What is the last video game you played?

[King Mark 3,975]

Well I think it's because the brain memorizes the command pattern in automated way similar as you type on a keyboard without looking at the keys.

That's why I think you need to stick with one game at a time or your brain loses that memory pattern and you won't be good enough for the games more challenging battles

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

Also if you're gonna pick up Deus Ex Human Revolution, I would play the original first.

[Quintus 6,499]

No need, they're completely unrelated and the original looks like arse all these years later.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I would have bought Human Revolution but the fact that the boss battles force you to play it like a straight shooter even if you chose to play the rest of the game stealthily put me off.

[Wojo 2,458]

Blume, I can see that my decrease in recent post activity has weakened your perception of my sarcasm, which was a jab at the whining.

But beating Deus Ex 1 on Realistic still stands as my most rewarding game achievement ever. I have beaten the game once on all three difficulties and gotten all three endings each time, since each diverges mere minutes from the end with respect to the lengthy campaign.

Anyone who dismisses the first based on its dated graphics should go back to consoles, and only use their computers for porn and email. The atmosphere and consequences were ahead of their time. I want to replay it, but I think System Shock 2 deserves a play through first. Besides, being a PC game, DE1 has mods that update the graphics. The engine flaws are charming and can be exploited wonderfully.

Laputan machine!

[Quintus 6,499]

On 3/13/2013 at 11:32 AM, Koray Savas said:

I would have bought Human Revolution but the fact that the boss battles force you to play it like a straight shooter even if you chose to play the rest of the game stealthily put me off.

 

I mix it up anyway, like I did in Dishonoured. And years earlier in MGS. The boss battles in Deus Ex felt normal as a result.

 

On 3/13/2013 at 12:29 PM, xWxzek said:

Blume, I can see that my decrease in recent post activity has weakened your perception of my sarcasm, which was a jab at the whining.

But beating Deus Ex 1 on Realistic still stands as my most rewarding game achievement ever. I have beaten the game once on all three difficulties and gotten all three endings each time, since each diverges mere minutes from the end with respect to the lengthy campaign.

Anyone who dismisses the first based on its dated graphics should go back to consoles, and only use their computers for porn and email. The atmosphere and consequences were ahead of their time. I want to replay it, but I think System Shock 2 deserves a play through first. Besides, being a PC game, DE1 has mods that update the graphics. The engine flaws are charming and can be exploited wonderfully.

Laputan machine!

 

I wasn't dismissing the game based on its visual fidelity, Wojo. I appreciate the original's greatness very much. I was just saying I personally can't go back to old 3D graphics (which date far worse than 2D sprites for etc). In fact video game 3D polygon design is the gaming equivalent of badly dated movie CGI. It's unbearable.

System Shock 2 (even with it's texture mods) looks like shit, too, and I wouldn't want to play that, either. Doom 1 & 2 were the dog's bollocks back in the day and I played the living shit out of them. But would I hell ever want to play those antique pixel-fests again.

[Wojo 2,458]

I replay Doom quite often. Speed runs impress the pics out of me.

[Quintus 6,499]

Well that explains why you never get around to playing the latest games. Doom speedruns.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

Blume, I can see that my decrease in recent post activity has weakened your perception of my sarcasm, which was a jab at the whining.

But beating Deus Ex 1 on Realistic still stands as my most rewarding game achievement ever. I have beaten the game once on all three difficulties and gotten all three endings each time, since each diverges mere minutes from the end with respect to the lengthy campaign.

Anyone who dismisses the first based on its dated graphics should go back to consoles, and only use their computers for porn and email. The atmosphere and consequences were ahead of their time. I want to replay it, but I think System Shock 2 deserves a play through first. Besides, being a PC game, DE1 has mods that update the graphics. The engine flaws are charming and can be exploited wonderfully.

Laputan machine!

Wojo, I recognized your facetiou---*EXPLODES*

[Wojo 2,458]

Blume, I read your response and I. I. I.

I spill my drink.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

What a shame.

[Wojo 2,458]

I wanted orange, but the evil machine gave me lemon lime.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

The machine would not make a mistake!

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

I fired up Quake 3 and Quake 3 Team Arena the other day.

My god, FPS controls and "feel" have gone backwards since then, because to this day it's the most fluid and responsive controls and game feel I have ever experienced.

[Quintus 6,499]

Borrowed Ni No Kuni off my cousin. First time I've ever played this sort of game before.

Oh, WOW...

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Saw you playing it. Thoughts?

I finished Spec Ops: The Line. I was more or less right about the ending and it was a satisfying single player experience with a good amount of challenge. I want to beat it on FUBAR difficulty and choose the opposite choices this time but I'm not sure if it'll hold up another playthrough.

I got God Of War: Ascension, and its rather boring after doing the same thing so many times in each game. I expected as much, but having bought all the others I simply had to get this one.

[Quintus 6,499]

Well it's early days of course, but first impressions have been an absolute delight! I like the way it takes everything really slow and thorough in the early stages of the game, because I need that here. My cousin who is a veteran of this RPG template said it dragged like hell for him, but that's understandable. The combat seems straight forward and more satisfying than I was expecting and the overall presentation is just beautiful. I just hope it remains as engaging throughout, because I tend to have Skyrim syndrome with big games.

[King Mark 3,975]

If you haven't played much JRPG's it's a good way to start because it has every convention of the genre tacked into it. It's superior graphics wise to any other but the combat is a bit of a letdown compared to some other titles. It's still fun if you get around the shortcomings though (like not using magic much)

There's level grinding involved at some point.

The game also tends to hold your hand way too much (Drippy's tutorials).

[Quintus 6,499]

I need to plough through the other half of Deus Ex first. I've started declining all side quests in an effort to get it done with so I can move onto Ni No Kuni.

