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Scyron posted:I must have thought it was a different game then, that got delayed until like may. Well that is cool. if MGSTPP isn't a may 2015 or earlier title, I might just get BB on release, especially if I hold out on 1886. Yeah, you're probably thinking The Witcher 3 (which was March to May, I think)
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Policenaut posted:I really don't like how far up its own rear end Dying Light is. They're still pushing that grimdark ultra-violent serious drama angle from Dead Island even though we have 3 games now from that franchise that prove that they can't do it. Meanwhile, Yager is doing the actual Dead Island 2 and it looks like a super-bright colorful Dead Rising-esque zombie mayhem thing that I can see myself having fun with. And yet Yager are the guys that made Yager and Spec Ops: The Line. So weird. I think Dead Island: Riptide and the MOBA were done more out of contractual obligation, as supposedly Techland really didn't want to drop a sequel so soon which is why they're doing Dying Light with Warner Bros. instead. Though I actually played Dying Light for about forty-five minutes and what I played was waaaay less goofy in execution than anything in Dead Island. It felt a bit more like Far Cry 3. The day/night cycle was actually pretty cool since you have to plan your missions around that and getting back to safe houses in time because it does get pretty difficult at night. A lot of the abilities are inherently goofy video game stuff like like Assassin's Creed like climbing around stuff and blowing up cars near zombies to burn them or messing with the engine/electronics to electrify them but tonally it has pretty urgent feeling. Not particularly serious but much more aggressively paced than the Dead Island games so far, but you still have traps and environmental stuff and things like that. I'm much more excited about it than I am for Dead Island 2.
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Failboattootoot posted:I'm with NESguerilla, the game is dull. I think I see the problem here. I hate to break it to you but... I think you might not like a game. I'm enjoying it myself. I like the characters and VA and combat system though the characters/story/VA aren't quite as good as ME2 (Bioware high water mark, thanks Martin Sheen) and the gameplay isn't quite as good as DA:O. Still, a game that does a lot of things almost as good as two great but different games as well as some cool kingdom management stuff reminiscent of Suikoden is pretty damned good in my book. One seemingly minor but important thing to note is that you can develop complex relationships with the characters without a romance angle. They did this a little with ME but it's definitely more fleshed out this time around. bloodychill fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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VarXX posted:Uncharted 4 looks different because its a different time of day, it's the same model. It might be the same model but the shaders are not nearly as complex. The gameplay at 44:30 has the kind of lighting that should get the specular highlights of the skin and hair to show pretty much in the same way as the screenshots, or the turntable animation that is shown in the video, but they are absent. I doubt they'll have highres specular and micro bumpmaps (not to mention SSS which is there in the promo shots for the Drake model) for faces in real time, which would be necessary to get that smooth skin like effect going.. I mean it's certainly doable when there's a limited amount of models and textures in the scene but then when they show real gameplay those details are not there. And yes I know it's an alpha build. Speaking of details, the stuff at 43:23 cracks me up.. "Each individual piece of hair actually has it's own wind" lolling at individual pieces of hair. The whole thing looks like a combination of the hair having a seizure and that effect you get on a hot day when the road heats up and the heat waves distort the view. Also the more wind there is the more the hair will move? So they increase the noise strength and frequency and/or scale. Not exactly future tech. I'm looking forward to this game, it's just the current representations that bugs me. Why the gently caress would you show pre-renders of details like skin pores? Or that one woman who talks about shaders like it's some big industry secret or something that's recently discovered. Also the amount of times she reminds us it's the work of REALLY SMART individuals. They're talking about very basic stuff and relying on no-one having a clue as to what it means while avoiding concepts like "realtime" and "pre-rendered". gently caress if that wasn't embarrassing to watch. Just to be clear I know people are pretty down to earth when it comes to hype stuff like this, I guess I'm just venting out because I very rarely watch these making-of type of videos, and was just reminded why that is the case.
