Srg

7 minutes ago, Anon said:

2K have lost the project lead from the previous Mafia games, since he left to form Warhorse Studios. I'll definitely give Mafia 3 a look though. I can't really tell from the screenshot, is the protagonist a Vietnam veteran? I always find I prefer games set in the past.

Yeah...

"The game takes place in the year of 1968, and revolves around Lincoln Clay, a biracial orphan and Vietnam veteran. As an orphan, he was constantly looking for a family, until he joined the armed forces and fought in the Vietnam War. After the war he returned to New Orleans, and joins "The Black Mob". After surviving a murder attempt by the Italian mob, Clay attempts to start his own criminal organization and get revenge.[7] Clay is aided by three allies, which include Cassandra, Burke, and Vito Scaletta.[5]"

Count me sold (18+ video guys)

Looks amazing.

2 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

Never played any Mafia games, have a friend who's a fan though

played the second on PS3, never finished it as it wasn't my console, but I was very very impressed. Think with a few tweaks it could be great. Really good at immersing you in the world. It sits in that GTA/Saints Row world but occupies a more serious and story driven space for me, that said, not totally sure what the main selling points of the new one are. Definitely will be getting it though.

all over this when it's out. fantastic, underrated game series.

Just now, Wolfie said:

Zombieland (2009)

Not sure how this one escaped me until last Saturday but I enjoyed it. A good cast (Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg) and entertaining zombie road trip storyline with a very good cameo apppearance from Bill Murray thrown in.

9/10

pretty sure a number 2 has recently been announced

1 minute ago, Walsall_Ram said:

These are the things I'm on about.. How do they work? 

You mod them onto pieces of gear (like mask, back pack etc) just like you would your weapons... but not all pieces of gear can actually be modded. Took me to like level 20 before I found one with a mod slot available.

Stick to the lower level npc areas, chances are, you'll be in a session with players similar level to you or no one at all. In the times I've been in the DZ (I'm probably DZ level 12 or something), I've only seen one person I wasn't matchmade into a party with, and I don't think the guy even saw me.

It isn't really a mission. You don't do anything when u get there 

1 minute ago, Animal is a Ram said:

Yeah, been in a fair bit. Couple of times I've walked through the door and straight into the massive Cleaner types 

Usually fine if you go in the right sections, because obviously they're all levelled differently.

Not sure who's on Xbox, but I jumped into @Walsall_Ram game uninvited the other day... think he was level 5 or something.

5 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:

I'm level 15, its feeling like a bit of a chore because - as you pointed out - the next set of missions are recommended 24. Doesn't seem much story progression either... Just wandering around, picking up phones, shooting bad guys...

I think it kinda starts expecting you to go hit the Dark Zone a bit

23 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

One my friends said 20-30 was way easier than 10-20

 

Maybe, but that's probably because you know what you're doing a bit more. I found getting to like level 8 or whatever so easy, you were there before you knew anything.

I'm hoping, now I'm 21, it should be easier to progress more because there's a number of missions that I could now hold my own in with suggested levels.

I fell through the map a couple of times on the same play session just outside the Base of Operations.

What level is everyone? I'm 21. I found it quite difficult to really jump from 18-21 because there seems to be a mission gap where there's no real "new" mission to play that's suitable to your level.

division update today, 3.9gb

Managed to win 10 in a row ranked to get the achievement playing solo queues. 

Tend to find play defensively until you figure them out, otherwise you could end up with conceded a few open goals. 

Just now, RicME85 said:

Don't like that. Too slow for my liking, its like when you have one of those dreams where something horrible is happening but you cant get words out quick enough, everything just happens in slow motion.

For a more chilled out Nirvana session I would prefer to listen to the MTV Unplugged set.

Talking of MTV Unplugged, I highly recommend the Korn set.

Not my type of music at all, but when you see it set to the trailer, it really works.

Finally found the song from the Quantum Break advert... not fussed about the game, but the cover of Come as You Are is as brilliant as it is haunting...

Keep meaning to find time to buy and play Party Hard. Can get it on steam, and it's meant to be really good.

Think even my crappy PC could play it.

5 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

I play a lot of indie games, but not much of the above. Undertale I bought, but it really wasn't for me. Firewatch I've watched a few youtubers play. Papers, Please I played quite a bit of. Everything else on this list I haven't played. The problem with indie games is how many of them there are 

 

On another note, @Srg did you see that Digital Homicide (developer) is suing Jim Sterling? Hilarious. 

No I haven't, but that's unsurprising really. He absolutely kills them in his videos - with good reason, in fairness.

5 minutes ago, Daveo said:

Yeah I've played a couple of solo competitive and the standard with a mate, it's still not giving me that reason to keep coming back to play 

There was quite a big backlash that in the latest "season" they have changed the rank system where it doesn't really tell you how close to ranking up you are, which was causing the issue you're feeling to a lot of players. I get that. I do wish I knew how many wins or whatever I was off ranking up.

2 minutes ago, Daveo said:

Yeah I was surprised it took me so long to come across one with stats being pretty much meaningless and no real ranking up system that a loss could effect. 

I kinda like Rocket League for that reason, it's more laid back than say a Call of Duty full of anger for the W/L and K/D ratio, but saying that I wish it did have something to aim for be it going through prestiges where all cars relock and the antenna items were perks and that as I sit there playing with no real end goal. I bought all the DLC just to go for all the trophies to give me that reason to play. Only need the drive 50km now and they are all complete. Didn't realise it had to be on one set of wheels tho, another 20km to go now.

There is a ranked mode?

6 minutes ago, Daveo said:

We went on a 3v3 where it's pretty much a circle, some dick decided to help the other team, just kept smashing into us and sending the ball back to our own goal, first time I've ran into someone like that so hopefully a one off fool

I'm yet to find an actual griever on there, which is a huge surprise.

Just now, AmericanRam said:

Gears 4 Beta available April 18th for early access which I have and open to everyone 25th.Can't wait.

 

 

 

Love Gears.

Hitman update: Played one playthrough of the Paris level. The level is extremely impressive. It's very big for a hitman game from what I gather, and there's hundreds of NPCs milling around which makes things very tough.

See below for how I completed first play through, put it in spoilers just in case...

Need to play around with some of the more inventive killings, like explosions or poisons etc. But it does at least have a lot of incentive to keep playing. I sort of get the episodic idea now. It does mean you keep playing the level they give you to the full extent. If there were other full levels, you'd do it once, consider it 'done' and move on.

9 minutes ago, YouRams said:

Typical I went back to the pages around release date but not the one before ha. When are they releasing the episodes is it monthly? In two minds whether to go for the Division until they have released a few.

I bought them both, not had a great deal of chance play either - particularly Hitman. But both seem decent. Luckily, it doesn't actually cost more to buy the complete Hitman now - I'm a stickler for having download copies rather than disks and it was like £41 off cdkeys.

I've only played through the first training mission once on Hitman, but put maybe 2 to 3 hours into the Division.

5 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

There you go then @Srg - have at 'er - unlikely to be a game I get into, simply don't have the time for it. 

Time is a problem for me too... I haven't even unwrapped Tomb Raider, and I got that at Christmas.