Thread for Gamers: Yes, Yes, XCOM 2 is here...

[Veceria]

Does ARMA sort of have to be played with a clan (or otherwise big group of personal friends that I don't have) to be worthwhile?

I keep watching Womble's vids and... that's something I'd really like to get into.

Yes. The single-player gets boring pretty fast. And also incredible hard if you don't have NPCs as meatshields running around. Enemies can see through trees and other small obstacles.

[The Lendol Archipelago]

I take it that the same applies to Arma II for PS3?

[The first Galactic Republic]

No Man's Sky continues to be a dumpster fire.

[Olivaero]

No Man's Sky continues to be a dumpster fire.

I haven't seen any well reasoned criticism of it. just "WHERES MUH ACTION"

[Krazakistan]

No Man's Sky continues to be a dumpster fire.

I haven't seen any well reasoned criticism of it. just "WHERES MUH ACTION"

>Planet flight feels on rails, since it literally keeps you from hitting the ground, and basically all you get to do is change directions, or point up
>Landing is done by the game
>Space flight feels... 2 Dimensional somehow
>Exploration is very boring
>I don't even bother exploring the damn caves now, you've seen one, you've seen them all
>You have a total of like 7 building types to visit, each with very repetitive and boring things to do with them
>Dialogue begins repeating fairly soon, about 5 hours in
>90% of planets are just barren rocks. Which you could argue is realistic, but you also could argue that the lack of gas giants is unrealistic
>Black holes are just transporters to a part of the galaxy closer to the center
>You can't fly manually between systems
>There are loading screens, hidden as a "Warp" between systems
>You can't crash land on a planet
>You can't fly into a star
>You can't build things (yet)
>The planets are all different, yet there's no reason to explore any of them
>Rare items do nothing
>Ending just warps you to a new universe with all your upgrades wiped

[Imperializt Russia]

You can't land on a gas giant, so what would be the point?

[Olivaero]

I haven't seen any well reasoned criticism of it. just "WHERES MUH ACTION"

>Planet flight feels on rails, since it literally keeps you from hitting the ground, and basically all you get to do is change directions, or point up
>Landing is done by the game
>Space flight feels... 2 Dimensional somehow
>Exploration is very boring
>I don't even bother exploring the damn caves now, you've seen one, you've seen them all
>You have a total of like 7 building types to visit, each with very repetitive and boring things to do with them
>Dialogue begins repeating fairly soon, about 5 hours in
>90% of planets are just barren rocks. Which you could argue is realistic, but you also could argue that the lack of gas giants is unrealistic
>Black holes are just transporters to a part of the galaxy closer to the center
>You can't fly manually between systems
>There are loading screens, hidden as a "Warp" between systems
>You can't crash land on a planet
>You can't fly into a star
>You can't build things (yet)
>The planets are all different, yet there's no reason to explore any of them
>Rare items do nothing
>Ending just warps you to a new universe with all your upgrades wiped

Maybe try engaging with the world a little bit? I get the feeling that thats what the entire game is about. Exploring is boring if it's not your thing sure but they have been completely upfront about the fact that the entire point of the game is exploring. The lack of buildings is potentially a problem sure but that is getting remedied in the next update.

[Veceria]

I haven't seen any well reasoned criticism of it. just "WHERES MUH ACTION"

>Planet flight feels on rails, since it literally keeps you from hitting the ground, and basically all you get to do is change directions, or point up
>Landing is done by the game
>Space flight feels... 2 Dimensional somehow
>Exploration is very boring
>I don't even bother exploring the damn caves now, you've seen one, you've seen them all
>You have a total of like 7 building types to visit, each with very repetitive and boring things to do with them
>Dialogue begins repeating fairly soon, about 5 hours in
>90% of planets are just barren rocks. Which you could argue is realistic, but you also could argue that the lack of gas giants is unrealistic
>Black holes are just transporters to a part of the galaxy closer to the center
>You can't fly manually between systems
>There are loading screens, hidden as a "Warp" between systems
>You can't crash land on a planet
>You can't fly into a star
>You can't build things (yet)
>The planets are all different, yet there's no reason to explore any of them
>Rare items do nothing
>Ending just warps you to a new universe with all your upgrades wiped

Regarding caves. What I haven't seen yet are actually deep caves that go several kilometres below the ground.
Those were always fun in Minecraft/Terraria/Starbound.

[Krazakistan]

>Planet flight feels on rails, since it literally keeps you from hitting the ground, and basically all you get to do is change directions, or point up
>Landing is done by the game
>Space flight feels... 2 Dimensional somehow
>Exploration is very boring
>I don't even bother exploring the damn caves now, you've seen one, you've seen them all
>You have a total of like 7 building types to visit, each with very repetitive and boring things to do with them
>Dialogue begins repeating fairly soon, about 5 hours in
>90% of planets are just barren rocks. Which you could argue is realistic, but you also could argue that the lack of gas giants is unrealistic
>Black holes are just transporters to a part of the galaxy closer to the center
>You can't fly manually between systems
>There are loading screens, hidden as a "Warp" between systems
>You can't crash land on a planet
>You can't fly into a star
>You can't build things (yet)
>The planets are all different, yet there's no reason to explore any of them
>Rare items do nothing
>Ending just warps you to a new universe with all your upgrades wiped

Maybe try engaging with the world a little bit? I get the feeling that thats what the entire game is about. Exploring is boring if it's not your thing sure but they have been completely upfront about the fact that the entire point of the game is exploring. The lack of buildings is potentially a problem sure but that is getting remedied in the next update.