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Space Racist posted:So are most people feeling positively about DA:I? I was thinking about picking it up for an RPG fix, especially with the Witcher being delayed, and $40 is just tempting enough. This is from a couple of pages back, but I'll pick it up once more. Seems like you got a few positive reactions and a couple of negative, which seems pretty much on par with the opinions in the game thread. Most people seem to like it. Some people ragequit the game on PC because of poor keyboard+mouse controls (and having read about them, I can't blame those people) while some others are disappointed about the single player MMO feel (first real zone has a literal metric ton of quests, many of them fedex). I'm personally about 35 hours in at this point, and have only done the first major plot advancement part. So far Inquisition is the best game I've played this year, and the best RPG since Fallout New Vegas. There's just something about it that manages to engage me like no game has since New Vegas or the original Mass Effect. Some people say everything is boring, but I disagree. I think the story so far has been surprisingly nuanced, the character are almost all interesting and the game is very good in world building. And it's really goddamn huge. There's so much stuff that you might never even find. I was quite astounded to find the quest that went to Valammar, which turned out to be a fantastic looking mini zone with several enemies I had not encountered before. The game has a pretty different feel from Origins though. There is a tactical camera, but it's quite limited, since you can't queue up commands. I still like using it though, micromanaging the fights ensures I take way less damage. The crafting interface is also really miserable. When you're crafting, you can't compare whatever you're building to what your characters are wearing. There are flaws, but on the whole I think the game has succeeded really well. For 40 bucks I would encourage you to pick it up, if you're feeling positive about it after these replies. Late edit: Oh, and here's a quality of life improvement for the tactical camera just found out after 35 hours: When you tell someone to move somewhere, you can press X again on the same spot to tell them to hold that position. That stops your ranged guys from abandoning their good positions and randomly chasing the opponents. Follow That Fish! fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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As much as I am enjoying DA:I, I can see why some people would find it boring. At times I feel like I am playing a massive offline MMO with better combat and sweet graphics, and I am completely fine with that. In fact, it's the most fun I've had with a single player RPG since the original Dragon Age and Divinity 2 (which was a really good game in my book; I would love to have a re-mastered version of Divinity 2 plus expansion on the PS4, but of course that will never happen). I hate the inventory system, the crafting screens could be a lot better, and I almost never use a mount, because I'd rather gather herbs and poo poo. There's other stuff I could list that I am not the biggest fan of, but overall I'm having a blast. The combat is definitely not as deep as the combat system that I loved in games like Icewind Dale, or even the original Dragon Age, but I am using the tactical camera quite often and things die in various shiny ways. Don't play the game on normal difficulty though, go hard or nightmare, otherwise you won't need the tactical mode, like, ever. Also, when my Necromancer got his first damage over time spell, I shed a tear. The complaints about the art direction being boring sound weird to me, but that's a purely subjective thing, and I could make the same complaint about every Final Fantasy game in existence, as I just can't bring myself to care about that franchise. Sometimes things just don't click with you. Jack's Flow fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:So this is why everyone in this thread bought a PS4. This along with the other PS4 exclusive title paints a picture of your average PS4 owner: LOL if you don't love sexy anime babes.
