I tried playing Life is Strange when it was free for PS4 but found it so not fun at the beginning. It's worth slogging through?

Ep-1 still free. I never played it tho

http://store.steampowered.com/app/31...ge__Episode_1/

Taste is obv subjective and so I'd never say that someone who thought Life is Strange was less than ****ing genius was wrong.

I'd just never listen to their opinion on games ever again.

Genius seems a little strong considering some of the dialogue and even major aspects of the plot but it certainly managed to tell a more emotionally compelling story than 99% of games

Mega Man 11 announced and actually looks pretty good.



Mega Man X collection also coming out for PS4, X1, PC and Switch. Mega Man Legacy 1 and 2 coming to Switch.

Man, reading all those Mega Man titles is like trying to decipher a European royalty family tree.

I sold off a bunch of gamecube games last year bc I was never gonna play them again and they're surprisingly valuable, had a look at trading in at a store and at those sites where you list everything you're selling and they give you a quote for the whole lot. Both were very bad value compared to what they were going for on Ebay so I decided to use that and list them individually. Others may disagree but found the whole process fairly painless and simple (never sold on Ebay before). I got good prices, and I don't remember what the fees were but they weren't high enough for me to be bothered by. Only advice I have is to take lots of pics (front/back of box, front/back of disc etc) and include as much info as possible regarding condition of the box, whether you have the manual and so on, cos people really care about that stuff.

The best time to buy games for a previous system is like a year or two into the new system. During the 2nd or 3rd year of Wii, Gamecube games were really cheap. Then the 2nd year of the Wii U, Wii games were cheap. Now I'm guessing Wii U games might get cheap next year as stores get rid of their inventory of new unopened games.

NBA, 2K joining to start the NBA 2K esports league

This is kind of amazing

Time to crack down on those performance enhancing drugs IMO

Pretty cool/amazing/insane. Shame there wasn’t a Bulls vs Blazers league back in the day.

Is anyone talking about Darwin project yet?

https://kotaku.com/clever-new-battle...-as-1820405309

Pubg + winter survival mechanics + crafting + A FREAKING DUNGEON MASTER

Sort of. It’s called a director. And it’s one of the people playing the game. And it sounds neat.

Fire can be seen from far away? Check
You can be tracked via footprints in the snow? Check
The director can reward you with perks for doing well? Check

Great, now we get a dozen battle royale clones just like the open-world fad.

Yes, this is America. We get competition. We get better products because of this.

The horror.

Not if Brendan Greene can help it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...copycat-titles

The cheek of the dude lol

LOL that is incredible. He straight up aped an Arma3 mod, replaced the zombies with the abstract dome thing, and now he's mad other people are also copying the same thing he copied?

Whilst I agree that the concept of preventing people from recreating a style of game is dumb, saying that Brendan Greene simply aped an Arma mod isn't very accurate. He build his mod using the framework of DayZ, but the gameplay in DayZ: Battle Royale is significantly different from the base DayZ, and as far as I'm aware it was the first true Battle Royale style shooter. There's a reason he was asked to be a consultant on H1Z1 (and indeed specifically licensed the Battle Royale idea from him) and that his name is now synonymous with the genre.

Yeah man, we had SO many great open-world games come from that fad. What were they, again?

It's not about one being superior and rising above the others. That's a given, and of course a good thing. It's about every AAA and AA game including some element of the current fad and washing it out into something boring and stale. Just like what happened with open-world. I guess I'm more annoyed this time because battle royale doesn't interest me at all to begin with.

Wasn't he the guy that turned DayZ mod into the Battle Royale mod on arma?

He did, yes.

Breath of the Wild, Skyrim, Mario Odyssey, Fallout 4, Minecraft, etc.?

Yeah, so only the largest, most AAA games are what standout from your immediate memory as "great open-world games" and two of them are very recent releases.

Not the multitudes of forgettable, copy/pasted maps and hackneyed open-world attempts. And it's not just the games themselves, these type of fad models are extremely susceptible to Early Access shenanigans. Where are the hundreds of now-abandoned open-world Early Access projects that everyone loved for two weeks and then promptly forgot about? These fads can be good for the gems they produce, but on the whole it can feel like a bland porridge. Considering I don't even like battle royale style gaming, I'm certainly entitled to gripe about the slough of similar, ****ty clones that are already in the works. You may be happy with the handful of good games it produces, but I don't think it's worth the garbage.

Also, Minecraft doesn't count.

I don't even know where to start on this...

Minecraft doesn't count as an open world game? And there are people who object to open world-games in general and as a principle?

I... srsly... what... I don't even... seriously... why?

Obviously there are terrible open world games - there are terrible any-possible-type-of-game games. What kind of a point even is this?

There are ****loads of great open world games and pretending otherwise is ******ed.

Since you bring up early access out of nowhere do you mean survival games instead of open world games?