@Banjo- I havenât really been playing any new games recently or been super online, but I really like how you write reviews and express your opinions on the games you beat! I express my opinions on the games I play with huge walls of text haha. Hope youâll have fun with the games on your backlog! whenever I finish a game, I always get clueless and donât know what to play after that. Compared to most gamers, I donât have a backlog, but some games do interest me, but I donât play them after all.
And a random question, but do you plan on playing or replaying any other Rare games in the future? I find myself always replaying their games when I donât know what game to play next.
@Pastellioli Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoy my writing! I have a backlog, indeed. There are some old games that are part of Rare Replay that I haven't played yet, like the NES games, but I have played most of the collection, including half of the Spectrum titles. There are games from the last and this generation that I also want to play. I am trying to clear them, but I'm also tempted to replay my favourite games. I have replayed some of them many times, but of all Rare games, I would gladly replay the Donkey Kong trilogy, Viva Piñata, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, anytime.
@Banjo- I really canât wait until you get onto the NES games and talk about them, I found a lot of them so hard to play and kind of frustrating (especially Digger T. Rock) but I really want to hear your opinion on them once you move onto them! I do think we were talking about NES games once on a thread.
Regarding the games you do want to replay, I was actually supposed to replay Tooie last month because the game club voted on it for September, plus I was actually the one that requested it, but I only did a few minutes of the first level and stopped. I do kind of wanna replay the N64 Banjo games maybe later in the year or next year, but I kind of need to finish Nuts and Bolts at one point since I dropped that and itâs the only Banjo game on the Xbox I havenât finished. I think I could put that on a gaming backlog and make a list of games I want to beat and new games I want to buy. I already plan on replaying a few 3DS games alongside some Xbox games.
I have beaten some shooters lately. Much longer than 8 hours unless you speed-run in easy, Call of Duty Black Ops 6, that not just excels in audio, visuals and gameplay, but it's also one of the best campaign in the genre, ever. It reminded me of Goldeneye 007 in some positive ways with a combination of stealth, exploration and horror on top of the excellent gunplay. Of course, Goldeneye 007 does not have terror and they are not the same. Then, I beat Immortals of Aveum that, shoehorned woke bs aside, has a very poor level design, terrible spawn points and complex mechanics under slow animations in a shooter that sometimes is as fast paced as Doom Eternal, another of my favourite shooter campaigns. It's a shame, because the mechanics of Immortals of Aveum are a lot of fun when you try to use them all and, somehow, I enjoyed the gameplay. Because of the "men are stupid" and the like, it's awkward. In spite of the terrible writing, the story and pace are fine. The music is just okay. The graphics are impressive, but inconsistent, although smoother than expected, probably because of the patches.
Gears of War Ultimate Edition (Xbox Series X)
Right so I recently had the opperunity to play and well beat Gears of War Ultimate edition! Now I must state that Iam glad I did becuse it was a very nice experiance imo. I can very much recommed the game for anyone who is looking for something intresting to play . And yeah to play the first game from start to finish is something of a dream come true in some sense. So Iam glad I did it. Was likely btw not even allowed to play the orginal game when it first came out . And well I guess that Gears have to much mature content for many people so if you are sensetive this might not be the game for you (even if I liked it becuse of the fun factor).
Beside the playing experience Im very glad with the purchase. Trying to buy most the of the games I play (not relying on game pass to much).
@oliverp Itâs awesome to hear that you finally got to play the game, and enjoy it as well. I donât know if you have the option, but the trilogy is some of the best cooperative games Iâve ever played, particularly split-screen. If you get the chance you should give it a tryâyou wonât be disappointed.
@Bob_salad Yeah its the first game I played in the series after watching the Mad World trailer something like over a milion times over the last few years so I guess playing the game was a long time coming in some sense. Another reson was I guess that I wanted to experiance a quality third person game and like see what kind of mechanics and tech that Epic had cooked up. Understand that the title have had some influence over the last years to say the least..
As I mentioned on Now Playing on Series S|X, I didn't like the overrated Deathloop. I almost didn't even try Redfall, but I did and I had fun from start to finish. It's a combination of a Fortnite story mode and State of Decay 2, although the more I played it, the more I realised that its biggest inspiration State of Decay 2 is a much better and developed experience that became one of the best games of the last generation after the updates. State of Decay 2 is complex, immersive, replayable and interesting. Redfall is halfway there.
