Butcher, if you're considering Fallout 3, consider getting New Vegas instead. It's an all-around better game in my opinion. Truer to the feel of the original games, with a more interesting setting and a built-in hardcore mode.
I enjoyed Skyrim more than either, though.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes with the wife on PS 3. Pretty fun and LOVE the gameplay.
Butcher, if you're considering Fallout 3, consider getting New Vegas instead. It's an all-around better game in my opinion. Truer to the feel of the original games,
Skyrim looks sexy as all hell, I just felt that maybe a break from the fantasy genre would be nice.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes with the wife on PS 3. Pretty fun and LOVE the gameplay.
My games were interrupted by the hot new game "Let's move to a new house and paint everything"
It's rather boring and I have serious issues with the pacing.
F-, would not recommend.
Has anyone tried the Marvel MMO? I'm curious, and I've gotten used to the F2P model (see AoC/STO/Neverwinter/etc.) but I can't tell if this is more of an Aion/EVE PvP fest or a theme park MMO.
Do you mean Marvel Heroes? It's not an MMO, it's Diablo 2 with an Avengers skin on it.
It's okay, it's a lot better than it was, but it has a ridiculous amount of microtransactions in it. In game, it's fine, there are powers and you use them and bad guys fall over and drop stuff for you, like a street thug might just happen to be carrying a suit of cosmic Iron Man armour and you'll be like "...huh".
So it's kinda fun, but very spendy.
Okay, so it's a Diablo clone more than a WoW clone. Is it really multiplayer, then?
Okay, so it's a Diablo clone more than a WoW clone. Is it really multiplayer, then?
I just got through Hotline Miami.
That game isn't suitable for, like, anyone. It's a murder-sim straight out of the 80's: huge chunky sprites, lots of screen tearing, everything executed in garish shades of neon.
But the melee combat, oh now that is the thing; it's all in the timing and the distance, but one hit kills (Either you or your opponent, depending on who gets the hit). It's about rapid-fire knife duels, darting in for that quick kill, dashing around corners and hoping there isn't a shotgunner watching over your target. It's about picking your fights, playing smart, and always being in the right place at the right time. It's about planning the next two seconds of bloody violence and then executing it, flawlessly. It's about constant restarts as you learn the best angle to attack the room with a shotgunner, rifleman and two dudes with clubs.
It's a horrible, violent, high-speed mess and you should play it because it's wonderful.
Finally started playing Mario Kart 8.
Holy crap.
If you don't have a Wii U this is reason to get one.
Yes, very.
Any of the 'open areas' will be filled with tons of other players.
I take it you can't run Wii games on it, just like the other two next gen consoles not being able to run older games?
Holy crap, Marvel Heroes is a lot like Diablo.
David Brevik, the head dude behind Diablo 2, was the producer on it. So that's not surprising.
100% hardware backwards compatible with Wii games. :)
Suddenly the Wii U got a lot more appealing.
What about the Wii controllers? Are you locked into that new, screen driven thing?
The gamepad is the main controller (and does some cool stuff*) but it works with all Wii peripherals and has a pretty good "pro controller" that looks like an x-box controller.
They also just announced a Gamecube controller adapter.
It's obviously up to each game what controllers you can use but so far they seem pretty flexible.
*the coolest thing the gamepad lets you do IMHO is off-tv play. Someone else wants to use the TV? No worries just play on the gamepad for a while.
As long as you can use the Wii controllers for Mario Kart 8, I'm fine with that.
cool pic
Anyone picked up anything worthwhile?
Well, apparently there's a huge Steam sale going on.
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Anyone picked up anything worthwhile?
Here's another one that caught my eye: Broforce (http://www.broforcegame.com/). I think our own Imperator was the one who drew my attention to it.
Game Grumps playthrough:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1maBTM4Z4Ro
I should really do something more productive with my time than play games and f around on the internet :)
Huh. Oddly I find it easier to budget my time playing games and I feel like less of a useless pile of shit than when I waste an evening on forums/Facebook/reddit/etc...
Broforce, being beta ("the Brototype") I've already cleared, more than once. I should give the multiplayer and community-built levels a spin some day.
Broforce is ace.
I'm replaying Saint's Row 3 (Again), just because of how much fun it is. Still. Despite having played through it all at least five times now.
I've started characters in both Borderlands 2 (so much fun) and Skyrim (awesome immersive bastard of a game) and I'm not sure which one to play through first.
Does Skyrim have a pony made of diamonds? A real, live pony made of diamonds? And even if it did, is it named Butt Stallion? No?
Does Skyrim have a section (okay, DLC) that is based on people in the game playing a roleplaying game run by a psychotic ten-year-old? No?
I think I have made the choice clear.
Does Skyrim have a pony made of diamonds? A real, live pony made of diamonds? And even if it did, is it named Butt Stallion? No?
IDK, I thought Borderlands 1/2 had too much "wacky humour" and not enough faceshooting (I am aware it features a lot of faceshooting; I like those bits). It's shit in a different way to, say, Diablo 3's storyline, but it's still shit.
If you are on PC with Skryim, do yourself a favor and check out Skyrim Nexus. Tons and tons of mods that greatly improve the game (and some that are pretty bad). If nothing else, install the unofficial Skyrim patch, which fixes a LOT of bugs.
Your words of wisdom have really gotten to me. Aw crap. :D
I've started with Sal the Gunzerker and I've just killed Captain Flynt. But since I mostly play as a sniper (Gunzerking with two pistols when rushed or facing a big bad), I wonder whether I should be playing Zero the Assassin instead.
I loved playing Axton and it is awesome as Hell.
Did my first Skyrim dungeon yesterday (Bleak Falls Temple). I am hard pressed to remember what was the last time I felt so immersed in a videogame. Fucking awesome.
Also made me wonder whether I should pick up Legend of Grimrock after all.
I actually think it's a neat contrast to Skyrim (and Diablo III,for that matter) which take themselves so goddamn seriously all the time.
I am playing Spec Ops: The Line. Very interesting story, average third-person shooter. But is nice, is Apocalypse Now in Dubai. Well done, very well done.
Is anyone playing Marvel Heroes 2015? It is Free to Play, but not really. Looking for a supergroup.
I actually think it's a neat contrast to Skyrim (and Diablo III,for that matter) which take themselves so goddamn seriously all the time.
Legend of Grimrock is fucking awesome. Do yourself a favor and get it.
I am playing Spec Ops: The Line. Very interesting story, average third-person shooter. But is nice, is Apocalypse Now in Dubai. Well done, very well done.
Considering the Diablo franchise's main problem was the story depth (compared to the competition of Baldur's Gate), I'm often amused by how seriously Blizzard takes themselves with Diablo.
They certainly don't have that issue of being too serious with WoW. (Although I wish they did, because it would mean less "WTF??" moments in a storyline, like going from faux-medieval environment in Vanilla through Wrath to an epic Apocalypse Now moment in the Alliance intro Mists questline a few short game years later.)
I mostly agree with your assessment
Diablo III is such a huge wasted opportunity. Fun gameplay, horrid fluff. I mean, the basic idea is okay, but the implementation is awful and the dialogues makes me cringe.
WoW has always been moderately silly, but again, since Cataclysm its humorous moments, like everything else about um, seem to be getting increasingly dumb.
So many games nowadays are ruined by absolutly needless fluff. Diablo 3 would have been just fine with no explicit story at all IMO.
Don't get me wrong, I don't need story to enjoy a videogame. But I like having it around.
I don't even expect it to be particularly good. I mean, I think WoW's (pré-Cataclysm anyway) is as good as, I don't know, your average Saturday morning cartoon or the sillier Star Trek episodes. It's not haute literature and it doesn't have to be. It's entertaining and that's all it has to be. Hell, I found even the much-maligned Neverwinter Nights original campaign somewhat entertaining.
Diablo 3's is not even that. It brings to mind a particularly crap grimdark comic or anime. It flies at the speed of light through So Bad It's Good territory and straight into So Bad It's Horrible.
So many games nowadays are ruined by absolutly needless fluff. Diablo 3 would have been just fine with no explicit story at all IMO.
Story-games fever has infected PC gaming nowadays, that's for sure.
Has anyone else tried the latest Wolfenstein? It's basically a story/puzzle game with some first person shooter elements to it. I kept finding myself frustrated at the brief shooting episodes...then back to freakin' story and puzzles.
On the other hand, I love how Borderlands 2 handled the story. It's a really good story, but you quite often will be shooting things while listening to the story. It might be more fair to say Borderlands 2 is an Easter Egg Hunt with first person shooter elements...but it never forgets it's a shooter, which happens all too often in Wolfenstein.
Story-games fever has infected PC gaming nowadays, that's for sure.
Has anyone else tried the latest Wolfenstein? It's basically a story/puzzle game with some first person shooter elements to it. I kept finding myself frustrated at the brief shooting episodes...then back to freakin' story and puzzles.
On the other hand, I love how Borderlands 2 handled the story. It's a really good story, but you quite often will be shooting things while listening to the story. It might be more fair to say Borderlands 2 is an Easter Egg Hunt with first person shooter elements...but it never forgets it's a shooter, which happens all too often in Wolfenstein.
That so? I have only heard good things about Wolfenstein and was eager to play it.
the whole game, I doubt there's any shooting sequence that takes more than 10 continuous minutes to play through.
The graphics are awesome, the story is good, but I really thought I was buying a shooter.
There's a "throwback" where you get to play, more or less, the original Wolfenstein game in a dream sequence.
"YES," I thought as I played it, "I finally get to shoot some nazis!"
I've been playing Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes (4x Fantasy Strategy Game with Tactical Combat) and State of Decay (Zombie Survival RPG) the most lately. I'm positively addicted to FE:LH, but I think SoD was really fun as well.
Hmm, Fallen Enchantress sounds cool. I could swear I've played a Stardock game before, too, but can't remember it.
Just finished Spec Ops: The Line. Really powerful stuff, great ending. I recommend it.
If you like 4x games, you probably played one of the editions of Galactic Civilizations
I've heard really good things about this, it's definitely on my to-buy list. I like personal focused games that get really dark.
I miss the original Master of Orion.
I'm another MoO player, though 4x'ers I had to sort of give up because they became addictive.
I miss the original Master of Orion.
I used to Moo2 back in the day. There just hasn't been a good 4x space game that's done as well.
Endless Space is the closest I've seen, and it's pretty good.
I agree, Endless Space is the best modern space 4x, hands down.
A modernized MOO2 would be just fantastic, but really MOO2 still holds it's own.
It's the Paradox games for me, that and Civ 4. Gods, the hours, the hours.
C3C, plus mods from like civ fanatics, I had to quit, way too much "just another hour", I looked at C4&5 nervously and said no. Paradox is good, so are the Matrix ones, spent way too much time on Starships Unlimited, even though it was quite limited; it is an evil day when I can find a game where I can design starships and have them fight it out.
Gratuitous Space Battles...
I bought a cheap 360 from a colleague
I used to be a 360 fanboy, but I've almost completely switched to the PS3 for my secondhand scrounging now. You can get an old SKU for less than $130 here, and the only difference in SKUs (practically) is the hard drive size, and that's easily upgradeable. Plus multiplayer's free.
With the money a used 360 would cost me I've given away multiple PS3 refurbs to friends just so I have people to co-op with :-)
I'm about to look at D&D Online the MMO thing that is free.
1) Because I am casual
2) And cheap
3) And own a Mac (no PC-Master race for gaming here)
I expect I will play it for an hour or so then uninstall it like I do every game. I eventually realise that what I actually want is a really good book to read! I wait to be surprised.
D&DO is really group-based. Neverwinter is more WoW-y. Maybe there are subtleties I've missed, I don't know, the core gameplay didn't entertain me.
Obviously, being F2P, if you're not willing to pay up, don't expect to get past either game's totally-not-a-paywall in a reasonable time, or be allowed any nice things.
I agree with the "wake up, smash 6 crates and kill 10 evil-things" ethos getting more-than-boring after so many iterations.
I played WoW for years during interludes from my addiction with MUDs but they never quite have the same "grip".
Thanks for the welcome! Always been a bit of a lurker but only now decided to make an account.
Honestly, I loved WoW when it started and even up til the Cataclysm Expansion; I think this is the point where they decided that casual gaming was a very real revenue stream they weren't capitalising on. And as a consequence simplified and streamlined much further than was (imo) necessary.
I like when things are challenging and levelling used to be challenging enough to enjoy the storyline and also provide enough varied levelling zones that levelling alts felt like an entirely new experience.
With the majority of development centred around endgame now, it feels like players are tunnelvisioned into levelling as fast as possible, leaving all of the rich scenery and 75% of the entire gameworld behind so they can hit 90 and start gearing up for raiding.
Thanks for the welcome! Always been a bit of a lurker but only now decided to make an account.
Honestly, I loved WoW when it started and even up til the Cataclysm Expansion; I think this is the point where they decided that casual gaming was a very real revenue stream they weren't capitalising on. And as a consequence simplified and streamlined much further than was (imo) necessary.
I like when things are challenging and levelling used to be challenging enough to enjoy the storyline and also provide enough varied levelling zones that levelling alts felt like an entirely new experience.
With the majority of development centred around endgame now, it feels like players are tunnelvisioned into levelling as fast as possible, leaving all of the rich scenery and 75% of the entire gameworld behind so they can hit 90 and start gearing up for raiding.
WoW was interesting for me until I had to go through the whole "Burning Crusade" section.
Thanks for the welcome! Always been a bit of a lurker but only now decided to make an account.
