What games are you playing currently?

[Gingerbread Demon]

And thanks to your post I just dived back into SR4 and am trying to finish my fully mastered playthrough. Fully upgraded character thanks money hack haha. But I just did the mission where you have to rescue Benjamin King.

Despite that I nearly died through my own misadventure.

I actually find SR2 my favourite.

 

[BigFoot]

I bought Gravity Rush 2 from the PSN store earlier today, so I've been playing that.

 

[JD]

I have a quick question about AC: Syndicate, do the activities like the Bounty and Templar Hunts, and Enemy Strongholds only appear when you're anonymous? I was playing earlier today, and they kept appearing and disappearing. It was driving me crazy.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Speaking of Saints Row, I installed SR2 that I got for free on GOG awhile back and had heard so much praise for it, but I'm totally meh on the game. Cutscenes are nice, but finding the gameplay below average. I loved the 3rd game though, so I'm thinking it's more on how it's aged and how the PC port behaves.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Speaking of Saints Row, I installed SR2 that I got for free on GOG awhile back and had heard so much praise for it, but I'm totally meh on the game. Cutscenes are nice, but finding the gameplay below average. I loved the 3rd game though, so I'm thinking it's more on how it's aged and how the PC port behaves.

SR2 is a bad PC port. It's ported off a console port so it's not the most optimized game for PC and it's quite old now too. I think some issues with the porting over to PC led to the sometimes lacklustre gameplay.

I had fun with this the first time around and I just loved the art style and the world you move around in. It wasn't a small map at all and had lots of exploration opportunities.

I have played it through twice so far but the game I have had the most fun with is Saints Row 4.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, it just had me thinking that perhaps it's one of those games that are much better the first time around. But I also realized that the game just has ton of minigames that you need to play just to move the story along and it didn't seem all that worth it in the end. I thought SR3 was a hoot!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yeah, it just had me thinking that perhaps it's one of those games that are much better the first time around. But I also realized that the game just has ton of minigames that you need to play just to move the story along and it didn't seem all that worth it in the end. I thought SR3 was a hoot!

SR3 was a hoot but for some reason I had more fun with SR4 but both games have good replay value.

 

[Reverend]

The only trouble with Saints Row 4 for me is that I kind of get distracted from following the missions and just cause mayhem instead

That's not a problem, it's a feature.

Yeah, it just had me thinking that perhaps it's one of those games that are much better the first time around. But I also realized that the game just has ton of minigames that you need to play just to move the story along and it didn't seem all that worth it in the end. I thought SR3 was a hoot!

It's partly that, but I think it's also partly that at the time the game came out, it was a breath of fresh air compared to GTA IV which had gone all serious and...well, boring if I'm honest. It was irreverent and fun and colourful and set the tone for the subsequent games, each of which was one-upped by the next.

I'm not an Xbox player so I never got to play the first one, but from what I gather it's a fairly middling GTA clone. SR2 is when it discovered it's personality.

If you haven't already I'd suggest installing the 'Gentlemen of The Row' mod. Aside from fixing alot of the problems with the PC port, it adds a bunch of fun content.

 

[John Clark]

I'd have to agree with that assessment of the GTA series. I got the earlier ones, the top down ones, 3d, and then stopped after San Andreas. I think of all of those, the most I've played is the very first one.

 

[Owain Taggart]

It's partly that, but I think it's also partly that at the time the game came out,

Yeah, time definitely hasn't been kind to it. To be fair, I had the same issue trying to play Vice City years ago. The controls are aweful trying to get them to work with modern systems. Had me fighting with the controls more than playing the game.

I might install that mod, but on the other hand, I'm not really sure about it at this point. My first impressions weren't too favourable and I'm not sure if I would want to play it if it's mostly playing minigames in order to advance the story. That doesn't really appeal to me if I know I'll be playing through something that is just average. I don't really like the whole "gain x amount of respect to proceed". Just seems kind of artificial.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The Gentlemen Of The Row mod is amazing. It really does fix a lot of stuff in the game and also fixes the terrible driving of the cars.

I don't get the hype that GTA IV and 5 get... I've played both and both seem serious and boring.

 

[retroenzo]

Yeah, time definitely hasn't been kind to it. To be fair, I had the same issue trying to play Vice City years ago. The controls are aweful trying to get them to work with modern systems. Had me fighting with the controls more than playing the game.

