The Gaming Thread (General Gaming Jibba Jabba)

[Jack!]

Never get excited for a game published by Ubisoft, it will only end in disappointment.

 

[Cookie]

Never get excited for a game published by Ubisoft, it will only end in disappointment.

The Division

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

I only managed a couple of hours on Wild lands the other night. Wasn't overly impressed tbh.

Very much Division like. Open world story, Kill groups of enemies, tag found items for the resistance, choose which types of perks you want (3 things like in the Division) kill more enemies.

Wont be a release day buy for me. I'll probably pick it up when it's been patched and reduced to £20 for the ultimate edition.

 

[Darren S]

The Division 😧

Had a dabble at that Survival mode. It's better, but it's still a flawed game. I think that's why I'm so mad with it. It's SO close to being a fantastic game and then just faceplants itself.

If Ubi weren't so focused on DLCs and released the SDK for free mods - someone out there could easily make The Division superb, with not much effort. Conversely, I had a dabble of Company of Heroes 2 with some online randomer against the AI, at the weekend. It was against Easy AI - a simple 2 vs 2 round - but it was proper fun and engaging. Not long - I think in 40 minutes the round was done with us winning. But the structure and flow of the game was really enjoyable - along with the limited resources making you really think about which unit to build next.

 

[SharkyUK]

My previous employer has just provided me with a free copy of their new game, Sniper Elite 4 Bonus!

I've played the first level and I really enjoyed it (which is surprising having spent so many years around the franchise and the developers working on it!) It's an evolution on the previous games but with more polish and much larger environments. If you haven't played a Sniper Elite game before and you're tempted then this could be the one to try. Failing that, wait a while until the price drops and then buy it... Exploding nutshots from 300 metres is as satisfying as ever.

 

[ChrisR]

Logged into my Steam account for the first time in years to start getting ready for impending arrival of new machine, shame can't change the account name as it's set to an email address I don't use anymore (back in the day when your account name was your email address).
Also tempted to sign up to the EA Origin Access thing as well, £20 a year for access to a decent enough library of games.

 

[Cookie]

My Steam name is an email account for an ISP that hasn't existed since 2006

 

[Jack!]

My dads email address is still freeserve - think they've been taken over/name changed about 5 times since.

Changing email addresses is probably the biggest digital ball ache out there, in the modern age your main becomes so entwined with your life.

Soon it'll be like Minority Report and you'll need to change your eyes.

 

[iain187]

My previous employer has just provided me with a free copy of their new game, Sniper Elite 4 :smile: Bonus!

I've played the first level and I really enjoyed it (which is surprising having spent so many years around the franchise and the developers working on it!) It's an evolution on the previous games but with more polish and much larger environments. If you haven't played a Sniper Elite game before and you're tempted then this could be the one to try. Failing that, wait a while until the price drops and then buy it... :tongueout: Exploding nutshots from 300 metres is as satisfying as ever.

Missus bought it for my birthday and I gave it a go last night. I'm really good at hitting people in the eye

I quite like the way adjusting the sights works really well, but I think I'll turn off the marker that appears when you hold your breath. It makes it quite easy, although maybe I'll wait until I'm shooting people further than 100m away!

 

[SharkyUK]

Missus bought it for my birthday and I gave it a go last night. I'm really good at hitting people in the eye :smiley:

I quite like the way adjusting the sights works really well, but I think I'll turn off the marker that appears when you hold your breath. It makes it quite easy, although maybe I'll wait until I'm shooting people further than 100m away!

It is very satisfying watching the kill cams and resulting exploding skeleton and organs Yes, the aiming marker does make it quite easy so I'll probably attempt the hardest difficulty at some point. For now I'm just happy to roam around and pop enemy testicles.

 

[iain187]

I just need more sound masking planes

 

[Darren S]

My previous employer has just provided me with a free copy of their new game, Sniper Elite 4 :smile: Bonus!

I've played the first level and I really enjoyed it (which is surprising having spent so many years around the franchise and the developers working on it!) It's an evolution on the previous games but with more polish and much larger environments. If you haven't played a Sniper Elite game before and you're tempted then this could be the one to try. Failing that, wait a while until the price drops and then buy it... :tongueout: Exploding nutshots from 300 metres is as satisfying as ever.

Love the previous three games - completed all of them too. Will definitely be getting SE4 - perhaps as you say, when the price drops a little.

 

[Stay Puft]

Scum - First game I've thought about buying other than COD or Fifa for ages!

https://www.releases.com/posts/0bf8bddc-7714-40bb-840a-124a21fcbfff

 

[mace¬]

Scum - First game I've thought about buying other than COD or Fifa for ages!

https://www.releases.com/posts/0bf8bddc-7714-40bb-840a-124a21fcbfff

And I was hoping to re-create the Rape scene in the Greenhouse, not the game I was thinking 😞

 

[Pacman.]

Wildlands.

At the mo I am undecided about this game.
I like the customisation part of it with lots of weapons and clothing and things like that.
However the pros are being overwhelmed by the cons at the moment.

I don't like the fact that if you leave the area without the squad they just teleport into the car or by your side.

