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Ive always been a fan of the ace combat series. glad to see they are making another

No doubt. The only other thing I can say is that the work that they have put into the game has been paying off, though. A dev said recently that they're seeing a slow but steady uptick in # of people playing the game starting 2 updates ago.

Got my hands on an SNES classic over the weekend. Stopped by the store for something unrelated, decided to swing by the electronics section for the heck of it and there were 3 of them sitting on the shelf.

JC: I've been playing Nier: Automata on PS4 and I like it. Story is the weakest point of the game. It's not that the story is so bad, it's just sooo Japanese Kiddie. The drama in it is just juvenile.

But the gameplay is pretty awesome, it's unique, it's not Japanese RPG, just a juvenile story. That's my biggest issue with a lot of Japanese games. The story just gets lame. Not just the story but the dialog.

Certainly not as good as Horizon (best game as of late IMO), but fun to play and well made. I've got Nioh waiting in the wings. Hopefully it doesn't get stupid with kid drama and lame dialog that feels so damn nerdy

Horizon and Witcher 3 proved games with large maps can be polished and provide fluent gameplay. Two of my favorite games I've played there, no question.

AC is large, but it's not as polished as the above games. I know they said no more Witcher games, but I would pre-order Witcher 4 and drop any game I was playing to dive into it!

No more Witcher games? Where you getting that from. Just type in Witcher 4 to Google and you'll see that there's a better chance of a Witcher 4 than no Witcher 4.

Although, I think I read there won't be anymore Geralt. That's okay though. Maybe he and that witch in Black have a kid or something. That or a story with the girl playing a bigger role.

Witcher 3 and Horizon are my two favorite games of this generation, hands down. Not even close. I know folks like Zelda, but those two put Zelda and pretty much everything else, behind them like Usain Bolt

Nice, there's a lot more content than when I was reading and hearing about it. Last I heard a developer from CD Project Red I think said there was no plans for a fourth.

I dig it!

Outside of some of the cheesy voice acting, HZD is near perfect. The gameplay just feels amazing. The game is challenging too. I wish there was an autosave feature, but there are so many campires to save at, that it's not that big of a deal.

Yeah, it was a super polished game from the release. Gurellia Games I believe, whoever the development maker were, did fantastic.

Can't wait to see what else they can come up with

Secret of Mana remake came out this week and is great IMO. It's getting rough reviews, but it is the original game with updated graphics. It has updated music too, but you can switch to original soundtrack as well. I may be biased because I loved the original growing up.

Right now I'm playing Nioh, the best game I've played in awhile (Probably since Horizon this summer),

Nioh on PS4 is great. Nier was fun and interesting gameplay but Nioh is much more complex, graphically is very good too. Very difficult though and unforgiving, I guess like a Dark Souls and Bloodborne game.

But the fighting styles are very complex, easy to switch what you're doing (hold your weapon high, middle, low: High sends powerful strikes over the top of the head, middle sends slashes not as powerful, low is quick, short strikes, but allows you to be on your toes ready to evade and be defensive)

I've been yelling at my television the past two days, but the game is a bit addictive and satisfying.

I'm definitely a fan. Highly recommended so far.

Oh, and there's a looting and you get different weapons and armor (much more variety than Bloodborne. I like that a lot. I've been using a Samuri Sword, a Spear, and these two little dueling swords). Samuri=Balanced, Spear=Keep foes at a distance, twin swords=extreme fast attack, get up close and make quick work of a slow enemy then escape. But, like Bloodborne, you have to evade. You can't just go in like a Tank-Type character in an RPG game and kick butt. It's not that easy, You have to attack, evade, recover. Constantly move, but follow what your enemy is doing (slash verses stab), and you have to keep track of your stamina bar because you run out of that and then you can't do anything while you recover.

