What games are you playing?

Elden Ring A very difficult but fascinating game . This has great world building, graphic a game play .:cool:

It has the toughest bosses of any game ive ever played.:cool:
 
I am currently playing Darksiders III on my xbox one. I had struggled early on to get into the third game in the series and suffered set backs that included the need to restart the whole game. However, I am having lots of fun, especially when I had to out run a tornado. I love the scale of it and the puzzles, however, the bosses have been terribly easy compared to the first game.
 
Got back into Grim Dawn a couple days ago, after getting a little bored with Path of Exile 2.
 
The Last Guardian, again, on PS4. It's a shame about the wildly difficult to control camera viewpoint but apart from that I actually think this is a huge amount of fun and one of the best looking games ever made.
 
I bought Outer Wilds about 2 years ago and just couldn't get into it at all. I have ignored it totally until yesterday when I decided to give it another go, and somehow this time around it has got me hooked. Very nice game with a lovely sense of adventure.
 
I'm reliving my graduate student years of playing Shenmue on my friend's Sega Dreamcast, but this time it's on my PS4. Parts 1 & 2 were on special offer so I picked them up thinking I'd just mess around on it for a couple of hours here and there, but the gentle pace of the story and the realism of the world has drawn me right back into it like it's 2001 again. I didn't play many console games in the 1990s or early 2000s but this has brought back a lot of nostalgic memories.
 
As with Outer Wilds, about 3 years ago I bought Death Stranding and played it for a few hours, hated it and uninstalled it to make room for other things. Last week I noticed it in my "purchased but uninstalled" library and decided I should give it another go, and I'm glad I did.

I immediately appreciated the drably beautiful graphics and the largely violence-free gameplay. There's a fair bit of dodging enemies but it is mostly possible just to get on with the main task of the game which is forming connections by delivering parcels around post apocalyptic USA (which does look a lot like the Lake District in the UK, afaic). After you've made 2 or 3 connections between the isolated outposts, it becomes more and more compelling to continue making new ones.

The only thing I don't appreciate is the story line, which stretches the bounds of ludicrousness even in the field of computer games, although it is thankfully easy to ignore except for the very long cut scenes.

Oh, and the music's crap too but never mind.

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Been playing a variety of games that I dip in and out of, mostly to get the monthly 8-pack games pass points:
Forza Horizon 5 - I've played this to death over the years and cannot wait for FH6 in May.
Forza Motorsport - mostly playing as it's a game pass game, but it's okay in small doses as I try and get through the career mode.
The Crew Motorfest - played this a lot on release, then it tailed off. So much to do in the game so just working through the playlists as they take my fancy.
Doom - the 2016 version, and one I've always meant to play but never have. Ticking the boxes and easy to dip in and out of.
Far Cry 5 - I played this a lot in, I think, 2024, but I always come back as I do another playthrough and take my time with it.
Starfield - another I'm revisiting to play through bit by bit as I never completed it when I play it on release.

I've also finally given in and got FFVII Remake Intergrade on Steam so playing through that slowly too.

So many games, such little time.
 
Possibly my all-time favorite game is Elder Scrolls Oblivion, highly modded with quests and improved graphics. I played three playthroughs, all prior to the "redo," the second (favorite) lasting years. I've not played it in years but still have a vast screenshot collection. These past few days I've tried "enhancing" a few of those images using the free-tier version of Gemini. Not to modify their content, though that sometimes happens, whether I wish it or not, but to achieve photorealism insofar as that is possible. Results have varied from not worth the effort to quite impressive. I've created 23 images worth saving thus far. A short while ago Gemini achieved its best Oblivion enhancement thus far, IMO. It's an image from my first playthrough, a dungeon crawl during which Neeshka, my character's mod-added companion at the time, bites off more than she can chew and is assaulted by three mobs.

Here's the original screenshot, cropped for better composition:
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And here is what Gemini makes of it. I think it of a quality that might serve as a fantasy novel's cover art:
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At any rate, this being the forum that it is, I figure some may enjoy this glimpse at a game many of us are likely to have tackled in the past.
 
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