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To each is own of course, but GOW isn't just "good".

I absolutely loved it.  I had started a new game +, but I may start that over with this performance boost.

Good riddance.

2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Is this game worth buying cheap? Also can you customize your player character are are you stuck with generic MMA bro?

Character is totally customizable.  And with them adding AI teammates in, the game should be a lot better starting a new game.

It had some rough spots, but I didn't mind Breakpoint at all and I'm glad that they're continued to add to it and fix the shit that people didn't like.

ME Andromeda for sure.  It doesn't have the magic of the trilogy which kept me playing those over and over again, but it was very solid. 

AC Unity also is easily one of the better Assassin's Creed games. If you play it all patched up, it's very good and has none of the issues that plagued its launch. 

On 5/26/2020 at 11:05 AM, AbsolutSurgen said:

@TwinIon I agree with most of your points.

 

In terms of gear, I found that some of the bonuses for using armour sets were significant enough to warrant upgrading the armour.  I tended to upgrade armour ~every 5 levels or so.  While it was expensive to do so, I also found in the later part of the game I had a ton of money/resources anyways.

 

I suggest you play the Fates of Atlantis DLC -- IMHO it was by far the best part of the game.

The second DLC really was amazing and offered a really decent amount of content compared to DLC for other games.

I also agree, the game isn't perfection or anything, but damn do I like it.  Outside of playing AC II for the first time and seeing those improvements or Black Flag, this one was my most played.  I really had a great time with it.

Took me about 3 hours.

Bottom line.  It looks great and it's fun to play.  It fell apart in the loot and the long game of a service type game model.

Going through the story and exploring the world a bit will net you a couple dozen hours or so which would easily be worth what it's priced now.

They absolutely nailed the flying suit mechanic and the world looks great.

If you like the NFS style, then Heat is a pretty decent option.  I haven't played it in quite a while, but enjoyed the time I had with it.

It has a lot of boxes checked off.  Customization, cops, street racing at night, official racing during the day, looks good.

If you're a racing fan and it's cheap, I don't think you'd be disappointed.

18 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Andromeda wasn't a bad game.  It just wasn't a great one.

I enjoyed my time with it, but recognize how it was flawed in many ways.

Exactly right.  I did a full play through of over a 100 hours and enjoyed my time with it.  It's a shame that they spent such a large amount of their 5 year development cycle going down paths and ideas that didn't work out.  It's also amazing that they put together the bulk of that game in around 18 months.

Also very unfortunate, as that was where the face problem came from with not having the time to bump the quality up after their automatic tools synchronized the animations to the voices.  This was still a MASSIVELY overstated issued, but still an issue nonetheless.

But yes, I wouldn't call it a great game as I've really struggled to get a second play through in to completion.  Very out of the norm for me for a Mass Effect game.

This looks pretty good.  It's been quite a while since I've played something like this.
 

If this has a good story and RPG stuff, all the better.

On 5/7/2020 at 1:45 AM, gamer.tv said:

I feel a bit conflicted with this as I really enjoyed the whole series (including three) but I very much enjoyed them when they were released. With the changes in open world gaming, cover shooting, squad mechanics etc...will the games actually feel worth playing except for that warm, nostalgia feeling that comes from replaying something for the first time in years. 

I'm about as big a ME nut as you can get.  I've played each one multiple dozens of times over the years, including on backwards compatibility on X-box One where the load times are awesome.

This trilogy was not developed in a straight line as it were.  They swung too much in each direction with each release in response to feedback.  From too much RPG and useless junk in ME1 to a VERY streamlined but more character focused ME2 to a really nice balance in ME3.

Each game is very different from each other that it ends up shaking out as a positive for me.  I play ME1 and it brings me back but by the time I'm near the end I'm starving to play ME2 as it's quite different.  The same thing happens from ME2 to ME3.  By the time I'm finished with ME3, I almost want to start ME1 over again.

At this point, these feeling have diminished quite a bit as I've played these too many times for any human being.  That being said, it's been quite a while so if they came out with this, I'd be a sucker an get it day 1. :P

4 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I heard some people in the press say that.  I played it last spring, and I never found I was grinding XP.  In fact, I stopped doing the procedural side quests about 1/3 through the game, because I found I didn't need the XP from them.  I guess if you were strictly mainlining the game, it may have felt grindy though.

This.  I liked the fact that the procedural quests were in there, but I dropped those fairly quickly.

If you did the main quests only, you might have run into a wall.  IMO, most of the side quests (gold outline) or the tales of Greece had enough story meat on them to make them entertaining enough to do.  You do those and the main quests, it's pretty natural.

I also agree that microtransactions were done very well in Odyssey. 

