The Screenshot Thread - November 2017

[TheDreamlord]

I thought that would be the case as well, but in fact it’s not Talion fighting the Balrog, it’s Carnan’s Bane, aka the spirit of the forest. It is actually done rather splendidly! You are just helping the forest spirit fight the Balrog.

[Aitrus]

Some shots from American Road Trip Simulator The Crew. The best parts of this game are the long drives between story missions, just the road and the radio. It’s a lot of fun.

[asskicker]

You make The Crew look better than I remember it looking.

I’ve been replaying Max Payne 3, it really is a brilliant game. It still looks good, it still players amazing, the story is good and oh my god, Max his voice is just so perfect.

“Here I was, some hopped-up gringo a long way from home, causing trouble the only way I knew.”

“The real security guards had all either been run off, paid off or bumped off.”

“There it was, the soundtrack to my life, and, for a few seconds, came harmony, finally.”

“Everybody wanted a ticket for the Max Payne Express.”

“So I guess I’d become what they wanted me to be, a killer. Some rent-a-clown with a gun who puts holes in other bad guys. Well that’s what they had paid for, so in the end that’s what they got. Say what you want about Americans but we understand capitalism. You buy yourself a product and you get what you pay for, and these chumps had paid for some angry gringo without the sensibilities to know right from wrong.”

[Imaginary_Llamas]

The soundtrack is pretty good too. I had the most hilarious death the first time I played through the graveyard level - there’s a part with a sniper in a church tower, and your partner says “Are you sure you’re up for this Max?” or somesuch. “Yeah, as long as I don’t get my head blown off!”. Cue the sniper shooting Max in the head immediately afterwards . If only I’d had Shadowplay activated at the time…

[asskicker]

Yeah, it’s just an all-around great game. Although I do prefer the soundtrack of the first 2 games.
Yeah, I died a couple of times there too

[PaddyDodger]

If you look close enough, you can see my friend returning my fist bump through my legs lol

[Blackice]

Doooo iiiiiiittttt! We’ll team up.

I picked up Destiny 2 instead Which is an awesome game, but it’s disappointingly tricky to get a decent screenshot from! It’s crying out for a photo mode. Even just a hide UI button would do…

I’ve been replaying Max Payne 3, it really is a brilliant game.

I played through it earlier this year, loved it too. It core gameplay loop doesn’t change from the first second to the last but diving sideways in slow motion never got old!

[Aitrus]

You make The Crew look better than I remember it looking.

Yeah! My first impression of the visuals was that they went for photo realism in a very dull way, but the game looks nice in certain environments and lighting. More of that -

This game’s grass was not meant to be seen from high angles!

[Tritagonist]

The Crew is one of only two games I returned on Steam, as the controls felt so bad. But it sure looks nice! Middle-Earth is also looking friendly and welcoming this time of year!

I play stalker in black and white ye. It fits the stalker aesthetic really nicely.

Interesting! That first seemed a bit odd, but then I realized I’ve been playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands in black and green for a long time, too!

I finally dropped £17 for Ghost Recon Wildlands. It is ridiculously demanding on hardware and I had to reduce quite a few features (ok, from Ultra) to get 60 fps @ 1440, but it now plays smoothly and looks rather pretty. It’s hard though. I only played three hours but I think I died almost ten times.

Yes! This game definitely needs the higher/highest difficulty settings, but it adds so much when you’re not (really) able to race into a camp and have your squad just rain down destruction from the back of a pick-up truck. I’m looking forward to seeing what this Tier system is all about, but not before I finish the last few local bosses.

In any case, good to see Bolivia from another perspective!

Meanwhile, Agents of Mayhem has taken me to the streets of a futuristic Seoul.

[Tritagonist]

Koani province in Ghost Recon: Wildlands features a sizeable salt pan.

Here, a bunch of cartel goons inspects a crashed plane. Unfortunately for them, and slightly disappointing from a gameplay perspective, they didn’t notice Nomad and her squad coming across the flat land.

Aerial combat is short and dramatic!

Nomad seems to take some sinister pleasure in taunting the cartel lieutenants.

The salt flats go on for many kilometres.

Can someone call Erich von Däniken, please!

[SephKing]

COD WW2

[Blackice]

COD WW2

Great shots - this is looking like it could be the first CoD I’ve wanted in a very long time.

[asskicker]

It looks rather pretty. But is it fun to play? Is the story any decent?

[Tritagonist]

These guys have certainly struck gold with the way they’ve made the faces. It’s just on another level entirely. Impressive!

Some more Mass Effect: Andromeda.

[PaddyDodger]

[SephKing]

Thanks. The visuals are one of the few things it has going for it. The campaign is incredibly generic and the multiplayer gets boring very quickly.

Asskicker pretty much the above. The campaign has it’s moments but they are very few and far between.

[Tritagonist]

After dealing with all the nastiness of the cartel’s business in the north, Nomad and her squad head to the south-western mountains to get some fresh air. In Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

[LTK]

[last screenshot]

Credit where it’s due: this really does remind me of Bolivia. You know, aside from the sniper hiding in the grass.

[SephKing]

The first one is a great action shot. I’ve tried a few times to get into GRW but I just find it painfully dull and grindy. It’s definitely a game that needs to be played in 4 player coop but even then, my friends stopped playing after about 10 to 15 hours because they got bored.

[FunnyB]

I really like the lovely pictures that you’ve been uploading from this game. How do you take these pics in the game? Is it possible to turn off the HUD and/or move the camera around?

I really enjoy it too, but as I play it in singleplayer, I really have to play it in bursts to not tire myself out.