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| jamesh | Feb 11 2018, 08:09 PM Post #3916 |
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Some parts of GTA5 feel like a bit of a throw-back. It's like no one told them that you can just cut-and-paste a side mission all over the map these days, so instead they crafted each one individually. |
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| Moo | Feb 11 2018, 10:03 PM Post #3917 |
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Level 8
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The story and characters are fun as hell, I don’t know what people are talking about. I think you’d find a lot to like in its non-stop nihilism and hatred of everything it’s lampooning. The gameplay is fun and varied, my only complaint being the shooting is crap.
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| Moo | Feb 11 2018, 11:39 PM Post #3918 |
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Level 8
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Persona 5 is gonna be a long haul. I’m almost 30 hours in what’s apparently a 100 hour storyline. I just got done with Pillars of Eternity (130 hours), which took me nearly three months, and has to be my longest ever playthrough of a game. P5 is fantastic sometimes, but it needs an editing job to cut out so much piffle and needless tutorializing. I’m slowly making my way through Doom. I’m liking a level every now and then rather than burning through it. Hell level was very neat. Edited by Moo, Feb 11 2018, 11:50 PM.
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| Sir Goodfellow | Feb 12 2018, 03:09 PM Post #3919 |
Level 7
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I finished Dreamfall Chapters. It was quite enjoyable in the end, though it's definitely the worst of its trilogy. It lacks the cerebral puzzles and the old-school point n click vibe of The Longest Journey, and doesn't even come close to the nuanced characterization or the intriguing and ultimately devastating plot of the first Dreamfall. Instead, it uses a few too many generic fantasy tropes and even introduces an uninteresting all-powerful Darth Vader-like big villain. Also, the narrative is resolved with an ugly deus-ex machina that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The choices I made throughout, which the game massively oversells, were another disappointing aspect. It was disheartening to find that none of them made any real difference in the end. Sure, a couple of characters died or were arrested because of my decisions, but there's very little genuine narrative or emotional payoff to any of them. And while I'm criticizing, it would be remiss not to mentioned the laughably stiff animations and traversal problems. The game's two main cities were labyrinthine and confusingly laid out, which, coupled with the useless map system and poor signposting, guarantees that you keep getting lost over and over again. Still, I never lost interest and I'm glad I saw the saga to its conclusion. And even though the story didn't affect me as much as in Dreamfall, it has its moments. In particular, the unexpectedly cruel and graphic death of a major character left me with a big lump in my throat. It was really sad. 6/10 overall. Slightly disappointing. Edited by Sir Goodfellow, Feb 12 2018, 03:58 PM.
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| Doomguy | Feb 12 2018, 05:25 PM Post #3920 |
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Level 7
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I might pick it up cheap one day, but it's probably quite low on my list. I didn't like Dreamfall anywhere near as much as the original, which I really liked. If this one is even weaker it doesn't make me want to rush out and get it. |
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| Moo | Feb 12 2018, 05:41 PM Post #3921 |
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Level 8
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I wouldn’t mind re-appraising Dreamfall since I thought it was very mediocre but hardly remember it. Unfortunately, Microsoft took it off the marketplace years ago and I can’t redownload. This is why I will never delete Dark Souls from my 360 hard drive. EDIT: Oops meant to add this to the post below. With the super shotgun and the rest of the arsenal outside the pistol I see what you mean about the shotgun being redundant. It was useful for a while though, and I’ll still use it with the explosion mod sometimes. Edited by Moo, Feb 12 2018, 10:38 PM.
