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Olimite

Team so best.

Blue Swirl

Rev wrote:

I found it good fun, though later fights are a bit silly so I dumped it down to easier difficultly and just enjoyed the ridiculous puzzles.

Noted.

Blue Swirl

As per above, current boss is proving tricky in PoP, so I spent my evening checking out random bits of the map I hadn't fully explored. Mainly I found a whole heap of not much, but I did get a doohicky which means my swords now do incrementally more damage.

Evening.

Well.

Spent.

acemuzzy

The best kind of doohicky

Moot_Geeza

I put most of my doohickys into adding extra wreckage to the swords too.

Bob

Djornson wrote:

Fallout 4 (£2.50 delivered from ebay for Xbox woo) - loving it, have they made the graphics better? it looks amazing

There is a patch due but they did apply a fps booster

Moot_Geeza

I started Dave the Diver last night, a game I'm quite keen to like. I'm not sure if the restaurant menus/research/timed service side of things quite floats my boat though.

Can someone sum the game up for me pls? Preferably in a way that makes it sound appealing to me so I'll still play it. Is it 'just' a really nicely packaged Steamworld Dig/Overcooked hyrbid, or is there more to it?

Djornson

I didn't get it, thought it was bit wank

I'm playing Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, loving both.

Bought dragons dogma dark arisen for £3 that's next

stonechalice

Minishoot Adventure is the game I'm currently really enjoying. It's basically A Link to the Past with little space ships and some bullet hell. It's fucking fantastic. Perfect for steamdeck. Anyone else played this??

stonechalice

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I started Dave the Diver last night, a game I'm quite keen to like. I'm not sure if the restaurant menus/research/timed service side of things quite floats my boat though.

Can someone sum the game up for me pls? Preferably in a way that makes it sound appealing to me so I'll still play it. Is it 'just' a really nicely packaged Steamworld Dig/Overcooked hyrbid, or is there more to it?

I couldn't get on with it. Especially the restaurant bits. I got a refund. Lots of people love it but I found it disjointed and tedious. Apparently it's a big game that just keeps adding more and more busywork as you play. I don't think there's much Steamworld Dig in there mate! And the fun part of Overcooked is the MP and Dave doesn't have that. Probably not for you Moot.

hylian_elf

stonechalice wrote:

Minishoot Adventure is the game I'm currently really enjoying. It's basically A Link to the Past with little space ships and some bullet hell. It's fucking fantastic. Perfect for steamdeck. Anyone else played this??

Muzzy&Moot loved it I think.

stonechalice

Ah cool glad it's getting some recognition.

hylian_elf

I'm tempted to give it a go, but don't have a Steam Deck or a laptop to really play on.

acemuzzy

Yeah check the metroidvaniae thread, moot hasn't played it but I loved it as did Charlie.

Bob

Djornson wrote:

I didn't get it, thought it was bit wank

I'm playing Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, loving both.

Bought dragons dogma dark arisen for £3 that's next

I turned it on saw the pixel characters indicating landfill indie wank and two characters blathering away at each and switched straight off again

digi

I'm enjoying dave the diver, it keeps getting better as it goes and adds stuff but it is a bit slow.
It's my chillout game inbetween destiny 2, helldivers and gt7.

AndCallMeCharlie

hylian_elf wrote:

stonechalice wrote:

Minishoot Adventure is the game I'm currently really enjoying. It's basically A Link to the Past with little space ships and some bullet hell. It's fucking fantastic. Perfect for steamdeck. Anyone else played this??

Muzzy&Moot loved it I think.

I certainly loved it. unfortunately the ending tails off a fair bit

Moot_Geeza

stonechalice wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I started Dave the Diver last night, a game I'm quite keen to like. I'm not sure if the restaurant menus/research/timed service side of things quite floats my boat though.

Can someone sum the game up for me pls? Preferably in a way that makes it sound appealing to me so I'll still play it. Is it 'just' a really nicely packaged Steamworld Dig/Overcooked hyrbid, or is there more to it?

I couldn't get on with it. Especially the restaurant bits. I got a refund. Lots of people love it but I found it disjointed and tedious. Apparently it's a big game that just keeps adding more and more busywork as you play. I don't think there's much Steamworld Dig in there mate! And the fun part of Overcooked is the MP and Dave doesn't have that. Probably not for you Moot.

Thanks for this, it does sound like something I'd have to force myself to enjoy. I really like the style but the restaurant stuff and busywork is a no for me really. Reminds me of Shakedown Hawaii in a way - I wanted to enjoy the core of the game but there was loads of city management stuff chucked in too.

I'll pick something else.

Blue Swirl

Price of Persia: The Lost Crown continues to kick the shit out of me. I didn't even die this much in Dark Souls Remastered.

Facewon

Can't remember if I mentioned it previously, but I nabbed a game called Black Skylands either from humble or a steam sale.

Top down action RPG. Sky ships to get around big picture. Guns and semi twinstick shooting when walking around.

Looks lovely, although working out where you can go isn't always perfectly signposted but it's not a deal breaker.

There's a lot of systems. You are base building and upgrading weapons. There's a quite nice bunch of busy work in keeping your ship in good knick which reminds me of the metro games. If your ship is damaged, you have to stop driving, repair a specific spot on the ship and then drive again.

Likewise adding fuel.

Its got a lot of little touches with guns as well. Reload timing, gears style. Weapons upgrades seem fun.

I'm about 5 hours in, apparently.

It doesn't do anything amazing yet, but the sum of its parts so far is a nice little adventure.

May or may not shit the bed, may or may not be huge or small, but so far worth keeping on a radar if it's on switch or you have a pc.

Facewon

Ok, bit more this morning and the meat of the game is great. Clearing islands of baddies to free the people. Some of the puzzles are nifty, and the map is a good size it seems.

I'm still in please don't shit the bed mode, but so far so good.

I note there's some real low percentage of players on some easy chievos so I reckon a bunch of folks nope out early particularly dealing with the ship controlling. Worth putting up with.

Moot_Geeza

Scrolling beat 'em up fans take note: Jitsu Squad is decent. I managed to get hold of a cheap copy on PS4 and I'm pretty impressed with it. It's nowhere near SOR4 level but if you're interested in the genre enough to play the non-goats once in a while it's plenty of fun. It also looks really nice too, which surprised me as it looked horrendous in screenshots. No online co-op and, unforgivably, no drop-in co-op either - if you want to play in mp you have to start an mp save slot. Wait for the kicker: it only has one save slot. If you can work around these issues it's a solid 7.5 so far.

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Edit: It's currently half price on Switch (£12.99) but word on the belt scrolling grapevine is it's best to avoid that port.

DrewMerson

I bought that cheap on Steam Deck a while back but I’ve never loaded it up yet.

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Moot_Geeza

There's an option to unlock everything in the menu. I'd suggest ticking that and smashing through it rather than levelling the character up slowly. I unlocked all the moves by the penultimate chapter but I reckon it would've been more fun to just have everything available from the start. I'm not keen on XP for this sort of thing though, I much prefer basic arcade stuff.

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