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Post by bor on Dec 30, 2017 11:09:23 GMT -5
So for both christmas and my birthday I got a bunch of giftcards for a local electronnics chain. Originally I asked for this because I wanted to buy a good big coffe maschine but because I have a pretty big family, and becourse I turned 30, a lot of them decided to buy me that which is great but I still got a whole lot of giftscards to use.
I think I am going to buy myself a switch and the new mario game.
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 31, 2017 12:37:06 GMT -5
Playing Mafia III after I picked it up in a Steam sale earlier this year. I like the Mafia series, but they are marketed wrong, so people compare them to sandbox games like Grand Theft Auto. In fact they are narrative focused games that take place on a large city map like Grand Theft Auto, but outside the story missions there is little to do. The attention to detail in these games to recreate the time periods they take place in, is great.
Gameplay wise they have some issues: it's been ages since I played 1 and 2, but 3 has a stealth system that is functional but there are few missions that can be accomplished completely by stealth (or you have to be a far better player than I am *shrug*). The stealth can be used to get the jump on one or two guards, but soon you will run into a cluster of enemies or an ambush where you can't pick them off one at a time. You can only carry 2 weapons at a time, both with very limited ammo and so you don't really become stronger during the game. You gain a little more health and ammo as you go along, but you will not get enough of either to just go for frontal attacks against your opponents. Cars can be quite difficult to destroy in the few missions where you are required to do so.
Overall I enjoy the game though, the need to be clever during fights and the storytelling make it for me.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 8, 2018 21:13:10 GMT -5
Oh Jesus lol FF7 remake is going to be a hack n slash beat 'em up.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 30, 2018 20:20:29 GMT -5
I have been playing Batman: Arkham City. While it is not nearly as good as the previous game, Arkham Asylum, it is still fun as a comics fan to see everything interpreted. I've finished the main story and some of the sides, and am mainly now working on solving Riddler puzzles so that I can rescue his hostages. Many of them are confounding; either I can't figure out what you are supposed to do, or I am simply not fast and dextrous enough at the controls to do it. Overall I would give it an average rating but I do plan to complete it.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Jan 30, 2018 21:26:03 GMT -5
I have been playing Batman: Arkham City. While it is not nearly as good as the previous game, Arkham Asylum, it is still fun as a comics fan to see everything interpreted. I've finished the main story and some of the sides, and am mainly now working on solving Riddler puzzles so that I can rescue his hostages. Many of them are confounding; either I can't figure out what you are supposed to do, or I am simply not fast and dextrous enough at the controls to do it. Overall I would give it an average rating but I do plan to complete it. How dare you trash-talk Arkham City?!  Kidding. In all seriousness, why did you like Arkham Asylum better? I played City first so I remember liking that one best, but I haven't played either in years. I haven't been playing games a whole lot lately, but about a month ago I finished Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. The previous Wolfenstein was a great game, but this one managed to outdo its predecessor in almost every way. Absolutely fantastic story and gameplay. |
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Post by impulse on Jan 30, 2018 23:59:38 GMT -5
Kidding. In all seriousness, why did you like Arkham Asylum better? I played City first so I remember liking that one best, but I haven't played either in years. I can't speak for Badwolf, but I also enjoyed Asylum more. I liked the setting and more focused/linear approach. I liked City and Knight, too, but I think they were too open-ended. I like having some structure and guidance. I also think the open-world thing is starting to get played out, or at the very least it's time for someone to figure out a new formula for it. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 31, 2018 6:46:37 GMT -5
Also liked Arkham Asylum better than City. City is certainly not bad and its Freeze boss battle is probably the highlight of the entire series for a boss battle, but I liked Asylum for the same reasons as Impulse.
Speaking of Batman games, I recently played Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. It's basically a standard Lego game. I have finished the main story, but unlocking the remaining characters has been disappointing mostly.
Is this game written by Geoff Johns (I really don't like Johns' writing in case you were wondering)?
Because we have a couple of dozen playable characters like usual with the Lego Games (150 not including DLC).
50 of the 150 characters are Batman related (which is fine, this is a Batman title instead of a general DC series. Generally you get the current comic version and the 1966 Adam West TV-series version of each): 6 of those are different version of Batman (including 1 which has 8 different costumes), several Robins (and their later identities), 2 versions of Batgirl (but only Barbara Gordon, no Stephanie or Cassandra), 2 versions of Alfred. Most of his classic villains (including obscure ones like Condiment King, Polka Dot Man). Some comic characters like Ace the Bathound, Bat-Cow and Bat-mite. No Gordon though, no Huntress or Batwoman or Scarecrow or Ra's al Ghul. We do get minions for Killer Croc? Is Killer Croc even the kind of villain to have minions?
