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Bowielee

Bowielee

Fun Size said:
Ooh, that's good to know. Lego Marvel is still played heavily at my place, me having put my foot down on Lego Batman 2 (dude, we're at 100% - I'm not playing it any damn more). I was hopeful for this one.
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I'll let you know if it improves any. The one thing I think I should make clear is that I may not be the most unbiased regarding the game for a few reasons:

1) I'm suffering heavily from Batman fatigue. I'm sick of him as a character, and it figuratively kills me to say that.

2) Pretty much everything from DC right now has sort of a poisoned well effect for me. I'm so disgusted with everything they've produced lately that I may not be judging this game fairly.

3) Batman being kind of a dick to Robin (no pun intended, especially because they state that the Robin in the games is Tim Drake) was pretty funny in the first game, but it really wears thin in this one. Robin is practically a drooling idiot and Batman is almost All Star Batman and Robin Batman.

I know it's not Lego games in general because I just recently got Pirates of the Caribbean and still love that game.
 
Jay

Jay

The Sims 4 : Surprisingly excellent. It doesn't have all the bells and features of 3 but the vanilla copy is pretty solid. I've been banging Bella Goth.

Alien Isolation : Excellent. My gaming fetish are huge sandbox medieval worlds and being stuck inside something in space trying to survive whatever odds are against me. Let me just say, this game gets stealth RIGHT.

Unity : LOL NO.
 
Terrik

Terrik

Jay said:
The Sims 4 : Surprisingly excellent. It doesn't have all the bells and features of 3 but the vanilla copy is pretty solid. I've been banging Bella Goth.

Alien Isolation : Excellent. My gaming fetish are huge sandbox medieval worlds and being stuck inside something in space trying to survive whatever odds are against me. Let me just say, this game gets stealth RIGHT.

Unity : LOL NO.
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Jay! You son of a bitch. Come back! Your absence isn't as excusable as JCM. We're all his alts after all. But you...you're at least one in a hundred.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Finished a Wonderlocke (Nuzlocke variant) on Pokemon Y--and by that I mean it finished me. A bunch of my team got killed on Victory Road, and so I decided to try to solo the Elite Four with just one Pokemon. Got through three of them, but the fourth had that Pokemon's weakness.

Looking forward to Alpha Ruby in a week.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I like how Jay throws me a disagree when he's still sucking EA's mayo hose with Sims 4.

Then again, my wife is getting Dragon Age 3 on Tuesday. Which is looking really good, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
 
Dave

Dave

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I'm currently playing "WoW: The WoD Loading Queue". It's awesome and totally worth the $60 I paid for it.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Verdict on Mario Kart 8 DLC, round 1: one lackluster tracks and seven great ones. The Zelda one is delightfully gimmicky, with rupees instead of coins and the item sound resembling opening a chest in Zelda, and the F-Zero one is a blast. The dud is Yoshi's course, but that really doesn't matter when there's so much goodness. I can't believe all this was $6; I would've paid much more.
 
grub

grub

Zero Esc said:
I don't mean the set of four races, I mean just the one under Yoshi's name. There are sets of turns that just bog down the race.
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I meant that one race, and the others. I really liked that race on the GameCube and was happy to see it show up again.

Now all they have to do is add proper battle courses.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

grub said:
I meant that one race, and the others. I really liked that race on the GameCube and was happy to see it show up again.

Now all they have to do is add proper battle courses.
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Oh, I didn't realize it was a retro course. I'll have to pull out Double Dash and see if it felt better to me there, maybe because I use a bike for Mario Kart 8.
 
fade

fade

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Mount & Blade

It was free and it had lots of high reviews. What they hell? Am I missing something? This game seems like the definition of tedious. I'll give it a little longer.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

fade said:
Mount & Blade

It was free and it had lots of high reviews. What they hell? Am I missing something? This game seems like the definition of tedious. I'll give it a little longer.
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It's quite long form. You ever play Sid Meyer's Pirates!? It's like that, but so much more indepth, with an end game where the goal isn't to just let your side win, but usurper your lord and become kind yourself.

Warband is much better, but it's more of the same.
 
Reverent-one

Reverent-one

Zero Esc said:
Verdict on Mario Kart 8 DLC, round 1: one lackluster tracks and seven great ones. The Zelda one is delightfully gimmicky, with rupees instead of coins and the item sound resembling opening a chest in Zelda, and the F-Zero one is a blast. The dud is Yoshi's course, but that really doesn't matter when there's so much goodness. I can't believe all this was $6; I would've paid much more.
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You pretty much hit the nail on the head for me. I also love the Mastercycle, admittedly a lot of that has to do with looks and I'd use it regardless of whether the stats were any good.
 
Dei

Dei

I foolishly spent an hour playing with DragonAgeKeep.com and now the siren song of Inquisition is getting harder to resist. MUST STAY STRONG.
 
Far

Far

It's looking and sounding really good. I'm not gonna pre-order but if Tuesday rolls around and its maintains the momentum it's built so far I might cave.
 
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Jay

Jay

I don't give a rat's ass what magazine reviewers have to say anymore. I'm TB/Reddit/Metacritic or bust. In that order.

I also watch some Let's Plays/
 
Null

Null

Yeah Let's Plays are generally the best form of review. You get to see if a game looks like it would be awesome, annoying, or just not your cup of tea, without having to buy it. It gives you a great indication of problems that a regular review might not adequate express (or, conversely, make too big a deal about). For example, an annoying mini-map, or awkward menu, or bullshit inventory management, or "How the fuck do I use this?!" weaponry (I'm looking at you, Call of Duty: Kevin Spacey and Titanfall edition), or "friendly" AI that makes you want to scream.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

I don't trust reviews after DA2 (which was kind of okay in its best moments and horribly boring in its worst). I'll wait for YouTube to get flooded and see how many glitch/bug/it stinks! videos I find.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I'm near the end of Bayonetta again; I think it's just the two last boss chapters to go.

When I finished Bayonetta 2, I was disappointed that the great gameplay was also a little easier than the first game. I'm not disappointed anymore, because now I remember why the first game was so hard--it fucking cheats. You'll get sucker punched immediately after cutscenes, weird mini-games are thrown into chapters for no reason that bring down your score, and the quick-time events ... goddamn, they are bullshit. Replaying a chapter, you can do a lot better if you remember when each thing is going to jump out at you, but there are all these hindrances on what is otherwise a fantastic game.

It's also nice that Bayonneta 2 doesn't feel like it needs to have as much structure as Bayonetta 1. The first game felt the need to build a certain number of giant boss levels, with fewer and fewer regular levels between them, and for a video game, this is fine, but it's also the usual route. Bayonetta 2 is more organic, in that big events happen all over the place, and there isn't a need to force lots of unnecessary little battles in between. There's a lot less bullshit, making for a much more balanced game that still mostly plays the same.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Dragon Age: Inquisition: More like NOT playing. My wife hasn't been able to start because the method of having your choices carry over from the prior games is to fill out a bunch of questions on Dragon Age Keep after logging in with your Origin account. So fun. Great game.
 
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