Definitely looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2. The first game was one of my favorite games ever. I will probably pick up Jump Force as well.
Somehow I failed to realize until last weekend that the SNES Classic was no longer impossible to find outside of drastically overpriced ebay auctions and stuff like that. I'm way too old to stress over pre-orders and such so when it released and sold out immediately I resigned myself to never getting one. Whelp, Amazon delivered mine yesterday. I got it mainly for Yoshi's Island, which Nintendo has never released on any of their Virtual Consoles, supposedly due to complications emulating the SFX chip. And man, it is just as good as I remember. The other games are just icing.
Well! Once I get my hands on Fallout 76 I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to set up a pharmacy/drug storr. I'm going to sell all you motherfucking wastetrels. Get you guys all high as a kite So that means I need to scavenge materials and get my chemical making skills up That also means I need to fortify my drugstore with everything available
On the one hand it really bothers me that Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't available for the PC. On the other hand, my aging desktop machine wouldn't have done it proper justice anyway. I never played the original, and I haven't followed this one particularly closely, but man... It now sits at the very top of my "Do Want" list. Guess I'm gonna break down and buy the bloody console before the year is out.
So... any chance anyone else as the PC version of Fallout 76... so that when I finally get to play, I can have some buddies.... though I may play solo first.
Yeah, I know, but I'm gonna want to upgrade my rig for it anyway, and that's not gonna be cheap. If I get it for the PS4 instead, those upgrades can wait, ideally until the price of a top-of-the-line GPU falls a bit. Besides, there are other exclusives I'd like to get my grubby little paws on.
Personally, I'd upgrade. A Ps4 is a Ps4 and is good for Ps4 games and probably Netfix, But a PC is like a Swiss Army knife that you can use to do pretty much anything. I've actually got 3 or 4 consoles emulated on my 5 year old desktop. No Ps4, though.
Absolutely, and I'm gonna get the upgrade when that's financially responsible, whether that means saving up some money or waiting for a price drop. It'll probably be both. As it is, my 6 year old desktop can handle most modern games just fine, though in some cases it's starting to lag during particularly intense scenes or huge areas in graphically intensive games. When I do upgrade, I want to go big, and not even have to think about system requirements for another 5 years at least. I think I'd like to have a PS4 in the meantime.
I'm trying to remember the last time we saw a AAA release from a major studio flop quite as hard with the public and the press as Fallout 76 seems to be doing. Assassin's Creed Unity comes to mind but even that didn't seem to generate as much outcry. Big studios usually play it safe - and take some flak from us for doing so - when there's this much money and a beloved franchise in play. I don't have a dog in this fight since I've never really gotten into Bethesda's open-world RPGs (though I've always had respect for them) and I didn't buy this one either. Also, if you like this game, awesome, I mean no offense. But I'm just thinking, here's a developer that took a big risk and tried to innovate with a new gameplay style and apparently none of it worked. We complain when Activision releases more or less the same Call of Duty year after year but you can bet they're looking at Bethesda right now and remembering the reason they're afraid to change their formula too much. I don't have a solution; obviously this game has big problems and I'm not suggesting anyone should pretend otherwise. But now the rest of the industry is watching Bethesda faceplant and the lesson they'll probably draw is not to sink too much money into new ideas, since you stand to lose so much with a high profile failure. Not just money but also the public's goodwill, which in turn loses money on games you haven't even made yet. They were already afraid of that and now they'll just more afraid. And I just think that's a shame. Oh well, at least there's the indie scene.
Between editing my novel, I've gotten back into Total War: Rome 2. Currently playing a campaign as Rome, with the added self-imposed challenge of expanding at roughly the same rate and to the same extent as the real Rome did. I'm currently in the middle of my 1st Punic War with Carthage. Their forces in Sicily got beat up fighting Syracuse before I drove Carthage off the island, they're fighting a Numidian tribe in Africa, and I shattered their main navy near Sardinia, so it's not too tough at the moment. Just need to force them to make a peace treaty now.
So Super Smash Bros Ultimate is finally out, and it was everything I hoped it would be. Absolutely fantastic game. Sure, it's going to take a while to unlock the insane roster, but I'm getting there. And other than Jigglypuff, I haven't found any characters I don't like so far. Other than Jigglypuff. God, I hate Jigglypuff. I just want to kick him into oblivion. And hey, now I can.
