Games To Lose Yourself In ?

[Dicehunter]

You have a PS4/pro right Dice?

PS VR. Get astro bot I guarantee it will make you smile like a small child.

Yep I do indeed, Although I really don't want to buy PSVR, I just pre-ordered the Vive Comos for 700 quid so my VR budget for the year is finished ^_^

 

[Warchild]

How come you hate Marvel?... Hate is a strong word though.

I find Marvel complete trash myself, but its personal opinion in the end.

 

[KingNosser]

Well after losing myself in the story of dying light 2 and finishing the story it was a decent 30 hour romp, plenty left to do. But a game i've waited a fairly long time for since seeing the teaser trailer many years ago released, yep lost ark online and oh my it was worth the wait for me, really a very polished game. If you like diablo which i spent maybe 20k hours in D3 or poe which i backed but didn't enjoy the melee in that game, then you will enjoy lost ark it's similar but different but in mmo form.

It's a solid game i'm level 30 atm spent 17 hours in that so far and it's not been a hard game but it's so polished looks very good for a DX11 game. I expect it'll get harder once i'm level capped and into end game, but i really like it so far and it really depends on how the end game is if it will take over my life or not. I can be like that in games at times if the hook is good and stat min max is right it'll suck away my life all day each day, i'm not fully hooked just yet, but i do really like it.

When I say polished i mean very not had a single bug yet and it has a nice look and feel to it and some decent story elements for this kind of game, some rather epic moments and big fights good bosses co-op dungeons that are simple to get into via matchmaking all very promising things overall, you should give it a bash.

I'm on mokoko server and the first day got in instantly, last night however took an hour and i expect that to be a norm for a while, there is a reason it peaked at 1.35mil players yesterday as this game is so well thought out.

You have skills can level them up for added effects it has a card system then runes and tablets, plenty of stats to work out, then collectables and overall collections per zone all giving different things that will aid you, i got a stronghold like houseing kinda thing but you have workshops and boat hunts all kinds of things to do just in that area.

So yes it has some depth in there and some desision making to be made, this is before max level so idk if it expands further once i am this could be a game that eats my life whole, give it a try and let me know your thoughts after your into the game somewhat more towards level 30 where things get intresting

 

[AlienALX]

Don't lose yourself in The Last Of Us 2. Just burn the disc and save yourself 25 hours of mental torture and misery.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well after losing myself in the story of dying light 2 and finishing the story it was a decent 30 hour romp, plenty left to do. But a game i've waited a fairly long time for since seeing the teaser trailer many years ago released, yep lost ark online and oh my it was worth the wait for me, really a very polished game. If you like diablo which i spent maybe 20k hours in D3 or poe which i backed but didn't enjoy the melee in that game, then you will enjoy lost ark it's similar but different but in mmo form.

It's a solid game i'm level 30 atm spent 17 hours in that so far and it's not been a hard game but it's so polished looks very good for a DX11 game. I expect it'll get harder once i'm level capped and into end game, but i really like it so far and it really depends on how the end game is if it will take over my life or not. I can be like that in games at times if the hook is good and stat min max is right it'll suck away my life all day each day, i'm not fully hooked just yet, but i do really like it.

When I say polished i mean very not had a single bug yet and it has a nice look and feel to it and some decent story elements for this kind of game, some rather epic moments and big fights good bosses co-op dungeons that are simple to get into via matchmaking all very promising things overall, you should give it a bash.

I'm on mokoko server and the first day got in instantly, last night however took an hour and i expect that to be a norm for a while, there is a reason it peaked at 1.35mil players yesterday as this game is so well thought out.

You have skills can level them up for added effects it has a card system then runes and tablets, plenty of stats to work out, then collectables and overall collections per zone all giving different things that will aid you, i got a stronghold like houseing kinda thing but you have workshops and boat hunts all kinds of things to do just in that area.

So yes it has some depth in there and some desision making to be made, this is before max level so idk if it expands further once i am this could be a game that eats my life whole, give it a try and let me know your thoughts after your into the game somewhat more towards level 30 where things get intresting

I had a look but it's not my kind of game, I'm honestly not that into the medieval fantasy type genre, The only MMO I currently play is SWTOR.

Don't lose yourself in The Last Of Us 2. Just burn the disc and save yourself 25 hours of mental torture and misery.

I've heard a lot of people say something along the same lines ^_^

 

[KingNosser]

level 48 atm, played 17.5 hours today really enjoyed it some of the dungeons are really nicely done, i have a boat now and at steam punk place there is a lot of good for me to say about it, but until i hit end game idk if it'll be my new main or just a enjoyable romp in a nice arpg/mmo

 

[AlienALX]

I've heard a lot of people say something along the same lines ^_^

It was truly awful. Like, absolutely awful awful.

I suffer from depression and at times I love a bit of misery but holy crap. Like, it's easily the most nihilistic game I have ever played. It's like they set out and said "Right, nothing nice or positive can happen in this game AT ALL".

Which tbh? is the only bloody reason I played through it all, hoping, praying something nice might happen. Hint - it doesn't.

If this game were anything involved with life you would commit suicide when you are like, 3.

Like even at the end when its absolutely ridiculous story and the decisions it makes for you (like having to kill a dog only for the game to go to a previous point in time to play with said dog, pet it and throw a toy for it HERE HAVE SOME GUILT M-FER !!!!) you then kill a glaringly pregnant woman, somehow not noticing her huge tummy and god knows what other horrid crap it has in line for you.

All the while you are hoping for at least some respite from this, but nope. There just isn't any. It's a infinite misery vacuum. At times it almost makes you feel violated just for even moving the controller to do things you are clearly not happy with doing. Just on the hope that maybe, just possibly, it will get better. But it never does.