I might install that mod, but on the other hand, I'm not really sure about it at this point. My first impressions weren't too favourable and I'm not sure if I would want to play it if it's mostly playing minigames in order to advance the story. That doesn't really appeal to me if I know I'll be playing through something that is just average. I don't really like the whole "gain x amount of respect to proceed". Just seems kind of artificial.

GTA III suffers from that too. I think when they did San Andreas, they reworked the control systems completely and made it more like a traditional third-person shooter, but I struggled recently when I went back and try to play GTA III on the original hardware.

I don't get the hype that GTA IV and 5 get... I've played both and both seem serious and boring.

When GTA IV came out, I bought it and played it, although I don't think I ever played it to completion, however The Ballad of Gay Tony is definitely worth checking out, especially if you liked GTA IV. That's a lot more fun.

However, whereas I can't remember if I ever completed GTA IV, I know I definitely completed GTA V. Twice. Once on Xbox 360 and once on Xbox One. And I can see me going back and playing through it again sometime.

As for them feeling like the previous GTA games, they're definitely different. I think of the Saints Row games as more in keeping with the GTA games of PS2/Xbox era.

Well, apart from Saints Row IV/Gat Out of Hell that is. I know they've seemed popular but I'd rather play the earlier instalments.

(By the way, has the studio behind Saints Row closed down? Surprised we've heard no news about a Saints Row V)

 

[JD]

They're working on a new IP, Agents of Mayhem, which actually will include a post Saint's Row Gat as a playable character.

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[Owain Taggart]

The Gentlemen Of The Row mod is amazing. It really does fix a lot of stuff in the game and also fixes the terrible driving of the cars.

Oh, that's good to know. That was one of my main issues, which just made it not fun. What other fixes have they made? If the cars handle better with that mod, then I'll have to reconsider it.

GTA III suffers from that too. I think when they did San Andreas, they reworked the control systems completely and made it more like a traditional third-person shooter, but I struggled recently when I went back and try to play GTA III on the original hardware.

Oh yeah, definitely. I actually played San Andreas first and went back to try and play Vice City and III and I just couldn't do it. San Andreas made a lot of improvements that we really take for granted these days, and the earlier ones feel really archaic in comparison. And the thing is with SR2 is that it looks more in league with Vice City than something like San Andreas, with how the game looks by default on PC. But I feel the one thing the Saints Row series does really well are cutscenes. The SR2 cutscenes look really good, on the same level as SR3 even.

 

[retroenzo]

Another thing I noticed is car control, while GTA IV and V focuses a bit more on realism for car control (well - as realistic as GTA can get). ie, larger vehicles have understeer, longer braking distances, etc. However, Saints Row car control feels more like the 3D GTA incarnations where even buses and trucks could handle like racing cars.

I learned this after many, MANY times of smashing through the windscreen when I couldn't slow the cars down in time in GTA IV.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh, that's good to know. That was one of my main issues, which just made it not fun. What other fixes have they made? If the cars handle better with that mod, then I'll have to reconsider it.

I don't have a full list of game fixes but I know the driving was one of their main priorities in making that mod. The game just feels overall a lot smoother with the mod installed.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I learned this after many, MANY times of smashing through the windscreen when I couldn't slow the cars down in time in GTA IV.

There's an achievement in Saints Row 3 for that.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't have a full list of game fixes but I know the driving was one of their main priorities in making that mod. The game just feels overall a lot smoother with the mod installed.

Thanks. You've convinced me to give it another try.

As for GTAIV, I may be the odd man out, but I actually really liked the handling in that game to the point that I felt 5's handling was a bit too much in the other direction. Some cars feel weighty, but some of the lighter cars feel way too light and lack traction.

 

[USS Firefly]

I am playing Dragon Age origins with the expansion packs

 

[Reverend]

I am playing Dragon Age origins with the expansion packs

I'll have to get back to that one day as I never did do a full playthough as the Dwarven Commoner. Also never got around to romancing Morrigan as I typically play female characters (not sure why, mostly habit at this point.) Perhaps it'll be a case of two birds with one stone
On the other hand I've never been able to make a male dwarf character that I liked the look of. Hmm.