Posts by PogoP

  • The Witness

    Quote from Mazy

    Played it for a few hours yesterday and so far I am absolutely in love with it.

    Getting stuck at a panel, going somewhere else to clear your thoughts and take a crack at another panel and then suddenly getting an idea for the previous panel happened multiple times yesterday, creating a really neat and rewarding loop. Also helps when the environments look so dayum good

    Also, this is a really good girlfriend co-op like game. Played it with my gf yesterday, and even though she's much smarter than me then we actually moments or panels that one of us were better at, rather than her just solving everything

    Anyway, think we stopped playing just as shit is about to get more difficult, but so far it totally lives up to the hype

    Is it just the two of you playing on one screen but playing together with one controller? It's not actually 2 player?

  • The Steam Sale Thread

    Quote from dux

    Dungeon of the Endless. So good. Two of my party had an argument in the elevator and one of them killed the other. Great. Just what I needed.

    Love that game! Glad you're enjoying it. I had no idea that sorta thing can happen :D

  • Star Wars

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    Guys, I think you're missing the point with Kylo Ren. He's not an incredible Sith lord. He wants to be, but he isn't and that's what is so frustrating for him (hence him destroying rooms with his lightsaber and being a little whiny at times). He starts out as a 'total badass' yes, because he's killing unarmed civilians and is showing the power of the dark side to these people unaware of the force. However, when it comes to other force users he is actually not as powerful as we first expect. He is overcome with emotion when he kills his father (Han Solo) and doesn't even realise that Chewbacca is shooting at him and gets shot in the leg (whereas perhaps other, better trained Siths would know this was coming and could possibly deflect the shot. Thus, when he's fighting Rey and Finn, he is not fighting at 100%. He actually smacks his leg to channel some pain and anger, which is what the dark side is all about.

    The bit when he takes off his mask and isn't that intimidating sums up the character of Kylo Ren; behind the mask he is this mysterious, evil 'sith lord', but without it he is just a person.

    I loved the whole aspect of being drawn to the light side, that's a really nice twist on the traditional 'falling to the dark side'.

    Also, did anyone else notice him put his helmet down in a container full of what looks like ash? Was that Darth Vader's ash? Nice touch if so..

    I thought the film was amazing, sorry that you guys didn't enjoy it

  • Rainbow Six: Siege

    Quote from Puddy

    We'll have to play more!

    And use teamspeak cause we're fucking civilised!

    Haha sure man. Give me a shout if you fancy a game at some point. Frie added me too but we haven't played yet. We have a full squad of 5 if we all play :D

  • Rainbow Six: Siege

    Quote from Puddy

    Got lucky and got this for free via work. Just played it for about two hours and while I did enjoy myself, I don't see myself playing this in the long term.

    I think it comes down to two things; janky combat and bloated gameplay. The former means that you rarely get decent duals as the guns are very controllable and spammy and the netcode feels a bit unreliable. By the latter I mean that the gameplay becomes very muddy with all the various angles, paths, at times bad readability, various gadgets and special abilities and even stances (stand-crouch-prone). All these gadgets, jammers, EMP's and devices. Just because there are more gadgets, does it mean that tactical choices get more interesting? A guy who deploys a device that intercepts grenades... is this fun? I also question the large, porous and open levels, especially combined with the stances (specifically prone). Being able to go prone under a dinner table, blend in nicely and proceed to shoot legs... does it make the game more tactical? And so on.

    Having played it for quite a while with guys on Skype (we usually have 3 of us), I gotta say that the game does feel very tactical when you coordinate properly. Nothing more satisfying than breaching from 3 different directions with shock and awe tactics! :D

    I do agree that some of the Operators are a little pointless though.

  • Rainbow Six: Siege

    I have changed my opinion of this game completely since the very first alpha test to the current closed/open beta. I tried to play it with Puddy ages ago and just really couldn't get into it; it was just a broken mess. What do you expect from an alpha though I guess? Anyway I kinda forgot about it after that and just thought I'd never play it again.

    Last beta comes around a few months ago, and a couple of my mates said they were gonna try it. We all boot it up and find that actually, it's fucking awesome.. We've sunk so many hours into it now and we just aren't getting bored.

    It feels a lot like what I imagine they intended Counter-strike to be like when they first envisioned it. Can't stand CSGO, but I love this. Can't wait for release! :D

  • Soma (From the amnesia guys!)

    I finished this game last night; I thought it was an awesome experience. Some of the monsters felt a bit forced in and didn't really make a great deal of sense and sorta jolted the pacing slightly, but the game as a whole was a really awesome, visceral experience. Really gripping stuff. Well worth the £20 spent!