Honestly, I loved WoW when it started and even up til the Cataclysm Expansion; I think this is the point where they decided that casual gaming was a very real revenue stream they weren't capitalising on. And as a consequence simplified and streamlined much further than was (imo) necessary.
I like when things are challenging and levelling used to be challenging enough to enjoy the storyline and also provide enough varied levelling zones that levelling alts felt like an entirely new experience.
With the majority of development centred around endgame now, it feels like players are tunnelvisioned into levelling as fast as possible, leaving all of the rich scenery and 75% of the entire gameworld behind so they can hit 90 and start gearing up for raiding.
WoW was interesting for me until I had to go through the whole "Burning Crusade" section. This is pre-WoTLK in a period between the two expansions. I was enjoying the first 20 - 30 levels, then it dragged. Then everyone hyped raids, end game content and the rest of it. I tried and it bored me. I went to some RP servers, but the RP was either non-existent or deeply entrenched in canonical back story. The WoW canon is not actually something I really dig/dug. Plus you could not actually affect things. You could set up shop in an inn, and use it as a base of operations, but it was still a public space offered at the whim of Blizzard or whoever.
I would love to explore some RP in Second Life, and some other virtual spaces, but it is so freeform that I might as well play via skype or something (Or meta-game and RP using avatars sitting at a table in Second Life).
Leveling game? What leveling game?
While I freely admit that there's a lot of weirdness and "WTF??" associated with real history, WoW's fictional history a) feels like a total mashup, b) reads like a David Eddings novel where it's all the people at the top doing all of the important stuff, and c) has gone so far off the rails of the "D&D-style medieval game" into steampunk with some medieval trappings that I feel that certain classes should have been made completely obsolete by technology (like the Warrior).
WoW's lore is a guilty pleasure for me
I just had a quick look at Strife (https://strife.com/) (which is open beta now)
Nope. Not my cup of tea. I got past the first demo combat, wanted to exit and couldn't. There is no way to exit the game whilst in "training" mode.
Looked nice, the character had a British accent. You click buttons to hit things. I don't want to click buttons to hit things. I must accept that I am not a computer game player.
I don't think I've ever played a computer game where you don't have to click a button to hit something, whether it's a "how quick can you click" first person shooter or a "I move this stack to attack that stack" turn based game.
Heh, button click ballet is a very nicely romanticised version of WoW's raiding. (That is not a criticism, the ability to romanticise gameplay that way is something I find engaging and quite appreciative).
I was more of a PVPer myself and that went from ballet into something off the charts at times - although this somewhat touches on another immersion-breaking part of the game for me.
The fact that every single player so utterly scientifically either wants to or is forced to by their teams, to break down every component of skills and abilities that are meant to have flavour and some degree of roleplaying relevance, into numbers and timers and percentages - that really turned me off the competitive PVP scene.
I think gaming of this type - and roleplaying, of course - should be art and not science and anything which stifles creativity in favour of empirical DPS data or some other such nonsense greatly diminishes the experience for me.
The fact that every single player so utterly scientifically either wants to or is forced to by their teams, to break down every component of skills and abilities that are meant to have flavour and some degree of roleplaying relevance, into numbers and timers and percentages - that really turned me off the competitive PVP scene.
I think gaming of this type - and roleplaying, of course - should be art and not science and anything which stifles creativity in favour of empirical DPS data or some other such nonsense greatly diminishes the experience for me.
Yeah that was mainly commentary on WoW's PVP more than me having unrealistic expectations out of a millions-of-players-playing MMO.
Haven't logged into WoW for several weeks now as I'm back in Avalon, the text MUD which is an entirely different experience.
My recent find, via gog.com - Dungeon Keeper 2! It was $6. I can slap imps again and kill dwarves who invade my sanctum.
The just don't make games like that anymore...
Really WoW, the pandas killed it for me. Just one straw too many.
I was deep into it, too. Guild leader, raid leader, etc. I even leveled a rogue to 85 solely via Pvp. He has fewer than 20 quests completed, and a fair-to-middling Arena record.
My recent find, via gog.com - Dungeon Keeper 2! It was $6. I can slap imps again and kill dwarves who invade my sanctum.
The just don't make games like that anymore...
I'm also guilty of the "leveling via PvP" phenomenon, having done it with a Warlock in Cata and a Rogue in Mists. And naturally, after I switch to a new main (Rogue) for Mists, they completely redo the Warlock and move them from being "Rogue chow" to the top five for dps in BGs.
Add to the mix that low level BGs are ridiculously unbalanced and class-choice is often a very relevant criterion for your ability to be able to do this. Hunters/Rogues/Warriors are great at it, Mages less so until 50+ I think.
Imbalance was a factor. He had massively twinked out heirlooms. I got almost every WSG achievement before he qualified for AB.
Imbalance was a factor. He had massively twinked out heirlooms. I got almost every WSG achievement before he qualified for AB.
Typical. I always feel as though this happens to me when I re-roll. Levelling via PVP is definitely doable although it depends how quickly you want to rollock through the levels via this method.
Add to the mix that low level BGs are ridiculously unbalanced and class-choice is often a very relevant criterion for your ability to be able to do this. Hunters/Rogues/Warriors are great at it, Mages less so until 50+ I think.
And of course Healers are gods all the way up to and including 90...
Rayman series is just great. Rayman 2 when it came out was like a revelation of what you could do with a 3D platformer -- and a child friendly one, too!
It is unfortunate there are so many disappointed and disparate WoW fans. It is almost as if they need their own private server to RP on!
So, this is something I genuinely don't get. Why would people go to WoW to do roleplay, when it's not as versatile a client as Second Life (You've got far fewer options for customisation and animations, plus you're stuck in Azeroth), or they could get skype and... play an RPG together?
A decade ago, when we didn't have fat internet pipes, sure, I can see that, or doing it on a MUD. But why today?
Must have been running Horde, then. I've been in way too many BGs to not know the difference in faction quality on BGs not named Alterac Valley or Isle of Conquest.
It is unfortunate there are so many disappointed and disparate WoW fans. It is almost as if they need their own private server to RP on!
I just bought a PS3 specifically to plat The Last of Us...and I am disappointed so far. The game runs basically on rails. You watch some set pieces, listen to some dialog, run the rat maze and then rinse and repeat.
Am I missing something?
I'm playing Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition on PS4 with my wife. Really fun button-mashing monster slaughtering. We haven't bothered trying to follow the "story".
I'm watching the new Gauntlet for this same opportunity...My wife is a hardcore gamer. I suck at lots of games and also don't enjoy the majority of them that much. Hence it's a great opportunity to play together if there's a fun game out there that's enjoyable for both hardcore and casual gamers.
I'm playing Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition on PS4 with my wife. Really fun button-mashing monster slaughtering. We haven't bothered trying to follow the "story".
No that's basically your modern AAA game.
Last Of Us was just that with enough wankery to appeal to people that think games should be high "literary" art-forms. Which is basically anyone who writes about video games online.
Most games are more of the same with better graphics.
You missed the third person cover based shooting, the stealth and the cliché post-apocalyptic setting with zombies. It all works fine, but it's all been done before. I never got what's so special about this game. And that's why I play a lot of indie games these days. Most games are more of the same with better graphics.
This has been true for about two - maybe three - console generations now. It used to be that new hardware enabled new types of games. Motion control failed to do that, and now we just have iterative development.
You missed the third person cover based shooting, the stealth and the cliché post-apocalyptic setting with zombies. It all works fine, but it's all been done before. I never got what's so special about this game. And that's why I play a lot of indie games these days. Most games are more of the same with better graphics.
This has been true for about two - maybe three - console generations now. It used to be that new hardware enabled new types of games. Motion control failed to do that, and now we just have iterative development.
I see a lot of similarities between the Hollywood film industry's business model and the video game industry. Since Hollywood's in free fall, economically, I suspect that the video game industry is going to contract to mobile and indie games almost exclusively within a few years, once all the AAA stuff falls out of the pipeline.
Yup basically since the PS2 we've been tredding water.
It always cracks me up to bodyscan people for contraband. Those things only happen in dictatorships. ;)
The problem is that AAA-level development is so expensive now that nobody wants to take a risk on something that isn't a 100% proven concept
I finished Sonic Generations and I have to admit I'm pleasantly surprised. It all worked fairly well. The gameplay was varied and interesting, the level design was competent and it was paced really well.
My one big nitpick is the boss battles took way to long. Just tedious.
I don't remember how I discovered Sonic Generations. I think I saw videos of it and thought "that doesn't look bad at all for a modern Sonic game." I picked it up cheap, and I generally like it.
But the "modern sonic" stages really kill my buzz. I enjoy the "classic sonic" stages, and think they're much better than Sonic 4 (which I hated), at least comparable to Sonic CD (which I think is the weakest of the good Sonic games), but still nowhere near Sonic 1 and 2 in quality or tone.
In the land of Sega basic competence looks like brilliance.
I always kinda wish someone at Sonic Team had just went to Nintendo and asked for help with 3D cameras. I like the speed-tricks-combos-ratings style of 3D Sonics (Even if it can be a little like a rhythm game at points), but Sonic also always had some solid exploration in it, it was never just "hold right to win". They don't seem to have hit that balance; recent Sega seems to be able to make games that go fast or games that go slow, but not mix the two.
I should go back and finish Generations; it was good.
Also, Sonic's stupid friends were better when they couldn't tell us about their stupid problems. He can have his stupid friends, and they can be playable (Gunbunny Tails would be fun in 2D, Amy is fun), as long as they shut the hell up and just do Sonic's levels.
Have you tried the GBA games? They're no S3&K, but they're enjoyable.
Finally beat sonic lost world.
It's not good but once you get the hang of it it's not bad either aside from a few questionable levels and pretty poor controls.
Overall 5/10. With better controls it might get a 6. If all the levels were like the best ones it would be a 7-8.
EDIT:
Good lord I'm actually considering playing all the 3D sonic titles *shudder*
If you're considering that, then you ought to read Sonic fanfic. That ought to make you drop playing those games.
Backed Wasteland 2 when the kickstarter came up, just started playing it now that it's gone gold. It is without question one of the most old school CRPGs I've played in five years. Poke your nose the wrong direction or play stupid and it WILL kill you. Five times to my current count.
Feels a lot like playing a fallout game with a whole lot more characters and far better companion AI, even when followers do lose their shit. Follower personality is definitely a thing, story is interesting and the characters all seem rather savy about it when not panicking.
Play smart and it's a hell of a game. Now let's see if I can gank the prick that offed my party last night, I have heavy weapons for a reason.
I want to play wasteland 2 so badly but with a new baby in the house long form games are just not in the cards right now :/
Just look at the fanart, same effect, much faster.
Gah.
I try not to look at fanart at all, after I came across fanart for Thrall and Jaina. And High Inquisitor Whitemane.
The sonic fanbase is basically the worst thing in the world in every possible way.
Anyone familiar with Wakfu (http://www.wakfu.com/en/mmorpg)?
Its an isometric, turn-based, anime-themed, fantasy MMO.
I played out the training and first quest last night. Nice sedate pace for me! Turn-based combat is a real change from WoW button mashing.
One interesting thing I haven't been aware of in games is that with this one you can affect the ecosystem. If you kill too many creatures without stocking them later with professions, skills and so on, they die out!
The idea of a turn-based MMORPG intrigues me because I for one am fucking sick of rushing through dungeons and raids.
But the art, ewgh. It's like someone reached inside my head, took everything I hate about East Asian pop art in the anime/manga tradition and crafted something to spite me with laser-like precision.
And I thought Tera and LoL were bad enough.
Yeah, I can see how it might grate. I need to research and see if it is "anime" for "Western" audiences of "domestic" audiences. It might be quite telling.
Edit: aaaah. A French company making MM0s "in the style of". At least at first glance.
Yeah, I can see how it might grate. I need to research and see if it is "anime" for "Western" audiences of "domestic" audiences. It might be quite telling.
Edit: aaaah. A French company making MM0s "in the style of". At least at first glance.
Makes sense. I've had similar reactions to anime/manga-influenced Euro art before.
No indictment of the game itself, mind you. But aesthetics is a huge part of what draws me to (or turns me off of) a game.
The idea of a turn-based MMORPG intrigues me because I for one am fucking sick of rushing through dungeons and raids.
But the art, ewgh. It's like someone reached inside my head, took everything I hate about East Asian pop art in the anime/manga tradition and crafted something to spite me with laser-like precision.
And I thought Tera and LoL were bad enough.
Steam says I have 2,464 hours of Dota 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s).
I regret nothing... :o
The Secret World.
Defiance.
The Secret World.
Skyrim. Lots of the latter when my friends are unavailable for the other two.
Damn, and I thought my 1311 hours of Team Fortress 2 were excessive. :eek:
Borderlands 2 playthrough with the wife still going strong.
We're level 26 (Commando and Mechromancer) and, I figure, 75% or 80% of the way through the main quest line. Currently doing the Lynchwood side quests and debating whether to tackle any DLC before finishing the core storyline.
I hadn't Played a FPS in about a decade and I'd totally forgotten how fun those games can be. Throw in the CRPG-like structure of quests, levels and skills, and it's become downright addictive.
The new game — Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel — is scheduled for release this Friday. I haven't even finished BL2 and I've already preordered. That's how great this friggin' game is.
I'll probably just totally play through as a commando again at level 1, then hopefully the price on the pre-sequel will drop to something I won't mind playing.
I took advantage of the Origin freebie to land Dragon Age: Origins.
Amazingly enough, I never bothered picking the game up until now, although the omnipresent sense of dread is probably going to get to me eventually.
