What Video Games Have You Been Playing VII: The Real Ending is Locked Behind a Paywall

[EgonSpengler]

That loyalty system sounds like something vanilla should have had given how much the game screams at you for amenity and housing shortages (yet nothing happens).

I actually think the Civ VI team made better choices than the Civ V team did, as to what systems to leave out of the initial release and save for the expansions. iirc, I was pretty torqued about religion not being in the Civ V base game (I think espionage was also missing).

 

[Tigranes]

Well, I guess it's more like a computer game (even though it is released for consoles as well), but Kingdom Come: Deliverance looks unlike any historical game I have ever seen! Anyone else is intrigued by it? Apparently creators spent 5 years in library reconstructing the details of 15th century Bohemia!

 

[Snerk]

I'm really intrigued by it too! What's the current ETA on it?

 

[Tigranes]

It was released yesterday.

 

[Snerk]

Really? Cool! I though it was still months away. How is it being received?

 

[Tigranes]

There is a flood of videos on youtube, different walk-throughs... Level of details and historical accuracy is staggering. I never liked unreal things like dragons and superheros, because real history just feels so cool. Medieval world running in real time where food can spoil and if you missed a quest -- well, you have missed it... Any place you can see -- you can visit it. 16 square km real space painstakingly recreated.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I read a review that praised the game's depth and noted how many small details added to immersion: A noble is more favorable toward you if you bathe before meeting him; if you get drunk, you wake up the next day hung over; heavy armor makes it harder to sneak, and injuries picked up in one battle can slow you down in the next one if you haven't had time to recover. They also said the character-progression system feels more natural than a lot of RPGs, the character "learns by doing", so if you want to improve your bartering and diplomacy, you have to talk to people, not get into fights. But they also said there were a lot of bugs and the system requirements were a real bear. The game ran well when the character was out in the countryside, but was slow as molasses when the character went into the city.

 

[Yeekim]

Well, I guess it's more like a computer game (even though it is released for consoles as well), but Kingdom Come: Deliverance looks unlike any historical game I have ever seen! Anyone else is intrigued by it? Apparently creators spent 5 years in library reconstructing the details of 15th century Bohemia!

Have been following this for a while and I'll certainly buy it.
There's bound to be bugs however, so I'll hold off for a couple months.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Been playing a lot of Pac-Man.

Current highest score is 309,270. Next goal is to beat 1,000,000.

Nothing more to say on the matter.

 

[Akka]

I'm interested a lot in Kingdom Comes : Deliverance, but considering the reviews speaking about bugs, I'm going to wait a bit until it's mostly patched before jumping in.

I'm really waiting for Bannerlord anyway.

 

[Synobun]

I read a review that praised the game's depth and noted how many small details added to immersion: A noble is more favorable toward you if you bathe before meeting him; if you get drunk, you wake up the next day hung over; heavy armor makes it harder to sneak, and injuries picked up in one battle can slow you down in the next one if you haven't had time to recover. They also said the character-progression system feels more natural than a lot of RPGs, the character "learns by doing", so if you want to improve your bartering and diplomacy, you have to talk to people, not get into fights. But they also said there were a lot of bugs and the system requirements were a real bear. The game ran well when the character was out in the countryside, but was slow as molasses when the character went into the city.

I read that review too. The comments on it were really toxic.

It seems interesting although I'm not too sure about the focus on realism. I like immersion but needing to learn the IRL foundations of alchemy in order to brew a potion seems a bit far for something that isn't in a time-altered holodeck.

The clothing/visibility mechanic seems interesting though. Other games have tried to utilize something similar with mixed results. New Vegas had the faction clothing that didn't really change much at the end of the day. If it works as well as the review says it does, that'd be quite revolutionary for reputation systems in games for the future.

I'm still playing Civ6. I am not sure if I like it. I've put in 18 hours though so even if I end up saying it's not my speed I'll still have gotten a good ROI. Words cannot express how much I love Sogno di Volare.

 

[civvver]

I've been playing ocarina of time 3d (in 2d though) exclusively for two weeks. 25 hours in, on the last dungeon. I forgot how freakin amazing this game is. I wanted to explore and figure out all the dungeons on my own. The only thing I cheated on was looking up all the heart container locations cus that would take years for me to find them all on my own. I don't care about getting 100% completion, but I do want all the hearts!

The 3d version has improved textures, though it's still not super modern so you don't really notice unless you compare to original screenshots. They change the well dungeon a lot, kind of for the worse toning down the ambiance, but other than that the slight improvements seem good. The water temple was absurdly easy now because they added markers for the water change locations along with indicators of what they change the level too. It's a good overall change though as I hated that level on n64 and used a guide for it in every replay I did cus I hated it so much.

Overall the game seems a lot easier. I'm not sure if it's cus I played it before or cus I'm older now, though I wasn't a dumb kid when I first played it. I got the game when it came out when I was 14 and beat it, though no where near 100% completion, then I replayed it 4-5 years later and got 100% completion though I used guides for skulltula locations. Maybe subconsciously I remember solutions to the puzzles from 15 years ago.

I'm very excited to finish and pick up majoras mask next as I have never played that one before.

 

[cardgame]

I'll say the same thing I said on reddit, I'm about 17% convinced that bannerlord is vaporware

how is it possible to not have a release date two years after your first release date announcement

 

[FriendlyFire]

I'll say the same thing I said on reddit, I'm about 17% convinced that bannerlord is vaporware
how is it possible to not have a release date two years after your first release date announcement

It looks ready for release, just increase the size of your army to about 500 each side, updated graphics, AI and better questing I would buy
Look at Star Citizen, and its massive funding with concept ships, been plague with problems and massive idiotic delays Iam convinced that Star citizen is Vapour wear, tech wise it looks amazing but they are stuggling to with more then a handful of players on each server. Really should have worked out how to have 100+ players on one server before you jump ahead with developing everything else

 

[cardgame]

Well, Star Citizen is run by the overdeveloper Chris Robertson, which explains the feature and scope creep beyond what is promised (and hence the delays). At least some of it exists as a playable.

 

[FriendlyFire]

It feels like one of those amazing early access titles that is stuck in development hell. (DayZ or Rust)
The problem is that people investing in thousands of dollars for concept ships to play in an MMO thats where all the money is coming in from to continue development.
Chris Roberts is going to be crucified if he dosnt deliver a Minimum Value Product MMO.

Its not like we have Elite Dangerous showing us how it should be done

 

[cardgame]

ED is the opposite of what SC should be.

 

[Akka]

I'll say the same thing I said on reddit, I'm about 17% convinced that bannerlord is vaporware

They have shown several gameplay videos and have had one-hand demo already.
If it's vaporware, it's based on some pretty good make-believe.

how is it possible to not have a release date two years after your first release date announcement

Video game history is littered with games having done just that.
Granted, it's usually not a happy-ending story, but still.

 

[Broken_Erika]

*cough *cough duke nukem forever *cough

 

[mendyXC]

Have been playing Assassin's Creed black flag when at home but now enjoy myself with godzilla xD