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Bioshock Infinite was my 2013 GOTY. I love that game, and that series. I know most of peoples was Last of Us, but I never owned a PS3. Even now with a PS4, I only got some odd hours into Last of Us before moving onto something else.
I really enjoyed BioShock Infinite, but ohmygoodness the Burial at Sea DLC put it over the top for me. I might actually enjoy the whole thing more than the original BioShock.
The noir thing is fun, but Burial at Sea attempts to backpedal the Daisy Fitzroy controversy in a really hamfisted "You will regret your words and deeds, see how it was YOU who misinterpreted things" kind of way, and then ultimately throws Elizabeth in the garbage, treating that character in a way she never deserved.
The ironic thing about gifting Iolo that gladiator game is that his decree as Emperor was that people should be clearing their backlogs instead of buying new games.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Fair enough.
But if you blindly pay for a AAA game from our modern industry before it's even released and it turns out to be a complete mess than you've forfeited any sympathy you might have gotten from complaining about it later.
I don't see how that's true at all. People buy things - not just games - all the time sight unseen. Doing so does not, in any way, void the expectation that you will get the product you paid for.
And in this specific instance, it's not "blindly" at all: they've shown us videos, screenshots, a description of the product, have already released it for onetwo platforms to pretty high acclaim, and have previously given us a successful game of the exact type they're selling us now. There's reasonable expectation they will come through again. We're not kickstarting My New Awesome Game by Jim-Bob McMolyneux.
Minor FTFY. It came out on both Xbox One and Xbox 360.
And both versions were, by all accounts, stellar. The 360 version in particular is apparently a complete marvel, although that's not entirely surprising given how incredible 2013 looked on it too.
Dang that reminds me I still haven't played Burial.
I generally agree that preorders tend to be foolish. But I also do it a bunch. So.. I dunno. Guess I've not been personally burned by it enough. The refund system goes a long way towards minimizing the risks, but sometimes it takes a bit for issues to become apparent.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Fair enough.
But if you blindly pay for a AAA game from our modern industry before it's even released and it turns out to be a complete mess than you've forfeited any sympathy you might have gotten from complaining about it later.
I don't see how that's true at all. People buy things - not just games - all the time sight unseen. Doing so does not, in any way, void the expectation that you will get the product you paid for.
And in this specific instance, it's not "blindly" at all: they've shown us videos, screenshots, a description of the product, have already released it for one platform to pretty high acclaim, and have previously given us a successful game of the exact type they're selling us now. There's reasonable expectation they will come through again. We're not kickstarting My New Awesome Game by Jim-Bob McMolyneux.
I mean you can buy something like a can opener sight unseen because the last few major can openers to come out didn't have this weird bug where they'd just randomly cut people's hands. Shit, this is G&T so I need to do a car analogy... uhhh, nobody buys a 2016 Toyota Corolla the day they start rolling off of the assembly line sight unseen, do they?
All I'm saying is be careful when it comes to preordering AAA games. People get burned by buggy games and then they bitch on forums and nothing ever changes because people keep preordering games. I hope ROTTR ends up solid because I want to play it (I had a ton of fun playing through TR2013), but you're living in a fantasy world if you think that the previous game's quality means anything in this industry - Literally everything you just said about Tomb Raider was said about Batman and Just Cause.
It comes out on the 28th, the smart move is to wait until Friday the 29th or Saturday the 30th before picking it up, this way you've got a day or two to let the early adopters beta test the game for you and if there are no game breaking issues you can play it all weekend.
It comes out on the 28th, the smart move is to wait until Friday the 29th or Saturday the 30th before picking it up, this way you've got a day or two to let the early adopters beta test the game for you and if there are no game breaking issues you can play it all weekend.
Or, you can preorder it, get the goodies, and if the game is fundamentally broken, you're going to know within 2 hours of playing it, in which case - hey, refund!
I can't recall ever having been burned by a preorder myself so maybe I just don't get the paranoia.
Isn't it the same porting house that did the 2013 version? Also, the Moon Shadow pistol is pretty fantastic. Because otherwise, you have to wait till you're 60% done with the game to unlock it.