The thing that drove me frothing nuts about Origins was all the fights have you severely outnumbered...and then you go back to camp where half a dozen combat capable NPCs lounge around.
The thing that drove me frothing nuts about Origins was all the fights have you severely outnumbered...and then you go back to camp where half a dozen combat capable NPCs lounge around.
Currently playing: Battlefield 4. I just made Division 2 in the world as an Engineer and Recon (I can't snipe worth a damn. I'm in deep with my carbines)
SWTOR - Currently raiding with a Republic Guild - "Rebel Scum" (I'm really an Imperial - my guild is slumming on the other side because we're top-end on the Imp-side).
Well, that's pretty typical of most RPGs that I've played. It's a limitation of the genre that you can't go back to town, round up a dozen guards, and go wipe out an enemy camp.
But...you can in Origins. You just can't get them all at once. They're there, they're available they want to come with. But you can only bring three of them to the battle that's 100 yards outside of camp.
But they're available.
I started with a Dalish Elf, and I discovered on the intro questline that I could have an extra person come with me if I wanted, but I figured that was made available if I felt that the encounter was going to be too rough. Well, and they integrated his addition into the story well enough that I figured it was a one off. Is that the sort of thing you were talking about? I've not gotten beyond becoming a Grey Warden yet, so I've not completely finished the intro.
So, WoW patch 6.0 (for Warlords of Draenor) dropped today. Logging in to see what the fuss is all about. Here's hoping the wife won't abandon our current Borderlandsmania for good ol' Warcrack. :o
I just scored a cheap origional Xbox so I'm looking for a couple good titles on that system if anyone has suggestions.
My wife and I are also going to start luigi's Mansion soon.
I just scored a cheap origional Xbox so I'm looking for a couple good titles on that system if anyone has suggestions.
My wife and I are also going to start luigi's Mansion soon.
I'm rather enjoying the Pre-Sequel as well, though I'm still trying to find my footing with a non-siren character. I think I've pretty well settled on Athena for now, though I may try out Wilhelm at some point in the future. Unless the rumors turn out to be true and Baroness Whatshername turns out to be a siren. Then it's back to phaseverb goodness and ALL the Maliwan SMGs.
I'm doing the BL2 DLC as the Commando but you make me want to try the Siren some day. Thoughtlocking in particular looks mint.
I did Godus Early Access a while back. Boy I regret that.
Let's see, it's highly path-dependent with AI. Let's couple that with terrible pathing!
I eventually lost interest in GW2, but I admire lots of what they've done.
Public quests are awesomely immersive, I like how different classes use some similar weapons in different ways, and the graphics, and underwater... man
Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought Guild Wars 2.
I still watch the graphics and think that I'm hanging out with the beautiful people, because who the hell in a village looks that flawless on an average day? That said, I think I can appreciate the game more since I've tinkered around with several more MMOs than when I first tested it out.
My Santa Ranger (https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1393731_10201421574235242_1008387319_n.jpg?oh=d4a10af697f1e6c95ee36f7695d51714&oe=54E3D5EA&__gda__=1424504214_2ce73257188c90a8257b68977b53b298)
Two pistol rogues are awesome. STAND AND DELIVER! (https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10409499_10202982524578025_6970053768059050326_n.jpg?oh=5c704ecc12ccc6988b34ad88aef1ffb0&oe=54F3D583&__gda__=1420612974_46a8b06333f7b032ddbe92dae5daf768)
Guild Wars 2 is an excellent backup or second-choice MMO to play when your primary game is down or otherwise unavailable to you.
I'm on and off GW2, I haven't even leveled a character to the cap yet, and currently BL2 and BLtPS take up all of my videogaming time, but if I'm online hit me up, I'm The Butcher.4753 there. My main is a Charr Warrior (level 35) but I have an Asura Elementalist and a Norn Ranger as well, and I'm contemplating a Human (torn between Guardian, Necromancer or Thief).
I actually prefer it to WoW but (1) I am casual as fuck, (2) the lore is nowhere nearly as well-developed and engrossing as WoW's and most important of all, (3) wife still prefers WoW. ;)
In other news, yesterday I dusted off Diablo 3 (no expansion) and took the ol' level 45 Barbarian out for a spin.
The basic premise of D3 -- a hack-and-slash action-CRPG in which you go down dungeons, massacre hordes of horrific monsters and come out bedecked in loot, looking more and more like a Christmas tree with every level -- is one I can totally get behind.
What still bugs me about D3 is:
- The lack of variety in player character options (a minimum of appearance customization would've been nice)
- The lack of variety in foes, both thematic (it's all demons and undead. Sorry, I'm a D&D kid, I've been spoiled for choice) and tactical (there's maybe half a dozen types of mobs and they repeat over and over again).
- The lack of side-quests and non-hack-and-slash CRPG elements. Which wouldn't be so bad it not for...
- The bad, horrible, awful, no-good writing. Seriously. Any 7-year-old can come up with a better, more exciting and more consistent plot than the game's. This may be the first game I actually skip the dialogues in my second playthrough. So much potential, all wasted.
- It'd be nice to have an open world but I wouldn't even mind the railroad if it was a little better written.
- Very minor nitpick: lack of a pet class. I'm a sucker for WoW Hunters and Warlocks and I'd love to see a similar mechanic implemented. I kind of hoped the Witch Doctor would cover this base but his zombies and bats are effectively homing missiles.
So, if anyone knows of a Diablo-like game that does the above, I'm taking recommendations. I entertained the idea of trying Torchlight 2 but it looks a tad more cartoonish than I'd like. Is the Sacred series any good? Sacred 3 gets dismal reviews over at Steam and Metacritic.
So, if anyone knows of a Diablo-like game that does the above, I'm taking recommendations. I entertained the idea of trying Torchlight 2 but it looks a tad more cartoonish than I'd like. Is the Sacred series any good? Sacred 3 gets dismal reviews over at Steam and Metacritic.
Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought Guild Wars 2.
I still watch the graphics and think that I'm hanging out with the beautiful people, because who the hell in a village looks that flawless on an average day? That said, I think I can appreciate the game more since I've tinkered around with several more MMOs than when I first tested it out.
What still bugs me about D3 is:
- The lack of variety in player character options (a minimum of appearance customization would've been nice)
- The lack of variety in foes, both thematic (it's all demons and undead. Sorry, I'm a D&D kid, I've been spoiled for choice) and tactical (there's maybe half a dozen types of mobs and they repeat over and over again).
- The lack of side-quests and non-hack-and-slash CRPG elements. Which wouldn't be so bad it not for...
- The bad, horrible, awful, no-good writing. Seriously. Any 7-year-old can come up with a better, more exciting and more consistent plot than the game's. This may be the first game I actually skip the dialogues in my second playthrough. So much potential, all wasted.
- It'd be nice to have an open world but I wouldn't even mind the railroad if it was a little better written.
- Very minor nitpick: lack of a pet class. I'm a sucker for WoW Hunters and Warlocks and I'd love to see a similar mechanic implemented. I kind of hoped the Witch Doctor would cover this base but his zombies and bats are effectively homing missiles.
So, if anyone knows of a Diablo-like game that does the above, I'm taking recommendations. I entertained the idea of trying Torchlight 2 but it looks a tad more cartoonish than I'd like. Is the Sacred series any good? Sacred 3 gets dismal reviews over at Steam and Metacritic.
It's Guild Wars, man. Everybody's fucking gorgeous. American developers, korean publishers.
(And as someone who rolls my eyes whenever chainmail bikinis or similar come up, because they're retarded, GW's outfits never made me think "these characters are wearing their nightclub outfits to a fight", even Elementarts or Mesmers.)
My biggest complaint about GW2 is the personal story. It's a very fine horse paste on the ground at this point, but what the heck, here's a few more whacks:
The design is backwards. It starts off highly personal and differentiated. Each character option leads to VERY different stories.
Then you winnow down to one of three major groups, with a few subchoices (allied races). Well, ok.
And then it narrows down to one plot, with a few choices that turn into 0 choices as time goes on.
The focus of writing is, IMO, utterly backward. IMO, choices should open up, not winnow down. And I'd love having multiple endgames to choose from.
Then, of course, it doesn't help that the entire final arc is about being the sidekick to cabbagehead, with a magic McGuffin you don't get to use.
That's fucking stupid and the GW2 writers deserve a big slap.
Also, I find it ... bizarre that ANet hasn't done much of anything with your 'home district.' I would have assumed it'd be an easy venue for selling cosmetic junk or tacking on small subplots.
WoW took a very long time to do weather, and then the weather was pretty basic.
And I'm sitting there going 'christ, Asheron's Call came out in 1999, and it had seasons, shifting weather patterns, all sorts of stuff. Why is it a decade later and people are thinking of MAYBE having weather that doesn't do much of anything?'
What server are you on? I see that one of the ways that GW2 makes their money is that you're locked into a specific server unless you want to pay to move.
You may like Path of Exile.
At least in GW2 you don't have the capability to create a Mushroom Head avatar, unlike Aion..
Then, of course, it doesn't help that the entire final arc is about being the sidekick to cabbagehead, with a magic McGuffin you don't get to use.
That's fucking stupid and the GW2 writers deserve a big slap.
I'm on Tarnished Coast with the RPGnet guild, but I think they've merged the servers in all but name with the whole "mega server" thing.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it. It does look like what I want!
You do if you're playing a Sylvari. :eek:
This is a huge turn-off in WoW too; you sometimes had the impression you were just the wingman to the badass NPCs. The Lich King fight was a particularly egregious example.
No, not gonna do the copy-paste thing. Just pointing out the link (http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4499-Blizzcon-2014-Recap-Blizzcon-2014-Recap), and recommending that you watch the WOW LFG Documentary. WOW's community, for all the shit, is still one of the best around.
No, not gonna do the copy-paste thing. Just pointing out the link (http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4499-Blizzcon-2014-Recap-Blizzcon-2014-Recap), and recommending that you watch the WOW LFG Documentary. WOW's community, for all the shit, is still one of the best around.
Given how bad Trade Chat is, that's kind of a scary thought.
And here I was thinking "the community" meant the people actually playing the game. Silly me.
It's great to see people sharing their enthusiasm for WoW — it just turned 10, some kids grew up with it — but all the enlightened and loving fandom on Earth doesn't mean jack if people are still dicks to each other on PUGs.
The community is much larger than /2 or the official forums. With Twitch, and now Hitbox, the WOW community embraced streaming (and YouTube videos) like you would not believe. Podcasts specifically for WOW, done by and for the community, are growing like weeds. (I follow three: Convert To Raid, Final Boss, and The Edge.) Hell, there are podcasts specifically for a specific guild (The Converted) and a general community-interest show (Tauren Think Tank).
Cosplayers, fan-artists, lore nerds (Nobbel the Nobel, out of Denmark, makes being a lore nerd sexy; he's getting his own fangirls now- and we already have Red Shirt Guy), the surprising intersection of Dudes and WOW (Swifty and Bajeera, both of which are actually decent guys), and plenty of women doing it because they're both into it and good at it. (I mod for such a streamer.) All of this is in the WOW community now, and far more visible due to streaming and videos. Hell, we've got good music parody artists (Silver Letomi is the current top-act of this set, followed by Sharm; Nyhm's out of the game.), and so many of the parody videos and movie guys are still around (Crendor) that they've inspired their own fans to do collaborations (This Frozen parody is far better than it should be. (http://youtu.be/8ZcQsi5cm2w))- which, in turn, gets Blizzard's attention and has led to getting hired.
There is NOTHING in the tabletop world like it. Hell, there is nothing in the videogame world like it- and as many WOW players are Blizzard loyalists, a certain degree of overlap (especially with Hearthstone) occurs. No other company routinely runs its own two-day convention, which is also a live PPV event, and gets away with it being as much a beloved fan/game con as SDCC or Dreamhack (or, for us, GenCon). Being in the WOW community is where is action is, and I am a very proud warrior for the Horde. (Yeah, I cheered when Method won this year's live raid race, again. FOR THE HORDE!) Unlike WOTC's screwups, the Warcraft movie is entirely made by competent fans FOR THE FANS. (And yes, the movie panels were good enough to get that across; they care, as Petey does with Middle-Earth, and it does show.)
To get this anywhere else, you have do the Comic Con circuit and hope the big fan orgs turn out in strength or hit the dedicated local general fan cons (like CONvergence here in Minneapolis) and hope for the same from local fan orgs.
I'm currently playing Bayonetta 2. I've currently equipped the titular character with a magic chainsaw on each hand...and one on each foot.
Needless to say, I'm enjoying the hell out of this game.
Is bayonetta 1 worth it or should I just skip straight to 2?
God. Wildstar.
Yeah.
This is where you're getting it wrong. The community is no longer confined to just playing the game.
WoW is not an Up With People game. I've seen some nice things happen in game, but more and more frequently I've seen some really shitty things done by some really shitty people with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
(...)
The people who attend BlizzCon are the hardest of the hard core fanboys/fangirls. Of the millions who have played Blizzard games, only 20k or so go to BlizzCon. I expect Blizzard to cater to them and make the con about them, because they can't risk alienating these fans. But at the same time, Blizzard has on occasion listened to these fans too much, which resulted in Cataclysm (and to a lesser extent, Mists).
But the fact of the matter remains that the "community" of people debating the finer points of WoW canon, or streaming WoW instance playthroughs, or doing WoW machinima parodies of music videos, are a tiny fraction of the people actually playing WoW, and their efforts, however passionate and heartwarming, do nothing for the casual player who wants to get into WoW.
