G.oZ wrote on Jul 9, 2019, 05:20:

ForgedReality wrote on Jul 9, 2019, 02:44:
This is why AMD is the cheaper option. They save money by not hiring QA engineers.

So based on this single instance of a game problem, you are certain it is an AMD hardware QA issue and not, perchance, something in the destiny 2 code?

'cause, you know, ryzen 3000 series reviews everywhere, people benchmarking stress testing everywhere and nary a peep about incompatibility issues with common productivity software and standard gaming benchmarks.

Avus wrote on Jul 4, 2019, 14:53:
Woot, added to my growing library on EGS consisting of only free video games

DrEvil wrote on Jun 10, 2019, 19:03:

Frijoles wrote on Jun 10, 2019, 17:28:
I'm waiting for them to disable the damn UI interruptions. I don't care what my XP is with someone I haven't met.

This was my biggest complaint by far. I 100%'d the game as far as I know (all weapons, all side quests, all upgrades, etc.) after dumping about 40-50 hours into it. Don't exactly know how many hours since the Bethesda.net launcher and the game don't keep track (sigh).

The game makes a big deal about encouraging players to stay "in the flow" through overdrive and everything else but when push comes to shove it loves taking control from the player and splatting *multiple* near-full-screen showy xp, progress, whatever bars completely disrupting that flow. Even more annoying, when you play with Mouse+Keyboard, you have to use the enter key (as far as I can tell) to dismiss them. Game input scheme seems to be some weird hybrid of typical console game and PC.

Overall, here's my thoughts:

* generally great combat experience
* frequently confusing as hell navigation ("gps")
* boring, barely-existent story
* bizarre, disposable story locations only used once and then no reason to go back
* bizarre boss battle endings where boss corpse would just disappear immediately after end of fight
* vehicle control was bad enough when using Mouse+Keyboard that I often switched to my XBox Controller just for vehicles and then back for gameplay

Spoilery thoughts:

* frustrating vehicle experiences; game claims you can drive any vehicle, but then suddenly you can't (for example, water hovercraft aren't drivable)
* vehicle upgrades are only for vehicle you start with; I ended up collecting car parts like crazy at the end with nothing to use them on and you can't even sell them for in-game currency
* only used BFG twice, at $700-800 in-game currency per shot, too expensive to actually enjoy using
* unsatisfying quasi-cliffhanger ending
* end boss used typical console-game-style boss with targets, etc. unlike all others


Overall, a nice distraction, but this is definitely a single run through game for me. I'll probably play through the rest of the DLC content when it's all available, but until then not nearly exciting enough to bother playing again.

Flatline wrote on Jun 6, 2019, 12:00:

Darks wrote on Jun 6, 2019, 11:32:

Bill Borre wrote on Jun 6, 2019, 10:54:
I don't think it will help. This game just isn't very interesting.

This is going to be the downfall of the game, they will monetize the hell out of this game now.

As opposed to the microtransactions now?

I actually don't think this is going to do much. Weren't they giving away the core game for a while? Or still are? I've got like 300 hours in the game, so I've gotten my money's worth, although the year 1 content drop was pretty anemic (warmind was okay but FFS the loot is obsolete now in the core game and they never went back and upgraded the loot).

Giving away the core game and selling the expansion packs/season passes seems like a decent move. I'll say that while I don't like the grind, Forsaken is a MASSIVE content drop. It's just reaching the final package of content. It's dropped with a brief but tasty single player story, like 3 or 4 new game modes including PvE and PvPvE and at least 3 raids that I'm aware of. The original Forsaken drop was lousy with secrets and hidden systems. Not bad for the 50 bucks I think I paid for it.

The problem is that the grind is psychotic and really not that much fun any more. The black armory forge cycle might be the worst so far- grind forges for drops that let you eventually buy a frame. Go grind a bunch of pre-reqs to "charge" the frame, then go grind forges again to forge the frame. I think I've only unlocked half the forges because the grind became mind-numbing.

We'll see what the next season holds. Hopefully the concepts they have coming down the pipeline will be good.

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jun 3, 2019, 11:16:
MTX DLC for a full priced game? I am so outraged!

Slick wrote on Apr 20, 2019, 03:12:
Valve haven't had an original idea for a videogame since Half-Life. Everything else they've pushed out has been bought out by other people who came up with the ideas. Valve is creatively bankrupt, and have been for literally over 2 decades. Just saying, that it's odd for a video game company to not really make video games.

SabreT wrote on Apr 19, 2019, 18:35:

NKD wrote on Apr 19, 2019, 17:18:

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 19, 2019, 16:52:

Competition is good for gamers, developers and publishers.

Competition is only good if the products are competitive. If the price we pay for games doesn't go down, then what's the point? Two companies piling up competing libraries of "exclusives" isn't actually competition, because if you have a product you want to buy, you only have one choice.

In the next two years, Steam will have added/changed a lot of features just because of the existence of the Epic Store. The developers get a much larger cut on Epic than on steam. They wouldn't have jumped ship if Steam were less greedy. Same reason why Bnet, Uplay, Origin exist, to bypass the 30% that steam takes on every sale. Epic will continue to be popular among devs that can't afford their own launchers/stores

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Feb 25, 2019, 20:46:
What the hell!?!? How are they not making more money through Gog!?

Buy your games on Gog, people! Why would you even think of buying from another service unless you had to?

nomoreshite wrote on Feb 25, 2019, 10:56:
well that certainly shows PC gamers as being idiots if thats the best grossing games, 90% of that list is garbage.

Mobile looks even worse 100% shit

Only console seems to have anything sane on it

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2019, 20:51:

CJ_Parker wrote on Feb 23, 2019, 18:21:
Definitely looks FO-ish. Probably a F76 expansion pack or something.
Bethesda won't release FO5 or TES6 before the next gen conslows are out. They will also wait until there is a decent enough install base to sell their games to, i.e. TES6/FO5 in Q4/2022 at the very, very earliest, more likely 2023/2024 when there are enough starving peasants lining up to insta-buy 'TES VI: Hammerfell' in at least Skyrim-like quantities!

Smoke another one, CJ. TES6 will be out this Xmas or the next at the latest. It's coming up on 8 years since Skyrim came out.

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2019, 16:04:
Yeah at this point everyone just wants a new TES and their star game - forget what it's called.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 7, 2019, 10:02:
I think Nvidia is shooting themselves in the foot this generation with their pricing schemes. I get that they need to recoup the cost of R&D on ray-tracing but with how little it is used now and how little it will probably be used this generation, it seems like price gouging for the sake of price gouging.