One game at a time Lee!

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Apparently the next Xbox requires all games to be installed on the hard drive and that it cannot read the Blu-ray discs the games will be sold on.

The article also mentions required online connectivity, though I can't imagine a company shooting itself in the foot like that.

[Quintus 6,499]

Aye, there was a big fuss about that yesterday online when it broke. What you forgot to add though was that it's a year old document.

But if they haven't had a rethink since then then they've just signed their own death warrant in the console market and made my own purchasing decision even easier.

[Wojo 2,458]

That decision will turn consoles into non - upgradeable desktops without flexible operating system use. Enjoy.

[Quintus 6,499]

I doubt it'll happen, at least this time around. Both Sony and MS will want it, but they also know the stakes involved in such a movie. Plus MS already get their fair share of bad press lately and won't want any more, the worst they'd ever had no less.

[King Mark 3,975]

Well, I already install all games I play on the hard drive. The load times are smaller

It depends for me if the console requires you to be connected to the internet at all times. If so I'll only buy a PS4

[Quintus 6,499]

All that doesn't bother me in the least since I too always install everything and am constantly connected anyway. The assumption (read: hope) that by the time this does happen the server infrastructure will be in place to happily deal with every and all demand and under the most extreme conditions all of the time. Thankfully EA are currently being the twats doing the ground work in that area and so everyone else will obviously be taking notes, at the expense of hapless Sim City purchasers.

My only concern is the proposed inability to sell games or rent them.

[King Mark 3,975]

Even Sony said the Internet infrastructure wasn't up to par for "always online" consoles

Anyways I don't think there's any reasons for me to buy the 2 consoles next gen. Sony has more RPG exclusives and the only exclusives one on the xbox 360 date from before the PS3 was released.

I've basically decided to go with Ps4 already and ONLY buy an xbox if a significant amount of exclusive games plie up I want to play

[Jay 46,244]

Final Fantasy X and X-2 coming out in HD bundled together for modern platforms

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/03/20/final-fantasy-x-hd-coming-bundled-with-final-fantasy-x-2/

[King Mark 3,975]

Cool

[Jay 46,244]

That only leaves Final Fantasy 12 from the PS2 era that needs to be re-released in HD for modern system (Final Fantasy 11 was that online game that eventually came out on the XBox 360). I wonder if it will come out next year.

Then I hope they FINALLY begin re-doing the PS1 era Final Fantasy Games (7,8, and 9) and re-releasing them. It's been far too long!

(Final Fantasys 1-6 all have modern upgrades, though not in HD)

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Final Fantasy VII has been on the PSN for years.

[Jay 46,244]

I know, I said re-doing, IE, upgrading the grahics

[Red 75]

A VII remake has been rumored about for years. I've always thought that Square was secretly working on it but has never told anyone.

[Jay 46,244]

That would be great if true.

I think the epic fail of FF 14 had put a lot of other projects on hold because they basically had to redo it all

[King Mark 3,975]

Whew... I managed to return my unopened copy of Dragon's Dogma and get a store credit for the full price

A huge expansion is coming and they are including the full original game with it for 40$ (20$ less than the original game alone)

[A24 5,156]

So where is this OUYA console we've been talking about last year?

[Marian Schedenig 11,695]

Shipping to backers should start any day now (late March). So they should turning up in people's homes within a few weeks (possibly a bit later for me, considering international shipping and customs). Regular sales start in June I believe.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Yeah Amazon's date lists June.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

BioShock Infinite

This game was supposed to come out roughly 18 months ago. It was worth the wait. Feels so good to be back in this universe. I'm surprised this formula hasn't been copied more in the past years, Dishonored is the only one that comes to mind.

[King Mark 3,975]

I hated the first bioshock

[Red 75]

I hated the first bioshock

You're one of the few.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

BioShock is one of those games, as a series, where everything just melds perfectly to create a near-flawless adventure.

Just the intro for Infinite brought a rush of nostalgia in seeing that lighthouse again. The art direction, the music, the fluid gameplay, the voice acting and dialogue, it's all top notch work.

[Quintus 6,499]

I'll play it when I'm done with other stuff. I enjoyed both previous games, but wasn't utterly enamoured with them like others were. Bioshock had plenty of padding, as I remember it. Padding bugs me, and I was relieved when I finally got to the end, because I felt it had at that point overstayed its welcome.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I'm in a different boat in that I much preferred 2 to the original. I played BioShock after all my Xbox friends recommended it and loved it, and while I did like it very much, I found it to be a little overrated.

I thought 2 expanded upon everything that made it great and really loved that one. Infinite seems to take the core ingredients of the series and fuses it with massive spectacle that the other games only dreamed of. It's much more character-based this time around, with a stronger narrative, which is what I felt the first game lacked. I do miss hacking and carrying multiple weapons though. This one allows you two weapons max.

[Wojo 2,458]

There will be a PC mod before long to fix that. Weapon count shouldn't be restricted except by weight, which is even negotiable. IDKFA gosh darnit. I am not in any rush to buy this.

[Quintus 6,499]

Two weapons max is my preferred fps style. Strategic decisions on the fly and no time wasted fucking about with inventory.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I don't care how much you can carry, it's impossible to juggle a Fat Man and Minigun in Fallout if you got realistic about it

I would have at least liked the pistol to be a permanent sidearm, I had to dump it for a shotgun.

[Wojo 2,458]

Or sneak around with either in your inventory, or carry six armor cuirasses. So?

[King Mark 3,975]

Lord British (Richard Garriot) of Ultima fame is making a new RPG...Shroud of the Avatar

lots of early reports about it

http://www.rpgwatch.com/

[Wojo 2,458]

Cool!

[King Mark 3,975]

Looks like a PC only game though