The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Also, Adam, if you'd prefer to play it like a typical turn-based game, you can select the "Wait On" option in the menu, and that will allow you to take as much time as you want in battle. I figured that out from my experience with this battle system.

Liking the game so far. I did have trouble with the first enemy that came along though. I managed to avoid it the first time though it was chasing me at the end I did manage to make my escape. However it later reappeared in the next section and here it seemed that no matter where I tried to hide it always seemed to go straight to that area to look for me and I didn't find that the rooms had many options to avoid its gaze, such the ability to edge round the back of the shelves in a store room despite there being a visible gap there. 

Going to attempt to cap my spending here though. I was thinking of maybe getting Firewatch but it only went to 33% off. I think I'll wait to see what it goes to next time. 

I mostly bought 75% off games but decided to also get Soma at just 50% off. Been itching to play that one for months now. 

I have actually started a couple of other games in the last couple of days:

35mm - a few negative feelings here so far, mostly due to the terrible save system which is autosave only with checkpoints too few and far between but I like the overall atmosphere of the game. It's a post-apocalyptic tale of two men travelling to an as yet unstated destination. They seem to have been thrown together by chance and don't really know each other, but there does seem to be a level of trust between them. A lot of the game has been just walking and exploring so far but it does it in such a way that parts of the game were actually quite nerve racking. Had one major fight scene so far where it briefly turned into an FPS. The gunplay was okay but not great. They did not provide enough bullets to kill every enemy even with perfect aim though, so I had to run from the fight. Maybe that was the intention. I need to pick it up again from the next but which I kept dying on due to triggering traps - because of the awful save system I obviously kept being put back to the start of the area.

I've also started an RPGMaker game called Ara Fell. I've completed the prologue and a couple of main quest missions and a few side missions so far and it seems solid. The combat threw me as it presents itself as turn-based but is partly in real time so you can't sit there looking through your menus to choose what to do as the enemies will keep attacking. As such I got killed on the very first tutorial fight. Getting used to it now though. 

When will Valve realise that their system cannot cope with the demand at sale time and do something about it? I'm sure they make enough money to invest some in better/more servers. 

£39.99 as expected. I'd be prepared to pay that price given that the first game is an all time favourite of mine (I'm itching to replay it all again now), but I'm not going to pre-order. Not much point really: there pre-order incentive is non-existent if you already own the original (Steam refuses you a Giftable copy if you do) plus here's another example of that all too common problem with PC games: taking pre-orders without releases system requirements. Having just got a new PC this year I'm confident that my hardware will be up to scratch, maybe not a solid 60FPS on top settings as the 970 is pushing it a bit now, but it should be more than playable. My only concern is the OS. Some sources have said the game is okay with Windows 7, while others say the minimum is 8. That would put a serious dampener on me for this game as I paid extra on my new PC to have Windows 7 as 8 is widely hated and my experience with 10 has been almost completely negative as well (My mother upgraded to 10 from 8 (which was probably the best decision in that case) but her laptop still doesn't seem to go for more than a month without something going wrong with the OS - I've had to complete reset it for her at least three times now just to get the machine working). 

As I had feared, the second wave only includes one more story add-on, which compared to Fallout 3's five and New Vegas' four, means Bethesda really cut back on the extra content this time. The other two DLC's are once again workshop based. The one about making your own vault is vaguely interesting, but I can't help feeling that the high standard met by the two previous games has been fallen very far short of.