Quarantine Gaming

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Control is now free on the Epic Games store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control

Here are the Metacritic reviews (if you are not familiar with the game): https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/control

I futzed around with it for awhile (PS Plus) and enjoyed it. But as it ramped up it quickly became frustrating for me.

I'm revisiting Witcher 3 (PS Now) and really enjoying it. The storylines are very compelling. The gameplay is a little clunky at times, but it leaves me excited to see what they could do on a next gen console.

[El_Diablo]

I futzed around with it for awhile (PS Plus) and enjoyed it. But as it ramped up it quickly became frustrating for me.

I'm revisiting Witcher 3 (PS Now) and really enjoying it. The storylines are very compelling. The gameplay is a little clunky at times, but it leaves me excited to see what they could do on a next gen console.

I loved The Witcher 3 (including the expansions) and was pretty excited for CDPR’s next game, Cyberpunk 2077. I played for an hour or two at launch and thought it was okay, but I put it down after reading about various game-breaking bugs and crashes. I don’t want to go through that but will definitely revisit it when it is fixed. Instead I picked up Ghost of Tsushima (which was excellent) and then started chipping away at my massive backlog; currently playing Nier Automata and enjoying it so far.

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I loved The Witcher 3 (including the expansions) and was pretty excited for CDPR’s next game, Cyberpunk 2077. I played for an hour or two at launch and thought it was okay, but I put it down after reading about various game-breaking bugs and crashes. I don’t want to go through that but will definitely revisit it when it is fixed. Instead I picked up Ghost of Tsushima (which was excellent) and then started chipping away at my massive backlog; currently playing Nier Automata and enjoying it so far.

Loved Ghost of Tsushima. Great story, natural feeling gameplay, beautiful scenery.

What I've learned in quarantine is that maybe 90% of games are not my jam. There's a very specific type of open world game that I really enjoy. Others have limited appeal to me. I'm certainly not the majority of gamers.

Games I love:

Skyrim
RDR2
Witcher 3
Ghost of Tsushima

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I'm only eight years late to the party, but holy cow The Last Of Us is a powerful story.

[El_Diablo]

I'm only eight years late to the party, but holy cow The Last Of Us is a powerful story.

Agreed. And now HBO is making it into a show, starring Game of Thrones actors Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. The sequel is very good too, although it made some narrative choices that some people lost their minds over.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Agreed. And now HBO is making it into a show, starring Game of Thrones actors Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. The sequel is very good too, although it made some narrative choices that some people lost their minds over.

I heard about all of that. Definitely on my list.

[thedukeman]

Time for my annual KOTOR play throughs. Things are slow lol.

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Time for my annual KOTOR play throughs. Things are slow lol.

Wish I had a platform for that.

[thedukeman]

Wish I had a platform for that.

Heard it isn't coming to VR for another 3-5 years.

If you're being serious though, I've played on macbook and ipad and both are enjoyable experiences. I used to play on PC and heavily use mods but the app store version is less hassle and still great.

[Acymetric]

Heard it isn't coming to VR for another 3-5 years.

If you're being serious though, I've played on macbook and ipad and both are enjoyable experiences. I used to play on PC and heavily use mods but the app store version is less hassle and still great.

By pure coincidence, I spent Saturday afternoon modding my copy of KOTOR. Sadly, I couldn't get it to run (crashed immediately after character creation) and didn't have the energy to sort it out. Maybe this weekend!

[thedukeman]

By pure coincidence, I spent Saturday afternoon modding my copy of KOTOR. Sadly, I couldn't get it to run (crashed immediately after character creation) and didn't have the energy to sort it out. Maybe this weekend!

I've been having troubles with my mods too. A few years ago I finally gave up once they added KOTOR 2 to the app store as well as KOTOR 1.

[Acymetric]

I've been having troubles with my mods too. A few years ago I finally gave up once they added KOTOR 2 to the app store as well as KOTOR 1.

I suppose what I should have done, although it would be massively time consuming, is try to launch the game after each mod to pin down the issue. Or I could just play low resolution 4:3 without the various bug fixes and enjoy the retro feel.

[Acymetric]

Update: I got it working!

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Ghost of Tsushima Expansion is about to drop in a month with the PS5 upgrades. I'm very excited.

[thedukeman]

Update: I got it working!

cheers!

[Acymetric]

cheers!

The only thing I couldn't get working was the mod to redo the HUD for widescreen, but that isn't really that big a deal I guess (just looks a little weird). I hadn't played either KOTOR game until now (but I did play SWTOR a while back), glad I can finally check them off the list!

[thedukeman]

The only thing I couldn't get working was the mod to redo the HUD for widescreen, but that isn't really that big a deal I guess (just looks a little weird). I hadn't played either KOTOR game until now (but I did play SWTOR a while back), glad I can finally check them off the list!

I think they're quite good! They definitely don't look as good as SWTOR though lol.

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I'm refamiliarizing myself with Ghost of Tsushima in anticipation of the expansion and PS5 upgrades. It's such a beautiful game.

[Acymetric]

I think they're quite good! They definitely don't look as good as SWTOR though lol.

I do kind of wish I had played these before playing SWTOR, just because now I'm kind of spoiled in terms of the SWTOR graphics/animations/gameplay. But I'm having a blast so far. Carth is a real whiner though, wasn't expecting that .

[thedukeman]

I do kind of wish I had played these before playing SWTOR, just because now I'm kind of spoiled in terms of the SWTOR graphics/animations/gameplay. But I'm having a blast so far. Carth is a real whiner though, wasn't expecting that .

Oh for sure. First time I saw SWTOR it kind of blew my mind. Those cinematic parts I think are incredible. I'll never forget the first trailer I ever saw for the game.