i bought Fallout 4 years ago but had a hard time getting into it and finding time to play. i decided to blow the dust off it and give it another shot. i have now put in 11 hours in the last few days and am sucked in like i was with with Fallout 3.
oh and btw - not sure if this has been mentioned but free games for PS4 users:
I was already thinking that my latest excursion into Skyrim may spark a FO4 replay. 4 was weird for me. 3 and New Vegas are two of my all-time favorites. 4 was good but it just didn't fully hook me in. And that is coming from someone who put ~150 hours into it.
I was already thinking that my latest excursion into Skyrim may spark a FO4 replay. 4 was weird for me. 3 and New Vegas are two of my all-time favorites. 4 was good but it just didn't fully hook me in. And that is coming from someone who put ~150 hours into it.
yeah i can see what you mean. it definitely isn't hooking me like 3 did. with 3 i found myself exploring way more, and taking my time with the quests. i'm mainly focused on the quests with 4. looking back i feel like i cared more about lock picking, sneaking around and bartering with 3.
I was already thinking that my latest excursion into Skyrim may spark a FO4 replay. 4 was weird for me. 3 and New Vegas are two of my all-time favorites. 4 was good but it just didn't fully hook me in. And that is coming from someone who put ~150 hours into it.
I've beaten Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Skyrim at least 3 times each and most of them more than that and Fallout 4 just did nothing for me. I can't really put my finger on why but I never felt motivated to play more than 10ish hours where I was forcing myself.
i started reading some FO4 wiki stuff avoiding spoilage stuff. came across this 'The Sole Survivor travels to Diamond City a fortified settlement based in the ruins of Fenway Park'. i did not make that connection at all. pretty neat.
I think part of what turned me off was not having the silent protagonist thing. I just couldn't as easily step into their shoes and make the story my own. Also having a missing child that you were trying it find, it felt weird going and doing random other side quests to help the people of the wasteland.
I think part of what turned me off was not having the silent protagonist thing. I just couldn't as easily step into their shoes and make the story my own. Also having a missing child that you were trying it find, it felt weird going and doing random other side quests to help the people of the wasteland.
that's a really good point! that was one of the best things about FO3, was being born and having the character be YOUR character.
I have once again fallen off the wagon and started another XCOM 2 campaign. Sorry Doom Eternal and Divinity 2. I'm having a hard time playing anything else without thinking about how I could be playing XCOM right now.
I played the demo and it seems pretty rad. Not really a FF fan myself so I probably won't be playing anytime soon but do you think of it? It looks GORGEOUS.
Finally get what rocket league was all about. Played in on gamepass with the kids and we were down 6-2 with 10 seconds left and we won 7-6 by hitting the ball into the goal on the first touch each time. It was magnificent and will be replayed in our house for generations.....
i bought Fallout 4 years ago but had a hard time getting into it and finding time to play. i decided to blow the dust off it and give it another shot. i have now put in 11 hours in the last few days and am sucked in like i was with with Fallout 3.
oh and btw - not sure if this has been mentioned but free games for PS4 users:
Plaything through RDR2 for a second time. Riding around on your horse in this game can be very relaxing
I love sandbox games but RDR2 is just in a whole other league. The fact that I can just go days without doing any sort of mission, ride my horse, camp, fish and it all feels so good. Besides going to work, I am obviously not going out much anymore. So a couple of times I have popped RDR2 in as an "outdoors supplement" because it feels so real.
Finally get what rocket league was all about. Played in on gamepass with the kids and we were down 6-2 with 10 seconds left and we won 7-6 by hitting the ball into the goal on the first touch each time. It was magnificent and will be replayed in our house for generations.....
Man, it's that sort of play I would have love seen caught on video. Rocket League can be both thrilling an infuriating in that way. I am sure there were words spoken by the other team.
Plaything through RDR2 for a second time. Riding around on your horse in this game can be very relaxing
I love sandbox games but RDR2 is just in a whole other league. The fact that I can just go days without doing any sort of mission, ride my horse, camp, fish and it all feels so good. Besides going to work, I am obviously not going out much anymore. So a couple of times I have popped RDR2 in as an "outdoors supplement" because it feels so real.
Is RDR on PS4, or does it even matter if I've never played it for RDR2?
Plaything through RDR2 for a second time. Riding around on your horse in this game can be very relaxing
I love sandbox games but RDR2 is just in a whole other league. The fact that I can just go days without doing any sort of mission, ride my horse, camp, fish and it all feels so good. Besides going to work, I am obviously not going out much anymore. So a couple of times I have popped RDR2 in as an "outdoors supplement" because it feels so real.
