Videogame Discussion Thread

Woah that is pretty incredible. The ending reminded me of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.

 

I picked up a Switch randomly as they happened to have one while I was wasting time. It really does work well as a hybrid and even my wife likes it. The system really is seamless working back and forth between both modes and I did miss Mario Kart(skipped the Wii and Wii U). My only gripe is Zelda; it really is fun and well done, but I imagine most of the people giving it 10/10 did not grow up with the original. For it's time, Zelda was a 11/10 and influenced the genre, the current generation is a solid 8/10, or maybe 9/10 when compared to current competition, mostly because it does little wrong but not because it does anything original.

Man, I remember the original seeming epic and the dungeons were nightmares. We would get stuck and maybe figure it out in a couple of months. Now, as an adult with a full time job I doubt it will take me a month to finish the entire game. I know a lot of this comes down to experience and maybe I'm just old but still, I played it for a week before I figured out that the guardians are the only dungeons…I consider the multiple dungeons scattered throughout the game as nothing more than mini-games…reminds me of grand theft auto on a less epic scale….like they made the world and then randomly scattered the small dungeons throughout and spent ten minutes designing each. Yeah, I miss the original 9 unique and seemingly absurd, at the time dungeons. I'm going to walk both ways to and from school uphill both ways in a blizzard, but that's how I feel about it.

 

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Funny: got the Nintendo Switch and the wife loves it. We've had this thing for about two weeks now and she is still stuck in the Zelda tutorial. I loved into her game to help her and she is stuck because she cooks as poorly in the game as she does in real life. To get to the final temple in the tutorial, and make it off the plateau, you have to cook something that gives you cold resistance. She's managed to cook almost a dozen meals that turned out as gunk and are edible with no benefits.

 

Make sure to climb the peak of Mount Hylia there in the tutorial section. Bring a bunch of spiced pepper meals.

 

Steam summer sale starts (alliteratively, it seems) today at 6pm UK. Paypal are also doing a deal where you can save an extra £5 off £20.

 

Bought it. The special edition even... I still haven't even opened the box yet! Sad, I know... I really enjoyed Persona 4 Golden on the Vita so I'm expecting this one to be excellent!

And speaking of the Vita, that's what I've been mostly playing and I'm really addicted just buying the games knowing it will take years to play them all. Should have like 100 physical games and much more than that digitally (not including the PS1/PSP classics...). Playing Akiba's Beat right now.

 

Discount code details for some upcoming AAA games...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/58250/pc-deals-fall-fps-released-cod-wwii-battlefront-ii/index.html

 

Just got Switch+Splatoon 2, didnt have this much fun with videogames for a while.

 

Each match is only 3 minutes,except you will do that again and again

 

Splatoon is really cool, but the way they do map rotation is horrible.
Basically you'll be stuck playing two of them changing every hour.

What's your fave weapon? I like the Octobrush. Or the Carbon Roller, if I'm not feeling like splatting ppl.

 

I use aerospace mg a lot recently, the flexibility is great. While it wont 1-hit opponent like roller or brush but it hits pretty damn hard at close range.

The true strength of this gun is how fast it fills the area with your team color imo. combined with suction bomb and curling mine launcher, i hit 2200+ points on each round easily even i didnt splattered opponent that much.

 

Dusted off my Switch, which was sitting in the dock for a couple of months after Zelda, and started playing Splatoon 2. What a wonderful game it is and I wish I had more time to play it. Just so fun and addictive. Only issues I have are the map rotations considering I only have 1-2hrs a week to play and would like to see more of the game. Not sure why they do this. I'm sure I would have problems with the phone app being used for party features but I usually play by myself. One thing that really helped me with the first game was the campaign. It really makes you a much better player by the time you finish it. it was also quite fun on it's own as a platformer/shooter hybrid campaign and the final boss was epic.

 

Anyone playing PUBG?

 

I've been playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 in preparation for the next installment.
I just put my switch up on ebay because aside from a bit of street fighter, I never touch it.

 

CDkeys has Rime for PC for $13.19

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/rime-pc-steam-cd-key

Just played a little bit of it and it's beautiful if you have a decent PC. Relaxing with good exploration. Will try to play some more later tonight.

 

THANK YOU!

 

I've finished Hellblade:Senua's Sacrifice today. I'd been following the development of the game for the past 2 years and I wasn't disappointed.
Nice graphics, good storytelling, good job with portraying psychosis, experimental stuff (like no HUD: voices whispering to your ear that "You will die, you will die" when your health is low, deleting savegame if you die too much etc.)
It's awsome with headphones, they used binaural recording and lots of going on: different personalities talking all the time, environmental noises etc.
It's somewhat short, I've finished it in 12 hours on hard mode, but well worth it. Its not really an action game, rather a good story of a sick viking-girl with severe psychosis fighting with her demons.

 

Path Of Exile 3.0 is a nice overhaul. A major rework of the main campaign and some mechanics*, and the addition of a much nicer and more optimised renderer (which does configurable dynamic resolution to keep the FPS high, for people playing on laptops and potato computers).

For those who doesn't know it, it's a modern dungeoncrawler in the vein of Diablo 2 - rather than the shallow and less loved Diablo 3. It's also one of the few good genuinely free to play online games. While it has a shop, there's nothing you can buy to make you more powerful- it's all totally optional cosmetic fluff and a few useful options to buy additional gear stash tabs etc. (which are cheap and really useful). Players often buy a few tabs, and then later kick in a bit of money for cosmetics to keep the game running, but there's no pressure. You can spend nothing, or just a few dollah, and be in great shape.

Anyway, it's stupidly fun, if you love monster-murdering loot crawlers.



* No more life leech facetanking of major bosses with the right spec/gear. Now you have to actually make an effort again.