General Videogame Thread

twosips said:
Same. Though Far Cry 3 was the one that got me into it. I consider FC3 and FC4 two of my favourite games of all time! Just incredibly satisfying sandboxes of fun in beautiful locations. Cracking villains too. Felt 5 and New Dawn were quite disappointing tbh. I hated the 'approach the missions in any order!' approach, plus the relatively mute main character. Really watered down the story and experience. It's a FPS ffs, just give me a main character and take me throguh the areas one by one. Works fine. Hoping 6 is a return to form.
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I thought 5 was just way too big because of the way they just dumped you in this huge world with no real direction. Driving isn't that much fun in Far Cry and you had to drive eeeeeverywheere. Also the tone of the game was a little off for me. Trying to be a bit too real and sinister.

In 4 where the whole other side of the map only became accessible 1/4 of the way in, I really appreciated and played through the first side thoroughly, and the the second half opening up where everything was a bit different, harder etc. renewed my appetite for the second half of the game.


I'd love 6 to be great. Nothing has made me go out and buy one of the new generation consoles yet, I'm desperate for a really unmissable great game to come along, not just a Spiderman DLC, another Assassin's Creed and Gran Turismo 27.
 
shevtheblue said:
Think that's part of the new age of gaming isn't it, you can do anything, in the order you want to do it. Agree with you though.
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Very much a post Breath of the Wild trend. I think it'll calm down a bit, but yeah - many jumped on the bandwagon. It doesn't really work for every kind of game though. It was so frustrating in 5 when you'd be this invincible machine, gunning down 100s of people, and just to fast forward the story they basically had to concoct magical moments where you'd get blow darted randomly out of nowhere in a part of a map nowhere near to anything every single god damn time, just to cut to a cutscene and progress the story. Shite. If they're gonna force a story on you anyway, then there's no real point to the openness. It isn't openness, just a bit of an illusion. It works brilliantly in BOTW for a reason - there's barely any real story.
 
twosips said:
Very much a post Breath of the Wild trend. I think it'll calm down a bit, but yeah - many jumped on the bandwagon. It doesn't really work for every kind of game though. It was so frustrating in 5 when you'd be this invincible machine, gunning down 100s of people, and just to fast forward the story they basically had to concoct magical moments where you'd get blow darted randomly out of nowhere in a part of a map nowhere near to anything every single god damn time, just to cut to a cutscene and progress the story. Shite. If they're gonna force a story on you anyway, then there's no real point to the openness. It isn't openness, just a bit of an illusion. It works brilliantly in BOTW for a reason - there's barely any real story.
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Assassin's creed really suffered from this. They went from brilliantly constructed cities - Rome, Paris, London - to just "look the map is 4x bigger than the last!!" But 90% of it is desert or islands and you're going to spend most of the game travelling between interesting bits
 
domalino said:
Assassin's creed really suffered from this. They went from brilliantly constructed cities - Rome, Paris, London - to just "look the map is 4x bigger than the last!!" But 90% of it is desert or islands and you're going to spend most of the game travelling between interesting bits
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I read an interesting thing on the Warzone map - how much work went into the design. Basically the designers want to give you an incentive to move around, but also a risk and reward factor. So the distance between open and populated sections and their placement is very much calculated - as is the position of the better sniping locations. And the edge of the map where you can stand with your back to the wall which is a big bonus - so there is nothing out there. Its all very calculated to make you want to move through it.

Big open worlds where you just run along for minutes at a time just to get from A to B just poor design.
 
shevtheblue said:
I'm thinking of getting Primal at some point, but i still have number 5 and the New Dawn ones to get through yet. The only thing i didn't like was the 1st person style, think i'd prefer this in a 3rd person but i've got used to it since i've been playing CyberPunk the last few weeks.
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Far cry 5 has its moments and I love the Seed family as the chief antagonists but I preferred 4, Primal and 3 (in that order).

I own New Dawn but I can’t get into it for some reason.

Far Cry 6 looks interesting. Giancarlo Esposito (Gus from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul) will be the villain.
 
