Quote from: JongWK;832538Played a bit of Witcher 3 this week. Looking forward for more quality time with it after an exam tomorrow.

Holy crap, this is game is beautiful.

I'm so glad you think so.  I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year.  A lot of these games are amazing but people get mad if a tech demo doesn't represent the final tested product--some of those advanced effects might be too much for a console.

Like these guys put it, there's so much involved in making these games and people shouldn't be getting so upset.

http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-3-downgrade-controversy-sucks-1705882405

Quote from: JRT;832824I'm so glad you think so.  I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year.  A lot of these games are amazing but people get mad if a tech demo doesn't represent the final tested product--some of those advanced effects might be too much for a console.
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Yeah, it's just sad. The game is miles better looking than anything else, and people are still complaining.

This has been maybe my busiest week in PC gaming, like, ever.  I cleaned up on the Humble Store sale, snagging Sleeping Dogs and all DLC, Tomb Raider and all DLC, Poker Night 2, The Wolf Among Us, Walking Dead and the 400 Days DLC, and This War of Mine, all for $40 and some change.

Sadly, I had more budget and installation time than play time this week, but I did get ahead on a few projects and let myself game a little bit.  I've got a lot to look forward to, later this summer, when my schedule permits, though.

Whoa. I somehow forgot Tomb Raider was a thing. Just ordered a bunch off of Amazon.

Quote from: JRT;832824I'm so glad you think so.  I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year.

Whiny vocal minority drowns out satisfied silent majority. Shit sites then amplify and legitimize them for/through clickbait. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.

Just finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Director's Cut) on my WiiU.  I really struggled with the gunplay controls but luckily I could stealth my way though 90% of the game.  I enjoyed it and the tablet was great for the hacking parts.  I can't imagine doing that with just the controller.

With that done, I'll probably go back to Wind Waker until I can get a copy of Lego City Undercover.

On my PS4 I'm going to give The Evil Within a little loving every night.

Portable-wise, my 3DS is still a pretty dedicated Theatrhythm: Curtain Call device.  I just got Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus for my Vita.  Yeah, it's jiggly, but the gameplay is fun, the dialog is appropriate parts silly and entertaining and, well, there are only so many times I can play Persona 4 Golden before I need something different.

Quote from: JongWK;832905Yeah, it's just sad. The game is miles better looking than anything else, and people are still complaining.

And as a possible result CDProject won't discuss their next game for two damn years... I suppose I've survived two years of nothing so far so perhaps I'll remember Cyberpunk 2077 is a thing in 2017.

XCom 2 will soon (November) be a thing. In short, the Aliens won. In the intervening 20 years XCom was betrayed and shut down (I suspect) and now the aliens are the overlords, humans downtrodden and crushed between their three toed feet.

Step in the the resistance, and the fightback.

Humanity starts its battle to be free of the alien scourge

Really looking forward to this one...

I decided to play Pokemon White again so popped that in last night. I never get tired of the previous ones. What was supposed to be "I'm only going to play for an hour before I fall asleep" turned in to "What? I have to be up in 3 hours???"

Quote from: rgalex;833513With that done, I'll probably go back to Wind Waker until I can get a copy of Lego City Undercover.

My son had a blast with Lego City Undercover, and I thought it was pretty damn funny.  You should have a good time with it.

This weekend I finished episode 3 of Life is Strange, plus the Bioshock: Infinite "Burial at Sea" DLC.

Quote from: APN;834405XCom 2 will soon (November) be a thing. In short, the Aliens won. In the intervening 20 years XCom was betrayed and shut down (I suspect) and now the aliens are the overlords, humans downtrodden and crushed between their three toed feet.

Step in the the resistance, and the fightback.

Humanity starts its battle to be free of the alien scourge

Really looking forward to this one...

I'm torn.  I loved XCom: Enemy Unknown.  To me, it stripped away a bunch of the 90s style of overcomplexity which I used to really dig, but don't have any tolerance for anymore.  The resulting game was simply a blast to play.  I can lose myself for days playing that one.

Enemy Within was a different story.  I HATED those cloaking tentacle bullshit aliens, and not in the way I hated an impressive enemy.  They were just tedious bullshit.  As bad as they were, I hated the Exalted (?) almost as much if not more.  Overall, Enemy Within just rubbed me the wrong way and wasn't entertaining to me.

