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Post by tuigirl on Jun 28, 2020 10:44:07 GMT
Bought Dragon Age Inquisition the other day on a sale. I enjoyed the other parts in the series, however, I think they are not as good story-wise as the wonderful Mass Effect series (Mass Effect 2 is one of my all-time favorite games ever). It might literally taking me forever to finish this, since I work full-time and only can spare a few hours a week for it. It took me maybe 6 months to finish Far Cry 3, and I am only 1 third into Far Cry Primal... so the money I paid was pretty much a long-term investment.
I started out and first impression is, yes, this looks good, and it has the usual feel I get from this series, but right from the start I was aware that this certainly was not Mass Effect 2. I am still interested enough to keep going, and hope I will find a few more interesting characters along the way. But I can see where some of the criticism is coming from.
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Post by grinch on Jun 29, 2020 20:45:43 GMT
Back to the Future
One of Telltale’s earliest efforts before such acclaimed titles as The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead.
Very enjoyable and perhaps the closest thing we’ll get to Back to the Future 4 (not that I would want a fourth instalment) but I do think they slightly missed the boat on a few things. Would have loved more puzzles which would have taken more advantage of the whole time travel aspect.
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Post by Digi on Jun 30, 2020 2:33:18 GMT
Yeah... it’s definitely not gone well has it? What did you think of it masterdoctor? I loved it, and am doing a second play through to get the plat, but I also appreciate that it's been divisive and people don't like it. What I don't back is an almost entitlement of fandoms, in this case TLOU fandom, to have creators cave in and, like Druckmann said, pander to their expectations. I also believe people would have had a lot better of a time with the game had it not been massively spoiled weeks ago. Just finished it myself, just a moment ago. Masterpiece of a game. Yes, I thought the...change of perspective, not to be spoilery...went on for much too long, but ultimately it was rewarding, and the ending itself was perfect.
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Post by grinch on Jul 8, 2020 14:57:49 GMT
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Still just as fun as I remember it. Almost hard to think about what it used to be like without the presence of the MCU.
You know, when Marvel still used to acknowledge the presence and importance of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men.
Truly simpler times...
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Post by masterdoctor on Jul 8, 2020 16:25:09 GMT
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Still just as fun as I remember it. Almost hard to think about what it used to be like without the presence of the MCU. You know, when Marvel still used to acknowledge the presence and importance of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Truly simpler times... I now what you mean, but I feel that once the MCU and Kevin Feige have the chance to use and showoff FF and the X-Men, they will once again become flagships in Marvel across the board. Especially if they can get Emily Blunt and John Krasinski as Mr and Mrs. Fantastic.
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Post by grinch on Jul 8, 2020 16:32:19 GMT
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Still just as fun as I remember it. Almost hard to think about what it used to be like without the presence of the MCU. You know, when Marvel still used to acknowledge the presence and importance of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Truly simpler times... I now what you mean, but I feel that once the MCU and Kevin Feige have the chance to use and showoff FF and the X-Men, they will once again become flagships in Marvel across the board. Especially if they can get Emily Blunt and John Krasinski as Mr and Mrs. Fantastic. Here’s hoping!
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Post by masterdoctor on Jul 8, 2020 18:02:01 GMT
I now what you mean, but I feel that once the MCU and Kevin Feige have the chance to use and showoff FF and the X-Men, they will once again become flagships in Marvel across the board. Especially if they can get Emily Blunt and John Krasinski as Mr and Mrs. Fantastic. Here’s hoping! Exactly! Any idea who you think should be part of the MCU’s X-men? I think they should rest Wolverine for a few years, unless Jackson is actually willing to come back for the MCU. But better interpretations of Storm(Jodie Turner-Smith anyone) and Cyclops would be essential for me. Otherwise, Nightcrawler(with Alan Cumming being more than welcome back to the role, or someone new), Angel, Gambit, Rogue, Professor X, Magneto, Mystique and Kitty Pride being my top wishes as well.
