System Wars Lounge V.65: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Edition

Man, that's cruel. I decided on opening night because the internet has zero ability to deal with spoilers. But you have to be some kind of monster to want to spoil Star Wars for people.

@DarkLink77:

>:D

I haven't been to the theaters since like...Avatar I think? A long time ago apparently.

I have several days off time near the holidays so I might actually go to a movie for a change. What better time then a new Star Wars movie?

We'll find a convenient reason to ban Xaero for a week or so the day the movie comes out. ;)

Danganronpa Anime is back.

Dumb video thing won't recognize the link for some dumb reason.

Wanna bet? I'm going to go see it at midnight before you'll get the chance to spoiled it for me.

I didn't like any of the star wars movie.

Started The Order: 1886 last night after buying it for $9 during the PS Store sale.

**** forced walking.

I feel like I can't see everything I want to see. Didn't think the bars would bother me as much as they do, or at least the camera is too close to the main character.

Why start a third-person game with a first-person scene? Maybe it's because the camera was too fucking shaky and making me a little dizzy, but it was a stupid decision; we're video games so first person.

I'm enjoying actually playing the game on hard and I like the setting they've created. Very beautiful.

Still pretty salty that Disney and Lucas saying that all the expanded universe is non-canon all of the sudden since I read a majority of the novels and comics. Was a pretty dick move to those of us who were following the series outside the movies for all those years. I hope the new movies makes up for it.

@davillain-:

Don't worry, you're safe.

@Zassimick: game is fun, knowing you, you'll enjoy it

There's one thing I should mention, The only thing you need to worry about in Order: 1886 are those Shotgunners. They were the toughest enemies in the game and the Lycans/Werewolfs are just easy to kill, even the Boss fights looks like a joke. I rented Order: 1886 back in February and glad I did. If it's that low for that price, then I can see it coming to PS+ in the near future. It's a beautiful game no doubt, the Black Bars didn't bother me at the slightest since I got used to Black Bars in Dragon Dogma.

I just realized The Walking Dead makes literally no sense.

The term is cinematic walking, and yes it is the scourge of modern gaming. The worst thing about modern video games. A true disease.

I'm expecting I won't hate it. I was enjoying the combat well enough, and with it's length I don't think it will get stale for me. I'm hoping to walk away with positive thoughts on it.

I didn't anticipate being bothered by the bars. It actually surprised me that I was; it was that first moment looking out at the city. I was like, "just let me see more damnit!" :P

I assume it will be released on PS+ sometime in the next year, wouldn't surprise me at all. But eh, it's cheap and I wanted a linear game to go through. :P

It's so damn slow! I've excused it sometimes in the past, but overall it's absolutely shitty when devs do this. I can see why they want to, but just stahp it. Please.

I started playing Mad Max, and while it suffers from the typical trappings of many open world games in 2015, including not letting the player figure anything out on its own, its presentation is marvelous. Being a licensed game I went in thinking I'd find something cheap that takes out of me out of the big world they created. But no, Max has a nice sense of weight to him and runs and animates realistically, the car reacts with various puffs of sand and pebbles and rocks from its back wheels depending on the many surfaces you're on (unlike say, MGSV, which surprised me in that game occasionally), and the game on the One hides a good deal of its lower res textures with its camera and lighting, although it occasionally gives you something to make the eyes bleed.

@freedomfreak, how do I go about having maximum enjoyment of the game? I've read it's about 20 hours with a lot of repetition, yet there lies a lot of joy in upgrading your vehicle and doing the occasional side quest.

@Blabadon: Dunno. I did all things that were things that I did. Except races. **** them. It's Avalanche. Shit's gonna be repetitive and bland. If you don't dig that, leave it. If anything, the campaign is short as hell. You can blast through that.

