General Gaming Discussion, v4: Summer Abyss

[76Knockout]

Got the Battlefield 1/Titanfall 2 combo pack from Origin on Cyber Monday. Finishing up BF1 very soon, gonna play TF2 after. Also just ordered the deep blue Xbox one s to play on my 4k SUHD tv that I also got on Cyber Monday and ordered FFXV since it was on sale. Also playing Hearts of Iron IV too. Very busy gaming time but glad I have the options right now.

Are you liking the single player in BF1 or do you mean you've been playing multiplayer?

 

[El Che]

Are you liking the single player in BF1 or do you mean you've been playing multiplayer?

Just single player. It's been enjoyable. It's not very long but it's been fun. Maybe I'll get into the MP when I have more time at home, but I'm usually doing a bunch of stuff. I PC game on my external monitor and surf the web on my main laptop screen.

I usually play at work on my laptop so I don't play much multiplayer in general. I don't want to get into an MP game and then have to deal with something at work rendering myself unhelpful to my teammates. SP I can just pause when something pops up.

 

[HereticBD]

Just replayed Metro 2033 on Xbox One, game is amazing and underrated. There's lot to it if you explore every nook and cranny.

"Last Light" was way better though. It fixed a lot of the problems 2033 had.


Anyways, I DL'd Burnout: Paradise from GWG. I remember absolutely hating this game when it first came out. Replaying it, I don't hate it as much as I did, but the fundamental problems with the game design are still a problem. The main one being that there are no set tracks. I can't stand how you can't really master anything in the game. It's an open world racer, and the core concept of the game doesn't fit with an open world. Mainly the races. It's a racing game. It's kind of important to be able to get familiar with the tracks. This game has no tracks. It's point A to point B, from any given starting point on the map. You have to memorize the ENTIRE map, to even begin to have a clue as to which route may help you in any race. It's absolutely ridiculous. You're racing along and take a path that you might think is a shortcut, only to realize that you're going the wrong way, because the map is friggin' huge, and there are no real indicators to tell you "Hey idiot, you're going the wrong way!" It's so frustrating.

Thankfully, there are other modes to soften the blow though. "Take down", "marked man", and "stunt" breaks it up nicely. Although "stunt mode" suffers from the same open world nonsense that the races do. No direction. You just have to hit the right part of the road for stunts, or start again.

6/10

LOL @ me complaining about a million year old game.

 

[76Knockout]

"Last Light" was way better though. It fixed a lot of the problems 2033 had.


Anyways, I DL'd Burnout: Paradise from GWG. I remember absolutely hating this game when it first came out. Replaying it, I don't hate it as much as I did, but the fundamental problems with the game design are still a problem. The main one being that there are no set tracks. I can't stand how you can't really master anything in the game. It's an open world racer, and the core concept of the game doesn't fit with an open world. Mainly the races. It's a racing game. It's kind of important to be able to get familiar with the tracks. This game has no tracks. It's point A to point B, from any given starting point on the map. You have to memorize the ENTIRE map, to even begin to have a clue as to which route may help you in any race. It's absolutely ridiculous. You're racing along and take a path that you might think is a shortcut, only to realize that you're going the wrong way, because the map is friggin' huge, and there are no real indicators to tell you "Hey idiot, you're going the wrong way!" It's so frustrating.

Thankfully, there are other modes to soften the blow though. "Take down", "marked man", and "stunt" breaks it up nicely. Although "stunt mode" suffers from the same open world nonsense that the races do. No direction. You just have to hit the right part of the road for stunts, or start again.

6/10

LOL @ me complaining about a million year old game.

In the redux, i actually prefer 2033. I feel its got a more horror theme to it and with the prettier graphics and smoother framerate i think it stacks up well to Last Light, but i love both tbh.

 

[76Knockout]

Just single player. It's been enjoyable. It's not very long but it's been fun. Maybe I'll get into the MP when I have more time at home, but I'm usually doing a bunch of stuff. I PC game on my external monitor and surf the web on my main laptop screen.

I usually play at work on my laptop so I don't play much multiplayer in general. I don't want to get into an MP game and then have to deal with something at work rendering myself unhelpful to my teammates. SP I can just pause when something pops up.

Yeah i didn't mind the single player at all in BF1 i liked it in fact. I enjoyed it much more then the last 3 bf campaigns that's for sure.

 

[HereticBD]

In the redux, i actually prefer 2033. I feel its got a more horror theme to it and with the prettier graphics and smoother framerate i think it stacks up well to Last Light, but i love both tbh.

I'll be honest, I don't remember much of 2033. I just remember it being kind of basic. I remember "Last Light" being way more fleshed out and polished. Like they took the ideas from 2033, and fully realized them.

Good series though.

 

[76Knockout]

I'll be honest, I don't remember much of 2033. I just remember it being kind of basic. I remember "Last Light" being way more fleshed out and polished. Like they took the ideas from 2033, and fully realized them.

Good series though.

Yeah the original was technically rough around the edges, the redux version got visuals and gameplay on par with Last light but yeah Last light is looked at as the better game i just didn't enjoy the story as much.

