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  • #18902
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Horizon Forbidden West i think had an option to slow her down with the hints. They had a few good QoL options in there iirc. But I just picked up Echoes of the End, and it has tips, but you've to press a button to ask for it. Simple idea that solves the issue.



  • #18903
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,796 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124038894#Comment_124038894

    I think they had to patch that in in HFW, same with the ability to turn down how often she comments on everything she's doing.

    "These will come in useful" - Yeah Aloy, I know, that's why I've collected eleventy-billion of them so far and you've made that comment at least 40% of those times.

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  • #18904
    McFly85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,806 ✭✭✭McFly85


    Just let me be stuck!

    It’s up there as a peeve of mine with a game over screen prompting “you can change the difficulty at any time in settings” after a couple of deaths.

    Fúck you too game!



  • #18905
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Don't play the lego one so! I've played an hour only and shes already repeating everything, an the irony is one of her comments when breaking stuff is "That never gets old"...



  • #18906
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,586 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    One accessibility option that was first to be turned on in Horizon and other games that has it is the auto pickup and remove the pickup animation.

    Now does Metroid Prime have yellow paint everywhere too follow?



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  • #18907
    AidoEirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,021 ✭✭✭AidoEirE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124030009#Comment_124030009

    Can you let me know which one your getting and where. I wouldn't mind treating myself for Christmas.

    Lately trying to emulate GC on my phone. Its just too awkward.



  • #18908
    OptimusTractor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭OptimusTractor


    A great day in the parish

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  • #18909
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,820 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124039309#Comment_124039309

    I got ice blue from here

    https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-flip-2


  • #18910
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,159 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124039474#Comment_124039474

    Don't expect to play PS2 games well on that. Emulation even on PC just isn't there yet. A lot of games will be very slow or glitchy but there are a decent amount that run playably. GC emulation is less intensive so if there's a GC version of a game it's worth trying if ps2 gives issues.



  • #18911
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,820 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041069#Comment_124041069

    From what I've seen on youtube they play well at 2x resolution.



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  • #18912
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,149 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Started up Horses, the 'banned from Steam / Epic' game lighting up games media at the moment. This is one I'd have been interested in regardless, given Santa Ragione's great track record of interesting releases.

    Only half an hour in to what is presumably a relatively short experience (given the €5 entry price and structure of the game), but what's most striking is the superb presentation - unsurprisising perhaps given one of their last published games was the wonderfully vibrant Mediterranea Inferno. It uses the language of cinema in really interesting ways - actions cutting away to visceral short video clips, silent movie tricks like intertitles for dialogue, and some very extreme close-ups and dramatic edits to create the sense that things aren't right. The game around it is a fucked-up spin on the farming sim - where within minutes of playing you graduate from picking vegetables to digging a grave for one of the horse-mask wearing slaves the farmer keeps on his farm.

    So far some of the content is definitely unsettling and bleak - the content warning at the start isn't kidding about - though also very black comic and absurd. Though the pixellation of the explicit, disturbing nudity makes the game's removal from all the storefronts patently ridiculous, regardless of the extreme themes explored. Clearly farcical this isn't allowed when so many more overtly pornographic sex games and tryhard 'edgy' slop is.

    Trailer comes with a NSFW caveat, of course :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYewjNYxV-8


  • #18913
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,159 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041117#Comment_124041117

    There's reports of problem games which are the usual culprits on the PS2 emulators that run quite slowly. Usually the less popular stuff that hasnt been optimized yet.



  • #18914
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,820 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041287#Comment_124041287

    Sure I'll report back after xmas 😁 The FB group I'm in hasn't mentioned it either.



  • #18915
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,159 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041456#Comment_124041456

    You just have to be realistic with PS2 emulation that there might be issues with some games. Most should be playable to the end with a few with quirks or not working.

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  • #18916
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,820 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041491#Comment_124041491

    I'll glady accept 90% playability



  • #18917
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,570 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124041246#Comment_124041246

    JU positively reviewing Horses was definitely not on my bingo card 😂



  • #18918
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,570 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Anyway, forget The Game Awards, the real talk of the gaming world is the Boards Fantasy League. Johnny and I are the only ones with games still to release so as long as Terminator 2D gets at least 71 on metacritic, I'll claim glorious 3rd place.... Unless JU's FOUR remaining games launches him to gold! The excitement of it all!!

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  • #18919
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,159 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    How am I still 3rd? I thought I'd bomb and it kept predicting me as ending up last?



  • #18920
    JimBurnley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,947 ✭✭✭JimBurnley


    I'll gazump you all when Nintendo stealth drop their new Mario game on New Year's Eve



  • #18921
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Close at the top still... If HL3 is released and scores < 70, Penn could steal it! pacsmall.png



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  • #18922
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,796 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Does anyone know how long it takes to becomes a games reviewer, get a job at 14 different games websites, and give Marvel Cosmic Invasion 10/10 on each site?

    Asking for a friend...



  • #18923
    MikeRyan87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭MikeRyan87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124042585#Comment_124042585

    Interested in this for next year if there's space.



  • #18924
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,159 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124044239#Comment_124044239

    There's no limit on people that can join



  • #18925
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124044239#Comment_124044239

    Nice one, the more the merrier!

    I'll be starting it sometime in the new year 👍️



  • #18926
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,570 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    I picked up dying light the beast and expedition 33 on BF sales. Tried DL and it's awesome! Fire any fans of the series, this is a big improvement over 2. I'm only on the first few story missions but it's so intense. The introductory night mission is scarier than anything in DL 2, they really got back to their horror roots on that one.

    Looking forward to starting E33 as well.



  • #18927
    Anois_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭Anois_


    Wow, Hogswart Legacy is a looker. Started it a couple of days ago but only got into it properly this weekend.



  • #18928
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    It's a really well made game, and they captured the essence of Hogwarts perfectly. The castle and grounds are brilliantly made and it really does feel alive and real. But the tone of the story is all over the place. It flips between dark serious and childlike. Still, I enjoyed my time with it, even though I never finished it because I got bored around the 50 hour mark. But I'd done as much as I could.

    Also, the Haunted Hogsmede quest is one of the best quests I have played in a long time. Pity the rest of the game wasn't more like it.



  • #18929
    Exclamation Marc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,895 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124051737#Comment_124051737

    For me, Hogwarts Legacy is incredible until the story moves outside of Hogwarts where it becomes mind numbingly repetitive and the open world is one of the emptiest in recent open-world game history.



  • #18930
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    100%, if they had limited it to Hogwarts and maybe even Hogsmeade, it would have been better, and a better length. Would have needed a different story though.



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  • #18931
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,586 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I know it's the time of year with others asking and seeing iseedeadpixels post above and not being able to think what else to get him, I'm thinking of picking up a retro handheld for my brother as well. Just that one is a bit expensive. So was thinking maybe the Miyoo Flip V2 but will try and do more research this evening when not at work.



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