General gaming discussion

nix

Yeah you need a digital distribution platform like steam to play any game on PC these days, EA have their own called Origin, Ubisoft have their own.. Uplay i think its called, As do Blizzard. They are necessary for updates, accessing servers, accessing your game library anywhere..

If your comp can run a game and steam, you prob shouldnt be gaming on that machine, not unless you want problems and very long load times.

Billy86

With Civ it wouldn't just be load times, it would include trying to pan the camera around even when not doing anything (and Civ works somewhat like a -gigantic- board game). It's why I think it would definitely be a good idea for them to post their processor, RAM and video card just to be on the safe side since it may surprise anyone who played Civ I-IV as even IV ran on a then-old, low spec laptop I had when it came out 10-12 years ago. I got a fair shock a few years back when I bought Civ V on a whim because of this - it would barely run on a then-decent laptop, doubt I'd even get beyond the 5th-10th turn at best on Civ VI with it, using even the low spec/strategic map. I can't see that game running at all really without at least a dedicated GPU, and makes me curious about the whole Steam slowing the OS down bit.

Requirements here - https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/civilization-6/13429

SeantheMan

What are we discussing here Mick ?
Here watch this 30 mins video.

Our top 10's ? Joe's (who I don't care for) top 10 ?
Should we all post top 10 lists from random and various gaming sites and media outlets ?

kunst nugget

Billy86 wrote: »

I don't really watch youtubers much but quite like Angry Joes reviews and typically find them quite fair - I also find the other Joe on it to be a very likable idiot. I've only watched a handful and they tended to be positive ones, though just to point out he also does a '10 best' to go with the '10 most disappointing' (ran through a few of each early last year to get an idea what to buy, since I'd been out of gaming for donkeys years before that).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm3Hm--vkQ

The chronically unfunny skits are just fúcking awful and the guy talks like he's got brain damage from being punched in the face one too many times.

If I want funny reviews of games, I'll watch zero punctuation.

SeantheMan

SeantheMan wrote: »

What are we discussing here Mick ?
Here watch this 30 mins video.

Our top 10's ? Joe's (who I don't care for) top 10 ?
Should we all post top 10 lists from random and various gaming sites and media outlets ?

Is it against the rules or something? Are you a mod?
Jaysus, pass on it if you don't want to watch it. Just thought some people would be interested in watching it considering this is the general gaming thread and I'm just sharing. Some people don't like him some do. So what.
Post away whatever lists / videos you want, I couldn't give a fiddlers.

Retr0gamer

kunst nugget wrote: »

The chronically unfunny skits are just fúcking awful and the guy talks like he's got brain damage from being punched in the face one too many times.

If I want funny reviews of games, I'll watch zero punctuation.

If you want to see something funny fro him watch the video where an XCom Enemy Unknown dev totally shut him down and make him out to be a twat (in fairness to the lad he knew he got what he deserved from them).

kunst nugget

Retr0gamer wrote: »

If you want to see something funny fro him watch the video where an XCom Enemy Unknown dev totally shut him down and make him out to be a twat (in fairness to the lad he knew he got what he deserved from them).

What happened? Did he not give that game a pretty positive review? I don't see anything when I look for it.

Dyr

I don't know who the chap is but I want to punch him after 10 seconds of video

WTF is going on with Americans these days?

Angry Joe may be a bit over the top, but his reviews are usually spot on.

Jim Sterling... he's just a fcuking tit.

Karak / ACG is probably my favourite though.

Sephiroth_dude

Jim sterling, angry joe, total biscuit, I can't stand any of them anymore, ACG is great though.

I find most gaming related YouTubers annoying as hell. They either fit into the "ohh emm gee, look at how random I am" or "I'm smarter than you and this is why you're wrong" camp. I enjoy people that just enjoy the games they play. Achievement Hunter's Let's Plays of Sky Factory and 7 Days to Die are the perfect example of this.

ERG89

Sephiroth_dude wrote:

Jim sterling, angry joe, total biscuit, I can't stand any of them anymore, ACG is great though.

One thing he needs to do is stop saying filled with sponsored bullcrap when he has an Amazon link below his reviews & is trying to sell shirts. Muddies the water there for me anyway.
I enjoyed him but using the same structure for each review doesn't work so stopped looking at his videos.

SeantheMan

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Is it against the rules or something? Are you a mod?
Jaysus, pass on it if you don't want to watch it. Just thought some people would be interested in watching it considering this is the general gaming thread and I'm just sharing. Some people don't like him some do. So what.
Post away whatever lists / videos you want, I couldn't give a fiddlers.

