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I love SW. I'm in the 501st. I hated playing this game:
SP AI is in all seriousness the worst I've seen in years, decades maybe. They just stand there.
MP is set up so the rich get richer while the newcomers get creamed. So fun to get killed by T-21Ds and imploding grenades for a few hours straight........ Not.
The Rebels get extremely effective camouflage while the Imperials are always in white......
Everything is the ROTJ version which is plain lazy.
The TK helmet's tears and traps are blue instead of grey.
I got stuck in a rock but was still somehow able to kill the AT-ST in front of me with only an E11. Jump didn't work, so lucky I had a jump pack or I would have had to reset.
1st person is boring (no iron sights at all??) but 3rd is impossible to use with their control setup (ever played MGS4??)
The musical score is a shoddy rendition of the extremely iconic and known-by-heart themes.
The voice acting is jarringly inaccurate in terms of accents etc.
The aircraft turn as opposed to rolling, so there's auto-leveling only sometimes which makes dogfighting impossible.
There's no "take cover" mechanism or even crawling, which are pretty vital to a shooter.
The maps are TINY.
Kill tickets in SP have transformed into coins you must collect for your kills to count. I lost my first try with a better score than when I "won."
That's a total score of unlucky 13 legitimate frowny faces out of 10, which far outweighs any enjoyment I experienced. Pretty... pretty... pretty disappointed.

I could go for a new ME story. BioWare has kept my love.
I didn't feel like reading thru 90+ comments but did anyone else get tears of joy from hearing about the VALKYRIA CHRINICLES PS4 REMASTER?? So. Stoked.

@Utena-mobile kidding or not, I genuinely like the SW HM concept. Or maybe closer to Rune Factory so there could be some iconic weapons and creatures. I'd buy that so fast!

My favorite SW games as a kid were Dark Forces (still outstanding), Rogue Squadron, Jedi Power Battles (still trying to beat), The Gungan Frontier (so underrated), and Force Commander (best of the bunch). As a bigger kid I loved the KotORs, the Battlefronts, and Bounty Hunter. Now I just want something that will evoke a similar fondness after a decade or more passes (too much to ask? Nah).

Waited in line at midnight at a GameStop that is now an ATT store. I remember the night before I went to Target and got AC4, KZSF and BF4 all for $120. I've shown mine nothing but love while it sprouted and could mostly just upgrade last-gen titles, and now my patience is rewarded with it being a strong enough sapling to support MGS5, FO4 and SWBF. I've had zero hardware issues with the system or accessories, only recently finally opting for a second controller (in white only to match my TK armor) to find the quality has slipped a little since launch; the new sticks feel looser and the rubber now has molding tags. As a whole, an extremely worthwhile investment, especially if you already had a Vita. I upgraded to a 1TB hdd and got a 50 ft Ethernet cable and it seems very happy. Be sure to vacuum dust rather than blow it into the console when cleaning them!

No point in complaining about gaming being an expensive hobby. This gen has season passes as optional add-ons. If you can't justify a purchase, then congrats on your frugality (sincerely!). To me, $50 isn't chump change, but also isn't unachievable with a day's work for example, so I'm not going to deny myself lol

Sorry, I was too busy playing Fallout 4 to surf the net. #NobodySaysThatAnymore

@Renandstimpeygti in all seriousness, I got a PS3 explicitly for MGS4 and then a PS4 for MGS5 and FO4. No shame

OT: that's a lot of $60s. I hope they use it to add a Hardcore Mode mod! (my only real complaint)

Already found two on my own. Not gonna open my guide until playthrough #2 🙃

I have an og Vita so I just want to pair one my DS4s to it and have a cheap cradle attachment. In my dreams, right?

Seems like the qHD resolution might work better with FO4's textures. AC4 looked great on Vita, arguably better IMO, for example. Must try! Now all I need is to use my fatty PS3 for videos and remote play FO all day 😅

@teknium_ lol so you don't think he should sign up for the next tournament?

