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Dorfmann_ posted...

God of War (2018) is not a good video game

What would you consider it? It came with my PS4 as a download and while I wanted to play other games first I did knock out about an hour of it waiting for other downloads and I loved what I played.

kylobrr posted...

I liked the combat and maybe i have a bias for zmbie games, but id totally play a sequel

Don't get me wrong, I had a blast with it for the first few hours but it was too long without offering a whole lot new after a certain point. I think being a little more grounded would have made it more enjoyable to me and also even though I like some games where perfectly capable characters constantly have you go do things they could be doing, that aspect annoyed me.

I like feeling a part of a team in a game's narrative, not being everyone's gopher

kylobrr posted...

Why, the AI and clock system??

JW cause i loved dead rising , even though it was frustrating at times

TBH, I played for about 2 hours and just couldn't get into it. The clock system is fine I guess, but the controls and aiming were frustrating AF from what I remember. Also no checkpoint system, which I should have known but I died and lost and hour or two of progress I didn't even enjoy making in the first place so I shelved it for good

Antifar posted...

I might have to give this a try. Is it first person or third?

First person. They are from CI games, which don't produce a lot of stellar titles but I am definitely a sucker for the Ghost Warrior series. Particularly 3 and Contracts, which is the most recent release.

I may be overstating the ways in which you can achieve your goal, but you have plenty of routes to choose, stealth, guns blazing, set traps, distract and lure, wipe out a whole base from the comfort of your nest, etc.

3 is a Far Cry style open world which takes away from the experience more than it adds, but stumbling on hostages and clearing outposts is a lot of fun. The story in 3 and Contracts is white noise and won't add to the experience but the sniping is great, the gore mechanics are also awesome in these two. You can decapitate in both games and in Contracts the added limb dismemberment and shotgun decaps vs just rifle. I'm a sucker for gore mechanics and blood splatter and they have the most brutal looking decapitations of any game I've played.

When in comes to the sniping itself, Contracts has a great bullet physics system and nailing a looooong headshot is so insanely satisfying.

coinstarcad posted...

Super Mario Bros was about researching the Atomic Bomb. The next step was always ahead, in another castle.

That's less an unpopular opinion and more a theory, but the mushroom imagery checks out.

kylobrr posted...

The android/ios platform has some very good games, ones that are much better than full fledged "AAA" titles

I have a blast playing Flat Zombies

Here we go:

