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Video Game Thread - $70 Zelda Expansion!

lokisapocalypse said:
Read a review on Star Wars: Battlefront and I think I'm going to pass.

As previously mentioned, there's no single player campaign, the multiplayer is reported repetitive, and while you can actually do things in coop or solo, those game play methods don't seem to be very interesting.
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Counterpoint: lightsabers
 
So....as a total Fallout NOOB...is it worth buying?

Seems like everyone loves it, save for Deac6
 
Is it easy to pick up and play without having played any of the other games in the series?
 
There's currently a Steam sale on the Fallout series (minus 4), in case anyone does want the lore.
 
Went to buy a PS4 today at best buy and their bundles are seriously lacking. They only had Battlefront and Uncharted. Xbox had so many that I would have gotten if I needed one.

Battlefront isn't worth it and I've already played all the Uncharted games.
 
Finally picked up Halo 5 over Thanksgiving and played through the campaign.

I guess I know how the Destiny fans felt now - very disappointed. At least the multiplayer is supposed to be awesome, because the campaign was a terrible combination of bad changes to core Halo with mediocre plot/storytelling. I wouldn't quite call it soulless but it was close. What's sad is that the game looked great, runs smoothly, and the shooting/fight mechanics and control are awesome. The idea of the Guardians was solid but everything was a tease. Oh, there's a Kraken? Sorry it's mostly in the background. Oh, you have teammates? They're all dumb as rocks and the overall AI is actually worse than previous gen versions. Oh, a few new enemies are introduced early on? Don't worry, no new enemies pop up after that and all the Elites are now morons.

The other killer is the idiotic save mechanic after you die without really dying. Wastes time and makes the difficulty unpredictable which has always been a strength of Halo.
 
Is the Wii U a good console for a 7 and 5 year old? Need to buy niece and nephew a Christmas gift and don't know jack squat about video games since Golden Eye in 1997. I'll need to buy additional controller right/ Don't want them fighting over it....
 
Stan Gable said:
Is the Wii U a good console for a 7 and 5 year old? Need to buy niece and nephew a Christmas gift and don't know jack squat about video games since Golden Eye in 1997. I'll need to buy additional controller right/ Don't want them fighting over it....
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yeah. I have an 8 and 5 year old. They love it. Mine are both girls and they LOVE Just Dance also, FYI.
 
My somewhat sizable family said this year that we don't want to do many gifts for Christmas. My wife says, since we don't have kids right now, let's just splurge and get ourselves big gifts. So last night I ordered a new laptop with a 980M and the works. Looks like I'm back in the PC gaming crowd!

She's getting tons of craft supplies and stuff, for the record. She makes jewelery and other crafty stuff. At least she has something to do while I play games :cool:
 
I have really gotten into Fallout. Not sure why I never played these games before. I'm Level 21 and mostly just cruising around the wasteland with the Brotherood of Steel guy doing small missions.

Not even sure how far am I in the main storyline. Just did some weird memory search dream sequence. Heading back out to the wasteland for more zombie killing for now.
 
Deac6, no offense intended, but if you're playing the Fallout series without anticipating game-breaking bugs, you're doing it wrong. These bugs are the price to be paid for the digital world they build. It's Bethesda's sheepish grin; the answer for each one goes without saying. That's always been the way.

Have you tried rotating four or five save slots? I always overwrite the oldest of my five saves. If I encounter a game breaking bug like you described above, reloading from an old save can occasionally fix the issue.

I bought the game the day after release, but haven't opened it because I'd like to minimize the impact with a few patches before I set out. I'm working through Fallout 3 again, instead. I get why Bethesda has to sell Fallout to the console market, but IMO it's a dangerous move to buy the game on those platforms.

Hell, I modded my Fallout 3, installed both official and unofficial patches, and the damn thing just crashes now and then.
 
I too am playing Fallout 3 these days. I'm patient enough to wait for games to go on 50-75% sales off before buying.
 
Really want to play Just Cause after seeing this.



Love the jihad nuns.
 
TenaciousKory said:
Deac6, no offense intended, but if you're playing the Fallout series without anticipating game-breaking bugs, you're doing it wrong. These bugs are the price to be paid for the digital world they build. It's Bethesda's sheepish grin; the answer for each one goes without saying. That's always been the way.

Have you tried rotating four or five save slots? I always overwrite the oldest of my five saves. If I encounter a game breaking bug like you described above, reloading from an old save can occasionally fix the issue.

I bought the game the day after release, but haven't opened it because I'd like to minimize the impact with a few patches before I set out. I'm working through Fallout 3 again, instead. I get why Bethesda has to sell Fallout to the console market, but IMO it's a dangerous move to buy the game on those platforms.

Hell, I modded my Fallout 3, installed both official and unofficial patches, and the damn thing just crashes now and then.
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None taken, bugs are fine with me. Game breaking locations where alternating saves won't fix it is in no way fine with me, especially on console where I have no control of how the game runs. The PC market is much more use and experienced with hard crashes in games but the console market isn't. Like I think i said in the last one I realize that no game, especially this big is going to be perfect in any way shape or form. I throughly enjoy many of the bugs in the game and have laughed my ass off multiple times in it. Theres no way that they can test all the variables.

Throughout that mission I saved right before the mission, then there was an auto save that was lets say half way through then one right at the bug site (there were two main bug places). I'm sure patches will be rolling out soon as Bethesda normally does a really solid job on the patches. DC got in contact with me and I'm sending my save to him so the devs can look at it because they thought that they got rid of basically all the game breakers. That's really all and more than I could have asked for and really cool that he gives enough of a shit to tell me to send them the data so they can figure it out. (I've been out of town so I haven't been able to upload it). Really it just got to me so much cause it's on the very last part of the last mission so it's a major tease.

But really it's not that much skin off my ass as long as it gets fixed down the road, I'll just reload another save from a few hours before and continue on with other story lines. I adore the game and wanted to see all the story lines anyways. I'll just do them in a different order now. :D
 
Got my new Black Friday PS4, fallout 4 will be here tomorrow. Off from work Thursday and Friday. Can't wait.
 
Seriously Mrs I/O Deac has been trying to kill this fucking Deathclaw for the last hour
 
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