Let's see Baek next!

@SilentJ Apparently I only hang around school-teachers and other folks who don't technically work for the Feds but still get their holidays.
My sincerest apologies go out to anyone who has to watch a clock tick by for hours before they get to play! 😱
Only a few more hours now...

Good thing in America Wednesday is Veterans' Day so nobody has work 🇺🇸❤️

@rjejr RPG via F/3PS. It's closest to Oblivion or Skyrim in terms of parameters. Borderlands is a hollow, plot-less parody of Fallout, at least aesthetically, if that helps. Serious in tone (death everywhere) but ironic or tongue-in-cheek for comic relief, which makes for a compelling rhythm. Allusions and Easter eggs abound, so it's kind of a "smart" franchise but it won't hurt to learn something new while you play by using Wikipedia. I love the whole Fallout experience and recommend it to everyone over 17 😉

I like the direction they went after last gen. Realistic textures, lighting and architecture paired with classic Bethesda stylization on animals, objects and characters. I can't believe it's next week

Beautiful. That's exactly what I wanted to hear 😏 They keep squashing my concerns almost as though our comments are being directly addressed, which is rare and appreciated. Go Bethesda Go

Get the special limited edition on the BethSoft store only. It's pretty and has an exclusive concept section. What a gift that'll make

Polyphony always raises the industry standard for "realism" graphics. Their intros are a testament to that. Will buy so hard

MGSV is crazy time consuming when you can't game all day. Very fun 21% so far. My second playthrough will be much better

I'm going all in for this one; pip-boy edition for PS4 with limited collectors guide and art book.. to go with my mini-nuke, Sneak bobble head, the two action figures and some shirts! Just need the Season Pass and I'll be done! 😅 (and broke! but happy!)

Can't help but feel like you're "supposed" to have a Luck stat of 7

@wmmbus you're just not doing it right. PS3 can run New Vegas with all the DLC if you do it in the right general order and complete your quests before launching new scripts. A 256mb DDR3 board and card can't keep up with Bethesda's content; try playing it on a PC with matching specs and it'd be worse. Not the game's fault.
OT: but an 8gb DDR5 board and card with 256mb of vRAM can do a heck of a lot more at once! The framerate issues I've had were caused by the coding, not the hardware maxing out or overheating. MGS5 for ex. is loud and hot, and I'm yet to have any problems whatsoever. It's up to the Bethy designers to make it work

Battlefront is a special class of art made for and by SW fans, and less of an online mp shooter made by and for gamers per se. We want the pew-pew! and the hum-crash! and to see our beloved characters represented on the best console around. Just like Snake or Drake or Quake it's inexplicably satiating to see just how good they'll look. Not to mention the role play aspect employed by enthusiasts like myself who wear the armor (or at least bucket) as we play to maximize all that. Its fun is partially not reliant upon the details of the gameplay mechanics

Reminds me of Big Boss leaving America after Op Snake Eater. He'll disappear, free to follow his own rules and philosophies. Can't wait to see our universe's version of Outer Heaven become reality. Is there a pool on the studio name? Cause I bet (hope) that's what it'll be

I went thru with it expecting an error message but it worked. Sure makes you wonder where these came from if they didn't make any more. I wonder if we get the free shirt offer too [I'll add that I'm abiding by the limit of 2 per customer, not both thru their site either]

@get2sammyb @ShogunRok LOOK WHATS BACK IN STOCK http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/fallout/fallout-4-pip-boy-edition.html

MGS5 for ever. 10% completion and savoring every second. That helicopter music function can be a crackup (does "Kids in America" remind anyone else of the Jimmy Neutron movie? )

lol oh yeah, I bought Metro redux at full price and kept dying on the first fight. Talk about your survival games. I'd love a strategy guide for those two. I'll have to go back to Russia soon

I want to like their musical choices, but they're all much more popular songs this time, which means I've heard them my whole life on the radio already. Not that I hate the songs, I just really hope they put more of them into the game (maybe more with each DLC?) so they don't get stale after the 300 hour mark Can not wait for this!