• Far Cry 4 was superior to Far Cry 3 in pretty much every way. Story was better, Pagan Min was way more entertaining and more interesting than Vaas, taking outposts and fortresses was a lot more fun. Overall just more enjoyable
• Army of Two: Devil's Cartel was an extremely badass game that was unfairly maligned as a whole for narrative decisions. The combat was brutal and the campaign was intense and looked pretty great. The first game in the series was by far the worst one but laid a solid enough foundation for the two sequels to be great I hope the series is resurrected on next gen.
• This one is probably gonna be the least popular opinion, but I dig the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series more than Sniper Elite. I've played 2, 3, and Contracts for GW and 2 and 3 for SE and other than GW 2, I enjoyed my experience way more with GW. The X-Ray gimmick in SE is cool, but feels a little toothless when there is absolutely no outward damage on enemies. GW 3 and Contracts show you the full force of what a rifle can do to someone's head and it's beautiful. Additionally, the levels give you a million ways to achieve your goal and the stealth/melee takedowns are satisfying
• Inversion is just as enjoyable as Gears of War 1 (2 and 3 elevate the series though) and has the cool gravity gimmick to really boost it
• Puzzles in action games act more as pace killers than enjoyable mechanics. I enjoyed some of them in Tomb Raider and Uncharted, but for the most part they are just annoying. While I understand their purpose in the kinds of stories those series are telling, I had way more fun doing challenge tomb puzzles in TR because they were optional and didn't hinder the pace.
• Speaking of Tomb Raider and Uncharted, while I am having a blast playing through the Uncharted trilogy for the first time (got to chapter 16 on Uncharted 3 just last night) I prefer the TR reboot trilogy. The traversal is a lot more fun, the set pieces are amazing. Nothing so far has matched the tsunami or earthquake sequences from Shadow, although to be fair I'm comparing current ben to last gen games and haven't played Uncharted 4 or Lost Legacy yet. Also, the combat is way better in TR. As much as TR reboot clearly borrows from Uncharted, and while Uncharted has better characters, I think TR does more things better.
• Outlast 2 is better than Outlast 1. I enjoyed Outlast 1 a lot, but Outlast 2 got into my bones. The religious angle, the school flashback, the better graphics, the notes, the insane imagery, everything just resonated with me way more than in the first game.
• Battlefield 1 and V were more enjoyable than BF 3 and 4 and the series should include varied mini-campaigns from here on out.
• Wolfenstein Youngblood is perfectly fine as a side story because the gameplay and combat is so fun. The open world nature of it kills the narrative and makes the experience too grindy, but it isn't an abomination or as black a mark on the series as it's made out to be.
• Silent Hill Downpour was a pretty solid horror game. To be fair here, it's the only SH game I've played as I only picked up an Xbox/PS in the last couple years. So I didn't compare it to the rest of the series and just enjoyed it for what it was. It had some extremely effective sequences like the apartment building in which you have to return items to the rooms of victims, the stage play with the cabin in the storm, the rewinding of the axe murder, all very cool parts I loved playing
• Rage 2 is a much more enjoyable game that Doom 2016. I feel comfortable comparing them because the combat and pace is so similar. Rage 2 never got boring for me and the experience was varied and interesting enough to keep me engaged the whole campaign. Doom on the other hand was too long for the kind of game it was and I found myself wanting it over a little over halfway through. Game crashed on the second to last mission and I lost my save and have absolutely no desire to start it back up.
• Arkham Origins is a great entry into the series. The combat isn't quite as fluid but still great, the setting beautiful, the boss fights are amazing. It is more fun than Asylum.
• COD Infinite Warfare had a great campaign and was unfairly shit on. The introduction of the side missions was great as well
• Bioshock 2 is a more enjoyable experience than 1. While the story isn't as good, the combat is better and the introduction of the Big Sisters and preparing to fight them added a ton of value to the game. And protecting the Little Sisters was also a blast. Additionally it gave us the Minerva's Den DLC.
• Both Medal of Honor 2010 and Warfighter were enjoyable FPS campaigns that make for a perfectly enjoyable bite size experience.
• FEAR 1 is the worst in the series. Wasn't really scary, the environments were boring as shit and redundant, and it was a slog to get through. 2 was much better and I even liked 3 more.
• Dead Rising 1 is a miserable experience
• Crysis 3 was a great entry into the series and had satisfying stealth and combat and visually looked amazing
• Dead Island was a boring slog of a game
• Kane and Lynch 2 wasn't THAT bad. It had a cool aesthetic and the gameplay, while clunky, was pretty fun.

Alrighty... I think that's it for now

Shablagoo posted...

Peoples relationship with money is weird. Like, its not money thats going to help Australia. They just need the services required to fight back the fires and rescue people and animals.

Why is it dependent on rich people donating small percentages of their net worth that they get these services, instead of us as a world collectively deciding they should have them?

Because things cost money and the more money available the more things can be done and quicker

You should alert the Australian authorities and disaster workers that the money is less that 1% of his net worth so they can return it. Surely .32% of your worth will go much further.

Do you think they give .32% of a fuck what proportion of the donor's net worth the donation represents or do you think they care about the actual money coming in for aide?

Sackgurl posted...

can we talk about this case

the prosecution's position seems insane

like, the guy is strangling someone to death, he's turning blue, and shooting him is considered not defense?

you'd think her brother's testimony would be sufficient for her acquittal

i expect a lot of why this is even continuing is tied to her inability to keep the story straight early on.

