Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Good riddance to bad rubbish

@Th3solution How are you, my friend? How is work life and American Sports Enthusiasm treating you? I thought the USA did pretty well in the Cricket World Cup, actually, idk if you followed that but some of it was hosted by the States, also, how is Marvel's Midnight Sons coming along?

I actually decided to play RE2 REmake next as Nioh 2's gatekeeper boss looked beyond even my Souls-honed reflexes! Plus shooting zombies might make a welcome change from all the sword-slashing.

Edit: I know you played RE2 REmake so, if you like, I can keep you posted on my progress and perhaps grab a couple of tips and tricks from you?

I feel like I've learned everything I can about playing jazz music from listening to it and have now moved on to listening to film osts, in addition to my staple diet of hip hop, loving the Lost Highway soundtrack, which I've shared a link to in The Music Thread.

Awesome that you’ve improved at playing Jazz! Awesome skill to unlock. Film osts often have great scores that can be really aspiring as well. I should give Loving the Lost Highway ost a listen.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Doing well, thanks. American Sports has slowed down for now except for Baseball, but I’m really looking forward to the Summer Olympics. That will be my next sports obsession.

I have tried to learn about cricket but haven’t ever really understood it. It has a passionate following and does have some fans over here, but it’s not very mainstream compared to the other major sports.

Gaming-wise, I have got myself playing 3 games now simultaneously, but having a great time with each. Midnight Suns is my chill-out game to play on my Portal in bed or on the couch with sports in the background. Since it’s turn based and also can be paused, it’s good for the casual setting. My second game is still DS2: SotFS for when I have a couple hours of dedicated gaming time and won’t get distracted. Then lastly I just started Immortals of Aveum and have put about 7 hours into that. It’s a first person magic shooter and I’m really enjoying it. It’s fast-paced and more kinetic, with lots of bright colors and a traditional linear story. So it’s a nice one to play alongside the dark, open world, tactical, grinding Souls game and the turn based deck builder. Each game is different enough that I haven’t confused the control schemes too much when I switch back and forth.

As for RE2, absolutely would love to hear your thoughts as you get into it. There’s a dedicated Resident Evil thread where we could dive deeper into to it. It’s been a few years for me, but definitely give a shout if you need some tips. The key is resource management, puzzle solving, and keeping your nerves when it gets scary. 😅 There’s difficulty sliders though so you can dial it down for a less stressful run.

@Malaise Remedy doing an X-Files game would be a brilliant match. I don’t know much about Cowboy Bepop or Judge Dredd.

I’ve got lots of ideas of franchises and ideas for certain developers. Some of this carries over from the settings thread but here are some thoughts:

Have Rockstar do a Red Dead Redemption type of treatment focused on a Native American storyline. Potential characters could be Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, or Sacagawea. It could be awesome to tell their stories and Rockstar could knock it out of the park.

I’ve always wanted a good Fantastic Voyage type of game that takes place as an adventure inside the human body. We have the tech and the creativity to make a fun adventure. I’m thinking Insomniac with the story-telling and Rachet & Clank inspired fun gameplay.

A favorite story of mine is H.G.Wells The Time Machine. I think a game based on that book could be great. Perhaps a reimagining of the original story, one that involves travel from Victorian setting to 800,000 years into the future to visit the Eloi and Morlocks, but could also be open and involve other time travel. I wouldn’t want it to be like the other games that involve time travel to just accomplish fetch quests or solve puzzles (although it could have those) but have a gritty storyline about humanity, it frailty and dark potential. So I’d want Naughty Dog to do it to really make it a character study about what it means to be human.

Lastly, I’d like a proper King Arthur game. We have lots of medieval ‘knights and dragons’ games, but I’d like to see the Knights of the Round, Lancelot and Guinevere, the whole love triangle and all the lore and characters. I’m thinking Santa Monica or CDPR.

@Yousef- The 'Lost Highway' ost is excellent, hope you enjoy it!

