General Gaming Thread

[Avenged Probably]

Is it at least funny because it's shit?

[Dan]

The guy on the banner looks so generic and has zero facial expression.

[ThrillhouseMAX]

If he wasn't talking about that game as if it was the coolest wrestling game ever, I might have found it funny that it was so bad. I played a match and it was clunky and didn't work too well.

[apsham]

I mean, they went for it and that's cool and all. But it's not very good and it wasn't really going to be very good and I think they should have seen that coming a million miles off. One of them HAS to have some money backing his dream of creating a video game - because I have no clue what kind of bank would loan out to a company that has only made a single phone game.

[King Ellis]

I remember back when he turned up touting his iOS game, Googling him/the company brought up some association with a casino. That and there still might be some tax breaks associated with video game designs up in Scotland so that helps.

[ZJ Penn]

So apparently there was an error on the Czech PSN and people have been picking up Battlefield Hardline Premium Edition for £3.25...

[Skummy]

Oddworld: New & Tasty is incredible. I don't know if it's a sign of how imaginative the game was the first time around, or of how few risks have been taken in games since, but it still feels as fresh, new and exciting now as it ever did. Retro Gamer reviewed it and said it "looks as good as you remember it looking", which is a fantastic way of putting it.

Just a great game made better, and brilliant fun. It reminds me of Limbo now, in that I don't even get annoyed when I die, partly because the deaths tend to be at least somewhat comical, but largely because you always know you deserved it. I've always felt the sign of great level design is not getting frustrated when you keep dying, because you know it's your fault, that you're not getting it right, not a fault of the game itself that's stopping you from progressing.

[Cactus Drags]

I only ever had the demo of Abe's Odyssey, but I played it to death. Loving the refresh.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

I'm enjoying it too, almost in spite of the analog controls though I haven't checked to see if you can change them. I'm also having a problem where I get through the first section and try to enter the door marked '2' but it's shut and the internet can't tell me why.

[Benji]

Anyone played Cities: Skyline yet? Hearing good things about it.

[Liam]

Read the Steam/PC thread.

[apsham]

We're talking about it in the Steam/PC thread.

[Pizza]

Its very good. I'm very bad at it.

[Owen]

Are there any good alternatives to eBay in terms of video games? Specifically PS1 and PS2 games. There are some games that I want to purchase but they're either a hell of a lot of money on eBay or not there at all...

[BuddyAwesome]

Amazon

[Owen]

I've checked Amazon, and they're even more expensive (extortionate, upwards of like £80!)... eh, I guess they probably are just that rare. I doubt they'll be cheaper anywhere other than eBay. Ah well.

[Bobfoc]

I've been reading rumours that Hideo Kojima will be leaving Konami after Metal Gear Solid V releases. If it's true, this is a sad day.

[Skummy]

Yeah, he's no longer listed in some of his old job roles on their website, and his name and the Kojima brand seem to be getting gradually removed from just about everything Konami. Interesting to see what comes next - I can see him wanting to get away from the MGS brand (how many times has he tried to end that story now?), but I also suspect that Konami would happily churn out another Metal Gear Solid game with or without him anyway.

[TKz]

I am okay with this so long as Kojima makes something else with his own unique brand of insanity and Konami just let's Platinum make a hundred Metal Gear Rising sequels.

But fuck me, I do not want to see the company who turned Castlevania into a generic piece of shit action game left alone with the Metal Gear license.

I kind of have to imagine this is what Kojima wants, though. All the stuff he's been posting seems to indicate it's his choice and I can't see Konami letting the golden goose go free like that.

[Bobfoc]

I can definitely see them continuing the Metal Gear franchise without Kojima, but it won't be the same for me. Auteurship is something that's downplayed in the video games industry, but to me, Kojima is Metal Gear, and something helmed by anyone else is simply fan fiction. I'm probably being fussy, but Metal Gear Rising just didn't do it for me because I've never considered Platinum to be decent writers in the slightest, and Rising's story and characters came across as cheap knock-offs to me. I know that's a rather insane thing to say when, all things considered, Kojima isn't exactly the snappiest and most subtle of writers himself, but his games are chock full of an almost intangible charm and a healthy dose of silliness that I've never quite seen anyone else replicate. Metal Gear, a series of stealth-action games with custscenes as long as feature-length films, looks on paper to be the absolute antithesis of what I look for in a video game, yet, somehow, the fourth-wall-breaking, grandioseness and melodrama resonates with me better than pretty much anything else out there. Metal Gear may continue as a brand after Kojima goes, but if it's still decent, it'll be for different reasons than it is now.