We’re back again as this week nears its end to tell you about what we’ve been playing and how we’ve been getting along. We do this in a little piece called What We Played, and we always love to wrap it up by hearing all of your stories and gaming exploits in the comments. Let’s begin, shall we?
Dave gets us off on the right foot this week with a positive review of Armello. He said he was surprised at how good it ended up being, though he was “hampered by bad RNG” when he tried to play online with Dom (it was probably just Dom’s lag switch or something). Next he reviewed Runbow on Wii U, and he says it’s another multiplayer focused game that does interesting things with the controllers. He wrapped up with a bit of his Fallout Shelter, which now contains a Nuka Cola and robot factory. Hopefully he’s trained the robots to deliver the Nuka Cola.
Aran has been playing more Mad Max and you can expect to see his review very soon. He says it’s a very large game, but it does tend to get a little repetitive. As if that wasn’t enough mayhem to fill his week, he’s also been playing and reviewing Zombie Vikings. He called it a “fun beat ’em up” but said you miss out on a lot if you don’t play with friends.
Tuffcub spent his week plowing through his backlog, which included Prince of Persia, Kingdom Hearts 1.5, and a PS2 game called 1945. He also finished Entwined on Vita, and said that it’s a “great little game with a simple concept and some lovely graphics.” Tuffcub also did something rather interesting this week, he got a TSA tattoo on his arm. There are other elements involved in the tattoo but I’ll let him explain and show it off below.
Owwwww! Actually it didn’t hurt that much apart from where the TSA logo was tattooed on; it’s right on a sensitive bit of skin. In case you can’t spot it, it’s on the left side, but it turns out it’s a bit hard to take a picture of your own back. It looks a bit odd at the moment as it’s still all gunky and not healed up, but I love it, even if it’s much larger than originally planned. It was going to take two hours originally, but took almost seven in the end and goes right over my shoulder and down my arm.
Mark was among the War Boys crowd this week as he played a bit more Mad Max. He complained slightly about the car handling last week, but says that now he’s tossed some upgrades on his Magnum Opus, things have gotten a lot better on that front and he’s thoroughly enjoying the experience.
It might seem like Stefan had a light week just playing one game, but that game was Metal Gear Solid V, and a game save bug forced him to go back through the entire thing for his review, which just went live yesterday. He gave it a smashing 9 out of 10 score, and said its outstanding open world gameplay is worth the easiest of recommendations.
Dom began his week with Forza 6, which he reviewed and rewarded with the highest score possible. He also covered Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on Vita, saying that “its port to Vita is less than ideal, though you can at least experience the game on a handheld if you have no other choice.” He’s then wrapped up his week with The Golf Club Collector’s Edition, more Animal Crossing: Happy Homes Designer, and LEGO Jurassic World with his son.
As for me, I’ve played only Metal Gear Solid V this week, and I’ve managed over 30 hours since it launched. That sounds like a lot, and since I don’t think I’m even halfway through the story yet, I can easily say it’s one of the biggest games I’ve played this year. I did also try Killing Floor 2 while it was free on Steam, but I only played enough to realize that it’s exactly my kind of game and I should just go ahead and buy it.
So there’s that, another week of video games in the books. Now we bring things to a close by kindly asking all you fellow TSAers out there to chime in with your gaming stories from the week. Give us the low down on what you’ve accomplished, and what your ‘now playing’ list looks like. Go ahead, we’ll just wait here.
Youles
100%’d MGSV Gound Zeroes and have made a reasonable start on MGSV TPP. Apart from Snake being too quiet, I am very much enjoying it.
Some more Until Dawn with the wife. We managed to kill 2 people on Tuesday’s session. Who knows how many we’ll manage to have killed over the weekend! Really, really enjoying it.
A few runs of CoD Ghost’ Extinction, specifically the Exodus DLC. Finished a 4-player Hardcore run (or was that last week?), and also a regular Completionist run to help McProley and commissar_dave get a few trophies they needed.
An hour of Teslagrad that we got free with PS+. Some bits are surprisingly tricky!
Some GTA5 heists on PS3 to help my brother with some trophies.
double-o-dave
Kings Quest (chapter 1) on the PS4 – Impressive! It’s a lot better than I thought it would be.
I can see why TSA gave it a 9/10 and as long as the rest of the chapters stand up to the first, I’ll definitely be buying the season pass.