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Post by grinch on Jul 8, 2020 18:07:12 GMT
Exactly! Any idea who you think should be part of the MCU’s X-men? I think they should rest Wolverine for a few years, unless Jackson is actually willing to come back for the MCU. But better interpretations of Storm(Jodie Turner-Smith anyone) and Cyclops would be essential for me. Otherwise, Nightcrawler(with Alan Cumming being more than welcome back to the role, or someone new), Angel, Gambit, Rogue, Professor X, Magneto, Mystique and Kitty Pride being my top wishes as well. None off the top of my head. I think bar from perhaps Professor Xavier, it would be good to cast relatively unknown actors to fill out the ranks. I’d agree when it comes to Wolverine. Although if Mr Jackman wants to reprise his role then I have no objections. I think he’d be best served appearing in a Hulk film to match his debut or have his appearance be teased until eventually making an appearance. (Imagining news articles on a mysterious mountain man or unknown animal living in the woods. Accompanied of course by blurry Bigfoot esque photos.) I’ve heard, although such rumours are by their nature apocryphal, that they were thinking of having Denzel Washington portray Magneto. Certainly would be an interesting and completely different approach I’ll grant you. And considering the fact that realistically most Holocaust survivors would be in their late nineties by now, it would make sense to try a different approach. Unless they said that mutations also allow for longevity or something.
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Post by Digi on Jul 8, 2020 18:22:10 GMT
I bet they don't go whole hog and straight away reintroduce all the core/classic X-Men characters. I'm expecting a little more gradual, like maybe we get some X-people namedrops in the movies currently in production, then we get a post-credits cameo of a character or two, then maybe one shows up in a significant way in someone else's movie, and so on, until they do a full-blown team film for them.
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Post by Digi on Jul 8, 2020 18:26:03 GMT
Bought Dragon Age Inquisition the other day on a sale. I enjoyed the other parts in the series Ahhh, 2 was a disappointment but Origins was amazing! One of my favourite RPGs! Haven't got around to Inquisition yet though. I'm only six years late (and counting) to the party
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Post by mrperson on Jul 8, 2020 18:28:33 GMT
Been puttering around in Elder Scrolls Online, though I barely have any time at all. Last week, I got an hour in, last night I got 30m or so...
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Post by polly on Jul 8, 2020 18:51:50 GMT
Viewtiful Joe 2 - A fair bit less frustrating than the first one, due to more evenly placed save points. Which is great, that was my chief complaint last time. I don't mind high difficulty, challenging games. But I also want to be able to try again in a convenient manner and not have my time wasted getting punted 20 minutes back.
Otherwise, it's more of the same with added character swapping. That's fine by me because outside of the save point issue, the gameplay was very very good, and it's just as tasty for seconds.
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Post by tuigirl on Jul 8, 2020 19:55:56 GMT
Been puttering around in Elder Scrolls Online, though I barely have any time at all. Last week, I got an hour in, last night I got 30m or so... Ah, join the club. I measure my gaming time now in months- Far Cry Primal and Dragon Age were an investment for months of entertainment, an hour a week at a time...
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Post by muckypup on Jul 8, 2020 22:34:51 GMT
Last of us part 2
I’m stuck.....nasty boss thing in hospital........I know what I should do just my poor old fingers and reflex’s not good enough to do it......
Conflicted about game though, while it plays the emotion card well but the violence it seems want to meter out on non-infected seems at odds.....
Great game just unsure about the story it’s telling
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Post by muckypup on Jul 8, 2020 22:48:12 GMT
Bought Dragon Age Inquisition the other day on a sale. I enjoyed the other parts in the series, however, I think they are not as good story-wise as the wonderful Mass Effect series (Mass Effect 2 is one of my all-time favorite games ever). It might literally taking me forever to finish this, since I work full-time and only can spare a few hours a week for it. It took me maybe 6 months to finish Far Cry 3, and I am only 1 third into Far Cry Primal... so the money I paid was pretty much a long-term investment. I started out and first impression is, yes, this looks good, and it has the usual feel I get from this series, but right from the start I was aware that this certainly was not Mass Effect 2. I am still interested enough to keep going, and hope I will find a few more interesting characters along the way. But I can see where some of the criticism is coming from. I loved inquisition best of all the BioWare games, it’s rich, detailed and hours of game play......and that ending.... hope you got game of year edition with all the dlc content...... I think I clocked in over 200 hours work on your relationships, pay attention to the war/quest table and work out who is best for job not just who can do it...... but I found the crafting items feature not properly realised and shops just dumping grounds stick with it, there’s a big story to tell
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Post by Digi on Jul 9, 2020 1:43:26 GMT
Last of us part 2 I’m stuck..... nasty boss thing in hospital........I know what I should do just my poor old fingers and reflex’s not good enough to do it...... Conflicted about game though, while it plays the emotion card well but the violence it seems want to meter out on non-infected seems at odds..... Great game just unsure about the story it’s telling That thing scared the crap out of me, and was a huge pain in the ass. Just sprint away from it and give yourself a long line of sight, stop, shoot it as much as you can with your heaviest weapons (marksman pistol, rifle if you've upgraded damage) until it charges you, then dodge and repeat. Don't get cornered in the little room in the middle, just make it go in laps around the outside. FWIW I thought the story was brilliant. I won't spoil how it ends, but to me, it was perfect and the only way it could have ended.
