The faces look their age, when driving it looks great but they seriously need to up their game on 6 when implementing the controls, clunky and totally dated.
Still worth a play but Iām waiting for CyberPunk and Witcher on the new systems more.
Cyberpunk recently got its next-gen upgrade. Itās decent.
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I didnāt know it was out now, Iād have got that and then got Elden Ring, ah well Iāll get it when Iāve finished with Elden Ring.
Didnāt buy that one. Everyone says itās good, but I havenāt really gotten on with much of FROM Softwareās stuff in the past. I reckon Iād be buying it for the hype, it wonāt end up being my cup of tea and itāll sit unloved and unplayed after fifty notes have departed my account.
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Its totally and utterly unforgiving and I donāt know if Iāll continue, Iām average at playing but this is off the scale in difficulty, Bloodborne type of difficulty, 8 hours played and I have only progressed an hour if that, the thing is there are no instructions, no guidance nothing, youāre plonked into this beautiful land where almost everything is super fucking hard and can one hit you.
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Surely you can just walk around Everton Brow after dark instead?
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My son is stonking it, as usualā¦
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Fair play.
Yeah, heāll have those things you call āreflexesā.
Remember those things? The ones that abandoned us? 
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And the dexterity to mash buttons and combinations
Elden Ring isnāt a button masher at all, its timing and having the patience (which I evidently donāt have) to learn enemies moves and attack sequences, spacing and timing and its right up there for difficulty.
See thatās the sort of thing that would interest me much more with a decent VR setup. I think itād be a lot easier without the mind to pad translation matrix in the way.
Yes, people are saying pads and the reaction time needed isnāt the best, I could use that but Iād be bullshitting.
Jesus this game is unforgiving, Iād say I die 10-15 times before any progression at all. It is stunning to look at though, how Skyrim hopefully will look if they do it again.
Iāve been playing an indie game called Loop Hero.
I suspect a low-frills version would have been possible on a C64 and it is a lot less complex than it looks.
Your character does a constant loop of the same track. As you encounter enemies, he will auto-battle them and theyāll either drop equipment or a tile card.
Equipment makes you harder and harder to kill. The tile cards can be placed on the map, which starts out black and ends up becoming like something youād see nestling in the pages of Lord of The Rings.
Along with Elden Ring, Iāve got a few things going on with the Switch at the moment.
Most immediately, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. Dunno if anyone remembers, but this particular series started out in the mid 90s, long after the simian made his debut in his eponymous arcade game.
They were known at the time for being graphical marvels for the SNES. Rare used pre-rendered 3D for a lot of the graphics and it really did look the business.
These days, the graphics look is very much an affected one, but looks gorgeous. The game is also fucking hard as nails. Iāve been squeaking as it layeth down its difficulty upon me.
The Nintendo consoles always have a collection of bangers on them, but thanks to no-one apart from me buying the WiiU, the Switch has shitloads of great ports thatāll feel absolutely fresh to the unaware too.
Iāve been in work mode for a bit but have had the occasional go. Iāve got through Stormveil but I havenāt beaten Godrick yet. I did find a very nice sword called Treebeard but you need 22 dex to use it so a bit of grinding is probably in order.
Iām level 71 and have some good weapons now but its still unforgiving.
You are probably just a little bit higher than I am at the moment. Think I am in the high seventies. Currently gearing to do Goldrick the Grafted - was able to get him into his second form, where he picks up a dragon and just fucking melds it into himself.
I donāt yet have the recipe for fire damage negation, so am nipping up to get that shortly.
I have also found two more sites of grace in the huge cavern underneath the tree and am looking to take out a boss there.
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