The Video Game Thread v3

[Russic]

I use movies as my metric. A (good) movie is $5/hour. So if I can get 16 hours out of a game, it's worth $80 to me. Even then, that's pretty transactional and spreadsheety... if it's a highly entertaining 10 hours I'm good with $80.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by btimbit

I just need to feel like I get value from my money. 10-20 hours a game is probably my average, which is fine for a $20 game but BS for an $80 game

I think 20 hours is acceptable for a non-open world game that's of high quality. I've been playing Avowed on gamepass and quite liking it. It's not GOTY material but and above average RPG with really nice visuals. The story it pretty average but what really carries the game is how polished and fun the combat is as it's probably some of the best open world combat I've played in some time. Gives me high hopes for The Outer Worlds 2.

[peter12]

I am obsessively playing Warhammer 40K: Darktide and I have zero desire to stop.

[chemgear]

Great time to be gaming in the 40K universe with Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader too. How is the Arbites guy? I might go back to it later sometime.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Great time to be gaming in the 40K universe with Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader too. How is the Arbites guy? I might go back to it later sometime.

Extremely OP and hilariously fun. When he was first released, strike teams were just all Arbitrators. Now the meta has gone of loosened up and people are back to playing their favourite classes.

I still main my Ogryn, but have had a lot of fun maxing out my Arbiter's penances.

I liked Space Marine 2, good playthrough for sure. I've gone through Rogue Trader a couple of times too. Amazing game. Wish I could have an Ogryn join my team.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Russic

I use movies as my metric. A (good) movie is $5/hour. So if I can get 16 hours out of a game, it's worth $80 to me. Even then, that's pretty transactional and spreadsheety... if it's a highly entertaining 10 hours I'm good with $80.

when you have a MASSIVE backlog you don't really need to buy the newest games anyway...just wait for a sale

[Sr. Mints]

I’ve jumped back into Ghost of Tsushima, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is.

The first time around it ate up just under 90 hours, which was a little sobering to realize. I obviously don’t need another platinum trophy, so maybe I can trim that down to, I don't know, 40-50 hours.

(Who am I kidding. My particular strain of videogame OCD will still have me chasing down every side quest, secret, outfit, hat, weapon, colour scheme, etc, etc.)

[Inferno]

Because my backlog is so huge I usually just stick to Humble Bundles now unless a game I want to play goes on sale for really cheap and I know I'm going to play it right away.

I made an exception for Mafia because I really wanted to play it and it was only $60. I knew it wasn't a long game so spending $60 for what ended up being about 15 hours was fine.

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

(Who am I kidding. My particular strain of videogame OCD will still have me chasing down every side quest, secret, outfit, hat, weapon, colour scheme, etc, etc.)

I'm still slogging through Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 256 hours in.

I finished the main story a long time ago but I've been trying to do everything else. I finished the Dawn of Ragnarok DLC a couple of weeks ago during my summer holidays.

[photon]

I have to watch for those kinds of games and kind of decide how much I want to to before hand. Generally after I finish the main story I feel a lot less invested in a game so struggle to do other things after the main story. So I'll complete all the side quests or collectables I want or whatever before I finish since I know if I wait I probably won't after.

And yeah between the sales and game services it takes a game I'm really waiting for to make me buy it when it first comes out.

Though Ubisoft still hasn't fixed the fact that my Ubisoft+ subscription doesn't work, I can't play anything... I cancelled my subscription and fortunately am only out 1 month's subscription fee. They keep closing my ticket too, 100% they're lying when they say they're working on a fix, I'll just keep reopening the ticket for forever because they suck.

I'd have zero problem getting AC Shadows from a less than honest source at this point. Which is still kind of lame, if I had integrity I'd just not play the game at all, but I'm weak.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Inferno

I'm still slogging through Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 256 hours in.

I finished the main story a long time ago but I've been trying to do everything else. I finished the Dawn of Ragnarok DLC a couple of weeks ago during my summer holidays.

Longest game I think I've ever played. Loved most of it, but some parts are really boring.