General gaming discussion

Looking back, i was quite lucky with my console history and realising my parents must have really gone out of their way to support my biggest hobby without me ever realising untill much later in life. Started with a C64, then to Nes and Master System but can't remember which was first, then Snes/Megadrive and then the jump to PS1. I vividly remember selling my nes to pay for my snes. Had a flyer up on the local shop window. Came home one day to find a woman having a cuppa with my mam and then leaving with my nes, lovely 100 pounds! Then my mam said the woman was so nice, she gave it for 50, I was devastated 😂

Yeah I was blessed with my gaming gifts from an early age thankfully, started on c64 until we jumped over to Megadrive the first combined console christmas gift to us kids, then a shared christmas PS1, we never officially owned a Nintendo in the house until Gamecube but got a loan of a few consoles when a specific game was needed to be played. There was also a place nearby called computer city that rented games was a goldmine for us and when C64 was on the way out the chap sold me and my brother a black bag of old games for 10 pound, spent hours watching loading screens to figure out what was worth keeping.

Similar to a lot of people I know with large families a console was usually gifted by Santa to all the kids and then every older sibling, Aunt, Uncle etc came with peripherals and games a plenty, little Recyclops wondering how they knew Santa would deliver.

Had my bro down during the week with a brand new Series X for his kids, popped down to update it as I had all the plugs controllers etc so only needed to remove console and install a few games to play on Xmas day, bloody 3 hours worth of updates but good to see an old tradition live on, I have a extra controller and games under my tree for them waiting.

What's everyone playing for Christmas? Planning on getting a specific game off Santa? I always feel like booting up The Division 1 at this time of year, such a great Christmas game.

I'm finishing up Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, which is brilliant, and then planning to play Under The Waves and TLOU remake but I'm VERY tempted to get Tomb Raider Remaster purely for the Christmas nostalgia that comes with it.

Under the waves is good. Just a relaxing narrative game even if the story is a heavy subject matter. Not much happening but still plenty of jobs to do under the water.

I've just started Forspoken as it got added to ps plus and that's also set at Christmas. At least at the start.

But Santa is bringing the small lad Astro bot. I've also star wars outlaws waiting to get started once I've finished Indiana Jones, Wolfenstein 2 and red dead 2 that are all at various % of completion.

New years resolution is the same one as every other year. Don't buy/ start a game until you're finished the one you are playing. And I intend to not stick to it again 😂

Alan Wake II (Series X), The Last of Us Part 1 (PS5), Red Dead Online and GTA Online (Xbox One).

Playing Alan Wake 2 at the moment. Getting Silent Hill 2 as a Christmas present and picked up Hogwarts Legacy cheap in the recent sales.

For the Deluxe edition on Amazon for about €35 in the recent Black Friday sale. Enjoyed Control but thought the first AW was absolute muck so was a bit on the fence about getting it. Glad I picked it up. It's a fantastic game.

I will hopefully finish Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, but I already started into Astro Bot. Will stop that, and go back to PoP. The context switching is a killer.

Has anyone tried out Luna on their firestick. May get the 7 day trial and give sonic frontiers a crack always wanted to play it but never enough to buy it

Treated myself for Christmas. Tomb raider trilogy remaster for €25 in Smyths and Pacific Drive Deluxe edition for €17.50 on psn. Looking forward to getting stuck into both of them.