Haha will do! Mostly working my way through some games I still had lying around, and it feels so good being able to play stuff without worrying about your crappy Acer laptop blowing up on you.

Played Doom Eternal - it's amazing, but I didn't like it as much as I liked the 2016 remake for some reason. But it's absolutely worth playing, pure mayhem and destruction. And a great soundtrack again of course.



After that I picked up Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus which was pretty good too. The gameplay got a little repetitive and the difficulty is a bit all over the place, but the atmosphere and basic gameplay was really great. Peltz, I think you played it too right? Remind me what you thought about it.

Probably gonna start playing Amnesia: Rebirth next, or finally get around to trying Kenshi!

I need to finish Doom 2016. Niall picked up Eternal recently in a sale but I figured I'd wait until finishing the previous one. It looks ridiculously fun when I've watched trailers but I'm sure I'll screw up all the mobility stuff and get frustrated

I bought the Prey: Mooncrash DLC and War for the Overworld during the current sale as both were on my wishlist and dirt cheap. Played about an hour of Mooncrash and I asked for a refund. It's not that it was BAD. It's just that the concept was so radically different from the original Prey that I couldn't really get into it. In other words, it wasn't what I expected. Prey is a pretty classic first person action RPG in the style of System Shock, Bioshock etc. This DLC used the same underlying gameplay system but turned it into a sort of roguelike: there are 5 different characters (with different abilities) and the goal is to have them all complete a personal mission on the same station. The ultimate goal is to reach this goal with all 5 characters in one extended run, without any of them dying. In order to make it easier you of course gain points for each run which allows you to unlock weapons and skills etc for future runs (which remain in place). Yeah, I know it sounds a bit confusing but it's prety straightforward. Like I said, it's not a bad concept - it's pretty cool even. I probably wouldn't have minded if this was a separate game. But I don't think Prey's basic gameplay was that great to begin with (even if it's a really good game overall) to make me want to play the same scenario several times. And on a more irrational level I was just hoping for more of the same that Prey offered, a nice story in a cool setting with some sweet skills. Not this. So I was turned off.

I started playing Kenshi instead (thanks again Satis & Shiny!) and I was a bit lost tbh...even after reading through the tutorials I still didn't know what I was going to do. I mean clearly I'm supposed to gather and/or craft or build stuff but I didn't see anything useful around me? No animals to kill, no debris to gather, and I did some mining but after a few minutes I didn't seem to have gained anything from that. I then ran to the nearest settlement on my map and ran into a bunch of cannibals, which I kited to the settlement where they were slaughtered by the guards. I looted their corpses and then I saved. Satis, can you give me some hints on what I can start with? Because I'm not seeing it yet.

I loved the original Prey; as soon as I saw the announcement trailers I knew to stay well clear of the new one.

Niall has started playing Stellaris. A "city" builder but in space. I don't think it's the same developers as Cities: Skylines but they've had something to do with porting it to consoles. Anyway for you space loving types, he's definitely enjoying it. He's chosen a large galaxy which has something like 600 stars in it. I think small ones 'only' have 400. He hasn't done a huge amount yet but it seems like there are lots of options. You can rename pretty much anything, stars, planets, people, stations and can customise your ships too.

Ox, yea, Kenshi is not easy to get into. At first especially it's rather overwhelming. So, to make the beginning easier:

Get your dude, get a pickaxe, find some metal, and mine it. When you have some metal ore, go to the settlement, sell the ore, get food and water (been awhile, I think they have water) and then repeat. This will level your mining skill... or working skill or something. When it gets dark, you won't be able to mine well (have to have light), so instead either run around in circles around the settlement to level your running skill, or load up with heavy stuff until you can barely move and walk around to level your strength. Other alternatives are to find a training dummy and train with a weapon of your choice to level that up.

Rinse and repeat until you have enough money to recruit a second character, then do that same thing with both. Once you have 2 people fairly levelled, you can start really making cash, getting better gear, and levelling up. There's definitely safety in numbers. Once you feel confident, buy a house in a settlement, build research benches and crafting benches and stuff. And eventually, build a town of your own and expand your little army. Though be warned, you'll get raided and stuff.

The game really starts to come into its own when you've got maybe 5 guys with really good gear and decent stats. Then you can start exploring ruins, unlocking advanced crafting recipes, and killing the boss characters scattered around the map. There are some really interesting stories out there... like the robots that wear human flesh.

