General gaming discussion

I'm a little ashamed at how many attempts some of those short platforming levels in Astro Bot are taking me.

Those Quick Twitch Gamer Reflexes™ are leaving those old fingers.

Finished Uncharted, The Lost Legacy. The last section with the train is excellent, similar to a section in Uncharted 2. All home console games done now on PS5 at 60FPS. There are some really memorable action sections in the series, and some beautiful locations; and also a lot of stop the world sliding box puzzles and box pushing. The series needs to reinvent itself. It will be interesting to see what the new Indiana Jones game plays like.

Played a couple of hours of the remake on PS5 last night. I did play the original but years ago so I really don’t remember it that well to compare in detail.

While I originally had it set to performance mode, it wasn’t a completely stable 60fps at the beginning so bumped it down to 30 which has been fine - another game where a 40fps compromise would be ideal, really surprised that it’s not more common.

Graphically it’s nice though, it looks how I remember it looking, even if the fog is a little more plain.

Combat is fine - very much a case of striking and dodging at the right time. Multiple enemies can cause real panic though, and you never have enough bullets to be comfortable keeping at a distance.

The sound design is fantastic. Creaks, unfamiliar noises are consistent and keep the tension up. The radio is still very effective at creating dread(and having the noise come out of the controller was a great choice). The new voice acting is pretty good too.

There’s an impressive amount of customisation for the player too - control schemes, HUD changes, gameplay assists can mostly be changed. As an example, by default there is a red border that grows around the screen that gets bigger the worse your health gets, which I found very distracting, especially because health items are few and far between, so you could be wandering around for a while with that on. Mercifully it can be turned off, and the light on the controller indicates the state of your health anyway.

Overall so far I’m hugely enjoying it. The atmosphere is great, the puzzles are enjoyable and exploration is consistently tense. Considering it’s a 15+ hour game it’ll be interesting to see if I feel it starting to drag at all. But for now it’s the perfect Halloween game!

Keep meaning to play it since I have it on the PS4. But seeing the initial trailer for the re....master(?) make(?) I thought they had changed the cast as it didn't look like Hayden Panettiere, at least.

What weapon are you using? Zweihander or Uchi are available early depending on what way you want your build to go. Could also try a run to get the Gravelord Greatswird

It gets worse before it gets better. Be ready for an enormous amount of backtracking for a while because there’s no fast travel. The map design may be excellent the way it all interconnects but it gets old really quickly traipsing back and forth between areas.

I can appreciate it for what it is, and when you do get into it it’s a very good game - but as someone who came to the souls party late I’ll never have the love for it that some do because I’m used to the refined(and imo better) formula.