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[Mantastic]

If we buy it now do we have to buy it again when it's properly released?

Nah.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

If we buy it now do we have to buy it again when it's properly released?

Nope. Its an unfinished game, but updates will be frequent and new things will become available as it edges closer to its full release.

I played the free trial and really liked it so I caved and spent the $39.

Very interesting game I must say.

 

[Ry009]

Yeah really nice art style, assuming it's one of those games where you go as far as you can, not a fully fledged open world sandbox?

For me hard to compare it to something else. Bit like a more fleshed out Stanley Parable, Portal type gameplay mixed with zombie survival way of gathering items?

Again, loved the style but didn't do enough for me to want to get it.

 

[Premiers04]

Free trial you say? Time to download.

 

[HBK619]

Just gave the trial a go, for those wondering, it's timed to 45 minutes.

All I can really say from it, is that it's VERY bizarre. It's probably the right kind of bizarre and it starts off really well (although I didn't really know what I was supposed to do with the redacting machine - if there's any right or wrong there, etc.).

Once you get out into the 'open world' that's where the cracks start to appear in the game. There's lots of weirdness, clipping, sound overlapping and not a lot of direction. Also some horrible loading times.

There's definitely potential there, but once I got into the open world I didn't really know what I was supposed to do. What the overall goal was. In a way, the open world stuff seemed almost at odds with the opening segment, I'm sure with more time there'd probably be more of a connection and it is more story than you usually get in these sorts of permadeath type games.

I like what the game has to offer, but at this stage I think it's a little too early for me to grab. I'll wait until it's either closer to completion or finished.

If the game had the same sort of polish as the opening segment (which I definitely think it could get to), then I'll be all in!

 

[Premiers04]

Just started. Took the joy pill at the start and the credits roll hahahahaha. Reminded me of the far cry 4 opening if you just wait around.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

I thought for $39 why not, have nothing else to play at the moment really.

Agree about not knowing what to do when you enter the 'open world'. The quests pop up but there's no direction with them, so I spent a good 2 hours just looting every joint and getting into fights. I'm already on my second play through because the first one I had it on the setting where if you die that's it, it's over.

Love the crafting and the survival elements, (having to eat food, drink water, rest etc). Can definitely tell it's really early on with the game, have encountered some bugs and framerate issues.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Just started. Took the joy pill at the start and the credits roll hahahahaha. Reminded me of the far cry 4 opening if you just wait around.

Did the same thing when I played the trial hahaha

 

[Ant_]

Is this that game set in UK where everyone takes happy pills?

 

[The Big Sauce]

Sunset Overdrive is an excellent game, so much fun. Pretty much the opposite of every cover shooter from the last 5 or so years.

2014 was a pretty weak year GOTY wise, I'm surprised I didn't see this nominated more. I'd love it if they were to do a sequel some day.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Is this that game set in UK where everyone takes happy pills?

Yep. Heard it was like Bioshock, but I don't think it's anything like it.

Really is quite different, I can't wait to jump back into it later tonight.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

WWE2K16 for free??

 

[AngryRanga]

Sweet, WWE will be the first ever Games With Gold game that I've ever downloaded! Oh, the value!

 

[calyam]

Sunset Overdrive is an excellent game, so much fun. Pretty much the opposite of every cover shooter from the last 5 or so years.

2014 was a pretty weak year GOTY wise, I'm surprised I didn't see this nominated more. I'd love it if they were to do a sequel some day.

After Witcher 3, Sunset Overdrive is my favourite game of the generation. Probably the first and only game where I've happily done the collectables because it was fun just to roam around the city. Glad you enjoyed it.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

August 2016 Games With Gold Lineup:
Xbox One:

• Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate (August 1-31)
• WWE 2K16 (August 16-September 15)

Xbox 360:

• Spelunky (August 1-15)
• Beyond Good & Evil HD (August 16-31)

 

[bulletride]

Sunset Overdrive is an excellent game, so much fun. Pretty much the opposite of every cover shooter from the last 5 or so years.

2014 was a pretty weak year GOTY wise, I'm surprised I didn't see this nominated more. I'd love it if they were to do a sequel some day.

After Witcher 3, Sunset Overdrive is my favourite game of the generation. Probably the first and only game where I've happily done the collectables because it was fun just to roam around the city. Glad you enjoyed it.

