Be Excellent To Each Other

On the botty.

BRACE YOURSELF!

/wipes

Yep! Though it was languishing at the bottom of my to-play pile. Thank you for rearranging my piles!

Ti- nah.

Oooh, rimshot.

Who's Tinah?

I also started Undertale, playing it on my diddy laptop on my commute.

I'm enjoying it a lot. Papyrus and sans are very endearing. I do get the impression there's not a huge amount to do - I of course click on everything I see because the descriptions are well written and entertaining, but very little seems to have any actual impact on whats happening in the game, they don't provide clues or help you progress. I don't get any more powerful (unless I have a fight), I don't find any different ways to approaching problems.

Still early doors though and I am enjoying it.

Play on, playa. It'll get reet under your skin eventually.

Exciting update!

Far Cry 4 continues to be a joy. This may be because i haven't touched the campaign at all, and I'm just having a jolly time wandering the mountains, hunting for skins, freeing hostages, taking bell towers, overrunning outposts. It's great. I've heard Primal has a greater focus on hunting and base building, so that has jumped from being a game I couldn't give a hoot about to a must-buy at some point in the future.

Undertale: I've faltered on this. I've been playing in bursts on the train, but the simple logistics of playing on a laptop on an often packed train has inhibited my progress. I will finish it though.

Broken Sword 5: thanks to Mr Russell for this recommendation. Got it cheap in the PSN sale and am playing on the Vita. Gorgeous visuals and sound. It's a lovely world to escape to on the train.

They don't seem to age either if you want to go back and play the earlier ones.

I enjoyed BS1 & 2 but stopped when I played 3 on the Xbox. Felt like a misstep, like when Monkey Island went 3D (was that the Telltale version?)

Incidentally, best Monkey Island? Having just looked through the Monkey Island wikipedia page, I think I enjoyed Curse of the most. Certainly the most lovely, visually.

Yep, loved Curse, and remember playing it when I went to university.

Monkey Island 2 has always been my favourite.

OG MI for me

Yeah, 2.

I always liked the first one. MI2 was a bit sprawling

Dougray Scott was a shit villain, too.

And just over a quarter of a year later, I've finished Far Cry 4 (well, I killed the baddie).

There are other endings but I can't be bothered seeking those out. I will likely mop up the few remaining outposts using my new strategy of finding a high vantage point about 100m away from the outpost, sniping the alarms and then sniping every fucker inside. Though the acquisition of the Buzzsaw after I liberated every bell tower means I could just traipse in there and mow them down with 3 miles of ammunition threading through my hot wrought iron weaponry.

I've clocked Longines' (great) and Reggie & Yogi's (frankly sh1t) missions, and I can't be doing with the Shangri La missions which are a pain in the arse. So after the outposts, I'll leave Kyrat, having largely thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I loved the way the landscape became more barren and desolate the closer you get to Pagan Min. As previously referenced, the druggy bits were a bit tedious, though they were visually arresting, it must be said.

In 6-12 months time I think I will try Far Cry Primal, which does sound appealing in terms of shaking things up just enough to make being in the FC open world a joy, without being too tired of the mechanics.

In the meantime, I have Witcher 3, XCom 2 or No Man's Sky to get going on. And Doom. Gah.

I quite liked the Shangri-La and dodgy hippy missions. But that's just me

Play Doom next! It's mindless fun and won't last very long at all. I loved it.

Title

I found them unsettling and I didn't like the chaps with the scary masks.

TBF the dodgy hippy missions were over quickly, but I always felt like I was stuck in the shangri la for ages ordering a lame white tiger around like a warrior Siegfried and Roy.

Agreed.

Start Far Cry again but don't leave when you're eating the food at the beginning, wait for the dude to come back.

I read about that this morning. No chance.

It's funny!

I just watched it on Youtube, I'd misunderstood the concept.

Gave up on Bloodborne, I was getting too stressed out.

Now playing Mad Max. Love it. It's as chilled an experience as one could hope for in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And the combat is pleasingly meaty and satisfying.

Can well imagine its pleasures may dull after a while, but for now it's an excellent place to rumble around in.

How far did you get with Bloodborne? I've just got the DLC and final final final boss to go now.

Not far at all. I didn't even make it to the first shortcut. But everytime I thought about going back to it I just felt this overwhelming sense I was going to be frustrated. I think it's a game that needs more than the 30 minute bursts I can give it.

In the Bloodborne thread it sounded like you were unsure of how far you'd stick with it, but obviously you have. Did something click?

Oh definitely. Even if I started again with a brand-new character I'd be a lot better now. I still find the bosses incredibly frustrating in the main and they are easily the worst part of the game, but the fights against normal enemies, the exploration, the world setting and the lore is all some of the very best in a game I've seen.

And times where I've got truly stuck I've called Mr Dave in for some cooperation.