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Barozi on 01 February 2016
Slimebeast said:
Barozi said:

CoD Advanced Warfare. Probably the best campaign since the first Black Ops. I do like Crysis and probably love Crysis 2 even more. For some reason I only played about 3 levels of Crysis 3, so can't really comment on that. I would say not as cinematic as Crysis 2, but close to that.

About Dragon Age Inquisition, well yeah I did everything there is, got all cheevos (except the hard difficulty playthrough) and I'm now looking forward to all the DLCs. Took me 82 hours and from what I hear the DLCs add about 25 hours, so it's going to be above 100 hours in total.

DA:I can be played quite differently and I'm guessing you did it similar to what I did? Basically I didn't really know what main missions were and I simply explored the huge and IMO fantastic designed maps. So basically I did all the side stuff on accident and only went to Skyhold (your main hub) after 40 to 50 hours, even though you could go there much much earlier. Skyhold is also pretty good at showing how alive it is, as it grows (getting rebuilt) with every main mission you do after that point. Only thing these worlds are lacking are cities.

There are respawning monsters, but when they do, the amount is far less than when you first explore these areas. Which I prefer by far to walking through cleared out maps.

I'd like to try out that COD campaign then. I despise those games, but like I said about Crysis (damn, I realize I like those games a lot!), sometimes I really want to play such a Hollywood campaign! Too bad COD games are so expensive!

How would u order COD games based on their SP campaigns only?

Hmm... it's funny that you think the Inquisition world design is good and I think it's horrible. What did you think of Origins and DA2? In general, as games. I love both, and I mean really love.

I came to Skyhold after only like 6-7 hours and I haven't seen any rebuilding yet. And I certainly haven't seen any clearing of monsters either, but that's a big positive you say, that mobs actually respawn less after a while. I hope it doesn't demand activating and picking up all those meaningless collectibles though, checking the flags and activating the orbs and whatnot.

Well they certainly spawn a lot less frequently. Maybe you have to close the rifts in these areas? I'm not sure as I do pretty much everything simultaneously when I enter a new sub-area and then move on to the next. I do remember in the big forest world (Emerald Graves) I could barely find enemies when I tried to show the game to a friend after I basically finished the game. Only when I traveled to the north-east part of the map I could find some giants to fight. (and I admit, you don't want these to respawn, as they take a long time to kill).

I guess you're not at a very high level when you have trouble with most of the random spawning enemies? I recommend changing the worlds frequently as each world has harder and easier areas. Usually the standard enemies aren't really hard except for maybe the giants or bears.

Personally I liked Origins, but I wasn't a fan of the combat. Story and characters were great and it had cities. World-wise though it was way too linear for my taste and the graphics were quite meh. Even though I played it waaay after launch, it still had quite a few game breaking bugs. A quest item wouldn't appear in a chest so I had to reload a save I made about 30 - 40 minutes earlier. Also had to fight the end boss 3 times, because the game freaked out on me twice and didn't allow me to attack the dragon when it only had about 10% energy remaining. Overally I would give it somewhere between 7.5 and 8.0.

Dragon Age II had much better gameplay but was of course short on story and everything else. If it was as fleshed out as Orgins, I would rate it higher, but as it is it's about an 7.5 as well.


About CoD I can't really put them in one definitive list. I played and finished all of them (except BlOps3), but some of them obviously years ago.

As of recent I can say that AW is really good.
- No infinite enemy respawns unlike the previous CoDs
- some really good new tactical options with your exo suit and different grenade types
- Impressive graphics
- Kevin Spacey

Ghosts was pretty good as well

Black Ops 2 was terrible in my opinion. (from my wall post when I played the game):
Every single non FPS gameplay element in Black Ops 2 sucks horribly.
- Riding on a horse back (worst CoD level I've played in my life) trying to give you a semi open level.
Infinite spawning enemies, several helicopters to take out and next to no cover.
- Spider drone. Navigating through a hallway where touching the ground means auto kill. Where you can walk on walls and ceilings with no indication at all where up and down really is. That wouldn't be so bad if you weren't forced to jump over a gap. Obviously gravity always wins that battle.
- Flying a jet. Far too fast, which wouldn't be so bad if the map wasn't so small. Needed several tries because I kept flying out of the boundaries since I couldn't see where I was supposed to fly.
- Controlling troops in Strike Force doesn't work well at all. You NEED to play as one of the soldiers, because if you command them to a certain point they need ages to get there and If you command them to one of the important points where they should put up emitters, they don't. You have to do ALL the work.

[I shortened it a bit to only include the really bad gaming sequences and not the other minor annoyances I had)

MW3... honestly don't remember too much, except the awesome final level.

