System Wars Lounge V82: The High Horse Edition

It has good shooting and thats it. its just typical open world game but more blander. driving also suck.

Rage 1 was better.

should ask @warmblur friend, He liked it alot and call it better than Doom Eternal.

Rage is such a weird franchise. It's like they don't know what to do with it.

thats why id drop it right after original and went back on Doom.

Main thing that seems to differentiate it was the vehicle stuff. But even that's kind of boring, the actual Mad Max game, though repetitive as all hell had pretty fun driving combat.

Need to boot that game up again at some point. Get bored 6 hours in, and forget it again.

So, I had the grossest customer of the year so far. A mom and two kids:

1. No Masks (might as well carry a gun, loaded and with no safeties while we're in this pandemic)

2. Kids were already munching on their produce

3. The son was climbing on top of the nearby ice cream freezer just so the mom could

I had to shut down and disinfect my entire register and that freezer's door.

Picked up Yakuza collection.

Hopefully the port isn't poo.

Unskippable end-game credits are so obnoxious. Who watches those? I appreciate the work of a game I enjoy, but I also bought the game. I did my part. No one should be obligated to go through that. If people really cared they would look it up. I just do something else while they scroll, sometimes forgetting about it. Coming back to a "would you like to save the game now?....you fucker!" message.

@SOedipus: Can't say bothers me much. Most cases pretty much done with it and walk away to get a piss or grub.

The unskipple start ups though. Uhhh.

The recent Doom 64 release, this is the shit get every-time it starts up.

Can thankfully manually go into the folder to edit it so almost a minute of time isn't wasted on a loop.

I always watch the end game credits myself. I’ll even very carefully set the controller down because I don’t want to accidentally skip them. I do love it when they put in some things during the credit roll. Showing pics of moments during a game or some kind of scenic view is cool ie. Mega Man, Zelda, Mario, etc. usually have some nice credit rolls. Also definitely love ones like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry games that put in the ability to fight enemies while the credits roll. Anyway I just enjoy taking the time to reflect on my time spent with the game while the credits roll.

@uninspiredcup: If it's a game where the story is an aspect that is focused on, I get it. Moviegame or whatever. But in a game like Dragon's Crown where it's pretty much just arcade style slash'em-up, I don't. I just want to get back into it.

That start-up is ridiculous. It wouldn't have taken me long to edit that too.

That's deep. I know what you mean. Haven't done that in a long time though. I'm just anxious to jump right into it again. Do you do the same for movies or tv-shows, or if you replay a game?

@SOedipus: Yeah I kind of do the same thing with movies especially when I see them in a theatre. Not so much with TV shows though, probably because most of the ones I usually watch there’s really no variation in credits from episode to episode. I do typically watch the credit rolls even when I played the game before. I don’t replay the very lengthy games too often so the short arcade type games that I replay have substantially shorter credits as well so I don’t really mind the five minutes or less that it takes for the credits. I’ve always just found the credit roll in games to be a pretty satisfying way to cap off the game overall.

@Archangel3371: I bet you read the menu from front to back when you go out to dinner 🤣🤣🤣

@i_p_daily: Well absolutely. Why the hell wouldn’t you? I mean I want to see all of what I could possibly order to see what might strike my appetite. 😐

@Archangel3371: how you getting on with control? i just fired it up last night. last time i played i was moaning that i found the story a bit odd and difficult to follow, but to be fair to the game it literally starts by saying fair warning this is going to be weirder than usual lol. i'm going to try and pay more attention this time, read every note you pick up etc.

those puppets on the tv show you come across early on are f*cked up.

it's £10 on ps4 so i don't mind taking a punt at that price. £40 on steam is too rich for my blood

@Macutchi: Finished the main game a few days ago and am playing through the dlc The Foundation. I really enjoyed the game and yeah it’s definitely a pretty weird story for sure and those puppet shows you find are creepy.

I was reading every bit of info on stuff you find but there’s a lot of that in this game and after awhile I just stopped reading all the notes. I may go and read some later on though.

@Archangel3371: I meant after you've placed your order lol.

@i_p_daily: Why would anyone do that? That’s just weird. 😐

Wanna pick this cola up but it's more expensive than drugs.

Just something about drinking cola from glass.

@uninspiredcup: bought two crates of it at christmas. absolute primo coke.

edit: the crates are much cheaper. or where.

yeah it's one of those things that you start off with the best of intentions but then give up because it becomes too laborious. far too many games rely on it as a narrative device. it's forgivable when it's "bonus" supplementary lore but when it's integral to the plot in terms of building a genuine understanding of what's happening, it's less so.

how long did the campaign take you?