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Wheany posted:LOL if you don't love sexy anime babes. Hey look a game worth buying for the playstation. They should of shown this for the plastation experience so we had a real reason to be excited. I don't see a problem with this game. People are just huge babies in the year 2014. Remember when you first experienced the interent and the first time you were called a human being? That probably stung and mdae you feel like "how do they know who I am, they can't see me tey don't know me". It took me a long time to recover from hateful insults during my days of quake and other online games. Reading the words alone or "[Weed]Sephiroth[69]" telling you you are a loser even though he is playing the same game with you for 4 hours but it is you who are the human being. I thought we have became a lot more progressive then. In a world of scarlet blade and word of warcraft I would think people don't care about boobs in games. The new world of warcraft they remodeled the thong so you can see a little bit of rear end crack, if that isn't offensive or makes your opinion spin like an old timey hat right off your head and land on your already erecet penis - I don'tk now what would. Well times have changed. Now everyone is literally gay and can't look at a boob in avideo game if it was to save their own life. I think this game looks good, how can you no think this looks good? THis is art.  We live in a world where porn stars are on twitter posting sex videos because sex is a part of life. No one goes onto the important porn star twitter and says "hey you're objectifying women", guess what they chose tht life and they can do whatever the gently caress they want because they are an adult. If someone wants to play this game (obviously they are making it) let them. It is we are objectifying women not the games are objectifying themselves. Honestly if every game had a full nude skin option it would just save us a lot of trou ble to make our own nude skins. This game is more progressive than anything I've ever seren but it sways "no international release" and it won't probably have one because people are going to whinte that a tit in a video game raped their childhood like the new ninja turtle movie. This is nothing new and will never be news this is exactly what has been happening since day one. When we were all playiong roger ramrod and using our dick as a gun to attack enemies it was a much better time. What is next they are going to censor the crowsbar in Half life because it can be used as a weapon? Remember what medium this is. We bash in peoples loving heads. Let girls do it and let them be scantily clad. THey can't complain because guess what they are not real lol this article makes me so mad I can feel sweat beading off of my forehead as I type this. What a dumb post the post was here by the way if no one knows what quote I was quoting :L http://kotaku.com/onechanbara-z2-pushes-the-limits-of-console-game-fanser-1657096822 FOr the record I dont have playstation 4 I Just found this an enticing article since someone smart like myself obviously didnt write it. Kotaku is a labyrinth of bado pinions.
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The funniest part is that you guys keep taking the bait. Hook, line and sinker. VirtualboyCOLOR, keep doing what you do best, mate 
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Meowbot posted:Hey look a game worth buying for the playstation. They should of shown this for the plastation experience so we had a real reason to be excited. I don't see a problem with this game. People are just huge babies in the year 2014. Remember when you first experienced the interent and the first time you were called a human being? That probably stung and mdae you feel like "how do they know who I am, they can't see me tey don't know me". It took me a long time to recover from hateful insults during my days of quake and other online games. Reading the words alone or "[Weed]Sephiroth[69]" telling you you are a loser even though he is playing the same game with you for 4 hours but it is you who are the human being. I thought we have became a lot more progressive then. In a world of scarlet blade and word of warcraft I would think people don't care about boobs in games. The new world of warcraft they remodeled the thong so you can see a little bit of rear end crack, if that isn't offensive or makes your opinion spin like an old timey hat right off your head and land on your already erecet penis - I don'tk now what would. I keep trying to read this but everytime my brain freezes up and tells me to stop.
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Meowbot posted:THis is art. Agreed, op.
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Guess I will go more in depth on why I don't much care for DA:I to give a differing view and provide more info than two sentences. There are about a billion little annoyances that are just wrong or stupidly broken things that worked fine in the last two games and they all add up to being really obnoxious. Why is the inventory and crafting such a mess? Why can't I warp directly to the war-room? Why do I need to constantly mash L3 to light up things that I can interact with? Why don't they just stay lit up? Why don't they appear on the mini-map? Why is the map so mediocre? Why did they gut the tactics system from the first two games? Why do some things require so many resources? Why not require half the resources and cut the spawns in half (or don't who cares it's a singleplayer game) so that you have to spend less time scrounging up a billion elfroot to upgrade and replenish potions? Why do some war-room missions take 