BlOps - excellent

MW2 - great but really really short

World at War - liked the Pacific battle setting of half of the mission, good game all around

MW - exceptional for its time

CoD 3 - no, just no

CoD 2 - classic

CoD - classic, but doesn't hold up quite as well by today's standards



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smroadkill15 on 01 February 2016
KiigelHeart said:
smroadkill15 said:
I'm in the Fable Legends beta. Compared to how the game was during the summer to how it was the last time I played (december), it certainly has improved quite a bit. An open beta is arriving this summer, and the full release will likely be closer to Fall.

Can you tell us more about the game? It would be much appreciated 😊

Like Versus said, I'm still under NDA. 



Barozi on 01 February 2016
shikamaru317 said:
Slimebeast said:

I'd like to try out that COD campaign then. I despise those games, but like I said about Crysis (damn, I realize I like those games a lot!), sometimes I really want to play such a Hollywood campaign! Too bad COD games are so expensive!

How would u order COD games based on their SP campaigns only?

Hmm... it's funny that you think the Inquisition world design is good and I think it's horrible. What did you think of Origins and DA2? In general, as games. I love both, and I mean really love.

I came to Skyhold after only like 6-7 hours and I haven't seen any rebuilding yet. And I certainly haven't seen any clearing of monsters either, but that's a big positive you say, that mobs actually respawn less after a while. I hope it doesn't demand activating and picking up all those meaningless collectibles though, checking the flags and activating the orbs and whatnot.

I'd rank the CoD campaigns that I've played: MW1 > MW2 > WaW> AW > MW3 > Black Ops > Ghosts. I've never played Black Ops 2 and 3 because I didn't really like Black Ops 1, SP or MP. I'm hearing rumors that this year Infinity Ward is releasing MW4 instead of Ghosts 2, which is exclellent news, I love MW and I've grown tired of futurstic CoD games, the last 4 CoD games were all futuristic. Also, Infinity Ward recently picked up the RotTR director that left Crystal Dynamics, which is good news for their future CoD games.

As for DA: I, I thought it was ok, but nowhere near as good as Witcher 3 imo. I think I gave it an 8 or 8.5/10 . The MMO-like quest design kind of ruined it for me. It was also frustrating that you couldn't send your comapnions to gather resources like you can in Bioware's own SWTOR., it was super tedious gathering them yourself.

Don't know how it is in SWTOR, but you can send your 3 advisors to gather resources on the war table. Takes about 10 - 15min of real time each.



hudsoniscool on 01 February 2016

Slimebeast if u didn't like the first hub "the hinterlands" if I recall then u won't like the rest of the game. It's the most detailed and best hub of the lot.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Barozi on 01 February 2016
hudsoniscool said:
Slimebeast if u didn't like the first hub "the hinterlands" if I recall then u won't like the rest of the game. It's the most detailed and best hub of the lot.

Not necessarily from a visual standpoint but yes it's clearly the most detailed one and I think it's the biggest as well. At least from the amount of quests and maybe even in size.



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KiigelHeart on 01 February 2016
smroadkill15 said:
KiigelHeart said:
smroadkill15 said:
I'm in the Fable Legends beta. Compared to how the game was during the summer to how it was the last time I played (december), it certainly has improved quite a bit. An open beta is arriving this summer, and the full release will likely be closer to Fall.

Can you tell us more about the game? It would be much appreciated 😊

Like Versus said, I'm still under NDA. 

Ah ok sorry, I didn't know what NDA means so I Googled it. I thought you had some nasty STD or something 😁 jk..





Jazz2K on 01 February 2016

My is it fun to see this thread so active lately.

All the news towards KI season 3 got me to buy season 2. I should invest in an arcade stick because I really like this game. I just left it for a (long) while. I played some games and realized a lot has changed for the better.

My favorite character is Sabrewulf but it might change because I really like Hisako, Aria and Cinder.

A cabinet for this game would be perfect.



GamechaserBE on 01 February 2016

According to wario 64 their are some early gold deals up, looks to have some good deals.

BF hardline 13$/Shadow of morder GOTY 17$/Need for speed 19/Swapper 3/Star wars battlefront 30$...

Probably more but it is a bit to late for me to check it.



WoodenPints on 02 February 2016
shikamaru317 said:
Versus_Evil said:
Welldone on 6k posts, this thread is the only time i ever see anything in the "Microsoft Discussion" appear on the front page.

Yeah, almost all of the remaining Xbox fans here on VGC post primarily in this thread, at least when it comes to MS discussions. Vasto and a few others still post MS news in it's own thread sometimes, but it gets very few hits usually. 

I used to try and make threads and post news outside of the Xbox Republic but iut just isn't worth it anymore since the first 20 replies are usually just pure sarcasm and downplay obviously this happens from all sides but with how small the Xbox side is at the moment its just more noticable and they very rarely lead to any kind of constructive discussions unfortunatly.



WoodenPints on 02 February 2016

Looks like Halo Wars BC store page has been found!