JCC Gaming Förceboat Parté - JC G4m3z thr34d (Gaming General Discussion)

I WANT MY NEW ASSASSINS CREED NOW. MAKE TIME GO FASTER @solojones

I'm doing a replay of the Dragon Age series. It's my favorite Bioware series, and I can't wait for Dragon Age 4 in 2091.

 

I am gonna just play Rogue remastered this year to hold me over, since I never finished it.

 

The Outer Wilds has convinced me I need a new PC. Even on medium it's choppy as heck.

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Really? well you know where to go

 

Problem is I'm broke as ****. The main issue is that I've not updated any of the hardware in mine in five years. At this point it's easier for me to go and buy a whole new system.

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Turns out Crystal Dynamics learnt sweet **** all from their first Tomb Raider, as I went back to Rise of the Tomb Raider and it has it turned into a gigantic steaming turd of utter bullcrap. What's more the game lied out of its arse, it had a set of firefights that actually made sense, you could actually, just about see your enemies - essential for a cover based shooter and it kind of worked. It then threw all of that away with a flamethrower ****er boss, apparently if you have flamethrower you are immune to all bullets. And he's super agile and no, you can't get behind him easily but he can kill Glass Lara in two hits.

Having just about got past that,the game then decides to do a firefight where there are actually 10 enemies, all with armour who take about 10 bullets each, all with superhuman vision and aim and hearing, there's no cover worth a damn, the camera ensures you will be flanked, you will be killed and it's a difficulty spike that comes out of nowhere. You might take out 3 stealthily but the rest, you have no ****in' chance. Hell, you can't even see them but they'll see you through a ****in' wall, count on it.

So **** this game, **** Crystal Dynamics who are a bunch of goddamn ****in' morons. There's no way I'm giving Shadow of the Tomb Raider any time of day either after this *****. I was enjoying the game, it was enjoyable and then these sections, blatant pandering to the 'it's not hard enough' crowd who can all **** off to the Souls genre and have their arse handed to them 24/7.

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider I would call a puzzler first and shooter second. None of the shooting was hard..but if you don't like the others there's probably no point. Personally I like them all.

 

That's actually an encouragement given that its the combat that I tend to dislike.

At least in the first game grenade arrows killed shield guys, now? The ****ers are immortal to everything. I sent 3 grenade arrows into one guy, one at shield, one at the knees, one at the floor - sweet feck all effect. They may as well just say it was a personal forcefield as it was that effective. If they're going with that then there should be always be molotovs present because its the only solution the game allows.

Oh yeah and Leopards, invisible, always in the camera blindspot and immune to bullets.

Did get past that ****in' courtyard but only with a literal step-by-step guide, which just shouldn't be needed.

As to the series overall, story is good, characterisation is good, most of the platforming works, but all the supposed human enemies shrug off bullets and arrows in a way that breaks the game. These things are supposed to hurt people.

 

I've said this before itt, but I liked the @tom Braider reboot, but not so much its sequels. You're better off playing something else.

 

Well, turns out I'm around 75% of the way through the story now, which is unexpected so having gone that far...

 

Just announced Death Stranding is coming to PC next summer.

More people get to enjoy the wackiness.

 

Have I ever mentioned just how much I love @Jedi Ben 's reviews? Even when he's wrong, he's just so damn entertaining.

 

Or just keep posting, because I will not read a blog, I fully admit

 

The recent Tomb Raider trilogy is amazing. I didn’t have any issues and I certainly didn’t find them difficult.

 

How nice for you, come this way and have an accident with this here hammer....

Did get a bit further Monday, will post it later. Made it out of the Flooded Archives and back to the valley. Rendered that one bit earlier as an outlier.

 

Monday's server delayed summary:

Back in the Geothermal valley having:

• Walked in a horror scene of torched bad guys
• Gassed a good few enemies, got a group of three and then one of four – poison arrows are fun.
• Plus a spot of shooting including big, red explosive barrels
• Done a puzzle to blow up a statue
• Done a mad chase out
• Got a rebreather! Makes the water bits far better.

The Greek Fire depot puzzle is a good example of how puzzles do and don’t work for me as the right side, with the crane and having to rope things together made no sense to me as ropes only go to posts, not anything else, thus the idea of roping barrels just doesn’t enter this structure. Whereas after doing that, the left side was easier to work out without any help.

The next section is going to be quite interesting as Lara has a good few new abilities, might end up being another massacre. I’m convinced that, after a certain point in the game, if the enemies know Lara is present they should be legging as fast as they can!

The other element I’m not sold on, but Uncharted is guilty of this same charge, is the Deathless. Feels like a retread of the Oni. It’s a common mistake, reusing an idea from the previous game – Uncharted did it a couple of times with the Yetis and Djinn in 2 and 3.

 

Not sure who all plays phone games ( i never thought i would but boy was i wrong.)

Digimon ReArise is everything I never knew I wanted on my phone, sans insane “gatcha” rates.

Still prefer Digimon to pkmn. And i am waiting with bated breath on my Pkmn Shield preorder.

 

It does look good.

Reviews available from tomorrow.

I was waiting for the reviews then I was debating taking Friday off if it looked promising (which it does so far)
I now have a half day workshop

 

I can't play it right away because I have to lay down that whole weekend after a procedure, and then I am gonna be gone a week, then I have Jedi Fallen Order to play... So yeah, I wound up just asking for it for Christmas instead.

 

First world problems, so many games to play, so little time.....

 

Jedi order with more than likely end up being a second hand purchase. It just doesn't appeal to me.

 

If you're after innovation, J:FO won't supply it. It's looking a nice game, but a very safe one too.

 

I want to support an actual single player Star Wars game. I hope it sells really well.