The Video Game Thread

[moon_lit_tears]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Smasher1311" data-cite="Smasher1311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You got South Park already?<p> </p><p> I.NEED.THIS.SHIT.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Was an early Birthday gift to my wonderful Fiance. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DanMTheMan" data-cite="DanMTheMan" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just bought South Park: The Stick of Truth, it just installed and I'm about to begin the fun. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yes yes yes. The game is awesome.</p><p> </p><p> @TJB. One thing I liked and the only thing I've done in the game was pooping. I love button mashers. (which is why I loved MArio party games) and I got a poop nugget. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Took my guy a little bit to figure out how to get past the rats, but after he did it was pretty awesome.</p><p> </p><p> The fact you can break things, and hit people Hell Cartmans mom sounds really weird when you hit her, and the things you find in her bedroom</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> HOLLY HELL....<img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[DanMTheMan]

Ugh...hate the fart attacks, can NEVER get them to work! Takes me 10 minutes to learn each one!

 

LOVING the game so far!

[Jaysin]

Just finished GTA V, ending was actually anti climatic. I just option C, so I'm not sure if A and B were anti climatic, but I couldn't bring myself to kill Trevor or Michael.

 

Any idea when they're supposed to add heists to GTA Online? Those were so fun.

 

Story mode was fairly short, but it was so fun that I'm ok with it. I wish you could buy the Aston Martin(Dewbauchee JB700) with spikes and guns. I felt like a black James Bond driving it. It was so much fun.

[moon_lit_tears]

Ugh...hate the fart attacks, can NEVER get them to work! Takes me 10 minutes to learn each one!

 

LOVING the game so far!

 

I just tried it. Was sorta hard to understand. After you get it though....freaking funny.

[D-Lyrium]

The South Park game deserves massive props for feeling, looking and sounding exactly like an episode of South Park, but I'm just not a fan of South Park's humour most of the time so I doubt I'll get it.

 

Though the cutscene when you first meet a certain little brown dude was *hilarious*, and reminded me of why I used to like SP sometimes.

 

 

 

In other news, I'm upgrading my PC, and some of the shiny boxes of glory arrived today.

 

This'll be the first PC (first anything, really) I've ever owned that'll be genuinely awesome. Previously I've had either hand-me-downs from friends that I've upgraded piecemeal, or (like my last PC in 2004) lower-mid range spec because that's all I could afford. Well, poor old lower-mid range spec 2004 PC finally met a game that it couldn't even run acceptably on very low graphics settings (Thief, which brought it to it's knees with a hideous 2.4FPS on THE TITLE SCREEN).

 

So enough is enough, as Owen Hart would say, it's time for a change.

 

3.4GHz Intel i7 CPU.

3GB Asus GTX 780 GFX card.

120GB Kingston SSD (for the OS. I already owned this; it's currently used as my steam drive but is nowhere near big enough).

500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (for Steam. That was an expensive bastard...)

2TB Seagate Barracuda platter drive (for movies/music/stuff that isn't games)

16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 RAM.

All in a Coolermaster Elite 335U tower.

 

Bring it on, Thief, you badly-optimised yet glorious bastard. I could even play Planetside 2 with this thing. ¬_¬ And Skyrim above Low settings. I'll never need Low settings ever again (for a couple of years). Muhahahaha.

 

Ok, gloating over.

 

But it IS my birthday in 10 days. I deserve a present.

[RayW]

Haha, I'm waiting on my new PC as well. I've always bought cheap PC's and then spent more doing them up, but then I've also always bought computer consoles too. There isn't anything that is drawing me to the new generation of consoles so I decided I was going to get a new PC... Then my current PC blew up (thankfully the second HDD which was a 1TB survived), so I decided the time to get a new one is now. I've been extremely greedy with the specs but my wife is paying some of it as an early Christmas present, and also on the understanding that I am not going to get a new gen console. I ordered it from PCSpecialist.co.uk and just waiting on it now.

 

3.7GHz Intel i7 CPU

4GB Nvidia GTX 770 GFX card

2TB HDD

(Plus my current 1TB HDD)

16GB KINGSTON RAM (2x8GB Cards)

 

I literally can't wait. I'm using an old PC that just isn't fit for anything, it's so slow and sluggish it feels like I've gone back a decade in technology. I'm happy my 1TB drive survived when my main PC died because it had most of my Steam stuff on there.

