What is the last video game you played?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

[Koray Savas 2,251]

7 hours ago, Quintus said:

Played and finished Control. Remedy's fascination with Twin Peaks and Black Lodge type shit continues in this slightly overrated but still compelling action adventure. I played it to completion so I must have liked it; seldom does a single player campaign hold my attention all the way to the end these days. The metrovania-lite depths of The Oldest House are more fun to explore and traverse than the samey office decor would suggest - helped in no small degree by some of the cleanest and most authentic art design I've seen in a while. Good game, 7.5 out of 10.

I had some trouble finding my way around generally, but the combat and art direction are great. I need to go back and beat one final side boss that I could not defeat at the time. It drove me insane and I eventually gave up and moved on, but with the DLC now out I’ll try and return to it at some point. 

[Wojo 2,453]

23 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

a traditional Fallout game

 

You would not like to play a traditional Fallout game. You do, however, like Oblivion with guns. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

12 minutes ago, woj said:

You would not like to play a traditional Fallout game. You do, however, like Oblivion with guns. 

There are now more Fallout games in the western RPG style than the isometric first two, so I’d call that the traditional.

 

It’d be like saying GTA V is not a traditional Grand Theft Auto game cause the first two were top down. 

[Wojo 2,453]

So tradition is based on volume, not age. Okay. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Okay then. Bethesda has been developing Fallout games for 12 years versus 7 years for Interplay. 
 

Go play Wastelanders if you want more OG Fallout!

[Wojo 2,453]

I think I own that in one of the HumbleBundles I've picked up. I definitely own the entire Fallout franchise for PC. 

 

Except 4 and 76. Fuck those. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

4 is good. 76 has its problems but the formula is still there to keep it going for me.
 

You should check out The Outer Worlds if you liked New Vegas. 

[Wojo 2,453]

The Outer Worlds is on my list to get when it drops in price. I don't have time to play any games. 

[King Mark 3,631]

I'm kind of  burned out from Fallout after 4. Especially the drab wasteland setting  which hasn't been very different since Fallout 3

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I mean there are really only four contemporary Fallout games.

 

3, New Vegas, 4, and 76.

 

Drab wasteland is sorta the point, since y’know, it’s the apocalypse.

[King Mark 3,631]

yeah bit it's pretty much exactly the same gameplay on all those games

 

Anyways loving Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age. It's really open ended and you can explore a lot of the map early. It's  fun trying to beat those challenging areas and optional bosses  and finding secret stuff when your kind of under leveled .You really have to tweak the Gambit system .Looks really good on the PS4 too

[King Mark 3,631]

Battlefront 2 is free this month. might try it for the single player campaign

[Holko 9,519]

eh

[King Mark 3,631]

free on PS+ for June

[Quintus 5,399]

If you wanted to dabble in the predominantly multiplayer component, it's completely accessible against AI bots only, should you be curious. 

[King Mark 3,631]

ah .i see

[Quintus 5,399]

Just select Single Player, then Instant Action. You set your preferences on the next screen. 

[Wojo 2,453]

So two weeks ago, Epic Games gave away GTA V for free. Last week, it was Civ VI. This week, it's the Borderlands collection. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

20 hours ago, King Mark said:

Battlefront 2 is free this month. might try it for the single player campaign

It’s a pretty lackluster campaign. 
 

I played and finished Mafia II: Definitive Edition. Now I’m on to replaying Mafia III since I never played the DLC for it. 

[Holko 9,519]

I just replayed the first one a couple months before the announcement, now I'm scared for the remaster, wondering if it can live up to the atmosphere and direction of the original.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

6 hours ago, Holko said:

I just replayed the first one a couple months before the remaster announcement, now I'm scared for it, wondering if it can live up to the atmosphere and direction of it.

I never played the first, so I’m really excited for the remake. Big fan of the sequel from back in the day. I like III a lot but the open world drags the game down. The story beats and “boss” levels are fantastic, I wish It was a linear game. 