No. It means him merely having hands doesn't mean he has a deadly weapon on him. If he was in the process of strangling someone, shooting him would be justified. But he wasnt.

Zikten posted...

Satan isnt the exact opposite of God because in the religion he is not an equal deity. He's a fallen angel, created by God

For a true example of 2 opposing gods, check out the religion if Zoroastrianism. That has 2 gods of equal opposing power

I'm referring less to the characters and more to the concepts they embody. God = good, satan = evil. If good exists, so must evil so that good has any meaning.

If Satan was created, it was to be an embodiment of an evil that came into existence the moment God/good did. And if God/good had no beginning as an eternal concept, then the same would apply to evil. Evil as a concept would predate satan, who is a conduit for the evil. So say satan is vanquished. Evil still exists but has no means of distribution

Evening_Dragon posted...

Yeah, but there's no opposite of a bird, or a lightbulb, or a pencil.

As far as abstract goes. But maybe not specifically a bird but if bird have flight there must be animals without flight. If a pencil writes there must be something that removes the writing

Evening_Dragon posted...

Why must an opposite exist?

TC, what pretense would you have for believing one but not the other? They're both from the same book, y'know.

What doesn't have an opposite?

If God is all good, the scale has to go to all evil because otherwise "good" has no context.

If something exists so must its opposite. So granting the existence if God, he didnt create satan. Satan MUST exist by virtue of God existing

Zikten posted...

why the hell did he feel the need to keep a gun in his pants while playing at home with his son

In case his son turned heel

cmiller4642 posted...

I think it's stupid to not realize that West is one of the all time Laker greats like Kareem, Kobe, Magic, etc...

He was their best player of the 60s, coached them in the 70s, and was the GM when Pat Riley and Phil Jackson were coaching them.

Everything I'm saying is stupid. I couldn't care less about the NBA, just thought it was funny a white dude, no matter who he is, is the face of a league that sees black athletes in the vast majority.

I'd be fine if they made Joaquin Phoenix the logo just to keep the OscarsSoWhite crowd entertained

cmiller4642 posted...

Considering that Jerry West's main rival on the court was Bill Russell, and he started with Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain....

Nope there were no black people in the NBA during the 1960s or 70s when West played.

Who said there were no black people?

EvalAngell posted...

A white guy is literally the odds on favorite to win MVP this season rofl try again

THIS season

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

It wasn't football in the 1930s. Stop now before you look like a bigger fool.

What were the demos in the 1960s?

EffectAndCause posted...

A rapist is a better representative?

Yes convicted rapist Kobe Bry...Oh wait

cmiller4642 posted...

Probably one of the greatest players of the 60s (when they created the logo) and one of the greatest GMs of all time....

I'll take your word for it bruh but had the NBA had the same demographics back then as it does now and had black athletes had the same opportunities as now II doubt anyone would know that ding dong's name

It most certainly happened. I went on a tinder tear after my last 4- year relationship ended and she was one of the unlucky ladies. Also banged an middle eastern chick but I guess gave her a bad dose of dick because we didn't see each other again. Also a deaf girl who lived in a camper in the woods. She was ethnically ambiguous but that's one for the ADA column

I'm all for it. Is there anything less representative of the NBA than some white dude?

Oatcakes posted...

Odd that you'd equate that to interracial couples.

Not at all. My point is that whatever perceived abomination morons perceive, I could see an actual abomination and still enjoy my honey nut. I'm all for interracial couple. I 69'd a black chick once and came all over my own stomach

Planning on diving in once I'm done with Uncharted 3.

After updates and layers of polish, what can I expect of the experience at this point in the games life?

Any beginner tips?

How would you personally rate the story, mechanics, combat, general enjoyability? What are similar games and how would you compare it to them?

Definitely looking forward to starting it up after watching a lot of non spoiler reviews and analysis videos.

