The Video Game Thread

[YosemiteSam]

Anyone play Black Myth: Wukong? My buddy loves Souls like games and I was watching him play. This game is like 90% boss fights lol. It's like there is very little middle game and you are always in a big epic battle with what would be considered a boss of some sort. hah

 

[darthseinfeld]

I may pick this up on PC depending on reviews. Haven't played a Dragon Age game since Origins

2 was meh. Enjoyable but a poor follow-up. Inquisition was great. Uneven. Went a bit too deep into the open world fantasy RPG crazy at the time. But great story amd alot of fun

 

[darthseinfeld]

Early Meta's for Veilguard seem mixed, but slanted positive. Which seems pretty classic Bioware. In their heyday, after Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age Origins, their games tended to be uneven, but still very very good. They had a tough decade after the DAI launch with Andromeda and Anthem bombing. I watched a couple video reviews with gameplay, and from what Ive seen it looks incredible. Combat looks more like it integrated the Mass Effect party system into DA.

It looks like it will be 100 hours for completionists. I went back and looked up my farthust DAI playthrough and it was about 120 hours with three DLC completed. So even without being "fully open world" , you are getting the same amount of content as DAI

 

[CyberB0b]

I got COD Black Ops 6 free with Game Pass. I haven't played COD in a long time, but enjoying it. A big learning curve for an old man like me, but I got to a breakeven KD ratio pretty quickly. My hand/eye coordination is much worse than the 15 year olds, so I will always be mediocre, but it's a good time waste.

 

[DemonBlood]

Veilguard is an instant buy for me. DA is probably my favorite franchise next to Mass Effect. I just did my yearly play through of 1-3 so I'm ready.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Veilguard is an instant buy for me. DA is probably my favorite franchise next to Mass Effect. I just did my yearly play through of 1-3 so I'm ready.

Spell Blade looks really interesting. Probably the most fun I had in DAI was as a Knight Enchanter. Loved the caster/melee hybrid

 

[YosemiteSam]

I got COD Black Ops 6 free with Game Pass. I haven't played COD in a long time, but enjoying it. A big learning curve for an old man like me, but I got to a breakeven KD ratio pretty quickly. My hand/eye coordination is much worse than the 15 year olds, so I will always be mediocre, but it's a good time waste.

I used to always play those games, but with age catching up with me and the rampant cheating. I don't enjoy it so much anymore. Mostly now I stick to DOOM and Quake and play story mode since the latest DOOM multiplayer / PvP removed good old Deathmatch and turned it's multiplayer into a turd.

I heard todays kids don't appreciate good old style deathmatch as they constantly got a good whoopin' and like to play on consoles which is like playing with one eye, one leg, and one arm it sucks so bad.

 

[Shinaoi]

Anyone play Black Myth: Wukong? My buddy loves Souls like games and I was watching him play. This game is like 90% boss fights lol. It's like there is very little middle game and you are always in a big epic battle with what would be considered a boss of some sort. hah

Yes I played it and enjoyed it. Some of the fights were frustrating but that’s probably my skill level.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Yes I played it and enjoyed it. Some of the fights were frustrating but that’s probably my skill level.

My buddy thrives on Souls like games. I like them too, but the beatdown gets tiresome after a while hah. My buddy will accept a whoopin' 250 in a row until he beats it, but that's what he loves to do. He refuses to give up.

I asked him a couple of nights ago I said, So you spend sometimes many hours over the course of days sometimes working to kill one boss and then once it's over. Everything you learned in that struggle is lost the second you move on. You don't have a problem with this? hah He doesn't care. He just wants to beat it.

 

[dreghorn2]

My buddy thrives on Souls like games. I like them too, but the beatdown gets tiresome after a while hah. My buddy will accept a whoopin' 250 in a row until he beats it, but that's what he loves to do. He refuses to give up.

I asked him a couple of nights ago I said, So you spend sometimes many hours over the course of days sometimes working to kill one boss and then once it's over. Everything you learned in that struggle is lost the second you move on. You don't have a problem with this? hah He doesn't care. He just wants to beat it.

I respect that.

I don't like those types of games, but i have to give your friend his due.

 

[bigdnlaca]

I got COD Black Ops 6 free with Game Pass. I haven't played COD in a long time, but enjoying it. A big learning curve for an old man like me, but I got to a breakeven KD ratio pretty quickly. My hand/eye coordination is much worse than the 15 year olds, so I will always be mediocre, but it's a good time waste.

I think COD this year is more enjoyable with friends and have a good time. I haven’t had fun with COD since the disbanding of lobbies.

What I have noticed is that if you are at least know the game modes, you will be around breakeven majority of the time due to spawns and the maps. It is very difficult to truly take over a game and when you do, the game will put you in a match where you will be around the breakeven.