General gaming discussion

Few bosses into this and starting to grow on me. I was really lost with the alternative realm that is required to pass through different areas. It’s a really really easy game though and they hand out ‘souls’ in huge quantity so I feel like my character is getting over levelled fast

Just saw the latest trailer for Doom Dark Ages. Flipping hell, there's more story in it than there was in the entire 2016 game! I just don't think that's what fans want from a Doom game.

Just finished South of Midnight. It looks nice, it sounds nice. It plays eh... meh.

I put it on very easy about halfway through because I could not be arsed doing a boss fight more than once and I just left it there for the rest of the game. The combat is the same thing about 100 times, beyond repetitive.

Im in a weird rotation of games right now, i'm currently flipping between Stellaris, Enter the Gungeon and iRacing. Each scratching a certain itch.

Gonna grab Tempest Rising at the weekend. That'll kill a few weeks

Yeah I don't know about that. I appreciate voice acting and performance, but there can definitely be times in a game where I'll just speedread the subtitles to get through something quicker because it's mostly just exposition or world-building and so the performance isn't that deep to sit through. Feels like a weird thing to punish players for as it doesn't actually affect anything.

Although from listening to that clip, it seems like it's an optional thing. If the game notices you doing something like that it'll offer you a buff, but it also comes with a penalty, so maybe it's not that bad.

On Game Pass too 😎

Started playing Battle Brothers. Deceptively deep, complex, and brilliant fun

Just saw that the developers are going to buff the bosses in Lords of the Fallen 2.0. I’ve bullied them all. I’m near the end of it now so won’t go back after the patch

I love the neon lights in Vice City.

Looks Borderlandsy. In a way they've hampered themselves with their art style because aside from fairly small levels of detail and UI changes, Borderlands just looks like Borderlands. They've said they've toned down the wacky meme-reliant humour, and have made legendaries rarer and more special. Also making it easier to farm bosses and areas by resetting them rather than having to constantly save, exit and reload. Pretty much the things I was hoping for.

My main concern is they seem to be introducing additional types of gear slots, which will no doubt make it harder to sort through loot (both when picking it up and in terms of inventory management & space). No doubt there'll also be cosmetics for the new robot thing which will dilute the loot pool further.

So yeah, seems relatively okay. Need to see more of the new Vault Hunter abilities though.

But it'll probably be old enough to play GTA VI by the time it comes out. 😀