18 or so hours? Why does the interact button sometimes not work on things I am standing on while other times it will interact with things not even on my screen, mostly often a mount I dismounted. Why is the mount implementation so bad? None of that poo poo on it's own is a serious problem, but collectively it's grating. What is serious is that the combat is pretty meh, at least from the rogues perspective. Cooldowns are just too long. Resource regeneration seems a bit off too. In terms of feel, it was like a vanilla WoW era character who had to hold r2 down to autoattack. All the enemies needlessly shift around constantly and this makes being a dagger rogue tedious. Bow rogues don't have this problem and are instead hamstrung by being boring as hell and not having any risk. I did daggers to 10, at which point I switched because getting flanking was tiresome and your moves often propelled you out of flanking. Then I did bows for 5 really dull levels before going back to daggers at 15, at which point I had gotten some insanely good daggers and the assassin specialization and it didn't even matter that much that I didn't have flanking consistently anymore because everything just died. The world design is really poor, in my opinion. Stormcoast, Fallow Mire, and all 3 desert areas in particular feature huge chunks of map where nothing of interest exists. Just trash to fight and herbs to pick. And lastly the real problem that I have with the game is that it is astoundingly unrewarding to play. The majority of quests that you get in the game are delivered to you via finding a random book or letter laying around. You read this usually dull snippet, get tasked with an mmo quest, and then when you complete the quest you get QUEST COMPLETE, some experience and some power and that's it. The only time you ever get any decent story to go along with your quests is when you do a party member side missions or the main story. It's awful. It's like I fell into a timewarp and landed in Vanilla WoW where quest text was boring poo poo you skipped as fast as possible. Even DA2 had better sidequests and people malign the hell out of those. Even throwaway radiant skyrim quests offer more background and insight into the world than what you get with most of the sidequests here. Even the main story seemed disjointed to me, with things happening that didn't really make a lot of sense given the context around them. Val Royeux in particular was rife with conversations that made no sense at all but I guess that was all part of THE GAME. Even things I thought would be really cool just left me deflated. For example, you can take over a few keeps in the game. The result of taking a keep is maybe 1 or 2 really dull quests, maybe something to do in the war-room, and a new vendor. Exciting poo poo right there! And let me tell you about the payoff for a literal reputation grind with the Dalish got me. Spoilers! An elf joins my cause and 4 lines of dialogue from the leader saying we cool now bro. Also a NEW VENDOR! There are some positive things to DA:I. The characters are pretty much all well-done. The voice-acting is top notch. Minus some nitpicky things I think the war-room is brilliant and I hope it gets used in a lot of games going forward. Taken as a whole I don't even think the game is particularly bad. A solid 7 on that meaningless 10 point scale everyone uses. But I probably would not have played it as much if it wasn't effectively replacing an actual mmo for my leisure time. "Being slightly more interesting than an mmo I have been playing for over a year in which the only content I haven't done is some really tedious grinding" is not a ringing endorsement though. Buy on sale. Maybe buy at full price if you aren't a completionist sperg like me. I imagine I would have liked the game a lot more if I had just done as little as possible to move the story forward versus doing literally everything.
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re DA:IJack's Flow posted:I hate the inventory system, the crafting screens could be a lot better, This is my main complaint with the game. I have about 25 hours in on it, and I find it hard to motivate myself to play the game because the inventory and crafting systems are a complete chore. Right now, I know I have a bunch of inventory management to do (equipping better items on 9 characters, etc.) and it makes me not want to turn the game on.
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The inventory system is definitely lacking but you can compare stuff to currently equipped stuff. That screen and the L3 spam are definitely my biggest gripes with the game, but I feel like they don't drag it down too much.
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The only real complaint I have with DA:I is that in a game that long there shouldn't be missable trophies tied to choices in the story.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Whoever Nacho_aficionado is, good times in GTAV, even without voice chat. Heh, that was me. Yeah we were doing pretty well (except for survival) and I was having fun splittin' Balla wigs. I am usually up for missions anytime you see me on.
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Malt posted:The only real complaint I have with DA:I is that in a game that long there shouldn't be missable trophies tied to choices in the story. Could you just make a separate save file before big decisions, pick one of them, reload, then do the one you really want? I've done that in a few games with annoying trophies like that.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Your avatar kinda looks like the face I made when I realized what the game was going to be about.
