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

[hobbsyoyo]

Has anyone ever tried Far Cry Primal? I like the idea of a prehistoric RPG, but I found Far Cry 4 too much a retread of 3 and never finished it. If Primal is "more of the same, but in a loincloth" I'd probably get bored fast. (And Far Cry 5 looks like another iteration of 3 & 4 in the previews, so I'm probably going to skip it.)

If you're tired of retreads then don't. It reuses large sections of FAr Cry 4's map.

Um I thought it used 100% the exact same map but re-skinned.

That's what got me from buying it. Far Cry 4 was exactly like 3 with a different plot and some minor improvements. Even all the vehicle and people models were the exact same. While I loved 3 and 4, I didn't want to play the same game a 3rd time with loinclothes.

 

[miaasma]

nier: automata

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I caved in a bought a PSVR bundle from a guy who was selling it cheap (PSVR, camera and two move controllers). Setting it up now. Haven't got any games though, not sure where to start. Will probably give Skyrim a miss, as it's too big of a time thief. Downloading some demos. Any tips @Manfred Belheim ?

Probably not the person to ask as I've pretty much only being playing Skyrim with it the first game I got was BattleZone which I enjoyed though. Pretty basic blaster, but nicely done and fun to play, though you might get bored of it pretty quickly. Also might not be great if you're prone to motion sickness. Not much else I can suggest though.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Warhammer : Total War.
The first one. CA games are best bought at least a year after release because of general buggyness and all the DLC.
Pretty good, but I seem to suck at the real-time combat right now. I'm pretty good at the general strategy part and my economy is solid, but I was just soundly defeated by a huge Orc army which went on to sack/raze two of my settlements. Won't be too hard to bounce back from it, but it still leaves a sour taste. O have a hard time winning any batles with numerically inferior forces.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The start-position bug in Civ VI still hasn't been fixed. I started a new game four times last night, and all of them were forked up. Maybe it's the game's way of telling me to go outside.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Whats the bug?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Whats the bug?

The dispersal of the start locations for the starting Settlers is all out of whack. Many times you start much too close to your neighbors; occasionally, you start with leagues of empty ground around you. Last night, I started 4 games on Emperor. 3 times an AI Civ planted his 2nd city within a half-dozen hexes of my capitol. On the 4th game, I must have had a quarter of the continent all to myself. By turn 30 I still hadn't met another Civ.

 

[Akka]

Warhammer : Total War.
The first one. CA games are best bought at least a year after release because of general buggyness and all the DLC.
Pretty good, but I seem to suck at the real-time combat right now. I'm pretty good at the general strategy part and my economy is solid, but I was just soundly defeated by a huge Orc army which went on to sack/raze two of my settlements. Won't be too hard to bounce back from it, but it still leaves a sour taste. O have a hard time winning any batles with numerically inferior forces.

Honestly, I've found this game just... meh.
As I've seen someone says on another forum, "it's a good Warhammer game, but a terrible Total War game". It just doesn't feel like commanding armies and waging huge wars but a serie of skirmishes, the interface is confusing as hell, there is no small settlements battles and the big ones are weird, the armies are pretty boring and feels that they like any kind of formation, the animations are over-the-top...
Seriously, I just massively prefer Rome II Emperor Edition.

 

[Synobun]

@EgonSpengler: Sounds like a feature to me.

 

[Lexicus]

On the 4th game, I must have had a quarter of the continent all to myself. By turn 30 I still hadn't met another Civ.

One of the more recent games of CIv IV I played worked out like this. It was kind of strange but I REX'd to a winning position and was never seriously threatened the entire time except by barbarians at the beginning, so it ended up fine.

 

[Snerk]

Probably not the person to ask as I've pretty much only being playing Skyrim with it the first game I got was BattleZone which I enjoyed though. Pretty basic blaster, but nicely done and fun to play, though you might get bored of it pretty quickly. Also might not be great if you're prone to motion sickness. Not much else I can suggest though.

Do you know if Skyrim VR has been updated and improved since launch? I noticed it's on sale. I'm still undecided on whether to jump in or not.
I already own Battlefront and I noticed it has some VR content and it was pretty sweet. Piloting an X-wing was all that and a bag of chips!
I'll probably get Superhot soon. It's looks really cool and has been getting a lot of highly positive reviews.

