Teach my lazy arse about computer/console games

WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Right, preamble intro - I haven’t played comp or console games for around 20 years. Int Superstar Soccer, Goldeneye and Age of Empires are where I got off the bus. Maybe a match or two with a mate on his FIFA PS thing since then, disinterested at stupid (make that impossible) sidesteps and tricks and there was no flying leg-break tackle option to add insult to no injuries.

Pc graphics card is a bit crap, so, what’s the Dissensus take on console gaming? Kids haven’t gravitated toward this zone yet, thank fuck, so this all about Daddy staying sane. Can just sort of ‘park’ Brexit in the background, Covid too. Mrs Wash travels all over these god forsaken isles with work, so maybe you Skyrimmers could reach out to help out.

Blasting things, tedium, no golf, online multiplayers would be ideal. Games that test your thirst for violence, but make you work at it. Like an instrument, which I’ve also got half a plan for in gestation.

What you saying, gang. Don’t laugh.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
I'm very ambivalent about it. If you want something to get mindlessly absorbed in do you don't notice the days drift away its great. If you're unhappy or in some kind of pain it will distract you. Some of the games are really great but you always each a point where you're horrified and disgusted by the hours you've poured into,it. Your eyes are bleeding. You haven't slept in weeks.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
At the moment I'm playing assassins creed origins. I like the setting, ptomelaic Egypt. Not sure about the game yet. Not played one like this before.
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Ambivalence is a good term. It’s a distraction for winter when they’re all in bed. Coordinating face to face times with friends spread across the world is getting trickier by the day.

Ancient Egypt I can hang with. If the games don’t stick, can always flog whatever.
 
pattycakes_

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
if you wanna relive the old days - emulators are the way to go. so many games still hold up and have that replay factor. bomberman 5 on the snes is one of the most fun and addictive multiplayers ever. the entire release catalog is less than a GB to dl. all those old games you used to love for free. plus all the ones you never got. just need to buy a cheapo usb controller. old xbox ones work a treat. nintendo 64 works well too, and if your pc can handle it you can even play playstations, nintendo wii and whatnot. 16bit is where it's at for me tho
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
You want Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or something like it. You'll be shit at first (I was) but once you get the hang of the controls it's like crack. (It's the only game that's hooked me since I was a teenager.) But it's also very rewarding because you're constantly learning and refining skills.

Skyrim is amazing if you're willing to invest time in it. It's not action packed, it's more about the atmosphere of the world you're exploring. Red Dead Redemption 2 is also amazing, more action-packed with an even more detailed and immersive world than Skyrim (and unlike Skyrim it isn't dated). I've just started playing God of War 4 which is incredibly beautiful/well-designed and the combat is great too.

These are all on PS4, btw. You might want to wait for PS5 but OTOH the price of a PS4 is going to drop massively soon (if it hasn't already).

I'd recommend a Switch but you want violence. Switch has some of the best games on it but they're all superficially quite kiddy. Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros. All incredibly fun, inventive, imaginative games.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
luka said:
I'm very ambivalent about it. If you want something to get mindlessly absorbed in do you don't notice the days drift away its great. If you're unhappy or in some kind of pain it will distract you. Some of the games are really great but you always each a point where you're horrified and disgusted by the hours you've poured into,it. Your eyes are bleeding. You haven't slept in weeks.
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I think what got me hooked on COD is the multiplayer aspect. Even when I'm not playing with friends I'm still aware that I'm playing with other IRL people. Somehow that makes it feel less futile.
 
constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Borderlands and Bioshock have been favorites of mine, the former opting for a pulpy comic-like violence and story, the latter being more serious, atmospheric, creative in my opinion. The former is better for online multiplayer.
 
constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Bioshock's got a gothic art deco aesthetic, with the first two games set in an underwater city that has fallen into disarray. Similar to Fallout in that it is a futuristic game that split from our history in the middle of the twentieth century.

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constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I admire these games greatly, really had an impact on my taste as a kid, even now.

Also Death Stranding is one of my new favorites, but not a lot of action in that game, if that is what you're going for.
 
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borzoi

Well-known member
i like big open world historical/fantasy games bc they do a good job of immersing you in a world and getting you to experience these little quotidian moments of cresting a ridge on horseback at sunset or walking through a market. it helps me conceptualize history in a way that i feel like has a positive impact on my life, like i reread the odyssey and read the iliad while playing the ancient greece assassin's creed game, so i don't feel like it was purely time wasted. i'm playing the new one where you're a viking and it's cool as well.

i like strategy and management ones too, i had tons of fun with cities: skylines and planet coaster.

if you just want 6-8 hours of pure mindless blasting stuff executed perfectly the 2016 doom remake was killer.
 
constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Not sure what alt-reality means in this case, but Death Stranding does have its own detailed and painstook narrative thats largely in the background as you play. A lot of long distance walking, making deliveries, occasional run-ins with praeternatural beings.
 
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