Personal Gaming Thread

[BoomerSooner]

Slowly starting to enjoy God of War. The father/son banter is great. Love the little puzzles littered everywhere. Still can't shake all that time playing Horizon, using the bow for everything, so I playing with Kratos an Axe Sniper.

[Jason]

I'm not able to play anything this week. My bathroom is being redone so my living room looks like a war zone with everything stored in there.

[BoomerSooner]

That is good for me. I need time off from CFB25 after the past few games.

[Jason]

I'm anxious to play my next game so I can take sole possession of first place.

[BoomerSooner]

PGA 2K25 announced

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/01/pga-tour-2k25-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-and-pc

Nice to see it will be current gen only. If it looks as good as EA's golf game I will be happy. They only added two new courses and removed two. Only two international courses is underwhelming. They get the US Open, British Open and PGA Championship. No Masters as it is exclusive to EA.

The big problem will be if custom courses are not allowed in career mode, as was the case in 2K23. What is the point of being able to customize events and not be able to use a giant pool of custom courses?

It's sad that the only thing that really excited me was you can play as the actor who played Scooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore.

A big FU to 2k for giving players who pay $100+ for premium editions SEVEN days early access. You know EA sees this and is like, hold my beer. Madden 26 will have TEN days early access.

Also, another FU to me as I love golf games and will be buying the $99 version to play it early.

[Jason]

There's no mention of them switching from Unity to a better engine, so I wouldn't count on any graphical improvements.

[Ted]

Currently smashing zombies in State of Decay 2 when not running trains. 

[BoomerSooner]

Finished God of War story. Still plan to do some of the side stuff, like defeating the last three Valkyries. The first one I fought was brutal and took like 30 tries as I was underpowered. Great story but the kid got on my nerves, especially after finding out what he was. I know that was the intention and it worked. A little too scripted on the fight with the boss throughout. Too many "press button" actions in said fights. Map and navigating were excessively slow to get around and too much backtracking. Someone on the dev team has a weird fetish with riding up and down lifts that move at a snails pace.

I actually enjoyed the puzzles and figuring out how to manipulate your way around areas more than the actual combat. Combat was fine and had a descent amount of enemies but was a step down from the combat in Horizon Forbidden West for me. A solid 8/10 that would have been a 9 if not for the backtracking and slow pace in areas.

Now starting GOW Ragnarok.

[BoomerSooner]

There's no mention of them switching from Unity to a better engine, so I wouldn't count on any graphical improvements.

Agreed. Unity has never been an engine to showcase graphics with one HUGE exception. Ori and the Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps. Both won awards for art design and direction.

[Jason]

There's no mention of them switching from Unity to a better engine, so I wouldn't count on any graphical improvements.

Agreed. Unity has never been an engine to showcase graphics with one HUGE exception. Ori and the Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps. Both won awards for art design and direction.

Yes, but they're animated games. They're not mimicking real life.

[BoomerSooner]

The employee who worked on GOW Ragnarock that designed the Sigil Puzzles (the pink arrows you set fire to areas to access areas) should be waterboarded. Then waterboarded some more. Then forced to drink a gallon of water right after.

It's so hit an miss, even when you learn afterwards that you can multiply 3 times in the same space, with no penalty, to make the circle rounder.

Starting to feel that there are three truly great character in the series. The two dwarven brothers, Brock and Sindri and Mimir the head with some of the best dialogue in the game.

[Jason]

Starting to feel that there are three truly great character in the series. The two dwarven brothers, Brock and Sindri and Mimir the head with some of the best dialogue in the game.

You would be correct with that statement.

[Brad Company]

GTA 6 targeting a solid 30fps, lolololol

[BoomerSooner]

Solid 30 fps! Also considering $100 price point for base game.

[BoomerSooner]

WTF Jason, could you not have given me a warning after my last GOW post?

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