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I've finished Arkham Knight. I must say this game was overlooked, at least by PC gamers. Can't blame them because of the terrible initial port. I know I did, and it's a shame I laid off from it for a year. The game was really fun and I did not find the Batmobile to be a chore at all. There was a good balance between the combat in the batmobile and on foot. Side quest although repetitive in structure, had many variants to them making them not feel too bland.

The riddler challenges are my only main gripe. 243 puzzles? Yeah, I ain't doing those...
There are two endings to this game. One, if you complete half of the most wanted missions (namely the side quests) and two, if you finish the game 100% (including all of the riddler challenges). I did all of the side quests except the riddler so I only got the first ending. I saw the other one on youtube.

Overall, it was a really fun game and if you played the other Arkham games, this is definitely a must play. I'd say it's as good as the others.
 
Arkham Knight wasn't a bad game at all. It was just the weakest in the series. And after the patches the performance is good enough for what is being rendered in the scene and it's a very pretty looking game both from art and technical perspective. The problem with batmobile was the chase camera. During the most important moment the camera switches to a different chase mode and you have to handle the batmobile in a completely different way. I completed it 100% so got the other ending :)
 
Oh wow. I couldn't bring myself to do them all. I may have done about 16 or so. That's it. I've got other backlogs so I need to get back to them.
The only time I did all the riddler puzzles were in Arkham Asylum. I 100% that game.
 
I agree the Riddler trophies were way too much and kind of boring too and one of them was bugged too :) But then again I'm a completionist. I see everything the game has to offer. The first game did it right. You could find a hidden map that would tell the locations of all the riddler trophies in that area. The later games used a Riddler thug that spawns randomly for unlocking the locations of a "few" trophies. That's was really bad. And what's worse is that you can't solve some of the Riddler trophies without some gadget upgrades. So Riddler becomes an end game affair and the true antagonist for Batman :lol:
 
Hahaha. True. You should check out comments on youtube for the second ending. They're all curses about the riddler. :lol: The map idea was nice. Riddler thugs, not so much. The gadget upgrade limitation applies to some of those 'Take the roads' side quest too. There are sentry guns (large ones) inside some of those blockades and you have to upgrade the disruptor to take them out.
 
Seems like that game came with my 980 Ti and another Batman game came with my 780. When the last one was crap they gave all the Batman games and all the DLC to people as an apology for how bad it was. Too bad I'm not a Batman fan. And the repetitive 'pow' 'bang' 'boom' combat was just something I couldn't get into. Maybe I'll try again one day.
 


Well that melee combat isn't great. It's designed for controllers anyway. Just play it on easy mode so the melee combat sections can be finished fast. But there are a lot of other stuff in the game that's good. Like the various stealth takedowns, crime scene investigation, platforming & puzzles, etc

 
If I was a comic book fan I could look past the combat since that's part of the whole experience. But I'm not. I've always loved to read but never comic books.
 
Went back to slogging through my Nightmare run of The Evil Within with no upgrades. Just made it through Chapter 11. I was down to only 9 scrap parts at one point, but now up to 20, with crossbow full on all but explosive bolts.

I took time off from it while checking out Doom, Quantum Break W7 version, and starting a 2nd run of The Witcher 3 via NG+ on Blood and Broken Bones. Quantum Break is a bit better than I'd anticipated gameplay wise, but performance wise rather disappointing.

Doom is also better than I'd expected gameplay wise, and even better performance and graphics wise when using Vulkan. Only slight problem is a now and then freeze screen crash. Currently I have 4 levels left on my 2nd play through on Nightmare via Mission Select.

Looking forward to Gears of War 4 when I install W10, as well as BF1, TFall2, Inf Warfare, Dishonored 2, WD2, and Wildlands. First I need to get a WD Black 6TB HDD, because I'm running out of space. Already got a deal on one, just waiting for Newegg to get stock.

If anyone thinks TEW isn't scary enough, try Nightmare with no upgrades. It can make you get sloppy with your decisions. It may not full on panic you, but pretty close. I lost count how many times I've died so far this play through, but clearly just surviving is the goal, and doing it with as many resources as possible can take many tries/deaths.
 
