^If you've not checked it out yet, Just Cause 3 was one of the games I had the most fun with last year.
My buddy is playing it as well, apparently it opens really well and gets long in the tooth (repetivite) later on.
I still kinda wanna go back to Far Cry 4, but I can't see it happening given my backlog (and remaining bit of aimless-open-world-fatigue).
There are very few open world games I really enjoy. They get repetitive and my focus drifts. I either just end up doing random shit until I'm bored or get stuck searching for the quests and quit. FarCry 4 I finished. I'm 5 or 6 hours in to Primal now and still quite enjoying it. Though I can see it getting old pretty quickly.
Maybe the key here is to really try and laaaaser focus on the main story, although to me that always feels hard/counter-intuitive in these kinds of games. A "just get it over with" approach to having fun with a game does sound a bit like an oxymoron
Maybe the key here is to really try and laaaaser focus on the main story, although to me that always feels hard/counter-intuitive in these kinds of games. A "just get it over with" approach to having fun with a game does sound a bit like an oxymoron
Yep, plus focusing straight on the main storyline tends to leave you without the character upgrades you need to finish it Right now the next mission is listing itself as hard, it's only the second or third real story mission, I've hunted, collected more tribe members, tamed animals, and yet it seems like a big ask mission still. I guess that's why I liked Fallout 3, it was open but there was never difficulty finding things to do, wander the map and something would pop up, you didn't need to do stunts or things that are only fun for a short time to keep it going. So far this is pretty similar in those terms. Wander and find a totem or a shrine, a cave or another side mission, and it feels like progress if really you're just killing time and/or grinding your XP.
Yeah, that busywork kind of feeling is a dealbreaker now.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's big story missions were gated similarly through gratuitious open-world activities, and it completely broke my will to complete my fast-tracked second playthrough. Up to the first big gated mission, I was overjoyed how much better the pacing felt, right up to the point where I hit that wall.
My second playthrough of Inquisition seems to have hit a wall too. So far, this is the only Bioware game I own that has been finished only once
Pokémon Shuffle -- working on grinding for coins right now. Hoping to play some Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth later on along with some Pokémon X.
DOOM. It took a while tp get it going swiftly on my humble three-year-old PC, but now I'm enjoying it. So far, it resembles a decent fusion of previous entries in the series and is a very satisfying game in its own right. Looking forward to the mod explosion!
Pokémon Shuffle. Been working to get more coins.
Since my younger nephew is out in the Panhandle with his dad for a few weeks, I can play some Halo in peace & quiet! He's always buggin' me whenever I put a disc in...
This mornin', its Halo Reach on my xbox 360! Unlocked two achievements (first ones in almost two years, y'all!) - "I Need a Weapon" (completed the 4th mission on Normal or harder) and "Your Heresy Will Stay Your Feet" (killed the Elite Zealon before he escaped during the 5th mission)!
This mornin', its Halo Reach on my xbox 360! Unlocked two achievements (first ones in almost two years, y'all!) - "I Need a Weapon" (completed the 4th mission on Normal or harder) and "Your Heresy Will Stay Your Feet" (killed the Elite Zealon before he escaped during the 5th mission)!
I'm expecting Dungeons 2 to be delivered today. I don't know too much about it but it looks like Dungeon Keeper.
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