Finally finished Shadows of Mordor. That was honestly the best game and the most fun I had playing a game for all of 2014. A game that had its story taken from movies/books that I pretty much hate. The combat/fighting system is very similar to the Batman Arkham games, and the climbing, free running is similar to Assassins Creed, it's like they took the two things made them better and said here you go. Just an awesome/fun game. It can be had pretty cheap too, recommend those who haven't played it give it a shot.
The only thing that really let me down is the very last boss battle is nothing more than a QTE(basically press button here, then press button here etc). The two battles prior to that are awesome, but after all the ass kicking you do in the game and the glorious battle system having that be the last boss battle was just meh.
Cool. I'm looking forward to playing this whenever I get to it. This is one of the 3 games so far that I will make sure to play on the PS4 (this, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition) because graphics are crazy superior than on the PS3.
I'm still enjoying Darksiders 2. It's awesome fun.
here is my log of video games I havent played but would like to. which would be the best one to get started on next (after Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare)
-Bioshock
-Bioshock Infinite
-Assassins Creed 1-3
-Grand Theft Auto 5 (I started it but never got very far)
-Halo Master Chief collection
If you're looking for campaigns, it doesn't get much better than the first three Halo games. Unfortunately, the Halo MCC multiplayer is still basically unplayable for me. Others have had issues saving their campaigns on Halo MCC. I have not, but it's something to be aware of.
Bungie released an update for the Halo matchmaking yesterday, just an FYI. No idea if it worked, because I don't have Halo, but figured I'd give you a heads up.
here is my log of video games I havent played but would like to. which would be the best one to get started on next (after Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare)
-Bioshock
-Bioshock Infinite
-Assassins Creed 1-3
-Grand Theft Auto 5 (I started it but never got very far)
-Halo Master Chief collection
If you're looking for campaigns, it doesn't get much better than the first three Halo games. Unfortunately, the Halo MCC multiplayer is still basically unplayable for me. Others have had issues saving their campaigns on Halo MCC. I have not, but it's something to be aware of.
Bungie released an update for the Halo matchmaking yesterday, just an FYI. No idea if it worked, because I don't have Halo, but figured I'd give you a heads up.
Unfortunately it's not Bungie anymore. It's i343. But yes, you're right. I haven't updated yet because I pretty much gave up on playing it. I did read that it didn't fix any of the issues AND deleted some users' Halo CE campaign saves.
-Bioshock
-Bioshock Infinite
-Assassins Creed 1-3
-Grand Theft Auto 5 (I started it but never got very far)
-Halo Master Chief collection
I'd go with Bioshock. I don't want to get into spoiler territory, but for the best understanding of Infinite you really want to have played the original, especially if you also get the Burial at Sea DLC. Bioshock 2 is entirely optional.
You rule the day, good man. I still want to get a nice BD set, but that would work for now.
The Alien Anthology BR is excellent. I don't even like 3 or Resurrection, but I love the BTS content. I'm Facebook friends with the two guys who supervised the creature fx on all but the first film (one of them is a yinzer), and it's fun seeing them post some stuff that's not on the official making ofs.
This is already on my wishlist. Was going to ask whether the regular or directors cut was the one to get on streaming and realized I should just buy the box set and get it over with.
The director's cut doesn't really add anything useful to the film, but it's fun seeing the scenes. As I've long maintained, it's pretty much perfect as-is.
The Alien Anthology Blu-Ray Boxset(the original release)is awesome, the new one they have out now I think cut some of the extras out but still isn't a bad deal.
That does seem to be an exceptional example of not seeing the forest for the trees.
Got my second PS4 on Monday. No code. Waited past the window, called Amazon this morning, they can't help me. Referred me to PS Customer Support. PS Customer Support runs on Pacific time.
Spoiler:
The promo is still live. If you go to Amazon.com and look at the PS4 page, they're still advertising this bundle. I just, I just, don't know. This has completely soured me on buying digital stuff outside of PSN, which might be Sony's intent for all I know. I guess I'll wait for lunch for Sony to get to work.
If you value my time at my professional rate, more time than the digital code is actually worth. The game isn't even a system seller, I'm just really annoyed that I'm not getting what was advertised. It's literally irrational at this point.
So, Sony wants the original retail receipt, and I have to go take a picture of the side of the box and e-mail it to them. And then they have 5 days to respond.
Yeah, I'm losing my steam with this. Might send them both back and just buy a bundle at a real store. Since the PS4 won't play media files (ffs) I still have to have a PS3 in my setup anyway, so the PS4 isn't actually doing anything for me at this point.
It depends what you want to use it for. As a game platform, the PS4 is a true next gen system, while the XBone is sorta like gen 7.5. But the XBone is a much better overall media platform, which makes sense since that's how they designed it. I'd only ever use it as a gaming system, so the media capabilities are useless to me.
It depends what you want to use it for. As a game platform, the PS4 is a true next gen system, while the XBone is sorta like gen 7.5. But the XBone is a much better overall media platform, which makes sense since that's how they designed it. I'd only ever use it as a gaming system, so the media capabilities are useless to me.
The lack of media support, the jumbled (but useable) cluster of menus, and the bitter taste from the buying experience have dulled my enthusiasm for the platform.
On the PS3 I can stream the 24Hr of Le Mans on a home media server right to my big screen TV. My PS4? Not so much, but it wants me to buy the NBA app and won't let me hide it. Boo.
I'm pretty happy with Xbox One's codec and container support as a media player. The only codec it can't handle is DTS audio, which is a pretty common shortfall among media players.
I have more friends on XBone as well. Having lived with the PS4 for a month I'm starting to feel like it might be the lesser platform.
I have both, and I'll easily say that right now the only thing I hate about the PS4 is the messaging system.
The XBONE has a dreadful interface that is slow and clunky as all get out. I use plex to stream my media so I never had that issue to begin with, the only thing that sucks is that my real friends have xbox and the people I play BF4 with have PS4.
Well, having never had an Xbox I'm not hooked on their exclusives in the way that I can be with PS. MLB The Show is a great game and I haven't played a baseball game since NES, and Gran Turismo, despite it's dev cycle and shortcomings, are a near automatic buy from me. We'll see.
Well, having never had an Xbox I'm not hooked on their exclusives in the way that I can be with PS. MLB The Show is a great game and I haven't played a baseball game since NES, and Gran Turismo, despite it's dev cycle and shortcomings, are a near automatic buy from me. We'll see.
I went from PS to Xbox to owning both. If I had a hardline choice based on games - PS4 all day. If I had a hardline choice of which one I would use more because of (friends/Family/Netflix) then it's the X1.
It's just weird, but I think from a gaming system standpoint - the PS4 is much better.
