What are you playing?

[moproblems99]

Never thought I'd see someone say that.

It is a pretty slow game. The design overall is pretty dated, too. There's nothing revolutionary there. It looks and plays like an ambitious project by a small studio.

Personally I really enjoy the mechanics, I thought they did a great job of balancing when you have to do the footwork of figuring things out. They don't hold your hand much so you have to pay attention to everything. It has a flow, you have to plan. The way that everything is structured/paced combined with the way that choices in how the map, gui, and general directing was handled give way to this "lost in the wilderness" gestalt that I just love. When I play Exodus, I really feel lost in dangerous and unfamiliar places and it's rare for games to get me on that.

I appreciate the lack of padding and rails a lot in a story-driven game, cutscenes alone are never enough to put me on the journey. Exodus manages to still be linear enough to carry the story, while giving a strong sense of challenge and freedom. All too often I think devs are afraid of players 'missing' things in the story or getting fed-up, and thus play it safe. Metro will let you completely screw yourself at any point in the story. The bulk of it isn't just handed to you. They really make sure you are playing the game, not just hitting beats. It can be very unforgiving of neglecting anything in the core game. You better earn those story beats!

I think I dug the claustrophobic vibe, too. Between the slow pacing and lots of sort of convoluted and confined spaces, I genuinely tensed up about potential or even known threats. There are passages as well as emergent things that can happen in the game that STILL give me that rush of like "...shit. shit. shitshitSHIT" The look and atmosphere definitely helped. Maybe I just have bad taste but I LOVE all of those dark and dingy places. Most of them are packed with detail, pretty intricately arranged, though obviously they're made to look strewn. As I explored I found many satisfying sights.

I dunno, it's a slow burner. But I think the environments (levels, pacing of exploration, and world designs,) the story, and mixture of gameplay elements were great. I also love that clunky feel. I might be one of the few people that enjoys how tedious traversal can be, or how unreliable the wacky and interesting-looking weapons are. It really feels like a struggle to survive with nothing but a heavy ass backpack full of half broken shit and 3 full-size weapons. It's precarious and difficult. Most games just are not real to me, so it's not a big dilemma whether or not to explore a spot. Metro will make me hesitate before confrontations.

I'm really just tryna say I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it! In all fairness it's not the most accessible series of games. Similar to Stalker. Those of us that like it think it's the best thing ever. Everyone else just wonders what the big deal is. Exodus got the RTX bump, so it had a lot of hype. It might've gotten one of the best RTX bumps in the history of RTX. But I don't know that this series is nesseraily ever going to fully compete with mainstream games. I see it as more of a cult thing. It's definitely one of my favorite games ever. But I don't know if I'd recommend it to someone as one of the best games ever, unless I knew they were specifically into the things that game has.

I am absolutely playing this again when I am not mind fucked.

 

[ViperXTR]

Testing more RyujinX emulator updates

 

[Splinterdog]

Back into Far Cry New Dawn, where everything is very pink and groovy. It's a fun game, not too challenging and I like the home made weapons and assets, especially the helicopter.
On the other hand, my flying skills in FC5 could be improved.


That's the way they do things in Montana, apparently.

 

[ne6togadno]

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[metalfiber]

Finished Fenyx Rising. It was a really good game imho that had truly LOL moments.

On to Watch Dogs Legion. All i heard about is how different it was from the other Watch Dogs games. That analogy kinda turned me off to the game. I hear to say it's more alike the other games than anything else, which is fine by me. The privacies issue story was done better in Watch Dogs 2 with noodle and all. Legion is more like the movie Minority Report as far as some of the the story goes. I do like the recruitment part...it takes the stealth up to level of strategy.

Change to a construction worker recruit and sumon a construction drone to reach those high places to tag.

Raytracing still in it's infancy. Look to PSone for regular shader in it's infancy. I can't imagine what Raytracing in 15 years will bring to the table.

 

[Calmmo]

Persona 5 Strikers

Unfortunately I'm getting random freezes/crashes.
Worked fine for ~3.5h 2 days ago, but it has been freezing non stop since yesterday. Dunno what I was expecting from a Japanese PC cash-in port..

 

[Kapone33]

I'm playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning nowadays. There are too many things to say about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but Re-Reckoning is a new way to play a classic leading role-playing game back in 2012. There are lots of opportunities in the game which you can delve into. Hundreds of hours of stories, quests, dungeons and much more.

If you are familiar with classic Reckoning, and if you played it like you are living in Amalur, you should play Re-Reckoning, too. I read a lot of comments about the game, which they are saying they didn't even improve the graphics. Then I tried it, found out that these comments are not real. There is an improvement in the graphics. Really.

And, come on, R.A. Salvatore, Ken Rolston, Grant Kirkhope, Todd McFarlane... These persons should remind you something; you played games, listen to tracks, read comics and stories which they created before! And the dev team are doing a really good job with Re-Reckoning.