In the case of the Tomb Raider game, the latest version by the same studio was fantastic on the PC. The new one is fantastic on the consoles. I believe this one will also be fantastic on the PC.
This is not like Creative Assembly. Every game they release is crap for a good six months or so until they finish making the game that you bought. I think this "stahp pre-ordering" nonsense needs to take some account for the studio and it's history.
I have tried a few times to get into Bioshock, and every time I just kind of get bored during the first area. The story doesn't grab me, the setting doesn't grab me, the gameplay doesn't grab me. I have this same issue with Elder Scrolls games (I think I tried Morrowind and Skyrim). I think something may be fundamentally broken in the gaming section of my brain, since these games I can't sustain interest in are pretty universally regarded as fantastic games.
I dunno, give me a Mass Effect, Batman, Saints Row or Borderlands game and I'm good to go for untold hours. Civ V, CK2 and EU4 have also snared me for entirely too large a share of my life. Not even sure why some grab me and some don't.
Sounds like you dislike being dropped totally helpless into an open world.
Hrm that's a possibility, I do like a structured narrative. Now I'm trying to think if I have played any sandbox games for more than about an hour. I have enjoyed my time in Kerbal Space Program, but it's pretty easy to set a goal and there is no actual storyline to follow. Also I wouldn't consider Bioshock to be an open world game (at least the bits I played), it has a pretty clear story and it's not like I ever had a moment where I didn't have any idea what to do next, I just couldn't connect with the setting and the gameplay didn't enthuse me. On the console side I tried to play Uncharted, and got a little ways into the game and found that I just didn't enjoy the combat sections at all. I should probably hook the PS3 back up and just turn down the combat difficulty and I'd probably enjoy it, I certainly loved Tomb Raider 2013 after all.
I dunno, I have a hard time quantifying my tastes in games, though zombies can stay away that much I know (also survival games).
Bioshock 1 kind of hemmed you in with that one weapon. You would eventually get another but you were hemmed to a path that you could not deviate from. System Shock 2 stuck you with the wrench but it felt......more open compared to Bioshock.
Does anybody find it ironic that the patron saints of the "stop pre-ordering" movement are the same parasites who make all of their money pumping hype for major game studios?
>_< yea any bit helps, I hope after paying my property tax with my tax return, I hope for enough leftover for a new 3d card, so I can finally FINALLY play GTAV/TW3/FO4.
It is truely ok, I have Undertale and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky still to play, so the wait will be less painful.
In the case of the Tomb Raider game, the latest version by the same studio was fantastic on the PC. The new one is fantastic on the consoles. I believe this one will also be fantastic on the PC.
This is not like Creative Assembly. Every game they release is crap for a good six months or so until they finish making the game that you bought. I think this "stahp pre-ordering" nonsense needs to take some account for the studio and it's history.
To be fair, CA made Alien: Isolation and, if I remember right, that was rock-solid out of the box. But as far as their bread-and-butter games (i.e. post-Medieval II Total War with the possible exception of Shogun 2 but my memory is a bit fuzzy) go, though, yeah, you're right...
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War. War sometimes changes?
The eternal conflict between @AnakinOU and myself rages on. This sale though, he rather won the battle. I sent him some Steam gamery and he quite suspiciously asked for my address, which I quickly provided obviously. Well today I came home to a package which contained two board games to add to my collection: The Castles of Burgundy and Pandemic: Legacy! Thanks so much Anakin!
I have some work to do when some new sales start coming back around...
So, the last thing I pre-ordered from Steam was Homefront, and my god I wish Steam refunds had been a thing back then but I digress, and I don't remember whether you are charged immediately or whether you're charged when it actually releases. Anyone have recent experience?
Normally I wait until something drops to at least half off, this is an exception.
Well, except questionable visual novels but those are never more than 10 bucks anyway.
Yeah I'm waiting to *dive* back into Subnautica until a few more updates drop, or I fix this ram issue.
It's so good though I just dunno if I can wait. Oh nevermind Ark is working again...
Ark is technically working.
But... uh... just wait for this latest patch to settle a bit. Things are wonky right now.