General Mills could shoot a Cheerios commercial featuring beastiality and puppy murder in my own living room and not even clean up and as long as they still have that honey nut I'm on board.

People waste so much time bitching about nothing.

M_Live posted...

This absolutely, one of my favorite games of all time. And for what its worth, I loved The Last Guardian and would strongly recomend it as a PS4 exclusive, despite its flaws

I'll check them out!

KillerKhan420 posted...

You seem to be a fps fanatic..I don't consider you on the level of TRUE gamers. We're done.

I said as much in the OP. You may be done but ole RETS is gonna keep on trucking

I also have the Bioshock Trilogy that was rereleased for PS4. I loved playing through the series and DLC about a year ago so may go through it gain between 2020 releases later this year.

Visually is there anything much different between the last gen and current gen release of the series?

Darmik posted...

It helps that the TC mostly stuck with shorter, linear games. Longest one on there is Rage 2 I think.

I've finished about 45-55 games a year in the last few years. Most of them are short.

Definitely. I can be pretty impulsive with stuff like this so if I play a real long game I want it to be one I can get fully immersed in which is why I'm trying to clear the back log so I can fall in monogamous love with RDR2.

So yeah, I am somewhat rushing through the more linear games so I can more fully experience the longer more open ones.

Also, since you referenced Rage 2 from my list, i just want to reiterate how much fucking fun I had with it

sutree posted...

Man, I wish I still loved games that much. It's rare now that I really want to power through a game.
A couple more recs:
Assassins Creed Origins
Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor

My excitement for them ebbs and flows, but for the past couple years I've been on a STRONG flow. Not sure why. I played a lot as a kid, hardly any in college and only recently in adult life.

I think since I work sales and have to interact so much throughout the day, often with people that annoy the every living fuck out of me, they are a nice mental decompression.

I have already conceded to myself that I will very likely get a PS5 at launch. But by that time I wont have a backlog and can just enjoy the odd interesting title as they release. But I've settled on the fact in have to get one A) to finish series that arent done yet like Wolfenstein and B) simply to see first hand how amazing the games will look. Also a bit on the morbid side how much more sophisticated the gore and damage systems can get

I kinda hate to say this because I love several games that include puzzles as a prominent feature, but I kinda dislike puzzles in otherwise exciting games. They are momentum killers a lot of the time. I loves Tomb Raiders challenge tombs because they were just that, optional challenges. But as a story progression speed bump they get on my nerves

WrestlinFan posted...

Damn TC has played more PS4 games in two months then I have in three years.

Bruh I've got a problem. A few years ago, something made me start buying as many Gamecube games as I could get my hands on. But being a relatively kid focused system, the more violent game options were limited. I stopped playing for a while, then my girlfriend got me an SNES classic for christmas in 2017 so I played the shit out of that, got myself an NES classic to keep the nostalgia high going, then started fiending for my gamecube again. So insisted it off and again started spending too much money on old games.

Then I started playing GUN again, which I loved but I had also been watching RDR videos and longing to play it. But i knew if I got a 360 it would open up a whole new world of games I didn't think I could be disciplined enough to abstain from.

But I finally told myself I'd gift myself a 360 in August of 2018 and ONLY get RDR for it. I am currently looking at 100 titles next to my tv in my room. I went in HARD.

Then i see sequels to games I loved for 360 are on current gen consoles, obviously. But I tell myself I cant take that plunge yet again and start a whole new rabbit whole of current gen gaming.

And here we are. Looking at 150 titles over 2 systems I wanted to not even get in the first place. Some people shoot drugs into their arms. I casually make my way through dozens and dozens of games by myself

sutree posted...

Cool topic. Looks like you know what games you like and have most decent FPS games and mainstream casual action games down already.

I know you said you don't like RPGs but Dark Souls Remastered (If you didn't play DS1 on the X360 yet) and/or Bloodbourne are seriously awesome games. The RPG elements, as far as stats and equipment go, are pretty simple and easy to figure out. Where these games excel is in combat, world design, and atmosphere.

