Currently playing...

[SonnyJim]

Played a bit of multiplayer OpenTTD, which is a modern open source port of Chris Sawyers Transport Tycoon. Choo choo trains!

The UI still sucks a bit, but it's good for wiping off a few hours off the clock. Also been dipping into Portal 2 co-op every now and again, $10 on Steam or thereabouts. Absolutely solid game.

[MattyP]

Just started up Gris on the PC. Lovely abstract game not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing (in a Journey kind of way) but the sound and visuals are just lovely.

It's on Game Pass at the moment if anyone wants to have a tinker. Also on the Switch in the sales. Definitely worth a look if you want something to chill out to!

[Foozwah]

My current gaming is not so current...

Not sure what's happening with me at the moment think I'm tired of new releases.

Heheh, after reading that I thought about it more and realised the two "new" releases I'm looking forward to most on the Switch at present are Borderlands 1 (2009) and 2 (2012), coming end of next month.

Totally nostalgia-driven - played them both to death on the Mac years ago.

[Rhythm]

Still Rocksmith. An hour or two most days, divided between bass and guitar.

Tried installing Subnautica via Game Pass yesterday but fuck me if the app on PC isn't the worst thing I've ever used on a computer

[MattyP]

Guess MS get out clause is that game pass on PC is beta... Which it has been for the past 8 months or so...wonder if it will ever make it out?!

Personally never had any issues with it although maybe I've just been lucky! Still great value at £3.99 a month.... Gris is fantastic really enjoying it.....

[Rhythm]

Yeah, it's not great. Fiddled with it again this morning and finally got the game I wanted (Subnautica) downloaded though. Pleased to note that even though it's a Game Pass game it registers with Steam VR and so when I started it up it gave me a prompt asking whether I wanted to hook my headset up or not.

As for Game Pass itself, I got it because the kids wanted Live and it only cost a couple of quid extra to add Game Pass onto the mix. So far I've found very little to entertain me. I'm not bothered about the "AAA" stuff MS puts out (as a race sim fan I should like their Forza stuff but something about it has never sat right with me) and the indie content is massively duplicated by EA Origin Access Basic, which I already have.

Don't think I'll be carrying it on. The EA service is way cheaper (£20 per year) and the app is leap years ahead of MS's

[Rhythm]

Ooh, and Dirt Rally 2.0 hits PSN Plus today \o/

Was a huge fan of the first one but never did buy 2.0 (in protest about the way they changed/split the game) but for free I'll definitely be giving that a try. Online daily challenges, asymmetric race league stuff with a couple of race game fans...

[Chirpychicken]

Nioh 2 it is even better than the first a mix of diablo loot, Bloodborne style action, tough as a badgers @rse and includes weird animal ghosts (a goat and a half cow/half spider plus many more). All set in a historic Japanese setting.

[venusian]

Just finished Control, or at least the story missions, which means it must be pretty short and easy.

Nice atmosphere. Excellent presentation. Stupid story. Mixed bag of characters and cardboard cut-outs.

Every problem is solved by shooting things although it's quite a fun short of shooting (and sometimes disguised as throwing).

A couple of really big framerate issues on stock PS4 - gameplay breakingly, level restartingly bad - but work-roundable once you learn where not to look.

[MattyP]

Finally finished The Cave on the 360 today!

Bought the thing years ago but it's been stuck in the to-play pile forever. Not a bad game... platformer puzzler with old LucasArts type humour (it is crafted by Ron Gilbert afterall!).

Worth a look if fancy a bit of platform/puzzler fun.... The visuals hold up really well today too.

Next up finishing up on Old Mans Story which I've been playing on the PC. Some more platform puzzling fun. The puzzles though on this one are based around shifting the landscape around to make a path through for the avatar... interesting concept with some lovely visuals and music. Currently on GamePass if anyone wants to give it a try.

Other things I tried the other day is Elite Dangerous on the Oculus, Actually bought the game years ago but it kept resetting because I had a ropey internet connection. Checked back on the Frontier site and noticed I had an Occulus store code for the Deluxe version so thought I'd give it a try. The sense of being there in space is amazing (as I expected) the controls not so as I only have a keyboard, Xbox pad and mouse. Trying to find the appropriate key to press with the headset on is interesting. Will give it another shot when I get some time to configure all the controls and work out to play the thing again... last time I tried this was 2015! Managed to work out all the controls, buy cargo and even manually dock my ship! Usually ended with the game throwing me back to the title screen though before I could cash in on my cargo... happened a few times wasting an hour or so and never went back to it.

Other VR game I have on my play pile is Project CARS 2 - someone gifted me a code for this so looking forward to taking it out for a spin. Have a Logitech wheel so hoping this will be good!

[(o)(o)]

Quite pleased to get Dirt 2.0 as a freebie

Just started digging into the massive backlog. (Deliberately reduced my PS4 storage to 1GB so as not to be overwhelmed!)

Gone to the Rapture... (so it looks like I've only got around 5 years material to catch up on)

Still Rocksmith. An hour or two most days, divided between bass and guitar.

Fender are doing 3 months free online guitar tuition for anyone interested in the 'real deal'...

https://try.fender.com/play/playthrough/

[fog]

Just finished Control, or at least the story missions, which means it must be pretty short and easy.

Nice atmosphere. Excellent presentation. Stupid story. Mixed bag of characters and cardboard cut-outs.

Every problem is solved by shooting things although it's quite a fun short of shooting (and sometimes disguised as throwing).

A couple of really big framerate issues on stock PS4 - gameplay breakingly, level restartingly bad - but work-roundable once you learn where not to look.

I really enjoyed Control too, although the framerate issues made some of the boss fights unnecessarily frustrating.

It is the first current-gen game I've played where I thought it was just too taxing for the hardware and made me think about next-gen.

[Whiteball]

Enjoying Pac-Man Championship Edition 2

Currently free on Steam and other platforms too I believe.

[Rhythm]

Still Rocksmith. An hour or two most days, divided between bass and guitar.

Fender are doing 3 months free online guitar tuition for anyone interested in the 'real deal'...

https://try.fender.com/play/playthrough/

Cheers for that. Already a member of Fender Play and I do follow the lessons but Rocksmith is absolutely "the real thing" too. It's the one where you use a USB-equipped guitar lead to play actual guitar/bass into your PC/console.

It looks/feels like Guitar Hero but you're absolutely playing the real instrument. Like Guitar Hero they block out the instrument track so what you hear is your own actual input along with the FX they throw on to make sure your guitar sounds like the one in the original version. I should be practising scales, arpeggios, sweep picking etc, but instead I keep throwing on Rocksmith and basically playing guitar karaoke :-)

[PVB]

Been playing Outer Worlds on PS4. Getting near the end of the main story now.

Bought it after they did a second update on increasing the UI and subtitle text to make it readable to anyone with less than 20/20 vision.

Dunno about bog standard PS4, but on Pro it looks lush.

Looks like a cross between Bioshock and Borderlands.