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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, EEVILMURRAY said:

    Is there any on land stuff? Or are you just sailing the X seas?

    There was a part where I explored a port town and a ship wreck but it was pretty uninspiring to be honest. Looks like you can dock in certain areas, perhaps there are ones more interesting

  2. Posted · Edited by ViPeR

    14 hours ago, EEVILMURRAY said:

    I'm considering it, but I need to do a bit more research apart from 20 second YouTube ads before other videos. If it's just naval warfare and related stuff, crafting only for boat etc and a lot of sailing, I might give it a miss. If it's like Assassin's Creed Black Flag, I'd be much more interested, that game was amazing.

    So I played an hour or so yesterday of the Open Beta. It felt distinctly average. The main gripe I had was camera and aiming settings couldn't be adjusted in the Beta so it soured my whole experience. Such an odd thing to block. You can adjust your sailing camera...Great. In terms of gameplay and graphics well let's start with Gameplay. It got mildly interesting during sections where you're fighting other ships but there didn't really feel like there was any sense of tactics or nuance to the combat. Now weapons etc can be upgraded but actual combat itself just felt like me and the other ship circling each other until one got destroyed. Sailing the open water felt a bit dull. I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps because the ship I had wasn't really that fast so I'm sure that might change. Thing is in Sea of Thieves at least there's things to do while you sail. Checking map coordinates, making minor adjustments to your bearing, keeping an eye out for enemy ships etc. Here you are just sailing from point A to B with nothing to do other than, if you want, starting fights with other ships but then that leaves you vulnerable if you're heading for a contract where you have to fight enemy ships lol. I also felt it just wasn't particularly easy to play. How they approach button configuration feels really off.

    Graphically it is massively underwhelming. I appreciate this is a Beta but man, really not impressed. For a game in development so long I'm really surprised.

    The positives for the moment however I did feel the community,  at the time I played, was respectful and worked together. I would join people taking on enemy ships and vice versa. It happened quite organically so that was quite cool. It's certainly not a game I'd spend any money on as it just didn't pull me in. There was no immediate story hook either. You just play some voiceless pirate who has no real backstory other than surviving a ship battle. Again this might likely get explored later but if the gameplay doesn't draw you in sometimes a good story hook can. Wasn't there for me.

    So to summarise I might play it again if it's on game pass but that'd be it.

     

     

     

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  3. Posted · Edited by ViPeR

    So the Open Beta is out Thursday. I'll give it a go, any of you considering it? Seems like Duke Nukem Forever in that it was in development hell and finally pushed over the line. I've not been massively conscious of this game so have no expectations :hehe:

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    Apologies if this has already been shared I didn't even know it existed! I'm a massive fan of the original NES game it was one of the first I owned. Sure it borrowed heavily off Ninja Gaiden but I think it's enough of its own game. I only recently completed as I could never do it as a kid. Now there's a remake which looks to introduce some modern elements and probably ease on the difficulty, maybe. Excited for this one!

    Shadow of the Ninja Reborn

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  8. Posted

    On 23/01/2024 at 4:26 PM, darksnowman said:

    Had the first one or two of these on PC. Thought they were pretty substandard and demonstrated the style over substance divide introduced by Playstation. At least I could say on the playground I'd first-hand experience of gunning down tigers and whatever. Then one time at a friends house, he put on 3 and wanted me to do a swimming bit. Maybe on keyboard but there was no chance on the Playstation controller. It wasn't long before we were back on WCW vs nWo on the N64.

    Saying that, I'd probably have one or both of the new Tomb Raider games if they were on Switch and I'm keeping this rerelease in mind for an eventual pickup.

    Always nice to see a familiar name/ avatar!

    Thanks bro 😉

  9. Posted

    I am quite mixed on this game. I love the Indy franchise, excluding Crystall Skull, but I've not actually played any games. From a story and gameplay perspective it certainly peaks my interest. The comparisons to Tomb Raider make me chuckle, as someone mentioned before who ripped off who when Indy was the probably the inspiration for Lara and Nathan's games.

    The other comments about 1st vs 3rd person, well for me I respect they came to that decision for a reason. The gameplay and what the developer wants to achieve should dictate the perspective, not the genre or what other games in the genre do.

    The only thing I can't shake is the facial animations. They feel a little robotic I'm not sure if it's the lip syncing being off in the trailer but even the intro where they show the villain he has a really wobbly head for some reason. Apart from that, I'm certainly interested in this one even if I'm not a fan of the Wolfenstein games happy to see what they do here.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    Yeah, they just play games that are trending because more views = more money. At least most of them do :p
    As soon as interest in Palworld drops or there's a new big thing, they move on.

