General gaming discussion

The mini-puzzle in every game of where are the subtitle settings located (video, audio, game settings) and they're always set to off when I always have them on.

The x and o turnaround is a really scummy move, winds me up so much that I need to play a round of golf to calm me down

It's a pity the switch wasn't included for comparison. It also has a bespoke UI.

To be honest, I only played the first Desert Strike on Amiga and think only made it to the second level. The "Over here" calls still haunt me to this day.

Though not as much as the Archimedes escort mission from Spartan Total Warrior on PS2. "Spartan, help me!" That was more than a trivial annoyance.

That's on my Christmas list, can't wait to give it a try. When you say Assassin's Creed, do ya men the overall atmosphere or you feel like playing some of the older AC games again?

I'd say its the greek/roman setting with fancy skirts... gameplay is fairly different. But FC is class, I don"t usually go for these type of games but glad I took a chance on this, even though its a timeloop with repeating the same level the way you gain extra knowledge each time to change how you approach the next loop is fantastically well done

I was just thinking about the avengers game yesterday as i read a supposed leak about the next year's worth of content and wondered why are they keep going with it, it's just a failure of a game, move on instead of trying to force it to work. Nothing they do or add will make it a success.

Even the GotG game just released, looks like a complete meh out of 10 game but it's being praised for being a single player game. That shouldn't be a bonus feature of a game.

Imagine avengers in the story driven insomniac Spidey universe.

Oh yeah, Hyper Space! It disappeared like a fart in the wind.

I wouldn't even say it's unrealistic targets that SE are to blame for, it's the whole Games As A Service model for a premium AAA title. A game like that can't serve both styles. The game itself, I'm actually impressed with what Crystal Dynamics did with it. The gameplay was okay, the control system considering the various different characters and styles it had to accommodate was well designed. The progression system was deeper than it seemed, and the main story and characters were well done.

But there was a lot missing that stopped it being a proper premium title because it was trying to be a GAAS game, but it also didn't have nearly enough content to serve as that either, with instead a lot of promises of what was to come down the line (which inevitably got delayed and changed due to initial reception and teething issues). And I'm sure most of the content they've added since has probably been great, but it's not enough to encourage people to return, especially with the changes to xp, p2w elements.

The fault for all of that lies with Square Enix rather than Crystal Dynamics imo and it's a shame to see SE try to say CD were the problem.

They trick is to make a good game people want to play for years. Then add the extra gaas stuff to extend it.

But so many seem so focused on building the gaas parts they forget to make the good game people want to play.

Trev looks epic!