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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (5 Viewers)
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Footballguy
Meh, Fez is his baby so to speak, if he doesn't want other people creating games in the universe he created for whatever reason, I don't see the issue, it's his piece of intellectual property to do with what he wants
. I don't see why he should sell it just to make other people happy.
Todem
Footballguy
So after finishing The Last of Us (amazing game). I had 4 games staring me in the face to start:
Dark Souls
Far Cry 3
Dishonored
Red Dead Redemption
I was going to play them in that order........then my son (8 years old) asked me if we had any western movies he can watch with me. He has been on a Back to the Future kick the past few weeks as he loves that trilogy (which I got him into last month) and he loved the 3rd one....yeah the western.
So I said...ok let's see if he can sit and watch some Clint Eastwood (Sergio Leone trilogy) stuff.....he ate it all up. So I pulled out Red Dead Redemption.
I can't believe I have slept on this title all this time. I picked it up this past christmas on Amazon for 14.99 (gold box deals) and had not gotten around to it.
Wow. AMAZING AWESOMENESS.
Dark Souls
Far Cry 3
Dishonored
Red Dead Redemption
I was going to play them in that order........then my son (8 years old) asked me if we had any western movies he can watch with me. He has been on a Back to the Future kick the past few weeks as he loves that trilogy (which I got him into last month) and he loved the 3rd one....yeah the western.
So I said...ok let's see if he can sit and watch some Clint Eastwood (Sergio Leone trilogy) stuff.....he ate it all up. So I pulled out Red Dead Redemption.
I can't believe I have slept on this title all this time. I picked it up this past christmas on Amazon for 14.99 (gold box deals) and had not gotten around to it.
Wow. AMAZING AWESOMENESS.
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NCCommish
Footballguy
bigmarc27
Footballguy
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
OC Zed
Footballguy
I haven't been on the board much lately and missed last week's news about DPRugby. Very sad to hear this. Like everyone said, I remember him being very gracious with all of his info and just a classy guy in general. I was just thinking about last week as to why we hadn't heard from him in a while. My thoughts go out to his family.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
PSA - Dead Island was once of the biggest disappointments ever. It turned out to be a homebrew quality FPS where you spend 70% of your time searching luggage, lockers, bags, random box and a million other places. FUN!
SlaX
Footballguy
What is Bioshock? Or maybe Fallout 3? Or is it Skyrim?
It's so funny how a good story, great atmosphere and better gameplay mechanics can change how one looks at a game.
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Insein
Footballguy
That's why a game is not just its best features. Good graphics and mechanics mean crap if the gameplay and story are awful.
bonesman
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
Saints Row The Third - Only played about an hour and I really like the style and humor. So the designers just decided to eliminate the whole hunting-for-weapons-and-ammo thing and pretty much make you invincible from the get go so you can shoot as many people as you want as fast as you can? Is it going to be like that for the whole game or will there actually be some real challenges along the way?
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
I can't stop playing Crusader Kings 2. So many XBox games waiting.Picked up the Humble Bundle, and then the Humble Weekly Sale.
$8.50 spent for a crapload of games. My Steam account overfloweth.
Mad Cow
Welshers and Dawdlers Beware!
Far too much there for me to think about playing that one. Anxiously awaiting BF4 and Rome 2, however.I can't stop playing Crusader Kings 2. So many XBox games waiting.Picked up the Humble Bundle, and then the Humble Weekly Sale.
$8.50 spent for a crapload of games. My Steam account overfloweth.
Drifter
Footballguy
Put some hours into Endless Space. Pretty run of the mill civ type space empire game. It's okay but everything just kind of misses the mark from planet building and development to the heroes to the battles. The battles are pretty much like the Borg battles in Star Trek. You come in, kick their ###, they quickly re-design all their ships (because it takes not time to retrofit, just coin) and they kick your ###. You then quickly retrofit to a different strategy, rinse and repeat.
Also, maybe it was the faction I was playing but all the other factions were way too passive. I had to go and pick a fight 60% of the way into the game, just to spice things up.
If you like the genre, it's probably worth $5 for what seems to be the most recent flavor in the Master of Orion, Galactic Civilization type games but falls far short of being great.
Also, maybe it was the faction I was playing but all the other factions were way too passive. I had to go and pick a fight 60% of the way into the game, just to spice things up.
