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[harbl_the_cat]

Golden Eye 007 is still king

License to kill, pistols only, no Oddjob...

F*cking Oddjob...



Those were the days...



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[stevebc]

An update to the Metro games I bought in a bundle from Steam a while back: the only game in the bundle that wouldn't work was Metro 2033 Redux.

It would download, but then it would "Pause" the download, and wouldn't install. I got "Corrupt Disk" (which should have tipped me off to the problem, but it didn't), or "Disk write error" (ditto).

I went into the "Discussions" forum on the game, posted my issue, and within a day, someone had posted the solution: I had to check the drive I was installing to, and sure enough, it found errors.

Then it fixed the errors, and lo and behold- the download completed, it installed, and if it hadn't been midnight, I'd have tried the game out then and there.

So, I'll try it later today.

I've fallen in love with the world the Metro series is set in. There's a lot of depth to it. Also, here's why Metro is such an immersive game:

[harbl_the_cat]

Tears of the Kingdom gameplay.

[Stealthfall]

Tears of the Kingdom gameplay.

Breath of the Wild is the only Zelda game I ever played where I lost motivation to finish it- hell I 100% almost every mainline game from Link to the Past on (I've never owned the NES games although I have played them), even including Skyward Sword which I found Infuriating at times because of dumb motion controls and obnoxious handholding.

BOTW is a lovely looking game but the freeform exploration an overly high setting of levelling enemies where you burn half your 20 weapon slots in combat with periodic resets does not a fun game for me make, and I dropped it and loaded up a 100 hour save to play Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC that I had yet to play.

I don't think Tears of the Kingdom gets my purchase which is a odd place to be for a once strong fan of the series, but coupled with the switch's weird layout joycons or inferior pro controller (the GameCube was the best analog based controller Nintendo ever made)

[harbl_the_cat]

Breath of the Wild is the only Zelda game I ever played where I lost motivation to finish it- hell I 100% almost every mainline game from Link to the Past on (I've never owned the NES games although I have played them), even including Skyward Sword which I found Infuriating at times because of dumb motion controls and obnoxious handholding.

BOTW is a lovely looking game but the freeform exploration an overly high setting of levelling enemies where you burn half your 20 weapon slots in combat with periodic resets does not a fun game for me make, and I dropped it Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC yet

I don't think Tears of the Kingdom gets my purchase which is a odd place to be for a once strong fan of the series, but coupled with the switch's weird layout joycons or inferior pro controller (the GameCube was the best analog based controller Nintendo ever made)

What made BOTW really special for me was my girls loved watching me play and, when I wasn't playing, they went around foraging for weapons and supplies for me so that when I started playing it, I was pretty well maxed out on everything I needed to annihilate everything I fought against.

It was a VERY magical 2 years I'll never forget.

[Stealthfall]

I after a while found I missed the degradation from fallout 3 going to 4 (although the power armor energy cells do give a bit of the same feeling however i'm only about 5 hours into 4) but while in fallout 3 it initially irritated me and I found myself not using good weapons for fear of wearing them out after about 10-15 hours in stopped reserving them and could be keep ahead of it with bit of planning and got easier the higher level I was (the old grenade reverse pickpocket was an inexpensive tactic) but in a game about combatting enemies for rewards - you were aggressively punished for using your weapons especially against "mini bosses" like lynels, moblins and I'm lumping guardians into that group

[harbl_the_cat]

This looks really good.

I think my daughters would really like it if we Livestreamed us playing it...

[stevebc]

I after a while found I missed the degradation from fallout 3 going to 4 (although the power armor energy cells do give a bit of the same feeling however i'm only about 5 hours into 4) but while in fallout 3 it initially irritated me and I found myself not using good weapons for fear of wearing them out after about 10-15 hours in stopped reserving them and could be keep ahead of it with bit of planning and got easier the higher level I was (the old grenade reverse pickpocket was an inexpensive tactic) but in a game about combatting enemies for rewards - you were aggressively punished for using your weapons especially against "mini bosses" like lynels, moblins and I'm lumping guardians into that group

I was going to buy Fallout 4, but then I saw something about every interaction being a multiple choice.

Here's a quote from one of the reviews: "the dialogue system has the same basic choices in every conversation,".

I bought a similar game like that a while back on Steam, and within minutes I was so annoyed by that nonsense, I got a refund. It was just really irritating, which is a shame, because otherwise, Fallout 4 looked pretty good.

[Stealthfall]

By and large I would say 4 is in a few ways worse than New Vegas and 3, but I haven't finished it. However doesn't mean its not worth playing - but Its one of the chasing the current trend things (dumbing down dialogue selection for console players) that the developer did(or insisted by the publisher) that annoyed me about it like the settlement building mechanic.

Part of what I liked about the older ones was the often in depth dialogue chains, It isn't the worst 4 option dialogue system I've seen but it is occasionally jarring, If you played LA Noire its not as bad as that but every once in a while its feels like an out of place reaction. The original system which is a carry on from the original two far more traditional RPG like - which I have yet to have a particular success in playing Fallout 1 and 2 but i do enjoy it although I ended up sucking at them - died in the first cave a few times.

[stevebc]

By and large I would say 4 is in a few ways worse than New Vegas and 3, but I haven't finished it. However doesn't mean its not worth playing - but Its one of the chasing the current trend things (dumbing down dialogue selection for console players) that the developer did(or insisted by the publisher) that annoyed me about it like the settlement building mechanic.

Part of what I liked about the older ones was the often in depth dialogue chains, It isn't the worst 4 option dialogue system I've seen but it is occasionally jarring, If you played LA Noire its not as bad as that but every once in a while its feels like an out of place reaction. The original system which is a carry on from the original two far more traditional RPG like - which I have yet to have a particular success in playing Fallout 1 and 2 but i do enjoy it if I ended up sucking at them.

Fair enough- I might buy it if it comes up on sale.