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Captain

Burnwinter wrote:
Should I buy Phantom Pain or AC Syndicate?

AC everytime.

Gazza M

i have phantom pain but i'm really not drawn to to playing it more. i've played a few hours of it, and i'm not convinced the much-lauded open world setting was the best decision

QuincyAbeyie

Phantom Pain is being hailed as the best game of this console generation, AC is a yearly release - you know what you get. Unless you either dislike games like Metal Gear Solid for one reason or another or is a big fan of the AC games, the logical thing would be to try Phantom Pain.

Mirth

I've just seen the dialogue wheel on Fallout 4. Now that looks like a massive disappointment.

Klaus

It is, for the most part. I'm not a big fan of every single piece of dialogue being voice acted either, with the camera cutting between the player and the NPC in third person views. It's cinematic but it violates the idea that this is my own experience, on my terms. Plus it's going to undermine the mod community quite a bit when the characters stay silent in their interactions while the subtitles are showing.

Lukazan

Gazza M wrote:
i have phantom pain but i'm really not drawn to to playing it more. i've played a few hours of it, and i'm not convinced the much-lauded open world setting was the best decision

It wasn't. Massive disappoint of a game. Far Cry reskinned. It's not MGS.

Rex

Any of you guys been out and bought Fallout 4 today? Think I'll wait until the weekend myself.

Irishgunner

Nope, but this'll be what I'll be doing soon enough

Rex

😆

Gazza M

console versions of fallout 4 are technically dodgy apparently, with xbone getting the worst of it. good old bug-thesda

Rex

Hmm. In what way? I don't like the sound of that! I'm not on the cheaper, less good console of course, but still.

Klaus

I was sceptical beforehand but I gotta say, the Xbox version works great for me. I've encountered one complete freeze and two or three instances where I got stuck on objects and had to reload a save in over 30 hours. Surprisingly few framedrops so far. There are some other issues but there always will be in a game this size. My biggest pet peeve is that the animation freezes for like half a second when you break off a bobby pin in a lock (yes, I've stolen together all my shit). Gonna need a patch for that because it seriously triggers my OCD.

I'm hearing the PC version is what makes them tear their hair out at the moment. The framerate frequently drops way below what's required to run smoothly pretty much no matter what you do there.

Gazza M

Rex wrote:
Hmm. In what way? I don't like the sound of that! I'm not on the cheaper, less good console of course, but still.

mainly frame rate drops. it's more annoying than game breaking. the 0 fps freeze ups klaus mentioned are mainly on xbone, with ps4 getting some frame rate drops, but not to the extent of 0 fps. it's common with bethesda day one releases. skyrim ps3 was by most accounts terrible at first before they patched it

Captain

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-fallout-4-performance-analysis

But most people aren't sensitive to it anyway. The more worrying trend is game breaking bugs.

Rex

I see. Hmm. Not good! This is by far the game I've most looked forward to in a long time, and I don't want to be disappointed. 🙂

Rex

Cheers, Cap. Looks fine on the PS4 to me.

Rex

Any reactions to the dialogue wheel?

Qwiss

I haven't quite played 30 hours yet like Klaus (WTF?), just a couple yesterday evening but so far no issues for me on PS4. I don't really notice slight drops in frame rate TBH.

Rex

😆 I'm so poor in FIFA 16 it is quite funny.

Rex

So, just bought Fallout 4. Been home about an hour, have nothing this evening which can't wait, home alone. Well, I have a friend coming over in a few hours with a bit of magic chocolate cake... Still haven't touched the game. Want to savor this. 🙂

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