If you like the genre, it's probably worth $5 for what seems to be the most recent flavor in the Master of Orion, Galactic Civilization type games but falls far short of being great.
madshot31
Footballguy
So Dainty and I are addicted to minecraft again and graduated into the shaft mining instead cave mining. Moobin you probably blame us for getting you back into it and we blame you because we were phased out of it and then we got together with you and played and had a blast. Seven world's later and we are learning how to make red stone doors, massive mine carts, shaft mines, and lava houses. 
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Now that I've moved on from TLoU, I'm going back to a couple of games I downloaded from PS+ but didn't get around to playing initially. First up was Saints Row 3. I've never played anything in this franchise before and I came in with only moderate expectations, but it was actually a really fun change of pace. It's refreshing every once in a while to play a game that doesn't take itself at all seriously and just delivers a series of WTF?? moments. My only complaint is that after I finished the main story, I just couldn't bring myself to go back and complete the side missions. The completionist in me looks at the map and feels guilty about not doing the dozen or so events that are still sitting there, but some of them are just so tedious. So that's that.
Yesterday I started Deus Ex: Human Revolution. So far so good. It seems a lot like Dishonored (I know this predates Dishonored, but I'm playing these out of chronological order). The little hacking minigame is giving me fits though. It took me 10+ tries to get past my first level 2 lock. I think part of my problem is that at first I didn't realize you could hack multiple nodes simultaneously -- I was always waiting for one to finish before doing anything to any other nodes. Still though this seems really tough for something that plays such a large role in the game. Any suggestions?
Yesterday I started Deus Ex: Human Revolution. So far so good. It seems a lot like Dishonored (I know this predates Dishonored, but I'm playing these out of chronological order). The little hacking minigame is giving me fits though. It took me 10+ tries to get past my first level 2 lock. I think part of my problem is that at first I didn't realize you could hack multiple nodes simultaneously -- I was always waiting for one to finish before doing anything to any other nodes. Still though this seems really tough for something that plays such a large role in the game. Any suggestions?
It's been awhile since I've played, but there are a couple basic hacking abilities on the skills tree that help. Also those one time use hacking items (nuke virus or something like that) really come in handy for some of the more frustrating ones.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Props to Gamestop. When I traded in my PS3 a couple weeks back they had a 50% bump in trade in value. This week they have a 100% bump.
I asked the manager if he could do anything about it and he said he'd give me the extra $35 towards a game purchase. So, I got Last of Us for just an extra $20 last night.
He didn't have to do that, so I thought it was great. Sprint would have made me pay more because I picked the wrong time to use a promotion.
I asked the manager if he could do anything about it and he said he'd give me the extra $35 towards a game purchase. So, I got Last of Us for just an extra $20 last night.
He didn't have to do that, so I thought it was great. Sprint would have made me pay more because I picked the wrong time to use a promotion.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I'm going to have to see if I can trade on a few broken xboxes I'm too lazy to fix myself.
madshot31
Footballguy
The GameStop around here only takes working xboxs with a functioning first party controller.
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Steam had a Fallout day so I picked up both F3 and New Vegas. I never finished the main story in F3 and its been so many years that it feels new playing it again. Trying to focus on quests and areas I didn't do before (and being less of a goodie goodie but its hard not to be) and had a lot of fun going thru the alien mother ship add-on content last night.
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
I love the Fallout games. finished F3 (even though it was pretty buggy), and halfway through FNV (got sidetracked by a couple other games).
serious question... who the hell ever plays these games and decides "yeah, I'm gonna be a bada## unarmed or melee figher"? so you see a Super Mutant with a tri-laser gun 100 yards away, and what...you're supposed to just run up and punch him in the face? you've got 2 choices in these games, small guns or big guns. and even if you choose big guns, you better have a good sidekick.
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IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I never use a sidekick in any of these games. I just build my standard "sniper rifle" guy -- a third of the way into the game he's a demigod who kills at will. It's pretty much exactly like the sneaky archer build that everybody uses in Elder Scrolls games to OHK everything with sneak attacks.
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
yep, stealth sniper is my MO too. in one of the DLC for Fallout 3, you can get one of my favorite weapons ever. it's called the "Infiltrator": an assault rifle that fires in 3 round bursts with a scope and a silencer. auto head exploder.
jwb
Footballguy
Well, I tried The Last of Us. Hated it.
The story seemed great. But I just can't do those types of controls. That "the character turns like he has a stiff neck" thing. First and third person games have been fluid in control now for years. Why does this one feel like a PS2 game in terms of how your character moves?
