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I win a 50 hrs Spider Man dlc with only pigeons chasing as content.
Nah first place prize was a glitched playthrough of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture where the glowing orb things don't show up so you are left wandering around the English countryside for eternity.Still no idea what I want to play. Last night it was Spacebase Startopia, Man of Medan and Code Vein's turn. Maybe I should reinstall Grid and grind out a few more miles before Legends is out. Mostly kept going back to Children of Morta and Taxi Chaos
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haha.
I played Rapture with the orbs on and it still felt like wandering the english countryside for eternity.
I feeling a bit like you.
Been playing Watch Dogs but honestly im not feeling it yet. Not sure if it will click if i persist but im still playing it while thinking what other game i should play.
Im going through my backlog and i cant find one game that pulls me. Weird...
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I have it in my backlog for a long time but i never felt the pull to play it mainly because i never play a GoW game before,
I know most love it but I'm not a fan of the last God of War. I've tried to play it multiple times and just can't get into it.
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More random games played over the weekend in the hope that one would stick... It was Alienation, God Eater Resurrection, Guilty Gear Strive, Diablo 2 and Anthem's turn. I've now got it in my head I want to plat Anthem. I've had all the trophies except one since probably a few days after launch but the last one is a little irritating. Collectables are tedious enough at the best of times but they took it to a whole new level. Not only do they spawn in random locations, the collectable itself is random, so half the time when you do eventually find one, it's one you've already got. Only 27 left to pick up now but no idea how long it'll take to be lucky enough to find the ones I need.
I'll probably be alternating between it and Diablo for the foreseeable future
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad game per say. At times its even quite good as it has that DE Human Revolution vibe when it comes to stealth and sci fi futuristic feel. But at the same time, something feels a bit off inthe overall game. The driving is really lackluster, the city is mostly cosmetic and im having a hard time following the story as its a bit all over the place.
Its a weird game and the mission structure almost made me rage quit last night as i needed to kill some dude that was driving and the games insist on throwing tons of quick infos on the screen that i dont have time to read and since there´s no shooting mechanic when driving, chasing someone is a task of chasing somoene, stop the car, get out, shoot him but he escapes, go back to the car, start chasing again, get killed, repeat from the beginning.
Its really annoying.
And doing a mission where i have to kill 15 guys, die in the last one of them and having to repeat all over again feels like a time waste, imo.
I sticking with it but i do hope it doenst get worse...
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad game per say. At times its even quite good as it has that DE Human Revolution vibe when it comes to stealth and sci..."
Yea I liked it but didn't love it. It's not a bad game but would I play a sequel, probably not. Sounds like you're gonna love the final mission of the game lol - no spoilers intended but I nearly quit the game on the final mission. It wasn't difficult just f'ing very annoying. Ubisoft seem to have a habit of creating annoying final missions game play wise.
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad game per say. At times its even quite good as it has that DE Human Revo..."
Well, that´s nice to know. haha.
Ive been doing the main missions only as i cant be bothered with the crimes, the points of interest etc etc.
I just dont find the game imersive enough for me to do all that.
I just finished act 1 last night and half of me is really bored by it which is not great.
But its one of those games that if i stop playing because im not convinced when will i be playing it again?
That again, we should be playing for fun not like work... :/
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad game per say. At times its even quite good as it has that..."
Yea that's why I think I've binned off AC Valhalla - felt more like a job than fun.
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad game per say...."
Yeah, Now that im thinking about it i might put it on hold. Im probably not in the right mood for this type of game and the game itself is not that great so, instead of feeling excited im just feeling like i have to play it every night.
I may end up finally starting God of War.
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Been fighting with Watch Dogs for the last couple of days.
Its not a bad..."
Honestly everyone should try God of War. Worst case if you don't like it you can bin it off. For me, it's a superb game, one of the best of last gen. I wouldn't waste your time on Watch Dogs if you haven't played GoW. Combat is superb, characters are superb and the world is engrossing and really pulls you in. And it has the usual Sony exclusive polish.
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Been fighting with Watch Dog..."
Im pretty much convinced.
I really dont like the feeling of "having" to play something.
Even worst is imediately going from Spider Man, which was amazing, to Watch Dogs. Its not going well. lol.
I should have gone with Arkham Knight instead.
Combat is sluggish, characters are dull and world is colourful but nothing to write home about. It is polished I agree with but what's the saying that includes turds lol. It's nothing special, average with a Sony exclusive coat of paint IMO
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you´re talking about God of War or Watch Dogs? lol
God of War. I do agree that if Watch Dogs aint doing it for you then there's little point continuing though
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Saying that I really don’t rate Spider-Man. Great open world map, good swinging mechanic but everything is just ok. Combat no better than a lot of other similar games, and not better than Batman, awful samey boss fights and story which is truly run of the mill. What I mean to say is each to their own.
