Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 304

So, I'm back to hawk my wares again-

I'm selling a Steam copy of Borderlands 2 GotY edition for a friend.  She wants $30, but I talked her down to $29. 

I'm also selling my extra Steam copy of Morrowind that I ended up with since I bought the Anthology set and it came with Morrowind.  It's GotY edition as well, and I'm asking $5.

Anyone interested?

Oh, the load times!

Possessed said:

I've been playing the Zelda games for n64 (ocarina of time and majoras mask) on the pc connected to my hdtv with an hdmi cable, rendering all graphics at 1080P and with a custom texture pack that replaces low res graphics (which already look better upscaled) with hi res textures, and the pack is over 20 times the size of the entire game, it's a whole new experience, and it looks beautiful.

Late response.  Personally, I prefer the original upscaled textures to any texture pack.  It helps that the video plugin I use can make the games native widescreen (with varying success, but it's perfect with Zelda.)  It doesn't stretch the picture, it actually opens it up.  If the plugins that support texture packs can do this I haven't found a way yet.

As I said a bit earlier 'Dues Ex: Human Revolution' on the PS3 is maaahh favourite game. But I was looking at video of and reading reviews of the recent 'Director's Cut' version and was wondering if it was worth an upgrade.

It's another £19.99 on PSN on top of what I've already spent on the game which seems very steep for a glorified patch.

Has anybody upgraded and thought it was worth the money?

Ryan McAvoy said:

As I said a bit earlier 'Dues Ex: Human Revolution' on the PS3 is maaahh favourite game. But I was looking at video of and reading reviews of the recent 'Director's Cut' version and was wondering if it was worth an upgrade.

It's another £19.99 on PSN on top of what I've already spent on the game which seems very steep for a glorified patch.

Has anybody upgraded and thought it was worth the money?

 I am trying to make that same decision.  On PC, you can upgrade the regular cut + DLC to the DC for $5.  I think I paid $6 for the game (haven't played ityet), so $5 for a 'glorified patch' seems steep.  But if I'm going to play it for 40+ hours, another $5 to make the experience better seems worth it.

Are you familiar with E.Y.E. Divince Cybermancy?  Supposed to be like (the original) Deus Ex.  I have some extra Steam copies.  I haven't played that one either, but it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve.

xhonzi said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

As I said a bit earlier 'Dues Ex: Human Revolution' on the PS3 is maaahh favourite game. But I was looking at video of and reading reviews of the recent 'Director's Cut' version and was wondering if it was worth an upgrade.

It's another £19.99 on PSN on top of what I've already spent on the game which seems very steep for a glorified patch.

Has anybody upgraded and thought it was worth the money?

 I am trying to make that same decision.  On PC, you can upgrade the regular cut + DLC to the DC for $5.  I think I paid $6 for the game (haven't played ityet), so $5 for a 'glorified patch' seems steep.  But if I'm going to play it for 40+ hours, another $5 to make the experience better seems worth it.

Are you familiar with E.Y.E. Divince Cybermancy?  Supposed to be like (the original) Deus Ex.  I have some extra Steam copies.  I haven't played that one either, but it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve.

 If you've not played Dues Ex:HR yet I'd STRONGLY reccomend getting the Director's cut.

Most reviews and my view too are that the original version of Dues Ex was a near masterpiece but the boss battles are absolute cr*p.

The main game invites you to meet problems and enemies with multiple appraoches, techniques and skills. The boss battles are just button mashing explody things. So you can spend the first part of the game honing all you super secret stealth skills, then find that the first boss is only vulnerable to a huge explosive weapon, meaning you hit a massive difficulty spike. This is because for some insane reason the boss battles were farmed out to an outside studio.

With the DC, Eidos Montreal have apparently completely redone all the boss battles themselves, to make them play like the rest of the game. So for you I'd pay the money. But for me having bought the game and all the DLC and played it all through 4 times. It's difficult to decide to spend that money on just a 5th play through, even if it's a better experience.

Also being familiar with the title, I can see how the new second-screen feature would integrate beautifully. I can just picture hacking my way past all the security on an ingame computer console (Which you will do hundreds of times) using my iPhone.

Ryan McAvoy said:

 If you've not played Dues Ex:HR yet I'd STRONGLY reccomend getting the Director's cut.

Most reviews and my view too are that the original version of Dues Ex was a near masterpiece but the boss battles are absolute cr*p.

Well, it was on sale this weekend, so I upgraded my copy to DC for $3.  Hmm... now I just need time to play it.

Also being familiar with the title, I can see how the new second-screen feature would integrate beautifully. I can just picture hacking my way past all the security on an ingame computer console (Which you will do hundreds of times) using my iPhone.

 They're apparently still figuring that part out for the PC.  I'd like to play it that way- so hopefully it will work by the time I get around to playing it.

xhonzi said:

Are you familiar with E.Y.E. Divince Cybermancy?  Supposed to be like (the original) Deus Ex.  I have some extra Steam copies.  I haven't played that one either, but it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve.

And?

xhonzi said:

xhonzi said:

Are you familiar with E.Y.E. Divince Cybermancy?  Supposed to be like (the original) Deus Ex.  I have some extra Steam copies.  I haven't played that one either, but it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve.

And?

