Video Games

Welcome to Cuphead, it gets harder.

Question to the audience, what power ups/weapons do you like to use in Cuphead?

About to start second half of the epilogue, am using the time to finish the bits I didn't do previously (legendary fish, animals, look for Rock Carvings as I didn't find any!).

There's so much weird hidden stuff in the map that I think you could have 100% and still find something new/odd for auto-sketching into the journal...

I'll replay the original and then when it goes on sale I'll pick it up.

Trying to get my head around RimWorld so my people survive a bit longer.

as soon as I finished the epilogue I stopped playing after a couple of hours and never came back to it. despite being a completionist the world becomes very boring quickly once the story goes away imo. the hunting pretty much obligates you to look up animal spawns online as things only appear in certain spots at certain times and circumstances and as you can buy all the satchels in the epilogue there wasn't any real point (plus they're pretty much obsolete by then anyways).

Was also disappointed when I saw how devoid of content a very large part of the map turned out to be too during the end game. having seen the full map early on I was expecting to have a lot more to do.

and replaying the missions resets all your stats and equipment to a super low level making them much harder and 10x less fun.

haven't even been mildly tempted to try online either after seeing how rockstar have gated all the interesting shit behind a ridiculous grind for gold bars or micro transactions and read how much griefing goes on.

i might replay one day as it's a great game but will do the more grindy tasks much earlier on in chapter 3 when the world is more alive.

This is exactly what I thought once the main story had been completed. I don't even feel compelled to finish the epilogue.

Depends entirely on the level tbh.

But mostly used pea shooter, roundabout, spreadshot, charge. Didn't use the lobber or chaser very often. Only really used energy beam super move. The other two made it harder for me.

Heart and smoke bomb were easily my most used charms. I relied quite heavily on twin hearts in the two final levels as they're so long. Especially the King Dice level jeeeez.

The epilogue actually makes for a nice bookend on the story and some of the missions are quite good, it's worth finishing.

it just falls off a cliff the second it's done.

Finished RDR2 last night.

Wound up feeling quite meh about the whole thing. The wonderful environment and ecosystem deserved a better game.

I had a ride round the whole of New Mexico as soon as it became available without insta-death. Good to see all the locations familiar from the previous game, but bizarre to include them almost completely unused.

Are the locations reserved for future multi-player only, like in GTA5 (iirc) perhaps?

I'm still working through RDR1.

Presumably, yeah. Doesn't seem like Rockstar have any interest in single-player DLC these days.

I get what you mean - I think a lot of the stuff like taxidermy, rock carvings, dinosaur bones, may well work best when it is a distraction/diversion/break from the story, as opposed to stuff remaining once you have finished the story... that said, a quick look online to investigate a few things I wondered about (ie, the 'Strange Man' from RDR1) showed me there's a few things I hadn't triggered (a Nite Folk stranger mission in Bayou Nwa/Bluewater Marsh, for example).

With hunting I have usually just chanced upon things rather than go looking for them specifically - only did 3 of 6 satchels as a result, only found 1 panther (2 *) and 1 bison (that early camp honor mission in Chapter 2) and still not gone to the Iguana island near Rhodes... Haven't used bait or anything as I just forget it exists. I suppose the huge leap in number of species (there were only 36 or something in RDR) doesn't make it easier...

I think I've sunk nearly 100 hours into it and only once or twice questioned whether I was making the best use of my time.

That's a bummer. Felt strange looking at a Mexican fort through binoculars knowing I couldn't go there...

Cuphead update: Hilda Berg is doing my fucking nut

Solution: Go to RDR2 and play poker for about 3 hours

Yeah she's a twat. All about getting to learn her clues as to when she's gonna try and fuck you. I actually found her to be one of the easier plane missions. Wait till Junkyard Jive... jeeez. Genuinely took me hours and hours. Coffee is a good charm for plane levels FYI :-)

Wally Warbles took me ages because I would get to the final part then die to the rotating things around him.
Beppy The Clown is still the one that's taken me the longest so far. Man that was frustrating.

frustrating

This is why i haven't got anywhere close to completing Cuphead.
There's something about Celeste that compels you to carry on but i just get massively pissed off with Cuphead and rage quit.

Maybe i should just be better at it...

@sumo Same. Fuck that guy so hard.

Yeah but @soul - the feeling of elation when completing a level. Oh my goodness. Sooo good.

Wise choice regarding Horizon: Zero Dawn, this game was thoroughly enjoyable and well paced. RDR2 cleanup/ 100% completion tasks are miserable after a while.

doom for little over a fiver.

not a fan of shooters and those rune trials can get fucked.

i'll plod on until spoderman hits the sales.

Anyone played Apex Legends yet?

2 x solo chicken dinners in a row.

Who wants to touch me?

Thoroughly enjoying watching a rerun of Limmy playing Farming Simulator 19 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/375298470

Forgot how much I hate Sherry in resident evil 2.

Considering buying a new, quality monitor for working at home, on Windows.
Probably a Dell P2415Q, which is 24" 4K IPS, and about £350.

I play the (increasingly) occasional game on current 1920 x 1080 screen, don't expect PC to run higher resolutions well. The GPU can output 4k OK though.

If I just set Windows to 1920 x 1080 when required, that would seem to just map 4 screen pixels to 1 game pixel, as 3840 x 2160 is exactly twice as many pixels in both directions.

Which seems neat... or is not that simple?

It is that simple.

Or most games you could just set the resolution in-game to 1920x1080 and it'll do that mapping itself, so it's even simpler