Started the game at about 6pm when I got home from work ’til about midnight and I still haven’t completed it. The visuals are stunning (all the textures look hand painted), the sound & voice actors are great (Christopher Lloyd / Wallace Shawn) & some of the dialogue is actually pretty dam funny – It’s kept me entertained anyway, which is pretty difficult with games nowadays. It also keeps the old school feel with how you select objects to interact with various people / things.
They’ve obviously put a hell of a lot of time & effort into this and it shows. In my eyes it stands up to a lot of the AAA titles which makes it a bargain for £8, especially when you compare it to some of the ‘crappy pixelated’ games (vote Team Tuffcub) which cost around half that.
Then a bit of BF4, HellDivers & Driveclub trying to unlock the 3rd Elite Driver Level – Can I beat the lap time??? Can I hell! Over 2 seconds off.
Carrot381
Finished the main story mode of Lego Jurassic Park. Now doing the free plays to try and grab all the collectables. Nothing else this week.
R1MJAW
Completed Xeodrifter, enjoyable little game.
Went back to Grow Home and completed that 100%.
Bought Leo’s Fortune last night, finished it this afternoon (still need to go back and get 3 stars on each level though), fun platformer.
Bits of Minecraft, Binding of Isaac and Diablo 3.
Spent most of my week grinding XP in Borderlands Pre Sequel to get my Lawbringer up to level 70 (for no reason in particular).
Picked up Mad Max whilst out shopping yesterday, will probably make a start on it tonight.
Eldave0
I know I’m a bit late to the party but I picked up Bloodborne this week. Absolutely cracking game. Defeated the Cleric Beast on Wednesday but am struggling with Father G at the moment. Love the gameplay however and am looking forward to playing some more over the weekend.
double-o-dave
I remember having problems with Father G. I think I copied someone one youtube & just continuously ran in circles around a long gravestone (whatever they’re called) hitting him until I finally managed to beat him.
TSBonyman
There is a music box which you can employ to make him vulnerable for a few moments at a time but Father G is one of the most difficult bosses, don’t be shy about summoning some co-op assistance for that fight.
Eldave0
Thanks for the tips :) Found the Music Box last night but had to go out before I could try the boss fight again.
Might spend some time levelling up before attempting the fight again (think I’m level 19 at the moment).
Avenger
Not much this week. Got back online so I’ve played some Extinction and Ghosts multiplayer, with a bit of Splinter Cell. Hoping to play Exodus on Hardcore at the weekend, as normal extinction has become far too easy with most of the teeth upgrades. I’ll try the crazy SRT cars in GT6, and the WRX update in DiRT Rally as well.
hornet1990
Just The Witcher 3 this week. Made it up to Novigrad and met Triss and … ughhh, what an awful accent! The voice acting isn’t the greatest in the game anyway but that was just so jaring and annoying I was almost tempted to switch it to any other language and use subtitles!
Fortunately I’ve not spent too much time around her, but at the moment I’m leaning heavily towards team Yen on that alone, despite how crappy she is towards Geralt!
Andrewww
I actually quite liked Triss, but was sort of playing on both teams up to now, can’t really lead to a happy ending anyway… ;o)
Dave Irwin
I don’t think that’s how lag switchers work Matt!
Dominic Leighton
RNG switchers on the other hand…
DividSmythe
I got the platinum out of The Order 1886 on Sunday but after that I’ve been quite busy. So I’ve just jumped on GTA V single player when I had chance. Also a quick go on Fifa 16 demo last night which I wasn’t impressed with.
TSBonyman
I picked up the season pass for Driveclub and i’m slightly overwhelmed by the amount of events i have to choose from now – so instead i spent most of the time playing online as it was a double fame weekend. I haven’t played it regularly for a while due to other games but damn if it doesn’t still feel fresh and exciting. Love it.
Also, another chunk of Witcher 3, once again suffering from a horrible bug but thankfully it turned out that it was the system software beta which was causing it. A newer version of the beta was released and everything is hunky-dory again now. About to move on to Novigrad but will probably sweep up a few last side missions before moving on.
I also played the HyperVoid demo, a slick-looking HD-neon update of the classic old Tempest-style gameplay.
And i’ve just bought Leo’s Fortune which i’m about to jump into right now..
TSBonyman
Btw , it’s double fame this weekend for club cars.