Spending hundreds of pounds to play any game is mad, for a Bethesda game I'd be getting you sectioned.
Spending hundreds of pounds to play any game is mad, for a Bethesda game I'd be getting you sectioned.
If I got an XBOX I'd get whatever is the latest. But after a quick google, it looks like that is XBOX Series X (seriously...?) and that doesn't fit into the TV bench I have, looks like a god damn computer, so whats even the point in a console then?Originally Posted by Mike
Dunno, I had a lot of fun with Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 3.
Basically Fallout is fun.
The Series S is fucking shit and is criminally underpowered but if you don't mind 720p at a barely stable 30fps you'll be grand. I sold mine and upgraded to the X.
You can put it sideways if it helps, I had mine like that for a while.
The S and X came out at the same time, the X is just more powerful and has a disk drive. If you’re going to keep it past playing Starfield and have the money, get the X
Series X is the best console ever made.
I'm a twit
I have bought the early access from the Iceland store for 18 quid just so I can piss on a mate's chips about how shit it is. What a life.
You’ll love it really DS.
If it’s as good as F4/F3/Skyrim the price of a Series X will be well worth it.
Surprised you're not on the early access business Yev.
From Sep 1st? I am.
Legend I can tell you how shit is too
It’s been odd about my name and date on my card, shall try on the laptop later
Use revolut or something if you have it. Way easier. I chucked 20 quid over, it blocked it cos it thought I'd been hacked, said it was me and it went through.
I'm on the early access train. Annoyingly I have to go to a wedding so will only get a day or so on it before I have to travel
Will frigging the time zone work so we can play it from whenever on Thursday?
Sorted, MS wouldn't let me add my Revolut or Monzo card. Chase worked fine though.
I think it launches at the same time world wide. So 1am here, 10am in Sydney.
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One week to go. Yev is rapidly printing out pictures of Todd to hang on his walls.
I'm stroking the version I have of Todd's Cafe Racer leather jacket.
There's a (very WIP) build planner here - some minor spoiler-y stuff there, obviously
I've noticed this is a straight to gamepass title. Quite strange to see a Triple A title straight on there. I have a decent gaming PC too so I might yet be able to get on this.
Yeah, it’s Microsoft’s play to sell more consoles.
I've got it installed on the Xbox and my laptop ready. Cross save means I can play on Xbox, but when the wife wants the TV, I can keep going on the laptop. It's like living in the future.
36 hours until the jankfest begins.
Is there a day 1 patch? Last thing I want to do is sit down to play it and have to wait for 50gb to download…
There is, only 15gb apparently.
They've already pushed out a patch and the fixes were fairly minor, so I think it'll be in better shape than other releases
Supposedly I can download the patch now, so with that in mind the plan is:
Get home from work tomorrow
Start Download for the patch
Set alarm for 12:50am
Go to bed
One snooze
Get up at 12:59
Play the shit out of it until I need to start work again at 9am
I'm going to bed early-ish tonight then getting up at 6am to start playing for 7am until I fall asleep in my chair
Tonight I need to go on a mission to stock up on snacks and supplies
My daughter isn’t napping Friday, wife is off to York so it’s 6pm bedtime and on the game for me.
Of course, this means she’ll fall to sleep in the day and be up till like half 7
I have installed it.
I'm a twit
Same though didn't see much reason going for early access so will just wait until the 6th.
7/10 from IGN and Gamespot.
Internet is about to fucking explode lads.
Reddit review megathread
Those two you mention seem like outliers on the low end, looking at the meta-score
Its dead on arrival lad
I assume they've already been given death threats for not calling it a 12/10 masterpiece by freaks who've not played the game yet?
I'm already searching for DS's home address. Me and Yev are heading up to his place with sledgehammers, dressed in matching spaceman outfits
Jokes on you, he's into that shit.
Listened to two reviews on the way home from work (JuiceHead and Mr Matty Plays) and my takeaways were...
It's one of the most ambitious games ever made and while they've reached for he stars they haven't quite hit them, partly it seems due to the technology simply not being available within the mainstream yet (too many loading screens, a weird system of navigating space and planets etc.).
Now neither reviewer actually said those words, but add up what both of them were saying and that's where I got to. In terms of the rest of it, a lot of it sounds amazing, but it'd be boring to focus on that, so my causes for concern were:
It doesn't sound like they've recreated the feeling of exploration in Skyrim and Fallout in space, which if true, is a massive disappointment given that they had limitless possibilities to work with. Now some of that issue seems to stem from the above limitations and I'm hopeful that avoiding things like fast travel will mitigate it somewhat, but it's a worry nonetheless.
It also sounds like the crafting, upgrading and outpost mechanics are seriously fucking complicated, which I'm not too bothered about (as if the game's very good I'll learn them) but if they make Fallout 4 look simplistic that is going to lead to a lot of people just binning huge swaythes of the game off.
It also sounds like 100 hours is nowhere near enough to review it properly, which they both admitted.
Hearing him say that the tiles you land on aren't contiguous. So you see a huge structure or mountain way off in the distance that looks interesting but your 'tile' boundaries stop before it. You go to the map, move to a tile closer to it, it no longer exists as its a new 'seed tile'.
That's a bit mad tbf. You're not actually exploring planets then, just randomly generated little sandboxes that do not link to each other in logical ways.
Yeah, that ties into the worry I have. On face value, it's simply not a good system.
If that's true DS then that's impressively shit.
Hey guys, you know how you like exploration? Well what if we did that but without the best part of exploration? You're welcome.
Apparently their engine has always been a tile based system. But because this is so VAST this is what you get. Rather than spending some of the 8 fricking years making a new engine or summat.
I've heard that you can walk for half an hour on some of these planets having landed, which if true would make them the size of Skyrim, so my guess would be it isn't the fault of the engine, more that the technology simply isn't there yet to have that many planets that big, with diverse things in them, in a game.
Doesn't change the end result mind.
"See that mountain? It won't be there by the time you get to it."
One thing I truly hate about console gaming is mid-game loading screens, and this seems to have a lot.
I'm a twit
Just seen that the Gamespot review was based on 55 hours play across both the Xbox and PC versions, 27 1/2 hours average on each. Which, assuming these guys get paid enough to make a living from working for Gamespot, is a pathetic effort.
Video reviews also say they've seen identikit outposts, landmarks and all kinds of stuff within the space of 3 or 4 hours across different planets. So the concept of diverse may not be as large as Todd claims, shockingly.
Written by Michael Higham who pulls double duty between FanByte and Gamespot, by the looks of things. I find it very hard to find people at the top end of the gaming press who aren't working for several publications at once.
Also, he finished the game. I don't know what more you want.
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I want him to play it more - the main story has never been the best thing in any Bethesda game, sometimes far from it, so 'finishing it' doesn't particularly mean much in that context.
I mean, I don't know for sure, as I obviously haven't played a second of it yet, but I'd be surprised if that amount of time (based on other reviews) is anything like sufficient.
Unless the criticism is "not enough content", then I'd say finishing the main story qualifies as having played it enough to write a review. That's what the majority of players will experience.
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