I've been playing Subnautica too. I like it but I can see I will soon bang my head against the content wall. Still, very fun.
Yeah, Subnautica does have a pretty bad lack of fun things and guided gameplay (content wall, as you say) after repairing the Aurora and/or getting the Water Filtration Unit from the new big wrecked piece of the ship hull. Funny thing is, those two objectives can be done in under four hours, granted this is the third time I've played a fresh map and repaired the Aurora. (Evidenced by the stream I just ended. From start to crafting the water filtrator was 2 hours 59 minutes. Do still had the Aurora to repair, which would take about 30 minutes tops.
After that, it's just building more or bigger seabases. I do love the game, but it absolutely needs more areas to explore and cool stuff to build.
(I'd say Fallout: NV and Skyrim but I don't think you can include any Bethesda game as the buggy-ness is part of their charm?)
I feel like you're being just a bit liberal in your panning of those games. Of those that you listed I can't really consider Brink/Driveclub/Any CoD/Watch Dogs/Diablo 3/GTA V to be abysmal failures, to the point where you'd absolutely feel like you'd been sold a broken mess. Some of those games just aren't very good, but there are many games that aren't very good. There are many games that aren't very good that some people happen to think are really fun. Brink for example. AFAIK there was nothing really wrong with Brink, except that nobody was really playing it. That's a pretty universal problem for shooters that aren't CoD/BF/or CS. Watch Dogs was a remarkably "average" game, and if you had any sort of "bullshot" radar, you'd probably have figured that out before it released.
I'm certainly not a proponent of pre-orders though. Don't get me wrong. The only game I've pre-ordered recently was FO4, and I did that knowing that I would buy that game even if it had AC: Unity levels of jank. Thankfully (Gabe, I'm looking at you here) my back order is so full of awesome games that it's easy for me to avoid pre-ordering things. My backlog is so bad that by the time I usually buy the game, it's the GOTY version with all the pre-order bonuses and several DLCs thrown together for less than the pre-order price.
Some people get excited about a game though. I'm not going to dispense the wisdom of not feeding the "pre-order culture", like some f-ing game guru sitting high atop his mountain of NES cartridges.
I have found the module for me, it is called Nova Aetas and it is good.
I have no idea what I am doing and it shows. I am a senile 19 year old that specializes in farming who can't farm. My faith in the Viking God's of old angers a group of cavalry decked in black so they consistently take me prisoner. In my quest to worship freely unmolested I discovered I could enlist in a lords army as a Nord recruit. I Join an army, not as a leader/conqueror/king as I'm used to, but as a simple footsoldier, a cog in a great machine if you will.
Day 1-40: we patrol and by the good grace of my Lord I am promoted to a higher class and given equipment befitting my new station as well as additional funds as is my right.
Day 41: Things go wrong and I had no idea, war were declared.
Day 41-43: My Lord marches us West, always to the west.
Day 43: Our scouts discover another group of Nords, similar in appearance, speech, and they have every ideal we have, this can only mean great things, an ally against those that don't bend a knee to Odin.
Day 43 afternoon: My god they are who we war against! Our Lord marched us straight at them.
Mount and Blade Warband NA Log #2:
Day 4x: I have claimed the lives of countless of my brethren, I have fallen in combat but I always survive. I am not worthy of Valhalla.
Day 50: We are soundly defeated, by our own no less.
Day 51: I break my oath to my Lord, The Allfather would not allow this if I was following the true path.
Day 52-60: I seek solace in combat with various tournaments, even consider changing my faith. The Swadians speak of this Christ like a gentle Odin. Then the papal states attack me and that's out the window.
Day 60 afternoon: I reaffirm my beliefs and realize that I was lead astray. I seek out the true Nord believers and request to join them.
Day 61: My new lord gave me some bread and I ran out of water.
Brink had like....3/4 of the way to a good game. The problem was mostly the map design, and the fact that they designed everything around stopwatch mode to try to appeal to some mythical esport market. There were a couple maps where if you didn't escape from the initial spawn in the first minute or so, you basically were never going to be able to push past it. WHich is a shame, since the middle part of container city was actually pretty well designed
I have found the module for me, it is called Nova Aetas and it is good.
