hi!!! i always lurk in this page i never had the chance to post anything of value until now, the reason is that my bro is making a videogame named Discordia Guardians of the Domain and im inviting you all to see it and if you want to suport it in kickstarter i hope you like it! it will be a online free to play game
Currently hooked on playing Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth for the PS4. I still can't believe a Digimon game has managed to surpass Pokemon in terms of gameplay. This game is phenomenal~!
A friend of mine asked me to upload this thing for them since they're a huge mech fan
So I figured I may as well share it around
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From 2003, it's a free game(Not even pirated, devs released it for free). It's a little bit clunky but it makes up for that with glorious amounts of detail, being able to custom-build your mech and several long campaigns. A long lasting progression system for your pilots and a difficult to manage financial situation to keep them piloting
In addition, custom scenarios and the ability to share your scenarios and the mechs you've build with others
Mechwarrior or GTFO (though MWO is putrid shit hamstrung by idiotic adherence to tabletop rules, and overall poor decisions by the devs)
I've been a fan of the Armored Core series for a long time, but there just aren't enough buttons on a gamepad to give the control I'd like over my mech.
Chromehounds was a wonderfull MP only mech title that I had quite a bit of fun with while the servers were up. Offered a ton of customization, from artillery to close range builds it really had anything you could want.
Hawken is an MP only FTP (PTW!) title that, while including some neat stuff, is pretty much a COD clone without a melee weapon. (I guess if it's not broke, don't try to fix it?)
The last front mission was a great transition to action from tactical RPG.
Mechwarrior online was a huge let down for me, though. I mean it's nice and all, but the introduction video they made years before release had me expecting an awesome campaign/single player mode...
So, Firewatch. It's a great, bittersweet, realistic tale about nature and life in general.
Your character, Henry, takes up a job as a firewatch lookout in a remote park in Wyoming after his wife falls ill with Early-Onset Alzheimers and is sent to Australia to live with her family. His only companion out there is Delilah, his supervisor - a snarky, funny, flirty woman that you can only speak to over the radio. From there on, the two of them deal with isolation, mysterious disappearances and a forest fire that's constantly looming on the horizon.
First things first - the voice acting in this game is extremely prominent, and I'm happy to say that it's SUBLIME. You can really feel the chemistry between Henry and Delilah and can feel them growing closer. Granted, I don't have much experience with "Walking Simulators," but I still feel that there is enough gameplay here to actually justify this being made into a game and not a movie. Dialogues change depending on how much Henry talks about his life, and he might even annoy Delilah enough that she steps away from the radio for a while.
Also, you can adopt turtles.
EDIT: Furthermore, I find Henry to be a refreshing change from the constant lean, gruff-but-good-looking action heroes of the recent years. He's a beefy guy with a big, scruffy beard. A real breath of fresh air.
I'd say that the game is well worth the investment, even at $ 20 for a three-hour playthrough. It's got a strong, emotional vibe and is the first game in a long time that really hit me in the feels, as the kids say.
So far for the review, now onward to thoughts. They'll focus on some spoilers, and the ending, so if you're interested in buying, do NOT read on.
I feel that I would have liked the game more if it had foregone the big mystery completely. I feel the entire part about being stalked and attacked takes away from the character development and the budding relationship between Henry and Delilah. I would've been perfectly fine with this being a game about tending to the park for three months or so, all the while bantering with Delilah, the two of them growing closer and closer. Always with the bittersweet note of Henry's sick wife in the background. A game about emotions and romance, asking moral and ethical questions through an interesting and relatable narrative.
Because as it stands, in the end Henry and Delilah CAN'T end up together, even when Henry doesn't even tell her he is married. In the end, Henry is just thrust back into the misery of his daily life, with a wife that doesn't recognize him, with his dead dog and estranged friends, with a growing alcohol habit and lonely nights in the dark. With nothing but a turtle and a even more bruised heart to show for his summer in Wyoming.
And I get why that is, I really do. Firewatch, in the end, is a slice-of-life story - and in real life, there are no fairytale endings, no neat bow to tie everything up into a nice package. The game certainly succeeds in subverting your expectations every step of the way, but that doesn't necessarily makes for a compelling narrative.
Maybe my real problem with this game is that gaming, for me, is mostly about ESCAPING real life for a while. Firewatch is all too eager to remind you about that real life out there, and that it's sometimes messy and unsatisfying. The problem with the ending may not be the game's fault, they're my own - but it's a problem none the less.
Somehow I feel like it's not fucking me hard enough. I mean yeah, it does hurt when it reams my ass, but as soon as it pulls out there's no gape or nothing. I close right back up, no worse for wear. I dunno, maybe NG+ will give me the deep, ruinous gut-fucking I crave. Or maybe Bloodborne's NG+ already ruined me. Their DLC made me bite the pillow HARD.
Same way I felt too, after 3 games of having to WORK for my cheese, and bloodborne's 'GUNS ARE FOR COUNTERS, NOT RANGED COMBAT STFU', it just doesn't feel the same. Shit, put a raw gem on your weapon and don't give a fuck about your attribute damage untill the game's almost over, as long as you keep throwing titanite at it.