My PS5 arrived today. I missed out on Ghosts of Tsushima last year so downloading that as we speak, but are any of the next gen exclusives worth checking out yet?
 
Dr Jacoby said:
Far cry 5 has its moments and I love the Seed family as the chief antagonists but I preferred 4, Primal and 3 (in that order).

I own New Dawn but I can’t get into it for some reason.

Far Cry 6 looks interesting. Giancarlo Esposito (Gus from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul) will be the villain.
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Just finishing 4 and due to those two annoying cünts Yogi and Reggie I have to put it behind FC3 and FC2
 
A full play through of the unreleased remaster of Goldeneye 007 for the Xbox 360 has appeared online.

Too many fingers in the legal pie stopped it being released since Rare went from being part owned by Nintendo to being wholly owned by Microsoft and the Bond licence was then with Activision as well.

A reimagining of Goldeneye from a completely different developer with nothing to do with the original was released on the Wii/PS3/360.

 
HelloCity said:
A full play through of the unreleased remaster of Goldeneye 007 for the Xbox 360 has appeared online.

Too many fingers in the legal pie stopped it being released since Rare went from being part owned by Nintendo to being wholly owned by Microsoft and the Bond licence was then with Activision as well.

A reimagining of Goldeneye from a completely different developer with nothing to do with the original was released on the Wii/PS3/360.

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Oh I would love this and I still have a Xbox 360 and I can get online with it, is this easy to get?

Is it free?
 
HelloCity said:
A full play through of the unreleased remaster of Goldeneye 007 for the Xbox 360 has appeared online.

Too many fingers in the legal pie stopped it being released since Rare went from being part owned by Nintendo to being wholly owned by Microsoft and the Bond licence was then with Activision as well.

A reimagining of Goldeneye from a completely different developer with nothing to do with the original was released on the Wii/PS3/360.

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makes me want to fire up my n64
 
Whilst rooting round an old hard drive I found my old championship manager 01-02 saves. The game itself is free to download legally now, btw.

It's the version with the famous To Madeira and Maxim Tsigalko, and city start with the likes of Charvet, Ritchie and Nash.

I'd saved last pre season 05 with us having won the lot. Funny how we used to have to just dream of that kind of thing! I'd just signed Stevie G and Mido on Bosmans, had a front 3 of anelka, Luca Toni and Defoe, backed up by Aimar and playing a short passing game. Doing it before Pep ;)

That's my week sorted anyway. You can keep your £30 FM 21 database update!
 
Got PS now last week as I need a new game to play through (I've got a nice backlog of classics that I haven't touched).

Got Hitman 2 which is absolutely cracking fun, only to find it's been taken down today. I was only on the 3rd mission with plenty of play throughs to go...

Anyway, anyone know how long games stay up? There's a few I like the look of but I'm a bit reluctant to start anything that might take a while in case it disappears on me!
 
nottsco2-0 said:
Got PS now last week as I need a new game to play through (I've got a nice backlog of classics that I haven't touched).

Got Hitman 2 which is absolutely cracking fun, only to find it's been taken down today. I was only on the 3rd mission with plenty of play throughs to go...

Anyway, anyone know how long games stay up? There's a few I like the look of but I'm a bit reluctant to start anything that might take a while in case it disappears on me!
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Apparently it can be 3-6 months, although some have expiration dates listed on them. Does PS Now have a companion phone app, might be something similar to the Xbox game pass version that sends notifications about titles leaving soon.

I got Hitman 3 day after release and blitzed it a bit, but there is still loads of content in the levels left to explore. Seen a video of split banana skin traps being used to cause accident death, found a sniper spot team in one level that you can trick into killing a target. I like the fact that some of the levels build on the heritage of locations in Hitman contacts, the China level, the English country estate, and the huge Vineyard taking some inspiration from blood money.

Anybody who has the Hitman HD pack (Silent assassin, Contacts and blood money) on 360 can play it through backwards compatibility on xbox one or series consoles.
 
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