It really is a great game folks. I feel like it ran below the radar because it's Japanese, but it's no kiddie-story Japanese Game. A bit of a dark story, closer to Bloodborne, no cheese dialog yet. It's awesome



Honestly, for anyone looking to buy a system and get in this generation (without shelling money on the PS Pro and the Xbox One X), the PS4 brings great value. I haven't switched to the Switch yet due to the lack of games. Besides Mario Odyssey, I can't see any that I'd have to play (Zeldaand Mario Kart were offered on the WiiU, and I own both).

But PS4, just the exclusives: Horizon, Nioh, Nier, Uncharted 4, Bloodborne. Those are all easy purchases. Five games, right off the bat, only on PS4. XboxOne has three exclusives: Halo, Gears of War, and Sunset Overdrive. And, honestly, I dunno if any of those are even better than Nier (the weakest of the PS4 bunch I mentioned).

Forza is supposed to be a good game, but there's too many controls and too technical for me. I'd rather bust out my WiiU and play Mario Kart any day of the week. Mario Kart is competitive but with simple controls. Anyone can pick up and play, unlike Forza (which I found confusing, difficult, and unenjoyable)

Xbox One S is a pretty sleek console and I like their controller more than the PS4 controller. It's small and easier to travel with than my PS4, but the value of a console is in the games more than the console itself. Although, I think now that I have a 4k HDR TV, maybe it has that special DVD player (which I haven't tried out)

Assassin's Creed Origins is incredibly large. I can tell you with time in it, there's a TON to do outside main quest (which has ship battles for all you Black Flag lovers.) Some follows:

War Elephants

Bosses

Crafting

Gladiators arenas

Hunting

Side missions

Treasure hunting

Tomb exploring

... and more. This game, to be blunt with it - rocks. It freaking rocks!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to hear. I am a BF fan. I have been going back an forth about AC origins. I dont have time right now to really get into it though. Between 2k18, COD, Destiny 2, my time is pretty much taken up.

My list of games this year are going to be :

Ace Combat VR
Madden
Red Dead Redemption 2
COD

these my for sure buys, not sure what else will come along that i will pick up.

My suggestion if you're going to dive into AC Origins is to have the open time and etc to devote to it. Enjoy your other games for the time being.

I finally got the whole map covered and it took me forever to accomplish that. Forever. There's a good story to follow too so yeah, definitely grab this game but when the plate is open you can divulge yourself into it.

After this I don't know what game I want to play. I feel like I still need to play that Mass Effect!

Mass Effect: Andromeda was wonderful. Fun new story with a bit of the Mass Effect Trilogy backstory. The game got a bad rep, but part of that is because it seems cool to rip on EA lately.

Honestly, I like Bioware's games. I enjoyed Mass Effect and I enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins. Not that they are the best games of the generation, but they're both very solid games. And I really enjoyed both of them, put in lots of hours, and loved the story



I'm playing Nioh now, which I like a lot. It's a lot like Bloodborne (and I'd assume Dark Souls). Very difficult, yet this is even more technical. But I like it a lot. I doubt it's everyone's cup of tea though.

In hindsight, the Andromeda criticism was a little harsh, but not by much. It's tough/impossible to follow up after ME3 and that trilogy.

That said, the story and characters weren't even in the same ballpark as previous games. I honestly could not care less about any of the characters in that game... except maybe for the human biotic lady. The villains were meh. There was nothing even close to a "Virmire" moment in that game. The revelation about the origins of the villains and the origins of those cat-people was so 'meh'. Most of the game I spent lamenting that there would be no more Shepherd.

The gameplay was fun, though. Being able to swap from biotic to soldier to any sort of hybrid was cool.

Appreciate the tip!

I cant wait for Red Dead 2 to come out.

See, I liked the story. A group of humanity on their way to an entirely new Galaxy, and things just go wrong, and what they encounter is absolutely not what they expected at all.

I played as a female character too, which was different. Most games I'm always a guy character, but with the trailer EA/BioWare had, Sara Ryder just felt like the right choice.


But, to each their own. Not everyone is going to like the same thing.



