The video game thread.

Jason P

Based on RBI baseball, it's a shame that Dale Murphy and Tim Raines aren't in the HOF.

Jason P

I downloaded the demo which lets you play three innings .... which goes by pretty fast. CPU kicked the crap out of me.

It wasn't bad but I don't think this is worth $20. I'm sticking with the original.

WhatYouTaughtMe

Jason P said:

I downloaded the demo which lets you play three innings .... which goes by pretty fast. CPU kicked the crap out of me.

It wasn't bad but I don't think this is worth $20. I'm sticking with the original.

I couldn't resist and bought it. I have played the first 3 games as yanks vs astros. Have scored one run total and got mercy ruled in the first game. Nowhere near as easy as the original.

Jason P

MLB 14 for PS4 looks incredible.

mca47

Jason P said:

MLB 14 for PS4 looks incredible.

Just saw a trailer. Wow!
Can't wait to get my hands on that!

nippleholic

This is the game I'm looking forward to the most:

Watch_Dogs: Welcome To Chicago: http://youtu.be/r9yNUOA8RAk

MayDay10

Played a couple inning of The Show on PS4 during lunch.

It is amazing. Quick Count mode is awesome

F Me In The Brain

I just fired up the playstation 3 after YEARS away from gaming. Used to smoke and play every day but that was 10 years ago at least. Wife is prego and in the last month so that means I am not meant to get sloppy drunk on Friday/Saturday night watching PJ videos or whatever else amuses me. [Could need to drive her to the hospital]
Decided it would be a good time to get a PS3 on the cheap and I can play my brother in VT online at night while we are both just kicking around.
Ordered on the bay, along with Fight Night, Madden 25, MLB The Show 14, Woods 14, and NHL 14.
Holy fuckballs did the games get tougher or what?! They dont print any instructions so I have to write down all of the commands but playing 2014 NHL and 2014 MLB The Show is pretty frigging difficult.

I love it, going to cause me to burn many hours that I shouldn't burn -- and enjoy them -- but wow, the last 10 years are night and day in the control depth on these systems. My brother (who has smoked/played consistently during my 10 year hiatus lol) is going to destroy me online!

Kat

A month or so ago Steam had a great sale; time flies it might have even been xmas but anyway, I picked up a Bioshock bundle. It had Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite and all for just $20. I recently started Bioshock and loved it so I did Bioshock 2 and didn't like it at first but then I did. They didn't seem dated at all but the mechanics were a bit different in B2 and I wasn't as fast as I'd have liked so I died a lot. ...great stories though. Any tips for Bioshock Infinite? Anyone play it?

MayDay10

I believe most games come with electronic instructions now... you can also probably find them online/print.

A lot of controls, especially with sports games are unnecessary to succeeding IMO

Rygar

Kat said:

A month or so ago Steam had a great sale; time flies it might have even been xmas but anyway, I picked up a Bioshock bundle. It had Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite and all for just $20. I recently started Bioshock and loved it so I did Bioshock 2 and didn't like it at first but then I did. They didn't seem dated at all but the mechanics were a bit different in B2 and I wasn't as fast as I'd have liked so I died a lot. ...great stories though. Any tips for Bioshock Infinite? Anyone play it?

Bioshock Infinite is the easiest of the 3, and a looot more fun than 2 (I liked 1 and Infinite and hated 2).
You won't need tips, just get going and it will all come together. Great game!

Kat

Funny how we all posted at the same time. Sorry I'm in between your answer MayDay.

mca47

MayDay10 said:

Played a couple inning of The Show on PS4 during lunch.

It is amazing. Quick Count mode is awesome

Yeah, I'm gonna pick it up this weekend.
Can't wait

JonnyPistachio

Kat said:

A month or so ago Steam had a great sale; time flies it might have even been xmas but anyway, I picked up a Bioshock bundle. It had Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite and all for just $20. I recently started Bioshock and loved it so I did Bioshock 2 and didn't like it at first but then I did. They didn't seem dated at all but the mechanics were a bit different in B2 and I wasn't as fast as I'd have liked so I died a lot. ...great stories though. Any tips for Bioshock Infinite? Anyone play it?

I've only played bioshock infinite-- I dont usually like first person shooters-- in fact, I avoid them like the plague. So, I might not be the best to listen to. I loved the game for a few days.. I was blown away by it actually. Then I was suddenly bored to tears at the repetitive nature. I gave up on it about half way through.

What's weird is I love the repetitive nature of games like Assassins Creed Black flag-- Love this game, so i'm all over the place haha

F Me In The Brain

MayDay10 said:

I believe most games come with electronic instructions now... you can also probably find them online/print.

A lot of controls, especially with sports games are unnecessary to succeeding IMO

Yeah I probably should have printed from a site only...I did find them in the game and transcribed the ones I thought were most important to being "capable" at the game.

NHL 2014 is going to suck away hours and hours of my life. I lost to your Sabres with my Kings the first game I played and I immediately hit rematch and lost; albeit a much closer outcome the 2nd time losing 3-2 in OT. I will keep at this until I get the hang of it again.

This thread made me think of the awesome Leroy Jenkins, Chicken Eater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LkCNJRfSZBU#t=168

joberschlake

I'm pretty stoked for Watchdogs also.

MayDay10

The Show is really good for PS4. I like the gameplay for the most part. It seems like baserunning has become tougher to control. I have been playing all the spring training games just to get acclimated.

I played through Outlast. Its an OK game. If you play it at night with headphones and the lights out it gets real tweaky which is what it is supposed to do. Extremely gruesome horror "movie". However, on Normal difficulty, you learn before long that you can frantically run around and get away from most enemies. It was also kind of a bummer that there are just 3-4 types of enemies that kept repeating... unless they were supposed to be the same guys? I came barely short of a few "collectables" achievements and I dont think Ill go back to get them.
I got the add on, and I will play it.

Jason P

Xbox180 is dropping $100 and the Kinect after taking a whooping from PS4. There still are not a lot of games to justify either system although I'm thinking about getting The Show although I don't know if I will have the time to invest learning the controls.

Rygar

Jason P said:

Xbox180 is dropping $100 and the Kinect after taking a whooping from PS4. There still are not a lot of games to justify either system although I'm thinking about getting The Show although I don't know if I will have the time to invest learning the controls.

This is good news, where did you hear that?
I will still probably pick up and XB1 at some point down the road. No interest in a ps4 tho.

Edit: oh 100 for an XB1 without a kinect, got it.

Jason P

Rygar said:

Jason P said:

Xbox180 is dropping $100 and the Kinect after taking a whooping from PS4. There still are not a lot of games to justify either system although I'm thinking about getting The Show although I don't know if I will have the time to invest learning the controls.

This is good news, where did you hear that?
I will still probably pick up and XB1 at some point down the road. No interest in a ps4 tho.

Edit: oh 100 for an XB1 without a kinect, got it.

I've been happy with the PS4 so far, but overall in general I haven't played nearly as much video games in the last year or so.

Xbox180 still needs to solve the hard drive issue. A non-upgradable 500GB hard drive is unaccceptable. I don't know what the hell Microsoft was thinking, especially since they were going to require you to download the entire game to your HD originally.

I was going to download The Show on PS4 until I saw it was nearly 40GB.