@Th3solution

https://neocoregames.com/en/games/king-arthur-knights-tale

Don't think it is strictly what you are after, as it looks more like a Diablo game.

@Th3solution Arthurian Legend (that's Legend, just incase you think it's real, you crazy americans haha) actually features in the later Witcher books, too, and so is technically part of the Witcher extended universe 😉 So if W4 is actually Ciri based, rather than 'make your own witcher' they could indeed set it in multiple universes, which would be a great way to push modern technology and expand on the settings available.

My ideal CDPR project would therfore be that for the big single player aspect, but with a GTA style Witcher Online bolted on for an MMO option for people to RP their own Witchers. Which, I'm sure they must have thought about and maybe it is what we actually get. I'd be worried about a single player game where you make your own character, but that is one of the rumours, but as an MMO, that would be perfect. And it wouldn't kill the narrative available for the main game.

@JohnnyShoulder It looks like a decent game, but yeah, not necessarily what I was hoping for. I’m not much of a Diablo-style gamer. The narrative piece is what I’d really like fleshed out, the gameplay can be whatever. I’d even take a Quantic Dream styled narrative game or a Deck Nine type, where gameplay is minimal and it just dives deep into the characters and lore.

And thanks @Ravix , thanks for bursting my bubble that it’s all just “Legend.” I’m so disappointed. 😜 But maybe he’s an exaggerated embellishment of a real king, no?

I had no idea there was any crossover between the Witcher universe and the legend of King Arthur. Curiosity piqued. Guess I better finish the Witcher 3 after all.

Haha, I thought it was only me who’s like that. It’s part why I have a harder time getting the Nioh-style games. I’ve wanted more stuff to scratch the souls itch, but when I finished Stranger of Paradise, I was really fed up with all the looting aspects of that game as I felt it was implemented rather shallowly.

@Th3solution Merlin was real though, so that's all good 😁

I mean. It's not in the games much, if at all, although there's Nimue references in the DLC. But in the books Nimue is a framing device for the story of the Witcher and all of the goings on in the continent, kind of.

You'd be better off reading all the books 😛

I feel like you should play the game through as well though, it's one of those that when you've wrapped it up you will understand why it won an endless list of awards, and the DLC's I think you will really enjoy, and it's best to have played the main game through first for those.

@Th3solution The whole Camelot stuff is Welsh legend, not enough Welsh rep in gaming as it is, but I’d guarantee that an American dev making a game based on King Arthur would have everybody with generic English accents, as is always the case 😂

@nessisonett Probably. Although it could end up with Troy Baker as Arthur and Nolan North as Lancelot. 😂

@Th3solution Just the thought of that has my eye twitching. More varied voices in games please! Especially when it comes to fantasy games, where everyone’s English, the posh characters sound like the Queen and the peasants are exclusively from Yorkshire.

@nessisonett 😂 Amen to that! Although the American equivalent is probably the fact that every quippy character has to sound like a dude-bro from California ripped straight from the MCU. I really like having new and varied VA’s in my games.

@Jimmer-jammer Did you play RE2 REmake? I decided to play it instead of Nioh 2 next, loving it so far. Got an op "build" with the infinite ammo for op weapons DLC pack. No infinite health items though. That would be too easy. Still gotta' survive!

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN the Remake RE series is pretty aight. I should play Nioh some time.

@Yousef-
Yeah, I am loving RE2 REmake atm, but I was just thinking ahead and wondering if you could advise me as to what to play next from my Backlog, given that I have played a lot of Souls and action RPG games recently, and RE2 REmake is a welcome change from that. I could play RE4 REmake and then Silent Hill 2 Remake like I said in the Backlog Thread, but I'm keen to keep things fresh and I have other games like Death Stranding and Stray that could break things up a bit more before returning to the Souls action. Feel free to suggest other games based on what I've put in my backlog as well.

https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps4/playstation_4_backlogge...

My comment is at the bottom of the page.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Alan wake feels like the most suitable thing to recommend based on your goals.