To sum Satis post up: Uninstall it now and play something that doesn't feel like work .

haha.. it's work kind of like Morrowind. There's a ton of grinding at the beginning, but once you get past a certain point, everything opens up and you get a really compelling world with an amazing amount of depth. Like Rimworld sort of as well... you can give people jobs, so once you have a settlement or whatever, you can have people tasked to farming, cooking, building weapons, building armor, mining, etc etc. Then while they're busy automatically doing mundane chores, you take your assault group out to explore, murder, and if you want to you can wreck entire towns. Well, you can't destroy houses, but you can kill everyone in the town and it doesn't repopulate.

Thanks for the tips! So I guess mining metal ore just takes a really long time? If I didn't see any ore after like 2 minutes. I hope the things you describe go a bit faster than IRL since like Peltz said it sounds a bit like having a job. But then again so does Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress, but it's a really fun addictive job. I guess I already got a lot of running exercise in after running across the wasteland to the other town and then getting chased for several miles by a band of what looked like ravenous cannibals. So we'll see! I am kind of fascinated with the sort of ultra detailed survivalism that it seems to offer though.

I've played and finished Amnesia: Rebirth now and I don't think I'd recommend it. It's not bad, but it probably is my least favorite game from Frictional so far? If you love survival horror and the Amnesia series it's worth it, but otherwise I'd steer clear. I'm now playing Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment and it's surprisingly solid. The game is basically a sort of adventure/LA Noire mix and offers 6 different murder mysteries. The quality of the mysteries varies a bit but overall it's a good romp. The game looks really nice, the voice acting is great and it gets he Sherlock Holmes atmosphere right. It does get stuck on some typical adventure game things and the minigames can be a bit annoying, but otherwise well worth the time.

In a few days I AM going to be playing [imagine it in the quake ultrakill sound] CYYYYYYYYBERPUUUNKKKK!!!11!

I also have it preordered! Gift from a friend earlier this year. Hope I manage to bring my PC along for it.

Not if my friend has anything to do with it. We take the piss out of him as he delays EVERY game he's interested in. He's a huge Witcher fan and has therefore been obsessed since Cyberpunk was announced. All the delay announcements have come just after he has looked something up about it. He recently got interested in Star Renegades... the day after he looked up something about it, they said it was only released on Switch and PS4/Xbox are delayed (he has a PS4). Same with Hades, he got interested, so far it's Switch and PC only. He does it with books too. Let's just say he's a long time fan of GoT.

But yes, hopefully Niall will be playing next week too.

@Ox... you should see ore pop up in your inventory at least semi-regularly? Make sure you only harvest in the daytime... at night your efficiency drops so much it's not worth doing. You can get some lanterns you put on your belt or something that eliminates that, but that's more a mid-game thing. For the beginning, you need to focus on expanding your tribe. Once you've got 2 or more people, you don't have to worry about something terrible ending your game. Your main character may die, but you can keep playing with another toon. Also, losing limbs is totally a thing, so if you're not into save-scumming then be prepared to replace limbs with robotics.

I'm very interested in Cyberpunk 2077, but with my new job I can't really make the time. Just playing a bit of my regulars for now. Perhaps later in the month. Fuck, I haven't even finished Fallout 4.

Looks like your friend did curse Cyberpunk Pev...not even with a delay, but with a full blown removal from the Playstation store.

https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-is-remov ... ion-store/

As you no doubt have heard the game is suffering from quite a few bugs at launch and bad resource management making it run slower than it should. PC seems mostly fine but the console versions are apparently glitchy af. Pretty extreme for Sony to remove it completely from the store (for now) though! I won't play Cyberpunk before I get back to my apartment anyway so they have a few more weeks to iron out the bugs. Really looking forward because the city is supposed to be amazing, especially in terms of vertical space. Can't wait.



Mmm thanks for the tips! I'll see if I can do better next time then. After what I wrote last time my character was attacked by raiders and slowly bled out while trying to run back to the other town. So I'll have to start with a whole new character anyway. Which is for the best, as I'm sure the starting town is located in a safer area for newbs than the place I had gone to.

I played Subnautica recently and really enjoyed it until the mid to late game or so when the story became very hard to follow and it became more and more unclear what I was supposed to do or where I was supposed to go. And the game forces a certain amount of grinding on you too, so the combination of both of those things made me throw in the towel. Really nice game though, overall. It just didn't click for me towards the end.

CP2077 was very stable on pc. I think it only crashed like after 6h play, was doing a marathon on weekend. Sure there was occasional glitch but nothing game breaking. If you got it on pc, go ahead its fine.

Well, I finished Nuka-World in Fallout 4, and the main game storyling (4 times now I think). Been playing Far Harbor.... I should get that knocked out over the holidays, and then I can play something else! Fallout 4 is actually a really good game, but it's so gigantic. I don't want to miss any of the pretty amazing story-telling, but holy crap I'm 175 hours in and not done yet. What happened to those games that you ran out of content in after 8 hours?