Written by IronAngel on 02.01.2019 at 18:07

Dark Souls

At one point when I thought the most difficult game I played was Hotline Miami 2 hard mode, I thought people are exagerating with this Dark Souls thing and I have to give it a try.

I must say I tried DS 3, but I don't think I could stand a long time in this game... (managed to kill that high level ice monster right off the start though, but I still think the game will require way more patience later on...)
Also, I don't think keyboard is helping me a lot...
Are you using a gamepad ?

Soured a bit on 76. was ok, i enjoyed exploring the new map and uncovering stuff, but once done wandering the map it gets boring. tried to complete the nuke launch solo, an exercise in frustration. replay value diminished a swell. Fun to try different specs, but it's always the same plot points.

been buying discounted games as they come up on PS4. recently got Uncharted 1-3 (on the last chapter of the 2nd now) and Far Cry 5. I do love running around just shooting people at a distance, then smashing them with a pipe up close. Good times.

Finally playing Mutant: Year Zero. It's great. It's X-Com but with exploration instead of management. Combat is identical except you can properly use stealth to your advantage, and it doesn't have shite RNG. It's fun snooping around areas where the enemies are way higher level than me and stealthily poaching cool equipment and resources early on. Liking the characters too. You get to play as a duck and a pig.

Written by BitterCOld on 14.02.2019 at 02:18

Soured a bit on 76. was ok

Are you interested in the upcoming "The Outer Worlds" ?
made by the original Fallout team it seems

Written by ylside on 11.02.2019 at 20:55

At one point when I thought the most difficult game I played was Hotline Miami 2 hard mode, I thought people are exagerating with this Dark Souls thing and I have to give it a try.

I must say I tried DS 3, but I don't think I could stand a long time in this game... (managed to kill that high level ice monster right off the start though, but I still think the game will require way more patience later on...)
Also, I don't think keyboard is helping me a lot...
Are you using a gamepad ?

I have HM2, I've yet to play it but I suspect it would be the more difficult game for me. The two require very different skills, I guess. The Souls games don't require speed and fine motor skills so much as a sense of pacing and distance. I am playing with a gamepad, yes, though I played DS1 with KB+M just fine. It's not as smooth but it's not the hardest game to play that way (again, because there's not so much button-mashing and split-second reactions required).

It's a game that can be very hard or fairly-easy-with-difficulty-spikes, depending on how you play and how much you know what you're doing. Not so much "git gud" as how much gear you can safely wear (<70% encumberance!), which weapons or infusions to use and level up, either choosing a shield with 100% physical absorption or practicing dodge/parry until it's second nature, etc. If you managed to kill the optional ice crystal lizard thing in the first area without levels and upgraded weapons, then you'll be more than fine for the rest of it!

Written by ylside on 14.02.2019 at 16:07


Are you interested in the upcoming "The Outer Worlds" ?
made by the original Fallout team it seems

defo yes.

Mafia 3
I started it a while ago and well good game but not so good as 1th and 2.
I see elements from boat as from 1th medicine cabinets.

Lost Heaven, Empire Bay. Here New Bordeaux, name can be better , sinister, like black harbor something like that.

City is huge, if you dont have fats car its annoying to drive around. I like races mission.
I like extra missions, long story (in one Lucas Bertone gave extra, 2 there was no extra, I thought Dereck Papalardo could give some).
Here every underboss gives us extra. you can drive boats but watch out, gator mothafuckas can eat you there.
1th music sucked, even it was good for that time, 2 was good 50's rock n roll, here radio sucks, names sucks, but music is decent 60's things, nice.

I hate when car crushes whit shift you can make it dribble again.
Story was same in all districks of city. kill, talk, acuse and so on,basically its same.
1 and 2 was different.
Here we have sielnced weapons and heavy that time guns, nice one

I didnt like that Vito Scalleta was here and even Leo Galanta came as well. 2 you wacked Tomas Angelo. btw remember small eror, check a lats movie in 1. and replay that mission in 2.

Vito was to long.

Interesting 3 endings, leave, rule together, rule alone.

I am well I was hoping more or more special even I like it in general. My kind game. I hope to see M4 out soon

Metro Exodus:

Found it a bit boring at first, but thankfully the game actually gets better the further along you go and more weapons and customisation it offered. Of the 3 open world maps the final one is the best by far, as it's tighter and acts more like a linear mission with some open space. Also the best looking of three. The final area was the best though, it was basically classic Metro and quite well done. I hate gorillas now. The story was pretty ok, more so by the end. Got the bad ending, but looking at both the bad ending was way cooler.

