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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 (143,391 Views)
jamesh
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I've been playing the third season of Telltale's The Walking Dead, and am about half way through now.

I'm getting a bit tired of the timed conversation choice mechanic: there have been many times I wished they had a rewind mechanic similar to what Dontnod implemented in Life is Strange (even if there is no in-universe reason for such a thing to exist). I guess my real problem is that there have been a number of cases where the way the conversations played out seemed counter to what I had expected. Either it would pick an unexpected tone for the chosen dialog, or the prompt was ambiguous and the spoken dialog would end up quite different to what I expected. While the first season of The Walking Dead felt fairly innovative for the genre, these days it feels like Telltale is in a rut.

I've also seen severe graphical corruption in episode 3: at times there are flashing blue or grey triangles covering up most of the screen and obscuring the scene. Checking online shows other people reporting the problem almost a year ago, so it is disappointing that it remains unpatched.

The story is okay, so I'm still playing through the glitches. The second season had three quite different endings, and they seem to have handled this through a time skip and relegating Clementine to a side character. There have been some flashbacks to the intervening time, which must differ based on season 2 choices but will probably mostly merge back together.
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I finished off The Walking Dead Season 3. The graphical glitches seemed to be limited to that one chapter of episode 3.

As far as how the story went (while some is based on my choices, I suspect some was fixed):

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I've gone on to the first season of Telltale's Batman. So far, it has been pretty good. It is a bit heavier on the QTE based combat, but I did like some of the additions to Telltale's usual formula. There are scenes where you need to discover points of interest in a scene and then link them together to progress. This is either used in detective scenes to solve crimes, or before combat scenes where you can decide how you'll take out each enemy before the fight plays out.
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Moo
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Glad Bethesda finished their 7,000,000th iteration of Skyrim and have started Elder Scrolls 6.
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It's probably yonks away though, since Fallout 76 is coming first and this was literally just an acknowledgement that it exists. It'd better be on a new engine, I mean holy shit. I wonder where it'll be set.

Cyberpunk 2077 looks cool, I don't know whether its funny or sad that there are people whining about it not being exclusively rainy night time brade runnah scenes. Metro Exodus also looks dank. Oh, and Doom Eternal! Glad to see that announced, just as I'm reinstalling doom for a second playthrough... Star Wars Jedi Fallen might turn out good, I was disappointed when 1313 got canned. Just Cause 4, still haven't played 3 but 2 was a lot of fun so I won't complain.
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Halo Infinite is coming to PC? Wtf Microsoft, I want Halo 3. You don't bother to bring MCC to PC but you're bringing infinite?
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I finished off season 1 of Telltale's Batman. It was surprisingly good, with the story not following the canon of the comics, films, or other games. Instead, it offered its own takes on the characters, and had the capacity to surprise me.

One thing that it did a lot better than Rocksteady's Arkham games is explore the character of Bruce Wayne, with a number of chapters giving you the choice to tackle them as either Bruce or Batman.
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Hammerfell sounds like a nice setting for ES. Unearthing tombs and ancient palaces across a sprawling desert. It’ll also be a nice change after Skyrim accidentally let you roleplay as a white supremacist, since Redguards are the prevalent race.
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Skyrim is for the Nords.
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Microsoft bought Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, Hellblade). It'll be interesting to see what they can do with a bit more money behind them.
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Become a shell of their former selves under Microsoft’s micromanaging.
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Forza Horizon 4 looks awesome as expected. The season changes is a cool addition to the game. Gears 5 announcement was expected, won't be out until at least September next year so will get more details over time.

Crackdown 3 we barely got to see anything again with another delay.

Fallout being always online is a concern, will wait and see. Expecting some gameplay for RDR 2 in the Sony conference.
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I hope Skull & Bones turns out good, I rather enjoyed the pirate portions of AC4.

Cinematic trailers have to be the dumbest trend in gaming, though, and so many developers at E3 use them! They totally fail to inspire any excitement in me because they just boil down to 'the game exists'. This isn't the 90s anymore where people might've thought 'Wow, look at these FMV cutscenes! Incredible!'. Just stop doing it.

I mean I can tolerate something like the TES VI one because its extremely short and simple, but why do other game companies spend good money making a 2+ minute CG or live action movie trailer for their game? I just don't get it. I guess it's indicative of the game industry's identity crisis. Don't show your actual video game that people will be buying, just show a movie which is what you're ultimately trying to be anyway.
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There are games like Star Citizen that only show movie trailers because there’s no actual game and the project is just a scam to con rubes out of thousands of dollars selling spaceships and impossible dreams.

I’m okay with Hideo Kojima making cinematic trailers.

Edit: Ooh Nioh 2. Never finished the first but it’s a solid Soulslike, along with The Surge, which is also getting a sequel!
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Yeah more and more I'm thinking I'll just be skipping Nioh 1, the samey environments look they would really put a hamper on my enjoyment. Shadows Die Twice looks pretty neat from what they showed.
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Oh yeah, Yakuza 0 and the remake of Yakuza 1 are coming to steam. I've heard good things about 0 and that it would be a solid jumping on point so I look forward to trying it out in the future.
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