Probably why I pay no attention to reviews etc - they are all nutjobs ;) To me at least, it's polished that's about it. There are countless other games that do what it does just as well, if not better. I know I'm definitely in the minority and normally I'd accept that it's probably me that's the crazy one but it really is average in so many respects. Honestly, for me it's up there with ME Andromeda as the biggest disappointments of last gen
Agree about Spidey, decent, mostly fun but nothing amazing. Miles Morales was a bit of an improvement
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It was a simple game made to have fun which is something i really value these days.
I was a big Spidy back in the day which also contributed for sure.
As for GoW i really need to play it to see what the fuss is all about.
As with Spider Man i really dont need a game to be innovative as long as it provides a solid, polished and quality experience.
If it manages to immerse me and make want to be in that world night after night thats enough for me.
As the years go by i think the main aspect in my gaming is definitely immersion. If it does the job then the game works, if it doenst then it doenst work for me despite its good or bad ratings.
Ping! Anthem. A couple of years since I last played it and nowt seems to have changed. Not a terrible game but gets a bit repetitive. The collectables trophy is ridiculous though, would have been a simple plat otherwise. Only had 27 left to collect yesterday and to get them it just took me..... 6 or 7 hours. I'm not a fan of collectables at the best of times but Bioware have managed to turn that dislike to hate lol. Glad it's done and there's no more temptation/reason to return.Next up, probably more Diablo 2 for a while and I've half an eye on platting Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (which in terms of entertainment is the opposite end of the spectrum from GoW to me ;) ). People will ignore it because of how it looks but it's the only game in recent memory that have had parts of it that have had me laughing and thinking brilliant.
Half tempted to go back to Dragon Quest XI as well since I've only one trophy left in the Definitive version. I'd have to start from scratch though, don't think it's the kind of game that automatically uploads saves to the cloud and I didn't transfer any data from the PS4 Pro to PS5. Having played through the base version and the definitive version already, I'm thinking a 3rd time may be too much though
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "Ron wrote: "Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "Finished Spider Man.Absolutely amazing game.
The story was worthy of being a movie. The charactes were all very well written and performed a..."
Without Googling it this is how I understand it -
Miles Morales was introduced in Ultimate Spider-Man. Subsequently Ultimate Peter Parker died and Miles became the Ultimate Spider-Man. Marvel had Ultimatum which was a horrible Loeb hack job to reset the universe and kill everyone, which everyone hated and didn't work as they revived the Ultimate franchise briefly afterwards anyway.
Marvel then had a cross line event which merged all the universes bringing ultimate Miles Morales into the main continuity. That was retconned somewhat i.e. old man Logan was booted in favour of the better known one, but Miles remained and is now part of 616.
Honestly, I think Bendis did a fantastic job introducing a half black half hispanic superhero and making him similar but with his own version of the spider powers. This is much preferable than the new fad of gender and race swapping happening all over the shop. Ironically Miles hasn't appeared in the MCU...yet.
Kind of tempted to pick up the Hot Wheels game, mostly because I've not hawed in a few weeks and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms
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Microsoft just bought Activision Blizzard!
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Those are good points mate.
It really seems that MS wants to monopolize the industry.
If that means better games then ok but i wonder at what point MS will break to greed. Hopefully never but...
Thank god i bought a series S. That´s all im sayin...
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I think MS have a good (I probably mean bad) track record in being greedy but saying that a lot of businesses tend to want to maximise profits. They have a history with industry monopoly with Windows so just saying.
Yeah it's definitely nuts....they spend $70b in the blink of an eye yet give me a controller with a battery life shorter than my attention span ;) Think Game Pass will get a price hike soon?
Maybe it'll wake Sony up, as they've been very half-assed of late.
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BTW - you don't even need to pay a penny. Collect MS points and get it for free.
Maybe all of the horrible Acti-Bliz press is making this possible. It seems to me that company would never allow themselves to be bought if there wasn't such deeply disruptive controversy. Who knows. Beyond Tony Hawk and Diablo I don't really care about their franchises.I finished my renegade play through of Mass Effect. Still a great game. I also finished up Fire Watch because I didn't want to start up Mass Effect 2. I've officially hit a wall, and have no desire to game whatsoever right now. I don't know how you continue at your crazy pace Deckard...
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This is why his controller battery doesn't last long enough. 40 hours for Decky is two days of gaming ;-). My controller battery lasts me a month.
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Maybe it'll wake Sony up, as they've been very h..."
hahaha.
I think Sony is in a really bad spot t this point.
They NEED to sell PS5 and i think they might wake up for that reality much too late.
I´ve been a Playstation guy pretty much all my console gaming years. I never intended to go to Xbox at all but i feel like Sony is forcing me to.
I know about the chip shortages and all that but i do get the sense that Sony isnt very worried to lose the market because "gamers will eventually get one.
What i think they are failing to understand is that things change in a blink of an eye.
Playstation may become irrelevant if all those ps4 gamers dont make the transition to the PS5 quickly due to the lack of consoles.