How do you even engage with the world? There is literally nothing to do on them except gather resources.

You can't land on a gas giant, so what would be the point?

The point is there's no variety in planets besides different biomes. Not actual planet types.

[Olivaero]

Maybe try engaging with the world a little bit? I get the feeling that thats what the entire game is about. Exploring is boring if it's not your thing sure but they have been completely upfront about the fact that the entire point of the game is exploring. The lack of buildings is potentially a problem sure but that is getting remedied in the next update.

How do you even engage with the world? There is literally nothing to do on them except gather resources.

You can't land on a gas giant, so what would be the point?

The point is there's no variety in planets besides different biomes. Not actual planet types.

From the stream I saw it's mainly done through talking to aliens. Learning about their society etc.

[Krazakistan]

How do you even engage with the world? There is literally nothing to do on them except gather resources.


The point is there's no variety in planets besides different biomes. Not actual planet types.

From the stream I saw it's mainly done through talking to aliens. Learning about their society etc.

Except none of that shit even matters and it's super shallow. All you do is walk up to these guys and spam the square button until they give you a blueprint for something you already know how to make, or give you a new waypoint that leads to another npc who wants to give you a blueprint for something you already know how to make.

[Imperializt Russia]

Sounds like the hype machine strikes again, so blame Sony.

[Krazakistan]

Sounds like the hype machine strikes again, so blame Sony.

It did, and I'm sure as hell glad I didn't buy into it. It's a 5/10 at best

[Olivaero]

From the stream I saw it's mainly done through talking to aliens. Learning about their society etc.

Except none of that shit even matters and it's super shallow. All you do is walk up to these guys and spam the square button until they give you a blueprint for something you already know how to make, or give you a new waypoint that leads to another npc who wants to give you a blueprint for something you already know how to make.

Well I guess I'll see after 5 pm today.

[Narintia]

Fuck No Mans Sky, I KNEW it was gonna suck, a galaxy wide and a inch deep.
Should have stuck with Elite Dangerous lol
The game is shallow, all I do is spam square, if I wanted to spam a button I would have bought Ultimate Tenkachi...
Fuck that game. It isn't worth a penny.

[Imperializt Russia]

Wonder if this'll be Monday's Jimquisition episode...

[Olivaero]

I think it's probably designed with a similar mindset to say, the X series before it got shit, you create your own meaning to your playthrough, it's not everyone's cup of tea for sure but It's the type of game I generally like.

[Barboneia]

Wonder if this'll be Monday's Jimquisition episode...

What, No Man's Sky? He did an episode on it already.

[Corrian]

The only thing I heard so far from my dads friend is that it was "everything he wanted and expected it to be", aka a lot of it is exactly what it was advertised as, and people are complaining about that.

That being said though, from what I see above, there does sound like there are legitimate problems that go beyond "Exactly how advertised", but some of it seems to be like "Oh, all there is to do is explore!", even though that's pretty much EXACTLY what it was being advertised as.

Again though, even with this, and I love mindless exploration (Seriously, I spend games like Grand Theft Auto V exploring for hours instead of actually doing anything in the beginning, always), none of that was EVER worth $60 to me. I wanna play it but I'll wait for a while, especially with all of these things I have already.

[Corrian]

Also, thinking of finally getting back into Bioshock again.

[Imperializt Russia]

Wonder if this'll be Monday's Jimquisition episode...

What, No Man's Sky? He did an episode on it already.

He did an episode or two on the pre-emptive backlash, one of them months ago, and he's done a Jimpressions.

I don't think he's quite railed against the hype train (aside Overwatch) for a while, so maybe he will use it for Monday's episode.

[Gristol-Serkonos]

As much as I love Black Desert Online, I am going to quit it.

So much for their promise for not going to Pay to Win.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

Sounds like the hype machine strikes again, so blame Sony.

Honestly, from what I've seen I'd blame the gaming community for hyping it into the stratosphere.

From nearly day one Hello Games made it clear exactly what sort of game it was. People themselves just extrapolated the info they were given to seemingly absurdist heights.

[Imperializt Russia]

Sounds like the hype machine strikes again, so blame Sony.

Honestly, from what I've seen I'd blame the gaming community for hyping it into the stratosphere.

From nearly day one Hello Games made it clear exactly what sort of game it was. People themselves just extrapolated the info they were given to seemingly absurdist heights.

Gamers: why gamers can't have nice things.

[Ardavia]

If anyone's interested in that 40k action RPG they're making, neocore released a new trailer recently