Gaming The RedCafe General/Random Gaming Chat Thread

Organic Potatoes said:
The Caf crew spent a lot of hours on both. Valheim was well worth the time; the sense of exploration is great, especially when you run into a new danger and have to go on an epic journey to recover your stuff…

It can be grindy but there’s mods for that if you’re running solo.
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The night we were on the whiskey all night and first encountered the hornets was still one of the funniest times.

Sailing all that way on rafts because we lost multiple boats, past swamps and still not really knowing what kept killing us :lol:

Not to mention my voyage to see what was at the end of the world whilst you were all building our town...only to find out in the worst way.

And who could forget Camy's lighthouse? What an eyesore that thing was (and used up most of our resources!)
 
Redlambs said:
The night we were on the whiskey all night and first encountered the hornets was still one of the funniest times.

Sailing all that way on rafts because we lost multiple boats, past swamps and still not really knowing what kept killing us :lol:

Not to mention my voyage to see what was at the end of the world whilst you were all building our town...only to find out in the worst way.

And who could forget Camy's lighthouse? What an eyesore that thing was (and used up most of our resources!)
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I still remember wondering what this weird light coming through my windows was and then realizing the sun had risen. A voyage for the ages.
 
Organic Potatoes said:
The Caf crew spent a lot of hours on both. Valheim was well worth the time; the sense of exploration is great, especially when you run into a new danger and have to go on an epic journey to recover your stuff…

It can be grindy but there’s mods for that if you’re running solo.
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I'll grab it then and maybe wait for the 1.0 release before I play it. Cheers!
 
Badunk said:
I'll grab it then and maybe wait for the 1.0 release before I play it. Cheers!
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Don't read anything about it (it's not that hard to figure out tbh anyway) and see if you can get a group to play. It can be an absolutely infuriating, but brilliant game.


Organic Potatoes said:
I still remember wondering what this weird light coming through my windows was and then realizing the sun had risen. A voyage for the ages.
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We were wrecked but so determined to get that gear back. It was like a boat/raft graveyard by the time we finally figured out what to avoid :lol:

The only thing that took more hours is when some dumbarse (not naming names...he knows who he is) decided to lock half the town off with that security thing and I had to stand on a roof miles away and fire arrows pinpoint through a tiny window angle to break it. Also, everytime I play Valheim again and get Iron I can't help but worry about desync @RedSky ;)
 
The great iron desync! :lol:

Valheim is a great game, it's a very long game to get through these days. Building is enjoyable, exploration is fantastic. Some of the bosses are a little annoying. Well worth playing. One of the best games of the last decade imo.
 
RedSky said:
The great iron desync! :lol:

Valheim is a great game, it's a very long game to get through these days. Building is enjoyable, exploration is fantastic. Some of the bosses are a little annoying. Well worth playing. One of the best games of the last decade imo.
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Remember we couldn't stop laughing when he had the audacity to say it :lol: Funniest thing is, if you remember we never directly named who it was we were just joking about it (and mostly blaming hobs, because let's face it...hobs) and he just blurted that out. Stuck well into 7 days and Tarkov did that running joke!

Valheim is great, I played recently with Kaiden through the mistlands (and also again with heavy mods), but my one main criticism still remains: I don't like the progression of the decent gear for each biome is pretty much locked to that biome both in terms of access and what it's for. I think it wastes potential. When you add some small mods that allow you access to weaker versions of what comes later early game, it feels much more fun and varied.

I'd be down for a 1.0 run though. We also heavily benefitted from it being out during covid so we had such a big and fun group on a lot. Those were some brilliant fun gaming days! Everytime I watch a Tarkov vid, I can't stop myself actually laughing about bushgate @mazhar13 @hobbers that was so funny looking back, even though at the time Hobs made it so awkward :lol:
 
Redlambs said:
Remember we couldn't stop laughing when he had the audacity to say it :lol: Funniest thing is, if you remember we never directly named who it was we were just joking about it (and mostly blaming hobs, because let's face it...hobs) and he just blurted that out. Stuck well into 7 days and Tarkov did that running joke!

Valheim is great, I played recently with Kaiden through the mistlands (and also again with heavy mods), but my one main criticism still remains: I don't like the progression of the decent gear for each biome is pretty much locked to that biome both in terms of access and what it's for. I think it wastes potential. When you add some small mods that allow you access to weaker versions of what comes later early game, it feels much more fun and varied.

