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Fallout 4 looks amazing. I loved New Vegas and it's mods. That's a game that for me can only be played on PC because of the awesome mods.
I'm inclined to try Witcher 3. Eventually I'll probably get around to it. I'm in no hurry though, but it does sound really good.
Yesterday I spent $100 on PS2 games. I bought Lifeline, Indigo Prophecy (A.K.A. Fahrenheit), Colin McRae Rally 3, and Destruction Derby: Arena.
I tried Lifeline out briefly and found it pretty interesting. It's the game about monsters in a space station and you have to use a mic to instruct the character. You play as an operator in a security room who's too cowardly to leave the room, so he gets a woman to do all the dangerous stuff. I'm not really sure how she knows how to use a gun, being a waitress and all, but I accidentally skipped the intro video so I have no idea what's going on, lol.
Indigo Prophecy is a pretty interesting game. It's by Quantic Dreams, the people who made Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. I like the story so far, after about an hour of play. You play as multiple characters in various scenes, sometimes simultaneously with the ability to switch back and forth. There's some variation in the outcome of events based on what you choose to do, so I like that. You get game over for various types of failures and then restart from the last checkpoint. One thing I found in Beyond: Two Souls was that the game was just way too easy. I think I had to restart a checkpoint once or twice in my entire playthrough. Sometimes I let monsters beat up on the girl without attempting to save her, and they wouldn't kill her, but the exact same thing would happen regardless of my efforts. So I appreciate actually being able to fail if you don't even try. It feels less cinematic that Quantic Dreams' other games, but it feels like more of an actual video game experience.
Colin McRae Rally 3 is a pretty decent racing game. The car damage is pretty gradual, so the car is way more of a tank than a real car. At least it is possible to destroy your tires and bash up your car so that it's pretty difficult to control and drive. The biggest disappointment for me is the fact that you're always driving solo. You just progress based on your time. I wish you had other racers on the track to bump into and compete physically with. Even in two player split-screen the other racer is in a separate instance of the track from you.
Destruction Derby: Arena is a piece of garbage. I was thinking of the old Destruction Derby on the PS1, and N64. Those games were great. Arena is a pathetic attempt at conning people into spending their money based on the success of the older games. Looking it up briefly I see that it was a marketing failure and killed the franchise.
Last edited by Zotis; 07-18-15 at 09:57 PM.