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

[spacehamster]

It's supposedly 10 hours or so and added to the main game.

I haven't been keeping up. Do you know where you have to be in the game to start it?

[FVBTVS]

whoa

anyone try elite dangerous?

[FVBTVS]

Or you can be an explorer, which is how I spend most of my time. As you travel the galaxy, you can scan undiscovered planets and stars and sell the data back at stations. And with 400 billion systems, there’s plenty to go around. If you’re the first player to discover something, it’ll be tagged with your name. But if someone’s been there before, you’ll still earn credits anyway. If you want to see some of the galaxy’s most stunning sights, and get paid for it, this is a great career to pursue.

You’ll need patience, though, because travel in Elite can be excruciatingly slow - even though you’re moving at many times the speed of light. You’ll spend a lot of time in supercruise mode, travelling between stations, which is long, drawn-out, and uneventful. You occasionally have to adjust your speed so you don’t overshoot your target, and sometimes pirates will yank you out of it, but mostly you just sit and wait for the tiny dot in the distance to get larger.

Because of this, it’s not a game you can dive into for a quick session. To get anything done, you’ll need at least a couple of hours, making it a real time-sink. You can lose entire evenings to supercruising. The distances between planets might be realistic, and make for a convincing simulation, but it just isn’t much fun. If supercruise was just a little faster, it would make all the difference.

Since its initial release on PC, Elite: Dangerous has changed beyond recognition. Features like being able to form co-op wings with friends, the galactic conquest mode, and mining were added over time - and the Xbox One version will be the same. Future expansions will include being able to board other ships and explore the surfaces of planets. It’s a game that will constantly evolve over time.

reminds me of my teen days spent playing tie fighter and trade wars on a local bbs

[FVBTVS]

[riley-o]

[The Bill]

whoa

anyone try elite dangerous?

Bought it off Steam a few weeks back when it was nicely discounted. I've heard wonderful things, but it seems like a time sink & I won't do that to myself right now. I'm now a mission.

As for Star Wars. I hear there are bots & some sort of single player. Going to need a lot more info than that. Would like to play it even if it's just an Unreal Tournament deal.

[doomeddisciple]

totally just played about 3ish hours of the witcher. switched off mini map and bumped up to death march. i think that did the trick!

Just in time for the expansion next week.

holy shit that looks fucking great

i look forward to playing that 3 years from now

For christs sake - I just pre-ordered Star Wars, I have Mad Max still in the wrapper, I'm still play MGSV and online download was yesterday and it's 4 weeks til Fallout.

Hang on - what am I about to whinge about... so good.

[RY4N]

once it gets cold out i cant wait to smash all these games

[The Bill]

New Witcher 3 patch coming out as over 600 fixes. Looks like waiting is becoming smarter and smarter.

[The Bill]

Mad Max beaten. I could actually keep playing, especially with the post game content unlocked.

Up next: Transformers

[FVBTVS]

i went 40-10 in at-at assault and in the last minute i got like 20 kills literally mowing the other team down in an at-at..

[copstache]

i don't wanna like that game but i kinda like that game

[FVBTVS]

i killed luke

[copstache]

nevermind, i just alt+f4'd after having teammates swoop in and take the ATAT i was trying to get three fucking itmes in a row

fuck this game

[Rev. Christberg]

Finished my first run through on Until Dawn. It's a pretty damn entertaining game for what it is. Other than a couple cheap deaths and a plot twist that should have been handled better, no complaints here.

Graphics are absolutely killer in spots.

[The Bill]

I'll give a quick first impression of Transformers: sometimes awesome but not worth full price unless you HAVE to play the best Transformers game ever right now.


Like I did.

[Wang Mandu]

It's supposedly 10 hours or so and added to the main game.

I haven't been keeping up. Do you know where you have to be in the game to start it?

Level 30 / Level 60 for NG+ Reviews are pretty stellar across the board.

[The Bill]

You bastards playing the Star Wars. Talk to me about offline & bots.

[copstache]

no idea, not in the beta, probably trash

[Wang Mandu]

It's from EA and Dice, it'll be filled with bullshit and broken on release. Meanwhile, you could be playing the totally awesome Witcher 3 instead of wasting your money on a shit pre-order like that Star Wars game. I do appreciate fvbtvs killing Luke, though.

[The Bill]

I'm not starting Witcher now with Fallout 4 approaching Earth.

[FVBTVS]

You bastards playing the Star Wars. Talk to me about offline & bots.

the beta has a horde mode type deal where you kills waves of bot stormtroopers and at-st's etc. i dont think its 'offline' per se..

everyone needs to go on one massive bloody at-at spree, savagely pounding the rebel scum lemmings base as they pitifully try to push out, drop a motherfucking orbital strike on them.. it is very satisfying. lure splained

[FVBTVS]

It's from EA and Dice, it'll be filled with bullshit and broken on release. Meanwhile, you could be playing the totally awesome Witcher 3 instead of wasting your money on a shit pre-order like that Star Wars game. I do appreciate fvbtvs killing Luke, though.

i dont know. i might bet 5 bucks it works fine on release. the beta is surprisingly smooth especially coming hot on the heels of the disastrous rainbow beta, in comparison i mean. especially the network end. there's some performance and animation hiccups here and there during the game but after the shitty bf4 launch, hardline was pretty solid beta wise and release wise as well.

[Wang Mandu]

TheBill plays games drunk, I post drunk.

It does look pretty. Is the beta free for all or did you have to sign up for it?

[FVBTVS]

TheBill plays games drunk, I post drunk.

It does look pretty. Is the beta free for all or did you have to sign up for it?

free to all