The PC Elitist: Hurry Up And Wait

Woodsie, you should play some games with us!

This past summer I played a two games by Soldak, Depths of Peril and Din's Curse. They tend to be fairly standard ARPG fair but with some interesting twists. The reason I bring it up is that these games (and as far as I know all of the Soldak games) have a feeling of a living world, where the world doesn't wait for you. For example, in Depths of Peril, if someone gets poisoned, they will die if you (or another rival faction) doesn't get the cure. Quests will be given to you, but if you neglect them for too long, your rivals will start working to complete them. I didn't play Din's Curse as much, but I believe that quest givers can die and the town you're protecting can actually be destroyed if you wait too long and ignore the quests (especially the urgent ones). It's an interesting look at the other side of what the "hurry up and wait" aspect you mention that appears in a lot of games. On a side note, I for some reason can't run Depths of Peril at any higher than 25 fps. This actually drops down to 17 or lower if I enable advanced shadows instead of complex. This is half warning for people who really do care about fps and half a question as to whether that is simply due to the game being poorly optimized (it's not an fps cap, I do sometimes get spikes above 30), especially the advanced shadows. Edit: vertical whitespace.... I don't know why the initial post never keeps it. Maybe I need to start adding vertical tabs.... \v\v\v... Double Edit: Sorry for the extremely awful C/C++ joke....

"I just want to shoot folk...in the face" lol, I get this urge from time to time, playing a bunch of CS:GO with my brother recently, it can be quite fun in the casual games where everyone is less serious. I get the whole urgency with primary storylines thing, I'm a big RPG fan but I actually don't get on well with the Witcher games, however I got this with Skyrim, being torn between an epic main quest and also at the same time getting distracted hoovering up all the side quests and doing everything methodically, it's a conflicted feeling, I think what sells it for me is that it feels like the game is really over and done with when the main quests end, I lose all enthusiasm for finishing 100% after I've finished the main quest. I need to give the Witcher 3 a try again, I played the first hour or so and it just didn't grip me, I think too much bias from thoroughly being irritated with the first 2 games, especially the 2nd.

Haha sorry for my lack of skype latley. Always make time to watch and drop a like on these videos. Hope to talk to you soon friend.

I tried to play the first Uncharted when it came out, but the framerate gave me a crazy headache so I quit. I never tried the other games because I felt like I needed to finish the first one to understand the story. Now they re-released them on PS4 in very smooth 60 fps and I'm enjoying it a lot :) Would still prefer to play them on PC, aiming with a controller is not ideal :p Talking about shooterfix... Nathan Drake shoots tons of people in the face while cracking jokes, the guy is a psychopath!