BrunoTheThird

Bought and am now playing Tyranny based on the recommendations from you guys; it's awesome so far, thanks! I've never felt so powerful and feared in a CRPG before. There is definitely a feeling of 'mass' about yourself as you stomp from one situation to another.

Something interesting I've seen in this thread is how some feel the sheer brutality and violence of, say, Manhunt, is as evil or possibly more so in a way than games which allow enslavement. Not morally worse, necessarily, but so vicious that it raises its awful stature way up there. I get it, though.

But... they were really positive about the PS5 reveal recently. They've been very positive about Microsoft the last couple E3s, and in general. You always get the, "I'm not sure about this..." skepticism now and then, but that's just natural human behaviour, and extremely healthy to utilize when watching anything Ubi shows.

They've been way into a lot of recent-ish Ubi games. Those Rayman games were raved about; Black Flag was well enjoyed, Syndicate to a degree was liked, Origins was liked/appreciated in some GOTY categories. Jeff used to be way into Far Cry; RS: Siege wasn't shut up about for quite a while when it got good. They even kinda like those Splinter Cell reboots (a series most of them hate), and The Division games went down well (I hated 2, but whatever). Matt got way into Ghost Recon...

I really, really have no idea what this thread is about other than, honestly, an overly emotional reaction to pretty balanced views about a weirdly flat 'showing' of the SIXTH Far Cry game (which hinted at no new mechanics or new gimmick to pique their or most of our interests) and AC Valhalla, which most of them said looked kinda cool but it looks so much like the last two that there was little to be confidently positive about.

You gotta contextualize things. Neutrality and mild skepticism aren't the same as negativity. It was a muted showing from Ubi.

I loved Far Cry 5 btw -- the soundtrack is mindblowing, and I loved the whole vibe and characters from start to finish. I'm very much looking forward to playing 6, but that trailer sucked, and their worries of these entries seeming a bit formulaic at this point are very fair.

I used to only play games roleplaying as a goody two shoes, whether it was abiding traffic laws in GTA, peacefully resolving conflicts in Bioware and Obsidian RPGs, staying faithful to my cherubic wife in Fable 2, or embarking on pacifist playthroughs of Deus Ex and Dishonored.

In the last few years, however, I've come to enjoy my second playthroughs as an emotionless psychopath almost as much. My question is: which of them has the most heinous possibilities? Not necessarily vulgar, it could be cartoonishly evil like Overlord or the Darklings in the Darkness if you want.

It'll never crack my top 100, but it's still a game I'd give an almost perfect rating. Ignoring my reviewer's tilt, it's far from perfect, but I was swept up by it in just about every way.

@mento: Exactly my thinking, just a fun "let's see what the hell this is," experiment with no promises would be interesting and entertaining.

I'd be in it for the long haul just to see them laugh at it, but I think the post-patched game isn't bad enough to be funny and not good enough to be interesting.

I dunno... Money is tight, so I may get a PS5 on a monthly payment plan instead of upgrading my PC. I have a 1070/6700k combo, which I'm not sure will outperform or be able to run at superior settings relative to a next-gen console, especially this game. I'll wait for some gameplay comparisons, but I'm leaning next-gen.

@lobster_johnson: Sounds a hell of a lot like Heaven's Vault, one of my fave games of all time.

Honestly, we've all said things and had them misinterpreted into something worse. It's a horrible feeling when it happens and when you know you didn't mean the bad thing. This is how you handle it:

"Oh wow, I apologize; I can totally see why people saw this as a bad example to draw, I was just saying the mood of that film and how it affected me is very similar, nothing beyond that."

Done. Pin it, stay off social media for a day or two, never mention it again. Twitter people are much more likely to point fingers and have the last word on a subject than to forgive, say "all good", and get on with their lives, so do something productive with the time it would have taken you to appease everyone, which is probably the rest of yours.

I'm sure there will be more colour options than white. I'll get the all-black variant, stick it in my TV stand and never look at it again until I put the PS6 in its place in 7 years.