2 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

With the announcement of Assassin's Creed Valhalla -- I thought I would see what people's opinions are.  My personal ranking (I haven't played Rogue, so I excluded it from my list).

AC: Odyssey

ACIV: Black Flag

AC: Brotherhood

AC: Syndicate

AC2

AC: Origins

AC3

AC: Revelations

AC

AC: Unity

I think this is a pretty spot on list.  It feels weird to put Origins that far down, but that might be where it shakes out.  Maybe I'd switch Origins with Syndicate.

I wouldn't put Unity last though.  it gets a lot of shit, but all patched up, it's actually very good.  It had a horrendous technical launch though.

40 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

What about  Detroit?

 

 

Also, Beyond Two Souls with Ellen Page was very good.

I haven't noticed too much with the matchmaking.  Not too many blowouts, but a few.

Also, tried hardcore last night with some pretty good success. The tension was higher and I was definitely on my toes more.  The normal mode is nowhere near hardcore and hardcore feels like hardcore.

The best thing they did for this mode was get rid of those ridiculous cycle respawns.  It would be a 15 second timer and when you died, you might respawn in 4 seconds or 14.  Hated that shit.  Now it's just the same as the normal mode with instant respawns.

2 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

In MW, MW2, and BLOPS2 I always played Hardcore mode. That TTK I’m seeing is right in line for that mode. 

I don't know if I'd agree with that.  I've played a whole lot of hardcore over the years and this COD's regular mode is not that.  Quite honestly, I haven't noticed anything that was glaringly different from past COD's with regards to TTK.  I get that some adjustments can certainly be made and they need to work on the spawns because sometimes, holy fuck.

Then again, I'm not a person that's rocking some 3.0 KD like it's no big thing and I don't know if some people's expectations are up that high or not.  I've always wanted to be over 1 and I'd be happy and feel like I was having fun. I'm a little below that right now after a pretty solid weekend of playing.  The TTK, which I'm sure they could tweak, isn't grossly out of line from past games as far as I can tell. I've had numerous times where I've hit guys 2 or 3 times and haven't killed them.  That's happened to me in regular mode of COD for years.

23 hours ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

 

It's a non-issue.

 

Let me elaborate; It's a non-issue if you just play the game. If you go into this game with a goal of getting to gear score whatever as quickly as possible, of course it's going to feel like a grind. I've just been playing the game at my own pace and everything's falling into place as it should. I haven't felt locked out of anything (even though the raid is unlocked at gear score 150, you'll get there easily by playing the story and side missions. It's really intended to be endgame stuff anyway.)

 

There's no reason to spend any money on the microtransactions unless you absolutely must have that tattoo/backpack/t-shirt. 

I bit. And yeah, that's the plan, just to play and enjoy the game. 

I'd like to pull the trigger on this game. My most pressing question would be the progression and leveling in the game. Everyone lost their shit with the amount of microtransactions in this title. This is a non issue if they haven't fucked with the progression Battlefront style. 

So, everything good in this regard? 

59 minutes ago, Bacon said:

Wait, like in 10 days the 25? 

Oh, yeah!

It looks like a lot of great changes are coming to this.  Especially with the re calibration station.

I'm still in the Destiny 2 grind, but I'll be checking this out.

18 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

 

Anyone who doesn't like TLJ for plot reasons but likes Rogue One must have been sleepwalking through that movie.  Remember when the blind samurai and his buddy go along on a suicide mission with total strangers they know nothing about and everyone is just kind of cool with that?  Air tight plotting right there.  Let's not forget that they end the movie in a way where the start of A New Hope makes zero sense at all.

 

"Yeah, this is a diplomatic mission bruh"

 

"Bitch I just watched you take off five minutes ago.  I was behind you the whole time."

You're confusing really enjoying the movie to equating it to being cinematic perfection.

If that's all you have that's going to ruin a Star Wars movie for you then maybe you shouldn't watch them.

I love the fuck out of Star Wars, but let's be honest, there hasn't been a single one of these movies that's reached any kind of high level cinematic status.

But Star Wars is fucking cool as shit and there are great parts to every single movie that they've ever released.  Fact.

6 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

At least Rogue One was good.

Rogue One was amazing. 

Playing on PS4 peasant and loving it. If you didn't like Borderlands before now, this isn't going to change your mind. 

Lots of little quality of life changes though. 

I've played Sirens in every game so that's what it'll be this time.  Starting it up now. 

30 minutes ago, Captain Pickle said:

lol America 

 

how the fuck u exchange insurance info by not leaving car.  Can u guys do anything normal or is every daily situation require modification due to the likelihood of getting shot?  

lol. That's just what I was thinking.

Starting an argument, especially in the US, is probably not a good idea.