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manofthem · Apr 16, 2016

After finishing Infinite this afternoon, I struck up SOMA again for a few minutes. I'm excited to get into it again and have my pants moistened, in the non-sexual way. I haven't played it since launch so I'm pretty stoked

Anyone playing the Doom beta this weekend? I never got into it back in the day so I have no desire to nowadays, but I'm curious how it compares...since the reviews on Steam was pretty bad.

de.das.dude · Apr 16, 2016

Dirt Rally! Its great! But you really need a wheel setup to properly enjoy it!

rtwjunkie · Apr 16, 2016

manofthem said:
Yes you are very right. The game was very good. As it started wrapping up, you could feel some underlying tension, and in the end, it hits hard and good. Loved it, especially the nice throw back!

Did you do the burial at sea dlc's? They really do a great job of explaining the entire series and tying all 3 games together!

silentbogo · Apr 16, 2016

manofthem said:
Anyone playing the Doom beta this weekend? I never got into it back in the day so I have no desire to nowadays, but I'm curious how it compares...since the reviews on Steam was pretty bad.

Played last night for about an hour.
- Multiplayer is pretty average. I've only tried warpath mode, since it's the only new thing available, but it feels like regular "Capture the point" map in any other game.
- Shallow verticality. Both available maps are very wide, and there's not a single place where you can actually take advantage of height.
- Guns are weird. Standard sets are a bit unbalanced: heavy assault rifle and plasma gun don't really do crap (spent 15sec blasting both into the crowd of enemies - no one dies).
- Progression-based gameplay may hurt it in the future, since a new player may be at slight disadvantage comparing to someone who played for a day and got tons of new guns and power-ups
- Graphics is mediocre. Probably since Carmack left there was no progress in game engine development, so with all the "partial voxel rendering" and "updated mega-textures" it looks shittier than Warframe
- No graphics options. According to rumors, by default it runs on High. The only thing that can be changed is Motion Blur, Anti-Aliasing (cannot be turned off), and VSync

Feels more like Nexuiz after the engine update, and definitely not like Id game built in 2015-2016.

Preorder price is outrageous, hence all the negative reviews. If the single player campaign sucks balls, like multiplayer, it will be a real bummer... Maybe I'll be able to get it next XMass sale for $1.99?

JunkBear · Apr 16, 2016

My balls

AlienIsGOD · Apr 16, 2016

JunkBear said:
My balls

LOL!!

silentbogo · Apr 16, 2016

Well, apparently Team Deathmatch in DOOM is no better.
Tried to run a FRAPS test to see how bad it is and I got ~35 avg @1080p lowest available settings, and ~45 avg @900p same settings. No wonder it feels slow...
<<-- [SPECS HERE]

I feel so disappointed, that I'd rather play this:

JunkBear said:
My balls

Ahhzz · Apr 16, 2016

silentbogo said:
Well, apparently Team Deathmatch in DOOM is no better.
Tried to run a FRAPS test to see how bad it is and I got ~35 avg @1080p lowest available settings, and ~45 avg @900p same settings. No wonder it feels slow...
<<-- [SPECS HERE]

I feel so disappointed, that I'd rather play this:

....

you'd rather play with JunkBears balls..... I think I'm worried for you.....

silentbogo · Apr 16, 2016

Ahhzz said:
you'd rather play with JunkBears balls..... I think I'm worried for you.....

Not his, mine )) :twitch:

Shou Miko · Apr 16, 2016

silentbogo said:
Not his, mine ))

well I rather look at the woman I love or look at Lara when I game Rise of the Tomb Raider :laugh:

JunkBear · Apr 16, 2016

puma99dk| said:
well I rather look at the woman I love or look at Lara when I game Rise of the Tomb Raider

Well I guess we can say ... *put sunglasses* not only the Tomb Raider rise. YEEEAAAAHHHHH

JunkBear · Apr 16, 2016

Ahhzz said:
....

you'd rather play with JunkBears balls..... I think I'm worried for you.....

So many creeps on Internet .. he even offered me to touch his "hard disk" for some good "memories". But all he had to offer me is a "floppy". I ended up getting virus through my back port.

Drone · Apr 16, 2016

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh just found out that devs added new puzzles and extended some rooms in Layers of Fear

I'm not even sure if I'm gonna replay this

rtwjunkie · Apr 17, 2016

Yesterday I finished the final Episode of Life is Strange, then played the 2nd episode of Blues and Bullets. Let me tell you, Blues and Bullets gets really dark, almost depressingly dark in the 2nd episode. Great story, suspense, voice acting, Noir setting. Dark, but excellent!

I then figured I would try Everybody's Gone To the Rapture. Beautiful scenery. Intriguing/creepy story. Cannot play. It is horribly optimized for PC. Here's a screenshot:

Looks great! But look at the FPS: That's 27 fps STANDING STILL! :shadedshu:

Walking around, it is impossible: frames will drop as low at 12.

Yes, on my system, with visuals dropped down to High in nearly every category, it is almost unplayable. I tried it on low, and it's playable, barely. But it doesn't quite look as good as above.

I will be waiting for the devs to patch some better optimisations in. In the meantime, save your money.

