>>31016

Is the whole "choice & consequence" thing worthwhile? Or is it just marketing bullshit?

>>31021
not sure, haven't played it, and the people that were giving reviews had only gotten a couple hours of play time

Bought it, played it for a few hours.

It's not really bad, but it sure aint good.
Maybe it improves, but some stuff is just boring & silly.

Played through it, it's really not worth the time & money.

The choice & consequence are pretty much bullshit and marketing hype. Just throwing in some options doesn't make it a C&C game. :(

Either way, there's very few redeeming features in this game. It's not that it's really bad or anything, it's just so horribly mediocre & uninteresting. Some interesting themes/discussions are brought up, but it's all so predictable.

It's mostly fedex stuff, some fighting & some sneaking. Rince & repeat.

>>31016
>Also NPC's will go into random narratives while talking to them sometimes.

That's not a bad thing, if it's intended. One of my favorite parts of FO:NV was when I was talking to the head Ranger guy and he just went off on a tangent and started talking about old stories of his.

Not to say that we should hire on Quentin Tarantino as a gamer writer ("Epic 800 hour game! 3,820,000,000+ lines of dialogue! 'Talking: The Game'"), but having well-written and voice acted inane chatter or stories helps the atmosphere and immersion in a game.

>>28429

I disagree with that last spoiler. Fuck being reminded of his sorry existence. Just get rid of him. Don't make the error almost every movie does. Not killing your archenemy when you had the chance comes back to bite you in the ass. :)

Besides, as it turns out, people can be unzerged and/or become massively powerful as an infested terran. That would be utter fail if you infested Mengsk and he was
1) freed and reverted to human again to harass your sorry ass
2) became a powerful infested terran like Alexei

>the Blizzard servers were unstable enough to not give me my achievement credits

Same here, but I don't give a rats ass.

Might actually be part of the reason for random freezes during loads etc.

Oh btw, how many boob & ass shots can you get into a game?

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You guys are bitching about the difficulty on normal.... Why not play it on hard or brutal? Why didn't you play on Hard in the first place?

>>28468
>You guys are bitching about the difficulty on normal.... Why not play it on hard or brutal? Why didn't you play on Hard in the first place?

Me? Mostly because I dislike timed missions, I don't really like Zerg and I don't care enough about SCII to sink more time into it.
I sincerely doubt I'll play the multiplayer.

Greeeetingssssss, puny terranssssss, my name isssss Cletusss Fleshtearerrr.

I'm a 32 year old Terran Zergboo (infesssted for you weak humanoidsss). I draw death threatsss on the wall using the blood of my ssslain enemiesss and ssspend my daysss playing with my victimsss, trying how far I can go torturing them without them dying.

I train with my acid sssspitter every day, thisss ssssuperior weapon can cut through armor becausssse it containssss millions of various lethal Zerg microorganismssss and is vassstly sssuperior to any weapon in thisss universssse.

I can harrrdly form coherent sentencesss anymore, but I know more and more about the glory of the Hive Mind which I obey 100 persssssent.

When I get my chitinousss carapace, I'll be taken to Char to be immersed in a sssspawning pool to be evolved to be a better insssstrument of the fury of the magnificencent Ssssswarm. I hope I can become an evolved, hideoussssly mutated abomination or a ssssuicide troop for the glory of the Sssssswarm!

I have ssssseveral ssslimy tentaclesss which I wear around town. I want to get ussssed to them before being taken to Char, sssso I can fit in easssier. I bow to the will of the Overmind and sssspeak of the imminent doom of all life in the Universsse, but rarely does anyone manage to ressspond in a non-hossstile manner.

Wishhhh me luck in Char!

  Blizzard canon gives me hives.

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>>31403
Do you realize that instead of bumping an old thread just for the purpose of a roll, you could have added "sage" to your email field?


Anyway there are a few mods that add more layers to mixing up the beginning of the game.
Alternate Start - Live Another Life
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9557//?
After creating your character you can select from a few scenarios or have it randomly select one. Location determines your kit and what sort of material you have in the immediate area. You could also start in a vampire lair as a vampire for example, or in Blackreach in necromancer robes (level 1 characters dont fight dwarven spheres very well.)

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25404/?
Random Alternate Start
lets you build your character, choose from 21 starting kits, and then boots you into some random location (apparently over 450 possible locations) might be in a town, might be in the bottom of some random dungeon, either way it beats the slow tedious carriage ride and hand holding.


Unrelated, but Airship - Dev Aveza is pretty neat.

