Videogame Discussion Thread

Right now i'm in the middle of "Dark Souls 2".
Took me forever to play it and now I kind of regret it.

Unlike most people, I find it way harder than "Dark Souls".
I'm currently stuck on the Ruin Sentinels. I don't have an Xbox Gold account so I can't call others for help.

I also just quit playing "Bloodborne". Really liked it but there is no real incentive to finish the last level since I don't want to start over.
It had a few hard parts but it's easier than Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3. Rom The Spider took me a few tries.

Lately I've been tempted to get back into "Final Fantasy XI". That's the first Final Fantasy MMORPG and it's still alive!
I quit when they cut out XBOX 360 and PS2 support in March.

The people in that game are seriously hardcore and will spend months and months of their life on a "relic" weapon etc.
That game sure has changed compared to how it was at first. The game is mostly easy mode now and you can get to level 99 in a day.
It used to take some people over 2 years of playing to get to level 75.

My main was "Beast Master" and somehow I even got that to "Job Master" which was extremely tedious to do.

Anyone still play it? I'm on Lahksmi server.

 

If you like fast-paced-shooters like DOOM and tongue-in-cheek humor I highly recommend Shadow Warrior 2:



(yes - that's a selfie stick)

 

New Deus Ex was kinda disappointing, I couldn't get the feeling and flow from earlier parts of the series. Damn shame as it's one of my top 10 game series.

Time to wash the disappointment away with DS3. It never fails!

 

Muppy yeah, it felt stupified version overall. Not too fond of gears of war combat mechanics either.

Dishonored 2 will be installed next. I really liked the first part so your approval makes it even more intriguing. Game on!

 

I've been shilling for Dark Messiah here before but if you like dishonored (I'm yet to play dishonored 2) you will probably like Dark messiah, made by the same studio, similar in a lot of regards and I bloody love it. The story is a bit...shit however. But I've never been a storyguy anyways.

 

Dark Messiah was indeed excellent game. I loved the physics which were sorta unique at the launch time of the game.

If I remember correctly the same game studio created Arx Fatalis which was another master piece. One could cast a spell by drawing symbols to air. Oooooo.

 

Well, DMoM&M is only similar to Dishonored if you're not the kind of player to spend half an hour sitting in a corner, waiting for the guard walk cycles to align perfectly with the planned route. Like me.

 

Thinking of picking up The Witcher 3 in the Steam Sale. Any thoughts on whether it's as good as everyone says? FWIW, I absolutely adore Skyrim. Cheers!

 

Annoyingly, even better. The hype is justified.

I would suggest getting the full DLC pass too- the DLCs are.. impressive. Trying hard not to rant about how amazing it is- though you will need a pretty hefty PC to have everything turned up high enough to see it in all its glory.

It's a huge world, the writing is really good (ohgodohgod the "bloody baron" questline). There's often no obvious "right" answer. Choices you make can affect the flow of the game in ways that aren't obvious. There are cuckoos in the woods and geese in the villages. Character animation and in-engine cinematics make Skyrim look like Thunderbirds. For an idea of the sort of work that has gone into it, look at this:

http://www.pcgamer.com/most-of-the-witcher-3s-dialogue-scenes-was-animated-by-an-algorithm/

Yeah, so it's pretty good. You will find character movement feels a bit stiff and weird at first, and the fact that you can die after falling about a meter will drive you INSANE for a bit, but persevere. It genuinely raised the bar for the epic open world RPG. I went into it as a sceptic, ready to pick holes, but came away very impressed indeed. I did have to do a second ("new game+") playthrough to get the ending I wanted- the fact that I did both playthroughs back to back is pretty telling.

Oh, for contrast, if Shadow Of Mordor comes up in a sale, grab that too. It was six quid or so recently. Fantastic procedural stealth brawler, with the slickest controls, also looks fantastic. I played that just before Witcher 3, which is why the controls in Witcher 3 upset me so much

 

A not so much of a counterpoint: it's really ugly. Not in the term of environmetal design, cuz I think that is pretty good for being mostly grassy knolls, but the character design is rly, uh, rural Polish, for a lack of a better word. It's like the guys at CDProjekt went to the farmer's market and modeled every single character after onion farmers or something. And it's really uncanny for me, though I assume you didn't grow up in a tiny eastern european village lmao.

 

@%20 Oddity - no, I didn't. I assumed that they were going for "generic medieval grotesque". That's actually really interesting, and something I didn't consider. It is ugly, dirty, angry and full of life.. but I suppose it has different resonances, depending on your background.

One thing that I really liked about the game in English was that the voice acting was quite varied. It wasn't just a bunch of jobbing Californian voice artists trying to sound gritty like most games- lots of weird UK regional accents in there too, really anchored it for me.

 

Couldn't ask for better info, thanks both! Bought and in the process of downloading.

Btw, yes Shadows of Mordor is brilliant...I spent most of 2015 playing it

 

@MuppetFace - does Dishonored 2 do the same thing as the first one where there are more rats, and things look darker and more unpleasant with high chaos ratings?

I'm a terrible sucker for discrete, non-lethal routes through games like that, incidentally- ever since the first Deus Ex... It also gave me a compulsion for multiple playthroughs to see different endings.

Edit: Also, no, I don't know how you feel about Witcher, or more specifically the third one (I own all three, but couldn't bear the first two, due to bugs). Give me a hint, does it fit into love/hate?

 

Pretty much that.

 

Witcher 3 is brilliant but tad unevenly written. I felt that the best part of the story line was dealing with the swamp ladies which took place in early stage of the game. Those gruesome Donnas were awesome.

Witcher 1 battle mechanics were from arse but nevertheless I sank 80 hours cutting down monsters. Witcher 2 had to be finished twice to see both endings. Strong recommendation for the whole series.

Sidenote: true Witcher nerds should read the books too! I finished Lady of the Lake last summer and really enjoyed the ending of the saga. ++

Muppy : big up for Nioh. Gonna score console for solely that and Bloodborne. I've been 100% pc gamer my whole life. Until now.

 

Some crazy deals on amazon right now for consoles.

Both slim models from Xbox (with Battlefield 1) and Playstation (with Uncharted 4) are $212 right now while the Ps4 Pro is $340.

 

Dishonored 2 seems to be ultra suave experience. I played the first game skulking in the shadows, this time I'll be hacking and slashing every one to pieces. Refreshingly hard mode seems to be quite challenging - at least in places with many fiends. I'd prefer more parkour but then again I'm in the very beginning of the game. Hopefully the sequel will have something truly new compared to Dishonered 1. I really like the graphical style of the game. So far so good. Hopefully longer gaming sessions won't turn in to mindless grinding.