Has anyone else "gone off" games?
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Flipping brilliant! COD remastered has been downloading since Friday 7pm, it was on 76% downloaded 36GB/45GB I think it said. I've just checked it and it's gone! Installation disappeared! I've restarted the Xbox hoping it will find itself but nope- nothing! It's starting to download back at 0%.
What on earth happened to just putting in a disc and playing? A complete disgrace.
What on earth happened to just putting in a disc and playing? A complete disgrace.
P-Jay said:
Bought Far Cry 4 for the PC at the weekend, it was only £10 for a code on eBay, it's a first person shooter, but less seizure inducing than COD and all that, massive 'world', lots to do.
I like it.
Did you play Just Cause 3? They share quite a few similarities between them! Also enjoy the look the world looks fantastic throughout the day/night cycle. I like it.
Prohibiting said:
Flipping brilliant! COD remastered has been downloading since Friday 7pm, it was on 76% downloaded 36GB/45GB I think it said. I've just checked it and it's gone! Installation disappeared! I've restarted the Xbox hoping it will find itself but nope- nothing! It's starting to download back at 0%.
What on earth happened to just putting in a disc and playing? A complete disgrace.
Gran Tourismo 5 was the first time I thought the whole physical game thing was over. I bought it on release day, word has already got out that it needed a massive patch to work. You could avoid it by disconnecting from the web, but whoever decided that the version that came out on the disc was a finished game needed sacking, it was appallingly buggy. It wouldn’t have stood up to even an hour of beta testing before they’d known it wasn’t ready. What on earth happened to just putting in a disc and playing? A complete disgrace.
On my crappy 4Mbps connection it took 12 hours before it would play. I didn’t really take to it and didn’t play it again for 12 months, it took a full 24 hours to patch it again.
Thankfully I’ve got fibre now so it only took 20 mins or so to download Far Cry 4.
The way they bang out a new COD game every 12 months must mean they’re always up against it, I seem to recall it takes about 6 weeks production to get enough discs ready for a COD release, it must be quite the gamble sending a game to press knowing it’s not ready.
TommoAE86 said:
P-Jay said:
Bought Far Cry 4 for the PC at the weekend, it was only £10 for a code on eBay, it's a first person shooter, but less seizure inducing than COD and all that, massive 'world', lots to do.
I like it.
Did you play Just Cause 3? They share quite a few similarities between them! Also enjoy the look the world looks fantastic throughout the day/night cycle. I like it.
I've been out of the loop for a few years, busy with our Baby who's just getting to the age when I've got a bit more time to myself so I've promised myself a bit more 'me' time.
The 'gaming' PC I built is quite basic, it's a 2nd Gen i5 based business HP Desktop with a SFF GTX750ti and an SSD crammed into it. It runs pretty much anything reasonably well, but on the newer stuff I get these pop-ups on 'GeForce Experinance' saying "your rig is below minmum spec" or something or other. I'm also pretty tight so I tend to Google things like "Best game of 2014" back when my 'rig' was more current and buy those for a few quid on eBay.
I'll give Just Cause 3 a spin when I'm done with Far Cry.
sparks_E39 said:
That's not what I'm saying, however the older I get the less I appear interested. I do go through phases where I will spend a lot of time playing a game when it's new, I've put 40 odd hours into Horizon 3 for example.
Understand that, but it's like saying you've gone off all music or films or books. Surely rather than watching transformers 54 you'd watch something else? If someone just keeps on playing just cod or whatever it's not surprising they'd lose interest.
Over the last year I have been doing a little more gaming as my daughter has got older. What I have noticed is that a lot of modern games don't keep my attention like older games did. I haven't had a console since 2013 either, and I used to own two.
I have bought and played Fallout4, Elite:Dangerous, No Man's Sky and Battlefield 1 over the last year to name a few. None of these games have held my attention beyond 10 hours of playing. Older games seem to do that better.
For instance, I still play Counter Strike: Source when I can to get my online multiplayer shooter hit. It's a game that is very simple, very easy to play and is great fun.
Fallout 4 should have been a keeper for me as I like story games, but I got bored of it much sooner than Fallout 3 and New Vegas. The Far Cry games are good and I'll be looking at 4 now it is cheap. I played 3 to death on my Xbox 360.
I'm also seeing a lot more games being released with bugs. Now, I know that things can be patched and there are deadlines to reach, but things like No Man's Sky were an utter pain. Also, Fallout 4 even had issues for me as my GPU is AMD based.
I know it isn't me because even though I'm 37, I still have my crazy imagination and like story books, films etc. Gaming is still something I do and enjoy.
Also, I still think some games are bloody expensive.
I have bought and played Fallout4, Elite:Dangerous, No Man's Sky and Battlefield 1 over the last year to name a few. None of these games have held my attention beyond 10 hours of playing. Older games seem to do that better.
For instance, I still play Counter Strike: Source when I can to get my online multiplayer shooter hit. It's a game that is very simple, very easy to play and is great fun.
Fallout 4 should have been a keeper for me as I like story games, but I got bored of it much sooner than Fallout 3 and New Vegas. The Far Cry games are good and I'll be looking at 4 now it is cheap. I played 3 to death on my Xbox 360.
I'm also seeing a lot more games being released with bugs. Now, I know that things can be patched and there are deadlines to reach, but things like No Man's Sky were an utter pain. Also, Fallout 4 even had issues for me as my GPU is AMD based.
