For Honour

[Brigh]

Hey All

If anyone has a PS4 let me know as I've got some invites for the closed beta of For Honour (I refuse to call it For Honor!).

I've been keeping an eye on this game and I do like the idea so if the beta is any good I might consider getting it on release.

It will be for the PS4 though as my I doubt my current PC rig can handle anything more than solitaire (although Planetside 2 still seems to run ok)!

Brigh

[Lasiien]

Hey Brigh

I agree, gotta keep up the standards and use proper english (innit !).

Sorry no PS4 here but hope you're doing good ! At the moment I'm not playing much, waiting for Mass Effect i guess and hoping it will be good

[Brigh]

Indeed

Good to hear you are ok, I'm still mucking around on Planetside 2 and playing Battlefront on the PS4 - waiting for Mass Effect as well, loved the other games so hoping this will be alright as well.

Brigh

[Cernos]

Hey all,

Good to hear from everyone. I'm mostly playing Witcher 3 at the moment. now that I finally have a PC that can handle it. Loving it, such a stunning game. So vast too and I only have the base version, no expansions.

I still have a WoW sub active but haven't played much since Xmas due to Witcher.

Also waiting for the new Mass Effect and hoping it's as good as it sounds, but trying not to build up expectations too much.

[Lasiien]

meep, Hi Cern :-)

Witcher 3 is a funny game for me, eKo loved it and raved about it to me but i've tried multiple times to get into it. I really love the gfx, atmos and even the way the storms make the trees bend in the wind etc. But for some reason hasn't worked for me (btw I loved not only witcher II but also the original). Dunno what didn't fire for me on it but can see why people like it allot

[eKo]

Hey all,

No PS4 here either and also eagerly awaiting the new Mass Effect game! Witcher 3 is a really great game though I still haven't finished the (base) game.

I'm now playing SWTOR again (just solo going through the story). I didn't much like the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion, but Shadows of Revan was really good and Knights of the Fallen Empire so far is great (only got to chapter 5 of the 15 or so). It's got a good, more cinematic story with some nice updated graphics in the new zones, but the difficulty is laughably easy and there's no class story anymore, all classes go through the same storyline. I'm only planning to go through it all once anyway, but might go through some more class stories (Imperial Agent is supposed to be really good).

[Lasiien]

Agent is awesome :-)

I also enjoyed KOTFE, although got to about chapter 9/10 and need to revisit it at some point. Agree with you about the difficulty, not sure why they make it so simple that you can face roll everything. It wasn't exactly a hard game when it launched (i remember soloing heroics) but now it's just crazy easy.

[eKo]

But smuggler has ... Guss! Admittedly the smuggler story isn't so great, though there are some funny situations/lines which made it fun to play through. Since Agent is smuggler's mirror, I migh try Jedi Knight or Sith Warrior first though (while I like the Bounty Hunter gameplay, the story gets boring near the end as well).

[Cernos]

How far did you get in Witcher 3 Las? The story unfolds in a rather strange way - there's the initial 'dream' prologue and then even when you think the actual story has begun the first zone turns out to essentially be an extended prologue too. The real meat of the story takes some time to unfold. It nearly lost me too because of that, but now I'm hooked. I'm making relatively slow progress because the completionist in me can't bear to leave too many side quests behind (although I've realised it's crazy to try to do them all and some I've walked away from). So I'm only up to Act 2 (I think).

I enjoyed the KOTFE story too. I think I made it to about Chapter 10, when Kaliyo returns. But what has put me off continuing is the faceroll gameplay. It's just ridiculously dumbed down. I recall solo'ing Heroic Mode Star Fortress just to be pushed a bit (and even then certain classes can faceroll that). I might resub for a month to catch up on the story sometime perhaps.

[Lasiien]

Guss !! Awesome character!

I've done plenty of hours in it Cern but I think it's quite a long game so I know I'm only part way in (maybe just about Act II as well, I'm not sure). I did the whole of Velen including side quests and some of Novigrad. I keep booting it up from time to time and play a bit more, but still can't get sucked in. Can see it's a good game just dunno why struggle!

[eKo]

I tried the veteran difficulty last night (since there is an even higher difficulty) and it went from faceroll to wtfpwnd!

Went back to story mode for now, guess it's for people have raid gear and want to do the chapters over for command exp/achievements?

Witcher 3 is rather slow to get into not only because the story advances rather slowly, but also because you gain levels really slow at the start. I hope you're not trying to complete all question marks, Cern, as Skellige has an abundance of them. I did most of them in Velen, but gave up in Skellige as needing to go to harbour (to sell) then sailing back out every 4/5 questions marks got boring fast. I tried doing all the side quests though, but still need to finish the game (I'm halfway into Act 3 I think). I love how the choices you're given aren't black & white and how you cannot always figure out the consequences of your actions.

[Cernos]

There's some really tough decisions in the game and quite often there's no right choice. The ones I've found toughest so far, without giving any spoilers, were the Baron's missing family quest (a series of really tough decisions), Lambert's revenge quest and the business with the ghost of the jilted lover on an island.

And yeah, I'm not trying to clear every question mark on the map, although I also did most of them in Velen and almost all of them in Novigrad. But Skellige ... no way

[Lasiien]

I've done two of those I think and yeah I agree they were thought provoking and not obviously 'good' or 'evil'. But I've always liked that about the Witcher, kinda cool yet depressing world

I loved the original Witcher, which was kinda clunky, but really loved it for the story and different kinda game it was to the normal fantasy stuff. Just like I loved Mass Effect 1, awesome worlds and story but clunky game

So what do you think of For Honour then Brigh? Beating up all those kids at pvp yet ?

[Brigh]

I did enjoy it but not to sure on how long I could play it for before becoming very bored.

I'll probably wait a few weeks before looking to purchase it and see what some of the reviews say.

For now I'll carry on with Planetside2 and continue to wait for Mass Effect

Brigh

[Lasiien]

haha, can't get rid of that Planetside bug hey Brigh ? Awesome games, both of them. Had countless fun with eKo in PS2 especially, although unless driving around in Harassers flashing neon lights on and off and getting 1 shot by the enemy counts as 'skill' then I guess we weren't very good Listening to our platoon leader have an absolute freak out on a regular basis was also quite fun when you didn't take the game so seriously (yes, he was very much like the -50dkp guy!)