LOL... not surprised. Who said this game had a big fanbase and I wouldn't be able to get it for $30 in a couple weeks? Doubt I'm in for even $15 at this point. Way too much of a grind for me. I need games with excitement and action.
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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (4 Viewers)
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PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
I haven't bought NMS, but I hope it survives its rocky launch, fixes its problems and expands its content. Seems like it has potential.
ConnSKINS26
Footballguy
That's exactly how I feel. I don't really want to be a guinea pig, but I hope it becomes more than it is now so I can enjoy it more later.
belljr
Footballguy
Todem
Footballguy
Two very different experiences. One your going to play the Beastmaster with prehistoric weapons (Spears, Bows, Clubs, Bee bombs, fire bombs, bezerk bombs, knives) one you will build a modern day arsenal.belljr said:
I would Start with Far Cry 4. The game will get you very famillar with taking bases, climbing towers to unlock sections of the map etc. The gyro copter is so much fun once you unlock that as well as level up to be able to ride Elephants. You will hunt the wild life as well and learn that aspect.
Both games are IMO fantastic FPS/adventure games with plenty of content and things to do while you play the main story. Ton's of side missions, etc. You will easily get 30-40 high quality hours out of both games.
I really can't pick on for you. But try Far Cry 4 first since it is really cheap. If you enjoy that.....you will love the different style of Primal. It has a lot of the same feel and fantastic super tight controls but a totally different setting and landscape. Also it has it's own unique language (with subtitles of course). If your a big Beastmaster/pre-historic fan.....Primal would be a load of fun for you too.
Primal is a sleeper hit IMO. Far Cry 4 is a great game and also beautiful to play.
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CBusAlex
Footballguy
Stylistically, NMS is an absolutely gorgeous game. I find myself hitting the "share" button every five minutes because I've stumbled across an amazing screenshot. If you're the kind of player who would occasionally get high and just wander around Skyrim gawking at the scenery, this is the game for you.
As far as gameplay goes, it feels like the developers couldn't decide if they wanted it to be Minecraft or Mass Effect, and got caught somewhere in between. There are only a few ways to interact with the environment (most of which involve blowing it up with a laser) so there's not really enough opportunities for creativity to make a good open-world sandbox game. But the quests also don't feel like they have a lot of depth to them - travel here, gather resources, build something, travel again, etc, etc.
As far as gameplay goes, it feels like the developers couldn't decide if they wanted it to be Minecraft or Mass Effect, and got caught somewhere in between. There are only a few ways to interact with the environment (most of which involve blowing it up with a laser) so there's not really enough opportunities for creativity to make a good open-world sandbox game. But the quests also don't feel like they have a lot of depth to them - travel here, gather resources, build something, travel again, etc, etc.
The Tick
Footballguy
Damn! That's a good price. Haven't been able to get it on PC that low yet! It's strange, PC prices (usually with steam sales) used to drop prices down a lot quicker. Just doesn't seem to be doing that anymore.
Kanil
Footballguy
This game is essentially Minecraft in space with better graphics. If anyone is unsure, my suggestion is to wait until they have a big price drop and have more content out. There's a lot of "Not exactly what we wanted to design, but good enough for release" in NMS. I'm pretty happy just exploring and discovering new things right now but who knows how long that will keep my attention. My guess is that the game a year from now is going to be completely different from the game now.cockroach said:
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
Isn't it like minecraft, except you are perpetually digging / blowing up blocks and not actually building anything? From what I've seen on Twitch, it looks like the endless mining part of minecraft with very little actual "crafting" other than dropping things in predetermined upgrade slots.
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Funny thing is, I love exploring in games like GTA V and The Division and can go for hours, waiting until the sun is in just the right place for an epic screenshot/picture I want to take. But then eventually it's back to the nonstop action and hijinks with friends. Nothing I've seen or heard from NMS since release has me itching to try it out. Maybe if it were 3rd person view the flying would be cool, but the view from within the ship is terrible to me.
Kanil
Footballguy
Agreed. I've shared probably 50 screenshots since I've started playing NMS. Probably shared 1 or 2 before that total.
Kanil
Footballguy
I get that. This is more of a chill out and relax game. I still find myself hopping into Overwatch or Rocket League to get action time in.
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
I'm still digging NMS. Its a little repetitive, but I'm enjoying it also.
For those still unsure, here's a youtube of an epic dogfight after someone (not me) got 5 wanted levels from the Sentinels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8EPD8xwGA&feature=youtu.be
For those still unsure, here's a youtube of an epic dogfight after someone (not me) got 5 wanted levels from the Sentinels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8EPD8xwGA&feature=youtu.be
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
What's NMS, Nintendo?
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Crap, PS4 now?
