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Re: CD Projekt RED Warn Against Installing Unfinished Ciri DLC

stylon

I've not seen this on the store and I visit it every week to see what DLC they've added.

I would be way beyond pissed if I lost my game save though... having put in over 13 hours now (level 35) I would probably never touch the game again... and that's best case scenario!

Re: Out Today: Q (Xbox One)

stylon

This is actually a lot better than it looks but the puzzles do get very tricky quite quickly! It's actually a physics puzzle game - you basically draw stuff on the screen and once drawn an object will obey the (simplified) laws of physics in the game. Draw a slope and then draw a ball at the top of it and the ball will roll down the slope. Draw a see-saw with a ball on one end and draw a much bigger ball above the other end and it will drop onto the see-saw launching the smaller ball into the air... as I said it's a lot more fun than the screenshot and description suggest

Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Sixty One

stylon

@A_BabyRed_Yoshi I absolutely love The Witcher game... I've been playing it for almost 100 hours and not once have I been bored. Have to say I'm surprised at this myself. Going into it I was daunted by the prospect of playing such a large game... but now I find myself doing side missions and exploring the map just to keep the end of the story at bay. Roll on the DLC!

Re: Games With Gold to get Assassin's Creed and Three Other Titles for July

stylon

Slim pickings for me this month - already got everything except So Many Me which I know nothing about but will probably at least try.

By way of contrast my friend, who's only just become an Xbox owner, is delighted about getting Black Flag for free - he bought into the EA Access thing too, just before they added Titanfall so he's got a ton of games to play for virtually no outlay and couldn't be happier!

Re: Project CARS 2 Announced for Xbox One

stylon

Whilst I'm glad it's getting a sequel I'm very disappointed and surprised they have shifted focus so soon. I would have expected them to spend (a lot) more time polishing and supporting the game I've only just shelled out £50 on.

Re: Looks Like That ZombiU Xbox One Port Rumour Was True...

stylon

I don't think it will be anywhere near as good without the gamepad (or smartglass). It was a really good showcase for what the gamepad could bring to gaming and without it I guess it would have been a so-so survival horror. The gamepad really elevated it into an unforgettable experience for me and the best game I have on my WiiU.

If they don't offer smartglass integration to replicate the gamepad functions then I'm not really interested...

Re: To Play Hexic on Xbox One, You'll Need to Do This

stylon

@SuperKMx I didn't either - I originally had it as a physical game but traded it in a long time ago when I'd completed it. I bought it again digitally the other day as soon as I found out about the backwards compatibility. I installed it on my 360, checked the saved game still loaded and copied it to the cloud... but it's not showing up to download at all. Only my old XBLA games have showed up...

Re: E3 2015: Microsoft Demos New Xbox UI Featuring Cortana Integration

stylon

Looking forward to this... quite happy to see a change to the way the snap feature works. Could be a bit of a pain to have your gaming screen shrunk down to accommodate the contents of the snap screen - would prefer it overlaid over the main screen as it appears to be in the demo.

Just hope we all get the real Cortana voice and not the British version they gave us on Windows phone which was just wrong...

Re: E3 2015: Fallout 4's Impressive E3 Demo Is Everything You Want and More

stylon

Looking forward to Fallout 4 a lot... but not as much as Halo 5...

Do agree with BAM about the character models though. Bethesda really need to up their game in this department. Going from Witcher to EOS really makes the latter feel dated... not only with the character models but the clunky interface where every encounter with an NPC has them positioned in a little box with dialogue options down the side... the lack of spoken dialogue for your own character disappoints too...

Re: Rumour: Former Wii U Exclusive ZombiU Currently in Development for Xbox One

stylon

@Rezalack Couldn't agree more... a combination of the novel use of the gamepad, permadeath and to a degree the unique setting in London all helped to make this the best survival horror I'd played until Alien Isolation came out.

@Gamer83 You have a point with Outlast but my issue with it was more that it was too intense to play for long - I just found it an exhausting experience and sort of gave up on it...

Re: Disney Can't Hold Back Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight for Xbox One and Xbox 360 Anymore

stylon

She hasn't paid a penny so far... but she can sometimes spend several days replaying the same level over and over until she does it. You seem to need a lot of luck with some of the levels to do them without the powerups... you only get a few lives too and then you have to stop playing for a while or pay up...

She's up to around level 100 or so now... she likes it so much (and has invested so much time in it) that she insisted I transfer her game and all her progress across to her new phone when she upgraded recently!

Re: Disney Can't Hold Back Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight for Xbox One and Xbox 360 Anymore

stylon

My wife loves this game - she's always playing it on her phone...

She's always complaining that the game is ridiculously hard though - trying to force you into buying the power-ups (which ain't cheap). I would hope that they drop the micro-transactions, charge a one-off fee and make it easier to play otherwise they're going to get a lot of hate...

Snowball fight... my guess would be some sort of multiplayer addition where matched gems cause a snowball to appear on your opponents screen?

Re: Review: BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition (Xbox One)

stylon

Nice review - I was wondering whether it would add anything new to the mix to make it worth me purchasing this again but it seems it hasn't. I've been playing this on my tablet and it really is a great little game. Simple to pickup and play but very tricky to master and perfect for bite-size gaming sessions. The achievements on this would be a nightmare too...

If they had added more levels, some music or maybe a windows version with cloud saving between that and the xbox version then I might have bitten.

Re: Out Today: The Swapper (Xbox One)

stylon

@mindtwang Ah right well that makes me feel better about getting it now, thanks.

I'm only an 'occasional' PS4 gamer so it must have been that the first time I clapped eyes on it, it was free

Re: Out Today: The Swapper (Xbox One)

stylon

I really want to get this... my only concern is that this launched on the PlayStation as a free PS+ game... If I splash out £12 on it now it would be a bit annoying if it became one of the next GwG offerings...

Re: Review: Spy Chameleon (Xbox One)

stylon

I got this on a whim at launch and have been having a great time with it, totally agree with the review. My only issue is one of the levels refuses to accept that I've collected all the ladybugs no matter how many times I successfully complete it which is really annoying...