Favorite Video Games

Ordered more ram today so I can get the Sims 4 to run better, once the game is loaded it seems to run fine but loading and exiting take forever, and that's usually ram related. Created a cool vampire, they allow one to buy different powers for them now as they earn vampire points to buy the powers, my vampire can do all sorts of amusing things. I also created an alien, they can disguise themselves as human now, unlike earlier games, not sure what their powers are as of yet, probably mind reading.

I've played one of the GOW games once, lots of ducking and shooting but for some odd reason, the point of view in the game, it strains my eyes and gives me a headache. There's some games I can't play because they're hard on my eyes like GOW, and Saints Row IV isn't super easy on my eyes so I have to take breaks. Think its the refresh rate on the games, since they're so fast paced the screen is refreshing a lot, which is hard to notice but the eyes will notice things that the mind doens't.

Upgrading is NOT fun, and ram is the easiest thing to upgrade. But I was right, the slow existing and memory leak was due to not having enough. The game recommends only four but it eats up far more regardless. The game now exits pretty quick, and while it takes awhile for the main menu to load, it loads save games much faster now as well. Sadly, the upgrade doesn't make Lords 2 any different, loads the same as always, but it was made to run on lower end systems, Sims 4 wasn't.

Saints Row, I play as a female character at times or a male character, I have Cassie Hack as the female character and Hellboy as the male character, just depends on my mood. They got a better female actress to do the voice of the female characters, and they gave the female better dialogue, the male voice sucks and the dialogue is iffy. Gotta give them props, they gave the male character entirely different dialogue, usually they'll just change a few lines here and there in a game where you get to make your own character, but Saints Row went much further.

Sorry I meant mob characters, not mom.

In Saints Row, as Dizzy said, you start off as a gang leader but by the third game you become a reality tv star who fights criminal syndicates, and by the fourth you become the President of the US and deal with an alien who destroyed earth. Unlike GTA, it didn't stick with the gang theme and evolved, but to be fair it had a name that allowed them to do so. GTA is kind of stuck, can't have them become good guys in a game called Grand Theft Auto.

Speaking of games, I tried WWE Battlegrounds today, actually re-installed Steam, can we say oops? It was on sale for 20 and it seemed fun at first but it got boring as hell after an hour or two, so I requested and received a refund and uninstalled Steam once again.

Gotta give em props, they refunded me about three hours after I requested the refund, that's pretty quick.

Speaking of games, I need to re-install Saints Row IV, accidentally deleted it today, just being lazy.

Thanks for answering my questions about the games. I have never played them before so I didn't know anything about them other than their names. Grand Theft Auto is the only one I've played and it isn't my cup of tea. I suck at driving games, I prefer playing games where I don't have to drive or pilot any vehicle. I also like Splinter Cell, Deus Ex: Human Evolution, Assassin's Creed(mainly the Ezio games). On PC, I love Duke Nukem 3D, the Star Wars Kyle Katarn games.

I'm thinking I may give AC: Brotherhood another shot, I never finished but was enjoying it.

Scaling really high things to get to pieces of the pzuzle however only to fall, that can start to get annoying, but I've gotten better that those games thanks to Lords 2.

I still recommend Saint 4 even to those who aren't into GTA games since it really isn't a GTA game, its the President against an an alien empire and its amusing as hell. I still wanna know what they're going to do about earth being blown up, will they travel back in time to bring it back or travel space in the 5th, no one except Volition knows, and they may not be sure yet.

I say they should travel through different time periods until they get things right, kind of Back to the Future theme, and they can parody Back to the Future like they did Matrix.

I've never played them, they're owned by Nintendo I believe and Nintendo doesn't make their games for computers.

There are emulators that allow one to play Nintendo games on the PC, well older Nintendo games, but I rarely use emulators anymore.

Right now I'm giving that WWE game another shot, found a way to unlock the 80's wrestlers like Piper and Warrior, so its a bit more entertaining now. I'm just not crazy about the newer wrestlers, I grew up watching Piper, Hogan, Warrior, Jake the Snake, and Andre kick butt, so there's nostalgia there, these days the newer wrestlers, they just don't have the same "charm". Its not their fault really, the writers for WWE these days just aren't as good as the older writers.

It's entirely in third person and like Skyrim, you can totally create your own character.

The game is even better if you like films like a lot 80's and 90's sci fi films because it parodies a lot of them in a respectful way, it pokes fun at Matrix, They Live, and numerous others, and Roddy Piper is in the game, and Keith David, the actor who was in They Live with Piper, and also in Platoon and The Thing, he's a secondary character in the game, you can't play as him but he's a big part of the story. So there's an entire mission that pays homage to They Live, which is cool.

The 4th game has Duke Nukem 3D humor and some of the aliens remind me of the aliens in DN3D...

As for Assassins Creed, Ezio was such a bad a*s but one thing I don't get, there's a two year gap between his dad and brothers execution and when he goes back to talk to Da Vinci. I don't recall them ever saying what he did for two years at his uncles place, I remember getting to the uncles place, learning some moves, assassinating the young guy, then taking off back to the uncles and then two years is gone. I must have blinked or something where it explains where that two years went. Brotherhood is pretty damn good as well, its my 2nd favorite, but after Ezio, the series just didn't do it for anymore. It has to do with the historical stuff behind it, the historical stuff during the Ezio era kept me interested, the historical stuff after, it was overly repetitive because its been used in other games.