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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 19, 2022 19:08:29 GMT
Yeah, I didn't really feel the need for it. If I want more Subnautica I will just go back to that.
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Post by erekose on Jan 20, 2022 9:18:26 GMT
Subnautica: Below Zero
Abandoned at the 4.5 hour mark.
Very pretty with some nice touches, but in the end it was too much like the original game, but with a less compelling story, and I feel like I've been there and done that. A tiny inventory and the requirement for juggling your stuff in and out of other tiny inventories didn't help. What was charming in the first game - getting upgrades to your swim speed and time underwater - was tedious here.
I imagine if you haven't played the first game, it's pretty decent. I tried playing the original but for the life of me couldn’t work out what I was supposed to be doing. I assume I just suck! |
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Post by Chopper on Jan 20, 2022 12:35:55 GMT
I tried playing the original but for the life of me couldn’t work out what I was supposed to be doing. I assume I just suck!
The original was basically searching the sea floor for fragments of tech; once you scanned three, you'd get a blueprint for making that tech, so you could go and get the materials to make it. So you got stuff like a little motorised thing to push you along faster, something else that allowed you to go deeper (where there were more bits of tech and ingredients). The storyline in that one, if you found it, was at least fairly engaging.
But this one, there was no real need for me to repeat all the exact same stuff, so I dropped it.
And, boooooooooo! I'm abandoning Disco Elysium after three and a half hours. I think that's enough to decide I don't like it. While there is some funny dialogue, running over and back the map to try out dialogue choices with no rhyme or reason got old fairly quickly. I found the writing fell between inspired and jarring - "The corpse's tongue had swollen to fill his mouth like a ball gag." Who is the authorial voice here, my character? Are ball gags a mundane enough part of his life to drop them into casual similies? It doesn't sit well. 
That's two games dropped in 24 hours; I need to choose my next one carefully. Rattling through the backlog though!
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 21, 2022 12:15:11 GMT
after three and a half hours. Certainly more efficient than my 40 hours on Dragon's Dogma... Perhaps I'm imagining it, but I feel like I did become much better at staying with games a while back only to now increasingly be swivelling back to where I break off games without spending more than a few hours. Well, usually. |
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Post by Chopper on Jan 21, 2022 13:22:32 GMT
Certainly more efficient than my 40 hours on Dragon's Dogma... Perhaps I'm imagining it, but I feel like I did become much better at staying with games a while back only to now increasingly be swivelling back to where I break off games without spending more than a few hours. Well, usually. Yeah, it's still a bit of a wrench because I really like completing games. Depending on how short the game is, sometimes I power through, but for Subnautica: BZ and Disco Elysium, I had to ask, "Am I actually enjoying this?" and the answer was No, sadly.
It's worse because I have a nominal number of games (70% of all games bought) I like to complete every year, so this hurts that too. I was doing quite well at this when I was mostly a console gamer, but the move back towards PC in the last three or four years has really hurt me, what with sales, bundles, and MS Flight Sim basically taking an entire year's gaming out of my time 
A new system this year, where I'm doing a game from each 'year I bought it,' in order. I'm currently on the 'Games bought in 2020" tab, and having abandoned two, I need to get one off that tab before I can move back to 2019. 2019 might be a bad idea anyway as the prime candidate for backlog completion in that year seems to be Age of Decadence  |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 22, 2022 14:26:26 GMT
Certainly more efficient than my 40 hours on Dragon's Dogma... Perhaps I'm imagining it, but I feel like I did become much better at staying with games a while back only to now increasingly be swivelling back to where I break off games without spending more than a few hours. Well, usually. Yeah, it's still a bit of a wrench because I really like completing games. Depending on how short the game is, sometimes I power through, but for Subnautica: BZ and Disco Elysium, I had to ask, "Am I actually enjoying this?" and the answer was No, sadly.