Combat, Fateshifting and Reckoning Mode still works amazingly nowadays, and Re-Reckoning shows this approach of role-playing games doesn't die. It also has really different character development phases which you may not experience before if you haven't played it yet. There are Destinies, you can choose Might, Finesse or Sorcery. However, you can go hybrid, too, and all of these Destinies you choose, while you are developing your character, will provide you with bonuses. And more, and more...

Go, and give it a shot. Trust me, this will be the best money spent.

Cheers!

You have inspired me!!!

 

[mouacyk]

Any COD:BOCW Zombie players want to team up for Outbreak this weekend? Should be more fun and organized than playing with randoms.

 

[ShurikN]

Man, I've played Outriders demo the past two days and I don't remember when was the last time I've seen a new game this dated.
Gameplay looks to be like a less fun Gears, visuals are nothing to write home about, performance is meh, and in the span of 3 hrs the game froze and crashed three times. Characters are your run of the mill soldiers, and the story isn't gonna be it's selling point that's for sure.
AND THE CUTSCENE CAMERA SHAKE.... oh my God the camera shake. Who thought this was a good idea baffles me.
I really gotta see how all the gameplay systems expand as you play more cause I like the fact it's not a live service game, and it has loot and classes and stuff, but atm it looks to be a solid $15 game.
I might see the appeal if the loot game is well founded, but without crafting and access to more and better stuff in the demo it's kinda hard to say, and if the end game is meaningful and challenging. But you ain't gonna see that one in the demo either (at least so far, gonna play it a bit more)

All in all a REALLY weird experience...

 

[mouacyk]

Man, I've played Outriders demo the past two days and I don't remember when was the last time I've seen a new game this dated.
Gameplay looks to be like a less fun Gears, visuals are nothing to write home about, performance is meh, and in the span of 3 hrs the game froze and crashed three times. Characters are your run of the mill soldiers, and the story isn't gonna be it's selling point that's for sure.
AND THE CUTSCENE CAMERA SHAKE.... oh my God the camera shake. Who thought this was a good idea baffles me.
I really gotta see how all the gameplay systems expand as you play more cause I like the fact it's not a live service game, and it has loot and classes and stuff, but atm it looks to be a solid $15 game.
I might see the appeal if the loot game is well founded, but without crafting and access to more and better stuff in the demo it's kinda hard to say, and if the end game is meaningful and challenging. But you ain't gonna see that one in the demo either (at least so far, gonna play it a bit more)

All in all a REALLY weird experience...

Most full games nowadays are 8 hours. How did you manage to play a demo that you didn't like for 2 days?

 

[ShurikN]

Most full games nowadays are 8 hours. How did you manage to play a demo that you didn't like for 2 days?

Over the course of 2 days (now 3), didn't play it 2 days straight. A couple of hrs here and there. There are a lot cutscenes as well and quite often.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I can tell you that the original Far Cry, from 2004, was much longer! I played it and beat it in December, 2013, on one of my socket 775 rigs, probably the famous Asus Maximus II Gene that I got NOS the same year.

A game from the socket 462 era, that still had relevance in my book!

 

[Ruru]

I can tell you that the original Far Cry, from 2004, was much longer! I played it and beat it in December, 2013, on one of my socket 775 rigs, probably the famous Asus Maximus II Gene that I got NOS the same year.

A game from the socket 462 era, that still had relevance in my book!

I also beat FC1 on a LGA775 rig, tho it was with a Pentium D 805 @ 3.4 and I had a GF 6800 LE @ nu 380/940... an AGP LGA775 board (Asus P5P800 SE).

The best game from 2004 IMO as I'm not a fan of HL series.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I also beat FC1 on a LGA775 rig, tho it was with a Pentium D 805 @ 3.4 and I had a GF 6800 LE @ nu 380/940... an AGP LGA775 board (Asus P5P800 SE).

The best game from 2004 IMO as I'm not a fan of HL series.

I was using a GeForce 9500 GT at that time, which was considered somewhat slow, even in 2008, but it did fine with DirectX9 at a lower resolution, but I very likely was using 1024x768 on one of my CRTs!
But it was an eVGA, with excellent cap choices=Slow, but reliable!

 

[Ruru]

I was using a GeForce 9500 GT at that time, which was considered somewhat slow, even in 2008, but it did fine with DirectX9 at a lower resolution, but I very likely was using 1024x768 on one of my CRTs!
But it was an eVGA, with excellent cap choices=Slow, but reliable!

I had a 21" CRT with 1600x1200 @ 85Hz back then, I'm still pissed off that I threw that away almost a decade ago..

