BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Blind Rasputin posted:

My problem with Wo Long is actually a think Skillup said that he liked. He said From games are about exploring a wild place, an odyssey, and the fighting is just a part of that along the way. While Nioh games have levels that simply act as places to stage a bunch of enemies to fight, and it’s all about the fighting. But I really don’t enjoy a game where the sense of exploration and discovery and wonder is all half baked or completely nonexistent. And that’s the way Wo Long felt.

Noob Saibot posted:

Jedi fallen order has the exploration and is probably the best souls clone

VideoGames posted:

I think Fallout3 is the leading reason why I wait to play games until they have all DLC together and why if I do play before this, I struggle to return to them to just do the DLC; like Frozen Wilds which I have owned since release and not played or the Spider-man DLC. (Echoes of the Eye did break this trend though )

My favourite Fallout is Fallout 4 though. Cyberpunk 2077 is the neon fallout 4.

Augus posted:

thank god that instead of that we live in the world where I merely have to fly to Paris and buy expensive tickets then wait on a long-rear end line to get to squint at the tiny-rear end Mona Lisa from across the room for like a minute

Namnesor posted:

(...) so imagine my surprise when Freya is the post-game companion. Kratos, Mimir and Freya's dynamic is something great, the mature tenor of their conversations is refreshingly adult, so I'm excited to jump in and hear more idle chatter between the three of them.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Turn on boss checkpoints so you can start it from half health after you get it down there once.

incorporeal posted:

I was mostly joking but funny you bring up browsing while watching TV. A few years ago I decided if I'm watching something and find myself taking out my phone a lot I just stop watching whatever I have on because clearly I'm bored with it. Turns out I just don't watch TV shows that much anymore haha.

CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:

HELL YES I am so ready to ditch the boy and turn this into the Kratos&Freya show

emdash posted:

10-20 depending on your pace and completion level

bows1 posted:

The post he was quoting said they were 34 hours in, so he said 10-20 left depending not 10-20 total

Boy of Joy posted:

It’s a point and click adventure game, nothing out of the ordinary there. What is definitely not possible in a book are the choices you can make and dialogue responses leading to different outcomes. The writing is really good, also the amazing historical accuracy/references. I’m not even done yet and I’ve been moved by some of the events in the game so far. Not gonna be everyone’s cup of tea but my god it’s good if it appeals to you.

kirbysuperstar posted:

Sounds like it and GOWR have a bit in common!

goblin week posted:

more like Fractions, which is how much of a second I spent thinking about multiplayer mode to a story based game. What an early 2010-rear end thing.

acksplode posted:

The community got PSVR1's weird headset with nonstandard tracking working with PC, I would bet PSVR2 gets the same treatment and with better compatibility. There's a nonzero chance that Sony delivers first class PC support eventually, given the inroads they're making elsewhere. But I definitely understand holding off since that's all conjecture. I didn't get a preorder until I saw a launch library that I'd be OK with even if Sony dropped PSVR2 development the week after it launches. I think I'll get my money's worth with what they're promising right now.

acksplode posted:

Switch emulation works great on my PC When I finally play Bayonetta 3 it'll be 4k at a consistent 60fps.

veni veni veni posted:

As someone who has had both PSVR and PCVR for years I think you are putting too much faith in PCVR.

Dewgy posted:

Not who you responded to, but IMO the worst thing about the PCVR space is it’s incredibly expensive to get a good setup, and you’re generally going to be putting up with all the usual PC gaming jankiness like scattershot hardware support, performance issues, and your usual software conflict kind of crap.

VR is basically the ideal example of why console gaming can be a really good thing: The hardware is completely static and every game has to be built for it.

PSVR1 is, on paper, one of the worst headsets on the market right now. But games that come out for it are mandated by Sony to hit at least 60fps internally and not cause headset reprojection (the way the viewpoint moves when you move your head) to drop below 90fps, so the experience of actually playing the games is always going to be smooth, even if not the prettiest thing in the world.

You don’t get that with other platforms. If you have Valve’s Index or another PC headset they essentially expect you to throw more money into your computer to smooth out framerate problems, and Meta just straight up doesn’t give a poo poo because their core focus is taking your money.

The PSVR2 I think is going to be an even bigger leap forward, because the eye-tracking based foveated rendering is a hardware feature of the headset, available to every developer in the same way, with the controllers and headset haptics also available to every developer in the same way.

How would that look with PCVR? My money’s on “the most expensive headset is the only one that does it and the game has to be built specifically to run on it, and also you have to have a specific brand of video card made in the last three months”.

PCVR, just like PC gaming itself, has an enormous amount of potential, but without a unified platform it’s always going to be a much bigger headache to use than console VR and quality’s going to be all over the place from game to game.

Personally I’d much rather plug in my headset, hit play game, and know I’m not about to stick my head into a choppy-framerate slideshow barf factory*.

_{*i mean i assume it’d be a barf factory anyway, i don’t get vr sick literally ever lol}

exquisite tea posted:

You don't have to start over from the beginning of the entire level, just the last checkpoint drone.

exquisite tea posted:

Beat Wanted: Dead this morning on Normal. The campaign was surprisingly pretty short, only 5 levels and about 9.5 hours to clear. This game is broken, buggy, and immensely stupid in so many ways but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. If Hi-Fi Rush was everything positive you remembered about early 2000s gaming, then Wanted: Dead is how it actually was in reality. Dumb but certainly not forgettable. I can't recommend it now at full price but for 20bux why not.