Games in 2012

Nothing much is grabbing at me at the moment. I've still got such a massive backlog to start: (Deus Ex, Shogun 2, ME 1&2, Singularity, Metro 2033, AC2, X3, Civ 5, LA Noir, Hard Reset.... whoa, I could still go on) Singularity, from what I've played looks amazing; like Bioshock and HL had a baby.

I hope they learned the lessons from Far Cry 2, what a POS; there was only so many times killing people at the same check points I could take before it got tedious.

I think the criticisms of FC2 were valid and i put lots of hours into the game - nearly collected all the hidden gems, but it was a bit blah from the get go i found. FC3 looked really cool in the gameplay trailer i saw.

I used to play a few silent hill games and the new one looks cool, also Bioshock 3 and Diablo3.

Skyrim almost up for me, lots of rain = lvl 62 (levels go up half as fast once you hit 50) - just starting the main story quest now

I agree that enemies should only respawn after, say, a day or two. And yeah I heard the save system was crap on consoles - restricted to only safe houses. The new one looks potentially very awesome.

Yep Syndicate is on my watch list. I'm also keeping my eyes on the new Counterstrike, though I doubt it will be worth while.

Yeah played the demos may years back. Fun games by memory.

It turns out that list may be a bit shit, containing some shovelware, games that wont likely exist, such as Black Mesa, games that wont exist. like Fallout and games that wont likely be exclusives, such as Diablo 3.

Yeah Prey 2 is supposed to be a big release. Personally I thought Prey sucked ass, but we'll see.

Do not want. Looks like Far Cry: Modern Warfare. "X to interact", "A to climb", "L to takedown". Too much time spent watching the character do stuff, not enough time playing the game. Pretty much the polar opposite of Far Cry.

Also, XBox controls.

nothing is too late in skyrim - im lvl 63 lol and trying to spec everything out. gets hard.

Bulletstorm is one of my favourite shooters. I also love the sophisticated dialog.

Brad and I both clocked bulletstorm ages ago. was fun.

LOL too much time on Reddit James?

I don't like having my digital games all over the show. It's nothing to do with Origin for me.

I'd almost rather have one of those shitty cardboard boxes taking up space. It felt liberating burning all my PC game boxes.

I admit it, I was baiting. But do you keep any other packaging for anything else? Cereal boxes? Cheeseburger wrappers? etc.

Toaster box?

I keep router boxes. I sell about half of all routers I buy (because they're shit).

Also Mass Effect 3 comes out today.

God I'm tired of people whining about DLC.

Yeah the DLC moaning has to stop. Mass Effect has day 1 DLC - yet to be named, with no detail whatsoever about content, and people are bitching that they're removing content from the game. So it's OK to release extra content months/years after a game, but if you release it too close to the game's release date it's a rip off. Regardless of the game's content or the DLC's content. Ridiculous.

But to me the worst part is the fervent language and stupidity shown by gamers - PSA gamers, games are not food, not shelter. You don't need games to live. If you think a game is overpriced or doesn't represent good value, don't buy the game. No one is forcing you to buy the game, and just because you buy a game doesn't mean you absolutely must play every piece of associated content, no matter the cost.

Disclosure: Haven't watched the video because I don't really care.

edit: Watched the first 5 mins of the video and had to turn it off because it's exactly what I thought it would be - a moaning brit (who'd have thought?) whinging that he should arbitrarily be given all content Bioware produces irrespective of cost. I wonder if he goes to a car dealer and bitches that the car he bought is "not feature-complete" (his words) because it doesn't come with the option 18" wheels that he didn't pay for.

I have no problem with studios charging for extra content, because I have the option of not buying it. I guarantee the vanilla game will be massive on release, so I hardly understand the rant. People happily pay $120 for Call of Duty games with just 5 hours of SP content.

So as James mentioned in the chat box Diablo 3 finally has a release date of May this year. Can't say I'm personally excited because I never really played the diablo games, but this should be a massive release. I tried to play some diablo 2 recently but the graphics are barely tolerable and it doesn't play well with modern screen resolutions.

