The Video Game thread

[GardenoftheDead]

RIP dark souls. I updated a bunch of drivers and moved to windows 8.1 and now the game runs terribly. With or without dsfix, compatibility, run as admin, nothing works. GFWL kicks me off for having too low a frame rate. I checked other games, on the off chance my video card was dying, but skyrim still runs fine. Sad day.

Go into DSFix and set the base resolution lower.

[leaves turn]

I tried that, it does help a little, but it's still mostly unplayable. Bad framerate does weird things to dark souls. I kept clipping through the taurus demon instead of landing the jump attack.

[leaves turn]

CRISIS AVERTED. Somehow my laptop had been set to a power saver mode without my noticing. Not sure how skyrim was running so well though.

[Andrew]

Could someone explain to me why everyone seems to be giving Bioshock so much shit? Did it take them 6 months to come to the realization that they don't like the plot after someone had to explain it to them? The 'plotholes' people bring up aren't even fucking plot holes.

Then again, I went from hating it to loving it.

[Twangasaurus]

I thought everyone liked the plot but thought that the actual FPS part was a bit shit and that maybe while Elizabeth wasn't an annoying side kick (and a cool character) ultimately the way she worked (enemies completely ignored her ect.) didn't make an awful lot of sense?

[backwardsvoyager]

I actually only finished Infinite last week cos i couldn't afford it when it came out. I thought it was a great game, at least in that i was really absorbed by it and enjoyed it (what more can you ask for, really?)

Having said that, i felt like the difficulty level was quite strange. I normally suck at FPS games but played it on medium and found most of it really easy, except a couple of parts in the second half that were just stupidly difficult in comparison (it seemed to go from having a ridiculous abundance of ammo at any given time to suddenly not being able to find ANY). I also very rarely felt inclined to use Vigors..
Also, the ending was more like watching a movie than playing a game. I can't stand when something interesting is happening and you can only sit there and watch it.

[Andrew]

I thought everyone liked the plot but thought that the actual FPS part was a bit shit and that maybe while Elizabeth wasn't an annoying side kick (and a cool character) ultimately the way she worked (enemies completely ignored her ect.) didn't make an awful lot of sense?

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I'm happy to rant, but people would laugh at me for taking it seriously.

I think that people criticize according to how it meets their expectation and not by what the media actually is. People didn't hate ME3 because of a rogue AI that was responsible for everything, people hated it because they were"lied to" and it didn't validate their precious choices (lol). That's just bullshit. I wouldn't expect the latest Megadeth album to touch Rust In Peace, even if they hyped it up saying is the best thing ever.

Elysium would've been a brilliant television series, it was a movie instead. You have to take what you get and judge it accordingly.

[chuckjaywalk]

I'm enjoying Rocksmith 2014.

[Twangasaurus]

I'm happy to rant, but people would laugh at me for taking it seriously.

I think that people criticize according to how it meets their expectation and not by what the media actually is. People didn't hate ME3 because of a rogue AI that was responsible for everything, people hated it because they were"lied to" and it didn't validate their precious choices (lol). That's just bullshit. I wouldn't expect the latest Megadeth album to touch Rust In Peace, even if they hyped it up saying is the best thing ever.

Elysium would've been a brilliant television series, it was a movie instead. You have to take what you get and judge it accordingly.

Haha, I love Matt Lees, do you listen to Regular Features?
I suppose the problem is that while expectations shouldn't play a part in objectively reviewing a game they can be used in giving consumer advice? I have a bit of sympathy when it comes to ME3 because Bioware made precedent in regards to choices. People that had played from the beginning carried them all the way through from ME1 just to have them mean nothing and leave absolutely no closure in 3. I mean, to be fair, not the smartest choice from a player satisfaction point.

Overall I think you're right though, gamers can be awfully privileged sometimes and it definitely grates on ones nerves the amount of hyperbole that gets thrown around.

[Andrew]

Haha, I love Matt Lees, do you listen to Regular Features?
I suppose the problem is that while expectations shouldn't play a part in objectively reviewing a game they can be used in giving consumer advice? I have a bit of sympathy when it comes to ME3 because Bioware made precedent in regards to choices. People that had played from the beginning carried them all the way through from ME1 just to have them mean nothing and leave absolutely no closure in 3. I mean, to be fair, not the smartest choice from a player satisfaction point.

Overall I think you're right though, gamers can be awfully privileged sometimes and it definitely grates on ones nerves the amount of hyperbole that gets thrown around.

I can think of so many worse games that deserves such a negative backlash.


I can handle an incredibly nihilistic, pseudo intellectual dimensional travel plot when horseshit like FFXIII exists.

I thought that carried on plot points in ME was still executed okay.
In just one playthrough:
I couldn't achieve a Geth/Quarian because I failed to resolve the argument in ME2.
I didn't save Kelly because I didn't check up on her after ME2.
I had to put down Wrex after I sabotaged the Genophage cure
I was guttered.

In another playthrough, I had radically different results. Considering the massive amount of detail that's already in the game, it would've been so incredibly implausible to have an ME3 ending that would satisfy everyone considering the improved social/questing elements in ME2/3 compared to the first game. Most games with multiple endings just end up being a simple dialog with random screenshots in the background, that's not satisfying. Also, mentioning that they had to rewrite the ending because the original was leaked which would've made it even harder to implement. They just bit off more than they could chew.


Picked up Slender:TA. It's pretty well done for an Indie game and looks gorgeous. Though I got all 8/8 pages first attempt, suprisingly.

NSFW: show

Though, bearing the title i'd expect more of him

Fear is the mind killer.

[odontophobia]

I didn't hate Final Fantasy XIII. I just didn't really like it, either.

I mean -- visually I thought it was awesome. I didn't hate the battle system as much as I should have since I love turn based RPGs. The plot was just pretty meh.

[Twangasaurus]

They just bit off more than they could chew.

Yeah, this. Also could have used more space cats.

[LOCOPELAND]

Been co oping Dead Rising 3 with a friend of mine. Awesome game and there's a ton of content. Really enjoying it.

[GardenoftheDead]

I wanted to like FFXIII more than I do. The writing is just horrendously inconsistent.

[Andrew]

I wanted to like FFXIII more than I do. The writing is just horrendously inconsistent.

You can't really have a game when even the characters don't know what they're doing. But, if the characters actually do anything, then they destroy the world - which actually happens in the ending, but then the world gets saved by friendship. Seriously, what the fuck?



Nearly finished Spec Ops: The Line. I haven't been that uncomfortable while playing a game, The Walking Dead has fucking nothing on this.

Plus it's a 3rd tactical shooter that's lead by Commander Shepard's great grandfather. Which I find hilarious.

Also, I just heard Glasgow MegaSnake playing at one stage of the game