Video Game Thread v. Wii4One

[Lynxo]

Finished Witcher 3 tonight! Unbelievable! The story is probably the best I have seen from a video game. In my opinion, it took a bit to get going, but once it did, I was completely hooked. I am trying to decide whether to play another game or restart Witcher 3 with DLC (which I have yet to play).

My suggestion (if you're still not overfed with Witcher) is to play the DLC. It's the best DLC in any game I've ever played. Hearts of Stone is even better than the main story if you ask me!

[Polarbear]

Finished Witcher 3 tonight! Unbelievable! The story is probably the best I have seen from a video game. In my opinion, it took a bit to get going, but once it did, I was completely hooked. I am trying to decide whether to play another game or restart Witcher 3 with DLC (which I have yet to play).

My suggestion (if you're still not overfed with Witcher) is to play the DLC. It's the best DLC in any game I've ever played. Hearts of Stone is even better than the main story if you ask me!

I cannot think of another game, that has convinced me to buy a five part book series of which it's based on, in a single shopping trip.

TW3 could be my favorite game of all time, perhaps even over Star Wars: KOTOR and Mass Effect. And yes the DLC is totally worth it. Hearts of Stone is great story, and Blood and Wine brings so much to the table, that it's almost unfair to call it a DLC. Including a new region that is as big as Skellige, as well as gameplay and graphics upgrades.

[ariich]

Finished Witcher 3 tonight! Unbelievable! The story is probably the best I have seen from a video game. In my opinion, it took a bit to get going, but once it did, I was completely hooked. I am trying to decide whether to play another game or restart Witcher 3 with DLC (which I have yet to play).

My suggestion (if you're still not overfed with Witcher) is to play the DLC. It's the best DLC in any game I've ever played. Hearts of Stone is even better than the main story if you ask me!

I wasn't sure about Hearts of Stone at the start, but damn the way it develops is absolutely fantastic.

[ReaperKK]

Finished Witcher 3 tonight! Unbelievable! The story is probably the best I have seen from a video game. In my opinion, it took a bit to get going, but once it did, I was completely hooked. I am trying to decide whether to play another game or restart Witcher 3 with DLC (which I have yet to play).

My suggestion (if you're still not overfed with Witcher) is to play the DLC. It's the best DLC in any game I've ever played. Hearts of Stone is even better than the main story if you ask me!

I cannot think of another game, that has convinced me to buy a five part book series of which it's based on, in a single shopping trip.

TW3 could be my favorite game of all time, perhaps even over Star Wars: KOTOR and Mass Effect. And yes the DLC is totally worth it. Hearts of Stone is great story, and Blood and Wine brings so much to the table, that it's almost unfair to call it a DLC. Including a new region that is as big as Skellige, as well as gameplay and graphics upgrades.

Since you mention Mass Effect that is a series I've never played. I just installed the first one yesterday.

[TheOutlawXanadu]

Up until now, the Mass Effect trilogy was my all-time favorite video game experience, but The Witcher 3 may have overtaken it. Only time will tell. I will say that, in my opinion, Witcher 3 incorporates player choice much more effectively into the main story ending. I was never that bothered by the way Mass Effect ended, but The Witcher 3 makes the warts stick out a bit more.

Anyhow... Enough negativity. Love ME and TW3. Can't wait to play the DLC.

[Phoenix87x]

Since you mention Mass Effect that is a series I've never played. I just installed the first one yesterday.

I can't wait to hear what you think of Mass effect. That trilogy is one of my favorite set of games ever made.

[Herrick]

Anyone buy Fallout 76?   

[Cool Chris]

I don't love the Mass Effect franchise, but I found 1 and 2 pretty damn enjoyable (just realized I never played 3, don't think I even own it).

Might take a stab at Witcher 3 after reading all this praise. Couldn't get through more than 10 minutes of the first one.

[ReaperKK]

It takes a while to get into Witcher 3 but it's well worth the pay off IMO

[Herrick]

I don't love the Mass Effect franchise, but I found 1 and 2 pretty damn enjoyable (just realized I never played 3, don't think I even own it).

Might take a stab at Witcher 3 after reading all this praise. Couldn't get through more than 10 minutes of the first one.

Witcher 3 is light years beyond the first game.