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>>31245
This is like the 3rd time in just as many weeks that it's been posted here, of people wanted to play it you would probably get some response...

i wish for a good ww1 game made first and foremost with a good single-player experience in mind. because nothing ruins the immersion and atmosphere of what should be a psychological and paranoia-building game like multiplayer.

can you imagine what Silent hill 2 would have been like if it was multiplayer?. urgh.

Lag: The Game

>>31230
>>31246

i did not realize this had been posted before

>>31259
RO2 and dayz are counterpoints to what you've stated, this game with gas attacks, ridiculous artillery bombardment and merciless no mans land firezones would make for very suitably atmospheric and immersive gameplay

>>30807
It's actually a pretty shitty plane, I won't miss it if they pull it from my hangar.

I've been playing a lot of Britbongs lately. I got a bit bored though and decided to troll in low tiers with a Blenheim with 2 decent gunners(expert trained crew and 25/25 fire accuracy and spread). One game I got 27 ground kills and my AI gunners shot down 4 biplanes. Other game I was being chased by 6 dudes for like 5 minutes before they managed to take out me elevators. This is the first time flying a bomber every match and I can see why people complain about the rewards being all kinds of ass.

>>30854
Use the baufort, its gunners are 10x better than the Blenheim's and it still gets tier 4 and bellow.

When did they change this? used to be the glorious P-40 had peashooters for machine guns(audio wise at least) Jumped in the old kittyhawk after a long break and suddenly I can't handle all the Dakka it's putting out. It's like an eargasm every time I pull the trigger.

I am disappoint, no more x5 EXP bonus on my fav plane to date

BEEP BEEP "NO MUTANTS ALLOWED" USER SPOTTED

>>31278
Hurr, only NMA members hate poorly written games that neither expand on the preceding game universes in any meaningful fashion nor function as an evolution or improvement of the previous game's formula.

Seriously, Fallout 3 was dogshit with a world and storyline that amounted to livejournal level fanfiction.

WELCOME TO WIDDLE WAMPWIGHT!

I'm really looking forward to WL2.

CVG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlapkZiKGUY

>REV3 Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvhX8zBxOc

>Game Informer
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/grand_theft_auto_v/b/xbox360/archive/2013/05/02/touring-the-open-world-of-grand-theft-auto-v.aspx

>IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/02/how-grand-theft-auto-5-moves-the-series-forward

>Gamespot
http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-many-weird-and-wonderful-roles-you-can-play-in-grand-theft-auto-v-6407706/?tag=Topslot%3bSlot1

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I still play GTA4 regularly, and I'm still finding new levels of detail and interesting things to do. It's freakin sublime. This right here sounds like thee game to end all games, Max Payne 3 shooting mechanics in an open world sandbox? Sign me up.

I haven't browsed all these articles but is there any mention of differences between current gen and next gen versions???

>>31249
There hasn't been any indication of a version for next generation consoles. However, we can make an assumption about a well-made version for the pc.

Oh yeah, I got excited over this.

The only thing hope is they have a decent PC port and it doesn't have any stupid DRM.

Shit like "Simply pressing Down on the d-pad will drop the play in and out of MP" hopefully won't mean it has to be always online so they can get that sort of functionality. Fuck you always online, fuck you, go in a closet and you die!

Also would love a DLC that lets you play as the cops. The LCPDFR was fun as fuck and a DLC would probably be funner (and less buggy, hopefully)

>>31252
>The only thing hope is they have a decent PC port and it doesn't have any stupid DRM.

Get a load-a this guy...

Have you considered downloading an e reader app like Amazon's kindle reader? I end up using that more than the handful of games on my phone.

Othereise cut the rope isn't too bad. Alternatively if I'm playing something its a SNES ROM of some turn based RPG or something

Have you considered downloading an e reader app like Amazon's kindle reader? I end up using that more than the handful of games on my phone.

Othereise cut the rope isn't too bad. Alternatively if I'm playing something its a SNES ROM of some turn based RPG or something

>>31267
I already got a Nook (Barnes & Noble's Kindle clone) for Christmas, so I got E-books covered. In fact, I'm bringing it with me.

DoDonPachi Resurrection

>>31115

Simply put, Booker is not misogynistic, so neither is Comstock by default, and who's to say that was part of his transition between the two like blaming everyone else for his problems and hating all the people he killed as a way to wash his hands.

Judging by the way he'd go well out of his way to acquire a daughter, and how he was kinda a womanizer back in his Booker days, and how all his racial and other biases seem to stem from reversal of blame from past events in his life, unless he suffered some major traumatic schism with women in general, this personality trait would not develop.