I know it isn't me because even though I'm 37, I still have my crazy imagination and like story books, films etc. Gaming is still something I do and enjoy.
Also, I still think some games are bloody expensive.
Edited by funkyrobot on Monday 21st November 16:46
I'm happy to say that COD:MW remastered is fantastic and the MP plays exactly how it did back when I had the game in 2007. It really is brilliant to play. I expect a lot of people have their fingers crossed (myself included) for remastered MW2 and released as an individual game. They'd make a fortune!
I highly doubt I'll even play BF1 now.
I highly doubt I'll even play BF1 now.
Prohibiting said:
I'm happy to say that COD:MW remastered is fantastic and the MP plays exactly how it did back when I had the game in 2007. It really is brilliant to play. I expect a lot of people have their fingers crossed (myself included) for remastered MW2 and released as an individual game. They'd make a fortune!
I highly doubt I'll even play BF1 now.
I'd echo that. Loving playing MW. My hope is that they get as far as MW3. I'd love dome, resistance, mission, etc on the PS4 with remastered graphics.I highly doubt I'll even play BF1 now.
I have to a certain extent, although I have just turned 50! I too used to spend hours upon hours playing the latest games, but now, I much prefer strategy games like the Total War franchise and Civilization 5/6.
I still buy the latest PS4 games, including Tomb Raider, but I have to admit, I still prefer playing the original PS1 games, despite the graphics..
I still buy the latest PS4 games, including Tomb Raider, but I have to admit, I still prefer playing the original PS1 games, despite the graphics..
I try to focus on 2-3 games at a time, maximum. Even better if one of them is a more simple 'pick up and play for 20 minutes' kind of game.
With stacks of unfinished/unplayed games it's easy to get distracted and jump around like you have 'gaming ADHD' but then you never really get into any of them. And of course, there's a lot of other media vying for screen time - regular TV plus streaming video and downloads.
Also, I think it helps if the couple of games you are playing are really different in style. For example, at the moment I'm playing Bloodborne, The Witness and Resogun.
With stacks of unfinished/unplayed games it's easy to get distracted and jump around like you have 'gaming ADHD' but then you never really get into any of them. And of course, there's a lot of other media vying for screen time - regular TV plus streaming video and downloads.
Also, I think it helps if the couple of games you are playing are really different in style. For example, at the moment I'm playing Bloodborne, The Witness and Resogun.
I felt the same after playing so many FPS games that all felt the same, I find zombies in Bo3 and infinite warfare good fun as there's nothing better than hacking zombies to pieces or head shotting them with pinpoint accuracy.
Online play in zombies is pretty good as you play as team together with the other player's instead of getting your ass whooped every time you spawned in regular multiplayer.
Currently spending some time playing titanfall 2 on multiplayer and it really is very good.
Online play in zombies is pretty good as you play as team together with the other player's instead of getting your ass whooped every time you spawned in regular multiplayer.
Currently spending some time playing titanfall 2 on multiplayer and it really is very good.
chris watton said:
I have to a certain extent, although I have just turned 50! I too used to spend hours upon hours playing the latest games, but now, I much prefer strategy games like the Total War franchise and Civilization 5/6.
You'll want to get stuck into some of the paradox games if you haven't already. vonuber said:
chris watton said:
I have to a certain extent, although I have just turned 50! I too used to spend hours upon hours playing the latest games, but now, I much prefer strategy games like the Total War franchise and Civilization 5/6.
You'll want to get stuck into some of the paradox games if you haven't already. 
I like them because they are easy to just sit down and relax to, going at your own pace and plan stuff.
chris watton said:
I think I have most, including all of the EU games.
I like them because they are easy to just sit down and relax to, going at your own pace and plan stuff.
Yup, like plan to marry your sister to her 78 yr old uncle and poison your wife so you can have a younger model with sizeable assets.I like them because they are easy to just sit down and relax to, going at your own pace and plan stuff.
Been gaming for years, and games are better than ever but finding the time to actually complete the damn things is beating me. At least with Steam you can buy them cheap in a sale & then have them handy for 1 day in the future...some stuff in my Steam library is from 2014,and untouched(now there's an idea for a thread-game you havent touched for the longest 
)
My tastes have changed too, getting more into slower strategy games or war/boardgames( just got Field of Glory & the espansion packs look wallet tempting!) , although I am doing Wolfenstein now,after about a year of having it
I used to love Flight Sims, my FSX install is 2TB,and I must have spent hundreds on add ons, yet I havent touched my joystick for 2 years (ooh errr missus!)
)My tastes have changed too, getting more into slower strategy games or war/boardgames( just got Field of Glory & the espansion packs look wallet tempting!) , although I am doing Wolfenstein now,after about a year of having it
I used to love Flight Sims, my FSX install is 2TB,and I must have spent hundreds on add ons, yet I havent touched my joystick for 2 years (ooh errr missus!)
kowalski655 said:
Been gaming for years, and games are better than ever but finding the time to actually complete the damn things is beating me. At least with Steam you can buy them cheap in a sale & then have them handy for 1 day in the future...some stuff in my Steam library is from 2014,and untouched(now there's an idea for a thread-game you havent touched for the longest )
Bought Grand Theft Auto 5 in September 2016, haven't put it in the machine yet )
Probably because of the huge amount of time I would lose to it.
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