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Post by hicksy on Jul 30, 2024 9:04:52 GMT
Nice offer with 3 weapons made available for playing the demo but I would rather just not spoil the full flavour of the full game. Anyone know if the 3 weapons are unique from demo or are they just unlocked earlier?
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Post by dfunked on Jul 30, 2024 12:46:41 GMT
'Thank Goodness You're Here!' seems to be reviewing well. 84 on opencritic, 80 on meta and FIVE STARS/ESSENTIAL at the old place.
15% off at the switch eshop too... Backlog be damned
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Post by apollo on Jul 30, 2024 13:56:23 GMT
Its sort of annoying MS own Fallout and Wasteland games now. the studio that did W3 is working on clockwork rev. so any new wasteland games will be 2027 onwards
Got back into my new wasteland 3 playthrough I started few months ago and the game is so good (tried W2 and the UI is bad on console as its the PC UI)
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Post by hicksy on Jul 30, 2024 16:38:21 GMT
Has anyone ordered anything from coolshop.co.uk?
They appear to be £5+ cheaper than the usual game web shop options like game collection & shopto. From what I can tell they are not a UK store but a DK one with a uk url which is a bit cheeky. Seems delivery may be closer to a week or so rather than the 1-3 days from the others but other than that web reviews suggest they are fine?
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Jul 30, 2024 17:13:00 GMT
Has anyone ordered anything from coolshop.co.uk? They appear to be £5+ cheaper than the usual game we shop options like game collection & shopto. From what I can tell they are not a UK store but a DK one with a uk urn which is a bit cheeky. Seems delivery may be closer to a week or so rather than the 1-3 days from the others but other than that web reviews suggest they are fine? I have bought a few things from there recently without problem.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 30, 2024 20:19:04 GMT
Seems to be fine as long as you don't mind waiting for delivery. £43 for Metaphor is hard to say no to!
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Jul 30, 2024 21:07:23 GMT
To be fair the one preordr I did did get delayed, but it was a lowkey one and I cancelled it easily enough to buy elsewhere (Front Mussion 1)
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Post by simple on Jul 31, 2024 8:05:40 GMT
'Thank Goodness You're Here!' seems to be reviewing well. 84 on opencritic, 80 on meta and FIVE STARS/ESSENTIAL at the old place. 15% off at the switch eshop too... Backlog be damned I’m very excited for this. I know Matt Berry is getting the headlines but the presence of Chris Cantrill from The Delightful Sausage is a huge positive sign. Their material and Radio 4 show Icklewick FM feel like a perfect fit for this game. Plus it reminds me of the sort of nonsense you’d get on a micro computer from some shocking young British bedroom coder in the 80s.
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Post by wunty on Jul 31, 2024 9:26:22 GMT
'Thank Goodness You're Here!' seems to be reviewing well. 84 on opencritic, 80 on meta and FIVE STARS/ESSENTIAL at the old place. 15% off at the switch eshop too... Backlog be damned I’m very excited for this. I know Matt Berry is getting the headlines but the presence of Chris Cantrill from The Delightful Sausage is a huge positive sign. Their material and Radio 4 show Icklewick FM feel like a perfect fit for this game. Plus it reminds me of the sort of nonsense you’d get on a micro computer from some shocking young British bedroom coder in the 80s. It looks brilliant. Very tempted to splurge on it, even though I've bought 7 million games recently. But it looks brilliant.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 31, 2024 11:24:35 GMT
Very much looking forward to giving this a go, it's even got my other half interested in playing it (watching me play it).
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Post by rhaegyr on Jul 31, 2024 11:34:37 GMT
Can't wait to get this tomorrow. Being a Yorkshireman is the icing on the (bread)cake.
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 16:44:03 GMT
Thank Goodness You're Here! is out now and it's frikkin' great already (also it's Yorkshire Day apparently? /hat-tip )
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Post by Tuffty on Aug 2, 2024 9:33:18 GMT
Visions of Mana has a new demo out now. Playing it gives you 3 weapons for the full game. Judging from what other people have been saying, this could be something special Trying this out and that demo is kind of overwhelming right off the bat. It's clear that it starts at a point that's maybe 5 hrs or so in the main game and so does everything to tutoralise all you know within a couple of minutes. Menus upon menus, gameplay and story terminology that goes way over your head. Once you're out into the field it feels like you can explore at your own pace finally. Once you get caught up it feels pretty decent. In the nicest way possible it's very much a glorified PS2 game. I like that each character gets their own version of different classes depending on what element you equip them with, so by equipping wind on one character it makes them a tank but if you swap for the woman she's more like a buff/debuff type. Lots of possibilities it seems, albeit each class has maybe a handful of abilities so not that deep. Looks nice, English dub is a bit strange maybe. Dunno if its completely sold me but it's fine
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 7, 2024 23:06:27 GMT
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Post by zisssou on Aug 8, 2024 7:51:37 GMT
The Order was stunning visually, but the gameplay was very lacklustre. I'm sure the campaign was about 5 hours long?
