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Mike and Eichs said:
I finished the story of Far Cry 3 and moved on to the 4th one. It's only downhill from here.

It's definitely got some picturesque moments in the open world but I don't think a single moment from the story REALLY made me interested. I now remember why I don't usually replay this one, because I lost all interest in the story the moment I unlocked the Arena activity. The only other missions that actually seemed interesting were the ones that took place in Shangri-La, and that's optional content.
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If you're still willing to take on Farcry 5 and have it on PC, the mod scene for it is pretty good. Better Ballistics is a must have since it..well, changes the ballistics and gun behavior massively, and makes gunfights effing deadly, both for you and enemies. Just turn it off for turret sections, it makes them impossible.
 
The best Far Cry is Far Cry: Primal. That one was heavenly and the plot was "evil Neolithic slavers and evil cannibal Neanderthals are invading, genocide all of them to secure a future for the Paleolithic race." Unga bunga.
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I played this for the first time recently (I skipped it when it released even though I'd played all the FC games) and was pleasantly surprised. The combat was very satisfying and the map was fun to explore. I dug popping headshots with the bow and throwing spears around, and the importance of hunting and foraging in an environment teeming with wildlife was also pretty enjoyable. It did become a repetitive grind but that is to be expected with this later era of FC games and with Ubisoft in general, and in this case it was completely tolerable and I didn't mind. It's one of the better FC games IMO
 
I saw a trailer for the 3D beat'em'up Dragon Khan and decided to give the demo a try.


Being less harsh on some things because they're ostensibly a tiny-ass studio:

- It's UE5 so it runs pretty bad and has tons of gross post-processing effects. Leans on DLSS/XeSS, for example.
- It sets all options to ULTRA by default so it runs even worse at first.
- All voice acting seems to be AI generated. I don't reflexively hate AI, but these voices are bad.
- Environments feel super inconsistent, I have a feeling most of the game is asset packs. No effort has been made to make the typical fantasy assets mesh together with the random Giger-esque textures on some walls and floors.
- The basic gameplay is actually alright. Combat seems quite fun, and while parkour  looks jank, it didnt break.

Tl;dr: The usual UE5 stereotypes apply, but the actual gameplay itself is acceptable. They need real voice actors, and they need to try and make the disparate asset packs they've used fit together.
 
Finishing up the original Red Dead, saved the stranger missions for Jack since he has basically no story content, and I feel like the kind of weird and depressing little adventures fit post-game emptiness as it forces Jack to confront the weird reality of how unpleasant life as an outlaw gunslinger really is. Gonna cap the game off with killing Ross and be done with it.

It is strange how different but also similar the two games are. RDR is faster, more spaghetti western style game, whereas 2 sits squarely in reformist uber realism. It is a more action packed game but also doesn't have anywhere near as much to do in the open world itself, outside of repeatable bounties and random events.

Overall, pretty torn on which I like more. I appreciate the lack of missions about women's suffrage and nigger worship though.
 
Taking a break from the Far Cry games for a bit. Decided to pick up Dark Souls 2 again. I own a PS3 copy from shortly after the release, but I honestly don't remember where it is so I bought the Scholar of The First Sin version and I'm marching my way through it. Currently slamming my head against a wall with The Rotten.
 
Morrowind

Can't wait to meet my good friend Caius Cosades again

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Mike and Eichs said:
Taking a break from the Far Cry games for a bit. Decided to pick up Dark Souls 2 again. I own a PS3 copy from shortly after the release, but I honestly don't remember where it is so I bought the Scholar of The First Sin version and I'm marching my way through it. Currently slamming my head against a wall with The Rotten.
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The Rotten was one fight that would fuck with me repeatedly. Don't be ashamed to summon in some help, it really helps to have someone tanking his shit wether NPC or another player, and there are still plenty of people playing SotFS.
 
Been playing Nova Drift and actually kinda digging it. In between that and Hot Pursuit Remastered, I've just been playing a lot of older games. I'll eventually get around to playing and finishing Final Fantasy XVI, but I dunno. I'm just losing patience with a lot of RPGs and open world games. Been playing a lot of action platformers lately.
 
I just finished The Seance at Blake Manor, and it was a solid game. Steam is doing a detective sale right now, and there’s a free demo, so if a heavily stylized mystery game set in the 1700s sounds interesting, I recommend it.
 
I just bought and started Shin Megami Tensei VVengance on PC. I played the original release on Switch, so I’m eager to see the new story. It’s interesting to come back to this after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, since both games are on Unreal Engine, and seeing how wildly different two RPGs can look despite sharing technical DNA. I also found myself preparing to parry attacks when I got into my first battle lol.
 
Chess. I came across a thread on the Farms about some drama in the chess community and joined Chess.com to play some games.

After not playing for decades, I am absolute dog shit at it.

Also, Empire. I've owned this game in one form or another since the Commodore 64.
 
The Un-Clit said:
The Rotten was one fight that would fuck with me repeatedly.
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If I'm not mistaken the first time I played I reached his boss fight and put the game down for a bit. I was definitely not built right on that run since I had managed to kill the lost sinner and then brute force my way to Scorpion lady. I killed the scorpion guy without realizing he could be a summon and then after getting destroyed by her 20+ times I left and jumped in the Majula pit and then eventually encountered The Rotten. Not gonna lie, I'm still pretty trash at these games.
 
