The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

For me, all the DLC came with my copy automatically. I guess that's the one advantage of getting screwed over with timed exclusivity: At least when I finally get the game I get the full version without having to pay for DLC

I liked Baba Yaga quite a bit, because it had a certain atmosphere to it that was different from the main game, so I thought that was pretty cool, and the boss fight was fun. Blood Ties was the best of the bunch, though, just for all the backstory and yeah, it definitely worked best on its own, because it's basically  that game's version of Gone Home, so it wouldn't have fit in with the main game at all. I also got one called Lara's Nightmare, which also takes place in the manor,  though it was just a horde mode. It was kinda fun, though it had very little plot, so it wasn't really my thing.

Right now I'm using the PS4's Playstation Now streaming service to play The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, as well as its sequel. They're turn0based JRPGs, which is already my thing, but they also have a heavy social sim element, which reminds me of Persona, one of my favorite franchises, except it has more areas to explore than those games, while still having great dialogue and fun combat, so it's pretty much been exactly what I would have hoped for. It doesn't have a main plot yet, mostly just small self-contained chapters with signs of a bigger plot going on in the background, but so far I'm been loving it.

I beat Resident Evil 7 a couple nights ago. It was really cool overall, surprisingly so. There were parts in the first half where it had some of that hide and seek style gameplay I'm not so fond of, like in Outlast and Amnesia, but it wasn't done too terribly. More importantly, though, the overall game felt very much like classic RE except in first-person, and while games like the first Amnesia and SOMA are probably better games overall, I'd go as far as to say of all horror games I've played since Silent Hill 3, this one comes the closest to the kind of classic survivor horror gameplay I want from the genre, which is awesome.

I haven't got past the first mission in Mankind Divided yet so I can't really judge the game too much other than to say there's something about it that feels oddly clunkly to me compared to Human Revolution. I say oddly because so far the game has performance smoothly, but something feels off in the controls to me. I haven't been able to get into it. 

I'm finally starting to get some real hype going for the new Mass Effect. 

Alex and I agreed that we'd wait to make sure its launch isn't botched like most major games before buying it. I am eager to give it a go though.

DippoMagoo wrote: Just got my new gaming laptop my brother ordered me, so I'm going to be messing around with it for a while. My main games for now will be Grim Dawn, a solid looking Diablo style game and Hollow Knight, a Metroidvania type game, which looks really good. I tried Ryse: Son of Rome as a performance test, and while I deleted the immediately because I hated the gameplay, it was running fairly well, so at least on that front it was a success.

Man, I'm really itching to play the new Mass Effect now, because players on Xbox and PC have the option to play it for 10 hours this week. Really makes me wish I had the same option on PS4, but Sony rejected that plan a couple years back, which really pisses me off, because I want to play through the game in one go without rushing, but I have so much coming out in the next while, that it may not be possible. I'm hearing funny things about facial animations, but aside from that the game itself looks cool, and my brother has it and said the combat feels like Mass Effect except better than usual, and the writing seems good so far. 

Edited by DippoMagoo - 17 Mar 2017 at 11:05am

Yeah, I've been laughing at a youtube video that shows a bunch of animation oddities, glitches and just weird shit happening. It's the kind of thing where it does look like a rush job, but it's more hilarious than anything and I doubt it'll really effect my enjoyment. The funniest part is when it shows one of the characters shooting while clearly holding their gun backwards, lol!

It's been getting hammered pretty hard on the reviews, but I played it for about 4 hours last night, and honestly: It's a Bioware game. So if you've liked their past work, there's really no reason you should like Andromeda, at least on what I've played so far. Some complain about the writing, but I think it's been perfectly fine so far, and the setting and characters have been interesting as always. Combat also seems really cool so far, a lot more active than in past ME games. 

So, just found out that Dream Theater has a video game.