Thread is for discussion usually. Not watch this vid and discuss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M38zfRWjhlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4g6M-UV0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNfCw-yT4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJslg5CwdcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQgyBRMpvCE

Billy86

It might be best to make a youtubers type thread? I prefer to get reviews where you can see some gameplay etc while the content is being discussed but am not arsed going through tonnes of them to find ones that suit me. It's probably why I like Angry Joe a bit, stumbled on it by chance for a review of The Witcher 3, and the guy has an extremely similar taste in games to me - he does moan a lot about things he doesn't like and has a major hangup on the likes of micro-transactions, but he's extremely passionate about games he is very fond of, like the X-Com series or TW3.

Potential-Monke

I second the above recommendation, simply because I don't want any YouTubers!

SeantheMan

SeantheMan wrote: »

Thread is for discussion usually. Not watch this vid and discuss.

Until you point to the rules where it says this then you should just suck it up really

WarpAsylum

J. Marston

It's general gaming, the odd video or top 10 shouldn't get anyone's panties in too much of a twist.

kunst nugget

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Until you point to the rules where it says this then you should just suck it up really

Woah, woah, woah, this is a place of peace and love, people.


Unless you're one of those pc master race fellas. Those lads are scumbags…

kunst nugget

kunst nugget wrote: »

Woah, woah, woah, this is a place of peace and love, people.


Unless you're one of those pc master race fellas. Those lads are scumbags…

I'm not the one being hostile tbf

Kiith

Enough folks, no harm posting some top 10 videos. It's a discussion forum, and sometimes people like to discuss these lists.

And keep things civil or there will be infractions given.

Falthyron

Mfwic_47 wrote: »

Falthyron, I don't want Steam but I do want the game. I must have bought it with the condition that Steam gets to rule.

Many games today are considered 'Steam Powered' which means they work in conjunction with the Steam client. There are benefits to this and also drawbacks, one being that you must have Steam installed. The Civilization series has been using Steam for the past number of games and Civ VI is one of them. As far as I know, there isn't a non-Steam version of Civ VI. Maybe GOG.com has one, but I doubt it.

Steam isn't particularly invasive and once you have the game installed you can just set Steam to offline mode and still enjoy Civ.

Maximilian

I can't watch any of these YouTube videos if they are done by Amercians.

They all keep saying "go ahead". For example, they can't just say "I'm going to load up this game" or "I'll just click on this icon" or "I'm going to take out my penis". No, they say "I'm going to go ahead and load up this game", I'm going to go ahead and click on this icon, I'm going to go ahead and take out my penis. In fact there's no verb that American YouTubers won't preface with "go ahead".

Many of you will notice this now. Sorry.

Falthyron

Maximilian wrote: »

I can't watch any of these YouTube videos if they are done by Amercians.

They all keep saying "go ahead". For example, they can't just say "I'm going to load up this game" or "I'll just click on this icon" or "I'm going to take out my penis". No, they say "I'm going to go ahead and load up this game", I'm going to go ahead and click on this icon, I'm going to go ahead and take out my penis. In fact there's no verb that American YouTubers won't preface with "go ahead".

Many of you will notice this now. Sorry.

Go ahead and ruin my enjoyment of YouTube videos :mad:


:pac:

wheresmahbombs

Dark Souls Remastered is coming on 25 May to the PS4, PC, Xbox One, and most excitingly, the Switch!

kunst nugget

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Dark Souls Remastered is coming on 25 May to the PS4, PC, Xbox One, and most excitingly, the Switch!

The Switch? Would that survive being flung at a couch in frustration when you die for the umpteenth time?

EoinMcLovin

Assassin’s creed rogue remastered is out on March 20 for PS4 and Xbox One

wheresmahbombs

kunst nugget wrote: »

The Switch? Would that survive being flung at a couch in frustration when you die for the umpteenth time?

You've always gotta keep a level head in anything Souls-related!

ShadowHearth

Hmmmm Dark souls on xbox one x with 60fps and all eye candy or on my switch, so I can look very pissed off in public. I genuinely cant decide!

wheresmahbombs

I'm getting it either on PC or Switch, or even both.

Sephiroth_dude

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Assassin’s creed rogue remastered is out on March 20 for PS4 and Xbox One

Great news, haven't played that one.

Jordan 199

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Great news, haven't played that one.

It's a good game.

Sephiroth_dude

Jordan 199 wrote: »

It's a good game.

Is there ship combat?

Jordan 199

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is there ship combat?

Argh! There sure is captain.

