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Well, past the initial reaction, I can say that The Crew is a very enjoyable game. Actually, I'm not playing it as a blazing fast multi-player racer, but as Euro Truck Simulator without a truck. Despite the graphics being unimpressive for a new gen game, they often offers some pretty landscape of the varied countryside of the US. It's also great when you can see all the lights and buildings when you're getting closer to a big city. I think they put a great effort on this, because even if some of the buildings are just the same assets repeated through the map, they try to reproduce the architecture found in those cities. Everything also got better when I learned that you can unlock the frame rate in the config files. I went from completely uninterested in this game to consider buying in the first week, if they fix some bugs found in the Beta. I always wanted a game that you could just drive long distances, just admiring the landscapes, the cities, listening to your own music. Euro Truck was good in that, but the landscapes and specially the cities felt lifeless. The Crew doesn't have the same limitation , it's a big publisher, they can afford to focus on those details. So, it seems that Ubisoft worked it's magic again. I just wished they knew that the best stuff in their games is outside their formula, so they shouldn't feel obligated to repeat the same things in their major titles.

Hmm, actually it's better than I thought. However, it seems to create some kind of story for a hero, so it's not exactly a good portrayal of Pierce. And yeah, the plot seems too convoluted, but I think that's how games writing works lately. The Crysis games, specially the third one, are insane when it comes to names and characters that you can't possibly remember, and betrayals that serves no purpose.

That's visually appealing, but it's not covered in chocolate :/

Yeah, I appreciate this initiative of Ubisoft to release these "indie-like" games. In fact, I think that Ubisoft is the best publisher of the big three ones. However, they need to use the creativity of these smaller games in their big franchises add well. When you talk like this, actually it sounds like a way better game. I just wished that the story incorporated this dissonance, by portraying Aiden as a character whose feelings and beliefs led to those dissonance, with an ending that had this aspect in focus (it doesn't, does it? You can spoil the game for me).

Dido is a fucking bitch. I was always a friend of her, gave her money when she needed it a couple of times, was always there for her. And then, all of a sudden, she denounces me and declare war just because I founded a city in another continent. Wat? Fortunately, I won the war, even though I wasn't investing in my army, because I'm looking for a cultural victory. I could destroy her whole civilization if I wanted, but they are the only civ which is already influenced by my culture, so they're good guys, just need a new leader. Anyway, I think it's pretty sweet that I can play as Brazil in BNW.

I stopped playing Watch Dogs because of the story, I just didn't see the point of going through all of it just to see how Aiden's drama would end. But I have mixed feelings about the game itself, don't think it was bad. I also don't have an issue with the open world formula and etc. I just feel that they're trying too hard to replicate their successful titles. Oh, and I loved Far Cry 3. It's just that I saw the same character motivation in the Crew and was like, come on, Ubi. Yeah, it will be called Rayman Origins... Oh. What a missed opportunity. By the way, Rayman Origins have a great story/premise.

He seems insecure, if I'm getting this right. You seem to be one of those guys that have strong opinions and is perfectly fine with it. He also seems to have strong opinions, but probably feels a bit insecure when people disagree. Maybe he thoughtbyou guys were disagreeing for the wrong reasons, that made him feel bad about himself, and then he got angry with everyone. That can happen. Sometimes I have this thoughts, but I don't get mad or hold a grudge, just get a bit sad.

I'm glad that I discovered what twine games are, and that they can be played on my phone. Needed something to distract me in slow days of work. I finished the one with the fish, it was lovely. Edit: the Ke$ha one is brilliant.

I second this.

I think it's amazing that Del Toro is involved in the project with someone proven in game making like Kojima, but as others said, I hope Kojima doesn't put much of his style in this game story, he should leave that to Del Toro IMO. Anyway, if the game is as scary as this demo, I'll need some extra balls to play it. I don't remember the first silent Hills to be that scary, there were few jump scares from what I can recall.

Demon and dark souls were fantastic in terms of combat, but this looks so much better, more fluid and action oriented without losing the strategy and patience required. It's ridiculous that they managed to improve it.

