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Titanfall's more of an on-the-rails experience than DOOM, tbh. I liked it less than most of the ilxors here, but it's a solid game.

I stand by DOOM as the best pure FPS of this generation, but your mileage may depend on how adrenaline-y/twitch-y you like it. Definitely more wondering around looking for secrets/keys/powerups and less of that funneled-down-a-hallway feeling. Recommended playing on a notch above the default difficulty to get the most out of it.

xp it's hypnotic for sure.

TF2 MP is best in class

Yeah I'm speaking solely of single player FWIW. Haven't spent much time with the MP yet.

have you played the saint's row games?

many moons ago i played one and couldn't get into it, seemed like a dumber GTA with nothing else to it. i've not thought about that series for years though, are recent ones better? (was saying recently how GTA:VC and SA were two of the high points of my gaming life, so engaging and sheer *fun*. the last couple have been so dreary and bloated, either bleak as all hell (4) or ruined by sneery unfunny writing (5). considering trying the new PC version of GTA5, mind.)

it just has this really rewarding gameplay loop that's perfectly calibrated to deliver the require dopamine micodoses at perfectly spaced intervals. it has a STEEP learning curve tho and can be very bewildering to new players. if you've never played TF1 before there are a lot of little systems to learn, and that's just for the core gameplay i.e. before you've even thought about all the little tips, tricks and glitches that always come with these games. anyone has any questions feel free to fire away I'll try my best to answer them (I only have about 50 hours down right now. think I'm G3?)

seems like respawn are quite a decent dev too: listening to the community (particularly the hardcore youtubers who put down the most time and have the most insight) to deliver changes to make the game better. and committed to free gameplay DLC (i.e. maps and weapons though there are non-gameplay altering paid-for skins) for the life of the game (though with EA involved I'll believe this when I see it)

Yes 100% play the most recent Saints Row they went into full satire and it's v fun and v satisfying. Also have you played Just Cause 2?

thanks for the replies btw. i've decided to check out Doom, Rage (looks mega like borderlands from what i can tell) and the latest Deus Ex Mankind (looks a bit nu-splinter celly, which i love).

i think the last game i truly loved, other than Inside, was Alien Isolation. craving something with that kind of claustrophobic intensity and unforgiving difficulty - similar to why i enjoyed FEAR and STALKER so much, and possibly Manhunt years back. MGS5 had a hint of it before it became boringly monotonous.

xpost, ok great, i'll read up on the new SR. liked JC2 for a bit but was never gripped enough to persist with it. it's hard to pin down exactly what i want from games! been floundering for about a year, waiting for the next big addiction. half-hoped fallout4 would fill the void but that was a massive disappointment (dull one-trick missions and 'crafting'. as long as i live, i'll never care a hoot about 'crafting')

the satire/fun/satisfying thing was something far cry: blood dragon did so well. tons better than the FC games proper

SRIV was a lot of fun w tons of things that helped it stick out from other open world games - taking out space aliens, shooting the black hole gun, flying from rooftop to rooftop, the cool mini-boss fights where you are facing off across multiple city blocks against a Doomsday-style comic monster, the insurance minigame where you go limp and fling your body into as many cars & buildings as possible, etc. I really liked the permanent night setting, it gave the whole thing a very dreamlike quality. fwiw i haven't finished a GTA since SA

You might like the new Dishonored? Cool first-person stealth shit in an interesting setting, it gets more fun once you get the hang of it and stop reloading saves every 30 seconds.

can't wait to play DH2, still too expensive at the moment. loved the first one.

Been playing TV Sports Football a lot. I used to play this tons with a mate back in the Amiga days, I was always Dolphins he was always Raiders.

Kinda fun just to watch the computer play itself sometimes, but damn the QB ai is pretty tragic. Nobody seems to be able to make a successful field goal beyond 26 yards either!

should i get mgs5 for ps4? it's on sale on amazon. nb that i literally have not played a single mg game since the nes and i keep thinking that i'll play mgs5 after i backtrack and at the very least play MGS (1998), if not also 2,3 + 4. but who knows when sony will get around to porting the collection to the ps4.

woah! you should play all imo. i had only played part of the NES game when i was a kid. it found it very confusing and hard to control at the time. later playing through MGS was the same way. just getting through that first room was a huge pain. but the voice acting was amazing and the writing and direction was great. it was like someone was making a Con Air/James Bond/Rambo-level Hollywood action thriller only they had the budget to do animatics. the first game is entirely hand-animated, which gives the 3d a little more experimental feel imo. it helps that the death theme and animation is so cool, the yelling of "Snake! Snaaaake!" in over-theatrical variations. i love this tradition that they keep up, and how the name and the person screaming it changes depending on the current context of the story.

you got to at least play MGS1 until meeting Hal Emmerich, who is a sort of self-insert character, an Oktaku who is a big fan of Japanese anime and giant robots. a US scientist forced to build nuclear weapons, Hal - like director Kojima himsel - is compelled to produce Metal Gears.

