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Killing Floor 2, again.

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Homefront: The Revolution here.
 
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@rtwjunkie any good? I was debating on picking it up until a lot of reviewers started critising the game saying its buggy.
Anyways i've been playing Transformers Devastation and it is a lot of fun,Transformers characters with DMC/Bayonetta gameplay is fantastic. Supposingly only 7 chapters but the chapters are quite long in general so its okay and the game was priced reasonably well,although i bought it when it was on sale for Ps4 for like £15 brand new. The previous transformers games i've enjoyed a lot in recent years.
 
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After finishing original Alan Wake, I've continued with the American Nightmare. Not far into it, but one thing is for sure, I can now go more gun blazing as I don't have to conserve ammo so much. There are those infinite ammo boxes and that's pretty cool. I really hated Alan Wake's "no melee" weapon and I was constantly nearly running out of ammo while being really careful with it and that was super annoying. Especially because only way to kill Taken was to first light them and then shoot them. Much more relaxed in the expansion.
 

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any good? I was debating on picking it up until a lot of reviewers started critising the game saying its buggy

If you are asking me about Homefront: The Revolution, then yes, it's good. It won't win any awards for greatness, but it has alot of content, mostly fun, and as far as I can tell, bug-free. I really have not encountered bugs.

The Crytek 3 engine looks good, and visuals are amazing. Indeed, if you thoroughly maxed every setting out to ultra, it's a GPU torture test. I had Shaders and Shadows on ultra, and my 980Ti was at 70 celcius and top fps were around 40. And that's at 1080p. Knocking them back down to high, with textures on ultra, and I have a reasonable 60FPS and temps between 55 and 60.

Gameplay is ok. You clear neighborhoods for the resistance, gaining visibility of targets, potential safehouses, etc. This is the tried and true formula of Far Cry, Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max, Assassin's Creed...so it CAN get a little repetitive. Taking spur of the moment encounters like eliminating a sniper nest, or assassinating a Norko leader make it more interestin.

What it does the best are the areas of the city you must remain incognito. Pistol only, inside your clothes is best. Keeping civilians between you and Norko soldiers works well. You try and sabotage things yet remain hidden in plain sight.

Overall, not a bad game at all. I'd give it a solid B. Hell, I've already put in 4.5 hours, with alot more to go, whereas the original took only 4 hours to complete in total.
 
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Peche, I apologize if I'm repeating a response, but I tried the Metro series, and all it did to me, was make me go and reinstall S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. A couple of mods really up the game (Complete comes to mind first off). I prefer the open-map style of play, even if you can follow the storyline if you wish. Metro was too much a straight line with little allowed off the path. But, it is an exciting looking game, expecially the Redux versions :)

Sorry, I do tend to instantly point people at Stalker when they talk about Metro :)
@peche gotta wave a "Look at me!!!" flag again :) There's a STALKER bundle on GOG right now for cheap cheap cheap!! ($12.50 gets them all :) ). have fun guys!!
 
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If you are asking me about Homefront: The Revolution, then yes, it's good. It won't win any awards for greatness, but it has alot of content, mostly fun, and as far as I can tell, bug-free. I really have not encountered bugs.

The Crytek 3 engine looks good, and visuals are amazing. Indeed, if you thoroughly maxed every setting out to ultra, it's a GPU torture test. I had Shaders and Shadows on ultra, and my 980Ti was at 70 celcius and top fps were around 40. And that's at 1080p. Knocking them back down to high, with textures on ultra, and I have a reasonable 60FPS and temps between 55 and 60.

Gameplay is ok. You clear neighborhoods for the resistance, gaining visibility of targets, potential safehouses, etc. This is the tried and true formula of Far Cry, Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max, Assassin's Creed...so it CAN get a little repetitive. Taking spur of the moment encounters like eliminating a sniper nest, or assassinating a Norko leader make it more interestin.

What it does the best are the areas of the city you must remain incognito. Pistol only, inside your clothes is best. Keeping civilians between you and Norko soldiers works well. You try and sabotage things tet remain hidden in plain sight.

Overall, not a bad game at all. I'd give it a solid B. Hell, I've already put in 4.5 hours, with alot more to go, whereas the original took only 4 hours to complete in total.

