I used to think that but so many games are so similar that 30 minutes can often give you enough.

I feel like that with a lot of stuff, tbh. I'm at an age where I know my tastes (quick blast indies, golf, FM, Deus Ex/Prey search 'em ups, the odd FPS, and I like racing games when in the mood), the majority of stuff doesn't interest me so I stick to what I love.

I saw the new Far Cry trailer and I just found it to be so boring.
Like eating a bowl of plain, boiled rice.
Read the Rime review as well, it is just another one of them games.

Everything is just another thing that I have done.

Of course, you are correct there Tempy. Which is why I am keen to say this is just me and not necessarily a view on the whole industry, or indeed an attempt to piss on chips.

I do have a couple of genuine grievances.

Mainly why can't anyone make a fun extreme sports or wrestling game anymore?

Liv play Emily is Away Too, it just slayed me.

Stanley wasn't anything special but visually it fit in the current generation.
I don't mind stylized either, Shovel Knight looks fantastic. Emily looks like someone was pissed and accidently opened MS Paint.

Liveinadive wrote:

Stanley wasn't anything special but visually it fit in the current generation.
I don't mind stylized either, Shovel Knight looks fantastic. Emily looks like someone was pissed and accidently opened MS Paint.

It's about the story, don't be one of them.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

Stanley wasn't anything special but visually it fit in the current generation.
I don't mind stylized either, Shovel Knight looks fantastic. Emily looks like someone was pissed and accidently opened MS Paint.

It's about the story, don't be one of them.

No doubt but I am a very visually focused person, consider my job.
Visuals don't have to be any one thing but for myself they should be considered and what I saw off a Google Search they didn't seem to be for Emily. OK for some, not for me.

DS is definitely ignoring his kid, FM doesn't play itself!

Well, it does, but that's not fun.

Liveinadive wrote:

Hope no one has shares in BA

Due to fly with them on my honeymoon a week Monday. Better not have this shit then

I've been playing a lot of old stuff lately, and it's interesting how most of it doesn't meet my expectations. Mario Kart was always about two-player, but it feels almost like an 8-bit game now. Mario World holds up in gameplay, but its worlds are surprisingly repetitive (greenery, caves, ghost houses, castles, and water). But then Donkey Kong Country — widely regarded as inferior — remains charming, with much better artwork than its sequels and some gorgeous levels.

I'm currently enjoying PlayStation DOOM, and remarkably, having not played them for over twenty years, I remember most of its levels exceptionally well. It's not bogged down with combat systems in an effort to add depth that only dilutes immediacy, it's just good old run-'n'-gun with a ton of ambience. Shockingly, it's more fun than modern FPSes, with a serious turn of speed as you zip around levels that would be large in other games, what with all their stop-start gameplay conventions. Still looks pretty dapper, too, via PS3 upscaling.

I'll be playing Tekken 7 and WipEout Omega this year, but I'm largely done with games that compromise simple structures to accommodate shoehorned narratives and their associated bumph. I just wanna play the bloody thing!

Nah, you would be a great dad DS. You are a good guy and you care and you rise to responsibility when given.

I struggle with it. People say I would be a good dad but I have never been in a relationship where I would consider it.
Hoping my Bro and his Mrs have a kid so I can be an awesome Uncle.

I have started reaching out to my mates that I used to play games with. Games were only ever part of it.