Video Games

iirc SKellige has got some harder players yes, plus a gwent quest line which ends with a very useful card

Haven't played W3 in a few weeks now actually, been on fallout 4 pc after my ps4 disc fucked up. It looks so good on pc, the 60fps really makes a difference too, and obviously mods are amazing, I can even use my DS4 controlller natively so that muscle memory hasn't gone to waste

Dark Souls 3 is still all consuming for me.
First playthrough took me 66hours buy i missed 3 optional bosses.
30 odd hours into NG+ and I've done 2 of the missed bosses, I have Nameless King to do (not attempted yet) then Lothric and Lorian, before taking on Lord of Cinder to beat the 2nd run through.
Then onto NG++ because i am addicted.

Don't forget the dlc.

Not bothered with any of it yet, was going to buy the disc version with it bundled in if my gamesave will transfer over.
Is it any good?

Also, do you feel that Archdragon Peak was going to be DLC before being part of the game proper?
You get there via teleport, unique enemies not found anywhere else, 2 x bosses, self contained area, etc. Feels like they were going to sell an unlock code to release it, but decided against it.

The only thing I'm missing in new Zelda are statistics.
Playtime, shrines/koroks discovered, weapons destroyed, etc...

I'd say it's worth it - you can get the season pass for < £20. Fromsoft dlc has always been good. Ashes of Ariandel is pretty small (by their normal standards) but i'm hearing good things about Ringed city (haven't had a chance to play though it yet).

Re: Archdragon Peak - i don't think so. From have a history of hidden, self contained areas. Just look at the painted world in ds1. I guess their thinking is to encourage exploration and multiple play throughs etc

I've got stats on my loading screens on WiiU. Tells me I've done 24 shrines, found X seeds etc.

No playtime stat though.

Edit: Ha, found this online:

“every relevant objective that you fulfill will contribute approximately 0.08% to your overall completion rate.”

This means that for every shrine that players complete, each Korok seed that they collect, every boss that they manage to take down, and each location that players discover, they get just eight 100ths of a percent.

Yeah you right, forgot about the loading screen stats!

But still, should have proper stats somewhere.

Completion % appears after you complete the story.

Incredible video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-U96W89Z90

Guy has recreated pokemon red in Minecraft - the visualisation of the games programming and systems is ridiculous. It's great to hear the creator run through each of the parts of the coding and how they relate to the game.

Well worth watching in full even if you're not a minecraft or pokemon fan....

Anybody been checking out Rezzed today?

This was so much damn fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im0I_Vmc7nA

Wow amazing. Impressed. I'm still farming drake kills on lothric tower to get enough strength to beat the knights to get to the first boss. But hey ho. That's dark souls. It's all about taking part and dying again and again

The Shrine in Zelda where you gotta deliver the ice cube to the finish line.

From 66 Shrines I finished this one was most enjoyable and satisfying so far :)

I've done a little over 90 of them now.
I really love the test of strength ones - especially now i have a full set of level 2 ancient armour. I've just finished one where you had to use a Korok Leaf to blow platforms, suspended by balloons, to reach the goals etc. That was lots of fun.

One that stood out as the worst though, is the golf like one - having to use stasis and then hit a ball through some posts. Took me aaaages.

I now have 20 hearts, 2 full stamina wheels and the master sword as well as most armour sets & 2 divine beats. Probably about time to take on the on the other two and finish this thing.

It gets a little easier once you've done a couple of bosses (namely because of leveling and weapon upgrades)
What class are you?
If your a physical-weapon character, the Deep Battle Axe is a superb weapon until Abyss Watchers (or maybe further, i switched to the Dark Sword then and still use it)

Started 3rd playthrough (for the 3td ending and to challenge myself) it feels harder than Ng+ (obvious i know but NG+ was not that harder than NG)

I'm a knight playing with Broadsword with fire infusion. Good so far though I need to learn to roll around better

Dammit I am getting such an itch for the new zelda :-(

I haven't been paying it much, jetlag has made staying awake in front of a TV difficult so been playing the guitar instead... I was playing one night and woke up with the gamepad in my hand and a couple of those jelly monsters taking chunks out of me... Bit surreal...

I need to check my xbl messages more often, this has been sitting in my inbox since the 20th.

I'm not liking it as much as the in-game Gwent, but I've only played a few rounds and nothing online.

This is an absolutely awesome little game, definitely worth keeping an eye on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_K8xkFx70

Played an early version of that yesterday, it's good fun.
Same publishers as Frozen Synapse 2 which I'm really looking forward to and signed up to the beta

https://youtube.com/watch?v=01ZnHgvSpK8

Rezzed?

Didn't get a chance to play Frozen Synapse 2 but seeing it has made me remove the first one from my list of Steam games that I've yet to actually play... (Now sitting at 57% of my collection...)

Anyone here after a racing wheel setup?

PC / Xbox One compatible Logitech G920 - perfect condition, along with a Playseat Challenge (the foldaway one). Normal package price for those on Playseat website is £430.

How about £200 delivered in London?