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Should I buy Witcher 3 at $30 (50% off) even though I still have games from the Steam Summer sale that I've yet to play?
 
Not playing it yet, but I just bought Rise Of The Tomb Raider from the XBL sale. $40? Not bad.
 
Playing Beyond 2 Souls.

Really terrible controls. Like in the combat sections, you have to move the joystick in the direction she is moving. It's basically a QTE film, if that makes sense. Not sure it's quite scratching that Life is Strange itch (buy this if you haven't, seriously), but it's relatively not a terrible game I guess. Better than the Order, which I dropped immediately.

Got back in to DBZ Xenoverse, and it is as good now as it was before. I absolutely love the game.

Black Ops 3 is a bit of a love hate thing. I might actually hate Shadows of Evil. Like I don't want to play the map at all, and I'm not big on replaying Der Reise for the 5000 time. Shadows as a map is good, but there is just way too much of what I consider to he busy work, before I can start enjoying the game, for me to really enjoy it.

Planning on getting into R6 Seige if anyone wants to play.
 
Currently playing Bloodborne. Bought it last month new for $16, and stashed it til now.

I had briefly forgotten just how unforgiving these games can be. After an hour of gameplay, I have seen the error of my ways. :chuckle:
 
Been playing Metro 2033 Redux. I can't decide if I actually like this game or not. The parts where you're sneaking around taking out humans are great, but I can't stand having to kill mutants. They just won't die. Plus the game doesn't explain so many of the controls or how to do things and I keep having to pause and look up on the internet how to do things. Didn't know you had to charge nightvision. Didn't even know there were grenades in the game until I accidentally went into the inventory. Then I had to go on the internet to figure out how to use them. Kept reloading one part because I thought the game was glitched but it was really just waiting for me to pull out my lighter and destroy spider webs.
 
Picked up The Talos Principle during the Steam sale and started playing it last night. Really digging it. Reminds me a lot of Portal, only philosophical rather than comical. The puzzles are really fun and occasionally rather difficult. I don't really know where the story is going just yet, but it's interesting enough that I want to find out.
 
Also picked up Life is Strange on the Steam sale, another game that has gotten stellar reviews. I've only played the first episode, but it's very Telltale-esque, although with better graphics and more refined gameplay. It also has a neat mechanic where the main character discovers that she can reverse time, which essentially gives you a redo on major decisions should you want to see what happens had you picked differently. Of course, you can only do this in the immediate aftermath of those decisions, so there's no way of knowing how they will play out far down the line or in later episodes.

A fun side effect of this is that you can garner new conversation options at times by rewinding and retrying things, which allows you to manipulate people based on knowledge you gained before you rewind.

Really the only issue with the first episode is that some of the dialogue is pretty bad. You can tell it was written by adult men trying to write for teenagers, and sometimes the dialogue feels stilted and awkward as a result. It's not always noticeable, though, and a lot of the time it sounds fine.

The first episode does a nice job of establishing where things will likely be going. There's a missing girl mystery that will almost certainly be solved over the course of the game, an unstable kid with a gun at school, a missing gun from a friend's dad's collection (it's likely not the same gun the unstable kid has), and the promise of a massive tornado that will show up to wipe out the entire small town the game takes place in. I'm guessing the game will revolve around finding a way to avert that particular catastrophe.

Anyway, I've heard the game gets significantly better in later episodes, and the first episode is intriguing enough to make me want to keep going. If you like Telltale games, you'll probably like it, although the subject matter is obviously quite a bit different from their standard adventure.

And despite starring teenagers, it's not a childish game. It's rated M for a reason.
 
Started Bastion yesterday, didn't know if I'd like it when I bought on steam for like $5 but it had really high ratings. I'm definitely enjoying it ~1.5 hours in, the narrator is awesome.
 
Picked up "Her Story" and "Gone Home" during the Steam sale, and I also finally loaded up on Steam the games I got from the Star Wars Humble Bundle last year. Not sure when the hell I'll play any of these, but at least I got them for cheap. :chuckle:
 
spydy13 said:
Picked up "Her Story" and "Gone Home" during the Steam sale, and I also finally loaded up on Steam the games I got from the Star Wars Humble Bundle last year. Not sure when the hell I'll play any of these, but at least I got them for cheap. :chuckle:
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Gone Home...the wandering around your house simulator. :chuckle:
 
Jack Brickman said:
Also picked up Life is Strange on the Steam sale, another game that has gotten stellar reviews. I've only played the first episode, but it's very Telltale-esque, although with better graphics and more refined gameplay. It also has a neat mechanic where the main character discovers that she can reverse time, which essentially gives you a redo on major decisions should you want to see what happens had you picked differently. Of course, you can only do this in the immediate aftermath of those decisions, so there's no way of knowing how they will play out far down the line or in later episodes.

A fun side effect of this is that you can garner new conversation options at times by rewinding and retrying things, which allows you to manipulate people based on knowledge you gained before you rewind.

Really the only issue with the first episode is that some of the dialogue is pretty bad. You can tell it was written by adult men trying to write for teenagers, and sometimes the dialogue feels stilted and awkward as a result. It's not always noticeable, though, and a lot of the time it sounds fine.

The first episode does a nice job of establishing where things will likely be going. There's a missing girl mystery that will almost certainly be solved over the course of the game, an unstable kid with a gun at school, a missing gun from a friend's dad's collection (it's likely not the same gun the unstable kid has), and the promise of a massive tornado that will show up to wipe out the entire small town the game takes place in. I'm guessing the game will revolve around finding a way to avert that particular catastrophe.

Anyway, I've heard the game gets significantly better in later episodes, and the first episode is intriguing enough to make me want to keep going. If you like Telltale games, you'll probably like it, although the subject matter is obviously quite a bit different from their standard adventure.

And despite starring teenagers, it's not a childish game. It's rated M for a reason.
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Definitely rated M for a reason, there's a lot of dark and very adult themes in that game. A lot.

The beginning is the setup so that you think it's all about teenage bullshit and high school, then it gets fucked up and quite rather quickly.

Life is Strange is easily a 10/10 for it's genre. Fantastic game overall.
 
gourimoko said:
Definitely rated M for a reason, there's a lot of dark and very adult themes in that game. A lot.

The beginning is the setup so that you think it's all about teenage bullshit and high school, then it gets fucked up and quite rather quickly.

Life is Strange is easily a 10/10 for it's genre. Fantastic game overall.
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Bought this game at the steam sale, can't wait!

Also, has anyone else tried Dying Light? Really good Dead Island/ Far Cry hybrid, very fun so far.
 
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