Which version Xbox/PS2/PC, PSP, Wii, or 360/PS3?
PC. Would like to give the Don’s Edition a go some day though…
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The PS3 version is probably the best version, but the 360 is a close second. The PC version is accessible since it’s considered abandonware and people have been preserving abandonware in recent times. The only issue is it doesn’t have the visual enhancements that the PS3/360 version has including the DLC, but I agree the game holds up well just the combat is a little dated mainly with its shooting.
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Indeed. I don´t have a console of any sorts, so I´ll likely have to resort to emulation (if possible) when the time comes… Yeah, the combat is a little dated, but what makes up for it is how enjoyingly brutal it can be (I love the individual executions and the detail put into the hit/wounded/dying animations). Plus the weapons audio and explosions are still really good. Definitely compensates for the lacks in overall visuals.
Main reason I´m replaying it after all these years (aside from refreshing my memory about it) is that first time I played it I didn´t finish the side stuff (eliminating all the families and becoming Don of NYC), so that´s the goal. And also I wanted to go through it before trying out the second game, which I´ve never played.
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One last side note on the issue of Konami and their approach: I fucking hate the fact that I can´t buy MGS 1 and 2 on GOG here!! 
Got the itch for some Civilization, so have booted up Civ VI vanilla for the first time on EGS, since I got it for free from there sometime last year. I put a ton of hours into Civ IV back in the day, and some hours into Civ V. Civ IV was definetly my favourite, even if some of the changes Civ V made were probably for the best, like the end of unit stacking, so you couldn’t have 50 tanks all share 1 tile and you could just blitzkrieg half the world.
Anyway, just played through the tutorial so far, having a couple of jank issues, will probably need to mess around the settings I guess. But hope to have fun. I do want to try and play Civ “properly”, rather than just play it like an RTS game, but actually try to go for victories other than domination, and not try to invade half the world.
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Civ VI is a bit of fun. Going to wait til Steam gets it on sale to eventually buy it and the 2 big expansion packs, both of which sound like they’ll be alot of fun.
Giving Elite Dangerous a try, again, another game I got for free on EGS. And nowadays it includes the Horizons expansion pack for free, which lets you go planet side. After going through the pain of having to register a Frontier account, I’ve gone through the tutorial and done the very first mission. It’s fun, but obviously very technical with all the stuff that your spaceship is capable of doing and the various types of missions you can take on, alot of requring you know how to navigate the galaxy.
Still, hope to have fun with this. There’s a brand new expansion about to come out soon, Odyssey, which I believe actually lets you run around on foot for the first time on May 19th. Just trying to get use to the game first.
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Zombie Army 4.
I usually dislike zombie games but as a huge Sniper Elite fan, there is something this game has that others don’t.
is it gonad shots? it’s gonad shots.
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LOL. Maybe.
That was pure gold in SE4, especially when I shot through a Nazi’s balls and the bullet passed right through into Hitler’s one pathetic peanut. Pure AU.
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I want to fund genetic research to create the world’s smallest nut and name it after Hitler.
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Started playing NieR : Automata which available on Gamepass. A weird game experience. When I read about androids and stuff I was hoping for something like Blade Runner, but the art style and voices and everything seem a lot more oriented towards young audiences. But the gameplay is quite brutal. I’m playing on “hard”-mode to have a challenge, but I haven’t passed the first mission yet, and there is no discernable way to save progress so I have to start the whole thing over again. But the controls are quite smooth so I think I’ll get the hang of it just before getting tired of retrying.
Also been playing Katana Zero, which is amazeballs. The speedrun-badge will be a tough nut to crack, however.
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Haven´t heard about this one. Checked it out and it went straight into my wishlist. The soundtrack is awesome!
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it’s my favourite game i’ve never played. no switch and no pc 
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I started to replay Telltale’s The Walking Dead.
10/10 game I would recommend 
I’ve also been into Battlefield and COD games recently with a headset at max volume for ultimate immersion. lol
Also, I felt nostalgic so I decided to play Skate 3 after a good 6 or 7 years.
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It´s on Xbox as well apparently, so does that mean you´re on PS?
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Just finished Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, well the Easy Campaign that is. A good time waster, if you like turtling in video games, then this game might be for you.
Good thing I played it in tandem with AC: Origins, made a couple of things easier to understand about Ancient Egypt culture that is portrayed in Origins pretty well 
Probably less than halfway through? AC and I already hate the switch to RPG style. Before you could just focus on the main plot without issues but now you’re expected to grind so you can even enter sections of the game world that require a certain player-level to be even able to survive any type of encounter.
Sensory overload!
Just a small section of the full map…
Atleast Bayek is a fun protagonist (easily top 3 AC main characters) and the plot is decent but it still has that old AC jank in there 
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And I assume the world levels up with you?
No, it’s fixed. When you look on your map you can see what level is recommended for you to be for each region. A level 10 player can go in a region that is lvl 25-35 recommended but even a lousy hyena would insta-kill you where in a lower level region a hyena wouldn’t even leave a scratch. If an NPC is marked in red then you can’t even kill him.
Missions themselves have a certain level recommendation, again if it’s in red it’s not just a recommendation, it’s a necessity.
It even removes the idea of stealth assassination in many cases where you just can’t one shot someone with a bow or with the hidden blade and you just have to go toe to toe with that enemy, most of the time cheesing it and playing cat and mouse, running away from the enemy and shooting him with the bow when you get the chance and prey you don’t get insta-killed, maybe even going up on ledges and dropping on him, rinse and repeat. 
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