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Modern Video Games / Anthem gets 6.5'd by IGN
« on: February 21, 2019, 04:28:52 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx2bXPIYxcE

Damn son.

That's like saying a game is total doggy poo poo.

There's a lot of turds coming out these days ... Fallout 76, Crackdown 3, Jump Force, Anthem


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General / If your birthday were in late March...
« on: February 20, 2019, 06:59:41 pm »
What game would you treat yourself to or ask for this year?

The options are most likely February/March releases or a pre-order for an April release.

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General / Will you embrace all digital streaming subscriptions?
« on: February 20, 2019, 08:15:31 am »
That’s the way all entertainment (music, movies, games) is going.

Are you on board?

I think as much as people dig their feet in they will cave eventually.

Things change whether you want them to or not. You can’t buy physical PC games anymore and the few you can just contain a code to a digital download on Steam.

What are you going to do, just never consume any new media?

PS Now and XB Game Pass are already testing the waters and normalising it to consumers.

Physical media will look eccentric and archiac in our lifetime.

All these blu ray cases we have now will be kinda like going to an old person’s house and seeing VHS and cassettes everywhere.

When little Tommy age 13 is streaming Xbox on his smart watch, phone and toaster the discs are going to look like relics of a bygone age.

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Modern Video Games / Are you excited for Days Gone or nah?
« on: February 19, 2019, 04:35:19 pm »
I'm conflicted. I like that gritty realistic Last of Us-esque aesthetic but hordes of zombies are about as mundane as an opponent as I could possibly imagine for a video game.

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Wow that is very disappointing considering the fun Crackdown 1 was in 2007.

It looks like a budget last gen game and all of that destructibility that the game was being hyped around at announcement is entirely non-existent in the single player campaign.

The game is at 60 on Metacritic for xbox one at the minute.

This is very sad. It's the epitome of sub-par mediocrity from what I've seen of it.

Open world games have moved on so far from this. And, Saints Row has done this exact game but much, much better.

This was one of few Microsoft titles outside of Forza/Halo/Gears and it's basically a dead franchise now after two missteps in both Crackdown 2 and Crackdown 3.

It's included in Game Pass so you can play it for next to nothing if you wanted to but I do assess games in terms as value for my time as well as money and this just doesn't look worth my time.

It was just pooped out as a stealth release with no fanfare behind it at all.

It looks so repetitive and boring. IGN gave it a 5.0.

State of Decay 2 is sitting at a 66 metacritic on xbox one too. I played that game and thought it sucked. The first one was very enjoyable despite the jank, it was at least novel.

It's really hard to want to follow Microsoft into the next console generation with this kind of output. I like the controller, I like the backwards compatibility - but where are the great new games? The best I've played from them this gen is Froza Horizon 3 but racing is a pretty niche genre.

Sad times.

Probably gonna own only PlayStation next gen unless there's multiple must have mind blowing launch titles from Xbox with their new studio acquisitions.

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that it appeals to you to have hundreds of video games?

Or do you find movies to be even more a case of one and done consumable content?

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Based on the nothing you currently know about them, which one would you pick?

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Modern Video Games / What platform do you play on most?
« on: February 09, 2019, 11:29:53 am »
I mostly play PC.

I like that I can listen to music/podcasts/youtube videos in the background and alt+tabbing out during multiplayer matchmaking to check my emails or browse a forum or the net.

I have a Switch, XB1 and PS4 but use my PC almost exclusively really.

When the next generation comes out I might simply get an even better PC instead of picking up the next xbox and playstation.

I like the versatility of my PC (that it can do other things) and the infinite backwards compatibility and the options to use either keyboard/mouse or controller. 

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What is it like to own hundreds/thousands of games or blu rays?

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General / Do you know any games with really hard difficulty?
« on: February 03, 2019, 07:44:56 pm »
I find most modern games very easy. I always play on the hardest difficulty on the first play through because I want all the trophies/achievements and probably won’t replay a single player experience.

There really hasn’t been a lot of challenges this generation in my opinion.

Mass Effect Andromeda was kinda hard at points but that was only because of how bullet spongy the bosses became.

The only good example I have of challenge is Sniper Elite 3 on aithentic difficulty. That is just masochist hard on some maps. You die virtually in one hit if spotted and will be swarmed at any opportunity if noticed. I like to try to kill absolutely everyone in the level, and there are no saves on hardest difficulty.

Most of the time if a game wasn’t designed to be hard (like dark souls was) the difficulty slider just makes enemies bullet sponges and it’s really phoned in and makes the games more tedious than hard.


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Off Topic / Do you like collector's/limited/special editions of things?
« on: February 03, 2019, 12:16:27 pm »
Isn't it kinda messed up that they are manufactured to be of appeal rather than organically being something desirable (i.e. old, out of print, rare, nostalgic with passage of time)?

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Modern Video Games / How do you feel about always online games?
« on: February 01, 2019, 07:11:25 pm »
You know the ones that say 'requires internet' or similar on the box.

I know it shouldn't bother me but it kinda does.

I just jump to 'so if my internet drops out I can't play this' - my internet almost never goes out but still - it's the principle.

My mind also jumps to 'so I'm always gonna have to give money to MS/Sony for Gold or PS+ just to run this thing'.

It puts me off.

Games like Anthem and Division 2 I'd probably enjoy playing as a single player experience but there's just something wrong about always online even for single player.

It hasn't stopped me always from playing something I was really interested in, I played HITMAN and paid full price for instance despite it being always online. But I do routinely rule always online games out just cause it kinda irks me if I wanted the game for single player.

I waited a super long time for a good racing game on PS4 and when I heard GT Sport was always online even to play what little single player content it had I didn't even bother with it even to this day when it's probably 10 bucks.


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In recent months I bought both Red Dead Redemption 2 and Pokemon Let's Go Eevee day one with no regrets. I don't mind paying full retail on a game I'm excited about and think is worth it, but that is only a couple times a year. I can't justify full price on linear single player games that are over in a weekend with no post-game content and I'm not a big multiplayer guy so it's tough for me to want to shell out full retail.

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General / Do you think common/non-sought-after titles are collectible?
« on: January 26, 2019, 06:49:10 pm »
adjective: collectible
1.
(of an item) worth collecting; of interest to a collector.
"his books became increasingly collectible classics"

If you use the definition 'worth collecting' - I don't.

I don't think that things that are in abundance and not particularly desirable are worth collecting. Otherwise you just end up buying up whatever blu ray/book/video game you come into contact with.

The more common something is, in general, the less desirable or collectible it is - from the stand point of how interesting it is to have in the collection.

That's not to say that common titles aren't worth playing, that's something very different from worth collecting - but I can see how it could be argued that those two things (worth playing and worth collecting) are one in the same. I guess I mean you wouldn't put an average and common title in a glass display case as a centre piece to a collection or anything and wouldn't be excited to come across it, peaking your interest as a collector of that particular type of thing.

I place no value on common average to poor games. Obviously something can be very common and very desirable due to being good games such as Mario Bros 3 and Contra but I would say those are worth playing rather than worth collecting.

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