[Bilbo 3,709]

Finally got around to buying RDR2.

 

How big a download am I expecting when I pop the disc in for the first time?

[Jay 37,346]

Google tells me 89.2GB

[Bilbo 3,709]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

Google tells me 89.2GB

Cool, if it arrives Wednesday I might get to play it at the weekend. 

[Bilbo 3,709]

It arrived! 
 

 

I think G-Police was the last PlayStation game I owned that cane in two discs. 

[Bilbo 3,709]

‪90 GBs from 2 discs followed by another 17.3 GBs in updates!!!‬
 

 

The updates are the size of a bloody game! This thing must be huge!

[Edmilson 7,433]

Finished Bloodborne yesterday. I prefer the original Dark Souls trilogy for the gameplay, Bloodborne is pretty hard even for players that already played a From Software game before.

 

But about the narrative and the lore, this is my favorite by far. It's the greatest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation for any medium. 

 

So, if you like a challenging game with a haunting, sinister lore behind inspired by Lovecraft, you'd love this game.

 

 

Next: Sekiro.

[Faleel 5,346]

On 6/3/2020 at 4:14 PM, Bilbo said:

‪90 GBs from 2 discs followed by another 17.3 GBs in updates!!!‬
 

 

The updates are the size of a bloody game! This thing must be huge!

Still downloading?

[Bilbo 3,709]

8 hours ago, The River (Fal) said:

Still downloading?

No I’ve been playing since last Thursday. Love it. Great game. Very seamless between the main missions and just wandering around doing your own thing. 

[Quintus 5,399]

16 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Finished Bloodborne yesterday. I prefer the original Dark Souls trilogy for the gameplay, Bloodborne is pretty hard even for players that already played a From Software game before.

 

But about the narrative and the lore, this is my favorite by far. It's the greatest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation for any medium. 

 

It's nightmarishly brilliant isn't it. Such an atmospheric world to inhabit, but then so are all the From Software gaming universe.

 

I won't play the samurai game though. I think it'll be beyond my patience level (and probably my skill limit).

[King Mark 3,631]

I'm worried Sekiro  will be too hard because it revolves around parrying and I hate that mechanic in all action games. I was never able to parry a single enemy in all the Dark Souls series or Bloodborne. I was supposed to play it but national  library is closed because of covid

 

And  I prefer the high fantasy setting of Dark Souls than Victorian gothic Bloodborne. Dark Souls 2 is my favorite

 

About 100 hours into Final Fantasy XII and  I still have a lot of the story left

[Edmilson 7,433]

I've been playing Sekiro since three days ago. It's not exactly easy to master its combat mechanics, so it has to be played with a lot of patience. But it also has some elements of platforming, something I missed on the other From Software games.

[Quintus 5,399]

I don't think I'm too keen on the design of the PS5. It looks like an Alienware PC tower.

[Edmilson 7,433]

This is great! I loved the first Spidey game, and wasn't expecting a sequel so soon!

 

 

[King Mark 3,631]

3 hours ago, Quintus said:

I don't think I'm too keen on the design of the PS5. It looks like an Alienware PC tower.

  well, what annoys me is that it's vertical only and I can't put it on my TV stand

[Koray Savas 2,251]

2 hours ago, King Mark said:

  well, what annoys me is that it's vertical only and I can't put it on my TV stand

Neither of the two new consoles are vertical only. Sony has always advertised the PlayStation with a vertical stand since PS2.

4 hours ago, Edmilson said:

This is great! I loved the first Spidey game, and wasn't expecting a sequel so soon!

 

 

I don’t think this is a proper sequel. More like a companion expansion like Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Infamous: First Light. 

[Edmilson 7,433]

12 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

I don’t think this is a proper sequel. More like a companion expansion like Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Infamous: First Light. 

 

Yeah, you're probably right. Just two years is short time for them to produce and release an entire AAA game of that scale.

