Game: What game are you currently playing??

[fahoumh]

Maybe if you tweak their .ini or config file..

I don't play games on my PC....

Happily BioShock Infinite has a FOV setting, and an unofficial tweak to increase the range even more. The game doesn't make me ill almost at all anymore now that I have the view set further out. I'm enjoying the game more now, and just got teleported to [spoiler]Rapture.

*spoiler*You're pretty well finished the game.*spoiler*

[Animeniax]

I don't play games on my PC....

I find I can only play FPS games on the PC, and prefer 3rd person games on the console.

*spoiler*You're pretty well finished the game.*spoiler*

Thanks, found that out on my next session. I don't think the story/ending was as amazing and meaningful as I've read. I felt a deeper emotional impact from the second Bioshock story. Still, a good game and I'm playing through on 1999 mode now.

[Xelbair]

Wrong FOV can incur motion sickness indeed - try changing it to lower one(that is if you can survive the lower fov.. if you can't just bring it up gradually over time).

[Animeniax]

Happily BioShock Infinite has a FOV setting, and an unofficial tweak to increase the range even more. The game doesn't make me ill almost at all anymore now that I have the view set further out. I'm enjoying the game more now, and just got teleported to [spoiler]Rapture.

[Xelbair]

most of them do have FOV slider. if they don't - do what Buff said - find .ini or .cfg file - open it with notepad and change the fov value.

[Animeniax]

Maybe it was the little girls you had to save that made the 2nd game more emotionally engaging. Elizabeth is stronger and almost dangerous, and I really only felt any desperation to kick ass to get to her when I heard her screams.

...a better job getting me engaged in the story, and actually giving a shit about what I was doing.

Booker's motivation to be charging about in the first place is so much less than Delta's.

I had the same problem, you're thrust into the role of Booker and his motivations are unclear. You're just supposed to go find this girl and stumble around Columbia for the first few hours of the game.

I had to read online about the ending of Infinite because it left me scratching my head.

I also had to look up the significance of the plot points to understand what went on. Once you read about it, it seems even less engrossing and mind-blowing.

[Archangel]

I just finished the original Bioshock since i enjoyed Infinite so much.

The combat felt like an unpolished version of Infinite which was a bit annoying at first but i learned to live with it, the environments and the atmosphere felt more claustrophobic ( duh ) and the enemies less varied.

Basically it felt inferior to the sequel in every way except maybe with the plot and certainly with the end, the "Good ending" was absolutely adorable i'm still smiling. The enemy's intentions also felt more realistic and relatable, i understood where they were coming from even though i didn't agree with their methods.

I see why it's such a popular franchise, i wish i could have experienced it in the correct order seeing as most of my complaints were how certains parts weren't quite as good as Infinite.

[Animeniax]

I just finished the original Bioshock since i enjoyed Infinite so much.

The combat felt like an unpolished version of Infinite which was a bit annoying at first but i learned to live with it, the environments and the atmosphere felt more claustrophobic ( duh ) and the enemies less varied.

Basically it felt inferior to the sequel in every way except maybe with the plot and certainly with the end, the "Good ending" was absolutely adorable i'm still smiling. The enemy's intentions also felt more realistic and relatable, i understood where they were coming from even though i didn't agree with their methods.

I see why it's such a popular franchise, i wish i could have experienced it in the correct order seeing as most of my complaints were how certains parts weren't quite as good as Infinite.

Definitely play BS2 because it is a better, more refined version and the story is much more emotionally engaging.

[animus]

Finished the Last of Us, loved it. The ending is quite the controversial one as not many seem to like it, but I kinda like these types of endings.

[Animeniax]

Playing Metro Last Light. I think I was one of the lucky ones who discovered the gem that is the original Metro 2033 and having played that makes this sequel that much more meaningful and engrossing. I just started it and the detail and gameplay is amazing.

One gripe is that the story follows canon from the novel as far as your decision whether or not to nuke the Dark Ones in the first game. It's understandable that they couldn't make two different games based on the decision you made in the previous game, but it does bother me just a little that the effort to get the good ending in the first game doesn't matter for the second game.

