What is the last video game you played?

[Quintus 5,399]

Yes. Plus bingo. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

My friend boosted me up to Level 18 in The Division by doing a few missions at his Level 30 level. The game is unplayable with matchmaking.

[Quintus 5,399]

? You're doing something wrong; I've played every mission so far on Hard using matchmaking with zero issues. It's one of the most robust matchmaking systems I've ever known. 

 

Never understood why some people like to be boosted or accelerated through levels. I like to actually enjoy the content I've paid for. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Most of the time it doesn't work for me and when it does I only get matched with 1 person that can't play for shit. Spent an hour trying to do one mission and had to give up because I couldn't deal with the repeated deaths. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Don't knock Bingo! On a good day it can be very exiting.

[Sweeping Strings 2,353]

On 20/03/2016 at 2:06 PM, Quintus said:

 

No, I do not agree with the amusing but staunchly single minded ignorance of Emily Dean on the Frank Skinner breakfast show, who has otherwise expressed a keen interest in handbags and celebrity chinwagging. 

Ah, a fellow listener! Great show, it manages to be very funny even within what one would imagine are fairly stringent broadcasting restrictions between the hours of 8 - 11 am on a Saturday morning.

I listen while sipping coffee and tackling the Radio Times puzzle pages, which I s'pose is fairly middle-aged. But I'm still in my PJs while doing so, which kinda isn't. 

Yay for balance! 
 

[Quintus 5,399]

Yeah it's frequently laugh out loud funny that show, I love it. And to be fair to Emily she's generally a good egg and a good listen. Alun Cochrane though I find to be completely unfunny dead wood. 

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Recently picked up Halo 1: Anniversary for the 360.  I'm finding myself vastly preferring the old graphics to more polished and (IMO) generic remastered version.

[Quintus 5,399]

Yeah they really went overboard on that one, completely undermining the original's tone in some missions. 

[King Mark 3,631]

I finished Kingdom Hearts 2.5

 

Now there's another game on the disk....Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

 

 

[Jay 37,346]

David Hayter says Konami had tried to push him out before Metal Gear Solid 5

[Koray Savas 2,251]

That's not really trying to push out but rather trying to get the actor that inspired the character. 

[Sweeping Strings 2,353]

Picked up a pre-owned copy of GTA 5. Lots of not-exactly-legal activities ahead!  

[Red 75]

13 hours ago, Jay said:

David Hayter says Konami had tried to push him out before Metal Gear Solid 5

 

I've never seen a company torpedo its reputation as fast and efficiently as Konami has.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Overwatch looks great!  (which means that it'll probably be terribly disappointing somehow)  

[Jay 37,346]

Final Fantasy XV launches on September 30, new demo available

 

 

Also, there's an anime prequel coming voiced by Sean Bean, Lena Headey, and Aaron Paul:

 

 

 

[Jay 37,346]

Uncharted 4’s ending will cause arguments, according to Creative Director

[Jay 37,346]

Resident Evil 2 Remake Will Recapture the Spirit of Original Game and not be like Resident Evil 6

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Great!

[Jay 37,346]

16 minutes of Uncharted 4 gameplay:

 

 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Let me know how you like Dark Souls 3, @king mark

[King Mark 3,631]

I bought Dark Souls 3

[Cantus Venti 13]

Games where I don't do what the game wants, I do what I want.

 

Favorite releases of the past 10 years:

1. Minecraft

2. Heavy Rain

3. Fallout 3

4. Dark Souls

[Quintus 5,399]

This is one of the best trailers I've seen:

 

 

The Steam community have been "Overwhelmingly Positive" about it, and this user review did make me chuckle:

 

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197975486363/recommended/427520/

 

[Jay 37,346]

Arkham Asylum and Arkham City HD upgrades coming to PS4 and XBone

 

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/19/batman-arkham-hd-collection-revealed/

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

Speaking of those games (probably veeeeeeeery old news..but since i seem to live under a rock regarding new games....) since 'Games for Windows Live' was closed, anyone which had a physical disc G4WL version (and maybe digital also) of Arkham Asylum and Arkhan city can enter the keycodes in steam and activate the games there. (Asylum may need you to contact WBgamesupport and ask them for a new code - giving them proof of the purchase. They gave me one in a few minutes...I had read it took days for them to answer...).

 

They give you the 'game of the year edition' even if you had the regular version which is very nice.

 

Just in case someone (like me) has the DVD in a box out there and wants to replay the game in a few years in the future and discovers that it cannot be played...

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

4 hours ago, Jay said:

Arkham Asylum and Arkham City HD upgrades coming to PS4 and XBone

 

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/19/batman-arkham-hd-collection-revealed/

Cool!  When it comes to HD remasters, the more the merrier I say.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Don't know why they don't include Arkham Knight at this point.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting the BioShock collection that's been rumored for a long time. 

[Red 75]

12 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

Don't know why they don't include Arkham Knight at this point.

 

Because it's already in HD. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

So are PS3 games. 

[Wojo 2,453]

10 hours ago, Luke Skywalker said:

Speaking of those games (probably veeeeeeeery old news..but since i seem to live under a rock regarding new games....) since 'Games for Windows Live' was closed, anyone which had a physical disc G4WL version (and maybe digital also) of Arkham Asylum and Arkhan city can enter the keycodes in steam and activate the games there. (Asylum may need you to contact WBgamesupport and ask them for a new code - giving them proof of the purchase. They gave me one in a few minutes...I had read it took days for them to answer...).