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Post by Digi on Jul 9, 2020 1:44:08 GMT
Been puttering around in Elder Scrolls Online, though I barely have any time at all. Last week, I got an hour in, last night I got 30m or so... Ah, join the club. I measure my gaming time now in months- Far Cry Primal and Dragon Age were an investment for months of entertainment, an hour a week at a time... I appreciate games that log how much time you've played, so I can know exactly how much of my life I've poured into them
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 9, 2020 6:52:24 GMT
Bought Dragon Age Inquisition the other day on a sale. I enjoyed the other parts in the series, however, I think they are not as good story-wise as the wonderful Mass Effect series (Mass Effect 2 is one of my all-time favorite games ever). It might literally taking me forever to finish this, since I work full-time and only can spare a few hours a week for it. It took me maybe 6 months to finish Far Cry 3, and I am only 1 third into Far Cry Primal... so the money I paid was pretty much a long-term investment. I started out and first impression is, yes, this looks good, and it has the usual feel I get from this series, but right from the start I was aware that this certainly was not Mass Effect 2. I am still interested enough to keep going, and hope I will find a few more interesting characters along the way. But I can see where some of the criticism is coming from. Mass Effect now were talking, barring the third games endings none of which i liked i loved playing these games, great storytelling, wonderful characters & your decisions carry over from each game was brilliant. I also enjoyed the fourth game, post patches. Dragon Age Inquisition was ok but didn't float my boat, i highly recommend Witcher 3, possibly one of the best games I've played, the choices you make change the game, great characters, good story, excellent side quests one of the best games i ever played.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 7:11:33 GMT
Bought Dragon Age Inquisition the other day on a sale. I enjoyed the other parts in the series, however, I think they are not as good story-wise as the wonderful Mass Effect series (Mass Effect 2 is one of my all-time favorite games ever). It might literally taking me forever to finish this, since I work full-time and only can spare a few hours a week for it. It took me maybe 6 months to finish Far Cry 3, and I am only 1 third into Far Cry Primal... so the money I paid was pretty much a long-term investment. I started out and first impression is, yes, this looks good, and it has the usual feel I get from this series, but right from the start I was aware that this certainly was not Mass Effect 2. I am still interested enough to keep going, and hope I will find a few more interesting characters along the way. But I can see where some of the criticism is coming from. Mass Effect now were talking, barring the third games endings none of which i liked i loved playing these games, great storytelling, wonderful characters & your decisions carry over from each game was brilliant. I also enjoyed the fourth game, post patches. Dragon Age Inquisition was ok but didn't float my boat, i highly recommend Witcher 3, possibly one of the best games I've played, the choices you make change the game, great characters, good story, excellent side quests one of the best games i ever played. Ahh, Mass Effect... They were able to capture that glorious feeling in space operas where you bonded to the ship just as strongly as the characters living on it. That same sense of home as the Enterprise, Andromeda, Liberator, Moya, the Orville, where it becomes physically painful to see anything happen to it. The DLC for the second game where you're trudging through the snow collecting dog tags has to be one of my strongest memories. No added characters. Only a handful of dialogue, at best. Just one long homage to how significant the Normandy ended up being as a player.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 9, 2020 7:14:09 GMT
Went back out of curiosity & completed Last Of Us 2 & boy i wish i hadn't,
Being such a fan of the first game i had high expectations graphically it did not disappoint, gameplay decent but little clunky at times however the story was an insult to its predecessor, the relationships built throughout the first are immediately abandoned replaced with a generic revenge plot which isn't even by the end while playing as Abbey in the games second half adds nothing because i hated the character i couldn't care less why she did what she did.
It is obvious that Neil Druckmann is implementing his PC twaddle rather than wroting an engaging story & just ticking boxes to keep the woke brigade happy, this is Joel & Elles story & there was plenty more they could've done with these characters, the flashback scenes was the only time this felt true to the original & there is no way Joel & Tommy been so trusting & fallen for that trap, the factions aren't given any depth, the SCARS & Wolfs i mean who are they? what there story arc of how came to be?
Also there's no mention about a possible cure or if anyone else is immune & the story mentions the approaching herd of infected moving towards the camp but never resolved,
And the ending OMG, it's awful just awful i hated it, with the main character emotionally broken left with nothing, yeah good ending that Druckmann.
For those who enjoyed it that's cool it just didn't work for me, i just wish i stuck to my guns & quit my playthrough after that shocking scene.
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