What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 12/15/2014 at 10:41 PM, Herr Jan said:

After that you get countless intros / videos that you can't skip. Just impossible.

this just reminded me of those "worst video game" ideas from ages ago, namely the one about having a WW2 game where every time you kill an enemy there's an unskippable cutscene of his funeral.

edit: lol, even worse would be if you were playing Left 4 Dead and every time you killed a zombie there was a 30-min flashback to their past human lives.

  On 12/15/2014 at 10:44 AM, triachus said:

Just played Far Cry 3 to find out what the big deal is.

 

Couldn't find it.

 

Seriously, does Ubisoft have some sort of template they use for every fucking game? You can draw so many parrallels to other Ubisoft games. And what the fuck was up with the "insanity is doing the same thing everyday, expecting things to change." line? Is this some sort of concious, self-depricating gag they added to make fun of themselves? Because they have a nack for making the exact same repetitive play-by-numbers shit, over and over again. I have the feeling they spend a lot of time on graphics, on how everything looks, lots of time on crafting details and maps. And when all that is complete, just place a bunch of samey forts and collectibles across the map. Bam, added 30 hours of gameplay. And make everything static, no time for adding physics, because they want to create the illusion of an open world game without actually providing that. And fuck me, did I almost go into a fit of rage when there was a "follow person without being seen" mission. That was about fucking %75 of the missions in AC:Black Flag. Seems they build all their games around AC, because that was a huge hit, so lets template shit around it so everything else becomes huge too! And why do they keep adding multiplayers? Multiplayer games are supposed to be something you can get into for a long time. But why bother spending time doing that with an Ubisoft game when they will release a brand new same game with different but same multiplayer one year later. Seriously, they are churning shit out at this point. Can't believe so many people gobble it up.

 

I did like taking over those outposts tho. I almost always got the extra unseen XP. But that was about it when it comes to fun. Storywise I had a lot of moments where I went "oh, fuck off". I could go on tho. I expect Far Cry 4 to be the exact same shit of doing the exact same shit over and over again, but "different". I don't expect this shit to change. That would be a bit crazy amirite.

Yeah, the story was pretty horrible. I had a good time playing the game, but the thing that kept me going was stealthily overtaking those outposts.

The Evil Within is getting my time here - almost done chapter 6 I think and I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed a Resident Evil game.

Can't wait for it to get all racist......

  On 12/16/2014 at 12:24 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 12/15/2014 at 10:41 PM, Herr Jan said:

After that you get countless intros / videos that you can't skip. Just impossible.

 

this just reminded me of those "worst video game" ideas from ages ago, namely the one about having a WW2 game where every time you kill an enemy there's an unskippable cutscene of his funeral.

 

edit: lol, even worse would be if you were playing Left 4 Dead and every time you killed a zombie there was a 30-min flashback to their past human lives.

 

LOL! Reminds me of The Sorrow's bossfight in MGS3. First time was the worst time.

Still making my way through Dragon Age: Inquisition , haven't had a chance to play the last week cause of work though...

I think next year is gonna be awesome for gaming, some good titles on the horizon... Arkham Knight, Silent Hills, The Order: 1886, The Witcher III, The Division etc.

BioShock Infinite was $4.49US on XBox Live, so I'm playing that finally.

  On 12/15/2014 at 7:17 PM, mcbpete said:

Check out some absolutely atrocious voice acting in the new English dub of FF 15 - http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/final_fantasy_15/news/final_fantasy_xvs_english_voiceover_is_terrible.html

Think about it : every time there's a shitty english voiceover in a game, the french version will be shittier

Also --> I heard rumors that the next Steam sales begin...tomorrow. My bluecard is ready to get raped.

itching to buy elite dangerous, but what i learned in the last few years of following metacritic is that the user reviews aggregation for games is extremely valuable and reliable, and it's not doing particularly great for a full price game atm. http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/elite-dangerous/user-reviews?page=2

what say ye to the criticisms jason? this one for example:

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DISCLAIMER: This is an objective review. Everyone giving the game 10/10 is lying to themselves, and you. That said, if you own, or are looking to own, an Oculus Rift, then this game is a must buy. The game is beautiful. It makes for a perfect Oculus Rift title thanks to it's stunning visuals, immense sense of scale and beautiful audio.

tl;dr - Current state of the game: Grind credits to buy bigger ships so that you can grind credits better. Graphics & Gameplay has been improved over the original Elite (1984), but content has stayed the same (unless you count the 400 billion empty, lifeless, procedural star systems).

Elite Dangerous will be a great game in another year or two. I have little doubt of that. However, as of the writing of this review, Elite is almost entirely unplayable. The foundations for a great game are all there, but there's little to keep players interested.

Mining, exploration, combat and trading are the only activities currently open to players. You can either do any of these activities on your own, or you can accept a generic mission and do them for an npc you'll never meet or interact with. With exception to combat, all these systems are basic and repetitive.

While there is a dynamic economy in the game, trading is hardly complicated when compared to that of games like X3 or EVE. You buy low, and you sell high. The only excitement comes in the form of random pirate and police attacks. You can observe changes in the economy, but, unless you enjoy watching numbers go up and down, I doubt you'll find this exciting.

Exploration involves flying to new systems and pointing yourself at 'undiscovered' celestial objects & stations. You won't be stumbling into any ship graveyards or sentient nebulae. There are no surprises here and, unless you're an astronomer looking to observe binary stars & black holes, you probably won't find this very exciting either.

Mining is even simpler. You find asteroids and you shoot at them. Maybe you'll get attacked by a pirate, maybe you won't. Combat, on the other hand, feels great and intuitive. The game's audio and HUD are highly immersive and really shine in combat. Unfortunately you'll most often find yourself fighting against AI due to the whole 400 billion star systems thing.

There is no concrete system that promotes team-play, and you'll probably make more money fighting NPC's rather than players. The games selection of ships is also rather limited when compared to other titles (and they all look like geometric shapes).

The biggest problem with the game right now is the fact that there is no end-game. There's nothing to strive for. You may set personal goals, like visiting a distant system or getting a certain ship, but, at the heart of it, everything you do ends with you making credits in order to make credits better.

The living world is entirely a novelty, and will almost never directly impact you. You may have to go to another system to buy cheap goods, or you might note the presence of more police ships, but this will never make a significant impact on the way you play the game. You will never feel like you're doing something important. There is a giant disconnect between the world of the NPC's and the world of the players.

There is a giant intergalactic war being waged, but unless you force yourself to care it's really of no consequence to you. You can't interact with NPC's, so there's very little to connect you to the troubles of the poor populace of miners living on some rock. You might visit a planet with billions of inhabitants, but the space around it will feel just as empty and lifeless as the distant reaches of the galaxy.

So, all of this leaves you to motivate yourself. Sure, you can try to join one of the galactic empires and lead them to victory, but what's the point? No NPC will thank you, unless it comes in the form of a giant wall of text available as a generic contract in a space station. You won't get a limited edition ship, nor will you get the joy of watching or participating in any giant cinematic battles. There's no sense of urgency or need to drive you forward.

All you have to do, is to make credits so that you can get upgrades simply for the sake of getting upgrades. The foundations for a great game are all there, but to call this release ready is a joke. I highly advice new players stay away from Elite until more content is added. I've honestly had more fun playing the Star Citizen alpha than I have playing the release-candidate version of Elite.