Another game to consider if you want to branch out a bit is Yakuza 0. At its heart it's a beat-em-up but with a whole bunch of Japanese weirdness thrown in. It's well written, funny, and has an extremely engaging story. It's my favorite game on the PS4 and the best game I've played in the past couple years.

Thanks for the rec! I've looked up Yakuza videos and the hit animations like with the comic book looking colors that pop with the hits seems a little too cartoony for me. I loved Sleeping Dogs because of how brutal the combat was in a similar Asian gangster setting.

That said, all the recs ITT I don't seem too hot on right now will likely end up in my library at some point when I'm searching for titles outside my usual preference

Highly Evolved posted...

Gotta admire that dedication. Probably goes without saying, but take your time to enjoy the games, some true gems out there and there's really no point to rushing through one to get to the next.

Yeah for sure man. I wouldn't say I rush necessarily, just that I don't concern myself with a lot of sidequests or collectibles and what not. Sidequests like outposts and hostage rescue I enjoy, doing pointless fetches or transporting something I dont bother with

Also this is a non sequitur pet peeve, but I HATE when FPS games dont show your legs and body and you don't have a shadow.

Modern Warfare is fucking visually stunning highly detailed. But in look down and I'm just a floating pair of arms and a gun with no shadow. And at one point defusing a bomb there wasnt even a wire cutting animation with my hands doing the work. Little things like that bug me. Similar annoyance is when blood puddles dont form under dead bodies. I get it with Uncharted because the rating, but Battlefield 1? Tomb raider? Come on.

The channel Random Madness on youtube does gore reviews for tons of games that dive deep into gore and damage response so I've come to look for that kind of stuff more and more.

Army Of Two Devils Cartel I thought had an amazing gore system (and also the most brutal melee takedowns I've seen in a game). I cant recall any other games that gen beside TLOU that showed enemies eviscerated by certain weapons.

Gurifisu posted...

I was trying to be nice, but this was what I really meant.

Spider-Man and Arkham games aren't all too comparable. The combat is similar enough, but the game is good for so much more. I'd say from a narrative standpoint it beats the Arkham games. Heck, it beats the Spider-Man movies imo. It's just an overall really fun and immersive world. I can't think of another game where I had half as much fun simply traversing the world. You got a lot of games doing open world these days but so few get it right.

I'm leaning your direction man trust me. Just not ready to add it to the back log yet. Between Mafia 3, Days Gone, and Far Cry 5 I've got too many longer games already before taking on RDR2. I originally wanted to be done with the back log before Last of Us 2 so I could focus exclusively on that for a while without having the back log cloud over me. But i will likely add SM at some point

Dark_SilverX posted...

If you didn't play Spiderman you bought your Playstation 4 nothing.

How dare you. TLOU alone was worth it

Shotgunnova posted...

It's an open-world RPG, yeah. It's similar to Skyrim, but obviously not from as big a studio, and not with any magic or dragons.

Got ya! Yeah man, I appreciate the rec but dont foresee myself getting into that.

Also neglected to mention earlier that I was able to knock out the games in a relatively short time because I took 2 weeks off for christmas, so outside of family christmases, a few 2 day vacations, etc i was making a big dent in the gaming list.

Shotgunnova posted...

You should play Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's surprising how enjoyable this is...once you get over the early-game doldrums.

Is it pretty RPG heavy? Not much a fan

Kelystic posted...

all shooters eh?

Yeah for the most part. I played a whole career on UFC 3 in a sitting and have the recent MK games too but you never really finish those games so I didnt include them.

But yeah really only get invested in shooters and action or horror games. That said, I'll fire up the NES classic or play some racers here and there

Purely posted...

You've played all these games since fuckin November?

You bet your sweet tight pink ass I have. When I start I go hard man. August 2018 I got a 360 after having not really played games for a couple years and now have about 100 games for it with barely any of them unplayed.

