Played a ton of GTA 4 and Marvel Rivals these past few days. Starting with GTA 4, making progress in the story but having a few annoying bugs with the mods.
I seem to have a very low success rate when launching GTA 4. Something with my mods is creating an error, but there is a workaround, which only works about 10% of the time. It gives me a dialogue box error when launching, and gives me three options, Abort, Retry, and Ignore. Abort and Retry do absolutely nothing. Ignore launches the game, sometimes. I used ChatGPT to upload a screenshot of it since I couldn’t copy and paste it, it said to check a mod I downloaded that is a tiny piece of software that installs the unlocked VRAM patch. Opening that mod said a file I am using is outdated, suggested to update it. I did so, and I still get the error, but funnily enough my chance to launch seems to have improved. I still need to launch it a few times before it works, but once I get into the game I have no issues with that.
Only other issues I’m having are just some very minor annoyances. The trainer mod does not remember your hotkey bindings, son have to set that each time for the first person mode. Just annoying, but I’ve memorized the menu to get to that option fast.
The first person mode on the trainer mod does not work perfectly at all. After using it for a while it’s actually quite rudimentary. By no means does it actually change the game into first person, it simply moves the player camera to Niko’s head and makes his head disappear. This causes some issues like aiming being off, entering cutscenes while in first person shows your character as headless (easy to fix, just press hotkey again to make your head reappear), and when driving very fast the camera pulls back a bit which is just silly looking but doesn’t distract me personally. It’s really best for just messing around with, by no means is it meant to play the whole game like this. But driving, exploring the city, getting into fist fights, all very fun while in first person mode.
I also put in a good 6 hours into Marvel Rivals. I’ll preface this by saying I actually kind of hate superheroes. Not the characters themselves, but specifically the Marvel movies and shows and such. I’m quite sensitive to cringey dialogue and I’ve never seen a Marvel movie post-Iron Man 1 that has not made me cringe. The writers seem to adhere to a very strict writing guideline which makes the dialogue as inoffensive as possible and as dorky as they can imagine it to be. If you go to YouTube or TikTok and search something like “cringe marvel dialogue” you will get exactly what I mean. This sort of dialogue is why I can’t play more than 10 minute of Marvel Midnight Suns. Iron Man immediately hits you with cringe and I had to turn the game off.
All that out of the way, I actually had a blast with it. The dialogue is very little, just some minor character quips here and there, but when i’m focused on the fight it doesn’t matter to me. What matters is the gameplay, and it’s very fun. You have tons of characters to choose from, all of which are unlocked immediately so you just choose who you want. Each character has totally unique moves so there is a ton to play and experience here. The basic premise is that it is a 6v6 third person online shooter. It plays/looks a bit like third person Overwatch but with some different features. One of its biggest features is the ability to do character teamups, where two specific characters can come together to unleash a strong ability in the fight.
I’ve mainly played Iron Man, Wolverine and Hulk. I’ve learned their moves pretty well and have been doing good with them. Wolverine has a rage meter that builds up as he takes and reviews damage, and it just makes your attacks faster, so it’s almost encouraged to jump into the middle of the battle with him and try to do as much damage as possible. The game can become very chaotic, especially visually. My girlfriend said it was overstimulating her too much and had to walk away lol. It’s a very fun game, matches are like 5-10 mins max, you can almost instantly join a new match after the last one ends (CoD need to take notes of this so badly)
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