To put it into contrast, imagine an X3 with better graphics and combat. Now imagine that you can't control more than one ship. That NPC's don't have a voice and communicate through text. That there is no single player story. That all space stations serve only one purpose. That you never see any other ships unless you're in combat or docking. That you can't own space stations. That exploration only leads to you finding floating credits. And, well, the list goes on...

currently im replaying skyrim with a truckload of graphics mods and it's simply jawdroppoingly gorgeous, and when the beautiful skyrim music kicks in it's just an incredible experience. i still have the same gripes with it that i did before (like every quest item having a gps tracker and fast travel) but it's not completely full retard like the current bioware bullshit excuse for rpg gaming, at least it feels like you're in an actual world.

hail pc, death to console gaming.

console gaming is far from dead, although some think this will be the last generation for them, but it should be good tho,

but yeah skyrim is really awful on consoles, especially on ps3...

lol metacritic user reviews.

sorry ff, can't take mass effect 3 and current dragon age fans seriously when it comes to gaming.

Please don't do that to me.

I also enjoy Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty a great deal, by the way. Does that improve my hardcore gamer rank somewhat?

Eugene - The Gamer Prophet

I didnt enjoy Mass Effect atall, but im having a whale of a time with dragon age inquistion.

yes, Assassin's Creed is dumb as well, i played the black flag one and most of the time the game forces you to collecting stuff so i ditched it. call of duty is different, it's multiplayer so it's as dumb as your opponent and that usually scales up pretty fast.

it's not like dumb console gaming can't coexist with deep and immersive pc gaming, but the big companies go after big money and with time more more people joined the potential market, so the average user dumbness increased. i mean bioware used to do rpgs where you had to spend hours on just thinking about your skill trees and thinking about your every move, now it's busy with proper implementation of gaysex or something and all of the tactics are pretty much gone.

  On 12/17/2014 at 8:50 PM, eugene said:

yes, Assassin's Creed is dumb as well, i played the black flag one and most of the time the game forces you to collecting stuff so i ditched it. call of duty is different, it's multiplayer so it's as dumb as your opponent and that usually scales up pretty fast.

it's not like dumb console gaming can't coexist with deep and immersive pc gaming, but the big companies go after big money and with time more more people joined the potential market, so the average user dumbness increased. i mean bioware used to do rpgs where you had to spend hours on just thinking about your skill trees and thinking about your every move, now it's busy with proper implementation of gaysex or something and all of the tactics are pretty much gone.

Hey - gaysex is very tactical! (so I hear)

Mario Maker levels will be shareable online:

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/12/18/youll-be-able-to-share-your-levels-with-others-in-mario-maker

  On 12/18/2014 at 1:49 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Mario Maker levels will be shareable online:

 

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/12/18/youll-be-able-to-share-your-levels-with-others-in-mario-maker

Any news on how big a level you can create? And if you can warp pipes?

Duck Hunt coming to Wii U on Xmas Day:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/12/us_release_date_confirmed_for_duck_hunt_on_the_wii_u_virtual_console

A newly redesigned Wii U gamepad would be a nice addition to the Mario Maker levels...

kinda bummed that peace walker is apparently cannon and that i need to beat it before mgs 5 comes out. popped in ground zeroes and had a good portion of peace walker spoiled already. have tried peace walker a couple of times and just couldn't get into it. i'll give it another go i guess

Bought System Shock 2 on Steam for a buck. Very fun, my first play through. Kind of a pain in the ass at times and I restarted my character a few hours in because i wanted to redo my stats. Very frustrating when you accidentally set off security cameras. After trial and error, i think i've finally gotten a grasp on what this game wants me to do: hack and conserve ammo, don't treat it like a shooter and use wrench for weak enemies. Game is way ahead of its time also. What ever happened to complexity in games?

  On 12/18/2014 at 9:25 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Bought System Shock 2 on Steam for a buck. Very fun, my first play through. Kind of a pain in the ass at times and I restarted my character a few hours in because i wanted to redo my stats. Very frustrating when you accidentally set off security cameras. After trial and error, i think i've finally gotten a grasp on what this game wants me to do: hack and conserve ammo, don't treat it like a shooter and use wrench for weak enemies. Game is way ahead of its time also. What ever happened to complexity in games?

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