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**flamingkillamajig**

Playing more gears tactics. I'm wondering what it is but for some reason the game is starting to lose appeal to me. I think it has to do with the stupid amount of gear you have to sift through for various missions. It's a good game that's for sure. It just needs some optimization, a little more side mission variety and some more weapon types or classes. A mortar, flamethrower, hammer of dawn special ability and a similarity to Jack (basically the little 'gremlin' hover drones in xcom 2 were in gears before those were even a thing in xcom 2). It's a solid game. I just want more. It's pretty much the same complaint I had for xcom: enemy unknown.

**Tiger9gamer**

Decided to fire up a heavily modded skyrim as I continue My ADD gaming spree. Ran into the brick wall of Malkoran in the beacon quest, and holy gaks this guy one shots my sword mage no matter what I do. Decided to bugger off and start some other quests before I return.

**Nerak**

Dead cells. Enjoy it alot! About to explore the DLC content.

**SkavenLord**

Eumerin wrote:
SkavenLord wrote:
Noticed this free MMO called Meridian 59. Sounds cool and the download is stupidly small, but I’ve never tried an MMO before. This is mostly out of worry of toxic playerbases.
Do MMO communities live up to the horror stories you see on the internet?

It varies heavily. PvP - no matter which game or genre - seems to attract the most toxicity.

Voss wrote:
SkavenLord wrote:
Noticed this free MMO called Meridian 59. Sounds cool and the download is stupidly small, but I’ve never tried an MMO before. This is mostly out of worry of toxic playerbases.
Do MMO communities live up to the horror stories you see on the internet?

It... depends.

First, it depends if you're playing the game or just hanging out in cities paying attention to the chat. There tends to be a pretty big difference between the two, and the second is easily solved- if you aren't playing, log off. If you have to be in the city for something else, drop out of the chat channels.

Similarly, at least for WoW, the forums are much, much worse than the game itself, and that seems part of a general trend. Its particularly baffling on the WoW forums, since you can't post if you don't have an active account, and given how much many people on the forums seem to hate the game and the company, I can't imagine why they would. Also worthy of note, I find the most toxic people in these circumstances are the ones complaining about people complaining, or the ones that want something that isn't in the game.

Personally, in practice I've never found MMOs all that different from single player games. There's multiplayer stuff that you can do, but often no real reason to. You're either waiting for other people (as they dither, go on bio break, or whatever) or being rushed by other people (as they want to get the current dungeon over with NOW, if not five minutes ago), and I don't find either particularly fun. And often the rewards (of maybe better gear with which to get more slightly better maybe gear), aren't worth the time and effort.

But in general.... no. 'Toxic' communities tend to be overblown, and the ones that do exist are easily avoided.

I appreciate the advice. Doesn’t look like the community is very large, so it probably shouldn’t be too hard to avoid more problematic players. Thanks!

**balmong7**

Bilge Rat wrote:
For some reason I own Driveclub on PS4. It must have come with the console or something. Anyway I finally got round to playing it.

So far the game seems to be sorely lacking for content. As far as I can tell there is no career mode, so I can only make one-off races with no overall goal. There are a bunch of tracks but I started with access to only two cars. I unlocked a third, but it is worse than one of the starting ones. I can't access any of the online features without a subsciption but I don't really want to play multiplayer anyway.

Am I missing something here? It seems like the game is completely devoid of content, other than racing for the sake of it to unlock more cars

Yes and no. Drive Club was basically designed as a multiplayer racing game. They threw all the development efforts on the "clubs" and then the mechanics on driving and weather and making it look pretty. It may seem lean on content right now, but that's mostly because the game itself is dead and they stopped running community events and stuff for the clubs. I don't think its even available for sale anymore.

Also you had it for free because the game was free, originally for only PS+ Members but after a bunch of delays they made it free for everyone as an apology.

**Valkyrie**

Decided to blow the dust of my copy of Halo MCC, going through the campaign for fun with the Sputnik and Grunt Funeral skulls. The results are absolute hilarity, the real challenge is staying within the map boundaries.

**SkavenLord**

Valkyrie wrote:
Decided to blow the dust of my copy of Halo MCC, going through the campaign for fun with the Sputnik and Grunt Funeral skulls. The results are absolute hilarity, the real challenge is staying within the map boundaries.

It's an amazing combination. When you get to those narrow corridors and everyone's dropping grenades, one grunt can flood a whole hallway with plasma.
For some reason, we noticed that the grunts may explode if they spawn in as dead entities. One of the missions was a lot easier, simply because the grunts corpses kept blowing up the flood before we even got there.

**Valkyrie**

SkavenLord wrote:
Valkyrie wrote:
Decided to blow the dust of my copy of Halo MCC, going through the campaign for fun with the Sputnik and Grunt Funeral skulls. The results are absolute hilarity, the real challenge is staying within the map boundaries.

It's an amazing combination. When you get to those narrow corridors and everyone's dropping grenades, one grunt can flood a whole hallway with plasma.
For some reason, we noticed that the grunts may explode if they spawn in as dead entities. One of the missions was a lot easier, simply because the grunts corpses kept blowing up the flood before we even got there.

Use the Scarab skull on H2 and it gets even better!

**SkavenLord**

Valkyrie wrote:
SkavenLord wrote:
Valkyrie wrote:
Decided to blow the dust of my copy of Halo MCC, going through the campaign for fun with the Sputnik and Grunt Funeral skulls. The results are absolute hilarity, the real challenge is staying within the map boundaries.

It's an amazing combination. When you get to those narrow corridors and everyone's dropping grenades, one grunt can flood a whole hallway with plasma.
For some reason, we noticed that the grunts may explode if they spawn in as dead entities. One of the missions was a lot easier, simply because the grunts corpses kept blowing up the flood before we even got there.

Use the Scarab skull on H2 and it gets even better!

Really? I'll give it a shot once it's out on Steam. Thanks!

**FrozenDwarf**

Crispy78 wrote:
Well, I *was* going to be playing some Red Dead Redemption 2 over the weekend, as it comes out on Xbox Game Pass tomorrow. However, it's just come available to pre-load, and it's saying Xbox Live Gold membership is also required...

Is that actually a requirement for RDR2 anyway, or are they doing some horrible 'premium content' sort of thing?

you need it for the online part, not for the single player.

**LunarSol**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
creeping-deth87 wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Beat Uncharted 3.
Kinda......just Ok. They brought back some really annoying bullet sponge enemies, the shotgun guys made me pull my hair out.
Kinda boring story TBH, the villains didnt seem like much, the big final city was amazing, but the whole curse and stuff behind it was lame, kinda felt like it didnt have the "Magic" or wonder to it shambala did.
The constant breaking up and getting back together of Elena and Nate seemed annoying.
The desert chapter made me angry, i legit got bored.
The set pieces however where great, The Convoy on the horse, the sinking ship, all of it. makes it fun.

Oh wow. Different strokes I guess. I find the first 2 Uncharted games to be pretty boring, but I soldiered through them because they did just enough to keep me going. It wasn't until 3 that they really roped me in. I really feel like they get better as you go, 3 and 4 are my absolute favorite entries. Lost Legacy was quite good as well, though very short.

I just felt thee 3 was a rehash of 2 with much of the same plot, mostly finding a city before the villain does.
yeah i know there are differences, but it doesnt feel like it.

My opinion of 4 was that it was the perfect end to the trilogy. 3 left me feeling really flat about the whole thing. The game felt super disconnected from the plot, most notable when you get kidnapped, sink a cruise ship, wash up on shore and walk back into the bar you were kidnapped from.

**creeping-deth87**

So, just finished my second back-to-back playthrough of God of War... holy gak. I feel like an ass for waiting so long to play that game. That was an absolutely sublime experience. It may actually be my favorite game I've ever played. Haven't done back-to-back playthroughs since the original Dead Space way back in '08. I also have to give credit to Santa Monica for no DLC. The game is a complete package on its own and I have so much fething respect for that.

if you have a PS4 and haven't played it, do yourself a favor and give it a go. Now.

**Eumerin**

Signed back into Bioware's Iron Man simulator. The gameplay was still as fun as I remembered, though the issues with the game are still there as well. Rubber-banding would happen for short bits from time to time. And on two separate occasions during Free Roam I ended up getting somehow stuck in the scenery (which slowly killed me). Fortunately that happened while I was inside one of the Free Roam mini-instance caves. So I was able to respawn at the entrance, and force my way out where the problem resolved itself (note that reentering the instance caused the problem to recur...).

I ran the new dungeon. But since it appears that the only dungeon anyone runs these days is Tyrant Mines, I ended up clearing the new dungeon solo since the party finder gave up trying to find a party for me.

Let's hear it for easy gear-ups and horribly overgeared characters!

Bioware has stopped updating the game, but they're apparently working on 2.0. I really enjoy the core gameplay. So I hope they can correct the problems with the game and make something that will last.

There was one thing that I found amusing. Loading times in Anthem are *much* faster than they were at launch. Meanwhile, the online loot and shoot game that I've invested a lot of time in lately is Division 2, and the stupidly long load times are a running joke among my friends and I (In particular, we make comments about "9%", which is where the loading time seems to frequently stall for a while).

**Voss**

I'm trying to decide if I'm surprised they're working on an Anthem 2, given how badly they bungled it.

They didn't screw up that badly with Andromeda, and killed that, and it was an established IP.

Very much not surprised they killed updates.

**Eumerin**

Voss wrote:
I'm trying to decide if I'm surprised they're working on an Anthem 2, given how badly they bungled it.

They didn't screw up that badly with Andromeda, and killed that, and it was an established IP.

Very much not surprised they killed updates.

My understanding is that it isn't so much Anthem 2 as it is a 2.0 update. Kind of like how Final Fantasy XIV went from 1.0 (BAD!) to 2.0 A Realm Reborn (Yeah!). Yes, FFXIV had a pretty big overhaul. But a number of core elements remained in that game after ARR's launch. I think that's the template that Bioware is hoping to follow. In theory, this means you should be able to carry over your character from the 1.0 rollout (which is what happened in FFXIV). However, I haven't been paying that much attention to the news on this, and from what I understand there's only been a single announcement made about it earlier this year (which was a few months after someone leaked that it was happening). So it's all just speculation right now, aside from the fact that they're trying to overhaul the game and save it. Hopefully Bioware will release more information at some point during the next few months.

As for killing IPs - one of the rumors that I saw was that EA had tried to kill Anthem, but Bioware managed to keep it alive for at least a little longer.

**A Town Called Malus**

I tried to play Anthem a while ago. Stutter and lag was appalling and made it unplayable (walking around fort tarsis was basically in slow motion). Didn't make any difference what settings I used, even turning everything down to low did nothing.

My laptop ran it fine during the pre-release beta free trial thing, so whatever updates they've released since have tanked its performance for me.

**Crispy78**

FrozenDwarf wrote:
Crispy78 wrote:
Well, I *was* going to be playing some Red Dead Redemption 2 over the weekend, as it comes out on Xbox Game Pass tomorrow. However, it's just come available to pre-load, and it's saying Xbox Live Gold membership is also required...

Is that actually a requirement for RDR2 anyway, or are they doing some horrible 'premium content' sort of thing?

you need it for the online part, not for the single player.

I suspected that was the case. Annoyingly, the implementation of it on Game Pass prevents you from even downloading it if you don't have Live Gold - same as online only stuff like Sea Of Thieves. Bah.

Update - they may have just sorted that. Checked again and it's not saying that any more... Fingers crossed!

**Blooddragon1981**

Got Spidey and Horizon on great discount sale on PS4. Spierman is so much fun to play.
Haven't fully gone into Horizon but I've heard that once you progress a little it is a smashing game.

**Eumerin**

Blooddragon1981 wrote:
Got Spidey and Horizon on great discount sale on PS4. Spierman is so much fun to play.
Haven't fully gone into Horizon but I've heard that once you progress a little it is a smashing game.

One of the best compliments that I've heard about Spiderman from a friend of mine was that even just swinging around the city was a lot of fun. Admittedly, you wouldn't want to spend an hour doing it. But it was interactive in a fun and good way. Though you should still fast travel a few times because the brief cut scenes during the fast travel sequences are mildly amusing.

I tried to play Anthem a while ago. Stutter and lag was appalling and made it unplayable (walking around fort tarsis was basically in slow motion). Didn't make any difference what settings I used, even turning everything down to low did nothing.

Weird. Sorry to hear that. Anthem was another game where even traveling around was fun. But the game has so many other issues...

**nels1031**

I finished the "story mode" of Green Hell last night.

Like all sandbox survival games, its pretty fun but gets tedious, so I was glad that the story was pretty quick and I didn't have to worry too much about food/nutrient/hydration levels and all the other things that make these types of games kind of punishingly boring.

The story was cool, but I would've liked a bit more hostile natives to spice things up.

**Trondheim**

Well, I went and got myself Iratus Lord Of The Dead last night, and I find myself very much annoyed with my purchase. While it delivers on the roguelike elements and grim setting it falls flat on its face when it comes to any sort of surprises in its gameplay and mechanics overall. The combat feels dull and lacks any real consequences besides the loss of minions. And the selection of items you get in the game is just dull. So best avoid this one, even if it is in the same nature of Darkest Dungeons

**SkavenLord**

nels1031 wrote:
I finished the "story mode" of Green Hell last night.

Like all sandbox survival games, its pretty fun but gets tedious, so I was glad that the story was pretty quick and I didn't have to worry too much about food/nutrient/hydration levels and all the other things that make these types of games kind of punishingly boring.

The story was cool, but I would've liked a bit more hostile natives to spice things up.

Sounds familiar. Have you ever heard of The Forest? Kind of similar, but with a horror bend to it. Look up a monster called “Virginia” and you’ll see what I mean. Survival stuff didn’t feel too tedious either.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Started playing through "Control" . . . . man is it WEIRD.

Its fun, and the UI and default control scheme on playstation is good, but the story is just so fething weird.

Basically, the whole game so far, you are usually "hearing" "voices", as this alternate dimensional Thing has taken over the Federal Bureau of Control, an agency in charge of investigating and containing paranormal events. . . You are there on your own agenda, but are quickly made the Director of the agency, and now you gotta solve the thing to open the place back up and halt world problems, or something. . .

**LunarSol**

Control is pretty great. Definitely inspired by David Lynch's style of weirdness where its more about enjoying the novelty of madness than getting anything from trying to "figure it out". Try to avoid spoilers. Some of my favorite nonsense in recent years comes from that game.

**Voss**

I actually felt it wasn't nearly weird enough. They got some basics from paranormal 'research' and late night radio shows, but apart from a couple laughs and a few moments of creep, it felt like a MadLibs approach to the paranormal. Where <thing> did <stuff> and huzzah, spooky, right?

The overuse of redacted internal memos certainly reinforced that. But mostly the game was an excessive bullet-sponge shooting gallery (and way too few enemy types, most of which are completely ineffective and nonthreatening) with some nice graphic effects.

**Tannhauser42**

Control is from Remedy. For me, that's all i needed to know to buy it as soon as i could. I can't wait for the Alan Wake DLC.

Anyway, it's very heavily inspired by the SCP website.

**the_scotsman**

Finished Pathologic 2, absolutely wonderful game. For some reason, playing an extraordinarily difficult game about a plague and beating it was really what I needed right now. I lost once on a late day, restarted, and powergamed the living hell out of the game, becoming Artemy Burakh, Lord of Eggs, Prince of Mountain Dew Tinctures. Didn't save everyone, but honestly didn't end up caring to - some of the NPCs I'm perfectly happy to see die.

Now I'm back to Cultist Simulator and Dragon Age Origins.

**Bilge Rat**

I tried to go back to Tekken 7 but I am sad to see what a horrendous, DLC-riddled mess it has become. It now has THREE season passes and a bunch of individual character downloads. Presumably some of the individual characters are included in the season passes but they deliberately make it as confusing as possible in the hopes of tricking people into buying the same thing twice. I paid a lot of money for the original game (albeit with an awesome statue thing) but right now I only have access to about 70% of the characters. Pathetic.

**Not Online!!!**

Between Morhau, the occaisional bout of Age of mythology and Hearts of iron i am waiting patiently for Grom and the warden thingy.

**Voss**

The Terraria update happens tomorrow (because anniversary.. a saturday update is weird), so will probably toy with that before diving back into Total Warhammering.