That, coupled with the low overall population of Columbia, and it's intended purpose of destroying the civilizations of man, would not only permit, but require that females be enlisted and even conscripted as combat troops, by the sheer weight of numbers their enemy population would have to their own meaning everyone who can hold a rifle is valuable.

>>31115
Also--there's apparently three DLCs planned. They may have just saved this for later.

>>31118
I can see where you're coming from, but here is where I get confused:

Comstock is so far-off-the-deep-end racist that he actively oppresses anybody who doesn't qualify as "white" to an almost comical degree (I'll admit that when you visit the children's theme park, I laughed at the children's song that plays from the giant cartoon Eagle statue with little Duke's marching around it - which has lyrics that exhorts taking up arms against yellow, black, brown, and red people). He's guided the entire flying city-state he's built to hate anybody who isn't "white" (Irish and Jewish don't qualify as white) literally from cradle to grave. I'm pretty sure most of us can agree that the man is only a step away from being an outright Hitler in that he's not just marching all non-whites into furnaces but is content to literally work them to death in Fink's factories.

But there's a small, telling scene of BOOKER'S outlook on race that's very easy to miss. When you take Elizabeth to that one section of town with the ice cream parlor you can walk in to, you can walk up on a black guy who is hiding in a corner sneaking a cigarette smoke. The black guy is immediately subservient in offering an explanation and apology for doing something forbidden to him, but Booker just says something like: "Relax, I'm not the gendarme. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em, buddy." That tiny little scene right there pretty much shows us Booker has absolutely no qualms with other races. Hell, it's probably even more telling that another version of Booker is willing to take up arms FOR all those oppressed minorities.

So while it does make sense that since Booker isn't a misogynist, neither is Comstock; but I get confused how a man who tried to be cleansed of all his sins (Comstock) is so zealously xenophobic while the man who wallows in how much of a dirtbag he is (Booker) seems like he's pretty much lost all his hateful ideas and is even willing to fight for them.

>>31080
Of course the early 1900's was a time when women's rights where taking a forefront through the Temperance Movement, the Womens Christian league, etc etc etc
Suffrage happened in this time period, Women were organizing and getting involved( Esp in the temperance movement, because women were usually the primary victims of alcoholism).

We should also note that Columbia, according to content ommitted from the game, but hinted at in posters, had an actual elected government with comstock either serving as permanent commander in chief/ prez/ or as a figure head for most of the day to day affairs, letting his elected gov govern while he works the master plan.
Of course non whites were disenfranchised.
From the outside it looks almost like taudry liberal shit.
Until you realize the Vox Populi are a double edged sword, and in a way more oppurtunistic and capable of wrong than their oppressors.
It's hinted in the universes where Booker is killed - either in the attempt to rescue her in the universe where they move her to a more secure location and Booker becomes a Vox Populi hero posthumously, or the one where he is killed by the handyman near the end, that the Vox Populi sympathizes with Elizabeth in the end, they free her, kill Comstock, and she still becomes what she was prophesized to do - bring about the apocalypse and destroying the cities and mountains of man - REGARDLESS of whether Columbia is won by the Vox who disenfranchise it or not.
It becomes obvious to her that both of these options end in the same result, and the only way to stop it all is to kill Booker before he becomes Comstock - in all universes

But yeah, I think they could have made this more open world, more exploratory.

>>31133
>a man who tried to be cleansed of all his sins (Comstock) is so zealously xenophobic while the man who wallows in how much of a dirtbag he is (Booker) seems like he's pretty much lost all his hateful ideas and is even willing to fight for them

In my view that explains it all right there. Booker was not originally a racist and didn't have hateful ideas, either that or he was cured of all that by realizing what happened was all wrong and he could never be forgiven. He takes personal responsibility for his sins and hates himself for that.

Where the schism occurs between the two personalities, is that the Comstock personality believed taking a dip in a river and saying a prayer was all he needed, that none of this was his fault, and he was all in the right, and thus justified it by demonizing anyone who wasn't exactly like him. In being "forgiven", he had found that he could get away with anything, he has no personal responsibility for anything, instead it must all be the fault of those peoples he fought, and by extension anyone else who wasn't of his master race and perfect religion must surely be an inferior wretch to be stamped out.

At least, that's how I relate it all personally, I don't believe in forgiveness and I think that keeps me grounded and gives me reason not to do wrong and hurt people, I just can't imagine that all I have to do is "repent" and say "sorry" and it all goes away. If I did believe that, I'd probably do all kinda fucked up shit just because I could just wash it all away in some casual ceremonial bullshit.

I just see the reason Comstock didn't hate women to be because he had nothing in his life where he had victimized a woman and needed to justify it by thinking all women were evil when he washed his hands of that one. Or something.