I work a lot, train, hang out with wifey, and we go do stuff, but outside of those commitments, I'll focus on knocking games off the list. Also like unsaid, I'm not a completionist and generally prefer shorter games so I can get through them pretty quick especially if I play a few hours after SO goes to bed

Tonyjaa posted...

Interesting read. Looking forward to your thoughts on the rest of the games. You should try Witcher 3.

Bruh that will take me the rest of my life to play

TerrifyingRei posted...

Spiderman was pretty good.

I had a harder time with it than any of the Arkham games

It is a beautiful looking game and looks fun for sure so I may take the plunge at some point but it's just not on my radar right now :/

s0nicfan posted...

It's made by Platinum games, which is one of the premier spectacle fighter Developers. Although I didn't see Devil May Cry on your list, I did see God of War and they're sort of in the same genre. Beyond that, it's also got some of the best music in all of video games, it's pretty fantastic looking on the PS4, and if you bother to go through and get all the endings it legitimately looks at some very interesting philosophical questions in a way that doesn't feel ham-fisted.

That being said, it would certainly be more of an outlier than a lot of the other things on your list, so proceed with a little bit of caution.

I'll check it out bro! Thanks! And I played GoW for about an hour when I first got the PS4 (black friday deal that included the download) and loved it just wanted to play other games first. Cant wait to jump back in

Gurifisu posted...

Ctrl+F: Spider-Man

...

LISTEN HEAR PAL

I know I know man but Arkham scratches the very small superhero game itch i have

TerrifyingRei posted...

pop Bloodborne onto your backlog. It's amazing

I've seen a bit of it and am mildly interested though I prefer guns as weapons (primal and dishonored notwithstanding) but also dont want many more very long games since I've got to tackle RDR2 at some point

s0nicfan posted...

It's not coming this year, but nier automata should really be on your list.

Seen some good things, I'll look more into it. If you dont mind, why do you think it's one for me?

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Far Cry Primal

Got through this one pretty quick too, or so I thought. Beat Dah, Ull, and the main chick but the game still goes on because I hardly did any side quests. Anyway, the setting was beautiful and I dug using only primitive weapons, riding mammoths, sicking tigers on people. All very fun. That battle with Dah's camp was an incredibly satisfying experience after dying several times and finally being more patient and stalking dudes as they separated from the search party. Dug the game, won't play again though and don't care to officially finish the campaign.

Rage 2

I didn't hate the first Rage game other than the complete anticlimax of an ending, but it did have satisfying combat. Rage 2 takes shit to another level. Combat is brutal as hell, the mobility is insane, and you feel like an all powerful bad ass. I'll talk about Doom more in a sec, but I'd much rather play Rage 2 than Doom if I had to choose. The story is whatever but the game at least finished with a boss fight. Whatever the shortcomings are, the combat and mechanics are just so fun, fast, and satisfying I could look past it all

Doom

I had a lot of fun early on in the game, the violence, the soundtrack, the overall badassery of the game was thrilling. But the game is too long for what it is and I found myself wanting it to just be over. It got real repetitive running and gunning the whole time and I got to the second to last mission when the game crashed and my fucking file was corrupted. No desire to start over and see it through

Titan Fall 2

Other game with super fun combat mechanics. Everyone likes to praise this game and for good reason. The campaign is fun and no two levels are really the same. The mission in the combat testing manufacturing area, the time travel mission, etc all insanely cool and fun to play. BT was also great

Resident Evil 2

The original was my first RE game and I was obsessed with it when I got it for N64. The remake is a fucking powerhouse and does pretty much everything right. The combat is brutal, the atmosphere is amazing, the scares are still effective, Mr. X was a fucking stressful menace. I may be in the minority on this, but playing as sherry was one of my favorite segments in either play through. One improvement would to have made the scenarios fit together and affect each other more seamlessly, but other than that I loved it and can't wait for 3.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Sucker for the new trilogy and think I like them more than uncharted. The visuals are better, the set pieces are great, the combat and traversal are both much more satisfying. The story and characters aren't quite as good, but the other things put the series over the top for me. For Shadow, it looks stunning and the tsunami and earthquake sequences were absolutely incredible. Not as combat heavy as the previous two titles, but what combat there was I absolutely loved. Lara goes all out on her takedowns.