On top of that the hypocritical characters just make you want to heave. Like "Bipolar Tommy" as I named him. His brother gets killed, he sensibly realises it's probably a bad idea to travel half the way across the USA on a horse and decides he wants none of it. Only to change his mind the very next morning, F-off and leave his wife and vanish. You then follow after him, and when you kill every single person (including a pregnant woman) he then decides to stop before you even kill the person you were looking for and goes back.

And then, just when you think Bipolar Tommy has finally made his mind up he rocks up on you, your girlfriend and your girlfriend's baby in your perfect idealistic life and starts telling you to go after her again

And the dumbest F-ing part is that you do just that. You throw your entire life away, finally catch up with this woman and don't even finish the job.

Seriously, it's so confused and stupid that you wouldn't even believe it if you played it. After all of that, going all the way to California, breaking this bird out of jail and then having a hour long fight with her and getting your fingers bitten off, you decide not to kill her and go home to a now abandoned farm house with three fingers missing.

I've never played such a terrible game in my life. I stopped watching The Walking Dead at season 8 when it was all shock value and nothing but lows. Like I said, if life was like that? no one would bother to live. Not even during a zombie apocalypse. If you didn't have any hope at all why would you bother?

And *THAT* is the issue with this game. It makes you hope for 25 hours that possibly, just maybe, things will get just even ever so slightly better but never delivers any of that. Like I said, I actually felt used and violated when it was over.

The only thing that it did achieve? was really make me hope and pray that really is the last of them. Because you would have to tie me down and insert things into my bottom to make me ever want to play another one.

Its worse crime is creating this false hope you have through the story. Like, toward the end you find out that the girl you once hated is now looking for the faction that Joel murdered. So you hope that maybe when Ellie gets there she will find this out and possibly will give her life to end the zombie problem and create a cure.

But nope. Oddly enough by the time it was over I hated every character in the game, apart from the poor woman who got a knife in her throat which killed her and her baby.

Good job Naughty Dog. Way to end a series etc etc.

BTW? how any one could actually like this game is just lost on me. Like I said, I suffer from depression and I watch nothing but serial killer docus and docus about forensic science and etc. All pretty depressing stuff. Nothing, however, prepared even me, a man who has attempted to take his life numerous times for this game.

To enjoy this in any shape or form? you are some sort of sadist and need locking up.

 

[Warchild]

Wall of text crits you for over 9000

 

[KingNosser]

I skimmed the wall just too over powered, but i get it was s*** and depressing

Well in lost ark there is at least some pros and cons with story, and some really fun and joyful moments so maybe it'd do you good Alien

 

[hmmblah]

To enjoy this in any shape or form? you are some sort of sadist and need locking up.

Well crap, I sorta liked the game...The story was frustrating at times and the character choices were stupid, but overall the game was good imo. Didn't come close to the first one though. I didn't take it too seriously, but you're right in that it was depressing as F. It was kind of like drinking. Don't drink if you're depressed and don't play this game if you're feeling depressed. It'll only make it worse lol.

 

[AlienALX]

The gameplay is solid if not repetitive. The graphics are truly stunning. So it's not a bad game per se, just a terrible story.

Dude I could be manic and high AF and I would still feel the same.

I've always played games to feel good. Not bad.

As for people whining about the wall of text lol? The day I become so lazy that I can't read will be the day I die.

It's a mini review. Some spent two hours on YouTube to put their thoughts forward. Which I didn't watch as I was already bummed enough. Because I'd avoided all reviews and discussion though I did watch one 40 minute review and yeah, it pretty much summed up how I already felt.

 

[hmmblah]

The gameplay is solid if not repetitive. The graphics are truly stunning. So it's not a bad game per se, just a terrible story.

Dude I could be manic and high AF and I would still feel the same.

I've always played games to feel good. Not bad.

Fair enough. I've seen movies that left me feeling like crap after, wishing I hadn't watched them. Video games really aren't any different.

As for people whining about the wall of text lol? The day I become so lazy that I can't read will be the day I die.

It's a mini review. Some spent two hours on YouTube to put their thoughts forward. Which I didn't watch as I was already bummed enough. Because I'd avoided all reviews and discussion though I did watch one 40 minute review and yeah, it pretty much summed up how I already felt.

FWIW, I read your wall of text, usually do. At least you use paragraphs and punctuation to break it up. I pretty much read everything here, but I admit that on other forums when I hit a huge single paragraph or run-on sentence I'll skip it.

 

[Warchild]

The gameplay is solid if not repetitive. The graphics are truly stunning. So it's not a bad game per se, just a terrible story.

Dude I could be manic and high AF and I would still feel the same.

I've always played games to feel good. Not bad.

As for people whining about the wall of text lol? The day I become so lazy that I can't read will be the day I die.

It's a mini review. Some spent two hours on YouTube to put their thoughts forward. Which I didn't watch as I was already bummed enough. Because I'd avoided all reviews and discussion though I did watch one 40 minute review and yeah, it pretty much summed up how I already felt.

Perhaps have consideration for some who havent played it yet, and dont need the entire plot spoiled. Reviews are not meant to spoil games. It has nothing to do with being lazy.

Besides, im just doing what you have in your signature.

 

[AlienALX]

Perhaps have consideration for some who havent played it yet, and dont need the entire plot spoiled. Reviews are not meant to spoil games. It has nothing to do with being lazy.

Besides, im just doing what you have in your signature.

OK then do so without moaning. That would be nice

As for spoilers? dude the game is old. TBH? I only held out for that long because I heard it was bad. I would strongly imagine every one has played it now tbh.