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 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 1:26am |
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Yeah I do smell another Witcher 3 'downgrade' scandal coming. Like I thought last time when people lost their shit over that though, I'll just presume that they're okay to run the game at sub 10FPS so long as it looks before it's time.
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Posted: 26 Jun 2018 at 6:55pm |
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Yeah, I plan on getting all those as well. I already have the Croft Edition of Tomb Raider preordered. The only concern for Cyberpunk is, people are describing the behind closed doors demo as being far ahead of current technology, so that has me feeling I might be buying a whole new console to play it, which would be expensive, obviously. And in your case, you'll most likely need a new PC for it, if it ends up being as demanding as it appears to be. Either that or it'll get seriously downgraded, which if anything would be more disappointing.
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Posted: 26 Jun 2018 at 2:22pm |
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Having not played Vampyr I can't comment on that (I may pick it up one day if it gets cheap enough) but I haven't found myself with much hype for Life is Strange 2. I actually liked their first game Remember Me a lot more than most people seemed to, but they haven't earned early purchase from me. To be honest the only games on the horizon (fiances depending) that would earn that from me are Shadow the Tomb Raider, Metro Exodus, and Cyberpunk 2077.
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Posted: 26 Jun 2018 at 2:09pm |
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Unexpectedly, Life is Strange 2 is beginning to look like it might not be a day one purchase for me, after I was initially excited to get more of the series. First of all, Dontnod really screwed up with Vampyr, the worst game I've played in years, and now they put out a free demo called The Awesome (more like "Mediocre") Adventures of Captain Spirit, meant to be a teaser for LiS 2, and I wasn't all that thrilled by it. Turns out, maybe I just loved Max and Chloe too much, and playing with other characters won't work for me. Either way, the game has good exploration, as usual, and I like the way it throws in imaginary super powers and worlds, but the actual writing seemed very forced and not at all up to the levels of season 1, though I think it may just be that I miss the original cast too much.
Either way, though, between being disappointed by this and hating Vampyr, I think buying the game right away could be a risk. It also doesn't help that where the original was around $25-30 here, LiS 2 is seriously $50, which is way too much for that kind of game, imo. The final season of Telltale's The Walking Dead is $27, for comparisons sake, while I usually prefer LiS over Telltale games, that price difference is still pretty insane. I've definitely lost a lot of my hype for it, that's for sure.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2018 at 1:13am |
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The only thing that is remotely tempting me in this sale is Far Cry 5, which has 25% off but with what money I have built up from selling trading card badge crap I would get down to around 50% off before I had to use my own money. The only thing holding me back right now is that some of the reviews are telling horror stories about the Uplay (or as legitimate players call it, UDon'tPlay) DRM. I do have this on Far Cry 3 of course, but I do recall it proved a real pain in the arse at times with that and other Ubisoft games that I'm loath to drop £25 on the game if it's just going to cause me stress before I can even get into it.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 3:41am |
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Having had a chance to look now I have to say that this sale doesn't actually look very good at all! I know that no Steam sale is ever going to be as good as your first one but it does seem to me as if the deals are nowhere near as good as they were when I first joined Steam. Titles that used to always get 75% knocked off without fail in the Summer/Winter sales now only go to 50%, such as the early Far Cry games (which have also had an increase in base price, in spite of their age). A lot of coveted titles don't go on sale as high as they do at random times during the year either, if they get a discount at all.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 12:42pm |
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I'm just trying to load up on as many free sale trading cards as I can then sell the crap they drop. Free money. I'm at £11.11 now just from selling that junk on the Steam market.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 12:34pm |
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Thankfully, I don't have any money right now, so I don't have to worry about trying to get purchases to go through. I am trying to scout out for next week, when I will money, though, and I can't even get my wishlist to load to see which games I have there are on sale, lol!
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 12:10pm |
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Well after Christmas's shocker that Steam worked on the first day of the sale, seems that Valve were unable to make it two in a row. Store has been pretty much unusable for the last 70 minutes, since the sale went live. I really don't know how they can finally fix whatever problem they had the one time then immediately go back to business as usual (which is to say, no business at all) the next.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 11:51am |
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I'll have a look to see what's on offer but I'm also not planning on buying much, if anything. I easily dropped about £200 in the last one and haven't even touched some of the games I bought yet. Steam sales offer too much temptation to spend your savings. Maybe I should just ignore it. Small text: I'm under orders from my wife not to rack up such a huge bill this sale.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 3:29am |
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Steam sale starts next week. For once I don't have any plans to buy anything, though I do have £10 built up in my Steam wallet just from selling the crap that drops from the Steam trading card badges in the last six months. I may let that roll over to the next sale though: Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be out by then and even if that's too early to get a discount I'll still have a chunk of it paid off basically by Valve themselves. I'm almost 25% of the way there already. Either that or it depends on what kind of discount Far Cry 5 gets at any point. I'm not expecting much of one in this sale though as it's still too new.
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Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 12:41pm |
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That, Starfield and Rage 2 were the only good things to come out of Bethesda's E3 conference, imo. Fallout 76 looks like it's exactly what I DON'T want from the series, just like Anthem is exactly what I DON'T want from Bioware. Multiplayer gaming is really taking over the AAA gaming industry in a bad way, and it makes me pretty depressed.
