What Game Are You Playing At The Moment?

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What ****** me off about modern Blizzard games is that they feel like they got halfway to making something amazing, then either stopped or tried to lock things behind a paywall. Hearthstone is a fundamentally flawed game with nonsensical design decisions a consistent feature. I mean I've been playing since Beta and have made it to legend pretty regularly. I enjoy the game. But it's like being promised a **** with Scarlett Johansson, turning up and finding a fairly average girl. Sure, I'll enjoy it but the entire situation taunts me with the potential of what could have been.

Keep us posted on Battleborn.
 
Subtle said:
What ****** me off about modern Blizzard games is that they feel like they got halfway to making something amazing, then either stopped or tried to lock things behind a paywall. Hearthstone is a fundamentally flawed game with nonsensical design decisions a consistent feature. I mean I've been playing since Beta and have made it to legend pretty regularly. I enjoy the game. But it's like being promised a **** with Scarlett Johansson, turning up and finding a fairly average girl. Sure, I'll enjoy it but the entire situation taunts me with the potential of what could have been.

Keep us posted on Battleborn.
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Been playing since first day it went public-still haven't made legend. Right now the ladder is a cesspit of face decks, more face decks-then more. With a dash of secrets Paladin and more face. The cards are also becoming far too heavy on the RNG bias. The fun factor is 100% gone right now and it needs to be addressed. Right now I'm only logging in to do my dailies and that's it sadly.

Re: Battlehorn it's under NDA unfortunately so I'm not allowed to say anything about it at all. But I WILL say is the more I've watched the vids on Youtube-the more I want to play it. You could try to apply for a key though-I did and got in immediately
 
I've been looking at Battleborn too, what would everyone be getting it on? If anyone is on the Xbox One I'd gladly play with you guys.

Also Borderlands Pre Sequel finally fixed the match making with a patch yesterday
 
ajt09 said:
Been playing since first day it went public-still haven't made legend. Right now the ladder is a cesspit of face decks, more face decks-then more. With a dash of secrets Paladin and more face. The cards are also becoming far too heavy on the RNG bias. The fun factor is 100% gone right now and it needs to be addressed. Right now I'm only logging in to do my dailies and that's it sadly.

Re: Battlehorn it's under NDA unfortunately so I'm not allowed to say anything about it at all. But I WILL say is the more I've watched the vids on Youtube-the more I want to play it. You could try to apply for a key though-I did and got in immediately
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Dragon Priest will eat most facehunters/paladins atm, even does well vs druid, midrange hunter and tempo mage. The problem is that it gets destroyed by Control Warrior and Freeze mage, plus it will still lose to the first 5 decks if they curve absolutely perfectly. The game is fundamentally flawed on a really basic level sadly, as the mana system basically makes it possible to play absurd aggro decks and then top them off with 2/3 god tier lategame drops that were supposedly for control but instead punish you for using whatever necessary to survive the first onslaught. I must add that I'm hovering around rank 7 atm as I can't be arsed with the rank 1-5 grind, so this might not be applicable at higher levels. I've definitely seen more control decks as I've gone up the ladder.

Of course the entire game is digital so they could easily fix things by nerfing a bunch of cards or redesigning some of the systems but they won't because A. they're pretty bad at design B. ££££££££££
 
Anyone played Overwatch?

I see it's coming to consoles. From what I watched on youtube it seems like something I could get in to
 
I was interested in Overwatch. Until I noticed in streams (now bear in mind this a Beta which has people who have never played the game before) that there's already a lot of toxic behaviour from the moron brigade. First noticed it when a streamer friend was playing. So I'm going to pass on Overwatch. If I want to play with toxic garbage I'll play LoL. Shame really as I was interested. I've never seen so much salt from self entitled people whining they never got in. It's a beta ffs. These people I doubt will even test it properly-just play it then complain and whine about all the bugs.......in a closed beta.