@WARDIE I get over 30 mb/sec DL and around 10 UL when I test it, which is about 1/3 of what I pay for ("up to" right?). If the top tier of my prolific ISP isn't good enough for remote play, the blame is on Sony's bandwidth throttling. I'm talking milliseconds of lag, but it's extremely noticeable and frustrating to a CS 1.5 veteran like myself. It simply takes an amount of time to send and receive data packets.

The inevitable lag gets to me when I have to use precognition to keep up (AC4 countering was not fun). Let's hope they can make it work well all-around

I'm building armor and blasters for the 501st and even I'm hesitant. they'll have to prove a lot in order to sell the sequel

@itshoggie I'd LOVE for BioWare to make a return to single player, D20 system-reliant SW games made for consoles (notwithstanding ME as a franchise entirely; it plays distinctly from KotOR, so room for all)

All that's wrong with the Beta is weapon damage balance. I didn't die on survival at all. I didn't find a 3rd person camera option. I'm still excited for the full release, since I'll be able to be a clean TK (not a jetpack spacetrooper, lol obscure)

So stoked to get my Pip-Boy. They're way too cocky for it to not play the way we've always dreamed. And they've proven themselves with DLC so I'm content with the story's potential breadth. Can't wait.

High or low intelligence is one of the best ways to have different playthrough experiences (in previous games). Can't wait to hear how the voice actor adapts to your Int. stat.

I highly recommend watching youtuber Borissaurus play New Vegas with 1 intelligence

lol I'm at like 3% no online yet. It's not the same as 4's incarnation, so I don't mind building first

I've seen that expression before... Something wicked this way comes

Should have used Silent Hill as an example. There, the setting is the/a main character, so it worked when Team Silent was less (and then completely not) involved. Tones were all over the place, but 4, Homecoming and Downpour were good entries.
MGS however is about Solid Snake and everything about how he came to exist. You'd literally have to know every single detail by heart and spend years analyzing how relationships could [have] evolve[d] in order to make something that even makes any sense. From there, you can start writing a new story that must blow socks off a fanbase wishing for the moon but expecting garbage.

He saying "cheese"?
Low-hanging fruit: His character makes him a douche, not his face model.

I'm with Graham, apparently both taking our time to play through this gem ...just like Snake

My 1tb has like 180gb left, but I don't buy every game. And I'd still probably buy a proprietary Sony PS external drive if they made one.

Interesting perk system tho. Can't wait to get my Pip Boy wahoo but first the mini-nuke yee-haw

@kyleforrester87 it literally takes me years to play their games. I still haven't done a lot of quests, but not for lack of playing (ylod mostly) which shows their depth of content. I'm fairly confident I've done everything in only TES4 so far lol

Best thing about endurance is the survival skill boost. Gimme dose wasteland omelets and home brew Nuka-Colas Endurance is a requirement for NV hardcore mode since ya know, it kills you faster.

Music can make or break a game and Beth haven't made any errors IMO. The contextual SFX are great, while the iconic soundtracks are beautiful in any setting. I'm saving my sensory organs for day one but his compositions are top-notch so far

Already bought it, so I almost want to just wait! But I'll probably dip a toe in the beta

Perception is essential for sneaky snipers like myself. Even with 100 lockpick skill, very hard locks can still be annoying. And you can unlock a lot of interesting conversation options. Not to mention the ED-E boost

Barely started MGSV

High Agility and Perception gets me through every game, usually by the skin of my teeth Can't wait to record every second on YouTube for posterity

lol ditto on the sentiment that Bethesda content is worth pre-ordering, since the wait and value are usually reasonable. Finally, a season pass I can feel good about buying. They're saving this whole year, imho (along with MGS5 and Battlefront)

I need to hear PS4-level GT "bonk bonk bweeoosh" menu sxf soon.