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Post by wunty on Jan 13, 2023 9:22:51 GMT
And then you post that Decks. Why. WHY. It's probably the only game that will break me and make me buy it tbh.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jan 13, 2023 9:35:20 GMT
@ryandslurk I have, so far, used a completely new team for each world of Mario Rabbids. That side quest on the first world that forces you to play as Peach and Rabbid Mario was quite an eye opener for just how differently the characters all play.
I could have easily stuck to the same team, seeing as its just easier to stick with what you know, but experimentation has made the game so much more fun. I do feel they could have forced players to mix it up more. Perhaps if characters couldn't heal outside of battle or were only available on certain planets, but I suppose ths game is meant for all ages and skill level.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2023 10:52:07 GMT
@ryandslurk I have, so far, used a completely new team for each world of Mario Rabbids. That side quest on the first world that forces you to play as Peach and Rabbid Mario was quite an eye opener for just how differently the characters all play. I could have easily stuck to the same team, seeing as its just easier to stick with what you know, but experimentation has made the game so much more fun. I do feel they could have forced players to mix it up more. Perhaps if characters couldn't heal outside of battle or were only available on certain planets, but I suppose ths game is meant for all ages and skill level. Yeah, it is entirely my fault and not an issue with the game, but I would like to have been forced to change as with most games like this I stick with what I know. See also always using starting gun in FPS unless knew gun is incredibly better.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jan 13, 2023 14:43:59 GMT
Indeed. Well, hopefully its something they fix, if they ever make a 3rd one. They're not too happy about sales numbers at the minute.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2023 18:01:33 GMT
Donut County
Um..
It was a moderately interesting game, reminded me of a simpler Katamari.
Passed an hour/10
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 14, 2023 21:26:50 GMT
Cyberpunk 2077 (82 hours):
I wrapped up most of the more important storylines before going with Panam's ending. Otherwise I did all of the gigs in Watson and Westbrook and also a good amount of stuff in the Badlands. Not too much in the other districts.
I did enjoy most of my time with it. It started to drag after a while, but the map remained comparatively interesting for longer than expected. Various side quests were often fairly interesting even though a good amount of them will still often be solved by shooting or stealthing some location. Other than that there are more run-of-the-mill activities like "solving" some crime for the NCPD by shooting up a bunch of people and finding a little bit of related storytelling. Not much and it gets repetitive, but it's still a good opportunity for earning some money and experience and perhaps testing the arsenal.
Story was somewhat hit-and-miss for me. Keanu Reeves was fine. Many of the lines his character gets aren't exactly great material to work with, but there are still good story moments with him. Similar problems with some other characters and some of the story moments that were supposed to be dramatic fell flat for me. It seemed to me that they were trying too hard at times. Characters also have a tendency to talk over each other and it's very easy to make characters break off whatever they were currently saying. Overall the writing seemed solid enough though the story doesn't always make all that much sense.
However, it's a much bigger problem that there are never any consequences for constantly murdering hordes of Corpo-soldiers and Gang-members. As said - would probably have been good to have some kind of system for that. If getting on the bad side of the Tyger Claws or Maelstrom did mean that the player would frequently be at the receiving side of their retaliation, that would at least be annoying enough to make the player think twice. The way it's now it's no problem to just hover up all quests without ever thinking about who you might be anatgonizing and how that might be a problem gameplay-wise or in regards to quests getting locked out. And it kind of flattens the world a bit, which is a shame.
Normal difficulty was too easy for me. On the other hand, if one wanders into a high level-district then you can forget about engaging with combat at all as everyone is a bullet sponge that more or less can one-shot the player. Related to that the character system is undercut by the progressively increasing damage numbers for guns and armor numbers for clothes. Same goes for Health that increases with level. I also rarely felt that I couldn't do something because I was lacking the skills. Stealthing a section was usually perfectly possible, even with a character that is incompetent in that area. Most guns will still be effective even without having invested in the related category. The chosen attributes and the character background come up in dialogue occasionally. It doesn't have much of an impact, but it's still nice flavour in my opinion.
So, overall it's more of an open-world game and not as much of an RPG.
Oh and of course Night City is a rather pretty place with lots of sights to see and a good amount of verticality and many little nooks and crannies that enable rewarding exploration. Probably my favourite thing about the game, though ranged combat was also quite a bit of fun when the game didn't randomly decide to tank the performance or hit me with the sound distortion.
