BattleTech - The Board Game of Armored Combat
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What video game(s) you're playing right now or were playing? (that is not related to Battletech/Mechwarrior) It can be on PC, Main Consoles (XBox One, Wii U, PS4), Portable Consoles (such as the Nintendo 3ds), or heck even mobile.
Lately, I was playing Starfox Zero for Wii U and I beaten it.
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I've been playing Enter the Gungeon when I've been in the mood, but weirdly been going back to Binding of Isaac a lot lately. It's not been very good since Afterbirth - and the upcoming DLC looks dreadful - but it's relaxing since I've played it so much, I don't need to think.
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For me its:
Star Trek Online
Asta
Continent of the Ninth
Now if I can keep my trackball from spazing out...
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World of Tanks, Battlefield 4 (I don't even like online shooters, my oldest son got me hooked), Fallout 4 and do so many others on the Xbox One
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Eiyuu Senki - World Conquest, with the occasional bout of Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition.
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Let's see, I've got a fair few I've been working on/replaying at the moment.
PS4: Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, EDF 4.1, and Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition
360: Too Human and Nier
PC: Jade Empire, Zeno Clash 2, Shadow Warrior, VtM: Bloodlines, Space Marine, and the Dawn of War series
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I picked up Battleborn, but the game did not say that public multiplayer content required a Playstation Plus membership, so I'm a little miffed right now because the characters range from "difficult" to "unplayable" when you're going solo.
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lets see just started to mess with fallout 4 on and off
civ 4 and some of the mods for it
train fever
underrail
both mechwarrior 3 and 4 along with its addons
and lets not forget x com original one from the 90s
sim city 4
megamek and mekwars along with mekhq
future pinball
and when i can mechwarrior online
flyff(fly for fun)
chess
risk
and at my younglings pleading minecraft
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Hex (basically MtG but with the advantage of extra game mechanics that could not work with physical cards)
Steredenn ("endless chaotic space shooter")
Risk of Rain
Dominions 4 (complex fantasy grand strategy)
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PC
Guild Wars 2
Battlefleet Gothic Armada
3ds
Triforce Heroes
Etrian Oddessey series
Project X Zone 2
PS Vita
Gundam Breaker 3
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I put Titanfall back into my Xbox a few days ago for old times sake and have been back at it a LOT since, now that my finals are done. I love that game. I'm meh as a pilot, but get me in an Ogre and I'm king of the battlefield.
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The Elder Scrolls, The Old Republic (now that Star Wars Day is near), Guild Wars 2.
For offline games I've been tripping out on older games from Elder Scrolls like Arena all the way to Morrowwind.
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3DS:
Bravely Second End Layer
Senran Kagura Burst
PS3:
Tales of Symphonia HD
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
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Xbox1...LEGO Dimensions.
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I've been playing an old game, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, a lot lately. It's... Odd, playing a game a year older than I am.
Other than that, I've been playing Particle Mace on steam in my downtime.
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Okay, so I got a free two day trial of Playstation Plus and have tried Battleborn. It is pretty fun now, but I'm really not sure how much I want to sink into this game if I've got to pay to really play it.
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I've been playing an old game, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, a lot lately. It's... Odd, playing a game a year older than I am.
Oh my god that was one of my favorite games years ago.
That, Mechwarrior 2, and Wing Commander.
Stupid acting, but a guilty pleasure.
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I'm playing Fallout New Vegas.....been playing Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
I bought Don't Starve for my daughter (she loves that game)
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Heavily Modded Saints Row IV, Shadowrun Hong Kong and a bit of Fallout 4.
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I've been playing through Dragon Age 2 while I wait for the kinks in my new system to be worked out so that I can play Dragon Age: Inquisition. Prior to that, I spent a month playing Stardew Valley in most of my spare time, and before that, a thousand or so hours of Project Zomboid...
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Spending too much time playing the Battlefleet Gothic: Armada pc game. It's so satisfying to play, even against the damned Eldar.
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When I have time...
XB1:
Fallout 4 (new DLC on May 19!!!)
