General gaming discussion

It seems the consensus is that Witcher 3 becomes the Witcher 3 everyone raves about at around the 20ish hour mark. While I have a lot of affection for the game and would consider a great experience, anything that needs 20 hours to get going really needs to reassess its priorities.

What are the chances of Sony releasing a PS5 bundle this year? Something like a Gran Turismo 7 bundle (console and game)?

I see The Forest has gone down to 6 euro over the last few months, will wait for another sale. I think I'm looking for something like Subnautica but don't think I'll find anything to match. The Long Dark is another option. Think I'll just reinstall Subnautica.

Lol. After bitching about that boss in Kena I just beat it after finding a much easier strategy to defeat it using bombs😅

The Long Dark is great. Played it just in survival mode a couple of years back and came back to it recently for all the story stuff they've added, probably my favourite survival game.

Yeah, i was looking up a lot of videos and the forest seems great in concept but i think I'd get bored. I played about 20 minutes of The Long Dark, really interesting premise but i was playing on ps now and trying to try as many games as i could in my trial and never went back to it. Will keep an eye out for a sales on that.

Reinstalled Subnautica and started a survivor playthrough. I must have completed 6 times now but always with the hunger/thirst turned off so finally gonna try do it the default way. Goddamn what an absolutely brilliant game.

Played 7-8 hours. Not sure how many days that lends to.

Met, encountered and fought the locals many nights but there was zero to do for most of the experience. Maybe just got unlucky with the generation of the island but have zero interest going back.

On another note, got Valheim and feels like the complete opposite, with a ton of stuff to do.

I'm way behind the times, apparently an Expanse game was announced last month. That's class. It's Telltale, that's not so class but you're playing as Drummer. That's class.

But a AAA third-person/first person shooter with exploration would've been really class.

I finally watched that Xbox documentary (well most of it). Got to the end of the 4th episode and had enough. The first 3 episodes were pretty good, the story of the original Xbox is really interesting, but the 4th episode was basically 40 mins of Xbox propaganda. They more or less claimed to have created the FPS, dual stick controls, LAN parties, local 4-player, online multiplayer, subscription services, co-op games, 3D games and (most hilariously) social media. They sometimes note that they didn't actually create some of these things, then immediately proceed to act like they did. Someone should hire a blimp to fly over Xbox headquarters with the release dates of GoldenEye, Alien Resurrection and Timesplitters printed on the side. Also I know Halo is a beloved and influential game, but they are acting like it is the universally agreed greatest game of all time. If Ocarina of Time or Half Life were spoken about like this I would have considered it excessive.

This episode could also serve as a documentary about everything that was wrong with gaming in the 2000's, the obnoxious 'fans', media outlets that were basically PR hired by Microsoft and the ridiculous excessive announcement and launch events. These aren't exclusive to MS but they definitely were the worst for these IIRC. I don't think I can get through the last 2 episodes, even though I would have thought they would be the most interesting considering they are about the RROD and TV TV TV. Now that all the interesting talking heads are gone there are only cheerleaders left.