I had Covid a few weeks back and started playing Assassins Creed Origins again. I still have about 20 achievements to complete before I can put it to bed.

Soon I need to upgrade my computer, the 2080 Ti is bottlenecked by the i5 6500, which is limiting framerate in a number of newer games, especially AC: Odyssey, which i've now had for over a year and is pretty much unplayable with much stuttering.

I am also waiting for Stalker 2 to come out. That will be my next gaming obsession. I have spent untold numbers of hours in the first 3 games. I even reinstalled the first one around 9 months back and finished it on the hardest setting for old times sake, then finished CS and CoP after it. The only other games I have played more are Fallout 4 and Skyrim (3000+ hours in each).

Yea Shadows of Chernobyl I think its called is looking graphically sick. I am really looking forward to seeing how my rig can handle that one! So far I don't think I'm totally pushing my 3070 ti. Good news for you is it seems like GPU prices are dropping by a lot. Maybe summer will actually see MSRP!!

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Yea, this is gonna be sick!!

I don't think I will upgrade from this one for a while. If it wasn't CPU bottlenecked it would own pretty much everything. Also 1000 for a graphics card. Someone's having a laugh. My GTX 970 cost 250 brand new, even my 1070 didnt cost as much as they want for a 3070. Even if it is newer tech, the prices they want are taking the piss.

Alright boys ... I managed to pry myself away from Ark after a particularly vindictive wipe and have gotten into Star Citizen and Conan Exiles.  If anyone's down to play space cowboy or 1980's Arnold Schwarzenegger, lets team up!!!  

Damn, i've always been scared of getting into star citizen, i did happen to see LTT's coverage of it recently though.

I've been playing fortnite with friends lately... I know the reputation but its fun.

Make no mistake, SC is still currently jankier than Cyberpunk on a gen 1 Xbox (dont ask me how I know lol). But damn dude it is a VERY ambitious game ... entire worlds to explore, get out of your ship, on foot PVP, dog fighting, etc. I'd also always wanted to get into Eve Online but it's just so involved. SC is like a noob version with much better graphics.

I mean it does look pretty cool, but considering i have about 2 hours a week to game its prolly not for me ahahaha

Since I got into this I kind of stopped gaming.

Saying that, in the last week I have fired up Fallout 4 twice, but I grow bored of it easily. I know too much about it, how to game the system, level up quickly and as expected inside 5 hours of gameplay I am at Level 30 with two complete settlements with almost infinite resources, settlers armed like each one of them is in a military base and I am bored with it. I have about 20 achievements to complete to end my need to have it installed. Until they are done it will be irksome.

I often pick games that either involve co-op or have high difficulty. Co-op because they're great to play with friends, and difficult stuff because I enjoy pushing myself. Favorites include Risk of Rain 1 or 2, ZeroRanger, Pulsar, and Forts. Have been fiddling with Star Citizen, but I'm kinda waiting for medic gameplay to mature before I really dive in. (Yes, I always play the support class when it's a thing.)

For you Cyberpunk fans out there, def catch the series on Netflix ... WOW. Just. WOW.



While the evirons and canon are consistent with the game, the characters have nothing to do with the game. Although the boss of the group reminds me an awful lot of Jackie in the game, that's about where all the connections end.

Even if you don't play the game or are familiar with cyberpunk lore, it's in itself maybe one of the best animes I've ever watched (but I don't watch much anime aside from Voltron, Macross / Robotech, Gundam, and Dota are all I can think of.)

I'm really not much of a gamer as time is now very limited, I used to play MMORPGs mainly Champions Of Regnum and OpenTTD. 
But, I recently  had some unexpected free time and found Dwarf Fortress.... OMG what a rabbit hole that I got into. My drones are suffering from neglect, but finally my fortress is strong and my dwarfs are happy.

I'm the latest (sad) person to buy Liftoff. I don't know if I just got good at some point without realising it or maybe this game makes you better than you really are. I'm ripping through Hangar on Freestyle mode and I just do some insane tricks one after another along with gaps and just craziness, powerloop to something someone called a cobra flip (kinda start the powerloop, pull out before you loop and dive back down), to Matty through a crane gap, to many spins and a bunch more dives and gaps. i got 25000 points for it. But it's like my control just got better (in sim). I fly towards an obstacle and now avoid it instead of crashing. I throw my drone over an object and then blip throttle to cut momentum ready for a dive. This game knows how to stroke my ego just a little too well. Still a very good purchase.

I still play Freerider and Liftoff Micro. They have there place. Freerider is my favourite for Brett's crazy maps, some of which look like he had a few beers after watching Avatar and tried to create the Hallelujah Mountains. The results are very good and have a tendency to irk my vertigo at times. Liftoff Micro is best for proximity ripping. OSHA and Sealand offer fun. The other maps I need to level up some more to fly them.

I was kinda sceptical about using sims at the start, but Liftoff is more like a game than a sim. next i need to try a 6S battery on my 3" and see what sort of demon it becomes.

I have not been captivated by a game in quite a while. I'm a single dad so not much time to try new games either. Last one that I really liked was Darkest Dungeon and back in 2020 I spent all summer obsessively Playing Destiny 2. I used to game a lot and miss the feeling of playing a good game but sometimes I think that the industry has moved on to appease a younger demographic at the expense of making games for us older folks. My son loves Minecraft yet I just don't see the appeal of these sandbox games....they seem pointless. But for kids I think there are good things to be learned in these games too.

I have admittedly spent too much of my life gaming. I try to avoid playing games now as much as possible. I feel kind of guilty for how much time I've spent in Skyrim and Fallout over the years (thousands of hours) and when I worked it out, it came to over 6 months in those games alone When i totalled up CS and CS:S gaming across my steam accounts that came to about the same and I played 1.5 for about 2 years (before steam) with an average of around 6 hours spent on server most days (and 12+ on weekends). Overall I suspect I have spent at least three years of my life gaming, which is a crazy amount when you think about it.

Nowadays I don't think kids realise how much they spend playing. My nephew plays games like CoD and Titanfall and spends 5-6 hours playing per day, aged 14. One day he will look back at how much he gamed and probably be shocked.