GTA Online w/ GhostBear and Redshirt
Arkham Knight (well, starting it sometime when I get around to it)
XB360:
Civilization: Revolution
Ace Combat 6
PS2:
Warship Gunner 2
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I went back and checked. I have over 1,000 hours in Binding of Isaac.
Help.
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When I get the time in the evenings (which hasn't been for a while) Halo 5 multiplayer.
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I put about 20-25 hours a week into Destiny on XB1, so i don't have a ton of time for other games. I recently picked up Sunset Overdrive and Lords of the Fallen for free from the XBL marketplace, so i'll need to give those a spin.
Being without a PC (only a Mac lapton atm) hurts. Running MekWars on Mac is an exercise in frustration. Not that there are many active 3067+ servers right now. It also means no Dawn of War III, which i am looking forward to, or the Homeworld or Master of Orion sequels.
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Just started playing Star Fox Zero as of yesterday. From what little I've played, I'm enjoying it so far, but, the controls are definitely taking some time to get used to.
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got my grubby little paws on 8 bit armies...cute little fun
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PC
Shadow of Mordor
Arkham Knight
TITANFALL
Spintires
Dirt Rally
ETA: Dragon's Dogma
Excited for Overwatch
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Hmmm aside form MWO... Not much, some Halo 5 multiplayer and Black Ops 3 if I feel like it.
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About 10 minutes ago, I finished the second playthrough on Borderlands. Still love that one.
Other 360 games I'm in the middle of:
Fallout 3. Main story is done. Still all sorts of places to go. And bobbleheads to find.
Fallout New Vegas. Not quite done with main story.
Witcher 2.
Bioshock. Playing it again.
Mass Effect 2.
PC
Ultima Online free shard.
And sometimes various older Total War games.
XCom 2. One day I'll actually win this game.
Meow Liao
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Shadow Warrior
From what year? I got myself modified original, but it didn't do it to me anymore. Guess nostalgia only takes so far...
As for myself, I got Broforce which is on sale at Steam. Videos are comically over the top (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOAQ7t9JjY) and game is fun to play.
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PC:
I've recently finished the Shadowrun:Hong Kong Extended Edition campaign. Now I'm alternating between War Thunder, Duke Nukem 3D and Legend of Grimrock.
I tried the new Doom multiplayer open beta and wasn't impressed; it was pretty but unsatisfying. I've got a long list of unfinished games I want to get back to, starting with the Dawn of War series, the newer Wolfenstein games, Sunless Sea, and This War of Mine.
Consoles:
I've never had one.
Other:
I still crank up my old BBC model B and play the original Elite every few months.
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From what year? I got myself modified original, but it didn't do it to me anymore. Guess nostalgia only takes so far...
As for myself, I got Broforce which is on sale at Steam. Videos are comically over the top (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOAQ7t9JjY) and game is fun to play.
I'm honestly surprised [AS] hasn't attempted to so a short series based on this game. Gawd I was cracking up through that vid.
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I'm honestly surprised [AS] hasn't attempted to so a short series based on this game. Gawd I was cracking up through that vid.
I think if they did, Brock Samson would tear a whole in the time slot continuum just to hang out with these bros.
TV itself would collapse into a singularity because it couldn't handle that strain.
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Way too much Battlefield 4, and a bit of Star Wars Battlefront.
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Other:
I still crank up my old BBC model B and play the original Elite every few months.
Then you should really look into the new Elite....AWESOME!
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After playing Stardew Valley to death, I decided to give Hearthstone another try.
Verdict is still pending.
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From what year? I got myself modified original, but it didn't do it to me anymore. Guess nostalgia only takes so far...
I've been playing the 2013 version. I've really been enjoying it and definitely looking forward to the sequel.
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Then you should really look into the new Elite....AWESOME!
I looked at it.
I backed the Kickstarter.
Following the decisions made by the developers, I have never played it, and in it's current form, never will.
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I looked at it.
I backed the Kickstarter.
Following the decisions made by the developers, I have never played it, and in it's current form, never will.