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Post by Cosmopolitan on Jan 15, 2023 9:50:37 GMT
Resident Evil 2 Remake (Steam). Well I only completed Claire's story so far. The game sure looks pretty, animation is fluent, there is lots of improvements to the gameplay, the story has been extended too, yet... It's hard to admit but I found myself not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. Not sure why. Perhaps I'm too old to enjoy watching some guy's guts spilled all over the floor. I found the story too long and the search for missing clues/items annoying. The monsters were more laughable than scary and, surprisingly the part that really scared the shit out of me was playing that little girl being chased by the crazy police chief . Anyway, it's a good game made to modern standards but - maybe it's nostalgia or my age - I enjoyed the original more. 7/10 Not sure if I'll ever bother with Leon's story - I remember it too well from the original (and that part with Ada? /bleurgh)
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Post by Duffman5 on Jan 15, 2023 10:18:39 GMT
Martha is Dead Very interesting game/walking sim. Good story, as has been reported it is very graphic, so maybe not for the faint hearted. Hard to score this type of game but I will go with 7/10
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 16, 2023 6:10:30 GMT
I know exactly what you mean. I wouldn't have wanted to rate The Town of Light either. Kind of hard to properly rate a game that will most likely just depress you with its subject matter.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 17, 2023 7:13:27 GMT
I played through BioShock 2 - Minerva's Den yesterday. In one sitting, which I probably shouldn't have done. I always hear people praising that over all of the other games, but to me it mostly seemed just like more Bs2, so rather good, but neither fresh nor particularly praiseworthy. Story good, gunplay good, environmental interactivity still good and sending Bees at enemies while travelling with an escort of Bots also still good.
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Post by Chopper on Jan 17, 2023 8:52:33 GMT
I played through BioShock 2 - Minerva's Den yesterday. In one sitting, which I probably shouldn't have done. I always hear people praising that over all of the other games, but to me it mostly seemed just like more Bs2, so rather good, but neither fresh nor particularly praiseworthy. Story good, gunplay good, environmental interactivity still good and sending Bees at enemies while travelling with an escort of Bots also still good. The villain and story weren't very satisfying in the main game (I thought) so maybe the introduction of a sympathetic character and logical story bumped it up a bit in people's eyes? I dunno, that sounded better in my head than written down. Also, was that a time when most DLC was rubbish, so maybe a good standalone story stood out? I remember enjoying Minerva's Den but yeah, it didn't strike me as amazing.
I need to get back to replay these games some time (but not #3, my god).
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Post by lukasz on Jan 17, 2023 9:24:31 GMT
Horizon zero dawn new game plus on ultra hard. Gog version.
After beating expansion I just decided to replay on ultra hard.
Just rushed it and did only the main quests and single side quest in the beginning.
When I got quest to go to Banuk country for the expansion I went there were i spent 1h hunting badgers and goats to be able to afford the blue gem location map.
After I mined 30 gems I bought two best adept bows and then proceed with the main quest.
The story areas with lots of lore first time took hours to explore. Now couple minutes as I just run to target and hurried up the cutscenes skip any exploration.
Few more hours of the game, few times just spamming heal potion to just power through enemies, last boss dies in 5 minutes.
That makes 100% completion of the game with all achievements earned.
Great game. Over 100h in it. Hope forbidden west comes to PC as well.
Now off to disco Elysium as per suggestion.
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Post by dogbot on Jan 17, 2023 9:33:48 GMT
The Witcher 3 (plus Hearts of Stone expansion)
Finally finished it after all these years. Got what I believe to be the good ending, which isn't normally the case for me as these things go.
Very good indeed. There's still some niggles in the remaster (eg, horse control) but mostly it's great. Looks fantastic, fun to play, really good story.
I know for some people the books are the be all of Witcher-y, but for me they're just not very good and this is the pinnacle. Better writing, plot, pacing.
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Post by wunty on Jan 17, 2023 9:44:08 GMT
I tried to read the books but they are rubbish.