Have to give it credit for avoiding most open world problems though. No throwaway fetch quests, not overlong, smaller maps so pointless excursions are relatively limited, although respawning monsters (that give you no rewards) in a game with limited resources is kinda shaky, and quite a few of the suit / mask / tool upgrades are found fairly early on. I liked that it punctuated the open world stuff with linear sections in between. Still though, the game is best when going linear.

Written by Mercurial on 28.02.2019 at 14:40

Metro Exodus:

Found it a bit boring at first, but thankfully the game actually gets better the further along you go and more weapons and customisation it offered.

Will get that down the line. As with Far Cry New Dawn opening up FC5 for 75% off, took advantage of Metro: Exodus to get the PS4 redone first two. Haven't touched yet, will be on them soon.

Written by BitterCOld on 01.03.2019 at 00:02

Will get that down the line. As with Far Cry New Dawn opening up FC5 for 75% off, took advantage of Metro: Exodus to get the PS4 redone first two. Haven't touched yet, will be on them soon.

It's a really solid series, the first two are some of the last bastions of linear, story driven FPSs, and Exodus does a good job at tackling some open world approaches.

I'm really out of the loop when it comes to gaming. Just don't have the time for it that I used to. I'm currently playing Fallout 4 when I have time though. It's my first experience with any Fallout game & i'm enjoying it so far.

I'm really waiting to get my hands on Star Citizen, but it's been years in development already & i'm getting pretty frustrated with the constant delays.

Written by Nefarious on 03.03.2019 at 13:47


I'm really waiting to get my hands on Star Citizen, but it's been years in development already & i'm getting pretty frustrated with the constant delays.

Yeah any excitement I had for that game went years ago. Still a chance Squadron 42 might be decent though.

Written by Mercurial on 03.03.2019 at 18:42

Yeah any excitement I had for that game went years ago. Still a chance Squadron 42 might be decent though.

I built a custom gaming rig in anticipation of playing Star Citizen upon it's release. That rig is now so old it has already had it's monitor, mouse, keyboard, case fans, GPU, RAM & SSD replaced & is pretty much on it's last legs & due for to total rebuild

I actually still hold out hope that both Star Citizen & Squadron 42 will be great games when they come out eventually, but i'm seriously fed up with the constant delays & 'feature creep' that is going on. The problem with their crowdfunding model is that they are basically Incentivized to keep the game in development indefinetly while they keep brining in insane amounts from backers. Funding has passed $219 million now & during their limited 'sales' they've been selling game packages to people at prices up to $27,000!

Written by Nefarious on 05.03.2019 at 09:21

I built a custom gaming rig in anticipation of playing Star Citizen upon it's release. That rig is now so old it has already had it's monitor, mouse, keyboard, case fans, GPU, RAM & SSD replaced & is pretty much on it's last legs & due for to total rebuild

I actually still hold out hope that both Star Citizen & Squadron 42 will be great games when they come out eventually, but i'm seriously fed up with the constant delays & 'feature creep' that is going on. The problem with their crowdfunding model is that they are basically Incentivized to keep the game in development indefinetly while they keep brining in insane amounts from backers. Funding has passed $219 million now & during their limited 'sales' they've been selling game packages to people at prices up to $27,000!

Yeah it's no wonder quite a few people wanted refunds on their Kickstarter money, and the idea of ship packs for the price of an expensive car is pretty obscene. I guess there's always someone out there who will drop that kind of money on something that exclusive though. Hopefully you got some use out of your PC at least. I'm planning a £700-ish PC upgrade in the next few months, but there's always that worry that better hardware will come out soon after, or a string of new games will be released that already make it feel obsolete, and I'll get buyer's remorse.

Written by Nefarious on 03.03.2019 at 13:47

I'm really out of the loop when it comes to gaming. Just don't have the time for it that I used to. I'm currently playing Fallout 4 when I have time though. It's my first experience with any Fallout game & i'm enjoying it so far.

