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Decided to pay more attention to seasonal events in FH4 in this series. Unlocked the new Mclaren 600 LT last week and yesterday this new beauty.
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Decided to pay more attention to seasonal events in FH4 in this series. Unlocked the new Mclaren 600 LT last week and yesterday this new beauty.
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How do you get great action shots like that? Looks great.
I was in the Highlands this morning trying my best not to roll it :)
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How do you get great action shots like that? Looks great.
I was in the Highlands this morning trying my best not to roll it :)
Just driving along/racing and entering photo mode. You can do it anytime, just press up on your D-pad if you're playing with a controller. (As you can see by the tire marks, that wasn't my first attempt :laugh:)
The photo mode in FH4 is a little odd though. Once you take a picture you have to save and then share it so it'll show up in your Forza Hub (desktop app) from where you can then download it to your PC. A bit too over complicated, imo.
 
Just driving along/racing and entering photo mode. You can do it anytime, just press up on your D-pad if you're playing with a controller. (As you can see by the tire marks, that wasn't my first attempt :laugh:)
The photo mode in FH4 is a little odd though. Once you take a picture you have to save and then share it so it'll show up in your Forza Hub (desktop app) from where you can then download it to your PC. A bit too over complicated, imo.
Ah, I see. You were on the move when you hit P (or D in your case, I'm on keyboard).
I'll have another go and yes, the whole process is a little long-winded, but it's okay when you get used to the controls.
 
So far so not so good.
Spent about 35 minutes into the character creations screen and some 2 hours in the first part of the Code Vein (single player) game.
The story is good. Even without any friends, I see this a different take on a genre, there is so much lore and interesting things...I am sure this story will have a great plot twist. Graphics also look and feel very smooth and beautiful.

The unique aspect never been done before, dark-souls like game + anime all combined into a very fast-changing class system, multi-weapon fighting stances.

Thing is the rest of the game is 95% fighting. ANd it's not too good....Very much made for consoles, and intended to be placed 100% with a controller the skills are hard to manage on a keyboard. Even tho after few more hours one can get used to the skill system, you need to pass the not very fluid combat mechanics.
Code Vein does not have dark souls combat. It's slower, it waits for the animation, it's ...not that great.
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Nioh story is all over the place. After a few cutscenes, i have not understood anything, except for the dark- sad fealling that it gives you.
Like I said before if you only stick with co-op the game is worth it.
And coming only hours apart from Nioh's very fluid combat system....Code Vein feels so slow and sluggish. Granted both games fully meant to be played with a controller, at least Nioh is done right.
 
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FH4 snapped with Game DVR.
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Finished Borderlands 3. It was a really good game and i did like 95 percent of the nook and cranny quest too. I thought i'd install the Rockstar store and get ready for RDR2. So i'm creating some mayhem in GTA5 at the moment. GTA5 has crashed so many times it ain't funny...I'll have to do the standard fixes like disable Steam overlay and such. I hate having to run two stores just to play one game. Later in the month i'll play though Alan Wake for Halloween's sake.

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I've been playing a bit of Die Young, probably one of the highest quality true indie games to come out in a couple years. I actually nearly never buy EA, but I did on this because I saw promise. It's been out in final release for about a month now, and my faith was justified! This game is alot of funQ It is stealth, adventure, climbing/parkouring, and some survival. If unsure, maybe check out some videos of gameplay. I have some screens here.

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I tried to get back into Final Fantasy XV. And i did... For 10 mins until i threw the controller at the wall and Alt+F4'd.

I cant get used to using a controller
 
More of Die Young tonight. Avoiding the lunatic psycho killers is fun. Stay in tall grass or sunflowers and they can't see you...but the poisonous snakes can. The stray, ravenous dogs are everywhere. So climbing becomes the go to action, in the same sense that in Dying Light the safest place was almost always up on buildings. I definitely recommend it.

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Playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time from the retail release off the two installation CD-ROM discs. Threw together some old parts, and installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 since it has the later removed from Windows 10 Macrovision SECDRV.sys disabled.

The avatar change came the setup installer.
 
God of War on PS NOW for PC. It's a bit of a motion blur mess and 30 fps is kind of sad considering I have 1 gig down internet... but the game is so good just in itself that I am still being drawn in. It would however be more fun at high refresh as a native PC game. I will be cancelling my trial for PS NOW PC and waiting to play this game and many other Sony exclusives in full on the Playtstation 5 next year. Hopefully they can run 60 fps on PS5.

Playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time from the retail release off the two installation CD-ROM discs. Threw together some old parts, and installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 since it has the later removed from Windows 10 Macrovision SECDRV.sys disabled.

The avatar change came the setup installer.

sands of time is one of my all time fav games... played it on launch day on a nice tube tv... those were good times...
 
sands of time is one of my all time fav games... played it on launch day on a nice tube tv... those were good times...
It's unusual seeing it rendered at a higher resolution above the original 1600×1200 maximum. Installed a mod to bump the res to 2560x1440.
 
Playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time from the retail release off the two installation CD-ROM discs. Threw together some old parts, and installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 since it has the later removed from Windows 10 Macrovision SECDRV.sys disabled.

The avatar change came the setup installer.
I’ve done the same thing for a slew of older games, including retail versions that will run on 8.1 but not 10. There are quite a few that never went digital, so W8.1 is the only option to keep them alive.
 
everday is busyday, no choice i only secretly play zumba deluxe on office pc:D
 
There are quite a few that never went digital,
Looked at buying PoP: SoT again at GoG but it's currently $10.

Slipstreaming updates into the Windows 8.1 iso wasn't a huge time sink, and neither installing the drivers so figured I'll save the money.
 
@biffzinker I played PoP Sands of Time (when it was a giveaway by Ubi) on Windows 10. It works perfectly, not a single bug/glitch. After reading your post I wonder what's the difference between retail and uplay version
 
Kerbel Space Program. Just discovered it.

My Mun landing skills need work though... or is this "good enough?" :laugh:

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Kerbel Space Program. Just discovered it.

My Mun landing skills need work though... or is this "good enough?" :laugh:

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Eh. Everything's air-droppable...



once.
 
Currently playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Really happy to see they improved or fixed some of the problems I had with the first game, especially the insane amount of RNG that governed Xenoverse 1's gameplay, and the addition of more (and actually decent) side content.

However some problems from the first game are still there: the A.I is still pretty bad, the grinding on higher levels is still infuriatingly slow (not to mention how you only get 2 attribute points per level after reaching level 85. TWO), the game is packed with (not very reasonably-priced) DLC, and the difficulty is still quite inconsistent at times. Also, a new problem that wasn't really present in DBXV1 is that some specific side content won't be avaliable if you're not playing online (for whatever reason)

All in all, it's a fun button-mashy 3D brawler/beat 'em up for Dragon Ball fans. Can't really recommend it for anyone else, though.
 
Started playing AC: Unity last weekend and man, they really went overboard with the amount of NPCs (for lack of a better word) in the game. I wish you could turn it down a notch.
That aside, the free running/parkour animations are much better than previous games and very satisfying when you move smoothly and don't awkwardly hit something.
 
Everspace was cheap so i decided to give it ago... my wireless 360 controller ended up embedded in the same hole as the FF-XV one yesterday.

Maybe im just getting too old for this shit.
 
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