NationsAnarchy · Apr 17, 2016

Good time to mark a return to this site.
Pretty much eSports for now, Dota 2 + CS:GO + Mortal Kombat X

HD64G · Apr 17, 2016

Started Far Cry 3, 2 days ago. Pretty good single player campaign. And playing in coop mode with a friend is even better.

GreiverBlade · Apr 17, 2016

i am playing ... Virtual Photographer Sim ...

oh wait ... it's Skyrim ... i got fooled

rtwjunkie · Apr 18, 2016

Found a good one! I have found innovation, uniqueness and real mystery. I have found a game done differently than anything else out there. It is Knee Deep

The only way to describe it is you are watching a play, but control the dialogue of the three main characters, affecting the play you are seeing. You are uncovering a murder with a celebrity blogger, a real reporter, and a private investigator. They each gather facts, and each submit them, with the blogger and reported having their writings published online. What you write affects your interactions with others.

Set pieces move, there are intermissions, and whole stage backgrounds are rotated in. Buildings open up to give you a view into them as part of a set, and spotlights are part of the gameplay. Camera angles move, and are superb! Voice acting fairly believable, vastly increasing the "watching a play" immersion. I'm enjoying the hell out of this like I haven't enjoyed a game in quite awhile. It is BRILLIANT!

A little gameplay I found for Act 3, which gives you a good idea of how things go.

Drone · Apr 18, 2016

I confess, I've never ever played a Sonic game so I picked up a Wii version of Sonic COLORS

It's easily the hardest game I ever played. 100% precision in timing and spacing is mandatory! And man, that extra-luminal uber-crazy pace.
I've completed 5-6 levels and the best I can do is to get a B rank :eek:

I must be getting old

I've lost count of all the times I died there:

Anywho.. Level design and graphics are really beautiful and PhysX engine is flawless. I looked closely and found out that they used real images of molecular clouds, relativistic jets and nebulae :eek:

This scientific accuracy instantly made me fall in love with this game.

Here's an infrared image of molecular cloud (game intro, captured this image from Wii, just like the image above)

I haven't completed it yet (obviously) but I give 5/5 already!

edit: I should've played it earlier

Frick · Apr 18, 2016

Finished the Lethis tutorial, and while it's nice it's just not as refined as Emperor (which is the pinnacle of the Impressions city builders IMO).

From Caesaer and forward there were improvements and refinements. I didn't like Zeus though, it was annoying to me. Lethis has new concepts (I like that they crush what I choose to believe are pixies for alcohol), but I wouldn't say it's an actual refinement as such. It has some annoyances (lack of changing mouse speed), but more complexities and chains of manufacture. More resources to manage, and cargo people able to walk for longer distances than a few yards. The steampunk stuff is just fluff, but at least it brought back the aqueducts from Caesar 3 in the form of steam pipes. More stuff to manage, which is good because Emperor felt a bit lacking there (at least on your third campaign playthrough).

But ultimately it feels more hollow than the Impression games. I'm not sure why, but there is something missing, and I'm pretty sure it's not the warfare, which honestly always was tacked on even though it was at least servicable in Emperor (for a city builder anyway, plus you could always bribe your way out of an invasion). It might the ambience. For some reason I could relate to the locales in Emperor, dream myself away to the flooded Northern Plains or those awesome cliffs they have, or Xinjiang (fun thing is last friday I met a dude from there. Imma befriend him somehow so I can go there), or the edges of the Gobi and the bears. Bamboo jungles with tigers, and for some reason giant salamanders right were you have to dig for clay. Lethis is just flat ground with some trees in it, and some swamps with ghosts.

So I dunno. I'll probably try out the campaign and some random maps, but it feels strangely dissapointing.

FordGT90Concept · Apr 18, 2016

I think I my finally be wrapping up Skyrim (level ~100 now). Will be playing Satellite Reign next.

RejZoR · Apr 19, 2016

Just started Crysis 3 today. On Post Human difficulty. Because why the F not

Just have to figure out how to even aim with the bow. No crosshair on this difficulty level and he's holding it in this weird sideways way with no option to aim "down the sight". Hm... But nice graphics and Deus Ex-ish stealthing around. Amazing graphics as well.

silentbogo · Apr 19, 2016

Got back into Alien Swarm. Already reached lvl 15, but it is still hard to play on normal difficulty until I unlock and learn how/when to use all weapons... :banghead:

manofthem · Apr 21, 2016

SOMA is great and tense

And here are some shots from Alien that I forgot to post a week ago

I don't know why some ss's have the OSD in them and others don't. I always have it on when I game, but when I snap screens of some games, it doesn't include, other games do. :confused:

Frick · Apr 21, 2016

RejZoR said:
Just started Crysis 3 today. On Post Human difficulty. Because why the F not Just have to figure out how to even aim with the bow. No crosshair on this difficulty level and he's holding it in this weird sideways way with no option to aim "down the sight". Hm... But nice graphics and Deus Ex-ish stealthing around. Amazing graphics as well.

I started the first Crysis on normal dificulty several times but I just found it boring somehow and never got far. Then I started on the highest difficulty and hoo boy that truly was the way it was meant to be played. Entirely different game.

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