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that's probably exactly what happened
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I still loved it (Infinite). I wonder if I had less expectation on it and that's why I didn't really get hit by many of its issues as much as others do (although I had almost Witcher 3 level expectations). At any rate, it's still one of my favorite games ever made.
Finished my first Gamepass game with Timespinner. Took about 5;30 hrs to beat. Not bad, not great. Worth checking out.
Oooh thanks. I will say this much: Wtaching Crowbcat's 5 min. 'The Bioshock Infinite that could've been' or whatever it is titled really made me wish we had gotten that vision of the game.
The original reveal trailer is one I actually remember watching from that E3, and still watching it now, it is still a fantastic trailer.
With the flowchart yeah. I assume without it, it's longer (even though nothing else actually happens).
I didn't like Bioshock Infinite at all. The level design and story made no sense, and the combat was too "arena" focused.
I also remember when dying, you respawned but you lost a huge part of your "ammo". At highest difficulty, this made certain battles almost impossible because you had barely anything to kill the bad guys. That's just terrible game design imo.
I also remember when dying, you respawned but you lost a huge part of your "ammo". At highest difficulty, this made certain battles almost impossible because you had barely anything to kill the bad guys. That's just terrible game design imo.
"It's just another shooter with some tacked-on themes that aren't well explored or well thought out" is the best description of the game. Shooting in a game can be good but when the overall structure and design decisions aren't up to snuff, what else is there for this game? As neat as some of its other combat mechanics are, Bioshock Inf. does indeed fall short, esp. as one progresses through the game.
I know I played it on Easy, but I enjoyed the shooting even if all I used were the shotgun and assault rifle weapons, but I maintain the quote I wrote above.
Matt really did put together my own thoughts I had when I finished the game almost exactly. I was like 'oh so it wasnt me about not getting or liking some things lol' while watching the video.
I played it with the flowchart too, and it was still much closer to 20 hours. You reading like crazy. I'm jealous.
The multiple realities thing is poorly handled I feel; back to back we see Booker and Elizabeth instantly jump to realities where Elizabeth's 'wish' is 'fulfilled'. If that's the case, why not just wish for a Paris where Comstock nor Columbia to find you in? It's like Elizabeth has Stockholm Syndrome or something, but that'd be something against her character I feel.
tHIS IS another intersting critique of Bioshock Ifinite's themes.
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I played it veeery slowly and it took me about 80 hours. Loved every single one of them, so I'm not complaining!
The video author went to the Wok school of censorship.
It's also not a great idea from a gameplay standpoint when the game is thematically, at least on some level, about trying to make amends for past violence.... with endless violence and no other meaningful way to interact with the world - the always controversial ludo-narrative dissonance argument.
Speaking of visual novels, I started Deadalus: Awakening of Golden Jazz, being a prequel story to the Jake Hunter series.
So far it is good and its chill vibe is a good fallback from my FF14 playthru which I will start tomorrow.
So far it is good and its chill vibe is a good fallback from my FF14 playthru which I will start tomorrow.
Speaking of Bioshock Infinite, I didn't like it either... let's forget about the story and the characters (possibly the biggest narrative failure I have ever seen in anything ever - talk about "both sides"), I didn't find the movement to be very good. Bioshock is slow and heavy by nature, and I really doubt that adding automated rail segments helped a lot... sure you can flee to regenerate... but there's a pretty big dissonance here.
Also Infinite is way more "loot" based than the others, and I like nothing better in my FPS than RNG gear with % to proc some random crap and fiddling around with even more useless perks.
And it's made of little arenas with waves of ennemies, which also made me drop the so called "Doom 2016".
Why does everything needs to become Painkiller with extra time wasted in menus to fuck around with your load out?
Doom was especially horrendous with its weapon perks to unlock and worse, the runes and the big push for QTE kills.
Man I HATED the game and everything it stands for - the savage murder of the franchise into another arena shooter QTE fest with increasingly important RPG elements.
At least we have Dusk, I guess.
Also Infinite is way more "loot" based than the others, and I like nothing better in my FPS than RNG gear with % to proc some random crap and fiddling around with even more useless perks.
And it's made of little arenas with waves of ennemies, which also made me drop the so called "Doom 2016".
Why does everything needs to become Painkiller with extra time wasted in menus to fuck around with your load out?
Doom was especially horrendous with its weapon perks to unlock and worse, the runes and the big push for QTE kills.
Man I HATED the game and everything it stands for - the savage murder of the franchise into another arena shooter QTE fest with increasingly important RPG elements.
At least we have Dusk, I guess.
Sam & Max Season 3 with SSGSS AA x4, just wanted to test it out in the game
Seems 8x slows down some stuff so I'll settle for x4
Seems 8x slows down some stuff so I'll settle for x4
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I did like BI (and don't feel that the arena like level design was too on the nose) but am 100% on your side of the argument with Doom 16. F that shit. Mediocre Painkiller on Mars. I will never get how that massacre of a beloved franchise got so hyped up everywhere. I hope Eternal will be better.
