Morning folks. It’s time for another roundup of what you’ve been playing across the last seven days.
Lets-a-goooo!
**Tails of Iron **
Not sure what’s going on, but I’ve been feeling soulsy at the start of the year. And whilst Tails of Iron isn’t your typical ‘Soulslike’ it does share some of that DNA, at least in a 2D sense.
I’m roughly half way through. The game has taken a somewhat unwanted turn into being a bit grind-heavy, but the core remains fun so I’ll probably see this one out.
Started playing Densha de Go! on PS1 (I’ve had a couple of goes on Densha de Go! at an old Japanese arcade previously and didn’t get very far). It’s weirdly compelling. The last train sim I played was Evening Star on the ZX Spectrum, and I wasn’t much cop at that either. Probably not cut out to be a train driver!
Speaking of train Sims on the spectrum, I had one set in world war 2. You had to drive a train across an occupied country, that was the simulation part.
But you also had to jump into mounted guns on your journey to shoot down attacking enemy fighters. Also, at every station, you had to shoot the enemy soldiers as they appeared at the windows.
It wasn’t too bad and I think I even completed it once or twice.
Oh, that sounds amazing!
I’ve had some free time and found it.
The Train: Escape to Normandy published by a little company called Electronic Arts in 1988.
I’ll never forget that if you switched the train into reverse while travelling forwards, it would strip the gears.
It’s realistic I guess and I wasn’t expecting it but it means you’ve buggered up your hand because you can never reverse the train which is needed in the game.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Oh, that sounds amazing!
I’m still enjoying taking my time getting through Immortals: Fenyx Rising. Currently just under 20 hours in and the PS5 says I’m only about 18% through the game. I expect that’s for 100% completion and I don’t plan on achieving that much.
I think realistically, I’m about 40% through the main story but I spend a lot of time exploring the huge map for other little quests.
I’m mostly playing Hades, over 100h on the game already and there are still new things to discover, new boons to try out, it is definitely one of my favourite games.
We’re trying to play Haven. I say trying, because it really doesn’t like one player using a 360 pad, and the other a switch controller. And keeps randomly remapping actions.
Maybe it’s the Steamlink being funny!deleted by creator
I play a lot of games at the same time, usually one or a few per system.
Just finished Final Fantasy XVI on the PS5. Loved the story, characters and the world. One of my favourites of the series for sure.
About to start Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion on the PS5. I’ve played the PSP version to the death countless times. So this is going to be longer comfort playthrough leading up to the next FFVII game.
Then I have a handheld for emulating games. On that I’m currently bouncing between Dragon Quest I on the GameBoy Color, Elevator Action on the NES, and Solitaire FunPak on the GameBoy.
Then on my gaming PC I’ve been playing Left 4 Dead 2 with my partner and whoever at the time wants to join us.
And finally I have a “retro PC” with both XP and Vista on. Recently got Vista 64 bit to work on it properly so I can play the Sims 3 unhindered because 32 bit XP would crash with all of the expansions installed due to there not being enough ram available.
Anybody know of some more era-specific games for Vista? Or just some older ones that run better on a 64 bit machine over 32? Cause at the moment Vista is just my Sims 3 OS haha.
