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  1. I just got an achievement which said something to the effect of 'and now we've hit the endgame' This is bullshit. I've only done 75 hours. I need more. More vikinginess.
  2. 'The princess is being held east of this location. Let's rescue her.' The greatest moment in gaming narrative, and all you'll ever need.
  3. Unexpectedly killed the last of Lear's daughters and claimed Thor's helm. Cordelia was way over 100 levels above me but still fell to my dual wielded axes. I'm now prancing around in a complete set of Thor's armour, with the exception of my cloak. If it's out there I hope to find it. I love this game so much it's hard to put it into words. Having said that I'm not really aware of it being an assassin's creed experience. Sure, the order is present, and providing some quality opposition, but I've hardly seen any of the usual 'present day' interludes, and I'm avoiding any anomalies on the map because they're just a bore. To be honest I can live without all that stuff, although I am looking forward to finding out how Eivor
  4. Funnily enough I recently played rage 2 from start to finish while never really thinking it was mediocre. I thought it was great 🙂 That's my only contribution to this new question. I don't think I've ever had to play a mediocre game because of lack of funds, tho. That's probably something that happens when your a kid. And I never played videogames as a nipper.
  5. Over the 60 hour mark in this and I'm basically a Norse God of War, knocking ten kinds of shite out of anyone looking at me sideways. 50 or even 70 levels above me they all meet the same bloody fate. In one way it's a pity my Eivor is now such a beast. Stealth seems a bit redundant. 20 surrounding enemies at high levels seem well with the bounds of what Eivor is capable of, with his pinpoint parrying, dodging and axe throwing (where the feck does he keep all those axes)? And yet the game, easy at is, has stayed compelling in it's stories, world building, and exploration. It's very well written while keeping it simple, meaning that you can go off questing for as long as you like and then come back to the main thread and pick up the story no problem. Just finished Cent, so I'm leaving it hanging for a couple of weeks with plenty of stuff still needing to be resolved, while I head back to Night city for a sort of cyberholiday.
  6. It is good. And when you do the second campaign mission (which I got around to after about 30 hours😀) you start getting these just amazing multi layered side quests, the kind of emergent short stories I've been hankering after since fallout 3.
  7. I'm now addicted to gigs. I've hardly touched the main thread and yet I'm touching level 30, and am basically a cyber ghost, infiltrating even the most defended locale like an augmented spirit of silent death. Unless I get caught, and then I'm Sammy Shotgun. It's all good in Night city.
  8. Since the games I've played recently (except for my run thru of the gears and halo series) have all been open world western RPGs - culminating in my current duo of AC Valhalla and Cyberpunk, that must mean I like open world western RPGs.
  9. I remember hating the blacksmith mini game in fable 2. Planet scanning in Mass effect 2 almost goes without saying. I also remember disliking Ravenholm in Half life 2 (it's all the 2s here), with the caveat that I saw someone on the internet say that he viewed Ravenholm as a kind of little holiday in the game. Next time I played the game I tried to see it like that and ended up quite liking it. Ravenholm is a bit like Benidorm in many ways.
  10. Level 14 in this. I postponed the first real mission (the heist) because I started to get side missions (gigs, in this) off a lady fixer. Ended up doing her whole roster while building up my character as a sort of stealth takedown hacker with a sideline in heavy guns when my stealthing goes tits up. Already I understand the systems which, at the start, seemed pretty opaque, and i love nothing more than a trip to the cyberdoc for a quick upgrade. Got an arm that shoots grenades and an ankle upgrade that has turned me into Spring heeled jack. Perfect for stealth, and those all important drop takedowns. I'm already thinking it's such a pity they bolloxed up the initial launch. This could be better than Witcher 3 from what I've seen so far.
  11. Fired this up after reaching the 40 hour mark in Valhalla. I'm on my third start on this game. The first was at launch, when the best course of action seemed to return the thing (even tho it was running ok on my XSS). Then I got it with the XSX upgrades. Looked great, ran great, but I felt I just couldn't understand it. It seemed full of gobbledegook and unnecessarily complicated mechanics, so I returned it again. But the 'idea' of the game still intrigued me and I found myself thinking I'd been a bit hasty the last time. So now I'm playing the demo. It's free and five hours long. I've watched a few vids on how to play the game and now I'm comfortable with it, and it's finally started to get a grip on my cyberpsyche. It could be a big game for me. Pity it's gone back to full price on the store. You can it cheap elsewhere, though.
  12. I'm sure you came to that conclusion about 50 hours ago. I'm (still) at a loss as to why you continue to punish yourself by doggedly ploughing on thru games you clearly dislike. This is a hobby, not a court order.
