Firstly, a Wonder Woman open world game in itself rates a solid 5/10 on my excitement-o-meter but Monolith making it and using the Nemesis system has me intrigued.
Secondly, David Cage doing a Star Wars game.
Firstly, a Wonder Woman open world game in itself rates a solid 5/10 on my excitement-o-meter but Monolith making it and using the Nemesis system has me intrigued.
Secondly, David Cage doing a Star Wars game.
The trailer has a huge stink of 'French sci-fi' about it. There will be a wacky racial stereotype.
Deacons of the Deep done. No idea what I’m supposed to do now.
Nothing worse than the died to a boss with 5 Estus flasks and 2 hits left. Fucking flame trail bastard.
Trying to run through the second DLC and it's a complete cunt. I hate every second of it.
2nd lord of cinder down. Eventually bottled it and summoned someone. Forgot how much I hate the catacombs.
Aye, it's too easy to get lost in them. That's one thing that might put me off Elden Ring's dungeons. And I think I've had my fill of Harryhausen style skeletons.
EDIT: That Matrix Unreal Engine tech demo is kinda nice. I'm not entirely convinced by their Metalife or whatever they're calling it for their NPC generation. Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss are spot on but your character sticks out like a generated nobody. Still, nice to see this kind of thing available to the public.
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I'm playing the new Halo. It's really not changed.
Decided to flip into Yakuza 6. I swear to god, the first 25 minutes are just videos. I'm not actually sure it's a game.
There is some ... surprises that game has in store.
Halo got the basics right in the first game and sensibly decided not to fuck with the formula too much.
Brutal:
Fun fact: Last time I beat that boss, I died to fire just after beating it. Corpse running into an empty boss room can't be beat.
Think I've finally managed to get tickets for the Norwich game tonight (my PT - I am actually finally losing weight woo - trains some of the Norwich players and got them for me) to take my grandad.
Be lol if it gets called off or I give the old boy Omicron.
What platforms is Norwich Game With My Grandad coming out on?
I'm up to Dragonslayer Armour. It's brutal. The run is quite far from the bonfire as well.
Next Disco Elysium.Originally Posted by Ian
To be fair if ZA/UM want to write an RPG where you're just speaking to all the mad fuckers you meet on a day out going to the football (the train, the pub before match, the crowd around you, the drunk guy in the toilets at half time, pub after and drunken journey home) I'm here for it.
Wrongfredded it 'aven't I. Fuck's sake
Yeah but I'm into this idea for an RPG now so it's all good.
Yeah, it's a straight shot but you'd hate to get tagged by the big fellas on the way through. I did something important today: I decided I no longer need to bother with the DLC. I just don't like them enough to bother.
Sounds like something I'd end up reviewing.
Yours would be the perverted Japanese equivalent.
Or an overpriced broken thing made by Spanish students.
Did the Siri’s Quest for a free summon and owned it easily. Now I’m making my way through the Grand Archives and keep dying to dumb shit.
What’s the point in dumping my head in wax?
It stops the grabby book hands from cursing you, I think.
Currently in the early stages of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Seems like there's an awful lot of filler crap, already, and I've only just arrived on Eos. I'll give it a little longer. By all accounts, it seems that I've jumped into the series on it's weakest entry, though.
I dabbled with Quantum Break first, but I lobbed that onto the bonfire sixteen-minutes into my first live action interlude.
Been smashing THPS 1+2, mostly, over the last few weeks. I got more into it than I expected.
I’m at the princes. First bit is easy enough. Second not so much.
Andromeda is a janky but decent 20 hour (maybe) game wrapped in about 60 hours of flab.
It's guff and handily the worst of the lot.
Oh, it's absolutely the worst. And the problem is those 20 decent hours aren't the main story so you can't just mainline the good stuff.
The story and pacing are incredibly weak, and the main character is not even a fraction as interesting or well-designed as Shepard. It can still be an enjoyable experience though, provided you are not a completionist. If you are, there's so much insanely boring and pointless stuff.
And it has no hanar or elcor.
1/10.
The book about the Quarian (and Drell, Hanar, Elcor, etc.) ark is actually a better story than anything that happens in the game.
Exsqueeze me?
I forgot that.
Praey for the Gods looks interesting but I've not seen any proper reviews yet.
Bethesda being cunts and them ("having" to) change Prey to Praey is some dumb shit, but they should have just changed the name altogether than go with that shit spelling.
Started a bit with AC Valhalla. It's pretty and all, and I like Eivor for a character and the general setting.
But it's just, I think I tried this a little too soon after having played AC Odyssey. You need a couple of years between these games, I reckon. So sort of not played for a week or two now instead.
Yeah they're all much of a muchness. I need to really be keen on the setting days or read that the character is a winner.
Kassandra.
Why can't you skip scenes in Andromeda? Ffs they're incredibly boring.
I might treat myself to an Ass creed. What's the best one to come back in for?
What ones have you played / what was the last you played?
If you haven't played for a while Kik's you're in for a treat. I'd go with Egypt or Greece.
I honestly think it was Ass creed 3 so it's been ages.
Christ, that was a bum note to end your previous progress through the series on.
Black Flag is still the best in the series, whether the last eight years (for fuck's sake) have treated it kindly I could not say. I haven't played Valhalla but of the recent ones since they revamped it I would comfortably choose Odyssey (Greece) over Origins (Egypt.) The pyramids and stuff and Egypt itself are lovely places to be around but I just couldn't get into the story.
Of the ones since AC3 that I've played (most of them) I'd rank them from best to worst:
Black Flag - Sunshine and sea shanties.
Odyssey - Greece is mega (both in quality and the fucking size of the map.) If you get this play as Kassandra. She's the best.
Syndicate - London capers. Two characters and they're both quite likeable. And you have a moving base on a train and you're building a London gang.
Origins - Beautiful setting, poor old Bayek is a boring old character though and I did not care about his story.
Rogue - Fun idea to play a guy who turns Templar but it had the stench of AC3 all over it.
I'm going to start on black flag once I waste some more time on ME Andromeda.
Agree with Ian on the story in Origins being bobbins. The setting though (as he also says), fuck me, what a World that is.
Purely as a place to look at I'd maybe edge Origins. Paddling down the Nile on a boat as the sun goes down over farms and proto-breweries with a pyramid or the lighthouse at Alexendria in the distance takes some topping and while Odyssey has those (your first sight of Athens on the hill and the approach to it, lovely Korinth) has its own moments Origins edges it.
Black Flag does a great job of being so visually memorable to me without having any landmarks to hang my memories around which is usually what Arsecreed memories get by on.
So do Ubisoft.
I think that Valhalla is probably the second best Arse Creed game but it also doesn't feel all that much like an Arse Creed game.
There aren't a huge amount of synchronization points (ones that look amazing are almost non-existent too), Eivor/the woman feel clunky when free running/climbing and it seems like it's not all that geared towards assassinations.
Greece runs it close but I got bored when I got to "Pirate Island" and seemingly have to do loads of quests to farm gold to progress the story.
I'm not having that a game in which you trudge around East Anglian bogs can be the second best ArseCreed game and I'm prepared to stick to this without having played it.
Rogue is so bad, that I don't remember a single second of it and I played it like 3-4 years ago.
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