Unfortunately my connection can't support any games of this generation, with their shittastic net-code. Though honestly it's bad even with good net-code. So I've never played multi on a Dark Souls game, would've loved being a sun-bro too .
Anyway, it's rather curious that fromsoft can detect a person using a memory editor to turn poise back on, but can't detect someone giving themselves weird weapon buffs with the same kind of program (Though I'll bet good money on the fucker using the exact same program, cheat engine). Even more-so because the fucker's streaming it, they have his damn account info so why don't they just ban his IP? Kind of feels like they dropped the ball in a lot of places, and this it just another to add to the list.
I don't believe this has been brought up yet, so what's everyone's opinion on the Battlefield 1 vs Call of Duty "drama" (if you can call it that) that's been happening over the past few days?
Especially with the Call of Duty infinite warfare trailer now having 1.2million dislikes and the Battlefield 1 trailer having a million likes and the most views a Battlefield trailer has ever had in 2 days
I'm going to echo games critic Jim Sterling, and say that I just can't muster the energy to give a shit about CoD, because... it's CoD. The Stockholm-syndrome'd twelve year olds will continue to throw money at the franchise, and the everyone else will continue to sneer derisively at it, and in a year's time another goddamn game in the series will be out. If it had been another series, I might've cared, but... meh.
Honestly, I gave CoD a rest after MW2, and the new one is perhaps the first one since then I've actually even been mildly interesting. Good job to BF1 too, it's just I'm not particularly hyped for it. I think it'll be amazing, but I have too many things ahead of it (or the new CoD for that matter) to really care too much.
There's the remake of COD 4 too which looks ok I guess, but it won't be the same because I presume they're going to patch the bounce glitches etc, and probably make some changes to the maps.
They'll have to go a loooooong way to convince me to buy another CoD. Not only is the player-base toxic as all hell, the gameplay is redundant, they could have just added weapon and map-packs to MW1 instead of creating all new games and it would have been the EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE for me.
At this point I don't even know why they bother with storyline, it's a waste of resources to render a 5 hour campaign full of pretty cutscenes and a severely outdated AI that's just a cheap cheating bastard.
Battlefield however, with it's team-based game modes, specialist classes, and huge maps offers a significantly different experience for players every time they choose to play the game in a different way (since they have the option to). Still, they could have just added weapon and map packs. The series suffers greatly from players not in a 'clan' being unwilling to communicate with their team-mates (not really the devs fault there, but I took a shot at CoD's community so it's only fair to do the same here).
As far as CoD infinite warfare is concerned, I'm calling bullshit. Single player campaign's going to be shorter than ever, that space-fighter scene? going to be on rails basically, and even if you can fly space-fighters in MP there's going to be so few on each map you'll have to be very lucky to get in one. All networking will be done p2p so enjoy getting 'bitched' constantly by people with faster connections. Overall, I just feel like they aren't offering anything I can't experience somewhere else, fleshed out more, and with generally more balancing & polish.
They'll have to go a loooooong way to convince me to buy another CoD. Not only is the player-base toxic as all hell, the gameplay is redundant, they could have just added weapon and map-packs to MW1 instead of creating all new games and it would have been the EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE for me.
At this point I don't even know why they bother with storyline, it's a waste of resources to render a 5 hour campaign full of pretty cutscenes and a severely outdated AI that's just a cheap cheating bastard.
Battlefield however, with it's team-based game modes, specialist classes, and huge maps offers a significantly different experience for players every time they choose to play the game in a different way (since they have the option to). Still, they could have just added weapon and map packs. The series suffers greatly from players not in a 'clan' being unwilling to communicate with their team-mates (not really the devs fault there, but I took a shot at CoD's community so it's only fair to do the same here).
As far as CoD infinite warfare is concerned, I'm calling bullshit. Single player campaign's going to be shorter than ever, that space-fighter scene? going to be on rails basically, and even if you can fly space-fighters in MP there's going to be so few on each map you'll have to be very lucky to get in one. All networking will be done p2p so enjoy getting 'bitched' constantly by people with faster connections. Overall, I just feel like they aren't offering anything I can't experience somewhere else, fleshed out more, and with generally more balancing & polish.
To add to that, the fact that they allow you to purchase "weapon crates" now or whatever they're called without any kind of market in the game that allows you to sell them or possibly make any kind of money from them is basically daylight robbery. They definitely need to rethink the way they make their games now or they're going to end up like Ubisoft, with a large portion of people refusing to buy their games because of microtransactions, etc.
If they followed a counterstrike-ish route, that wouldn't be a bad thing really in my opinion
TBH I'm on board with the anti-chinesegoldfarmer coalition. Not because of any real moral objection, but because; they're fucking annoying, if I wanted your shit I'd know where to get it, stop spamming the local chat with your messages.
Gift packages or w/e aren't so bad, they give people with less time to spend on it the chance to experience more of the game's content. Though if you're talking P2W, I don't understand why they even bother, just play against bots if you want one-sided gameplay like that.
