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    How are the folks playing Zelda getting on? I'm still loving it, been busy at work so not much chance to play after hours for the last week - just about to face the boss of the Wind Temple

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    How are the folks playing Zelda getting on? I'm still loving it, been busy at work so not much chance to play after hours for the last week - just about to face the boss of the Wind Temple
    I've been wandering as I usually do, doing some missions but mostly exploring and activating towers. I've got to grips with the powers but forget to use Ascend. I now know why I didn't know how Ultrahand worked, I play with the HUD switched off so don't see most of the in-game control tips. Looking at the Parental Control app, I have played for 25h 5m since starting the game on Tuesday last week.

    Please don't post boss or mission spoilers. I'm still cagey about watching reviews and tips videos for fear of being spoiled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    How are the folks playing Zelda getting on? I'm still loving it, been busy at work so not much chance to play after hours for the last week - just about to face the boss of the Wind Temple
    Just wish they would make it available on the Xbox,

    Still playing Diablo 4, but its getting a bit boring now but wants to get to lvl 100 then will stop playing for a bit. It is a decent game, hopefully season 2 will be better.

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    I’ve been thinking about trying Elite Dangerous for years. A few weeks ago I saw it on the PS store for 5€. Why not now, I thought. I am hooked through and through and bought a joystick set with fixings for close to 200€. Thank god I’m not on PC, as I would’ve probably bought HOTAS stuff for thousands of euros. As luck would have it PS only really supports one decent flight controller. Turned out to be an expensive 5€. A great game nevertheless albeit you need to like grinding to appreciate it.

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    Just started Remnant 2 on PS5. Tricky but not as bad as I expected but I have got it on the easiest setting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack83 View Post
    Just started Remnant 2 on PS5. Tricky but not as bad as I expected but I have got it on the easiest setting!
    I was just about to post the same thing, downloaded it last year, it is really good. A good fun shooter with many hidden puzzles and story lines, only played a few hours but looking forward to getting into it more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Possu View Post
    I’ve been thinking about trying Elite Dangerous for years. A few weeks ago I saw it on the PS store for 5€. Why not now, I thought. I am hooked through and through and bought a joystick set with fixings for close to 200€. Thank god I’m not on PC, as I would’ve probably bought HOTAS stuff for thousands of euros. As luck would have it PS only really supports one decent flight controller. Turned out to be an expensive 5€. A great game nevertheless albeit you need to like grinding to appreciate it.
    Got this when it came out. Hardly played it. Then again hardly play on PC anymore.

    What happened to that other space game star something or other that was always in beta. Although you could buy ships for like £500

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    Quote Originally Posted by sprite1275 View Post
    Got this when it came out. Hardly played it. Then again hardly play on PC anymore.

    What happened to that other space game star something or other that was always in beta. Although you could buy ships for like £500
    Starfield? Released this week!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dougair View Post
    Starfield? Released this week!
    It gets pretty bad reviews, apart from the paid streamers saying its amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NikGixer750 View Post
    It gets pretty bad reviews, apart from the paid streamers saying its amazing.
    Not sure that is correct. Most critic reviews on Metacritic are positive. My friends playing it seem to love it too. But if you don’t like that type of Bethesda game I don’t see why you would like this either. There does seem to be a weird sect of PlayStation players who want to pan it just because it is not on their platform. Which is both dumb and sad. When someone goes to the lengths of creating a PC mod to add a Playstation studios splash screen to the startup to replace the Xbox one you know they need help 😀

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    Quote Originally Posted by NikGixer750 View Post
    It gets pretty bad reviews, apart from the paid streamers saying its amazing.

    Not sure I agree with this, not a single negative review from 65 'critic' reviews: https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/starfield

    I've sunk 30+ hours in already and whereas it has some flaws it's easily the best game I've played in some years. It won't suit everyone, but for me it's almost perfect, 9/10 personally. My complaint is the inability to transition from space/ground and transition from planet-to-planet. The space stuff just lacks a bit - and I agree that it's a bit of a "loading screen simulator". I can accept a mission, fast travel to my ship, transition to space, travel to star system, land on planet, exit ship and finally load into the building for the mission... 7 loading screens in maybe 1 minute. Once you accept and get passed that, it's incredible.