I was talking about it with Mike (canadian) and he said he thinks it will come split like Starcraft - i hope not but still wont buy it for a long while! Blizzard is turning into the masters of the split game

I had heard they were remaking Syndicate but I didn't realise it was already out and I didn't realise it was a first person shooter, which is a bit of a waste. Yahtzee reviewed it this week:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5478-Syndicate

It got 74% on Metacritic.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/syndicate

45,000 won here, plus a little piece of my soul.

I'm done with Origin.

You can get Anderson to buy it and gift it to you.

As for the price, that's the way it works. We and the Aussies get shafted on price because of shitty regional pricing. Same as non-digital downloads - Americans buy Xbox games off the shelf for NZD$60, we pay double that. It's just that digital regional pricing is completely fucking absurd, downloading the same bits fro the same server and paying in the same currency, but paying a different price.

That may have exceeded all of your data caps.

FTFY

PC?

HAHAHAHA no. Borderlands is one of the worst games I've played. If you're not playing with people who are EXACTLY the same level as you, it's completely impossible.

I like the way Yahtzee describes the end of Mass Effect 3:

I also like how he asks poignantly:

Brad, that's completely false, and I have Martin and Anderson to back me up here. We played for probably around 3 dreadful hours before I coulnd't take it any more. In this time me and Martin levelled to around 10, while Anderson is somewhere around 20. I could literally sit there firing endlessly at the weakest enemy in the game and do maybe a couple of hitpoints of damage. The enemy would shoot me ONCE and I would instantly die.

I'm not exaggerating, so you're clearly mistaken. Like I say, Martin and Anderson can verify this - the game is an absolute piece of shit if you're starting from different levels.

And that's not even to mention the UI - I've never experienced a UI as bad as this game. Every time information was shown it was a litany of meaningless crap presented in the most unhelpful way (half the time weapon information isn't even visible because it's off the screen).

The guns all look, sound and feel the same, the enemies are boring and the AI is predictable. Vehicles handle like ass, the graphics are uninspiring and the universe is largely empty.

I love a good co-op game - Borderlands is not one of those.

I will say I found it to be much more enjoyable on the console. I found the UI makes a lot more sense with a controller.

Anderson, you saw me and Martin playing. Unless we were doing something completely wrong, I don't know how you can dispute the stupid gameplay and how ridiculously slow we levelled. Yeah we levelled faster than you, but we started 20 levels apart and even at 10 levels apart it was unplayable because we would insta-die every time you saw an enemy.

edit: You know what, I'm willing to prove the point. Organise a game with your level 20 characters I'll join with my level 10 and show you how fucking stupid this game is. I can literally sit in front of an enemy emptying all of my ammo, and do less than 2% damage. It's idiotic, and you simply don't level very fast because if you're not doing damage you're not getting XP.

So then why bother playing at all? Wouldn't it be smarter to sit in a corner and let the higher level player do everything? IT's not like I can kill enemies anyway. In the last hour or so we played I don't think I killed a single enemy except by running them over. My bullets coulnd't damage them.

I had the highest level weapon my guy could carry, which was level 10 rifles - which was the correct weapon for my class.

The reason we can't have me as the highest level character is because you have to start from the beginning and do those ridiculously awful fetch quests (another reason the game sucks, as if I need another).

Negative Brad. The game just isn't that good. And trust me, I know good games.

All indie games are crap.

And I've offered to prove my point but no one has taken me up on it....

And last time I heard you say trust me it was about burger patties.....fail

And he killed that chicken.

Lest we forget.

Actually I don't know why I try Chris, you don't like any good anything.

I really enjoyed Borderlands, my flatmates and I generally played split screen, but any time we had uneven levels we would just jump to General Knoxx and even it out in like 25 minutes.

I don't 1 hit unless I use my trusty sniper rifle; even that is a rare feat.