I think, in terms of exclusives, Xbox One doesn't really have much. Inside is the highest ranked exclusive, according to metacritic. Backwards compatibility, though.
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I think, in terms of exclusives, Xbox One doesn't really have much. Inside is the highest ranked exclusive, according to metacritic. Backwards compatibility, though.
They bought another geezer an Xbox One a year ago, bought me Far Cry 3 on release a few years back, do secret santa and a charity drive every year. Fantastic place, one of the users was drunk last night, some geezer made a joke about playing Forza with me if I had Xbox, 24 hours later its done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
All aboard Mahow's new webcam fund.
Destiny 2 coming to PC who's buying it no-one good.
The first one was supposed to at one point, not that I care as it looks like a vaguely serviceable shooter with basically no framing whatsoever. I don't see the attraction.
PVP is the main attraction for those who fell into it. Rare loot + grind + shooty mans.
I got 30 hours of it then deleted.
Apparently they released an update for the first one at some point that changed the voice of your little companion bot thing, replacing Peter Dinklage with some random games voiceover person. I think I played maybe eight or so hours of it and it was just the same mission over and over again with a different shape of enemy to shoot at.
I'm a lot more interested in Signal From Tolva which comes out in April.
Not exactly a random, it was Nolan North.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
I didn't realise it was him, a mate who was still playing it just told me the latest update had replaced Peter Dinklage with 'someone crap'. Still a bit mad to replace Peter Dinklage with him though, unless he has an industry wide contract that says he must take part in all games involving gunplay.
The consensus would seem to be that the game was much improved post-Dinklage and that his replacement was a big factor in that. I've only seen a friend playing it so I can't say for sure.
Mate I know has been streaming it since pretty much launch on Twitch. Still plays it for 8-10 hours most days, complete lunacy.
Aye, there are people deep into that arsehole. The shooting's meant to be really on point but their content delivery system (and the fact they threw most of the story away because of some suits) meant it was always hamstrung. They've added some decent raids over the years and monetised some seasonal crap but it's never looked like enough, to me.
I can't get Open Xcom to work properly with TFTD. Booo!
Yeah I'm looking forward to this. Though I never actually got close to completing a single-player save in Sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
I never liked the idea of being constantly hunted, far too stressful for me. This one looks more like my kind of thing.
That was basically what did for me. Sometimes I was just trying to work on my stash and then OH SHIT ROBOTS. I genuinely think it's a great game, just not the one for me.
In single player. Me and @Cord had some good saves and many a failure.
I think I'm nearly at the end of Divinity: Original Sin. The later-level mage spells are an absolute joy.
Which schools did you take? I think the archer in my game became a ridiculous murdering machine.
I'm very close to giving Demon's Souls another run. I never did fight Doran. I should carry on with cheating my way through my blacklog but I'm struggling to find ones to finish quickly.
Well, I'm in it now. Fixed the bent casing on the PS3 drive as well. Now it no longer rattles off the top of the console case. I forgot how satisfying backstabs are in this.
The lunatics legit bought me an Xbox One, it wasn't a wind up.
http://i.imgur.com/u9t4gEn.jpg
An elite too, bastard.
:cool: as fuck
Tag is DorkSirjur if any of you wanna add me. Got that EA Access thing which has just added Fifa 17 so I'll be on that and Forza mainly.
Yeah yeah we get it, you like your other family more than us.
Buy me a PS4 Pro and we good.
My character has witchcraft and geomancy which inadvertently match up quite nicely for buffs and that, to an extent. And although he's a colossal penis we have Jahan too, who has at least one Master skill in all the elemental ones. Hailstorm and meteor shower are the nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Bit gutted that the summons feel more like an early crutch because now I only use them very situationally.
Yeah it's a shame they don't scale the summons very well, the later ones don't feel as powerful as they should do. I had exactly the same setup as you and they were useful for crowd control sometimes but nothing like how useful the spider was early on.
The uselessness of spiderbro now is a constant heart-ache. I get that it'd probably be hard to balance it out because numbers are so important in the tough fights but still.
Plagiarism update, lads:
The site accused of it is ran very suspiciously.
That Xbox Elite controller is a work of beauty, holy shit.
Yeah, I've heard it justifies it's price tag. A lot of setups you can rejig and tailor to whatever you're playing.
The Context
I'm always guilty of it, aren't I?
The site I write for received an email from a former writer for Brash Games. They're a prolific site with several writers on staff. Like, 20 at least. We've taken an interest in them because of this and because some of their reviews sound proper ropey. The kind of stuff media students will gladly spew as they look to find their feet. Anyway, this source cited alleged plagiarism of some of our reviews and also mentioned how his review of 140 (an indie something) was re-scored and re-written without his knowledge.
