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Post by dfunked on Aug 1, 2024 9:15:59 GMT
NCPD scanners got a bit tiresome after a while, but I still wouldn't compare them to Ubi's template. There was some decent writing in there if you stopped to read the dataterms. The roadside picnic nod was great.
Night and day difference in terms of effort to some dude just dragging 100 feathers to random points on a map.
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Post by apollo on Aug 1, 2024 9:22:47 GMT
in cyberpunk, you never had to do any of the side stuff, always felt optional. Cretins on reddit scream "witcher 3 is ubisoft sandbox" also in that game you never had to do any of the side stuff and it was not heavily copy and pasted all over the map like icon vomit
Ubisoft really started making you do the copy and paste side missions to level up, get gear etc and their side missions can be just slop like in AC oranges and odyssey (in odyssey you needed to do optional missions to get to the level gate for the next mission unless you purchased their MTX XP booster) Never played Valhalla but I couldn't face 90hours of 25 hours actually gameplay
ubisoft cookie cutter approach for game design really backfired imo as they games become conveyor belt eg sandwich packaging or robots making a car (but with bugs and glitches)
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Post by Cappy on Aug 1, 2024 10:13:24 GMT
Even the supposedly non-grindy Ubisoft games push me way over my limit for tedious grind and laborious gameplay.
I've only played two Assassin's Creed games, the first and Black Flag, the grinding for ship upgrades to capture some forts just so you could do dome more grinding elsewhere tried my patience to the limit.
Every time I approach with some expectation of actual game design it just throws up a wall of tedium to slow me down. Story missions nearly always involve guards. Lots of guards. Just milling around being in your way. I gave this game more credit than it deserves, observing from a vantage point, where is the line of the least resistance? Is there a hidden pathway? Some trick I can exploit to avoid all this bullshit?
It's always the same conclusion, they expect you to carefully remove the guards and clear a path. Oh, you didn't gather fifteen ocelot scrotums so you could upgrade your dart pouch? Scores of guards and just five darts? Good luck! You're going to be here for a loooooong time whittling that lot down. I have money, what's that for? Just sell me the pouch or the materials. Why are you making me do this just to unlock another low-effort mission that's a carbon copy of the last? Even more guards? What a shocking twist.
When even the supposedly good games sorely try my patience I'll only be buying a couple of 'Ubigames' every decade.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 1, 2024 10:19:03 GMT
Mirror's Edge Catalyst was the one that did me in.
I loved the linear first one, and an open world version of it should have been great.
But somehow they made it feel like repetitive work. To do the next story mission you always had to get to somewhere first. Which inevitably meant passing near dozens of other 'quest' markers. So the logical thing was to try and check those off on the way... which felt like you were constantly getting distracted to do repetitive things like 'races' instead of what you wanted to be doing.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 11:24:13 GMT
Plus you get to bone Panam.
I didn't, although it wasn't for want of trying!
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 11:31:34 GMT
Cretins on reddit scream "witcher 3 is ubisoft sandbox" also in that game you never had to do any of the side stuff and it was not heavily copy and pasted all over the map like icon vomit
The amount of icon vomit covering the map in Witcher 3 is pretty nuts.
The current-gen version has reduced map icons by default, which lessens the impact of all the question marks and whatnot, but if you turn them on then it becomes decidedly Ubi-esque (at least from a visual standpoint.)
Some of the side content - monster nests and hidden treasures, for instance - was just the same thing over and over. Noticeboard quests were similarly repetitive, but the repetition was masked by superb writing and acting.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 11:56:45 GMT
Plus you get to bone Panam. You can even have her come around your place now, unfortunately only your starter apartment in that shitty megablock, I've got that really swanky two level place now but she won't see it, shame.
On a different tack, taking the metro and looking out the window is damn cool, you really see Night City in a completely new way.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 1, 2024 12:01:51 GMT
Plus you get to bone Panam. You can even have her come around your place now, unfortunately only your starter apartment in that shitty megablock, I've got that really swanky two level place now but she won't see it, shame.
On a different tack, taking the metro and looking out the window is damn cool, you really see Night City in a completely new way.
Are you sure? I've had Judy come to all of my apartments, the shit ones and the swanky ones. |
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 12:06:08 GMT
I shall have to give it another go, I was in my swanky place when I invited Panam over and wondered why she never showed up, then realised where she was.
