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Verecocha wrote:

Hodge360 wrote:

Does seem to level up pretty quickly. I fear it may all end too soon.

Yeah I don’t think it’ll be too long, in a couple of hours I’ve completed 3 entire sections of the map. But I’m cool with that. I quite miss quick 8-10 hour campaigns that are just bang for your buck. Every game needing such massive exploration, hours of depth, huge levelling needs to progress etc, it’s driving me nuts. Put me off Ass Creeds Ori and Ody and has put me off Farcry. I like having one such game on the go but now everything requires 100 hours and I can’t be arsed.

Agree with this too. Put a couple of hours into this and found it refreshingly old school and a lot of fun. I'm also playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and completely can't be arsed with all the levelling of weapons, abilities and skill trees. I just want to raid some bloody tombs.

Yep, honestly I think that's kind of been ruining a lot of games for a while, or at least it has defined game design in a particular direction. I tend to think of that kind of leveling up and extended grindy progression as 'fake fun'. Real fun comes from the dynamic and emergent properties of the game world, or the simple joy of a good mechanic and feedback loop. Much of modern game detritus detracts from what is most important IMO, the feel of the thing as a whole.

Fuck me I want another Half Life.

GurtTractor wrote:

...Real fun comes from the dynamic and emergent properties of the game world, or the simple joy of a good mechanic and feedback loop. Much of modern game detritus detracts from what is most important IMO, the feel of the thing as a whole...

Which is why we play Sea of Thieves. Every voyage is an anecdote generator!

Frosty wrote:

Got to an area last night that was a bit deserty and very sparse with buildings and the whole thing immediately broke down and became a slog. Think I might just skip it and go looking for tall buildings to climb.

That whole area is mostly a playground for the Spider vehicle to hoon and jump around I think.

Completed this last night, good times. Last couple of bosses were annoying, but just a case of figuring out the right weapons and tactics. Leaping around, shooting and throwing things is still a joy.

bad_hair_day wrote:

Which is why we play Sea of Thieves. Every voyage is an anecdote generator!

Seeing as that is also included in the game pass I think I will give that a go too. Assuming crossplay works alreet perhaps I can join in the shenanigans?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I never said anything of the sort. I haven't been paying any attention to this or the surrounding dev controversy, probably saw a trailer once for a past E3.

There were some memes and stuff making fun of it floating around recently that I was vaguely aware of. Then I watched John's DF vid, saw how fun the movement looked and liked the clean and colourful look of the world, and jumped in thanks to the cheapo game pass. This wasn't even on my radar a few days ago, so it's been a very pleasant gaming surprise, and I shall look back on my time with it fondly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm confused. Am I allowed to like this game or not?

Gurt, more than welcome to come aboard if you see us playing. There’s a context sensitive message system if you don’t have a headset - but it’s best enjoyed communicating in bad Cornish accents.

Ta, might have a play with it in a bit. Not sure how the voice comms will work, hopefully that works cross platform also.

Jim's not a fan

Who is Jim?

That's one of the most giflike still images I've ever seen.

Worth a punt with Game Pass so then?

GurtTractor wrote:

Yep, honestly I think that's kind of been ruining a lot of games for a while, or at least it has defined game design in a particular direction. I tend to think of that kind of leveling up and extended grindy progression as 'fake fun'. Real fun comes from the dynamic and emergent properties of the game world, or the simple joy of a good mechanic and feedback loop. Much of modern game detritus detracts from what is most important IMO, the feel of the thing as a whole. Fuck me I want another Half Life.