General gaming discussion

Approaching the end of Pragmata, about halfway through what I assume is the last stage. Got the last main upgrade so have also 100% the earlier zones.

The game is largely unremarkable and unmemorable, but it's also a decent playthrough. Challenging without just throwing waves and waves of enemies at you. A few puzzles to mix things up. It's all pretty good and the hacking mechanic adds a unique hurdle to everything. It does everything really well, just nothing spectacular.

Some of the training missions (side thing for additional upgrade materials) are an absolute b*tch though.

Especially any where you have to use the carbine instead of the pistol. Holy hell that gun is awful.

The traversal ones are okay, but some of the later combat ones, I've just tried do whatever part of the challenge might give the upgrade units.

I have it ready for after Nioh 3. That and Cairn

Incredible game. Like most roguelikes, it'll feel like you're banging your head off a brick wall probably for the first several hours. But once it starts to click and you start hitting those sweet runs where everything falls into place, it's amazing, and every run starts to feel easier after that. Highly recommend.

Was going to platinum Pragmata since I'd already gotten 100% in all areas anyway, so figured it'd probably just be the training missions, maybe a few weapon-specific challenges or something. Turns out you've to complete the game at least twice (one of which has to be on a new harder difficulty) and some new training-type missions also unlock which have to be completed.

So in other words, that's me done with Pragmata. Still stand by my original feelings; the game is great overall, but doesn't evolve a whole lot and kind of plays it's hands very early. It's a decent playthrough for 12-15 hours, but I'd say it's not something you'll remember or think about too often afterwards.

I mean, firstly, does he also not understand what a movie is? Sitting around for hours, watching a movie… I guess people should go outside and do something rather than watch anything he makes.

Secondly, it's the very nature of things in the film/TV industry at the moment. A few game-based films/shows have been successful recently (partially because they've been made by people who know, respect and love the source material), so now a lot of studios are likely looking at what big game franchises they can get the rights to and just make a movie/show on that franchise, hoping the strength of franchise itself will be enough to get people in the door. But then it gets to the point where the writers/directors are just making their own product tangentially related to the source material and slapping the franchise name on it.

In fairness, stories in the Far Cry and CoD games aren't so integral to the games that you can't play around with them or take elements of them and make something new which better suits the format of a film/show, but at the same time, if your core audience is Call of Duty players (*shudders*) and you've been hired to make a Call of Duty film, maybe just say you like Call of Duty and then shut the f*ck up?

Edit: Just copped that his comments were made around 13 years ago. Probably hasn't changed his opinion that much in that time, but willing to give him a little grace that his position may have softened over the years. Also, Boards sucks ass today.