The Video Game thread

[madmax1012]

I need a story to keep me interested. Sandboxes usually just don't pack enough character development for me too.

[RR Bigman]

i'm not the target audience though.... i suck at sandbox games. i like the IDEA of a huge world where you don't have to follow one path... but they take it to such extremes that i end up playing for 8 hours and haven't done anything in the main story line so i feel like i didna accomplish anything. which kills the fun for me.

murp.

I can understand that, but not accomplishing anything doesn't really bother me in vidya. For example, I've had Oblivion since it came out, and have yet to finish the main story...I spend all my time punching deer and pretending I'm a ninja jumping from roof to roof and stabbing people. But I have problems focusing on storylines anyways so maybe I'm just weird

[coldbrightsunlight]

i'm not the target audience though.... i suck at sandbox games. i like the IDEA of a huge world where you don't have to follow one path... but they take it to such extremes that i end up playing for 8 hours and haven't done anything in the main story line so i feel like i didna accomplish anything. which kills the fun for me.

murp.

I can understand that, but not accomplishing anything doesn't really bother me in vidya. For example, I've had Oblivion since it came out, and have yet to finish the main story...I spend all my time punching deer and pretending I'm a ninja jumping from roof to roof and stabbing people. But I have problems focusing on storylines anyways so maybe I'm just weird

I totally get you. I have well over 150 hours logged in each of morrowind and skyrim and i've completed the main quest once in morrowind, never in skyrim. And I STILL want to play them both and just go exploring shit.

[Andrew]

i'm not the target audience though.... i suck at sandbox games. i like the IDEA of a huge world where you don't have to follow one path... but they take it to such extremes that i end up playing for 8 hours and haven't done anything in the main story line so i feel like i didna accomplish anything. which kills the fun for me.

murp.

Thats who you/I do it.

[behndy]

totally. i SEE the appeal, it just doesna do it for me.

i like to feel like i've DONE THINGS. and i get the opposite feel from sandboxin's.

[MannequinRaces]

GTA5 should be interesting. Basically a sandbox with three different protagonists that you can switch between.

What about games you're looking forward to next year? On the list for me is Metro: Last Light, Bio Shock Infinite, maybe Metal Gear. and the new Gears of War.

[foomanfat]

Pre-loading Far Cry 3

[Achtane]

If you use an Australian proxy thing like FlyVPN you can play Farcry 'cause it's out there. Game's awesome.
My friend says it's "funny" if you go out of the map boundaries in a boat and dive into the water.

Please tell me what happens 'cause open water freaks me out, even if it's in a game
There's this one mission involving a big ship and if you die on the boat, you respawn in the water about 200 feet away...fuuuuuuuck...

[My name is Mudd]

Far Cry 3's on my short-list, and I hope it's better than FC2 was...loved FC1, HATED FC2.

[foomanfat]

I loved FC2 and everything I've heard about 3 has been super positive.

[madmax1012]

i just wanna punch sharks.

[RR Bigman]

i just wanna punch sharks.

[Achtane]

You can punch sharks. Punch the shit out of 'em. Gators too.
I never played the first one, but FC3 is so much better than FC2 it's crazy. They fixed a lot of the smaller annoyances.
I am pissed about the lack of my favorite weapon, the Carl Gustav...I wasn't any good with the "real" guns in multiplayer so I decided to just rock the uzi/Gustav kit.

The day I discovered that you could fire the rocket straight up, then aim at a rooftop and absolutely destroy enemy snipers was...amazing.

[cloudscapes]

spent 1.5 goddamn years working on FC3
glad it's finally out

[Achtane]

WHUT.
What'd you do?