Noting your distaste for things =/= being offended by something Just noticed in a dozen different gaming threads recently that you’ve gone out of your way to say something sucks and I legitimately wanted to know why you consider yourself a gamer since it’s tough to peg what you actually do like.
How come? I thought the story was great, multiplayer was a bag of shit at the time, though. Not sure what it's like now. I did try picking single player back up a few weeks ago and couldn't get back into it after completing it previously, but first time round I thought it was awesome.
Long and boring with shitty gameplay mechanics and imo a mediocre story. Love Arthur Morgan and Sadie and Dutch as characters and thought it was nice to look at but it bored me to tears and the narrative didn’t do it for me.
because i play video games? isnt that the defining factor? i simply think most AAA games these days follow a really standard, unimaginative model. take ubisoft for example. far cry, watch dogs, ass creed... they are all the same game with a different coat of paint. everything take two does are solely microtransaction fueled experiences, that being said i still enjoy gta online and nba. souls-likes are great. everything platinum does is great. i enjoy the minecraft/stardew valley type things quite a lot. love destiny because it is by far the best gunplay and physics video games have to offer. i enjoy battle royales a bit. apex is great and the ubi one looks promising. overwatch is really fun. same for rocket league. everything obsidian does is great. same with larian. i dont love everything they do but capcom makes some really great shit. i'd kill for another mvc in the style of 3 because the last one was shit. many jrpgs are great but theyre so long i struggle to finish them. death stranding was really intriguing. i would probably enjoy that spiderman game a bit but the combat is too arkham for me much like the old ass creed games. as ive said before, gaming is a social experience for me. i vastly prefer multiplayer and co-op games. a game has to be truly special for me to get through even 15 hours of single player stuff simply because thats not why i play games. if i want to experience the story of a longer game with lesser gameplay, such as the witcher 3, i find a lets play and turn that on while i play something thats more *fun*. i praise many games on this board however those posts dont stand out because they blend in with all the other posts praising said games.
Good answer. I think a lot of us go the other way with multiplayer fatigue and just really like those grand narrative adventures. I’m with TrustyPatches on his stance on RDR2 to an extent. I loved getting to the end of it and there were great, memorable moments along the way but will I replay it? Probably never. There is way too much horseback traversal and the story is such a slow burn that I can hardly recall what has happened to get me to that point. I can’t imagine trying to watch a stream of it. But there’s something to be said about gameplay just keeping you engaged. Some games have a ton of traversal but it’s not the kind that you can just autopilot. Spidey and Death Stranding are 2 of my favorites because, as mundane as it may seem on a twitch stream, you’re having to absolutely work the controls to make that traversal happen.
i absolutely wish i could enjoy those grand narrative adventures properly. i think perhaps the last one that i made it through was HZD and i didnt do the last mission on that because i wanted to clean up and get the plat but something else released and distracted me or something, i cant remember. a lot of times new content in destiny will take me away from a game i was playing and i never get back to it. i loved death stranding. 50 hours in it through chapter 7 (i think). i just loved the rebuilding everything aspect of it. but the same thing happened there that happens in many games, i reach a point at which i have to do a specific thing to continue and that thing seems like a chore so i stop playing. i dont remember where i was, i think i had to go talk to a doctor then go see this sick person then go back to the doctor then go back to the sick person then go back to the doctor while carrying the sick person. so i was like "nah, i'm good".
I think multiplayer has ruined gaming. Companies figured out they could make more money pouring money into shitty reskins of the same game, making it multiplayer, and no one would notice. Thats why sports games are awful now, thats why single player games are so few and far between, strategy games are pretty much PC only at this point. Team RD2 was really fun and good.
The biggest sin of RDR2 was Rockstar creating the character of Micah and not only allowing him to share screen time with Arthur Fuckin Morgan but also letting him get over on such a magnificent character over and over and in the end. Fuck that, Arthur deserved a better antagonist
ubisoft single player games are all just reskins so its not limited to only multiplayer games. sports games and call of duty are the worst of the worst when it comes to that, which is problematic because i do very much enjoy sports games for the online franchise/dynasty/career modes and those modes have not gotten any love or support since the introduction of ultimate team like systems. still, i'll buy fifa everything 2-3 years and 2k yearly. gamesharing really makes me feel less shit about those purchases.
Truly no idea how you made it through chapter 3 then. That was half of the game and was a graveyard of fetch quests just to advance. I’m the same way on a bunch of those open world games. I parked it at Hyrule Castle in BOTW and never went in to beat Calamity Ganon. I wanted to do everything else first and then got sidetracked by something else. I’m on the final boss in Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight and haven’t gone back to fight them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve got HZD queued up for my next one because TheSkeeter preaches the good word about it. I got just outside the sacred land my first try and shelved it because we were moving and had a lot of shit going on.
I'd love a game that gave us full choice on how our character behaves. Because I would have smoked Micah very early on as it was clear he was a fucking snake. That said I still loved RDR2 and have played through it multiple times. What a lot of people hated it about it, I loved. But it wasn't perfect. There are many things I would have changed.
likely because thats when the game opens up after making you feel so brutally helpless for the first two chapters i like hzd quite a lot. the combat is very non-standard and so is their approach to being open world in that its a pretty linear game in a very well designed open world with limited side quests. plus lance reddick is in it.
This does not look visually pleasing. Feel it should be flush, not one side on the ground and the other side elevated.
Seems to be mostly good reviews for Ghost. Some negative ones out there but overall pretty high marks.
Skill Up is such a weird review to watch because he’ll tell you it’s the greatest game ever while absolutely railing on aspects of it. Kotaku thinks Ghost is shit but they’re a joke. IGN gives it a 9 but it’s review is the exact opposite of Skills... great story gameplay is tight but janky AI kinda hurts it.
I just don’t trust anyone. Him more than just about anyone else but sometimes he seems like he’s trying hard to be the outlier. His review of Days Gone was hilarious. Game reviews just suck so hard it’s hard to not be jaded and question everyone’s motives
My favorite part of the game video is the cartoonishly ridiculous amount of leaves that kick up when you walk
The first half hour or so of Ghost of Tsushima is fucking fuego. Japanese with English subtitles is the way
Do you find it distracting having the Japanese dub out of sync with characters’ mouths? And are there moments where you need to read subtitles while giving your full attention to the action?
Not really but I’m a veteran of foreign film. I just feel like it gives it a samurai film vibe that way and I dig it heavy
The opening was incredible. The visual aesthetic of this game is mesmerizing. I just did a part where I was in a forest at night and I was just in awe the whole time.
So you can actually blow into the DualSense controller. Keighley did a stream talking about spending a couple hours he spent playing Astrobot's Playroom with the controller, and one part had a pinwheel you had to spin, and he did it by blowing into the controller, not sure if it was the touchpad or another part at the bottom. Completely useless but I'm a hardware nerd so it was cool to see.