On the bright side, From Software's new game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is multiplatform, Shadow of the Tomb Raider looks awesome and Metro: Exodus is confirmed to be out on February 22nd of next year.
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Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 2:58am |
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Elder Scrolls 6 has been announced. https://www.pcgamer.com/elder-scrolls-6-what-we-know/
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Posted: 10 Jun 2018 at 10:39am |
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I've been playing Vampyr, the latest from the developers of Remember Me and Life is Strange. It's a pretty interesting game, in that the dialogue and story has been pretty good, though not on the level of Life is Strange, and I like the idea of being a vampire and having the option to feed on people to gain more exp, or try going for a non violent run and risk making the game harder by being underlevelled.
The game also has a cool system, where it's divided into multiple districts, and you have to try keeping everyone healed and the districts each have their own health, but certain choices you make can cause you to lose the districts completely. The way they execute this is a bit annoying, and one particular choice it felt like I was doing the right thing, yet it caused the situation to spiral out of control, though I definitely like the idea they're going for. This is definitely the opposite of a Telltale game, when it comes to choices. Sadly, though, the combat is an absolute shit fest. It's incredibly clunky, unresponsive and just not fluid to play at all. I pretty much had to cheese one boss with guns, because fighting any other way was a disaster, due to how bad dodging and parrying are in the game. I'd actually take it over the likes of The Technomancer and especially the literally unplayable Elex, but compared to anything even half decent, it falls terribly short. It also has severe technical issues on PS4, with bad loading times, constant frame stuttering, occasional crashes, and I even got some weird audio issue last night, where the characters talked in slow motion and it sounded absolutely terrible. The game is a technical marvel, in that you can't help but marvel at how game that looks so underwhelming visually, can have such massive technical issues. I am having some fun with the game, but it's easily the worst and least polished Dontnod game to date, and I definitely think they're better off focusing on pure story driven games in the future, because this one proves they can't do action games right at all. Thankfully, their next game Twin Mirror, looks to be going back to what they're good at, though it will take something big to win me back, after how disappointing Vampyr is.
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Posted: 25 May 2018 at 10:29am |
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No, I never saw that one before
 I did get myself caught once in the library, when I didn't notice a thing hanging from the ceiling and it kept coming down and grabbing me.
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Posted: 25 May 2018 at 5:34am |
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You put me in the mood to revisit the Metro games. Just did Trolley Combat on 2033. Got through it in one but really touch and go. I hate this level too.
In the library did you fall for this by the way? Nearly shit myself when I first played 2033. |
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Posted: 24 May 2018 at 1:45am |
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I ended up rage quitting Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 yesterday. I have been enjoying the game apart from some technical issues but then I got to this (main) mission where you have to complete it with zero enemy alerts and I just lost my patience with it. There is no manual save in the game so if you fail you have to start over every time from as good as the start of the whole mission and I really despise games that make you replay the same parts over and over because the checkpoints aren't in ideal places.
It's not the first mission like this in the game but its the first one where the requirement felt really ridiculous because the mission area is an absolutely huge area that is packed with enemies not one of which is allowed to see you or wander into a body of anyone you do kill and the place you have to get to is guarded by two stationary guards and another patrolling nearby. To top that off if these series has taught me anything across two previous games it's that you take out enemies that have high vantage points first, but that strategy just doesn't seem to work here. I also failed twice because my shots just seemed to bounce off enemies instead of killing them. What really finished this game for me though was that when I eventually took out the enemies up high and started to make my way around to the next vantage point I inexplicably failed the mission again for no apparent reason, undoing about 10-15 minutes of carefully planned work. I don't know if that was a glitch or there was a patrolling enemy I just hadn't seen that walked into a corpse, but it sure was annoying given how long it took to wait for the shots to line up on everyone I had taken out, including a really risky double shot that I was forced to take about five minutes in where after scouting the area with the drone a helicopter lands in the mission area and drops even more enemies off, right where I was positioned.
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Posted: 21 May 2018 at 11:19pm |
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Just finished it. There was one really nasty section near the end, that would have likely gone better with a sniper rifle. Without one, it was pretty rough, and got me pretty salty for quite a while, until I finally got it. The rest of the game was awesome, though, aside from the issues I already mentioned. The plot never fully grabbed me as much as in 2033, but there were still a ton of great moments, and I think the overall game was slightly better, with a perfect mix between linear and more open sections. I hope Exodus can continue to have a perfect balance, even if it is a bit bigger and more open overall.
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Posted: 21 May 2018 at 1:12pm |
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I think it was just after the swamp. It was the mission where you have to get to the church, and I had an autosave a few seconds away from the church, with 40 seconds left on my last gas filter. By the time I got in front of the church, I was down to about 25-30 seconds, and then there was a boss fight, so I was completely screwed. When I restarted the chapter, I got back there with about 3:30 left and passed it easily. Now, every time I have to use a gas mask I worry I'll get ripped off by a poorly timed autosave again. That's my only real issue with Last Light, though, aside from Artyom being quiet again. There haven't been any really annoying sequences, like in 2033.
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Posted: 21 May 2018 at 1:34am |
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Was that The Swamps level? If so I think that happened to me when I first played Last Light since it's quite an open level above ground.
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