     

     

    Very true. It's certainly going to be interesting to watch how this pans out. Nintendo have gone after more small fry than these guys before.

    I guess I'm not going to be objective anyway as I don't really play this genre 😜

    I showed my boy and the first thing he said is it was a new Pokemon game haha

  11. Posted

    16 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    Most out of the 6 million, or most of the streamers? Because the latter usually only play games to make cash, even if they don't enjoy the games.

    Out of everyone? I'm pretty sure most play them because they enjoy it. It seems to be a good game.

    My friends will be all in if it ever comes to PS5. I might dabble with it, too, because I like playing games like these with my friends. There's always good banter to be had.

    Sorry meant to say the streamers 😀

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  12. Posted

    Anyone played this? I have just been watching footage at the moment. These sorts of games hold no interest for me anyway. Just like Ark didn't. But I'm watching gameplay and i'm just like, what is the hype?? I feel it's an example of people jumping on the bandwagon and trying desperately to ignore the fact that it is completely uninspiring and broken in order to get on the trend train. I would not be shocked if most people playing this are just using it as a vehicle to increase their viewer numbers without genuinely enjoying it. It literally looks like a game designed for streamers.

    I know I'm making judgments on a game I've not played so might have to Game Pass it just so I can have a more informed opinion but I honestly don't get it.

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  13. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    Yeah, the original controls will certainly put a few people off. I'm not sure how the new ones are going to work though. The tank controls did have a degree of accuracy to them which allowed you to position yourself perfectly when trying to make tricky jumps.

    Funny I wonder if they'll have the original controls as an option? I imagine they would it seems to be the case for most remasters.

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    25 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    ViPer is posting? 

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    :D

    I played them when I was younger and I'm curious to see how they hold up. The save system in the first and third games were a little brutal and so I'm hoping they've changed them to make them more like the second game.

    I completely missed that there's no physical release for this. Shame. :( 

    Hahaha I tend to sneak in every now and again! Though I've never found a community like this one so may stick around this time who knows lol. Reddit is pretty toxic!

    What I like about these remasters and remakes is reworked controls. I loved what they did with Goldeneye on Xbox literally felt like I was playing a different game!

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  17. Posted

    On 18/07/2019 at 11:01 PM, nekunando said:

    Thanks, @ViPeR and @RedShell :hehe:

    To be honest, the shortcomings of the level really frustrate me but after so much effort going between each area and having to tweak everything constantly, I just had to get it uploaded and out of my hair :red:

    There's too much crammed into the time limit (unless you head straight for the goal) but I didn't want to start ripping it all apart.

    I really appreciate you taking the time to hunt everything down, @RedShell :smile: Well done!

    I was just being lazy nothing wrong with the level design 😄

  20. Posted

    @Sméagol

    Thanks again for testing my level. It's funny a lot of what you mention is exactly my thoughts during the creation phase. Verticality was one of my first thoughts about replicating World 7 which is why I tried to recreate it in the sub world. For me I remember Pipe world for its puzzles. Some of what you said made me chuckle. The top run with the coins, I flirted with the idea of cutting it off after the coins but chose not to. Maybe that was the asshole in me haha. There are hidden blocks against the left pipes in the water so you should always be able to get out but if I've missed some let me know which section so I can amend. Lastly the hint about the exit pipe....you hit the nail on the head, the original designers by that point were hardcore so I took a conscious decision to leave as is. My hope is when people see my levels they'll start at the first one and then see the increase in difficulty though I appreciate when it is in versus and coop they wont have that option. That bit I dont have any regrets I'd love to see the mad scramble in vs trying to find it!

     

    Lastly about aesthetics, again we're like minded. I dont like that some of the sub world looks out of centre but I wanted so many different sub world sections I had to divide the screen up resulting in issues like that. I'm a perfectionist and I didn't like it either haha. Last on my list is a homage to Dark World!

  25. Posted

    Just now, Sméagol said:

    You have to go back to your uploaded levels, and delete the one in question. Then you can simply re-upload the same level after editing.

    That's cool. If I wasn't so chuffed with the likes they already have I'd do that lol. Question, how do the stats work. You have a figure for likes, figure for times played but I don't get the clear rate. It has a top and bottom figure. Is the bottom figure number of deaths?

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