It's worse because I have a nominal number of games (70% of all games bought) I like to complete every year, so this hurts that too. I was doing quite well at this when I was mostly a console gamer, but the move back towards PC in the last three or four years has really hurt me, what with sales, bundles, and MS Flight Sim basically taking an entire year's gaming out of my time 
A new system this year, where I'm doing a game from each 'year I bought it,' in order. I'm currently on the 'Games bought in 2020" tab, and having abandoned two, I need to get one off that tab before I can move back to 2019. 2019 might be a bad idea anyway as the prime candidate for backlog completion in that year seems to be Age of Decadence  At the moment the games I want to replay just keep piling up, so I don't think I will get all that much done in terms of first playthroughs in the early months of the year. Well, at least Pillars is the only long one for the moment. |
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Post by Phattso on Jan 22, 2022 15:18:50 GMT
A new system this year, where I'm doing a game from each 'year I bought it,' in order. I'm currently on the 'Games bought in 2020" tab, and having abandoned two, I need to get one off that tab before I can move back to 2019. 2019 might be a bad idea anyway as the prime candidate for backlog completion in that year seems to be Age of Decadence You should join the Worshipful Company of Pigwhippers in this year's thread. Get a bit of authoritarianism into your backlog surfing. |
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Post by Frog on Jan 22, 2022 17:06:35 GMT
Death's door.
Love the look and the general feel of the game but it just feels directionless to me and not having a map annoys me where things look so samey.
Having just finished the wonderful nobody saves the world I just can't be arsed with this.
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Post by Chopper on Jan 22, 2022 20:35:07 GMT
You should join the Worshipful Company of Pigwhippers in this year's thread. Get a bit of authoritarianism into your backlog surfing. I was eyeing it up at the end of last year but then you guys went and changed the rules! Insofar as I actually understand it, I don’t think three or ten games would suit me (buying one bundle would blow it out of the water). Next year  |
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Post by Phattso on Jan 22, 2022 21:29:56 GMT
You should join the Worshipful Company of Pigwhippers in this year's thread. Get a bit of authoritarianism into your backlog surfing. I was eyeing it up at the end of last year but then you guys went and changed the rules! Insofar as I actually understand it, I don’t think three or ten games would suit me (buying one bundle would blow it out of the water). Next year It’s three *at a time* not for the whole year. |
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Post by Frog on Jan 22, 2022 21:30:51 GMT
The rules are based on Phattsos sex life.
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Post by Phattso on Jan 22, 2022 21:43:18 GMT
Indeed. And the rules were relaxed this year to allow any species in.
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Post by Frog on Jan 22, 2022 21:50:28 GMT
Apart from frogs.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 22, 2022 21:52:03 GMT
I honestly didn't realise that either... I've been a one game at a time player for a while so it might actually fit me if I took the time to look up the rules.
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Post by zephro on Jan 22, 2022 22:19:58 GMT
I abandoned Fallout 4 after going to a store and just trawling through the UI... fuck me no.
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Post by snackplissken on Jan 25, 2022 9:06:18 GMT
Ni No Kuni. I love everything about the game except for the battle mechanics. It's just so tedious to play. I've put in about 6 hours and I'm dreading every time there's a battle.. I've got to a point in the mountains where I forgot to collect additional MP so I'm sort of stuck with two characters that have no MP and I have to go all the way back down and outside to buy some more.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 25, 2022 11:40:45 GMT
I abandoned Fallout 4 after going to a store and just trawling through the UI... fuck me no. I have been thinking about getting it occasionally, but I honestly fear that I would just end up having some good fun for maybe 20-30 hours before getting fed-up with the bad writing and world-building, the progression being too fast and the combat getting stale. Like an ARPG that outstays its welcome and where you already know that it outstays it by about 50-100 hours. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jan 25, 2022 11:46:11 GMT
Fallout 4 is fine as a game to fuck around in, exploring, building up settlements, crafting, etc. You'll get 20+ hours out of it, and it's probably cheap these days.
It's shit as a Fallout game, though.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jan 25, 2022 11:52:16 GMT
I managed just 10 hours. I hated the half baked controls and generally stale gameplay. Its like the game is a proof of concept project but absolutely nothing has been refined. Like an over ambitious first time project from a bunch of people who are trying to learn game design and programming alongside making the game, but don't have the time to go back and tinker with anything.
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Post by zephro on Jan 25, 2022 11:59:30 GMT
I think I managed 5-6 hours before the shockingly bad UI and general feel of the engine just drove me to uninstall it.
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Post by RadicalRex on Jan 25, 2022 12:59:50 GMT
One great thing about the UI is how you can loot containers without opening up a separate inventory transfer window, I found that a massive QoL improvement. For all the things it seemed hopelessly outdated compared to the contemporary Witcher 3, in this regard W3 was inexplicably stuck in Morrowind times by still opening an inventory window even when fucking plucking herbs.
