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Played through Dark Pictures: Little Hope as it was leaving PS+. Much better than Man of Medan with a bit more of a classic spooky setting. There's a lot that I like with these type of games but the Dark Pictures anthology clearly has less polish than Until Dawn. The actions and results often feel quite chopped together rather than seamless. Like all these games, not sure how much impact your choices actually have on story. I replayed the ending twice, changing my choices without it actually leading to any signifcant change.
Hopefully House of Ashes comes to subscriptions at some point. Have heard it's the best in the series.
Hopefully House of Ashes comes to subscriptions at some point. Have heard it's the best in the series.
SirKicksalot
Member
Star Wars Outlaws
Boy it sounds great. And the cities are dense and beautiful.
The problem is that I played a lot of Avatar, and this is a very dumbed down Avatar. It's like those memes of what happens when a PC series is ported to consoles.
Avatar is basically Crysis in the open world of Far Cry Primal. It has many gadgets and systems which translate into tons of options. The AI is vicious. The freedom of movement is unparalleled. Infiltrating one of the many gigantic facilities is intimidating.
Outlaws is cut from the same cloth but has... Almost none of that lol. The world is probably just as big - but has fewer travel options and fewer systems that feed into each other. The bases are huge - and patrolled by like ten stupid dudes, with barely any enemy variety. There are fewer tools in my arsenal. Everywhere I look I see the Avatar template but almost none of the variety that makes that game so fun.
Avatar makes you feel smart because it gives you a fuckton of toys and possibilities to combine them, and makes you face overwhelming odds. Outlaws makes you choose the back entrance (zero enemies) or the front entrance (two enemies) and puts an exploding barrel there as an optional tool.
If you fuck up stealth, Avatar has that Far Cry 2 style of improvisation where things go completely nuts and you might end up accidentally torching the entire outpost and yourself. Outlaws has a shitty blaster (I appreciate the commitment!) and if you're lucky you find a shitty weapon on the ground.
Anyway I played 12 hours and I guess I'll focus on the main quests because it's not bad, it's just kinda boring. It has all the bones of a good game but it's too damn simple.
Boy it sounds great. And the cities are dense and beautiful.
The problem is that I played a lot of Avatar, and this is a very dumbed down Avatar. It's like those memes of what happens when a PC series is ported to consoles.
Avatar is basically Crysis in the open world of Far Cry Primal. It has many gadgets and systems which translate into tons of options. The AI is vicious. The freedom of movement is unparalleled. Infiltrating one of the many gigantic facilities is intimidating.
Outlaws is cut from the same cloth but has... Almost none of that lol. The world is probably just as big - but has fewer travel options and fewer systems that feed into each other. The bases are huge - and patrolled by like ten stupid dudes, with barely any enemy variety. There are fewer tools in my arsenal. Everywhere I look I see the Avatar template but almost none of the variety that makes that game so fun.
Avatar makes you feel smart because it gives you a fuckton of toys and possibilities to combine them, and makes you face overwhelming odds. Outlaws makes you choose the back entrance (zero enemies) or the front entrance (two enemies) and puts an exploding barrel there as an optional tool.
If you fuck up stealth, Avatar has that Far Cry 2 style of improvisation where things go completely nuts and you might end up accidentally torching the entire outpost and yourself. Outlaws has a shitty blaster (I appreciate the commitment!) and if you're lucky you find a shitty weapon on the ground.
Anyway I played 12 hours and I guess I'll focus on the main quests because it's not bad, it's just kinda boring. It has all the bones of a good game but it's too damn simple.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
uncreativename
Member
I tried installing Far Cry 3 but it soft froze every time on the logo screen at launch. Apparently the solution might be to set my entire pc to use less cores lol. Fuck that. C'mon Ubisoft. Uninstalling for now if I can't get it working soon.
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crackajack
Member
All 4 Dark Pictures games were already in the Plus sub. House of Ashes and Devil in Me left earlier for some reason. Man of Medan was in Essential, so anyone that has gotten it back then should be able to play it forever as long they have an active sub. Only PS4 though, while the games while in the Extra tier were also PS5.
Maybe it comes back some day. Together with Quarry and the current sci-fi game as a package deal.
