General gaming discussion

I'm playing New Vegas vicariously through Francis Higgins who is streaming it regularly these days.

New Vegas was a great game especially when you get to the casinos.

On another note Quantum Break is such a great game. I was playing it just now.

Was going to look into adding a few mods to New Vegas on SD too. Might try it over the weekend. Getting emulators to work on it was bad enough at times. In fact I still can't get a memory card working for the PS2 games I installed, will need to take another look at that too.

Immortals mistake was it has a lot of systems to learn, far beyond just the three magic spells.

It got tagged early as "call of duty with magic" so people just wrote it off as "ah yeah it's an FPS but the different colours are in place of different guns" and didn't expect its systems to be so well done.

It's more Doom Eternal with the style of fast movement, combat / enemy combos and some Diablo with spells, buffs, AOe attacks etc.

At the start it's a bit uninspiring but it ramps pretty quickly and the traversal and combat is really very good. Especially when you are using combos of movements, spells and effects and get into a flow state.

I think it has 80 moves to learn, 9 different spell casts, they can be augmented or combined with any of the 4 controls or 4 buffs on the d pad and face buttons to make them more effective. It's got loads of variety.

Also unlike God of war where upgrades give you these tiny little bumps. The unlock/upgrades here really ramp you up. Each one feels like you get much more powerful. It's very rewarding to explore too. You don't just find blue pants after 2 hours on a puzzle. You can also specialise or be a generalist and it's easy to respec throughout.

I can't remember issues with the visuals on PS5 although it's been a while since in played it. I think they added HDR and FSR support only last month so that might be causing it to look different.

If you bounced out within the first hour ..maybe two. I'd recommend giving it a bit longer.

But in dating that, it is 25 hours long and not all of that was necessary 😂

This is a decent explanation of the early stuff

The tone I know was divisive but I enjoyed it. I think because I don't watch Marvel stuff I'm not as jaded as everyone else that has watched endless marvel films and shows with that style.

It did really split opinions. Even within the same publication the original review panned it and then a few months later an opinion article says it's great 😃

https://www.polygon.com/sub-gems/24120268/immortals-aveum-ps-plus-best-2023-shooter

I think I remember reading about them at gun swapping issue alright now you mention it. I think there was a setting that fixed it, or at least made it less noticeable , ill try find it.

You certainly can! How anyone finished them is beyond me. So much cringe... but I found Immortals serviceable and eventually I grew into the world and lore and all that went with it. It was created by ex Titanfall and Telltale Games employees, and once you get past the Marvelesque style (but better than most recent Marvel stuff), it becomes better. I do wish for more, but it will never be.

I wasn't going to try F4 again. But it was going real cheap, there is a free upgrade, and I now know that you can make a kennel for the dog. So, that's better than a coffee for me. 😁

Each to their own, but a good story will get me through bad gameplay, but good gameplay won't get me through a bad story. Take the recent Zau game, gameplay seems fun but I just cannot warm to the story and I'm not pushed to go back to it. Compared to PoP, which had a serviceable story along with the good gameplay. Suppose its part reason why I can't get into Soulsborne games, aside from the other stuff. It's why I've probably less than 20 hours of Minecraft but over 100 hours in Stardew Valley.

In case anyone is interested, Godfall is on sale. If you have the Challenger Edition, you can get all the latest content and updates for about six fiddy, or you can buy the Challenger Edition for about three fiddy. So tenner all in if you want to "own" it (as sure enough it might be removed from PS+ at some stage).

I remember liking my playthrough of it when it released, although it was thin on the ground story wise but kinda refreshing in the way it wastes no time. But the straight forward combat was a fun, hack n slash looter. I remember end game being broken and empty, but they've added a hape of end game content now to keep you playing. Might tickle the fancy of some on here who may not have tried it. Stunning looking game, and quite smooth.

Nice article about the Gameboy here

Just finished Valiant Hearts 2. Loved the original but this felt fairly meh.