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Both Skyrim and Fallout 4 let you free-walk. I've been playing bouts of Fallout 4 VR on the Vive. Really good craic. Mechanically much more fun than the original, even if it's a tad wonky. The immersion factor is immense. Wrestling with item weights, though... Especially on Survivor. Aint nobody got time for that. Think I'll mod it to increase cap to 9999.

So apparently Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin might be one of the free offerings in February's Playstation Plus package. Pretty nice, luckily I never bought it. And I always like a bit more Souls.

Just had to pop back and check this thread was still going. Y'all doing me proud. Indeed: 'Years after predicted “death,” game consoles are doing better than ever'

Truly beautiful game, yeah. And there is a day/night cycle, it's just often pushed/pulled for mission context. Just like Assassin's Creed when day/night time suddenly swaps to be appropriate to the mission. The gameplay in this honestly just gets better and better the more you play it. The more you get Overrides and the more different types of machine and environment crops up. Horizon and Zelda: BotW right next to each other is... Insane. ^^^ You see? You see?!

I got BotW and my Switch a day early thanks to cheeky independent stores. I've got about 7-10 hours in Zelda. And in those hours I've probably had about 10 seconds of frame rate issues. It's generally really smooth, and apparently only gets smoother as you keep playing. And yes, discovering even tiny things on your own is immensely rewarding and fun. They've taken a lot of leaves from the Souls book in terms of encouraging the player to piece rules and systems together without guidance. So many 'aha!' moments. So many smiles when you notice another cool detail/system.

Some of the impressions from people who have the game early across the web are pretty insane. Sounds a lot like the best bits of Shadow of Mordor, The Witcher 3, InFamous, Monster Hunter and Shadow of the Colossus. People saying a lot of the time it looks almost as good as Uncharted 4, sometimes better, and it's an open world game, too. Shit's cray.

It's confirmed that you get new ships using a method the original streamer didn't take the time to work out. Several of the original streamer's complaints about/criticisms of the game arose from him just not fucking paying attention to the tutorial messages etc, and not exploring very much, which subsequent streamers did/worked out/had a much better time with. Even worse - the guy's done it in the past. Batman: AC, Fallout 4, Bloodborne, The Witcher 3 - the guy has managed to get all these games 1+ weeks early (god knows how) and has given weirdly misinformed, erroneous reports on all of them, complaining about things which really weren't problems with the games. Regardless, he actually enjoyed all his time with No Man's Sky and says he's keen to keep playing it even after launch, which is something. Other streams have revealed a far broader and deeper experience than this guy's "gotta go fast [to the centre of the galaxy]" narrative

Has this already been posted? Sums it all up in a oner for me: Yeah, he's camp in a slightly irritating, forced way - which frustrates anyone trying to be 'cool' - but he is legitimately funny if you sit down and watch one of his shows. Content is pretty trite but execution is amazing.

Honestly, there's a pretty solid chance the co-op mode is going to be the best one yet. It's being given a full 3-7 month delay and coming out as its own expansion, pretty much. I'm hoping it's at 30FPS will the full fidelity of singleplayer, with a 'Survival'/horde mode, and can be played alone. That will be... Just the greatest Imagine co-op in the large playable areas of SP, with vehicles. Could be insanity. FYI the multiplayer mode is really good generally, too. Also the more I'm replaying the more I'm appreciating Uncharted 4's campaign. There's a lot more combat in there than it feels like. There are long stretches of Scotland and Madagascar which are pretty much constantly combat. The background 'sliding scree' is also just a flat texture moving down as a group. If you look at it up close it's actually pretty ugly, haha. Still, a fantastically designed effect and its impact is flawless when outwith 15 feet distance.

Uncharted 2 is still great, and I think as a straight-up videogame with lots of action-packed gameplay, it's better than UC4. Only in that regard, though. The Last of Us is better, I'd agree with that. But Uncharted 4 is also just on another level in so many senses. It's flawed in minor ways but the overall thing is just... Another level. A huge leap. That makes it really hard for me to choose between TLoU, UC4 and UC2.

The Universities up here tend to lump Languages in there, too. Eg Arts, Humanities and Languages. Maybe not, though, based on what TN says

Yeah, those little design things that scream 'The Last of Us'. There are also slightly spoilery non-combat sequences (you've seen one, Hottie) which are lifted straight out of certain parts of TLoU. I'm not 100% convinced they worked as well in UC4 as they do in TLoU, but they are still good bits. FYI You have a long way to go. It's a long game. The adventure is only just getting started at Chapters 8/9. I'm replaying it on Crushing skipping most/all of the cutscenes, and it is fucking great. There's something so vital about the gunfights now. Feels closer to 'movie gunfights' than we've ever seen before. Also there are a lot of optional conversations, texts and treasures. Many of which add a lot to the context. Hottie: This is definitely the most replayable Uncharted game, I think. The loading times and pacing are a bit frustrating sometimes but there's so much more content, and so much more choice.