I'd be down for a 1.0 run though. We also heavily benefitted from it being out during covid so we had such a big and fun group on a lot. Those were some brilliant fun gaming days! Everytime I watch a Tarkov vid, I can't stop myself actually laughing about bushgate @mazhar13 @hobbers that was so funny looking back, even though at the time Hobs made it so awkward :lol:
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I need to get back into more varied gaming. So far, I'm just stuck playing 1 or 2 specific games. If possible, we should get the gang back together for one day/night.
 
mazhar13 said:
I need to get back into more varied gaming. So far, I'm just stuck playing 1 or 2 specific games. If possible, we should get the gang back together for one day/night.
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Yeah we should really find a time to run it back. For all the banter, it was a solid group.

What games are you currently on? You still grinding Rocket League?
 
mazhar13 said:
I need to get back into more varied gaming. So far, I'm just stuck playing 1 or 2 specific games. If possible, we should get the gang back together for one day/night.
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We should totally do some Phasmophobia, it's very different these days and would be quick rounds. But I'm game to try anything really.
 
Redlambs said:
Yeah we should really find a time to run it back. For all the banter, it was a solid group.

What games are you currently on? You still grinding Rocket League?
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Nah, that's on the back burner. I'm currently playing Forza Horizon 6 in an attempt to 100% it.
 
RedSky said:
We should totally do some Phasmophobia, it's very different these days and would be quick rounds. But I'm game to try anything really.
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I missed the Alan Wake crossover :( But yeah, it looks a lot different although to various degrees of interest.

Dirty Schwein said:
Sorry, wrong thread! I've done this way too many times!
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:lol: We've all been there!
 
Got the new PC set up. Everything running just below 80c under gaming so looks good.

Have played about 20 minutes of the Indiana Jones game and it seems it'll be a worldie.

Was well worth upgrading to a new machine.
 
The Cat said:
Got the new PC set up. Everything running just below 80c under gaming so looks good.

Have played about 20 minutes of the Indiana Jones game and it seems it'll be a worldie.

Was well worth upgrading to a new machine.
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Pleased for you.

It's a world of difference realising you can now play any game at proper framerates :lol:
 
Started Mina the Hollower.

It's good, but it is rock hard and unforgiving right from the get go. I think it's cool it comes with an old-school manual and there are no in-game tutorials, though.
 
After about 100 hours across a month and a half I've finally finished CrossCode, DLC included. Despite some frustrations along the road, I consider this game nothing short of a masterpiece. Easily one of the greatest indie games I've ever played, and quite possibly the best top-down action-rpg in general. The closest comparison I could think of is something like Ys Origin, which I enjoyed but doesn't have nearly as much depth as CrossCode.

There's so much going on in this game, so for the sake of brevity let's just say I thought the world design, lore, narrative, characters, combat, enemy design, itemisation, and puzzle design are all excellent. Every system has an enormous amount of depth, giving the player full control over whatever playstyle they prefer. NG+ also deserves a mention. I only briefly dabbled with it but there's a wealth of options to customise your run, and many of the them significantly change the way characters react to the protagonist, often in hilarious ways. I wasn't really planning on another playthrough but now I'm curious to see how far they took it.

There are a couple of missteps along the way, like the pacing, especially when it comes to the length of dungeons and the amount of puzzles in them, and some difficulty balancing issues, with frustrating difficulty spikes here and there. Some puzzles and bosses are a bit too obtuse. None of these flaws significantly impact my feelings on the game, but they might sour the experience for others. All in all, a phenomenal game that I would recommend to anyone with a passing interest in action-rpgs. As a bonus, for those with PS Plus, this was one of the monthly games on the lowest tier this month (a few weeks after I started playing, you're welcome).

To round out this post, a couple more games I've recently finished.
- Life is Strange True Colors: loved this one. I hated the second LiS but fortunately this felt like a return to form. A fantastic cast of characters, great protagonist, intriguing story with a central mystery and just lovely, cosy vibes all-round. I wish there was more of it.
- Lake: a resounding meh. I'd heard good things about it but the central loop of delivering mail is hampered by clunky animations and controls, while most characters are forgettable and poorly written. I don't get the praise at all. Skip.
 


Is there anything that Kushner cnut isn’t involved in?

Expect massive lay-offs in the next year considering the debt loaded onto EA. I expect Bioware to be shut within the next year.
 
Bojan11 said:


Is there anything that Kushner cnut isn’t involved in?

Expect massive lay-offs in the next year considering the debt loaded onto EA. I expect Bioware to be shut within the next year.
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They have sucked so much for the last decade, that it would be for the good.
 