I have no idea what I am doing and it shows. I am a senile 19 year old that specializes in farming who can't farm. My faith in the Viking God's of old angers a group of cavalry decked in black so they consistently take me prisoner. In my quest to worship freely unmolested I discovered I could enlist in a lords army as a Nord recruit. I Join an army, not as a leader/conqueror/king as I'm used to, but as a simple footsoldier, a cog in a great machine if you will.
Day 1-40: we patrol and by the good grace of my Lord I am promoted to a higher class and given equipment befitting my new station as well as additional funds as is my right.
Day 41: Things go wrong and I had no idea, war were declared.
Day 41-43: My Lord marches us West, always to the west.
Day 43: Our scouts discover another group of Nords, similar in appearance, speech, and they have every ideal we have, this can only mean great things, an ally against those that don't bend a knee to Odin.
Day 43 afternoon: My god they are who we war against! Our Lord marched us straight at them.
Mount and Blade Warband NA Log #2:
Day 4x: I have claimed the lives of countless of my brethren, I have fallen in combat but I always survive. I am not worthy of Valhalla.
Day 50: We are soundly defeated, by our own no less.
Day 51: I break my oath to my Lord, The Allfather would not allow this if I was following the true path.
Day 52-60: I seek solace in combat with various tournaments, even consider changing my faith. The Swadians speak of this Christ like a gentle Odin. Then the papal states attack me and that's out the window.
Day 60 afternoon: I reaffirm my beliefs and realize that I was lead astray. I seek out the true Nord believers and request to join them.
Day 61: My new lord gave me some bread and I ran out of water.
I can't win and it's glorious.
Let me get this straight here. You're a Norseman who ran out of water. Aren't there like a billion freshwater streams in Norway? Aren't there places that are covered in frozen water year round?
Question regarding TF2 items: I have a ton of yellow items from over the years, duplicates etc. Is there a most efficient/profitable/best way to scrap and craft stuff?
(I'd say Fallout: NV and Skyrim but I don't think you can include any Bethesda game as the buggy-ness is part of their charm?)
I feel like you're being just a bit liberal in your panning of those games. Of those that you listed I can't really consider Brink/Driveclub/Any CoD/Watch Dogs/Diablo 3/GTA V to be abysmal failures, to the point where you'd absolutely feel like you'd been sold a broken mess. Some of those games just aren't very good, but there are many games that aren't very good. There are many games that aren't very good that some people happen to think are really fun. Brink for example. AFAIK there was nothing really wrong with Brink, except that nobody was really playing it. That's a pretty universal problem for shooters that aren't CoD/BF/or CS. Watch Dogs was a remarkably "average" game, and if you had any sort of "bullshot" radar, you'd probably have figured that out before it released.
I'm certainly not a proponent of pre-orders though. Don't get me wrong. The only game I've pre-ordered recently was FO4, and I did that knowing that I would buy that game even if it had AC: Unity levels of jank. Thankfully (Gabe, I'm looking at you here) my back order is so full of awesome games that it's easy for me to avoid pre-ordering things. My backlog is so bad that by the time I usually buy the game, it's the GOTY version with all the pre-order bonuses and several DLCs thrown together for less than the pre-order price.
Some people get excited about a game though. I'm not going to dispense the wisdom of not feeding the "pre-order culture", like some f-ing game guru sitting high atop his mountain of NES cartridges.
The last time I pre-ordered was Legacy of the Void, and before that possibly Reaper of Souls. Basically anything Blizzard non-MMO/F2P.
Only other thing that jumps to mind was Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but that was possibly the greatest leap of faith I took because I really, really wanted it to be good.
Other than that? I don't really pre-order because Steam sales.
Isn't it the same porting house that did the 2013 version? Also, the Moon Shadow pistol is pretty fantastic. Because otherwise, you have to wait till you're 60% done with the game to unlock it.
Moon Shadow heavy pistol skin, from the description. Which sounds better to me, because I dislike throwing off the sense of progression by tossing around late game upgrades as preorder bonuses.
