Still on my ten hour trial of FC 24, which is almost done.
Trash optimization, but I prefer the gameplay over 23. Still not going to buy it.
It’ll probably come to regular EA Play around May/June, so it’s not a terrible wait and not like I’m in a rush.
I do wish we had more straight up arcade football games. EA tries too hard to straddle the line between “sim” and “arcade” and feels less fun because of it (IMO), especially in comparison to the older FIFA games.
The only reason I really play it is because right now it’s the only game with actual women’s teams.
They do the bare minimum, and the commentary reflects that better than anything (more generic than male teams, also occasionally hear “he/him/his”, though it’s fairly rare), but at least it’s something.
Otherwise, I booted up Mad Max the other day as a spontaneous decision. Seems fairly fun and might get into that, but I could also just catch up on TV. Who knows.
Lol, I love how they can’t mention it in the article, but freeing the main bugfixing patch from Arthmoor’s grasp is probably a bigger accomplishment than the patch itself.
But it’s not for the benefit of modders anymore. It’s because of how they can monetize them like they did with Skyrim and Fallout’s “Creation Club”.
Get modders to make what’s essentially some minor DLC for you and offer it at a “small price” or with a “Special Edition upgrade” while those same modders are actually making waaaaay better mods and releasing them for free on Nexus or wherever (this is basically the state of Skyrim AE; some very notable modders did some cool stuff for CC, but their other mods were way fucking beyond those in terms of quality).
In a weird way, it reminds me of the 2008 Prince of Persia game. Mainly because there was also a lot of climbing and platforming there, and also because of something I guess is story-related so won’t get into.
Anyway, doubt I can keep it up for much more. If they had a toggle option for the triggers, maybe, but it’s hell on my already strained wrists.
Otherwise, it seems like a nice little game. Probably just not for me.
Played up to chapter 4 and not really vibing with it. I don’t usually like ditching games when I’ve already sunk time into them, but I’m not really having much fun with it, so I might switch over to Jusant or something.
Or just watch some TV I’ve been meaning to catch up on instead. Don’t know. We’ll see.
Agree with others that length/price ratio doesn’t really reflect how much I enjoy a game.
If I like it, I like it. The hours are irrelevant to me. I can get just as much enjoyment out of a six hour game with zero replayability as I can with a dozens-of-hours-long replayable RPG. It’s the experience, not the time.
Also, with Game Pass and the fact that I buy everything on sale, there’s no real good answer if I did approach it that way.
That said, the only two games I’ve bought at full price in the last decade or so were Breath of the Wild and Spider-Man PS4.
Massively fun and I didn’t feel like I had wasted any money.
It’s not terrible, but it’s pretty much what I was expecting.
Could really do without the crafting shit and leveling system. I know the Arkham games also had skill trees and what have you, but it wasn’t ever as bad as this.
I do think I fucked myself over a bit in not focusing on the main story early on, because I very nearly burned myself out on the side activities.
Turns out that a lot of my issues are kind of addressed at key points in the main story as well, so I really should focus on it more (like getting the glider thingy from Lucius, which I had no idea existed and would have been a tremendous help earlier on when I was navigating the unnecessarily large - and, to be honest, very boring - open world).
If anyone enjoyed the earlier AC games, but avoided Unity because of bugs or bad press from its admittedly disastrous launch, all of that is mostly ironed out (at least on PC), so give it a shot.
It holds up surprisingly well, honestly, and probably has the best movement and parkour in the entire series.
Plus Revolutionary Paris is one of their best environments. Like, I like them all, but Paris is particularly well-done (I’d make a joke about Notre-Dame being well-done as well, but that was more of a medium-well result).
Theoretically, you should be able to fix it by going into the command line (if on PC) and disabling it from there.
Unfortunately, without a specific mod installed as well, that will also disable all of your achievements.
Also, no guarantee that the thing stuck to your ship is just a single item. If it’s treated like a ship with a bunch if interiors and exterior components, this is a useless method because you’ll need to disable every single door, piece of furniture, clutter, whatever else is attached to the ship exterior, etc. (Also need to be careful not to disable your own ship.)
Shalebridge Cradle is one of the most terrifying fucking levels I’ve ever played.
Like, you know something bad and creepy is coming up before the level. The dialogue hints, the general unease around the building, random things here and there in the game, etc.
Yet it still hits you like a brick to the face. Nothing prepared me for it.
No surprise the lead designer for that level went on to design one of the more creepy parts of BioShock as well.
I think I might get started on New Vegas again. Maybe. I’ve got a lot of other shit to keep me occupied, so we’ll see.
It’s been years, so while it won’t be “playing it like new”, I’ve forgotten enough to keep it a little bit fresh.
Just need to sort out my mod list first. All the major bugfixes and shit are there, but I want to add some of the radio mods and maybe updated character models or just textures in general (although I honestly don’t care much about graphics, but still).
Everything else is staying the same.
(For radio, I might actually add some audio drama podcasts and older radio dramas that I feel could still fit in the world of Fallout. Pretty much anything pre-Atomic Era works without needing some suspension of disbelief since the timeline only split around or slightly after WWII.)
The beginning of the “campaign” in Battlefield 1 was really good about this.
SPOILERS AHEAD ^(I know there are spoiler tags, but they don’t work on my app.)
Opening begins with the following:
Battlefield 1 is based upon events that unfolded over one hundred years ago.
More than 60 million soldiers fought in “The War to End All Wars”.
It ended nothing. Yet it changed the world forever.
What follows is frontline combat.
You are not expected to survive.
You’re then thrown into the start of a regular battle. This is the game, right? Cool, let’s shoot some bad guys.
Nope. Doesn’t matter how good you are, you will die. After you get killed, the name of the soldier and how many years he’d lived are shown on-screen.
Then you switch perspectives to a different kind of battle (eg. artillery, air, tank, etc.). Same thing. This goes on a few times.
Eventually you reach a point where it’s just you, face to face with a lone German soldier, your rifles pointed at each other. Both soldiers just lower their guns, realizing the futility of it all.
Intro ends.
The rest of the game is the typical military FPS stuff we’re used to, but that intro was pretty great about how war has no winners when it comes to individuals on the battlefield. We all lose in the end, whether we live or not.