My favorite Mass Effect was Mass Effect 1. Hands down. It was just so fresh. But after that, I'm not sure, they all just sort of fall in line. I guess I'd consider Andromeda a step back from 2 and 3, but not by that much at all. I played it through and was hooked.


But, like I said, to each their own

Does anyone play ps4 madden online?

I said at the time that Andromeda was actually pretty good. The storyline wasn't as good as the first few ME's, but honestly what is? I'm playing Dragon Age Inquisition right now, and it honestly feels just like ME:A. New characters, new storyline, open world field with big areas to explore and such. For some reason everybody loved that one and hated ME:A. I guess DAI didn't have Youtubers bashing it before it even came out.



I'd say my favorite was ME2. That said, ME1 had an amazing storyline though and really introduced you to characters you'd like. It's hard not to get immersed into the story when you meet characters like Garrus, Wrex and Tali. Then you have parts of the story that make you say "Woah" like when you find out about Sovereign and parts that make you cheer like when Saren dies. I felt like I had watched a good movie after ME1.

But I liked ME2 better, probably because of the multiple ways you could end it. If you played everything perfectly, you could save your entire crew. Or if you played poorly, you could wipe everyone out. Not only was the story just as good as ME1, but the replay-ability of the game was through the roof.

Andromeda wasn't bad at all, but it did feel like they were trying to recycle some of the same story-lines from the first games. You're team-mates just weren't quite as interesting as the original series either. I still enjoyed playing the game quite a bit, but as soon as news came out that they weren't going to have a follow-up game or DLC, I just sort of lost interest in re-playing it.

See, I liked the story of Andromeda more. I liked Inquisition a lot, but i feel like it had a whole lot of haters as well. I think games sometimes are expected to live up to their predecessors, and when they don't, there's no grey area. It just "sucks". I don't look at things that way. I'm not sure if i liked the other two dragon age games more, but i can say, i liked all three of them. I liked Inquisition cause i could change weapons, in one dragon age you couldn't do that.



See. That's exactly why I liked Mass Effect 1. I loved the story. One of hte best stories in videogames ever. Very fun to follow. I didn't know in Mass Effect 2 there were different endings. I generally only play through games once (there's just too many games to play), especially one that takes that long. So obviously I must have done something right. Although, i think they made a remastered edition or something. So maybe I will play through them again someday. Hard to find time when just right now I wanna play Assassin's Creed Origins, the new Wolfenstein, Middle Earth: Shadow Of War, and Far Cry 5.


I don't usually have any interest in expansion content, but had they made it for Andromeda, I would ahve gotten it. Easy storyline. What happened to that missing Ark. And there was plenty of room to continue the story in the Andromeda Galaxy. It's too bad. Hopefully they come back to it at some point.

My only complaints with Andromeda are the one other alien creature (those reptile looking things were stupid) and the facial expressions of Ryder were creepy.



But, I'm sure Bioware will have something else coming out that I'll probably like. There's just so many games to play. My only thing is that I'm fascinated by Space Exploration. Probably why i liked it more than Inquisition.


Anyway, happy gaming!

I'm very close to the ending of Origins. I pretty much have all question marks and side quests beaten just the last (least I think last) story of the main quest. It's early 2018 anddddddddddddddddddd I know a lot of what seems "stellar" games are going to be dropping later this year - but as of now... this is clearly the best game I've played so far in 2018. It's going to take a lot to beat it out for me!

Also fellow gamers, BloodBorne is free for PS plus users! I downloaded it yesterday. So this might be the game I go onto next. I heard it was a headache and challenging, like Lords of the Fallen was!

I got an email the other day from Playstation Plus for NBA live 18. I was able to download it for 4.49. Still not 2K, but man they are making strides finally. It still has more of a video game feel, faster paced, easier to shoot/score etc. But not a bad game, have to say. I think next year I might just give it a look when time comes - as you can actually compete with your player without spending on VC.