Bojan11 said:


Is there anything that Kushner cnut isn’t involved in?

Expect massive lay-offs in the next year considering the debt loaded onto EA. I expect Bioware to be shut within the next year.
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There’s an abandoned military base island off the coast of Albania that he's currently trying to transform into a luxury resort. Despite the island now being home to many endangered species. Absolute cretin.
 
GaryLifo said:
I love that it looks like games I used to play on my Amiga in the early 90s.

The item that won me that run was pyromaniac. The explosion immunity is great, but also being healed by explosions is the real MVP there. Can't believe that was 4 years ago and I'm still playing :lol:
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Have to come back to this, finally beat Ultra Hard after about 100 tries(?) over the past few months. I got Gnawed Leaf + Circle of Protection, Mega Satan basically just beat itself why I was taking a shower and eating breakfast :lol: Very close to Dead God now, only need to complete Tainted Forgotten and Tainted Blue Baby.... They are such a slog.
 
DutchSerb said:
Have to come back to this, finally beat Ultra Hard after about 100 tries(?) over the past few months. I got Gnawed Leaf + Circle of Protection, Mega Satan basically just beat itself why I was taking a shower and eating breakfast :lol: Very close to Dead God now, only need to complete Tainted Forgotten and Tainted Blue Baby.... They are such a slog.
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You've done really well to do this so fast. Tainted Jacob was my final character and that nearly broke me.

Don't forget that Dead God has a bunch of additional things you need to do beyond getting all check marks on all characters. One of them is winning 5 daily runs in a row and another is completing a run without picking up any consumables at all... which is harder than it sounds due to the reflex of collecting keys, bombs and coins that you get over time.

Good luck anyway, you'll be joining a very small percentage of players.
 
DutchSerb said:
Have to come back to this, finally beat Ultra Hard after about 100 tries(?) over the past few months. I got Gnawed Leaf + Circle of Protection, Mega Satan basically just beat itself why I was taking a shower and eating breakfast :lol: Very close to Dead God now, only need to complete Tainted Forgotten and Tainted Blue Baby.... They are such a slog.
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This was my moment of glory, came after completing the five daily run wins. You don't have to do them over 5 days but you must get 5 wins in a row.

 
GaryLifo said:
You've done really well to do this so fast. Tainted Jacob was my final character and that nearly broke me.

Don't forget that Dead God has a bunch of additional things you need to do beyond getting all check marks on all characters. One of them is winning 5 daily runs in a row and another is completing a run without picking up any consumables at all... which is harder than it sounds due to the reflex of collecting keys, bombs and coins that you get over time.

Good luck anyway, you'll be joining a very small percentage of players.
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No items either or just consumables? That sounds rough :lol: I'll look into it. I have the dailies done already, quite enjoyed doing them.

GaryLifo said:
This was my moment of glory, came after completing the five daily run wins. You don't have to do them over 5 days but you must get 5 wins in a row.

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God, that pop up must have felt so good.
 
DutchSerb said:
No items either or just consumables? That sounds rough :lol: I'll look into it. I have the dailies done already, quite enjoyed doing them.



God, that pop up must have felt so good.
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You can pick up room and boss items. Edit: You can pick up keys, cards and pills, plus trinkets, but cannot pick up any hearts (red / soul / black, golden), coins or bombs. You must defeat Lamb. I failed on the Dark Chest one time by running into a key while trying to dodge a shot, but then managed to do it next run. general advice is to either do it as the lost (cannot pick up red hearts) or as azazel (flying and doesn't start with red hearts).

It may sound sad, but in my 45 years of gaming, it probably did feel like the best 'meaningless' acheivement I ever had getting Dead God, mainly because I did it completely legit on PS5 where you cannot cheat with the command console like some people do on PC. The only other thing that comes close to the feeling of satisfaction was completing the Vault of Glass and King's Fall raids in Destiny 1 and neither of those took 5 years and almost 1500 hours!
 
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GaryLifo said:
You can pick up room and boss items. Edit: You can pick up keys, cards and pills, plus trinkets, but cannot pick up any hearts (red / soul / black, golden), coins or bombs. You must defeat Lamb. I failed on the Dark Chest one time by running into a key while trying to dodge a shot, but then managed to do it next run. general advice is to either do it as the lost (cannot pick up red hearts) or as azazel (flying and doesn't start with red hearts).