 

[shadowplay]

Is Skyrim like Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Someone eluded to BOTW being derivative.

 

[Lexicus]

Is Skyrim like Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Someone eluded to BOTW being derivative.

As Nintendo had never worked on a modern open-world game before, they took influence from the development of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.[34]

So, it probably is somewhat similar, but I doubt it's 'derivative'.

 

[shadowplay]

What kind of influence, then?

 

[Lexicus]

No idea, have never played BOTW. Screenshots of the game are definitely aesthetically suggestive of Skyrim. If you like I can ask my friend, who has played both games, what his thoughts are, but I'm not sure how long it will take him to get back to me.

 

[shadowplay]

No worries, thanks though. I've really enjoyed BOTW so I'm thinking of giving Skyrim a try.

 

[civvver]

I have not played breath of the wild but I guarantee you it's drastically different. For one breath of the wild is 3rd person. Skyrim is intended as a first person game with the option to go 3rd person, but it's not ideal since you still kind of point and pick up stuff with a cursor thingy.

Second breath of the wild is a zelda game and thus has puzzles. I've seen a few videos of some different puzzles, one involving some magnetic thingys. I don't recall skyrim having anything like that.

I don't think breath of the wild has a bunch of items to collect and buy/sell either though not sure.

Skyrim has a leveling up system, even if it's not really xp based like most rpgs, you still level things, plus crafting, that's drastically different from how zelda games work.

Breath of the wild is an open world zelda. Apparently you can skip a ton of side quests and beat it in a few hours but it's very difficult cus you have all your starting stats. But that's probably where the similarities end.

Regarding skyrim, obviously many people adore that game, but all say it's much improved with mods and almost all say the base game isn't that special. Personally I think it's quite average, though I only played the base game. I did somehow manage to invest 100 hours into it, despite not really liking it that much cus there's a lot to explore, but I hated the combat and leveling of it and the quests don't have quite enough direction for me. I don't mind open world and non linear quest lines but I want objectives. Something closer to mass effect 2 or dragon age for me.

 

[Arwon]

Aesthetically you could call BOTW Skyrim by way of Miyazaki, but it's quite a different gaming experience.

BOTW is one of the purest exploration and discovery experiences that has ever been created in an open world title. It's startlingly non linear and barely holds your hand, compared to either previous 3D Zelda games or other open world games that tend to be riddled with quest markers.

For me the biggest difference though is the way you move around. Being able to climb everything and jump safely off things and glide long distances changes the experience at a fundamental level.

 

[Synobun]

I've put 40 hours into Civilization 6 after a month. It's an okay game, I guess. I like the UI but it seems sparse in actual information. It's difficult to determine religious pressure or things like how amenities impact your empire. All I know is that if I build over a certain number of cities, all of them are suddenly short on amenities. And religion... all I know is that I should convert everyone else ASAP or else the AI will suffocate every city with a smorgasbord of gurus and missionaries that are impossible to afford yet they keep churning out.

War is better than in Civilization 5.

Most of the civs to pick from are useless. I really like Australia's music.

City states are ehhhh. Most aren't that big of a help.

The late game performance is atrocious, worse than Civilization 5 (which was already terrible). I dread a game lasting longer than the industrial era.

AIs declare war on other AI even if there's no way for them to get there. That's silly.

I have also been playing through Oxenfree, graciously given to me by @Arakhor. It's a neat little story game. No actual stakes. The story itself is pretty middling but the voice acting is good and if you like the Telltale model you'll probably like this. I got through it in 4 hours. Doing it 100% would probably take 6 or 7 hours. Not worth the $22 it costs. Probably worth more about $10 or $12~. Get it on sale. Or have nice people give it to you for free.

Next up, I'm not sure what I'll do. Maybe do a little achievement gathering with Civ6. Or move onto a new game like Operation Flashpoint (graciously given by @FriendlyFire).

 

[EgonSpengler]

I played some American Truck Simulator over the weekend. It's kind of relaxing and nerve-wracking at the same time. There are these articulated trailers that are even harder to park than the regular rigs.