What We Played #555 – The Quarry, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak & Redout 2

the quarry horror game

We all need a hero, right? Whether that’s Link turning up to battle Ganondorf or Jack Monroe fighting the political elite. We’re lucky enough to be surrounded by heroes in the gaming landscape, and perhaps we should take more of their examples to heart, particularly when it comes to talking to one another on Twitter. Genuinely, does it matter what box of silicon chips you have under the TV as long as you’re having fun with it?

I’ve been playing Redout 2, which is an insanely fast piece of pure future racing, as well as a ton of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. I’ve also snuck in some time with Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Biosyn Expansion, because dinosaurs are great.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 Biosyn Therizinosaurus

Gamoc has continued his playthrough of Metal Gear Solid V and still thinks it’s great. It also sparked a moment of introspection within him, saying “I realised that the main reason I like Ghost Recon Wildlands is because it’s a worse, squad-based version of MGSV, which is what prompted me to play MGSV after Wildlands a few weeks ago.”

Entering a very different type of wild land, Nic B has started playing Monster Hunter Rise from scratch on a newly built PC – installing Windows 11 is fun! He’s blitzing through the campaign so he’s all set for the imminent release of Sunbreak, which he’s incredibly excited about.

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak Citadel hub

Aran has dipped back into more of the Xbox One back catalogue. He played through ReCore, right up until the power of having to find a load of cores to unlock the final tower, whereupon he gave up on it – “I wasn’t that invested in the game,” he said. He’s also been playing through and enjoying Gears 4, with that game and Gears 5 the only ones he’s yet to finish.

Reuben started, became obsessed with, and finished Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, doing so thanks to Game Pass – “Cannot believe I didn’t jump on it immediately!” He’s also been playing more of the new Fortnite season and Disney Magical World 2 on Switch.

It’s been a busy Supermassive kind of week for Jim, who’s been juggling The Quarry for review and The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope for pleasure. “It’s been interesting to see the nuances between the two, despite both being derived from the same Until Dawn-shaped template,” he said. He’s also been training up with the Warden while preparing for For Honor Y6S2.

The Quarry Screenshot

It was a continuation of Cyberpunk 2077 and lots of Dead by Daylight for Nick P, but he plans to play The Quarry this weekend. Tuffcub also promises to play something other than Destiny 2 this weekend. We’ll find out if he did next week!

Steve celebrating getting a shiny new PS5 and the successful transfer of all the games and data from my PS4 by playing through Devil’s Third on the Wii U, because of course he did. Still, he did follow that up with better games, by rattling through Trek to Yomi, setting up Horizon Forbidden West for a future play, and getting a bit excited for playing The Quarry as… research for a conference paper on horror games and nostalgia, and totally not because he likes playing horror games. His kids, on the other hand, are getting to play a lot of Nickelodeon Battle on the new PS5.

Finally, Tef got back into Gran Turismo 7 to catch up on the recent menu books and grab the new cars, but he also booted up Forza Motorsport 7 to ponder what the next, unnumbered Forza game might be like. Alongside that, he checked out the F1 Life and Supercars of the upcoming F1 22, and played a bit of Poinpy, one of the new games on Netflix.

Right, that’s all of us, so now it’s your turn. What have you been playing?

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9 Comments

  1. No gaming this week at all, unfortunately, as COVID finally got me and forced me to stay in bed, doing my best no one else in my family gets it.

    • I had a second dose a few weeks ago, milder than first time. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

    • Hope you feel better soon. I’ve only had it once but that was more than enough!

      • Thank you both. I’m optimistic I’m through it soon now. But after a vaccination, and a booster, both with side effects, I just would’ve hoped to avoid this.

  2. After far too many attempts at the final boss in Elden Ring, I tried a different spirit ash and did it first time. It’s still a fun game with a great world, but that sort of thing demonstrates how it’s actually a terrible game at times. It’s fairly easy, and then randomly difficult. Or a thing that works throughout the entire game suddenly doesn’t work. Or maybe it does work in some cases. I was using Mimic Tear, to summon a copy of myself. Which probably does work on that last boss if you’ve been playing as just the right build to do it. Which I obviously wasn’t.

    Overall, a decent enough game, massively overrated by critics. A good 7/10. Would be higher if the difficulty wasn’t such a mess, it hadn’t been dragged out to take 90 hours, and the story was more than “We can get that Game of Thrones bloke to knock something up over a weekend”.

    Apart from that, plenty of Evil Dead. Which is still groovy, although I want the new map now.

    And because it had a free PS5 update, some Resident Evil 3. Not a huge improvement, graphically. But then it was pretty decent looking in the first place. But loads so quickly. And my PS4 version save seemed to go missing, so I had to start all over again. Oh well, it’s only a couple of hours long. And then the same several more times.

    Next week will be mostly trying to make room for all that PS+ stuff. Stupid tiny SSD and a bunch of stuff I’ve not played coming to PS+. That’s if I haven’t melted by then. This weather can just piss right off.

  3. I thought i needed a break from Elden Ring so i played a couple of hours of XCOM2 – but just like with my first playthrough attempt, the difficulty spiked drastically all of a sudden and i abandoned it again after a few hours.
    So back to Elden Ring and it’s satisfying combination of Discovery and Aaargh!

  4. Just lots of Lego Star Wars 3 for me this week!

    • *Clone Wars on PS3, to clarify.

  5. I watched a stream of The Quarry played by Kastaclysm (highly recommended if you’re looking for a pretty wholesome, fun streamer), which made me wanna play Until Dawn as it’s one of the PS5 freebies. Finished my first run with only two deaths, so will do a couple more playthroughs for the plat next week.

    I also did a twelve hour charity stream last Saturday. Never streamed before but played Cyberpunk and Resi 2 remake. Raised over £750 so went pretty well!

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