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What game are you playing currently?
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None. I'm waiting for the return of the grandchild of the OG console:
I preordered the purple one and the wood paneled one, which throws back to the original Intellivision. They have the first set of games available in limited edition physical format (All games for it will be download only), while the these physical ones are based on RFID and NFT, so they will stay with you for the lifetime of the game, not just the console. Three of the games are classics: Astrosmash, Missile Command, and Moon Patrol:
I owned the original Intellivision, which was way ahead of its time, and even ahead of the Atari. This new version is going to be phenomenal, plus you can even use your iPhone as a controller for the console.
BL.
I preordered the purple one and the wood paneled one, which throws back to the original Intellivision. They have the first set of games available in limited edition physical format (All games for it will be download only), while the these physical ones are based on RFID and NFT, so they will stay with you for the lifetime of the game, not just the console. Three of the games are classics: Astrosmash, Missile Command, and Moon Patrol:
I owned the original Intellivision, which was way ahead of its time, and even ahead of the Atari. This new version is going to be phenomenal, plus you can even use your iPhone as a controller for the console.
BL.
The Art of AC: Odyssey has a lot of concept art and some renders of characters and such. It's pretty cool for $20 or so.
I'm saving the novel for the next time I go on vacation. I have a tough time focusing long enough to read when I'm home and have video games, and the internet to distract me. 😐
I haven't played any of the other AC games. I'm currently dabbling in Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
This spring i played my first AC game, Origins. Gorgeous and I got a good 30-40h put of it.
The franchise is great for history buffs as the attention to detail in the world's created, is stunning.
Towards the end I had enough of the grindy mechanics of the game. The side quests started to become repetitive chores e.g speak to a man in a vill, retrieve a possession they was lost/stolen from him, then get referrred to another person.
Level 40 was the max in the game but I completed it at level 31-32. This was more than sufficient as there were alot of cut scenes in the final segment. Therfore many skills or weapons were redundant i ended up only discovering 40% of the map. It's vast! The main story probably feels more coherent if you do the main missions close in succession retur then doing 5 side missions between each.
I still highly recommend saying an AC games. I might pick up Black Flag or Syndicate just to play casually and roam around without the pressure of completing the games.
Yeah, I just eventually reached a point after finishing the main quest and the DLC's where I said "I'm done". I still had a crazy amount of quests left.
Is Control worth playing? Reviews are mixed.
Towards the end I was even skipping cut scenes. I was exhausted and just wanted to finish the game. I can only imagine how grindy and chorey Valhalla must be.
What enjoyed me is that many of the side quest dialogues had no relation to the main story. Although authentic and sometime humurous, they were just ambient noise.
I have mixed feelings as well. Loved certain parts of it powers, certain levels but at the same time I hated parts of it. I don't regret playing it.
I enjoyed Odyssey overall. I like this reviewer and his video killed any desire I had to try Valhalla.
If GameStop would hurry with my delivery, I’ll get on your level real quick. It looks great and I heard the map is overwhelmingly large, which I always enjoy exploration.
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I won't buy Valhalla even if it's discounted to £10.
Openworld games are fun and amazing value for money. However the worlds are now getting big just for the sake of getting big.
I will unlikely buy an open world game at launch day but instead wait a few weeks for people to complete the game. Then I will have insights into how to play the game but also how to avoid wasting 5-10h pursuing redundant weapons, skills, resources or side quests.
Got to play some more hours and am having fun with it. I have always been an explorer in games, so I am now about 5 hours into the game and barely of the "training" island.
Where as my son has put in about 6 hours and is much farther in the story because he is the type that rushes through everything.
Hell, I put in over 140 hours in Odyssey and there are still places I need to explore.
And see that is where gaming types come in. I am an explorer at heart. I used to play an old MMORPG called Asheron's Call. It was different from Everquest and WoW that all of the land mass was seamless. You could run from the southern tip of the continent to the north tip. There was no zones that to had to load in to, there were no impassible boundries to form zones. If you saw somewhere in the distance, there was a way to reach it. You wanted to climb that mountain, then do it.
Rather than my fighting skills, I maxed out my run. I found so many little easter eggs just simply picking a direction and going.
Now when I play an open world game that I am enjoying, I will put as many hours into as is needed to see everything.
Wow is it jarring going back to old games after playing ones optimized for PS5. Dishonored Death of the Outsider feels like it's running at 15 FPS. 
Agreed. When an open world game is awesome, you want to spend hours and hours living in it.
Some older games are unplayable on newer consoles.Wow is it jarring going back to old games after playing ones optimized for PS5. Dishonored Death of the Outsider feels like it's running at 15 FPS.
