mandoman
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Yeah, I hear you on SW. I'm still on the fence for SW Battlefront myself. I liked the Beta, but not sure I want to support EA and their price gouging.
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Yeah, I hear you on SW. I'm still on the fence for SW Battlefront myself. I liked the Beta, but not sure I want to support EA and their price gouging.
Flow39
macrumors 68000
Plus the fact that EA said the total after all DLCs is going to be $110! I'm probably going to wait for a price drop before I buy, if I get it at all.
mandoman
macrumors 6502
Exactly! Price gouging all around. The Deluxe edition of game for an extra $10 only gives you unlocked weapons which you can earn in game plus 2 emotes. So basically $10 for 2 emotes. Then the $50 DLC... Outrageously over-priced in and of itself, but the base game is already only 1/2 game super short with only like 12 maps and NO single player campaign. Ridiculous.
I want to play, but think I will just wait for it to hit bargain bin or GOTY edition. Or if I must play, maybe buy, play for a couple of weeks, and sell right away for minimal loss. Or maybe just not buy at all.
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MRU
macrumors Penryn
It's sadly the nature of the beast now. AAA Game development for big titles require movie like budgets and in some case greater than most blockbuster movie budgets and they will rise with every generation.
$60 no longer is regenerative for many of these titles alone, the increasing cost of the 'season pack' has been a long time inevitable.
That being said where I personally object is a title that has a $60 entry + $50 dlc target + riddled with MICROTRANSACTIONS !!!
That's when we're really being taken for a ride and frankly publishers and developers can GFT when they do this !!!
Tsuchiya
macrumors 68020
Have you had a chance to play it? Did some co-op missions with my brothers which was enjoyable. Mostly because 343 seem to have gotten their **** together with their online code and moved on from MCC.
Also, while Halo was installing, found that The Walking Dead Season 1 was a free download for Gold members this month. Just played through the first chapter which was cool. Started from my checkpoint a few times to see if there was a "right" option, but I'm almost relieved to see that there isn't. Simply because if you have to make hard decisions, then you just have to go with your gut instead of trying to "win" the scenario.
MRU
macrumors Penryn
No it arrived this morning and all I've done is essentially install it and download the 9gb patch so far.
skottichan
macrumors 65816
Which kills me because people complain $60 is too expensive for games, but if you look at the price of games they've actually stayed pretty stagnant over the last 20+ years.
Best example, Final Fantasy 7 cost $50 in 1997, adjusting for inflation that's equal to $75 in 2015.
MRU
macrumors Penryn
I would love to pay $60 tbh
Here new games are €70-75 ($76-81) so I usually try and get them from cheaper places online.
But yeah games pricing will either have to increase at retail or people will just have to get used to paying for half the game with a season pass of content sold later.
Cpt. Gilgamesh
macrumors regular
I can't pry myself away from MGS V. I briefly played Ground Zeroes but I went straight to Phantom Pain. I'd love to try online but our internet is simply too slow.
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itsOver9000
macrumors 6502
Finished Resident Evil 6 last night. Pretty long for a RE game - I ended up at 20 hours 38 minutes. Too bad most of the game felt like another generic third person shooter with a pretty useless cover system. I enjoyed Leon's campaign the most (classic zombies, yay!), Chris' the least. I did like how the story was setup in that you get to see it unfold from all of the characters perspectives.
Now I'm going to replay DOOM 3. It's been several years. About this time every year I feel like I should replay it but I never do get around to doing it, until now.
Now I'm going to replay DOOM 3. It's been several years. About this time every year I feel like I should replay it but I never do get around to doing it, until now.
Just finished my first play through of Nier. Heard a lot of good things about it in the past and once they announced a sequel being developed by Platinum Games I had to give it a try. I really like it. Graphics aren't great and the battle system could be a little better, but the story and music is really good. I think it's one of those games that are more than the sum of it's parts. I quite enjoyed the experience and I'll be playing through New Game+ for the second ending.
MRU
macrumors Penryn
Struggling to find it myself. Essentially this is same experience has Halo 3 (last halo campaign I played through and was left feeling meh!).
Walk into room / area full of covenant / promethians. Shoot them all. In comes bigger variant of a monster. Kill. Next wave comes. Kill them. Then proceed down linear path to next area and repeat.
Cpt. Gilgamesh
macrumors regular
It's been forever since I've played Halo. Had 1 and 2 and mainly played it for the story since we didn't have high speed internet. Since then it's been mostly a multiplayer game and I haven't invested in the Xbox ecosystem in a while so it's been lost on me. Really quite a shame. Many other franchises have done tremendously well over the years but Halo, in my eyes, is simply not the game and the story we once loved.
I'm sure it's probably great for online play, but that franchise is too competitive for me and I don't find it to be fun, really.
MRU
macrumors Penryn
Yep same here. It's why I don't play too many of these online simply because I just get shot like every few seconds and there is no fun in it for me.
Tsuchiya
macrumors 68020
Online co-op has always been fun. Can't imagine myself playing the campaign solo though, relying on AI buddies to revive you or help take down small armies sounds like an exercise in frustration. Finished it last night with my brothers and found it enjoyable enough. Going back to The Walking Dead Season 2 now though, and after that Life is Strange.
