What are you playing now?

[Radu]

@Thrik you are still alive?  

I've been considering playing Death Stranding myself, but the playtime is a bit of a commitment.

[Thrik]

Haha yes, the ravages of life have stopped me spending as much time chatting online but it’s getting easier now some things have settled down.

I’ve always still been here keeping things up to date behind the scenes. 

Yeah it takes a lot of time, and frankly the gameplay is really repetitive. But for some reason it gets its hooks into me, it’s relaxing a bit like playing a mindless mobile game can be.

Its also full of interesting lore (as you’d expect endless codec conversations, articles, emails, etc) and its world is really compelling and unique. I think it’s worth experiencing once even if you just push through the main story like I did at first — which still takes ages!

[blackdog]

Considering the latest posts I’d like to know who’s more right… but I haven’t neither played or watched lol

 

[Thrik]

It’s definitely a polarising game, I can see how doing endless fetch quests might drive someone insane.  It seems to either click for people or not… at all.

[blackdog]

I’m very surprised there’s gonna be a sequel, I thought was a one-and-done deal.

[Radu]

8 hours ago, blackdog said:

I’m very surprised there’s gonna be a sequel, I thought was a one-and-done deal.

Laughs in MGS5

[ZZZ]

Duke Nukem Forever.

I knew it was bad and I'm playing it to get more examples for my level design site. The first enemies and levels are already awful.

EDIT: I couldn't bare this game. I had to download a save and use the cheats to rush it straight to the ending with god mode and infinite ammo. lol. It has the same mistake of Prey 2006. They give no clues and leave the player lost with no proper directions.

Edited June 5, 2022 by 0kelvin

[AlexM]

On 6/4/2022 at 4:03 AM, 0kelvin said:

Duke Nukem Forever.

I knew it was bad and I'm playing it to get more examples for my level design site. The first enemies and levels are already awful.

EDIT: I couldn't bare this game. I had to download a save and use the cheats to rush it straight to the ending with god mode and infinite ammo. lol. It has the same mistake of Prey 2006. They give no clues and leave the player lost with no proper directions.

What's your level design site?

[ZZZ]

37 minutes ago, AlexM said:

What's your level design site?

https://sites.google.com/view/leveldesigner/english-version?authuser=0

[AlexM]

1 hour ago, 0kelvin said:

https://sites.google.com/view/leveldesigner/english-version?authuser=0

Cool thanks for that, I'll give it a read this weekend (well the parts where I'm able to read )

[Izuno]

I played an hour of Death Stranding and gave up.  I didn't hate it, just got busy and distracted and then never got back to it.

Recently played Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga. Definitely exceeded my modest expectations.

However the primary game I'm into now is Horizon Forbidden West. In some ways it's better than HZD, and in some ways not as good. It does feel overall easier but the older I get the less I care about how hard a game is and instead I enjoy how playable a game is without forcing me to work or think too hard.  HFW floats the boat on that.

[ZZZ]

I quitted Quake 4 in the first mission and watched about 1 hour in youtube at 2x speed. I guess, the stroggs universe is a dead end. It adds some new tech on top of the old quake, but that's it. It's too dark and repetitive. There is a lot of blood stains everywhere but this is an action game, not an horror game. F.E.A.R. does a better job at bringing horror than doom 3 and quake 4 is boring. The medic dying on me made me quit haha. Id tech 4 suffers from a severe lack of contrast. It must had been some trade off between performance and color precision that they made at the time.

This brought me one more example to my level design site. Revisiting areas can be done and the first mission did it and opened up some new passages, but to travel back just to escort a medic is so boring. It doesn't add bring anything fresh to the plot. It just forces the player to revisit a previous area twice.

Trying Rage now.

Edited June 28, 2022 by 0kelvin

[AlexM]

1 hour ago, 0kelvin said:

I quitted Quake 4 in the first mission and watched about 1 hour in youtube at 2x speed. I guess, the stroggs universe is a dead end. It adds some new tech on top of the old quake, but that's it. It's too dark and repetitive. There is a lot of blood stains everywhere but this is an action game, not an horror game. F.E.A.R. does a better job at bringing horror than doom 3 and quake 4 is boring. The medic dying on me made me quit haha. Id tech 4 suffers from a severe lack of contrast. It must had been some trade off between performance and color precision that they made at the time.

This brought me one more example to my level design site. Revisiting areas can be done and the first mission did it and opened up some new passages, but to travel back just to escort a medic is so boring. It doesn't add bring anything fresh to the plot. It just forces the player to revisit a previous area twice.

Trying Rage now.

I remember thinking the combat in Rage was quite good and all the stuff in between was a waste of time.


btw, which is the best FEAR?

[ZZZ]

FEAR 2 is the best.

FEAR 3 ruined the horror theme.

[blackdog]

I have them all I think but only played the first, back when the game was still current.

I remember it was the only game that sent me real chills down my spine (in the final scenes, some other cool stuff had been spoiled in the trailers and I remember working very well on there too).