I'm really waiting to get my hands on Star Citizen, but it's been years in development already & i'm getting pretty frustrated with the constant delays.

loved FO4. i guess not as good as predecessors, but was a lot of fun for me. Perhaps at least partially as I lived outside Boston (and the map) as a kid, so got to mow down super mutants in the town my grandparents used to live and shoot up raiders in a hospital my dad used to work at many many many years ago.

Have fun, and the Far Harbor and Nuka World DLC's are defo worth it.

Monster Hunter: World.

What an absolute time sink. Have spent 26 hours on it and only just defeated the Anjanath campaign mission (and captured a Rathanos). It's good though. The combat is quite Souls-like, but arguably harder given that big monsters take like 10 - 20 minutes to beat. Opted for the switch axe because its basically a Bloodborne trick weapon. Doing it all solo, so can get pretty challenging at times, and I imagine a lot more so when I reach the high rank.

I'm not a fan of the "brightness" of the game as everything has that bloom effect and looks too bright. It looks much better with brightness turned down but then you can't see shit at night. It needs a contrast slider. The radial menu sucks balls as well so using items is a pain when using a controller.

Boot Hill Heroes.

A Spaghetti-western themed retro-JRPG thing similar to Earthbound (mostly graphic-wise)
The battle system is ace: turn based but each ability has its own gauge so you need to use the abilities wisely, according to what the enemies will select.

I'm surprised this game is so underrated. Also that glorious soundtrack

Anyone played 'Baba is You', recently released on steam?

A sequel to Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines just officially announced. If they can match the variety and meaniful choice system of the first, but make the game actually finished this time with a decent combat system then we should be on to a winner. Vampires will be cool again.




Also, Sekiro is hard as nails. Need to unlearn a decade of Soulsborne instinct to git gud.

Sekiro: a good, maybe great, game, that I'll probably rarely come back to play again very often.


Probably a bit spoilery for bosses and their stages and some cool stuff that happens, so, like, beware,



Amazing, vertical and often connected level design, great art style and atmosphere for its setting, some fun and interesting mechanics and mostly good combat. Sometimes it's too much of a pain to play for its own good though, particularly when you get into end-game bosses and enemies. The final boss is 2 bosses, strung together, and totals 4 stages to get through without dying. I did it once after too long, and I can't see myself wanting to go through that again any time soon. Combat is more like a puzzle / quick-time combat system compared to Soulsborne's somewhat messy, DIY approach. Probably more fun for some kind of people, but less so for me. It also has the worst camera in any Fromsoft game, probably due to more combat in smaller areas, as well as some terrible enemy tracking. The general exploration and enemy combat is quite fun though, and a good level of challenge, and there are some fun boss fights (Guardian Ape in particular I enjoyed).

Also it's just not Soulsborne, despite the level design being so good. Not enough weird, imaginative bosses and areas, esoteric story execution, multitude of weapons and playstyles, agency to RPG your character etc. In Sekiro you play how Fromsoft want you to play, or you die.

Other bullet point thoughts:

- Music is good, though perhaps not as memorable as the other games.
- A fair few reskinned mini-bosses, which is a shame.
- Death is way more punishing in this game imo, and having it affect NPCs is cool lore-wise, but a bit shit gameplay wise.
- The game is probably easiest during the mid-game. The start has too many mini-bosses that have mobs to contend with.
- Prosthetics are cool, but their effectiveness is varied. Some bosses won't respond to them if their animation is in a particular phase. Getting them fully upgraded is too much work though.
- Grappling around the world is fun, as is the vertical nature of much of it.
- The story is a bit too much "find this mystical item, now find these 7 mystical items."
- Spamming the block button for deflection is a viable tactic in many cases.
- Normal enemy AI is kinda janky, and makes stealth either too easy or too difficult (mostly too easy though).
- The Headless mini-bosses can go fuck themselves.
- The two Snake Eyes mini-bosses can go fuck themselves.
- The game's optional Dark Souls-ian super boss can go fuck itself.
- The Guardian Ape farts at you causing poison build-up.
- The game's dragon boss is a thing of unparalleled beauty.
- There are late game enemies that suck out your youth, turning you into an old man where you use your sword like a walking stick. Brilliant to behold (you're basically dead if this happens though)
- There are monkeys that use guns and dual-wield swords.
- There's a combat arte where you can puppeteer an enemy you just killed.
- There's a boss called Long-arm Centipede Giraffe, and it's not what it sounds like and is about 47 times scarier than you'd think.
- It's a lot better than Nioh.
- There are already no-hit boss runs up on Youtube, because the game apparently isn't that hard.
- ROBERT-OOOOO!
- I really hope for Fromsoft's next game that they don't drown themselves in the "we make hard games" kool-aid and consider why Soulsborne games are so liked by people.