Maquette
Finished it after having it installed and started forever ago. The puzzles were okay, but also clumsy with how easy it can be to just not see one item and thus not get the problem/ next step and then naturally struggling how to solve it. The story was depressingly real with how much the nagging of a female, expecting only the highs of love, and dragging down her partner's mood with her own impossible expectations, can sabotage the joy of any relationship. No idea though why you want to tell this in the end rather unrelated backstory inside this brightly colored puzzle game. Felt utterly mismatched in tone.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I'm looking for a game to play before 007 and Mina come out in a week and I decided not to start Crimson Desert because I don't want to learn a game that apparently has a steep learning curve only to stop cold to play two other games and fall out of the flow and rhythm of the game. So I'll start it after. I decided to start Nobody Saves the World.
Anyone have thoughts on this game?
Anyone have thoughts on this game?
Shifty1897
Member
Advance Wars 1+2 on Switch 2: I have the first campaign beaten, about 10 missions into the second. It's a shame WayForward never got a chance to patch the game, it was about two patches from greatness. I'm still having fun with it, but to be honest it just makes me miss Dual Strike on the DS, that was my favorite AW game by far.
On the PS5 Pro I'm still churning through FF7 Rebirth, trying to 100% as much of the game as I can (so far the only thing I realize I'm never getting a trophy for is the piano mini game, I played about three rounds of that and realized it wasn't happening for me lol). I'm about 73 hours in and am sending a point of no return coming up so I've cleaned up almost all the side quests I can find. I still have two more that I know of left but both seem to require higher leveled characters so I'm grinding out unfinished challenges in the Chadley Combat Simulator. I really wanted to beat this game before I leave to go on vacation on Sunday but I don't see that happening with work, packing and kids in the mix.
On the PS5 Pro I'm still churning through FF7 Rebirth, trying to 100% as much of the game as I can (so far the only thing I realize I'm never getting a trophy for is the piano mini game, I played about three rounds of that and realized it wasn't happening for me lol). I'm about 73 hours in and am sending a point of no return coming up so I've cleaned up almost all the side quests I can find. I still have two more that I know of left but both seem to require higher leveled characters so I'm grinding out unfinished challenges in the Chadley Combat Simulator. I really wanted to beat this game before I leave to go on vacation on Sunday but I don't see that happening with work, packing and kids in the mix.
Gonzito
Gold Member
So I bought a month of Game Pass on PC and tried Subnautica 2 and Forza Horizon 6.
Both games are decent, but I got bored pretty quickly after a few hours. I guess they're just not really my type of games but I still wanted to give them a try
Next I'm going to try Lego Batman and 007. Hopefully those can keep me interested for longer. I am a big fan of Batman in general and I loved the modern Hitman Trilogy so I have high hopes for these two games
Both games are decent, but I got bored pretty quickly after a few hours. I guess they're just not really my type of games but I still wanted to give them a try
Next I'm going to try Lego Batman and 007. Hopefully those can keep me interested for longer. I am a big fan of Batman in general and I loved the modern Hitman Trilogy so I have high hopes for these two games
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
Pure coincidence but yesterday I restarted Far Cry 4 on my XSX.
I want to get back into it as I barely played when it first released.
I crashed as the prologue ended and my save was corrupted
Oh well I'll try again tonight.
uncreativename
Member
That sucks! Hopefully it's just a freak coincidence and not something that just happens every timePure coincidence but yesterday I restarted Far Cry 4 on my XSX.
I want to get back into it as I barely played when it first released.
I crashed as the prologue ended and my save was corrupted
Oh well I'll try again tonight.
.While I was trying to fix 3 I did read that their engine in that period wasn't very good compared to how it was before and how it would be in the future, so now we have issues trying to run those games.
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uncreativename
Member
Also I never realized until now that the same actor, Michael Mando, who plays Vaas in Fary Cry 3 also plays Nacho in Better Call Saul . Cool.
Also he's from Quebec City so he apparently did the French version of Vaas himself, too.
. Cool.Also he's from Quebec City so he apparently did the French version of Vaas himself, too.
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RAIDEN1
Member
I'm still very early in the game and looking to get to the point where you are on good terms with all the factions...(Some way to go yet..) I haven't brought the game but playing it on Gamepass, but progress on that is on hold, as Forza Horizon 6 arrived...!! Unfortuantely what you had mentioned of it having the bones of a good game, it will never get the chance to build up on as the sequel got cancelled...I would have like to have seen in the sequel you being able to hop onto any abandoned bike instead of only being allowed to use your own designated one...Also the sequel could have had Maul in it in some capacity...