Currently Playing in 2014....

I played a bit of Game Dev Tycoon last night it seems really unbalanced. The publisher system seems broken as it limits you to bad game mixes and I had much better luck self publishing. Also I find it hard to tell what each of my staff people are doing.

lex-man » Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:19 am wrote:I played a bit of Game Dev Tycoon last night it seems really unbalanced. The publisher system seems broken as it limits you to bad game mixes and I had much better luck self publishing. Also I find it hard to tell what each of my staff people are doing.

The game is really linear, once you get the option to choose the size of the project you become limited to AAA games because anything smaller than AAA will not be able to go high than a 7 which I really hate because I want to be able to make small game projects that get good scores. It's a fun game but it is incredibly flawed.

Wolfenstien and loving it, it's the sort-of sequel to Rage that I always wanted. Great story and a lot of fun to play.

I've set it to Uber and feel like a total bad ass when I get through a tough section.

Worth noting it looks and runs great on Xbox One, didn't know the console/game would boot to the pause screen if I turn the console off during play.

Dig Dug » Sun Jun 29, 2014 12:45 pm wrote:

lex-man » Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:19 am wrote:I played a bit of Game Dev Tycoon last night it seems really unbalanced. The publisher system seems broken as it limits you to bad game mixes and I had much better luck self publishing. Also I find it hard to tell what each of my staff people are doing.

The game is really linear, once you get the option to choose the size of the project you become limited to AAA games because anything smaller than AAA will not be able to go high than a 7 which I really hate because I want to be able to make small game projects that get good scores. It's a fun game but it is incredibly flawed.

It's pretty addictive but yeah it feels really limited as a game. I can kind of tell that there isn't that much to do already even though I only have four employees in the first office. I would like the game to allow more research options so I could see what other companies are doing and do more market testing stuff.

ZombiU

This is rubbish. Don't know if I can be arsed to carry on.

Why are you not enjoying ZombiU? It's great.

I really wanted to like it. But there's so many annoying little flaws that add up to make the whole experience an exercise in irritation.

For example, the cricket bat has to be one of the most unsatisfying melee weapons I've ever had the misfortune of using, with the same animation over and over not helping. The fact it seems to take four-six hits to down a zombie doesn't help its cause. Any encounter with more than one zombie is just death which is fine, apart from the fact you can't really run away since the buggers are tenacious in their pursuit and you only end up running into more anyway.

There's some neat touches with usage of the gamepad but overall I just don't rate what I've played so far. I'm not sure it would've got such a kind reception if it hadn't been a launch title.

I kind of agree, it's a great little game but it does have a lot of flaws and irritations you have to look past. The worst offender is the stupid system where your guns are scattered when you die, only there's a bug in it so some of them don't even appear for you to collect, only on the map.

The cricket bat gets annoying fast, it's slow and takes ages to take anything down with it.

Best played with the lights off, head phones in.

Little Kings Story. I want to love this game like other people have but the boss battles range from okay to strawberry floating strawberry float you strawberry float you strawberry float you terrible.

Skyrim (PC).

Or rather 'mod it all time and actually play it for hour before I exit and adjust the mods'

Spelunky (Vita)


I did two hell runs yesterday. I have to start playing something else.

Just finished (and started over again) Wolfenstien, such a great game that came out of no where to become my Game of the Year. Glad I avoided spoilers because some of the places you end up are fantastic.

Uber mode was a solid challenge with some moments that I felt were impossible.

Played ftl last night it's great fun but super frustrating. It's so easy to run into one situation where you die super easy and you need to do a ton of micromanaging. The main announce is that you can't save at all which makes the game 100 times harder.

Also played a bit of deponia which made me chuckle.

[uimgp=3491749]Cal[/uimgp] wrote:Sniper Elite III (PS4 version)

I've played about three hours of it so far.

The Good:
Looks great on PS4. Crisp textures, detailed game world, nice light/shadow/particle fx and no discernable frame rate issues. Hi-res rocks never get old.
Sneaking about is absolutely an option here - and it works!
Planning is everything: scope out your encounters before going in and it's perfectly possible to string together multiple stealth melee kills before resorting even to your silenced pistol for the first time.
Tagging enemies with your binoculars is essential. There'll always be one you've missed.
The first proper level (second mission - first is a training mission) is HUGE. If you go slow, thorough and careful it will take you ages to get through.

The Bad:
No swastikas. What in the name of Holy F*ck..? In a game which glories in visceral, close-up, slo-mo gun violence, in which the camera lovingly lingers around disintegrating skulls, eviscerated torsos and genital destruction somehow swastikas were deemed a step too far? I wanted to fight Nazis. Not sure who these 'x symbol' people are...

It's a fun game - better than SE:II and more enjoyable as stealth-em-up than it has any right to be. Looks great on PS4 - probably going to look even better on PC.

Cheers for that Cal. I think I'll still wait, but will definitely get this when the price comes down a smidge.

Little disappointed sniper elite 3 is on its way and not wolfenstein but on the plus side it has been an absolute delight playing a chapter of Valiant hearts each day. So much so it's now my favourite game this year by quite a distance.

After finishing Wind Waker HD but still wanting more Zelda I decided it's high time I got Twilight Princess finished. I picked it up in CeX yesterday and I'm currently up to Lakebed Temple, just got the Clawshot.

Interesting thing about Sniper Elite III on PS4. It actually has an 'enable v-sync' toggle in the option menu. Works a treat, too. What was smooth before is now even smoother on my Sony Bravia HDTV. Well done, developers. I wish more devs would include this option in PS4 games. I'm not fussed if it means a locked down, silky 30fps rather than an inconsistent 30-60fps.

The only explanation of the non-show Nazi symbols is probably they want the game to be released in Germany? Isn't that how the latest Wolfenstein got away with it?

Wedgie wrote:The only explanation of the non-show Nazi symbols is probably they want the game to be released in Germany? Isn't that how the latest Wolfenstein got away with it?

You're probably right. Still, it's a shame. I don't suppose 505 Games/Rebellion were all that fussed about authenticity over concerns about offending someone by using actual Nazi iconography, but I look for authenticity in WWII games. Sadly, Company of Heroes 2 (a game which actually does trumpet its 'authenticity' as a WWII military sim) also - bafflingly - shies away from using accurate Nazi iconography. I'll repeat: I understand the cultural, historical sensitivities, but I still object to this kind of censoring of historical artifacts. The swastika wasn't a Nazi invention, true, and I'm well aware it was pressganged into the service of a reprehensible organisation of brutal state terror, but for me this is no reason to now erase it from the record, as if it never existed. It was real, it was feared and surely - even in videogames - there is a duty upon us all never to allow it to become forgotten, to allow it to become effectively invisible?

The ridiculousness of Sniper Elite III is seeing in-game, say, the Nazi eagle crest stamped on crates or trucks, accurate but for the missing swastika in what is now an conspicuously empty circle... it's just ludicrous. It's also jarring. And it irritates me, as someone who has read a great deal of the history of the Third Reich (and still does).

In our fear of offending anyone, we are reducing history to a meaningless footnote. I could be fighting anyone in SEIII, because they sure ain't bona fide Nazis.

Playing Super Metroid properly for the first time. Best game ever.