What Have You Played Recently?

TIMELESS · August 23, 2016

I'm not sure if we've had this before... but if we have let's call this the 2016 2017 edition :p

Just has the title says, what have you played recently, and was it any good?

Andreas¹ · August 23, 2016

Guess the game.

Pokémon Crystal for the Gameboy Color

It is a good game, perhaps mostly for nostalgia reasons but I don't really care. As I'm me though I am way overthinking this.

TIMELESS · August 23, 2016

Jelly. I've never played any of them. :hide:

So I recently bought Firewatch, beautiful game, really interesting story with plenty of twists. I really enjoyed it, the only issue is I completed it in 4-5 hours. If it was longer, which it really could have been, it would be a solid 9/10. Worth picking up in a sale I'd say.

Andreas¹ · August 23, 2016

Jelly. I've never played any of them. :hide:

It's not too late. I remember around 15 years ago when me and some friends played this on our Gameboys during breaks in first grade or so. A few years later I even got a second Gameboy with link cable solely for the Trade function in the game. Thanks to the wonders of time and technology all of it can now be done with emulators instead. I still play it sometimes.

The Compensator · August 23, 2016

I'm not sure if we've had this before... but if we have let's call this the 2016 edition :p

Just has the title says, what have you played recently, and was it any good?

Real Life: Adult Edition 2016.

It's no good. 3/10

TIMELESS · August 23, 2016

Real Life: Adult Edition 2016.

It's no good. 3/10

I felt the same, but I just hit a point in the story where there's a positive twist. I'm not sure how you can repeat this for yourself, I guess it just happens randomly. 6/10 :p

Ryzza5 · August 23, 2016

NMS has been more humm drum in last few hours and RL swings from great fun to very frustrating multiple times per hour. :)

Also Project CARS PS4 league races each Sunday night which are tough work but good fun. Currently 2nd in the tournament with 2 races to go.

TIMELESS · August 23, 2016

500 hours?! Good lord Ryan. My max is 200 on Civ V, and I thought that was pretty extreme :p

CarMadMike · August 23, 2016

By the time you've finished playing rocket league (by choice/death/being sectioned) you'll have spent more than a month of your life on it :hmmm: That is crazy. I don't really know what rocket league is though, maybe it's worthwhile.

Ryzza5 · August 24, 2016

It's just easy to pickup for a spare 30 or so minutes most nights. It came out a year ago.

RobikV3 · August 24, 2016

No mans sky as well, Im pretty sure i clocked over 800 hours in BF3 ina year

Ozzmcom · August 24, 2016

GTA V, 900 hours on XB1 + 100 on PC probably the only game I've played over 1000 hours besides destiny which I haven't played in months.

mau92 · August 24, 2016

The Crew and Counter Strike Global Offensive lately. Of course I always play some Assetto Corsa or pCARS in between

SPYFAN · August 25, 2016

TDU2

...but Servers down since yesterday.... :-x

TIMELESS · August 25, 2016

Has anyone played Spec Ops: The Line? Not my usual kind of game but apparently it's got an amazing storyline.

mau92 · August 25, 2016

Has anyone played Spec Ops: The Line? Not my usual kind of game but apparently it's got an amazing storyline.

Played it back in the day. I was absolutely delighted by the story, the end is fantastic!

TIMELESS · August 25, 2016

Played it back in the day. I was absolutely delighted by the story, the end is fantastic!

Yeah? Cool. Put it on my wishlist, hopefully I can get it in a sale soonish.

hassan1995 · August 27, 2016

GT sport and Forza horizon 3 and The ps vr

Gran turismo had a really good setup to try the game, with racing seats and the thrustmaster wheel, the game itself was good handling felt solid and graphically its really good, now for forza :drool: I had full assists on and it felt meh but my god is the game stunning in person.

The psvr was bloody brilliant when it worked :lol: the thing didn't rest on my face too well and it was fuzzy but once that was fixed the thing was great, had a go at battlezone and i didn't feel dizzy as feared

TIMELESS · August 27, 2016

Forza horizon 3

Who did you bribe?!

carlos_69 · August 27, 2016

He bribed Turn 10 on Gamescom

TIMELESS · August 30, 2016

Jalopy. It's weird. I fixed my car up, went for a drive, broke down by a petrol station, couldn't figure out how to buy things, eventually found my wallet, bought some parts, fixed my car, continued driving, rolled my car, now what?

mau92 · August 31, 2016

Battlefield 1. I think this is going to be a good one. It feels refreshing, something different. Gone are days of reflex sights and x40 scopes, finally rifle shots damage planes (after all they are made out of wood and fabric) and you can finally run towards people waving a machete (Actually happened to me).

EA did a good job to me, scenery (Sinai Desert) looks excellent, textures are top notch as well as effects. You experiment in one round, clear skies, rain and a raging sand storm. All these factors affect how you have to play. When the rain or even worse, sand storm come in, planes and long distance rifles are useless, you have to find a way of advancing through enemy lines with tanks and people. When skies are clear, you better have a good eye, it's quite difficult to see enemies in the distance (Although they have kept the scope-shine-in-the-distance for sniper rifles), scopes have a basic "aiming cross". Or you can give a try and blow lalalala up from above, take a bomber and drop a couple of bombs over the town (I admit they should have a more devastating effect, like sweeping all buildings, although these do break), but you have to be careful since these are slow and lazy, and can be easily taken down by a triplane which is "much" more agile. Of course there's no RPGs or similar things, if you want to blow that tank you have to set the charge right below it, the map is full of heavy artillery like cannons, AA and such.

Sounds are great too, and how the person moves is very well done too, like you can see NPCs shooting with only one hand on the pistol and things like that.

Performance wise is great, I haven't seen a single FPS drop the whole hour and a half I've been playing. Rock solid on 60fps even in the worse conditions (Sand storm and big explosions). Plus, you can go to battle on a lalalalaing horse, which of course it reacts when you shoot at it!

Ozzmcom · August 31, 2016

I really enjoyed it as well however with framescale at 100% fps drops quite a bit during storms. Hopefully it'll get optimized for the final game.

TIMELESS · September 5, 2016

Jalopy. It's weird. I fixed my car up, went for a drive, broke down by a petrol station, couldn't figure out how to buy things, eventually found my wallet, bought some parts, fixed my car, continued driving, rolled my car, now what?

Got a refund. If it ever gets polished up in the future I'll definitely look into it again, I really liked the concept.

This Is The Police - a sort of police management game with a storyline. Very good, love the graphics and and sort-of comic book art style. It's dark and gritty while also being comical like a Rockstar game. It's also got a whole lot of playtime in it, I'm 14 hours in and not even halfway through. It's good bang for your buck entertainment.

Recently tried FM6: Apex again, it's definitely running smoother and feeling better than it did at first. There's still something different in the physics, I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just think playing with a Xbone controller should feel like FM6 on your xbone... surely?

TIMELESS · February 2, 2017

:bump:

Holy bananas batman! If you like Half Life (if :lol:) then you'll like this. Hard to explain without giving too much away but suffice to say it's creepy, atmospheric, confusing, mysterious. It'll terrify you without relying on cheap gimmicks.