 No not familiar with that one, the original Deus Ex or the other sequel. I could never get past the fiddely interface and outdated graphics of Deus Ex1 when I tried it back in the day despite it's strong reviews (So I'm only going to be less impressed if I tried it again).

I've got a Steam account because you got AvP2000 free one time but other than that and a few other older titles I don't game on my PC anymore (Not got the specs). I was a loyal PC user and builder until the belated release of GTA4, which when it finally did show up wouldn't run properly despite my PC at the time being top of the range. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle constantly updating an expensive gaming PC anymore, so I switched to a handy laptop and a console. Been very happy with my PS3 and Vaio ever since.

Ryan McAvoy said:

xhonzi said:

Are you familiar with E.Y.E. Divince Cybermancy?  Supposed to be like (the original) Deus Ex.  I have some extra Steam copies.  I haven't played that one either, but it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve.

 No not familiar with that one, the original Deus Ex or the other sequel. I could never get past the fiddely interface and outdated graphics of Deus Ex1 when I tried it back in the day despite it's strong reviews (So I'm only going to be less impressed if I tried it again).

I've got a Steam account because you got AvP2000 free one time but other than that and a few other older titles I don't game on my PC anymore (Not got the specs). I was a loyal PC user and builder until the belated release of GTA4, which when it finally did show up wouldn't run properly despite my PC at the time being top of the range. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle constantly updating an expensive gaming PC anymore, so I switched to a handy laptop and a console. Been very happy with my PS3 and Vaio ever since.

Yeah, that sounds a lot like the reason I converted to console in ~2001.  But I'm back to PC now.  Pretty happy with that decision.

I haven't played Human Revolution yet, but I'd be surprised if it was as deep as Deus Ex 1.  They just don't make games like that anymore.  Deep's probably not the right word... but even with Bioshock Infinite's 1999 mode, it's still not nearly as 1999y and 1999 games were.  Deus Ex 1 is very 1999y.  I am excited to play HR, but don't expect it to be as 1999y as Deus Ex 1.

Check out some youtube videos of E.Y.E. sometime and see what you think.  It's apparently so 1999y that it's 1998y.

Possessed said:

Absolutely! And also there are packs for Majora's Mask as well so if you want to experience it again without playing the same game you can try that.  Also it works with Master Quest!

 I'd love to know where I could find these texture packs!

Original classic 'Dungeon Keeper' totally free over on GOG.com for next few hours only, so be quick if you want it. I've just added it to my collection, mmmmm free goodies :-)

(Many other games including D&D catalogue are 80-90% off price today)

Johnny Ringo said:

xhonzi said:

http://www.indiegala.com/ Interstellar marines is on sale. Get a copy for $1. Get 3 copies for $5, one of which is the deluxe version.

 

I already have it, but I bought the 3 new copies anyways.  Hit me up if you want a copy.  I think this could turn into something awesome.

 For a dollar?

I used up all of my copies of the game.  But you can still get it for $1 (or whatever your upside down equivalent of it is in Aussieland) from indiegala.  Go get it!

picked up Deus Ex 1 and 2 [yes, DX fans - DX2 exists] for cheapsies. I forgot how chunky these games look. DX2 definitely feels like a console port and yet...no controller support - strangely the menus can be navigated with a controller. Looking at some 3rd party options, playing it with a keyboard just isn't that much fun.

I liked DX2 okay when it came out.  It was a step in the wrong direction from DX1, but I still enjoyed it for what it was.  I was a Kb/M player at the time, so lack of controller support didn't bother me... but it would now.

I think DX1 has several different HD texture packs out there.  Have you already looked into that?  I'm thinking I would enjoy a DX1 replay someday, but would probably have to use some tweaks to make it feel now like it did then.

Got into the TITANFALL Beta. So far it's a good bit of fun but already I can see that it suffers from the same issues as other shooters - mostly jerks.\

I played the Beta on PC this weekend for 2-3 hours.  I liked it.  Not enough to drop $60 on it anytime soon... and I often feel like any time I spend in competitive multiplayer gaming is fun, but ultimately does nothing to get me closer to finishing the games I must play before I die... so I don't look for those games much.

Ryan and anybody else who cares:

Portable Deus Ex Game: The Fall on sale for $1 on Android and Apple.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squareenix.dxm

I was amused to find out that our newest/third Wii U game, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, doesn't only allow you to not use the gamepad at all, but turns off the second screen completely (Super Mario 3D World mirrors the screen at all times and Zelda: Wind Waker HD uses it for inventory).

I'm not sure if I should be disappointed that Nintendo isn't utilizing their own gimmick, or thankful that they're not slaving themselves to it.

I am really liking the Assassin's Creed 4 second screen on my iPad. That's something we need more of.

xhonzi said:

Ryan and anybody else who cares:

Portable Deus Ex Game: The Fall on sale for $1 on Android and Apple.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squareenix.dxm

 Thanks for the tip (It's £4.99 for UK Deus Ex fans btw). It looks almost as good as the full game. I might wait a bit and see if it gets ported to the PS3 (Like they did for one of the MGS titles) because it looks like it will suck to play on a touch screen.

I'd rather they spent the time developing more DLC for the actual game because the 'Missing Link' mini-game was freakin' awesome. Playing that whole thing through on the hardest settings with no weapons and no upgrades takes pure dedication but a lot of fun.