[Archangel]

Looking forward to it

[Animeniax]

Finished Metro Last Light again, this time with the "good" ending. Turns out you basically can't kill any humans throughout most of the game in order to get enough moral points for the good ending. Ranger hardcore mode isn't challenging at all since you do so much damage that you can kill most mobs with one or two shots, negating the effect of reduced ammo availability.

[David75]

RealRacing3 again.
Since I have money+gold unlimited, that makes it a "playable game"
After spending quite some time on it (thanks the under average anime season), I'm getting the hang of it.

I don't exactly know how many players there are worldwide, but on time trials I'm often in the top 500 to 300, sometimes top 300 to 100.
Recently I've been able to score top 50 and even a top 20.
But it moves quickly and you have to go at it again.

Today, I just decided to use the hood camera, that makes the game even better looking. I'm a traditionalist, I love the cockpit view. But it is not a driving sim. It's more of a high speed stock car competition. Because AIs are programmed to smash into you wheneven they can, to suddenly brake and go through the raceline so that you crash into them etc... They are even skillfull enough to lift you rear end side enough so that you spin into that corner where you try to optmize your trajectory.
Why is that?
Obviously in app purchase. Repairing you car costs a lot of time... or real money if you can't wait!
But that doesn't matter when you hack the game.

So why is it fun?
Well, you can hone your skills in time trials, you can play against AI friends... meaning their race is supposedly recorded for an AI to mimic it in your race.
Picture quality is nice
Its fluid
and time trials are addictive, trying to beat your own ghost and your friends' best times.
What's pure gold is when at the 10th... (or more) try, you finally are able to get all your break points, reacceleration points and corners right and get the best time.
Just happened today, I was struggling to beat an old time I did last week. Then I was starting to beat the ghost by quite a margin on some corners. Another step was when I was nearing that best time on multiple occasions, by gaining time on different corners, and losing it all elsewhere.
And then bam, everything connected, 2.5 seconds improvement, 2 seconds better than the best of my friends for that circuit/car

Oh yes, each car handles differently enough that raceline change a little (or at times quite a bit), and of course break/accel points.
So you have lots of time trials for each car/circuit.

Of course, nothing's perfect, it's only an ipad, you'll never get what's in a car on a circuit. Believe me the latter is just incredibly mind and guts blowing (at least in a car with serious grip/Hp).
So just get it in your minds it's more arcade than anything. The most important is enjoying your time playing it and get over the fact that yes, cutting some corners in the grass can get you ahead, sometimes by a great margin... So play by those rules, or do not play those circuits (or at all).

See You!

[rockmanj]

I just got The Last of Us on Friday and cannot put it down. I think it is one of the best games I have ever played.

[Animeniax]

I just got The Last of Us on Friday and cannot put it down. I think it is one of the best games I have ever played.

I just started this game on Saturday and it's pretty awesome. I find it hard to stop playing too.

[rockmanj]

It has a really gripping story, which is saying a lot for a video game. I bet if Roger Ebert (r.i.p.) took the time to try this game out, he probably would have liked it.

[Animeniax]

I just got The Last of Us on Friday and cannot put it down. I think it is one of the best games I have ever played.

I second this, definitely one of the best games I've ever played. If there was ever a game that justified owning a PS3 (over an X360) this is it.

I thought the ending was great, really moving and fit in well with the story and characters. I wonder if the game could not have been better served with multiple endings based on the choices you make during the game (like stealth vs killing every human), but I'm happy with the ending.

[Animeniax]

I'm not usually that interested in stories in video games, but this game ties the action and adventure into the storyline so well that it's enjoyable and engrossing. It's not like a lot of games where the story just fills space between gun fights or leveling up your character.

[Buffalobiian]

Finished Batman Arkham Asylum the other day and that was pretty good. Apparently the sequel is the better one so I'm looking forward to that on the weekend.

[Dark Dragon]

Tales of Xillia and Dragon's Crown, getting my RPG on.