Posts made by Jaded

For Honor is free right now, but only through Uplay:

https://www.destructoid.com/for-honor-is-free-on-pc-right-now-507507.phtml

@Insomnia
Oh well I am not surprised it was found only through data mining then.

On another note I am looking forward to Starfire.

@insomnia
I'm going to admit I have not played any of the last 3 MGS games and I was not asked to review them. So I will have to take your word for it that it was not an ideal game addition, if my sarcasm detector is reading you right.

But. Even without that. I agree. And what I imagine will happen is that people will form up into clans and then build bases on top of the nuke facilities to dominate control of them.

Here's Fallout 76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLiwrvso7kw

So far to me it looks like a Fallout version of Rust. I can already see some of the problems in playing this game from my experience with said Rust.

I was told tonight that the Last of Us 2 might drop in October, for those waiting.

@insomnia
I was thinking Evolve while watching the video but there were enough notable differences that make it a harder comparison. But as far as co-op goes, yeah I would agree. Interestingly, ever person will have access to every 'class' which is represented by different mech suits. But from the material that was also provided it still seems like the best 'team build' will be 1 tank mech, 1 healing/support mech, 2 dps mechs. So pretty stock MMO party build it seems like.

@thenomain
Pretty much Anthem is in the same genre niche that Destiny and Warframe are in. Probably made with them in mind as competition.

From the release information the game is a 4 player co-op MMO with no PVP. They said it will have a single player experience, at least as of E3, but it will be under forced online conditions - putting you in the game world where you will still see online world chats and other activity from players not in your single player instance.

Basing this off early footage - the game looks well done graphically and the interface is nice and sleek so it looks good. But my overall concern looking at Anthem is that as an online MMO style game it might fall into that bracket where Titanfall 1 and Battlefield 1 fell into - which was a hot debut and then within six months the games are wastelands devoid of players.

@auspice
Annihilation got some poor reviews overall but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also. Saw Adrift tonight finally. Shailene Woodley was fantastic. Her co-star phoned it in. Otherwise it was pretty decent.

@arkandel
Yeah and objectively, it is a bad movie. The actresses are fantastic actresses. Even a few standouts were better than others. But the movie was just so very flat and it didn't go anywhere with its story beyond the predictable.

My review of Ocean's 8:

Stuff happens. You won't be bored enough to fall asleep. You might forget the movie by the time you hit the parking lot.

@insomnia
I recall a conversation you and I had on steam about a year ago about the glut of 'simulator' games. I guess I was just overreacting then given what is out now. I mean looking back: Fleet and Logistics Simulator, Surgeon Simulator, Delivery Truck Simulator and all those other weird niche simulator games don't seem too bad now.

@Admiral
Yes with HBS having access to the engines for Stellaris and other Paradox games, it means that their future games could be quite interesting. I like that the deal, at least so far as HBS told its Kickstarter Backers, is that they are still an independent game studio for the most part. We'll see how that works out.

The first game that is supposed to come out under the WoD license published by Paradox is currently a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game that is in development by Cyanide Studios; rumor is that it will be a Dark Souls style of game in terms of character perspective and combat mechanics which will mix in the transformation aspects found in the tabletop.

That is a well written review. And it fits along the same thoughts I had of the game now that I have had a chance to play with it.

@insomnia
Yeah I asked my Bethesda guy and that's what he told me. They are making a Fallout Rust game pretty much.

@insomnia
I will want to see more information on if this is an in-house development for Bethesda or if they are letting another studio develop and they publish it. Kind of tired of buying unfinished games from Bethesda's in-house studio.

@jibberthehut
The promotional stuff for Deadpool 2 had a music video that featured Celine Dion singing a song named Ashes.

Bland is my polite way of putting it. Yes.

So I just checked out a low budget sci-fi movie called Altered Hours. For people who like the indie movie scene, I can recommend this as a fairly decent sci-fi movie that does not fall too much into Syfy made for tv movie territory. The premise is strong and the acting is good.

Free
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I am not sure that all missions on Battletech are equal.

I'm doing a new playthrough on the game and it seems like the story missions progress the escalation of mech weight classes that you see on contract missions. I have not tested it enough yet to be sure but I hit two 5 skull missions before doing the first story mission and all I saw were a lot of Light Mechs and low tonnage vehicles, the second mission had a medium thrown in.

I have been guessing that each skull represents about 80 tons of drop weight potential for the enemy team, when I try to determine what my own drop weight should be for any given mission - but I think I am over estimating. It might be closer to 60.

John "Totalbiscuit" Bain.

I may not have always agreed with his reviews or even his point of view, he was a damn good games critic and a large part of early Youtube.