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. 

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. 

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) 

 

gotta love the non-sequiturs that happen when one replies to a spam post that later gets deleted :} 

It looks like I'm insulting poor path0gen in the Quake Champions thread because of or thanks to that. 

 

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. 

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. 

They can probably afford to buy some lights for their office.

/snark 

Welcome to last year Daz http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=50858&start=34 

 

That page and the new info / shots is a good call, bromide. 

free The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/ 

"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. 

Free whatever the fuck you already bought once @torrent and friends. 

it still feels shitty piracing games :D 

It's funny how Dead Space 3 ended up with a fairly average response from critics - yet Tomb Raider ended up being game of the year contender. But yet when you look at the gameplay, they're actually very similar games.

I think it's because Dead Space 3 people had high expectations for a tough, gritty survival game, but it ended up being more action-oriented. While TR has much lower expectations of being lame jumping sequences and complicated puzzles that make no sense in the real world but hey it's Tomb Raider, with a pair of tits and short shorts. Which to be honest since the first couple of games really only suits a niche market. TR1's popularity wasn't over it's puzzles anyway. Instead we get an survival-action game.

Both third person shooters with long periods of non-action. Climbing sequences in TR while zero-grav sequences in DS3. An equal amount of simple puzzles - TR usually with fire or weight, DS3 with the force. Slow walk speed, an importance on where you hit the enemy - TR the head, DS3 the limbs. Similar amounts of using cover (yawn) and QTE's (yawn!!!). TR ends up a bit different with the bow and arrow which I stuck with all game long because it was so satisfying to hit fiery head shots, but I always had ammo for the guns. DS3 was far more difficult though, imo. Both have weapon and skill upgrading (what game doesn't lately?).

The layouts were very similar, both a little bit of exploration and backtracking over previous areas, but overall you're always heading for the same destination.

Graphics on par, I loved both tbh. Stories, well sure TR had the better story, it was almost horror the way it started out. Obviously one is island, the other sci-fi. But I'm looking past where they're set.

Anyone else find the two quite similar? Same score from me 8.5/10.

Well time to take a step down... Saints Row 4 next :\ 

 

No, but both good in their own ways. 

Executable files in random torrent downloads, because nothing bad has ever happened doing that. 

I mean sure, third person shooters with survival horror elements, mostly linear level flow with small hub areas along the way, upradable weapons. Puzzles. And gratuitous Uncharted-style QTEs. 

Rick seriously ?
Never had any trouble.
Trusted uploaders, scan tools and some common sense and you are safe.

Now some of the shit we have seen packaged under the guise of DRM though....

I do not understand the thrashing against these convenient DRM free, often portable, versions of the games for paying customers...

Who's bitch are you?