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I said it was sub-par. Which was probably still the wrong word to use. The game, at least early on, does nothing to stand out from the hordes of FPS games that are out there. While perhaps not in the same genre there are a good chunk of games that take the FPS genre to interesting heights, this game isn’t one of them.

If you like Platinum what about Nier Automata? For hand to hand combat I might suggest Absolver or Aragami. Can't really recommend it, but Dead Island maybe? Other random games: Shadow or Mordor series, Mirrors Edge series, Darksider series, Dragonball Xenoverse, Quantum Break, Ryse: Son of Rome

Its good to hear that it opens up a bit. I'm really not far at all, I don't even know what the last "main" quest I did was. I just kind of pick up different quests as I go and roll with it.

Nah I'm on PC. I don't literally mean as bad as ME1, just that it parallels to the same situation. Where its just a sub par experience compared to what else is out there. I guess its not really fair to compare it to like an Arena shooter or something. It would probably be best to compare it to something like Fallout maybe? Destiny to me has some of the best gun play in a video game period and Cyberpunk isn't even the same ballpark. Even like the running animation has this just weird jank off-step to it. I'm just waiting for something to hook me. I hated Witcher 3 until I got to the bloody baron quest line (even though its only like an hour in), but I still wasn't huge on the combat after that. The story carried me into wanting to play more. 2077 just doesn't have anything yet, I keep chugging through in 30-1h sessions and just can't get into the groove.

Honestly this game reminds me a lot of Mass Effect 1 in a couple ways. One is its graphical options like with the grain, but the other is that the gun play is just not fun. Maybe its that I'm not far enough or not spec'ing into the right abilities, but 3 hours and I'm wondering if this will be like Mass Effect where the gun play is just never going to be good. I just have to appreciate the story that hasn't really evolved into anything yet?

I enjoyed my time with Hades, but roguelike has to be one of my least favorite genres. I didn't even come close to getting out.

I love Supergiant as a company. I just wish I liked their games more. The mood set by each game is always on point and their soundtracks are a treat. Outside of Bastion though I have a hard time even finishing any of the games. I've picked up Transistor so many times only to put it down a couple hours later.

Beyerdynamic DT990 and Samson Meteor Mic. Mic works with my consoles, a little annoying when I need to swap it between consoles, but my console gaming has dipped significantly. Headset is great.

Its also stupid easy to get to 1200. Do the story, run a couple strikes, run a lost sector over and over, or just play crucible.

Did you download the small update? Its 97mb. I had a friend not get in because he didn't update

As much as I love ME trilogy, Morrowind is probably my favorite. Fallout is my least.

When I was younger and had a much more limited amount of games to play I found myself replaying games often. Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy 7 and 9, Pokemon, Morrowind, Diablo, etc. As I've gotten older and have access to way more games its harder to go back and play them. I'll seldom go back and play favorites, but it does happen from time to time. I just recently played Dead Space and have noticed I usually do it when I'm waiting for something to come out or just have an itch for those games.

I've already purchases these, but WoW: Shadowlands Destiny: Beyond Light Cyberpunk 2077

If you've never played FEAR I highly recommend it just for the Penetrator. Same concept, a lot more enemies to slam into the wall.

Having finished up the first game about a week ago I agree. I really think the first game could use a good mod or "remaster". Its textures are really dated. I'd still have to give it to DS1. It just really nails the presentation and atmosphere. Isolated, persistent fog around the ship/lack of sight, sound cues, etc. It can get a little predictable with enemies later on, but I don't think its really a huge deal breaker. I like the fact that DS2 goes into Isaac's psyche, dementia, and hallucinations, but I just don't think Titan Station is anywhere near as good as the Ishimura. The areas are more varied, but it loses its claustrophobia often and is rarely scary. I guess another issue (if you can call it that) is that the Plasma cutter is probably the best gun in DS1. The only reason I even took the Pulse Rifle with me is for situations when I didn't have time to reload or I would run low on ammo. DS2 has some outright OP weapons though. Force Gun and Contact Beam together can obliterate pretty much any situation. If I had to recommend anything in DS2 its that you don't touch any of the DLC weapons until you unlock them in game. Its been awhile since I've played DS3, but it brings a lot of the same issues I have with 2, but even more. Gameplay in general feels more actiony and while it has some really beautiful set pieces, they rarely evoke a feeling of horror. The maps feel even larger is scope than 2. Does it have scary moments, sure. If I had to rank the genres by what is most prevalent it would be something like DS1 is a horror sci-fi shooter, DS2 is a sci-fi horror shooter, and DS3 is a Sci-fi shooter with some horror. I don't hate DS3, it just distanced itself further from what I enjoyed about the series than I would have liked. I don't remember much about reading Martyr, but I do remember enjoying it. Have you read any of the books and are they worth reading?

