General gaming discussion

Are you saying this isn't a reskin of the same old formula going back to 10+ years?

Shocked i say!

Someone who found the mechanics of Far Cry 5 tedious and boring finds Far Cry 6 tedious and boring shocker.

To use a similar analogy to one I used earlier, it's like being sick of the Fast and Furious series and then somehow being hacked off when Fast and Furious 9 is essentially more of the same but with some shiny new things around the surface.

That change of tying learning abilities to loot bought seems an egregious change. I'd have zero interest in Far Cry 6. I played Far Cry 5 and New Dawn. New Dawn I enjoyed - it was fairly concise compared to the main game and it tried something different with the outpost that was kind of interesting. Far Cry 5 was a fairly woeful slog though looking back on it and I don't think I can bring myself to play through another game like that at that length. I know Retro has a dislike of Horizon Zero Dawn but even though it follows the same sort of template, I found it a much more interesting game - the abilities you learn and the gameplay mechanics made it a lot more fun.

The game that killed open-world games, and gaming for me overall for a while, was Spiderman. I sunk so many hours into that and by the end of that game I wasn't getting any enjoyment out of it at all. It became an absolute chore for me and I still don't understand why I persisted in playing it. The first ten hours of flinging myself around the city as Spiderman was a joy but it slowly chipped away at that with the same tedious missions in every district.

While I mostly agree, surely it highlights the issue that the franchise is stagnating at this stage. It's the 6th main title, not to mention the various large expansions it's had. It isn't evolving past what it's previously offered enough to entice people who may have previously disliked the games, and people who did previously like the games are now beginning to get tired and jaded of it.

At least with Assassin's Creed Origins, Ubisoft changed up the formula enough that it could entice new players in while still trying to keep it familiar to existing fans, because the franchise was stagnating. Then Odyssey and Valhalla expanded on that. It doesn't seem like Far Cry is trying to evolve the formula in any real way.

Ah hey if that's the case, that's fair enough, I may have mistaken it for a review in which case, bailing after a few hours doesn't affect an opinion piece.

And to others who are arguing that I'm suggesting negative reviews or tired reviews don't count or aren't valid, I never once claimed that. I simply said that its hardly a shock that someone who hated Far Cry 5 hated Far Cry 6. If anything, I'm agreeing that its relatively formulaic.

I'll probably give this one a try at some stage, but only because I got a code for it free with my graphics card back in December!

Has Brexit shagged Gamestop these days? Last coupe of games I've preordered were delayed by days/weeks because of shipments held up in Customs in the UK. Went to pick up Metroid Dread today and your man behind the counter says they hope to get stock in the next few weeks. Like ffs whats the point.

Where else does physical copies of games? Smyths? Argos has **** all most of the time. Sick **** of Gamestop but feel like it's the only option

And someone will still pay it...

Hi,

Looking to buy a gaming setup and wondering if this is good value, don't know very much so any advice would be appreciated. Asking price is 980. I don't particularly need the peripherals but I'd probably take them anyway.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 4.2 GHz 6 Cores / 12 Threads

GPU - MSI Radeon 5600 XT Gaming X/Z (with 14 Gbps VBIOS update)

RAM - 16GB 3466 MHz C16 DDR4 Corsair Vengeance Dual-Channel (running at 3600MHz)

SSD System - 1TB M.2 NVMe Crucial P2

SSD Data - 1TB M.2 SATA WD Blue

Motherboard - MSI X470 Gaming Plus MAX

PSU - 750W be quiet! Straight Power 11 80 PLUS Gold

WiFi & Bluetooth - TP-Link Archer TX3000E|AX3000 PCIe

Case - Corsair 275R Airflow

CPU Cooler - Wraith Prism RGB

Keyboard - Durgod Taurus K320 keyboard with Cherry Brown switches

Mouse - Corsair Ironclaw RGB wired USB mouse Flight Stick - Thrustmaster T.

Flight Stick X for Flight Simulator

If this is just for games then maybe an Xbox series x or s would be simpler, better and a lot cheaper. I see you've a controller for ms flight sim, so this is why I'm also asking as it's also available on xbox.