The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Dishonored 2 I'm getting then regardless of whether or not it has a discount. I loved the first game so much that it's earned a full price purchase from me...plus I already kinda feel like I owe them money anyway. I got the complete version of the first game dirt cheap due to a Steam pricing glitch. £2.39 for the game and all DLC. 

I expect I'll replay Human Revolution before I get Mankind Divided either way. 

Have to say though that out of the two it's Dishonoured 2 I've most hyped for. 

I'm glad I never bit the bullet and bought it now. 

I did end up playing all the way through Dex. Usually I'd have written a mini-review on my videogames list on RYM by now, but I really can't decide what to rate the thing. I never did get the hang of combat: It got a little better as I put skills into both melee and ranged, but even then it still felt awkward. It also has hacking sequences which turn it into an NES style space shooter, and while I like the idea, the execution is sometimes fun but sometimes terrible. But at the same time, I loved exploring the city, loved the story and lore, loved the sidequests, which often had their own story, and I certainly can't say I didn't have a great time overall. What makes it frustrating is it ticks so many boxes for things I love in games, and yet the execution is so off in certain areas, it's hard to really recommend. I sure enjoyed it, though. 

I also started another metroidvania style game called Dex. It has a cyberpunk setting, which is cool, and I like the world design and dialogue so far, but the combat is going to take some time to get used to, as it feels very clunky and button mashy. Hopefully I can get it to work, because so far it's been holding the game back for me.

Anyway, recommended if you own Skyrim on PC. One thing to note though is that because this is not a Steam mod (I really wish they could get their games on there as others have done) is that it will overwrite Skyrim will installed, so you have to have one or the other...though this may cease to be a problem once the updated Skyrim is out as I think that will use a new install and if I recall correctly anyone who already owns it and all DLC on PC is entitled to a free copy. 

While I'm still building a massive settlement in Fallout 4 on the Starlight Drive-in site, I've gone back to the Witcher 3 and started from scratch with the intent to play though the whole thing in order: base game (Velen, Norvigrad, Skellige in order), Hearts of Stone and finally Blood and Wine (which believe it or not I've only played once so far). 

I want to get that new Deus Ex but it will be some time before I can. The last one was excellent so I'm hoping this lives up to it. 

Even though it's obtuse in just about every way possible that a game can be, it did originally come out in 1984, and it was pretty innovative. It's one of the first action rpgs ever, one of the first games to use a quick save system, and probably the first game ever to have regenerative health instead of needing some form of a healing item (as far as any sort of action related games go), and how many games use regenerative health now-a-days? Quite a few. How many games can you think of back in the 80's and 90's that had regenerative health? Not many. The main problem imo is that this was released in 1989 in North America. No one would even dare to consider porting a six year old Japanese only computer game to the Xbox One or PS4 virtually unchanged now, but porting old computer games to current consoles was a fairly common thing to do back then. It's really more the fault of FCI for releasing it in NA six years after it came out that the game is considered one of the worst on the nes, than it actually being a truly bad game. It's worth a play for anyone who genuinely likes oldschool rpgs, as long as you don't expect all that much from it.

To be honest, I've never played it, but it doesn't look fun from reviews I've seen.