What are you currently playing?

Originally posted by Adam Grimes
Just finished Alan Wake Remastered and bought Control UE again on Xbox to play again in 60fps. Best purchase ever.

Can only imagine a 60 fps Control experience. Last I checked my laptop can manage..... 35 fps maybe?

Prey 2017.

Amazing game, the negative reviews are crazy.

They was negative reviews?

I thought it was pretty well liked....
I recently played this for the second time, I still enjoyed it immensely. Though...the backtracking does get tedious.

Almost want to start with Moonbase first, I hear nothing but good things about it.

Can't believe they bundled it with the base game.

Picked up Gladius on X-Box Store for like the price of a haircut, awesome game.

Originally posted by samhain
Picked up Gladius on X-Box Store for like the price of a haircut, awesome game.

Hope you mean some newer version and not 1-5. Could have just Retroarched those for good emulation since the commercial offerings are badly emulated/ported.

Prey kind of reminds me of Alien Isolation, at least at this early point. Pretty much every enemy needs to be avoided except the mimicks.

Taken to carrying around a turret, makes things a lot easier.

Originally posted by Smasandian
They was negative reviews?

I thought it was pretty well liked....
.

It's mainly from people who were bitching about it had nothing to do with the 2006 game and still salty that they cancelled the sequel.

Finished the DLC for Assassin's Creed Origins. More of the same from the main game, but still, after 14 years they still have major issues with boss fights (and the checkpoints that go with them).

Started Assassin's Creed 1, which I haven't played in about 9 years. So far so good even if it's obviously showing its age.

FF7R: Intergrade, the Yuffie DLC. Her combat system takes some getting used to and her voice annoys me, but she's meant to be a kid, so I can handle it.

Originally posted by Kazenji
It's mainly from people who were bitching about it had nothing to do with the 2006 game and still salty that they cancelled the sequel.

Saw some reviews that claimed it copied System Shock and Half Life and Bioshock without adding anything to it.

Which makes no sense playing it now.

You know the part in the machine shop where you switch off the power, and can go out a maintenance shaft, with a body carrying an emp grenade? And these three giant balls floating in the air let you climb back up?

So they're destructible, and without them you can't get back up. And with power off the doors don't work. Is there some other way back into the machine shop?

Originally posted by cdtm
Remnant is pretty fun. The enemy marking perk suits me fine, makes it easier to solo planning how to hit enemies and not get flanked.

The jungle in Adventure Mode has some nasty mobs for beginners. Super fast projectiles, randomly hops to break your aim and instantly throws two more as soon as they touch the ground. Trying to tackle more than two at once is pretty much doom.

I want to reroll a mage and support build, but the randomizer annoys me. Nothing wrong with random levels and enemies....except lots of gear and abilities are also locked behind the same wall. Even with Adventure mode, it's just a chore. You have to reroll a map, run through it, all just to see if the dungeon or event with your desired gear spawned at all. It didn't? Well, go back to Ward 13 to start over again, as you can't reroll right there.

Getting Leto's Set and Twisted Idol sucked for me. Not sure if I feel like doing it again.

The whole "randomizer means more playthroughs" feels like it's only true hypothetically. In practice, it actually just gets obnoxious trying to complete your builds for coop.

Originally posted by cdtm

Really well optimized game, games like Control lag all over the place on my laptop even at lowest settings but this runs really well, and has fantastic visuals.

GeForce Now takes care of that.

Unless the connection in your area is bad I guess.

Got to space walking part, saw dead body, thought "Hmm, free loot", got to loot body and instantly attacked by some electric attack coming from the station.

Talk about a noob trap. 😂

Originally posted by cdtm
Saw some reviews that claimed it copied System Shock and Half Life and Bioshock without adding anything to it.

Which makes no sense playing it now.

Not sure about it copying Half-Life, But the game does have the dna of System Shock.

It's 100% similar to Bioshock.

I assume the Half Life connection is the reliance on scripted events and etc.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Not sure about it copying Half-Life, But the game does have the dna of System Shock.

Yeah doesn't sound right. Maybe they said Dead Space.

Originally posted by Smasandian
It's 100% similar to Bioshock.

I assume the Half Life connection is the reliance on scripted events and etc.

Not really, Bioshock forces you into a murder build. System Shock 1 is actually pretty close to what Prey reminds me of.

The game is still extremely similar to Bioshock, which is similar to System Shock.
There is differences but the play almost the exactly the same.

Originally posted by Smasandian
The game is still extremely similar to Bioshock, which is similar to System Shock.
There is differences but the play almost the exactly the same.

I don't remember being able to sneak past 99% of enemies in the game. The game practically forces you to fight Big Daddies and murder children for upgrades.