I finally finished Wolfenstein: The New Order this week, after months of playing 40-odd minutes in the evenings. I enjoyed it a lot, although the final few hours seemed to be one boss fight after the next, and the ending was so signposted I thought I was on the M25. Still, I'm very much looking forward to seeing what the team at Machine Games does next (after its standalone expansion Old Blood).
I've also been playing upcoming boss-fighting indie future darling, Titan Souls. Review will be live early next week, but my thoughts are largely positive despite a few irks. So far Sony's selection of games as part of its spring PS4 downloadable line-up has been rather excellent.
Alright, so I'm back on GTA 5 again and thanks to the latest patch it seems to run better than it ever has. Well... until the PC version rolls out next week at least.
That 7-disc box set has got me tempted to pick up the PC release just to see if it'll run any better on my ageing computer than it does on PS4, but the risk of it not running at all continues to put me off.
Wouldn't it be great if, in this digital age, we could download a performance test for each game to see how well our computer can handle it? It would certainly get me interested in PC gaming again – there's nothing worse than picking up a new PC game only to see its settings default to Low. If I could see how well it would run on my setup before purchasing it, I'd be tempted to pick up more. And in the emerging era of free-to-start, hopefully it's an idea that could start to become achievable fairly soon.
Listen. LISTEN. I've spent the last few days playing Rainbow Six Siege, and after initially being worried that Ubisoft may have made it into a typical Ubisoft game, I can say that it's pretty good. Pretty good. You can read my impressions of the alpha at the link above. Go on. Do it.
DO IT.
Well, it was always going to happen. After putting my love behind PS+ for the past few months, I find this month’s offering to be questionable at best. Before I continue, know this: I don’t care what Sony decides to put on there. If it’s good, awesome. If it’s not, at least I got to try some games I probably wouldn’t have played otherwise.
With all that said, Tower Of Guns - and whatever that other abomination was - did nothing to get me that excited. Devoid of any sense of fun, and seemingly inspired by something like Quake, I found myself losing interest within a few minutes. That’s not good. I’m more than happy to say the fault lies with me. I’ve become such an asshole when it comes to games recently that if something doesn’t get me with its ‘experience’, or I’m not hooked relatively quickly I go looking for other forms of entertainment. That’s not really fair.
I’m still to play Never Alone and I have decided to keep my hopes in the gear of ‘high’ for that. So next week I’ll let you know if it let me down.
