What You've Been Playing This Week

[Dogg Thang]

Ah! That’s still cool. Model-adjacent.

[QualityChimp]

Resident Evil 3
This has been really good fun, but I lost momentum months ago.
Saw the weapons pack DLC was on sale and I've got back into it.
I know I'm an awful person for basically cheating my way to victory, but I'm having fun, it's still scary and finds way to surprise and kill me and it's making me play a game that would otherwise remain uncompleted, so that's a win for me.

[importaku]

Resident Evil 3
This has been really good fun, but I lost momentum months ago.
Saw the weapons pack DLC was on sale and I've got back into it.
I know I'm an awful person for basically cheating my way to victory, but I'm having fun, it's still scary and finds way to surprise and kill me and it's making me play a game that would otherwise remain uncompleted, so that's a win for me.

People seem to not like this one much but i thought it was great, it's short but it's designed to be endlessly replayed through with various weapons hence it having the special shop for you to slowly unlock weapons & other stuff. The only thing that made me think HUH? that isn't very realistic. Wasn't the fantastical zombies or anything else it was that tiny apartment you go through near the beginning you enter and theres a living room & a stairway leading upstairs to a bedroom. There are no other doors at all in there. Where was the toilet WHERE WAS THE TOILET????? how could anyone really live in that building, totally broke the immersion

Still playing the hell out of Samba de amigo, Passed level 50 and still climbing. Checked the eshop again for the game out of curiosity if there were any new songs. I'm happy that Sega have decided to support it with additional dlc song packs there was a new one out based on Kpop they are like 500yen for a pack of 3 songs so not exactly wallet busting for adding in new tracks. The online is fun but some of the in game achievements are hard as a couple are tied to playing online & coming 1st in the world party.

What i like is the golden bean currency that you win from competing in online matches & coming in the top 3 that you use in the shop to buy certain outfits & stuff that can only be bought using those beans. There's a seperate tab in the shop where you can use the amigo coins to buy those beans so for any reason in the future the offline service vanishes you will never be locked out of been able to buy all the cosmetic stuff or if you are unable to win online. The beans are really expensive but earning amigo coins is super easy just by playing songs so you can grind if it ever happened so nothing aside from the online achievements would be locked out forever.

Makes me happy to see that Sega really can revive dormant game series & do them well instead of always concentrating on sonic all the time. Samba has never looked this good, getting S ranks as well as Perfect S ranks on all the songs is proving a real challenge but quite a few i have already done on the super hard difficulty. Of all segas creations this is the one i love the most, Amigo may not be the most well known but he is in this household.


Bonus video, dieing at seeing someone try to fully copy the poses, damn he's pretty good

[MartyG]

Lies of P. Didn't like it.

Cocoon. Didn't like it.

Bit of a frustrating weekend.

Glad to hear that the new Samba de Amigo has made a good conversion tho, one I will pick up for VR.

[Neon Ignition]

PS5 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
PC - Starfield
Deck - Max Payne 3
Series X - Ravenloft

[Finsbury Girl]

Still going between AC Odyssey and Starfield. AC Odyssey still consistently amazes me as I explore the world. It is far, far too big though. I've only just managed to finish chapter 6 having levelled up to 50. I'm finding the story somewhat interesting but Kassandra is keeping me entertained. The big mace I got from the Arena (I think) in combat is just 100% pure chef's kiss and I've managed to get hold of Agamemnon's armour which is cool as ****

[wakka]

Starfield...what's Starfield?

I have been playing Morrowind via OpenMW on PC.

It's my second crack at this after trying to tackle it on Xbox One via BC on a previous occasion. That time I felt l was missing out due to a lack of mods, got lost in Vivec and promptly never went back to it.

This time the game looks a hell of a lot better thanks to the mods I've added, although I'm dealing with a few bugs - taking a slow and steady approach to implementing the mods and doing it as I move forward. If it messes up my save and I have to reroll I won't be too bothered. OpenMW is meant to deal with on-the-fly modding of most things pretty well though.

My character is a Khajit thief and vagabond, specialising in sneak, security, short blade and illusion (to cast those handy invisibility spells).

Enjoying it so far. I'm still very early on.

EDIT: Meant to add, if anyone has got any Morrowind tips or OpenMW modding thoughts, they would be most welcome

[Colin]

Uncharted 2 play through now taken care of and on to the third game. I really do love going back to these games after giving it a healthy gap since last visiting them. I know they'll always have their detractors and I get that, they definitely have issues, but I just can't help but enjoy them. Since I'm playing these again on the PS4 I'm looking forward to getting up to the fourth game and the Lost Legacy for the graphical bump.

[fuse]

Still playing a lot of Street Fighter 6. Well into three-figure hours with it now, and think I'm now fairly comfortable saying it's my favourite SF game since 3. I've done everything in world tour, have got all of the art and cut scenes for the gallery, and have just got a second character to platinum in ranked. I might try and push this one a little further still - I'm enjoying JP a lot - but I'm also tempted to try and do some work with A.K.I.

