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#3144378 8-Oct-2023 20:10

Playing Grounded with mates.... having fun :) You discover it has a tough learning curve when you decide to take on a tame looking ladybug.... which then proceeds to kick your a*** all over the show :D

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#3144385 8-Oct-2023 21:02

I’m still working on Odyssey, I made up my mind that I need to finish that first before getting another AC.

It’s been 5 years so far :)

Playing through cyberpunk still, Lords of the fallen next week with a friends in co-op.

Also considering horizon zero dawn burning shores dlcs since it’s on sale for ps5 but Ive got too many things to play so will wait for Christmas sale.

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#3144425 9-Oct-2023 08:45

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@gehenna did you get a chance to play it yet? First impressions?

I played the prologue and a few hours of the campaign. It's a DENSE map, certainly the city - haven't explored wider much yet. Mechanics are similar but different. I played AC1 when it came out but personally, I've preferred the mechanics since Origins. Still, it's pretty fun given its focus is squarely on assassinations so far. It feels stripped back to its core mvp mechanics. Skills are easy to understand and there aren't a lot of branches to the trees. Upgrades seem a simple combo of $ and 2-3 resources.

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#3144446 9-Oct-2023 10:12

gehenna:

I played the prologue and a few hours of the campaign. It's a DENSE map, certainly the city - haven't explored wider much yet. Mechanics are similar but different. I played AC1 when it came out but personally, I've preferred the mechanics since Origins. Still, it's pretty fun given its focus is squarely on assassinations so far. It feels stripped back to its core mvp mechanics. Skills are easy to understand and there aren't a lot of branches to the trees. Upgrades seem a simple combo of $ and 2-3 resources.

Yeah, I really enjoyed later game mechanics. I think I'll wait till it goes on special or a second hand copy comes up cheap.

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#3144462 9-Oct-2023 10:21

Certainly looks really nice in quality mode but i switched to performance which is good enough

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#3145137 10-Oct-2023 23:38

AC Mirage.

Quite enjoying it although the slightly ham-fisted attempts to use it to convince players that the ancient Middle East was a bastion of tolerance and wonder with pop up history lessons is a bit intrusive and unnecessary. I had one today telling me an about the wonder of paper making…. I don’t recall that sort of thing in previous iterations.

From the pre-release media I saw I was expecting it to be somehow better than it is. It’s fun but really very similar to Origins. So far, seven out of ten.

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#3145181 11-Oct-2023 08:35

Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla all had a Discovery Mode where you could explore the world with no combat and take in sights and references like a virtual museum tour.

Disagree with the Origins comparison. Perhaps aesthetically given the region it's set, but mechanically it's a completely different game, from a different lineage of game mechanics. Origins was heavily criticised for diverging from the mechanics that Mirage has brought back. Odyssey and Valhalla expanded on that, moving it further away from the stealth and parkour focus, to an RPG-lite kind of focus. Don't get me wrong, I personally prefer those three from Origins to Valhalla, I was never a big fan of the original AC games, but I can certainly see that Mirage has taken a big step away from those three games. Would not surprise me if they get into a regular release cycle of games which embrace both mechanic styles. They may as well be bringing out a main game once a year, so I'd imagine they have thought about increasing that, and given Mirage is a much smaller game (30gb vs 100gb, open world vs dense city), I suspect, with no evidence, it's not as long of a development journey.

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#3145224 11-Oct-2023 10:18

Counterstrike 2

24 years since I first played and the franchise is still going strong.

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#3145513 11-Oct-2023 22:04

I started playing Ratchet and Clank on the steamdeck. I'm really quite pleased that Sony is bringing a lot of their games to PC.

I didn't buy a PS5 at launch and I wasn't willing to pay scalper prices so we don't have one. Ratchet and Clank is one of the titles I really wanted to play so it's a good compromise.

I'm spending a lot of time on planes in the next few weeks so it's great it plays on Steam deck.

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#3148340 17-Oct-2023 09:15

networkn:

Struggling to get into Starfield, and Baldurs Gate feels really hard to play.. Cruising along, following where my nose takes me, get into an unwinnable battle.. Sigh.

Eventually I will end up buying and playing BG3 - probably when I finish Starfield (if ever). I'm interested to know in what sense you find it hard to play. Too hard, too complicated, not intuitive, ....?

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3148435 17-Oct-2023 15:00

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Eventually I will end up buying and playing BG3 - probably when I finish Starfield (if ever). I'm interested to know in what sense you find it hard to play. Too hard, too complicated, not intuitive, ....?

It can be great fun, but it's not very linear in terms of it's difficulty.

Generally, a game will get harder as you progress, but with BG3, you can be adventuring along, have fun and challenging combat, happen on an area that seems to be progressing the story naturally, and then need to restore from an earlier save and stay away from that area, because all of a sudden you are vastly out numbered by NPC's who are so stupidly OP compared to your level, it's not possible to beat them. It's not unusual for a single combat occurrence to take 45 minutes to complete.

I think it's the type of game you'd enjoy, no doubt in my mind, I just have found some elements less fun for the above reasons.

I almost certainly will complete it.

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#3148453 17-Oct-2023 15:27

Basically the only games I've played for the past while have been cites skylines and satisfactory. I'm looking forward to trying cites skylines 2 when it releases at the end of October but it also coninsides with exams so that's fun.

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#3148576 17-Oct-2023 21:22

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It can be great fun, but it's not very linear in terms of it's difficulty.

Generally, a game will get harder as you progress, but with BG3, you can be adventuring along, have fun and challenging combat, happen on an area that seems to be progressing the story naturally, and then need to restore from an earlier save and stay away from that area, because all of a sudden you are vastly out numbered by NPC's who are so stupidly OP compared to your level, it's not possible to beat them. It's not unusual for a single combat occurrence to take 45 minutes to complete.

I think it's the type of game you'd enjoy, no doubt in my mind, I just have found some elements less fun for the above reasons.

I almost certainly will complete it.

Thanks. I remember having to do this in Witcher III - having to come back later when I was higher-levelled and with stronger potions and poisons. Didn’t particularly like having to do that but if the game is pretty good overall I guess I wouldn’t be too concerned.

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#3148578 17-Oct-2023 21:40

eracode:

Thanks. I remember having to do this in Witcher III - having to come back later when I was higher-levelled and with stronger potions and poisons. Didn’t particularly like having to do that but if the game is pretty good overall I guess I wouldn’t be too concerned.

For me it ruined a number of what felt like organic natural exploration modes. A lot of games just adjust your opponents to your current level, ala Diablo 4 for example.

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#3148602 18-Oct-2023 06:18

Divinity original sin has the same issue. Because it’s a turn based RPG if you end up in a wrong part of the map without doing enough to get items/lvls you can straight up get deleted in one to two rounds. Playerbase tends to like this sort of ‘encounter’ though so it’s fairly normal.

Witcher and other action based games, notably dark souls, if you are mechanically skilled enough you can beat bosses with no armour and a wooden club.

Speaking of dark souls, Lord of the Fallen is a solid co-op soulslike coming on the heels of Lies of P.

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