Computer games.


Started football manager there last Friday. And haven't been so addicted to a game in beards. And its been annoying me. Its been love/hate and I was trying to but my finger on it.

I think I know why now. Its cause if I but 5% of the investment I put into managing Wrexham into my actual life I would be somewhere in life.

Thinking about my youth prodigy snapping his ankle while at work obsessively. Living a fantasy.

Just a step away from going on the heroin.
 
Huyton Layne said:
Currently working through Tomb Raider 1. Big difference getting to choose when to save. Games these days seem so much easier, like my kids thought it mad when I missed a jump twice and had to do a whole sequence again to get back.
Updated graphics are pretty cool but I'm generally playing low res so I recognize areas.
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First time that T-Rex appeared out of nowhere is one of my favourite gaming memories
 

Just been browsing my catalogue, I have games there with 0 minutes played that I don't even remember buying or how I received them. I am installing one to have a look at Battlestar Galactica deadlock, I have Formula 1 2018 on zero minutes as aswell, not sure I can be bothered as I'm far too crap to be so precise.

I've just installed Oblivion again, going to try to play it with a community made controller option, If it works I will be spending a lot of time there, I loved it, might give Morrowind a go same way as well. Really looking forward to Skyblivion release this year, supposedly a complete remake of Oblivion using Skyrims engine.
 


I've currently got a Deck, which I can dock if I see fit, so I'm not sure why a console like this would be required. Valve do tend to know what they're doing, though. They'll know the market better than me. Of course, I might be swayed depending on specs/cost.
 
Gave DayZ a go the other day. Such a frustrating game. I never find a weapon and just get mauled!

Cant see me sticking this out which is annoying.
 
Replaying the Mass Effect Legendary Edition trilogy. Its easy to forget just how bloody good this series was. Going for 100% steam achievements, with a hardline renegade fem Shep for the first time, and Jennifer Hale is truly an excellent voice actress.

I see BioWare's writing team responsible for the god awful Veilguard have all been fired and the studio is beginning work on a new Mass Effect. I really hope it can live up to the original trilogy.
 
Zezti said:
Replaying the Mass Effect Legendary Edition trilogy. Its easy to forget just how bloody good this series was. Going for 100% steam achievements, with a hardline renegade fem Shep for the first time, and Jennifer Hale is truly an excellent voice actress.

I see BioWare's writing team responsible for the god awful Veilguard have all been fired and the studio is beginning work on a new Mass Effect. I really hope it can live up to the original trilogy.
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I mean most of the team responsible for Veilguard was working on the ME trilogy and Andromeda too. Chances are it won't live up to the original trilogy, much like how Andromeda didn't and how they already said that the storyline of the original trilogy is finished.

They've been working on a new ME for a while now, with no clear indication about direction other than bold statements by people who have now left or have been laid off.

I hope it's a good one like but...
 

Just as I get to a point of being half decent at Arma Reforger it gets spannered by ddos attacks, crashing the servers and making it pretty much unplayable. FFS.
 
Dylan said:
Isn't the actual game the least expensive part of the hobby? I know thats pretty much true for the flight simming world.
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Sure that is true (especially in my case), but it will still be a fair few hundred on top. So much DLC nowadays that the initial cost of a game can just be considered a deposit!

Speaking of flight sims, in my experience the same can be said of that. I bought MSFS24 and that was £130 to start with and I have a list of other planes yay long I want. At £25-30 a pop doesn't take much to tip that towards a semi decent hardware setup. That's before you think about getting other games like X plane and so on.

As you well know, it's just how far you take the hobby at the end of the day. If you have a force feedback yoke/stick and load cell rudders, a specific motion rig with all the flight panels, then the software is a grain of sand in the grand scheme of things. If you are running turtle beach/logitech equipment then the software is still a fair percentage of the total cost.
 
The binman chronicles said:
Sure that is true (especially in my case), but it will still be a fair few hundred on top. So much DLC nowadays that the initial cost of a game can just be considered a deposit!

Speaking of flight sims, in my experience the same can be said of that. I bought MSFS24 and that was £130 to start with and I have a list of other planes yay long I want. At £25-30 a pop doesn't take much to tip that towards a semi decent hardware setup. That's before you think about getting other games like X plane and so on.

As you well know, it's just how far you take the hobby at the end of the day. If you have a force feedback yoke/stick and load cell rudders, a specific motion rig with all the flight panels, then the software is a grain of sand in the grand scheme of things. If you are running turtle beach/logitech equipment then the software is still a fair percentage of the total cost.
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I've got a cheap thrustmaster hotas (the t.16000 and twcs though likely going to be upgrading to vkb evo and stecs at some point this year) and then for my work rig, a honeycomb alpha yoke, bravo throttle and Charlie pedals. And a couple of Quest 3's.
 

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