Pip Boy can fuck off though, it was even at the core of the game's marketing, but it's so fucking horrible.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 13:02:01 GMT
Ni No Kuni. I love everything about the game except for the battle mechanics. It's just so tedious to play. I've put in about 6 hours and I'm dreading every time there's a battle.. I've got to a point in the mountains where I forgot to collect additional MP so I'm sort of stuck with two characters that have no MP and I have to go all the way back down and outside to buy some more. For me it was the fucking sidekick character. 50 hours into the game and he is still popping up every 2 minutes to explain how to do stuff you learned in the first 30 seconds. Hate HATED the cunt. |
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Post by snackplissken on Jan 25, 2022 13:19:25 GMT
Ni No Kuni. I love everything about the game except for the battle mechanics. It's just so tedious to play. I've put in about 6 hours and I'm dreading every time there's a battle.. I've got to a point in the mountains where I forgot to collect additional MP so I'm sort of stuck with two characters that have no MP and I have to go all the way back down and outside to buy some more. For me it was the fucking sidekick character. 50 hours into the game and he is still popping up every 2 minutes to explain how to do stuff you learned in the first 30 seconds. Hate HATED the cunt. Haha tidy! Also the constant LETTTSSS GOOOO! Maybe I should watch the cutscenes as the story is interesting to me. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Jan 25, 2022 13:47:46 GMT
Death's door. Love the look and the general feel of the game but it just feels directionless to me and not having a map annoys me where things look so samey. Having just finished the wonderful nobody saves the world I just can't be arsed with this. I'm close to abandoning, but I'm over halfway so will probably see it through. It just feels bland, which is odd given the art style is so great. It almost feels like its procedurally generated in how the environments don't really link up that well and tile sets are so limited. The combat isn't fun, and there isn't much in the way of satisfying exploration either. I don't really get the gushing reviews. Picked it up for less than a tenner, which feels about right. |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 25, 2022 17:54:40 GMT
MolarAm🔵 :
Yep, I was basically hoping for a fun open-world shooter with crafting, some looting and somewhat interesting exploration. But after playing through Fallout 3 once and coming back to it two times to do more exploring, I never seemed to be able to stay with it more than 20-30 hours. And I somehow doubt that the few improvements of Fallout 4 will make up for all of what is worse now.
I guess there is no harm in getting it once it becomes particularly cheap again.
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Post by wildbillch on Jan 25, 2022 21:49:02 GMT
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fancied being a cowboy for a bit so got this second hand. After taking about a day to install I’m bailing after doing 3 of the intro missions because it controls like treacle and every button has a dozen uses.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 22:20:14 GMT
Red Dead Redemption 2 Fancied being a cowboy for a bit so got this second hand. After taking about a day to install I’m bailing after doing 3 of the intro missions because it controls like treacle and every button has a dozen uses. I genuinely rate it a 3/10 game, possibly the worst actual AAA game I have ever played. It looks gorgeous etc, but I have never hated a control scheme and actual gameplay so much. People tall about realism etc, but having a character with a turning circle wider than a truck is not realistic, it is just shit. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jan 25, 2022 22:43:43 GMT
RDR2 genuinely is a great game once you get off the mountain and can do your own thing. Yes the controls take a bit of getting used to, but you do get used to them. I wish the game didn't require that investment, but if you put that time in it's very rewarding.
It's right up there with the best open worlds imo. I'm sure others disagree, but eh, I can only go off my experience.
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Post by Frog on Jan 25, 2022 22:50:41 GMT
Story is absolutely brilliant along with the world.
Yes it doesn't play as well as it should but then again no Rockstar games do.
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Post by damagedinc on Jan 25, 2022 22:52:57 GMT
Death's door. Love the look and the general feel of the game but it just feels directionless to me and not having a map annoys me where things look so samey. Having just finished the wonderful nobody saves the world I just can't be arsed with this. I'm close to abandoning, but I'm over halfway so will probably see it through. It just feels bland, which is odd given the art style is so great. It almost feels like its procedurally generated in how the environments don't really link up that well and tile sets are so limited. The combat isn't fun, and there isn't much in the way of satisfying exploration either. I don't really get the gushing reviews. Picked it up for less than a tenner, which feels about right. I'm playing it now and love it! |
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