Is it just me?
The story seemed great. But I just can't do those types of controls. That "the character turns like he has a stiff neck" thing. First and third person games have been fluid in control now for years. Why does this one feel like a PS2 game in terms of how your character moves?
Is it just me?
This is generally what I do as well but eventually my character gets so powerful I don't even need to be stealthy anymore. I have all the add-on's and apparently they made Dogmeat close to invincible if you install 1 of them. Has made it really easy to breeze thru the missions although the OCD in me makes me still search every nook and crany for loot which slows things down. (This time I am cheating with online guides for the subways though, still a pain navigating those.)There was a sniper companion in New Vegas that made combat a joke as well. He'd snipe half the enemies before they ever got close enough to do damage.
And I also agree that unarmed or melee weapons are pointless unless you just want a diversion for fun. (You could say that about a lot of the weapons to be honest.) I have a couple of unique power fists and have never bothered to use them. I just roll with a mix of Chinese assault rifle, plasma rifle or shotgun until I obtain an uber unique weapon.
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bigmarc27
Footballguy
Popped LA Noire back in the other day. I bought it on release originally, made it half way, and the let it sit for years. After an hour today, I remembered why I was so disappointed in this game. It's just plain boring and the interrogation portions are pure guess work. It's too bad because I love the setting and the idea of the game really intrigues me, it's just really poor execution.
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jwb
Footballguy
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Nope. For whatever reason (I've read rumors that it was a patent issue), party chat never made it to the PS3. Allegedly it will be there for next gen.
Same here. That game sounded great in theory, but just kind of sucked in execution.
Mad Cow
Welshers and Dawdlers Beware!
So how long is the storyline for Tomb Raider? I put in a few hours last night and made it a fair ways in the story I think. I am not one to go crazy with completion %. I have too many games to spend hours looking for totems or burning flags. Interesting story. I am guessing this is just a reboot, as this is the origin.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
If you don't spend a lot of time looking around, it is kind of a short game. I would guess maybe 10-12 hours?
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Debating taking 4 hours of sick leave today and going home to play dome Crusader Kings 2. Wife and kids are gone til dinner time. Really tempting.
The Tick
Footballguy
Yeah, i never really got the facial expression thing in the interrogations. I just went with, if you had proof one way or the other either truth or lie, and if not, hiding something. Pretty much worked every time.IvanKaramazov said:
Also I hated the fact that this was supposed to be an investigation and there were these giant seemingly obvious holes in the investigation that were just ignored.
Finished the game, but largely it just aggravated me.
Corporation
Angry Bovine
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
how long did it take you to finish Skyrim? I've always thought about picking that up, but scared it might take me 300 hours to finish...I'm OCD enough to try and do all the sidequests.
Dickies
Footballguy
Arkham City, IMHO. It's a quick game if you aren't concerned about 100% completion of everything, and I found the game to be incredible.
Run It Up
Footballguy
I think to 100% if you never stray is like 40 hours but realistically like 80. Games a lot more fun if you role play so that adds some game time.
Corporation
Angry Bovine
I loved Arkham City. When I was reading his post, I was thinking he meant finishing it to 100% completion, which I never did (maybe I should have). All the Riddler's quests started getting tedious for me.
madshot31
Footballguy
I haven't seen anyone talk about this game yet but I just 100% The Testement of Sherlock Holmes. It plays like a 90s adventure game with lots of puzzles that at times can be really tough. they feature matching, math, word play, and many other varieties. I enjoyed the game as a nice change of pace that lasts 7-15 hours depending on if you do the puzzles. To be fair The Walking Dead was my favorite game last year so I do enjoy this genre very much but they had a solid enough storyline that it kept me going and Sherlock's persona was very much like the novels with a darker side then I expected. Back to the puzzles. They did a great job on them and they varied in difficulty depending on the item in question. If you spent enough time with them they have you a skip button, right trigger, that you could activate. I did this on accident twice and had to dashboard back to a older save due to the completion award doesn't allow using it. My main issue with the game would be I got stuck in doorways 5-6 times to the point I had to frolic around with the camera and player character to try and unstick myself with the door frame. Overall you can tell its not a AAA game with its polish but it doesn't cost as much and it has the X factor of bringing a nice mystic to the table that most big budget games take away. I would give it a 6.5/10. Don't be scared by my rating of it, I am very tough on ratings. Most "great" games only get a 6-8 from me.