Sunset Overdrive

Mickeroo · 02-11-2014 2:02am

I've only put maybe 2 or 3 hours in yet but it's actually a lot of fun and genuinely funny too imo. Surprised as it's not really a game that appealed much to me at all.

FAILSAFE 00 · 02-11-2014 12:57pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I've only put maybe 2 or 3 hours in yet but it's actually a lot of fun and genuinely funny too imo. Surprised as it's not really a game that appealed much to me at all.

exactly what I am thinking after about 2hrs gameplay.

What surprised me was I loaded up Destiny after playing Sunset Overdrive and I was bored in 5 minutes of doing the usual daily missions yet again.

maximoose · 03-11-2014 12:45pm

The most refreshing thing I've found about this game after playing Destiny for the last month is the instant resume from where you left off! If I only have an hour to play at least I know I'll have the full hour and not spending a lot of it in pissy menus waiting to connect :pac:

About 10 hours in now, not too far in the story as have been dicking around doing a lot of side quests and stuff. Very much enjoying the game still!

Anyone up for some chaos squad this week?

Stone Deaf 4evr · 03-11-2014 1:57pm

maximoose wrote: »

The most refreshing thing I've found about this game after playing Destiny for the last month is the instant resume from where you left off! If I only have an hour to play at least I know I'll have the full hour and not spending a lot of it in pissy menus waiting to connect :pac:

About 10 hours in now, not too far in the story as have been dicking around doing a lot of side quests and stuff. Very much enjoying the game still!

Anyone up for some chaos squad this week?

definitely up for it unless cod turns out to be brilliant

maximoose · 03-11-2014 2:35pm

Yeah, my bank balance is not happy about the early positive reviews for COD.

FutureGuy · 03-11-2014 4:34pm

Love the game. Old School Tony Hawk + Dreamcast vibe + Dead Rising + Tons of Fun.

Boardsie Chaos Mode Squad???

calex71 · 03-11-2014 9:12pm

Ok I sighed when I got the mission to go get the dog :mad:

Not frowning now :pac:

Stone Deaf 4evr · 04-11-2014 12:44pm

calex71 wrote: »

Ok I sighed when I got the mission to go get the dog :mad:

Not frowning now :pac:

yup,

I'm actually refraining from asking about different things or quoting some of the dialog as it'd be a shame for people to not experience it properly.

tony1980 · 04-11-2014 12:54pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

definitely up for it unless cod turns out to be brilliant

I would be up for this too regardless of how COD turns out!

Gamertag is CANTO CGI

Mickeroo · 04-11-2014 3:19pm

Was playing Titanfall there, was wall running along on one of the maps and jumped down to street level, got myself killed because the bounce I was expecting from the car I landed on never came. Damn this game

calex71 · 04-11-2014 4:48pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Was playing Titanfall there, was wall running along on one of the maps and jumped down to street level, got myself killed because the bounce I was expecting from the car I landed on never came. Damn this game

LMAO that was like me the other night trying to buttslam in Destiny when we were on the raid

maximoose · 05-11-2014 10:33am

The mission where you have to

assemble band members

makes fully leveling up weapons a doddle, maxed out 9 weapons in about half an hour and makes getting the 5k/15k OD kills achievements simple too.

Mickeroo · 05-11-2014 6:55pm

maximoose wrote: »

The mission where you have to
assemble band members
makes fully leveling up weapons a doddle, maxed out 9 weapons in about half an hour and makes getting the 5k/15k OD kills achievements simple too.

Is that a campaign mission? I've only gotten to the fargarthians yet.

Mickeroo · 05-11-2014 10:07pm

Hah,

The Siege of Wondertown Land

was pretty epic

I must say the campaign missions are very enjoyable in this, each one is different from the last and they constantly introduce stuff to prevent the gameplay feeling repetitive. Some of the side missions are standard collect random crap fetch quests but the main missions are great. Pretty impressed with the game overall.

calex71 · 05-11-2014 10:23pm

Im actually surprised at how easy it is to die vs say dead rising 3 where there was little if any risk of getting killed outside of a boss fight.

Mickeroo · 05-11-2014 10:25pm

calex71 wrote: »

Im actually surprised at how easy it is to die vs say dead rising 3 where there was little if any risk of getting killed outside of a boss fight.