Appreciate feedback junkie,may have to pick it up on PC when its cheaper and i've cleared out a lot of games off my playlist,i was originally going to get the collectors edition on PS4 but heard the framerate on PC and consoles to be quite bad,but if they patched it then thats cool.
 

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Appreciate feedback junkie,may have to pick it up on PC when its cheaper and i've cleared out a lot of games off my playlist,i was originally going to get the collectors edition on PS4 but heard the framerate on PC and consoles to be quite bad,but if they patched it then thats cool.

No problem. I don't mind doing a mini review. It's on patch 1.04. In truth, I didn't have any real frame troubles on release day either, when I played about 30 minutes. Now, it is very smooth though, so I'm sure patching helped out.
 

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@peche gotta wave a "Look at me!!!" flag again :) There's a STALKER bundle on GOG right now for cheap cheap cheap!! ($12.50 gets them all :) ). have fun guys!!
thanks @Ahhzz , gonna end, Bioshock and then look for another game, i still stuck on CSGO unfortunately, :banghead:

Regards,
 
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Finally started playing Dark souls 3 again yesterday with my bro on PS4,is it me that the Irithyll Dungeon is filled with invaders? Also on note of invaders i've noticed they always run away and try lure you into getting ambushed by AI mobs which is annoying.
 
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I'm playing Borderlands. This game is...kinda boring. There's just TOO much farming and there was really no need to force players to press "E" (or "X" on an Xbox controller) to pickup stuff, that should be done automatically. Plus, weapon stats are almost always low, and shooting mechanics are more dependent on stats than aiming. Vehicle controls are also ridiculous, and while I've gotten better at it, it always feels awkward. There's also no story (as far as I'm concerned), even RAGE (2011) did a better job at that (if you ignored the ending). However, I've already got about 14 hours in, so I will do my best to finish the game. Don't really feel like playing the DLCs though.
 
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I'm playing Borderlands. This game is...kinda boring. There's just TOO much farming and there was really no need to force players to press "E" (or "X" on an Xbox controller) to pickup stuff, that should be done automatically. Plus, weapon stats are almost always low, and shooting mechanics are more dependent on stats than aiming. Vehicle controls are also ridiculous, and while I've gotten better at it, it always feels awkward. There's also no story (as far as I'm concerned), even RAGE (2011) did a better job at that (if you ignored the ending). However, I've already got about 14 hours in, so I will do my best to finish the game. Don't really feel like playing the DLCs though.

Game is more playable if you play it with others,otherwise i wouldn't touch the game myself. I've tried playing 1 and 2 on my own and got bored,started playing 2 on Ps4 with friends and family and i get bored after 2 hours which leads to only 2 hours a session lol.
 
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Game is more playable if you play it with others,otherwise i wouldn't touch the game myself. I've tried playing 1 and 2 on my own and got bored,started playing 2 on Ps4 with friends and family and i get bored after 2 hours which leads to only 2 hours a session lol.

So it's not just me then. Ahh, but who has the time to play with others...

I try to finish most game with a single player campaign, while I play multiplayer games for fun without a care for campaign. I'm definitely going to finish Borderlands sooner than later because I have other games that I want to finish as well.
 
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So it's not just me then. Ahh, but who has the time to play with others...

I try to finish most game with a single player campaign, while I play multiplayer games for fun without a care for campaign. I'm definitely going to finish Borderlands sooner than later because I have other games that I want to finish as well.

I struggle to get into it myself personally,combat is fun and all but the missions and story is just lackluster and not entertaining at all,game is like a offline/online MMORPG title. Mainly enjoy it with others is how i see this game.
 
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Finished Dragon Age: Inquisition. I think this is the first game ever that I finished and the entire time I'm thinking I don't want a sequel. In terms of story, Dragon Age is declining with each iteration. It is suffering from the Saints Row and Bioshock disease where the story gets more ridiculous with each version to the point where the story isn't worth telling. In the case of Saints Row, gameplay makes up for it. You don't need a reason to care to do whatever it is that the thug you control does, amiright? With Bioshock and DAI, both break the golden rule of story telling: don't fuck with time. Why? Because if fucking with time is the only way to make your story work, take your story out back and put a hole in it--metaphorically and literally (same difference). When DAI pulled that one very early in the game, I knew it already fell off the slippery slope. Come Tresspasser DLC, they clearly set up a sequel and the entire premise of it doesn't sound like fun or a good story. It sounds confusing and more of a grind fest than DAI already is. Let's flip the pages back a bit to DAO: all of metahumanity versus darkspawn. DA2: fundamentally Templars versus mages. DAI: all of metahumanity versus darkspawn with delusions of grandeur. DA4:
elves versus everyone else.
That's a game we've seen a thousand times before so why do we need to see it again? Also, I'm actually disappointed that Bioware didn't approach it from the prespective that a new hero will rise to take on the next challenge.