 

[Thunderflash500]

I just got rank S on FF9. I never got before. I've had the game since 5th grade. I'm actually really happy about this lol. I've beaten Ozma, collected every card, all the best weapons, every blu magic for quina. Now I'm rank S. Finally.

 

[jefferz]

Nier: Automata demo comes out tomorrow for PS4, I haven't seen anything for a pc demo yet.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Downloaded Burnout Paradise and its kinda fun but is there an actual point to this game?
Im just driving around randomly jumping shit and crashing into stuff, cant really figure out what I'm supposed to be doing

 

[Theprospect26]

Downloaded Burnout Paradise and its kinda fun but is there an actual point to this game?
Im just driving around randomly jumping shit and crashing into stuff, cant really figure out what I'm supposed to be doing

Congrats, you have mastered Burnout Paradise lol.

 

[HereticBD]

Downloaded Burnout Paradise and its kinda fun but is there an actual point to this game?
Im just driving around randomly jumping shit and crashing into stuff, cant really figure out what I'm supposed to be doing

Well, you complete the events at the stop lights, and unlock cars as you go. That's the gist. The open world is pretty fucking stupid though, and hurts any sense of progress. Doing anything in the game is a pain in the ass, because of how it's designed. You can't even change cars on the fly. You have to find a junk yard on the map, just to change your fucking car. You can't even really try to beat your time on any "track", because there is no set path to them. I mean, yeah, you can get a better time, but it's only because you took a completely different path. Not because you got better at the race.

Stupid ass game. Rustles my jimmies.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Downloaded the old NES game Guardian Legend to my Nesbox cause I used to love this game and had forgot all about it
Pissin me the fuck off though, I been trying to play t for two days and still cant get past the initial boss battle that you have to go through before the game really even starts
Bout to rage on this whole shit

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

I am fairly new to Steam, I have already downloaded and completed all six chapters of Hitman 2016 but I can't re-play it right now because it is updating. What the fuck is going on? The update is for what?

 

[Count Zero]

I am fairly new to Steam, I have already downloaded and completed all six chapters of Hitman 2016 but I can't re-play it right now because it is updating. What the fuck is going on? The update is for what?

I've never had that problem. Is it the game itself updating or Steam ?

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

I've never had that problem. Is it the game itself updating or Steam ?

There was extra DLC that was recently made available so it was that. Surprisingly it just dl'd automatically.

 

[76Knockout]

I can't believe the price of the Wiiu never moved at all, i mean you can get PS4s and Xbox One s with games for cheaper than a Wiiu like wtf.

 

[76Knockout]

I don't love what I've seen of Prey i mean it looks cool but overly cinematic, i loved the original not only because of the plot and premise but the gameplay. It was amazing really underrated game.

I hate this whole hip thing games try to do now that try to go away from guns. I want to shoot shit in a sci fi action horror game, i don't want a survival game where i might have 3 shots of a gun, but then have to use a fucking pipe or something.

I'm not saying i want Prey to sacrifice the atmosphere, but constantly scavenging for new weapons just never has been appealing to me, and wasn't what the original Prey was at all.

 

[HereticBD]

Kings Quest - I'm a sucker for old school adventure games, so I DL'd this new iteration of one of the most celebrated adventure franchises of yesteryear...that I never played.

I was always a bit confused at the high price point this game had, considering that Telltale has set the standard price for these episodic adventure games at about $30 out of the gate for a season's pass. It always held me back from a purchase of this one, as I figured Sierra was just trying to cash in on the craze. I was wrong. Not only does this game have a far better look to it from the TT engine(seriously, this game looks incredible), but these are some looong ass episodes, if Ep 1 is anything to go by. I spent about four hours today on Ep 1 today, and I'm still not at the end of it. Got it all for a song at $15 on the flash sale that's going on right now.

That said, it doesn't matter much if the game sucks. Luckily, it does not. This game is a true adventure game, where it's not so much about narrative decision making, but solving puzzles to advance the story. What Sierra tries to do here, is mix the two. It gives you options on how to solve it's many puzzles, and the story is slightly molded around the choices you make. Most of the puzzles have one solution, but some have a few cosmetic variations to how you solve them. You might need a certain item to solve a puzzle, but there might be two or three items that will do the trick. You'll then get the narrator(Christopher Lloyd!), telling the story with details of what you chose. For the most part though, it's fairly linear. It's still good though. The writing is tight, and you'll just want to get to the next part. It really captures the same spirit of those older adventure games, and doesn't care to play by TT's new rules.

It might not be for everyone, but if you're a fan of the true to form adventure games like Monkey Island, or Grim Fandango, you'll dig this one.

 

[KidBaize]

I'll be honest, I don't remember much of 2033. I just remember it being kind of basic. I remember "Last Light" being way more fleshed out and polished. Like they took the ideas from 2033, and fully realized them.

Good series though.

I just played Redux a few months ago and actually liked 2033 a lot more than Last Light. 2033 had a darker atmosphere and seemed more original, while Last Light felt somewhat formulaic... more like a typical shooter than survival horror.

Maybe it was because of the remaster though. I did read some reviews that mentioned the original 2033 had some annoying mechanical flaws that Redux fixed with the newer engine.

You're right though, great series and I'm glad I grabbed it when on sale.