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Post by Xeogred on Oct 29, 2019 21:33:50 GMT -5
Is this hooplehead talking about the movie industry?
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Post by Ex on Oct 29, 2019 21:38:45 GMT -5
Mass Effect [Replay] PlayStation 3 - 22h 15m Mass Effect 2 [Replay] PlayStation 3 - 39h 40m Mass Effect 3 [Replay] PlayStation 3 - 41h 50m Those were my runs this year. Not 100%, but very thorough and that's with all of the DLC for 2-3. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Xbox - 32h 57m (2016) The Bioware format is definitely my jam and kind of similar to what you get in Deus Ex and whatnot. I haven't replayed any of the ME games, but... My completion time for ME1: 33h 50m My completion time for ME2: 45h 37m I still need to play ME3. Have barely played KOTOR1. Yeah, I gotta get around to the Deus Ex games. (I know, I know!) I'm really not sure if you'd like them or not, to be honest. But you should absolutely at least give the first game in the series a try. I'd rate the ones I've beaten:Deus Ex = 9.5/10 Deus Ex: Invisible War = 8/10 Deus Ex: Human Revolution = 7/10 Deus Ex: The Fall = 4/10 Own but have not played: Deus Ex GoDon't own, never played: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Breach, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – VR Experience
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 29, 2019 21:48:20 GMT -5
Deus Ex = 9.5/10 Deus Ex: Invisible War = 8/10 Thief: The Dark Project = 10/10 I added in Thief, because I figure that's what you'd give your favorite game. You know what happens when you combine the DNA of these three?
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Post by Ex on Oct 29, 2019 21:51:18 GMT -5
XeogredHmmm. Well, I own Dishonored on 360. Guess I'll be playing it first thing next year. This year's docket is already full.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 31, 2019 21:28:04 GMT -5
Ex : I'm surprised you haven't gotten around to it yet. Did you ever read up on it much? It's safe to say Harvey Smith (Invisible War) learned all the right things from the mistakes that IW had. Dishonored doesn't have hub's as elaborate as Deus Ex, but moreso of that and NPC's around than Thief did. But yeah literally everything about Dishonored feels like a modern Looking Glass game. I'd give it a 10 and it's up there next Souls, the Mass Effect's, and Dead Space for my top favorites last gen. I just often forget Dishonored was last gen, since I played that one on both 360 and PC a lot... so it weirdly blends the lines a bit. Not to mention just how timeless it plays. This series is definitely better than the modern Eidos Montreal Deus Ex games and the Thief reboot itself. The staff DNA from the older classics is far more apparent in Dishonored.
Who knows with my track record and my recommendations though.
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Post by Ex on Oct 31, 2019 21:32:00 GMT -5
Did you ever read up on it much? Nope. It was just another 360 game that had really high critical review aggregates, so I snagged it. I was vaguely aware it was a stealth game, that's about it.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 31, 2019 21:48:24 GMT -5
A modern masterpiece awaits. On another note, I've never played any of the Luigi's Mansion games, but this new one has me kind of intrigued. The way people have described it almost sounds like RE1 level design wise...
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Post by Sarge on Oct 31, 2019 21:50:25 GMT -5
Actually... that's probably not wrong. The Luigi's Mansion games have always revolved around adventure-game elements much like RE does, combined with some obviously Ghostbusters-inspired gameplay. I absolutely loved the first two games, and several reviews I've seen say this is the best yet.
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Post by Ex on Oct 31, 2019 21:53:46 GMT -5
I at least own the first two Luigi's Mansion games on 3DS. Probably should have played those instead this month. :/
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 1, 2019 18:22:24 GMT -5
Actually, I think I'll be sitting Death Stranding out for awhile. Not that I'm swayed by a lot of its average scores popping up now, but the Beastcast went hard on it for about an hour and it took two guys 50+ hours to finish this. I'm not in the mood for that and for what it sounds like the "gameplay" offers here. MGS5 isn't memorable at all, I literally forget it exists despite spending that amount of time on that one too. The gameplay was excellent but everything else was forgettable. I never truly felt fully confident about Death Stranding. The journey of being perplexed about "what" this thing was up to release, might be the best moment it ever had. This coming from someone that defends MGS more than most here, I'm not very thrilled with what's influenced Kojima and the direction he's gone thesedays. PT / Silent Hills probably would have been awesome (assuming it wouldn't have been open world). He needs to reel things back and stop with the aimless fluff overextending his modern games.
For the time being I think I've got way better options.
- The Outer Worlds - Judgement - Fire Emblem Three Houses - Metro Exodus
Those are some this year I want to get around to.
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