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Ohhhh... Because I started playing back in 2011 my account was moved to Apex when Chicane shard came.
 
Just started Playing Dragonball Xenoverse and i must say, this game is better than i imagined, after so many failed DBZ games after BT3, this one returns back to its root and its actually fun to play, the MMO/RPG aspects are also welcomed.
 
I just finished Dying Light.

Its a good game, I found Dead Island boring but the parkour system really helped make it interesting. Combat is OK once you get used to it.

Extremely anti-climactic ending though. Big chase, lots of fighting and climbing to end it all with an instant-fail QTE with very strict timings, sometimes even throwing them at you after a minute or so of cutscene. They could have incentivized going out at night more as well, there was little reason to play at night.
 


Actually the combat is very similar to Dead Island save for a few added kick moves.

I also felt the ending was even worse than you described. There's really not "lots of fighting". It's mostly just a quick parkour escape. The only bit where you might have to stop and fight comes inside one of the final buildings you use to transition to the crane, and one could conceivably even tackle through them and just keep running, because they're mostly regular zombies. You really only bring chaos upon yourself via infected swarms if you go loud.

As for the QTE ending, I felt most of the prompts were easy to see coming. The only reason I failed it a couple of times was I was so upset with it being a mere interactive cutscene that I wasn't too focused. I just couldn't believe they chose that way to finish the game.

This is what I feel they should have done:

Remove the Devastator from The Pit quest, and instead have either a few waves of Goons and Infected, or a few waves of Rais' men. Maybe a mix of both.

Remove the battle with Tahir from The Museum quest, and have him stay with Rais as his bodyguard. Instead we'd have a fight against Tahir's men with Jade, then a boss fight against infected Jade after the dream sequence.

The part where you get on the elevator in Extraction and see a Devastator would be changed to the Devastator picking up some rubble and doing a throw attack breaking the elevator causing it to fall after going up one floor and breaking it open. This would result in a boss fight with him and a climb up the elevator shaft after.

The end would involve a fight with Tahir on the roof at night, whilst Rais is trying to get a generator started for some UV lights. Rais gets bit by a Volatile before managing to knock it off the roof. He injects himself with anticin, not knowing it's been tainted with a virus accelerant. This makes Rais turn into a super Volatile that is not only highly infected, but smart, because the anticin keeps his thought process intact.

The resulting final battle would involve clever use of your resources as the generator powering the UV safe zone would intermittently fail. There would be environmental devices to aid in the battle, like power lines in puddles connected to other generators, concrete tubes you could roll after luring Rais to the target spot, and even cargo hoist you could lure him under.

Each attack type could only be used once, as Rais would be smart enough to adapt.

This ending could even be adapted to a DLC mission you would play as Jade. You would go to the doctor Crane gave the tissue samples to prior to being captured, and he would create the virus accelerant to taint Rais's anticin with. It is said to be a last resort in case all other methods against Rais fail. It would be kept secret from Crane because having worked with GRE, he would not be trusted with the info.
 
Just got that latest Humble Bundle and started playing Sleeping Dogs. Only about an hour in but it's pretty good so far. Has there ever been a game that tries to over do the DLC so much though?

Also how is Thief? I already had Deus Ex and Tomb Raider but haven't played the rest of the games in this bundle.
 
@Razer,
Isolation is very good, but scarier if you don't overuse the distraction tools. It also runs very well and looks very good, whereas many games these days don't.

@anort,
Thief is very meh. Lots of petty looting and not much substance. It also has performance issues.

 
I thought so from the less than stellar MetaCritic score.
 


If you can find it and figure out how to run it, 1996 Sierra Games put out
Phantasmagoria....this will scare you so bad, You wont want to play it alone, and you wont have your back to the door.
Terrifying!!

 
1996........

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I guess in 1996 I was playing Mechwarrior II since it came as a showcase game for the 2MB ATI Rage II + that came with my first PC. But seriously games from the 90s don't hold up well with very few exceptions and those are generally due to nostalgia.

And that's the second time on this page you recommended? the same game.
 
#anort3
You asked about a horror pc game, and that one is more entertaining than a lot of what's available today, there is actually a storyline to follow. And my second time recommending it, we'll it was an awesome game. It was a little gaming and a little movie combined nicely.
 
Actually it was RazerZ who asked.

RazerZ have you played FEAR? It holds up pretty well despite being from 2005. I just played the whole series through again last year. The first game and it's expansions and FEAR 2 are all good but give FEAR 3 a miss unless it's less than $5. It's just disappointingly short and completely loses the scary feel of the first 2 games.
 
The great thing about old games is Steam sales. 😉

I haven't paid full retail since Skyrim or maybe Mass Effect 3. I paid for too many games I didn't like or I did like but lasted 7 or 8 hours. So now I buy games when Steam has sales or when there are good Humble Bundles. I could probably play just what I own now but haven't even installed much less played yet for the next 2 or 3 years.
 
I've played through Far Cry 4 and Dying Light a few times each (both pretty good), while Unity and The Evil Within remain unfinished.

It's funny, I was just chatting on a thread where someone asked whether he should get Spec Ops The Line or Far Cry 4, and it made me want to reinstall Spec Ops The Line and Kane & Lynch 2 again. Both are games with very visceral combat, esp on the hardest modes.

Sometimes the older titles are just better.
 
I loved Spec Ops The Line. Soundtrack was amazing. And the first Far Cry was the best Far Cry. No Trigens in any of the others! That's one I dust off every few years.
 
The more I play Sleeping Dogs the more disappointed I am that it's just a GTA clone. I never liked any of those games.
 
Well I just played a bit of Alien Isolation to see how the game was before I play it with some friends... just the lights flickering and leaving me in the dark was enough to get to me. I felt like something was going to jump me every corner. Got to the part where I had to contact the torrens. As soon as I saw someone running across my screen I exited the game. I'll leave that for later 😉

It runs maxed out on my 7950 which is great.
 
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