What are you playing?

[rtwjunkie]

Played and finished chapter 4 of The Council. I twas pretty good, and revealed quite a bit that is spoiler-like, so only a few screenshots. The developer, Big Bad Wolf has been very timely with quality episodes, so I would have no problem buying an episodic game from them again. The story is very engaging, minor puzzles are ok, but the wordplay to try and win conversations is very good! This has been money well spent. Also, as an aside, I've been playing a 2nd runthrough of Mafia 3 from GOG, doing some things different. Surprisingly, two years after first play it has pretty good replay value.

Anyway, just some minor screens from The Council

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Cvrk]

@rtwjunkie where is my complete and detailed review of AC Odyssey?

Dazzling myself in Shadow Warrior 2 multiplayer cuz it's free and Assault Spy (which I also got for free)

 

[rtwjunkie]

@rtwjunkie where is my complete and detailed review of AC Odyssey?

I’m not purchasing and not playing on general principles. I verything about the beginning of the Assassins mythos has been explained in Origins. You can’t go earlier than the “origin”, thus the name.

Going to classical Greece even earlier is a blatant AC cash-grab.

 

[ne6togadno]

everything about the beginning of the Assassins mythos has been explained in Origins.

no

 

[rtwjunkie]

no

Perhaps I should specified “or in the follow on chronological order games”.

Also: ORIGIN

NOUN

1. the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.
   "the name is Norse in origin" · "the terminology has its origins in America" · "a novel theory about the origin of oil"
   synonyms:
   beginning · start · origination · genesis · birth · dawning · dawn · emergence · inception · launch · creation · birthplace · cradle · early stages · conception · inauguration · foundation · outset · source · basis · base · cause · root · roots · spring · mainspring · well head · fountainhead · fountain · fount · head · seat · seed · germ · fons et origo · commencement · wellspring · radix · source · derivation · root · roots · provenance · etymology · provenience

Thus, there is no more beginning. They socked themselves in between a rock and a hard place.

Total name recognition cash grab.

Also, your example book takes place in the 11th century, well after Origins, which itself takes place circa 50BC, which is about 4 centuries after this Oddyssey game.

Also, the actual fortress and land are of the same 11th and 12th century as well, so any incorporation into the AC mythos would be in a game set almost at the same time as the first game. In other words, well after Origins.

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Alamut

 

[ne6togadno]

get the book and read it (it is well worthy)
dont take game stories as historical facts
fyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan-i_Sabbah

edit: the book isnt 100% historically accurate but still it is based on some historical documents.

 

[Ahhzz]

hahahaha I can't believe there's a history lesson being disputed regarding what time a particular book references in opposition to a game series' time placement
Only on TPU.....

 

[rtwjunkie]

get the book and read it (it is well worthy)
dont take game stories as historical facts
fyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan-i_Sabbah

It doesn’t matter. Even if the book is all the lore fact, it still takes place AFTER Origins, which is my point about Oddyssey being total name cash-grab and of no relevance to the game series.

Yeah, the book is based on the real fortress and land, which historically fell in 1256 after holding out against Mongols for awhile.

 

[ne6togadno]

everything after first AC is a cash grab.
entertainment industry always tries to revive dead franchises so it can make investor's happy.
story started in 11th cent and ended 2 cents later. whatever other stories the games tell are just for cash grab.
if they'd cared if theirs stories are believable they wouldnt named it "origins" even thou they knew that as soon as game goes live they will start working on the next "previous" one.
i am still waiting to for them to get tired from AC franchise so i can start playing the games in chronological for the story order.
it seams i'll have to wait quite a lot

edit:
btw https://www.google.bg/maps/place/Alamut+Castle/@36.4450552,50.5858783,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMR2qdEZj-1chkQ954Gax0VHDI0pQU3nyoH2Stb!2e10!3e12!6shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMR2qdEZj-1chkQ954Gax0VHDI0pQU3nyoH2Stb=w115-h86-k-no!7i2592!8i1936!4m5!3m4!1s0x3f8c84055a4a27e1:0xae0a17e2074a1754!8m2!3d36.4450552!4d50.5858783

 

[Cvrk]

I’m not purchasing and not playing on general principles. I verything about the beginning of the Assassins mythos has been explained in Origins. You can’t go earlier than the “origin”, thus the name.