MGS1 is very much moving across a room or two and then watching these 10 minute cutscenes and Hal's is one of the best. he starts talking about the US nuking of Japan and ensuing fallout of nuclear proliferation and suddenly you are in a Grisham/Chrichton novel with technical terms and acronyms flying by left and right. the start of MGS1 is full of that. anyways, the anti-nuke stuff is very interesting, something you would never see in a big budget action movie. herein lies one of the most interesting things about the series: it is by a Japanese person about the US military, twisting that 80s macho US military flexing in on itself and turning it into digitally distorted hyper kitch (see also Contra). anyways all of this happens after you fight a Cyborg Ninja!

MGSV is really something else. it is super easy to control and plays better than any open world game I have ever played. the pacing is different because the story is no longer stop-and-start. it has the same amount of total cutscenes and audio as the other games but the play-ability of all the missions and the experience of building up your army literally one man or woman at a time is so much fun, so smooth and seamless. in earlier MGS games you would spend perhaps 5 minutes running around a small area of 4-8 rooms whereas now you are riding your horse across the desert going from base to base. it's still highly stylized (it only takes a minute or two to get from any one base or outpost to the next running, you have infinite sprint so no need to worry about stamina unlike every other open world game) but very immersive. you ride your horse through the desert mountains as the sunrises, coming around a corner you see a camp of Russian soldiers up ahead. the soundtrack kicks in a Morricone-style cue as fog drifts over the cliff to your right. as you crawl up to the green tents by the side of the road, you see a boombox playing Billy Idol "Rebel Yell". you take the tape so that you can play it from your helicopter later.

the story is very cool about ofc 80s US paramilitary interests, this time across the mercenary-exploited digital third world warzones of Africa and Afganistahn (the Mujahadeen play a part in the story). you play a war vet that wakes up in a hospital and repeatedly suffers from PTSD during the course of the game, so in a way it continues that MGS tradition of anti-war messages delivered with a glorified violence power trip. that glorified violence power trip was a very American thing in the 80s (i can recall drawing pictures of tanks and planes and battle scenes on the way to school in the morning. we read about the Russian coup in middle school.) and Kojima was raised by that same culture, by American movies like Rambo III (which IS the first half of MGSV) and James Bond. MGSV is also a meta commentary about the whole series, and the Kojima/Konami power struggle, and the tying together of different story threads from all of the MGS games in a pretty brilliant way.

if you decide to play MGSV my main recommendation is that you do the FOBs. they are the online missions where you can invade another player's base. they are amazing. they do not become available until late in the game (mission 22) but they are extremely fun, capturing the thrill akin to a good game of freeze tag or ultimate hide and seek.

Lying on the sofa with manflu and lemsip playing Day of the Tentacle

Watched a playthrough of that recently, good luck with those effing puzzles!

i beat that in 95 w/ no hints! unlike that fucking MI1 flint-dam puzzle (this 11yo didn't know that you could use flint and gunpowder to make an explosion) (actually iirc that one had a second solution too - you could use the telescopic glass w/ the sun to light the gunpowder too)

See I thought that I had completed it back then too but playing through again I only remember the early puzzles! My wife now also has manflu so she's claimed the ps4.

I played it so much I could probably write a walk through from memory.

started up the Saturn version of SOTN yesterday. kinda fun trying to read the katakana whenever i get a new item.

Told myself I can't buy My Summer Car until I get a job.

This game looks amazing to me and I don't know why. The strange adult thuggery survival part mixed with the challenge (and it really looks tough) of building a car from scratch somehow appeals to me right now.

Anyone tried it yet?

Okay you get to drive a tractor, I'm in for sure.