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Post by wunty on Aug 8, 2024 8:37:32 GMT
The Order got a lot of hate that it didn't actually deserve. As a cinematic shooter that can be done over the course of a few nights (quite refreshing given the tred - still - for 5000 hour games), it's well worth a play. The fact it still looks fucking phenomenal is quite something as well.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 8, 2024 8:47:10 GMT
It struck me as part tech demo for the PS4, and part proof of concept for a new IP.
If they'd been given the chance to make a sequel, I reckon it could've been something special; unfortunately, they weren't.
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Post by wunty on Aug 8, 2024 8:49:49 GMT
I don't know, seemed to me there was a fairly robust game there that set out to deliver an experience that was exactly as intended. Everyone became obsessed with the length of the game. Because, of course, we all have fifty hours a day to spend gaming. I played through it again a few months back and still regard it pretty highly.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 8, 2024 8:58:08 GMT
I was put off less by its length (I like a short game too!) than by its lack of interactivity. They created this beautiful game, set in an interesting world, with superb voice acting, and the actual gameplay was limited to corridor shooting.
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Post by wunty on Aug 8, 2024 9:03:28 GMT
Yeah but, again, that was the game they made and I think it worked. Look at Still Wakes the Deep, which I'm playing now. Similar length, similar interactivity. Cinematic and engrossing despite the lack of player agency. The Order had similarly good voice acting and a decent story. There's a definite place for shorter, more cinematic games. Again, I don't find that detracts from the experience of playing it. In fact, I would also argue the point about the gameplay just being corridor shooting as that wasn't my experience of playing it at all. Just because you're directed along a linear trajectory, doesn't mean all it had to offer was corridor shooting.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 8, 2024 9:10:40 GMT
wunty Fair enough, mate - I don't mean to slag off something you obviously enjoyed, and I probably shouldn't be posting about a game based upon half-remembered YouTube footage from a decade ago in any case.
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Post by wunty on Aug 8, 2024 9:25:28 GMT
You're not slagging it off we're just having a discussion! You are very much entitled to your opinion, just putting my own across having played through it a few times. I just think it's possible to enjoy a game for what it is, as opposed to what you want it to be, but you can have the same discussion for any game / book / film / play / mesopotamian bottom dance etc
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Post by dmukgr on Aug 8, 2024 9:27:49 GMT
I loved the order and I don't play many games.
I played it because it was short and cimenatic so the wife could watch me play it and be interested too.
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Post by rhaegyr on Aug 8, 2024 9:29:02 GMT
You're not alone - I thought it was pretty boring in both storytelling and gameplay. Looked great though!
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Post by dfunked on Aug 8, 2024 9:49:12 GMT
I might have to dig that out of the loft to have a blast. Never actually finished it despite it being such a short game (this was back in the lovefilm rental days when I'd play big releases for an hour or two and then move on)
I need to pull my finger out and look for my Deadpool game to stick on eBay anyway.
I ordered blue and green CD wallets with the intention of decanting every Xbox One/PS4 and up game into them, but nope out of it every time I open the loft hatch and get hit by the wall of hot air.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 8, 2024 9:51:23 GMT
It was a deeply average game, with a dull predictable story, but it did look nice.
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Post by zisssou on Aug 9, 2024 9:06:38 GMT
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Post by dangerousdave on Aug 9, 2024 10:19:26 GMT
Ooooh. Tempting…
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 9, 2024 10:20:40 GMT
I don't know, seemed to me there was a fairly robust game there that set out to deliver an experience that was exactly as intended. Everyone became obsessed with the length of the game. Because, of course, we all have fifty hours a day to spend gaming. I played through it again a few months back and still regard it pretty highly. I think robust is stretching it there. It was very limited in it's actual gameplay and obviously leaned in heavily to its cinematic aspirations by way of presentation but they actually forgot to put the rest of the game in there. It felt more like a proof of concept for a franchise that would have resulted in a greater experience down the line. But hey that's an alternate universe now.
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Post by wunty on Aug 9, 2024 10:27:08 GMT
Personally I found it delivered a good solid gaming experience but opinions etc. I suppose it also depends on what you (not you specifically, I mean generally) define as "gameplay". For me the act of moing my character from point A to point B and interacting with an object can be defined as gameplay in as much as move cursor over enemy and press X to kill him. Some games have fifty million input commands at once and reflexes of a 7 year old, other games require less. Maybe I'm old and more sedentary stuff appeals to me more now, but, again, using Still Wakes the Deep as an example, the perceived "minimal" amount of interaction from the player is quite often enough for me depending on the game. The Order was one such game.
Again though, I'd actually rather a more focused cinematic experience in under ten hours these days as opposed to a fifty hour open world collect a thon that also requires me to have seventeen fingers on each hand and remember a characters location who I spoke to twenrty hours ago which in real time was over a year back.
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