Dead Space. I wanted to play something spoopy and I've never actually beaten Dead Space. My friend and I would always play games simultaneously as he would come over to my house and we swap between the PC/Xbox. He ended up beating before I did and I watched him, so I never went and finished it. This happened with a lot of games I should go re-finish like Red Dead

Bring me the horizons new EP is produced by Mick Gordon. If you’re into that kind of thing. The song with BabyMetal is pretty good

That seems so weird to me, but I guess it makes sense. I know a lot of people move to ESDF or RDFG so that they have more keys available to them. I've noticed that pushing mouse buttons moves my cursor ever so slightly so I avoid using them for buttons I would need to use while ADSing or something like that. Although that might just be a me thing.

Fine I'll buy it gosh!

Hawkmoon is coming back?

I hope not. I didn’t even touch that game after playing the demo. Hoped it would get better on release and then saw the reviews

God of War - I've started and stopped this so many times Jedi Fallen Order - Played a couple hours at most Kingdom Hearts 3 - I'm super close to the end. The series just doesn't hold the same charm it use to as a kid/teen. Shadow of the Colossus - I'm near halfway FFXV - Once I heard there was going to be a ton of story DLC after I immediately put the game down. Its been on the backburner ever since. Witcher 3 - Just too big to handle. Alien Isolation That's all I can think of off the top of my head

Cool. The argument wasn't which has more depth. I was saying the FFXIV isn't doing anything drastically different than WoW. You have a few more buttons to push and WoW doesn't boil down push buttons until big attack is ready.

Frost DK's have been openly mocked for how simple it is since WotLK. Though for the most part Unholy has output more DPS in most expansions. I haven't played Hunter since Vanilla - WotLK, Never gotten past just leveling a Warrior/Rogue so I can't say much about them. Havoc Demon Hunter has one rotation, regardless of situation this is it. It has a total of 7 buttons. Immolation Aura > Fel Rush > Eye Beam > Death Sweep > Metamorphosis > Death Sweep > Eye Beam > Metamorphosis > Immolation Aura > Eye Beam > Chaos Strike/Annihilation > Demon's Bite Frost Mage has 2 basic rotations, one for multi-target and one for single target. Together it still only totals about 12 abilities, but everything depends on whats proc'd, what debuff is on the target(s) and how you choose to use your cooldowns. It massively affects how much DPS you're doing. I'll admit I haven't played end game FFXIV or even really gotten that far, I think I'm level 40 on a DPS class and 20 on a healer. But Dragoon is what I wanted to play so I went searching for its rotation and for the most part its True Thrust > Disembowel > Chaos Thrust > Wheeling Thrust > Fang and Claw > True Thrust (Raiden) > Vorpal Thrust > Full Thrust > Fang and Claw > Wheeling Thrust. That doesn't seem massively different than whats going on in WoW.

I mean yes, but no. Sure some of the brain dead classes like Havoc Demon Hunter are just a basic rotation in every situation, but when you get into some of the more complicated classes it very much becomes situational and you're rotation can change constantly given the dungeon/raid. I honestly didn't feel FFXIV was anything to write home about combat wise. Tera is something I wish had gotten more attention or at least its combat because that game was downright fun to play. I actually felt like my character was doing something other than stand in one place and push buttons.