@freedomfreak: the side mission I raced in yesterday was my biggest issue so far :'(

It was awful, I got stuck with a shit car, so either the steering died on me, I missed a barrel tailing someone, or worst, I got sniped and popped a wheel in first place. I GOT SNIPED IN AN OPEN WORLD GAME IN A SIDE MISSION.

**** open world games in 2015.

That's kinda cool tho.

But yeah, **** the races. It's not brilliant, especially in cockpit view. Do the campaign if you don't dig hanging out in the big white. You'll see quite a bit of Mad Max.

Excellent. I'll just do that. Thanks bro.

@charizard1605:

lel you see the last episode?

they shouldn't have brought guns to a knife fight...

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

I'm actually just on Season 3 right now :p

I'm pretty mad about that too (I mean, the likes of Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Shadows of the Empire probably got the biggest ever backing from George Lucas himself, and that was before everybody started hating him before anyone starts pointing out Force Unleashed), but at least some people at Disney appear to be a fan of them. I mean, in Rebels, you see Clones and The Empire fighting each other (Battlefront II, anyone?)

Part of me is hyping this, but another part of me is worried given Tartakovsky's recent track record.

Still would like to see a Samurai Jack game by Platinum (just don't let Activision publish).

@nintendoboy16: Samurai Jack is back? Awesome. AS is one of the few things I miss about not having cable.

It was the smart thing to do for the series, so the new stuff coming doesn't have to care about whether or not it changes stuff from the old EU.

Personally I can still enjoy stuff under the "Legends" banner despite it not being canon.

Lol the walking dead mid season finale was hilariously bad. And that ending had great music man and the slow mo stuff added to the moment but thinking they could have used that "thing" to solve the issue before it reached to that point. also when did machonne and Deanna establish a relationship and get closer together? I must have missed their conversations and scenes.

thought the zombies faces were funny too, some creepy designs there. It's just hilarious that people can get caught when these things basically walk slower than a normal human to reach you. Machonne on her own could take out an entire army perhaps if given she had the space.

I got a PS4! :D

@93BlackHawk93: Can I add you? and maybe we can play some online Whenever we have the time to if you like?

@a-new-guardian: My PSN is in my sig.

What's yours?

Eight years after its release, I finally beat Persona 3.

Man, that game has so many issues. Worth the time I put into it, though.

I'm trying to decide if my sarcasm in my original post was too subtle or if we have a good thread showing what people do and don't read the original post.

I'm leaning towards too subtle.

You need to post like that more often.

Wow, that Batman v Superman trailer is garbage

Don't know what happened, but Xenoblade X shipped for $15. Score.

Anyone seen the new Superman vs Batman trailer? simply epic

feels like i watched the entire movie tho lol

@finalstar2007: I just laughed at how superman removed the mask. Reminded me of the dark knight when batman removed scarecrows mask. I've seen too much so going on media blackout on this movie.

Heard about this news yesterday, never thought I see my favorite cartoon series is making a return, great news nonetheless. I wonder who'll replace Mako as the voice actor for Aku since he's dead now.

@93BlackHawk93: Just sent an invite

For the first time ever, I finished Persona 3: FES.

It's a great game, but it has way too many issues to be even considered in the same league as Persona 4. That ending, though.

Well maybe I'll try doing that then. I expect your commentary moving forward, and I expect you to call me a moron for any and all moronic comments I might make. :P

@Zassimick: Seriously, though. That ending.

You ever completed it?

Nada. I'm working on it in the Portable version... slowly. Considering jumping to FES instead but... eh. I know it's better but I need to buy it again then.

@Zassimick: That, and you'd lose all your progress.

Plus Persona 3 is a grind, I suppose Portable helps make it less of one.

It looks like I did okay.

I might have to try it out.... eventually...

I would have done that without permission lol

We can be a tag team zass, i'll double down and be less positive about modern video games.

LOL I suppose you would have.

Alright, let's good cop/bad cop System Wars. You'll start a thread with all these truths. Then I'll come in:

Then you come back in.

It will be great!

Or I'll just try creating more threads.