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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 (143,502 Views)
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Been playing a lot of Tom Calncy's The Division. So far so good. Engaging gameplay, it actually has story and the loot system seems good so far. I don't think the main story will be too long, especially as far as MMO's go but I won't be able to tell that until I finish it.
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Mar 11 2016, 08:42 AM
Been playing a lot of Tom Calncy's The Division. So far so good. Engaging gameplay, it actually has story and the loot system seems good so far. I don't think the main story will be too long, especially as far as MMO's go but I won't be able to tell that until I finish it.
How's the single player experience or would you only recommend it for multiplayer gamers?
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I've been playing it solo 95% of the time and the experience is fine/ If you team up with people who are lower level the enemies scale which is good in a way.
There are times when you're running between missions and nothing seems to be going on but for some reason it sits well with me. I think it's because it fits the context of the game
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Mar 11 2016, 12:10 AM
I've played The Order for a few hours and agree that it was treated unfairly by reviewers. The cinematic nature of the gameplay is on level with The Last of Us while the gameplay itself is more than serviceable thanks to some engrossing set pieces. The QTE's aren't ladled on much and aren't even that bad. The game has shades of so many other games -- Half-Life 2's early immersion into a city, Gears of War's comradery, Arkham's gadgetry -- but mostly it's favourably similar to The Last of Us, even if that game has it beat on most fronts (particularly characterisation... the 'dramatic' end to the airship sequence wasn't as gripping as the music and visuals suggested). Its depiction of Victorian London is immersive. You can see the misery of lower-class life as you walk through a homeless shelter and brothel. I love exploring historical cities in Ass Creed, but they rarely feel like more than sandboxes.

It's a solid all-rounder.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. I thought it was good, not great. I enjoyed my time with it but wasn't blown away. Part of the reason why a 6.5/10 rating is not a bad thing in my opinion.
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Yesterday I might have been more generous, but now I'm thinking 6/10 at best. The fun factor with the shooting sections diminishes rapidly due to lack of variation and cumbersome controls. Take cover, shoot, take cover, shoot, dodge grenade, take cover, shoot. The review that enticed me to play it said it refuses to be easily categorized, but it's a very standard shooter, nor is it experimental like the review said, but just cribbing things from other games without expanding on them. At this point I'm approaching it like I did Spec Ops, thinking "Time to plod though this boring shooting section to get to the next part of the story."

The story fizzles when you realize it's the nineteen-thousandth version of a protagonist sympathizing with the rebels to fight his superiors who are the true evil, though I like the concept of the bad guys
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I'm intrigued enough to press on.
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Finished it. 5/10. It really flounders after the airship, both the story (which is predictable and has no interesting characters) and gameplay (which gets boring).

Eh, it was worth $14. I enjoyed the first half.
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So what you're saying is that it's basically what those closed minded establishment game reviewers said it was, and not a misunderstood gem?
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Or it just shows that Moo is as closed minded as those establishment reviewers and can't appreciate art when it is staring him in the face.
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Bloody white cis males. No taste at all.
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Mar 12 2016, 07:21 AM
So what you're saying is that it's basically what those closed minded establishment game reviewers said it was, and not a misunderstood gem?
Yeah.
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In retrospect it should've been a red flag that the same reviewer hates The Talos Principle and got upset because The Last of Us became too mainstream.
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chek ur fukn privilidge shitlord
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Mar 12 2016, 11:14 AM
In retrospect it should've been a red flag that the same reviewer hates The Talos Principle and got upset because The Last of Us became too mainstream.


He also had Far Cry 2 Broken Weapons & Malaria Management Simulator 2008, an incredibly irritating and flawed game to actually play (3 is way, way better), listed at the bottom of the article in his favourite game shortlist.

I'm guessing it was because it was set in Africa.
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And there's me a few pages back trying to get it working. (OK not really, it was a review on Rockpapershotgun that got me hooked on FC2, which I already owned via some cheap series bundle.)

I will never question the establishment again Halo 2016.
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I have played a few hours of Far Cry 3, and while I enjoyed it and didn't quit out of boredom or anything, it felt sandboxy in the way Ass Creed does, where there are simply so many things sprawled across the map that they feel insubstantial individually. It's not like The Witcher 3 where everything outside of treasure and question mark points promises something unique and entices you to seek it out.
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