Sorry you feel that way. Having spent countless hours playing the original back in the day myself, I find the newer game is a lot like the original
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Forgot to mention: World of Warcraft for over ten years amd probably until the end of all time
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Sorry you feel that way. Having spent countless hours playing the original back in the day myself, I find the newer game is a lot like the original
If they ever release a version of the game that contains what was for me the key feature they cut just before release, I'll happily play it. Until then I'll have nothing further to do with David Braben, or any game or company he is connected to.
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If they ever release a version of the game that contains what was for me the key feature they cut just before release
What is that feature? Maybe there is another game with that feature.
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What is that feature? Maybe there is another game with that feature.
Off-line single-player mode.
They promised it during the Kickstarter, then one month before release announced that they weren't doing it because it "doesn't fit with our creative vision."
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Off-line single-player mode.
Have you checked out Oolite (http://www.oolite.org/) yet? It was one of the closest Elite remakes before Elite Dangerous, and you can pimp it up with mods.
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Downloaded War Thunder last night. That game was apparently made for a much bigger screen-the text is practically unreadable on my PS4'site 32" TV.
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I find it fine on a 24" monitor on PC - how far back do you sit?
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A comfortable distance for watching TV. I can easily read the text on every other game I have from the same distance.
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Right now I've been playing a lot of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX (Director's Cut) on PC (Steam)
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I have been playing lot of Fire Emblem Fates Birthright. Gameplay is solid and story has actually been good.
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Picked up Overwatch Thursday. Since then, lots of that.
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Picked up Battleborn on a whim and am having lots of fun with that. Borderlands-ish, but more grounded. Despise the matchmaking philosophy. Love the voice acting.
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Currently blasting through LEGO MARVEL AVENGERS, and in a week, it'll be LEGO STAR WARS: FORCE AWAKENS.
What can I say, I love the LEGO games
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went back about 10 years reinstalled spore for myself and my youngling...had fun time tryng to fx few bugs that cropped up to get it to work
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MMORPG Ragnarok Online. Gameplay is much like Diablo series
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Stellaris
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Meant to include a sample audio bit. Something very Lyran about this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtL7SW_j__0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtL7SW_j__0)
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Stellaris
just got my paws on it this weekend...had not got around to it yet
love my kid she just knew what to harras her aunt for for daddys day lol
all she saw me do is look on gamefaqs for stats...
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I have been working on Bioshock again. Played it years ago. It's a play in the dark game, so it will take a while to get through it again. Big daddies are still the best villains.
And still playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Still not done with all of those games. The main storyline for 3 is done, but there are many places still to go. Started the Honest Hearts dlc two days ago.
Meow Liao
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Fallout 4 giving it a try.
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On another playthrough of Mass Effect 2
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What class and romance?
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What class and romance?
I'm playing as FemShep, running as an infiltrator class (it's pretty fun, though I'm curious about engineer type). Right now she and Garrus are an item
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Engineer is fun, though Cryo Blast is a pretty useless power in ME2. As a secondary effect, Engineers lower the cost of researching upgrades in the lab so that really speeds up getting the Cain and other cool stuff. Combat Drone doesn't last long enough in ME2, unfortunately. For the bonus power, Geth Shield Boost is great if you want something for defense as it's considered a tech power so all the tech upgrades to power, duration, and recharge rate that you'll naturally be focusing on will stack with it, while Reave is a nice offensive power that gives you a way to quickly deal with Barriers. I keep telling myself that I'm going to go back and play through the Trilogy again (which is the main reason I've still got my PS3), but so far I haven't.
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Back into Guild Wars 2 somehow. I guess I just really want to finish my ascended armor.
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i'm playing *coughwarhammercough* vermintide a lot lately. someone pointed it out while i was wishing for a co-op game and the gameplay has been near-perfect. there's a slight community attitude problem, but i don't think there's an online game without that.
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Total War: Warhammer has swallowed me whole. Send help.
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I've been playing through Dragon Age: Inquisition for the first time, and I'm enjoying it, although I keep forgetting which hotkeys are which and spend a certain amount of every combat jumping rather than pausing. Whoops.
I've also been playing Marvel Heroes 2016, which has the advantage of being free; as expected, it's a bit repetitive once you hit level 60, but the story was fairly interesting, I have some friends who play, and Deadpool is always entertaining. I doubt I'll end up becoming an avid devotee, but it's nice to be able to while some time away blowing things up while chatting.
