Phumfeinz Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I got The Stanley Parable today. It has some neat ideas, but I got bored after two hours (I'm aware there are a lot more endings to see, but I just have no desire to). I'd wait for it to come down in price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StigVillan Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I got The Stanley Parable today. It has some neat ideas, but I got bored after two hours (I'm aware there are a lot more endings to see, but I just have no desire to). I'd wait for it to come down in price. Glad you said...I was tempted by that. Trying to be more "adventurous" in my gaming choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I got The Stanley Parable today. It has some neat ideas, but I got bored after two hours (I'm aware there are a lot more endings to see, but I just have no desire to). I'd wait for it to come down in price. Glad you said...I was tempted by that. Trying to be more "adventurous" in my gaming choices. Have you checked out The Wolf Among Us, or The Walking Dead? Definitely worth a look if you're looking to try something different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 (edited) Device 6 on iOS sounds like it's worth a go aswell, in a story-told-in-an-offbeat-unexpected kind of way too. Unfortunately I'm on android so can't try that one out. Edited October 24, 2013 by hogso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StigVillan Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I got The Stanley Parable today. It has some neat ideas, but I got bored after two hours (I'm aware there are a lot more endings to see, but I just have no desire to). I'd wait for it to come down in price. Glad you said...I was tempted by that. Trying to be more "adventurous" in my gaming choices. Have you checked out The Wolf Among Us, or The Walking Dead? Definitely worth a look if you're looking to try something different. Got both... Telltale are an amazing company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Their earlier games are a bit shit but they seem to have found their groove. Walking Dead season 2 will be out soon, can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 just seen the ps3 Christmas deal, £200 for the new model, beyond 2 souls, the last of us and uncharted 3 safe to say that's a bargain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Not really, who would pay 200 for a ps3 a few weeks before ps4 for 150 more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 with that much life left in the ps3? and with lets be honest a pretty uninspiring ps4 launch (and im getting one!) plenty of people at a guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Not really, who would pay 200 for a ps3 a few weeks before ps4 for 150 more? to be completely honest, the PS3 is the best value of any system, next gen included right now. You get yourself a PS3 and a PS+ subscription and you'll be up to your eyeballs in great games for the next 2 years while you wait for a next gen price drop and devs to get the hang of the hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted November 13, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 13, 2013 Considering getting ACIV, but I haven't played from Brotherhood onwards. Do I need to have played them all or am I good to go with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandaq Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Probably not the main story but I bet they are continuing that crappy side-story about Desmond. Honestly I just ignored it for every ac game I played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Feel for anyone that pre-ordered a PS4 or XBox One from Blockbuster. Although it was always a risk. Not pre-ordered a PS4 yet but will pick one up next year after I've got through the backlog of games on PS3 including Dishonored, The Last of Us and GTA V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Considering getting ACIV, but I haven't played from Brotherhood onwards. Do I need to have played them all or am I good to go with this? Well, it deals with Connor's (the protagonist from AC3) grandfather, so there will be things in the ancestor story you will miss if you haven't played AC3 I would assume. As for Desmond's story, it kind wrapped up for the most part in AC3, so I'm not sure what the modern-day story in AC4 is going to necessarily concern. I personally wouldn't, but I'm quite OCD about this sort of thing. I'm sure you'd enjoy the game regardless, but you could always just do a quick read online of the main story elements of the games you've missed. I really loved AC3 though so I'd recommend playing that anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Probably not the main story but I bet they are continuing that crappy side-story about Desmond Desmond's story finished in ACIII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 14, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 14, 2013 I see that someone from the Vatican illegally downloaded FM2013 (as did 10.1 million other people) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 14, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 14, 2013 Considering getting ACIV, but I haven't played from Brotherhood onwards. Do I need to have played them all or am I good to go with this? Well, it deals with Connor's (the protagonist from AC3) grandfather, so there will be things in the ancestor story you will miss if you haven't played AC3 I would assume. As for Desmond's story, it kind wrapped up for the most part in AC3, so I'm not sure what the modern-day story in AC4 is going to necessarily concern. I personally wouldn't, but I'm quite OCD about this sort of thing. I'm sure you'd enjoy the game regardless, but you could always just do a quick read online of the main story elements of the games you've missed. I really loved AC3 though so I'd recommend playing that anyway. AC3 was the first of the series I couldn't finish - it's still sat on my shelf, haven't touched it since the end of last year I'd guess... just found it spectacularly tedious and dull. But all the talk of 4 actually being a bit of a return to fun form, I'm tempted to slog through it and get onto the latest in the series... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted November 14, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) I think I'm just going to read/watch cutscenes from the other games, and probably trade in my spare DS4 on release day. £510 for a PS4, with 4 games, a camara and a year of PS+ is a great deal Edited November 14, 2013 by villarule123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) AC3 was the first of the series I couldn't finish - it's still sat on my shelf, haven't touched it since the end of last year I'd guess... just found it spectacularly tedious and dull. But all the talk of 4 actually being a bit of a return to fun form, I'm tempted to slog through it and get onto the latest in the series... It seemed to divide quite a few people from what I read. I really liked it, but I've always had quite an interest in the American Revolutionary War and that period in time so that was a big factor in my enjoyment of it I think. That and the naval battles, I loved those things which is why I'm particularly looking forward to AC4 as they're expanded upon, that and the Golden Age of Pirates is another one of my favourite periods in history. And pirates are just cool. What in particular did you find about AC3? Gameplay-wise was pretty much the same as AC2 onwards I thought, with the exception of the frontier areas but I really liked those. The only thing that bothered me with AC3 was Connor. Compared to Ezio he was really boring. I think they could have done a lot more with him, and I'm glad to hear that Edward Kenway seems to be much more well received. Oh and the only reason I haven't got AC4 is because I promised not to buy it so my brother and sister could get it for me as a birthday present. Sigh, two weeks to go. Edited November 14, 2013 by Ginko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 14, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) AC3 was the first of the series I couldn't finish - it's still sat on my shelf, haven't touched it since the end of last year I'd guess... just found it spectacularly tedious and dull. But all the talk of 4 actually being a bit of a return to fun form, I'm tempted to slog through it and get onto the latest in the series... It seemed to divide quite a few people from what I read. I really liked it, but I've always had quite an interest in the American Revolutionary War and that period in time so that was a big factor in my enjoyment of it I think. That and the naval battles, I loved those things which is why I'm particularly looking forward to AC4 as they're expanded upon, that and the Golden Age of Pirates is another one of my favourite periods in history. And pirates are just cool. What in particular did you find about AC3? Gameplay-wise was pretty much the same as AC2 onwards I thought, with the exception of the frontier areas but I really liked those. The only thing that bothered me with AC3 was Connor. Compared to Ezio he was really boring. I think they could have done a lot more with him, and I'm glad to hear that Edward Kenway seems to be much more well received. Oh and the only reason I haven't got AC4 is because I promised not to buy it so my brother and sister could get it for me as a birthday present. Sigh, two weeks to go. I felt it had a load of niggles and faults that I struggled to look past because there was nothing about the games'... character?... that made me want to forgive it. By that I mean I didn't like Connor, he was a complete damp squib of a character, a character with no personality hooks to grab you, or anything to make him especially likable, and the setting did nothing for me at all - I felt from the get go that the setting was a poor choice and I never got past that. Sadly, from an environmental point of view, the US in that time period is really, really boring - flat environments with cardboard cut out buildings. The frontier was no better - climbing the same tree, again and again, running through ready made tree branch runs. It's also not a period of history I find terribly engaging, unfortunately, so I was sat there in an environment I found more than a little dull, with a character I had as much invested in as I would a slightly soiled cardboard box. I also didn't much like how 'YEAH! AMERICA!' it was - every villain I encountered in my time playing was British/Irish, and it seemed to treat the big names of the revolution in a curious mongrel role of both window dressing and almost pornographic reverence. I don't think I encountered a single 'bad' American, apart from a couple of moments where US troops would attack you. With that, I found that the niggles and issues annoyed me more. The usual problems with traversal irked me more than ever. The frontier disappointed, the hunting feeling superfluous and the predator attacks utterly, utterly rotten and pointless QTEs that never, ever changed and may as well have not been there at all. I constantly felt the game explained things terribly, from basic elements of the gameplay (I think it has a very explicit tutorial of the homestead stuff that doesn't actually explain things very well at all) to mission parameters (telling you what it wanted you to do mission to mission I remember feeling particularyl annoyed by in a series of games that loves insta-fails). I don't think I ever got the Brotherhood mechanic thing down, after loving it in AC:B, that I can recall. I also encountered a few bugs. And then you have the whole Desmond thing, the series dirty little secret that should have been strangled at birth because it is all rubbish, here given actual missions to do that were awful stillborn sections of hamstrung twaddle that nobody gives a damn about. And then ultimately it all felt tired, done too many times, a series that never should have become annualised dying before my eyes. I had loved the series, even with its quibbles just for the moments of joy in it, when the traversal worked brilliantly and you were running around gorgeous historical pastiches of interesting places and time periods. And then we got this boring retread of what we'd already done countless times before but somehow just that bit more tedious, and that bit more rubbish. So I'm surprised to hear that the new one is a bit of a return to the joy of the Ezio games... and I'm tempted. Edited November 14, 2013 by Chindie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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