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Just started God of War on PS5 (I forget the subtitle), it’s alright but was expecting more. Not played one before and wanted an open world game but finding it a bit dull.

Mostly play PS Plus free games (other than FIFA) some recent ones:

Biped: fun co op puzzle game which a unique control system where each stick controls a leg.

Aliens Dark Descent: couldn’t get into it. Reckon I would if I gave it a proper go though. Was looking for an X-Com type game after playing Phoenix Point for a bit and it’s close but not quite. More narrative and RTS rather than TBS.

Return to Monkey Island: classic nostalgia fun. Enjoyed it. But I enjoy almost all point and click games and MI2 was my childhood.

PowerWash Simulator: why is this game so addictive? It’s objectively crap but i can’t stop playing.

Miasma Chronicles: really enjoyed this on my TBS strategy kick. Completed it. If you like X com it’s not as deep but fun.

Shadowrun Trilogy: loved this. X-com style but with a cyberpunk detective sort of twist. Binged the entire series back to back I loved it so much.

Death Squared: another co op puzzle game I play with my daughter. Very fun to annoy each other.

Overcooked: Great game. My family won’t play with me because I take it too seriously and go all Gordon Ramsey. Ended up nerfing the difficulty so there’s no stress and my gf will play

Cult of the Lamb: fun rogue a like co op game

Cat Quest: ditto

Anno 1800: old world city building game. Loved this and played the shit out of it but a little easy.

Cities Skylines: modern city building game love it but am terrible at it so cheat.

Wolfenstein games: didn’t think I’d like this as not an FPS fan at all but really enjoyed it and ended up completing one and playing the others.

The Settlers New Allies: another remake of a childhood game (RTS resource management), but nowhere near as good. Got bored quickly.

That’s everything on my list I remember playing recently.

Mostly just cod on the Xbox, I got bored of FIFA within about a month but at least I can just pick up and play cod.

Just watched this supposedly amazing advance that was demoed by NVIDIA earlier and I’ve got to be honest I think we’re hitting a wall with graphics. The environments look OK, but as soon as you add a person or some explosions it doesn’t look much different from PS4 games.

We need an advancement in animation, especially clothes and human skin rendering I think to get to the next level of photo realism. The very obviously videogame animation just slaps you right in uncanny valley.

Hearts of Iron IV, I prefer the earlier version without all the silly add-ons.

I also like playing as Indonesia rather than Holland.

shmmeee said:

Just watched this supposedly amazing advance that was demoed by NVIDIA earlier and I’ve got to be honest I think we’re hitting a wall with graphics. The environments look OK, but as soon as you add a person or some explosions it doesn’t look much different from PS4 games.

We need an advancement in animation, especially clothes and human skin rendering I think to get to the next level of photo realism. The very obviously videogame animation just slaps you right in uncanny valley.

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Unless you are watching these videos in 4k and over 200 frames you won't see all the details , especially the way youtibe compresses videos.

Try a channel called digital foundry

I use a 4070ti atm

Evo1883 said:

Unless you are watching these videos in 4k and over 200 frames you won't see all the details , especially the way youtibe compresses videos.

Try a channel called digital foundry

I use a 4070ti atm

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But that’s the point. We can’t even get photorealistic at low res because the animation is still videogamey and takes you out of it.

DT-R said:

God of War: Ragnarok. Been looking at that. After Days Gone I'm gonna do Cyberpunk 2077. If you want to do an open world game I highly recommend RDR2. Amazing story, gameplay, world and graphics. You won't regret it. I've played it in full 5 times now.

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Oh I did RDR2 the day it came out. Tried Cyberpunk when it first came out and didn’t like it but I hear it’s improved a lot since then.

Would really like to try No Man’s Sky but not a massive space fan.

I've been meaning to pick up Elden Ring again, it's one of those games where if I have an extended break I have no idea where I got up to

In the Steam winter sale, I picked up the EU4 bundle for £36 and Rome Total War Remastered for £8 and both games have been really good!

I've been playing nothing but Chivalry 2 for maybe 3 years straight