X Box Series S and X thread of MS DOING IT BETTER - The Bear and Badger

FranticPea

Eric wrote:

How long did it take you Franny?

Its weird my stats say 5 hours but I did an hour Thursday, 9 till 12 last night and 4 hours today so that must be wrong. Maybe it hasn't synched or something. I reckon 8-10 hours ish.

Tempy

7 hrs for me. Have heard reports it can be pushed to 12 if you're absolutely meticulous, so 8ish sounds about right.

FranticPea

I missed 3 achievements, no idea what I missed as I was enjoying reading all the notes etc so was having a good root. Maybe they weren't collectible related.

Tempy

I missed six, handing my Gamer Card in

Wookienopants

FranticPea wrote:

I missed 3 achievements, no idea what I missed as I was enjoying reading all the notes etc so was having a good root. Maybe they weren't collectible related.

Did you

Spoiler:

?

FranticPea

I wish they had done more stuff like the

Spoiler:

They missed a trick there.

FranticPea

Wookienopants wrote:

FranticPea wrote:

I missed 3 achievements, no idea what I missed as I was enjoying reading all the notes etc so was having a good root. Maybe they weren't collectible related.

Did you

Spoiler:

feed the cat
?

Of course, I'm not a monster.

Tempy

Yeah that stuff's great. All the dual world stuff was brilliant, but there just wasn't enough going on for me.

Also same to wookie's spoiler, do you think we're Yoss or something?

b0r1s

This is where Microsoft excel. Just brilliant.

Scout

How was the second Mordor game? Eyeing up my next Game Pass game.

Tempy

I managed about 2hrs before turning it off, it's a game of utter maximalism. If you absolutely loved Shadow of Mordor I can imagine you getting on ok with it, but I didn't love it enough that I wanted another 40+ hours of it. It very much feels like a direct continuation, you're even a lot stronger than you are in SoM, so the game starts off in a weird place of everything just being a bit of a cake walk. Also has the worst Ubisoft style tower sections in a game, where you have to manually find all waypoint markers every time.

Syph79

Same. Wouldn’t bother. Huge download too.

MattyJ

Yuuup. Loved the first and hated the second

Aaroncupboard

Agree with the other posts here. Loved the first and despised the second. It’s just not enjoyable to play.

Paul the sparky

What's the difference between the two?

Diluted Dante

One's good, the other isn't.

Paul the sparky

That's obviously a top tier funny jokey joke and all that, thanks, but I wouldn't mind if the people that hate it can offer up a little more information. I mean, look:

Tempy wrote:

I managed about 2hrs before turning it off, it's a game of utter maximalism. If you absolutely loved Shadow of Mordor I can imagine you getting on ok with it, but I didn't love it enough that I wanted another 40+ hours of it. It very much feels like a direct continuation, you're even a lot stronger than you are in SoM, so the game starts off in a weird place of everything just being a bit of a cake walk. Also has the worst Ubisoft style tower sections in a game, where you have to manually find all waypoint markers every time.

And then we've got this:

MattyJ wrote:

Yuuup. Loved the first and hated the second

Aaroncupboard wrote:

Agree with the other posts here. Loved the first and despised the second. It’s just not enjoyable to play.

Now I've played both and agree with Tempy, they're very similar. For me the sequel took too long to get going and into the new stuff, but I'd not say I hated/despised it because it's not doing anything drastically different

Cupatay

The second one completely forgets why the nemesis system worked and that was what made the first special. The second is just too big and too impersonal. Too many armies, too many ideas.
I loved the first. The seconds playable I guess.

Syph79

Time hasn’t been kind either. I thought it looked like crap playing it recently. The first was early PS4 and, although it was a great game, it hit the right spot for something new on a new machine. There’s much better stuff to play on Gamepass than the sequel.

Aaroncupboard

For me it just actually went too big. Every area was filled with things to do but also seemed to be filled with numerous enemies. I felt like I was being constantly hounded by enemies whenever I was playing.

I get that a sequel needs to expand on things but I just disliked all the additions. The nemesis system lost something through the added complexity.

stonechalice

Hectic with nonsense the second game. Pretty rubbish.

pantyfire

The thing is it kinda went where it needed to go.
They arguably had to complicate the combat more, similarly, they kinda had to crank up the nemesis and the faction thing more, otherwise you might as well just play the first game.
But I’m doing so they lost why the first one was so good.

MattyJ

It felt really lifeless to me, just way less personal, and devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever. It over complicated things and didn't hold my attention at all.

Minkymu

Anyone on here playing dirt 5 on a decent 4k hdr tv mind telling me what in game settings they use for graphics sliders. Ive pissed about with menu sertings and i cant help but feel it looks a bit washed out, like too much white. Particularly where there are flood lit stages or very sunny stages. This may just be how the game is??

This obvs shouldnt be a issue with an oled.

LivDiv

Ref Shadow of War
From what I remember there was a whole scene where the end game was built on lootcrates and/or grind which they removed after pressure but left it kind of a mess.

Moot_Geeza

I only played Shadow of War for an hour or so. Definite feelings of too much going on, probably not helped by reviews I read that suggested they'd overdone it (some sort of tower defence thing in play too?). It's probably fine, but 25+ hours is a a lot of time to devote to one game for me and I knew if I carried on I'd crave the relative simplicity of the original.

pantyfire

There’s a Risk (boardgame) thing going on. You conquer areas but then they can be lost (I think) again. It was all a bit much.

Scout

Well you're certainly all talked me out of Shadow of Mordor. I'll give it a miss I think.

b0r1s

Ok gave Medium another go. The setting is interesting but the PC version is kind of buggered for me in its current form.

The dual scene performance is really bad. I’m getting nearly 60fps normally but double the scene and it drops to mid 20’s going as low as sun 20fps.

Think I’ll wait for hopefully a DLSS patch or when I eventually get a desktop PC.

acemuzzy

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