Control of the vehicles is dismal. What's the point of giving you guns on the helicopter if you can't aim the bloody things.

Missions are all the same really.

You can't control individual AI squad members and they tend to get you spotted or engaged.

So much potential in this game but it's falling flat at the moment.

 

[mace¬]

Anyone remember the game, possibly on the Amiga that was aircraft based in WW2 i think and it had a couple of different game modes.
1) Typical in cockpit dog fighting
2) From an angle outside the plane and it scrolled whilst you attacked land based enemy
and I'm sure there was there was another game play mode as well.

Just sort of come in to my head as I was thinking I'd love a decent but simple WW2 aerial dog fighting game for the Xbox.

Any about?

 

[ChrisR]

Anyone playing Playerunknowns Battlegrounds?

Looks pretty good fun!

 

[Marc.]

Micro Machines is out today, my copy is arriving from Amazon tomorrow. Should be a good laugh, if it's even half as good as it used to be!

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Started Last of us again this week.
Picked up the remastered version with the left behind dlc for £15.
Forgot how good the game was. Taking longer this time trying to get everything on my way through.
The trophy system for this must be one of the hardest out there, something like 0.5% got platinum.

 

[imprezaworks]

Anyone playing Playerunknowns Battlegrounds?

Looks pretty good fun!

Will they be sticking this on Xbox and PS4 I wonder. Looks good fun. I liked the day z videos people did.

 

[Marc.]

Will they be sticking this on Xbox and PS4 I wonder. Looks good fun. I liked the day z videos people did.

Confirmed for Xbox IIRC. Rumours that it's going to PS4 as well.

 

[Euan94]

Found out this morning the crash bandicoot remastered is out, so that's now on order!

Anybody else a big fan, I loved it during my childhood

 

[N0ddie]

Will they be sticking this on Xbox and PS4 I wonder. Looks good fun. I liked the day z videos people did.

They've said it'll be on both consoles. Theres also talk of cross play action to.

 

[SharkyUK]

Found out this morning the crash bandicoot remastered is out, so that's now on order!

Anybody else a big fan, I loved it during my childhood

It's a very faithful remastering

 

[Euan94]

It's a very faithful remastering :smile:

I'm glad, usually things that get modernised it takes the nostalgia away.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Finally finished chapter 1 of MGS5, can't be arsed playing chapter 2 as apparently 75% of it are just reruns of the same missions! Really don't rate the game, it started off so good but then basically continued to get worse and worse!

Ordered Uncharted 4 now yes I know I'm a bit behind. Also picked up Titanfall 2 the other week and that seems really good.

 

[Ray Gin]

Long shot, where can I download championship manager 99/00 for mac? Tried google but keep finding dead files.

 

[Darren S]

Long shot, where can I download championship manager 99/00 for mac? Tried google but keep finding dead files.

Does it specifically have to be that version?

 

[N0ddie]

Ordered Uncharted 4 now :smile: yes I know I'm a bit behind. Also picked up Titanfall 2 the other week and that seems really good.

Uncharted really is awesome. I'm working my way through on Crushing difficulty (it's solid but satisfying) and trying to find all the collectibles.

Once done I'll be back into Titanfall 2 for another run at the SP.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Heard there's a new Uncharted thing coming out, is it DLC?

 

[N0ddie]

It is DLC for Uncharted 4 but completely different story ie. not Drake.

 

[Welsh.Dan]

Mega deal on Amazon prime day.
Xbox One S (500GB) with Forza Horizon 3 + Minecraft + Chatpad & Headset + 2nd Controller https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071W6TRN7/?tag=cliospnet01-21

I've just ordered it. 180 for all that!

Will sell my old console and the controllers and break even

 

[CrippsCorner]

f**k me Uncharted 4 is just in a different league to everything else I've played this generation. Only 90 minutes in but damn...

 

[SharkyUK]

Finally downed tools for a few hours and decided to attempt a couple of levels on Sniper Elite 4 (Hardcore difficulty rather than Authentic, though). Loving it Sorry for the crap quality of the video; YouTube has compressed the crap out of it

 

[mace¬]

lol at testicle shot at the end. Child.

 

[SharkyUK]

I'm liking the look of the new Wolfenstein game. I enjoyed the recent(ish) games more than I expected.

 

[SharkyUK]

I've just finished playing through Prey and have to admit that it exceeded my expectations. I really enjoyed it despite finding it a bit of a slog at times (due to the travelling from one place to another and the fact that combat can be quite tricky / hard playing on the harder difficulty and early on in the game. It probably didn't help that I stayed to fight most encounters when I could have actually run away...)

I really thought the ending was pretty cool, too - I didn't see it coming and I thought it was an interesting twist.

 

[Jack!]

I might pick it up, the price dropped like a stone, so I figured maybe it wasn't too good.

 

[ADS_V6]

Anyone getting the Evil within 2?.Loved the first and the trailer looks awesome

 

[SharkyUK]

Game developer tricks... an interesting Twitter feed that briefly touches on some of the 'tricks' used by game dev's in getting game mechanics to 'feel' right. Or not. :smile: