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@Sparks
The primary theme from The Last of Us really sticks with me and I can pick up humming it at times when I'm writing stuff for my tabletop game.

Does anyone have any thoughts on Jessica Jones S3? I'm debating if it is worth my time watching it or not.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

@Livia said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ghost

But honestly it's a surprisingly different game now than it was back then, and a lot of people didn't like the direction it went and just wanted to play it the way it was. Saying it's 'The same WoW' is not really true.

Like I'm sure all those other reasons are spot on the money (heh!) but still.

So are the quests different then?

I just think its a shame because I'd rather see WoW2 than to turn back the clock. I love the Draenei and Worgen, and I worked hard for my Mag'har orc. Theres so much story to experience, and while I get that the earlier state long before the Sylvanas Windrunner and Varian Wrynn arcs better allows players to experience those story arcs before they were made obsolete by the further patches, it still seems far less than what people are paying for.

Level cap goes from 120 to 60, available zones drop down a lot, available races and classes are nearly halved, etc.

Well, the general answer to your question is that yes the quests are different. There's no more zone phasing and all of those changes that they made are now gone, so things are as they were at the start.

People are paying for less, which is clear, but then people doing something for the sake of nostalgia typically do not do a cost/value estimation because they like the nostalgia of it.

Thanks guys. I'll make that my weekend binge watch.

@Auspice
I'll play it. Maybe even write a review for it.

@Ganymede
Good god was S3 fantastic. I blew through all the episodes and got to the last one and was like "waitaminute that's it?!"

Bring on S4!

@Auspice
That's a good question.

With Venetica, the story was actually pretty decent and the whole premise of the game was interesting. The problem actually came in combat - the hit boxes for the creatures when in combat were not consistent. It required you to practically stand on top of the creatures and clip into them to be able to hit them at times. There was more than one location where the starting of combat would crash the game to desktop or lock up the computer requiring a soft-reboot. Animations were always off from the dialogue and sometimes the cut scene animations were not complete showing blank faces or just a mouth and pair of eyeballs. Character movement was jilted and stiff which often required a lot of repositioning to access interactable objects.

As you progressed further into the game the "difficulty" increase made enemies spongier in terms of hit points and armor while the character scaling for damage on weapons or protection by armor, or the usefulness of skills, did not scale equally. So you ended up with a game with a ramping difficulty that created longer combats and more frequent deaths until you got through the combat more by luck than skill or character build.

Two Worlds, when it came out was just a buggy hot mess. The game would crash when doing setting transitions. Combat was bugged to such a point that there were enemies with ranged attacks that could see you from the other side of a mountain and clip their attacks through terrain to hit you. The movement controls for the character were terrible, were even standing directly in front of interactable objects would not detect you actually standing there - and requiring you to get on top of the object or position your camera so the character would clip into it to get the interaction command to appear. That's not all the problems but those are some of the worst.

Mars: War Logs was a game that also had a great premise and story idea. This game also had huge issues with hitbox detection for combat and since the early game locked you into melee combat this was a huge issue. It required the character to be practically on top of the monster to hit it, whereas the player had a wider hitbox the creatures could hit in their own melee without entering your melee range. The game also had crashing issues with zone transitions and at one point I encountered a game-breaking bug that would not let the game progress during dialogue in a cut-scene and would crash the game to desktop or lock the computer up altogether requiring a soft reboot. Playing the game through on another save file to see if it was a localization issue in that particular save game file, still presented the same problem.

It would be fair to note that some of these issues could have been patched out since then but I have not revisited the games since their initial releases.

@Insomnia

My dad is a big wrestling fan and I remember going to Wrestlemania VI with him when I was 10 and meeting Roddy Piper. He really was such a great entertainer and as a fanfreaking kid, I thought he was just fantastic. After the show he gave me a high five and an autograph. One of my best childhood memories.

@Ghost
I thought Battleborn was the better of the two games too.

@Ghost said in Good TV:

@Jaded According to the article a "series adaptation", so a retelling with potential to go past the timeline of the movie.

Hmm. I am dubious but interested.

@Jennkryst Elite Dangerous is tons of fun with a dual-stick setup. There's some interesting voice command mods that go beyond the base game's functionality too. Although I'm not sure where they stand now I've not played that game in months.

@Admiral said in Good TV:

@Arkandel Odds are they'll trim down the most interesting stuff and just keep the boring central story. The draw for WoT was never the main story, though. It's standard, boring chosen one stuff. The draw was the intricate world and the sub plots and character interactions.

The show will miss the mark entirely. It may still be a great show while also being a terrible representation of WoT. I'm hopeful that it will be good. But it won't be WoT.

This is how I'm feeling about it. I like the guy they cast for Perrin. I will also admit that I found Perrin's story throughout the series far more compelling than Rand's chosen one arc.

Mat's story was more interesting too but often felt all over the place and seemed to sometimes rely on other narrative arcs too much to push his own story forward.

@RDC
Nothing to do with asexuality but certainly aromantic. I could have been clearer.

For everyone who was discussing the Wheel of Time casting choices, and the problems some Twitter mobs had about them, this is a good read to share.

@gryphter
In my opinion, Outer Worlds is not really a game that begs to be played through a second time, unless you want to run around with different companions or try different gameplay styles. Even the main story, arguably, is not that good. It is pretty derivative. I kept getting the sense that some game story elements and design choices were made to purposefully thumb their nose at Bethesda, which okay that's fine I guess.

I did not get that desire to see the worlds of the game again as I did with something like Witcher 3. And since the game is so grossly mis-priced I doubt I'll be interested in any DLC to follow up with.

RoS was a narrative mess. The visuals were great but by this point we can expect that from a Star Wars movie. Otherwise this isn't a "must see theater going experience" but more like a "if I happen to turn it on, on tv at home, while vaccuming I might leave it there" experience.

I was deeply disappointed.

@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.

80s Bengals coach Sam Wyche

So. Has anyone played Death Stranding yet? I'd like to hear some thoughts.

The only complaints I've heard about The Witcher is that the actress playing Yennifer was a poor casting choice and did not convey the aura of charisma that Yennifer was portrayed as having in the books.

Which is just like...their opinion, man.