    With games like this, it's about the stories it creates. I jumped into a system and was met with quite a large pirate ship. I disabled it's engines and then boarded it. After dispatching the crew and ransacking the ship I found a tablet that indicated a secret base... After I'd sold the pirate ship (because I can), I followed the details on the tablet to the base and went on a several hour mission which unlocked some AMAZING goodies (trying to keep it spoilerless).

    2-3 hours spent on a random encounter, and every second was awesome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dougair View Post
    Starfield? Released this week!
    Just searched no it's star citizen. Still in development by the looks of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sprite1275 View Post
    Got this when it came out. Hardly played it. Then again hardly play on PC anymore.

    What happened to that other space game star something or other that was always in beta. Although you could buy ships for like £500
    Was one of the backers gor Elite Dangerous and have an unopened boxed edition somewhere with a personalized commander name and bits and pieces . Never played it despite having played Elite and Frontier to death till I was Elite on both.

    Starfield is fun , has the usual annoyances of your companions getting in the way during combat plus the inventory system is the worst ever seen in a bethesda game . Its Skyrim in space pretty much but its very similar to Mass Effect I found . The music is a bit of a let down after Skyrim and Oblivion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Possu View Post
    I’ve been thinking about trying Elite Dangerous for years. A few weeks ago I saw it on the PS store for 5€. Why not now, I thought. I am hooked through and through and bought a joystick set with fixings for close to 200€. Thank god I’m not on PC, as I would’ve probably bought HOTAS stuff for thousands of euros. As luck would have it PS only really supports one decent flight controller. Turned out to be an expensive 5€. A great game nevertheless albeit you need to like grinding to appreciate it.
    After reading this post I thought I would give it another go. I have it on PC VR and also have a Warthog Hotas that I bought for DCS.

    Steam says I have five hours of play time. I just started the game up and it is starting me from scratch!

    Just another example of 'why wont it just work' when compared to console gaming!

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    Baldur's Gate 3. Quite the departure from BG I & II but enjoyable in it's own right.

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    Remnant 2 update, played it way too much so far, a solid 20 + hours. It is great, a nice twist on a normal shooter style game with lots of puzzles and hidden areas. I also like that game has numerous storylines and you can get different zones, maps etc, on each play, you and your friend could start at the same time and have two totally different maps, story lines, quests etc. Can be annoying when an item you want isn't in your "game" but that can be solved with re-rolling adventure mode or finishing the campaign and starting again on a harder difficulty. Almost finished the first play, looking forward to starting again and getting a different story.

    Some of the things people figure out on this game are just nuts, they must data mine the game to find things out, or just spend hours reading all the lore and checking every detail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt London View Post
    After reading this post I thought I would give it another go. I have it on PC VR and also have a Warthog Hotas that I bought for DCS.

    Steam says I have five hours of play time. I just started the game up and it is starting me from scratch!

    Just another example of 'why wont it just work' when compared to console gaming!
    Easiness is what drew me away from PC to PlayStation in the first place. Now I’m thinking it might have been a mistake as I’m stuck with a low-tier HOTAS and no VR for Elite. Please do tell how you get on with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Possu View Post
    Easiness is what drew me away from PC to PlayStation in the first place. Now I’m thinking it might have been a mistake as I’m stuck with a low-tier HOTAS and no VR for Elite. Please do tell how you get on with it.
    After a couple of hours outside of the tutorials I am starting to realise the scale of the game. I don't know if I want to spend so much time on such an in depth game.

    As for HOTAS and VR I dont really have anything to contrast with as I have yet to play it in 2D. It's a bit tricky to work out wich HOTAS presses are needed at times because they are all given as numbers. I know them by their Warthog/DCS names like TMS, Coolie, Boat Switch etc.

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    Hi all. I am thinking of getting Cyberpunk 2077 after the latest update and dlc. I usually play such games like Deus Ex as stealthily as possible. I was wondering whether it's possible to ghost levels, side quests etc?

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