Have you played the Mass Effect series? Pretty much the same type of game, but I feel like Mass Effect has the way better story-telling. I like Dragon Age, but I find myself skipping the lore more often than not.

J/C

anyone looking forward to farcry 5?

Not the entire series, but I believe just ME2 and ME3. Both I loved. As I stated before, the newest ME gme Andromedia is still on my urgent to play list. Had Bloodborne not been free, I think my decision would be to play ME next.

I finished Assassins Creed Origins!!!!!!!!

I don't want to give full details of the game, because some of the aspects were a cool surprise to me, and I feel like after reading comments from AC fans here - it would be a cool surprise to them too so I won't ruin it.

As for the ending, I was disappointed in the bosses. They was so easy to defeat. Maybe I just got lucky IDK. The game was superb overall though. Very, very pleased...

Very difficult and unforgiving game. Loved it though (when I wasn't yelling at the television). Although I think the game I'm playing now, Nioh, while similar, is better.


But yeah, Bloodborne is very challenging. I was posting earlier praising Mass Effect: Andromeda, and I think I might have liked Bloodborne more. But, there's no sitting back, relaxing and playing Bloodborne. You have to be in tune at all time, or you're just going to keep dying.

This I'm very excited for. But have a bunch of games to play so I doubt I'll get to it till late summer or fall (unless it's on big sale). New Wolfenstein, Assassin's Creed: Origins, and Middle Earth: Shadow Of War.

But Far Cry 5 looks sweet. So I'm pumped about that. I like all the Far Cry games. Although, some are better than others. I really liked the one where you're like pre-historic man. It was different. I liked the scenery of Far Cry 4, but not the story so much. I liked the story of Far Cry 3. And I liked the concept of Far Cry: Primal and how refreshingly different it was verse the others

I never made it to Primal. I was wishy washy on it - as I like a good gun fight.

I started Bloodborne. It's definitely as challenging and etc as everyone claimed it to be. One of my buddies got on that loves that game and I summoned him and we destroyed some stuff. Cool because other people can use this "sinister" bell and invade your game session if you play online.

Very fun and if you like games that makes you frustrated, isn't a piece of cake and etc - grab this one.

*EDIT* - and the bosses are freaking legit. I haven't faced one boss where I haven't died at least once, and I'm the type of gamer that turns a game on it's hardest difficulty setting when starting. I like being challenged and have some trickyness to it.

https://live.engadget.com/2018/03/08/the-division-2/

This is cool, Ubisoft announced Division II in the makings.

I'm pumped for this. I'm hoping they don't pull a Destiny and do a 180 from all the improvements they've made to the game.

YES!

Far Cry games are awesome. I didn't play Primal but I may pick it up once I don't have such a giant backlog of games...

I am still grinding on Horizon Zero Dawn. What an amazing game. Outside of some of the cheesy voice acting, and not having an auto-save mode, this game is flawless.

I do have FC5 preordered, and funny enough that week I am off and paid for good friday which is a few days after the release. Pretty awesome.

There hasn't been ANYONE who I know played/completed Horizon that hasn't said they liked it/thought the game was great. And yes, the game was pretty polished indeed. I didn't grab any of the DLC, but I got most everything else I believe. I didn't get that suite at the end because I didn't want to go hunting for the remaining needed electric things.

I thought the beginning of Horizon was pretty slow. Need to get back into it, but haven't had much time to commit to gaming lately.

It is, but once it gets rolling it's the best.

I loved that game. Second favorite of the current generation. Possibly first (over Witcher 3).

And I've played/beaten a lot of games, including Zelda

Yeah as said, it gets rolling big time. I would highly recommend not giving on it, just when you get more time, get all back on that. I'm almost 90% sure you won't regret.

Yup, what's better than letting loose a bunch of arrows against a giant t-rex looking monster.

Horizon is probably the only game I've ever bought the expansion for in recent times (I bought Age of Empires: Rise Of Rome whenever that came out a long long time ago)