Then we have 20 Green Lantern related characters including Daffy Duck as the Green Loontern, because despite being a Batman game the majority of the game takes place on the various Lantern planets. No Alan Scott though. No Jade. Kyle is there, but as White Lantern, not as a Green Lantern.
10 Superman characters, which makes sense cause Superman is of course a major character. No Lois or Jimmy though. No Power Girl. We do get Manchester Black and Solar Suit Superman.
6 Flash characters: Basically Flash, Grodd and all the Rogues.
Game is pushing Cyborg really hard (he has 8 different forms like Batman, Robin, Joker and Lex Luthor have, each with specfic powers) and you get him for most levels, we also get a Beast Boy, Kid Flash. We don't get a Starfire, Donna Troy, Terra or Raven though. We do get Miss Martian (she was created by who again?) and Wonder Girl (Cassandra, not Donna).
No Legion Characters (except Supergirl and Superboy), Doom Patrol (except Beast Boy), JSA is Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Captain Marvel and .... Stargirl. She was created by who again?
We get Kalibak and Orion, but no Mr. Miracle or Big Barda.
We get Captain Marvel and Black Adam, but not Mary Marvel.
We get Aquaman and Black Mantha, but no Mera.
For the rest we get most characters you'd expect: Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Doctor Fate, Etrigan, Plastic Man, Atom and some surprises (Detective Chimp, Frankenstein, Bronze Tiger). We get Vibe, but not Vixen.
The biggest disappointment is though that 4 slots are used for real people: Adam West (ok, Adam West is cool, so I'm completely fine with him in the game), but also Kevin Smith, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee (oh and Conan O'Brien is in the game, but not playable).
And they added their own created character for a slot, the Fierce Flame.
DLC does introduce some missing people: we get movie version of Gordon (and most Batman characters), the Arrow-verse version of the Green Arrow and his cast (and post Crisis,pre-52 Huntress), Bizarro versions of the JLA (plus Guy Gardner and Darkseid), the Suicide Squad (movie version).
Now I get that I won't get some of my favourites (Midnighter, Legion, John Constantine, Doom Patrol, Chronos) as they are not the best known characters DC has. But Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, Power Girl, Mera and so on are big names IMHO and people I'd expect to be there, instead every unlock was "Oh hey, another Lantern I don't know about".
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Post by badwolf on Jan 31, 2018 11:12:42 GMT -5
How dare you trash-talk Arkham City?! Kidding. In all seriousness, why did you like Arkham Asylum better? I played City first so I remember liking that one best, but I haven't played either in years. Well I guess my biggest problem is that the "Arkham City" concept makes no sense to me at all. Take over a large chunk of the city so that the villains can have their own...community? With stores and businesses and everything? Really? They'd have all killed each other within a day, with maybe heavy hitters like Freeze and Clayface left standing. Where'd all the thugs come from? For the most part, they don't seem like asylum inmates. Various plot points made me go "huh" as well. Why does Freeze attack you when he needs you to find his wife? (It was a good battle, I'll admit, but badly timed.) Why in the name of the demon's head would Talia offer to make Joker immortal? Other stuff I dislike has to do with the gameplay. Particularly all the special moves requiring any number of combinations of key and/or mouse button presses. I don't remember there being this many in AA. I have a hard time remembering them all, the hints come up and disappear too quickly to read, the window of opportunity is too short and when I do get them right sometimes they don't work anyway ("beatdowns" only seemed to activate half the time.) MILLIONS OF RIDDLER TROPHIES. In AA they were just an achievement bonus, but now you have to get them to progress through the hostages. Catwoman, why is she there at all? After the sequence with Ivy at the beginning, her part of the game seems to do a weird "reboot" that left me wondering if I missed something. Then there's the vault thing which is good but after that all there is to do with her is beat up thugs and get her loot back. Oh, and collect Riddler trophies. I thought there'd be more. It feels tacked on, as do many of the side quests. If it sounds like I hate the game, I don't, but it is frustrating in so many ways. Like Diz and Impulse I also feel that it is too scattered. |
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Post by impulse on Jan 31, 2018 15:27:03 GMT -5