I'm not 100% sure you get to define what a game's "community" looks and feels like by cherry-picking its most creative and enthusiastic minority, especially when they are clearly not representative, in their openness and enthusiasm, of the average shithead that'll join your PUG and completely drain you of any enthusiasm for the game itself because he or she (and I quote) doesn't "have the fucking time to shepherd you nubz through this instance" because he's "a goal-driven farmer", or "can't believe a fucking mexican is tanking us thru this, this is a serious fight" or the ever-popular "druid tank? lol Im outta here".
Yeah, online gaming can suck anywhere, but WoW nowadays seems to be a particularly fertile breeding ground for this sort of idiocy. I don't get this shit on GW2 (yet).
Blizzard torpedoed the introductory experience for a new player by screwing up the questing continuity. I've had a couple of neighbors tell me that they started WoW (post-Cataclysm) and they dropped it after a short while because "nothing made any sort of sense."
With Warlords and the L90 boost, Blizzard has abandoned the new player and is strictly going for the old player who no longer subscribes.
Been losing at Five Nights at Freddy's.
Jesus Christ.
I've watched a lot of horror movies and played a fair number of horror games. This is one of the scariest fictional experiences I've ever had.
Seriously?
My interest is piqued. Please elaborate! :D
Holy crap. 0_o
But what is it that you, the player, actually do?
I don't know how new their abandonment is, they've been sliding that way for a long time.
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But the game I really wanted right now would be one that played like Diablo 3 (smash foes, get loot, level up, co-op action CRPG) but (1) featured a greater variety of both playable characters and enemies, and (2) had a plot that didn't take itself so damn seriously. Sacred 3 looked like it might fit the bill, but the reviews on Steam are tearing it a new one (I've never played any of the franchise's games). Does anyone have anything in this vein to recommend?
Hell, I just want a proper (spiritual) successor to Diablo 2. I've heard Path of Exile praised by the hardcore D2 crowd, but that's not really my thing.
Have also heard mostly good things about Torchlight 2, but I haven't had an opportunity to try it out yet.
I just miss playing a necromancer and tossing around bone magic and curses everywhere.
Now that Warlords of Draenor is live, I'm digging it. I was there when the North American servers went live 15 minutes early, and I got my main through the introductory sequence before servers started shitting themselves and I just logged off instead of doing my Sisyphus impression.
In the days that passed as the usual--and yes, aside from the most massive DDOS attack waged upon a game yet, such that the Feds are asking questions, they are usual--problems that always hit got sorted out (Thursday launch; sorted by Sunday, with what is left being tweaks and minor hotfixes, which is fantastic for a launch like this.) I hung out with guildmates or streaming pals in a Ventrillo server, modded a chat room for a Twitch streamer, and finished the first draft of my third novel. Now that shit is stable, I swiftly resumed play and got my main character to 95; should be 100 right on Thanksgiving, and then I can start working on my alts while I gear up the main at get raid-ready.
Started playing DragonAge Inquisition last night on the PS4. Feels very much like all the other dragonage games, so that's good I guess. Graphics look good, but not as good as the PS4 touted them in other games. Still too early to make a good objective evaluation, but so far the controls seem easy enough. I really like the ability to go into tactical mode and pause the game. I'm not a fan of action RPGs where it's more important to mash buttons fast and in the right order rather than your actual character progression.
There were people at L100 in 24 hours after launch (some of them even legally so).
You slacker. ;-)
One thing I liked about WoW was a very light-hearted blend of a lot of stuff, including some very overt Lovecraftian things (like in northwestern Kalimdor), the gnomish technomagic, and so on.
I was about to ask if people were playing DA3, but you beat me to it.
What about the storyline?
I play Star Trek: Online a lot, I'm ... mostly happy with it.
But man, I am really done with MMOs with lots of abilities.
In ground stuff? I don't know what half my abilities do, I just... whatever. Flail at the keyboard until stuff dies.
In that respect I MUCH prefer Neverwinter's design of a handful of abilities you can swap out as the mood strikes you (though there are OTHER things I dislike about NW (and boy I wish I could mix and match MMOs))
For some reason I ultimately sort of lost interest in GW2.
Link to the Past
Fuck yeah. Best Zelda game, best old school console JRPG, bar none.
Now that I've got some time invested in DA:I, I can say it's definitely a Bioware game. A lot of the same voice actors as Mass Effect, and they used the same movement models. For example, Cassandra's model moves exactly the same as Liara in Mass Effect in cut scenes and speech.
If you like Mass Effect (like I do), you'll like DA:I.
*cough* link's awakening *cough* :)
I'm giving Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim another fair shake in between Borderlands 2 (playing through the DLC) and World of Warcraft (giving Warlords of Draenor a spin and loving it so far).
Instead of picking up from where I left my Nord (Warrior, Two-Handed, Heavy Armor), I started a new one, an Orc (Warrior, Two-Handed, Heavy Armor). Damn it if I hadn't forgotten how awesomely immersive the Bleak Falls Barrow dungeon crawl was, with the puzzles and traps and undead.
I'm now torn between going on with the Orc (Elder Scroll Orcs are pretty cool) or goig back with the Nord (they're now roughly at the same spot). Decisions, decisions.
By the way, any tips on character building? I went with Two-Handed and Heavy Armor because that's how I play just about every CRPG, at least the first time through; I create a big brute, dress him in the heaviest armor available and give him the biggest weapon I find. :D I Googled around for character builds but results were more or less all over the place. Are there any sites that do for Skyrim what Icy Veins does for WoW?
The thing about Elder Scrolls is the game snaps in half in at least a dozen ways. Figure out how YOU want to be incredibly awesome, and do that. I rather favor "bow and sneaking" since I think that's the easiest way to do it all, but, seriously, just about every skill tree has something ridiculously good in it.
The thing about Elder Scrolls is the game snaps in half in at least a dozen ways. Figure out how YOU want to be incredibly awesome, and do that. I rather favor "bow and sneaking" since I think that's the easiest way to do it all, but, seriously, just about every skill tree has something ridiculously good in it.
Once I had maxed out destruction (fireballs yay!) and conjuration (2e elementals at all times), the game was a cakewalk. Not even close to a challenge, and I don't really recall ever getting hurt.
Probably the most common ways to become super powerful in Skyrim is to max your smithing and enchanting trees. once you do that, your weapons and armor are so good nothing can touch you.
Or how about One-Handed and shield? How does a tankier Warrior plays out?
What about becoming a werewolf? Should I be working on this?
Should I consider dual-wield One-Handed instead of Two-Handed?
Any reason I should be using Light Armor instead of Heavy Armor?
Or how about One-Handed and shield? How does a tankier Warrior plays out?
What about becoming a werewolf? Should I be working on this?
What, a fantasy CRPG in which crafting is not shit? Mind=blown ;)
I need a new gaming PC (desktop, not laptop) and I don't know what to buy because I'm shit at technology. I've always inherited my brother's hand-me-down tech, but can't do that this time.
I'm willing to spend $1200 - 1500, but I'm not good at assembling anything beyond the usual tower set up. I suppose I could get pay this guy I know $50 to handle any hiccups.
Anyone have advice/recommendations?
Well, my wife and I splurged on a Wii U for Christmas. It's presently in hiding, waiting for December 24th when we'll pull it out and wrap it.
Now, the question becomes, what games to get? It comes with one of the Super Mario games, so we can't exactly escape that, but outside of Mario Kart 8 I'm open to suggestions.
Well, what sort of games are you interested in? I enjoy fighting/action games, so I've gotten Smash Bros, Bayonetta 2, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge, etc.
Bought Divinity: Original Sin during the Steam sale and played about five minutes of it (created a Witch and a Fighter). I'm not sure whether it's the same-old-same-old fantasy stuff or the turn-based combat (haven't played a turn-based CRPG since NWN) or the interface that feels clunky but... meh. I'll give it another try, eventually.
There's a good and interesting game buried in here...it's turn based, and yeah, that interface is user-hostile. There's not much hand-holding here, so you might want to get an online guide to help you through some of the quests, at least until you get the hang of things.
There are many, many, trap options in character development...don't get too attached to the characters you have now, you'll probably re-roll after a few levels of frustration, going to a pair of characters that really works. The 'easy' henchmen to get are a 2h fighter and a wizard, fwiw.
Well, my wife and I splurged on a Wii U for Christmas. It's presently in hiding, waiting for December 24th when we'll pull it out and wrap it.
Now, the question becomes, what games to get? It comes with one of the Super Mario games, so we can't exactly escape that, but outside of Mario Kart 8 I'm open to suggestions.
You won't regret it. The Wii U easily has the best library of the current gen (seriously it isn't even close). My comments:
Super Mario 3D world - a 3d mario game with the sensibilities of a 2d mario game. The most fun I've ever had with 3d mario.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - a really nice semi-difficult old school platformer
Zelda Wind Waker HD - a great remake of the best 3d Zelda game. If you like adventure type games it's worth it.
Mario Kart 8 - holy shit this is fun.
Smash Bros - holy holy holy shit.
NES remix - really fun for short bursts of gameplay.
Captain toad treasure tracker - a sort of "rotate the world" puzzle game. Awesome fun.
Plus do t forget the Wii U is 100% compatible with Wii games so if you missed out on that there's some great games in its 1,000+ Title library.
Also don't forget the eshop and indie games. Shovel Knight alone is worth a whole paycheck if you at all like 8-bit Platformers.
Witcher: is a little dark, if Skyrim was too serious for you, you won't like Witcher.
Blood Dragon: ????
Remember those crappy 1980s cyborg movies? They made a whole game patterned after those, using the Far Cry 3 engine. Link. (http://far-cry.ubi.com/fc3blooddragon/en-gb/home/index.aspx)
I think I can enjoy it if only I can wrap my head around the point-and-click blow-by-blow combat, which right now comes off as a bit clunky to me.
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Diablo 3, I'm looking at you too.
It's fun to play the game for it's own sake, but I'd like to get somewhere.
The difficulty bump, at least as featured in Diablo 3 and Borderlands 2, is meaningless because you've leveled up and geared up more or less in proportion to your enemies' increased menace.
Nevertheless, I picked up Torchlight 2 on a Steam sale and intend to try it later today. Here's hoping it plays like Diablo 3 with less monotonous art and dialogue.
It's more like a remake of Diablo 2, in the same way Torchlight was like a remake of Diablo 1. There's more build variety, but like D2, nowhere near as much as it looks like there is.
Not a bad thing at all! In this case, which class would be the Necromancer?
Even the cutesy, cartoonish look is kind of fun. My wife loves her papillon pet. :D
Endless Legend has taken up most of my computer gaming hours lately. It's a very good fantasy 4X game.
Seconded. I've been pretty well sucked in. I think they took some of the best ideas in Endless Space and ran with them to create a great game.
Playing Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
on sale on Steam at the moment. Fun hack and slasher multiplayer with limbs flying in every direction and blood squirting all over the place. Maps are good though vary from great (Belmez, a castle siege with catapults, boiling oil etc) to boring (a couple of them where every step is a grind and you need to run some distance to get back to the battle whereas your opponents can mass up as they wait for you).
Also playing XCom but on Normal level, which feels like I'm cheating as it's too easy. Classic is too hard (or at least unfair). Succeed in every mission and still lose countries, plus enemies with autoflank and instacrit piss you off.
Fancy Crusader Kings II but it's nigh on impenetrable to newcomers. Also fall back on Knights of Honor and Anno games (1404 plus others) when I want to lose hours of my life.
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I'm playing MegaMek using MekHQ. It's a java based Battletech simulator.
APN, in my experience it is a darned good simulation of the Battletech board game. My co-workers and I did lunchtime matches a few months ago and had a blast. It covered all the bases, like melee attacks, death from above, etc as well as accounting for all the bookkeeping. It's free, try it out!
Not tried Impossible but after putting hours into (and being frustrated by) Classic I think it'd be an exercise in rage quitting/uninstalling, and I don't want that because I like the game. Also want to try 'Long War' mod and have Enemy Within to try out at some point which introduces mechs and others stuff I gather.
I used to own the boardgame, does this recreate it
faithfully?
Late to the party, but GOG.com is having an "Insomnia Sale", with titles selling from 60%-90% off. Grabbed both Witcher and Witcher 2 for $3 each.
They only have so many to sell of each title (generally 100 or 300), then it flips to a new title, so you gotta camp to see what's coming up next...
im playing liberal crime squad but i dont understand american politics at all so i have no fucking idea whats liberal and whats conservative
I got "windward" last night.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/326410/
An indie game (Only 117mb install too).
It's a sailing ship game where you trade, do missions, kill pirates, build towns etc.
It's in alpha atm, but it's very playable and a very relaxing game to play, what with the sailing about and ambient music.
The combat is pretty fun, trying to broadside pirate ships etc.
also it's sort of sandbox play and the gameworld you create is procedurally generated.
It's only $15, so worth that price.
oh i might look at that i have a shit bandwith allowence so small file sizes are always good
australia suits me just fine
I recently pick up a PS3 and have played a couple games so far
I'm currently lost at trying to accomplish a damn thing in mount and blade, still having fun though.
Then I meet a dragon. Melee isn't an option against a flyer, unless you like standing around alot. Magic isn't an option either--you just don't have the mana to chuck endless spells, and there's not much you can summon that will be particularly relevant against a dragon.
Amen, brother. Went off to face a dragon with my heavy armor, two-handed melee Orc and got properly roasted.
So I went off to get leveled before tackling the beast head-on. Ran into some giants (all of this west of Whiterun), wham, got beatsn to a bloody orcish pulp.
Now I'm off murderhoboing my way through some side quests and generally enjoying the sandbox. Maybe I should really visit these dragon voice monks some day...