In the case of the Tomb Raider game, the latest version by the same studio was fantastic on the PC. The new one is fantastic on the consoles. I believe this one will also be fantastic on the PC.
On the other hand, Mad Max reportedly ran great on PC, and Avalanche's previous title, JC2, was a gorgeous dream that could run on a toaster...followed by JC3, a gorgeous game that runs like your computer is a toaster. Arkham Knight was even worse. I don't expect Tomb Raider to be bad, but then, hey, I didn't expect either of those games to land as they did either (though I'm still more sour about Arkham inexplicably jettisoning challenge rooms than their inability to program).
Still, complaining about preordering always seemed peevish to me. For one, you're unlikely to change people's behavior and you're super unlikely to change industry behavior, and for two, what people do with their own money is their business—if they feel burned by preorders, they'll stop doing it, and if not, it's not a problem.
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Thanks much broseph.
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Brink's character customization always perplexed me. You never see your character outside of the menu and I never noticed anyone else's characters past whether they were still standing or not.
Let me get this straight here. You're a Norseman who ran out of water. Aren't there like a billion freshwater streams in Norway? Aren't there places that are covered in frozen water year round?
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I really wish I would have realized sooner than Dungeon of the Endless's difficulty levels, "Easy" and "Too Easy" are the equivalent of FTL's "Normal and "Easy."
I started playing the game on Too Easy for the first time tonight and hey, I actually had fun instead of just recognizing it as a neat game that felt impossible!
Isn't it the same porting house that did the 2013 version? Also, the Moon Shadow pistol is pretty fantastic. Because otherwise, you have to wait till you're 60% done with the game to unlock it.
Moon Shadow heavy pistol skin, from the description. Which sounds better to me, because I dislike throwing off the sense of progression by tossing around late game upgrades as preorder bonuses.
It's the heavy pistol unlocked, as well. Having played through the game with it, it doesn't imbalance the game in the least. Combat is better/slicker than in TR2013, but you're still not as much of a one-woman army as you are in other games. It's still got a much slower fire rate than the 1911 standard pistol and reloads slower. Not to mention the crafting system, while different, lets you upgrade at roughly the same rate as the old game. The truly game-changing things like suppressors, REALLY upgraded weapons, and the like are only unlocked with rare coins.
Brink's character customization always perplexed me. You never see your character outside of the menu and I never noticed anyone else's characters past whether they were still standing or not.
Strange investment of resources.
I hated one thing about it: tattoos were freaking permanent.
I thought that I was just applying it to my character in the "rebel" force, but it also did it to the "police" one, and it couldn't be removed afterwards. Kinda ruined my character from then on for me.
Last night, after years of letting it languish on the good ol' backlog, I finished Mass Effect 3.
It was quite a bit of a journey considering my first Shep (manShep) got lost in some file backup/moving accident. Then I started my first femShep, who also got lost after completion of Mass Effect 3.
Took a while before I went through Mass Effect 1 and 2 again (with my rather completionist "no quest left behind" thinking, that takes a while) so I could finally get ME3 underway. But that also took a bit because I wanted to own all DLC (for one single, complete run.) and Bioware just doesn't discount shit. In the end I bit the bullet and went all in with the DLC just to get it over with.
So... ending thoughts:
What the ever-loving fuck!?
I had heard about the "3 buttons" ending but I expected at least some basic explanation with the choices presented. It makes no sense, comes out of nowhere, and the tone just doesn't fit with the past hour of sacrifice and pushing through no matter what.
Why in all the hells would suddenly a the "embodiment" of all reapers come out to tell you "oh yeah, err, something something variables. Here, just push a button."
It's not even the 3 buttons thing that annoys me, DX:HR did it and it fit the tone and the situation presented. Here it's just outta nowhere and with no real explanation other than "we need to finish this and we have no fucking idea how."