[DanMTheMan]

I am absolutely furious with the third fart attack in SP:SoT! Tried it, as of writing this, 15 times....can not get it to ****ing work. I'm can't progress the story until I learn this stupid attack so I guess I'll hold off learning it until no more side-quests are available....or one gets too hard for me at the moment coughgorecough.

[Blackman]

Must...get...SP game...

 

40€ is a little much imo, but then again, I owe those guys for their free streaming of SP episodes. I've watched pretty much all of them again in the span on a couple of months.

[D-Lyrium]

Haha, I'm waiting on my new PC as well. I've always bought cheap PC's and then spent more doing them up, but then I've also always bought computer consoles too. There isn't anything that is drawing me to the new generation of consoles so I decided I was going to get a new PC... Then my current PC blew up (thankfully the second HDD which was a 1TB survived), so I decided the time to get a new one is now. I've been extremely greedy with the specs but my wife is paying some of it as an early Christmas present, and also on the understanding that I am not going to get a new gen console. I ordered it from PCSpecialist.co.uk and just waiting on it now.

 

3.7GHz Intel i7 CPU

4GB Nvidia GTX 770 GFX card

2TB HDD

(Plus my current 1TB HDD)

16GB KINGSTON RAM (2x8GB Cards)

 

I literally can't wait. I'm using an old PC that just isn't fit for anything, it's so slow and sluggish it feels like I've gone back a decade in technology. I'm happy my 1TB drive survived when my main PC died because it had most of my Steam stuff on there.

 

Looks good.

 

I used PCSpecialists to spec the PC, then bought the components myself (a combination of dabs.com and eBuyer). Worked out quite a bit cheaper. But I guess if you're not comfortable/can't be arsed to do it yourself then the extra cost is worth it for peace of mind and the tech support can be worth it.

 

Plus it means you don't spend all that money and realise you forgot to buy a motherboard. ¬_¬ Not that I've ever done that.

[Dawn]

I found a pretty good deal here for the SP game, R$56. Pretty good, i'll get it very quickly.

[jesterx7769]

I have put a few hours in the SP game and not too impressed so far from the actual game standpoint.

 

From a South Park humor/tie in/animation its great and that is the huge huge selling point. You will laugh and have fun pointing out easter eggs frome arly seasons.

 

However from a game standpoint it is lacking for me. First, its $60 for a 15-20 no online play game. That's kind of steep in today's game market for no online or replay ability.

 

Second is the combat. I read how good the combat is and how its like an RPG but I am actually disappointed by it big time. I really don't like the real time click thing, I feel like its cheap in games and trying to add more fake game play (looking at you Tomb Raider and your button mashing). I don't feel smart or strategic because I clicked the mouse on time.

 

For a $20 steam sale, yeah its super fun, but I think the humor and animation is getting it greatly over rated from an actual game which lots of reviews and previews hyped up.

[Blackman]

I don't think many people expect it to be top-notch gameplay. But indeed: 40€ for a one-time deal. I don't think 15 hours of playtime is a problem nowadays, but you at least expect the 'gaming' experience to be bearable. I hope that's the case for this game.

[DanMTheMan]

I don't think many people expect it to be top-notch gameplay. But indeed: 40€ for a one-time deal. I don't think 15 hours of playtime is a problem nowadays, but you at least expect the 'gaming' experience to be bearable. I hope that's the case for this game.

 

I am no longer stuck!!! :D After reading a pair of guides, I finally figured out the two annoying parts that started to hold me back. Now, I'm starting some smooth sailing towards the end. LOVED Everything so far, gonna have to go back through in another save though...want to get every achievement and some aren't possible for me.

[moon_lit_tears]

I am no longer stuck!!! :D After reading a pair of guides, I finally figured out the two annoying parts that started to hold me back. Now, I'm starting some smooth sailing towards the end. LOVED Everything so far, gonna have to go back through in another save though...want to get every achievement and some aren't possible for me.

 

 

Were you stuck on the Key ?

[RayW]

Looks good.

 

I used PCSpecialists to spec the PC, then bought the components myself (a combination of dabs.com and eBuyer). Worked out quite a bit cheaper. But I guess if you're not comfortable/can't be arsed to do it yourself then the extra cost is worth it for peace of mind and the tech support can be worth it.

 

Plus it means you don't spend all that money and realise you forgot to buy a motherboard. ¬_¬ Not that I've ever done that.