GTA-V for PC releases next week. Talk about murder-hobo.
Welp, goodbye summer!
I'm currently lost at trying to accomplish a damn thing in mount and blade, still having fun though.
Starting from the beginning...
1) First thing you need is to recruit some followers from villages - you will be fighting and you won't be winning alone.
This was one of the first things I learned, so I decided not to do it on one character and it was rather glorious. Bought myself a long hafted mace and went to town on groups of minor enemies. Soloed somewhere north of 20 looters once, another incident of 14 forest bandits and nearly soiled myself when I ran into 10 swadian men at arms deserters. Still beat them though. Great for renown, hard as hell even when using cheap tactics, but the 100% capture rate can prove how valuable even a looter is. Well, 25 of them at any rate.
I hadn't heard of this game but it sounds pretty cool. Definitely going to give it a try.
Impressed :eek:
It's a great game but very much a sandbox.
im on a corridor shooter kick right now half life cod stuff like that
i dont have many corridor shooters
Are you actively seeking dragons to fight? Surprised if you haven't even had a random encounter yet...
Making my way through Bloodborne right now; if Demon's Souls was quasi-D&D, Bloodborne is Mordheim or WFRP.
Those Souls games are crazy! Never played them, but they look A. Really hardcore B. But also fair if you know what to do C. And punishing if you don't stick to your own rules. You really have to play systematic or else the game will fuck you in the @$$. And the lore is really well done, all spread out over different item descriptions, dialogues and cutscenes, vague but interesting.
I like how the designers make certain choices not to stick to conventions, but to enforce certain emotions to the player. For example the unorthodox music choice for the final boss in Dark Souls. Sad music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y) for a man who is a shell of what he once was. Or to make the final boss in Demon Souls the easiest of them all, just to make you feel sorry for the pathetic creature. Good stuff!
Demons and Dark Souls in particular felt like some of the closest experiences in video games to a particularly satisfying dungeon crawl.
Specifically, the focus on survival and forbearance in action. You cant take stupid risks without suffering for it.
Another recent title which gets that feeling across is Darkest Dungeons.
Played a bit of Witcher 3 this week. Looking forward for more quality time with it after an exam tomorrow.
Holy crap, this is game is beautiful.
I'm so glad you think so. I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year. A lot of these games are amazing but people get mad if a tech demo doesn't represent the final tested product--some of those advanced effects might be too much for a console.
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I'm so glad you think so. I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year.
Yeah, it's just sad. The game is miles better looking than anything else, and people are still complaining.
With that done, I'll probably go back to Wind Waker until I can get a copy of Lego City Undercover.
XCom 2 will soon (November) be a thing. In short, the Aliens won. In the intervening 20 years XCom was betrayed and shut down (I suspect) and now the aliens are the overlords, humans downtrodden and crushed between their three toed feet.
Step in the the resistance, and the fightback.
Humanity starts its battle to be free of the alien scourge (https://youtu.be/2E_-2wIJIzQ)
Really looking forward to this one...
I'm torn. I loved XCom: Enemy Unknown. To me, it stripped away a bunch of the 90s style of overcomplexity which I used to really dig, but don't have any tolerance for anymore. The resulting game was simply a blast to play. I can lose myself for days playing that one.
Enemy Within was a different story. I HATED those cloaking tentacle bullshit aliens, and not in the way I hated an impressive enemy. They were just tedious bullshit. As bad as they were, I hated the Exalted (?) almost as much if not more. Overall, Enemy Within just rubbed me the wrong way and wasn't entertaining to me.
I'm worried 2 will go more the way of Enemy Within and less the way I enjoyed. In the end, that's fine. If that's what the fanbase of the franchise wants. I can still play Enemy Unknown, so no biggie. It's just that I would really like to continue with the franchise and have a new game to look forward to, and am afraid I probably won't metaphorically be invited.
Goodness, that's some real hate on those tentacle guys (weren't they in both versions?).
I kinda wish the device that tells you enemy force's composition came earlier in the game, or, better yet, you got an inferior version of the device that would at least rule out a few enemies...that would open up possibilities for varying your tactics.
[1] Yep, I'm aware of the bioelectric detection implants, but I'm pretty sure those don't become available until well after seekers start appearing, so there's still a substantial amount of time where you have to deal with a completely-undetectable-until-it-ganks-you foe.
A sniper's battle scanner thingy reveals them also.
I'm so glad you think so. I'm getting really sick of people blasting the so-called "Downgrades" over the past year. A lot of these games are amazing but people get mad if a tech demo doesn't represent the final tested product--some of those advanced effects might be too much for a console.
Like these guys put it, there's so much involved in making these games and people shouldn't be getting so upset.
http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-3-downgrade-controversy-sucks-1705882405
Yeah. This has been a big issue for over 15 years. When developers focus on making things as beautiful as possible, it means as much work per item as possible, which multiplies the work needed for every unique thing in a game, which means less stuff in the game, compared to what could otherwise be put in in terms of gameplay and content.
Nerdgasm'd out for a bit this morning since I saw 'E3 announcements' as a topic over on the Bethesda forums and jumped to the conclusion that it would be about TES VI. Missing my TES fix and playing text games instead.
I think they're going to try to fix TESO first before trying to do anything else to rescue the brand.
They may also wait an extra year to get farther away from DA:I and Witcher 3, as well as ME4.
I think they're going to try to fix TESO first before trying to do anything else to rescue the brand.
Shortly after the game's launch, it was reported that some players were unable to activate the 30-day complimentary game time included with their purchase until a subscription had been set up and—in "a strange state of affairs" and "most likely a mistake"—after a full month had been paid for.[26] A serious item duplication exploit was discovered that allowed players to gain huge fortunes, which was patched shortly after release.[27] ZeniMax later announced that they had permanently banned thousands of accounts because of the exploit.[28]
The game was mainly criticized for an excess of bugs, a phasing mechanic that separated players from groups, and its Veteran Progression System. Zenimax has responded to these criticisms by fixing many bugged quests, introducing a new phasing mechanic that did not separate groups, and is currently working on a replacement for its Veteran System called the Champion System, scheduled for completion later in 2015.
Because TESO didn't torpedo WoW, and steal all it's subscriptions. :p
More to the point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online)
Yes, but there's nothing to indicate that less than stellar reception of the MMO has "damaged the brand", as it seems people are playing Skyrim today, people keep asking about the next ES game, and its success has influenced other games to be more open world. If anything, the brand is stronger than ever, as there are a series of tie-in lore books, a new iOS card game coming out, etc. So it doesn't seem like it needs any "rescuing".
Agreed, though it takes a lot to completely destroy a brand (see: Star Trek, Star Wars). But some installments are pretty universally seen as "mis-steps" (see: Enterprise, Jar-Jar), and TESO has had some serious hiccups during launch.
Also, see: Hyperbole. ;) :p :D
Went a little bit crazy during the Steam Summer Sale. One of the hidden gems I found was Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy. It's a turn-based simultaneous space fleet game. It kinda reminds me of a Full Thrust miniature game in that you plot your moves then both sides move and fire simultaneously.
On top of that there are systems to re-route power between shields, weapons and engines. You can also re-balance shield power between 6 facings. I loved that type of stuff in the old X-Wing and Tie Fighter games.
There's also some RPG style character development with your command fleet and a bit of story, but you can pretty much ignore the story.
It's a game I didn't realize I was looking for. Now if I could find a game that emulates the Stargrunt or 40K style table top experience that wasn't a RTS or X-Com retread I would be in nirvana.
I tried it for a little while, but couldn't get into it. Is it 3d, or is that just the display? I couldn't find any way to roll my ship or otherwise present shields.
Ever play the "Game of Thrones" mod, for CK2?
I'm terrible, I've just gotten back into WoW again after breaking the addiction for so long!
I'm terrible, I've just gotten back into WoW again after breaking the addiction for so long!
Anyone playing the Warhammer Fantasy-themed first-person slasher/shooter Vermintide? A friend's encouraging my wife and I to pick it up and it's not like we have the HD space to spare...
Here I thought that was still in beta?
It's up for sale at Steam.
People have been comparing it to Left 4 Dead, apparently. Which is okay, I guess? Never played either L4D.
I've been playing my way through the Final Fantasy games for the first time, starting with I (the GBA version). Now I'm starting IV but I'm not sure how far I'm going to make it... I've liked each one progressively less than the one before it. III just felt like a whole bunch of grinding with no story to it.
I got Far Cry 4 and Warhammer: The End Times: Vermintide for Christmas and have been enjoying them both.
FC4 is Sandbox Lite (compared to, say, a Skyrim or FO4) and Vermintide scratches the Left4Dead2 itch but in a Warhammer FRP setting.
Far Cry 4 is lots of fun, and I like that Ajay Ghale is much less whiny than the "SoCal douchebag" from FC3. I just wish your allies in 4 were less obnoxious.
Finally got around to installing and playing Baldur's Gate; had it sitting around for about 10 years. I really like the scenery. Combat is a bit fiddly though
I can finally announce a major update for Europa Barbarorum II (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?705558-Announcement-Europa-Barbarorum-2-1b-is-released!) (a total conversion mod for Medieval 2: Total War), a complete overhaul that is barely recognisable when contrasted with what shipped last summer.
Full disclosure, I'm one of the developers, but it's something I'm proud to be part of.
Play Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar again.
All Blizzard games have been under DDoS attacks due to Lizard Squad making it so, allegedly in retaliation for shutting down a private WOW server recently.
and still playing my way through the Final Fantasy games when I'm in the mood.
I finally finished Bioshock Infinite. It came free with my computer and I'd played it nearly all the way through... then got a wild hair that I missed something and went back... I think I've been through the bulk of it 4 times but kept quitting and starting over... maybe I just liked wallowing in the horror of it. It's a dark game, upsetting even, and the ending doesn't let up on that.
Been playing Guild Wars 2 but grew tired of it.
Last night I purchased the Mass Effect trilogy and will give that a try. (Choice was between Mass Effect and Bioshock Infinite. I was in a spacey mood so...)
Was a long time World of Warcraft player but dropped it years ago, a few months before Panda came out. Glad I did since I heard the game went down hill badly. Last night I saw a Youtube video on "Top 20 problems in WoW" and it sounds like the game is shit now.
Had a chance to play Bravely Default on the DS? Good stuff in my opinion, if you like the older style.It certainly looks pretty. I'll check it out.
It's a great game, hands down. And yet, while I appreciate it for too many things to count, I also happen to have three very serious problems with it:Yeah, that's just plain untrue. Like I said, I've been through it multiple times now... it's on rails and the same stuff always happens. There's only one path through the game. There ARE a few decisions that alter later scenes in minor ways, like whether or not you kill the old soldier when he asks you to... but only in the smallest of ways. There's only one ending (AFAIK).
1. It's often appraised as being a game offering multiple walkthroughs and "each time a different experience".
2. The formula of the game (FPShooter) is what bothers me most.I had issues with that too. Particularly when the secondary character decides you're a 'monster' because of the violence... despite you're having no choice at all in how to proceed. It's 'kill or be killed' the whole time and a lot of the power-ups favor bloody melee attacks.
3. ...btw, you're a Juggernaut, a bloodthirsty monster who takes no shit from noone and singlehandely decimates the population of a small city in both ranged and close combat. (snip) You're a goddamn warhero, a veteran soldier slash butcher... And yet you feel threatened by some "gangsters".I dunno... I could make arguments for the character having bottomed out, maybe thinking it was the best decision for _____. But yeah, it was out of character with EVERYTHING else. A similar item was the character of Daisy Fitzroy... who seems to be a heroic revolutionary until the game suddenly decides to make some point about something and next thing you know she's got a gun to some kid's head. I thought that was a lame way out of that corner.
I hated, hated, hated Mists of Pandaria, but Warlords of Draenor was a great expansion. If anything, garrisons made grinding easier, and the storyline was compelling for an invested WoW canon fan like myself.I actually really liked Mists of Pandaria... just not so much as an expansion to WoW. It looked great and had some fun storylines/quests. But, as always, I wished the attention had been spent on developing the older areas and making them viable for return play... like giving me new things to do in Duskwood.
There's a classic I've never played. How do you like it?
and you should, it's an incredible mod, one of the best M2TW mods, which is out of a community filled with good mods.
I got a wild hare (hair?) and started playing Deus Ex Invisible War (again), then wondered what I'd get if I searched 'Deus Ex MMO'... and that led me to playing Anarchy Online... which I'm enjoying a lot. It's a bit like excavating ruins, but it's not thoroughly abandoned... I've yet to engage with any other players and join a team though.
Warhammer: Total War releases tomorrow!
WAAAAAAGH!!!
Meh, unmodded CA games are shite. I'll think about it when someone's done a decent mod for it, fixing all the stupid stuff that has no doubt been inserted, or important things overlooked in the rush to release.
currently playing: Overwatch and Marvel Heroes (just passed the Cosmic trials for the first time! woo!)
Eyeballing - Total War: Warhammer
Anyone got a good co-op FPS to recommend? RPGesque elements a plus.
The Borderlands series. Full Stop.
I have Stellaris. Thus far it's everything I've wanted in a Space 4X. Patching should just make it better.
Will look into Payday 2, thanks!
It always amuses me that people still get upset about GTA for being a "crime simulator" when the Payday series is literally a heist training simulator.
I'm currently playing Fallout 4 on survival mode and just picked up Wasteland 2.
I'm deeply disappointed with W2. It seems I can no longer enjoy linear cRPGs.
I have an xbone and X-Com just became backwards compatible and free for Gold.