I'm worried 2 will go more the way of Enemy Within and less the way I enjoyed.  In the end, that's fine.  If that's what the fanbase of the franchise wants.  I can still play Enemy Unknown, so no biggie.  It's just that I would really like to continue with the franchise and have a new game to look forward to, and am afraid I probably won't metaphorically be invited.

Quote from: Gabriel2;835284I'm torn.  I loved XCom: Enemy Unknown.  To me, it stripped away a bunch of the 90s style of overcomplexity which I used to really dig, but don't have any tolerance for anymore.  The resulting game was simply a blast to play.  I can lose myself for days playing that one.

Enemy Within was a different story.  I HATED those cloaking tentacle bullshit aliens, and not in the way I hated an impressive enemy.  They were just tedious bullshit.  As bad as they were, I hated the Exalted (?) almost as much if not more.  Overall, Enemy Within just rubbed me the wrong way and wasn't entertaining to me.

I'm worried 2 will go more the way of Enemy Within and less the way I enjoyed.  In the end, that's fine.  If that's what the fanbase of the franchise wants.  I can still play Enemy Unknown, so no biggie.  It's just that I would really like to continue with the franchise and have a new game to look forward to, and am afraid I probably won't metaphorically be invited.

Goodness, that's some real hate on those tentacle guys (weren't they in both versions?). I admit, the tentacle guys shrunk the strategy for play down to one thing: stick together! You can't break up into two groups of three or something, because it's too easy for tentacle guys (can't recall the name either) to overwhelm a group of three marines and choke two out. The other aliens at least allow for other tactics.

I kinda wish the device that tells you enemy force's composition came earlier in the game, or, better yet, you got an inferior version of the device that would at least rule out a few enemies...that would open up possibilities for varying your tactics.

Still, I enjoyed XCom and the expansion plenty, and eagerly await the sequel.

I normally play mostly strategy games, but I'm on a first/third-person action/sandbox kick at the moment.  Steam had a sale on the Saints Row franchise a while back, so I finally tried out Saints Row IV.  Loved it, then grabbed Saints Row the Third.  Unfortunately, I decided against SR2 while the sale was ongoing, so it's on my wishlist for the next time the franchise is discounted.

After running through those, I finally got around to playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and it was good.

Then I moved on to Mount & Blade Warband about a week and a half ago and have been sucked completely into it.  I have a dozen henchmen, a wife, two castles, and about 300 men under my command, but haven't quite worked out yet how I want to go about setting myself up as an independent king or if I'd rather remain a vassal for this game and wait until next time to start my own kingdom.  Either way, I can definitely see the possibility that M&B could end up eating more of my time than the entire Elder Scrolls series has.

Quote from: Doom;835871Goodness, that's some real hate on those tentacle guys (weren't they in both versions?).

Nope, they were added in the expansion.

And I hates them too.  Regardless of the game, I'm not a fan of any kind of enemy that is absolutely, utterly, completely impossible to detect, no matter what you do.[1]  It smacks a bit too much of the devs playing "Gotcha!" when you can do everything right and it will still decloak right on top of you with nothing you can do about it except watch passively as your troops unleash a torrent of overwatch fire, then hope that it hits despite the accuracy penalties for overwatch - and also hope that they don't need overwatch for anything else that round.  If I'm going to get smacked down, get people killed, etc., I prefer to be involved in the process, so that I can at least look back on it and say "if only I'd done X instead of Y..."

That and they're a pain to clean up at the end of the mission.  If one of them is the last xeno on the map, you can't hunt it down, all you can do is group up and wait for it to attack someone - and then watch them get injured/killed when the overwatch barrage inevitably either misses completely or does 1 point less damage than is needed to kill it.

EXALT, on the other hand, didn't particularly bother me at all.  They were a nice change of pace, if maybe a little too easy at times.  My only real complaint about them is that I kept ending up with huge stacks of their gear in my loot storage, only worth $1 each, and no way to get rid of them other than selling them off one-by-one.


[1]  Yep, I'm aware of the bioelectric detection implants, but I'm pretty sure those don't become available until well after seekers start appearing, so there's still a substantial amount of time where you have to deal with a completely-undetectable-until-it-ganks-you foe.

Quote from: Doom;835871I kinda wish the device that tells you enemy force's composition came earlier in the game, or, better yet, you got an inferior version of the device that would at least rule out a few enemies...that would open up possibilities for varying your tactics.

Agreed.

I just finished my ongoing romance with Borderlands through the Handsome Collection. Right now I've wandered back into Destiny, with the expansions in it's a petty good time. Less of a monotonous grind more of a grind salad bar.