Yeah you really get punished if you don't keep moving.

calex71 · 05-11-2014 11:03pm

Only major gripe I have with this is the sound track , would have been so much better had they licensed some music from better known acts, all the stuff in this sounds the same for the most part and thats coming from a punk fan

Hell it needs this gem from THPS 2, how cool could would it be to grind around to this !!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUCjJphE-0

Caprica6 · 05-11-2014 11:06pm

It looks like they borrowed the best parts of certain games even down to the dmc story like of a soda making people brainless zombies, usually this would turn me of a game, but its clever colourful package looks like fun.

maximoose · 06-11-2014 10:57am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Is that a campaign mission? I've only gotten to the fargarthians yet.

Campaign yeah, you're not too far off it now if you've just done the siege!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2014 11:09am

maximoose wrote: »

Campaign yeah, you're not too far off it now if you've just done the siege!

I see you got the achievement for maxing out 20 weapons :eek:- fair play!

maximoose · 06-11-2014 12:07pm

TBH it kind of bugged :pac:

I used the mission I said above to max out 10 weapons, once the achievement popped I paused the game and was looking through the menus - game crashed for the first time and booted me to home. Started up the game again, back at the same point but my weapons progress had been lost! Did the same 10 again, and the 20 weapons cheevo popped!

calex71 · 06-11-2014 12:14pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I see you got the achievement for maxing out 20 weapons :eek:- fair play!

Easy on the mission

getting the band back together, just get to the part with the drummer

and go to town on the infinite spawning OD

fifth · 06-11-2014 4:15pm

Seriously impressed with this. I've had it on my list to buy since it was first shown. Definitely has that Dreamcast vibe to it. It's like a tony hawks & dead rising crossover.

Can't put it down! The humour isn't bad either, it's not laugh out loud funny but I got a few laughs out of it. I love how the game is aware of itself (being a game). It's also cool how dying doesn't really affect you - breath of fresh air that.

Mickeroo · 06-11-2014 4:16pm

Got a 500 combo there and the challenge didn't pop

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2014 4:18pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Got a 500 combo there and the challenge didn't pop

try logging in and out, xbox one is funny that way.

maximoose · 06-11-2014 4:30pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Got a 500 combo there and the challenge didn't pop

Is that new? Is there a reward?

Mickeroo · 06-11-2014 4:35pm

maximoose wrote: »

Is that new? Is there a reward?

It's there in the achievement list, I think you get a tonne of overdrive and money for it or something. There's one for melee killing 250 poppers and another for getting gold in 10 challenges too.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2014 4:38pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

It's there in the achievement list, I think you get a tonne of overdrive and money for it or something. There's one for melee killing 250 poppers and another for getting gold in 10 challenges too.

they're community challenges - they operate outside of achievements I think.
If you have smartglass, look at the game, then swipe over to see if theres any ongoing challenges.

another one on at the minute is the OD apocalypse - 1.6 billion or more OD killed in 30 days.

maximoose · 06-11-2014 4:38pm

I see it on smartglass, the 500 combo one apparently doesn't start for another 11 days

Mickeroo · 06-11-2014 4:44pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

they're community challenges - they operate outside of achievements I think.
If you have smartglass, look at the game, then swipe over to see if theres any ongoing challenges.

another one on at the minute is the OD apocalypse - 1.6 billion or more OD killed in 30 days.

There's individual ones too.

maximoose wrote: »

I see it on smartglass, the 500 combo one apparently doesn't start for another 11 days

Well that's a balls, wasted 15 minutes bouncing on the same three fans to get to 500 for nothing :pac:

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2014 4:47pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

There's individual ones too.

Well that's a balls, wasted 15 minutes bouncing on the same three fans to get to 500 for nothing :pac:

Ah mickeroo, thats not really in the spirit of things at all!

are ye up for some Chaos squad at some stage over the weekend? I reckon we should be able to get a few on together with a bit of organising.

myself and tony1980 are both up for it.

maximoose · 06-11-2014 4:49pm

I can join you tomorrow night / sat morning

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2014 4:52pm

maximoose wrote: »

I can join you tomorrow night / sat morning

sounds good, friday evening should be ok for me as well, probably be some time after 9 when I get on as i have a few jobs I need to do first.

calex71 · 06-11-2014 5:12pm

I should be around too.

tony1980 · 06-11-2014 5:13pm

I am up for that Friday night lads. I am actually going to spend a few hours playing this tonight and give COD a break!