I had it for the 360, so I played it before, and I'm still pleased how it gives me the same kick the original did 20 some years ago.
Between my YouTube channel and keeping the content going on that and Fallout, as well as working60 hours a week, I haven't gotten much play time.
I have an xbone and X-Com just became backwards compatible and free for Gold.Interestingly iv been playing x-com 1.
I had it for the 360, so I played it before, and I'm still pleased how it gives me the same kick the original did 20 some years ago.
I just installed my ASUS Strix GTX1080 last night... gaming glory achieved.
Kosmos - you play Overwatch on PC?
I long feared this day would come: my 6-year-old PC seems unable to run WoW.
But hey, that made me dust off Torchlight 2 — a game I picked up a year or so ago in a Steam sale — and give it a spin. It's a Gauntlet/Diablo/etc. clone but one of the good ones. I love how anyone can equip anything, though a little more character class variety would be nice.
I just installed my ASUS Strix GTX1080 last night... gaming glory achieved.You sonofabitch. Well done.
I'm on a Mordheim, Battlefleet Gothic, TW: Warhammer kick.
They should have called it Total Warhammer. Total War: Warhammer just doesn't roll off the tongue.
But it's got twice as much War this way, that's gotta count for something.
Fantastic game. Needs playable Bretonnians.and Tilean mercenaries. :D
and Tilean mercenaries. :D
World of Warcraft remains my go-to game, and yes the graphic requirements did go up with Legion- and man did they fuck it up. Folks running bleeding-edge machines are having issues with framerates due to the poor optimization, especially with a handful of particle effects that are used for a lot of things. (As in "I should get 120 FPS, but when the Hunter uses his Artifact's CD it craters to 40." bad.) For folks playing on potatoes, that often means cratering to 10 FPS or less- and god forbid that a bunch go off in quick succession. Total lockup until resolved and despawned, by which time your guy can be dead.
And it's been this way since the pre-patch, back in September.
My laptop is seven years old, and running on low settings, but it would be fine if not for these issues. Of course the devs deny that this is even an issue, and aren't doing jack shit about it despite this being a routine thread on their tech support forums since the Beta.
It's sort of a relief to read this because this has been happening to me as well and people look at me like I'm from Mars when I say my 6yo desktop rig won't fucking run WoW.If you can get by with vicarious alternatives, head over to Twitch and find one of the many WOW streamers there to follow. That's where a lot of the influencers in the WOW community are, including where some influential podcasts get streamed live. You'll also be able to get a good sense on if the game remains something you want to play from watching others play it and comment on it. Oh, and the WOW team does do live Q&A there every few weeks; some of them also stream there.
Man, I miss the game.
If you can get by with vicarious alternatives, head over to Twitch and find one of the many WOW streamers there to follow. That's where a lot of the influencers in the WOW community are, including where some influential podcasts get streamed live. You'll also be able to get a good sense on if the game remains something you want to play from watching others play it and comment on it. Oh, and the WOW team does do live Q&A there every few weeks; some of them also stream there.
*ahem*
So, because of this being Diablo's 20th anniversary, I leaped to get D3 on sale for my PC. (Base game is $10. Xpac is $10. Bundle is $20. Buy direct from Blizzard via Battlenet.) The recreation of D1 in the D3 engine is a great way to mark the occasion.
If you can get by with vicarious alternatives, head over to Twitch and find one of the many WOW streamers there to follow.
So, because of this being Diablo's 20th anniversary, I leaped to get D3 on sale for my PC. (Base game is $10. Xpac is $10. Bundle is $20. Buy direct from Blizzard via Battlenet.) The recreation of D1 in the D3 engine is a great way to mark the occasion.
No offence, but this literally reads like someone describing video game equivalent of methadone treatment.
No offence, but this literally reads like someone describing video game equivalent of methadone treatment.None taken. I use streamers and video makers these days to see if games I find interesting play as well as they look. Saved me a lot of time and money.
I was invited to a private server, though — vanilla, no less! Maybe this time I'll finally gather the courage to give it a try.I was on Nostalrius (sp?) and very much enjoyed the vanilla version of WOW... except for the 'always on' PVP aspect, that became frustrating after a while...
Played and enjoyed Jotun but wasn't into the boss grind.
I don't doubt your probably better at video games compared to me so that probably won't be an issue for you.
Oh yeah, I gotta reinstall D3 and get the expansion for this one. Necromancer FTW!
I've been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera over the weekend.
Short version: it sucks bad.
That's a bummer. I've got it sitting on my Steam wishlist, waiting for a sale. (...and for my endless backlog of games to be cleared...) What's the nutshell version of what's wrong with it, for someone who's never played Planescape: Torment?
Just finished Witcher 3, GOTY.
I don't get it. I know this thing won all sorts of awards but this isn't a game, it's a movie where you occasionally click things.
Maybe the side quests would have harder fights?
Well, they can be harder--there's a level system, and monster levels are clearly identified. So you know when you're outclassed and, yeah, those fights are tough. But there's no treasure to be gained in such fights, the stuff you find is all based on your level, whether you're stomping a ghoul or a wyvern.
I've been playing more NEO Scavenger.
In my first game, I thought I was doing well and started trying to move my hoard of crap by exploring and moving stuff in stages since I didn't have a good way to carry all of it at once. But I tried traveling during a cold night and went a bit too far and it rained and the dark and cold both slowed my pace so I ended up dying of hyperthermia from having gone a bit too far. At end game it was also revealed to me that I had managed to catch various diseases, particularly by eating raw meat.
In my next game, I also thought I was doing quite well. I found a meat cleaver and decent footwear early on, and had a character who could properly process dead animals. I was attacked by a couple of feral dogs who were promptly chopped, skinned and cooked. I found lots of berries and other food, a couple of great buildings to make into forts, all on the first day! Then I got ambushed by a group of four feral dogs, two of them strong ones, and although I slaughtered them all with my meat cleaver, they also covered me in bites, including a pretty bad bite on the shoulder, which I think ended up causing some internal bleeding that I didn't realize hadn't stopped, so when I tried to hold up and rest it off, I ended up expiring from loss of blood by the next morning.
It's a bit like getting to play a solo RPG with the kind of grit I like, but solitaire, and always in a terrible starting situation, and with no combat maps. Pretty fun. :-)
I was playing Overwatch. Until they destroyed the character I preferred to play.
That game has gone downhill pretty badly in its short lifespan.
As an overwatch player who?
D.Va
The nerfed her to the point she is now worse than she was when the game launched. To the point to where she isn't even a competative pick anymore.
I never actually played in a manner that took the tank meta into account. So that meta didn't effect me one way or the other.
No. The nerf to her guns definitely did effect her play. It made her entire offense a lot less threatening and made her a lot less of a contender in just basic play.
Playing by the meta. Any meta. I believe is cheating.
Please do not use homophobic memes when speaking to me.
HUH??????? theirs nothing homophobic in that post.
"Butthurt" Synonym for "Ass Raped"
Pejorative that refers to someone being violently dominated in a sexual manner.
It also casts male homosexuals in a less than favorable light.
It seems you haven't researched the origins of said meme. Like I have.
It's offensive enough that Google has been blocking search results for it.
Though I will give you that there is some confusion as to its origin.
This isn't a contest of who is right or wrong.We find you offensive to the extreme, yet you still post here.
I simply asked that you not use that term around me. I find it offensive to the extreme.
This isn't a contest of who is right or wrong.
I simply asked that you not use that term around me. I find it offensive to the extreme.
At least Kosmos found out what he said that was supposedly homophobic.
Weird though, even if you thought butthurt referred to anal sex, women take it up the keister too, so why not misogynistic?
At least Kosmos found out what he said that was supposedly homophobic.
Weird though, even if you thought butthurt referred to anal sex, women take it up the keister too, so why not misogynistic?
well, yeah, and if the joke referred to forced buttsex, why not misandrist even?
A lot of early PC games are painful to attempt today. Some real gems though. The early Ultima series is still durable for instance.
A lot of early PC games are painful to attempt today. Some real gems though. The early Ultima series is still durable for instance.
I'm a bit in love with the old Infocom text adventures like Zork
Checkout Inkle's Sorcery! series. The first one is just a taste of the greatness to come but they're all worthwhile.
Checkout Inkle's Sorcery! series. The first one is just a taste of the greatness to come but they're all worthwhile.
The one based on Steve Jackson's series? I have all of them and recommend them as well, if that's the case.
I really want to play the new XCOM, loved the reboot, particularly the expansion that included mechs. Got to save up my pennies, I was kinda hoping it would have had a Steam sale by now. Or it did and I missed it.
For games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim I'd move to the Steam PC, just for Modding. Even if the only damn mod you want is a fancy house... dear god, the houses people have created for those games!
I mean: I know you CAN mod on the consols... somehow? But in this case I, a console preferrererer, stick with the PC
Currently playing Dishonored 2, great atmosphere, hundreds of different gameplay mechanics, it's cool :)
Interested in the latest game by the shit disturber who made Mountain. It's called Everything and is based on Alan Watts talks to a degree. You play everything there is.
I played Life is Strange. It is fantastic, if you like roleplaying. It's kind of like a video choose-your-own-adventure. I highly recommend it. $20 on Steam (cheaper on Amazon for xbox and ps). It took me 16 hours to complete, and I didn't even get all the side stuff.
Playing the beta for Battletech (http://battletechgame.com/). Only skirmish right now but pretty dang fun.
Didn't realize that had been released. My PS4 is far away from me at the moment sadly.
How is the AI and the learning curve?
It works out for you, then. It was apparently a catastrophe at release, as demand on their servers exceeded forecast by several thousand. A few patches later and now they're down to quality of life housekeeping rather than "patch this so people can actually play".
I've had a few bad experiences with chuckleheads, but if you make some friends and get into private matches, it's a hoot for slasher fans.
The AI is OK at this point and within one skirmish I had a handle on the UI and options.
I'm locked on Sea of Thieves when it drops for PC. I'm also in for Battlefront II.
God help me... I might be purchasing a PS4 for Red Dead Redemption II, which I'll be sacrificing some of my PC Master-Race credibility in order to play. But fuck it. I GAME, I AM.
Are MUDs still text based?
You step out into the night air. Rain falls around you.
Ridgeway at Seattle Center
A large portion of the traffic, both on the street and on the road seems
immediately drained from view, and sucked in towards the Seattle Center. Not
unlike the centrepiece of the downtown neighbourhood, it attracts both
residents and tourists alike, with its huge structure containing a wealth of
different restaurants, boutiques, and other consumer heavens. The wide
concrete square surrounding the center gives space to people to relax and
pause along the tree-lined promenades that lead you into the Center. A two
story structure is dwarfed to the south, a plasticrete school of sorts.
[ Exits: e s sw w nw ]
East - Ridgeway and Fifth Street
South - Entrance to the Training Area
Sw - A New Army Outlet
West - Fourth and Ridgeway Street
Nw - SeaTac Monorail Station
<<10/10|22.39/70|6180|4.81|8/8/0|2|*/*>>
I finally got my grubby mits on Persona 5, so I've been hanging out with anime high schoolers every night for the past week.
I picked up X-Com: Enemy Within during one of the many summer sales that happened. I do OK until I get one of the special Council missions and then one of my two good squads gets riggity wrecked. But I like the game quite a lot.
Always remember: X-COM (the game) hates you and wants you to fail.
Yup. I feel like managing panic and only having one response squad makes it pretty rough compared to the original. I also can't just send rookies out holding primed grenades to take one for the team. That plus mando Council missions that are generally a deathtrap make it seem that much harder. Or maybe I just played the original so much it became somewhat rote.
Yup. I feel like managing panic and only having one response squad makes it pretty rough compared to the original. I also can't just send rookies out holding primed grenades to take one for the team. That plus mando Council missions that are generally a deathtrap make it seem that much harder. Or maybe I just played the original so much it became somewhat rote.
I dunno, I'm sensing a touch of sequel-itis here. I haven't tried the expansion (yet), the XCOM2 was a chore to play through once...so many high hit point bad guys, cover just about useless as they can just take the hits as they walk up and crush your face. The primary strategy is just load up on grenades (and EMP 'nades) and just scorch your way through the hordes. The original explained the alien tactics a bit but...I don't get what they're doing in the sequel even after beating it.
Dishonored 2Great game. Tell us more about it!
Great game. Tell us more about it!
Playing War of the Chosen for Xcom2 and having a blast. One of the best strategy games I've seen. A pity the presentatn is so bad. The Chosen look like Team Rocket from Pokemon, with silly speeches and poses.
I bought a Nintendo 2DS XL a little over a week ago. I'm playing Pokémon Sun. This is my first Nintendo device since I bought a GameCube over a decade ago. No regrets.
I have a 3DS, which is essentially the same as the 2DS, but has the 3d feature (I think the 2DS has a slightly faster CPU) .
I play games on it a fair bit and it;s a lot of fun for a 30 minute gaming distraction when waiting for or on the move on a train or something. :)
Currently playing some Stunt bike game a lot and an some Zelda games.
Oh , also I really like "Heroes of Ruin" a very nice ARPG, kind of feels a bit like Diablo.
I bought a Nintendo 2DS XL a little over a week ago. I'm playing Pokémon Sun. This is my first Nintendo device since I bought a GameCube over a decade ago. No regrets.
I currently play Path of Exile, as if it is a MMO RPG, but not much of an RPG. I really like this game, relaxes me after a day of work. Anyway, I've spent so much money on PoE currency that it would be stupid to stop.
I remember TES Morrowind very well, and I have never played Oblivion or Skyrim before. Are they somehow connected? If, at first, in Oblivion, will it be compatible with Skyrim mythology?
