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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,522 Views)
Moo
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I already own it and don't own a PS3.
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I don't understand why platformers still have lives. I remember Banjo-Tooie didn't and it worked well (everything you collected was saved automatically unlike the 1st game). I cannot think of any game or genre that requires lives these days with the ability to save anytime (only arcade games need them).
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I think there's still a place for limited retries however games like that - where you can just continue from where you left off - kinda make them redundant so you have to wonder what the point is.
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Moo
Nov 18 2015, 05:07 PM
I already own it and don't own a PS3.
I'll have a look see and see if I can find my disc around the house if you want to use that. Alternatively, it's pretty cheap on eBay as well.
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Chickan
Nov 19 2015, 08:36 AM
I think there's still a place for limited retries however games like that - where you can just continue from where you left off - kinda make them redundant so you have to wonder what the point is.
It's a hard thing to gauge really. I think that Mario has done the 'retry' option the best - even if they still have 'lives'. If you fail at a level often enough, then you get the option to either skip it or have a reduced difficulty level for it.

I do wonder though if we're past having retries/lives in certain types of games? Unless there is a substantial punishment for failing - eg. bouncing back to the beginning of the world, rather than just the beginning of the level - then where's the challenge in (essentially) never dying?
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Nov 19 2015, 01:23 PM
Moo
Nov 18 2015, 05:07 PM
I already own it and don't own a PS3.
I'll have a look see and see if I can find my disc around the house if you want to use that. Alternatively, it's pretty cheap on eBay as well.
Thanks, but I decided just to move onto GoW2. I'll play that and move straight onto GoW3. I like how the behaviour of the gods seems true to how the mythological gods might behave. They're all petulant, scheming children. I also like epic stuff like Ares spearing Kratos with a pillar from halfway across the world. I don't like the 300-esque badassery, which isn't as bad as 300 but leads to some embarrassing lines from Kratos.

I haven't touched Fallout 4 for a few days now...
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I really love the God of War series. In fact, so much so that I feel it'd be a series that I could very easily just revisit every three years or so. I played through the whole series last year in chronological order - (oh god Ascension is not good) - and was amazed at how great the PSP games were. God of War 3 is still my favourite which is an impressive technical feat as well as being an impressive story too.
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I've also started playing Europa Universalis IV, a game I've owned for a over a year but which I previously never got into because of its steep learning curve. It's so complex: it makes Crusader Kings II look like Civilization V, and CKII is very complex. The tutorials barely help and you just have to learn gradually by playing, and as you start to learn you become incredibly absorbed.

I forgot to say that it's a real-time strategy game taking place between 1444-1821. There are 300+ countries all operating simultaneously, and this number rises and dips over time as states declare independence or get annexed (Australia can be formed very late, for instance). The upside to the complexity is that you can basically do whatever you want if you have the resources and know-how.

I'm playing as Mali, one of the two big dogs in 15th century West Africa, the other being Songhai. There are a few countries between us and a lot more around us. Technology in the region is tribal, though the big dogs are almost medieval, putting us light years behind Europe. My initial plan was to slowly eat away at smaller countries to better my own, maintaining friendly relations with Songhai while building my cash, land and manpower. You can "eat away" at countries by capturing land, pressuring them to give you money, or pressuring them to become vassals and annexing them. This plan became untenable when Songhai declared war on Mossi and shocked me by taking a bunch of land they had no legal right to, putting them right on my borders. This benefits them in a lot of ways, though it increases unrest in their own lands and it's a bad move diplomatically, especially in a region where the strength of these smaller countries, pushovers on their own, increases drastically over when they band together.

My plan now is to build alliances with smaller countries and try to provoke Songhai into war. It's important that they declare war on me or one of my allies, because allies are less interested in fighting if you're the aggressor. Songhai have their own allies, but they're not nearby and thus less likely to fight, while mine border Songhai and myself. I might also fund separatist rebels in Songhai to weaken them domestically. If everything goes my way, which it probably won't because there are a thousand possible curveballs the game might throw my way (I haven't even mentioned my own separatist issues, or my zealous Sunni nobles and their hatred of heretics and progress (they burnt down a library!)), I should become the most powerful force in West Africa just before Europe rears its ugly, superior head and runs rampant over the continent. A Portuguese ship recently went by and did some trade with us...
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Nov 19 2015, 02:33 PM
I really love the God of War series. In fact, so much so that I feel it'd be a series that I could very easily just revisit every three years or so. I played through the whole series last year in chronological order - (oh god Ascension is not good) - and was amazed at how great the PSP games were. God of War 3 is still my favourite which is an impressive technical feat as well as being an impressive story too.
I'm surprised there aren't more games that use the same blend of linear gameplay and cinematic presentation. Is the Uncharted series like that? Perhaps I should buy the collection soon, but looking at that series from a distance it's never really appealed to me. But I've never payed attention to it, and I loved The Last of Us.
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Uncharted does it. The new Tomb Raider (not the NEW new Tomb Raider - can't comment on that) sort of does it as well. I found as well that a supremely underrated game - El Shaddai - did it in some ways as well. But, none do it better than the God of War series. Man... I hope they announce a PS4 God of War soon.
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Definitely get Uncharted series, it does exactly that, linear experience and cinematic scenes and action. You can also spend some time exploring for collecting treasures.

I think Tomb Raider does the exploration a little better where you need to use the acquired weapon upgrades to access the loot, where Uncharted only requires looking around each level for nooks and crannies.
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Star Wars Battlefront, no campaign. No interest from me
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Played the GoW trilogy (first 2 HD versions) on PS3, it's not really my genre so I don't really look back on them with any kind of fondness, but they seemed liked good examples of that kind of thing. 3 was one of the better looking games on the console I played. The one thing about it was that I remember it kinda feeling like it was a "mature games fur murture gurmurrss" type with it's kinda juvenile use of nudity and highly detailed gore scenes.

I played uncharted 1 and 2, those were much more up my alley. Basically Indiana Jones the game sums it up. However I still don't look back on them with that that much fondness because of how much it's a mega uber linear and set piece laden game. It's definitely one of the better examples of that style, but that's the main thing the tomb raider reboot does better. That game gives you much more breathing room to explore with it's partial open world style. Uncharted just felt like it was on rails the whole time.
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The tearing off of Helios' head in God of War 3 is just gloriously graphic in all the right ways.
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Dear lord is the scene with Aphrodite embarrassing. I preferred the moment just prior to that where Kratos releases Poseidon's concubine and brings her with him just so he can use her body to keep a door lever in place. He's such a dick.
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