Vidya Games Thread

[Punished Anime Discusser]

You guys best apologize to Anthem, because it could, in fact, get infinitely worse.

 

[El Rrata]

You guys best apologize to Anthem

I will do no such thing.

 

[Kazuma]

IGN gave it a 9/10

 

[UberSoldat]

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Here are some recommendations from my side, even though horror ain't my cup of tea personally:

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The FEAR Complete Pack, worth it just for FEAR 1 and its expansions

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Includes 6 items: F.E.A.R., F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn (DLC), F.E.A.R. 3, F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point , F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate ...

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Doom 3: BFG Edition, comes with the original that I prefer over the remaster because of the weird changes the latter makes, such as an overabundance of ammo and the chest-mounted flashlight. I know some Doom fans don't like this one, but 3 has a special place in my heart.


Blood, another Monolith title as well as their humble beginnings. Also one of the best boomshoots ever made, period.


Barotrauma, very fun coop experience


Cultic, inspired by Blood and just as dope.


DUSK, another one of the best boomshoots out there


Killing Floors 1 and 2, COD Zombies cranked up to 11. If 3 flops, at least these two still exist



The STALKER trilogy, although jank, still very much worth experiencing

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The System Shocks, although not strictly horror, they're excellent isolation horror titles. Remake in particular is Nightdive's magnum opus.

 

[Superduper Samurai]

I wish i had the metokur laugh.mp4 handy

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I just want Bioware to die at this point, to be honest. Their carcass isn't even smelly or rotting, it has completely decayed.

It's a hollowed out husk worn by the biggest retards imaginable. I just hope this dumpster fire is big enough to finally convince EA to close the studio and put the name to rest.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

It's a hollowed out husk worn by the biggest retards imaginable. I just hope this dumpster fire is big enough to finally convince EA to close the studio and put the name to rest.

dont worry it will be back in 5ish years when you forget how bad this is.

 

[El Rrata]

forget how bad this is.

I wish I could forget how bad Inquisition was

 

[Superduper Samurai]

Being a Dragon Age fan must be suffering, atleast the Mass Effect Trilogy and Kotor duology are perfectly servicable, at most i keep hearing Origins is the good one and every other game is either painfully mediocre or garbage

 

[El Rrata]

Being a Dragon Age fan must be suffering, atleast the Mass Effect Trilogy and Kotor duology are perfectly servicable, at most i keep hearing Origins is the good one and every other game is either painfully mediocre or garbage

I mean, if you could call yourself a fan of the series after 2 and Inquisition, you have gotta have something wrong with your brain.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

shows how bad the state of things was that origins was considered more then passable.


still glad bioware did the series to present outstanding evidence that anyone could do it better but ehh.

 

[RestlessRain]

shows how bad the state of things was that origins was considered more then passable.

Dragon Age: Origins was a great game. Lots of meaningful choices for the story and how the characters would respond to you, the combat system was fun, the maps were open enough to be a good size without being too bloated and empty, there was good variety in what you could do for character builds, and the main characters were interesting. I could nitpick a few things but I sunk over a hundred hours into it, so it did get a lot of things right.

I'll agree that the games after that were dogshit. The second game recycled its content over and over, and the third game was too bloated and empty and the combat system took a real step down from the first. Both were real slogs to play.

 

[Lee Crabb]

Sorry Bioware, adding an Asian elf gf isn't going to make me buy this slop.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

The interesting bit about Dragon Age is they might have actually landed on a good combat system, but there's kind of a big problem. You can apparently settle into the "assured win" combo system in the first few minutes, and you never have to change from that approach. That's probably going to be a huge point of contention, because if you don't engage deeply with the combat system it's just a damage sponge combat.

So, for a "Dragon Age" game, the crowd that just wants to hit things will be happy, but the actual Dragon Age fans are probably going to be in full-throated Roast Mode after they get the game. It's about to get wild.