 

[Sithaer]

Man, I've played Outriders demo the past two days and I don't remember when was the last time I've seen a new game this dated.
Gameplay looks to be like a less fun Gears, visuals are nothing to write home about, performance is meh, and in the span of 3 hrs the game froze and crashed three times. Characters are your run of the mill soldiers, and the story isn't gonna be it's selling point that's for sure.
AND THE CUTSCENE CAMERA SHAKE.... oh my God the camera shake. Who thought this was a good idea baffles me.
I really gotta see how all the gameplay systems expand as you play more cause I like the fact it's not a live service game, and it has loot and classes and stuff, but atm it looks to be a solid $15 game.
I might see the appeal if the loot game is well founded, but without crafting and access to more and better stuff in the demo it's kinda hard to say, and if the end game is meaningful and challenging. But you ain't gonna see that one in the demo either (at least so far, gonna play it a bit more)

All in all a REALLY weird experience...

Felt very similar about the game, well the demo.

I was interested cause I thought that it could be a good extra/secondary looter shooter when I'm tired of Borderlands.

Performance is just bad and its very stuttery for whatever reason, regardless of what settings I'm using + its installed on a NVME SSD.
Gameplay is alright but nothing special either and the cover system was a complete mess/buggy.

Supposedly there was a bigger demo patch recently so I'm gonna give it another try but from what I've seen so far its not something I would buy day 1 and will just go back to BL 3 when the next update hits on Marc 18. 'already paid for the season pass anyway'


@mouacyk

Its a looter shooter with 4 classes and you can try all of them in the demo so 2 days with a few hours each sounds normal if you want to try more than 1 and also farm some stuff. 'You can progress in the full game from where you left the demo'

 

[InVasMani]

I had a 21" CRT with 1600x1200 @ 85Hz back then, I'm still pissed off that I threw that away almost a decade ago..

CRT's were so blurry I don't miss them at all. They did have good refresh rates though.

 

[Ruru]

CRT's were so blurry I don't miss them at all. They did have good refresh rates though.

Mine wasn't (at least yet), those Trinitrons were usually awesome. I just couldn't take it with me as I moved together with my ex and she said NO pretty damn clearly.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Mine wasn't (at least yet), those Trinitrons were usually awesome. I just couldn't take it with me as I moved together with my ex and she said NO pretty damn clearly.

I likely was using a Trinitron at the time. (Dell P991?)

 

[scoutingwraith]

Currently. Destiny 2 New Season on PC. Hollow Knight on my Switch and Wipeout Omega Collection on my PS4.

 

[Sithaer]

Finished Life is Strange 2.
Took me a good ~23 hours, tried to explore and read everything/talk to ppl,etc.

Its not a bad game on its own I just have some minor issues with it and thats more like on me.
I'm not exactly a fan of kids in general so having to drag that little 'brat' through the game kinda annoyed me at times.

Not sure if I will re play this again like the previous games but it was worth the 13 Euro I spent on it.
At least I got an ending I'm comfortable with so theres that.

 

[Ruru]

Finished Life is Strange 2.
Took me a good ~23 hours, tried to explore and read everything/talk to ppl,etc.

Its not a bad game on its own I just have some minor issues with it and thats more like on me.
I'm not exactly a fan of kids in general so having to drag that little 'brat' through the game kinda annoyed me at times.

Not sure if I will re play this again like the previous games but it was worth the 13 Euro I spent on it.
At least I got an ending I'm comfortable with so theres that.

Before the Storm > LiS > LiS2

All that political bullshit etc. pissed me off in 2.

 

[Sithaer]

Before the Storm > LiS > LiS2

All that political bullshit etc. pissed me off in 2.

I'm so not following politics that most of the political crap just flies over my head w/o me even noticing so that wasn't really an issue for me.

Those racists and the religious fanatics now that more like pissed me off, just can't stand that crap.
For me its LiS 1>BtS>LiS 2.
I just prefer the gameplay with Max and the general feel of the first game.

Aight, time to pick up another game tomorrow.

 

[Splinterdog]

Dirt 5 for $3 was too good to turn down and I see Codemasters has almost done a Forza Horizon, but even more arcady and on a rail driving.
Still, it's good fun if you put the difficulty on the highest setting and watch the AI cars come from nowhere and scream past you when you're in first place and about to win!

 

[Sithaer]

Replaying Ryse Son of Rome after idk a few years, last time I played it I had a i3+950 that struggled on higher settings.




Have to say this is still a pretty good looking game and the same fun I remembered.
Also ran into probably the weirdest performance fix I ever had to use.
I have the Steam version of the game and for some reason it was completely unplayable on my current rig, drops under 30 FPS and mad stutters so I did some research online cause thats just not normal.

Found an old topic about the same issue on newer systems and someone suggested to start up Origin first and let it run in the background.
As nonsense as that sounds I tried it and all issues vanished, solid ~60+ FPS smooth exeperience now.

Theres 21:9 support by default, text/user interface is not perfect but its not a bother.