Sulphur on 15/2/2016 at 06:44
It's only chosen by the WG caucus after all. At any rate, Rhianna Pratchett probably deserves something for the things she did, whatever those things were, as they mustn't have been the various scattered notes you find, which are all tediously written and even more tediously acted.
Thirith on 15/2/2016 at 07:39
Quote Posted by henke
Reeeeeeally now? Better writing than The Witcher 3?
And where's SOMA and Sunless Sea? Nudged off the nominees list by the latest Assassin's Creed game?
Not sure I trust this award. Then again I haven't played ROTTR or AC:S, maybe they
do have amazing writing.
I'd say that like all
Assassin's Creed games,
Syndicate is great for the historical tou-
Sorry, wrong record. :p
Like all
AC games,
Syndicate has some good characterisation and the scene-by-scene writing is competent and even enjoyable, but just don't look at overall plotting or thematic cohesion, or character arcs that develop over the whole game.
Black Flag did those best IMO, and they did okay with Ezio over the course of his three games, but with
AC's writing I always think there's a disconnect between individual scenes, which are generally well written and performed (although the characters can be hit and miss), and the game as a whole, which rarely even is the sum of its parts.
TannisRoot on 17/2/2016 at 17:09
Quote Posted by faetal
I still like the T-Rex encounter in the first one:
"Ah a species of animal thought to be extinct, this could be the scientific find of the century!"
Sound of gun being unholsteredThose things are quite a challenge and in the first level no less! In fact the entire game is challenging right out of the gate. It really adds to the atmosphere that the environment is unrelentingly hostile. It's hard to imagine a triple A title with that level of challenge these days.
No interest in playing the new one. Games are about gameplay and interaction to me and I have no patience for a mediocre on-rails story. Did people forget that books exist? They tend to tell stories a tad better than games. The only style of story-telling games do better than any other medium is environmental (i.e. Dark Souls, Metroid), but that's rarely implemented. Instead we get plots that wouldn't even sell a comic book...
If a game reviewer starts a review by discussing the story I immediately lose interest.
Sulphur on 12/3/2016 at 20:07
Incredibly, this DX12 patch has upped average frame rates for everywhere that was already running fairly well, and dropped it two frames per second for the one place that didn't, which was the Geothermal Valley. Good job, but probably needs more effort. Should be more optimisation incoming from what I've read.
henke on 27/1/2018 at 13:48
I'm late to the party on this one but perhaps I'm not the only one? I've also spotted Sulphur and Thirith playing it recently. I'm currently 5 hours in, at the Soviet Base. I've been a bit worried I'd fallen completely out of love with big-budget AAA western action-adventure games. The most recent one's I've played (Horizon Zero Dawn, Quantum Break, Uncharted 4), I've felt pretty meh about. So I'm surprised and delighted at how much I'm enjoying ROTTR. I can't really point to anything it does better than those other games either. It's videogamey as hell, the story isn't much to write home about, and the gameplay is very polished. Perhaps I'm just in the right frame of mind for something like this right now.
Just played the part where you get your hands on an assault rifle for the first time and I thought it was one of the best actionscenes I've experienced in a game in a while.
[video=youtube;7_OLKZDNNgU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_OLKZDNNgU[/video]
Dia on 27/1/2018 at 13:56
I've tried three times to install RotTB and all three times the installation failed miserably. Finally had to ask Steam for a refund; too frustrated to try again. (DL completes, hit play, then blank, black screen until I have to use Task Mgr. to close the program.) :(
Sulphur on 27/1/2018 at 14:17
Quote Posted by henke
I'm late to the party on this one but perhaps I'm not the only one? I've also spotted Sulphur and Thirith playing it recently. I'm currently 5 hours in, at the Soviet Base. I've been a bit worried I'd fallen completely out of love with big-budget AAA western action-adventure games. The most recent one's I've played (Horizon Zero Dawn, Quantum Break, Uncharted 4), I've felt pretty meh about. So I'm surprised and delighted at how much I'm enjoying ROTTR. I can't really point to anything it does better than those other games either. It's videogamey as hell, the story isn't much to write home about, and the gameplay is very polished. Perhaps I'm just in the right frame of mind for something like this right now.
Just played the part where you get your hands on an assault rifle for the first time and I thought it was one of the best actionscenes I've experienced in a game in a while.
[video=youtube;7_OLKZDNNgU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_OLKZDNNgU[/video]
It's extremely competent, enormously pretty, and hits all the requisite AAA spots; consequently, it's very playable while being blander than an unseasoned steak. As you can tell, I have a love/hate relationship with it. I don't enjoy Lara being a remorseless mass murderer, and that AK video highlights the problem really well.
Anyway, I booted it up to polish off the DLC, which seems interesting since I grew up reading folk tales from Russia and the Ukraine and know who Baba Yaga is. I'm hoping TRTRTR has some fun with the horror potential of that theme.
N'Al on 27/1/2018 at 15:31
Baba Yaga is incredibly short, but it does pack in a few neat set pieces during that time.
I quite enjoyed RotTR, but the series definitely has lost some of the adventuring spirit of earlier titles.
WingedKagouti on 27/1/2018 at 15:34
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Anyway, I booted it up to polish off the DLC, which seems interesting since I grew up reading folk tales from Russia and the Ukraine and know who Baba Yaga is. I'm hoping TRTRTR has some fun with the horror potential of that theme.
It's an interesting bit of story with some nice visuals. And they do play around with some horror themes.