I’m an avid gamer who enjoys a variety of different genres dating back to the Sega mega drive era. I fully support emulation and keeping older games alive. But anyways enough of that, I’d like to know what you are playing currently? I have a huge backlog (physical and digital) which shows no signs of stopping. The PSN sale is in full swing and I happened to pick up a couple of games that were on my wishlist, some nostalgic, some not. One game in particular that I’ve had my eye for a while now was Tokyo Extreme Racer I used to enjoy this series back in the day on the Dreamcast. I always found the concept really unique compared to other racing games. As for old skool gaming. I recently picked up the Resident Evil classic collection on GOG.com. As much as I love the remakes you can’t beat the fixed camera angles in the older horror games, they always add an extra layer of fear and uncertainty. I’m currently replaying Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with mods that completely overhauls the visuals and textures of the original game. For anyone interested I’ve included a link in the description: https://www.moddb.com/mods/reenhance-re3 The last one is a regrettable purchase. It’s another bus simulator, a very bad one. Bus simulator: World tour. Not much to say on this one other than avoid at all costs!
Now that’s what you call a game collection !!. That’s amazing Other games I’m currently playing at the moment is Red Dead Redemption 2. I just bought a game called “Pools”. It’s where your in an endless place with swimming pools. All by yourself. It’s a walk and explore type of game but it creeps you out. Makes you feel paranoid a bit. It comes from the whole liminal space thing.
Currently playing (on PC): Modded to hell Skyrim for the thousandth time. WWE 2K26 U-Boat Retro Rewind
On the one hand, it's cool that the games I used to play in arcades as a kid can still win people over today. On the other hand, the games I used to play in arcades as a kid are now museum pieces.
Thanks man. Always prefer to buy physical media when I can even though we’re heading into a digital age. I’ll support it for as long as I can. I’ve never played red dead 2, I briefly started the first one on the ps5 before the new year, but never made much progress. I think I was too invested in Battlefield 6 at the time. I just took a look at that Pools game on steam, it’s very unusual and I don’t quite know what do make of it. I do like psychological horror and this game ticks that box. I see a demo so I think I’ll give a try Skyrim w/mods is a W. The only way to play it over the vanilla version. The last time I played this was back in 2022. It’s one of those games that I will never go out of fashion. Hands down the best Bethesda game from the bunch, followed by Fallout: New Vegas for me. +1 for the bus. Currently playing that also. I’m still waiting for wheel support to arrive on PlayStation, seems like it’s the only platform that isn’t supported at the moment. Very cool. I imagine that had a lot of other retro games on display for the “I grew up in the 90’s” exhibit.
Actually, the Galaga one was on the top floor in the 80s one. The 90s one had its own cabinet with a selection of games from the 16-bit era. I also, in said 80s exhibit, snapped a photo of my walkman in my hand next to the one in the case. Because yes, I still listen to my music on cassettes in the year of our lord 2026.
I'm mainly dabbling around in OMSI 2, though spend more time trying to get things working than driving buses or so it seems. Probably firing up Farming Sim 25 tomorrow to look at the new OxygenDavid map, Witcombe Park Farm. I've also reinstalled Transport Fever 2 to check out a hellfire Japanese map which I saw Joe Dobson playing on one of his YT feeds.
Mostly Anno 117, dlc got delayed till Tuesday but better a delay than an issue the new Black Flag and Forza horizon 6 are coming out this year looking forward to them, waiting on a release date for ATS and ETS2 on Series X GTA VI probably possibly at the end of the year, not overly crazy about it tbh at the minute, probably just expecting another delay and their isn’t much info on it apart from fake click bait, hopefully will be worth the wait but trying to avoid generating hype and see it when it comes out. edit: I tried out FS25 on series x but found it not very good in comparison to FS22 so I refunded it, maps looked interesting but Ai drivers was buggy near unplayable, bad frame rate drops, didn’t get the same experience with mods I use on FS22, overall just not a very good experience, it’s quite far in its lifespan now so probably not much hope for major improvements, I’ll probably skip it and check out the next one. FS22 far superior in my opinion.
I see that UBoat is quite cheap on Steam at the moment. As someone who played quite a bit of Silent Hunter back in the day and was gutted when it no longer ran on modern hardware and O/S, just wondering how it compares? Nothing quite beat the thrill of sneaking up on a convoy, finding your basic Mark One torpedoes missed and then seeing the Destroyer emerge from behind the cargo vessels and promptly getting depth charged!
Re UBoat been watching some clips and think this is definitely up my street and the spiritual successor to SH3. I like how at least in the early stages you can choose to warn the merchant vessel crew so they can abandon ship and you can even throw supplies to the lifeboats. Though me, being the nasty barsteward that I am, sod that and they can go down with the ship. One less merchant crew to make it back to shore and take up station on a fresh vessel. Not sure if you can machine gun the lifeboats, certainly not very sporting, against the Geneva Convention and those German submarine captains who did so (like Eck) were charged with war crimes and either executed on given lengthy prison sentences after the war. And yes, the theme tune from “Das Boot” has been ear worming me all morning…
In the last week I've been playing Life is Strange remastered, powerwash simulator (Shrek, Alice in Wonderland, Spongebob and Wallace and Grommit), Star Trek Online and a little bit of TSW6 and construction simulator on my PS5. I've also done quite a few journeys on ETS2 and ATS on my PC using my Logitech steering wheel, pedals and gear shifter attached to my next level racing 2.0 wheel stand.
Definitely. Currently running through the tutorial and will head out on the first mission after that.
Right now I'm playing a lot of RoadCraft and Helldivers 2. Among story-based games, I'm playing a lot of Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Top movie. I'm not even much of a fan of war films, but that one hooked me enough to buy both the Director's Cut and TV versions on DVD.
