Standing too close to something to get a prompt to use it is a problem all the way through.  Did you reach the room where you have to sneak past patrolling bots?  Instant death if you're spotted (unless you stand still having accepted your fate of course, when enemies switch to 'almost killing you' mode - why do games still do this?).  37 seconds of loading before you're allowed another crack too, just to rub it in.  I'm too deep now so I've got to go back to it tonight and I hate myself for it.

Paul the sparky wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

I enjoyed it once past the initial section.

Spoiler:

being in the shuttle during launch and then floating around the space station were nice.Then it was back to that earlier jank and I deleted it from my hdd.

See, I made an effort to get to zero gravity, I didn't want to throw in the towel before then, but it was still a trudge. Bouncing around in zero g should be fun, right? Not a slow bore.

I think the first part of the game may have dragged my expectations of what a game is to an all time low.

One more moan - I've never known a game to be so off with its default look sensitivity controls.  I don't really bother with all that, I'm a defaults man as a rule (trust your devs), but I had to slide them way up once the timed missions started.

Not sure if it was VR.
It is very much built on Unreal Engine defaults though. By that I mean if you open up Unreal Engine and start with the Third Person template it will feel very familiar.

Cities is the main go at the moment. Working out how to do custom parks etc in game is my new jam.

I've started playing Those Who Remain, which is a first-person indie spooky horror thing. You have to stay in the light else you get killed by these shadowy figures that just sort of hang around waiting for you to fuck up. Other than that it's basic puzzle stuff so far - find the light switch, find a key to find a fuse to turn on a light switch. That sort of thing. There may also be some halliucination type stuff to add mystery or something.

Anyway, it's basically pretty shit.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Lonely Mountains Downhill and it is fabulous.

I'll keep on banging this drum. It should have been GOTY last year everywhere.

My only complaints at the moment are the glacial pace of unlocks and the sometimes inconsistent collapse of the bike. Minor quibbles though.

It's more the bike unlocks tbh, I have no problem with mountains/routes unlocking as they are, but I don't have any other bike yet, just the default one. Default is fine, but I'm keen to try others.

Ha.
On a similar note I've been playing Modern Warfare 2 remaster.

Fuck that first Favella level.

Been going hard on Minecraft for a while now and I've come to the conclusion that it's a game I'll just never tire of. Then there's been some Divinity Original Sin 2 for those CRPG feels, and actual pen and paper D&D (over Discord) for the first time in 20-odd years and I'm bloody well loving playing as a Moon Druid and transforming into a dire wolf and going all bitey bitey oh my god!

It was the old lady with the frying pan that pushed you over the edge wasn’t it?

12 hours deep in Xenoblade.

Man what a bunch of jokers.

The Stretchers on Switch.  Spotted it on a hidden gems list recently and cunningly suggested it (repeatedly) to my daughter after my sister-in-law promised her a game.  We're really enjoying it so far, if anything I'd say it's better than Moving Out, or most similar-ish co-op experiences.

Wouldn't dream of playing full price for this sort of thing ordinarily, but there is £18's worth of value in there imo.

I can't see why they haven't pushed it a bit more. It's pretty high quality all round for something lost in the depths of the EShop.

Battle Princess Madelyn.  Ehhh, not sure about this.  It's a Ghouls 'N Ghosts clone that looks the part, but the arcade mode I'm playing is a bolt-on addition to the standard (and poor, apparently) Metroid-lite approach of the main campaign (feature creep fucked it on first release, so the arcade mode is closer to the original plan anyway).  I'm up for 6-10 stages of it in theory, it plays well and the patterns/big boss were fine and dandy for the first level, but there's no save system so I'd either have to finish it in one sitting or not play any other Switch games until it's done.  £3.37 wasted as it stands, might have another look at it when I stop sulking.  Cursed Castilla EX had a similar thing going on iirc and I made it through that.