General Gaming Thread

[Cactus Drags]

Picked up Mortal Kombat X despite me being terrible at fighting games. Looks awesome, and it's pretty fun to play. Gonna take some serious time in practice mode to get the most out of it though. I struggle to remember combos when I'm in an actual fight. The factions thing is a neat idea, but it doesn't look like it'll really work out. Lin Kuei has a runaway lead at the moment and I don't see how anything can change it.

[Herr Matzat]

[apsham]

Picked up Mortal Kombat X despite me being terrible at fighting games. Looks awesome, and it's pretty fun to play. Gonna take some serious time in practice mode to get the most out of it though. I struggle to remember combos when I'm in an actual fight. The factions thing is a neat idea, but it doesn't look like it'll really work out. Lin Kuei has a runaway lead at the moment and I don't see how anything can change it.

Picked it up too and I'm in the same boat.

Aside from story mode (well, at least in the towers) you can favorite Kombos that will show up on the screen just under your health bar.

[Cactus Drags]

Lost a couple of fights online, but I did better than I expected, managed to string a couple of combos together from memory.

[Draevyn]

Even after talking myself out of it several times....I just went and bought the New Nintendo 3DSXL and Zelda: Majora's Mask. I suck at this not buying shit.

[TheWho87]

Yooka-Laylee has hit £1.1 million in 24 on their kickstarter. For those unaware this is from a team of former Rare developers and is styled on the Rare N64 platformers.

[apsham]

It's going to be glorious.

[Bobfoc]

It's pretty much a Banjo-Kazooie game without the licences, and that's fine with me.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

THPS5 Announced!

[Bobfoc]

The game weds the series' finely tuned gameplay with new additions such as power-ups and the ability to shoot projectiles for specific missions.

Seems a little unusual.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

THPS5 Announced!

I cannot express enough how much I love them calling it 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5'

Didn't one of the THUG games have a multiplayer game where you shot things at each other to disrupt combos?

[apsham]

I'm quite sure it did, I remember that being a thing.

[peteypirahna]

The game, developed by Robomodo

aaaand all interest has disappeared.

Fuck Robomodo for their super shitty Tony Hawks HD game!

[thatshortguy]

I felt like the recent HD release was solid, so I won't completely poop on Robomodo trying this one. They're the 343 to Neversoft's Bungie; never gonna get the love their predecessor did.

So, I have a conundrum. Project Cars doesn't seem to be the racing game I was looking for, while Cities Skylines and Shovel (PC and PS4, respectively) would be cheaper/the same price as CARS.

Gah. Which way to go?!

[Schlitzbrille]

As long as there's a subtle goofiness to the game (which did seem to be a series staple for a while) and it plays reasonably similar to Pro Skater 4, I'll be good with Pro Skater 5.

[Quom]

I felt like the recent HD release was solid, so I won't completely poop on Robomodo trying this one. They're the 343 to Neversoft's Bungie; never gonna get the love their predecessor did.

So, I have a conundrum. Project Cars doesn't seem to be the racing game I was looking for, while Cities Skylines and Shovel (PC and PS4, respectively) would be cheaper/the same price as CARS.

Gah. Which way to go?!

I was really, really, really super hyped for Skylines. But I dunno, it could just be that it's the first city builder I've actually been good at but I'm always rolling in cash and every city seems to do super well, to the point that there doesn't seem to be much challenge. Other players talk about needing to knock out massive roundabouts and complain about traffic but even those issues I somehow avoid. It might just be that I lack the requisite imagination, every city I build is pretty samey.

It's a great game, it's just that once you get through the early struggle of needing to be patient so as to not overspend there isn't a great deal to do in the mid-endgame. Expanded districts would be good where you could set up and micromanage types of industry and meet their needs (tourism, high tech commerce) and stuff like residential districts demanding a shopping mall and stuff would be nice. Or challenge maps, like you build a city in the desert and water is an issue but you generate heaps of power through solar or whatever.

I love the game and it was easily worth the money and it isn't like it feels like it's lacking anything in comparison to other city builders. It's just that I'm finding it easy and because of my lack of imagination can't even focus it into building a different type of city.

[probablyoliver]

So I played the first episode of Life is Strange today and it was pretty lovely.

Looking forward to playing the rest of it.

[Benji]

Really wish they'd hurry up with a new Prince of Persia. Sick of getting AC every year and no love for PoP

[TKz]

Really wish they'd hurry up with a new Prince of Persia. Sick of getting AC every year and no love for PoP

Doing that's probably not helping, to be fair. >_>

[Benji]

Yeah, that was my point. AC was born from a PoP concept, and they wound up going with that over PoP and basically doing total overkill on the series. They should alternate years.