How is the online? I'm probably going to pick this up at some point, but as an aging gamer who doesn't have a ton of friends that'll sit on my couch and play with me my primary focus would be the online play, and I've heard the Switch's wireless connection can have issues keeping up with the speed of some matches. Supposedly there's a piece of hardware you can buy for a wired connection that makes things run better.
First of all, I know games like these usually don't have much content for solo players, but Ultimate is different. There is an insane amount of content here for solo players. I've currently got 35+ hours into the game, and almost all of it has been in the World of Light mode and Classic mode. And yes, that's 35+ hours already, after just a week. That's how addictive and awesome the game really is. As for the online bit, I've tried it, and it's... fine, I guess. There are two main modes to play: Smash and Battle Arena. Smash is the usual, uh, smash mode. People join, you fight, and that's about that. You can set up specific rules and all that, and it works really well. Battle Arena is a mode where you also play the usual Smash mode, but people will join in during matches. These will be set in a waiting line. For instance, if you have four players fighting, and a fifth player joins, he or she will be set in a waiting line. When the match is over, one of the current players will leave, giving room for the fifth player. You do get to pick who will leave in the rules, like the one in the last place, or the one in the first place. Annoyingly, you can only be either in the waiting line, or sit on the spectator bench and spectate the next match. Really wish you could be in the waiting line and spectate at the same time. I tried to spectate a match, but was then put in the back of the line in the waiting line afterwards. The main issue with the online is that it depends a lot on every player's connection. My line is fast and stable, and I've never had an issue playing games online on the Switch. Especially Splatoon 2 took a lot of time, with the online co-op. In Smash, most matches are smooth, but if a player with a bad connection joins, it caues major slowdown for everyone. I've had matches turn into a slide-show because of it. The worst part is there's nothing I can do about it, as it's the other player who has the bad connection. This is why you get a warning when you start, saying you need a stable connection to play. But all in all, I love Smash Ultimate. There's just so much content here, even for solo players, and the online bit works great when everyone has a great connection. Even better, I've managed to unlock 50 characters so far. That's only 2/3 of the roster. It's insane how big it really is.
Thanks for that extremely in-depth response! I really do need to pick this up. The Switch is my first piece of Nintendo hardware for a couple gens so I've missed out on a lot of this series' evolution; I played a ton of the N64 game back in the days when I lived with roommates but clearly Nintendo has added a lot of single-player content since then which is good to hear. My wireless connection runs Mario Kart online without issues so hopefully Smash will work too, though yeah, I see how that can depend on other people's connections as well.
I'm looking for a new game and wondering about The Witcher series... but when I went to Steam for the first in the series the reviews said the game was really buggy. So I'm wondering about starting with Witcher 2. Any thoughts? Will I be missing a lot of story if I don't play the first game?
I never played the first Witcher, but I recommend against skipping the second one. It's a good game in its own right, and I think it's highly satisfying to see your desicions carry over through imported saves. Witcher 3 can work well as a standalone title, but I feel like my experience would have been lessened if I had gone straight to it.
All of the Witcher games are really buggy. And general rule of thumb about whether you'll like Witcher is how you feel about grimdark. Because Witcher reeks of grimdark (and every problem I have with grimdark, but that's my opinion).
Hmmm... so possibly I should open my question up a little. I recently re-played all three games in both the Dragon Age series and the Mass Effect series. I like the RPG/action mix. I like the way the NPCs interact with the player character. (The romances are fun, but not mandatory--what I really like is the characterization). I'm thinking of The Witcher as a similar game, but I haven't actually played it. Am I right that it's similar? Is there something else people could suggest that might scratch a similar itch?
The Witcher 3 is the most new player friendly and is better written than the dragon age games. While you don't get a traditional party, there are several recurring characters, and all sex scenes are options. However, in the witcher 3 you are a set character, with a built-in history, meaning that there's less customisation and none in terms of biology.
None of the Dragon Age games think horrible, vile people are totally sympathetic and justified because their wife was a jerk.