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[SuperMappy]

Just finished Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons on 360

Brilliant!
A really great atmosphere, clever puzzles and what an (emotional) ending.
If you haven't played it, you should do. A real breath of fresh air.

Got it on steam a while ago, really enjoyed it. What got to me was the part (I wont spoil it) where the man plays the music box.

[MattyP]

Forza Horizon 2 (again - hopelessly addicted to this)

[Chirpychicken]

On top of my normal Destiny addiction I've been playing loads of Rocket League on PS4 - a very nice simple multiplayer game done well and free on PS Plus

For those who have not tried it Rocket League is either 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4 car football in an enclosed football pitch with banked sides (similar to the top gear version).

Its great fun

Ninja edit - its also on PC through Steam

[funkstar]

Tomb Raider (the new one.) I'm nearly done, and I find myself in complete agreement with RPS: this is best when the story doesn't get in your way and takes away control. Also, she gets a really rough ride. But when it is good, it is really good.

Until about 2008 I used to play FPSs as my main thing, and this reminded me why. But it also feels ridiculously overproduced, compared to how much fun I have with much 'smaller' games.

[chub]

I've just finished The Talos Principle, and now I think my brain is melting. Absolutely brilliant first-person 3D puzzle game, requiring brain power rather than dexterity. Each level is quite small, and requires collecting a sigil (a Tetris piece), but in your way are force field gates, sentry bots, turret guns, and even just plain walls.

Navigating through each level requires the correct placement and use of the tools provided, such as jamming devices, laser connectors, hexahedrons (cubes!), and other things that come later on. The easy levels are fine, the medium levels take some head scratching, and the hard levels often require some real mental gymnastics.

The story is heavy on philosophy, and told via text-based computer terminals you come across. The computer contains an AI program too, which starts asking you questions, making you wonder about your very existence. There is also a big booming voice in the sky trying to guide you towards immortality. So this game gives you things to ponder even when you're not solving the levels.

There's plenty of it, and it's taken me about 20 hours to finish. It really is an ingenious game, well written, visually appealing, and in some ways quite astonishing that it's made by the same people that made the crazy Serious Sam games!

[venusian]

So you'd recommend it? I've looked at it several times but the screen shots look like a 3D version of Deflektor with a bolted-on plot. But it's better than that?

[chub]

So you'd recommend it? I've looked at it several times but the screen shots look like a 3D version of Deflektor with a bolted-on plot. But it's better than that?

Well, I liked it, but your mileage may vary. Positioning lasers is not the only thing you do, but it is a big part of the game. I enjoyed the story, and it gives you reasons (and questions) why you're doing the puzzles, but it is optional. I got the game in the last Steam sale, so if you're not sure, you should probably wait until it's cheap again.

[The ghost of raids past]

I loved the Talos Principle right up to the point where you were given the power to record yourself. After that the puzzles involving that ability were just something my mind couldn't do.

[Whiteball]

Just been playing through some old arcade games on MAME

Found a few I'd never seen (or heard of) in the day and must say I'm enjoying myself rather more than maybe I should.

Space Dungeon by Taito is a great twin stick shooter with some nice ideas in it.
Bet Yak & Giles could do an awesome update to something like this

There's a few that I'm liking a lot.
Don't know if it's just because of some old nostalgia phase I seem to be going through though.
Colony 7
Pepper II
Chameleon

Some more I like the look of (from the graphics) but haven't actually tried the gameplay yet.
Radar Zone
Radical Radial
Rougien

[SuperMappy]

After playing my fill of Elite Dangerous and Minecraft I decided to go on a crusade to play all the previous PC games I liked, to one degree or another, before Fallout 4 comes out in about 4 months.

So far I have played:

Batman Arkham Asylum
Dead Space
Dead Space 2

I am currently going through Dead Space 3.

It's very strange to play all the Dead Space games in a row concerning all the differences between 1 and 2, especially how all the buttons have been remapped but I got quickly used to it. It is also strange how the weapons work between 2 and 3. I still mainly use the classic Plasma Cutter throughout all three.

I think it has been well established that EA does not like PC games, but I had a difficult time getting Dead Space 1 and 2 started. As I started to play DS1 I reached a point, right after Issac gets his plasma cutter, that I couldn't get through an open door. It turned out that, in the Steam version, you need to have Vsync on limiting the game to 30fps to be able to move on from that point. Apparently EA fixed that bug in the Origin version, but not in the Steam version. After defeating DS1 I loaded DS2 through Origin, the only version of the game I have, and as it ran some kind of DRM to verify my version, it constantly would time out and wouldn't let me play the game. In this situation you need to set the year of your PC's clock back to 2011 when you run the verifier and then after it approves your game you can turn the clock back to the current year.

After I defeat DS3, I will move on to the rest of my list which, so far, includes:

Arkham City and Origins, Alien Shooter 1 and 2, BioShock 1, 2, and Infinite, The Ball (Which is very strange, but fun IMHO), Duke Nukem Forever, Skyrim, Far Cry 1, 2, and 3, Quake 1, 2, 4, Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3, Complete Tomb Raider set, etc.........

I will try to play as many of these as i can till one month before Fallout 4 then I'll take two weeks to play 3 and then two weeks to play New Vegas.

and here we go............

[merman]

Beautiful Katamari (360) just popped up in the Namco sale, so I thought I would partake. Because that's how I roll.

[The ghost of raids past]

If you are wobbling about buying the Talos principle this may tip you over

http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/

66 % off as the weekend deal

[SuperMappy]

If you are wobbling about buying the Talos principle this may tip you over

http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/

66 % off as the weekend deal

This and Alien Isolation are two games I will be looking into for the Christmas sale this year.

[venusian]

Well I bought The Talos Principle last weekend. I can't decide if the plot around the puzzles is ridiculous or not. It's like a wriggling Agatha Christie novel in that there's nothing very complex in there but you still want to know how it'll end up and who did it. Probably the butler in the pantry.

I've done all the immediately available puzzles in worlds A and B, and I'm up to level 3 in the tower. I've just found an axe. Disappointingly I don't think it's going to let me thwack the terminals with in.

Worth the money at the sale price and it's giving my GPU a good workout.

[The ghost of raids past]

Well I bought The Talos Principle last weekend. I can't decide if the plot around the puzzles is ridiculous or not. It's like a wriggling Agatha Christie novel in that there's nothing very complex in there but you still want to know how it'll end up and who did it. Probably the butler in the pantry.

I've done all the immediately available puzzles in worlds A and B, and I'm up to level 3 in the tower. I've just found an axe. Disappointingly I don't think it's going to let me thwack the terminals with in.

Worth the money at the sale price and it's giving my GPU a good workout.

Axe Spoiler below concerns its use

Spoiler: show

The axe lets you smash the wooden planks across a couple of doors in each hub area.