Similar setting, new story.
Gaming The RedCafe General/Random Gaming Chat Thread
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Honestly man. Just start and end it there. Ezio was AC in its prime. Black flag is actually good but its not a real AC, just a pirate who happens to fall into being an assassin accidentally. Then the rest became so dull and pointless. Odyssey is actually solid too. But after Ezio they sorta ditched the main theme of AC and then just winged it after that.
Hated Black Flag after a few hours. The most repetitive game ever. There are essentially a couple of missions repeated 20 times.
23 tailing missions....I counted. It was so shitty to have that many. But the story got better as the game went on. Along with the ship battles. It was OK.
I gave up near the end of the game when I had to do another tailing mission after doing 15 of them or so. But I guess if you have to make at least 3 different versions of the same game 10 years in a row, you just change the skin and keep everything the same.
I think it might be the last Ubisoft game I ever played. For all the shit EA gets, Ubisoft is 100 times worse.
Yeah that’s true. At least EA DO change it up sometimes. You’ve literally missed nothing with AC. Though I will say. Odyssey is a pretty solid game if you ignore it being tied to AC. Cassandra is one of the best main characters since Ezio. Also choosing between Spartans vs Greeks was fun. Actual battlefield fights. The map is fecking huge though with overwhelming amount of side quest and collectibles. So much fecking grinding. But I enjoyed the story and characters.
I'm somewhat miffed nobody has responded to my post about The Talos Principle 2 yet.
Did you guys not play the first one? It's one of those rare instances of a game with a genuinely thought-provoking story, similar to the likes of Soma, The Witness and Nier Automata.
Did you guys not play the first one? It's one of those rare instances of a game with a genuinely thought-provoking story, similar to the likes of Soma, The Witness and Nier Automata.
It's a back to roots game.
Tailing missions in games should be banned. Horrible activity and never fun.
They are 'stealth gone wrong'.
Be miffed ye not dude! I love Talos Principle and was dead excited to see the trailer for TTP2.
It looks awesome.
Edit: wasn’t sold on the Witness even though my son raves about it. May give that one another pop.
What is the most overrated game
I was going to tag you but couldn't remember if we've talked about it before! At least that's two of us with good taste
GTA San Andreas hands down
AEW wrestling game looks like the N64 No Mercy. I'm in.
I played the first and enjoyed it somewhat but remember nothing about it.
Is this real or just fantasy ?
Amazing for the 6 or so Metroidvania fans who haven't played Hollow Knight yet
Bloodstained is brilliant too.
Going into the System Shock remake tonight, looks amazing.
Disappointed with Horizon: Forbidden West.
I loved the first game. They didn't do anything really innovative for that. It was just a refined Ubi world with fun combat and an engaging story.
This one though; World is too big, too many missions, dull characters, story isn't grabbing me at all. They Assassin Creed-ed themselves.
Also, I'd genocide the Utaru if I could. Annoying hippies.
I loved the first game. They didn't do anything really innovative for that. It was just a refined Ubi world with fun combat and an engaging story.
This one though; World is too big, too many missions, dull characters, story isn't grabbing me at all. They Assassin Creed-ed themselves.
Also, I'd genocide the Utaru if I could. Annoying hippies.
Start with Ezio, and then stop, then play Mirage. The changes the made to the game after Ezio was really annoying. But seeing mirage I see they went back the basics of AC.
Cant wait to play one of my favorite games in my hometown. It is a smaller map and they went back to AC basics which make it sweeter for me, because it stopped being an AC game for a long time now.
I would be very careful with expectations for a new Assassin's Creed game. It might look like it's going back to its roots, but we know very little about the game and this is still Ubisoft we're talking about. There's a very high likelihood it's still the same open-world bullshit and level-grinding with the option to purchase xp boosters and other time savers. They can't be trusted.
Agree, and congrats on winning the league.
Jeez, are you getting old?Christ, forgot I bought this
Better start it! How is it so far?
Losing your memory?
Lost your marbles?
Don't reply - if you remember to - for I already know the truth.
Little bit of all the above. Also, don't forget:
Drunkenly bought lots of Steam games in one sitting including this? (Seriously, there's 7 new games in my library
)To be fair, I wouldn't complain if I woke up with System Shock in my library. It looks pretty damn good.Little bit of all the above. Also, don't forget:
Drunkenly bought lots of Steam games in one sitting including this? (Seriously, there's 7 new games in my library
You ever played the original? It was great, but 2 was supreme and is an all time top 10 of mine.
This does look faithful, which means some will find it hard to get into but should be worth it. @amolbhatia50k the setting should be right up your alley too.
Sadly not. I only played the sequel which was indeed very good. It was interesting to see how Ken Levine used some of the same ideas for Bioshock, like the immersive horror setting and audio narration.
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And to think, Bioshock was considered dumbed down at the time.
Shame his ego let him feck it up with Infinite.
Done the first three sequences of ACII. Pretty cool so far though the number of viewpoints to unlock the map is ridiculous - 73!
Tremendously and shamelessly old school. Which I am digging much more that I expected, but it is also causing some frustration, how I ever played this without a map in the old days I don't know. I hope they do a remake of System Shock 2, one of my favourite games ever, and just a little more accessible. I know Bioshock was considered the successor but I don't think it ever had the depth of the earlier games.Christ, forgot I bought this
Better start it! How is it so far?
Anyone played Outer Worlds? I'm currently playing it now, it's OK but I don't find it as engaging as other Obsidian games,
Found it very lacking. Every idea seemed half or three quarters done. Didn't have the charm of Fallout and I hated the art style.
But in more important news, feck your Metal Gear Solid 3 remake because Croc is getting a HD remaster.
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/croc-hd-remaster-early-development-argonaut-founder-jez-san/
I haven't played Fallout so for me it kind of feels like Borderlands meets KOTOR. It's just a bit meh; I'm going to continue with it cause I've committed now but I don't feel drawn in to the universe in the slightest.
I liked it, but it's nowhere near a classic Obsidian game. Funny writing at times and the ending ties things together nicely. I found it fun but unambitious.
Anyone played Tales Of Iron? Any good? It's £6 on switch sale.
If anyone was still on the fence about consolidation in the gaming industry, this pretty much sums up how devastating it can be: https://www.polygon.com/23759179/embracer-tomb-raider-lotr-restructure-studio-closures-lay-offs
The sheer number of acquisitions that Embracer Group has been making in recent years is insane. The big ones are of course Crystal Dynamics and Eidos from Square-Enix last year and Gearbox a year before that, but there are dozens and dozens more. Now it turns out they are totally incapable of running them all and a financial setback means loads of them are going to close down in the near future, with god knows how many people losing their jobs.
The whole thing is so depressing to read. On top of the planned closures, there's stuff in there about a "$1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s investment fund" and then this gem:
The sheer number of acquisitions that Embracer Group has been making in recent years is insane. The big ones are of course Crystal Dynamics and Eidos from Square-Enix last year and Gearbox a year before that, but there are dozens and dozens more. Now it turns out they are totally incapable of running them all and a financial setback means loads of them are going to close down in the near future, with god knows how many people losing their jobs.
The whole thing is so depressing to read. On top of the planned closures, there's stuff in there about a "$1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s investment fund" and then this gem:
What a time to be alive.
Very sad. The games industry is so immature at times and the people working in the industry seem to usually be the ones that suffer.