The series is worth it for the journey, but abso-fucking-lutely not for the destination.
yeah, it was really bad. i mean i can cut them some slack cause actual final endings that have some meaning are hard to write well, but it was pretty terrible, and thats why a lot of people were really upset. i try to just ignore it, and the final dlc the did was pretty fun and sort of makes up for it.
although im still mad at the also for the multiplayer. there was a weekend event every weekend, and one weekend they skipped it and on the website they were like, sorry we had some issues, but we'll be back next week better than ever... but it never did come back. and it was just a few weeks after releasing a new multiplayer pack and achievments some of which required the weekend special events. (shouts mass effect curses at the heavens)
The Citadel DLC was fantastic, and I still can't believe they actually did half the things they did with that DLC. Some parts were really, really fun.
For the ending, there was no need for it to be transcendental and change my life or anything, it just needed to be in the same line/tone to what was happening in the last hour or so, but suddenly you're offered choices which make no sense with the rest of the conflict around you.
Choice 1: Kill us all, we don't care. But you will face war between organics and synthetics in the future.
Except Shepard just stopped the Geth/Quarian conflict, and even paired up Joker with a sexbot! It's obvious that this cycle will be different, but no, it can't, because reaper-child is omniscient or some shit. And this ending has the shitty collateral damage of killing EDI and the Geth.
Choice 2: Synthesize with us! Because reasons! We couldn't do this before because no one had the balls or some shit? But now we can, and we'll even be friendly!
Choice 3: Yeah, take the keys to the reapers, I'm outta here!
Choice 4: (actually did this one first out of pure frustration) everything goes on the same if you shoot the reaper-child.
My headcanon ending to Mass Effect 3 is the extremely silly SECRET TRUE ENDING video that mashes up the final cut-scenes with Gurren Lagann. It's ridiculous, but also it's also more or less how everyone wanted the trilogy to end.
Brink was a game that was so hyped up and so disappointing.
I never played it. By the time I considered checking it out (I heard the movement was really cool) the game seemed abandoned. I like the idea of a sort of freerunning inspired movement system, are there any other games that do something like that other than maybe Mirror's Edge?
Some people get excited about a game though. I'm not going to dispense the wisdom of not feeding the "pre-order culture", like some f-ing game guru sitting high atop his mountain of NES cartridges.
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He's very cross about that, by the way. He was really looking forward to making it.
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
Oh, fuck yes.
The noir thing is fun, but Burial at Sea attempts to backpedal the Daisy Fitzroy controversy in a really hamfisted "You will regret your words and deeds, see how it was YOU who misinterpreted things" kind of way, and then ultimately throws Elizabeth in the garbage, treating that character in a way she never deserved.
Then came the bunnies.
Minor FTFY. It came out on both Xbox One and Xbox 360.
And both versions were, by all accounts, stellar. The 360 version in particular is apparently a complete marvel, although that's not entirely surprising given how incredible 2013 looked on it too.
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I generally agree that preorders tend to be foolish. But I also do it a bunch. So.. I dunno. Guess I've not been personally burned by it enough. The refund system goes a long way towards minimizing the risks, but sometimes it takes a bit for issues to become apparent.
I mean you can buy something like a can opener sight unseen because the last few major can openers to come out didn't have this weird bug where they'd just randomly cut people's hands. Shit, this is G&T so I need to do a car analogy... uhhh, nobody buys a 2016 Toyota Corolla the day they start rolling off of the assembly line sight unseen, do they?
All I'm saying is be careful when it comes to preordering AAA games. People get burned by buggy games and then they bitch on forums and nothing ever changes because people keep preordering games. I hope ROTTR ends up solid because I want to play it (I had a ton of fun playing through TR2013), but you're living in a fantasy world if you think that the previous game's quality means anything in this industry - Literally everything you just said about Tomb Raider was said about Batman and Just Cause.
It comes out on the 28th, the smart move is to wait until Friday the 29th or Saturday the 30th before picking it up, this way you've got a day or two to let the early adopters beta test the game for you and if there are no game breaking issues you can play it all weekend.
Or, you can preorder it, get the goodies, and if the game is fundamentally broken, you're going to know within 2 hours of playing it, in which case - hey, refund!
I can't recall ever having been burned by a preorder myself so maybe I just don't get the paranoia.
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Thanks man. Will give it a thorough testing this weekend.
