Posts by PaulH

  • The Jurassic World

    Director hasn't made anything of note. Had really high hopes for this, trailer looks....ok, was getting going just when it ended. Cautiously optimistic. Does look a bit kiddy friendly again though, how difficult would it be to make a badass 18 rated Jurassic Park?

  • Far Cry 4

    Co-op is good fun, especially running around hunting together. Disappointed though that only XP, loot and hunting items carry over to both players - tackling one of the fortresses together means it only registers as complete on the host's game, so you have to switch host and do it again to have it complete on both. Similarly not sure why I can't collect propaganda posters and other collectibles with my mate, it only saves the progress of those on the host's game too it seems I think I'll resign to playing this more in SP as a result

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from D3ads


    Coincidentally I watched episode 5 a couple of nights ago, I'll look forward to the sixth


    It was pretty over-hyped tbh, I mean it's a nice twist but it wasn't so massive imho. Anyway, still enjoyable.. classic Homeland.


    Yeah, was good, episode 7 was too. Haven't started Babylon but I saw the pilot earlier in the year, is the first episode the same do you know?

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from D3ads

    Anyone watching the new Homeland? I know a lot of people were put off the chance of a new series after the end of Season 3 but it seems like it's business as usual and apparently episode 6 is a doozy....


    Coincidentally I watched episode 5 a couple of nights ago, I'll look forward to the sixth

  • Far Cry 4

    Am liking this so far, as I suspected I would as I loved the third one. Have just finished Act 1 and done my first outpost, as well as unlocking the ability to ride elephants which I will try out tomorrow The world looks cool, I'm looking forward to the progression further up and into the mountains. I guess the only criticism I'd throw at it so far is that the story, specifically the intro section was a bit weaker than the last game. I thought in Far Cry 3 the idea of being a guy who was backpacking and got captured, and in turn (and due to his brother's death at the hands of the main villan) took his revenge on the bad guys - was simple and made sense, however here the reasons for the main character getting drawn into all this conflict (went to scatter his mothers ashes, everyone on this island recognizes him as the son of someone important somehow and he sticks around to help them all out) doesn't quite gel so well. Still, it's only a backbone for all the awesome gameplay which so far seems to retain all the good stuff from FC3 and then some, which is cool. Looking across the map it seems there's a ton of stuff to do so can't wait to get stuck in over the next few days

  • Assassin's Creed: Unity

    I got this tonight, about an hour in I was let loose in Paris and while exploring came across a chest. Standard assassins creed loot container I thought, so I went to open it. A message popped up along the lines of "you must play the assassins creed unity companion app to be able to open this chest"....what is happening to games

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare


    Yeah I also have an issue with the map designs. They had one remit - make the maps suitable for the exo suit, so you would've thought that they would make it clear which areas/rooftops you could access and which you couldn't, but no. Instead it's a case of trial and error - jumping towards one rooftop that seems easily accessible and being pushed down to earth by an invisible wall with an 'out of bounds' message - its sloppy design in truth. Readability of the levels is key and they dropped the ball on that one.


    I've actually started playing classic TDM on it, and I feel dirty for saying that as I was all pumped up for 'something differen't, but am actually enjoying it more than the modes with the Exo suit available. COD has never been that tactical, but it is a lot more so when you know that people aren't going to be literally anywhere at any time due to the suit boosting. The maps become more predictable, you can start to learn decent routes through them, you can hold areas down etc. It just becomes less of a bunny hopping clusterfuck. Maybe I'm just traditional. I do still enjoy playing with the exo suit (the server lag is still hindering my enjoyment of it though) but for me playing in the classic style is still where it's at.

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

    I played a mission last night where the game wanted me to run across multiple lanes of fast moving traffic to get to the other side. Looking to the right, there was a footbridge pretty close to me. Sensible me thought it would be best to go over to it and use that to cross the road, however when I got there, invisible walls blocked me from getting up the stairs. Seems the game didn't want me to cross safely and instead wanted to force me to play it's crazy futuristic version of Frogger. Typical COD. It is still switch-your-brain-off entertaining though.

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

    Quote from Puddy

    Yeah, I read a while ago that they would support dedicated servers but my experience thus far suggests otherwise unfortunately.


    Pretty ridiculous if that's the case, why launch a game this big and not give us proper servers to play it on? The lag is almost putting me off playing it at all. I remember hearing that Ghosts had a similar problem, and after launch they started up some dedicated servers for it, makes you wonder why they don't do this straight away, not like Activision can't afford it (can't imagine it was Sledgehammer's decision)

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

    Anyone got it on PS4 and having some server issues? My connection keeps dropping to one red bar or two yellow during matches, as does the connection of those in the game with me it seems. It's not every game, but it's frequent enough to be annoying. Wondering if it's just teething problems...do they have dedicated servers for this one?

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

    Am enjoying this, only a couple of missions into the campaign but seems more interesting than Ghosts was. Still the same old Cod though, with lots of invisible walls in the level design and a few strange design choices - there's a leaving mission area prompt, which is fair enough, but I had it come up when walking down side streets in the first mission that had massive great walls a few meters into them, why does it need to reset me if I can't get past the walls anyway?


    Multiplayer is where it's normally at though, and it seems pretty sweet. The new abilities I was worried about, but really you end up playing it much like the previous games except you can now use the boost jump to get to higher places. Maps seem quite bright and clean which is nice. Will continue to play it this week, it's good so far though.