Looks like I know what I'm ticking off the pile of shame next

 

[Ant_]

I liked sunset ... but I stopped playing for a while, some shooter came out or something and never got back to it.

 

[The Big Sauce]

After Witcher 3, Sunset Overdrive is my favourite game of the generation. Probably the first and only game where I've happily done the collectables because it was fun just to roam around the city. Glad you enjoyed it.

Not sure where I'd place it in terms of best of the generation but it is probably top 5 for me with the caveat of still not having played much of the Witcher. Top 5 probably reads something like Ori and the Blind Forest, Splatoon, Sunset Overdrive, Life Is Strange & Bloodborne. But I have no idea what order I'd place them in.

I enjoy how it plays with conventions of the genre. Normally when games do this they screw it up by forcing you to do the generic genre trope that they're making fun of. "Oh no it's an escort mission!" then said game forces you to do a shitty escort mission. Sunset Overdrive doesn't do that, it mocks the narrative structure of games in a way I haven't really seen done in this medium. It's funny how it came out 18 months before the Deadpool movie, but they have some distinct similarities in design philosophy. Originally I felt like it was aping a bit of Scott Pilgrim vs The World and I do see shades of that in the game, most notably the game's sound track and the visual "POP" when you kill the Poppers for instance.

It is a really well done game and probably the best thing I've experienced from Insomniac. I'm very glad Marvel are getting them to do the Spiderman game over Sucker Punch.

 

[bulletride]

Not sure where I'd place it in terms of best of the generation but it is probably top 5 for me with the caveat of still not having played much of the Witcher. Top 5 probably reads something like Ori and the Blind Forest, Splatoon, Sunset Overdrive, Life Is Strange & Bloodborne. But I have no idea what order I'd place them in.

Genuinely curious here, why wouldn't you include Destiny in your top 5 of the current gen? I know we all like to take potshots at the various missteps they've made along the way but surely a game you've put 2076 hours into and counting (yes I looked up your stats ) would enter the conversation? I'm guessing that would easily be more time than every other current gen game combined. Or is it simply a case of the social side being more appealing than the game itself?

Also hurry up and play The Witcher so we can have this conversation properly.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

a game you've put 2076 hours into and counting (yes I looked up your stats )

 

[bulletride]

12 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, 7 minutes and 28 seconds for those playing at home

 

[Ant_]

That wizard came from the moon

 

[The Big Sauce]

Genuinely curious here, why wouldn't you include Destiny in your top 5 of the current gen? I know we all like to take potshots at the various missteps they've made along the way but surely a game you've put 2076 hours into and counting (yes I looked up your stats ) would enter the conversation? I'm guessing that would easily be more time than every other current gen game combined. Or is it simply a case of the social side being more appealing than the game itself?

Also hurry up and play The Witcher so we can have this conversation properly.

Destiny I just leave off lists like this altogether now. It is easily the most dominant gaming experience I've had this generation, but I find it hard to categorize. There's no doubt the game's social side is huge drawcard. I don't keep playing for as long as I have without it, but there is something about the gameplay itself. There's a reason why I put so many hours into this, but dropped off of other similar games like The Division after barely reaching the end game.

I think my main reason for not including Destiny is because it is so god damn bipolar with what it gives us. The three raids which are probably three of the best five or so singular experiences I've had this generation are amazing the first time you do them. But then there are so many glaring faults with the game itself as well. The PvP is still the most enjoyable I've played this gen, but it is currently lag ridden and plagued with a completely unfair match making algorithm which forces better players into smaller, more laggier encounters.

So I think it is the up and down nature of the beast that is Destiny that has me leaving it off of a definitive top 5 list. My biggest hope is that whatever Destiny 2 ends up being is the 'Assassin's Creed II' of Destiny, in that they have listened and fixed alot of the BS that effects the original game. It becomes a game that you can genuinely point to as one of the best games of the generation rather than one that got so much right and wrong in almost equal measure. Don't get me wrong I think Destiny is a very good game, especially whenever new content does drop. I just think there are other games that are better, more realised games. Probably when I look back on the generation as a whole I'll put it in there.

 

[Lethal]

August update out for everyone now. Includes the ability to play background music.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

We Happy Few is becoming incredibly frustrating, I have no idea what I'm doing and keep dying of hunger and thirst.