Those games were fantastic. So many memorable characters and jokes.Sam & Max Season 3 with SSGSS AA x4, just wanted to test it out in the game
Seems 8x slows down some stuff so I'll settle for x4
...I also learned a ton of new words thanks to Sam's... erm, abstruse vocabulary.
Bought a new PC but I refuse to soil the SSD installing Aliens Colonial Marines on it so I'll try to finish it on the Core 2 Duo.
I tried my best but in the end I couldn't handle DOOM 16' boredom. The gunplay is solid but the upgrade system and Ievels completely bury it in dumbness. Fuck, I even tried hyping myself at some point but there's better things to play. Thank God I only paid $10 for that thing.
How long did you use that old PC? That's a 13 to 11 year old CPU model, after all.
Coming soon on Early Access, alpha avilable on itch
Voxel Tycoon Pre-Alpha by Voxel Tycoon Devs
on KS now (already double funded with 9 days to go )
seeks funding on IGG
A good deal for Age of Wonders III.
Hmm according to Isthereanydeal, it was only 33% sale. Makes me wonder if the fact that the game is on sale itself - rather than the amout of sale - makes the biggest difference.
So accurate. Sometimes I'd rather replay The Witcher 3 for the 5th time than play new games.
Me rn playing Alan Wake and Spec Ops The Line
Almost 11 years. The greatest PC I've ever built, still working and using it to type this right now.
Old PC:
Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 Ghz, had to overclock it to 4.0 to play Wolfenstein The New Order (not really worth it)
Gigabyte EP45-UD3L, a magnificent MB
4 GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz, 2x2 Mushkin High Performance, probably the reason I can still use this PC.
Sapphire ATI HD Radeon 4850 (yes, its that old), replaced 2 years ago with a Sapphire AMD RX 560 Pulse (a real 560, not the cut down crap they started selling later)
Topower 600W (the shiniest PSU I've ever had in my hands, blew up 2 years ago without damaging anything), replaced with a Seasonic S12 600W
Several hard disks, including Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, Seagate (crap), and now a Crucial SATA SSD 120gb for the OS. The Samsung and WD disks are IDE PATA.
LG Bluray Burner, also reads those 4k discs but never bought one.
Thermaltake V8 case with extra fans.
New PC:
Ryzen 2600
Gigabyte Aorus M B450
16 GB RAM DDR4 3200 Mhz Ballistic 2x8
I'm going to use the RX 560 from the other PC for now
bequiet! U9 600W
Crucial P1 SSD M.2 NVME PCI ExpressX4
Another LG Bluray Burner that I was going to scrap and miraculously revived
Deepcool Tesseract case
Thinking about buying a 2/4 TB HD soon.
A decent midrange PC, it should be good enough for work and gaming.
I dont think i can stand all this doom 2016 slander
However i do plan to play it soon and will tske these criticisims into consideration during my playthru.
However i do plan to play it soon and will tske these criticisims into consideration during my playthru.
I thought I hadn't heard of this game so I went to look it up and it turns out I bought it during the Winter sale. I guess I will have to check it out.
Doom 2016 was good but I personally preferred Wolfenstein: TNO a lot more. It's actually funny how history repeats itself in regards to wolfenstein and doom, with the latter taking away all the glory from what the former built.
this loooks like weird cat-y SMB
and this just recently released from Early Access
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I still loved Bioshock Infinite, especially the dlc, but if you go back to the reveal trailer it's obvious that their vision was too ambitious and they had to take a lot of shortcuts. It's a shame, if they had pulled it of it could've been one of the best games ever. I still think it's really good overall, it had some fantastic moments like the opening and everything involving Elizabeth and Songbird.
Played a couple of hours. The story recap is very superficial but it wasn't hard to get back into it. I forgot how much I enjoyed managing the caravan, already had a couple of pretty extreme situations where every decision counts. It really sucks when you make a bad call and lose a ton of people. I think I'm doing well overall though.
Lol, no wonder it turned into a meme.
This is from an actual Swedish newspaper, published sometime in 1999.
Translation:
"Andreas Hedlund has gone through all the possible software problems. Now he has determined that the hardware, the Mother-modem, the very heart of the hard-drive, is not working."
Whoever wrote that definitely loved commas. The sentence is weirdly structured even in Swedish.
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Happy prime day everyone.
That's actually a great apology. They still held responsible and didn't solely blame Indivent for the cause. Also, its cool that they're still re-releasing the game in the future.
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Releases tomorrow 
(July 16)
and this one on thursday (July 18) , sequel to Warlocks vs Shadows (which is supposedly owned by publisher)
(July 16)and this one on thursday (July 18) , sequel to Warlocks vs Shadows (which is supposedly owned by publisher)
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This looks absolutely incredible!
Hey guys just to start this week in a good mood I'd like to remember y'all that Konami could release Suikoden 2 on digital platforms any day - but they won't.
I tried to play Phantasy Star 2 just to make myself more knowledgeable about the old-school JRPGs, and I gave up after half an hour, Seems like games from 80s in general aren't my cup of tea, because I had the same issue with Starflight, I simply have no idea how to play them.
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