It may sound sad, but in my 45 years of gaming, it probably did feel like the best 'meaningless' acheivement I ever had getting Dead God, mainly because I did it completely legit on PS5 where you cannot cheat with the command console like some people do on PC. The only other thing that comes close to the feeling of satisfaction was completing the Vault of Glass and King's Fall raids in Destiny 1 and neither of those took 5 years and almost 1500 hours!
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It doesn't, there's a lot of fun in completing a game with a tough learning curve 100%, especially if that game is designed in a way that pushes you to do so. I feel the same way about Europa Universalis 4 or an even better example, Hollow Knight.

I do think TBOI is very unique in that way because even after you're "done", it doesn't feel that way.
 
Ainu said:
After about 100 hours across a month and a half I've finally finished CrossCode, DLC included. Despite some frustrations along the road, I consider this game nothing short of a masterpiece. Easily one of the greatest indie games I've ever played, and quite possibly the best top-down action-rpg in general. The closest comparison I could think of is something like Ys Origin, which I enjoyed but doesn't have nearly as much depth as CrossCode.

There's so much going on in this game, so for the sake of brevity let's just say I thought the world design, lore, narrative, characters, combat, enemy design, itemisation, and puzzle design are all excellent. Every system has an enormous amount of depth, giving the player full control over whatever playstyle they prefer. NG+ also deserves a mention. I only briefly dabbled with it but there's a wealth of options to customise your run, and many of the them significantly change the way characters react to the protagonist, often in hilarious ways. I wasn't really planning on another playthrough but now I'm curious to see how far they took it.

There are a couple of missteps along the way, like the pacing, especially when it comes to the length of dungeons and the amount of puzzles in them, and some difficulty balancing issues, with frustrating difficulty spikes here and there. Some puzzles and bosses are a bit too obtuse. None of these flaws significantly impact my feelings on the game, but they might sour the experience for others. All in all, a phenomenal game that I would recommend to anyone with a passing interest in action-rpgs. As a bonus, for those with PS Plus, this was one of the monthly games on the lowest tier this month (a few weeks after I started playing, you're welcome).

To round out this post, a couple more games I've recently finished.
- Life is Strange True Colors: loved this one. I hated the second LiS but fortunately this felt like a return to form. A fantastic cast of characters, great protagonist, intriguing story with a central mystery and just lovely, cosy vibes all-round. I wish there was more of it.
- Lake: a resounding meh. I'd heard good things about it but the central loop of delivering mail is hampered by clunky animations and controls, while most characters are forgettable and poorly written. I don't get the praise at all. Skip.
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Just want to give kudos to the Crosscode recoomendation. What an indie gem. It's been a long time since I played something that had me going "just one more room..." at 1am.
 
I'm getting further into Mina the Hollower and it really is wonderful. it's a shame the obscenely front-loaded difficulty will probably turn a lot of people off as it becomes much more manageable after the 5-6 hour mark.
 
I bought Signalis and FF VII rebirth. I want to be positive and give Rebirth another chance and try and judge it on its own merits.

Signalis is pretty cool so far but the plot is not drawing me in.
 
Art said:
The feck kind of a post is this? These are 100s of people's livelihoods.
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Job losses are always sad, but that doesn't change the reality. They've made absolute garbage for a decade that has lost tens of millions if not hundreds. Results matter at some point. It'd also be just desserts for actively dismissing the fanbase that loved their games in favour of whoever Veilguard was targeting as an audience.
 
Irwin99 said:
I bought Signalis and FF VII rebirth. I want to be positive and give Rebirth another chance and try and judge it on its own merits.

Signalis is pretty cool so far but the plot is not drawing me in.
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Couldn't tell you a single thing about Signalis' plot even though I finished it. Space lesbians or something. The gameplay and atmosphere are the best thing about it.

What made you bounce off rebirth? I'm still working up the motivation to continue the first game.
 
Vidyoyo said:
Couldn't tell you a single thing about Signalis' plot even though I finished it. Space lesbians or something. The gameplay and atmosphere are the best thing about it.

What made you bounce off rebirth? I'm still working up the motivation to continue the first game.
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I uninstalled Signalis after what I THOUGHT was the ending but if you’ve played it then, well, you know. Had to reinstall it after learning the truth online, and then I got mad and deleted it again because I was fed up at that point :lol: . Kudos to the game for doing that though, never seen that happen before.

The bloat, plot changes and design choices for Rebith put me off for a long time. I’m playing it now and trying to judge on its own merits. I am enjoying it, though I still stand by my criticisms. The Mythril Mines for instance, was three/four screens in the OG, in Rebirth it’s an hour and two boss fights.
 
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