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Prey was one of my favourite games that gen so Redfall makes me extra sad. I tried it anyway since it was on gamepass and it was the worst combination of dull and broken imaginable.
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May 5, 2023 14:17
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If Starfield is gargage, this might be the worst year for Xbox. They probably just have HiFi Rush which was good and Forza which will most likely be decent.
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May 5, 2023 14:56
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We all know what Starfield will be. It will be the next Bethesda Game Studios game in the vein of Skyrim and Fallout 4, that is, huge in scope and buggy. If you vibe with the setting and can look past the bugs, you’ll love it, otherwise you’ll hate it.
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May 5, 2023 14:58
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Time to talk about an eight year old ps4 game : I am playing through rise of the tomb raider as it was a freebie on ps plus ages ago. I'm enjoying the core gameplay loop, and the graphics actually hold up really well, but holy hell what the gently caress is up with the writing? Like every single plot beat is predictable as hell, and the dialogue is so poe faced and lacking in wit or charm, it genuinely annoys me that someone has been paid to write it. Doubly a shame cos the writer seems like a decent enough egg, and is also the daughter of one of the most witty and inventive writers ever. I'm being pretty harsh cos, as I said, the game is pretty good, but it's also very plot heavy, so I don't feel too bad for calling it out.
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May 5, 2023 15:17
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The writing was one of the big failures of the tomb raider reboot, the first game was pretty good as a refreshing change of pace but the second two don't build on it at all and just have lara get more and more angry at herself while retreading the same ground and also discovering all the bad poo poo in her life was the fault of a massive conspiracy There's a reason "this time she finally becomes the tomb raider" was a meme for a while
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May 5, 2023 15:21
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Yeah TR2013 had ok writing but Rise’s is truly terrible
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May 5, 2023 15:23
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I really enjoyed Deathloop! Shame to hear that Redfall is so not good. I still need to get to Prey at some point.
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May 5, 2023 15:43
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haveblue posted:The writing was one of the big failures of the tomb raider reboot, the first game was pretty good as a refreshing change of pace but the second two don't build on it at all and just have lara get more and more angry at herself while retreading the same ground and also discovering all the bad poo poo in her life was the fault of a massive conspiracy They kinda shot themselves in the foot in the first reboot game by killing off nearly all of the supporting characters that they'd established were part of Lara's life.
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May 5, 2023 15:47
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I never really took to the newer TRs. They tried so hard to portray her as a normal human being but she just comes over as po-faced and boring af, and it left me pining for the cocky, smartarse posh thrillseeker on a never-ending search for new shinies to hoard away in her mansion vault. I just think back to how cool and matter of fact she was facing Natla in the Atlantean pyramid in the first game and laugh thinking how nuLara would react, she'd probably have a nervous breakdown on the spot.
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May 5, 2023 15:58
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Personally I think Rise of the Tomb Raider is easily the best of the three, visually and gameplay-wise, and the survival roguelike mode is actually pretty fun once you spend some time with it - though that one makes a terrible first impression by looking like some sort of mictrotransaction nigtmare due to the card mechanic and if you have the anniversary edition the game dumps an endless amount of unlocks on you when you first play it.
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May 5, 2023 16:10
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Sentinel Red posted:
This is kind of a hard feeling to express, but Cal dashing through the Coruscant underworld with his lightsaber unleashed and ships whizzing by really evokes vibes of Star Wars EU and other sci-fi paperback book covers that I'd see on the racks as a kid more than any movie ever has. As for frustrating difficulty spikes, though, having a real hard time with this goddamn rancor on the first planet . Perhaps its best to grind for a bit or do other things and come back later.
