Renault on 13/1/2017 at 21:59
I just saw the new Resident Evil (7) is actually in first person. Pretty cool. Gonna have to add that to my list, even before trying out the demo tonight.
Jason Moyer on 14/1/2017 at 18:19
Gonna pre-order:
Prey
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Already own and not sure I care anymore:
Torment: Tides Of Mah Na Mah Na
$10 Steam Sale Pile:
Cuphead
Agents Of Mayhem
Echo
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Lego City Undercover
Tacoma
Routine
The Bard's Tale IV
Divinity: Original Sin 2
The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky The 3rd
Vampyr
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
NieR: Automata
Pyre
The Signal From Tolva
Aaero
Strafe
Overload
Sulphur on 14/1/2017 at 18:31
I hope you can tell from the trailers for ME:A that there are big, red signs pointing towards a large infusion of the time-wasting mechanics from DA:I.
faetal on 14/1/2017 at 18:34
Care to elaborate for someone who's not played the latter and is interested in the former?
Sulphur on 14/1/2017 at 19:07
I wrote a preposterously long scribble on it during the holidays (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142357&p=2341960&viewfull=1#post2341960) here.
In essence, Bioware's approach to semi-open world design and its attendant expansion of scope appears to be: sprinkle as many grindy collect-a-thons around the environments as possible to make them not seem like beautiful expanses full of very little to do. DA:I's side-quests/upgrade systems pretty much had you scouring the landscape for rocks every few seconds or killing random mobs of respawning wildlife/enemies until you had enough of X resource to dump on a crafting or research table, which wasn't the most fun gameplay loop in the world. ME:A's gameplay trailer points to similar systems of resource gathering, crafting, and research being part of the experience, which as you can imagine is a bit troubling.
Jason Moyer on 14/1/2017 at 19:10
I guess it depends on how its handled? The first game had some of that shit too, but I genuinely enjoyed cruising around in the Mako collecting stuff. You're right, though, if 90% of the game is MMO nonsense like DA:I then yeah, I'm out.
Sulphur on 14/1/2017 at 19:27
Well, Laidlaw isn't directing it, so fingers still crossed. I'm waiting to see more actual gameplay, plus there's some pretty strong echoes of ME1 in the whole thing, and that's its own bag of pros and cons.
Renault on 17/1/2017 at 20:41
No offense to the Tangiers guys, but we've heard this before.
henke on 21/1/2017 at 11:40
THE TIME HAS COME
THE TIME TO REVEAL THE TIME THAT THE THING THAT IS THIS GAME IS COMING OUT
BEEEEEHOOOOOLLDDD
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