Starwars Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Playing a bit of Valiant Hearts, bought it and Child of Light (maybe I'll play that next) 50% off. It's... alright. I dunno, the art is lovely and setting the story during WW1 is good. But the gameplay is just... not good. Would've been better as a straight up adventure game. And the story kinda goes "oh, and then a bad thing happened to our heroes, and then *another* bad thing, and then yet *another* bad thing". It's kinda weak. When the story works, it works really well. When it doesn't, it just grates. The gameplay kinda grates most of the time unfortunately. Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Child of Light is fantastic though. Great writing. Lovely art. When playing with controller the gameplay works fine. Haven't tried keyboard + mouse. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Wrapped up Shadows of Mordor last night. For my general thoughts on it: The gameplay in general - as has been noted - is a mashup of Assassin's Creed and Batman Arkham, with a lot more stabbity-slashy. If you enjoy the majority of a game being slaughtering Orcs and Uruks, whether sneaking up and brutally stabbing an Uruk 5 times to terrify his companions, or jumping into a mob to engage in rolling swordplay and multiple decapitations, this is probably one you'll enjoy. The stealth is pretty basic, and the running, jumping, and climbing doesn't have any serious flaws and it all has some very fluid animations. The Nemesis system is quite innovative, and yes you will develop connections with the various Uruk's and such that you encounter who manage to kill you or you kill. Sometimes you'll think you'll have killed one only for them to turn up again later with fresh scars or burns (in some way relating to your earlier fight). Plus the way they remember things, whether you fought them, whether you ran away, if they ran away, if you threw them into a fire, if you dropped a wasp's nest on their head... That's all a nice touch. The open world is split into two maps. You literally have half the missions, collectibles, and "side" missions on each one. Certain skills only open up when you carry out specific story missions - one of which is gaining the "brand" ability that basically dominates Uruk's to your will, and you only gain that at the start of the second map. So you will spend half the game without it. As a character you earn XP to unlock a chunk of your abilities, but those are on a set of 4 or 5 tiers which have to be unlocked by gaining Power. So you gain power by basically disrupting Sauron's army with killing the Captains and War-chiefs and disrupting the various events they do to gain more power. These are all random things the Nemesis system gets them doing. Whether holding a feast to impress their troops, going on a recruitment drive to bully other Uruk's into joining them, duelling each other for respect and position (quite often killing each other...). So you can jump in, and help or hinder them. Of course, for the first half you have no reason to help them. There is also a third set of upgrades for your attributes that cover how many runes your weapons can hold, your health, your focus ability and just how much elf shot you can carry. On a certain level the basic storyline is lacklustre. It has some good voice acting, the general mood is nice, and it does have a few moments of impact. But it also feels very shallow to a large chunk of the game. Then again, you can blaze through the majority of the 20 Story missions if you want, but the serious time will be taken up with the points where the story pauses as it were to let you deal with Uruk killing / manipulation on a grand scale. 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Started a game of Long War. It deffinitly improves on the vanilla experience. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Pre-loading NBA2K15 Nearly 41 gigs Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 The games just get bigger and bigger. *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 41gigs? Seems some dev team never figured out compression. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 It really stands out next to Endless Legend's 1.8 GB Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Loading up Alien Isolation Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwars Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Finished up Valiant Hearts. Overall, the one thing I feel when thinking about that game was "missed opportunity". Could've been much better overall. The ending was nice and sad though. Started up Child of Light just now. Certainly seems quite lovely so far. Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofAnakin Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I finally got around to finishing the main story campaign for Destiny. It ended more abruptly than I thought. Not as much further story as I thought there was going to be after the first two planets. I thought they'd flesh out a few more of the characters and factions, but it sort of just glossed over various characters and moved on to the next part. I'm probably going to put it on the shelf for the time being. My character is pretty much as high a level as you can get, and the equipment upgrades are just taking too long. Grinding for one piece of material per day when you need 20 of that type to upgrade is just getting tedious. Can't complain, though. I spent around a solid month playing it. I don't know whether that's depressing or not that a game is considered money well spent if it lasts me a month. "Console exclusive is such a harsh word." - Darque"Console exclusive is two words Darque." - Nartwak (in response to Darque's observation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labadal Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Going to finish up Blackgaurds tomorrow. Did a fair amount of quests today and yesterday. Once I am done with it, it will mean that game #45 of the year has been completed. (I have also completed two games twice.