To be honest I was really looking forward to W3's expansions with all the lovely raytraced lighting but the fact it ran like a jobby just put me off completely and I've binned it off. I know performance mode is 60fps and still looks great but I kind of had my heart (of stone) set on the RT version. Waiting to see if they ever patch it.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 17, 2023 11:24:37 GMT
I played through BioShock 2 - Minerva's Den yesterday. In one sitting, which I probably shouldn't have done. I always hear people praising that over all of the other games, but to me it mostly seemed just like more Bs2, so rather good, but neither fresh nor particularly praiseworthy. Story good, gunplay good, environmental interactivity still good and sending Bees at enemies while travelling with an escort of Bots also still good. The villain and story weren't very satisfying in the main game (I thought) so maybe the introduction of a sympathetic character and logical story bumped it up a bit in people's eyes? I dunno, that sounded better in my head than written down. Also, was that a time when most DLC was rubbish, so maybe a good standalone story stood out? I remember enjoying Minerva's Den but yeah, it didn't strike me as amazing.
I need to get back to replay these games some time (but not #3, my god).
I thought Bs2 wasn't much worse in the story department. It felt a bit derivative in terms of the characters, but of course Lamb was front and center and she was so much weaker than Ryan that that probably had a negative impact for quite a few people.
I guess people might also have liked that at six hours or so it's comparatively condensed, but still offers a lot of the same tools to play around with.
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Post by dogbot on Jan 17, 2023 11:53:48 GMT
I tried to read the books but they are rubbish. To be honest I was really looking forward to W3's expansions with all the lovely raytraced lighting but the fact it ran like a jobby just put me off completely and I've binned it off. I know performance mode is 60fps and still looks great but I kind of had my heart (of stone) set on the RT version. Waiting to see if they ever patch it. Not just me, then. God, they're bad. Even if you take away all the barely teenage misogyny and casual racism they're still just turgid. I can't understand why they're so popular. I played the game at 60fps. I'm not really a frame rate noticer, but it looked best that way.
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Post by EMarkM on Jan 17, 2023 12:01:42 GMT
…all the barely teenage misogyny and casual racism they're still just turgid. I can't understand why they're so popular. Oh, wait…
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Post by dogbot on Jan 17, 2023 12:06:24 GMT
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Post by theguy on Jan 17, 2023 17:00:25 GMT
Chicory : A Colorful Tale
A top down adventure game, but you colour in the world yourself and draw what you like. You move screen to screen, but what's neat is that anything you paint on a screen will stay there through the whole game and you'll see it every time you come back. This applies to every screen, and even when you open your map you'll get a view of how you coloured each screen. You do have a small colour palette per area though, which I can understand for the sake of map cohesion but it can feel limiting.
There's no combat, so it's mostly just exploration, talking and some light puzzles. Well actually, there is some combat, short boss battles which are actually really fun. There are only a handful of them though, the rest of the game is just you and your paintbrush, controlled with the right analog stick. I didn't actually like much of the moment to moment writing, but I thought the dynamic between some of the characters in the main story was done fairly well. It touches on some themes like self doubt, creative burnout, impostor syndrome and living up to expectations, both your own and others. It's not bad stuff.
I wouldn't say you've got to enjoy drawing/colouring to like the game, you don't really have to colour much in if you don't want to, but it probably helps. I can't say I'm one much for drawing but by the end there were some things I was quite pleased with. The times where it is necessary to paint are in the traversal puzzles and such. A quick early example being plants that spout up if coloured which help you get across. There are also "art classes" where you either recreate a piece or express yourself, but you can just leave it blank, submit and it makes no difference.
It's all pretty decent, but for me, after a point, it felt like it was outstaying its welcome.
Maybe it's because I expected the game to be shorter, but there are probably around 200 screens to paint. Again, you don't have to, but often the most efficient route to progress is to just fill everything in with colour. So it starts to feel tiresome as each screen you enter you're pretty much doing the same thing. Either paint everything and talk to the characters on screen, or paint everything, overcome the obstacle and move to the next screen.
The puzzles never advance much either, which only adds to that feeling. For the most part, it stays fairly basic and you have a few tools you'll find yourself using. It's a shame because there are areas where the game hints at developing these ideas into something further, but then they never seem to go that extra step to feel consistently satisfying.
It wouldn't be as much of a problem if this wasn't the entire gameplay. There are side quests and collectibles but a lot of them do end up feeling like padded content. Bit buggy as well, game crashed any time my controller disconnected, I think there's just no "Please reconnect your controller" screen so the game crashes instead. Pretty odd. Save file also wound up over 1gb (!)