Is RDR on PS4, or does it even matter if I've never played it for RDR2?
Sadly it is not. Well, you can play it if you have PS Now. I would say it doesn't necessarily matter. It helps to have some context for certain things but it's not the end of the world. Red Dead 1 is a great game though.
Plaything through RDR2 for a second time. Riding around on your horse in this game can be very relaxing
I love sandbox games but RDR2 is just in a whole other league. The fact that I can just go days without doing any sort of mission, ride my horse, camp, fish and it all feels so good. Besides going to work, I am obviously not going out much anymore. So a couple of times I have popped RDR2 in as an "outdoors supplement" because it feels so real.
Pretty much all I ever did in that game was go on camping trips and pay for deluxe baths. And get really drunk.
I got the Animal Crossing fever. I'm in deep; I got it bad.
So during this Corona, I've been rushing home for lunch since I'm fortunate to not work too far from home. And I get kids fed for lunch and do chores to keep my wife's sanity meter from overheating like Excite Bike while she works from home. But NOW I also squeeze in 10 minutes of Animal Crossing. And here is the crazy thing now.....now when I drive back to work, especially on this sunny day driving along side the beautiful green belt of a park in the neighborhood, all I see is Animal Crossing. Trees, saplings, clumps of grass, people's stuff in front of their houses. I see everything through the lens of Animal Crossing. This has only ever happened to me once 18 years ago with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on the PS2 where every single thing in public looked skate-able if that's a word. Like I would constantly be putting combos together in my head with stairway railings or any type of urban structure. It's like that but with the optimal efficiency grinding you do in Animal Crossing. I hope I'm not losing it. But the Animal Crossing fever is real. All I can think about is getting home and playing more.
I played the demo and it seems pretty rad. Not really a FF fan myself so I probably won't be playing anytime soon but do you think of it? It looks GORGEOUS.
It IS beautiful. It might be worth checking out even if you're not a FF fan, but probably not at full price. It's much more of an action-rpg in combat than previous single-player FF titles.
I find it really fun and engaging, but I probably had 100 hours or more on FF7 on the PS One. Honestly only the characters and the broad strokes of the story are borrowed from the original game. It's a remake in the sense that it's what FF7 would have been if it was made today with no precursor, not just the same game remastered.
Finally get what rocket league was all about. Played in on gamepass with the kids and we were down 6-2 with 10 seconds left and we won 7-6 by hitting the ball into the goal on the first touch each time. It was magnificent and will be replayed in our house for generations.....
Man, it's that sort of play I would have seen caught on video. Rocket League can be both thrilling an infuriating in that way. I am sure there were words spoken by the other team.
Oh we saved the replay...I think our neighbours could hear us we were so loud.
Is RDR on PS4, or does it even matter if I've never played it for RDR2?
RDR2 has a really phenomenal story and it absolutely doesn't matter if you played the first one!
I'd say it adds a bit to it, but RDR is a long game also, so I wouldn't put off playing RDR2 that long. And now that I think about it, doing RDR2 and then RDR1 is probably a really interesting way to play those games.
Got Slay the Spire (a rougelike deck builder) for Switch recently so been swapping between that and FF7 Remake. Windbound looks great, giving me Breath of the Wild vibes with a Windwaker skin.
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I'm now at Chapter 10 in the FFVII remake.
So during this Corona, I've been rushing home for lunch since I'm fortunate to not work too far from home. And I get kids fed for lunch and do chores to keep my wife's sanity meter from overheating like Excite Bike while she works from home. But NOW I also squeeze in 10 minutes of Animal Crossing. And here is the crazy thing now.....now when I drive back to work, especially on this sunny day driving along side the beautiful green belt of a park in the neighborhood, all I see is Animal Crossing. Trees, saplings, clumps of grass, people's stuff in front of their houses. I see everything through the lens of Animal Crossing. This has only ever happened to me once 18 years ago with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on the PS2 where every single thing in public looked skate-able if that's a word. Like I would constantly be putting combos together in my head with stairway railings or any type of urban structure. It's like that but with the optimal efficiency grinding you do in Animal Crossing. I hope I'm not losing it. But the Animal Crossing fever is real. All I can think about is getting home and playing more.
I find it really fun and engaging, but I probably had 100 hours or more on FF7 on the PS One. Honestly only the characters and the broad strokes of the story are borrowed from the original game. It's a remake in the sense that it's what FF7 would have been if it was made today with no precursor, not just the same game remastered.
Windbound, August 2020.
This game looks like it was made for me!
I like hitting homers.
i like being the GM and getting to make trades and build a team. Especially of a historical team with completely accurate league rosters.