I could go on forever on this topic. I just really hope they don't actually develop DA4. I think doing so would go beyond the Dragon Age breaking limit just like Saints Row IV did.


Pushing all that story...ruffled-feather-ness aside, I noticed a lot of bugs in the game and changes they didn't focus on the right places in my opinion. For example, in DA2, they got armor correct (companion armor is automatically leveled and you can get some specific upgrades to top it off) where in DAI, they reverted to the tedium of armor management in DAO. Similarly, they call it an RPG but you have no control over attribute points like you did in the previous games; that's just stupid. So they took away the useful bits and they added back the not-so-useful bits. Sense, it makes none.

Exploring in DAI also reminds me of exploring planets in Mass Effect. I haven't been able to pin down the specifics but, two words here should personify the problem: Hissing Wastes. For those that don't know, it is a huge desert and...well...need I say more?

I had 5 crashes-to-desktop in the 172 hours I played it...
 
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Finished Dragon Age: Inquisition. I think this is the first game ever that I finished and the entire time I'm thinking I don't want a sequel. In terms of story, Dragon Age is declining with each iteration. It is suffering from the Saints Row and Bioshock disease where the story gets more ridiculous with each version to the point where the story isn't worth telling. In the case of Saints Row, gameplay makes up for it. You don't need a reason to care to do whatever it is that the thug you control does, amiright? With Bioshock and DAI, both break the golden rule of story telling: don't fuck with time. Why? Because if fucking with time is the only way to make your story work, take your story out back and put a hole in it--metaphorically and literally (same difference). When DAI pulled that one very early in the game, I knew it already fell off the slippery slope. Come Tresspasser DLC, they clearly set up a sequel and the entire premise of it doesn't sound like fun or a good story. It sounds confusing and more of a grind fest than DAI already is. Let's flip the pages back a bit to DAO: all of metahumanity versus darkspawn. DA2: fundamentally Templars versus mages. DAI: all of metahumanity versus darkspawn with delusions of grandeur. DA4:
elves versus everyone else.
That's a game we've seen a thousand times before so why do we need to see it again? Also, I'm actually disappointed that Bioware didn't approach it from the prespective that a new hero will rise to take on the next challenge.

I could go on forever on this topic. I just really hope they don't actually develop DA4. I think doing so would go beyond the Dragon Age breaking limit just like Saints Row IV did.

It appears my 2 hour instincts on DAI were correct. I shall forego completing it.
 

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I think it is worth finishing. 2 hours is barely more than 1% of the game. It's just...DA needs to end here. It's kind of like how ME3 ruined any possibility of ME4 being remotely related.
 
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DMC 5...felt like hacking n slashing demons...trying to stay off the ground:rockout:
 

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I think it is worth finishing. 2 hours is barely more than 1% of the game. It's just...DA needs to end here. It's kind of like how ME3 ruined any possibility of ME4 being remotely related.

Except you clearly described a game that wasn't fun. Your write up truly sounds like you slogged through it. I'm sorry, I don't have enough years left in life to make myself do things that aren't fun, just for the sake of completion. So, when a developer can't grab me by the nads immediately, then they failed, and it's not my loss. That's my view on things.
 

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I'd say most of it was fun. Where it lost the fun is where my OCD took charge and made me do things against my will (or better judgement). :roll:

The point: You already own it and 2 hours is judging the game by its cover. DAI is about as long as Wticher 3 and Witcher 3 suffers from similar problems as DAI (mostly stemming from having a large open world map). I don't think I could pick between the two to be honest.
 

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I guess Origins was the best of the series so far then going by player feedback. I haven't played DA2 or Inquisition but I thoroughly enjoyed DAO and still replay it sometimes. I'm a looter/hoarder at heart with some games.
 

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