The "What are you playing now?" Thread

[kosis]

I do love how even the fast travel in Red Dead is slow as fuck just like everything else.

For real. At least 8 cut scenes. Almost like Rockstar is trolling the players.

 

[Jack Brickman]

For real. At least 8 cut scenes. Almost like Rockstar is trolling the players.

That was my first thought, but it's probably just masking the load time.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Red Dead Redemption 2 is like going to your dentist for a routine cleaning but somehow getting all of your teeth pulled out, replaced by implants, then landing a sweet commercial gig as the "Colgate Smile".

The journey is ridiculous, but the payoff, in the end, is great!!!

 

[Jack Brickman]

Red Dead Redemption 2 is like going to your dentist for a routine cleaning but somehow getting all of your teeth pulled out, replaced by implants, then landing a sweet commercial gig as the "Colgate Smile".

The journey is ridiculous, but the payoff, in the end, is great!!!

I think my favorite thing about it is that I can waste three hours playing it, accomplish next to nothing, and still have a good time. Sometimes if I get home from the bar and I'm drunk enough that I don't feel like doing missions I'll just ride around and hunt or fish, or play cards in camp or something. I enjoy that, even if the physics occasionally just randomly decide to fuck you.

 

[Chris]

Division 2 anyone? Beta is cool.

 

[Marcus]

Division 2 anyone? Beta is cool.

Got it on preorder for the XB1. Beta has been a lot of fun, and even for it being a beta, I’ve yet to encounter any bugs.

On another note, I just finished Anthem. If you haven’t played it yet, don’t bother. Probably the worst game BioWare has ever released. The visuals, voice acting, and flight are the highlights, but the actual gameplay is stale and uninspired, the loot system is surprisingly shallow, and the story is muddled, non-sensical, and boring, which is a colossal disappointment given that this is a BioWare game. I’m not even bothering with the endgame content. The game is an overall repetitive slog.

ETA: Also, several of the bosses and enemies are straight up bullet sponges and employ all sorts of other cheap tactics that don’t mesh well with the latency issues that currently plague the game as a whole. The worst of the worst are the Ash Titans.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I've heard the load times are ridiculous too. Read a review where the guy said one mission had like six minutes of combined loading times (not all at once, but when he added up the load times to get to the mission and get back from it that was what he got) while the mission itself took five and a half of minutes gameplay.

 

[Chris]

Yea. Fuck Anthem. Too much other stuff to play, maybe revisit in a year although I’m guessing EA will have ghosted it by then.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Yea. Fuck Anthem. Too much other stuff to play, maybe revisit in a year although I’m guessing EA will have ghosted it by then.

BioWare might be shuttered in a year if Anthem bombs.

 

[Chris]

BioWare might be shuttered in a year if Anthem bombs.

Agreed. That’ll suck.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Agreed. That’ll suck.

Will it? They haven't made a good game in like a decade and it doesn't look like that's gonna change any time soon. We probably disagree on Inquisition, but I thought Witcher 3 made Inquisition look like amateur hour. The last BioWare game I actually finished was Mass Effect 3, which was a great game right up until the last act pulled down its own pants and promptly shat all over the floor.

I assume that was largely on EA for rushing the game out the door, although I blame BioWare as well for not denoting resources to the ending earlier in development. You should focus on the key story beats first and pad out the extra stuff later, as that extra stuff is what should be cut for time if the need arises.

 

[Ohio]

According to the internet, the rose gray Arabian is the best horse, but it's not available to buy until the epilogue.

Also, the black isn't available for purchase until chapter four and I am in three. It's also only marginally better than the white one, especially when you factor in the white one is free and the black a cool grand.

I didn't even know about the rose gray one, thanks. Just went and bought it.

Would love if some single player DLC was released. I need new missions to play.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I didn't even know about the rose gray one, thanks. Just went and bought it.

Would love if some single player DLC was released. I need new missions to play.

Yeah I'm probably just gonna skip buying the black one since he's only a point better in two categories and the same in the other two as the white, which was free.

Although I have a shitload of money right now and not much to buy, so who knows what'll happen when I get to chapter four. Might just say fuck it. I did two of the treasure hunts and was rewarded with five gold bars for the trouble, and spent a good chunk of that tricking out all my weapons. Still got the Poisonous Trail treasure hunt to go as well, and just got another couple grand for a mission robbing the bank in Valentine. Camp is currently fully upgraded and I have like three grand on me lol.

 

[Chris]

Will it? They haven't made a good game in like a decade and it doesn't look like that's gonna change any time soon. We probably disagree on Inquisition, but I thought Witcher 3 made Inquisition look like amateur hour. The last BioWare game I actually finished was Mass Effect 3, which was a great game right up until the last act pulled down its own pants and promptly shat all over the floor.

I assume that was largely on EA for rushing the game out the door, although I blame BioWare as well for not denoting resources to the ending earlier in development. You should focus on the key story beats first and pad out the extra stuff later, as that extra stuff is what should be cut for time if the need arises.

I didnt finish Inquisition but I liked what I played a lot....Witcher 3 makes most games look like ass in all honesty. Andromeda and Anthem are huge letdowns but I’m not gonna pretend it’s a good thing if Bioware closes its doors. I find it hard to believe they’re incapable of creating masterpieces anymore. Trying to get cute and make a looter shooter was a huge misstep, but I have high hopes for Dragon Age 4.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I didnt finish Inquisition but I liked what I played a lot....Witcher 3 makes most games look like ass in all honesty. Andromeda and Anthem are huge letdowns but I’m not gonna pretend it’s a good thing if Bioware closes its doors. I find it hard to believe they’re incapable of creating masterpieces anymore. Trying to get cute and make a looter shooter was a huge misstep, but I have high hopes for Dragon Age 4.

I just don't think they are capable of creating masterpieces any more because the bulk of the people responsible for the company that made those masterpieces no longer work there. It's the same thing that happens to most EA-owned studios. You get the slow brain drain as people get sick of EA's shitty corporate culture and decide to move on to other jobs, or create new studios. The truly talented people are the ones who leave early, because they're the ones with all the options, and you're left with the lesser talents and, as we've seen, you end up with lesser games.

Add to that the fact that EA will never let them have the proper time to put into a title and you've got a recipe for a soon to be shuttered studio. I'd honestly be kind of surprised if they make it to Dragon Age 4, as it feels like Anthem is about to bomb hard and that might be the final straw after Andromeda also tanked a couple of years ago.