General gaming discussion

I think all we saw of the new Housemarque game, yeah if it was any other developer you could easily dismiss it until we see more. But even the shot of the spiralised projectiles is enough to show this is the spiritual successor to Returnal, which is still one of the best PS5 games. Love Rahul Kohli too so look forward to seeing his performance. Too early to judge the game given what little we've seen, but this was one of the most exciting things shown last night.

Also loved the Shinobi trailer, had completely forgotten about that. Could be a lot of fun. MGS3 trailer would have been the highlight for me if it hadn't leaked. Lies of P DLC is great, I nearly went to replay it a few months ago but decided not to. Now I can play just before the DLC comes out. Some of the other games shown definitely interest me, but are very much wait and see.

Can't believe they're really doing Days Gone Remastered...

I drove over 1600 kilometres in EA WRC. I can forget about winning the WRC2 Championship too. Was nowhere at Monte Carlo, skipped Sweden and blew the chance to win in Croatia due to a twenty second penalty.

BL2 was definitely my favourite. I played that one to death. But the actual gameplay of BL3 just felt so much better. It was so smooth, more to do after finishing etc. The main issue BL3 had (outside of the writing/characters) was that you got too many legendaries too easily. No matter how much storage they provided, I had it filled with legendaries.

Wonderlands was godawful. I liked the concept and the framing of the game in the D&D tabletop style, but every area was just a tiny map, waves of the same enemies, and then the classes and how you could combine classes was just boring. Can't even remember if I finished it.

I'm sure I'll sink a ton of hours into BL4 regardless, as I do love that general gameplay loop. I don't see BL4 being hugely different from the other games, though at least there are signs of better traversal mechanics being introduced. I think they know the writing of BL3 was awful too so hopefully they make a better attempt at it this time.

Kingdom Come's lockpicking is a crock of shít. Actually rage-dropped the game because of it. Can't even open the tutorial chest.

First one. I saw how well 2 was being received so I'm trying 1, or was trying it.

Did you change to 'easy lock picking' in the settings? Originally designed for pc, awful with a controller but the new setting makes it more manageable. Saying that, is still really hard until you do it enough to level up and becomes much easier. Like everything else in the game, it's really difficult doing anything until you level up that specific skill.

I'm mad to get 2 so went back to 1 but man, it's not a friendly game at the beginning and actually offputting with how much time you need to put into it I'm tempted to skip and jump to 2 as it looks to be a bit easier going at the start (but still keeps it's toughness apparently).

Yupp they should have stayed with the tried and tested.

Ace Combat 7 is currently on sale on PSN for €9.79. About €9.79 more than it's worth mind you.

Ace Combat 7. Ther game that's not good enough to deserve a remaster 😜

I'm always playing a bit of Fallout 76 and I'd to get through 10 locks recently and it's just too basic and even without magic unbreakable lockpicks it's too easy.

Had a problem with KC1 at first in the main tutorial I'd a very hard time getting those nails ( and stealing the armour) , but later I stayed with that tutorial chest when you wake up which locks itself after you walk away from it and I just kept at it earning levels and practicing for a few minutes. Once you've a few levels into it it gets easier and you've gotten the knack for it too. I think it's level 3 and 6 you get stuff, and then it's still hard but not undoable on the normal difficulty ones. You're not getting into the harder ones at the start until you've levelled up a lot.