Escape wrote:I recently played through A Link to the Past, and whatever anyone else thinks about it, I enjoyed it more than Breath of the Wild. I tried Deus Ex: Human Revolution and gave up as soon as I died in its first stealth section: another sodding warehouse with crates and glowing ladders, cramming stealth mechanics into the always-too-tight first-person view. If I can't see a fair amount of the field then I'm buggered if I'm iterating my way through it with trial and error.
I still love gameplay, I just hate most games now. There's rarely difficulty any more, and without that there's no expression. When there is difficulty it's almost invariably a rote grind, rather than something that you can think about when you're not playing and return improved. I went through Another World: 20th Anniversary a few days ago and it actually make me think a couple of times; 'bout stuff I'd forgotten.
It's a bad game, and yes — it is rote, but engagingly so. Most of my failures were because I hadn't worked something out, rather than simply because I'd not had a clean enough run yet. Castlevania IV was largely the same. I was entertained.
And wish-I-were-a-film-writer stories can piss off. Ditto most film writers. Castlevania IV opens with a scene of Belmont looking up at a castle. There's yer narrative, and it's kickass.
Liveinadive wrote:I wonder if MS will reveal a Scorpio VR setup or perhaps Hololens.
Games will always win though, tech is no good without hem. Although Sony haven't released half the stuff they stole the show with last year.
Yossarian wrote:Microsoft have new hardware to reveal, I can't imagine any sort of HW from Sony seeing as it's less then a year since the Pro and VR headset. There's always the potential for MS to fuck up, but there isn't much Sony can do to steal Microsoft's thunder, even with an extra couple of days to play with after the reveal.
Dinostar77 wrote:Three announcements that won't happen at e3.
1. Witcher 3 on switch
2. F zero on switch
3. Wiiu classics on Switch (please please happen).
retroking1981 wrote:Best thing I've read on here in a good while, especially the last paragraph.
Raiziel wrote:Yossarian wrote:Microsoft have new hardware to reveal, I can't imagine any sort of HW from Sony seeing as it's less then a year since the Pro and VR headset. There's always the potential for MS to fuck up, but there isn't much Sony can do to steal Microsoft's thunder, even with an extra couple of days to play with after the reveal.
Having some nice new hardware to show off isn't enough to steal the show. Microsoft's games lineup has been risible for quite some time now, and that's what makes for a great E3 showing.
I honestly hope they bring their A game and start giving Sony a run for their money again, but I'm just not very confident they will. They need to make some serious investment in a wide range of new exclusives to genuinely compete.
Having said that, I am looking forward to seeing the Scorpio.
afgavinstan wrote:And Spence said in a recent Guardian interview that they've been investing heavily in their slate of games, with a lot to be announced.
$3bn on fifa exclusivity u herd it heer first xo
FranticPea wrote:Sea of Thieves has the potential of being an absolute hoot with forumers, and it runs and looks absolutely lovely. I just want more news on that more than anything.
Liveinadive wrote:Yup, really want Thieves to be good. I like what I have seen so far.
It is going to be an absolute disaster with us lot trying to sail a boat but in the best possible way.
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