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Postby iambic » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:32 pm

dead space sucked don't @ me
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Postby Marcus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:37 pm

never liked dead space but EA nonetheless continues to leave a giant pile of dead studios in its wake
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Postby No Good Advice » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:40 pm

EA talking up a "pivot" away from trad. single player experiences is expected but still disgusting to read
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Postby Hugh » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:44 pm

Really a downer to see Amy Hennig leave Naughty Dog and now her game gets s-canned
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Postby Hugh » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:45 pm

No Good Advice wrote:EA talking up a "pivot" away from trad. single player experiences is expected but still disgusting to read


They are just "monitoring the marketplace." Power to the players lol
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Postby Marcus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:45 pm

a 10 year exclusive rights contract with Disney for Star Wars has thus far resulted in exactly 2 very fucking mediocre games and absolutely no RPGs or true story-based experiences

fuck EA
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Postby Hugh » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:46 pm

iambic wrote:dead space sucked don't @ me


First game was phenomenal
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Postby john plainman » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:56 pm

Hugh wrote:
iambic wrote:dead space sucked don't @ me


First game started phenomenally
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Postby Semper Fudge » Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:19 pm

god I hate remembering how good KOTOR was and how much I want another Star Wars game in that vein
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Postby Marcus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:20 pm

Semper Fudge wrote:god I hate remembering how good KOTOR was and how much I want another Star Wars game in that vein


yes
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Postby MikeS » Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:06 pm

an otter wrote:Is it strictly a battle royale mode?


yeah it's 4v4 with different operator classes.
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Postby endoskeleton » Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:10 pm

dead space 2 is the only good dead space game and i guess i only feel that way thanks to the funhouse appeal and weirdly moving story it tells in there, however dumb it appears on the surface. it's a game best played trashed, though

it's lousy what amy hennig must be going through
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Postby deadbass » Wed Oct 18, 2017 12:51 am

A friend of mine who is an engineer on the Star Wars game said that this was "for the best," and that the game's production was not going very well at all.
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:42 am

deadbass wrote:A friend of mine who is an engineer on the Star Wars game said that this was "for the best," and that the game's production was not going very well at all.

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Postby Arturo » Wed Oct 18, 2017 4:17 am

KOTOR 3 would be amazing.
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Postby gambra » Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:36 am

Pretty tempted to check out ELEX to be honest despite all the reviews calling it janky as hell.
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Postby endoskeleton » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:58 am

i'll be playing it at some point. it seems like piranha bytes first real step forward since the first risen game, which is a game i genuinely like
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Postby whatabout tim » Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:00 am

Anyone check out the nonary games collection? I'm debating ps4 or vita. I'd love to have it portable, but not sure how well it works on the smaller screen and would hate if the performance was significantly worse.
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Postby iambic » Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:59 pm

I did DOOM (on Ultra-Violence). it was pretty good, but got kinda repetitive at the end, once there no new regular bad guys to introduce (and all my weapons were crazy good, and I had the BFG, for which ammo was too plentiful). later levels with jump boots unlocked were more fun, and I thought it was bizarrely faithful to the spirit of the original--in a good way--except for the lore intrusion and "learn the moves" boss fights, which were .. okay? I'm glad the spider demon showed up almost exactly at the moment when I was like "hey whatever happened to the spider demon?"

the core combat loop rules (although glory kills are too abusable), and a lot of my fun came from doing challenges and weapon unlocks in the middle of locked room fights, so I liked those. it was a genuine pleasure to play an FPS that didn't want me to peek hitscan headshots from cover (although the scoped rifle is probably my favorite non-supershotgun weapon in DOOM).

I did the first level on the one-life Nightmare difficulty to see if that would be fun, decided it would be annoying, and then quit and uninstalled.

all set for Destiny 2!!
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Postby Semper Fudge » Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:49 pm

I accidentally opened the first page of this thread and it reminded me to finally play Gunpoint, pretty great.
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Postby endoskeleton » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:42 pm

evil within 2 is a fucking blast. not as inventive as the first, but man is it nearly as fun
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Postby jca » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:55 pm

chairkicker wrote:evil within 2 is a fucking blast. not as inventive as the first, but man is it nearly as fun


which of the two are closer to re4 in yr opinion
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Postby endoskeleton » Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:03 pm

the first. but there's still plenty of re4 in this one

i do miss a few of the first game's quirks and especially its art direction (minus ruvik)
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Postby nice pass » Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:09 pm

is it scary
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Postby endoskeleton » Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:16 pm

not really but like any good survival panic game it gets pretty tense
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Postby an otter uh otter uh otter uh o » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:16 pm

Civ III free for the next few days if any losers don't have it yet,

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Postby Milk » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:39 pm

Marcus wrote:a 10 year exclusive rights contract with Disney for Star Wars has thus far resulted in exactly 2 very fucking mediocre games and absolutely no RPGs or true story-based experiences

fuck EA


classic EA too. They own ultima. The own wing commander. they own Syndicate (don't mention the fps game). And The Saboteur too (though on this one it might be more of a personal thing as it didn't seem to do well but i loved it). Countless others i'm sure i forget. And what do they do with those IPs? Fucking jackshit. Oh wait, they did like a browser Ultima strategy game nobody ever heard of. And like some half assed arena WC game a few years ago. So yeah, fuck EA very much.
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Postby ahungbunny » Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:44 am

is evil within noticeably different on ps4 vs ps3? i could barely play the ps3 version it was so slow and dark
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Postby hansibansix » Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:55 am

G_S wrote:who's gonna try out ELEX for us?

Bought it yesterday. So far it’s clunky, stupid and also pretty fun.
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Postby endoskeleton » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:00 am

ahungbunny wrote:is evil within noticeably different on ps4 vs ps3? i could barely play the ps3 version it was so slow and dark

yeah, the ps3 version is largely a downport of the ps4 version. the ps4 version has framerate issues, and so the best way to play the game now is on a beefy pc, but it's gorgeous and as fun as ever on the console
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