General gaming discussion

You should buy RDR for your PS5. I played it on the PS5 over Christmas and had a great time. A great game.

Tunic is great and then you get smashed by the very first boss. Metroid Dread is kinda the same. Definitely hate that when you are enjoying a game and the difficulty goes from 4 to 10. And I don't want to turn down the difficulty level from "normal". I'll get to them eventually. But they go down the backlog for me.

There is an Assassin's Creed presentation today for the next game. I love the look and worlds in the past few games, even though it's the same game. They do look beautiful. I never bothered with Valhalla or Mirage.

But I'm a tiny bit sad I sold my XBox Series X as that ran Origins and Odyssey in native 4K 60FPS HDR without a hitch. I got them cheap digitally ... and with quick resume you could jump from blue skies and water in Ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece in a second. Could get them again on PS5, but that doesn't have native 4K or the quick resume feature, and I'm done with them anyway.

Mirage is a throwback to the Ezio era, 99% of the rpg stuff has been removed.

Valhalla is bloated even for Ubisoft, never finished it.

I just finished Mirage. Incredibly meh, but did appreciate the play time. I probably played Valhalla for about 10-12 hours and got nowhere but you can beat this in 16. Played it across both Xbox and PC via Ubisoft+, would be a great option for playing Shadows as it's €18 if you can get it finished within a month. I smell another 100 hour slog though here.

I pulled the trigger (yeehaw) on red dead remaster for PS5 and it's a pure joy. Obviously not as nice to look at as the incredibly detailed RDR 2 but it still looks really nice and the simplified controls are a breath of fresh air. Checking the map, it looks a lot smaller than i remember which is also a good thing. Really looking forward to this playthrough.

Well i could easily stay up for hours playing this but leaba is calling. It's crazy how much more fun this game is after playing RDR2. If RDR 3 ever does get made, they need to return to not having to manage multiple stat bars and setting up camp anywhere and fast traveling to anywhere you've been. Also, for essentially a PS3 game, i can't stop taking screenshots. 30 quid in Smyths it's a bargain for this.

Make sure to play the horse shoe throwing minigame 😉

I will keeping playing that until I'm successful. Yes Jordan, you have been saying that for years 😄