General Video Game Thread

[Testament]

Adeleide is pretty goddamn hateful, I even call her out on being an asshole to Paravati. I get the suggestion that she's going to wait out going to the city once everyone is dead from plague or starvation or whatever.

She's only better than Reed by a slight degree, but that doesn't make her a good person either. She's fanatical, which is a threat within itself. Any form of extremism is bad, but in that particular situation, the overwhelming inhuman qualities of capitalism to it's extreme is worse than one person with with a hate-on. Granted, that could turn out to be it's own evil years down the road. But then again, if this game's theme is any kind of indication, she'll eventually be put to the sword once someone has had enough.

And so it goes.

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[Testament]

@RDC I don't quite get your meaning, but that might just be because leaving FB was one of the best decisions I made in my life.

[Ghost]

Yo can you people go back and put your stuff in spoiler tags?

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[Jennkryst]

I'm honestly shocked someone hasn't come in and demanded ThE PoLiTiCs get flagged and hidden from their OVERBURDENED EYES

[Ghost]

Hah.

1. Someone mentioned to me that they were like OMGSPOILERSSTAAAAHP so I threw that out there. I dont know if I'm gonna get it or will remember any of that stuff, but oh well. Probably best practice to spoiler tag.

2. Political interpretation of the story design of a game could become dangerzone. I kinda wondered if it would be better on the politics forum, myself, but like all things MSB these discussions get offloaded to proper areas around the time that people start calling for blood. In the meantime if someone wants to interpet the story however they feel(1)? Meh. Art is art.

(1) I mean, with enough time and thought I'm sure you could make the argument that Top Gun is a giant allegory for a man's struggle with his sexuality, or that Star Wars is about the struggle of a father wanting to maintain relevancy with his children after a nasty divorce, or that Aliens is a sci-fi retelling of the Puritanical/expansionist atrocities committed against North America's indigenous peoples. Whatevs. Not worth fighting about; better as convo over beers.

[Thenomain]

@Rinel said in General Video Game Thread:

it's two steps away from being Borderlands 4.

This is my only problem with it so far. It's not as deep as I'd want from a Fallout game, but I'm still enjoying the game as much as I'd hope.

I mean, VtM:Bloodlines was extremely linear but for some bloodline-based changes, and it's worth a second playthrough. Sometimes a third. Hell, how many times have I played through Portal 2?

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I second the request for spoiler tags. The game's only been out three weeks, and not everyone a) has $60 to spend on it, or b) wants to give Epic or Microsoft $60 for it. (Or even has time for it.) Chillax, y'all.

[Testament]

Just because it felt like a couple people didn't want to get spoiled(even though this totally isn't a spoiler, I just don't want to get yelled at).

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I laughed harder than I should have.

[Ganymede]

Tracking back a bit, let's not forget the wonderful games Naughty Dog and Guerilla put out.

I mean, Sony.

[Jaded]

So EA pulled its games off Steam in 2011. It looks like Origin is not doing so well for them since it seems they will be returning their games to the Steam Marketplace, according to The Verge; I did see that you could pre-order the Jedi Fallen Order game on Steam this morning so I think it is legit.

I might start buying EA games again.

[magee101]

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel
30-35 hours of total gameplay to complete the main quest and all side quests. For a sixty dollar game in this genre that's pretty damn short.

Oh man, I hadn't seen that in any of the reviews I checked, might have to wait to get it until it goes on sale.

ETA: @Jaded the only EA game I might buy is Fallen Order. I don't really like to support them after their bullshit parlor tricks in front of the UK commission hearing.

[magee101]

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

I second the request for spoiler tags. The game's only been out three weeks, and not everyone a) has $60 to spend on it, or b) wants to give Epic or Microsoft $60 for it. (Or even has time for it.) Chillax, y'all.

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[Alamias]

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel
30-35 hours of total gameplay to complete the main quest and all side quests. For a sixty dollar game in this genre that's pretty damn short.

This is why I am glad it was on Xbox game pass... No extra cost on my part to play it.

[Auspice]

@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel
30-35 hours of total gameplay to complete the main quest and all side quests. For a sixty dollar game in this genre that's pretty damn short.

This is why I am glad it was on Xbox game pass... No extra cost on my part to play it.

this is how I am playing. It will still prob take me more than a month to play with my limited availability to do so. but we will see!

[Jaded]

@magee101
Yeah I'm going to wait to see if I get a chance to do a review for The Fallen Order before I consider buying it and if not see what is said after it releases.

I have not bought an EA title since Mass Effect 3, due to a horrendous customer service issue I had with the company and my own personal boycott. So I am dubious at best.

[Alamias]

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel
30-35 hours of total gameplay to complete the main quest and all side quests. For a sixty dollar game in this genre that's pretty damn short.

This is why I am glad it was on Xbox game pass... No extra cost on my part to play it.

this is how I am playing. It will still prob take me more than a month to play with my limited availability to do so. but we will see!

I'll be lucky if I can do it in a month myself.

[Ghost]

@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel
30-35 hours of total gameplay to complete the main quest and all side quests. For a sixty dollar game in this genre that's pretty damn short.

This is why I am glad it was on Xbox game pass... No extra cost on my part to play it.

this is how I am playing. It will still prob take me more than a month to play with my limited availability to do so. but we will see!

I'll be lucky if I can do it in a month myself.

AKSHUAAAALLLAY even if it takes you a month to do it, you're still doing it in 30-35 hours.

[Thenomain]

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain A review I read mentioned its single-player campaign is too short. Do you think that's the case?

Still working through it, but it depends if we're considering it an RPG or an...Action-Adventure? What kind of game is The Outer Worlds?

I'm now putting it solidly in the Bioshock/Borderlands camp with stronger RPG elements. I am enjoying all of the world-building and the conversations and even the RPG system is pretty nice (though I accidentally agreed to a concussion; this will be interesting), but at its core it's a Dungeon Crawler. (Not quite a Looter-Shooter.)

My euphoria from the first scenario has worn off as the game is trying to be more generic, and I can see how there isn't as much depth as there is from a typical Fallout, though I will contend it's still much deeper than Fallout 4 (but not as deep as Far Harbor).

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I started paying more attention to the messages Outer Worlds is trying to pass on and I think the tone just doesn't quite nail it. The ambient music is much more Mass Effect moody than Borderlands quirky. The world-building is neither as dark nor as satirical as it could have been. There isn't enough Fallout for me in Outer Worlds.

A lot of reactions I've been reading seem based on the marketing which always has me waffling because people need to stop being so trusting of marketing. I've brought that up in this thread already, and will continue to warn people: Marketing is there to make a product desirable, hopefully though honest means but this is a video game. Even big companies like Blizzard can't manage to get marketing right.

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I'm enjoying it for $1. If I had $60 to drop on a video game sight unseen then I wouldn't be complaining because I'd be rolling 'round in the dolla dolla bills y'all.

I guess my message is: Be better consumers.

Also: Don't know if it's worth $60 yet. Will review more when I get there and when I better know what $60 means nowadays.

[Runescryer]

@Jaded I'm waiting to hear if there's anything even remotely like a lootbox system, regardless of what they call it, or forced multi-player before I buy Fallen Order or any other EA game.