  13. I remember having a letter published in gamestm about revisiting completed games, not to up the difficulty or mop up collectibles (I think this was before the new game + era, anyway) but to simply relax in the beauty of the world, knowing that the pressure was off because you'd already beaten the game. The game I specifically mentioned in this regard, and which I'd still argue is a most wonderful world to revisit, was Okami.
  14. Someone really put the work into these story arcs. I'm on the one with the timid king-in-waiting, and I'm feeling his pain. His bride to be thinks he's a wimp and her brothers would knife him in his sleep given half a chance. But it's all so we'll put together you could probably just do these arcs and get your money's worth if the RPG stuff wasn't so damn addictive, with loads of great places to visit (just been to the isle of Skye) and madly challenging side bosses dotted everywhere. I've killed a witch and one zealot up to now, but they were both effing close shaves, I don't mind saying. Yeah, man. This is one top videogame.
  15. So it was a toss up between this and cyberpunk. I tried them both and decided the 'punk' can wait a bit longer. This game is right up my street, even more so than origins. I thought I'd just give it a few hours then move on to a pallette cleanser before tackling it full on (as I'd just put 50 hours into origins). 27 hours later I'm level 90 and still only on the second of the 2 initial story arcs (which are level 20😀). There's nothing about the game I don't like, although having said that, if there's something I feel is a bit of an unreasonable burden on my time (like floating paper collectibles) I just dismiss them. The stuff I like, the exploration, the raids, the combat, the little world vignettes, the stealth is all spot on for me. But, surprisingly, it's the main story arcs that are really up there. The writing in this is really good. I love it.
  16. That's actually easier to read than your previous post. Anyway, this question is hard to answer because people must drift away from hobbies all the time, for unforseen reasons. For @DisturbedSwan, though I would say that when my kids came along was when I actually started gaming. After the hell that is the baby stage, you're just basically stuck in with them. It's then you need some kind of indoor hobby.
  17. Maybe you could learn about punctuation when you no longer play videogames. Sarcasm.
  18. Yeah, untapped by me. Your point?
  19. Indifference. It's certainly a thing. Certain mainstays of my gaming life have just become old to the point where I'm no longer arsed about them. GTA is probably the most worrying. But I'm not convinced I'll be playing the new Metroid or Zelda either. Their are new games coming out that excite my enthusiasm, but it's mainly those big RPGs you can get lost in and make your own adventure - most of which have been nabbed by Xbox, although I certainly like the look of the new final fantasy and the new xenoblade. When I become indifferent to those I'll take up oil painting. One strange point is that I've been enjoying the latter AC games lately - origins and now the magnificent Valhalla. I sort of skipped Odyssey. Why? Because I've just overdone it on that mythology and can't get enthusiastic about it. Blame Kratos.
  20. Funnily enough my dad said the same thing, even though the last video game he played was Space Invaders in 1983. I did download it, though. I played a bit and then, as an experiment, I put a colander on my head to see if I could truly feel the era. It felt so good.
  21. @DisturbedSwanAgainst my better judgement I'm actually thinking of jumping straight into Valhalla. I gave Cyberpunk a good long shot but I didn't really like it, and AC. V has gone down to 23 nicker on the Xbox deals page. I'm tempted.
  22. I treated the game as purely an RPG, did all the sidequests just like I would in any other RPG, and never really got that sense of bloat. That's how I built my character, and it was well enough to get him levelled. Of course if you really can't leave the other bits alone (vulture nests, ptolomai statues etc) then you've only really got yourself to blame.
  23. By default Demons souls. I rate that as top 5 for its generation, but the slog of it and the way it took over my life meant I never wanted to repeat the experience with the souls games. That probably says more about me than it does about the games.
  24. Done. Got an excellent 50 hours out of it, but really hated the endgame. I mean I really resented having to play it. Ubisoft just couldn't help themselves? Fucking up their fine game by having the last mission played by the character you've hardly used for the entire game, underlevelled (compared to where I had Bayek), with a weapon set I personally had no experience with. It seemed to be tagged on to me. Why couldn't Bayek do that last stuff? I sort of got the feeling (and I might be wrong, but this shit is everywhere just now) that, late in the day, Ubisoft had this idea that the first person to put on the iconic white cowl just 'had' to be a woman. Like, 'let's show them that woman can be cold blooded killers just as much as men can.' Fine. I would have played as Aya the entire game an thought nothing of it, then closed out the game with her in that white cowl and been as happy as Larry. Now I feel a bit letdown. And sea battles. Load of shite. I'll bet there's loads of that in Valhalla.
  25. Just starting to struggle to find quests. There's a couple left on the map so hopefully I'll hit my target of level 40 before I move into the endgame. I've even seen off all the assassins and closed out their quest (which provided a legendary outfit). Great game I think but it's definitely running out of steam a bit now. God knows how players muster up the gumption to 100% this stuff.
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