Holy shit

I just realized that this must be like diablo, in which moving is done by point and clicking, and not by actually moving the character with wasd, right? Yeah, it wouldn't be much fun with a controller. That's a really good idea. I need to buy a new wireless mouse, will look for one with lots of buttons, it might help for these kind of games.

I want to play this game, but I with it had controller support. I like to play games on a big screen, and it's weird to play with keyboard and mouse on the couch. Is anyone here playing this game with a controller (with emulation programs like xpadder, etc.)? Or even playing this on the couch with a setup that doesn't feel very weird or uncomfortable? I just feel like playing a good RPG for the past few months, even thought about buying a PS4 just to play Diablo 3 with a controller.

Finished Wolfenstein The New Order. It's a good video game and it seemed shorter than it actually was, and that's really a bonus with how impatient I'm being with games with unnecessarily 10+ Hours campaigns. It never felt actually boring, even if it had some weak sections. I think it is because of the story, it's a good one, not great, but pretty decent. if every AAA action video game had such a level of story things would be way more enjoyable. The characters were mostly well developed, and despite some weird moments, the writing was really good. I'll definitely look forward for the next Machine Games project, was really surprised with this game.

Yeah, I wanted to try GW 2, but it's a bit expensive right now (well, not exactly "expensive", it's just a high price for a genre I never tried before). A trial comes in handy. Glad to see that I'm not crazy by having some anxiety with video games. I've always had that with sports, I remember that I used to play basketball way better with a group of 4 close friends, but when I tried to actually play for the school team I totally sucked. But I'm just realizing that I have this, at a lesser degree, with multiplayer video games as well.About the games, Final fantasy XIV implemented a free trial, maybe I'll do that, the game always impressed me with its visuals (at least with the A Realm Reborn version). I'm thinking about trying Battlefield 3, as I have it in my library due to a humble bundle I think, just need to convince myself that the multiplayer is better than the campaign, which was awful for the very few hours I played it. I also really wan to play Destiny, I'm just not entirely sure if I'll buy a PS4 this year, have other priorities. And yes, I'll definitely like to play some games with the people of this forum, you guys are very nice dudes I'll take a look in the multiplayer subforum to see how can I do that.

I see that I'm not the only one who feels like this, thanks for sharing this thought. And yeah, I know that social anxiety isn't the same as introversion haha, it's just that I have both of them. That means that social activities, while enjoyable, are a bit "tiring" for me, because I'm an introvert, and I also feel some degree of anxiety before engaging in any social activity, which includes multiplayer gaming. So I wanted to see which suggestions of games people with the same feelings could give. I'm really glad that you guys pointed Guild Wars 2, always wanted to play that game, I'll look more into it. I think you pretty much nailed the point. I see a lot of people saying that they love to play multiplayer games with friends (real or virtual), and I wanted to try that. But I feel a bit anxious because I have this stupid need for approval at some degree, as much as I improved this aspect of my personality. So I feel like a bit afraid of not doing the right thing while playing a team based game, stuff like this. About hearthstone, that's probably the multiplayer game that I played the most. But as you said, I want to try games in which you have a bit more of interaction, massive multiplayer games, for example. I'm in a hurry right now so I can't answer everyone, later after work I'll post here again. But thanks for all the replies.

Exactly. At least here in Brazil it could be a crime to state that the project was a fraud depending on the circumstances, not to mention the possible civil damages. Of course, if it is really a fraud then they're right, but it's just too much trouble until you can actually prove it consistently. It's wise to avoid all that.If they want to act nice on this, they just should send the material they have to the police for further investigation (if they have a serious proof that this project was just a fraud).

Yep, it's just a leather jacket that belonged to the old man, just watched the scene again. Even the old man says that Blazckowicz is a handsome guy, because he's reminding of himself wearing that jacket when he was young.