Pretty much the bolded part. I initially used PCSpecialist to spec too, then looked around. Had I bought everything seperately I'd have saved about £200, but I'm not too comfortable building a PC from scratch. I've upgraded everything inside a PC except a motherboard and it's never bothered me, but I'm not too sure about building one. I'd hate to mess something up and ruin one (or several) of the components, and then essentially have wasted money. This way I get it done for me, I get a warranty (I think it's 2 years but I'm not sure), and I can pay it off over 12 months instead of shelling it all out now (and over 12 months is interest free). So even though it's costing quite a chunk more than it should, it gives me ease of mind.

[D-Lyrium]

Yeah, it's a great service, you certainly get a lot for the extra cost. Not to rub it in, but I just got done building mine. It's sweeeet.

 

SSD's make such a difference, it's freakishly fast to boot/shut down now, and eerily silent compared to my old hard drives screaming every time I asked for a file and the little fans going full whack to try and keep up... although with my crappy internet connection, downloading my Steam library again is going to take a few weeks.

[RayW]

I feel your pain on the internet speed. I have terrible internet speeds where I am - so much so that I don't connect my phone to the wifi because my 3G internet is as fast (sometimes faster) than my Sky Broadband. We get about 4Mbits here, the road behind me get 15Mbits <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[RKOwnage]

Just finished Tomb Raider. It was a solid reboot even though the ending felt rushed and the supporting characters weren't really fleshed out. It's got a lot of potential, the game was pretty fun.

[Dawn]

And i just got Tomb Raider. I'm in the Mountain Village. Pretty awesome game thus far and the best one that i got with PS Plus thus far.

[RayW]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RKOwnage" data-cite="RKOwnage" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just finished Tomb Raider. It was a solid reboot even though the ending felt rushed and the supporting characters weren't really fleshed out. It's got a lot of potential, the game was pretty fun.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Smasher1311" data-cite="Smasher1311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>And i just got Tomb Raider. I'm in the Mountain Village. Pretty awesome game thus far and the best one that i got with PS Plus thus far.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm assuming you got these on PS+? I tried to download it the other day, says it needs 12GB of space, I have 17GB free and it was saying that there wasn't enough space. I only have a 40GB HDD on my PS3 (it's pretty old) and I'm playing Remember Me right now with BioShock Infinite also downloaded ready to play, so I'll wait and finish Remember Me and try again.</p><p> </p><p> On another note, did you guys play Brothers? I did. It was alright, it's very short (about 2-3 hours), but having to control two characters at the same time was often quite the challenge. I wouldn't say it was a great game, but it was a great story. Almost like an 'interactive movie' type thing.</p>

[D-Lyrium]

Brothers was one of my favourite games of 2013. To be fair, it was one of the few "good" games that I could actually play on my PC at the time (haven't played Tomb Raider, for instance, The Last Of Us or BioShock Infinite)... but I really loved it. Great story, great mechanics, just really fun and awesome experience all around.

[RayW]

I agree, a very good experience. It's the first game in a while to actually toy with my emotions, I haven't had that happen for a few years (I'm trying to think and the last game to have done that may have been Gears of War 2 with the story of Dom and his wife).

[lazorbeak]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RayW" data-cite="RayW" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I agree, a very good experience. It's the first game in a while to actually toy with my emotions, I haven't had that happen for a few years (I'm trying to think and the last game to have done that may have been Gears of War 2 with the story of Dom and his wife).</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Speaking of short indie games that make people feel emotions, did anyone else play Gone Home? It's a bit gimmicky but I can't remember the last time I got that attached to characters I never even met.</p>

[D-Lyrium]

I haven't played Gone Home, didn't really look like my sort of game.

 

On the subject of emotion-provoking indie games though, even though it's a bit old now, Bastion is still top of the list for me.

[Blackman]

<p>Bought Conquest of Elysium III, which is now on sale on Steam for 2,5€. It's supposed to be a lot of Civilization-like, but set in a fantasy-setting. The gfx are 2D, but given the fact that I generally play Civ V in 'boardgame-mode' (which is so much more awesome and clear to play), I don't mind one bit. Watch this

</p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7ErwzqRMDJo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Conquest of Elysium 3 - Episode 1"></iframe></div></div> is you feel like seeing what it's about.<p> </p><p>

Maybe I'll never decide to play it, but at least I'll sponsor a good cause.</p><p> </p><p>

As for indie emotion games: I've posted on the previous page that "To the moon" is actually quite good from a narrative point of view. It'll only cost you a couple of hours and a couple of bucks for some great emotional experience.</p>