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NeonPhoenix posted...

Motherfucker! ugh

For what it's worth, you launch it in Steam, then EA's launcher loads for a second and then the game starts. It's nowhere near as intrusive as it used to be

I'd love it if we could use steam points for like game discounts or something. My points are just kind of sitting there lol

It's a gift for the cat. Gotta let their cat unwrap a gift too

I'm really only familiar with the original 32 tracks that the base Mario Kart 8 had. But I'm curious to see how the final rankings end up.

Wow what a rip-off. Are you able to return those for a refund?

A little disappointed to hear that the game will only take place on one planet. Can't show off a cool Porsche spaceship and then tell me I won't get to fly it anywhere. But I'll reserve my judgements until we see more gameplay on the ground.

Sandalorn posted...

All the people that shit on Starfield for being a "generic" space game will all of a sudden fall in love with this one.

People don't shit on Starfield for being generic. People shit on Starfield because it's a space game that has tons of empty, lifeless planets and copy/pasted building interiors. Like seriously, if it's not one of the few hub planets, you'll see the same 2 or 3 building interior layouts over and over again. And for a game that hyped up the ability to explore space, the space travel is mostly relegated to fast travel loading screens. You couldn't manually travel between planets or solar systems. It was majorly disappointing.

So Intergalactic will absolutely get praised if it has more going for it than Starfield did.

Sorozone posted...

Oh no I agree. Returns combat is so much better, but the game design is just taking from what they learned from LR. Even the side quest and world design is pretty similar.

Okay, yeah I can see that a little bit. It just bugs me because I feel like they could have done so much more with Clive.

Xenogears15 posted...

I did. I hated it even more. I didn't try Lightning Returns, but once I learned that the game is on a time limit of sorts, I gave it no heed.

Well damn, sorry to hear that.

NeonPhoenix posted...

Ugh, I'll still look into it tho, even if only for the hornyposting aspect. Thanks guys >_>

It's really not that bad Neon. Just disable cloud saves before you start and it works fine. If you leave them on, it will 100% crash at the same spot over and over.

I fully agree with the dev's comment. EA's garbage is filled with lootboxes that have you gambling with real money and it's rating is nowhere near as harsh. Those gold packs are around $1.50 each

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dcb0151d.jpg

I liked 4's story and characters. I just really, really hated the driving physics and not being able to properly save cars.

Damn, 4 dead and 5 injured, not counting the shooter, who's also dead. That's tragic. My condolences to the families. These always hit close to home because I have a kid in elementary school.

I hate that he spends 17 whole ass minutes just to say that bigots are upset about Jordan in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and Ciri in the Witcher 4 not being as hot as they want them to be.

These people bitch about every single female character that doesn't look like a supermodel and they aren't worth constantly addressing.

Okay awesome. Hopefully streaming it on one of the paid services isn't too far behind.

Xenogears15 posted...

No matter how old it is, it remains a pile of steaming shit. The game that made me almost quit the franchise.

Depending on what you hated about 13, I'd recommend giving 13-2 a try. It fixed a majority of the complaints that people had about 13. So while I enjoyed 13, 13-2 is one of my favorite games of all time.

Sorozone posted...

Great game.

Lead to Lightning Returns, which lead to FF16 Clive(they are the same game).

Not even close. Lightning had so much versatility in Lightning Returns. Switching the schema she was in drastically affected her playstyle. I wish they had implemented that versatility with Clive instead of having him use the same weapon style no matter what (Ie, change his basic attacks, depending on which eikon he uses).

TheGoldenEel posted...

Should be noted that even though Playroom is a showcase game its fantastic in its own right

sidenote: with Sackboy as well as Ratchet & Clank its actually insane that PS5 in four years is a better console for 3D platformers than the Switch

True. Playroom was also a lot of fun.

pinky0926 posted...

Nice! Honestly if it wasn't on PS5 I would definitely buy it. But I seriously can't find any compelling eason to upgrade from a PS4 pro unless I see a ridiculously good deal somewhere.

Fair enough. I mainly upgraded so that I could play Rachet & Clank: Rift Apart at launch. But I also enjoy the faster load times on everything else and the PS5 doesn't sound super loud like my old PS4 did. But even then, I play it infrequently enough that I was fine with leaving my PS5 at my gf's apartment lol

pinky0926 posted...

I wrote this game off as a "this is our new console look what it can do" showcase game, but looks like I slept on it.

Nah, Astro's Playroom, which comes free with the PS5, is the showcase game. Astro Bot is a fully realized platformer, that's a ton of fun. I bought it at launch and my gf was so intrigued that she stopped playing her game to try out Astro Bot too lol.