Wat? I mean, does that really happen, is there any real suggestion that the jacket is made by human skin? Damn, if that's truth, than it's really fucked up, it makes no sense for all the sensibility and morals that Blazckowicz is supposedly fighting for in the game. Please not be true, I'm liking you, Wolfie. You're a good game, that gets even better by the fact that 2014 is such a lackluster year for AAA video games.

This game is just surprisingly good. After that terrible first level, which ran awfully on my PC, I thought I wasted my money on this. But I decided to give it another shot this week and well, it's flawed, but still a good game, which was totally unexpected considering the beginning of it. I think that the story is well written and the cutscenes are specially well directed, they are brief and tell the message. It also has subtlety with the characters and emotions, you actually care with what's going on, even if the game never feels actually serious or dramatic. It's a good story. The main problem is that it is already stretching, as with most games, because the game needs to be longer. Even with some non-sense, it's already way better than most triple A narratives, would be happy if every action game had this level of writing and directing. Well, the game itself plays good, but there are some weird decisions on it. The one that bothers me more is the need to include a mini-mission every time you need to get an item, it really troubles the pacing of the game. I like the stealth sections though, they're super easy and I'm not in the mood to play a super stealthy game. I also like that those sections add some variety to all the shooting. But yeah, of course they could have done a better work on this, I think it would be better if they just added some huge sections of traversal instead of adding enemies that barely offer any challenge. But yeah, despite all the performance issues I'm having - should have spent more and got an i7 -, I'm really enjoying this game.

I think the only good adaptation I saw was Silent Hill. There seems to be a bunch of projects of video game adaptations right now, but any of them seems to be ever released. The Shadow of the Colossus movie, for example. At least it worked to create probably the best moment of the Idle Thumbs Podcast. To be honest, I think that's the whole problem with the Devil May Cry series. Dante is such a bad character, he was always so freaking stupid trying to look cool. This series was such a disappointment for me, couldn't stand the guy.

Man, I just wish this game released someday... I still think there are few works in video games there are so subtle and sensible as Ico and SotC. I wish Ueda could move on to other projects as well if this is not coming out. At least it's nice to see that some people of the team founded a new studio, looking forward to their game. The problem is that they're equally optimistic as they were with the last guardian when it comes to release dates: "When it's done".

Yeah, I'm enjoying this as well, it's a very simple mechanic, but it opens some course of actions that wouldn't be possible without.I usually only enjoy stealth games that "empowers" (I hope that's a word) the player, and this is another game for the genre. It's not brain dead easy, it just doesn't rely on the player patience. I'm also liking the open world in Chicago, there's not much to do in the city, but I think this is the first time that this feels like a real city in a video game (with much less people of course). As much as GTA games were well made for its hardware, their cities felt a bit empty. Here's there are more stuff on the streets, like benches, bus stops and newsstands, more bars and cafés with people hanging out minding their own business, squares with tourists taking pictures, etc. In GTA, it bothered me that when you got closer to a building and it was just a big block with low res textures on it, but that's not the case in watch dogs, it's more consistent. I just wish the story was a lot better, I honestly can't feel any kind of attachment to the main character and it's journey. It feels like they only thought about the story in the last minute, hence why so many cliches and, to make it worse, badly executed. I think a much better main character for the game would be his assistant hacker, badboy17, at least she seems a more likeable character, and her story could be about hacktivism or something, it would be more interesting than this. Anyway, Watch Dogs so far is a good video game, and I'm even planning on actually finishing it. Just be careful to buy this on PC, I'm playing right now at 30 fps locked, and it doesn't even stays at 30 all the time (when driving to a new and populated area it gets worse, all the rest is fine). It looks really great, but not enough for this uneven performance. This is amazing. I wonder if that's all the enjoyment he gets from his games.

This game and Wolfenstein are forcing me to buy a PS4 and be happy with it. Can't understand why those games don't run properly even on really powerful PCs, just can't believe that they saw the performance on their machine and said "yep, that'll do it". Anyway, the story is also pretty bad. Very weak writing. But I really like the water in this game, it's so neat and next-genish.