The Bill's Now Playing Video Game Thread (Now with Bames)

[Wang Mandu]

Unpacking as we speak

[DR. THRAXX]

Someone's making a Bioshock thread, right?

[DR. THRAXX]

Not really interested, but I can see pages upon pages cluttering shit up already.

Just sayin'

[spacehamster]

While Krieg was bleeding into his panties because my PC's my living room entertainment center, I was beating God of War Ascension. 9:37 hours according to the in-game timer. The verdict: Meh.

If we ignore the fact that like II and III, this is yet again basically the same game with a few tweaks, it's still not very good. My biggest issue is that the SP clearly wasn't playtested enough, probably because the MP took up too many resources. There are weird graphical bugs, one time my weapons just disappeared and Kratos was flailing his arms empty-handed (!), the ghost clone item doesn't always work correctly, etc. And the gameplay just isn't the ultra-refined smooth perfection that the GoW games have always been. So it's the same thing, just not as good.

Barring the aforementioned bugs, the graphics are the best in the series, the creature design is better than ever, the new kill minigames are fun (although they don't always communicate what you're supposed to do well, and you end up failing QTEs because you thought you were supposed to mash the attack button - yet another playtesting issue), and the level design is off the charts. Multiplayer's a joke. I've played for maybe five minutes and I have no intention of ever looking at it again.

But the bottom line is, I still beat it in three days because I couldn't stop playing.

7/10

[The Bill]

I threw in that there Warfighter and the game wanted to download some huge ass patch. When that was done, it wanted me to install a few GB of shit off the multiplayer disk When it finally honored me by letting me play it, it was fine... for the first level. Then, it wanted me to play a tutorial level ( after already playing the game ) where I was a filthy camel jockey, and I just stopped. I just didn't want to play it anymore.

Threw BL2 on and played that most of the night. Going back to the main campaign after leveling up a bit on the DLC made the game much more enjoyable as bad guys were less so damn bullet spongy. Also reorganized my special abilities tree, that also made things better. Slow and steady, and I'll win this race one day.

[a world of no]

Be prepared for a multi-GB texture pack download for Bioshock

[Zap Rowsdower]

Not really interested, but I can see pages upon pages cluttering shit up already.

Just noting the irony in worries about clutter in a 1200+ page thread. This board and it's fear of new threadz...

[Wang Mandu]

Be prepared for a multi-GB texture pack download for Bioshock

Nevermind. People were speculating an extra download (like Sleeping Dogs and Skyrim) because the recommended specs said 25-30 GB of hdd space but the HD textures are already in the game.

Game is amazing so far.

[The Schwartz]

Finished tomb raider - hello bioshock/10

Worst story in a video game I can remember/ terrible ending
Will trade in for 40 bucks

[Wang Mandu]

Wait. How do you get to play now???

2K Games was kind enough to unlock it at 11 pm my local time as opposed to the usual lumping my region in with Europeans and unlocking it on Thursday or Friday.

[right over there]

I have had a pressing urge to play Carmageddon for a couple of years now and it's just not going away. Assume that I am retarded (not much of a stretch); how may I satisfy said urge without having to bother signing up for anything that I'm not already signed up for?

it is on GOG.com, but you will have to sign up.

otherwise, i think bitsnoop.com has a torrent of the GOG version you can steal.

[riley-o]

The game broke series sales records at launch, becoming the biggest-selling launch of 2013 so far.

[riley-o]

http://www.digitalspy.ca/gaming/news/a4 ... osses.html

"That's great Mr. Wada, just a couple more questions. What's your business plan ?"
"Make products that, even if they sell record numbers of units, I still go bankrupt."
"...and how big of a loan were you asking us for again ?"

[Wang Mandu]

Goddammit if I don't get a Sleeping Dogs sequel with Wei Shen messing up dudes in Bangkok / Osaka / Kuala Lumpur, I will quit gaming. He's easily the best new voiced protagonist in many years.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

WEI SHEN MOTHERFUCKER WHO ARE YOU?!

[Krieg]

Wait. How do you get to play now???

2K Games was kind enough to unlock it at 11 pm my local time as opposed to the usual lumping my region in with Europeans and unlocking it on Thursday or Friday.

LOL WUT?

[Spooky Apparition]

jesus christ.... "The company had originally expected to make nearly £25 million in profit, according to Eurogamer, but will now make a £90 million loss." HOW!? did they have a bunch of big budget flops i'm not aware of? did their accountant have a lobotomy at some point? was tomb raider supposed to sell like 10 million copies?

[Friendly Goatus]

LOL WUT?

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

awww look at dat tiny, cute screen

[Krieg]

LOL WUT?

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

awww look at dat tiny, cute screen

It this one better?

[Friendly Goatus]

eww projection screens

[Wang Mandu]

LOL WUT?

Hey Krieg

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

It is different with every game but sometimes we get Euro release dates (Thurs. / Fri.) or we get NA release dates. Depends on the publisher.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

I'm going to ask you for Berlin travel advice in a month or two so the middle finger is a joke!

[Wang Mandu]

A small portion, yes. I'd also say that video game publishers are some of the most anti-consumer, abhorrent companies in the world.

[The Bill]

Christ, I really DO think console gaming is on its way to an 80's style crash right now. We're at a point where games that sell 3.4 million copies are considered failures.

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a ... llion.html

*cough*

I have a sick feeling that this is my last big to do awesome new gaming hurrah. I'll still be playing and getting new games, but I've got this feeling that this is it. The apex of my adult gaming career. From here on out comes the end days of motion controlled, Facebook connected, online only crap that retires me. I'll be some bitter old bastard sitting on a rocking chair on my front porch playing No One Lives Forever on my notebook, shaking my fist at all the whippersnappers running in front of my house with their 3-D iGameboy Glasses.

[Kurt Russell's Beard]

Anyone planning to play Star Citizen?

The peek at ship design is fucking insane: http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/e ... s-systems/

[Wang Mandu]

Yes, I will check it out closer to release. It sounds almost too good to be true.

[james]

I think I'd also like to add that after reading so many comments on gaming sites over the last couple weeks that "gamers" have to be the most terrible group of people in the universe.

Spoiled, without perspective, obsessed with meaningless sub-consumer-culture talking point nonsense. Worst journalists; worst readers, worst dialogue. Hate beautiful things for meaningless reasons. Love broken things for imaginary potential. Hate everything new until it's 7 years old.

A great joy is to play video games without ever, ever listening to what other gamers have to say about ANYTHING. Soul-sucking appreciation-vampire-virus-infected heartless casualties.

Present company excluded of course. Oh and most of the 1up crew.... but they just finally bit the dust.