So how many have you 'converted' over to AC7?
Every AC7 sicko is precious to me.
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Similiar to how every 'sickos meme' sicko is precious to me.
Have to admit, i started AC7 recently and it's pretty damn fun. I mean it's not the best Assassin's s creed but Rogue definitely isn't the worst.
Sick burn by the AC social media person 😂 Grifter trying to get people to boycott the game, these people deserve every inch of ridicule they get.
No game has a better opening than Vagrant Story.
Prove me wrong.
You can't
Last update on this, but getting a lot better with the leverless. Made it to Mighty Ruler in Tekken 8 on PC only playing online for less than a week, whereas it took me over 6 weeks on PS5 when the game first came out. A lot of that is obviously down to experience with the game, knowledge of characters/moves, but yeah, the leverless is a very fun way to play and in many respects has improved some aspects of my game. I can hit pretty much all my combos and stuff. The main bits I have trouble with are just the little filler bits between combos; hitting opponents on the ground, changing a combo because it's now against a wall etc. Going to take a while to build up muscle memory for that because it's a hard thing to practice because it's more circumstantial.
Got an adapter thingy so the Haute42 will work on PS5 (apparently without it, you'd have to have the dualsense on beside you and press a button on it every few minutes or the leverless would turn off after 8 minutes or something), but will stick to just using it on PC for now. Ranking up will slow down now because I'm up against better opponents.
So yeah, if you're into fighting games on console but you've never played with a fightstick or leverless, it's worth a try. Takes a bit of getting used to but is actually really enjoyable.
Hit an awful lull with gaming recently, nothing is grabbing me at all. Alan Wake 2, which ticks all of my boxes is just not doing anything for me. I went through a bunch of PS Plus games last few nights and just bouncing off them. One thing I've found is how bad tutorials are in so many games these days. Very hard to get straight to the action due to complex systems but the tutorials are so boring, I'm put off before even getting started.
New Tennis game, holy jesus. Starts you in a match but doesn't tell you any buttons, kept hitting the net, quit, let's do tutorial. Ah ok……can't complete tutorial as it bugged half way through and couldn't complete it, uninstall.
WWE 2K24 (I'm not into wrestling but looks fun). Read and accept all these agreements, done. tutorial is damn awful boring, way too much stuff, forget it, I'll figure it out as I go……Can't play any modes until you accept agreements….Found the agreements again, read again, accepted again…..uninstalled game. I think I'm getting too old and grumpy for this modern gaming bullshit.
Alien Dark Descent, cool! Xcom in space!! ….. combat is automatic (makes sense, can't have me and the alien taking turns) but completely put me off, uninstall. TLOU Remake, looks great but got bored in chapter 2.
Turtles collection, hey nostalgia!….uninstall.
I'm gonna pick up Kingdom Come 2 this weekend and hope that does the trick for me.
Saying that, I reinstalled Mass Effect Trilogy last night as it's ME 3's 13th birthday today and it's amazing. looks great, sounds great, straight to action, breath of fresh air to play so not all hope is lost for me yet.
This is Retr0 II. Play Ace Combat 7 😉 😄
Yeah I go through the same thing at times. Recently tried Mass Effect 2 and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and just couldn't get into them. Even tried Ori & (first game subtitle, can't remember which one it is) and haven't gone back to it. Trying to force myself to really get into Monster Hunter Wilds at the minute.
I know all are probably great games, I know I'd enjoy them once I got going. But so often just starting a game, they take so long to get going that my interest wanes and I fall off, just endlessly bombarding you with different tutorial stuff and menus.
So I play Tekken and Balatro.
I will pay Ace Combat 7 one day..... On my xbox.
Whenever I'm burnt out on complex games or trying to push through a long one, I think the solution is often just playing a few games you know can be cleared in a sitting or two.
After an intense run of Nine Sols back in Jan I blitzed through No Case Should Remain Unsolved, Grunn and Citizen Sleeper in a week or two - all much shorter games (though CS2 is an epic at 9 hours compared to the others). Really feels like you have momentum then and you're ready to jump back into the next 'big' game. Have Indika and a few others ready to go for the next time I'm in that kind of mood.
Interesting that THPS4 will move to the classic '2 minute' formula in the remake, as opposed to the free roam levels and NPC missions structure from the original.
I always preferred the arcadey approach of the first three games, so not opposed to this if it's handled well. Though my recollection is that the levels in THPS4 are a lot bigger with a couple of different 'zones' and an exploration focus, so wonder if some aspects of the design will be lost in translation along the way.
But THPS4 is easily my least favourite of that original run (though only get into the series at 2) so I'm less precious about it than I am 2 and 3.
I loved THPS 4 so bo have no idea how the new format will change that. People freaking out online but i imagine three devs found a way to make it work or wouldn't have considered it.
No joke, I was actually going to post that.
But seriously it's a really dumb action game and probably great if you have burn out.
However might also be a good idea to take a break from games for 1 or 2 weeks. Happens to me every so often and a long break helps.
Yeah and I'd imagine since you're packaging THPS3&4 together, wild shifts in format between the two of them would be quite jarring to go back and forth between.
I really don't know if I've actually played either of the originals of these. I think I might have jumped out after THPS2 and then come back for THUG. I know I loved the first two but I think just for financial reasons I never got to play 3 & 4. None of the gameplay I've seen looks familiar, and I know I never had Wolverine, Darth Maul or Officer Dick (which I would have done if I'd owned the games). So yeah, this could be a new experience for me.
It should hopefully be fine but some of the bigger levels are definitely built around having no time limit to explore, so we'll see.
It's a different developer to THPS 1 + 2 - if they stick to the approach set out in that it'll be fine, but definitely just being that extra bit cautious until we see (and most importantly play) more of it.
I think from reading it there will still be a free skate mode for levels with no time limit, it just may not have the challenges.
I'm a bit worried about the new dev. Hopefully they deliver. Shame about the last dev that ended up in the CoD mines.
I was surprised then this was rumoured and then announced, i figured they just grabbed the original devs from what they were doing to make this. Why use new Devs when you already have the og devs (unless they moved on when they were told to work in cod, which i absolutely would not blame them for).
"Why use new Devs when you already have the og devs?"
Because it's Activision.
I know that's not much of an answer, but it is the answer.
It's like these companies are competing to be the absolute worst. Then you have Josef Fares on the opposite end, I'm shocked EA give him so much free reign but he's such a good example of leaving the devs alone to make the game they want and stop the suits butting in trying to euin it.
I bit the bullet on Kingdom Come 2 even though i never finished the first one but really enjoyed what it was trying to do. With this one, straight into an epic battle that seems to be later in the story with easy instructions to fight. Then back to the start and the art, music, voice acting and writing, just a pure joy from the off. Think this will be the one that pulls me in.
As much as I enjoyed playing through It Takes Two recently, I wish someone had intervened and killed that f*cking talking book after the first cutscene it was in.
Suikoden 1 + 2 remaster review are in. General consensus seems to be that it's a good game and a masterpiece given with a remaster that should be better as it looks like they just tidied up a PSP rerelease of the games.
Guns of Fury - This looks like a really nice contra / metroidvania hybrid with really nice pixel art ...
I decided to wear the community inspired Saint Patrick's Day outfit in Red Dead Online.
Im so old I never got asked for I'd for a game.