The graphics, performance, world, story, weapons and basic gameplay of Redfall are excellent, but it's quite limited overall. It feels unfinished, the AI is half-baked to say the least, you can fast travel but not drive vehicles and scavenging is pretty pointless. Although the story is increasingly more interesting, the writing is so-so and the cutscenes are cheap. Redfall is, paradoxically, a big and polished game that can be a blast in spite of its lack of depth.
7/10
@oliverp Great choice! I had a great time playing them.
@Bob_Salat I didn't play it at launch so I can't tell. The world is detailed and full of locations and stuff. I didn't plan to, but I did all the optional missions. It looks great in Dolby Vision and the controls and weapons are excellent. It's weird how this game was panned, but I don't know how it was at launch. For some reason, Deathloop, that was for a while a PS exclusive, got lots of 10s, but I think this game is much better and I don't say this to defend Redfall, because I have ignored it until now, just saying how weird reviews are. I pay more attention to user reviews these days. What was the last game you beat on Xbox and did you like it?
@oliverp If you feel like playing a pure shooter, Redfall is a great choice. If you want something more intense and with lots of choices and fun, State of Decay 2.
@Bob_Salat It's so nice to meet you. I'm glad that you enjoyed Halo 2, it's a step up from the first game like you said, in many ways. I played them all recently -I've never had an Xbox 360- and wrote about them either here or on the Now Playing on Series X|S thread. I liked them all except 4 and 5, that are really messy in terms of gameplay and story. 5 couldn't have worse gameplay and level design. Battles are mediocre and the game is flashy but uninspired with a very weird story. In spite of that, 343 Industries rebooted themselves and made a pure and awesome Halo Infinite, that I consider the best in the series. Gameplay is perfect and the battle design is a huge improvement after 4 and 5. 4 is so-so, but 5 is bad. I believe that it's the level design and the strategic gameplay what makes Halo different and engaging. That's what Bungie did best in their games along the shooting itself, and that's what 343 messed up until they finally got it right in Halo Infinite.
My next game is Ghostwire Tokyo. I'm liking it very much. I read your comments on the other thread and I see that you want to play it! Try the different video modes until you find the best for your screen, because the only problem I've found so far is the frame pacing with most of them. The worst of the issues have been patched, apparently. I'm still changing modes, but I think that the best modes on Series X with Variable Refresh Rate on in the console settings for my screen (LG G4) are either Quality High Frame Rate (V-Sync) or Performance High Frame Rate (V-Sync).
@Banjo- at this point i donât get the hate for halo 4 anymore . on release ? sure , it was stale compared to reach imo; but the story was solid , the gameplay was still halo & played better than any halo before - basically it was a technical improvement in every way with an above average story that gave the lore and chief more depth. the only real flaw is its multiplayer.
Halo 2 is overrated (imo) , thereâs some things the first did better , but fortunately halo 3 took both aspects of what made its two predecessors great and put them together.
Halo Infinite just feels like a regression of the series. itâs not necessarily bad, but itâs middle of the road . itâs the game thatâs basically the sweet spot in between 343âs terrible track record which isnât saying much
. @Bob_Salat Definitely, I will play Indiana Jones, maybe not on launch day, but I will.
Halo Infinite is excellent, the story is more natural, the writing is infinitely better and 343 Industries managed to get the gameplay and shooting finally right, as right as Bungie, along with a few stellar additions to the mechanics. There is also that strategy in the battles that makes the early games so interesting to play, and 4 and 5 so boring in comparison.
Regarding Ghostwire Tokyo, it's not as much the frame rate as the frame pacing, but I'm playing Performance High Frame Rate (V-Sync) and it's almost fine, so I'd recommend you Performance Mode or Performance Mode (V-Sync). All the performance modes turn ray tracing off, which is way too ambitious in a current-gen open world like this. By the way, I'm liking the game much more than I expected. It's so well crafted and interesting!
@Banjo- Oh thanks for the recomandetion man appreciate it very much. I have kind of been interested in Redfall tbh for some time as the premise seems to be very intresting to me. More so then most games. Hope the game will not be shotdown but still be avaiblie for some *time.
@Bob_Salat đ Basically, the game settings to select in my opinion are:
Options, Graphics:
a) High Frame Rate Performance Mode (VSync) for variable refresh rate screens
b) Performance Mode for every other screen.
@oliverp I played Redfall on my own and it was a lot of fun. If you are subscribed to Game Pass and feel like playing a simple shooter, give it a go! It's basically Fortnite combined with a layer of State of Decay 2. đ
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