The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Yeah, I played Oxenfree on PS4 recently and liked it a lot. It took a while for me to adjust to the really tiny character models and the fact that they look cartoony while sounding realistic, but otherwise I really enjoyed the story and I thought the radio feature was really neat, especially the optional stuff you can do with it. I also had a hard time selecting dialogue choices in time, which usually isn't a problem for me with this type of game, so I'd definitely consider playing through again when they patch that.

Ara Fell continues to go well, though it's on the backburner for a bit while I play Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness on my PS4. It's a pretty fun Action RPG so far with great combat, tons of optional stuff already, and it has seamless transitions in and out of combat, which makes it flow wonderfully. It's been getting negative reviews and reactions from fans, but as a longtime fan of the series I'm absolutely loving it so far.

Edited by DippoMagoo - 28 Jun 2016 at 7:35pm

Huh, that's weird. My ending sure felt like a real ending, and it felt like one of the good endings, if not the best ending.

Edited by DippoMagoo - 29 Jun 2016 at 12:00pm

Yeah, that's not how mine went. I actually forgot I didn't save Clarissa, so my wasn't the best ending for sure, but..... Something else happened that made it a really good ending anyway, and it appears it didn't happen for you.

Not entirely. Its hard to explain without spoiling it, but they definitely left the island in my ending, and then some weird stuff happened just before the credits, but I got the impression it only happened to Alex and not everyone else.

Edited by DippoMagoo - 29 Jun 2016 at 12:24pm

Weird. I had something like that happen during the game, but certainly not at the end, and I never got returned to the menu until after the credits.

I did have Alex's voice go a bit robotic at the end and she looped, but me and my brother just figured she had become a ghost and that was the ending, and everyone else made it off the island. I don't think I got "Continue Timeline" in the menu, either. I may have to check at some point.

I guess I will have to play through again at some point, then. I'll probably wait a bit to see if they ever fix the issue with the dialogue choices, though, because I have other stuff to play in the meantime.

Just finished a second run of Oxenfree.

Spoiler warning so stop reading if you don't want to know!

The fates of all the characters in the game were not that different having played again, despite me making a conscious choice to do things differently this time. The only major change was I somehow went from Alex and Jonas bonding to Alex keeping Jonas at a distance, which didn't make much sense as I thought their relationship was going the same way, with the only difference being that this time I decided that Alex would realistically get angry at Jonas and Ren's fight and so instead of picking sides took Nona with me instead for that part of the game.

What did change was the end. While the time loop still repeated itself instead of going straight back to the menu there was an extra scene after the final photo monlogue that takes place before the start of the game. I won't say exactly what happens in it or how to get that outcome but it felt more like a true ending, though my main menu still says Continue Timeline (presumably I can play a new game plus mode until I reset it in the options to start over).

Edited by adg211288 - 01 Jul 2016 at 3:59pm

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I started Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor last night. So far it looks as if it may be the best Lord of the Rings related game out there (though I do have fond memories of both The Third Age and The Hobbit on Gamecube). The only thing that is really holding me back from really getting into it so far is that the controls feel pretty awkward on keyboard and mouse. I think I'm going to have to switch to my controller to get through this one as some the stretches to get to all the keys you need at once are ridiculous.

Now that I have a new PC, I might actually be able to finally play Shadow of Mordor, the only thing that stops me now is the awful promotional campaign where they paid people to write positive reviews. I love The Third Age, one of the best RPG's I've ever played.

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I abslutely hated Shadows of Mordor. Played for about 5 hours and got completely sick of it. I remember I only got it on a sale because I saw it being hyped up like crazy, but I always was concerned that it would just be the same extremely repetitive combat the whole game with nothing else to hold my attention, and I was right. People hype up the Nemesis system as being something revolutionary, but all it is they just keep making you fight the same enemy over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, but they get harder each time. That's not innovation: That's just pure garbage repetition, imo.