Forza horizon coming to the UK is great, I like the new online stuff too, very similar to the old test drive unlimited game which I really liked. 

Ok you nerds, Fortnite.

Everyone is f**king playing it, even the England squad at their camp in Russia. Should i get it? Is it good? It's out on Switch now so I am tempted to go for that version over the PS4 version

8 hours ago, Blueblur said:

Ok you nerds, Fortnite.

Everyone is f**king playing it, even the England squad at their camp in Russia. Should i get it? Is it good? It's out on Switch now so I am tempted to go for that version over the PS4 version

Are you 12 and/or have the mental capacity of a child? If yes then it’s the game for you!

11 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Are you 12 and/or have the mental capacity of a child? If yes then it’s the game for you!

The latter. I'll give it a go tonight

I haven't tried it, but I tried a game similar (PUBG). I found it frustrating as hell, as you spend ages running around trying to find weapons and survive and then someone will snipe you from miles away and you're dead without even knowing what happened.

2 hours ago, Zeta said:

I haven't tried it, but I tried a game similar (PUBG). I found it frustrating as hell, as you spend ages running around trying to find weapons and survive and then someone will snipe you from miles away and you're dead without even knowing what happened.

Eurgh. If that's the case then I will stop playing it very quickly. 

3 hours ago, Zeta said:

I haven't tried it, but I tried a game similar (PUBG). I found it frustrating as hell, as you spend ages running around trying to find weapons and survive and then someone will snipe you from miles away and you're dead without even knowing what happened.

You forgot to mention waiting ages for the next round to start. 

Been playing a few different game recently. 

Still playing quite a bit of Dark Souls Remastered, easily in my top five games of all time that one. Pushing to get the platinum on that one, should have it done within a week I reckon. 

I bought Rainbow Six Siege whilst it was on sale. The game is two years old but I'd heard it had evolved a fair bit since its' release and has quite a dedicated online community. It's very different to playing a Call of Duty or Battlefield because every kill or death counts so much. Very tactical, being about to blow walls apart or create holes in them for sight lines really changes the way you have to play. Been quite fun. 

I bought the Metro 2033 & Last Light remasters for a combined £8. Not put much time into them just yet but it's basically Fallout if it was super grim and set in Russia. 

Downloaded Absolver, one of this months PS Plus games. It's essentially a tactical brawler, only played half hour or so but it's interesting. 

Quite enjoying Destiny 2 at the moment, took me a while to realise just how the public battles worked though. And the Crucible stuff is a joke, campers and high level players kill you before you get the chance to move, let alone build up your levels and weapons.

12 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

I bought the Metro 2033 & Last Light remasters for a combined £8. Not put much time into them just yet but it's basically Fallout if it was super grim and set in Russia. 

Metro is good, it’s a bit linear and for me didn’t have much replay value. £8 is a bargain mind!

10 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Metro is good, it’s a bit linear and for me didn’t have much replay value. £8 is a bargain mind!

I enjoyed the metro games, brilliant atmosphere in them, really unnerving at times. But they become a bit samey after while. The new one looks outstanding too. 

I actually tried fortnite and I realised that millions of kids take huge amounts of money from their parents wallets every month just to get "skins", a classic money grab scheme for a very simple game...when I was a kid you didn't need stuff like that to be cool, quake 3 arena and 1.6 cs was all about skill.

I'm waiting patiently for August 21st for Shenmue 1 and 2's rerelease, i will be getting that on Steam. Then on September 4th it's Dragon Quest XI, again on Steam. I very very rarely buy games the day they are released these days (the last time i bought a game on it's release day was either Mirror's Edge or Sonic Unleashed on the 360) but i will make an exception for these two.

In the meantime i have been playing Beyond Good and Evil and Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy again. I got both of these cheap on Steam and it's been a while since i played them, they are still great fun to play.

Still need to finish Dragon Quest VII. I don't quite have as much drive to finish JRPGs as I used to (Persona 5 being an exception, played that non-stop), getting to the part of the game where you're just backtracking through old dungeons has drained so much of my will to play...

