Picked up the Bioshock Collection in the current Xbox sale as I have been eyeing it up for a while. Started the first one today having not played it since release (oh so many years ago) and my word what a game it is.

Witcher 3 is pretty good eh. I've played the first and finished the second but I'm having a blast ATM

It is the hottest shit, I keep meaning to go back to it. I hope Klei never bother to make a AAA game, and just keep making a continuous stream of the best shit ever for £15 a pop.

Shank, Invis Inc. Don't Starve, and Mark of the fucking Ninja. They also co-published Crypt of the Necrodancer cos they have good eyes for good things, and their latest, Oxygen Not Included is a pretty fun colony sim but overall not my bag as I am awful at construction of working systems.

Yeah Ninja is hot non-shit.

Ninja is fucking legit never 4get

I'm on the Kingdom New Lands. It's very interesting but I don't know how long it is. Probably not one I'd return to after finishing.

But definitely one I will finish. Very fun.

regmcfly wrote:

Wait did we all just agree on something

Fucking yes.

Invis Inc. is the exact same design philosophy applied to turn-based strategy. Klei are doing God's work, or the video game bit of it at least (although I also think the next game won't be my cup of tea).

Get banned

Bollockoff wrote:

Annulled. I don't like the character designs in Invis.

I'm not fully behind the art style they use either. But, whatever, the games are great.

I bloody loved Mark of the Ninja but struggled to get on with Invis Inc. It is very hard to fault the company at the moment however as they continuously produce such a wide range of smaller games. A range that always seem to be the best in class.

2 Games on the go - Doom 1 (Xbox) - Holds up pretty well!  It's especially good of you're a bit rubbish at shooting games, as you only have to aim horizontally; the vertical aiming takes care of itself.  I just beat the first act and will push on, so long as it doesn't get significantly more difficult.  Soundtrack and shotgun sound effects are as great as I remembered them to be too.

Also Injustice 2.  I like it well enough.  It has an awful lot of single player content/comic fan service for those of us who aren't competitive in multiplayer.  I Don't like the free-to-play style loot system though.  

IE: One of the game's gimmicks is that you can unlock new costume pieces for your characters.  After you complete battles or special challenges, you're awarded with credits, loot boxes, or a random costume pieces.  You can only use credits to buy loot boxes.  Loot boxes contain random costume pieces.  So the only way you can acquire specific costume pieces is by chance.  Further, you can unlock duplicates of what you've previously unlocked!  You need to be extremely lucky to get a full set that you're after.

Further still, you have to level up your characters to use the high tier costume pieces, and to fight the tougher challenges (eg: it's pointless doing a level 20 challenge as a level 5 character; enemies are damage sponges and you get KO'd after a few hits).  It's a shithouse system in an otherwise very attractive game for superhero fans.

Embarrassed to admit I stayed up past midnight on a weekday trying to unlock a skirt for supergirl.  Was pretty annoyed at myself and it put me off the game a bit.  I'm staying away from the grindy bits and enjoying the old fashioned arcade style challenges now.  Hopefully the loot system will be toned down with a patch.  They did a promo this week for the new Wonder Woman film by putting up a series of challenges to unlock a specific and complete costume.  It was great.  I'd love more of that.

Subbax wrote:

Has anyone played Dex? Looks like a cyberpunk 2D Deus Ex, sort of. I love me a bit of cyberpunk dystopia.

Only a tiny bit - Your description seemed pretty apt.  I liked the art but didn't really enjoy the combat, was a bit clunky.  It didn't really grab me right away and it's a fair way back in my To Be Played list at the moment.  Sorry if that's not very helpful!

Whistleblower is better.

Prey was £28 in Tesco the other day but otherwise there's a disappointing lack of discountage for recent stuff so far.. I blame the summer.

Dead Cells? Flinthook? Not sure if they are on PS4 (actually pretty sure Dead Cells isn't as it is early access)