The new game thread

[Spicoli]

Dead Island. It has owned me for the last week and a half.

[Master]

Sons are playing Star Wars Force Unleashed and Star Wars lego the complete the saga.

[superheavyrhun]

Spent today reading the latest John Grisham, which is very good, and played Skyrim for about three hours. Really liking it, though I could do with getting more instinctive at the controls. My fighting seems a bit haphazard, so maybe magic is the way to go for me.

[Cressa121]

I played Fight Night for a little while but got bored of it quickly. The story mode was pretty slick but legacy mode and online play were awful.

I'm back on FIFA now, although I only really play the ultimate team online. I've got a great MLS team at the minute which is fun to play with. I'll probably stick with FIFA until the new UFC Undisputed comes out. I generally don't have the time or patience to play anything other than sports games now though.

[Kev]

What do people make of Skyrim? I couldn't get into it. I loved Oblivion and the Fallout games but this just seems a case of same old same old. There's nothing new to the mechanics or gameplay and thus no sense of adventure for me. In many ways it feels a step back from New Vegas in terms of combat, party member control and having no real life survival mode. Many of the quests are ridiculous. I'm an evil Argonian death monster yet some little kid wonders up to me and asks me to tell some little girl to stop bullying him. Another quest saw me telling this guy the girl he fancied wasn't interested in him. Why the fuck am I being bothered with quests like this? What semblance or reality does this have? That's the biggest problem for me with Bethesda games, the quests and plot lines are utterly absurd and seem to be aimed at children.

I found the Witcher games to be much better. Skyrim to me is maybe a 70% scoring game, having spent several hours with it I'm amazed everyone rates it so highly. I stopped playing after a Thieves Guild quest required me to go into a guest house and beat up a woman in a fist fight. I had no objection to hitting her, it was just absurd that she wanted to get into a bar fight with me and actually nearly took all my health in the fight, I barely won. Now this was stupid, my character has marched on bandit camps and killed a dozen men at once, I've slain two dragons, multiple sabre cats and giant spiders, and I almost met my match fighting some middle aged housewife who worked in a bar

Shit game.

[CFH]

What do people make of Skyrim? I couldn't get into it. I loved Oblivion and the Fallout games but this just seems a case of same old same old. There's nothing new to the mechanics or gameplay and thus no sense of adventure for me. In many ways it feels a step back from New Vegas in terms of combat, party member control and having no real life survival mode. Many of the quests are ridiculous. I'm an evil Argonian death monster yet some little kid wonders up to me and asks me to tell some little girl to stop bullying him. Another quest saw me telling this guy the girl he fancied wasn't interested in him. Why the fuck am I being bothered with quests like this? What semblance or reality does this have? That's the biggest problem for me with Bethesda games, the quests and plot lines are utterly absurd and seem to be aimed at children.

I found the Witcher games to be much better. Skyrim to me is maybe a 70% scoring game, having spent several hours with it I'm amazed everyone rates it so highly. I stopped playing after a Thieves Guild quest required me to go into a guest house and beat up a woman in a fist fight. I had no objection to hitting her, it was just absurd that she wanted to get into a bar fight with me and actually nearly took all my health in the fight, I barely won. Now this was stupid, my character has marched on bandit camps and killed a dozen men at once, I've slain two dragons, multiple sabre cats and giant spiders, and I almost met my match fighting some middle aged housewife who worked in a bar

Shit game.

I'm dying to pick up Skyrim, but I'm waiting for all the problem associated with the PS3 version to be fixed before I even consider it.

Morrowind, the precursor to Oblivion, is hands down my all-time favorite video game. It was ridiculously complex and open-ended. Just a fantastic game.

Oblivion fucking sucked. I hated it and I still hate it. I keep trying to get into it, but it's so dumbed-down and the enemy level-scaling is the dumbest fucking think I have ever seen. A mudcrab should be the same difficulty at level 1 as at level 100. Fucking stupid bullshit.

Skyrim is supposed to be better, so I'm hoping against hope that Bethesda actually gets off their lazy asses to fix all the bugs for once.

[CFH]

Come to think of it, I'm going to try and find a free pc version of Morrowind. All the mods for it are supposed to be amazing.

Let me know if any of you have a link.

[superheavyrhun]

I've not really played Oblivion or Morrowind, so I can't really comment on that side of it. I'm enjoying Skyrim so far though.