[Crow]

bouncing between two games atm

crosscode - snes-y action RPG, solid so far but i hear the plot really picks up at some point so I'm looking forward to that

428 shibuya scramble - VN with really interesting story progression mechanics, there are 5 main chars and all their choices inadvertently affect the others. kinda goofy at times but I'm digging it

[Dublagent66]

Anyone buy Fallout 76?   

No, I heard it was horrible and to be honest, Fallout 4 bored me to tears.  So, I won't be inclined to buy anymore Fallout games.

[cramx3]

Yea, heard it wasn't very good, but honestly didn't really understand what I would be doing in that game so never really was interested in getting it, then heard it wasn't good so my interest is about as low as it can get.  I'd be interested in another Fallout game, but I think they need to make some improvements as my interest is dwindling since I think I've gotten less enjoyment out of each Fallout release since 3.  I feel like we'd get another Elder Scrolls though before Fallout, but what do I know, and that I would be interested in.

[Dublagent66]

I'm looking forward to Just Cause 4.  Cruising around in wingsuits, helicopters and blowing shit up is my kind of game.  That comes out next week. 

[v_clortho]

got Beat Saber for the psvr. Really fun game!

[cramx3]

I'm looking forward to Just Cause 4.  Cruising around in wingsuits, helicopters and blowing shit up is my kind of game.  That comes out next week. 

oh forgot about this, Yea I enjoyed blowing shit up in the past games.  I've got to look into this to see if it's worth picking up soon or just waiting for it to go on sale later though

[Sacul]

Home - interesting and spooky indie game in which you kind of actually say what happened in the story and the amnesiac MC just believes you. It got kind of boring and frustrating at parts, but it was a cool concept. Short game.

[Nick]

So don't get me wrong, I haven't played CoD in years and haven't even been playing Fortnight lately, but I hopped in with a lot of good friends after Black Friday and am pretty thrilled that after 32 games of Blackout in Black Ops I'm riding a 25% (8 games) win rate.

[cramx3]

So don't get me wrong, I haven't played CoD in years and haven't even been playing Fortnight lately, but I hopped in with a lot of good friends after Black Friday and am pretty thrilled that after 32 games of Blackout in Black Ops I'm riding a 25% (8 games) win rate.

wtf, I can't sniff a win on PC (actually have 2 quad wins but out of like many many games), but I absolutely love it.  Or you are just a beast, I know I am not very good personally.  I finally finished my first blackout win video and you can see how bad I am at times  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUqS-roMAKA

[cramx3]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114780/red-dead-online-rdr2-preview-hands-on-ps4-xbox

so I guess this sounds just like GTA online, which means it'll probably be fun if/when it makes it's way to PC

[Nick]

So don't get me wrong, I haven't played CoD in years and haven't even been playing Fortnight lately, but I hopped in with a lot of good friends after Black Friday and am pretty thrilled that after 32 games of Blackout in Black Ops I'm riding a 25% (8 games) win rate.

wtf, I can't sniff a win on PC (actually have 2 quad wins but out of like many many games), but I absolutely love it.  Or you are just a beast, I know I am not very good personally.  I finally finished my first blackout win video and you can see how bad I am at times  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUqS-roMAKA

I think I've picked up on certain things quickly, but I'm certainly not the one carrying the team. Two of the guys I play with regularly are really good. There is actually a hilarious pattern going in that the more kills I get the less likely we are to win the game. I swear in those 8 wins I probably have 0 or 1 kill in all of them, meanwhile if I get 3-5 kills we'll certainly lose.

[cramx3]

Isn't it funny how that works out?  That's why I love the BR games so much, so much variety and randomness that you can be playing your best game and still not win, but play terrible and somehow manage to sneak by.  I know professional gamers don't like that randomness, but I do.  Keeps you on your toes and makes every game interesting and unique. 

So I finally did an upgrade to my PC thanks to a black friday sale.  I noticed COD ran fairly poorly, but I was able to adjust settings to get it to play smoothly while still being able to record.  Now with Battlefield 5 even with everything turned low, it was struggling to get a decent FPS (without OBS running to record) and I noticed in resource managers that my memory usage was over 90% while playing BF5.  I only had 8GB so I just upgraded to 16GB and the difference was really noticeable.  I can now max out the settings in BF5 which is gorgeous.  I have a 1080 so I was wondering why my system was struggling lately but I didn't care to take a look until just recently as to why.  I haven't tried to load COD yet to see if I can re adjust those settings.