Board_hunter567 posted...

I'm more curious as to how they find the time.

Work a job that doesn't rip you off on vacation time.

Already got the platinum. It was a lot of fun, so I have no problem with that game of the year win

I'll use them for good. But in a very aggressive way. Like I'm not gonna be Batman. No, I'm gonna be the Punisher

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

I'm unsure why you think this is contrary to or a counter to what I said.

Sorry my initial read of your post felt like you were talking down about those fans that still enjoy those games.

FF13 is a great game and I spent a ton of time on gamefaqs when it came out. It's my only "expert" rating for the gamefaqs answer sections.

I wish more people have it a fair chance. The paradigm system was so damn fun

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To be fair that In the End reference came out of fucking nowhere. I wouldn't have caught that right away either lol.

gamepimp12 posted...

honestly CE hates that I just talk about my life without asking for advice.

Yes, because you post these trainwrecks of your dating life and refuse to take any constructive criticism, when you definitely need it.

Like, my initial misreading of "flip it" to "flip out" aside, you do need to move on from her and find someone that's on the same page as you from the get go

xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...

I can see reason 1 or 3 being realistic

but 2 is pretty hard to pull off. We budgeted our money based on our finances and no matter what we cut. we still cant make it to those fancy vacations without credit carding the thing

2 isn't really hard to pull off if 1 is also true. So, they make more than you and they spend less money on other things than you do

People do longer trips so that they can take their time riding everything. That's usually way more important when you don't actually live in Florida and only make that trip like once or twice in your life.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Tbh you can easily do Disneyland and California Adventure in one day without really trying too hard.

Easily? Nah, they may not be as big as the Orlando parks, but with all of the lines you'd still struggle to do everything with just one day each. You can knock out the other SoCal parks in one day though (Six Flags, Universal & Knott's)

But you're A Marvel! What kind of blasphemy is that!?

I wouldn't assume the wait case scenario straight away.

It's very possible that they just had an office version of "the bystander effect." Everyone else assumed that someone had already invited you, so no one invited you.

Or if you're known for never going to the Holiday party's, they could have assumed you didn't want to go and just didn't bother you with it

So, the facial expressions are actually massively improved from what it was at launch... Yeah...

Also not surprised that you're hating it. It's an okay game with mods, but by far the worst in the franchise. So if you didn't like 2, chances were high that you wouldn't like Andromeda.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

People who say it sucks have moved on years ago (me aside), so the only loud voices are the ones clinging to the idea that it was unfairly maligned. I've seen the same thing with FF13, and I assume Forspoken will have a similar arc in a few years.

Or some people just have a different opinion than you and genuinely enjoyed games that you don't like. Crazy, I know

DrizztLink posted...

Cue.

Thank you. I looked at it and it felt wrong, but I couldn't remember cue for some reason lol

gamepimp12 posted...

I wouldnt mind reconciling.

but Im still angry about everything.

I reached out to her the other day cause I was worried about her mental health (her mental health was one of the reasons she ended it) only for her to flip it to me not being okay with the break up

That's your queue to move on completely. If she flipped out on you for reaching out, then clearly she doesn't want you reaching out. Sucks, but you gotta let her go

SoIidLegacy posted...

Now that this is common knowledge, I wouldn't be surprised if practically any American who owns a drone does all kinds of snooping around with it, before legislation is passed to stop people from doing that.

It's already illegal to do that. It's just a matter of the police linking the drone to you and charging you for those crimes.

In my opinion this was the most stacked Game Awards yet, as far as game announcements go. But it was also long as hell. Counting the opening act, it was 3 hours and 40 minutes.

But it's definitely worth checking out the highlights

https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-at-the-game-awards-2024

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I guess I had just as much fun adding spoilers, tinted windows and NOS to my car in NFS underground as I did adding scopes, suppressors and noob tubes to my gun in COD.

In all seriousness though. I do think video games can help amplify things that interest you, because you can do things you aren't able to do in real life. Like buying and fixing to expensive cars in racing games, or making large, extravagant houses in Sim games.

Like, my ultimate dream car is the McLaren F1 LM, but the most I can do is experience it in video games, because they're like $20mil+ in real life.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I hope I'm not interpreted as saying I don't think people have the willpower to not go on a rampage just because they enjoy doing it in GTA

To attempt to link it to something, my love for Need for Speed games growing up translated a tiny bit to my enjoyment of IRL car stuff when I started driving.

Oh that's different. Cars are awesome (totally not biased)

Nope. I enjoy looting and upgrading guns in Fallout because it's a game and I like seeing my damage numbers go up. That never translated to a gun hobby in real life for me.

