Video Games

Just brought watch dogs 2 and the dlc for control “the foundation” for not much at all on the PlayStation store.
Been enjoying the reveals of watchdog legion, and the play previews have been pretty complimentary of the gameplay, so thought I’d get upto speed by playing Watchdogs 2.

My Watch Dogs 2 freebie has just shown up in my account.

Bit busy with The Division 2 at the moment - which I'm really enjoying. Gameplay gets a bit repetitive, but the environment (always a big deal for me with these games) is wonderful. Feels much more like a 1:1 recreation than a caricature of the real location.

The AI really is pants tho. Almost every kerfuffle is a case of finding a decent cover spot (not hard) and picking them off one by one. Even those with double-hard bastard armour don't take advantage of it by chasing you down.

I tried the base building, and found the inventory system made the whole thing really painful - like they used it as a reason to expand the crafting tree.

You can build a teleport to get back to your base, but it needs power, so you also need to build batteries, wiring and solar panels to keep them charged. You can build extra storage units, but they also need to be actively powered, and somehow store less in ~10 cubic metres than you can fit in your suit pockets. And introduce another inventory screen that behaves differently to all the others.

You can build cool underwater bases, but I ran out of materials for an airlock and water filling through the floor hatch behaves a bit oddly.

You can also build hangars for ground vehicles, or even submersibles, but I ran out of patience before trying one. It wasn't at all clear whether you also have to build or buy the vehicle separately, or how much use you'd get out of it.

Ass Crud Blick Fleg.

it's an older game but it checks out.

mindless stabbing, right up my alley.

mindless stabbing right up my alley.

Oooh

i meant what i said.

/limps away.

Couldn’t find a retro game thread, so excuse me if this is off topic, but are there any 90s Mac gamers in the house? Unlikely, but if so, I am reminiscing about the Marathon games a lot lately. Lots of fond memories attached. Pages worth.

https://youtu.be/9dgT0vx3dis

Outer Wilds (not worlds!) is incredible

I was forced be to on account of needing a Mac for college. Thought Marathon fucking dreadful at the time and it really put me off Bungie games. Whichever Halo I played on the 360 did little to change my mind.

What was it about it that you didn’t like?

It seemed to create an atmosphere, mostly with the sound and music, but also the lighting, that I’m not sure I saw equalled for a long time. Plus it wasn’t just ‘kill all the bad dudes’ as Doom was at the time. Although the puzzles were constrained by the engine, which meant they weren’t always rewarding.

PS, what 90s Mac games did you like, if any?

I used to like a lot of the Ambrosia shareware games. Iron Helix and some of the Gabriel Night point and clicks stick in the memory.

Possibly that it wasn't just 'kill all the bad dudes' :)

Or more likely that I remember it just feeling really clunky compared to Doom on the PC, dunno if that was due to performance or something else. Probably the fault of the hardware, cos I had Doom 2 on the Mac and that was terrible as well.

I quite enjoyed the Journeyman Project. Somehow the screenshots don't look as amazingly realistic as I remembered it.

Doom 2 was shit on my Performa 630, even with the upgrade to 8MB ram.

That looks very Iron Helix-y. I remember going round to my mate’s house after school and playing Iron Helix and genuinely being a bit scared.

Performa 600 in a big wooden PC cabinet with a big set of speakers.

Would play it for a few hours and then my dad would pick me up on his way home from the work.

Even though both our dads have passed away and we have our own families and are barely in touch, it’s strange - but great - to still have such strong memories hooked off games.

even with the upgrade to 8MB ram

Are you trying to get into the golf club bar thread?

Ha! It did probably cost about a grand. I remember me and my dad being terrified we'd fry everything with static. I think we actually wore some kind of wrist strap that you connected to the radiator.

As a reward for buying my son the switch he's been bugging me about for aaaagggges I bought myself Zelda Breath of the Wild and am not disappointed.

Not far into it yet but I'm hooked.

Haven't played it in a few months, but after I picked it up it was vying for my favourite game of all time.

@chrisbmx116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phdTzeIEX8M

Just watching the trailer gave me the willies. Not sure I want to put myself through it again.

It's right up there with final fantasy VII imo

Played about an hour of Assassin's Creed Black Flag yesterday. Not sure I'm into it but will stick with it for a bit.

you can pretty much play it on autopilot. not exactly challenging.

the boat action is far more enjoyable than the shanking deaf / blind / suicidal npc's.

So so happy for a new Fable Finally.