Really looking forward to XI though

I've gone back for a 2nd play through of Fallout 4 .  really enjoying it ... much more than my first run.

2 hours ago, taffyblue said:

I've gone back for a 2nd play through of Fallout 4 .  really enjoying it ... much more than my first run.

I've done the same, but added the cheat console on so I dont have to mess around. Made the building stuff much more fun. 

Anyone play Rocket League?

Haven't played in about 2 years, but starting to a bit again. 

I’ve ended up really getting into Rainbow Six Siege. 

Matchmaking can be a chore, you don’t stay in lobbies you have to find each match individually and each time it takes a couple of minutes to find one... even then you might get thrown into one in progress that’s on the brink of being lost.

Asside from that I like that it’s generally more tactical and slower than most FPS games. I really like how the destructible environment can throw things in or out of your favour.

 

18 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

I’ve ended up really getting into Rainbow Six Siege. 

Matchmaking can be a chore, you don’t stay in lobbies you have to find each match individually and each time it takes a couple of minutes to find one... even then you might get thrown into one in progress that’s on the brink of being lost.

Asside from that I like that it’s generally more tactical and slower than most FPS games. I really like how the destructible environment can throw things in or out of your favour.

 

I keep meaning to pick it up on the cheap, heard good things. 

Remind me not to buy FIFA this year, I forgot what a massive pile of sh*te it is!

18 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

I keep meaning to pick it up on the cheap, heard good things. 

Remind me not to buy FIFA this year, I forgot what a massive pile of sh*te it is!

I kept reading, seeing things how they’d patched it a lot since launch and made it better. I picked it up for £16 after it went on sale on the PlayStation store. 

If you like online shooters it’s definitely worth a look. They’re heavily clamping down on online toxic behaviour at the moment too (team killing, abusive language etc.) so it’s getting a more consistent, enjoyable gameplay experience from it. 

EA are a funny bunch, aren't they... 

They've absolutely murdered series after series and they don't know why gamers are protesting their remakes. You can kiss Bioware goodbye after Anthem fails. 

 

Picked up Assassin'c Creed Origins at CEX for 20 quid. I've only played 3 or 4 hours of it so far, but I'm liking it. 

It's good that they've overhauled the combat to make it more difficult. And the Egypt setting is gorgeous.  

5 hours ago, Blueblur said:

Picked up Assassin'c Creed Origins at CEX for 20 quid. I've only played 3 or 4 hours of it so far, but I'm liking it. 

It's good that they've overhauled the combat to make it more difficult. And the Egypt setting is gorgeous.  

I bought it a few months back. 

I tired of it relatively quickly, found the map to be too vast and you're forced into playing lots of side quests or else you're not strong enough to play the main story line. 

There's nothing wrong with the game as such but Assassin's Creed is decade old now and it doesn't feel much different to when it first came out as franchise. 

7 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

I bought it a few months back. 

I tired of it relatively quickly, found the map to be too vast and you're forced into playing lots of side quests or else you're not strong enough to play the main story line. 

There's nothing wrong with the game as such but Assassin's Creed is decade old now and it doesn't feel much different to when it first came out as franchise. 

I can see what you're saying but your comments regarding levelling can be targeted at the Witcher 3 and that game has been hailed as the greatest game in recent years. And I recall you thinking it was good but not much more.

Of course you need to do loads of side quests to level up and explore the map. And peoples' complaints about it being vast and empty ring false when you realise the setting of Egypt 50BC was bare; you have loads of deserts in between areas because that's how it was then. 

I am looking forward to getting to Alexandria and the library etc. My order of these (which I've played) games are: 

AC:2, Black Flag, Syndicate, AC:1, AC:3 and probably Origins before AC3, but can't tell right now.   

1 hour ago, Blueblur said:

I can see what you're saying but your comments regarding levelling can be targeted at the Witcher 3 and that game has been hailed as the greatest game in recent years.

The difference is a bit of thought and story goes in to most of the Witcher 3 side quests, some can be quite interesting (some can also be quite sh*te but you can’t win them all). 

I find Ubisoft tend to tac in generic side quests/treasure hunts that don’t add nothing but padding to the game.