Edit: Are we allowed 8 players for Chaos squad?

calex71 · 06-11-2014 5:27pm

tony1980 wrote: »

I am up for that Friday night lads. I am actually going to spend a few hours playing this tonight and give COD a break!

Edit: Are we allowed 8 players for Chaos squad?

Yes 8 is the limit

calex71 · 07-11-2014 12:02am

wow this game isn't without bugs, few times over the last few days i've had to quit to get the game to progress, got stuck in the back of a van during a side quest there, first time was with the reality TV mission had to reload to get the train to appear , theres been about 4 other mission that stalled on me like that.

wexdevil · 07-11-2014 12:14am

calex71 wrote: »

wow this game isn't without bugs, few times over the last few days i've had to quit to get the game to progress, got stuck in the back of a van during a side quest there, first time was with the reality TV mission had to reload to get the train to appear , theres been about 4 other mission that stalled on me like that.

Yeah I got stuck in that same van, I've had some issues with the missions but i never had to quit. They would always sort themselves out once I got myself killed

Mickeroo · 07-11-2014 1:38am

I'll be around for chaos squad too tomorrow lads if there's space.

FAILSAFE 00 · 07-11-2014 1:57am

Mickeroo wrote: »

I'll be around for chaos squad too tomorrow lads if there's space.

Same

Stone Deaf 4evr · 07-11-2014 9:50am

theres a slight chance I might not make it tonight so if people want to swap gamertags and start away with out my thats fine. (I think I have everyone bar calex on my friends list)

rizzla · 07-11-2014 11:07am

Shouldn't have started this last night, wrecked in work this morning. Game is excellent, can't wait to unlock additional traversal elements.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 07-11-2014 12:56pm

If you're like me, and still read things in spoiler tags, I'll preface this by saying it happens after you get to the third base.

Just did the first mission with the LARPers. I was cracking up laughing all the way through it, from the game of thrones nod, "HARDCORE!" or the bard who plays a song whilst you're battling the OD. It was just epic. - Oh and thats not to forget the epic fight against the OD dragon, when my character reached up and grabbed the style meter lightning bold to stab the dragon was class!

The further I get into this, the better it gets.

maximoose · 07-11-2014 1:00pm

Yeah I loved that mission :pac:

I think the humor is great in it, not sure why a lot of reviewers seem to hate it. A lot of breaking the "4th wall" and taking the piss out itself and games in general, and love all the little easter eggs/pop culture references.

calex71 · 07-11-2014 1:06pm

The respawns are great , even dying is funny in this.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 07-11-2014 1:07pm

maximoose wrote: »

Yeah I loved that mission :pac:

I think the humor is great in it, not sure why a lot of reviewers seem to hate it. A lot of breaking the "4th wall" and taking the piss out itself and games in general, and love all the little easter eggs/pop culture references.

I actually think the trailers they released beforehand did the game a bit of a disservice. They made the humor seem really grating and in your face, when its actually really clever. theres nearly a story to be told after every mission - Id love to be chatting more about it, but I'd hate to spoil it for anyone.

2nd base spoiler ahead

I left a massive "HA!" out of me when I finally rescued scout master brylcreem and i opened the back of the rubbish lorry to find this super survivalist in the condition he was in - my wife got an awful fright as she was reading something on the laptop and I was playing with my headset on - and then all the awkward comments people were passing when I returned him to the base.

tony1980 · 07-11-2014 8:56pm

I won;t be on until about 9:30 lads if we are still giving chaos mode a go.

calex71 · 07-11-2014 9:15pm

tony1980 wrote: »

I won;t be on until about 9:30 lads if we are still giving chaos mode a go.

Sound I've a few bits to get done here so should be good to go from 9 or shortly before.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 07-11-2014 9:21pm

calex71 wrote: »

Sound I've a few bits to get done here so should be good to go from 9 or shortly before.

calex,whats your gt?

calex71 · 07-11-2014 10:19pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

calex,whats your gt?

Oh it's calex deus , forgot it wasn't on my signature these days

Sunset Overdrive

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