EoinMcLovin

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Assassin’s creed rogue remastered is out on March 20 for PS4 and Xbox One

It's one of the two Assassin's Creed games I never completed; Unity I never played because I didn't have anything to play it on at the time (and the general consensus was it wasn't great).

Rogue I got bored half way through. No reason/desire at all to revisit it.

Still have Origins on my backlog anyway.

Potential-Monke

Deleted User wrote: »

Still have Origins on my backlog anyway.

Once you play Origins, it will be hard to go back to an earlier AC. Origins reinvented the series, and it feels right, but you still have pre-Syndicate combat with Rogue.

marcbrophy

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Once you play Origins, it will be hard to go back to an earlier AC. Origins reinvented the series, and it feels right, but you still have pre-Syndicate combat with Rogue.

After I finished Origins, I started to play the original AC last week!
It's not as bad as you would expect it to be 10 iterations ago, but the fighting is awful! All based on the counter attack

wotzgoingon

marcbrophy wrote: »

After I finished Origins, I started to play the original AC last week!
It's not as bad as you would expect it to be 10 iterations ago, but the fighting is awful! All based on the counter attack

I played the first when it came out and never played another since.

marcbrophy

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I played the first when it came out and never played another since.

At the time, I hated it, never finished it!
Took a friend of mine a bit of convincing to get me to play the 2nd one, but I'm glad I did. They only got better and better with each release (personal opinion, obviously)

Penn

marcbrophy wrote: »

At the time, I hated it, never finished it!
Took a friend of mine a bit of convincing to get me to play the 2nd one, but I'm glad I did. They only got better and better with each release (personal opinion, obviously)

The 2nd is so much better than the first one. It's genuinely one of my favourite games of all time. As I've often said, it fixed everything that was wrong with AC1, improved everything that was good in AC1, and then added in a whole bunch of new stuff which all worked brilliantly. Brotherhood kept the momentum going, and kinda since then it's been a bit up and down. But AC2 and Brotherhood are brilliant games.

Jordan 199

Penn wrote: »

The 2nd is so much better than the first one. It's genuinely one of my favourite games of all time. As I've often said, it fixed everything that was wrong with AC1, improved everything that was good in AC1, and then added in a whole bunch of new stuff which all worked brilliantly. Brotherhood kept the momentum going, and kinda since then it's been a bit up and down. But AC2 and Brotherhood are brilliant games.

I'm a fan of Ezio. He and Edward are my favourites in the AC games.

Jordan 199

Jordan 199 wrote: »

I'm a fan of Ezio. He and Edward are my favourites in the AC games.

Ezio, for sure. Great character, very charismatic.

Edward was just an arrogant ass. Game was great though.

I think the native American (Connor?) was in between those two? I remember going through the game thinking "you naive fool".

And then we had "Irishman McLeprechaun" in Rogue... he got on my nerves quite a bit.

J. Marston

Connor may have been the most boring protagonist in the history of gaming.

Mickeroo

I preferred 3 over 4. Connor wasn't a great character but the setting and overall story was better and the campaign had more variety in the missions. All I remember of Black Flag campaign was the constant "follow this guy somewhere" missions.

Varik

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Jim sterling, angry joe, total biscuit, I can't stand any of them anymore, ACG is great though.

total biscuits probably the person I hate most that I've never met or in the grand scheme of things did anything deserving of anything approaching hate.

Billy86

Mickeroo wrote: »

I preferred 3 over 4. Connor wasn't a great character but the setting and overall story was better and the campaign had more variety in the missions. All I remember of Black Flag campaign was the constant "follow this guy somewhere" missions.

This is why I couldn't bring myself to play more than 2-3 hours when it was free a few weeks ago. Are all AC games like this? I mean that's the point of an open world if you have to walk in an exact, predetermined line or essentially die?

I should try it again since I mightn't have given it enough of a chance but but to be honest it was the most bored I've been of any game I've picked up since getting back into gaming 15 months ago.

Retr0gamer

Assassins Creed is one of the worst games of last generation. Beautifully detailed world and absolutely feck all to do in it. So boring.

The sequels thankfully are a vast improvement.

I feel assassin's creed as a franchise hasn't even lived up to half of its potential. On paper it has everything to be one of the best series of all time but it just kinda hangs there in mediocrity. Shame but that's pure Ubisoft isn't it

Potential-Monke

I remember thoroughly enjoying the first one, even with its repetition. It felt new and exciting!

And I believe Origins is after re-inventing the series, so hopefully they keep it at 1 every 2 years or more, seems to work better for them! CDPR showed everyone how it's done with The Witcher 3, delay it until it's ready!