We couldn't make the plagiarism stick but the rewriting of reviews held firm with our editor in chief finding three versions of the review, each with different scores. We kinda left it there until a few more writers began publicly slating Brash Games for their conduct. One of which writing his resignation in the summary of his last review. What's followed is an exodus and tales of authors being removed from articles (shafting the writer if they ever fancy getting a portfolio together) , the editor providing no feedback or editing beyond score fiddling and, the latest allegations relate to their funding.
They're not an ad-based site but they do seemingly plug a free-to-play roulette gambling site and earn $150 a pop for every referral. It's been quite a week and, whilst teenagers trying to use reviews as a way to 'get into the industry' is daft, seeing them dicked about like this is quite dodgy.
https://medium.com/@MorganRPark/bras...s-a808ed3c15b8
It's all so amazing. Clients, lads. That's not implying an agenda at all. They removed the PacMan 256 review where the writer wrote out his resignation in the last paragraph. Awww. This time last week, their staff page referenced 40 aspiring writers. It is now blank.
Finally, OpenCritic published some findings. They're Metacritic for rejects.
http://c.opencritic.com/releases/BrashGames.pdf
I love this stupid industry and its stupid people.Quote:
Each time we confronted Brash Games with a specific accusation, we found traces of
attempted cover-ups including efforts such as editing or deleting old reviews, sending dubious
legal documents and threats, blocking OpenCritic team member IP addresses, and removing
Brash Games from the Wayback Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egLTRtZI4Mw
I'm excited about this. It looks really faithful to the (fantastic) original, too.
Hot off announcing Bayonetta for PC, Yakuza Kiwami (Remake of the first one) is coming in August. And Microsoft now offer console and PC refunds. Neat.
Lets not applaud Microsoft too much for doing something they're obliged by law to do anyway.
My, Gran Turismo 6 has a lot of patches. AND A THREE HOUR INSTALL!?
After all that, it's not compatible with the Dual Shock 4. Christ.
Very much enjoying Signal From Tolva, for something made by 5 people it looks great and I'm really liking the story and the way it gets delivered (text files and a lorebook aren't exactly groundbreaking but it fits the game/universe very well) plus the somewhat serene exploration punctuated by shooting robots in their robot faces is right up my robo-street. The weapon loadouts I have found slightly restrictive but that could easily be because I'm a bit rubbish at robo-combat.
Well worth the £15 it's going for on Steam.
Yeah that'll probably be my next purchase.
Well that's Divinity finished. Tremendous game. Though a rare game of this sort where I came away not especially caring about any of the characters. They're all just.... fine.
Yeah, weird that a game can have so much character but not have any interesting characters, the lich lady was the closest. One of my few gripes with it is the other party members, because of the characters I;d rolled I was basically railroaded into taking the most annoying ones.
Found my first Crimsonhead in Resident Evil HD. Oops. Apparently there's a flask I should've picked up.
Me and my mate had Wolgraff and Jahan then switched the former for Bairdotr because we wanted to use all the arrows we kept picking up. Barely used Madora at all because my mate was playing a tanky warrior type.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
I'm really quite enjoying Assassin's Creed Syndicate. I think objectively it's probably got a shout for being one of the best, if not the best in the series but it doesn't have enough Ezio or sea shanties to out-do whichever of Brotherhood or Black Flag I tell you is my favourite on a given day.
I couldn't get into it.
I just kept thinking 'I wish this was Black Flag'.
I don't know what it would take for me to get interested in that series. Wait. There is one thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it6CweE-yhk
Not done the Victoria missions after the main yarn yet but otherwise I'm done with Syndicate. The story wasn't very involved, even by the standard of these games, and seemed to just sort of arrive at a finale. I think they were trying to make the two protagonists and the main other character but even then it was mostly being told stuff is happening ("I SEE YOU AND CHARACTER B ARE REALLY GETTING, EH?" *wink*) rather than it actually happening.
That's not why any sane person plays AC, mind. Even if I did quite like Jacob and Evie. London's swish in it, I quite enjoyed the brief WW1 "time anomaly" and it's got the best kind of travelling over long distances of anything in the series after the boating.
I'm kinda tempted to have another crack at Ass Creed: Pirates of the Caribbean - was a fun game.
It helped that Kenway isn't a mega-dickhead in that. It wasn't a promising sign when after an hour in Connor's company in AC3 I wished I was back playing as his Templar dad again.
I'll be interested to see if they go with another multi-protagonist set-up in the next one.
Something else I forgot to mention about Syndicate, it has comfortably the least intrusive present-day stuff yet. :drool: Hopefully in a game or two's time they're going to have quietly culled all of it. A man can dream.
I couldn't believe the use of that modern day bollocks in Blag Flag.
I was enjoying being a pirate and suddenly I'm transported into modern day, doing follow and yawn shit for a complete bell-end in a skyscraper.
I mean, wut?
The modern day stuff should just be dropped, no one likes it.
Just give us a touch at the start to set it up and be done with it.