Topic: What games are you playing at the moment?

[stoa]

Dragon's Dogma 2.

It's getting poo-pooed all over the place, but I find it really enjoyable. An RPG that's right down my alley. Haven't had any issues performance wise on PC so far, but I've only just come to the first big city and most technical issues seem to be in the big cities. Fights in the open world were running flawlessly for me and I love the big enemies you can fight. Best experience so far was my group getting into a fight with some goblins and after we've defeated them, I had my character walk past one of my pawns and they actually high-fived each other... Great little detail...

[Drinks Sangria]

My understanding is that the DD2 backlash is due to the prevalence of micro transactions and play to win invading a single player experience.

[Darren G]

Dragon's Dogma 2.

It's getting poo-pooed all over the place, but I find it really enjoyable. An RPG that's right down my alley. Haven't had any issues performance wise on PC so far, but I've only just come to the first big city and most technical issues seem to be in the big cities. Fights in the open world were running flawlessly for me and I love the big enemies you can fight. Best experience so far was my group getting into a fight with some goblins and after we've defeated them, I had my character walk past one of my pawns and they actually high-fived each other... Great little detail...

I think that a lot of people's grievances are genuine issues though. Massive CPU usage in Cities and stuttering/low fps for many people, even those with pretty powerful rigs, microtransactions galore (a microtransaction for fast travel? fucking really?) etc. The big WTF though is the inability to restart a game or have multiple saves on a single player game in 2024. That shit is indefensible.

[PhilV]

I think that a lot of people's grievances are genuine issues though. Massive CPU usage in Cities and stuttering/low fps for many people, even those with pretty powerful rigs, microtransactions galore (a microtransaction for fast travel? fucking really?) etc. The big WTF though is the inability to restart a game or have multiple saves on a single player game in 2024. That shit is indefensible.

This.


It's a great game but poorly optimised evident by powerful systems having bad performance in the cities and the micro transactions are reaching new levels of scum, anyone who defends them is a fucking lunatic.

[voodoo ray]

Really?

That seems to fly in the face of the old "save often, save in different slots" rpg thing.

[Zlen]

Bought Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights on GOG and am quite enjoying it so far. I played NWN when it was first released and I had mixed feelings over it. First of all it wasn't a lush, isometric, 2D stunner that BG2 was. Second there was no party, it's you and one select henchman. But playing it now, I have to say it's a pretty good and challenging game. Still in Act 1, made a Barbarian character and got another Barbarian henchman - so we're just two dumb fuck going everywhere and smashing people, monsters, chests, doors and anything else.

[Dench57]

Horizon Forbidden West finally out on PC - downloading now!

[Henry Gale]

Purchased Robocop on the PS5, my weekend will be walking round shooting the shit out of everything with my over powered gun and I can't wait 

[Darren G]

Horizon Forbidden West finally out on PC - downloading now!

Yeah, I've just finished downloading today myself, so gonna have a bash this evening. The download I used also has the FSR3 mod, which worked great on HZD, so even on my 'way overdue an upgrade' rig I should get good FPS.

Purchased Robocop on the PS5, my weekend will be walking round shooting the shit out of everything with my over powered gun and I can't wait 

Let me know how you get on. Looks like proper fun from the videos I've seen.

[voodoo ray]

I've been playing hfw since it got released and it's a good port. I had a lot of CTDs when playing it at 1440 ('very high' presets) but swapping to 4k and 'high' (with 'very high' textures) sorted that out. there are some fps drops during cut scenes with multiple people in which seems to be fairly common, but while actually playing the game it's smooth. or smooth enough for me anyway, I'm not one of these people who is obsessed with fps.

[Henry Gale]

Let me know how you get on. Looks like proper fun from the videos I've seen.

It does look like a fun game, I wanted it from release but I wasn't paying £60 so I waited till I could pick it up for £25 

[JerseyKloppite]

Just finished Prince of Persia on the Switch. Really enjoyed it.

[emergency exit]

Just finished Prince of Persia on the Switch. Really enjoyed it.

Yessssss! Loved it! and it's sill getting a few free updates aswell, including a story related DLC later this year.

[emergency exit]

My Steam Deck OLED is about to arrive 

As someone who's been Nintendo exclusive these past 15 years, I'm excited about the wealth of games I will suddenly have access to.

So, watch should I get stared with? (While I wait for Hades II to release ino Early Access...)

I've mainly been looking at the likes of Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3 etc. 

Any tips?

For reference, my last games on Switch were The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kindom, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Hogwarts Legacy, Super Mario Wonder, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Hollow Knight.

[Crimson]

Restarted the Red Dead Redemption 2 campaign. Still the love the mood, the details, the movement... hope they bring all of this "humanity" into the new GTA.

Crazy that RDR2 was never updated to 60+ fps. It's still stuck on 30 fps, which is unusual for me now, but doesn't ruin the experience