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+1. The net code / servers are terrible. Worse than GoW2 :(

 

My main annoyance is the shotgun is excessively powerful, someone can be no where near where I am and the shotgun will down me with one shot.

In comparison the lancer is useless, I can put two rounds in to someone and not even down them.

 

I was thinking the weapon balance is just way off, however thinking about it bad netcode / servers could easily cause that too.

 

At least compared to Gears 2 matchmaking works and is really fast, however I must be honest I preferred the server list. Someone in my group of friends / live buddies would host, then we'd play the exact the game mode / map we desired and random people would fill up the empty spaces. That also encouraged people to talk as we would try balance the teams at the end of the round. In comparison with match making, even if one team annihilates the other it will still keep the teams exactly the same and not mix them up.

 

I guess you could say I love / hate this ultimate edition. I would have personally been more than happy with 1080p 60fps and the additional 2 maps / campaign chapters from the PC version.

[360] Red Dead Redemption... Gave up waiting for it to come to PC.

[360] Skyrim Legendary... Mainly for the achievements. I've got 100% achievements on my card for Oblivion and Fallout 3/NV, thought I'd add Skyrim

[PC] GTA V... Glad I waited for PC. A bit of a let down in some of the mechanics (I frequently ask myself, "Did they even playtest this?") but the scope is amazing

finally succumbed to GTA V on pc. i disliked the idea of such long delays and i don't care much for 1st person view at all.. much less i care about online.

 

but the single player should be properly patched up by now and running nice.  i did not even select the higher graphics ye, running deafult that was offered

(might take a bit of effort to select the best options, since i have gtx680, which is fast, but only 2gb ram :( )

 

and i am already enjoying it miles more then GTA V

 

 

i am playing with a black kid, and not one of the 3 characters.  are they gonna appear soon?  how are they connected to the guy i am playing?    questions.... but i am sure  i will see soon as i move a story along.

finally succumbed to GTA V on pc. i disliked the idea of such long delays and i don't care much for 1st person view at all.. much less i care about online.

 

but the single player should be properly patched up by now and running nice.  i did not even select the higher graphics ye, running deafult that was offered

(might take a bit of effort to select the best options, since i have gtx680, which is fast, but only 2gb ram :( )

 

and i am already enjoying it miles more then GTA V

 

 

i am playing with a black kid, and not one of the 3 characters.  are they gonna appear soon?  how are they connected to the guy i am playing?    questions.... but i am sure  i will see soon as i move a story along.

 

Wait, what?

 

Do you mean Franklin, who is one of the 3 main characters?

 

The first few missions you play as Franklin until he meets Michael and you have those two until the first heist...  then Trevor shows up and the fun begins.

Wait, what?

Do you mean Franklin, who is one of the 3 main characters?

The first few missions you play as Franklin until he meets Michael and you have those two until the first heist... then Trevor shows up and the fun begins.

Yeah Franklin. I finally met trevor too :) I was not even sure Franklin one of the main characters at first. I thought maybe it was the 3 from the intro that somehow survive

Wait, what?

 

Do you mean Franklin, who is one of the 3 main characters?

 

The first few missions you play as Franklin until he meets Michael and you have those two until the first heist...  then Trevor shows up and the fun begins.

 

ok i am doing trevor missions now, that mofo is mfing crazy ;)

 

 

i really did not like gta 4, but i guess they took the criticism to heart, because gta 5 is on the level with the fun i had when gta vice city came out, and also first mafia game....   A LOT OF FUN.

second mafia and gta 4 were boring in comparison..

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I'm on my Intel Atom based machine as my Gigabyte Z97 decided to depart for silicone heaven. Ebuyer only offering a partial "Sales and goods act" refund due to having the product over 6 months (-2 months waiting on 2 their GFX card "repairs" & eventual refund). Blood leeches.

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Still making my way through my old games from my 360. Just finished Bioshock 2 and absolutely loved it! Can't wait to make a start on Inifinite. In the mean time playing through Season 2 of The Walking Dead.

PC - SOMA. A fun game, but there are several times where I think, "I could really use a weapon right now..." At least I don't have to worry about my flashlight dying on me like I had to worry about the lantern running out of oil in Amnesia - Dark Descent. The story is great, though I'm hoping to be finished soon so that I will have time (and HDD space) to play Planetbase when it comes out (October 15th I think.)

Android - Fallout Shelter. I'm not sure if others gave it a quick go and then put it down, but for me it was just what I was looking for in a mobile game.

Battlefield 4 is still great.

Miami Hotline is a ton of old school fun. 

One game I'm really looking forward to is Theme Parkitect, which is basically a successor to Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. None of that 3D nonsense, just good ol isometric theme park building. 

I might just start over with GTA 5, as I got it on PC now. It was great on the Xbox 360.

Just started playing Half Life 2 cause' I noticed it had been ported to Linux.  I loved the first game, and had never actually finished it until they ported it to Linux, and I noticed the Orange Box (HL2 with all the expansions, Portal and TF2) was only $20, so I picked it up.  I already had a copy of Portal, but it was still cheaper to buy Orange Box than to buy HL2 and all the DLC separately.  Awesome game so far, stayed up until 6 AM this morning playing because I didn't realize how late it was.  Still haven't finished it yet, but I'm thoroughly enjoying myself, :-)

Here's a screenshot of something inconsequential so as not to be a spoiler.  This little guy caught me off guard, it's the first time you realize that some of the creatures from the first game are actually friendly.  If the image looks a little rough it's because it's a 10 year old game, my laptop's resolution is only 1366x768, and I had not yet gone into the settings on HL2 and cranked up the texture resolution and things.

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PC: Witcher 3, waiting on Wastelands 2 Director's Cut

PS4: Mad Max (solo), Diablo 3 (local co-op with gf)

I have Rock Band 4 coming tomorrow for PS4 so I ordered a 2TB HDD because I'm not even going to try to download my huge song collection on the existing drive (I'm already having to shuffle games as is).  As such Rock Band 4 won't be played until I get around to the HDD swap.  I also have Uncharted: Nathan Drake Collection coming tomorrow but it's more to fill my back catalog for when releases get slim next year than it is anything to play anytime soon.

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Not even kidding. I've played more A2600 Donkey Kong since picking it up at Retrocon 3 weeks ago than anything else!

Oh yeah, and Berzerk!

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