#9887 posted by
[Kona] on 2017/04/20 08:40:14
I played the Dead Space 3 DLC - good stuff. Could easily have been the beginning of the DS4 with its story. Anyway some other games:
Gone Home
Most overrated game in recent memory, 86% on metacritic. In fact it's not a game, it's a journal fetchquest house simulator (which looks crap at that, but it is Unity after all). The journals add up to about five minutes of cheesy narration about a lesbian meeting someone. I wonder if it was two males if this game would have got the same rave reviews. There's something up with the critics love for this game. Trying to be really PC, pro-feminism or something. The game can be completed in 45 seconds ffs. 4.5/10
The Wolf Among Us
Typical Telltale Games interactive story. No puzzles really, just follow the story along making some choices along the way, which don't really make a huge difference to the outcome. But I enjoyed it. Makes Gone Home look like a 10 year old stick figure drawing and this is a Picasso. Better than the Walking Dead ones they did just because that second season of TWD had such a despressing outcome. Not too different to the tv series I suppose. Based on some comic, but pretty much Once Upon a Time tv series in a darker noir setting - I don't imagine too many males watch that (I get forced to because of the gf). 7/10
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Again, more emotional story than Gone Home even without any spoken word. Great art, simple puzzles, I enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy having to constantly hold down keys all the time, it's murder on your thumbs. But everything else in the game is good. Still only a 7.5/10 for me because it's just not my kind of game.
Dead Island Riptide
A game obviously not tested in solo mode, because there are parts in this game that are damn hard by yourself. It's obvious it's intended for up to 4 player co op. The survival sections are awful. However it's a nice sandbox island setting, good graphics. It gets complaints about being no improvement over the first Dead Island, but most franchises don't change much with sequels. It's a new setting and story. That's all COD or Assassins Creed ever get. The last 1/3 of the game became very fun as I finally crafted some better weapons (maybe I should have done that sooner) and had a fucking blast with an electrified katana and weapons laced with fire and poison. Big miniboss cunts that are near impossible when first encounter become a piece of cake as I'd shotgun them with poison, they'd sit their puking their guts out while I headshot the fuck out of them. 8/10 for the last half, just a shame the first half ruins it, but I guess if you like a difficult game it's okay, or grind all the side quests which I didn't really do. Perhaps I could have found that katana sooner if I did. There's trainers for those surivival missions though :D
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
More from Techland (behind Dead Island). The Call of Juarez franchise has been a bit dead, although I always enjoy them because I love a FPS. The last one was rubbished so it probably didn't help sales for Gunslinger. But, it's actually the best in the franchise and has had an overhaul. Completely new story and characters and no longer trying to be like other games or trying to be bigger than Techland can really do. Now they've just gone for a simple, linear FPS, and it rocks. Graphics are Borderlands style, every level looks great. Gunplay is fun, the guns are meaty - shotgun feels good but most of the time you'll be going for headshots with the dual wield pistols or rifle. Bullet time works. The story is great and creative as the whole game is narrated, and often pulls you straight out of a gunfight to change things up. While the story was a bit all over the place and I wish there was a bit more humour, the way the game is told is one of the most creative I've seen in a game. It's similar to that Dungeons and Dragons quest (was it a DLC) that was in some game a few years ago (might have been Dragon Age) where the dudes keep changing the quest. I played it all in one sitting (about 6 hours) - doesn't need to be longer though. 8/10
Gone Home Is For Sjws Like Kinn
#9888 posted by anonymous user on 2017/04/20 09:10:53
#9890 posted by
[Kona] on 2017/04/20 11:34:00
I mean if the sister was up in the attic dead, and it became some sort of suicide awareness message, it might have meant more imo.
Kinn Is So Gay And Stupid...
#9891 posted by anonymous user on 2017/04/20 12:33:49
...that he went into politics because he heard that's the way to get a "mandate"
#9892 posted by
skacky on 2017/04/20 12:52:42
The only good thing about Gone Home is the story, and even then it's not that good.