Is everyone notifications bugged as well? Last time I got the notification was like yesterday even though I see someone replied to me just now.

Yes. been getting none or 3 months later.

@Macutchi: It took me a fair amount of time to finish the main campaign, not sure exactly how long but definitely more then 50 hours. I was doing most of the side mission stuff.

@Archangel3371: oh really, wow, i thought it was only a 10-15 hour campaign.

*changes difficulty to very easy 👀*

@Macutchi: Well to be fair I can be pretty slow when playing games and I did get stumped from time to time trying to find my way around the map. Still though it was longer then I was expecting for sure.

This is all you Conan!!

https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/status/1357080157933215753?s=19

Think I unlocked him through playing already, but not sure if I've actually equipped him through the roster. Apparently he has some Kamiya trash talk taunt, need to look into that lol.

The base VR of Skyrim is really bad, lazy. And overpriced. The modders work though, brilliant.

Who is a fan of the Turrican games? I just ordered Turrican Flashback on the Switch (btw, same price as the PS4 version). I never played them before, but I was a childhood fan of it's developer. Hint...

Yea, the Turrican games and their various ports pretty solid. Turrican 2 probably like the top 3 Amiga games.

I’m having a hard time getting used to katamari’s controls. Good god man, it’s wonky. Anyone here good at these games lol

@ConanTheStoner: Ask your mom.

"Rascals" should on paper be a fucking terrible episode, but I can't help but love it.

Gotta laugh at O'brien. He was always given the "O'brien must suffer" plotline in DS9, and here he gets one of the most creepy, awkward scenes in the series.

WandaVision is starting to get really good.

Would legit watch her gaming Youtube.

Love that 2 second end where the mood changes. Thinking about murder, no doubt.

R.I.P. Christopher Plummer.

He played the best Star Trek movie villain, in the best Star Trek movie.

Yeah Star Trek VI is one of my most memorable movies with him in it.

I just read that the Series X|S were the best selling console in the UK for last month. I am surprised Xbox fannies didn't jump on that.

Will this suffice?

@Archangel3371: Yep! 😂

@Pedro: Xbox’s biggest cheerleader just doing my job. 😅

Why does a show that is a total of 43 minutes have more than seven minutes of credits??

Space Sweepers on Netflix looks pretty damn good. Anyone watch it yet?

Watching 'Our Planet' on Netflix with Dolby Vision is eye popping brilliance! Can't wait for this feature to arrive on consoles this year.

Very impressive Steam review of Nioh 2.

this game is real garbage and♥♥♥♥♥♥,, its basically chinese dark soils which is freaking lame because the chinese are irelevant in gaming and in general. i think if anyone has any self respect they should treat themselves with an actual good game by the white folks like Fallout 4 (Todd Howard game), which came out in 2013 but looks better , plays better , better weapons (like guns, pistols, shotgunm etc) , and has better modding scene than this .

Yea. I like Wrath Of Khan, but objectively do think Undiscovery Country is better imo, closer to what Star Trek is about and a great send off for the original crew.

First Contact pretty overrated. Voyage Home, pretty great light-comedy take. Most of the others meh.

Granted. They use "bad guy with super-ship" trope, which every thing Star Trek 2009+, exact same shit. Man disgruntled with Star Trek has super-weapon. Bros must destroy.

But Star Trek VI executes it so well. Compelling villain. Excellent cold war premise, thematically about the future, getting old, the world changing etc.... And the action sequence itself is way, way better. Ships in space firing cannon balls. A sense of weight and cohesion.

Like, you watch that new Startrek, it's like the ships are having an epileptic fit, just shit being thrown at the screen.

@uninspiredcup: Now you’re making me want to watch Star Trek VI again. 😅

Enjoying Yakuza 0 but a lot of shit I don't like about it.

It's like that boulder from Resident Evil 4 times a million. Random QTE' all over the place that can result on 1/4 your health chipped multiplied multiple times over a level. It's done more damage to the characters health than the actual fighting.

The camera is pretty bad as well, and moving civilians you can pass through but static ones act like buildings of the scenery that just stops you dead in your tracks.

In a lot of ways it feels like playing some shit from late 2001.

Do like the combat system, feels very arcade' while having a bit of depth to it. And the game balances absurdist humor with Le_Serous_Drama. It's not like a David Cage or Bioware game where everything is po-faced because this is serous mature game for mature gamers. But the story and characters still remain fairly engaging.

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