Ending on a positive note, the music is absolutely stellar. I think it's done by the same person who did the Celeste soundtrack, which I've not actually heard but I think I've seen praised.
I liked it overall, there are some nice little touches through the game too that I quite appreciated. It just could have offered more in some regards.
It's on PS+.
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Post by Chopper on Jan 18, 2023 8:11:06 GMT
Grim Dawn (PC)
Second completion of this game in Jan, this time on Hardcore (Normal). This mode has permadeath but as long as you wear armour with the appropriate resistances, it is not difficult on Normal. It was becoming a bit of a drag at the end because all the different armour resistances meant a lot of inventory juggling, which is a killer for me. My own fault though as I can't let go of a lot of loot.
But an excellent game. I'll take a break for a while now, because even though there is loads of content and you stumble across different areas from game to game, the map is generally fixed so it gets a bit repetitive. I might play a little on the next tier up, as I believe that's where the really good loot starts to drop.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 20, 2023 18:21:12 GMT
I'm done with Memoria (11 hours). A pretty traditional Point-and-Click-adventure game with rather pretty art and good atmosphere and the story was quite enjoyable and mostly made sense. The english Voice-acting was mostly good as well.
As per usual with this genre the logic of the puzzles is frequently silly, but I liberally used a walkthrough to avoid getting stuck too long and for the most part the puzzling still worked well enough. Especially the spells that the game introduces throughout serve as more consistent mechanics that make things more predictable and kind of introduce a more stable element so to speak.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 21, 2023 15:40:13 GMT
The Norwood Suite: The player stays in an odd hotel where he interacts with a bunch of people; doing tasks for them which provides various items that are needed to progress. It's an open environment and it's non-linear in that regard, but it's very limited otherwise. Lots of interesting music and some surreal scenes to ogle at.
Overall it was decent enough. Not impressed or anything, but it had its moments. One problem is that people don't actually talk, they just make some noise while the text floats in the air in front of them. Wasn't a big fan of that design decision here. Partially because they end up all sounding the same.
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Post by dasbooter on Jan 21, 2023 17:58:00 GMT
Doom 2016 (Hurt me plenty)
This is pure excellence. Best Doom game full stop. Slick, smooth, exciting.
I forgot I had a bfg til the final fight.. which I didn't even realise was the final fight. Did it on third attempt.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 21, 2023 19:44:54 GMT
I think I prefer Eternal over 2016 (and Doom 2 overall, obvs)
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Post by dasbooter on Jan 21, 2023 20:38:32 GMT
I think I prefer Eternal over 2016 (and Doom 2 overall, obvs) Have just wishlisted Eternal on Steam. It's got to be cheaper than £35 at some point.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 21, 2023 20:43:52 GMT
Eternal it quite divisive. It's a lot more frantic and demanding than 2016. Personally love it
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Post by RadicalRex on Jan 21, 2023 20:46:04 GMT
Have just wishlisted Eternal on Steam. It's got to be cheaper than £35 at some point. Yeah, it gets discounted up to 75% on sales. Unfortunately, the last time was the Winter Sale that ended two weeks ago, so you may have to wait for a while.
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Post by malek86 on Jan 21, 2023 21:07:25 GMT
Not a fan of Eternal here. Didn't like how it railroaded you into only using specific tactics for each enemy. Felt like you lost some freedom to approach arenas however you saw fit. I only played for 2-3 hours though. I think I prefer Eternal over 2016 (and Doom 2 overall, obvs) Have just wishlisted Eternal on Steam. It's got to be cheaper than £35 at some point. Looking at third party stores helps too. I see Indiegala has had it for 8,39€ before. isthereanydeal.com/game/doometernalstandardedition/history/You can always make an IsThereAnyDeal account and set the notifications to however much you are willing to pay.
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Post by Tomo on Jan 21, 2023 21:49:33 GMT
Aye Doom16 >>> Eternal. The latter threw too much stuff into the mix. Lost the purity that Doom16 managed to nail so perfectly.
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Post by Tomo on Jan 21, 2023 21:54:33 GMT
I think I prefer Eternal over 2016 (and Doom 2 overall, obvs) Have just wishlisted Eternal on Steam. It's got to be cheaper than £35 at some point. Dude I *think* I have a Doom Eternal key available from latest Humble Bundle. I'll PM it to you. Can't guarantee I haven't already redeemed it but pretty sure I already had it in my library when bought bundle.
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