General gaming discussion

I hate the phase boomer shooter. Fps shooters are way after the baby boom generation.

I found the Dead Space remake fairly dull. It's not in any way scary. I played without much enthusiasm until I got to a difficulty spike on a boss that I didn't have the interest in grinding at to beat so gave up. Played the RE4 remake shortly and while I found some of the bosses to be complete nightmares to beat, I never once wanted to give up.

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Looked it up and it's the creature called the Leviathan. I doubt it's that hard but I just didn't care enough to push through with it. I had played and completed the original game but the remake just didn't do anything for me. I found myself feeling bored playing it.

I thought the 4k mode with VRR was less then 75fps. I thinks that's the performance mode but regardless it looks incredible.

The beauty of the unlocked frame rate is it will run even faster on a ps5 Pro and will be 4k 120fps on a ps6. So this remaster is future compatible. Hopefully this type of remaster becomes a trend.

Played the original about 2 years ago. The gimmick of picking limbs off enemies is definitely fun, but it sort of doesn’t progress from that at all, and it’s a very short game that was wearing its welcome out at the 10 hours it took to finish.

I have Dead Space 2 in the backlog which I believe is supposed to be the best in the series so I might save that for Halloween this year.

The neck on these lads!

I think Dead Space remake fixed some annoying sections to be less annoying but ultimately it's a rebuild of the original with modern tech.

If you have 3D audio headphones a OLED TV and a dark room it's stunning. Some of the best sparks I've seen.

Yeah I'd have to agree. I never played the original games but I played the remake, and it was a great game. But it also started to drag in the latter half and the novelty of shooting limbs rather than heads didn't really change much. There were some great set-pieces, but by the last few chapters I just kind of wanted it to end.

Nearing the end of PoP so I’ve decided now’s the time to start scouring the map to try and get everything. I haven’t seen if the game tells you how much of the map you’ve covered as a percentage, does it exist? Or is it just done by secrets uncovered by area?

And the backtracking is starting to get a bit much. Even a small change that would allow you to warp to a fast travel point from anywhere would make things a lot easier!

Great game but it took me a while to get into it but once you do it's brilliant. I hope you have a lot of free time as there are over 100 hours of game play there and even more if you want to completely clean the map of markers.

Finished PoP myself, trying to convince myself to use interactive maps to find the final 10 feckong things I need. Games like this should have a reveal all option, or a treasure map you can buy so you can easily clean up. I'm even using that amulet that detects treasure, but it did a terrible job of finding the last 4 in the Upper City...

However, if that/plat doesn't interest you,it's a great game. Platforming is solid, movement is fluid enough, animations from a distance are great, and the close up powers are thoroughly enjoyable, like Street Fighter special moves.

It also has one of the coolest looking levels/areas I've seen in a while, the sea area. Full of amazing details, and a pleasure to journey through because of it. I don't want to spoil it for anyone because I had no idea it existed until I saw it and I was dumbstruck by it. Maybe that's just me though...

Story could have been better, but its more than enough to keep you going. But it has that feeling of small changes making massive differences with regards to the powers. And you can see the cut corners, such as the lip sync being either off, not actually coded right, or it's english dubbed (Ubi are French, non?).

Highly recommend it, even though going for these last few trophies may kill me...

Also started up Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen. Didn't have memories of trying it, and I've about 6 hours put in now and I remember why I stopped the first time: the Pawns. Good idea, and they are useful, but for offline it's annoying that only 1 will level up with you. Means having to change your pawns every few levels because they become useless. It's starting to annoy me again, so I'll probably stop again and hope DD2 is better. The constant stopping/changing is annoying me.

Thanks! This is the only game I feel I need to take a break every hour it's that intense.