Decided to do Far Cry 5. It's "more of the same" but that's not necessarily a bad thing if you like 3 and 4. The "exotic" environment this time is Montana. I feel some qualms about the Christian Fundamentalists being villains (Christ is never mentioned but it's not a stretch to say whatever religion they're practicing is similar to the most common religion to North America).
Playing the new Battletech game.
Me too...so far not real thrilled, but it is functiional. I wished they'd played a bit of Titans of Steel and used the ideas there for a big robot fighting game. Or at least refined things a bit, though that's much to ask of a Kickstarter game.
Me too...so far not real thrilled, but it is functiional. I wished they'd played a bit of Titans of Steel and used the ideas there for a big robot fighting game. Or at least refined things a bit, though that's much to ask of a Kickstarter game.
I've been playing it a lot. It's fun, but it needs to be re-jiggered quite a bit. For example, I think the iconic energy weapon (the PPC) isn't worth taking at the moment and that just strikes me as wrong in a Battletech game.
Having fun, started a second campaign. I think it could use a weapons balance/fix pass as well.
A new Pokemon set of games was announced for November, and the announcement coincided with a sale on eBay. So a couple of nights ago, I ordered a Switch. I have no idea what I'll play on it. Breath of the Wild is probably the best choice. Vanilla Skyrim is mildly tempting, but probably no. Maybe Bayonetta? Or possibly Mario Odyssey. Anyone have any recommendations?
Have been playing the updated version of Space Hulk: Deathwing.
Adds are a bunch of unlocks for multiplayer/random missions (you can upgrade your weaponry to an extent, and can now do random missions based on maps you have completed), and a couple of new bad guys. One is an Aberration that totes a mining laser, the other is a kamikaze Nid that explodes upon death or contact with you.
This latter fucker will really get on your nerves - fortunately there is zero chance you'll miss its approach. It glows purple and has a very loud, very distinct, and very constant scream.
Still no Carnifex.
Just finished playing through Final Fantasy Legends I and II. AKA: the Sa*Ga series on the Gameboy. Even still have the rulebooks! The first game is alot of fun as you can pull off some neat tricks with a human PC. The second one is a little more balanced and my favourite of the three. The addition of the robot race adds some more fun options for group loadout. It also has a slightly more involved story.
I've been jacking around on Warframe while I wait for my guild to re-convene for the WoW expansion. Yeah this is some good stuff right here. and it's FreeeEEEEeee!
Best word in the world. Free.
I've been playing both American Truck Simulator and European Truck Simulator 2. Got them for sale cheap on Steam. Driving a big rig, following traffic rules, and making a delivery really shouldn't be this interesting, but I love it.
The Farm Simulator games always look like they're more fun than they should as well. Any experience playing those?
I also play Warframe :-) I see that Warframe is becoming more and more popular. Very good quality and great performance for a f2p game, but Warframe is a p2w game. To buy new Warframes you need platinum, you need to buy platinum in the game store.
If you keep silent about the platinum aspect, then Warframe is a great game.
I'm trying to finish Skyrim, I'm very surprised. I'm a huge fan of Morrowind, but Oblivion was a bad game, I did not even finish it. Skyrim is great :-)
Vermintide 2, I played the first one from time to time, but the second one is a big improvement and definitely deeper with more rpg progression elements.
Hmm, might have to put this on the bucket list...I wasn't so impressed with the original, either.
FO76 and this is not a great game and I really love "canonical" series like FO1 and FO2, but this Fallout is first MMO so it's different and really nice game. But I play only one hour per a day, made some caps and go to sleep
Gotta take it easy on the abbreviations, not everyone knows all the acronyms. X4 and M2TW? No idea.
Anyway, just started Mutant Year Zero, surprisingly tough. Granted, I'm somewhat debilitated, but I'm finding "save and reload" to be the only way through even the early missions.
Gotta take it easy on the abbreviations, not everyone knows all the acronyms. X4 and M2TW? No idea.
I've been getting into Kenshi (https://lofigames.com/) now that it's out of Early Access.
I love fighting games like Tekken 7 on my PS4. Sometimes Fortnite, when friends force me. :D
I'm currently playing, or replaying should I say, Witcher 3 and I'm going to do the expansions too. Love that game.
Driving in GTA IV is an experience unto itself. It's... terrible, but fun once you get the hang of it.
V's driving was much more enjoyable, but the plot (while interesting) wasn't nearly as well done as IV, in my opinion.
You might call me crazy but I'm still playing League of Legends and been doing so since 7 years already. :p
I feel like Riot efficiently tackles the repetitivity of the game with their new season changes and stuff. Sure, at some point it might stop being enough but for now that's good. I think they've noticed it themselves as they've began working on a new game :)
As per what I don't like in the game it would be the pain in the ass to make new accounts there - it takes over 2 months of few hours daily play to get an account to level 30 - that's slavery. While there are websites (https://rankedkings.com/lol-accounts) aiming to solve this issue my policy has always been that I'm not going to spend a dime on a game after I've initially purchased it. Thus I hate micropayments, you should pay for a game once, get it and be done on the money part
OMG. I never. EVER used a motocycle outside of when it absolutely made me. If I could find an excuse to swap to a car, always did. Those were the absolute worst!
Where you at, mission-wise? (I'm assuming spoilers aren't appropriate for a... 12? year old game.)
Starting to get really annoyed with GTA4's clunky controls. If I fail this mission to take out Mikhael once more, because I'm fighting to get him to do anything I want, I'll give up.
I've got Sleeping Dogs installed which I haven't even played yet, I thought I should play the inspiration first...
I'm still not that far through. Vlad is dead and I'm just about to meet Dmitri, who I think is about to betray Mikhael.
What I won't be playing (since I don't have a hot gaming rig or next generation console) is Jedi: Fallen Order (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCy-qCR1UY). Although in that case because they're expecting me to invest in generic, preppy, white guy protagonist (with a strong Anakin Skywalker vibe), with no customisation. Like it's the 1990s or something, and you can only have the character the developers decided was appropriate. Mass Effect let me make the protagonist my own over a decade ago.
Finally gave up on GTA4 and tried Sleeping Dogs for an hour - I'm sold. Even if we overlook the clunky controls and crap vehicle section, the core open-world gameplay of GTA4 is not fun. For a single reason: that Liberty City has the fastest police response time of anywhere in the world, and an infinite supply of cops too. You can't do anything without having cops shooting at you, and after a while spending half the game trying to lose pursuit just gets boring.Felt the same about GTA4 too. Have you tried Watchdogs 2? Found it actually good, specially with the different ways to mess with the city through hacking. Forget about the first game though, it's weak sauce.
Just finished Detention and Deltarune. Now playing Into the Breach and Puyo Puyo Tetris.Into the Breach is addicting as hell. Love the desert team and their control of smoke/sands.
Felt the same about GTA4 too. Have you tried Watchdogs 2? Found it actually good, specially with the different ways to mess with the city through hacking. Forget about the first game though, it's weak sauce.
Loving Sleeping Dogs, even the shooting sections aren't awful like GTA4. It's like someone played GTA4 and looked to fix all the things that were wrong with it. The story is much more engaging, too. They even managed to top the soundtrack (the radio stations in GTA4 are really good) - with the inclusion of Ninja Tunes radio, one of my favourite labels of all time.
I saw rumours of a sequel that was eventually canned, is anyone doing anything with the engine, I wonder? It would make an awesome base for all sorts of open world games.
Replaying the original Assassin's Creed.
My god this game was bumpy... but still was quite fun.
Been playing Mahjong. Yes, the one that comes with Windows.
Go ahead and laugh. I certainly do!!
I'm neck deep in major projects (and have been for a long time) and I can't muster the energy for fast paced games - feels too much like work right now. I had been thinking of doing some retro-gaming, but I've had a very hit and miss experience with emulators.
BTW, is there any new turn based gaming out there that's worth a look?
I liked the second and it's semi-trilogies a lot. Then they went and changed the combat system in AC3, which I hated.
Shame, because I love the setting, just can't stand combat in it. Not sure if it will be any better coming out of Sleeping Dogs.
I think I'm going to try to play AC3 again. I hope Sleeping Dogs has trained me how to use countering and get familiar with changing controls as things move around.
Armored core?
I got Battle Brothers during the Steam sale.
It's addictive, but at the same time it's really more of grind than anything else. You don't win because of strategy (or tactics) but simply leveling up your guys, picking the right build, and getting the right weapons.
I got Battle Brothers during the Steam sale.
It's addictive, but at the same time it's really more of grind than anything else. You don't win because of strategy (or tactics) but simply leveling up your guys, picking the right build, and getting the right weapons.
I want to like that one, and I've restarted campaigns in it several times. It seems to be the kind of thing I should like, but there's something so un-fun about the early game I just can't get into it. Advancing past the first few encounters or missions seems to be pure random chance.
Played a a bit of Outer worlds on the Microsoft Gamepass, but not as much as I'd like
It feels like I spend more time on Steam browsing games than actually buying and playing them.
I got Blazing Chrome (https://store.steampowered.com/app/609110/Blazing_Chrome/) on a whim, and have been having a blast with it. It's a side scrolling shooter designed to look and play like a 90's arcade game.
Heartily reccomend.
City of Heroes - I can't get over you. LOVING this game, especially with the Cel-Shader graphics setting on. It's a nice new paintjob! Lots of new powersets. More dev incoming.Just saw this. Which server are you running on?
Just saw this. Which server are you running on?
My deep and abiding love of City of Heroes knows no bounds. When I found out it was back it was like suddenly all was right in the world again; I haven't touched my replacement MMO since the day I got back to Paragon City.
If you're ever on the Everlasting shard, look me up. My global is @Myself656.
Tharsis: About an ill-fated mission to Mars and the crews attempts to just survive the remaining weeks to arrival as things go wrong, sometimes lots of things.
An indie game thats pretty off the beaten track as its a dice roller "express" game. Roll the dice to apply to problems, press your luck to try and get a better roll. And the allotment of dice to each crew will diminish as used.
You select from a roster of crew with different perks like you can apply a roll of 5 or better to repairing the ships hull one point. Or a roll of 5 or better could be used to give all crew in the section +1 dice.
Another quirk is that the crew can accumulate stress that can, and oh so very much will, cause them to make very poor suggestions during periodic meetings. And while I am not positive. I am pretty darn sure that higher stress causes your rolls to start skewing to bad results.
The other surprise is that its a rather strategic game and you really do have to plan and think things through to mitigate disasters.
After alot of effort and getting a handle on the system I actually beat it on Hard difficulty and got the good ending. Well as good as the ending gets... ahem.
Just started to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I must admit that it was quite a surprise for me to see that it's a very cool game actually.
It's a great medieval simulation game: It takes place in Bohemia after the death of Charles IV and you are playing as a blacksmith's boy – Henry of Skalitz. You are simply trying to survive in a dark war atmosphere. The only problem is it's crawling with bugs and glitches but still, it doesn't spoil the awesome story.
It's both fun and entertaining for me: I wasn't expecting to learn so much about Medieval history and the European culture. Thanks to my Montenegrin passport (https://tranio.com/montenegro/passport/) I have traveled to the Czech Republic multiple times in the past but I must say that the game taught me more about the Bohemian history than my travels. If you are a sucker for medieval simulations for me you should definitely play this game.
KCD is easily the best crpg I've ever played. It is super hard at first, but once you figure out how to do things you get a real sense of accomplishment. If you haven't gotten the dlc's, I highly recommend doing so. They add a lot to the game. The Woman's Lot dlc in particular is amazing.I agree it is a good game, and the research put into everything is just... just wow.
KCD is easily the best crpg I've ever played. It is super hard at first, but once you figure out how to do things you get a real sense of accomplishment. If you haven't gotten the dlc's, I highly recommend doing so. They add a lot to the game. The Woman's Lot dlc in particular is amazing.
Is there one that makes the combat system less agonizing? I'm all for making combat a little more complex than Skyrim, but dear God, I felt like I was trying to play Street Fighter -- the original -- while wearing boxing gloves.Did you try to pull off combos?
Did you try to pull off combos?
Those are completely useless, absurdly hard to pull off and you can forget about them.
Just use the normal blocks & parrying and you will be good for the entire game.
Well I bit the bullet and ordered Crusader Kings 3 Royal Edition. I'm way too much of a fan boy of Paradox to not get it. I've gotten hundreds of hours out of CK2 and Stellaris. I bring this all up because I will be playing CK3 on September 1st. Deus Vult Ladies and Gents, Deus Vult.
I liked Carrion too, a horrific puzzle game shooter platform that is very enjoyable in terms of graphics and gameplay.My one complaint is that it DESPERATELY needs a map. I know it's a throwback to Metroidvania games but the environments are NOT as linear as those older games. I wound up having to go online and find maps just to track down the last couple of boosts I'd missed.
I "play" Inquisitor. Personally, I don't know if some have managed to finish the game without the walkthrough or the console because the difficulty is INSANE. Besides the titles of Iron Tower Studio it's a joke.
I just picked up Until Dawn for the PS4. It's essentially a teen horror movie in video game form, cast with digital versions of various actors including Hayden Panettiere, Brett Dalton, Rami Malek and Peter Stormare.If you liked Until Dawn, take a look at Detroit. It's an identical premise only in a sci-fi transhumanist story.
The gameplay is pretty basic, mostly walking around exploring and finding clues, combined with quicktime events at dramatic moments. There are choices you can make along the way that have repercussions later on, and there are multiple possible endings. The nice thing about the branching storylines is that the game makes these explicit, with a "butterfly effect" graphic that appears, and a screen in which you can review the various decision/success/failure points and the effect that they had on the current game, which should make it easy to replay for different results.
