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COD WW2 is really bland. I heard negative comments/reviews but wasn't really ready for this. Dunno if I've just forgotten how a COD game plays, but the maps are really small/missions are short, and the locations don't seem inspired at all. There seem to be a ton of cutscenes that don't add anything and the story is not gripping or inspiring in any way.

I'm surprised by the difficulty, I started at the second-last level and got totally wrekd, felt like an insta-kill... so lowered to normal

I do understand the reviews and regret buying it, even if discounted still £15.

Reinstalling Prey. I played it for the first time a few months ago but ended up uninstalling it 2 hours in to free up some space. Those 2 hours were pretty fucking good though. I had a similar feeling I had on my first run through of BioShock, which is one of my all time favorites. I don't know why but I could not get into the first Dishonored, which disappointed me because Arkane makes damn good looking games. Thankfully this doesn't seem to be the case with Prey.

Sekiro, hopefully this time I can beat it. I got stuck on the guardian ape last time.

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4 hours ago, AlexM said: Sekiro, hopefully this time I can beat it. I got stuck on the guardian ape last time.

I remember watching guardian ape rage compilations so when I finally got to the dude myself, I was shitting my pants. He ended up being one of the easier boss fights for me. I sunk 80+ hours into the game and still have yet to beat the final boss. Not to mention those 80+ hours leave giant chunks of the game untouched. FromSoftware is one of those developers that constantly has me asking myself how the fuck they came up with so much shit for one game.

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20 hours ago, Bunglo said: I remember watching guardian ape rage compilations so when I finally got to the dude myself, I was shitting my pants. He ended up being one of the easier boss fights for me. I sunk 80+ hours into the game and still have yet to beat the final boss. Not to mention those 80+ hours leave giant chunks of the game untouched. FromSoftware is one of those developers that constantly has me asking myself how the fuck they came up with so much shit for one game.

I put the game down about a year ago when I got stuck and am playing from the start again. This time everything is just working out way faster. I guess my brain has been working on the game subconsciously over the last year haha.

I remember getting stuck on O'Rin of the Water and Genichiro for days at a time and managed to beat them on the 3rd or 4th try this time. Hopefully it's the same deal with the Guardian ape.

And yeah, this game is vast. They pack so much interesting stuff in the area they have too!

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15 hours ago, AlexM said: I put the game down about a year ago when I got stuck and am playing from the start again. This time everything is just working out way faster. I guess my brain has been working on the game subconsciously over the last year haha.

It’s funny that happens, good to know it’s common. I experienced this with the Batman games, going back to the challenges from time to time and beating one in a couple tries and be like “how the hell I wasted X hours on this before”

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5 hours ago, blackdog said: It’s funny that happens, good to know it’s common. I experienced this with the Batman games, going back to the challenges from time to time and beating one in a couple tries and be like “how the hell I wasted X hours on this before”

This also applies to me learning how to program as well

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1 hour ago, AlexM said: This also applies to me learning how to program as well

Hopefully at a much quicker cycle I still remember when in uni they were making me study Java and we had an assignment and i got the right idea in the shower after several hours of compiling and swearing

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2 minutes ago, blackdog said: Hopefully at a much quicker cycle I still remember when in uni they were making me study Java and we had an assignment and i got the right idea in the shower after several hours of compiling and swearing

It went from about the ages of 16 to 26 before it really began to click so it took a little while haha. I didn't really study as much back then though. Mostly just learning what I need enough to ship games/products.

Programming is funny in that one day, suddenly everything just clicked and programming was no longer an issue. It's one of the few skills that the overnight feeling has ever happened for me.

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On 5/27/2021 at 8:22 PM, AlexM said: It went from about the ages of 16 to 26 before it really began to click so it took a little while haha. I didn't really study as much back then though. Mostly just learning what I need enough to ship games/products.

Programming is funny in that one day, suddenly everything just clicked and programming was no longer an issue. It's one of the few skills that the overnight feeling has ever happened for me.

I've had the same, been programming for a couple years and then things just started to make more sense pretty much overnight. Our brains process things in the background 24/7, hence it's often smarter to just sleep on a problem instead of trying to find a solution right in the moment.