Going to classical Greece even earlier is a blatant AC cash-grab.

it is rather stupid.... Cleopatra was 30BC and Leonidas was 540BC.

So yeah, now there explaining what happened before the very first order of Assassins took place.

However look at this way: they were less the order of assassins more just 2 random heroes doing crazy stuff around. And look at it as a huge DLC for Origins, where everything is a little more polished.
You convinced me to play Bayek's story, which i did not find to emotional. This time around they say the immersion is greater, and I really kinda wanted your opinion on this.

Before Origins, I think i skipped about 3 titles, now I just feel that the map looks incredible. Where it takes place, the exotic nature it just looks so good. And of course I must play as the female protagonist

 

[cucker tarlson]

Been playing BF1 and BF2 MP, but I'll try to finish rotr finally. Not that I don't like it,but MP games are distracting.You pop up for a quick session and end up playing for 3 hours.

Spoiler

 

[Disparia]

Hadn't played DK2 in... quite a while. GOG had it on sale couple weeks ago.

 

[HossHuge]

OH MY GOD........its so fun.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

All achievements gotten in VA-11 Hall-A. Also discovered its sequel, N1RV Ann-A, is in development but they went full anime with the art instead of pixelated anime which is somewhat off putting.

Went back to Rise of the Tomb Raider because the friend that was I going to play it with finally could. Got all achievements in the game except seven. Four of those are co-op which I will get. The remaining three are score attack: every level with gold score, 10 levels with gold score, and every level with bronze score. I'm planning on getting that last one but not the first two. Why? The threshold for gold requires perfection on every level as well as ridiculously high score multipliers. When I first started doing score attack, my multiplier was 450%. Now it has fallen to 400% because I ran out of a +100% card. On missions without combat, my maximum has fallen to +200% (and on the verge of dropping to +100%). In other words, one would have to spend money on the market place to get cards to multiply your score high enough to reach gold. Fat chance, Crystal Dynamics, fat chance. It's looking like one, maybe two, achievements will never be completed...unless I break out the hacks...and I don't care enough to do that.

Once I wrap things up with Tomb Raider, I'm going to try Nuclear Throne.

 

[rtwjunkie]

In other words, one would have to spend money on the market place to get cards to multiply your score high enough to reach gold. Fat chance, Crystal Dynamics, fat chance.

I don’t usually worry about achievements, so I had never known the game had pay to win elements in it. Thanks to you I know they are becoming one of the bad guys. Hell, there were probably some elements in Shadow also when I played. No thanks!

 

[GoldenX]

So, apparently the first two chapters of Nier Automata are just the introduction to the game. Everything goes to hell after that.
As a critic put it: "A game that has no business being as good as it is". You come for the fanservice meme, you get one hell of a masterpiece.

 

[cucker tarlson]

So, apparently the first two chapters of Nier Automata are just the introduction to the game. Everything goes to hell after that.
As a critic put it: "A game that has no business being as good as it is". You come for the fanservice meme, you get one hell of a masterpiece.

I've had it for months,haven't started it. All MP games I've been into lately take most of the time I have for playing. Hate to say that, but I'm enjoying them too much though I know a good sp game is better than simple MP rampage with good graphics but little essence. That said, I'm waiting till I get over BF1 and BF2.

 

[GoldenX]

I've had it for months,haven't started it. All MP games I've been into lately take most of the time I have for playing. Hate to say that, but I'm enjoying them too much though I know a good sp game is better than simple MP rampage with good graphics but little essence. That said, I'm waiting till I get over BF1 and BF2.