This is not like Creative Assembly. Every game they release is crap for a good six months or so until they finish making the game that you bought. I think this "stahp pre-ordering" nonsense needs to take some account for the studio and it's history.
Bioshock 1 kind of hemmed you in with that one weapon. You would eventually get another but you were hemmed to a path that you could not deviate from. System Shock 2 stuck you with the wrench but it felt......more open compared to Bioshock.
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>_< yea any bit helps, I hope after paying my property tax with my tax return, I hope for enough leftover for a new 3d card, so I can finally FINALLY play GTAV/TW3/FO4.
It is truely ok, I have Undertale and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky still to play, so the wait will be less painful.
To be fair, CA made Alien: Isolation and, if I remember right, that was rock-solid out of the box. But as far as their bread-and-butter games (i.e. post-Medieval II Total War with the possible exception of Shogun 2 but my memory is a bit fuzzy) go, though, yeah, you're right...
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The eternal conflict between @AnakinOU and myself rages on. This sale though, he rather won the battle. I sent him some Steam gamery and he quite suspiciously asked for my address, which I quickly provided obviously. Well today I came home to a package which contained two board games to add to my collection: The Castles of Burgundy and Pandemic: Legacy! Thanks so much Anakin!
I have some work to do when some new sales start coming back around...
Normally I wait until something drops to at least half off, this is an exception.
Yeah, Subnautica does have a pretty bad lack of fun things and guided gameplay (content wall, as you say) after repairing the Aurora and/or getting the Water Filtration Unit from the new big wrecked piece of the ship hull. Funny thing is, those two objectives can be done in under four hours, granted this is the third time I've played a fresh map and repaired the Aurora. (Evidenced by the stream I just ended. From start to crafting the water filtrator was 2 hours 59 minutes. Do still had the Aurora to repair, which would take about 30 minutes tops.
After that, it's just building more or bigger seabases. I do love the game, but it absolutely needs more areas to explore and cool stuff to build.
AC: Unity
Arkham Knight
Brink
Driveclub
Any COD
Watch Dogs
Diablo 3
Halo: MCC
GTA:V
SimCity
come to mind
(I'd say Fallout: NV and Skyrim but I don't think you can include any Bethesda game as the buggy-ness is part of their charm?)
Brink, SimCity, and Diablo 3 all got me :<
I feel like you're being just a bit liberal in your panning of those games. Of those that you listed I can't really consider Brink/Driveclub/Any CoD/Watch Dogs/Diablo 3/GTA V to be abysmal failures, to the point where you'd absolutely feel like you'd been sold a broken mess. Some of those games just aren't very good, but there are many games that aren't very good. There are many games that aren't very good that some people happen to think are really fun. Brink for example. AFAIK there was nothing really wrong with Brink, except that nobody was really playing it. That's a pretty universal problem for shooters that aren't CoD/BF/or CS. Watch Dogs was a remarkably "average" game, and if you had any sort of "bullshot" radar, you'd probably have figured that out before it released.
I'm certainly not a proponent of pre-orders though. Don't get me wrong. The only game I've pre-ordered recently was FO4, and I did that knowing that I would buy that game even if it had AC: Unity levels of jank. Thankfully (Gabe, I'm looking at you here) my back order is so full of awesome games that it's easy for me to avoid pre-ordering things. My backlog is so bad that by the time I usually buy the game, it's the GOTY version with all the pre-order bonuses and several DLCs thrown together for less than the pre-order price.
Some people get excited about a game though. I'm not going to dispense the wisdom of not feeding the "pre-order culture", like some f-ing game guru sitting high atop his mountain of NES cartridges.
I have found the module for me, it is called Nova Aetas and it is good.
Day 1-40: we patrol and by the good grace of my Lord I am promoted to a higher class and given equipment befitting my new station as well as additional funds as is my right.
Day 41: Things go wrong and I had no idea, war were declared.
Day 41-43: My Lord marches us West, always to the west.
Day 43: Our scouts discover another group of Nords, similar in appearance, speech, and they have every ideal we have, this can only mean great things, an ally against those that don't bend a knee to Odin.