Outlast 1 and 2

I dug Outlast 1 and am glad I played it, but I have what may be the unpopular opinion that 2 is a way better and way scarier game. Holy shit my dudes. Everything about it worked for me. It's a great looking game and the religious angle of the story just worked for me. The imagery was striking and the game oozes atmosphere and almost begs you to stop and take a screenshot every few minutes. The writings were cool and disturbing, and I loved the school flashback sections. I was on edge AF playing through the second. Also, SPOILERS: seeing the child corpses in coffins with the lady holding and singing to a child corpse got under my skin in a bad way

Now a couple games I started but didn't finish:

Terminator Resistance

I really wanted to like this one and may still try to grind through it, but god damn was the 2 or 3 hours I played the most boring FPS experience I've ever had. So incredibly dull and looks like a last gen game. Anyone who has played it, when do you actually fight terminators?

Black Ops 3

Really dug the first 2 games but this one just wasn't clicking for me. Gave it a few missions and put it down. May try again during a gaming drought. Should I bother?

Ghost Recon Wildlands

I dig the game in small doses but god damn is it a huge undertaking and very repetitive. The world looks great and the combat is nice, although I hate how the bodies disappear almost immediately. This one was too much of a grind for me to play uninterrupted, so I'm hoping to knock it out in increments when I have nothing else to play

Back Log

KillZone Shadowfall
Homefront The revolution
Mad Max
Dishonored 2
Uncharted 4
Uncharted Lost Legacy
Jedi Fallen Order
Arkham Knight
Horizon Zero Dawn
God of War
Days Gone
Far Cry 5
Far Cry New Dawn
Mafia 3
Hitman 1 and 2
Ghost Recon Breakpoint
The Evil Within 2
Resident Evil 7
Red Dead 2

I own all my back log already and am pumped to work through them. 2020 games will be Resi 3, Cyberpunk, Last of Us 2, and whatever COD comes out but based on the games here what else do you dudes think I'd like that's coming this year?

I am a pretty casual gamer but when I start picking up the controller again I go nuts deep so when my PS4 got delivered late November, I quickly picked up about 50 titles and have been working through them. Here are some thoughts on the ones I've played then a list of my back log. I prefer more violent action oriented games and am a sucker for a good gore/damage system. I also am not a completionist by any stretch and just enjoy leisurely getting through the main story on most titles. Also I like strictly single player campaigns. Anyway, here are some extremely basic mini write ups about those games I've checked off the playlist. Feel free to discuss any title more in depth.

The Last of Us

Plenty has already been said about this one. I loved it. I was engaged with the story and characters from start to finish, everything felt authentic and nothing really stood out to me as "video gamey". Combat was brutal and had a desperation and rawness to it which I dug and I loved the stealth components. Can't wait for part 2.

Modern Warfare

Loved this one as well and found the gunplay to be so satisfying. It's a beautiful game to look at, some of the campaign beats were amazing (Farrah's story in particular) and the violence felt very real. The "Clean House" mission was way too short and I wish more similar missions had been included although there were a few similar sequences, but that mission in particular is just so engaging. They tease you with some dismemberment with your 50 cal, but having the shotgun deal some more brutal damage would have been great. Excited to replay the campaign soon

Infinite Warfare

I had read a lot of negative things about this COD entry, but I really fucking dug it. The setting was cool, I liked the story, I loved the side missions, and the one mission on the asteroid fighting the robots through rapid day and night cycles was a standout. Also obliterating dudes was fun

