General gaming discussion

There is something hypnotic about Skyrim alright. Think it's the music, atmosphere, pacing and scope. And I only played it this year! Just waiting for Bethesda now to fix that black screen of death bug that came free with the anniversary edition.

The 2nd Dread film kept his helmet on for the whole film, they worked around that by simply not making Dread the focus of the story, he was a force of nature in the story, but the actual narrative was focused on Anderson, much like how a chunk of the Dread comics worked, Anderson was often the 'face' for a lot of Dread stories.

I can easily see something similar in a Halo film where they lean more into having Cortona in her hologram form (something the series has already leaned to more with the two halo wars games and more recent halo entries essentially having the A.I's being physically visible for a lot more during cutscenes etc) and essentially being the face.

As for Arcane it earns its buzz easily. It can be described as a sort of Steampunk City of God meets The Expanse and it's genuinely well written and beutifully executed. I looked into after and it seems next to nothing is drawn from the actual game's story, in fact a chunk of what happens in the series has only been fan theorized based on incredibly vague taunts (which were only in the english version of the game) so it looks like possibly something similar to the excellent Castlevania series, the people who made it just picked through all the rubbish as a whole and plucked out what works and tied it together themselves in a more well crafted story discarding all the elements that simply didnt work.

Halo infinite has turned out to be excellent, I am pleasantly surprised.

I know the long time to kill isnt for everyone, and the relative lack of Aim Down Sights will be hard to adjust to for newcomers, but I'm having an absolute whale of a time with it. Its a welcome palate cleanser from the battlefield and Call of Duty parade.

Not sure if thats a dig at me, but the reason its getting praise, is because its given the fans what they wanted, a good halo game with good maps, balanced weapons, and removed or reworked aspects that were toned down such as sprint, ground pound, etc. CoD is pushing a ww2 game no one wanted, and BF stripped out the most unique part of its identity (the classes).

when BF1 released, people were sick to death of 'boots on the walls' off the back of advanced warfare / infinite / blops 3, who were all trying to (poorly) emulate titanfall, despite the fanbase complaining that they were sick of it for a few years at that point.

Played my first few games of Halo infinite last night and think its fantastic. The progression system is terrible though. Progression doesn't bother me at all but I was a bit disappointed when I didn't see the do bar go up after a game.

I think maybe the reason I was a bit disappointed at first was that I/we've been so conditioned to expect progression in games now that I was shocked when it wasn't there. But after that initial game I forgot about it and just skip that bit after each match now. And it helps that the match to match gameplay is so much fun.

I like to play RDR about once or twice a year on the excellent Xbox 360S. A great game on a great console.

I like to dip into Red Dead Online the odd time. You come across some nice folk in that.

Specs for Icarus are ehh something.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
• Processor: Intel i5 8400
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 70 GB available space

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• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
• Processor: Intel i7-9700
• Memory: 32 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3060ti
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 70 GB available space

Watching Pixar's Luca this morning and the theme tune instantly reminded me of Final Fantasy VII. Now i want to play the original or maybe FF VIII remaster which i loved the original but haven't played in 15+ years.

There was discussion on one of the threads about the Kid A Mnesia virtual exhibition by Radiohead but I can't find it. Just wanted to say I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I'd bought the recent vinyl reissue of the two albums and had seen and listened to several interviews over the last couple of weeks with Thom Yorke and the artist Stanley Donwood, who is a long time collaborator with Radiohead who is responsible for most of the artwork to do with the band. Donwood's art studio was right beside the band's recording studio at the time they were making the two albums and he produced mountains of work with Yorke in response to the music being produced by the band and its evolution from half formed demos and audio sketches to the finished product. You get a glimpse of just how much work was produced as you go through the tour.

Your interaction is almost zilch - picking up a phone in a booth is about the only thing I remember actively doing beyond walking around - but I think there is some stunning set pieces in it. The three song run in How to disappear completely, Pyramid song and You and whose army was amazing. Elsewhere, the songs are stripped apart and put back together in a way that highlights elements you might not normally concentrate on within the compositions.

I'm a fan so obviously my mileage will vary drastically to someone who doesn't like the band or thinks they're pretentious - I'd wager that this definitely won't change your mind if that's your thoughts on the band. There is real thought and work out into this which really helps to elevate it beyond being a mere promotion for the reissue. I think if you've enjoyed the tour, it's worth listening to the albums to see how the reinterpreted the tunes for the game/interactive experience.

Is he still deleting comments when anyone dares to challenge his opinion? For a man who loves to hand out criticism, he's extremely delicate when questioned on anything.