General gaming discussion

When car washing goes wrong in GTA IV:

Groan.

Sounds like a Wii U Turn

Played Inside, very good. No filler, just a tight 3 hours or so. I might stick with games like that from now on. I just don't have the patience for the open world stuff anymore. I should scour HLTB for sub 10 hour games.

How many Assassin's Creed games are too many? If this is correct, Ubisoft think that number is larger than 11.

You’ve just spoiled the title of the 12th one.

I want another Watch_Dogs game with Aiden Pearce in it. I liked playing him in the first one.

Is there any word on whether Steam will be offering a subscription service similar to the likes of Game Pass or EA Play?

I got the PlayStation Plus subscription on sale earlier this year, and I have to say it's been a good deal so far. You don't get the latest and greatest titles, but if you're willing to wait a month or two you generally get to play most of the big releases.

It seems to be the way things are going these days, so I feel like it's a matter of time

It probably doesn't fit Steams model very well though, they seem to prefer to just do a big sale every few months and sell a load of games at big discounts. And they don't have the same control over developers that the likes of Sony or Microsoft do

It would be kind of nice if a few of the small to medium sized developers got together and offered a subscription service. They probably wouldn't have enough if a pipeline individually to make a subscription worthwhile, but grouped together they could be compelling and still maintain some independence

I know gaming subscriptions can be a bit controversial since you don't "own" the games and they can disappear at the drop of a hat. But realistically we all probably tend to end up with a lot of junk in our game libraries that are play and forget, and you can always go and buy the greatest hits to keep if you want to

Isn't there an option to forget the recommendation so they don't do it in the future?

Dying Light 2 got 2 big updates recently and the latest one is a game changer. Across both updates, the parkour, combat, gore and night time have all been drastically improved bringing them more inline with Dying Light 1. DL2 was on my more anticipated lists for the last few years and then when released, I didn't even make it half way through before quitting and it was my biggest gaming disappointment of 2022. They have completely turned it around now and it is an utter joy to play. Just in case anyone had given up like me, might be worth your time giving it another spin.

50% microtransactions, 30% Ubisoft games, 10% borderline shovelware stuff, and 10% good stuff.

At the very least though, the 10% good stuff is usually at the top.

The Xbox store is similar. 500 titles on sale every month, some bargains, but then the same old crap and DLC that costs as much as the main game. That's why I like physical also, you can be more discerning and spend your money on the top tier games instead of buying cheap crap. And it keeps your backlog much smaller.