The Video Game Thread v3

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Inferno

I managed to keep it under $15.

I bought Dead Island 2 Ultimate Edition today too for $25 but that was on CDKeys.

I'm playing through the Dead Island Remastered collection. So good, but you can also see where they learned some valuable lessons to apply to Dead Island 2.

[chemgear]

The algorithm recommended an eye opening video with all the xbox layoffs that was uploaded beforehand. This lady called it ahead of time.

Interesting and depressing viewpoint from somebody with experience being inside the company.

[devo22]

Originally Posted by devo22

finally firing up "Death Stranding 2" today. Really looking forward to it.

in chapter 3 now and I really enjoy it so far. Feels remarkably similar to the first game ... porting is still fun and rewarding, road building is still a time-consuming, but worthwhile activity, human enemies are still no challenge at all, BT fights are still clunky and annoying, cutscenes are still lengthy (but extremely well done) and Kojima is still weird lol. Really feels like a direct sequel so far, but who knows, that might change.

oh, absolutely gorgeous game too. Not that it's surprising, but should still be noted. Different setting than the first game, but absolutely fits.

[chemgear]

[Inferno]

I'm playing The Last of Us: Part 2 chronilocigal order update right now.

It's kind of nice to go back and forth between the first two parts and get an idea of when exactly the scenes were happening.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by chemgear

I played the robocop game that was on PS plus a couple of months ago. Still can’t beat the final boss on easy.

[calculoso]

Civ 6 Platinum Edition is free at Epic Games until the 24 th

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/...atinum-edition

[cam_calderon]

Demographic of this board may be a bit too old, but has anyone bought the Tony Hawk remake?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by cam_calderon

Demographic of this board may be a bit too old, but has anyone bought the Tony Hawk remake?

Already have THPS 1+2 remake and a few button-presses away from grabbing 3+4 on GamePass.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by cam_calderon

Demographic of this board may be a bit too old, but has anyone bought the Tony Hawk remake?

Most of us are GenX and (elder?) Millennials so I'd say we're the perfect demo for that game. I bought the first remake and thought it was good.


I haven't bought the 3+4 remake yet. I'll see if it runs well on Steam Deck.

[Erick Estrada]

I burned away a lot of hours on Tony Hawk back in the day.

[PepsiFree]

Which is the best Tony Hawk game out of the four that have been remade? I liked Underground as a kid but don’t think I played any others.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Which is the best Tony Hawk game out of the four that have been remade? I liked Underground as a kid but don’t think I played any others.

Underground was good but Pro Skater 1+2 are the best. 4 is great too but they changed it somewhat in the remake.

[btimbit]

Yup you guys nailed it. Pro Skater 1,2 and Underground are the best ones

[Mitch]

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers comes out July 24 (Thursday). It's a day 1 Xbox Gamepass release for those that use it.

Review embargo lifts tomorrow so I am eagerly awaiting those reviews. However, everything I have read and seen seems to indicate this will be another quality soulslike game, I'm pretty excited to try it out.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Mitch

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers comes out July 24 (Thursday). It's a day 1 Xbox Gamepass release for those that use it.

Review embargo lifts tomorrow so I am eagerly awaiting those reviews. However, everything I have read and seen seems to indicate this will be another quality soulslike game, I'm pretty excited to try it out.

Boomstick just posted this. Some . . . interesting armor.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Chinese devs are challenging the Japanese for who is the horniest

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Boomstick just posted this. Some . . . interesting armor.

Well, I just finished Stellar Blade, so looks like I'm ready for this one.

[chemgear]

Some last 30th Anniversary stuff? He's pointing out a bunch of listings across retailers for controllers, consoles, etc.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1948026648588361920

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by Mitch

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers comes out July 24 (Thursday). It's a day 1 Xbox Gamepass release for those that use it.

Review embargo lifts tomorrow so I am eagerly awaiting those reviews. However, everything I have read and seen seems to indicate this will be another quality soulslike game, I'm pretty excited to try it out.

Well, its ended up at 75/100 on Metacritic which is pretty average for non-FromSoftware souls games (benchmark: Lies of P is an 80, Khazan is a 78).

It is getting torn to shreds on steam, though. Only 22% positive reviews. It seems a lot of players are having performance issues on PC and apparently some pricing issues in some regions where the game dropped in price on release leaving anyone who pre-ordered kind of baffled.

Pricing/performance aren't really concerns for me so I'm still going to give it a shot, but overall pretty disappointing.