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ErrEff posted:They kinda shot themselves in the foot in the first reboot game by killing off nearly all of the supporting characters that they'd established were part of Lara's life. They didn’t though. Roth and Alex died, but Samantha, Joslin, and Jonah all live. The sequels just kinda forgot about Sam and Joslin… kinda weird since Sam was portrayed as being very close to Lara and you spent most of the game trying to rescue her. Rise was the best of the trilogy in terms of gameplay. But yeah the story of both sequels were just full of bad choices. Wonder if the new game under Embracer will try to salvage it or just start from scratch. They probably really should just reboot again. At this point Lara is really hard to like and they haven’t laid the foundation for anything interesting.
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May 5, 2023 16:28
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Rental Sting posted:This is kind of a hard feeling to express, but Cal dashing through the Coruscant underworld with his lightsaber unleashed and ships whizzing by really evokes vibes of Star Wars EU and other sci-fi paperback book covers that I'd see on the racks as a kid more than any movie ever has. As for frustrating difficulty spikes, though, having a real hard time with this goddamn rancor on the first planet . Perhaps its best to grind for a bit or do other things and come back later. That's the only thing so far that's took a few tries and while it hits hard there are big gaps where it basically does nothing, so you get a couple of hits in, wait to see what it's doing, counter, attack again. Realising the game wanted you to jump over the stomps was a big part too since it's unblockable but doesn't have the red glow. Getting that and the parry timing for the swipes was about all it took.
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May 5, 2023 16:35
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Bugblatter posted:The sequels just kinda forgot about Sam and Joslin… kinda weird since Sam was portrayed as being very close to Lara and you spent most of the game trying to rescue her. There's a brief mention of Sam in Rise where it mentions she quit the adventuring scene for mental health reasons. Which, considering what happens to her in TR2013, is understandable
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May 5, 2023 16:37
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 Year of the RPG from Japan Number 10: Final Fantasy II
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May 5, 2023 16:39
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I know that messed with the numbering in the west, but it wasn’t that bad, c’mon.
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May 5, 2023 16:49
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fridge corn posted:
Hell yeah, I just did my platinum yesterday too. 
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May 5, 2023 16:51
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The true crime of Tomb Raider reboot was there being no way to lock even a single butler in a single freezer.
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May 5, 2023 16:54
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At no point did Redfall look good, but I really wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. Arkane is such a strange dev. Their track record is just sort of all over the place. And even at their best their games have had issues generally. This is the first one everyone seems to agree is a stinker though.
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The Perfect Element posted:Time to talk about an eight year old ps4 game : I played the entire rebooted TR trilogy awhile back and its funny how they follow the Arkham model: -first one is a tight, linear experience with some backtracking, a surprisingly fleshed out plot, and some collectibles if you're into that -the second has some pretty big combat improvements but also adds an open world with multiple side quests, a million collectibles, etc -the third goes even bigger open world, more collectibles, 30 pieces of DLC, dozens of sidequests, and mostly sucks
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May 5, 2023 18:03
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dishonored through Prey including the Dishonored dlc was really solid imo.
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Wolfsheim posted:I played the entire rebooted TR trilogy awhile back and its funny how they follow the Arkham model: Arkham Knight was way better than Shadow of the TR though.
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veni veni veni posted:At no point did Redfall look good, but I really wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. Their best games tend to just have technical issues like frame rate and input lag, the underlying game design more than makes up for it. Redfall is the first one where even if it performed flawlessly the game would still be rear end
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May 5, 2023 18:06
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Redfall has the unpleasant distinction of the first Arkane game to be MS-exclusive and brings into question what kind of quality one can expect from other titles in this vein such as Starfield. Like, being "buggy as poo poo with a terribly loving UI Skyrim in space" is a given, but Redfall was expected to be just Farcry w/ vampires and it failed terribly at even hitting that goal.
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May 5, 2023 18:09
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It's just kind of baffling for a studio that specializes in immersive sims to make a game about vampires, an enemy that can canonically be killed in about half a dozen fun improvisational ways, and turn it into another shoot gun game.
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seeing how much of a hot mess Starfield will be is going to be very much interesting. the budget, scale, and dev time problem that every (or maybe mostly western?) AAA game seems to have now is one that Bethesda has suffered from for decades and has only gotten more pronounced with each release. will Starfield finally be the Bethesda game that is so riddled with bugs, so unplayable that their audience can't ignore it?
