General gaming discussion

Being able to play without spending is important. But lately games are getting very grindy, border line pay to win but still possible enough to say its not.

I've only ever spent €10 on micro transactions in my whole life. It was €10 on a COD Cold War battle pass. I was so into the game it felt worth it. It was the best €10 I ever spent because I'd finish the battle pass and have enough credit for the next battle pass. It was very easy to do even just by doing the double XP weekends. So I was basically in a perpetual battle pass for €10.

Then MW2 comes along and they separated XP from BP points and it.became soooo grindy. I still have my €10, I grinded my backside off just so they couldn't take my original €10 investment away from me. Now I just don't play COD anymore 🙂

I just hate how it went from a broody, dark "realistic" type game to another cheap gta knockoff that pandered to the wrong audiences*. By the 3rd game there isn't even a main character, be "anyone" and in the process have absolutely no personal connection to the game whatsoever. Legion killed it imo. I'd be up for a reboot and back to the original feel and a story to be told.

* ie: not me :)

I gave up on that one too back in the day after getting completely bored with all the backtracking involved. It felt like a significant step down from 2 for me at the time.

In retrospect I wonder if it was just fatigue because by then Resident Evil 2 and FF7 had sort up upped my expectations. I didn't really go back to Tomb Raider after that until Legend/Underworld/Anniversary, which were enjoyable B level fare for me. Although the Tomb Raider/Rise/Shadow trilogy blew me away. Well the first two did. Fatigue had set in for the third one I think.

So I missed the second half of 3 and remember little apart from being bored AF wandering around some desert or something. And I also missed Last Revelation which I have here on dreamcast. Is it worth going back ?

Which TR game could you explore the mansion? My cousins had a Playstation and that's the only part I played as in exploring the mansion. They lived on the other side of the country to me so never got to play it properly due to lack of time and other people around me and other peoples go's.

I would say if your doin the remasters don't do what I did and play them one after the other as the fatigue hit hard.

My knowledge of the levels etc was surprisingly good after all this time but by god the London levels in three were tedious.

I should have done one game then break, that's what I'd suggest.

Gta+ (rockstar subscription service for gta online bonuses and now rockstar games like gta trilogy and red dead 1) will see a price increase from 6 euro a month to 8 euro a month from June. I think it might be the worst subscription model I've seen and now a price hike is crazy. I imagine they might be adding more of their games like bully, max payne, man hunt, warriors, etc. to justify it but that might be optimistic. I actually wouldn't mind getting a month just to play RDR1 again and definitely some of the older games as I'm always tempted to get them when they're on sale but if that's the way they're going, i can see a name change to R*+ instead.

There is just way too many subscription services at the moment to justify this unless you have money to burn.

It also contains the season pass with two post-launch DLCs. In fairness the Ubisoft DLCs tend to be meaty enough.

Putting a "secret" non dlc mission inside that paywall is a slippery slope to me.

Ubi are testing the waters here.

I got a bit more played last night and I have to say, the overall story is a bit crazy. Took me a while to figure out the mayo.... ooooh, cryptic! Second game is due out soon too, so it has definitely made me want to buy it day 1.

Yeah, they dropped the ball here with the low effort re-release of 4. Did they even use the community's work a la mods like they did with Skyrim SE/AE? Half way through the show (not able to binge it, I need breaks, which is unlike me) and it is game accurate so it does make me want to play, but not one from 10 years ago (or 76 for that matter).

Was never able to get into Fallout. Tried Fallout 3 about 3 times and just couldn't get into it. Part of it is me and my aversion to games where you have to basically pick all your skills and attributes etc at the start, thereby mostly locking you into a playstyle before you've even started playing the game, but those games also have a lot of "Here, bring this to my friend you don't know in a place you've never heard of", and then 30 hours later you speak to an NPC and he says thanks for bringing that to me, and you have no idea who he is or what you're after giving to him. Plus so much collectible junk when scavenging...

Fallout, Skyrim, Outer Worlds... I just struggle to get into those games. Want to give the Fallout show a try though, have heard very good things.

I started 76 last night after starting to watch the show. Its not bad actually, not nearly as bad as I was expecting considering it's launch. Definitely feels like a single player game with optional multiplayer elements (just turn on passive mode) aside from the obvious online multiplayer requirements like no pause and other people on the world. I'm sure it would be better with friends but for me it definitely scratches the fallout itch after the show.