I also liked it better than 3 and 3 was pretty good. The main character was less of a douche and the villains were more interesting. The also injected a lot of humor into the game which just made it more fun. Most of the drug scenes with those two goofballs were funny as hell.
BioShock infinite Decided to start playing through all those games I have started and never finished (there are lots!). Started with this, nothing special or revolutionary but kept me entertained enough which I guess is the point. Was pretty easy on normal mode right up until the end when you have to protect the airship, that was hectic. There are trophies for the harder modes but not sure I would enjoy playing it again.
Spec Ops The Line This game is a mindfuck that turns the concept of the dudebro shooter on its head. In this game the Americans are the bad guys. You make bad decisions at every turn based on a lack of information. Civilians die horribly. Your character ends up losing his mind to PTSD. It's one of the darkest games I've ever played. 8/10
Finished the main storyline in Witcher 3. You can still play side quests, though. Definitely top 5 games I've ever played. Huge, open, vast areas, beatiful design but also involving quests and plenty of memorable characters. I guess I won't be able to easily accept such "generic" quest writing Elderscrolls has, where you forget things 10 minutes after you complete them. Also, I won't easily accept story-driven bioware-like rpgs where there are interesting quests and characters but the freedom is limited (mass effect, earlier dragin ages) or the mechanics is somehow lacking (battle mechanics in the last DA). Witcher is somewhere between these two and combines the best elements from both approaches. There are very different endings, depending on choices made through the game, my version of ending was acceptable, from what I've read I could have got much worse outcome.
I wonder which will get more GOT awards. PC Meta scores MGS V (95/8.2) Witcher 3 (94/9.2) PS4 Meta scores MGS V (94/8.6) Witcher 3 (92/8.9)
That plus the little details that were in old games that didn't make it over. The codec conversations in the old games seemed to have a conversation for practically every situation and really helped build the world/relationships up and add a bit of humour. Eg, MGS2 MGS3 Also lol. Here, snake has about 10 lines and ocelot is dull as ditch water.
Mad Max It's a unique game with a certain appeal. The content is mature and along the lines of Spec Ops: The line but not as bad. It's a more realistic portrayal of post apocalyptic world that kind of makes the Fall Out setting look like a nice place to vacation. The car combat was pretty good. The out of car combat was repetitive. Overall the game is a bit of a grind with the main goal being scrap collecting and using that scrap to upgrade Max and the car. It has almost no story for the first 90% then it just bust loose with the full story right at the end. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I clocked 50 hours on it. 7/10
Fallout 4 I liked the exploration, settlement building, weapon and armor modification, and the enormous amount of content for the money. I hated the clunky interface, thought the game had too many generic radiant filler quests padding out the unique and good content, and I thought the romance system felt forced in a game where the protagonist has just lost his wife and child. That Bethesda actually tried to give your character a backstory and some connection to the world instead of just making you a blank slate was different. I liked it, though I know a lot of people were not happy about it. As much as I liked modifying weapons and armor, I hated constantly have to loot for junk to find components. Adhesive is pretty scarce early on and you need it to make everything, but you can farm it once you get settlements going, so at least there's that, but almost everything also takes aluminum, which I was constantly having to scavenge for. I thought The Institute had a pretty good set of quests and I liked their ending. I wasn't a big fan of the other factions. The Brotherhood are evil fascists with a douche for a leader, the Railroad are whiney social justice warriors, and the Minutemen are so bland as to be obnoxious, especially that Preston Garvey guy. As much as I'm complaining, I still had a lot of fun. It's got that open world sandbox appeal typical of Bethesda games and I got nearly 100 hours out of it. I guess I'll probably give MGSV or Witcher 3 a go next. A lot of people are saying those games are tied with FO4 for best of 2015. 8/10
I'm currently playing witcher 3. Much better looking game and the world feels much more like an actual place, rather than a blank map with cut and pasted "points of interest" dotted about. Quests are also more fulfilling and there are some really good side quest chains which tell more of a story than the main storyline of fallout 4. Fallout 4 - 6/10
Fallout 4 In the end I found myself just pushing the story as I got bored of looking around countless buildings for a magazine. Went with the Brotherhood as Danse was the best companion I found, too many of them felt passive or ineffective in combat. The story was OK but the rest of it felt like it was just there to pad it out after the first 10 hours of doing nothing in particular. Sent from my XT1032 using Tapatalk
I still haven't finished Fallout 4, probably because I've been fucking around making 12 characters, most of which never saw past level 20. My main character has only recently been to the institute. I think Fallout 4 is a funny one. On one hand it's an awesome game that's totally worth playing. But on the other hand it holds several disappointments for me, and I've never had disappointments with Bethesda games before. My main gripe is that there's just nothing to do in 99% of the places you visit. Example. (spoiler free) The Glowing Sea. This place should have been amazing. A mysterious place full of radiation where only the toughest creatures can survive. You find a forgotten church half buried in the ground. You find the ground zero of the nuke that wiped Boston out, you even find a god damned legitimate nuclear bunker. Are there any quests to be found here? Not a single one. You even go literally off the map, that was so cool to me for some reason. But every time I found a new location in the glowing sea I left disappointed that all I found was some junk, caps, and ammo. If this were Skyrim I would have left the place with 5 new quests. And that's like 99% of the places you visit. Also, way too many shitty filler "radiant quests" that keep repeating. I just do one and never touch them again. This leads to a complete lack of motivation to explore. Like I said, the game is great, but I feel it could and should have been so much better.