Mike and Eichs said:
If I'm not mistaken the first time I played I reached his boss fight and put the game down for a bit. I was definitely not built right on that run since I had managed to kill the lost sinner and then brute force my way to Scorpion lady. I killed the scorpion guy without realizing he could be a summon and then after getting destroyed by her 20+ times I left and jumped in the Majula pit and then eventually encountered The Rotten. Not gonna lie, I'm still pretty trash at these games.
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Don't feel bad, DS2 is the only one of the series I can beat consistantly and most of the bosses I kill solo but for The Rotten it dosen't seem to matter what build I use, I almost always end up using one of the two NPC summons in the zone to hold aggro for me while I blast him from range. As long as your build has some kind of decent ranged damage the NPC will stay alive long enough for you to chew him down and run away when he aggros on you.
 
Deus Exica said:
Overall, pretty torn on which I like more. I appreciate the lack of missions about women's suffrage and nigger worship though.
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RDR has the better horse gameplay and RDR2 didn't need horse balls reacting to the weather.
I think RDR2 has some more interesting characters in general but it also suffers from Current Year writing, albeit not nearly as disastrously bad as I imagine GTA6 will be. I did like majority of the diversity characters but some of them were really silly and unnecessary.
Original John Marston and family are a billion times better than RDR2 Marston. They really went hard on John being an imbecile and I didn't appreciate that.
Arthur is best boah however. Luv me High Honour Arthur Morgan, simple as.
 
PetiteFeet said:
RDR has the better horse gameplay and RDR2 didn't need horse balls reacting to the weather.
I think RDR2 has some more interesting characters in general but it also suffers from Current Year writing, albeit not nearly as disastrously bad as I imagine GTA6 will be. I did like majority of the diversity characters but some of them were really silly and unnecessary.
Original John Marston and family are a billion times better than RDR2 Marston. They really went hard on John being an imbecile and I didn't appreciate that.
Arthur is best boah however. Luv me High Honour Arthur Morgan, simple as.
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Forget the writing, the reason I dropped RDR2 despite buying it day one is how S L O W everything is in the game. Rockstar got high on their own supply and took the motion capture animations too far to the point that Arthur feels very unresponsive to control. When the game’s still in its honeymoon phase, you ignore it, but as the routine starts to set in, the sheer amount of time wasted watching overdone animations for everything adds up. I also wasn’t a fan of having to manage a home base in my outlaw simulator. RDR1 just had John Marston the Lone Star renegade doing lone star shit and it was fun. RDR2 instead wants me to remember the power of friendship and baby sit a bunch of jackasses and whores at a camp by doing a bunch of unfun chores and giving them my money.

And then you have the fact that the game is a post Breath of the Wild open world game that insists on maintaining the GTAIII open world design from 25 year ago, where the main game may as well be linear with the open world functionally acting as an overdone level selector. The missions are extremely restrictive and I found too many instances of getting a failed mission screen because I had a neat idea for how to solve the problem only for the game to unplug the cable because it wasn’t written in the script I was supposed to follow.
 
Großmann said:
how S L O W everything is in the game
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This is a very fair criticism to hold against the game, and modern Rockstar as a whole.
RDR1 is mindless fun with an occasional satirical criticism aimed at society but I never felt it veered into chastising you. You decide the pace you want to play the game at, you decide if you want to visit every Stranger first (and you usually want to visit them ASAP because R* has a nasty habit of locking content to a specific leg of the journey as you play), meanwhile RDR2 you are half if not outright forced to interact with Strangers that lead into the main storyline. You CANNOT avoid doing side content in RDR2, you can't just go off westward, no, you HAVE to talk to Dutch and you HAVE to listen to the plan Arthur.

I have to revisit RDR1 whenever I get my ps3 fixed, alternatively I can just get it on PC now (but fuck paying for a game I already own, and they didn't even add anything to the PC release, in fact the PC port is inferior despite the many years they had to deal with the spaghetti code, if they wanted to).

I do love both games but I feel reluctant to revisit RDR2. I don't want to do a low honour run because I like high honour Arthur a lot (noble criminal, soft masculine personality, total chick bait that plays right into every single stereotype you can have of women) and the fact that R* never gave us any DLC is upsetting.
Meanwhile RDR1's zombie DLC is fucking BANGER. I cannot overstate how much fun it is.

As a complete aside, I have one massive criticism for collect-a-thon games, particularly spurred on by a set of Stranger missions in RDR2 related to Algernon Wasp, mega faggot that he is.
If a game dev wants me to complete their game 100%, at least give me a way to track where I have/haven't found the items/persons I need. Not out of game, not on a third party website like the RDR2 interactive map made by fans. Not on an official Rockstar social club page like in L.A Noire. In game.
It can be an item I have to buy, or NG+ only, or something. Make it worth my time to spend hours picking flowers, if that's how I want to spend my day. Don't make me pull up a checklist with coordinates, painstakingly put together by fans, when you have the technology to easily implement immersive ways for me to keep tabs on things.
Arthur has his ability to track animals and shit, why can't I also get a map tracker like you get with the legendary animals. Arthur writes a lot in his journal, the information could be stored there. Even John fucking Marston, the imbecile that he is in RDR2, keeps a journal.
 
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