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| Moo | Feb 12 2018, 10:34 PM Post #3922 |
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Level 8
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The worst thing in Doom is how you sometimes get cut off from early areas and miss an item. I’m scouring for everything but can’t be assed replaying a level for a sole thing. It’s also troubling when it will tease an item you can’t access until later, but you don’t know that at the time and fear pressing forward in case you’ve missed something. |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Feb 13 2018, 02:42 PM Post #3923 |
Level 7
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I dunno, you might think it's better than the previous game. They got rid of the unpopular action bits, and made the puzzles somewhat more challenging (though only succeeded in making them annoying, since they're still never hard but are often obtuse and poorly signposted). I played Dreamfall first and it's by far my favourite. I acknowledge the gameplay was absolutely mediocre, but I thought the story was beautiful and I found Zoe a nuanced and very well written character. She was this lethargic privileged layabout suffering from some vague depression she couldn't quite put her finger on, which I could totally relate to at the time. I also thought the mystery she stumbled into was genuinely intriguing and the ending uncommonly tragic and moving. The corporations and corrupt governments won. The good guys were either killed, imprisoned, or ended up in a coma. It was a weirdly nihilistic yet somehow appropriate conclusion that gave the narrative greater depth in hindsight. Most people were annoyed by it, but I thought it would have been a terrific and brave ending to the story. Instead, almost everyone is brought back to life for Chapters and they eventually (and awkwardly) band together to defeat Darth Vader. Despite some nice moments, I couldn't help but be disappointed by that. I enjoyed The Longest Journey, though many of the puzzles drove me insane and the story just didn't reach the emotional heights of Dreamfall. So for me: Dreamfall 9/10 TLJ 8/10 Chapters 6/10 Edited by Sir Goodfellow, Feb 14 2018, 03:01 PM.
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| Moo | Feb 14 2018, 01:08 AM Post #3924 |
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Level 8
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Finished Doom. That was close to perfect length for me; I was just starting to tire of it when it ended. The arena combat is an awesome change of pace from the cover-based shooting that dominates the genre. It conveys a good sense of being an unstoppable beefcake while remaining a decent challenge. Exploration is fun. My favourite weapon was the chaingun w/ mobile turret mod. |
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| Doomguy | Feb 14 2018, 01:24 AM Post #3925 |
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Level 7
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The whole "arena" style thing is something that some people complained about, it really didn't bother me. It probably allows the devs to fine tune the fights more, rather than allowing the player to cheese the AI by funneling them through a doorway. It's a good game though, definitely deserves a sequel. Surely it will get one if Wolfenstein did. |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Feb 14 2018, 02:41 AM Post #3926 |
Level 7
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I played a bit of Titanfall. Seems really fun. I'm not enamoured with the blandly militaristic tone and setting, but the crazy parkour movement feels fantastic. I thought the chief selling point was piloting a big robot, but by far the greatest pleasure so far has been bounding from cliff to cliff like some supercharged grasshopper. In fact, the pilot's traversal mechanics are so awesomely liberating that the actual mech gameplay feels kind of restrictive. |
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| Moo | Feb 14 2018, 10:56 AM Post #3927 |
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Level 8
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I preferred the pilot too, though the mech gets some great set pieces and becomes more versatile over time. |
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| Doomguy | Feb 14 2018, 02:10 PM Post #3928 |
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Level 7
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Hey Moo, has Far Cry 4 been buggy for you? I've run into a number of small little glitches, the most annoying of which occurred last night where I completed a mission, only to have it stuck on a black screen at the end of the cutscene. So I saved and quit and reload, to find it had put me back at the start of the mission. I don't remember ever having a buggy experience with 3 and Blood Dragon, it's definitely put a damper on the game for me. |
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| Moo | Feb 14 2018, 02:29 PM Post #3929 |
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Level 8
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There was one instance where it was flickering black when I boot it up and had to restart, but other than that it was good. This was on PS4. |
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| Moo | Feb 14 2018, 09:34 PM Post #3930 |
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Level 8
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This is when Persona sucks ass. I’ve just passed some security cameras and there’s an electric box just past them. I get this dialogue among the party: “Whoa, what’s that?” “It looks like an electric box.” “Let’s check it out.” “It has a switch.” “The word ‘camera’ is written on it.” “Oh, this must be for the surveillance cameras! Let’s destroy it!” [You destroy it and the cameras switch off.] “Ohhh, I get it! We can break this shit to kill the cameras!” The game needed an editor bad. Cue this situation a thousand times, where you instinctively recognize the mechanic in play because it’s in a thousand other games, but Persona is thirty seconds behind. Edited by Moo, Feb 14 2018, 09:36 PM.
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