Quinn wrote on Aug 27, 2019, 04:04:

Frode wrote on Aug 27, 2019, 03:44:

Quinn wrote on Aug 27, 2019, 03:27:
A friend and myself rolled new characters like half a year ago. The "classic" part was pure fucking agony, dungeons included, and we couldn't get to the expansion content soon enough.

Did you somehow play what's currently referred to as WoW Classic at that time, or just roll new characters in "modern" WoW? Because if the latter, the _whole point_ is that that experience is not even remotely comparable to Classic.

I obviously can't speak to whether it would be your cup of tea or not, but gameplay wise they are so different I'd argue they can be thought of as different games within the same setting.

It was modern WoW. But my point is that we just wanted to run through the content asap because our goal was just to level up and journey through the classic part was just terrible, because it felt really old. The dungeon design was much more boring than the expansion dungeons. As you can figure, that complaint won't disappear with Classic WoW. It will probably be worse.

World PVP might bring back some good memories, sure, but I'm fairly certain none of us now older people can stumach the terribly slow pace of the quests and the necessary grinds. After all, most of us no longer live a worriless life in mother's basement.

Slick wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 18:53:
"GOG.com exclusivity for Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales has them thinking this type of deal doesn't work for them"

Pretty sad day when a developer can't release a product on their own established non-hated storefront because people will only buy from Steam.

Remind me why Steam is the only place people shop again? Oh right, it was all predicated on the exclusivity of Half-Life 2. Even if you bought a physical copy in a brick-and-mortar store, you had to install and launch through steam to play the game.

We can't have a world where a new burger shop could become "The home of the Whopper" like Burger King, because everyone has already decided they only buy food from McDonalds. The best they can hope to do is sell the Whopper through McDonalds, cook it, market it, wrap it, deal with customer issues, pay the farmers, pay the transport, pay for everything, then McDonalds provides that touch-screen computer for you to pay and takes a fat 30%.

Drayth wrote on Aug 18, 2019, 19:39:

Creston wrote on Aug 18, 2019, 14:35:
I'm going to guess it'll be very, very few.

There will be some. You'll have the people who think to themselves, 'I like to keep my game collection under one roof (as much as possible), and since Epic looks to be the new home for the majority of AAA games...'.

It's what their tactic is all about.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jul 24, 2019, 13:53:
Looks good; it's also on sale for pre-release on GreenmanGaming for $24.89... not a full standalone game or something? I have not been keeping track of the development that much, I guess they weren't planning on the full $60 pricetag?

Hoop wrote on Jul 19, 2019, 04:18:
Thanks Tim for all the passion over the years.
Loving slowly working my way through Rage 2.
In awe of the environments & AI.

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?