[Bilbo 3,709]

I liked the first Spider-Man game but I’ve no interest in any Spider-Man that isn’t Peter Parker. It’s something I hate about Marvel, they keep changing who is the hero. Jane Foster isn’t Thor and Steve Rodgers is Captain America. It’s silly and not for me. 
 

But I’ll get a PS5 at launch provided it isn’t more than €500.

 

and it is capable of being left horizontally. 
 

[Quintus 5,399]

[Faleel 5,346]

2 hours ago, Bilbo said:

I liked the first Spider-Man game but I’ve no interest in any Spider-Man that isn’t Peter Parker. It’s something I hate about Marvel, they keep changing who is the hero.

DC also does it with their characters (Batman, Flash etc.).

[Bilbo 3,709]

1 hour ago, The River (Fal) said:

DC also does it with their characters (Batman, Flash etc.).

And I don’t like them doing it either but I never really cared for DC really. 
 

Apparently isn’t only an add on to a PS5 remaster of the PS4 game and not a game in its own right. 

[Jay 37,346]

Hehe

 

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/6/11/21288541/playstation-5-ps5-sony-design-memes-roast-twitter-router-face-building

[Jay 37,346]

I'm out of the loop.  Why is Rockstar releasing a port of GTA5 for PS5 and XB4 in 2021 instead of having a GTA6?

 

Does it take more than 8 years to make one of these games now?

 

Or is it just a case of "well, people are continuing to buy GTA 5 every year, so why release GTA6 while GTA5 is still making money"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jay 37,346]

So, question for you JWFanners that have played The Last Of Us.  Are you excited for the sequel, or do you feel the original game told a complete story and they should have never made a sequel to it?  Answer without spoilers please.  Thank you

 

[King Mark 3,631]

I played Last of Us and thought it was a VERY overrated game

[Quintus 5,399]

One of the best games ever made, but some prick on Facebook spoiled a major plot point for me when the TLOU2 storyline leaked online about a month ago, so now I'm just going to wait for the sequel to be discounted before eventually picking it up.

[Bilbo 3,709]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

So, question for you JWFanners that have played The Last Of Us.  Are you excited for the sequel, or do you feel the original game told a complete story and they should have never made a sequel to it?  Answer without spoilers please.  Thank you

 

It’s one of the greatest pieces of media I’ve ever consumed but I’m a bit iffy on some of the spoiled story directions from the sequel so I think I might hang on for a bit and see what general players make of it.

Fuck it, the reviews are too positive, pre-ordered. 

[mstrox 6,651]

I don't have a system that will play it at this point, but if there comes a time that I do, it'll be the first game I buy.  Loved the first, much more than its companion Uncharted games.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

6 hours ago, Jay said:

I'm out of the loop.  Why is Rockstar releasing a port of GTA5 for PS5 and XB4 in 2021 instead of having a GTA6?

 

Does it take more than 8 years to make one of these games now?

 

Or is it just a case of "well, people are continuing to buy GTA 5 every year, so why release GTA6 while GTA5 is still making money"?

 

All of the above, honestly. Rockstar has a huge reputation to uphold, and Red Dead Redemption 2 did take 8 years to develop. I imagine GTA VI is inbound and has the pressure of following up the most successful entertainment entity of all time on its shoulders. They’re going to take their time with it to get it right. Plus GTA V is consistently in the Top 10 games of the month every month with its immensely successful GTA Online. 

 

 

5 hours ago, Jay said:

So, question for you JWFanners that have played The Last Of Us.  Are you excited for the sequel, or do you feel the original game told a complete story and they should have never made a sequel to it?  Answer without spoilers please.  Thank you

I am incredibly excited for the sequel, but The Last Of Us did tell a complete story. Naughty Dog is incredibly talented at creating standalone narratives that can be expanded upon with later entries. Their world building is fantastic, so I’m excited to get back in to that with its somber tone and style.