Being a Star Wars fan and adventure/action/RPG games being my favourite I been looking forward to Star Wars: Outlaws and just clocked it on my dashboard available for pre-order costing £120. That's for the ultimate edition. Seems a bit steep but i'll probably end up paying it but no chance right now when game doesn't come out for another 4 plus months. I just don't see the point. In an ideal world it'll go straight on game pass but don't know if that's the case. Anyone else looking forward to it? I want to try DD2 but never played the first one and it looks well too complicated .
Finished the game roughly 20 hours in. The last quest I genuinely thought was the halfway point of the main story line, but it was sounding a little too 'final battle' to me. Beat the boss and yes, it was indeed the last main quest and the game ends prompting a restart to the last save. Put me off entirely. I know I wasn't the only one disappointed. The fighting sequences however are among the best I've ever played. Satisfying as ****.
There’s a £70 version too. That’s an insane jump in price for a special edition, nearly double. I only ever get the F1 Champ editions because with the discount you get every year for already owning the game it works out at about £7 extra Other than that standard editions all the way. It absolutely does not make your overall experience of the game superior enough to justify £120, that’s just robbery.
We might soon be seeing the deaths of two long-running juggernauts in The Sims and Civilization. The Sims because of a new game InZoi and Civilization because of their decision to completely abandon their core USP of playing as one civilization across the entire game. Watershed moment.
I respect the idea to do something bold with a franchise but yeah, I'm not sure this is it regarding Civ. I think focusing on cross-pollination between Civs based on region or relations would have been far more interesting and natural version of what they seem to be doing. I've not really played a Sims game properly since 2 so I'm not particularly invested there. Granted the DLC strategy for The SIms 4 doesn't make me particularly sympathetic if they were to be usurped in that genre. They make Paradox Interactive look generous.
Agreed. Playing as one civilization and to their strengths is like the entire point of the Civilization games, for me anyway. For realism, there's Paradox games, not Civ. I don't understand their decision to throw away their entire USP. It's completely baffling to me. I've long had this game called Ara - History Untold wishlisted on Steam. It's releasing this month and actually looks far, far more like Civilization 7 than the actual Civ 7 does. I don't play the Sims either but because Paradox were making a Sims competitor - because of all the DLCs they could sell as you say - I knew about how unhappy people are with the Sims.
Prejudice is bad but sometimes you can look at a games journalist/presenter and know that, for the sake of sanity, you're going to be looking for information about a game elsewhere. A few minutes in and she's already doing my head in. Does look like a good game though. I'll certainly be looking out for how it's received.
Yeah I had to switch off she did my head in. That game looks good but honestly just looks like Civ with less features. I don't see anything that sets it apart enough. I'd like a Civ style game that lets you actually design the layout of the city as well by placing the improvements you build, with the rest of the city filling in organically around it.
It doesn't look the deepest but there are things I like, the narrative events system for instance is a feature I would have pulled from other types of grand strategy games if I was making a Civ clone (hopefully they aren't super repetitive). I've not seen them say it but I wouldn't be surprised if they're planning DLC to add depth periodically, like Civ. Although it is being published by Xbox so maybe it needs to sell a billion copies at launch to avoid Phil Spencer personally strangulating every member on the team to death. There aren't many 'day 1' games for me right now. I'm just counting down the days to Path of Exile 2 in November and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in February.
Here's another video with just gameplay and no talking over. Dev Q/As and the Encarta series might be of help too. ARA does have innovations - it doesn't have hexes or squares but organic provinces/regions, it has simultaneous turns like Paradox games, a larger focus on logistics and economics (like another Paradox game VIC2), and low-ranking civs are kicked out of the game periodically which should keep things fresh throughout the game. It also has a non-linear tech tree. And agree on Kingdom Come 2, easily one of the best games I've ever played.
i re played this again recently when I upgraded to a ps5, all the way through to the platinum trophy. Visually the most beautiful game I’ve played, fantastic story and the combat in the game is so much fun. The games only downside for me personally is it isn’t particularly challenging, but this is nit pick did you kill or spare lord shimura?
I killed him. It’s an incredible game, one of my favourite ever I got platinum trophy just as an excuse to keep playing it. I found it challenging enough even on normal difficulty but you’re a different beast to me. I dropped Sifu in the end I found it way too hard But with games like this I just see them as big interactive movies. Like RDR2. Great storylines and fun gameplay, I don’t necessarily want to sweat my balls off against every opponent I come up against.
you cold bastard! It’s an incredible game and a decent enough challenge on the harder levels. I like the idea of lethal mode as it is far more realistic (1 hit kills), but weirdly it’s easier than hard mode. I love the duals in this game I’ll be interested to see where they take the story. Will it still be on tshushima or mainland Japan. I assume it will still involve the mongol invasion?
It's set in northern Japan. Hokkaido. Set 300 years after the first game, apparently. So presumably just a brand new story.
Yeah it’s on the mainland 300 years later with a totally new female lead. I like the idea of that, Jin’s story was over but there will no doubt be a few nods to him.