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Post by JonFE on Aug 1, 2024 12:06:13 GMT
You can even have her come around your place now, unfortunately only your starter apartment in that shitty megablock, I've got that really swanky two level place now but she won't see it, shame.
On a different tack, taking the metro and looking out the window is damn cool, you really see Night City in a completely new way.
Are you sure? I've had Judy come to all of my apartments, the shit ones and the swanky ones. Glad to see you people focus on the important stuff  |
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Post by harrypalmer on Aug 1, 2024 12:36:05 GMT
How have sex?
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Post by Vandelay on Aug 1, 2024 12:41:55 GMT
Think I've missed my chance with Panam  I assume it is when you are camping out in that hut in the storm after rescuing her boss. I was already knocked back once in the motel and thought trying again would just be sad. |
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Post by dfunked on Aug 1, 2024 12:42:56 GMT
You can't sex her up if you're playing as female V sadly. Only Judy.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 12:49:54 GMT
I knew from the outset that playing as Fem V would prevent me from boinking Panam. Still gave it my all, though.
The saving grace is that my overall play-time ended at 69 hours, which made me feel marginally better.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 12:54:46 GMT
Having Panam sexy times in a tank seemed pretty hazardous to me, bet there's nothing as dangerous in Outlaws.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 1, 2024 12:56:50 GMT
I think the main character of Outlaws stiff plasticky face is the most dangerous thing.
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Post by Vandelay on Aug 1, 2024 13:11:35 GMT
You can't sex her up if you're playing as female V sadly. Only Judy. Ah, I'm female V, so already cut myself off from that. |
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Post by dfunked on Aug 1, 2024 13:16:24 GMT
Yeah, the dialogue options make it feel like it's leaning towards there being a romance option, so I wondered if they'd patched it in.
It was one of my incognito mode Googles while playing.
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Post by robthehermit on Aug 1, 2024 13:20:50 GMT
You can't sex her up if you're playing as female V sadly. Only Judy. Ah, I'm female V, so already cut myself off from that. You'll have to settle for Judy then. She does get proper clingy though and sends you shit loads of annoying messages and gets the arse when you don't answer. Anybody know if you can dump her? |
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 13:25:23 GMT
I don't think you can dump Judy.
Not that I got to the point of finding out for myself - my heart belonged to Panam, and I couldn't bring myself to settle for Judy, so I wound up sexless and alone.
Talk about art imitating life!
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Post by hicksy on Aug 1, 2024 13:29:23 GMT
...my heart belonged to Pan Am... With you. Their blue uniformed hostesses with the mostess were fit as. |
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 13:45:17 GMT
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Post by jellyhead on Aug 1, 2024 13:52:20 GMT
I thought you all meant PamAn in Baywatch... mmmmmmm
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 1, 2024 22:45:39 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 16, 2024 22:55:14 GMT
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 17, 2024 0:57:01 GMT
Its obvs gonna look the bollocks on pc if you've spent the money but all that shiny is for nought if the gameplay sucks balls.
I did like the callout in that vid (yeah it was an intel sponsored thing) that there are intel 14th gen "optimisations". I'd be lying if I wasn't chuckling to myself thinking they're scaling it back to prevent household fires :-P
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Post by Duffmangb on Aug 20, 2024 15:54:50 GMT
Anyone else buying this ? I am surprised by so much negativity surrounding it. I went for it, it actually installed (series x) last night but I didn't "pony up" for the super dear versions so I have to wait until 30th. Hopefully get AW2 completed by then!
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Post by robthehermit on Aug 20, 2024 16:22:47 GMT
I'll be there on the 27th courtesy of U+, looking forward to it.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 20, 2024 16:44:03 GMT
I think it looks pretty cool and exactly the sort of game teenage me dreamed of. So unless it turns out to be absolute shit, I will purchasing it and squeeing my way around the galaxy.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 20, 2024 17:01:52 GMT
I'm sure I'll pick it up when you've all completed it and moved on leaving me alone in the thread posting random shit.
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I assume it is when you are camping out in that hut in the storm after rescuing her boss. I was already knocked back once in the motel and thought trying again would just be sad.
