What are you currently playing? V4.0

I had heard the same.

I'm very early days, so my opinion will probably change, but so far I'm liking the combat system. 

However, they do a really bad job introducing and explaining it. Which is odd, became they've put a whole bunch of tutorial popups in there that appear when they introduce a new element. 
But they insist on introducing new elements with a pretty tough trial by fire. 

Eg: They'll introduce the concept of some moves recovering your health, but they'll do it by having you reduced to 1 health at the start of the battle, against about 5 enemies. Whereas they should have introduced it by having you reduced to like 25% health against a single enemy, and then had a succession of one or two enemies come in after you defeat them. 

It has the interesting idea of a Combo Lab where you can build your own combos. But the UI doesn't quite work how you'd think, and at the beginning you don't have enough blocks to play with, so again it's confusing until later when you've finally got a few more blocks and worked out how the UI works. 

But it is nice to be able to flip around at high speed, after the slower paced combat of Space Marine. 

Though I hit a multi-stage boss fight last night and had to go to bed before I could finish, so I'll probably have to do that all again tonight. So there's potential for me to go straight to hating it.  

I had to look it up online, and this video helped me. Interestingly this also (sometimes) works in OG GNG. Also I'd say don't feel bad about playing on Squire difficulty, it's still very hard. If you want more after that, you can still play again on higher difficulties.

Thought I'd try the Uncharted Collection which I haven't played in years and started with 2. It's fun and it's quite witty but my word I had forgotten how that era in gaming really struggled with pacing and just threw combat at you to paper over the cracks. It's actually quite silly how many enemies the game throws at you endless waves after endless waves. Stealth is a possibility but it's not guaranteed as it seems to break the game if you leave a particular area without going loud.

I'm enjoying it but it's become quite comical where it throws armored enemies with shotguns at close range who need to be shot precisely in the head flanked by enemies with mid range assault rifles who sometimes throw grenades, a guy with a rocket launcher backed up by some snipers.

I distinctly remember 3 leaning into it waaaay harder and me not enjoying it as much especially because the aiming was really off back in the day.

That level was truly hateful. I honestly don't know how you found the patience for that on crushing. But yeah it's ridiculous where the game tries to paint the image that he's a charming rogue when he literally kills a small army through the entire game.

I've beaten every Uncharted on Crushing, they aren't that bad.

That ship level in Uncharted 3 is where I dropped it at launch. Presumably the remasters are a lot better, but on PS3 it felt like you were constantly battling with the aim.

I'm playing Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader.

I have never Warhammered before, so it's been a bit hard getting used to all the names of things and places and people and such. But it's done a decent job of onboarding me.

I've decided to go Dogmatic, this Emperor of Mankind seems like a decent kind of fellow.

Yeah, I don't think I'm ever going to get too deep into that, even if (I assume) the ridiculousness of the names and lore is intentional and played for laughs. But this specific story is (so far) pretty easy to grasp. Go into uncharted territory, meet the locals, claim resources for the majesty of the Imperium. I can get on board with that.

Oh, and we watched the Uncharted movie at the weekend. Less shooting and more puzzle solving.

The 1st is the worst for it as they were really making up as they went along and like I said it's truly a product of it's era in gaming. I think Lost Legacy is where they really found the sweet spot.

Turtles Shredder's Revenge (currently on Steam sale alongside Streets of Rage 4)

So far it seems pretty fun although not on the same level as Turtles in Time. But now I'm upset because I got a "Mode 7" achievement for throwing enemies at the camera despite that never having been a Mode 7 effect. When will people stop calling every graphics effect on the SNES Mode 7?? Literally shaking with anger

We enjoyed it as a family. With less knowledge of the games I didn't have much of a preconceived idea of who Nathan Drake is.
I would say that Mark Wahlberg is too young to be Sully though. Surely he's an old Ernest Borgnine type..?
Oh, and the bird couldn't get her accent right. Half the time she was English, half the time Australian!