Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 18th)

Ooblets, which is in early access, just dropped a few days ago. There's a 60 minute trial so you can test the waters, and you can buy it for cheap now if you're interested. Bought it and loving it. It's basically shades of Pokemon, Harvest Moon, and Animal Crossing mixed into one game. Pretty chill and fun experience, and there are dance battles! What's not to love? I'm also playing that Ghost game on that other box.

007: Quantum of Solace (Games For Windows) - Back on multiplayer this weekend.

Fallout 3 (Games For Windows) - After taking a few days off, getting back into it this weekend.

Uno & Friends (Windows Phone) - Heading to the inlaws this weekend, so this will def get some play time.

On Xbox I’m playing F1 2020, Shadow Warrior 2 (Game pass) and Warhammer 40K Mechanicus. On PS4 I’m playing Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us 2. My poor Switch isn’t getting a look-in at the moment!

Mainly just checking out some of the shovelware on Gamepass but I’ve gotten into The Walking Dead at the moment and probably will start Arkham Knight

I just completed Dead Space 3 (I liked it but not too much, I watched the DLC story on YouTube just to know what happens next).
I'm thinking about continuing Ninja Gaiden or starting Lost Odyssey, I don't know

I am continuing with Fable II.

Will be continuing to play some Gears 5. Really loving the new operation, it sometimes feels like a whole new game. Besides that, maybe I will finally start Red Dead 2. It's been downloaded from Game Pass for weeks, just taunting me. Also, some Destiny 2 thrown in for good measure. Have a great weekend everyone.

Fable 3 - I was too nice a ruler last time. Going the complete opposite now 😁

Well I finished my glorious play through of The Outer Worlds- so much fun! I highly recommend if you haven’t played it!

Just Started playing Deliver Us the Moon which is interesting so far.

Also started playing Overcooked which I picked up on sale recently- it’s definitely a downgrade after playing Overcooked 2 and I notice and miss all the nice features/ improvements they added in the second. Fun but This is a case where the sequel shines so much more.
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!

Paper Mario and Halo mcc/5

Still playing Luigi's Mansion 3..

I recently bought an xbox one x from a guy at work for cheap and have just finished control, which was excellent and started Resident evil 2 last night which seems just as good!! Have a good weekend folks

I'm playing a bit of Gwent on the PC, I'll probably follow it up with a little more Gwent tomorrow afternoon, then of course, Sunday evening is Gwent night.

Halo CE Anniversary on MCC, much ground to cover before Infinite!

Finally replaying the original 360 Assassins Creed. Shooting to finally complete those achievements 100%. Already had to restart once because I miscounted the flags and had no clue where the missing flags where...

Flags aside: BC is awesome.

I checked out minecraft on Gamepass because the last time I played it was when Xbox one was announced, damn game has just gone too complicated for me now and gutted Minecraft Dungeons is online exclusive

@TanaD I’ve been debating on tackling MCC too, I’ve played some of them before but never actually followed the storyline. That’s what I’ll focus on when I get around to it

@Nye1779 I’ve been eying up playing control for a while now but I’ve not heard much about it. As for resident evil 2 that is great game but it’s terrifying on the first play through

@KratosMD I had read your impressions about Deliver Us the Moon and I'll make sure to play that. I still have to finish Halo 1 on MCC, I agree with the guy that said on that thread that it has frustrating bits (first Halo game for me and playing Normal). There are some games I play every week like Sea of Thieves and several racing games.

Outside Xbox, I'm playing Bravely Default on New Nintendo 3DS.

@WesEds You and me are in exactly the same boat then! I played Halo 3 back in 2009 without knowing much about the series and the story confused the snot out of me. I was one of those 'MASS EFFECT BEATS HALO!!!' fanboys. Then last year picked up Reach on 360 after hearing it was the 'first' in terms of story. Enjoyed the game enough to start binging on the lore on various sites, and now consider myself a 'late to the party' Halo fan. Even picked up a Xbox One X recently mainly for MCC (and whoever said xbox has no games lied to me). Anyway I'd say jump in when you're ready, it really is an awesome collection (after much fixing).

@TanaD funny enough I’ve only just picked up a One X about a month ago, I was more into gears of war on 360

@KratosMD I got Master Chief Collection and Halo 5 years ago so I'll play them all! I'll let you know my thoughts when I play Deliver Us the Moon, I only have the 3DS with me at the moment.

@KratosMD I noticed you didn’t mention if ODST is a skip or a play...

I have only played Halo 1 & 2 around when MC came out. I need a story recap, will likely watch some vid, then jump into 3, but I plan to play them all by Infinite Launch. Even if bad, they are still cannon, I personally can’t skip!

I’ll likely just play everything on easy to rush through, though.

@KratosMD what about the RTS games?

COD MW.. I know boring.

@WesEds Same here, great memories of playing through the entire gow trilogy with my now brother in law via coop on Hardcore. Good times. You played gears 4/5 yet? I'm really not sure if I should give them a go.

@KratosMD I was thinking to ignore them but then i hear that, based on the teaser, the RTS story might have something to do with Halo Infinite's story.

@TanaD I’ve played up to chapter 3 in GOW4 and only the opening chapter in 5, the visuals in them both are great and in 5 it looks much better. Personally from what I’ve played they could have done a better story in 4 because I’ve been fighting some robots instead of locusts and wretches, basically they made the game so new players can jump in without the need to play the originals.
Might be good to go through them if you have Gamepass but 5 is giving me some bad vibes now it’s just called Gears 5 and the online is being updated in seasons.

Destiny 2 as always (I'm addicted lol). I have a lot of games I need to get to, and the next on my list is Life is Strange BTS and then probably Spongebob and then FF7 (my friend has been begging me to beat it). I'm saving so many games for Series X lol. Still haven't beaten RDR2 -_-

@WesEds I just met Mr X for the first time last night, scared the proverbial out of me as I was playing with headphones on!!! Ended up stood in a save room for about five minutes deciding what to do....
Would recommend control - brilliant game with one of the best worlds I have ever had the pleasure to explore. Highly recommended and dlc has just come to xbox so good time to try 👍

@WesEds Thanks for the insight, based on that I think I'll hold off on them for now then while I get through a backlog of other stuff. Cheers.

Playing through all the Gears games coop with the wife. Just started Gears 5 tonight for the first time. On Act 1 chapter 4.

So far it’s definitely exceeded my expectations. I really liked 4, but 5 is knocking it out of the park. Can’t wait to play more.