Yup. My boy got fifa this year but most of his peers have stuck with Fornite only.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Bob wrote:

I'm starting to have a bit of fun now exploring the world. There's a lot of Witcher 3 style ? and they lead to little events and explorations that result in Xp and new equipment to mull over. I'm getting hunted by a level 5 bounty hunter and he kicked my ass in two hits when I was level one. Now I'm level 4 and contemplating a re-match.. when I've explored this sunken cave just in case there's a nice level 4 set of armour that might help.

I restarted Witcher 3 recently so that gives me a semi, but I don't like the sound of the floaty character movement and a stream I saw made the combat look shite.

I really like the look of the world and the ship stuff though. I'll get it at some point but I think I'll stick with W3 until RDR2 takes over my life.

I read an interesting article over at Kotaku about an assassin build so
I’m focusing on stabby stealthy not fighty I’ll let you know how it goes

That sounds terrible.

Now I’ve unlocked a few perks the combat is getting better.

There’s a cool one that allows you to throw your assassin blade and then chain a kill allowing you to take out two baddies stealthily from a distance and there’s one that allows you to regen health from stamina

I’ve also Been engraving my weapons and upgrading them

Oh and Spartan kick is great for crowd control

There's plenty of XP to be had if you explore fully and find everything in each location.

Argggh! I can its siren call! Must...resist....  Love me an open world game and the lure of this one is proving great.  But Read Dead 2 and Fallout 76 out soon means it'd be madness to buy this one too.  Surely?

It's quite good, only around 10 hours in but it's a decent game.

Glad to read their bringing a discovery tour mode to this one also. They implemented it really well in Origins  - probably my favourite bit.

I like the look and > RPG-ness of Odyssey but still have a LOT to get done in Egypt first.

It's a combat free history tour mode. You go from station to station in the game-world and learn about an event / piece of architecture /cultural practices etc.

Might not be in the game yet. With Origins it came along in a free update months after release.

The XP progression thing isn't quite so annoying as it was in Origins but it's still fairly annoying.

Combined with some vague side missions (destroy x amount of this) I'd hit a wall with progress as the next section is a big battle and I'm not quite levelled up enough.

Anyway lots of wandering around later and I'm back on track.. it is quite annoying that so much of the stuff is to higher level.. there's got to be a better way of doing things.

Did a Romance and it's more Mass Effect than The Witcher.. in fact it just fades to black and skips to after.. so that's nice.

Can't seem to map more than four powers either.. which makes me wonder why you have so many.

Also as beautiful as it all is it's all a bit samey.. 3 of the five 'towers' have been identical temples.

Still I'm enjoying it. It's much easier to be stealthy than it was in Origins and I like the one on one combat. Not sure about having to press two buttons for parry though.

Still it is fucking massive.

Bored at work so I know what will cheer me up, a quick trip to GAME to pick up a new title that I'll play for a few hours before realising it's not for me
It'll be like God of War all over again.

Blocks100 wrote:

Bored at work so I know what will cheer me up, a quick trip to GAME to pick up a new title that I'll play for a few hours before realising it's not for me It'll be like God of War all over again.

So basically one of the best games of the year? Gotcha.

If this latest Ass Creed had used a Nordic setting like GoW, it would have been a day one purchase for me.   But I guess they thought that Santa Monica had already cornered that market.  But I hope Odyssey, with its open world, delivers a bigger sense of freedom than GoW's closed environs.

Maybe she was a witch

Reminded me which I hate Ass Creed. Looks fucking stunning maxed out on PC, climb anywhere is cool but gameplay/combat, story, voice acting, characters are all arse. Admittedly I only gave it four hours but that was enough, not for me.