I would love to see that budget on Nier, but, for an AA (or A?) game in development for only 2.5 years, it's pretty good. On the other hand I think making EA discover Asian developers could end badly, let's leave them have freedom and no micro-transactions.
War Thunder still takes most of my time gaming, so I have Breath of the Wild, Persona 3/4/5, and Disgaea 3/4/5 in the backlog (good for letting the emulators mature). Good thing is, I can finally kick some Muricas and Soviets jets ass with Glorious Waifu Engineering.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

More like they didn't have a big enough pixel budget to ad nuance so they exaggerated the chests of females to differentiate them from males. Pretty much all games of the era did that.

I was doing expeditions and it RNG'd me the Tomb Raider II manor model:

Spoiler: So pointy

I also encountered a mission where 10,713 is the best I did and the best I think I can do without more debuff cards. I only had one +100 card.

Spoiler: No wai

Speed Runner III is the fastest challenge there is for each map. My score was hurt by not being quick enough to keep the combo going but, of all the attempts I got past these points, I never kept the combo going through them. Gold is 27,000. Not happening.

I'm missing 16 gold scores and that's not changing.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

addicted to Forza Horizon 4 as it's my first proper game that made me played a good 10+ hours a day. Driving the Lotus Elise GT1 is by far my favourite OP barn find car in the game. Probably did the most British thing in a videogame too; British car, British engine, driving on the left side of the road (finally) & enjoying the weekly seasonal transitions in a British setting.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Been tinkering with BF1 to achieve 120 fps, I'm pretty surprised that with the right combination of settings I was able to gain +20% performance while the game still looks pretty good. I left textures and filtering at ultra,ambient occlusion and anti aliasing at max too.terrain and vegetation at high, post process,lighting and effects at medium. Have a look, does this look bad ?

Spoiler

 

[rtwjunkie]

I'm playing a very fun indie title called Deliver Us The Moon .

You play as a lone astronaut who is the last hope, using some of Earth's last fuel resources, to go to the moon and find out why the Helium 3 power transmitter and the whole moon colony went silent 5 years ago. Your mission: Get the power delivery beam restarted and Deliver Us The Moon.

Controls are near perfect. Interactions are highlighted if you get real close to them. Weightless movement is very good. Some puzzles are headscratchers, while others fairly simple. If you see a diagram, or instructions for some piece of machinery, you better take notes, because you WILL need it, such as the ten steps I needed to even launch from Earth! The moon rover drives better than the large team at Bioware was able to make the MAKO drive. Visuals are extremely nice.

Over it all is a very well written story, which while only slightly believable (although plausible), has no plot holes, and is a mystery: find out what happened 5 years ago...and where the heck IS everyone?

It is only a 4 hour game, maximum. However, it is only the first half. The dev is making the DLC which is free and is the continuation and completion of the story, probably comprising another 3 hours.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Still addicted to Forza Horizon 4. Gotta hand it to Playground Studios in leaving me a good impression with their FH4 demo. Bold move for them. Probably why so many players including me secured a spot for the full game.

here's the Elise GT1 that's by far the most OP car ever existed. Made quite a lot of road racing too easy.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Just an update on Deliver Us The Moon. I finished at 4.6 hours. The ending was like I had heard: a little bit abrupt, but done cinematically, in the fashion of a movie that ends leaving you to feel in your gut there will be a sequel to finish it off.

In the case, we know we will get double the game with the “part 2” to finish the story on the moon. Also there was an interesting reveal in the plot as the story unfolded near the end. I really enjoyed it! John from RPS had a pretty good review of it in Wot I think too, other than the cliffhanger ending. The developer lead also responded positively in the comments.

Off to go play Adam’s Venture Origins.

 

[Divide Overflow]

I'm enjoying Pathfinder: Kingmaker. A recent release that's still playing catch-up with initial bug hotfix patching.
The content has been very entertaining so far. It's a fantasy RPG game similar to Baldur's Gate.