Written by Mercurial on 02.04.2019 at 12:59

Sekiro: a good, maybe great, game, that I'll probably rarely come back to play again very often.

Probably a bit spoilery for bosses and their stages and some cool stuff that happens, so, like, beware,

- I really hope for Fromsoft's next game that they don't drown themselves in the "we make hard games" kool-aid and consider why Soulsborne games are so liked by people.

Lol, kinda waiting for this post.

Can't decide from that whether I will like Sekiro more than Souls games so that I can skip right to it or play the souls games first and then go to Bloodborne and then this. Considering I'm not at all familiar with RPG games and love button smasher games like God of war makes me think I will like Sekiro more. But just tried to manage through the Firelink Shrine level in DS1 last week after dozens of failed attempts at the Catacombs and then finally watching YT tutorials. Felt after that I really enjoyed playing DS1 and found it a cakewalk compared to the insanely unplayable Demon's souls. I do plan to get a PS4 and get the trilogy version of DS (Just ordered it recently) so that I can go all-out batshit crazy since I am planning to preserve my PS3 for the exclusive games on it as I don't want it failing in any way.

Sekiro does look insanely cool and watched few mini-boss battles which feels more epic and cinematic unlike anything from the Souls game I've seen so far but I do kinda see that with it would compromise the depth and level of replayability of the Souls games.

Written by 3rdWorld on 03.04.2019 at 20:08

Lol, kinda waiting for this post.

Can't decide from that whether I will like Sekiro more than Souls games so that I can skip right to it or play the souls games first and then go to Bloodborne and then this. Considering I'm not at all familiar with RPG games and love button smasher games like God of war makes me think I will like Sekiro more. But just tried to manage through the Firelink Shrine level in DS1 last week after dozens of failed attempts at the Catacombs and then finally watching YT tutorials. Felt after that I really enjoyed playing DS1 and found it a cakewalk compared to the insanely unplayable Demon's souls. I do plan to get a PS4 and get the trilogy version of DS (Just ordered it recently) so that I can go all-out batshit crazy since I am planning to preserve my PS3 for the exclusive games on it as I don't want it failing in any way.

Sekiro does look insanely cool and watched few mini-boss battles which feels more epic and cinematic unlike anything from the Souls game I've seen so far but I do kinda see that with it would compromise the depth and level of replayability of the Souls games.

Lol, the Catacombs is a nearly end game area, no wonder you were having trouble.

It's honestly hard to say what you'll like more. I wouldn't say Sekiro is even a button mashy game per se. In fact you may spend more time deflecting than attacking, but usually it's a combination of both. It's very much a game about precision, and way more about learning patterns than the Soulsborne games.

I think either way, going from Souls to Sekiro, or Sekiro to Souls will be difficult. I tried playing Dark Souls 3 again and muscle memory made me play it like Sekiro and I got slaughtered lel.

Witcher 3 (again)

After I burned out on it before by doing so many of those question mark quests I'm trying again, this time by ignoring them and wacking down the difficulty to story mode. I'm still a bit surprised at how well received this game is considering the gameplay / combat is pretty mediocre, but the side quests are well contextualised and it's quite well written. Geralt really does move like a slug on ice skates, even with the "alternate" control mode, and the menu system is like a bad puzzle mini-game where you always lose. Don't get me started on the swimming mechanics. Absolute cancer.

It's still seriously pretty though, even though it's like 3 years+ old now, just don't understand how they created environments that look so good yet run so well.

Also, why can't a nearly 100 year old professional Witcher use swords of identical type that are 1 level above yours? Weird.

Tbh there's lots of stuff about the game that irks me but I think if I stick with the story I might make it through and actually enjoy it. Just hoping the side quests evolve out of "my *person* has gone missing, please find her / him" *Witcher sense ensues*

Playing FFVI for the 3d time, this time the steam version so that I could record gameplay footage for a review. Using the World Reborn mod makes the game look decent. As I analyze the game more deeply than I did the first two times playing it, I find new things that were done well, especially when it comes to how well some of the characters were written.