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath of Dagon Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) Got Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, pretty good so far. It's kind of like an adventure-puzzle game, but instead of arbitrary puzzles you have to make logical deductions based on the evidence you uncover. Also finished Highpool in Wasteland 2, so far a great game, right up there with the best RPG's I've played; and I tend to get bored with the old RPG's, so I was surprised how it immediately drew me in. Also have Xenonauts,and about 3-4 other games in my rotation, kind of unmanageable. Problem is I play so slow, and PC games are so long.I'm definitely interested in hearing your continued (as spoiler-free as possible) impressions of Crimes ans Punishment once you play it some more. I'd love to play a good Sherlock Holmes game. I'm stuck in the first case. I seemed to have done everything right according to the guide, but at one point a character doesn't spawn, so I can't proceed. Pretty sure it's a bug, but may be only on 360, I haven't been able find anyone else having that problem. As far as gameplay, definitely a matter of preference. You hunt for clues, have conversations which only have options according to the evidence you find, make deductions, and based on that find more evidence and have more conversations. Not the most exciting thing in the world but fun for some, I'm liking it. There's also an occasional mini-game or puzzle. Game definitely seems more logical than most puzzle adventures, so that's a big plus. The most annoying thing is to constantly have to shuttle back and forth between Baker Street, Scotland Yard, and the crime scene (basically a fairly long load each time). Edited October 6, 2014 by Wrath of Dagon "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofAnakin Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Playing some The Last of Us. Those zombies that need to be shiv'd are annoying, especially when you don't have enough shivs. I had to waste molotovs on them. "Console exclusive is such a harsh word." - Darque"Console exclusive is two words Darque." - Nartwak (in response to Darque's observation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussinrounds Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I'd love to play a good Sherlock Holmes game. Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes by Mythos was the best one. It actually was a series of 2 games.. The Case of the Serrated Scalpel and The Case of the Rose Tattoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Got into that Witcher Adventure game beta, so that'll be something new. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Hadn't quite realised all the modifiers that go into the Rune drops on Shadows of Mordor. So apparently when you kill an Orc/Uruk captain, you get an automatic rune of the same level as the Captain. However, if that Captain had killed you before, you get +1 level to the rune for "vengeance". If you utilise something the Captain hates, you get a +1 level. If you use something the Captain fears, you get a +1 level. If you have gained intel about the Captain before the combat, you get a +1 level. Finally, if you made a death threat against the Captain, if you don't get an Epic Rune drop, you get a +1 level to the Rune. And they're cumulative, so if you get a Captain up to 20th level first, have let him kill you, gained intel on him, make a death threat, show up with something he hates, and then use something he fears.. then.. (as long as he doesn't drop an Epic Rune), you'll get a 25th level Rune drop... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 At least that Snowblind Studios game wasn't an insult to Tolkien. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Pre-loading NBA2K15 Nearly 41 gigs Must be all the video and music. You've got to figure that's about the cap for the future. Unless Blu-Ray capacity is going to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labadal Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 At least that Snowblind Studios game wasn't an insult to Tolkien. It was a very bad game either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 1TB Blu-rays have been mooted... L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Pre-loading NBA2K15 Nearly 41 gigs Must be all the video and music. No it's the textures, they're really detailed. Currently playing Alien Isolation, they caputered that 70s retro future look perfectly Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 It's a good looking game but man do I suck at defense Pardon my French Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Alien Isolation anyone. I want this to be good, I really do. So is it ? Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath of Dagon Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Got Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, pretty good so far. It's kind of like an adventure-puzzle game, but instead of arbitrary puzzles you have to make logical deductions based on the evidence you uncover. Also finished Highpool in Wasteland 2, so far a great game, right up there with the best RPG's I've played; and I tend to get bored with the old RPG's, so I was surprised how it immediately drew me in. Also have Xenonauts,and about 3-4 other games in my rotation, kind of unmanageable. Problem is I play so slow, and PC games are so long.I'm definitely interested in hearing your continued (as spoiler-free as possible) impressions of Crimes ans Punishment once you play it some more. I'd love to play a good Sherlock Holmes game. I'm stuck in the first case. I seemed to have done everything right according to the guide, but at one point a character doesn't spawn, so I can't proceed. Pretty sure it's a bug, but may be only on 360, I haven't been able find anyone else having that problem. As far as gameplay, definitely a matter of preference. You hunt for clues, have conversations which only have options according to the evidence you find, make deductions, and based on that find more evidence and have more conversations. Not the most exciting thing in the world but fun for some, I'm liking it. There's also an occasional mini-game or puzzle. Game definitely seems more logical than most puzzle adventures, so that's a big plus. The most annoying thing is to constantly have to shuttle back and forth between Baker Street, Scotland Yard, and the crime scene (basically a fairly long load each time). My bad, it's not a bug. I contacted tech support and I missed what seemed like a very minor clue. This is the walkthrough they direct you to if you get stuck : http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcSs/SH7/SH7.htm The way you know you missed evidence is the task in your journal to investigate an area doesn't go away when you think you're done. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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