I figured I'd make an /e/ equivalent of that great, big /beat/ thread.
Recently I have been slogging away on XCOM: Enemy Within with the Long War mod. Humanity is doomed as I'm simply incapable of holding back the torrent of battleships the aliens keep hurling at me.
I used to play APB, and I made my character dress in fluorescent green and use only non-lethal weapons. Partly because I didn't want to take it too seriously, and partly because each time I took someone down I enjoyed imagining their shame at losing to my self-imposed handicap.
>>22548 While I'm on the subject, can I just lament about APB. It could have been an amazingly original cops-and-robbers simulator, and it has been developed into a generic team-based shooter.
>>22555 It's better in PC, but it's impossible to remove the motion blur completely.
I've made the decision recently to not buy games from AAA publishers that have aggressive monetisation in any of their games, which means I've missed out on a few games that I hear are great FC5 being one of them. The one that galls is Spyro. I feel like that game is targeting me specifically, because Acti knows I wont buy their games anymore.
"C'mon, it's a wholesome remake!" is how it starts.
>>22556 Can't say I've noticed any heavy monetisation in FC5.
You CAN buy Silver Bars with real money, but it never really pushes them in your face, and never once have I felt a need as the world is so full of piles of cash that have been left around you can afford everything through just playing the game.
As i'm aware, Spyro is just the complete package, no add ons or buyable stuff. Albeit you only get the one game on the disc and have to download the others two.
>>22546 Fair enough then.
And don't remind me ArmA/OFP. I used to call it 'the simulator of getting shot from who knows where'.
I admit that it was proper fun when you're the opposite side, lying on the hill beside some bush and taking accurate shots from M21 at the troops running below.
It's a fantastic spiritual sequel to Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, with some extra management elements (mostly to do with staffing and stockign your stores) and building tools that are simple and flexible.
Only big complaint is there's currently no backwards-building on coasters, and other minor niggles are mostly to do with coaster building but it's mostly solid.
I've been mucking around with the CS:GO battle royale mode.
It's very good. From what I understand they've been working on it for a very long time, it's pretty well polished compared to just about everything else. It's a smaller game, only 16 people per match, so it's a lot less tedious and they've done some clever things with the map and how you can get weapons.
CS:GO is also free to play now, and anyone who previously bought the game has 'prime' membership which I'm sure is something useful or good but I don't actually know.
>>22591 > CS:GO battle royale mode
And what's the bloody difference compared to the usual 5v5? Or is it just a ten to fifteen year old last man standing DM mode from AMX/AMXX plugins?
Do you not know what a battle royale mode is by now? It's not even a little bit like defusal.
You get dropped into a large map and have to find weapons as the playable map area slowly shrinks over time. The CS:GO twist is a useful map that tells you if an enemy is in a map quadrant (haven't seen another BR that does this) and you can also have weapons airdropped to you using a buy menu like classic CS, but it takes time for a drone to bring your item over. It's also 16 players per game instead of more commonly large BR numbers of 100 or so.
I'm not sure why you're so aggressively cynical when you could have just read the bit where I said
>From what I understand they've been working on it for a very long time, it's pretty well polished compared to just about everything else.
But never mind. Doesn't sound like you have any intention of playing it anyway.
>>22593 >The CS:GO twist is a useful map that tells you if an enemy is in a map quadrant (haven't seen another BR that does this)
Darwin Project. This one also has a human "director" for each match that can communicate with all the players, control the battlefield and award powerups.
Seconded. It's a very different experience to other BR games, with a lot more action and some really meaty tactical gameplay. The desperate shortage of ammunition makes camping a total waste of time - you have to get out there and chase resources from the off.
Protip: the delivery drones track your tablet, not you. You can set up some hilarious ambushes in the late game by ordering a box of ammo and dropping your tablet.
This, plus it's undeniable that the CS/source engine FPS experience is very different to most, mechanics wise. Anyone who has mastered the art of crouch jumping up a set of boxes has an advantage, though not a huge one.
>Protip: the delivery drones track your tablet, not you
That's amazing, I didn't even think about trying to drop the tablet.
I did do the fantastic 'pretend your pistol's a flash grenade' pro strat earlier for my first win.
I just noticed that Total War: Empire, Napoleon and Medieval 2 have just had all their DLC given out for free. I think the only bits I didn't already own were Empire and Napoleon's secondary campaigns, but by Jove I love the smell of black powder in the morning, even if they do seem like the least popular games in the entire series according to everyone else. The naval battles are truly awful, I'll cop to that.
Also, while I'd like to give Counter Strike: Global Offensive: Danger Zone a go, I've never been very good at the twitchier end of the shooter market and many people, even some in this thread, have been playing CS for so long I'm always hopelessly out classed. However, I do like the idea of it and it seems like Valve have tried something slightly different, despite a lot of people dismissing it immediately. I understand Valve haven't done much for their public image over the last few years, and that card game they're working on looks like a bit of a rip off, but it is F2P after all so you can hardly accuse them of being greedy buggers.
>I've never been very good at the twitchier end of the shooter market and many people, even some in this thread, have been playing CS for so long I'm always hopelessly out classed.