How dare you trash-talk Arkham City?! Kidding. In all seriousness, why did you like Arkham Asylum better? I played City first so I remember liking that one best, but I haven't played either in years. Well I guess my biggest problem is that the "Arkham City" concept makes no sense to me at all. Take over a large chunk of the city so that the villains can have their own...community? With stores and businesses and everything? Really? They'd have all killed each other within a day, with maybe heavy hitters like Freeze and Clayface left standing. Where'd all the thugs come from? For the most part, they don't seem like asylum inmates. Various plot points made me go "huh" as well. Why does Freeze attack you when he needs you to find his wife? (It was a good battle, I'll admit, but badly timed.) Why in the name of the demon's head would Talia offer to make Joker immortal? Other stuff I dislike has to do with the gameplay. Particularly all the special moves requiring any number of combinations of key and/or mouse button presses. I don't remember there being this many in AA. I have a hard time remembering them all, the hints come up and disappear too quickly to read, the window of opportunity is too short and when I do get them right sometimes they don't work anyway ("beatdowns" only seemed to activate half the time.) MILLIONS OF RIDDLER TROPHIES. In AA they were just an achievement bonus, but now you have to get them to progress through the hostages. Catwoman, why is she there at all? After the sequence with Ivy at the beginning, her part of the game seems to do a weird "reboot" that left me wondering if I missed something. Then there's the vault thing which is good but after that all there is to do with her is beat up thugs and get her loot back. Oh, and collect Riddler trophies. I thought there'd be more. It feels tacked on, as do many of the side quests. If it sounds like I hate the game, I don't, but it is frustrating in so many ways. Like Diz and Impulse I also feel that it is too scattered. Oh, man, you'd hate Arkham Knight, lol. SOOOOOOOOOOO many Riddler trophies, and you need to 100% the game to get the true ending. I ended up doing it since I accidentally got so close to 100% anyway, but I normally wouldn't. |
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Post by badwolf on Jan 31, 2018 16:36:37 GMT -5
Oh, man, you'd hate Arkham Knight, lol. SOOOOOOOOOOO many Riddler trophies, and you need to 100% the game to get the true ending. I ended up doing it since I accidentally got so close to 100% anyway, but I normally wouldn't. Well, I got all three of them as a sale pack, so I'll play it eventually. Riddler's puzzles are actually one of my favorite parts of the games. I'd like to see a game where he is the main villain and most of the action is puzzling. But I look at my map and there are still like 500 little question marks on it and it's kind of overwhelming. |
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Jan 31, 2018 18:02:39 GMT -5
Oh, man, you'd hate Arkham Knight, lol. SOOOOOOOOOOO many Riddler trophies, and you need to 100% the game to get the true ending. I ended up doing it since I accidentally got so close to 100% anyway, but I normally wouldn't. Well, I got all three of them as a sale pack, so I'll play it eventually. Riddler's puzzles are actually one of my favorite parts of the games. I'd like to see a game where he is the main villain and most of the action is puzzling. But I look at my map and there are still like 500 little question marks on it and it's kind of overwhelming. All three? Poor Arkham Origins, it doesn't even get included in sale packs...  |
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Post by badwolf on Jan 31, 2018 21:49:49 GMT -5
Well, I got all three of them as a sale pack, so I'll play it eventually. Riddler's puzzles are actually one of my favorite parts of the games. I'd like to see a game where he is the main villain and most of the action is puzzling. But I look at my map and there are still like 500 little question marks on it and it's kind of overwhelming. All three? Poor Arkham Origins, it doesn't even get included in sale packs... Oh wait, I did get Arkham Origins, along with Asylum and City. Knight wasn't included. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 1, 2018 5:50:43 GMT -5
Origins is always seen as the lesser one, because it was not made by Rocksteady, but in many ways I like it better than Arkham Knight and in some ways I like it better than City and Asylum (even though overall I like Asylum far more and City quite a bit more).
So I still think it's worth playing.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Feb 6, 2018 12:39:27 GMT -5
I started a new file in Skyrim last weekend. It's one of my favorite games, and I played it for many hours, but haven't returned for about 5 years. I'm very excited to begin again. It's not perfect, but the sense of possibility and adventure has never been matched by another game for me. Particularly looking forward to replaying the Dark Brotherhood quest line, as well as playing the Thieves' Guild quests for the first time (there was a glitch that prevented me from playing them originally). I've forgotten enough of the game that there are plenty of surprises again.
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Post by badwolf on Feb 6, 2018 13:55:01 GMT -5
Yeah Skyrim is probably my #1 too. I'm still playing on my original character, with an expansion mod.
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