That's not something that's ever crossed my mind. Most I would do is Google it out of curiosity. I wouldn't start calling my loved ones like I'm about to die or something though. That seems extreme.

Antifar posted...

Make no mistake, she added. I will do everything in my power to enforce the laws of New York State.

Good. That Texas AG can fuck right off

As a mandated reporter, they're not going to like what I have to do. CPS will be paying them a visit.

I believe it. I imagine a lot of boomers still use am radio as their source of daily news. Like anecdotally, a lot of older people tend to stick to what they know, rather than learning newer tech

So, I'm not calling this song shit, because I do enjoy the entire song. But Panic! At The Disco's cover of The Greatest Show has the most epic sounding intro. And the rest of the song just doesn't hit that same level

https://youtu.be/jpJ8CbrWX_Y?si=ZGT6TOxNp_b3YUyR

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

Fable 3, unlimited saga, and magna carta are terrible games

Opinions vary from person to person. Just like your called Fable 3 terrible, I thought it was a fun game. The weakest of the Fable games, but not terrible by any means

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Mustaaaaard!

orangefire25 posted...

Will pre load. Borderlands die hard, stubborn really. I loved every borderlands game for one reason or the other, with 2 being my favorite by a slim margin as 3 is runner up. The build diversity in 3 was phenomenal and I'm surprised more of you aren't praising that. Bl2 was great but meta builds were super strict and stingy. Bl3 doesn't have that problem in end game.

Build diversity was great, but you had to suffer through that terrible story multiple times if you wanted to max out a new character. Really dragged it down for me.

No? It's a funny looking dance, but it didn't bother me at all

Kamil posted...

Gah I am still posting. The thing about that is that enemies can do MP damage (so can the player of course). So there are strategies to mp kill some bosses but someone like Cliff maybe didn't have a lot of Mp so getting hit by a few strong mp attacks was death.

Mp death I wasn't a fan, but action combat is different than turn based.

It definitely kept you on your toes, that's for sure.

VeggetaX posted...

Yes it's a part of the reason why I didn't like the game as well.

Smiffwilm posted...

I must be weird. I kinda liked it, to a certain extent. Makes sense if you mentally exhaust yourself to that point. Plus it works against enemies as well. It's just so terribly unbalanced for the player characters in it's execution imo.

Oh don't get me wrong, I didn't hate it. I had a lot of fun with the game. But back then, it just really caught me off guard, because it was something I had never encountered before.

VeggetaX posted...

Using HP as MP is a bad system but TBF I haven't gotten very far in the game.

In Star Ocean Till the End of Time, you'd die if your MP reached 0. And the game made you aware of that fairly early on by having early game enemies that dealt MP damage lol

Arc Rise Fantasia. I always link videos from it when talking about bad voice acting lol.

https://youtu.be/zygDzAkothQ?si=XnRN9g9Ssk0YWP5m

One thing I hope they fix with Borderlands 4 is their insistence on making you play through the story on every character. They need to do like Diablo. You beat the story on one character and then every other character on that account can jump straight into the post game free roam.

And also stop locking the higher difficulties behind playthroughs. Beat the entire story on normal to unlock True Vault Hunter difficulty. Then beat the entire story on True Vault Hunt to unlock Ultimate Vault Hunter. And that shit is per character too. Have to manually unlock Ultimate Vault Hunter, for each character.

The fun of Borderlands is the loot, not playing through the story a million times.

Honestly I'm just going in for the gameplay. I don't think they have any writers that can top what Anthony Burch did in BL2. So I'm not expecting to be blown away by the story. But the lootsplosions are always fun.

pinky0926 posted...

My main thing though - god I hope they fix the loot. I booted up BL3 and played for like 2 hours and already had like 16 legendaries, it was stupid and pointless.

Hard disagree. I don't want to spend tons of hours grinding for loot. The ease of legendaries is great.

The main character seems interesting. Can't wait to see more of the gameplay. Imagine if they end up making a better space game than Bethesda with way less hype

DirtBasedSoap posted...

remastering part I really broke a lot of peoples brains lol

To be fair, they had already remastered it for the PS4. Doing it again was so unnecessary lol.

andri_g posted...

Seriously, put a lamp with a bright bulb on a security timer and set your alarm timer to go off about 10 minutes later. Make sure both are out of arms-length reach. This way, you'll have to get up to turn both of them off... you won't be able to press a Snooze button "without getting up" and keep on sleeping. <)

Yeah keeping my alarm out of arms reach was the only way I could fix sleeping through it. Otherwise I'd just turn it off while half asleep and wouldn't even remember it going off.

I keep my phone on the other side of the room at max volume, so when it goes off in the morning I have to get up.