[ErHaO]

After the amazing experience that was Red Dead 2, I decided to go retro and get myself a SNES classic. I was born near the start of the 90's and grew up with Nintendo, the N64 and GBC/GBA in particular. Also the NES with friends and family, but the SNES is an era I don't have much experience with. Even on the GBA I somehow missed nearly all the SNES ports. So games like Link to the Past and Mario World are completely new for me, despite growing up with 2d Mario and 2d Zelda.

[Sacul]

Finally started with Hotline Miami 2 and it's already kicking my ass

[Progmetty]

I'm looking forward to Just Cause 4.  Cruising around in wingsuits, helicopters and blowing shit up is my kind of game.  That comes out next week. 

Same here, I finally got around to JC3 DLC and been having lots of fun with that.

[Dublagent66]

Anybody pick up Battlefield V yet?

[Cool Chris]

... games like Link to the Past and Mario World are completely new for me...

Damn, man, have fun! I would love to have specific amnesia and be able to play those games again for the very first time.

[cramx3]

Anybody pick up Battlefield V yet?

Battlefield V came out today. Anybody check it out yet?

I played a bunch over the weekend, it's fun, but typical Battlefield.  There's some new character progressions that are cool to work towards and level up your guns and specialist.  Also there's fortifying which is cool and can effect how some choke points are played, but I've found this feature while cool to not be too big of a change to make me feel like BF5 is any different than BF1 overall.  It looks great too, as expected.  I'm just bummed there's no BR mode yet, and probably not until next year some time which has made go back to playing COD again because Blackout mode in COD is more fun than any mode in BF5 IMO.

I still feel the same way.  It's another solid BF game.

[Dublagent66]

Thanks cram.  I can't believe I spaced it.  I was off work all last week too.

[Herrick]

Anyone buy Fallout 76?   

No, I heard it was horrible and to be honest, Fallout 4 bored me to tears.  So, I won't be inclined to buy anymore Fallout games.

Yeah I finished Fallout 4 but I didn't really like it. I think they really need to revamp the whole feel of the game from movement, animations, & combat. One of the things I really enjoyed about the last Metal Gear Solid was the gameplay was a vast improvement over the earlier games but MGS5 still felt like the earlier games if that makes sense. If only Bethesda could do the same thing.

Yea, heard it wasn't very good, but honestly didn't really understand what I would be doing in that game so never really was interested in getting it, then heard it wasn't good so my interest is about as low as it can get.  I'd be interested in another Fallout game, but I think they need to make some improvements as my interest is dwindling since I think I've gotten less enjoyment out of each Fallout release since 3.  I feel like we'd get another Elder Scrolls though before Fallout, but what do I know, and that I would be interested in.

I thought New Vegas was better than 3 but 4 was worse than both games. I think you're right about Elder Scrolls. I hope the response to Fallout 76 won't bury the series but that Starfield game & Elder Scrolls 6 will probably come out before another Fallout.

[cramx3]

Thanks cram.  I can't believe I spaced it.  I was off work all last week too.

its all good  I feel like the popularity must be waning on BF, there used to be lots more discussions here about the new BF games and now it seems like I'm the only one who got it and I partly wish I just got the monthly pass to play for a bit and then wait out for the BR mode.  I've quickly gone back to playing Blackout in COD, but the core BF gameplay is still great.  If my friends are playing, I will join in for sure, I just find BR mode to be more exciting for me than playing the same BF modes that have been in the past games with little variance. 

[Phoenix87x]

Video game awards are tonight. Anyone else gonna watch?

I curious to see what gets announced

[Nick]

Just a friendly reminder that Tuesday saw Subnautica getting released on consoles. An excellent solo adventure game that is very much worth your time, especially at $30.

[Herrick]

Just a friendly reminder that Tuesday saw Subnautica getting released on consoles. An excellent solo adventure game that is very much worth your time, especially at $30.

Good game.

[Progmetty]

Is Witcher 3 as enjoyable if you haven't played the first two games?