That's absolutely shite.
That's absolutely shite.
The thing that was always a rip off is now even more of a rip off, shocking.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You want more free games with that deal? We have another service for that."
They've gone back on it after all the hate they got.
Plugging the 360 in for the first time in a while. Gears of War remains kind of bland.
Hitman 3's constant online issues are so annoying.
Gears of War is done. The most action packed campaign I felt absolutely nothing for. Kept making me wish I was playing Vanquish or something.
You cut aliens in half with your chainsaw gun, that one feature has successfully sustained the entire series.
That and co-op.
Finished Gjost of Tsushima. All in all great game, even if it did get a bit repetitive to basically fight the same enemies over and over (the fact that it was still fun is a testament to how well battle was designed in that game though).
Now on to Greedfall I think. Runningnout of RPGs on the PS4 I think
Also pondering Nier Automata, anyone tried that?
@phonics - i dunno about Yakuza... the setting just doesnt seem to float my boat at all.
This one is a turn-based RPG is why I bring it up. I'm not a big Japanese Mob movie guy either but IIRC you are an anime guy, right? You spend as much time doing mob stuff as helping a dominatrix win over a client who has a fetish for licking armpits. Or running a bar with your best friend, a chicken.
Dunno what being an Anime guy really encompasses...? But I don't watch like Animé series and stuff like that. But I do like pretty much all the old Final Fantasy games, is that enough?
I'm still going through Control in short bursts. It's fun enough and I like the tone but the combat is a bit rinse-repeat. For all that it has decent physics and you can lob desks at baddies faces there's nothing especially fun happens with it even when you unlock new forms for the gun or gain a new ability.
I've started to mix it up with a replay of the first new Hitman because I want to get onto Hitman 2 and 3 at some point.
I have also done a bit of Star Wars Battlefront 2 as it's free on Epic and it is supremely meh. Gives you nearly all the cosmetics so there's little to aim for on that front, it's luck of the draw if you get a chance to play as a special character and not even that exciting when you do, the class upgrades you earn by playing do have some that change things up but are largely just increasing the stats of your existing abilities. It's a fairly soulless thing with repetitive gameplay and it just doesn't generate anything especially fun or anecdotal. Like if I was talking to somebody about TF2 or Apex Legends or something I could illustrate what I'm talking about with specific things I remember happening. With this there's not really a fun way to say "And then I respawned as another flavour of Stormtrooper and ran into the battle for the 23rd time that round." The closest I've come was when we tried the night on Endor thing, where you're one of a bunch of Stormtroopers plonked down in the middle of the forest and have to fend off the killer teddy bears. Even that wouldn't survive too many rounds of it but I expected it to just be like the rest of the game where it's third person and relatively visible even in the dark. Instead it forces you into third person with only a basic rifle and a torch that needs to recharge so when I first landed in that it was a bit "Oh nooo."
Reports doing the rounds that following EA not having Star Wars all to themselves any more there's a new KOTOR game in the works, and according to Jason Schreier "nobody will guess" who's making it.
Well it ain't Bioware as that'd be EA, I assume not Obsidian as that'd be the obvious next guess, Ubisoft already have a Star Wars game announced, Bethesda a) would be an obvious guess just for a big stupid who make "RPGs" but b) let's be honest their games are barely RPGs any more and are working on Starfield anyway. Larian are a bit busy...
Who else?
Hello Games. That's the wildest guess I could offer.
"Let go, Luke. Do a barrel roll."
Ok Greedfall was jarring. Just the UI was impossible to read for me (i dont have the largest of TVs), everything had a brown saturated hue that made me instantly dislike the environment and the facial animations are jarring. Not that they are bad, cause many are, but they are just so damn weird.
The controls felt very unintuitive.
It all sort of made me just go fuck it, i’m not even gonna bother.
Gonna give either Control or Nier Autamata a try instead.
They aren't made by real people.
Ok I started Nier Automata, rather than control. It seems so much more captivating than Greedfall.
I have read a bunch of different opinions on Nier Automata and it sort of seems like one of those divisive games that some people absolutely swear by and others cannot really get into because of a long, convoluted plot. The gameplay does seem insanely fun and it makes you switch things up a lot in a good way, turning into like a (fun) platformer or arcade like game at times by the looks of it. And anyway I'm generally a fan of classic JRPG convoluted & implausible plots (in Final Fantasy games anyway) so I'll roll with it.