Uncharted 1 Remaster: Made some good progress tonight. My wife and I are trying to find all treasures in one run. So we progress rather slowly... 🙂
When she fell asleep, I switched to Bloodborne:
Decided to check out Cainhurst Castle. (Other options were Nightmare Frontier and Yahar Guul something whatever). Outside was a mess, those giant bugs were slaughtering me left and right! Once I made it inside, I could hold my own. Think I did a good job exploring everything (found executioner's clothes and gloves, and some sort of register list thing, no idea), opened the short cut and made it to Captain Logarius. Decided not to fight him though, as I had some 40k blood echoes, so I used the Bold Hunters Mark to teleport the hell out of there. That fight will have to wait for another night! 😀
Sidenote: Anyone else notice how a lot of things in Bloodborne sound like they could be Iron Maiden song titles? Nightmare Frontier, The Unseen Village, The Forbidden Forest, Blade of Mercy...
When she fell asleep, I switched to Bloodborne:
Decided to check out Cainhurst Castle. (Other options were Nightmare Frontier and Yahar Guul something whatever). Outside was a mess, those giant bugs were slaughtering me left and right! Once I made it inside, I could hold my own. Think I did a good job exploring everything (found executioner's clothes and gloves, and some sort of register list thing, no idea), opened the short cut and made it to Captain Logarius. Decided not to fight him though, as I had some 40k blood echoes, so I used the Bold Hunters Mark to teleport the hell out of there. That fight will have to wait for another night! 😀
Sidenote: Anyone else notice how a lot of things in Bloodborne sound like they could be Iron Maiden song titles? Nightmare Frontier, The Unseen Village, The Forbidden Forest, Blade of Mercy...
mandoman
macrumors 6502
I played and beat Halo 5 campaign over the weekend. It started off really weak, but got better towards the end with a couple of really good maps. The story was pretty weak and short. I did like the 3 AI helpers, interesting mechanic how they can revive you, and also kinda of cool that you can order than to focus on a particular enemy. On the other hand, the 4 player team seems like it's just trying to sell you on the multiplayer aspects of this game.
Overall, I'd maybe give the single player campaign a 6.5/10. I may try multiplayer at some point, though I suck at competitive FPS, so will probably move on to the next game.
I've only played Halo 1, and played the remastered version from MCC about a year ago. That was MUCH better. Maybe one of the best single player FPS campaigns ever, certainly in the top 5.
The reason people love Halo really is attributed to the first couple of entries in the series, but also for the multiplayer aspects across the series. By all accounts, the multiplayer aspects of Halo 5 are getting pretty good reviews. People are pissed though that local split screen play has been removed.
Overall, if single player is all you are interested in, I'd wait for a price drop on this game. If you dig multiplayer, than it's maybe worth picking up now.
Tsuchiya
macrumors 68020
Maybe I'm a wuss, or perhaps I'm just projecting on certain characters but The Walking Dead had me emotional at points.
Now to play something mindless and bloody. Gears of War has been looking lonely next to my Xbox One since it arrived. Time to give it a whirl I think.
Now to play something mindless and bloody. Gears of War has been looking lonely next to my Xbox One since it arrived. Time to give it a whirl I think.
itsOver9000
macrumors 6502
I'm starting to find DOOM 3 is getting too repetitive.. dark corridor, pick up item/push button, monsters spawn ( predictable spawns, usually right behind you), move to next area, repeat. It was good until about the Monorail Skybridge level. The amount of enemy spawns seems to have ramped up quite a bit since then, I'm starting on Delta Labs now, and I guess I'm just getting numb to it at this point. The first couple chapters had a great, creepy atmosphere to them. I had to stop a few times and just take in the design - that corridor leading to the chaingun is pretty awesome. But now with so many enemies all the time it kinda ruins the atmosphere and it becomes another "blow everything away and move on" shooter. But this is DOOM 3 where everything is so damn dark that it can be irritating at times to even see what you're shooting at that, so as a run n gun shooter it falls short of DOOM 1 or 2.
twietee
macrumors 603
You play the duct-tape version? Because I couldn't do without it. Doom3 is a weird game, I kinda like it, but I'd rather play the original two or Alien Isolation if I want to creep myself out. Doom3 is somewhat in the middle (well, hard to compare to A:I but still) for me so hardly tempting to actually play it again. I can see me enjoying the upcoming reboot though.
Playing Dark:Forces in preparation for Battlefront myself (plus The Dig) when having some free time. Never really played D:F myself, was mostly watching a friend play it since my rig couldn't handle it back then. Amazing atmosphere and hard as ****!
And Battlefront? You guys saw the Planet revealed on their homepage. Holy Star Wars - can hardly wait for it to finally arrive. 😀
itsOver9000
macrumors 6502
No just stock Doom 3, I've never tried any mods for it. I'm with you, Doom 3 is still an okay game but I'd rather play Doom 2 for the fun of run n gun. I've played Doom 2 many, many times but this is only maybe my 4th play though of Doom 3.
I think this guys review on gamefaqs sums up Doom 3 pretty well:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/469881-doom-3/reviews/77415
"That's basically the thing with Doom 3--the whole game is just a huge compromise and there's no clear direction. The game tries partly to be a serious story-driven game, partly to be freaky survival horror, partly to be simple, throwback shooter, partly to be complex, thinking, Half-Life style shooter--and it never does any of these things very well."