Also stuck on the We Love Katamari "re-roll" yesterday. It's been a while since I last played one of these games, so the daft charm is particularly potent right now. I played this and the original quite a lot and yet I do not remember half of the levels I'm playing! Also:

[importaku]

Katamari is such a fun one to play, makes me happy it was revived. Still yet to manage to complete the we love re-release of it as i'm stuck on the damn level where you have to keep the katamari on fire, i keep either running out of fuel to keep it alight or i fall off into river and instant game over. It's a long level so it's annoying as hell when it instant game overs you.

[importaku]

Spent all weekend playing samba de amigo it's quickly getting to the point it's gonna beat most of my other rhythm games as my fave, been mainly concentrating on trying the online mode more managed to finally start coming in first which isn't easy as the song modifiers are random so they can really screw you over you don't have to come 1st in the first two phases but you have to stay in the ranking but on the third phase having the song randomly speed up can kill your chance of 1st place. Found out it's not 20 human players the game pulls 8 human and then makes up the rest with AI players although the cpu controlled ones can be brutally challenging sometimes.

1st feels good, however i still have a long way to go up the ranking pyramid.



ordered a set of maracca shells to spice up my play sessions as i have discovered there's a knack to holding the joycons to make the hits always register holding the joycons near the bottom makes them work better but it's also risky as you can easily lose grip, straps are a must. I'm hoping with maracca shells on them they will become top heavy meaning i can hold them normally to get the same effect. I love how the note patterns have been made to make you actually have to dance which isn't hard as the playlist is full of bangers i have no idea how much it cost sega to get all the licences to these songs as they are not covers but the original tracks. So far with the 3 extra dlc packs the song list is upto 54 tracks i'm truly hoping they keep going i will buy them all. Super hard mode is offering me a decent challenge. The 10 maracca difficulty songs are an explosion of notes, going back to the DC originals they are laughably easy compared to the latest switch incarnation.

Streamigo Mission mode is kicking my ass had to give up on motion and switch to button mode as the challenges can be really strict, playing some of the songs on hard or super hard but having a condition to get 300 perfects in a row is not something to be trying with motion controls unless you like retrying hundreds of times never even mention having to get through some really hard songs without missing a single note. It's a meaty challenge so it will test you on how well you have learned the songs, so far i have managed to get just over halfway through all the missions so far.

[MartyG]

Robocop: Rogue City.



It's a bit disappointing, it's like someone has made a Robocop game, but then diluted it so that it kind of looks and sounds like Robocop, but it's all a little bit too thin.

It's very glitchy, the voice acting is woeful along with the lipsyncing, the gunplay is iffy and the sound just seems a little bit wonky and wrong. It almost has the feel of Robocop, but you never actually feel like you're actually Robocop (and he moves painfully slowly).

There's somewhat of an RPG element to it, so you can level up skills and stuff (you know, just like Robocop did in the films ).

TLDR: I wouldn't buy that for a dollar.

[speedlolita]

Still playing a lot of Street Fighter 6. Well into three-figure hours with it now, and think I'm now fairly comfortable saying it's my favourite SF game since 3. I've done everything in world tour, have got all of the art and cut scenes for the gallery, and have just got a second character to platinum in ranked. I might try and push this one a little further still - I'm enjoying JP a lot - but I'm also tempted to try and do some work with A.K.I.

Also stuck on the We Love Katamari "re-roll" yesterday. It's been a while since I last played one of these games, so the daft charm is particularly potent right now. I played this and the original quite a lot and yet I do not remember half of the levels I'm playing! Also:

Hehe, cock tire.

[Golgo]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake. I have to admit that - apart from XII - FFs have generally never really clicked with me before despite trying many times. But this is tremendous. The combat is exhilarating, a glorious chaos I can just about keep on top of. Loving the saucy characters and scene-chomping villainy, too.

[importaku]

Sunday Sambaaa, been making steady progress in the online battles now at the top of the ranking pyramid just one level left to reach super star. Consistently coming 1st in each round although there are times it's brutally unfair you can hit every note perfect & full combo the song & still not come in first as 6 other players all smash your note circles with rockets & the song decides to hit you with speed up on the hidden modifier all at the same time but it's incredibly satisfying if you can climb back up to first and beat them all it's only happened a few times but i know they are steaming mad lol.


Only 2 trophies left to unlock one of them is secret so it won't say what i need to do but it's after the come 1st 10 times in world battle trophy so i'm guessing i need to come 1st a set amount of times in the final phase. The final trophy will unlock when everything else is done seeing as that hidden trophy is the only one left once that unlocks the other will. Then i can finish buying all the rest of the costume parts & that's everying 100% in the game.