Surge Looks Pants
They should have added gunplay.
Dazbler
#9894 posted by
negke on 2017/04/22 13:22:59
Their last game was Lords of the Fallen. I enjoyed it. Felt solid enough, although too short/not enough world to explore while at the same time providing a ton of different gear in short succession. Almost like they ran ran out of time designing the world and just dropped all the player content in.
Bit of a DS-flavored snack.
No idea about The Surge. The setting does indeed look fairly boring, but then again, I only ever saw material from the starting area. Will probably give it a try at some point.
#9895 posted by
[Kona] on 2017/04/24 10:50:03
It is ridiculous how many Assassin's Creed games there are. They're alongside COD and the many annual sports titles as the cheapest cashcows in gaming. I've played 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Liberation. They should have wrapped the series up with the end of Desmond. Now they're just spewing them out every year and they don't even have any kind of main story arc, at least with the next one I've played: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
It is the best so far though. Lots of sailing around, although I did get a bit sick of that and the shitty handling of your ship. Way too many "follow without getting caught" and "eavesdrop" missions. I'd be happy if they just did away with those completely. Needed a bit more exploring (I know it's an open world with lots of things to do, but none were proper side quests). I miss some of the times you'd go "dungeon crawling" in the earlier games.
But it was a nice change of pace to have a proper open world and the ship stuff. Good story again (as always), just a shame the main thing with the ancients is not relevant anymore but perhaps they'll figure out how to continue the main story arc in the next lot of games. I've still got the next 3 games to get through. More of the same I'm sure. Then they skipped a year and the next one based in Egypt might be out by end of year.
The two DLC's were nice as well. One was only 40 minutes, the other about 3 hours.
The Surge
#9896 posted by
[Kona] on 2017/04/24 10:55:34
You can't have a sci-fi game without guns. It would just be weird if it was all melee. I'll definitely play it though. If the developers are big fans of Dark Souls, then it stands to reason that the things they liked about DS would be the same as everyone else, so they would have replicated those in their game. It's due out next month.
Non-HDR Graphics
#9897 posted by
megaman on 2017/04/24 12:44:46
Am I the only one who can't stand graphics without proper, readjusting tone-mapping? It's awesome if the whole screen is below 30% brightness and you can't see shit. Bah.
(The Surge is a good example)
Is That To Infect Our Computers With Cordyceps?
#9899 posted by
Kinn on 2017/04/25 15:11:52
#9900 posted by
Kinn on 2017/04/25 19:59:06
gotta love the non-sequiturs that happen when one replies to a spam post that later gets deleted :}
#9901 posted by
skacky on 2017/04/25 20:39:02
It looks like I'm insulting poor path0gen in the Quake Champions thread because of or thanks to that.
Preface It With #postnumber?
#9902 posted by
Shambler on 2017/04/25 21:30:16
Skacky
#9903 posted by
Kinn on 2017/04/25 22:27:15
It looks like I'm insulting poor path0gen in the Quake Champions thread because of or thanks to that.
I just checked, and lolled heartily.
Phoenix Point
#9904 posted by
DaZ on 2017/04/25 23:17:17
Julian Gollop is making a new turn based strategy / tactics game called Phoenix Point and the crowdfunding (hold yer groan) is here :
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/phoenix-point
The ideas sound cool, and it really looks like the grand strategy layer will be pretty complex with not only aliens to worry about but all the different human factions as well. Yes please sir.
With The Crowd Funding
#9905 posted by
DaZ on 2017/04/25 23:18:20
They can probably afford to buy some lights for their office.
/snark
Tho.
#9909 posted by
Shambler on 2017/04/26 12:51:41
That page and the new info / shots is a good call, bromide.
#9910 posted by
topher on 2017/04/26 15:34:04
#9911 posted by
Rick on 2017/04/26 18:24:45
"free The Witcher: Enhanced Edition"
Thanks for the info. Got my copy this morning.
I already had it on Steam, but Steam gives me an icky feeling.