General Videogame Thread

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Just dusted off the old PS3 from the loft to give the kids something to play with during lockdown. It's still a great piece of kit, even after the update i had to install, the menus are snappy even though games take a while to download and install (but the new ones do as well, i think..not had another console since). Just downloading Minecraft for them now.

I still play minecraft on an xbox 360 with Junior. Its slightly corrupted and there is no more product support but functionally its fine, a bit slow compared to the PS4 and gaming PC versions we also have but for a 5 year old it works great. Being a touch slower helps.

 

[willipp]

Amazon dropped some PS5's this morning, lasted about 5 minutes with the site crashing and unable to add to basket before selling out. All these websites are so ill equipped to not only stop bots buying them all but also deal with any kind of traffic.

 

[shevtheblue]

I still play minecraft on an xbox 360 with Junior. Its slightly corrupted and there is no more product support but functionally its fine, a bit slow compared to the PS4 and gaming PC versions we also have but for a 5 year old it works great. Being a touch slower helps.

I tried to play it with the 8yr old, but i've no idea wtf im doing or the point of the whole game tbh.

 

[shevtheblue]

Amazon dropped some PS5's this morning, lasted about 5 minutes with the site crashing and unable to add to basket before selling out. All these websites are so ill equipped to not only stop bots buying them all but also deal with any kind of traffic.

Worrying for Amazon, since there's is hosted on their own AWS which the promote as being the best available. It's supposed to scale up and down, automated, depending on demand. Clearly isn't working very well!

 

[N1985]

Decided to download Resident Evil 7 off Game Pass and its absolutely terrifying. Only a couple hours in so far but it's excellent and gripping. Not to mention gory as fuck.

Fantastic game. Very excited for the next one

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I tried to play it with the 8yr old, but i've no idea wtf im doing or the point of the whole game tbh.

There is no point to be honest. The game comes with 2 main modes;

Survival where you can die (so you avoid dying) and you have to work to get stuff that helps you survive and anything you want to make or build. This is the origins of the game - the hardest blocks /materials to find are gold and diamonds. You only get them by mining (digging down or going down a cave) - hence the name mine-craft.

Creative where you don't die and you have access to all the different kinds of blocks without working for it. This mode just allows you to build whatever you want - hence creative.

 

[LWashington]

I got to the end of CyberPunk for my character, V. Does anyone know if you get to play as a different storyline if you choose one of the other roles at the start? I remember it asked me if i wanted to be in the city, the desert, or another option i forget.
There are multiple endings for V, the first one i had was a bit dis-satisfying so i'm currently trying again with other options. Apparently it all depends on what you choose in certain conversations, and there are possibly as many as 6 or 7 different endings.

I've played through twice, once as street-kid and second tme as corpo. Both stories merge after about 25-35 mins at the point where you flash forward the things that you did with Jackie. Then you find yourself in the car with Jackie and do the mission where you rescue Sandra Dorsett from the bath . The storylines are the same just some extra options that are marked in the dialogue with a reply that only a Corpo or Streetkid would use. I've not seen anything else different.

 

[HelloCity]

Decided to download Resident Evil 7 off Game Pass and its absolutely terrifying. Only a couple hours in so far but it's excellent and gripping. Not to mention gory as fuck.

The remake of 2 that came out in 2019 is absolutely brilliant. Worth playing as well.

 

[HelloCity]

Seen the rave in Hitman 3?

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Seen the rave in Hitman 3?

Thats class.