By the time the situation normalizes in 2023 or 2024 most of them may already be lost to Xbox due to availability and gaming options.
At least that´s what i think based on my own expectations.
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I just have to say, my recent trip back through Dragon Age and Mass Effect is really proving how valuable enhanced backward compatibility is. Each year about 1/4 of my gaming is replaying legacy titles, or playing ones I missed. When that experience brings improved performance and graphics, it's just delightful. No loading between areas in Dragon Age: Origins & 2 is what made it possible for me to blow through them in a couple weeks. BTW, I pre-ordered Elden Ring. Also bought a 20th anniversary Xbox controller.
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I myself been playing the hell out of Fallout 3 on my S.
I have it in my living room and i sit, turn the console on and less then 20 seconds later im already playing.
Its the only game i actually played on the S so far.
Error wrote: "Maybe all of the horrible Acti-Bliz press is making this possible. It seems to me that company would never allow themselves to be bought if there wasn't such deeply disruptive controversy. Who know..."It is. Activision's value has halved with all the bad publicity. This made the acquisition too tantalising for M$.
Maybe I'm being naive but my hopes for this merger are
Bob Kotick gets booted
Studios like Beenox, High Moon and Infinity Ward get to drop COD and do something for themselves (I quite enjoyed the High Moon Transformer games)
No annual COD iterations but a decent meaty one every 2-3yrs
and number 1
the employees who actually make the games get a fair salary and work/life balance
I still have no strong urge to migrate back to Xbox full time at the minute. Sony exclusives I find are generally overrated but there's a lot of the smaller Japanese games, that aren't technically PS exclusives that just don't appear on Xbox. For me Game Pass is very much focused on Western gaming tastes and is still missing a bit of worldly variety. If they could convince them to release a few more I'd be going through a lot more batteries. Plus I like my plats ;)
Picked up Hot Wheels Unleashed and stuck a good few hours in. It's another solid racer, the cars are maybe a bit too fast for the tracks and you spend half the time bouncing of the sides but generally not bad. And no that's not just me ;) I'd tried the MP and, while waiting in the lobby, saw 11 other racers doing the exact same thing. Don't think I'll be platting as they want 5 MP wins which ain't likely to happen, so I'll just knock out the campaign before moving on.
Finished the career mostly in Hot Wheels Unleashed. There are a couple of time trials left but the minimum times they want look like a pain and since I've no intent to even attempt the plat, it's time to move on.Don't think I'll be platting Doki Doki Literature Club Plus either. I've only one unlockables related trophy to get, but to get it I need to rely on the random chance one of them pops up, and from what I've read it's a less than 2% chance of happening. Ah well, still think its great.
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Probably more Diablo 2 for me next, with a little Beautiful Desolation maybe. Played a little of it and seems fairly interesting.
Have a weird urge to play that game that I refuse to acknowledge is a Mass Effect again. Probably just so I can moan about all they did wrong ;)
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Been playing Arkham Knight for a couple of days and initially i was not feeling it but last night i think the game finally clicked.
I gotta say though, coming from Spider Man´s agility and gameplay, Batman feels like a tank to control, and im not refering to the batmobile. lol
I had similar thoughts about Aliens Fireteam, it's one of those that's maybe not the greatest game in the world but you can still have a bit of fun with it
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I've been thinking about game pass for some reason and it worries me a little. I think it was R that mentioned a while back the benefit for smaller companies that feature but, if GP becomes the accepted format, what happens to those developers that don't get the Xbox seal of approval? And if GP becomes the majority player - is it going to make gamers less willing to take a chance on a game they think they'd like, in the hope it'll appear eventually on GP? It'll definitely put a strain on the unchosen ones.And we've seen what developers are like - if there's a fad about, half of them will try their hand (like walking sims or battle royales), are we going to see games designed specifically to be appealing to MS? Or games designed to maximise their profits once they are on GP, through the likes of MTs and DLC? It's seems like it's forcing external developers to play safe rather than encouraging innovation.
Another reason I'm not too fond of it is - Xbox chooses the games that are added and they choose what is taken away. Doesn't matter how varied the choice is, at the end of the day someone else is limiting what I should or shouldn't be playing, which doesn't sit right with me.
Just my opinion, which by default is wrong ;)
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I said it before and i say it again. I think GP is amazing for for us gamers but terrible for developers just like Amazon Music and Spotify are a godsend for customers but terrible for bands and labels.
I havent bought an album for years now and i still have a gigantic collection of cd´s that i barely touch form back inthe day, so i was someone who bought a lot of albums.
Right now, buying an album just seems stupid because i have Amazon Music. Its great for me but how is this good for the artists that need to sell albums?
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its 9 bucks on the PS store.
It's probably one of the better "Tales of" games. A couple of the others I've played have been alright to begin with but eventually felt like a chore to play. Vesperia wasn't as bad
