This game isn't for everyone, though it seems that most people like it. I hated it. I thought it was glitchy, but the real problem was the story, characters and choices. I was constantly pissed off that I was forced into the stupidest ideas ever. I couldn't relate to anything. Maybe I just don't have the teenage schoolgirl genes. I thought it was just bad writing. I played it with my girlfriend, who you hope could relate more, but she hated it even more than me, for the same reasons.

The problems with the game are very obvious and in my opinion, very solvable. If they need the public to tell them what to fix and how to fix it...

They call it a new game mode, but they didn't have a choice to add this mode. If they didn't, in duels, both players would pick a hero and one player might have an advantage because some heroes are counters for others. They're not hard counters, but still. That would make an uneven duel and that just doesn't work for competitive players and tournaments because skill should be what makes you win a game.

I've been watching this game and it's truly an Overwatch-lite. Heroes have different health levels, speeds and abilities. The shooting itself seems adequate though. The biggest negatives are that weapons and kills don't look and sound satisfying and the announcer voice is a joke.

Still no word on bots, which is the only thing that might make me interested in the game. Coop against bots.

Edit: Almost forgot the biggest fail! The game doesn't seem to have Dead-reckoning/interpolation code(what smooths player movement when there's lag). It might have some, but watch any game and you'll soon see instances where players teleport all over at the rate of their ping. It's insane that a modern multiplayer-focused game would have no dead-reckoning. Maybe there's some and it just turns off in some situations...

Farcry 1 is in my top 5 games of all time. Loved the multiplayer, the enemy AI, the stealth, the level design, the horror parts (yes, I liked the mutants. They added variety). It kinda felt like the first time I played Half-Life 1. FC2 is my second favorite Farcry game. While it was completely different from FC1, I liked the gun system, the game economy and the "wasteland" feeling of it. The second map was also mind blowing and both maps were really interesting to explore. FC3 was still good, but it was oversimplified, they broke the economy and it was kinda generic. 4 was basically a remake of 3, so, I liked that one even less (4's story is great though). Then you get Primal, which is the one I disliked the most. It was just bland and couldn't keep my attention. Didn't play FC Instincts, because console... Oh and Blood Dragon was good, but I found it repetitive and kinda boring in the end. I guess my ranking is: 1,2,3,4,BD,Primal. It doesn't bode well for FC5...

As for all the Crysis games, 1 and Warhead were good, but there's something lacking from them. I guess they're not enough of a "game". The levels are insanely beautiful though. Just a marvel to look at. Crysis 2 and 3 are complete garbage. Linear soulless consolized bore fest.

I'd rather get super herpes.

Looks cool, but it would be a terrible idea to play a metroidvania game before it's completed.

VaranDragon wrote on May 8, 2017, 12:52:
I love how people are always complaining about how most articles are bullshit, clickbait, crapola. Then one comes along that is anything but clickbait, with well thought out arguments, and even some serious references and people just go:

"What a load of bollocks!" Without even reading the article, beacuse it doesn't conform to their view or opinion.

Wonderful stuff really.

Listen, the title is "Why Video Games Cannot be "Lovecraftian.". Now, regardless of the content of the article, the title is clear and I think I have the right to say that this is BS even if I didn't read the whole article. If the article ends up saying the opposite, that games can actually be lovecraftian, then it's not my fault, it's their fault for doing a clickbait title. So that's why I felt comfortable giving my opinion.

I read it diagonally, but this article is BS. A game can absolutely be "lovecraftian". This guy probably can't see games for something other than Mario Bros. You can depict insanity and indescribable horror in a visual medium. There really haven't been good "lovecraftian" games yet though... I'd say that Amnesia and Soma are pretty close.

gilly775 wrote on May 3, 2017, 14:49:
So those of us that have bandwidth caps get f'd in the end by not having a demo which could be less to download. Ooook. Here's a game I won't be buying then....

Well, in their defense, no one does a demo nowadays. They didn't take anything away from PC gamers and gave something to console gamers. It's not new content or anything, just a demo. I find it hard to complain.

What's wrong with the Dishonored 2 PC port? It's been great for me so far... Maybe they patched the problems?

Sepharo wrote on May 2, 2017, 20:00:

Burrito of Peace wrote on May 2, 2017, 16:04:
Others have mentioned the great things about Morrowind but what hasn't been mentioned is the soundtrack. It was the first game that I can recall that seemed to have a matching musical motif for every single aspect of the game.

I still listen to it to this day when I am working on brain powered things because it's such a rich score.

Also had probably the best thunder storms in a game up to that point.
Loved listening to the soundtrack and then a storm rolls through.

Morrowind has pretty good weather effects and the sky was beautiful too. There was no delay on the lightning strike sound though, so thunderstorms weren't perfect. It would have been so much more atmospheric if they'd have done that. I actually asked the devs about that in one of their mirc Q and As before the game was released. Didn't change their implementation though.

Creston wrote on May 2, 2017, 15:15:

ItBurn wrote on May 2, 2017, 11:13:

Cutter wrote on May 2, 2017, 11:09:
Wonder what's next for TES. Guess we'll find out in June.

I don't think so. I think the next TES game is 5 years away at least.

I'd say 2020. They're done with FO4, so everyone at Todd Howard's studio is working full tilt on the next ES, and has been for probably around a year now.

I'm pretty sure I've read that they haven't even begun working on the next TES. I understood that they've probably got a handful of people working on it doing pre-pre design. Their main team is working on a new franchise in space if I remember correctly.

VaranDragon wrote on May 2, 2017, 11:20:

Bludd wrote on May 2, 2017, 10:56:
I feel old

Heh. I remember waiting for Morrowind for YEARS. It was the first game I was really hyped for.

Probably the game I was most hyped for in the history of all games. I ate every tiny bit of information on it. I spent every day on mirc in a chatroom with devs in it. I was so spoiled that when the game came out it kinda felt like I had already played the game before and therefore I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. Since that time, I try to get as little information as I can about games I look forward to. Same thing with movies or tv series.

Cutter wrote on May 2, 2017, 11:09:
Wonder what's next for TES. Guess we'll find out in June.

I don't think so. I think the next TES game is 5 years away at least.

Daggerfall is my fav by far, then Skyrim, solely for fun factor. Morrowind is a better elder scrolls/RPG than Oblivion or Skyrim though. It's kinda rough around the edges, but with all the mods that have been released, it probably feels like a different game now. I plan on replaying it with all the mods one day.

I hope this time they finish the game. The first 2 Darksiders really lost quality in the last quarter of the games.

I have a lack of passion for yet another Saving Private Ryan clone and I don't feel passion in this trailer either. Seems like it was made by a marketing machine.

Rigs wrote on Apr 25, 2017, 16:52:
SOMA was ok...the 'twist' is kinda in 'well, yeah, duh' territory but it was a nice romp.

What I liked wasn't exactly the twist, but how the concept was presented and how it made you think about it by living it. A movie couldn't have done a better job of presenting that story.

If you like this type of game, you should really play Soma. It doesn't get enough recognition and I wish more people would play it. It's not just an horror game though, and it's not as scary as isolation, but damn it's fun to explore and I loooved the story.

I played it on hard and it was incredibly difficult. Progress was extremely slow. It felt realistic though and it was scary as all f*ck. Probably the scariest horror game out there and graphics and atmosphere are absolutely amazing. It just couldn't hold my interest and I'm a huge horror game fan. Maybe it's because I set the difficulty too high, or maybe it's because the pacing of the game is too slow.