The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Oh man that really sucks.

I finally finished my most recent Witcher 3 run today that I had to abandon due to my PC going back for repair. This time for Blood and Wine I purposely played the end differently to get my last missing achievement. 

Yeah, it seems Bethesda have only gotten worse over the years, on a technical level at least. That game doesn't even look nearly as good as The Witcher or Rise of the Tomb Raider (which runs basically as smoothly as that kind of game possibly can on a PS4, btw), yet it has all kinds of framerate issues. Apparently Far Harbor on PS4 was hitting 15-20 FPS at times when it first came out

Finished Rise of the Tomb Raider last night, and I thought it was awesome. It basically is the same as the 2013 game, with everything I already liked about it fully in tact, but now with a bigger open world, more tombs and a much longer story. I like both game a lot, but I'd give this one a slight edge just because there's more game to it, and because my version looks so much better than the last game (though that's because I played the 2013 game on the 360 and I played this on the PS4. It certainly does look gorgeous, though.) I think people are greatly overrating Uncharted 4, which really was a disappointment to me because for all its technical improvements it lacked an important element for me: Fun gameplay. So I guess I'm just glad to see this game kept that as the main priority, while still just being great overall.

I played through a short horror game called The Park today. It was pretty decent though it's plot was hard to follow at times, especially in the second act, as it leaves a lot of stuff open to interpretation. Gameplay wise it was a total walking simulator but the atmosphere, especially in the first act, was really good. A few jump scares managed to get me. 

I've had the PS4 version crash twice after about 7 hours of playing so far: Both crashes happened while viewing documents, so that might be an issue on PS4, somehow. I like the game a lot so far, though. It seems more open than the 2013 game was, which is nice. I took about 45 minutes trying to locate an optional tomb, only to realize I had to shoot something to open a hole in the ground, so that was pretty funny. The tomb itself took much less than 45 minutes to figure out. 

I enjoyed Rise of the Tomb Raider but I think I prefer the 2013 reboot between the two. A good follow-up though. I may have enjoyed it more but I played it on my husband's steam account and some locations seemed quite poorly optimised on PC, though I don't know if any patches have addressed that since. Our gaming PC would not considered fully up to current standards (I expect we'll look at upgrading in the new year) but is still in the ballpark for the game's recommended settings.

Currently playing TLoZ: Triforce Heroes. Am also playing tidbits of Metroid Prime Federation Force here and there. It's not a bad game though it isn't the Metroid game I was hoping for. No regrets though!


Edited by Psydye - 03 Oct 2016 at 10:31pm

Sheavy wrote: Psydye wrote: Haven't really been in the mood for video games lately...mostly just been playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Actually I feel like showing off an IM shirt I made in the game:  Nice. I've got a Metallica vest for Oblivion .

Excellent!

adg211288 wrote: So remastered versions of the Bioshock games have dropped this week. I played a bit of the first one earlier and it seemed smoother on PC that I recalled it being, though it's been a while since I played it. Most don't seem to have a high opinion of the remasters though from what I've read, but I haven't seen anything untoward about them so far.  Debatable now on whether I go back to the original Bioshock 2, which for some reason I never got very far on, or just restart it on the remaster.