I never made it past PS2. 10-12 hours a week at least I would burn on these if I played, where do you find time? It's just jealousy don't mind me.
shadyridr
Footballguy
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
If Hello Games partnered with Bethesda and made No Man's Skyrim, I would be out of a job.
Borden
Footballguy
Please post lots when you play. I'm very interested in this game. The grappling hook sling shot sold me. How long is the beta available? Could I still get in?
Jobber
Footballguy
The beta is open for all starting Friday through Sunday, then again the next weekend.
So far so good. The control layout is way different from the first so I'm getting killed a lot. Grapple is cool, it helps you get the #### outta Dodge when you're in trouble.
Borden
Footballguy
The potential that this shows makes it exciting. Only a 15 person team too. If Call of Duty (or any shooter) could have some MP mode where the maps where the maps are random, that would be pretty cool. Obviously, Mass Effect would be pretty cool if you were to venture out outside of the main story area, an "undiscovered" area. Or the Shadow of Mordor nemesis system, where if a pirate escaped a battle with you. Or a virtually endless game Civ game.
Despite the AAA price, NMS doesn't have a big enough team to do any of this but maybe it shows the big studios that they could do this is someway.
Borden
Footballguy
Wait, if it's available Friday, how are you getting killed a lot?
Also, I didn't play the first. PS guy.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
Let's not do this. For the time being, I still need to be an adult and support myself.
But we do live in the Golden Age of Gaming and the options are limitless. PC Gaming in particular has no rival (Yes, I do have a PS4 and have owned many consoles before) and I'm not saying that to prompt a console vs PC debate. It's just the truth if you have the money and wherewithal to keep up-to-date. I popped back into Skyrim after a year off with a new 4k monitor and new-ish GPU and was utterly blown away by the views on the best settings using every graphics mod I could find.
I probably won't get NMS but I don't think its a failure. It opened up a window that I didn't think possible and the next set of options like Borden laid out are absolutely stunning.
Jobber
Footballguy
Respawn handed out some early keys this afternoon. I got one through a video gaming forum that one of the devs was hanging out in. Dumb luck.
Frank Drebin
Footballguy
Borden
Footballguy
I don't like Remaster games if it means taking away resources from a new game. But if a 3rd party is doing it I'm all for it.
In the Mass Effect case, this would be perfect though. Ideally, I have the self control (and other games) to play until a GoTY version of Andromeda comes out. I found that was the best way to play through that series.
Insein
Footballguy
Never been more happy to be wrong.
Of course reading that article it sounds like they didn't even start it yet. So I couldn't see anything coming till after Andromeda was done unless they rushed the hell out of it. The quote came off like EA heard someone say "money" and now they're looking into how to get that money as cheap and as quick as possible.
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CBusAlex
Footballguy
At some point last night I discovered that if you time a rocket boost right while you are grappling, you can use it to slingshot yourself halfway across the map. So of course I spent the next few games ignoring the objectives and just doing this. The new sliding mechanic is pretty fun too.
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
PSA: New patch out now for No Man's Sky for PC and PS4. Patch is over 600mb for PS4, which seems quite large.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Sorry for the dumb question but I gotta ask: what all does "remastered" entail? It's not just updated graphics is it?
Insein
Footballguy
Pretty much but sometimes they'll clean up old controls and include dlc in the new release.
Borden
Footballguy
With Mass Effect a remaster makes a bit more sense though. The DLC adds a lot to those games (referring to ME3 mostly). ME1 didn't come out for PlayStation until after 2 and just before 3 so, it was probably missed by a lot of people. Also the PS3 is apparently a difficult machine to make backwards compatible, which makes it unlikely to ever play the old ME games without hooking up a PS3. Also, the Mass Effect games have substantial choices to be made that carry over from one game to the next.
belljr
Footballguy
Have you seen some of the patches?
belljr
Footballguy
Borden
Footballguy
CBusAlex
Footballguy
Borden
Footballguy
Kanil
Footballguy
Can you unpack this a little bit? So if you hit melee right at the same time you hit your jetpack you fly super far? Do you end up taking damage? Also, is this on PC or PS4?
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CBusAlex
Footballguy
I've been enjoying it so far. It plays a lot like the first Titanfall, very fast-paced, lots of chances to feel like a bad### doing these crazy acrobatic kills. Some new titan models & weapons, although they are not as customizable as they used to be. There's only two maps and two game modes available in the trial. One of them (pilot vs pilot) had literally zero people using it, so I only tried the other one, bounty hunter. In that one, the NPCs aren't on either team; they span at marked locations and you get points for killing them, and you can steal points from the players on the other team by killing them too. One of my favorite things about the original was that they actually managed to make a FPS that doesn't reward camping, and it looks like the second one will continue on that track.Borden said:
CBusAlex
Footballguy
Well that was actually about Titanfall, not NMS. Although I have done the melee + jetpack trick in NMS and it does kind of make you go faster. (I suspect it's because the jetpack accelerates you in whatever direction it's physically pointed, and the melee animation has your character model lean forward, so you end up going more horizontal than when you just take off from a standing position.)Kanil said:
PlayaHata
Footballguy
I know we play Rocket League on Steam, but I have it on XB1 as well for anyone out there that wants to party up. I'm IndyMark007 on both platforms.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
It's getting a lot of negative feedback on Reddit.
