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Currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn on PC. Loving it so far, although some of the side quests do feel like a grind at times. The story is solid and pacing is also good. At times I do feel like I'm having to kill way too many machines, but overall the experience is quite enjoyable. Around 60% done, I think. Not aiming for 100% completion, so I would say more than two-thirds done.

Next up is Plague Tale Requiem. Loved the first game and can't wait to play this one, especially after the great reviews it received.
 
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Finally completed Stray last night, def one of the best games this year.
Now waiting for Pentiment and Somerville to hit Gamepass next week.

t3chg33k said:
Former didn't have a great final act but the latter was one of the best puzzle platformers in recent times.
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You should def check out Somerville, it comes out next week and is made by ex Playdead devs.

 
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Completed A Plague Tale: Requiem.

Stunning visuals and a really good story driven game. Enjoyed this more than the first part. Some of the game scenes will remain on my mind for a long time to come.
 
God of War 1, 2. I used to visit a game parlour for it when I was a teenager but could never complete the story because of the time limitations and deleted/overwritten saved data by other players on ps2 mmc. I finally completed both using ps2 emulator when I got my first desktop pc with amd sempron cpu years ago. It was really slow at high quality but ran just fine at lower resolutions.

God of War: Chains of Olympus. Using emulator.
God of War: Ghost of Sparta. Using emulator.
God of War: Betrayal. Ah! This one. I used to play it on my Nokia 2700 Classic phone.

I really like the God of War series a lot and will surely continue the legacy after I get good, capable hardware for it.

Crazy frog racer. Ring ding ding ding ding bem bem bom borumba....

Ben Ten games. Completed using an emulator. I always wished to have an Omnitrix when I was a kid o_O . Used to watch each and every episode of the Ben 10 anime, which aired on Cartoon Network every night at 8 or 8:30 p.m. My grandfather always got angry with me as I didn't let him watch Ramayana/Mahabharat which aired at the same time.

Far Cry 2 and 3. Completed both of them on my potato pc at a mere 15-20 fps in lowest quality possible. Just awesome games.

Devil may cry 3. Died countless times while defeating the bosses.

Resident Evil 4. That chainsaw zombie was really terrifying.

Dead trigger 1. Completed it on my android phone.

NFS The Run. Driving and blowing the cars at very high speeds while using manual transmission was real fun. Completed the story on normal difficulty level and auto transmission.

NFS Most wanted on my android phone. It really has awesome graphics and top-notch controls.

Mafia II. Really liked the story.

GTA Vice City, San Andreas. Used to roam around the city with exotic cars, planes, trains, etc., using cheat codes of course. Shooting random npcs, blowing up ambulances and police cars using rocket launchers, and getting killed after earning that 6-star wanted rating. It really was fun. Never completed the story though.

Little Nightmares. Really chilling experience.

A Boy and His Blob. Really good game.

Maybe some more, which is not in my mind right now.

Currently, I do Hill Climb Racing 2 and some Candy Crush. :laughing:
 
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Just finished Horizon Zero Dawn. Loved the game, but the ending was a bit underwhelming.

Installed Plague Tale Requiem via Game Pass, haven't started yet. Fairly excited, given the reviews.
 
Completed Control (PC).

Played till late last night and completed it. The ending levels were very taxing with waves of enemies being spawned over and over. Made the combat very tedious. The story is a mad man's tale and think it challenged my sanity.

The best part of the game for me was during the later stages of the game where you have to...

go through a big room puzzle. Walls, doors collapse, floors shift and it's very artistic and well designed. Also, a track by the band Poets of the Fall plays during this puzzle level which makes it even more amazing and trippy!

Not playing the 2 DLCs. Think I have had enough of this game.
 
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Black_Hawk said:
Completed Control (PC).

Played till late last night and completed it. The ending levels were very taxing with waves of enemies being spawned over and over. Made the combat very tedious. The story is a mad man's tale and think it challenged my sanity.

The best part of the game for me was during the later stages of the game where you have to...

go through a big room puzzle. Walls, doors collapse, floors shift and it's very artistic and well designed. Also, a track by the band Poets of the Fall plays during this puzzle level which makes it even more amazing and trippy!

Not playing the 2 DLCs. Think I have had enough of this game.
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That was quick brother, what is play time and on what difficulty setting?
 
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Jasku said:
That was quick brother, what is play time and on what difficulty setting?
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Control does not have a difficulty setting. It's a hard game, riddled with bullet sponge enemies. And the game spawns a sh!tload of them in the later levels!! Becomes overwhelming at times.

I played a lot, long nights... typical winter game routine for me. Thus completed it fast. This game, along with side missions is clocked at 11-15 hours.
 
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Control does not have a difficulty setting.
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It very much has a difficulty setting. In fact, a very granular settings menu where you can tweak individual aspects of combat.

I tried playing it couple months back, was too difficult for me (I'm new to gaming), tried tweaking the settings but wasn't much help. Got annoyed and dropped.
 
I am playing Alan Wake remastered these days, I played the original version a few years back. I love the atmosphere and feel of this game. The combat is scary but not frustrating at all. Any other games like this ?
 
powervgx said:
I am playing Alan Wake remastered these days, I played the original version a few years back. I love the atmosphere and feel of this game. The combat is scary but not frustrating at all. Any other games like this ?
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Try Murdered: Soul Suspect, it's a B tier game but I actually ended up liking it even though certain elements felt campy.
 
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gourav said:
It very much has a difficulty setting. In fact, a very granular settings menu where you can tweak individual aspects of combat.

I tried playing it couple months back, was too difficult for me (I'm new to gaming), tried tweaking the settings but wasn't much help. Got annoyed and dropped.
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That is through in-game settings from the Options Menu from which you can even enable a mode where you take damage but can't die. It allows target locking as well.

What I meant when I said the game doesn't come with a difficulty setting is that the game doesn't present you with a gold standard Difficulty mode of Easy, Normal, Hard, Insane as you start a New Game.
 
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