 

[MrProcessor]

I wish I could forget how bad Inquisition was

Never4Get

 

[Superduper Samurai]

Never4Get

You can smell the goodboy points from here, the writer was probably allowed out of the cuck chair for one night for getting this line in

 

[Smelliest007]

'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' Described As "Piece Of Garbage" And "The Tombstone Of BioWare"

Spanish-speaking streamer Natalysa Sirinova blasted Dragon Age: The Veilguard after obtaining a review copy by allegedly informing the company she was a "non-binary woman."

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Spanish-speaking streamer Natalya Sirinova blasted Dragon Age: The Veilguard after obtaining a review copy by allegedly informing the company she was a “non-binary woman.”
In an initial post to X, as translated via Google’s auto-translate function, Sirinova wrote, “Guess who got a Review Code from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. BioWare just sold his soul to the devil!!! I just had to say I was a non-binary woman and they gave it to me!!! Get ready for the mega review soon or tomorrow!”
Sirinova then shared her review of the game after three and a half hours of play. She wrote, “Terrible graphics. Boring and monotonous combat, they want to copy [God of War] but in a bad way.”


She continued, “The game does not run at a constant 30 FPS, it drops and the screen freezes when there are many NPCs. Many of the dialogues are noticeably made with AI.”


“Very linear, the options lead nowhere (False free will). The creator of characters focused on the trans and LGBT community,” she added. “Inclusive language, in Spanish subtitles.”
Next, she wrote, “The character move very robotic, they lack animations. THe script doesn’t make sense, neither do the quests, from one place to another killing bugs. Too much focus on homosexuality, lesbians, drags. Race swap everywhere.”


She then summarized, “It’s a f***ing piece of garbage as an RPG, stay away from this game, don’t even buy it on sale, it’s a pile of putrefaction created by people who have no f***ing idea about video games!!! Uninstalled already, f*** your mother!!”

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Dragon Age: Origins was a great game. Lots of meaningful choices for the story and how the characters would respond to you, the combat system was fun, the maps were open enough to be a good size without being too bloated and empty, there was good variety in what you could do for character builds, and the main characters were interesting. I could nitpick a few things but I sunk over a hundred hours into it, so it did get a lot of things right.

I'll agree that the games after that were dogshit. The second game recycled its content over and over, and the third game was too bloated and empty and the combat system took a real step down from the first. Both were real slogs to play.

as i said it was passable. though i think your nostalgia googles are on a little tight.

Mass Effect came out a year earlier and handled choices far better Combat was shit don't lie to me especially that damned camera. maps were cramped for the very most part (which is why the camera matters even more)

the lore and design was on point but its gonna take more then that to impress me.

Remaster Jade Empire already you damned cowards.

 

[Tubedude]

as i said it was passable. though i think your nostalgia googles are on a little tight.

Mass Effect came out a year earlier and handled choices far better Combat was shit don't lie to me especially that damned camera. maps were cramped for the very most part (which is why the camera matters even more)

the lore and design was on point but its gonna take more then that to impress me.

Remaster Jade Empire already you damned cowards.

I mean the combat is subjective I'd say, plus you could always zoom way out and treat it like a real-time squad strategy thing for combat.

The big thing for me with Origins beyond the already stated qualities, was being able to give your companions a relatively detailed action order for combat. Wish more games with companions had that.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

Reviews starting to come out for Dragon Age. Doesn't look good if even super lefty reviewer SkillUp is saying "Every interaction feels like HR is in the room" and "A bigger disappointment then Anthem was."

I don't agree with Skill Up at all regarding the companion quests. Having them outside the confines of the main quest often are better at demonstrating who the characters are, that they have lives outside the mission and can also be used for world building in areas that are missed in the main story. This was done very well in ME1 and was the crux of ME 2. Hell, I was way more engaged in that aspect of the ME games and Dragon Age over BG3's method, if that is what BG3 did (honestly the other problem is caring about the characters and I didn't care about anyone in BG3). It comes down to execution I suppose but DAV would still be shit if they were integrated more with the main story.

Remaster Jade Empire already you damned cowards.

Jade Empire would never fly in current year, they'd find some way to gay it up hard