Control

Very fun game with some badass mechanics but could get pretty frustrating having to recover 5 minutes worth of ground sometimes if you're killed. Not a super forgiving checkpoint system. Also, I thought the story was cool but I played Alan Wake not too long ago and was waaaaay more invested in the story and diving deeper into the lore. Control just didn't quite get there for me on the narrative front. Standout though was the Ashtray mission. One of the coolest fucking levels ever.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

Admission time. I think I prefer the Ghost Warrior series (at least 3 and Contracts) to Sniper Elite. Seeing heads burst apart is just way more satisfying to me than the X-Ray cam. Anyway, I started playing Contracts but did not pay attention at all to the tutorial. So I got pretty fed up initially with not being able to hit shit. I put this one back on the shelf for a month or so before deciding to give it another shot and actually learn how to play and god damn I'm glad I did. Ended up absolutely loving it and have played all the contracts twice. Ended up being a very satisfying experience lining up the perfect shot without the indicator dot of the previous games and the combat could be pretty gnarly. Loved the wide open levels and hundreds of ways to play.

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3

Just finished this yesterday and have another admission. The story is obviously dog shit, but outside of that I think I enjoyed this one just as much as I did Far Cry 3 and 4. Same satisfying headsets as Contracts (though no other dismemberment), some brutal melee takedowns, and fun stealth. The fully open world was both good and bad. There wasn't much life at all so traveling could get redundant, but stumbling on some hostages in need of rescuing and taking down outposts was fun every single time.

Call of Duty WW2

Honestly, I played this a few weeks ago and don't really remember much about it. It's a perfectly good time waster and casual play if you wanna just play 30 mins of something before you leave the house. I dig a good WW2 game though so will likely replay once I clear my backlog. Standout was the visuals in cutscenes.

Wolfenstein Old Blood

A fun fast Wolfenstein fix. Brutal as always and I love the word the new Wolfenstein games inhabit. The pipe was a cool melee weapon and I dug having to disconnect the big dudes form their power source. I thought it was a cool use of the prequel status seeing the early versions of the enemies you face later in the timeline.

Wolfenstein II The New Colossus

Loved every minute of it. It was hilarious at times, very brutal and sadistic at others, and definitely had a through line of genuine heart that a game like this doesn't really require. The backstory on BJ and his father was great and I loved the payoff (a line of his about being a better father than his own made me decide to play Youngblood after initially choosing not to get it) and all the story beats just hit with me. Combat was brutal and fun. Can't fucking wait for the 3rd main entry.

Wolfenstein Youngblood

Certainly a change of pace for the series. I didn't really care for the open world nature of the game because the story took a backseat to it. Game play was still very satisfying, I liked a lot of the banter and I liked seeing BJ's legacy alive in the girls, but I don't think I'll replay it start to finish like I will the others in the new canon. Just too much of a grind to get through. That said, I'm still excited to where it leads the narrative for the series.

Uncharted 1, 2, and 3

I'm about halfway through Uncharted 3 right now and so far am digging it the most of the trilogy. The melee is better, the set pieces and traversal are fun, and I'm just vibing with the characters and pace so far. But to backtrack, I dug 1 but honestly kinds grinded through it to get to 2. Visually it was cool for a 2007 game and gameplay was alright, but I was happy to finish and move onto 2 which was.... more of the same really. The set pieces were a lot more fun though which made me enjoy the game a lot more. Fun characters, cool visuals, bad ass set pieces, just very enjoyable games.

The Order 1886

This is an odd one for me. Visually amazing, the gameplay was fun, the setting and lore was cool, and the combat was brutal, gory, and satisfying but holy shit it took control out of my hands every few minutes. It never gave you a chance to breathe and enjoy the gameplay or even to strategize during combat. It was way too linear and QTE heavy for what could have been bad ass segments. Huge missed opportunity th

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IMO the only thing 3 did better than 4 was the drug trip stuff. They've been trying to replicate that ever since, and it has sucked every time. In 3 it was awesome.

I dunno man, going through the brick factory in 4 was fun as hell