Completed first runthrough of Nier Automata. It was good. But really short, and felt like it cut off early. Which I suspect is the idea since apparently the game is designed to be replayed.
From what I gather, it's worth replaying it 3 times which seems crazy but I'll do it because man it's quite a fun game even though you really just do the same thing over and over.
2B is pretty saucy as well.
Ok all of Nier Automata is now done and fuck me that was a trip. The game was all in all great.
It lacks in some areas. Notably it's a little short, the enemy types are maybe a bit limited, and it does make you replay a bunch of stuff which is a little annoying. The world is a little too small in a sense. And the story moves at such a frantic pace that it doesn't quite give you the space to breathe in between main quests. I mean, you can, but it just doesn't seem like you should so you don't.
But having finished it now, I just had that feeling of woah, what the fuck just happened that was insane and great at the same time. That feeling after finishing a great book or series or, well, game, you know. So I really can't complain.
Now what. Control? Or maybe I finally take on FFVII remake.
I mean if you play Control more regularly than I have been I don't think it'll take you that long so depends if you wanna get that done before diving into Final Fantasy which I assume is long.
I am finding that Control is reasonably good fun and I like the setting well enough but I'm not hooked on it.
Control is free on PS+ right now, btw
Ah well that sort of settles it I guess. Or, at least the fact that I'm installing it.
I'm very much not into horror or zombie games, but I'm also thinking about The Last of Us since I never played that back when.
Is Assassins Creed Odyssey any good?
Can't believe how quickly I seem to be out of stuff to play all the time.
Do more people here have PS5 or Xbox Series X?
I'm a twit
PS5.
I believe it's Me, Gray Fox, Sincere, Lofty, Wullie & Danny v Mike.
Edit: I think Raoul might also be on the PS5.
I've been trying to get one for ages but they just don't ever seem to get any stock here
I've heard good things but I skipped it.
Might pick it up though.
Assassins Creed Odyssey was on sale so bought it for later. Will be my first Assassins Creed game so we’ll see how it is.
Any tips for playing?
Also got Control and Shadow of the Colossus remaster (i played the original but never actually finished it so).
So now we’ll do:
Control
SotC
Assassins Creed Odyssey
FFVII remake
And after that something new had better be released.
Climb synchronisation points.
It's really annoying whenever you have a quest that is miles away from where you are and you've been there before but you can't fast travel there because you couldn't be fucked going a little out of your way to climb something tall.
Oh blimey your first ArseCreed ever? Crikey.
Alright well my recommendation, because the map of Odyssey is ludicrously big, is to don't get caught up doing activities you don't enjoy. Whatever you enjoy doing, even if that's just the main story, there is enough of it.
I've put thirty-eight hours into Assassin's Creed: Odyssey over the last couple of weeks.
For me, that's a bit of a marathon. Definitely gets a bit samey, but it seems fucking massive, to the point of overwhelming when I first started it. I'm still having a blast kicking the shit out of bounty hunters and climbing stuff to look at the views.
I find myself throwing the towel in and rushing to the end with games like that.
The new Far Cry will be along soon (looks like May).
I don't buy a console based on how it looks.
I’m looking at the Monitor not the PS5 when I’m using it.
I also think it’s nicer looking than the big black box but that’s personal preference.
"Personal preference". We have another name for that, mate.
The look of it doesn't bother me as much as the shape, the stand it perches on is a bit wobbly when you have to pull the plug thanks to Watch Dogs making the thing crash again.
Yeah, the stand has me worried. I might have to think of something when I finally get a hold of one.
My stand feels stable.
There was a company who were going to make all-black custom PS5s but they got cancelled due to "credible death threats"
They looked miles better than the massive iceberg
There was another company doing custom faceplate but Sony lawyered them to fuck.
I imagine that Sony will do their own custom ones soon enough. They slide off so easily.
Two shrines into Breath of the Wild and I wasn't prepared for the cold weather mechanic. Bastards.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/des...ame-is-all-new
I don't care what it is, Mimimi, just give it to me.