I just finished Battlefield 4. Lovely campaign. Not too short not to long. Irish aka Michael K Williams was awesome. His dialogues made the game worth playing through until the end. RIP 😢🥺
Although auto HDR and FPS boost made the game feel modern, there was one big giveaway that the game was written for older consoles. That was enemies occasionally spawning out of nowhere.
This made forward planning difficult. Playing at hard difficulty, resulted in me, being overly cautious about advancing during offences. I was always wary of 1-2 random enemies emerging!
To be honest I should have played at normal difficulty so that I could have used shotguns and assault rifles more often. At hard setting your get killed if you try to rush two or more enemies.
I'm currently 50 hours into AC:Valhalla and I'm enjoying it. The raids are a nice addition and the freedom of weapon chose/combinations is fun, creates a lot of playstyles. You can go from classic stealth to full hack'n'slash. I got the platinum trophy on AC: Origins and AC: Oddysey so I must admit I'm a fan of the series.
I'm not sure what people expect for these games to be "good", do they want a 2hr Hollywood action movie with a couple of hours of gameplay in between? I for example enjoy taking my time to kill all guards in a big enemy settlement while in stealth.
I'm not sure what people expect for these games to be "good", do they want a 2hr Hollywood action movie with a couple of hours of gameplay in between? I for example enjoy taking my time to kill all guards in a big enemy settlement while in stealth.
Arghhh don't tempt me. Now I feel like diving into an AC game.
I'm just now realizing I made a big mistake in the Dishonored 2 DLC. I broke into the black market store, knocked out the merchant, and robbed him blind. After doing a ton after that I remembered that he sells you upgrades, of which I had only bought one.
I just purchased a PS5 after months of trying to get one. I've been playing Ghosts of Tsushima and it feels like I'm in an actual film; the graphics are amazing. It's the only game I purchased full price because I think it's worth it. Otherwise, I've been playing Destiny 2 and the Witcher 3 as well.
Game Review: Back 4 Blood.
Back 4 blood is "brought to you be the same team who made" Left 4 Dead, and therefore, as you'd expect, all of the features that made Left 4 Dead fantastic - the humour, the setting as a horror movie with movie poster intro, and closing credits, the memorable characters, all of that is thrown away, and instead, Back 4 Blood delivers a samey clone of Call Of Duty: Zombies, with ridiculous amounts of weapon and clothing customisation, loot boxes, and a pointless trading-card element for buffing and nerfing the game in ways you won't notice, or care about.
I can not recall any other game I have tried that has made me so angry at its basic barriers to fun and play.
Buy copies of Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 instead.
Back 4 blood is "brought to you be the same team who made" Left 4 Dead, and therefore, as you'd expect, all of the features that made Left 4 Dead fantastic - the humour, the setting as a horror movie with movie poster intro, and closing credits, the memorable characters, all of that is thrown away, and instead, Back 4 Blood delivers a samey clone of Call Of Duty: Zombies, with ridiculous amounts of weapon and clothing customisation, loot boxes, and a pointless trading-card element for buffing and nerfing the game in ways you won't notice, or care about.
I can not recall any other game I have tried that has made me so angry at its basic barriers to fun and play.
Buy copies of Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 instead.
Control is goddamn awesome. Once you start upgrading and getting all the abilities the gameplay is just super fun. It’s takes some getting good at understand all your abilities and two guns you have on fast swap.
You have levitation, dash(on ground and while levitating), fast dropping out of levitating, two different styles of guns you can swap to fast, a melee, a levitating ground slam, a block with an attack built into it, and a launch attack that you can grab things with your mind and throw them(eventually getting 3 things you can throw with upgrades). Oh and seize control where you can take over an enemies mind and they fight with you against everyone else.
It’s a complicated play style but it comes pretty naturally after you get used to it.
The story is amazing, the art design is amazing. The game is just really good it’s definitely worth playing and keeping. It’s a challenging game that rewards you if you get really good at it.
What frustrated me is that they didn't give any indication that the AWE section had been a DLC. A person who played the main game when it came out would have finished that, the first DLC, and then the AWE DLC. That means they'd be way more powerful at that point.
Yea I didn’t research it either and i played it recently so I didn’t even know there was dlc in it. I didn’t really notice and i went out of order a lot of the time as where i should of gone.
Thanks. I might give it a go before my gamepass subscription runs out in 2 weeks.
I fancy a new game to play but don't want to commit to anything that's too lenght. 8-12 for main campaign is ideal. I will nose dive in a 30-40h game over Christmas.