The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

The Long Dark got a new region yesterday. Of course when I loaded my save today I couldn't have been much further from it. Still haven't made it there for a look yet. Spent ages trying to find my way out of the region I last saved in since it was the then new one and I haven't played it too much. Ended finding a secret path which ultimately led me absolutely nowhere and had to backtrack the whole damn way. 

I have mainly been playing multiplayer shooters with my out of town buddies on saturday nights - lately: Battlefield 2 & Vietnam, Sven Co-Op, Deep Rock Galactic, left 4 dead, counterstrike 

The spec doesn't look as horrendous as I'd expected, but I often find specs don't mean much and are often understated if you're expecting even 1080P 60FPS. 

So who's getting Cyberpunk on day 1 then?

DippoMagoo wrote: Yeah, I'm honestly starting to wonder if that game may have just been a total fluke. I played their first game, Remember Me, and it wasn't that great, Vampyr was absolutely TERRIBLE, probably one of the worst games I've ever played, the Captain Spirit teaser thing wasn't too good, LiS 2 looks boring, and they have a new release Tell Me Why, which doesn't look that great, either. So, I think the first LiS must have been a once in a lifetime fluke, sort of thing, somehow.

Yeah, I'm honestly starting to wonder if that game may have just been a total fluke. I played their first game, Remember Me, and it wasn't that great, Vampyr was absolutely TERRIBLE, probably one of the worst games I've ever played, the Captain Spirit teaser thing wasn't too good, LiS 2 looks boring, and they have a new release Tell Me Why, which doesn't look that great, either. So, I think the first LiS must have been a once in a lifetime fluke, sort of thing, somehow.

I just reinstalled the first Life is Strange and played through a few segments of the first episode of that, just to see if it really is the second game or if I'm just not in the right mood for this type of game right now...and I think it really is just that the second game isn't that interesting. The first one actually feels like fun to poke around the locations to see what details you can find (you can do that in 2, but you always have the little brother running around to keep an eye on) plus you actually, you know, have the special powers yourself in 1. To use a word Max would use, it's really lame that the second game is basically instead babysitting the one with powers instead of being able to use them yourself (the best you can do is tell the brother what to use them on and then a cutscene plays, which gets old really fast). I'm really confused why anyone at DONTNOD thought that was the right direction to go for gameplay.

I watched a playthrough of episode 1, and it looked pretty bad, imo. It especially had one clearly blatant line about Donald Trump, where a white NPC said something along the lines of "Kids like you are the reason we need to build that great big wall", and I was just in disbelief at how unsubtle and on the nose that was. I mean, I have no problem with some political elements in games, and I do hate Trump, but that is just unbelievably blatant, LOL

Just looked at the Cyberpunk 2077 requirements for PC and they look surprisingly reasonable for a 2020 game. The biggest concern for me is how heavily they're stressing the use of an SSD instead of an HDD, which I don't have and haven't been planning to have either. 

Just finished playing Greedfall yesterday. Great fantasy RPG with a colonial theme.