I played it so much I could probably write a walk through from memory

ha, i could do this for monkey island 2, which i loved so much when i played it for the first time as an 11-year old that i couldn't bear to solve the last puzzle for a couple of days because i didn't want it to ever end

my summer car looks properly deranged in the best possible way

also i feel like i should play it just because it fits the theme of my current screenname

finally got myself to try to finish the witcher 3 rather than wandering around finishing the final question marks. the end missions are pretty cool, like in all my idling i kind of forgot the storyline, but the ending was good in a sort of bad movie kind of way. couldn't believe how easy the final bosses were.

playing through Inside for a second time with my downstairs neighbor, she is hilarious and freaking out when the dogs rip the kids throat out. so many good moments and puzzles in that game, great to watch them again.

so much battlefield1 i gotta stop

big thanks to difficult listening hour for the advice deus ex human revolution. after that crappy opening level it gets great, sneaking around the police station - exactly the kind of game i love. maybe not quite as good as the recent splinter cells and mgs5 but vv close (what other games fit into this kind of style?). but yeah, loving it, thanks for convincing me to give it another shot!

looking forward to playing the latest one after this - is it more of the same? also im playing this in ghost mode, not killing anyone, not even knocking anyone out. can i go through the entire game playing like this? really hoping it doesn't do a MGS5 and get boringly samey halfway through

I've been playing Deus Ex: MD too. Had an interestingly odd experience playing this and having "Pervert's Guide to Ideology" on my other screen.

You can ghost thru a lot of the missions, with the exception of the side one requiring you to expressly knock somebody out and drag them to another area.

One of the things I didn't like about Watch Dogs 2 is that the stealth mechanic was so underdeveloped; you couldnt drag a body anywhere.

I like all the e-books strewn about the levels for the world-building detail it adds, but I wish they'd include more realworld Great Books/Classic Lit source material. It's like finding copies of _The Man Who Was Thursday_ in the original game.

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probably the pinnacle of that stealth/ghost style game is alien isolation. when oh when will the sequel (or even dlc) come out

i've been sucked back into CK2 send help

*murders your only CK2 heir*

it was the only way out mordy, the only way

more like murders my only 50 CK2 heirs - i'm in an elective monarchy and my family is HUGE

or maybe steal some duchies and then you can vote my family out of power.

never gonna happen tho. i've got like 19K personal demesne levy now.

just played the new DOOM for a bit. looks like everyone was right about it being an awesome game!

getting heavy Metroid Prime feels here! the combat is very acrobatic - you will be flipping around from enemy to enemy. it is easy to die in just a few hits, at least on Ultra Violence. love the lack of health auto-recharge. this game is much like Bloodborne in rewarding you in health for being pro-active. great level design too! right now i am crawling Alien-style through some airducts to get past a deadly red laser that is blocking my progress. previously i was on the windswept ("Not scientifically accurate" -Neil Degrass Buzzkll) the deep red sands of mars dotted with eerie green space station lightposts and satanic candle displays hidden in caverns amidst the ruined industrial facilities.

a very cool and arcadey HD rendition of DOOM!

Trails Of Cold Steel on my vita. Exceptionally long mix of Persona / Harry Potter / Attack On Titan / Suikoden. Only 10 hours or so in but really enjoying it, lives up to the hype.

welp, i spent way too much time with http://thefounder.biz/play/

it's sort of a mix of kairosoft games with clickers (don't worry, this would be my secondary or tertiary comparison, not primary)

i just bought a PS3 a friend found at a thrift store that came with Metal Gear Solid 4. this morning i picked up a copy of Demon's Souls and am playing that right now. it is really amazing! they have pretty much the whole Dark Souls/Bloodborne formula figured out from the start. really looking forward to playing through this!

I was clearing out PS+ games on my PS4 that I have no intention of playing, and spotted Kings Quest. I'm really enjoying it, though I've not finished the first chapter yet.

Just read a review saying resident evil 7 compares well to alien isolation, is this right? Never played any of that series before but absolute loved A:I

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i hear they've definitely been influenced a lot by it. meant to be a major return to form for the series.

another PS+ freebie that i found a lot of fun, flawed technically but with a ton of nice ideas was Stories: Path Of Destiny. horrendous name, but fun concept and well executed.

I really enjoyed "Stories..." though I paid money for it like a chump

made it past the first couple bosses of Demon's Souls. highly recommend this game! Dark Souls/Bloodborne/all of it started here, I am constantly surprised by the things popping up that i thought we later inventions. Cthulu wizards are here, the dragon on the bridge is here, the rolling skeletons are here. gameplay is really fun and the level design is fantastic. weirdly the other Soul games this feels closest to is probably DS3.