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Policenaut posted:Could you just make a separate save file before big decisions, pick one of them, reload, then do the one you really want? I've done that in a few games with annoying trophies like that. You could, but without spoiling it for yourself the trophy in question gives you no indication it's missable. In fact it's sandwiched in between all the other trophies you get just for advancing the story.
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Malt posted:You could, but without spoiling it for yourself the trophy in question gives you no indication it's missable. In fact it's sandwiched in between all the other trophies you get just for advancing the story. Oh yeah, that's a huge pain in the rear end then. Well I guess a lot of people like to play DA games over and over with different classes and such so I guess that's the idea.
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Which trophy is it? The only ones I can think of that are missable are the 'Gain 100% favour with the Orlesian court' which is kind of obvious, recruit all characters (since you can tell them to gently caress off) and the relationship one if you don't bother.
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Sakurazuka posted:Which trophy is it? The only ones I can think of that are missable are the 'Gain 100% favour with the Orlesian court' which is kind of obvious, recruit all characters (since you can tell them to gently caress off) and the relationship one if you don't bother. I don't remember the name of the trophy, but you have to drink from the well and then recruit the dragon to get it. If you let Morrigan drink instead you miss it. Edit: The recruit 10 agents one as well. Malt fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Does anyone really care about getting 100% of trophies? I only recently got a PS4 but the whole time I had a 360 I think I only got 100% gamerscore in one game.
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marktheando posted:Does anyone really care about getting 100% of trophies? I only recently got a PS4 but the whole time I had a 360 I think I only got 100% gamerscore in one game. Same as with everything else in the world - some people do.
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marktheando posted:Does anyone really care about getting 100% of trophies? I only recently got a PS4 but the whole time I had a 360 I think I only got 100% gamerscore in one game. Yes. Some people do. They are crazy.
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marktheando posted:Does anyone really care about getting 100% of trophies? I only recently got a PS4 but the whole time I had a 360 I think I only got 100% gamerscore in one game.
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Malt posted:I don't remember the name of the trophy, but you have to drink from the well and then recruit the dragon to get it. If you let Morrigan drink instead you miss it. Count me in people who didn't realise that then, shouldn't have let Morrigan drink.  marktheando posted:Does anyone really care about getting 100% of trophies? I only recently got a PS4 but the whole time I had a 360 I think I only got 100% gamerscore in one game. I care if they're easy to get, otherwise I suddenly care very little.
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Don Lapre posted:New Sony exclusive Ahh GTA:Child Molester gotta love the Japanese
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homeless snail posted:Trying to plat a game you like a lot is fun + cool, because it means you've seen everything there is to see in your favorite game. I see people get frustrated and burnt out on getting plat for a game like Dark Souls, when I have 600 hours in that game and have never even looked at my trophies. Then I remember that they might not have even played the game as much as they did it if weren't for the trophies and also that it's cool and fun for people to play games the way they like because that's the point.
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I like trophies that prompt at random discoveries or as part of easter eggs, like in Uncharted 2's "...Polo!" trophy if you swim in the pool. I don't like grind trophies or ones that are meant to coerce more people into multiplayer, particularly when it's a bad multiplier like Tomb Raider. That is my assessment of trophies and their value.
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Good trophy: MGS3's "use bees to harass an enemy" Bad trophy: Guilty Gear Xrd's "you installed the game and reached the title screen!"
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Thanks for the confirmation. I really didn't want to spend 100 bucks for a ported PSP game just for a demo. I figured it'd be limited to first run copies.
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DangerKat posted:I like trophies that prompt at random discoveries or as part of easter eggs, like in Uncharted 2's "...Polo!" trophy if you swim in the pool. Yeah. I like that stuff too. We're friends now.
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Electromax posted:Good trophy: MGS3's "use bees to harass an enemy" Who wouldn't want a trophy just for playing a cool game like Xrd? Seems reasonable to me. Speaking of easy trophies, just crashed and bashed my way to 1st place in the opening Drive Club race. I should just quit now and sell the game because I'll probably never win again.
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