That said, I also find more and more plot holes, contrivances and scenes/plotlines that are just the cheapest of cheap drama instead of the quality storytelling that almost all fans and critics hype them up to be. I've always thought that as far as RPGs go, FFVI is the definition of overrated and while I still like the game a lot, this 3d playthrough has only convinced me of how true that is.

Also, Kefka is a very poorly written villain, his fans must be under the influence of his slave crown to think he is anything great.

Written by Mercurial on 19.04.2019 at 23:00

Witcher 3 (again)

After I burned out on it before by doing so many of those question mark quests I'm trying again, this time by ignoring them and wacking down the difficulty to story mode. I'm still a bit surprised at how well received this game is considering the gameplay / combat is pretty mediocre, but the side quests are well contextualised and it's quite well written. Geralt really does move like a slug on ice skates, even with the "alternate" control mode, and the menu system is like a bad puzzle mini-game where you always lose. Don't get me started on the swimming mechanics. Absolute cancer.

Memorable characters, expansive scope, great story, gorgeous visuals, Gwent. That's why the game was and is beloved, I think. Even as a massive fan of The Witcher series, I must agree that perhaps it was overly well received because of "teh feels, OMG teh feels" and because everyone WANTED to like it, seeing CD Projekt Red as some kind of an underdog and - somewhat paradoxically - a savior of RPGs in an age when other bigger companies were pumping out mediocre games and focusing on milking the costumers with DLC and shit. I also think that while CD Projekt are more than admirable when it comes to how they treat costumers, they probably still whip their employees as hard as Rockstar, Bioware or whoever come crunch time. So yeah, I loved The Witcher 3, but holding it and CD Projekt Red up as an expression of God's divine love is quite silly.

That said, I do recommend You complete the game, it mostly gets better and better after the first 3d or so. I wasn't too keen on the first 3d myself.

Oh, and don't romance both Yen AND Triss, it will blow up in Your face

Written by Metren on 02.05.2019 at 16:52


Memorable characters, expansive scope, great story, gorgeous visuals, Gwent. That's why the game was and is beloved, I think. Even as a massive fan of The Witcher series, I must agree that perhaps it was overly well received because of "teh feels, OMG teh feels" and because everyone WANTED to like it, seeing CD Projekt Red as some kind of an underdog and - somewhat paradoxically - a savior of RPGs in an age when other bigger companies were pumping out mediocre games and focusing on milking the costumers with DLC and shit. I also think that while CD Projekt are more than admirable when it comes to how they treat costumers, they probably still whip their employees as hard as Rockstar, Bioware or whoever come crunch time. So yeah, I loved The Witcher 3, but holding it and CD Projekt Red up as an expression of God's divine love is quite silly.

That said, I do recommend You complete the game, it mostly gets better and better after the first 3d or so. I wasn't too keen on the first 3d myself.

Oh, and don't romance both Yen AND Triss, it will blow up in Your face

Yeah I'm about 45 hours in now, level 22 or so and now skulking around Skellige. Just concentrating on the main, side and witcher quests. It's good, but there is quite a bit of repetition in the side and witcher quests. Tbh I think the game might have peaked early with the Bloody Baron saga. Saw it through till the end, and it's definitely some of the best writing I've seen in a game, and the art design of the Crones is immense. Just hoping there's some other stuff that good further along.

The writing and characters is definitely a step above most games though, and I can't see any reason why I won't finish it at this point.

And yeah, I've already opted for Triss, coz redheads

Written by Mercurial on 02.05.2019 at 19:44

And yeah, I've already opted for Triss, coz redheads

Good choice!

I know Yen is Geralt's true love in the books, but for me, Triss is just much better written and a more likable character in the games. I felt like the devs where shoving Yen down our throats at points, probably because of the books and how Yen hadn't been a part of the previous games, so they felt like hyping her or something.

Triss is nice and sweet, but Yen challenges Geralt.Was a no brainer for me. Though first play through, I made the mistake of trying to romance both.

Oh, and Triss slept with Lambert.

Trying to beat Cuphead but can't go past the third boss

Written by BitterCOld on 09.05.2019 at 17:36

Oh, and Triss slept with Lambert.

You can kind of get back at them by doin' Keira and letting Lambert pick up the sloppy seconds