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Official Video Games Thread VIII: Titans are destined to fall

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JF_Gophers said:
They were already owned by a larger company, ZeniMax. Which owned 8 studios under its umbrella. So, i dont see much difference. Other than they now have even more resources available to them.

MS actually bought ZeniMax, not just Bethesda alone.
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More resources =/= a better game. Heck, Stardew Valley was made by one guy and is one of the ten best games of the last few years.
 
Some good games I have been playing lately:

Help will Come Tomorrow. It's the Russian Revolution and your train is derailed in Siberia. Four people try to survive together and figure out what to do. Beautiful art (it's stills rather than animation so they can be more detailed), pretty good story line, compelling. Very much like This War of Mine, which was about surviving in an urban landscape during the Balkan Wars.

We, the Revolution. It's the French Revolution and you are a judge. Cases come before you and you have to use clever questioning and deduction to get past the surface details of prosecution and defense and figure out what really happened in order to rule with justice. However, the people and the radicals each have particular outcomes they favor, and you can't run afoul of them too much without incurring political risks. Also, your family life is difficult and you have a few personal um problems. The object of the game is to delay getting your own head lopped off for as a long as possible. Very smart, weirdly funny at times, highly immersive, and you start to really care and want to do right while also being cautious.

Through the Darkest of Times. It's the earliest days of the Nazi takeover in Germany. You and several malcontents have formed a resistance group. You need to recruit new members, gather funds, perform actions that limit or expose the Nazis, and try to both awaken more people to their threat and also do real damage to Nazi interests, all while staying secret and not attracting the attention of the secret police or the regime who will imprison, torture, and kill you and your loved ones.

No, I don't sense a theme at all, why?
 
JF_Gophers said:
Well, they can't do worse than Fallout 76.
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Oof. There are two XboxOne games I regret buying. One is Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege. The other is Bethesda's Fallout 76.

For R6S, I was expecting a successor to the Rainbow Six games from 360 and PC. A little more strategy. Then they showed off the multiplayer being more Counter-Strike. I was in on that. Then, I realized that it wasn't like CS, and I would have needed to always be in multi-player lobbies to play. Turned me off to it (and thankfully, I wasn't around when the game turned toxic (apparently all the CoD hardcore grunts went to R6S)).

Fallout 76... I shoulda heeded the warning signs when they said they were trying to go in a more "always online" experience and then it mentioned eliminating NPC's. I LOVED Fallout4, so I thought Fallout 76 would be more along those lines. Nope.


Side note, Call of Duty's Warzone has been so much fun to play. It's actually made me interested in CoD games...
 
Since I bought my Oculus Quest (with the new version being delivered in October) I have played my ps4 maybe twice. VR is too much fun!
 
Handyman said:
Since I bought my Oculus Quest (with the new version being delivered in October) I have played my ps4 maybe twice. VR is too much fun!
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Have you been having any of the side effects from the VR use?

One of the big ones I saw (and I can't find the article again) was someone said they lost depth perception for hours after using VR for an extended period of time.
 
aparch said:
Have you been having any of the side effects from the VR use?

One of the big ones I saw (and I can't find the article again) was someone said they lost depth perception for hours after using VR for an extended period of time.
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Given that i can barely handle VR type rides at Disney and Universal (HP, SW, etc.). I'm pretty sure VR is not an option for me. At least not fast moving ones. Makes me feel a bit nauseous.
 
So the XBOX app has been refreshed for the coming of the new console, and its way better than the old versions. Also included in the app is the ability to locally stream from your XBOX to your phone running the app, for gaming on the (kind of but not really) go.

The Game Pass app will have xStreaming as an option which allows true remote game play of select games.
 
We are about 18 days from the launch of new consoles. Wheres the hype!? The wife and I were able by some miracle to pre-order both.

I already have a backlog of games, but i am anxious to play Cyberpunk 2077 (19th) on the new consoles.

Queued up currently are: Baldur's Gate 3, SW Squadrons, Snow Runner, Persona 4 Golden, Leisure Suit Larry, PGA 2K21, and MS Flight Simulator.
 
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There’s no hype because there’s not really anything revolutionary new with the consoles nor are there any absolutely must play games.
 
Jimjamesak said:
There’s no hype because there’s not really anything revolutionary new with the consoles nor are there any absolutely must play games.
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I'm honestly a little surprised they both pushed out new systems right now. There isnt anything that makes them "must have," in my opinion.
 
The release day games last gen werent anything special either.

Only Nintendo seems to have day 1 games that show off the new hardware.

I'll be happy if the new ones can actually deliver 4k/60fps consistently. Because last gen 4k wasnt it.
 
aparch said:
I'm honestly a little surprised they both pushed out new systems right now. There isnt anything that makes them "must have," in my opinion.
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I think it’s mostly just due to the lifespan of the console coming to an end. But yeah, the only real tech leaps are using SSDs for storage and better functionality at 4K.

Gameswise it’s really strange, most AAA titles have switched to a more long term model like GTAV and Destiny 2 so there’s nothing really new and exciting that’s coming out.
 
Out of nostalgia I set up a private Everquest server. Works great, surprisingly.

If you'd be interested in playing let me know. I can get you the deets.
 
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MSFT charged me yesterday, so i guess my XSX pre-order is official. Good to know either way.

Dug in to EQ and it brought back all good feels from 20 yrs ago.
 
PS5 disc drive sounds like a jet engine. You'd think they could figure that out. But other than that I don't have any complaints so far.
 
Dreaded 5 post.

Received my copy of Disgaea 6 (jp). Don't need to know the language to play if you've ever played previous ones. US version isn't until June.
 
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