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ForkinGreat

Knows his Brassica oleracea
Star Wars - Jedi Fallen Order is pretty good fun.
Loved that game. especially the combat, in that it wasn't just mashing the attack button. Moving the mouse or controller stick around also allowed some variation in attacking moves, IIRC
 

wesdadude

ウェスド アドゥーデ
I am loving Dirt 4 on the XB at the moment..I don't care how poorly the MK2 Escort handles compared to all the others, its in my blood.
so much fun.
I've been playing a bit of that on the PC. Doing the joyride challenges where you have to drive through stuff. Super fun but frustrating when it doesn't like your shift and drops you into neutral.
 

droenn

Fat Man's XC President
I think @Ultra Lord was going on about Hollow Knight - but its only $9 at the moment on Steam. Its some kinda of side-scrolly adventure beat-em-up thing?
 

sbm

Likes Bikes
I am loving Dirt 4 on the XB at the moment..I don't care how poorly the MK2 Escort handles compared to all the others, its in my blood.
so much fun.
I've been playing a bit of that on the PC. Doing the joyride challenges where you have to drive through stuff. Super fun but frustrating when it doesn't like your shift and drops you into neutral.
I installed Dirt Rally 2 on Xbox, it's great. Genuinely engaging and some of the handling e.g. the way braking feels is fantastic. Pretty full on when you're ten minutes into a stage, you get square left confused with square right, understeer into a wall, smash the headlights, then frantically shift into reverse, back out, slam it into 1st, and feel your way in the dark through the rest of the stage at dusk to the next service area.
 

ForkinGreat

Knows his Brassica oleracea
I installed Dirt Rally 2 on Xbox, it's great. Genuinely engaging and some of the handling e.g. the way braking feels is fantastic. Pretty full on when you're ten minutes into a stage, you get square left confused with square right, understeer into a wall, smash the headlights, then frantically shift into reverse, back out, slam it into 1st, and feel your way in the dark through the rest of the stage at dusk to the next service area.
apparently the condition of the road on a stage is a variable dynamic as well.
 

wesdadude

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For the record, Dirt and Dirt Rally are different series of games like Forza Motorsport and Horizon. Rally is designed to be more realistic but apparently doesn't come close enough for the purists. They're still plenty of fun but I haven't put enough hours in to be any fast. At the moment I'm mainly trying to find a few seconds around Brands Hatch Indy in a Clio Cup on Project Cars 2.

For those who can't wait for the Pro Skater remasters there's THUG Pro which lets you play Underground 2 (and many levels from other games) in HD on the PC.
 

Milpool

Have knuckles, will drag
I still just put hours into Skate 3 for my fix. Skater XL coming out around the same time as THPS looks veeeeeery competitive to the Skate market.

I just want to skate the school with No Cigar playing.
 

wesdadude

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I've been gaming a fair bit recently. GTA V was free on Epic so I've been playing with some mates.

I recently picked up an Xbox One controller because some games need more finesse than a keyboard can offer. Unfortunately both triggers are the same access so I can't bind them in some older games like Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
 

droenn

Fat Man's XC President
Finished the main Witcher 3 story now, onto the DLC. Got the good ending, but not the "best" ending - but I think the good one makes more sense. Ditched Triss ASAP.

Theres a remastered C&C / Red Alert out now too - if you're hankering for some 90s RTS action.
 
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