I'm really rather good at CS and was in the highest rank for a while when I played religiously - the good thing about CS and just about all of it's game types is that it's just as much about being in the right place and remaining undetected as it is about aiming. There's only so much practice any normal human can do on headshot flicks and the like, if you can aim for the head and control recoil even a little bit, you have a fighting chance.
I'm sure I'd be able to reliably beat you on one of the classic maps I've been playing forever, because I'd just know exactly where to go and which corners to shoot at. But I guarantee you have just as much of a chance as I do in an unknown map, or the new one on Danger Zone. If you get the drop on me I'll still die, if I miss the headshot and you don't I'll still die.
I'd also say that CS isn't quite as twitchy as your COD's and such - you don't gain anything by jumping all over the place like a distressed salmon like you see most people do in those games. The nature of how accuracy and spray patterns work in CS means you're more rewarded for controlled bursts while crouching or standing relatively still. I'd recommend trying it, I think you'll enjoy it if you're interested. If I'm wrong then I apologise.
>However, I do like the idea of it and it seems like Valve have tried something slightly different, despite a lot of people dismissing it immediately.
It seems like people who don't play CS:GO are dismissing it because it's Yet Another Battle Royale, though apparently some of the mode's assets have been found in the game files as early as last year, so they haven't rushed it out cynically.
And the existing CS:GO community is angry primarily because Valve has given everyone who previously bought the game a free Prime account, which before now was obtained by playing the game to a certain rank and keeping your 'trust score up', meaning you were a good, honest player by a few metrics - good teamwork, not being a hacker, etc. Everyone with Prime status could choose to match up with only other Prime players, which was an effective way of keeping you playing with good players. The concern is now that everyone has Prime who owned the game, and you can just pay ten quid to get it now, Valve has invited the russian hackers and mic spammers back into everyone's lobbies.
I don't think it's going to be as much of a problem as they make out, as Valve have also increased the weighting your trustability score has on matchmaking. Plus, anyone who is serious about the game typically plays on paid servers such as ESEA as they offer better tickrates than Valve servers, amongst other things.
>>22593 > Do you not know what a battle royale mode is by now?
I do and the first thing that pops up in my mind when I see BR and CS together is Slavic CSDM MEAT servers. 16 to 32 players on a map, every fool for himself.
Those were largely implemented by AMX/AMXX plugin engine, that's why I asked if the 'official' mode differs and what are the differences.
I have no idea why you'd think I'm cynical and/or aggresive about it.
> Doesn't sound like you have any intention of playing it anyway.
True. Just a pinch of mild interest.
It's always annoyed me a bit that some of the most open and modable games still on the market are overwhelmingly contributed to by creators that make hyper-detailed nude mods and tittymonsters.
And I don't even know what drives it. Does it count as a fetish? Sure it's nice to look at boobs, but you can do that in tons of games. They're all so hilariously tasteless and plastic too, it's hard to believe anyone derives any actual sexual gratification from any of it.
You don't get many games that touch Fallout for romping around a post apocalypse yet thematically authentic feeling mods are fairly thin on the ground past big expansion projects.
>>22626 Back in the day when I played Morrowind I installed some mod that ostensibly should have added a bit more variety to NPC faces and a bit of quality textures too.
Fast-forward to a barmy quest that left me naked in the field, and I notice a thick long absurdly detailed shlong hanging from the groin of my character.
For a moment I hoped I could swing that thing. Imagine running across the bloody island, high on skooma, then descending into the Red Mountain caverns and clubbing Dagoth Ur to death with your dick.
Sheogorath would have been proud.
>>22629 I've been checking out reviews, bit miffed all the cool unlocks are paywalled behind the Deluxe edition. How does it play? Looks a lot like Res 4.
>>22642 Then they'll have seen me. I don't want to anyway, I want to come back and play games again, but I don't think I ever will. I've been especially nutty lately and it's only getting worse. My tinnitus is really bad right now so I can't really focus which is why I'm chatting shit.
>>22634 Sorry to head about your tinnitus. I had it in passing when changing meds and it was a fucking horror show.
Serious question though. What GPU does that computer have? If it's got a dedicated card there might be a few more modern games that are alright. Or is it a laptop maybe?
>>22631 It plays a lot like RE4, but it's more puzzle or exploration oriented. It looks nice enough, and runs pretty well on the PS4 Pro. The dialogue is atrocious, and bless them, the voice actors don't know what to do with the garbage they're being asked to read. It is Resident Evil though so it gets a pass on that.
Basically they remade the game and didn't fuck it up completely. Which is apparently quite a feat.
I bought RE2 but am hesitant to start it because Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out on Tuesday and I know that'll eat up all my time. I was thinking of trying to finish all of RE2 this weekend, but from the reviews I've read the time it takes to complete both scenarios seems to vary wildly. One review put it at 7 hours (doable in a weekend), but another at 12 (not quite doable in a weekend). I know speedrunners have been getting through each campaign sub-3 hours but I don't have that level of skill/autism.
>>22641 You can get a PS3/Xbox 360 in the range of £30 these days - that might be a better option for you. Xbox 360s are also quite easy to find (or get) chipped, so all you need for games is a dual-layer DVD burner and some blank DVD+R DLs. PS3 is of course harder, using Blu-Ray, but the tradeoff would be better graphics, and arguably a better library of games, and (imo) a better controller.
