This month we get the following on PS+:
And on Games With Gold we get:
So a good month for PS+ I think and an absolutely tragic one for Xbox.
Terrible for Xbox. Great for PS+ if you don't already have one of them and aren't shit-scared of horror games.
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Nioh is awesome, more Dark Souls like than Sekiro was.
I could never remember which one was Nioh and which one was Nier and whether either were any good. It’s worth playing then?
Nioh is the samurai one, Nier is the robot one, both are any good.
Both are good, Nier is practically God of Games on the internet now which…it's Not even a bad game but I honestly think I prefer the story and events of the first Nier which everyone never brings up now automatic tomatoes is out (the current FFXIV raid is a Nier crossover too).
Nioh is literally Dark Souls in Japan with a hint of Diablo loot. What it lacks in the design variety and vision of Dark Souls it makes up with deeper combat, there's like 9 or so different weapon types and you don't have to utilise them all, depending on great and stats build you won't be able to but I'd argue if you wanted to dig deep then two people using the same weapon could be playing very different in terms of goals, like, stamina drain Katana or one built to let you combo with no stamina drain to yourself.
Also it's a 'prepare to die' dealio too so…
…so hard pass on both from me.
If you were making a game specifically for me, I'd give you Nier and Nioh and say "Do that, but the exact opposite."
So, Nier + Nioh = Nah ?
I thought we'd already had Outlast 2. Anyway, Nioh sounds alright, I'll give it a go.
So, Nier + Nioh = Nah ?
Can't argue with the maths of it.
I thought we'd already had Outlast 2. Anyway, Nioh sounds alright, I'll give it a go.
We had the original Outlast, it was an early PS4 plus offering.
Yeah, you're right. We tried Outlast again tonight for Halloween. Got about twenty minutes in before hitting a hard Nope.
I don't think I ever even installed it, so you're a braver man than me.
Horror fans are weird.
There's a tube ad up at the moment for some film, and the quote on it says "I couldn't sleep for weeks!!"
In what world is that a good outcome?
I haven't slept for weeks, but that's due to a newborn.
Which I suppose is its own form of horror.
Nier is more playable, Platinum style combat and Yoko Taro style android story, there's a scene where very non sophisticated robots have an orgy. If you've never played a Yoko Taro game he made a game where an old man wanted to fuck a black hole.
There's a tube ad up at the moment for some film, and the quote on it says "I couldn't sleep for weeks!!"
I used to watch a lot of horror but since #1 daughter in 2016 I realised that while I loved those movies they were only palatable on Sunday mornings with a hangover or in the cinema with pals. Now, the idea of sitting down in front of Hereditary or the new It or whatever at 9pm just fills me with a whole lot of 'nope'.
As for not sleeping… The original Rec scared the shit out of me but I only found out about it in the middle of the night when I had to take a trip to the toilet.
an old man wanted to fuck a black hole.
You rang?
Suction so powerful even light can't escape, amirite?
I'm not a horror fan as such, but I do like a scary game, as long as there's something else going on in there too. The problem with Outlast from what I played is that it's just nasty. They've succeeded at making one of the most extreme horror games I've seen, something truly unpleasant and frightening, but that's all it is from what I saw. There seemed like there might be some kind of vague story about someone making money by experimenting on people in an asylum, so maybe there's more behind under the surface if you carry on. The bit I played involved some jump scares and a load of really grisly corpses used purely as window dressing. Even Condemned seemed to have more going on. There's also a disclaimer at the start warning of graphic sexual violence, so there's the suspicion they might have put in some kind of rape scene just for the sake of making things even more grim. If that is the case I don't really want anything to do with it.
I like tense, more psychological horror - Project Zero and Silent Hill, the earlier Resident Evil games - but the new wave of ultra-gory games influenced by stuff like SAW doesn't appeal in the slightest.