Topic: What (Non-PS4) game are you playing??

@KratosMD Great to see you’re enjoying MW2, I have fond fond memories of playing multiplayer on Rust and Terminal with my brothers. The campaign’s really quite good for an FPS. I always found it interesting how CoD campaigns are written off but DOOM games are eagerly anticipated.

@KratosMD The spec ops bring back mixed memories for me as I lived in a house with a group of guys at uni when this game came out and we spent ages doing all of those for 3*

Any of them with juggernauts were a nightmare. The one with one person in the helicopter was easily the one we played most though.

@RogerRoger Considering how many Sonic characters run around without pants, you'd think the allure of the "low angle" shot would lose its appeal .

Urgh.

That's the plot to PaRappa 2 @RogerRoger?! Wow that's pretty darn silly 😂

The PS2 classics are on sale quite frequently Rog from what I've seen. Pretty sure they were in the recent sale (Or maybe the one before, I definitely saw a few titles on offer sometime recently when I got Dragon's Crown)

I made out like a bandit the once with the titles Dark Cloud, Wild Arms 3 and Ape Escape 2 for under a tenner and it would've been like £32 if I bought them at the regular price 😂

@RogerRoger Thanks for the thoughts. One day I will play this game, but I don't know when that day will be, or what will cause me to finally play it. Perhaps when my inevitable midlife crisis arrives and I want to indulge my new-found taste for hip-hop with a dose of nostalgia.

At least it doesn't follow the trend of most sequels and make everything 'darker'. I was worried Parappa and his friends would be drawn into the dangerous world of gangland shootings and revenge drive-bys, culminating in a slow ballad performed by Sunny Funny at Parappa's funeral, while Cheap Cheap the Chicken prepares sausage rolls for the wake.

I started F.E.A.R tonight as I’ve recently bought a lovely pair of Sony XM3 headphones and wanted to play some horror games to really scare myself sh*tless. It’s really quite tense so far, despite being a wee bit too shooty for my tastes. The controls are mind-boggling too. L3 to crouch? R3 to zoom in? O to melee? To be fair, it’s from 2005 and was ported to PS3 but it holds up well. The sound design is very very good as well as the atmospheric lighting. It’ll be interesting to see more horror elements pop up as I get further.

@KratosMD I think I’m spoiled because of being used to CoD’s control scheme! It’s just baffling to me why the controls are like that but I guess most old school FPS games I’ve played are either on PC or only allow hip-firing.

after the news that Bleach Anime is coming back i'm in a huge Bleach mood right now so i'm playing some of my Bleach games such as Soul Resurrection on PS3 and The 3rd Phantom on DS

@RogerRoger i am although 3rd Phantom seems harder than i remember it being

Could just be because i haven't played a tactical RPG in a while

Playing FF7 and trying to finish it before the remake comes out. Self-isolation is definitely helping so I’m just about to fight (read: die against) Demon Wall. Wish me luck!

@RogerRoger Can't believe I beat it first time. I had so many problems against it the first time but I got a few lucky Climhazzards in which did about 1500 damage a pop. Oh well, at least that's me on the final stretch of Disc 1!

@RogerRoger Oh dear, is that the one with the fart soundtrack? That might be the Dual Shock version, I get them confused.

I'm close to the end of DOOM 64. This game is fantastic!

Also, hours and hours of Animal Crossing. Although today has been kind of tedious: I'm trying to catch certain fish before they disappear for months, but the darn things are so rare that I keep coming up empty and have been burning through numerous fishing poles.

@Ralizah Tools have durability now?? Jeez, the more I hear about this game, the less sure I am about it.

That doesn't sound terribly fun @Ralizah regarding Animal Crossing and fishing. I assume it's a seasonal thing?

Good to hear you're enjoying DOOM 64 (and one hell of a counterbalance to Animal Crossing) ... I should probably bite on that for the ridiculously low price!

Oooh it's going well from the sound of things there @RogerRoger with Resident Evil.

Probably a good choice in picking Chris first seeing as you're more worried about your survivability and he can take them hits compared to Jill at the expense of only 6 item slots.

If you get on with it I'd definitely recommend trying 2 (My personal favourite of the three PS1 games) as well as the other games like Dino Crisis (Which I haven't played but I probably should as it sounds like good fun (and a bit goofier too))

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yep. A few rare fish are only available January - March, and then disappear for months. Not usually an issue, except for games that launch near the end of March...

Well, I'll catch them next year if it comes down to it. I'll probably start fishing when the family is watching TV right now, though, since there's next to no thought that goes into the activity. Pure RNG.

Sharks will require sound when they come around, though. I needed godlike reflexes to catch them in New Leaf.

@nessisonett Yep. Part of the whole crafting system. It's a minor annoyance at times, but the crafting has added so much to the game overall.

Least it isn't Star Ocean: Til The End Of Time (The third one) and it's bunny races @Ralizah which are without a doubt the worst minigame in existance.

Pure RNG with a two minute long race you can't skip past with a one in four chance of winning 1-3 points.

You need a 100 points I think to get the best smithy inventor for it's crafting system.

A 1000 is needed for a single bronze trophy. I hear that alone can take like 50+ hours to do 😂

Pretty sure I tried it for thirty minutes & got two races right for 3 points in total before dropping it. I'd take slightly boring fishing mechanics and a seasonal event over that any day 😅

@RogerRoger I do love all versions of Resi 1 but what made you plump for the original rather than REmake? It’s probably one of the best remakes in the pre-HD era so did you just prefer having the original trilogy on the one console?

@RogerRoger I've always started with Jill, considering she begins with a gun, which, imo, makes her the game's easy mode. Even if Chris is a tank, trying to survive the beginning of the game with that terrible knife is just annoying.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy LOL That minigame sounds like a nightmare.

Honestly, other than the fact that it's repetitive, this sort of goal-oriented fishing isn't too bad. If anything, hunting around my beaches for thirty manilla clams before each fishing trip (I use them to make fish bait, which helps when the fish you're trying to nab can only really be found in a very particular area) is probably worse.

@nessisonett I'm fairly certain RogerRoger is going for something that isn't too scary, and REmake did a fantastic job of making the original RE just that: scary. I'd call it more moody and gothic than frightening, but, regardless, I don't think he's going for something chilling.

@Ralizah @RogerRoger As someone who was until very recently a massive wuss, I totally get it! That reminds me, I’ve got a save on REmake I need to get back to after I ran to a save room with about a million Crimson Heads after me 😂😂