even 2018's RDR2 still had a bit of this weird design going on.

Arthur's true character is probably a god-awful prick, but most players are going to play with the nice guy options.

I have to admit seeing vids of YT as Arthur being more gruff felt weird to me, I didn't know who that character was.

I've been actually looking for a good arcade racer. Gran Turismo 7 is brilliant but made me crave a bit more arcadiness. I installed Dirt 5 and quickly uninstalled it. I was thinking about NFS Heat but have up on that at launch as quickly as the devs did.

I loved the Burnout Games but i wasn't keen on the openess of Paradise, always winding an i taking the right road, i definitely prefer defined routes. Might try it again though.

Zero, did you play Dirt Rally 2.0 at all? Much harder than the first one, but very rewarding.