Day 43 afternoon: My god they are who we war against! Our Lord marched us straight at them.
Mount and Blade Warband NA Log #2:
Day 50: We are soundly defeated, by our own no less.
Day 51: I break my oath to my Lord, The Allfather would not allow this if I was following the true path.
Day 52-60: I seek solace in combat with various tournaments, even consider changing my faith. The Swadians speak of this Christ like a gentle Odin. Then the papal states attack me and that's out the window.
Day 60 afternoon: I reaffirm my beliefs and realize that I was lead astray. I seek out the true Nord believers and request to join them.
Day 61: My new lord gave me some bread and I ran out of water.
I can't win and it's glorious.
Brink had like....3/4 of the way to a good game. The problem was mostly the map design, and the fact that they designed everything around stopwatch mode to try to appeal to some mythical esport market. There were a couple maps where if you didn't escape from the initial spawn in the first minute or so, you basically were never going to be able to push past it. WHich is a shame, since the middle part of container city was actually pretty well designed
Let me get this straight here. You're a Norseman who ran out of water. Aren't there like a billion freshwater streams in Norway? Aren't there places that are covered in frozen water year round?
The last time I pre-ordered was Legacy of the Void, and before that possibly Reaper of Souls. Basically anything Blizzard non-MMO/F2P.
Only other thing that jumps to mind was Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but that was possibly the greatest leap of faith I took because I really, really wanted it to be good.
Other than that? I don't really pre-order because Steam sales.
Moon Shadow heavy pistol skin, from the description. Which sounds better to me, because I dislike throwing off the sense of progression by tossing around late game upgrades as preorder bonuses.
On the other hand, Mad Max reportedly ran great on PC, and Avalanche's previous title, JC2, was a gorgeous dream that could run on a toaster...followed by JC3, a gorgeous game that runs like your computer is a toaster. Arkham Knight was even worse. I don't expect Tomb Raider to be bad, but then, hey, I didn't expect either of those games to land as they did either (though I'm still more sour about Arkham inexplicably jettisoning challenge rooms than their inability to program).
Still, complaining about preordering always seemed peevish to me. For one, you're unlikely to change people's behavior and you're super unlikely to change industry behavior, and for two, what people do with their own money is their business—if they feel burned by preorders, they'll stop doing it, and if not, it's not a problem.
With Steam refunds this approaches irrelevancy.
The cutscenes for the security forces, seeing the characters made up of whatever we designed, it was quite awesome and hilarious at the same time.
The uprising.....not so much.
Oh, and not being able to see the two endings by replaying the game was a real beast. Thank goodness for youtube.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Thanks much broseph.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Strange investment of resources.
I'm senile at 19, who knows?
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I started playing the game on Too Easy for the first time tonight and hey, I actually had fun instead of just recognizing it as a neat game that felt impossible!
It's the heavy pistol unlocked, as well. Having played through the game with it, it doesn't imbalance the game in the least. Combat is better/slicker than in TR2013, but you're still not as much of a one-woman army as you are in other games. It's still got a much slower fire rate than the 1911 standard pistol and reloads slower. Not to mention the crafting system, while different, lets you upgrade at roughly the same rate as the old game. The truly game-changing things like suppressors, REALLY upgraded weapons, and the like are only unlocked with rare coins.
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I hated one thing about it: tattoos were freaking permanent.
I thought that I was just applying it to my character in the "rebel" force, but it also did it to the "police" one, and it couldn't be removed afterwards. Kinda ruined my character from then on for me.
Such a weird thing...
My headcanon ending to Mass Effect 3 is the extremely silly SECRET TRUE ENDING video that mashes up the final cut-scenes with Gurren Lagann. It's ridiculous, but also it's also more or less how everyone wanted the trilogy to end.
The most disapointing thing is that they had systems that could make a good game buried in there
I never played it. By the time I considered checking it out (I heard the movement was really cool) the game seemed abandoned. I like the idea of a sort of freerunning inspired movement system, are there any other games that do something like that other than maybe Mirror's Edge?
Genesis cartridges, thank you very much.