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

Triss AND Yen... Oh boy, I’m having bad flashbacks to my first playthrough.

 

Who was a bad boy then?

 

Booted up Toussaint on B&W and the art/graphics are better than an oil painting.

10/10, would leave reality for toussaint.

 

Told yeh.

Meanwhile, after clocking in at 265 hours across nearly four months, for the first time ever, I have Platinumed a game!

I don't usually ever get to do this because the trophy list will have something I'll never pull out like 'get a perfect 1000 hit combo on 10 enemies in a row', so I haven't really cared about it because it was always out of reach. Assassin's Creed Odyssey though, hey, I actually had most of the trophies, so went after the remainder and managed to get 'em.

 

Nice! I have never platinumed an AC game because there are just too many collectibles usually or too many locations to visit in these newer games because they're so vast. And because I only want to spend 100 hours, not 250+ hours

So what other games have people platinumed? For me for a long time it was only Telltale games, which are cheating because they give you the plat just for finishing the whole story.

But when Destiny 2 came out, I finally got my first *real* platinum. This was back when a Prestige Nightfall counted for the trophy The Prestige, so I only had to beat the Leviathan Raid on normal difficulty... but it counted! I got the plat in pretty quick order, just a few months after the game came out if I recall. I'm proud of that because only like 2.6% of players have the platinum. I just wish I had gotten an emblem or armor set for it

 

See, I loved exploring those AC worlds, one trophy was for 100% exploration. I had, no joke, 99.53%.

Turns out there was this one island that everyone missed, me too. Went there, got it.

 

I love exploring but I didn't need to find every single Lion den or whatever. Some of those locations didn't have anything unique to see really, so I didn't go there.

I got a higher completion percentage on Origins because I felt the environments were more unique.

 

Geralt going to the bank in Toussaint is the most I’ve ever identified with a video game character.

 

So, I've been sitting at like halfway through episode five of LiS for like four days now and I just cannot motivate myself to pick it up and finish it. I mean, I'm going to, because I really do feel the need to talk at length about how I actually really dislike this game now and it wouldn't be fair to do so without finishing it. So, brace yourselves, 99% of the people reading this thread; I will be going through LiS episode by episode and talking about how it starts really well and then just slowly goes off a cliff, so that will be fun for exactly no one, but I'll put it all behind spoiler tags so you guys can just skip it.

But I actually came here to say something else. I started a tradition last year where I would play a horror game during October (not that I don't already play plenty through the rest of the year) and the game I ordered for that purpose arrived today. I was so excited that I booted it right up tonight and I am now about thirty minutes into Until Dawn. Holy ****. Holy. ****. This game is amazing. Again, I'm only thirty minutes in, but I love every mechanic they've introduced so far and the game looks amazing. The totems concept is particularly cool; I love that you collect the totems in order to complete the flashback video . . . that is so intriguing and cool. And that Prologue was genuinely super-intense, so I can't wait for the **** to get crazy in the real story. Something about the choice mechanic here just feels really intense in a way that even the timed choices in the Telltale games didn't. This is going to be so great.

 

I enjoyed Life Is Strange but the sequel has lost me after just one episode. Hamfisted attempts at political allegory, gameplay that is mostly (if not entirely) dominated by walking around, underwhelming premise - it's a real waste. It lacks anything and everything of what made the first game so enjoyable.

As for me, Season 1 of Hitman - it's glorious.

 

Oh, God, and that was actually originally up next after LiS. I kind of started LiS so I could play LiS 2, even though I think the connections aren't super explicit. And I bought LiS 2 on the strength of its Games for Impact nomination at TGA last year. I doubt I'm going to play it now.

 

If LiS isn't your jam, LiS2 will be nothing but a grind. You're welcome to try but...

 

I don't care if you hate LiS if you wind up loving Until Dawn I adore that game so much, I played it all in one sitting. Yes that was like 8 hours and I finished around 3am. Wild ride, that game. I also like the PSVR prequel The Inpatient, though many people didn't seem to due to mechanical issues. But meh, love that world.

Which reminds me I need to play Man of Medan really badly! I might wind up playing that all in one sitting as well, who knows.

 

One important thing to note is that Halo Infinite is coming out next year and both of these guys are big FPS players (Ninja started with Halo if I'm not mistaken). For those who don't know, Mixer is owned by Microsoft. So perhaps they are trying to compete with Twitch but I feel like a lot of this is driven by them trying to promote their next big game on their own live streaming service.

 

So Ubisoft just had a big investor call, where they announced that after the disappointment of Breakpoint, they're delaying all the games currently on their slate. Watchdogs Legion, the next Rainbow Six... who knows if this includes the unannounced AC game. Guess they want to make sure those games are more polished and do well.

So maybe take out the microtransactions...?

 

My copy of the Outer Worlds is in the post. Guaranteed.

Yeah, might help. This was, in part, why I've bought Outer Worlds. I rarely buy new games these days unless it's something that I think really needs the support like say the Yakuza series.

 

Ubisoft abandon microtransactions? I can hear Jim Sterling laugh.

 

They don't have terrible ones in AC, since it's single player and who cares if you get an XP boost there... Maybe at least keep it to that?

Anyway, Ubi just announced those two games and Gods and Monsters won't be coming out until July-Dec and will now be pushed as next gen games. Probably will help Legion run better, what with all characters being playable.

 

Wow, I'm a big supporter of games getting delayed until they're actually, you know, good, but delaying your entire schedule of games at one go? That's intense.

 

got outer worlds yesterday and it's great. both the gf and I are having an absolute blast in the game (and it doesn't hurt how the game portrays a capitalist nightmare universe hehehehhee). It's very much a successor to New Vegas, and if you're disappointed with Fallout 4/76, this is something you're gonna wanna play. Basically: House got his wish.

 

Yeah I am too. But they say now some of them at least will be PS5/Scarlett games. So that's a very big delay. Hopefully it works out.

I asked for The Outer Worlds for Christmas, so I will have to wait a while.