I picked it up used for $20, and for that price I am happy with it. The graphics are nice, with good likenesses of the actors, certainly better than recent wrestling games for instance. So far the storyline is decent, and the horror is a blend of creepy tension and scenery, with some action, jump scares, and gore.
Playing Age of Empires 2, Definitive edition, which is really fun.Playing AoE 3 Definitive Edition here.
Playing AoE 3 Definitive Edition here.
After they botched the release (as they always do, AoE2 DE was the same mess) the game is now in an acceptable state.
I've wrapped up my first play through Rebel Galaxy. It was a good game, and I enjoyed it a lot.
The guy that made the game, as well as the original Rebel Galaxy, sold the game as an Epic store exclusive. Afterward he got some push back (because that was a thing back then) and decided to quit being a programmer (and went on a podcast called all gamers assholes). Since he was the only programmer working on it, these bugs will never be fixed and the post-launch support for the game will never come.
You can get it on Steam now but don't pay full price. And if you do play it, don't do mining or too many non-story missions at the start of the game.
I reinstalled No Man's sky recently, as there's been so many updates, it's worth another look.Agreed. I will give full credit to Hello Games for what has to be the comeback story of the goddamn decade. I can't think of ANY game -- not just vidya, but any -- that's managed to turn things around this well.
So far, it's been pretty fun and certainly has a lot more content since I played it last some years ago.
I tried No Man's Sky again after being told it was redeemed and good now.
Remind me to never listen to the Internet again. The game went from disastrous wreck to mediocre survival sim. Has anyone actually played it recently or do you all just get your opinions from the flashy trailers?
I reinstalled No Man's sky recently, as there's been so many updates, it's worth another look.Agreed. I will give full credit to Hello Games for what has to be the comeback story of the goddamn decade. I can't think of ANY game -- not just vidya, but any -- that's managed to turn things around this well.
So far, it's been pretty fun and certainly has a lot more content since I played it last some years ago.
I stand corrected. Well played. :)I reinstalled No Man's sky recently, as there's been so many updates, it's worth another look.Agreed. I will give full credit to Hello Games for what has to be the comeback story of the goddamn decade. I can't think of ANY game -- not just vidya, but any -- that's managed to turn things around this well.
So far, it's been pretty fun and certainly has a lot more content since I played it last some years ago.
Final Fantasy 14. Went from a disaster of an MMO that gave it's early adopters free play time for almost a year to make up for how bad it was, to being one of the best MMOs going right now.
American Truck Simulator. Yup, it is as addictive as they say and no one can explain why.The simulator games have gotten completely out of hand. I saw an ad on Steam for Lawn Mowing Simulator.
American Truck Simulator. Yup, it is as addictive as they say and no one can explain why.The simulator games have gotten completely out of hand. I saw an ad on Steam for Lawn Mowing Simulator.
What the fuck.
After the debacle of putting "diversity" into Battlefield 5 - where you could be a black female German (you can't be a Nazi because...) or randomly be Asian and fighting for the Germans...Why should they? If the whales pony up the cash, they won't care.
there was hope that Battlefield 2042 would just be a clean game, were you could ideally make your own toon and have at it. But no... now you have to play one of their Specialists... and this rankled people a bit. But whatever. They they had to announce that "for the first time in BF - Non-Binary characters in Battlefield!"
Queue the wet fart noise.
Sounds like Dice and EA have not learned their lesson.
After the debacle of putting "diversity" into Battlefield 5 - where you could be a black female German (you can't be a Nazi because...) or randomly be Asian and fighting for the Germans...
American Truck Simulator. Yup, it is as addictive as they say and no one can explain why.The simulator games have gotten completely out of hand. I saw an ad on Steam for Lawn Mowing Simulator.
What the fuck.
There is a Tank Repair Simulator too.
The only explanation I can give for the success of the "Truck" simulators is not an explanation at all but a remembrance: back in the early '80s, "Truckin'" for Intellivision was the unexpected success story. I and my best friend competed on it all day long (you could play on a split screen). So, there must be something intangible that makes them compelling (the Mod scene is comparable to a flight sim, and some hardcore gamers have thousands of dollar invested in driving gear, super performing graphic cards and three monitors included).
I hear that there is a market for farming simulators too, but I'm not interested.
I hear that there is a market for farming simulators too, but I'm not interested.
I've been playing a ton of Conan Exiles (https://store.steampowered.com/app/440900/Conan_Exiles/) lately and it's bloody fantastic. I resisted for a long time because I can't commit to an online game with clans and PvP raids and stuff. I just don't have the time. But...I've found that if you run your own server and play solo or with a couple friends and it's an amazing experience.
Pros
- True to the source material. I haven't read a lot of Howard, but the game fits exactly with what I have read. It's a dangerous world and you are encouraged to play like a sonofabitch reaver, thief, raider, etc.
- You can build a castle or house or whatever you like. That's a game unto itself
- Good mix of open world with scattered set pieces. Play at your own pace.
- Excellent and evocative graphics, voices, and music. It is a joy to explore the world
- Compelling story that you can progress at whatever pace you want
- Deep crafting system with tons of lore buried in descriptions of stuff you find. The writing is excellent. A two paragraph description of some random item you find evokes all kinds of lore and mystery. In most other games, this would be a throwaway blurb.
- Capture NPCs and make them your thralls! Bludgeon them into unconsciousness and drag them back to your Wheel of Pain to break their will.
- Many "problematic" aspects a.k.a. true to source material giving no fucks about what anyone thinks. Slavery, nudity, crucifixion, cannibalism, etc. My current character worships a god that requires ritual cannibalism, so I subsist off ritually purified human flesh.
- Active community and some really neat and deep mods
Cons
- AI is a bit janky
- Some clipping bugs
- Combat is not as deep or varied as it could have been.
- Crafting is a little complex and it's easy to forget recipes
- You need a few mods to really open the game up
I have not played in a while, as I was a little bummed by how insanely powerful some of the combat thralls had become (seeing some of them in a fight makes you wonder how in the hell you could ever talk them into being your lackey). I am sure the group I play with will rotate back around to it again though. Any mods you like? We played primarily on console before, but everyone also has gaming PCs and have considered taking the fight to PC where mods can adjust the experience considerably.Yeah, the combat thralls are totally OP. That said, we have 2 regular players, so tough thralls are essential, as I think the bosses were not designed to be killed by only 2 players. They still manage to get killed though.
I have not played in a while, as I was a little bummed by how insanely powerful some of the combat thralls had become (seeing some of them in a fight makes you wonder how in the hell you could ever talk them into being your lackey). I am sure the group I play with will rotate back around to it again though. Any mods you like? We played primarily on console before, but everyone also has gaming PCs and have considered taking the fight to PC where mods can adjust the experience considerably.Yeah, the combat thralls are totally OP. That said, we have 2 regular players, so tough thralls are essential, as I think the bosses were not designed to be killed by only 2 players. They still manage to get killed though.
Mods we use are: No building placement limits, 3rd person camera zoom limit increase, and one called Pythagoras which just adds some building pieces. The first two are pretty nice QoL, so you don't have to muck around with the sometimes odd limits on where you can build. Zooming out really far is really pretty if your rig can handle it and the vanilla zoom was too tight.
I've been playing a ton of Conan Exiles (https://store.steampowered.com/app/440900/Conan_Exiles/) lately and it's bloody fantastic.
The other is Metal Wolf Chaos. Yeah. Because the President should have his own personal mecha :D
am gaming regularly in City of Heroes with friends (hit level 50 last week or so),
am gaming regularly in City of Heroes with friends (hit level 50 last week or so),
Which City of Heroes server? Theres apparently more than one now. But so far no private server pack.
I play on Champions with a few friends. The followup as it were to Cryptic's CoH.
Just got The Ascent (https://store.steampowered.com/app/979690/The_Ascent/) on Steam.
Twin stick shooter, with Diablo style loot and upgrades. I'm having fun with it. The control are a little janky, and I really hate it when abilities are set to the stick "click" buttons.
Cover is a joke. Trying to shoot from cover just makes you a sitting duck for melee opponents.
But the rest of the gameplay is good, and the music and ambiance are exellent. The music isa ripoffreminiscent of Blade Runner.
So now I'm playing The Outer Worlds on the switch. For $20, the price was right, and I am enjoying the game. That said, playing the game on any other system would be a big graphical upgrade. The textures on the Switch are not good, and there are no extra shaders or anything. Still, I'm enjoying the game, and would recommend it.
I'm messing around with a MacOs version of Marathon. Clunky and fun!Did you just see the review on MandaloreGaming? I had forgotten about this game until I saw that review recently. I had the demo back in the day on my mac.
Still playing Warframe from time to time, but I have cut way done. Over a thousand hour in and I still play a lot of Approaching Infinity (sci-fi rogue like.)Solar Ash, love the art, love the story, can't play it even on its easiest settings. Sigh.
Just picked up Solar Ash since it was on sale, don't know if I'm going to hate it or love it.
You could always give Warframe a try, it's free to play, so the only cost is bandwidth to download it and drive space.Yeah, I played it for a while but got bored because it's become grindy as fuck.
Warframe is a PvE looter shooter with a crap-ton of lore and customization options. There are (of course) things to buy, but the are all cosmetic or booster stuff to reduce the grind.
Finished MassEffect 1/2/3 Legendary edition.
Finished MassEffect 1/2/3 Legendary edition.
This showed up as one of the Playstation's free games this month so I downloaded it. I was hesitant to play it as I was afraid that it might have been "updated for modern audiences." I never played these games before and I'd like them to be as close to the originals as possible.
https://getmodnow.com
I finally started playing Elden Ring. The only "Souls" game I've played before was Bloodborne and I loved it. Everything from the setting to the style to the combat clicked with me.
By comparison, I really like Elden Ring's setting and look, but I find the world feels empty. I think that's a result of the openness of it all. Bloodborne's city just felt more claustrophobic with more going on.
I still take some exception when people say the games are always fair in their difficulty. Nah, there's some cheap ass shit in them. Still enjoy it though.
I’m playing Dead by Daylight online. It is a fun asymmetrical horror movie simulator with a Killer on one side and four Survivors who must power the exit gates and escape the “trial”. They have both original and “licensed” DLCs, with the licensed ones ranging from Halloween, to Hellraiser, to Ringu (the original Japanese one).Yeah, DbD looks good on paper until you play against survive-with-friends (SWF) groups and then it gets painful. It's also got horrendous balance issues, all tilted inexorably towards survivors, which makes playing as killer spectacularly unfun.
The game has devolved from what meant to be basically a party game into a strong “meta” with a toxic community, but playing Michael Meyers, Sadako (who actually come out of the TV holy fuck!) or the Demogorgon from Stranger Things is quite the experience.
My other current game is Europa Universalis 4 as England - and the war against France is not going well…
i'm playing swtor. mostly as my Star Wars fix, but a small social guild of very positive people i joined about a year ago is nice as well. lets me practice my spoken english too.
Man, I love SWTOR, but hate the upselling of microtransactions.really? hasn't been my experience, tbh. i don't think i spent a dime on it apart from subscription fees, but then again i don't play their dress-a-space-barbie game at all :P
i'm playing swtor. mostly as my Star Wars fix, but a small social guild of very positive people i joined about a year ago is nice as well. lets me practice my spoken english too.
Man, I love SWTOR, but hate the upselling of microtransactions.
Oh, and I can't read the signs over the stores, which are in Cyrillic.use
Been getting caught up on a lot of the content for No Man's Sky that has come out over the years.The amount of new content is unbelievable - and, AFAIK, it all came with free patches. From what I see, right now it offers more than what was originally promised.
Nethack's classic appeal is hard to resist. It's like a journey through a pixelated labyrinth of adventure and surprises that never gets old. I've had my share of epic battles with powerful monsters and those unexpected moments that keep me coming back for more.All of the Nethack games and their varying children -- Moria, Angband, etc -- are great for whiling away time.
Nethack's classic appeal is hard to resist. It's like a journey through a pixelated labyrinth of adventure and surprises that never gets old. I've had my share of epic battles with powerful monsters and those unexpected moments that keep me coming back for more.
Baby Pac-Man for Atari 7800, and the newly released modern rehashes of Shark! Shark! and Astrosmash.
I found Baldur's Gate boring and ended up playing Edge of War more than it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786070/Edge_of_War/
In some ways it's similar, clearly they copied the Divinity Original Sin games, it uses an almost, but not quite D&D system, and it's unfinished (and might end up that way, as the publisher dropped it so the developers are working on it best they can) but it's actually fun.
I just started playing Fallout 76 as it is free (somehow, not sure). It is a pretty terrible RPG as the multiplayer aspect means that nothing you can do can possibly affect the game word. All your actions result in are faction affinity which only affects what stuff you can buy from them (unless you go all agro and turn them into enemies). The game is super feminine and almost every faction is run by women. Their is only one faction run by a man and a female NPC literally says "we just let him think he's in charge". Oi
I've been playing No Man's Sky for the last month or so.
Yes, I heard all about the problems back in the day. But in 2024, the game is pretty well fleshed out, and I've enjoyed it so far.
The major con so far is that not all of the systems in the game mesh together well. You can wind up in the position of owning a star fleet, and still having to stomp around mining basic resources and dumpster diving for artifacts in order to build everyday stuff. It seems like at some point you should transcend the basic grocery-getting of the universe and move on to bigger things, but it doesn't seem to work that way.