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grieving for Gandalf posted:seeing how much of a hot mess Starfield will be is going to be very much interesting. the budget, scale, and dev time problem that every (or maybe mostly western?) AAA game seems to have now is one that Bethesda has suffered from for decades and has only gotten more pronounced with each release. will Starfield finally be the Bethesda game that is so riddled with bugs, so unplayable that their audience can't ignore it? lol and no
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grieving for Gandalf posted:seeing how much of a hot mess Starfield will be is going to be very much interesting. the budget, scale, and dev time problem that every (or maybe mostly western?) AAA game seems to have now is one that Bethesda has suffered from for decades and has only gotten more pronounced with each release. will Starfield finally be the Bethesda game that is so riddled with bugs, so unplayable that their audience can't ignore it? Absolutely not. Todd could poo poo in a bucket and call it Skyrim 2 and there would be legions of people waiting to purchase it and extol its virtues.
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Was Deathloop janky/buggy at release? I played it a year after and found it pretty solid and enjoyable, did Sony put some of their own muscle in it to make sure it launched in an acceptable state? I just think it's incredible that Microsoft looked at redfall and said " yep, this looks good, release it right between Burning Shores and Zelda/FF16"
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May 5, 2023 18:27
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JBP posted:The cans are too big. You can kind of force it to work but imo it's just not comfy enough with the helmet set correctly. Maybe the shape of your head is friendlier to it. Bad Parenting posted:Yeah I had the same issue with the H7's and PSVR2, had to dig out my pulse 3d headset for VR stuff Maybe I just got lucky with head shape, but they seem fine to me. I have to expand them to their largest size and then collapse them a bit like I did with my last headphones. It's definitely a somewhat tight fit though.
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The Perfect Element posted:Time to talk about an eight year old ps4 game : I kinda want you to play Shadow of TR. Because of Rise was forgettable Shadows was jaw droppingly... like not even bad but made Laura Croft absolutely detestable. I seriously wondered at times if the game was sneakily about British imperialism and cultural theft because it made Laura Croft into this incredibly unlikable villain that kills countless indigenous people and can't think about anyone but herself for 5 seconds.
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Hopefully the fatalism of the Xbox CEO being all "yeah we lost this round" leads to them just up and releasing Starfield on PS5 at some point because I love dat Bethesda jank but not enough to buy a console lolveni veni veni posted:Arkham Knight was way better than Shadow of the TR though. And Arkham Asylum is way better than TR2013 but they're still the best one of their respective trilogies 
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May 5, 2023 18:37
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Bethesda jank is the sweetest of all jank
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Morpheus posted:Absolutely not. Todd could poo poo in a bucket and call it Skyrim 2 and there would be legions of people waiting to purchase it and extol its virtues. yeah I also don't think so, but it's only going to get worse from here. they couldn't even make it look good for the big reveal
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I want starfield on ps5 with ps3 level of save bugs that never get fixed
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Lol I watched about 5 minutes of VaatiVidya attempting to make an armored core 6 video and it’s pretty much what you’d imagine.
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veni veni veni posted:Lol I watched about 5 minutes of VaatiVidya attempting to make an armored core 6 video and it’s pretty much what you’d imagine. "This mech, ruined, waiting by the side of this building. What was it doing here? By examining it's guns and the position of its legs, scattered across the ground, one can..." Or was it him putting together a mech for like an hour that doesn't immediately max out heat and explode with a thousand guns because I think that's what I expect would be my experience.
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Although to his credit dude did his homework on the AC story, frankly I don’t remember any of this poo poo. This is actually not a bad watch he’s going into the old games.
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veni veni veni posted:Lol I watched about 5 minutes of VaatiVidya attempting to make an armored core 6 video and it’s pretty much what you’d imagine. Gotta make bank somehow
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