Though I will agree with them on one thing. Picking streamers who are banned from Blizzard games for the beta-not cool.
 
ajt09 said:
I was interested in Overwatch. Until I noticed in streams (now bear in mind this a Beta which has people who have never played the game before) that there's already a lot of toxic behaviour from the moron brigade. First noticed it when a streamer friend was playing. So I'm going to pass on Overwatch. If I want to play with toxic garbage I'll play LoL. Shame really as I was interested. I've never seen so much salt from self entitled people whining they never got in. It's a beta ffs. These people I doubt will even test it properly-just play it then complain and whine about all the bugs.......in a closed beta.

Though I will agree with them on one thing. Picking streamers who are banned from Blizzard games for the beta-not cool.
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What was toxic? What did they do?
 
It's pretty much standard practice for some people to act like douchebags during online gameplay sadly. Hard to tell who the adults are at times
 
I wouldn't worry really. If there's one thing Blizzard can do right, its going after idiots with Thor's hammer. They don't **** around.

The toxicity is still present, but things are light years ahead compared to what you see in other online games.
 
ajt09 said:
It's pretty much standard practice for some people to act like douchebags during online gameplay sadly. Hard to tell who the adults are at times
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I'm yet to meet a ******* on PVZ Garden Garfare after 80 hours (my most played game on Xbox!)
 
Tyton said:
I wouldn't worry really. If there's one thing Blizzard can do right, its going after idiots with Thor's hammer. They don't **** around.

The toxicity is still present, but things are light years ahead compared to what you see in other online games.
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There's an even easier solution though, if they would just take something else from Valve. I mean the half the game is lifted from TF2 (this isn't a bad thing) so why not take what was the absolute key to keeping the game alive for so long: letting people host their own servers. Now I must admit that IDK if Blizzard are planning on letting people do it, I haven't kept up, but this was by far and away the absolute best thing that TF2 ever did. Why? Because it let people naturally segregate. Idiots flocked to the 32 player, pay for enhancements servers, hardcore players had their own servers and generally nice people were able to create and moderate their own servers. We built one and kept it up for years, allowing anyone who wasn't a **** to stay. It took it beyond being a game and into a community, which meant that people were nicer to each other and games were more chilled out.

Having an absolute definition of what is acceptable is always going to **** some people off. For some it's way too restrictive, for others it's not enough. The secret is to give those groups the power to self regulate, not to impose some sort of ministry of vice and virtue.
 
epic terrorist said:
I love you too ;)
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As a Fallout 2 fan, I can only describe Fallout 3 and 4 as the guy on the right.

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New Vegas was great though. :)
 
Tyton said:
As a Fallout 2 fan, I can only describe Fallout 3 and 4 as the guy on the right.

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New Vegas was great though. :)
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I liked the original Fallout games a lot when I played them but as far as I'm concerned there's Fallout 1 + 2, then Fallout 3D 1,2 and now 3. They're games in the same universe but they're so different that considering them to sequels skews how you look at them. The best example off the top of my head is AC: Black Flag. It was a ******* awful AC game, and every part of the game you played as an assassin sucked. So very many trailing missions... But, as a pirate game? It was brilliant, probably one of the best ever. That's how I see the FPS Fallouts.

Now, if you think of FO3 as FO3 then it's pretty bad. It's a bad like Broken Sword 3, in that changing to a 3d engine broke so much of the game and they didn't do nearly enough to compensate. I'll hold my hands up here and say that I wasn't the biggest FO3 fan and having played it again recently it hasn't held up well. But, I still see it as FO3D1, which is why I find its many issues forgivable. It was a bold jump into a new world and they didn't adapt well. FO3D2, aka New Vegas, was much better, even if it had its flaws. The big test for me has been FO3D3, aka FO4. Honestly, it's pretty incredible. They've actually built a world this time, the kind of world they have been lacking since Morrowind. It feels immersive, it feels real, there's a lot to stumble upon and just enjoy exploring. Is it rough around the edges? Yes, it's still a Bethesda game, but everything I find lacking is something that a mod will later fix and that was the massive issue with FO3/Oblivion/Skyrim for me: the world was so ******* bland and empty that you just couldn't make it all better with mods. The setting itself was ****, and no amount of water physics and rope arrows and Thomas the Tank Engine dragons could fix that. They ****** up the core of the game.

This time, they not only haven't ****** it up, but so far it feels like they've nailed it.
 
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