I enjoyed. The first one. Actually my least favorite part was the Titans themselves, but I did have fun with it. Everything I'm reading is that it feels empty because they got rid of the AI guys running around, and also that it takes longer to get Titans.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Sounds like you're a lot further along than me. I've only warped a few times and don't have any upgrades for the drive. I'm on my 4th ship with only 18 slots - I like fixing up the crashed ships you find. Today was the first time I rejected a crashed ship - it had fewer slots. If this keeps up I doubt I'll ever buy a ship. Won several space battles but lost my first one today and died. Partly due to it being 5 on 1, but mostly because I suck at space flight.
45 hours in, still slow, but I really enjoy this game.
Chaka
Footballguy
Just finished the original Assassin's Creed. Gotta say I really enjoyed it. The game play is repetitive, climb viewpoint, rescue citizens, speed mission, beat up mission, assassination mission etc. Rinse-repeat. Pickpocket missions were more fun because they pickpocketing is significantly more difficult in AC than the other games. And I did find it annoying to have to assume the slow prayer walk when you guards were suspicious but it was very helpful. And of course the sequences outside of the animus were annoying because you had to slow walk but that is not unique to AC I. However combat was surprisingly fun and more difficult then in later games. Just holding the "counter" key would get you out of almost any jam in ACII, III or IV but not so much in AC. Also I found the movement mechanics to be (also surprisingly) refined. I had far fewer experiences accidentally climbing up an unclimbable walls multiple times while trying to get somewhere in a hurry (AC players know what I'm talking about).
But the best part of the game was the story. It was so incredibly in depth and intelligent and didn't go all weird First Civilization, sunspot, time travelly like the latter games (there was one email you could hack that briefly mentioned time-travel but that's it). I liked that part. I never understood why the latter games felt the need to go in that direction. I guess they felt the need to explain the origins of the Apple of Eden and the direction they went to do that in the latter games never resonated with me. Templars v. Assassin's could be compelling enough without all of that stuff.
Either way, it truly is an excellent game and one of the best story driven franchises in video gaming. You could argue that just the sheer amount of content Ubi Montreal has put into the AC series puts it atop of the RPG pantheon, but ME and The Witcher series are still my favorites in that regard.
But the best part of the game was the story. It was so incredibly in depth and intelligent and didn't go all weird First Civilization, sunspot, time travelly like the latter games (there was one email you could hack that briefly mentioned time-travel but that's it). I liked that part. I never understood why the latter games felt the need to go in that direction. I guess they felt the need to explain the origins of the Apple of Eden and the direction they went to do that in the latter games never resonated with me. Templars v. Assassin's could be compelling enough without all of that stuff.
Either way, it truly is an excellent game and one of the best story driven franchises in video gaming. You could argue that just the sheer amount of content Ubi Montreal has put into the AC series puts it atop of the RPG pantheon, but ME and The Witcher series are still my favorites in that regard.
Frank Drebin
Footballguy
I'm not a reddit guy, but those are exactly my complaints about the new game. It plays beautifully, but the one of my favorite things about the first game was that it let guys like me, who don't spend 50 hours a week playing twitch shooters, be able to get titans just as much as everyone else. I never felt like I was at a disadvantage in that first game. The way they are set up now, it's almost like killstreaks in COD, where you have to earn the titans. I was really disappointed to see that.bigmarc27 said:
Insein
Footballguy
Finished DOOM last night. The game is just a breath of fresh air. A complete throw back to the old school FPS games with enough modern additions to keep it entertaining. Most fun I've had just killing #### in a long time.
I beat it on Hurt me plenty and it felt fairly easy at times. Some spots I had to focus for but nothing too major. I tried the first level of Ultra Violence when I just started and its such a stark difference. Not sure I'm going to go back on higher levels but finding all the collectibles and old maps could be fun.
Definitely worth it to anyone who was waiting for it to come down in price.
I beat it on Hurt me plenty and it felt fairly easy at times. Some spots I had to focus for but nothing too major. I tried the first level of Ultra Violence when I just started and its such a stark difference. Not sure I'm going to go back on higher levels but finding all the collectibles and old maps could be fun.
Definitely worth it to anyone who was waiting for it to come down in price.
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