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

@nessisonett BT are dreadful, mostly because of their absolute rubbish customer service and Openreach division. Years ago the internet went down for five days and after guiding me through a load of crap insisted that it was my line that was the issue. They eventually sent an engineer round, who told me there was nothing wrong at my end and it was actually a problem at the exchange. So BT lied to me and hid the fact that it was their fault. That was before I got fibre when my internet speed was around 1.5Mbps, wouldn’t stream anything and large game downloads took several days. I’m generally happy with my internet now as it’s a consistent 55Mbps, but I’m stuck with BT as they were the only fibre provider where I live.

Really enjoying Assassin’s Creed Rogue despite playing as an utter jobbie with a truly terrible Irish accent. It’s the perfect mix of III and Black Flag while having its own unique identity.

Bayonetta 1. I'm replaying it before trying out the sequel for the first time. I'd forgotten how good this game is. The style and tone is excellent, with Bayonetta calmly slow-mo-ing her way out of any intense situation. Plus, Platinum Games are great at the hack-and-slash combat, so the fights in this game are top notch.

Pokemon Ultra Moon 3DS

Assassin’s Creed Unity booted up in a resolution I can only describe as... low. This is a good start.

I seem to be permanently invincible in Jak II for some reason. Not that I mind, it’s running dangerously close to ‘total rubbish’ in my mind. I can’t think of another series where they completely change the style of game for the worse with the second entry.

So many.
DDR Konamix PS1 USA
DDR Hottest Party 3 Wii
Dragon Quest Heroes 1 PS4
Chocobo Racing PS1 Japan
Pocket Fighter PS1 Japan
FF IX Switch Asia

@RogerRoger Nah, they go boom attempting to fly them anywhere as I smash off the 4 million vehicles clogging the environments. The city is just so incredibly bad and utterly pointless, I don’t get it. Even overclocked, the Vita struggles to run the game and it’s even at a weirdly low resolution. I understand that I’m playing the worst version of the game but I’m not sure I could see it being very good on any other platform.

I am playing Shapeshifting Detective on my iPad. A really great game.

It’s quite different, in a really amazing way.

@RogerRoger I played GTA 3 earlier in the year and it honestly holds up. The world is varied and has stuff to do in it. The problem is that there’s just nothing to do in Jak 2’s city. Plus I hate the weird edgy new Jak in the cutscenes. Plus I hate Daxter with every fibre of my being. It’s like they took everything I enjoyed about the first game and made it worse!

@RogerRoger Daxter was somewhat more tolerable in the first game because his ‘jokes’ were mostly along the lines of him being stuck in his ottsel body. In Jak II, every cutscene is full of him literally slobbering over the slightest hint of a female character as the camera pans over some polygonal nightmare character. Or he calls some character fat, or ugly or whatever, it’s just tiring. I’m not a massive fan of the whole ‘quip’ writing style to be honest but this is many layers below something like Uncharted or a Whedon TV show. I have loads of gripes with the gameplay but oh man, the plot is just as bad. When the game is about 30% actual gameplay, 50% smashing into everything on an unwieldy vehicle and 20% cringeworthy cutscenes filled with edgy Jak and Daxter the toxic rat, I just can’t enjoy it. I kinda want to push through and hope the third is better though.

I've been playing Skyrim for a very long time.

Every fantasy fanatics wet dream, kill dragon's, slay beast's, huge range of weapons and magic to use against foe.

Not to mention a rich environment/landscape to traverse with ruins and caves to discover. Loads to discover and hours of gameplay to sink your teeth into so you will definitely get your money's worth especially with special edition adding all dlc.. not to mention the choice to add mods and creation club to open the game up even more.

You really do feel immersed in the world of Skyrim as you progress into the story and side quests.

Yeah there's bugs and glitches but this adds a certain character and asthetic to the world which is why I love it even more.

This is a must have in the games collection for avid RPG and fantasy fans!

@MIjinamo its funny Skyrim has been brought up and I was just talking about it last night whilst talking about open worlds. With Cyberpunk launching and its Open World being described as window dressing as basically they all are and have been for a very long time.

Skyrim is the one which still sticks out, there is no set path you are forced down, side and main quests are seemingly treated as equals and you can literally head in any direction and find your own adventure, I've started quests just by stumbling across a seemingly random book. Then there's all the towns, I think you can explore every building, talk to most npc's and there are often meaningful consequences for your actions.

Its crazy to think that this game is nearly 10 years old and since then open world design has just gone backwards if anything

@carlos82 I think people complained that Skyrim was more restrictive than Oblivion and Morrowind in many respects, didn’t they?

@kyleforrester87 possibly, its a long time ago now and I can't quite remember. That would be even more ironic given how open worlds have gone much further backwards in those regards since then. Now it's often just go to the marker and there's basically nothing to do anywhere else in the world until that is done. I lost count on the amount of times in Skyrim I was given a quest to retrieve an item that I already found

@carlos82 look at the original Deus Ex versus the modern games too.

@carlos82 I like that some games now realise you might already have the item and tinker with the dialogue to acknowledge it.

Final Fantasy IX Switch.
The Hunt Festival is begin.

@carlos82 @kyleforrester87 Yep, Skyrim tones down the RPG freedoms compared to Morrowind and Oblivion. I finished Morrowind last month and was blown away by how fresh it feels. It did almost everything right about 10 years before open worlds properly took off on console. Games like Cyberpunk, GoT, Spider-Man, they have an illusion of freedom compared to Morrowind. Breath of the Wild owes a lot to it as well.

@kyleforrester87 cracking game Deus Ex, I'm gonna have to add it to my PS2 shopping list