 

They give you the 'game of the year edition' even if you had the regular version which is very nice.

 

Just in case someone (like me) has the DVD in a box out there and wants to replay the game in a few years in the future and discovers that it cannot be played...

 

I tried to enter my code from Arkham Asylum non goty DVD into Steam years ago and it did not work. It was a gift so I didn't feel very upset buying it again in a Humble Bundle to get a working Steam GOTY version. 

[Jay 37,346]

9 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

Don't know why they don't include Arkham Knight at this point.

 

Because its already available for the PS4 and XBone?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Yes but it's nearly a year old and heavily discounted. Bundle it in to make a complete Rocksteady Batman trilogy package. 

[Quintus 5,399]

My order of preference for this series would be:

 

1. Asylum 

2. City

3. Origins 

4. Knight 

 

It's a brilliant series. 

[Jay 37,346]

5 minutes ago, Quintus said:

My order of preference for this series would be:

 

1. Asylum 

2. City

3. Origins 

4. Knight 

 

It's a brilliant series. 

 

So the same order they came out?  Essentially you're saying they get worse and worse every time?

[Quintus 5,399]

I suppose that's one way of looking at it. I'd say the real "decline" though was after the second game. To me Arkham City was a great and suitable sequel. The others after were still very enjoyable, but they weren't quite as focused as those first two. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

It's important to note that Origins wasn't made by Rocksteady, the likely reason why it isn't being ported over to current gen.

 

I've only played part of Aslyum and all of Knight and greatly enjoyed the latter. 

[Wojo 2,453]

I stopped with City. 

[Jay 37,346]

Final Uncharted 4 trailer

 

 

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

I just started playing Fallout 4.  I still don't see what people are complaining about with the graphics.  It may not have the ultra-detail of games like Witcher 3 but it strikes me as looking far "cleaner".  Far less aliasing and things of that nature.  It reminds me a lot of the similarly appealing look of Bioshock Infinite.  

But then again, I've only played an hour or so.

[Quintus 5,399]

I thought it looked nice, too. Still need to set time aside for that game, though. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I've already done most of the base game stuff, waiting for the big expansion before I dive back in.

 

The past few months I've been jumping around a bit instead of focusing on a game at a time. I attempted to tackle Mad Max, played it for a few hours and generally enjoyed what was there, but The Division came along and sidetracked me. I essentially did all of the open world stuff, but the lack of any friends has prevented me from getting into the post-game loop. I imagine the Dark Zone is really fun with a full group. I tried to brave it on my own and got destroyed every time.

 

After that, I finished up Minecraft: Story Mode and played through The Witness. The latter is way too obtuse for my liking. Absolutely zero hand holding, which I'm sure is a big plus for some, but it's sort of frustrating to solve puzzles if you don't understand the rules of them. After a certain point I just went to look up answers and there's stuff in that game I would have never figured out on my own. As a whole it's really interesting, particularly from a development standpoint, but the content isn't enough to make a lasting impression, in my opinion. I watched a 90 minute let's play with Jonathan Blow, and getting that insight into the thought processes behind making this game was pretty cool.

 

More recently, I played through the PS4 port of Heavy Rain. I loved it at the time in 2010, but going back shows that it didn't age very well. Still an important and influential title, but one that is best remembered and not replayed.

 

Then I played The Walking Dead: Michonne, which was a nicely brief Telltale "miniseries." They really nailed the presentation on this, I think, despite the usual engine hiccups.

 

Now I've been switching between Black Ops III, Alienation, and a couple Vita games. Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare's trailer has been released:

 

They've gone full blown sci-fi, which I'm not entirely against, but with the inclusion of COD4 Remastered, I honestly will mostly likely be playing that more.

 

[Quintus 5,399]

Is it an alien invasion? It should be! Might have made me interested. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

It appears to be some type of space invasion. There were aliens in Ghosts so it wouldn't be a first. 

[Red 75]

I really hope they release COD4 standalone. I've fallen out with the series for several years now but I'd love to play that again. Great game

[Koray Savas 2,251]

They aren't, it's only available at the $80 level or up.

 

Only 10 maps are being brought back as well. Which just seems odd to me. There were 16 in the original game plus 4 with the add-on. I feel like they're gonna try to sell them later on. I mean, the assets are already there, how hard could it be to remaster 6-10 more maps? Particularly since Raven is doing the remastering solo, so it's not like Infinity Ward has to work on it in addition to Infinite Warfare. 

[Quintus 5,399]

Not that you won't be a consumer about it or anything like that though, right? 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Oh of course I'm buying it. $80 is a fair price for both games. What irks me, though, are the countless people bitching and whining about it being a bundle exclusive and that the game is Sci-Fi, saying that the series has been trash for years. Well vote with your wallet then because either that is a massively vocal minority or they're all liars and buy the games regardless.

[Quintus 5,399]

The matchmaking pool will be relatively very small, so good luck with the lag. It'd be wiser to wait for the standalone. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I honestly think the COD4 servers will be busier than Infinite Warfare's. I mean, anyone can play any of the older titles on PS3 and still find games. I actually played COD4 not too long ago and had no issues matchmaking.