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so Halloween came around and rev expansion and re3 where both around a tenner

reports on the shortness of the he campaign turned me off re3 remake but for a tenner why not

new nemesis is a different annoying challenge
 
From the makers of West of Loathing, the brilliant stickman Western RPG-lite, comes a surprise new game released without fanfare yesterday. Shadows Over Loathing is set in the 1920s in a city, with prohibition and jazz and the usual brilliant joke every 30 seconds. So far I'm loving it.
 
Not so much playing, but as I know I'll never have time to play through the whole thing I thought I'd watch God of War: Ragnarok to see the story finished. An example of the fantasy game genre at its absolute best, imv, and actually one of those rare cases where the writers managed to coherently tie together 15 hours-odd of storytelling, dialogue and action while taking a thoughtful crack at sometimes complex themes. Genuinely a standard above what I thought AAA productions were capable of.
 
15 hours of gameplay? :hmm: really pondering switching to the PS5 due to games like this but that's a disappointment

jesus Rob Ray play red dead redemption 2 if you want to see the Genuine standard of what a AAA production can be whilst dealing with complex themes
 
Ax^ said:
15 hours of gameplay? :hmm: really pondering switching to the PS5 due to games like this but that's a disappointment

jesus Rob Ray play red dead redemption 2 if you want to see the Genuine standard of what a AAA production can be whilst dealing with complex themes
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No 15 hours of just the main story having cut out the mobs, side quests etc. More like 26 hours gameplay to beat on average and 53 hours for total completion. That said, I don't really give a shit about play time as a measure of quality - Elden Ring is 50-70 hours and afaict is more of a collection of interesting lore vaguely chained together through a bunch of boss fights than a coherent story.
 
i played plenty of games and hear raving reports of about god of war and as a massive star gate fan was looking forward to Christopher judges performance


glad to hear its not that short of game and aye length of gameplay is not always the good standard of quality


saying that RD2 is the high mark of the current triple A titles and don't think a game has surpassed it just yet
it has ruined open world games for me :facepalm:


might get the PS5 as a gift to meself for christmas and compare :)
 
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Judge is very good, as is Danielle Bisutti (Freya), I think what impressed me was that the character development is so cleverly written for what is an intensely difficult process to get right particularly in the discipline of games. I think it's probably different from RDR (I've played 1 but not 2) inasmuch as it's tightly focused across a handful of characters who you spend a lot of time with (and had done in the previous game) with very complex interpersonal relationships. Kratos' process of accepting his son growing up and giving up the role of overbearing protector, the coming to terms (and not) with grief and guilt etc is thematically not something I see often (or really at all) dealt with well in gaming, as a rule. To see it as the maturation of Kratos, the most bluntly angry-macho character in gaming in his original incarnation, is quite something.
 
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fair play will check it out

having played both rd1 and 2 , without spoiler is 2 is very different tonally and is more about the whole van der Linde gang.
if you ever get around to playing RD2 its a slow burner of game but spent time in camp
 
Been massively into “Into The Radius” on Quest 2 the last week or so. Soviet dystopian post-apocalypse survival horror fun with massive gun porn element.
 
Golf 2k21 is very good if you've got a competitive mate to play with like I have. It's better than Tiger Woods by EA ever was back in the day, but a bit shit as a single player game. There's a newer version that costs more and probably isn't much better, so I went for this one at less than £20 on sale.
 
why would you watch a game instead of playing? what is there to get out of it unless you're invested as a player?
 
Orang Utan said:
why would you watch a game instead of playing? what is there to get out of it unless you're invested as a player?
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Lots of reasons really - if you think its an odd thing to do you're a bit behind the trend, Lets Plays and livestreaming are a big industry (likely to pass $1 billion this year, forecast to reach $4bn in 2025).

I did outline my own reasons in this case (that I won't have time to spend 26-53 hours concentrating on a playthrough, but I have enjoyed the storyline so treated it as, essentially, a high-budget trashy TV series that in this case exceeded expectations). Other people might watch a popular game to get a grasp of it so they can engage in meta-discussion on social media, or to pick how someone better than them plays, or because a gamer they like is providing interesting commentary. In e-sports it's no different really from watching football.

In Twitch and Youtube gaming the more common aspect is sort of multi-path thing. It combines the micro-celebrity gamers who gather communities around them by providing entertaining gameplay, witty commentary, a bonkers personality or whatever and in the more successful cases, become micro (or even major) celebrities in their chosen genre or specific title. A core of those communities, usually early adopters, then get a feeling of ownership over the creator and can be very loyal as daily viewers. It's a curious mix of live direct-interaction fan forum, half-processed audio-visual background on a second screen while you're doing something else, tips and tricks programme and gossip column. It's absolutely bewildering to go into cold!
 
Something called warzone 2. I'm fucking terrible at it, but it's free and fun. I feel like there should be servers that run "walking" games like they do with football
 
Orang Utan said:
why would you watch a game instead of playing? what is there to get out of it unless you're invested as a player?
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Sometimes it's easier to watch play throughs to learn a game. Like Paradox Grand Strategy stuff that can appear overwhelming to a new player. Learning the start-up procedure for a Boeing 737 study-level sim by PMDG will take either constant study of the manual or a bit of watching how it's done.
Aside from that though, I occasional watch people playing D&D simply because I'm a bit jealous that I can't. And it can be fun, depending on the game.
 
God Of War: Ragnorak - just more of the same really, nothing surprising or outstanding about it but I ain’t complaining.
Also replaying Far Cry 3 as it’s loads of fun.
Wanna play this:
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Can't see more God of War as a bad thing. Sometimes they end up "improving" the gameplay to the point where it's not as fun. Case in point, Doom(2016) vs Doom Eternal.
 
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Can't see more God of War as a bad thing. Sometimes they end up "improving" the gameplay to the point where it's not as fun. Case in point, Doom(2016) vs Doom Eternal.
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I like how they've made it more accessible but wish all games would let you skip tricky fight scenes if you get bored. I dunno how people can watch this as I find myself wishing I could skip all the lengthy scenes and just replace them with short synopses so you can forego all the Norse the suboptimum Warhammer-bad portentous gravelly dialogue nonsense, and move on
 
Having given up of BF2042 (Season three launched yesterday so just might give another try) , COD Modern Warefare II is my go to game at the moment.

I've never used the sniper rifles as my go to weapons but playing the map Shoothouse, camping the middle lane and getting headshots is so satisfiying.

Going to give 'Everybody's Gone To The Rapture' another try at some point. Had it on the PS4 but didn't finish it, will try again on the PS5.
 
Got Metro Exodus for less then a tenner on Steam and started it tonight. Not as pretty as say Cyberpunk but the Ray tracing does look nice.

Also picked up Fallout 4 for a fiver. Did on PS4 and completed it some years ago. Part of me would quite like to revisit it on PC, but maybe that's not a good time sync.
 
I bought Tenderfoot Tactics and Cult of the Lamb in the sale. TT is quite fun, bit hard to get my head round but looks interesting. Not tried Cult yet.

Apart from that still addicted to TW: Warhammer 3. Dwarfs this time. "shoot the wazzocks" etc.
 
Currently playing way too much Magic the Gathering on Arena! I used to play back in the 90s and this scratches that itch very nicely without the need to spend a small fortune each year to stay current!

If anyone else plays I’m the same name on there.😉
 
Just finished Chorus on the PS4.

It's a Space based shooter, set in the far future. There's an overarching quasi-religous theme that's vaguely Star Wars-esque.
Plus there's a sentient ship.


It's all very silly and I loved it.
 
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