Re-started XCOM2 with long war mods.
And then shortly after that, again.

So much fun to have viewers make their own soldiers to have them brutally mowed down in the first mission before they even have a chance to fire a shot.
 
I'm currently playing the Gears of War 4 campaign in co-op with a friend. We only have one act left to play and I'm really liking it so far. It looks great, it runs great on PC, and it is a very good Gears game if you are a fan of the series. Horde mode is awesome too.
 

Well, my "Mothership" has arrived (WD Black 6TB HDD), so I'll probably be installing W10 soon, and getting Gears of War 4, and some other new games.

Really wish MS would hurry up on their promise of bringing all Xbox games to PC though, like Red Dead Redemption, Gears 2&3, and some others.

Might I ask what spec you're playing Gears 4 on? I'd especially like to know how well it plays on Dx12 on a 280x level GPU (have 7970 myself).

Only thing I've found so far is this guy running at mostly Med settings, with all Textures and AA at High @ 1080p. Looks fairly good, but I'm wondering why he has something typically as low resource use as AF on just 4x. Does it go to 16x?

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I don't remember ever hearing them say they were bringing all Xbox games to PC. What they are doing is bringing all of the Microsoft published games to PC starting with Recore, Forza Horizon 3, and Gears of War 4. I don't think they have any plans to go back and bring their older games like Halo 4 and 5 to PC but Halo Wars and Halo 6 should be on PC when they launch.

They don't have any control over third party games like Red Dead Redemption. If they aren't the publisher they can't force them to make a PC port.

As to your question about my specs, I have an i5-4690k @ 4.0GHz, 16GB of RAM, and an overclocked 1070 playing on a 2560x1440 monitor.

Our GPUs aren't really in the same performance class so I'm not sure how relevant my results are to you but I played with the ultra preset at 1440p. The built in benchmark said I averaged 83 FPS but when I actually played the game I enabled VSYNC.

The framerate was a very solid 60 FPS during the entire campaign. I played the whole campaign in co-op with a friend who was playing on a GTX 960 4GB, 8GB of RAM, and i5-2500k at 1080p with the high settings preset. He said the game ran at a smooth 60 FPS for him too.

The game ran really well for both of us on pretty different hardware. It also think it looks really good.
 
My favorite recent game would have to be overwatch, its a nice colorful shooter a nice change from all the brown/grey of your COD/Battlefield games. Especially enjoy all the memorable characters and diverse personalities. Overall its a fun lil class-based shooter that can absorb a large amount of your time.
 
Just started Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. Pretty good so far. Game play is identical to Wolfenstein: The New Order. The Old Blood is a standalone add on to The New Order.
 

Similar, but not quite identical. IMO NO was far better, longer, and more challenging. It's pretty easy to slip past AI in OB. I also liked how in NO you had to choose armor or health style, and then you'd only have access to either lock picking, or wire hacking circuits. In OB all you have to do is scavenge armor and health items and you get both, which is easier and less replay value. In NO there were also secret areas that required cutting panels with the LaserKraftWerk. OB feels like an expansion instead of a sequel, with some shortcuts. It's worth playing, but also in some ways disappointing compared to the first.

 
I think I played New Order about a year ago right after I got the 980 Ti so I forgot some of it but you're right this one is more of a stand alone expansion. Only about an hour and a half in so far.
 
About half way through Minerva's Den on Bioshock 2 Remastered. Loved BS1 and Infinite, never actually finished 2 so I decided with the release of Remastered it was time for a full trilogy run. Honestly I don't know why some people are so down on Bioshock 2. I found it's ending far more moving than the first game's and the added Little Sister defense broke up the usual run and gun nicely.
 
don't get what this is in regards to. the problems Mafia 3 is having did not surface for anyone I know with a decent system that played Fallout 4. did the rest of us miss something with the game?
Fallout 4 played awesome for me and looks great @ 1440p with good frame rates and no problems with effects or textures. plus not one quest or save breaking problem through 1 main game playthrough and a 2nd playthrough with all DLC and multiple MODs.

 
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