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

@carlos82 get Half Life on that list too, great memories playing the PS2 version of that!

@kyleforrester87 will do, I forgot how many great games were on PS2 and most are only a pound or two

@kyleforrester87 @carlos82 I completely forgot that Deus Ex and Half Life were on PS2. Both masterpieces in their own right but games I’ll always associate with PC.

@nessisonett @carlos82 I read back in the day that Deus Ex on PS2 was soso, never actually played it on console myself, but Half Life was brilliant (it taught me to use 2 analogue sticks, I remember it being horrible at first thinking I’d never get used to it) Also a big fan of Red Faction 1 and particularly 2.

Never played Black, I heard that was good.

@kyleforrester87 The PC version of Deus Ex is still up there with my favourite games of all time, alongside Thief 2. Not that I’m old enough to remember playing them when they came out but we had a PC growing up and my dad had games like those, Oblivion and then like Zoo Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Plus Deus Ex gave the world the Mega64 video which is iconic.

@kyleforrester87 @nessisonett reading the reviews its not as good as the PC version but I've never got on with a mouse and keyboard and I remember playing a little bit on console and it played well.

Black is a really good shooter, I think its from the Burnout people and has plenty of destructible objects. I picked up Timesplitters 2 the other day and its so much fun

@carlos82 Oh man, Timesplitters 2 was probably my most played game as a kid. I was totally spoiled with the sheer amount of content and fun to be had, I don’t think I’ve found a shooter with so much to do since. Although Siberia’s red room and Notre Dame were terrifying back then, they seem a bit dodgy now!

@RogerRoger Considering the PC version uses more than half the keyboard, I dunno how they managed to put it onto console.

@RogerRoger I had Medal of Honor: Frontline on the Cube and the cheats were amazing. You could put hats on every enemy that ended up being more elaborate as the game went on, leading to Nazis in hot dog suits, with life sized windmills on their heads and fighter planes on their heads! The game was actually really good as well, I loved the campaign and the soundtrack was excellent too. Plus you could play as a granny with a shotgun in the multiplayer while extremely harrowing music played.

@RogerRoger My favourite track from that game’s soundtrack is probably Arnhem, honestly that soundtrack blows games from this generation out of the water. It’s a level of quality that you’d expect from something like Band of Brothers, which is still my gold standard when it comes to WW2 media. I really should go back and play the PS1 games as I have great memories of Frontline.

@RogerRoger Yeah, it’s one series that I can’t really play on Vita unless I find one of those L2/R2 grips for a decent price so I’d have to play it on my PS2 as well!

Currently We happy Few on Series S. Just finished Uncharted 4 last week (Played all 4 uncharted games in sequence). I'll get back to play Gears 5 when the new campaing releases, I guess it releases tomorrow (15th December 2020), I'm excited to get back to Gears.

Cyberpunk 2077 60FPS, Ray Tracing, No Issues. PC version is the definitive version.

Finished Mission 4 there in Medal of Honor (there are multiple levels in each mission, I’m not that slow!) and really enjoying it. The levels are large and varied with plenty of Nazis to shoot in their polygonal faces. I particularly enjoy the undercover levels where you wave a surprisingly sophisticated looking passport at guards to show that you come in peace. The stealth isn’t bad at all, even if everything can go wrong very very quickly. Enemies have a tendency to throw grenades at you indoors which can result in an instant game over. It’s one life and you’re gone as well, starting back at the beginning of the level. So difficult but doable which seems OK to me.

Edit: Oops, forgot to give you a tag there @RogerRoger!

@nessisonett Is that the original PS1 game?

That was quite a revolutionary game at the time. I remember the first level let you throw a grenade through the window of a building which was incredible at the time! I also remember that enemies would throw themselves on grenades too.

Those undercover sections were good fun too and, like you said on the previous page, there were some fun cheats for the game too..

@Thrillho Yep, the original PSX one. It’s amazing how well it holds up to be honest, it feels like a proper missing link between Doom style games and the early COD games. Obviously PC had Half-Life and stuff but consoles took another generation to catch up for the most part.

Sly 3 PS3.

@nessisonett I had a quick go on medal of honour PS1 via emulation a little while back and I thought it was pretty good. I really liked Frontline and Rising Sun on GameCube back in the day so I've been curious about the other entries. The best thing about emulating the PS1 game was remapping the controls so it played like a modern dual analog shooter. Naturally it's not actually analog but mapping the movement and camera to the sticks made it a lot more familiar in terms of control.

@ralphdibny Yeah, Frontline was brilliant on GameCube. I actually found a control setting in the original game that has the familiar controls we’re used to with FPS games, no remapping necessary!

@nessisonett oh nice one! I probably over complicated it as usual haha. I seem to remember mapping strafe from the shoulder buttons to left/right on the left stick