The Video Game thread

[MrNovember]

Fair enough, I wouldn't be interested either way. I'm solidly in the fuck EA camp. Those guys have ruined way too many games for me.

[Olin]

Also v important to remember the removal is temporary. The game is built around microtransactions and doesn't play well without them. They'll come back and EA will keep being EA. A four hour campaign is disgraceful and it's such a shame this is the way we've gone in gaming.
Bitchpudding, you tried Titanfall 2?

[codetocontra]

Sw Battlefront 1 wasnt a great shooter either. Had it in the looks and sound, but not in the feels or balance.

[Andrew]

I've stuck up for EA in the past, but fuck em, killing off Visceral was the absolute final nail in the coffin of me buying any Battlefront game. I'm still kind of interested in the new Bioware game considering that it has some of the original Mass Effect people working on it but even then I'm cautious about the shitty practices that goes with it. Hope Disney chews them out for sullying the Star Wars brand.


Finished RE5 & Rev. Now to Rev2 or RE6, I never stuck with either of them but i'm completely reinvested in the absolute batshit Resident Evil universe. Its so brilliant and fucking dreadful at the same time, I love it so much.

[worra]

Also v important to remember the removal is temporary. The game is built around microtransactions and doesn't play well without them. They'll come back and EA will keep being EA. A four hour campaign is disgraceful and it's such a shame this is the way we've gone in gaming.
Bitchpudding, you tried Titanfall 2?

Good advice here, titanfall 2 is awesome.


Also I just started WoW again as well (took a nine year break)

[GAS KING]

I started WoW for the first time. about 8 hrs in on a lvl 17 priest. (after destiny 2 ended up having a empty pointless end game. just hit the milestones week to week and done.)
I'm not sure priest was the best choice for me. should have went DPS for my first character.

[Achtane]

I love being priest/medic/engineer type characters.

[SecretMachine]

I started WoW for the first time. about 8 hrs in on a lvl 17 priest. (after destiny 2 ended up having a empty pointless end game. just hit the milestones week to week and done.)
I'm not sure priest was the best choice for me. should have went DPS for my first character.

Priests are difficult if you're playing the game for the first time as a priest (from what I remember about levelling a character 5+ years ago) is that it's difficult to solo due to the low damage output. Theoretically you have less downtime because you can heal yourself, but because most quests are "kill X to get Y amount of skins/mystical objects/venga boys albums", it can take longer to level up.

As a result, you often see Hunters being praised as the quick leveller as they have a tank, and they act as the DPS. I played as a Rogue on my first playthrough (the only character I ever got to max level because I like going outside), and that was quite difficult initially until you start really getting good abilities.

Having said all that WoW has changed so much now the game could just be a series of QTEs and all this advice is redundant.

[nogodsnobedtimes]

(after destiny 2 ended up having a empty pointless end game. just hit the milestones week to week and done.)

Man I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. It's a really fun game to play, but there's nothing there worth going back for. The milestones aren't fresh, it's just a (moderately fun) grind for loot and gear.

AND FUCK THE RAID.

[Andrew]

Picked up Persona 5 on a Black Friday sale, about 4-5 hours into it and liking it waaaaaaaay more than I thought that I would after my first hour. Really wasn't expecting the story to be like what it is or the game actually having likeable characters.


This also finally makes sense:

[UglyCasanova]

Just finished a L4D2 session with Vidret, Fcknoise and Worra. Shit's fuuuuuuuuuuuuun!

...well, they played L4D2, I played Starship Troopers.

[Olin]

Maaaan I haven't played l4d2 for years. This is a good excuse to redownload it.

[Andrew]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... bal-empire

Man, I really really want to see a new Deus Ex game in less than 4 years

[Dapper Bandit]

Finished the Fractured But Whole. Made me want to play through Stick of Truth again, turns out I now like RPGs which was unexpected.

Now I need to finish some games on the Wii U and then I could kind of justify buying a Switch...

[reckon luck]

Made it through Black Friday without spending much. Ys Felghana on Steam, Ori on Xbox. Really liking both so far.