Posts by Beck

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It would be awesome if there was a cross promotional tie in with this some how.

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"Use Black Flag Fogging Insecticide in your cannons for twice as many particle effects and a special fog which makes you impossible to hit!"

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I've yet to play AC3 and the naval parts but I've heard some things from a colleague at work. A pirate themed AC game would be awesome though. My favourite time period in history.

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say what

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Oh man, we played that game so much at school it was awesome

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e: If I had to name a singular mechanic that I felt was ruining things lately, I'd probably say the "vote kick" feature in multiplayer games. I swear to christ that one single UI option ruined Left 4 Dead, and it's toxic to many other games, because it's a terrible tool to give to terrible people (people who play videogames on the internet).

God yes, this!

The amount of servers I've been "banned" from because I've been kicked from L4D games I've publically joined because one of the teams friends is coming on is unreal. At least make it so I can return to that server later, don't just assume I was kicked for being a douche. If the players just asked I'd happily leave or switch teams. -_-

Installed this bad boy on my work PC.

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Quote from Puddy

seconded on the blinding sun

would pay for sunglasses perk

Haha, maybe they'll release some for premium members It's the only thing I don't really like about the game. Let's hope they tone it down for BF4.

Quote from 0kelvin

MMORPG, one reason to not play:

- Talk to NPC X

- "blablabla.... Collect XX apples, kill YY rats, come back"

- "....."

- level up! Received xxx gold, this prize and that other fancy acessory

Guild Wars 2 did quite a good job at avoiding those kinds of quests. I actually quite enjoyed levelling in that game! Shame the end game was just a grind fest

Another thing which pisses me off is overly bright sunlight/bloom/"MY EYES!" I guess it's not really a game mechanic (though it could be) but in Battlefield 3 it annoys me the most. The sun in that game is actually blinding to the point where I can't see what is going on in that direction.

It has happened to me in real life but only when the road is wet and the sun is low in the sky and I'm driving, the sun reflected off the road into my eyes. But apart from that I can honestly say I have never experienced the sun being so bright that I can't look in a direction, especially at mid-day or whatever. /rant

Quote from Psy

I despise games with save checkpoints just before 10 MINUTE LONG UNSKIPPABLE CUT SCENES.

Yes. I'm looking at you Paper Mario 2. It had a 10 minute long cut scene just before the final boss. If you die, you had to rewatch the WHOLE FUCKING THING. I must of watched that cutscene about 30 or so times before I was able to finally beat the bastard.

Yeah that's horrible.

Alternatively, cut scenes without basic controls are very annoying, especially in this day and age. For example, pause or skip. Sometimes I have to leave the game for a second in the middle of a cut scene. It'd be nice if I could pause it so I don't miss anything.

Quote from D3ads

Doors that lock behind you even though you just walked through them without any trouble (yes Max Payne 3, I'm looking at you)

Yeah that caught me out a few times, especially with the golden gun parts. I'd often see a split route and go explore one direction intending to go back and explore the other, only to be greeted by a locked door since I had progressed too far.

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Bloody screen so real, health regen,

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Quote from AlexM

Do unskippable intro tutorials count?

Definitely, I hate them myself!

It's a good method at getting more pre-orders I bet. Very much the same as the pre-order bonuses like TF2 hats and such. It probably gets people talking and spreading the word to try to get more people to pre-order so they can unlock everything.

I like this method less though, since if the game doesn't sell well then I miss out on some of those bonuses I would have got from a normal pre-order.

I don't pre-order these days anyway unless it's a title I really want.

Haha

There were some pretty effects and stuff in there but I'm going to have to agree with everyone else and say the gameplay was nothing amazing.

I can't play shooters with a pad, so I wouldn't of picked this up anyway.

Sony make keyboard + mouse usable in all games on your console and I will buy all of the gaems your console won't have

Yeah that QTE in PoP looks fine, since you know it's coming. Kind of like the reload mechanic in Gears of War where if you hit the reload button again whilst reloading at the right time you reload slightly faster and get a slight damage boost for that clip. If you messed up you jammed the gun.

Shenmue is one of my favourite games and that is full of QTE's. But the game was slower paced than most and you kind of knew most of them were coming. The ones that weren't so obvious rarely had negative consequences, they just opened up new dialogue options and different branches in the story. I felt that worked since it kind of reinforced the games world, where random things could happen.

But QTE's in most games are handled badly and really don't fit like you said. They're just bolted on to make cinematics more "engaging" when in reality they just ruin it or are totally unexpected/undesired.

Hi all,

There's a thread on another forum I frequent about peoples least favourite game mechanics and wondered what yours were.

I'll start the ball rolling with infinitely respawning enemies until you pass a certain point.

This really pisses me off in games since sometimes I like to sit back on the towns outskirts for example and snipe everyone rather than running in guns blazing. Now obviously if those enemies keep respawning until I actually walk through the gate on the other side of town then I'm obviously never going to progress and all those kills I just racked up I have to do again up close and personal.

I'd much rather there be a set number of enemies in town and having the game allow me to approach the situation however I want.

So what are your least favourite? Regenerating health? Experience points? Classes? QTE's?

Haha, that's fine then Since I've just finished XCOM at work it will be a good replacement game for me to play during lunch.

God all this talk of DE:HR is making me want to play it. I've never completed it but I think I should.

And yeah, I remember the game having a lot of detail. I loved exploring in the game since a lot of the environments looked awesome.

I spent all weekend playing Civilization V with a few of my friends. Seriously awesome game and the Gods and Kings expansion makes some awesome improvements over the base game.

Aside from that we're also playing a lot of Chivalry. There's not that many maps but most of the maps have multiple game modes in them so it stops it getting too repetitive. I just can't get enough of the melee combat though!

Also, I finally beat FTL: Faster Than Light over the weekend. That last boss is a bitch but I made him my bitch this time. Took me over 18 hours to beat. So addictive

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Does someone have a list with all the trailers that were shown? The quality of the (recorded) streams I've found are shit.

Got some passed around work earlier, I'll copy the links here:

Unreal 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…d&v=lpKISWEGj4I

Infamous: Second Son:

http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/02…-gameplay-video

Media molecule PS4 Showcase:

Wow, Bungie... Wow.

FFS. I checked yesterday to see if I had a key and there was nothing. Checking my emails again today and there's a key sitting there which had arrived after I checked. God damn I wanted to play and the beta has already ended