Just watched the trailer for Assassins Creed: Valhalla. OMG, I am excited. I love Northern Europe as a setting.
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Animal Crossing New Horizons. Tom Nook just charged me 2,498,000 bells to add a basement. Ludicrous.
Finally finished Mass Effect Andromeda.
It wasn’t terrible. Good combat mechanics, good graphics, beautiful planets, loads of content. But it’s shameful when compared to the original trilogy. Felt more like a cheesy chinese knock-off you can buy at a gas station for ten bucks, called „Mess Affect“ or something... The writing was decent at times and cringeworthy at others. Your crew mostly consists of annoying dimwits, except for the Krogan and the Turian. A „quirky Asari named Peebee“?? Decisions weren’t all clear cut good or evil, so that was interesting. But they had little to no impact on the story, so why even bother. Some interesting story elements never get picked up again or explained.
The end of the Shepherd trilogy had my wife and me in tears. The end of Andromeda was just like „ah, it’s over“.
It wasn’t terrible. Good combat mechanics, good graphics, beautiful planets, loads of content. But it’s shameful when compared to the original trilogy. Felt more like a cheesy chinese knock-off you can buy at a gas station for ten bucks, called „Mess Affect“ or something... The writing was decent at times and cringeworthy at others. Your crew mostly consists of annoying dimwits, except for the Krogan and the Turian. A „quirky Asari named Peebee“?? Decisions weren’t all clear cut good or evil, so that was interesting. But they had little to no impact on the story, so why even bother. Some interesting story elements never get picked up again or explained.
The end of the Shepherd trilogy had my wife and me in tears. The end of Andromeda was just like „ah, it’s over“.
So now that I am in Act 2 of Fate of Atlantis, I am starting to like it more. I guess I just didn't care for the feel of Elysium. The underworld has been fun and interesting so far. Now at 162 hours of playtime. Best bang for buck game I have ever purchased
I've just started Snowrunner, after getting a bit bored of the normal Forza/Project Cars/Dirt driving games.
Much slower, and a bit frustrating at time...but well worth the effort.
Much slower, and a bit frustrating at time...but well worth the effort.
I’ve been playing Battlefront II religiously, but my PS4 seems like it’s giving up the ghost. I turned it on today and got this seizure-inducing flashing on screen; the image is also doubled. I’m going to let it cool off and maybe apply some new thermal paste.
Speaking of, what’s with the prices of PS4 right now? They’re all over $300, even on eBay. Am I missing something?
Speaking of, what’s with the prices of PS4 right now? They’re all over $300, even on eBay. Am I missing something?
People are trapped at home and need entertainment. When I tried to buy Final Fantasy 7 remake recently on Amazon all of the prices were third party sellers that were over $110 (standard edition). I was able to get it for normal price a few days later.
PS4 prices will continue to hold value until approximately September, especially when you will see an influx of users selling their used consoles in preparation to upgrade to the new PS5 In December. Plus, anyone who owns a PS4 right now, will retain their console in order to play the ‘The Last of us two’, which is probably going to be the biggest title for the PS4 to date.
So I have finally finished my play through of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and all the DLC clocking in at 178 1/2 hours. I absolutely loved this game. I wasn't too big of a fan of the original Assassin's Creed games, stealth games aren't big on my list of entertainment.
With this one being more open world RPG, it just really grabbed me. I even started to like the stealth portion of it.
Not bad for $27.
Oh and since they just had an Xbox sale for AC games, i just picked up Origins Gold Edition for $25.
I am really looking forward to Valhalla.
With this one being more open world RPG, it just really grabbed me. I even started to like the stealth portion of it.
Not bad for $27.
Oh and since they just had an Xbox sale for AC games, i just picked up Origins Gold Edition for $25.
I am really looking forward to Valhalla.
I got the platinum trophy for both AC Origines and Odyssey. It were my first two platinums. I never felt it was worth the trouble, but these games are so much fun to play that it didn't feel like a chore to get the trophies. I pre-ordered AC: Valhalla Collector's Edition less than an hour after the announcement of the game. Just read it will be smaller that the two AC:O's, but that doesn't bother me, can't wait to dual wield axes ;-)
That is exactly the way I will go too, dual wield axes.
So I just started in on Origins. Going to take some getting used to as the combat feels a slight bit different from Odyssey, seems like a bit more reaction lag to pulling out the shield or bow. Also, what is with all the arrows. Just running through town I got accosted by 2 soldiers on camelback who had bows and just kept circling me. Then, that alerted about 10 other soldiers nearby on foot that all pulled out bows and started shooting. Add tot the fact that they fire quicker than Odyssey, and I became a pincushion very quickly.
Already I think the abilities tree was better in Odyssey. The one in Origins looks a bit convoluted. And is there a quicksave in Origins? I haven't been able to find it.
These are just my observations from about 3 hours in.
It finally arrived!
Original for scale
Original for scale
I'm actually glad Valhalla will be smaller. I loved Odyssey but it was borderline too much content.
I was so confused because I remember the packaging being bigger but I'm thinking of the monster 4 CD soundtrack.
RE:3 Was everything I hoped for and more. It literally took all the mechanics from Resident evil 2 and improved the graphics, gameplay structure and deleted all the unnecessary puzzles. Personally, I don’t mind paying ~$60 for a game if it’s quality content, even if that means it has a ‘shorter narrative’ [I completed the main plot on 8 hours] not every game needs to be drawn out to have 20 hours of main storylines, being short and concise with A strong framework of how the game is outlined like Capcom accomplished with Re:3, it was perfect.
Origins is older so they tweaked some stuff in Odyssey. Origins has a really cool storyline though. (IMHO)
Replaying The Last of Us, in preparation for part 2. Still an outstanding game!!
Thinking about starting Cites:Skylines for some casual fun in between. Is it pretty fun? Or just a pointless timesink? How is the learning curve?
Thinking about starting Cites:Skylines for some casual fun in between. Is it pretty fun? Or just a pointless timesink? How is the learning curve?
It can be fun with mods and such. I would be playing it if my computer wasn’t dead. There’s a YouTube channel where a guy named Biffa has a ton of videos on how to fix traffic and such; it gave me some really great ideas on how to better build a city.
So ready for TLOU2. Very surreal we are almost a month out (After years of clips/images, it’s a reality soon). Preordered for a ‘Day 1‘ purchase. Back-log will take a back seat when this game launches!
Still playing Animal Crossing, but is it too much to ask for a bird's eye view option when choosing a location for a bridge or building?
Was playing Trails of Cold Steel III. Had to put the game on hold to play FF7 Remake but will definitely get back to it
Same! My plan was to play it on the highest difficulty, but several bugs and things the defy all logic made me turn down the difficulty. In the end it's just to refresh my memory on the full story.
Example of what I consider a bug: when in Bill's town and moving around the cemetery full clickers: Bill runs straight into a clicker and while I'm crouched still as a statue, all the clickers all come running for me.
Example of defying logic: several cops/soldiers in the town hall. I sneak up on them to choke them: no ammo to loot. Reloaded the scene, shot one cop, the others start shooting like they have a special ammo supply line. I get that resources need to be rare on the highest difficulties and don't mind finding all drawers and closets empty. It's been twenty years, so it's more realistic you don't find anything. But when I choke a guy with a shotgun, I expect some shotgun shells. Stuff like that really grinds my gears.
Nevertheless, turned down the difficulty to normal and I'm enjoying it a lot. Weird how many things I forgot, but remember right before they will happen. The brain is one weird storage medium...
That scene where he has to fight his way out of an infested, dark gym was one of the scariest game moments ever for me. Almost gave me a heart attack it was so tense.