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4 hours ago, Buddy said: I've had the same, been programming for a couple years and then things just started to make more sense pretty much overnight. Our brains process things in the background 24/7, hence it's often smarter to just sleep on a problem instead of trying to find a solution right in the moment.

Totally, I try to remind myself about background processing whenever I hit a wall on something. Sometimes I even remember to follow that advice

Finished COD WW2 last night.

I don’t think I’ve ever deleted a game from my drive so soon after completion. I have no interest going back and replay at harder difficulty, the Zombies mode that I would have been happy to boot up the game for is a pain, such a convoluted long setup before starting, then every time you die you are kicked out to the lobby, compared to the original tight loop you had in WAW.

Not the worst £15 I’ve ever spent on a game (crown still for the original Prey) but definitely unhappy.

Max Payne 3. The environments are really good but the mechanics are a departure from what Max Payne was. It was never a game with cover. The whole game turned into a cover shooter.

The music keeps the gritty style but I'm not a fan a drums played like that.

Max Payne 3 is a a combination of many elements from MP1 and 2. It follows the same ideas of police brutality, building exploding, corrupted police, etc.

One thing that I didn't like is the pace. The added cutscenes that completely break the pace and it seems to be caused by the game having to fit onto consoles' tiny RAM. The game flow is interrupted by dialogues and other cutscenes way too often.

Finished Iron Harvest, would not recommend it tbh. its waaaaaaaaay slower than company of heroes in terms of eco/unit building. The campaign has only a few interesting missions and its massively drawn out, literally 40 hours but not very exiciting.

Finished destroy all humans, would recommend at a lowish price if you havent played it before. Was pretty fun tbh, gameplay still holds up ok.

Finished Carrion, was ok, would recommend at a lowish price, not really a metroidvania as the game is actually pretty linear which was a little disappointing.

Finished siege survival, was quite fun, would recommend if you liked this war of mine. Its basically a 3D medieval version of that.

Finished Nioh after like 3 years on off playing, if you like dark souls 100% get it. Need to buy the 2nd one.

Started Ratched and Clank rift apart, pretty good so far but not as good as previous ones.

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16 hours ago, 0kelvin said: Max Payne 3. The environments are really good but the mechanics are a departure from what Max Payne was. It was never a game with cover. The whole game turned into a cover shooter.

I used to replay MP2 on a yearly basis, haven’t done that in a while, but I’ve been wanting to replay MP3 instead, was thinking about it again just the other day.

Like you say the cutscenes get in the way (they’re partially used to mask loads, but they are unskippable anyway), I didn’t mind them on my first play through, but they make impossible to play the time attack modes and ultimately held me back from replaying (plus the back catalog).

I didn’t mind the cover mechanics, games evolve and I don’t fault Rockstar for changing things up a bit… if I remember correctly you could vault or slide over covers for great filmic action.

It was also quite fun to play in multiplayer, shame it lasted little.

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I’ve installed Battlefield 4 and in 3-4 sessions I got to the chapter where you have to sneak ? haven’t picked it up again.

I think it really holds its own, playing right after CODWW2 gives perspective, I’d say that despite being an older game does several things better. Sound above all, the guns sound really solid, but it’s the sound positioning that owns. I found it quite more fun than COD for the impact guns feel they make.

I would buy all the BF (when discounted) if they were making campaigns for each title.

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I also started Jedi Fallen Order but I commented in its topic, underwhelming start.

Pretty much only been playing guilty gear strive for the last couple weeks. For some reason it seems way more accessible than Xrd and the previous ones despite still having some pretty crazy systems like 4 different types of cancels and a burst mechanic.

Guys I'm playing Halo 3 for the first time ever and it's amazing

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I never play FPS's on console

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1 hour ago, dux said: I never play FPS's on console

Never played timesplitters, burn the heretic.

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On 7/7/2021 at 5:46 AM, ThunderKeil said: They're interesting games . . been a while since I played but I think I recall being pretty impressed by the AI. Not sure how I feel about the MP, wasn't really getting into it at the time but I guess I should try it again eventually

Yeah I remember being really impressed by the AI when I tried the first one, it felt they were smart like HL’s soldiers.

Have never played any full game of the series tho, due to the exclusivity, and by the time there were PC versions out, or when I got the X360, my interest had completely gone off. The games seemed to just repeat themselves, looking old (and I mean also in terms of mechanics).