I think what I'm waiting for most eagerly at the moment is the possibility of co-op play for Stardew Valley...
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on a regular basis? Star Trek Online on my PC, and Destiny on my Xbox360.
on irregular schedule, borrowing my brother's XboxOne to play The Division.
annoyingly in all three my friends never seem to be online when i am. :(
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Fallout 4
Payday 2
Stellaris
Hearts of Iron
Sword of the Stars: The Pitt
Borderlands, any of the three
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Solely on the XB1, I've been rotating through the following on a regular basis:
Fallout 4 (halfway through the Far Harbor DLC)
Destiny (coasting through the summer until Lords of Iron releases)
GTA Online (but starting to get irritated with it and all the jerkbag players on the public servers, because you can't do the updated stuff in private)
Overwatch (addicted)
Overwatch is a blast, just wish players would freakin' TALK to each other. Coordination is the key to victory, and apparently the younglings playing can't grasp that concept yet; they grab Bastion or McCree and go all lone wolf. Way to hang your team out to dry, jerkbags.
BTW, feel free to add me: GhostBear72.
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Fallout 4 giving it a try.
takeing a break from fallout 4 got stuck till 7 30 am and i started after kids went to bed
thankfully i sleep very little and load on my day is light
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Mainly playing World of Warships, just got back to playing EVE Online somewhat steadily, and just picked up Tempest on Steam (Early Access). Tempest has potential, but has pretty much no tutorial, so there's a lot of guesswork involved.
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Overwatch is a blast, just wish players would freakin' TALK to each other.
Yeah, not sure what happened with mic culture. Maybe CoD did damage to people wearing mics all the time. There was a time when mics were public by default.
I've run into exactly 2 mic wearers in Battleborn. It isn't an issue most of the time. But, i'm never going to beat the last two stages of the campaign without some more coordination. A hour of success followed by the same predictable collapse each time is gettin old.
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Star Trek Online on my PC
I have a Human, Klingon, and Romulan character for that game.
If you're on when I'm on I'll group up with you.
Overwatch is a blast, just wish players would freakin' TALK to each other. Coordination is the key to victory, and apparently the younglings playing can't grasp that concept yet; they grab Bastion or McCree and go all lone wolf. Way to hang your team out to dry, jerkbags.
Yeah, not sure what happened with mic culture. Maybe CoD did damage to people wearing mics all the time. There was a time when mics were public by default.
I have a personal theory that it is mostly three factors, yeah there's others but these three were the biggest I could think of.
1. The stereotypical Xbox/CoD "kiddos" and their oh so wonderful sense of community during a match. ::) That turned people off from listening to general voice.
2. The what I like to call "Steve Carrell" players. LOUD NOISES as they play, never realizing THERE IS SUCH A THING as a volume on the damn mic.
3. With the constant fascination of putting things always online and just gotta have multiplayer, some folks have mentally checked out and see games as single player but with crappier, more annoying NPCs running around. Oh those are people? *shrugs* Forget you got mine for today. *log out*
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Yeah, not sure what happened with mic culture. Maybe CoD did damage to people wearing mics all the time. There was a time when mics were public by default.
I tried microphone while playing Ark: Survival Evolved. Not just any mic, but Meteor, priced around 80 €. I was told they didn't understand what I was saying. My guess is my voice got distorted by lag.
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Been Playing Doom like crazy and just recently picked up Until Dawn and started working on it. Pretty good thus far
I really need to get back to finishing up Bloodborne sometime as well. I'm getting fairly close to the end I believe.
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I played. and completed, Portal last night. Took me about three hours, and it was good fun. Is this where that "the cake is a lie" meme came from?
Have you checked out Oolite (http://www.oolite.org/) yet? It was one of the closest Elite remakes before Elite Dangerous, and you can pimp it up with mods.
I'd forgotten about that! I tried it a good few years back but it wouldn't play nice with my PC at the time. I'll give the current release a go.
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I played. and completed, Portal last night. Took me about three hours, and it was good fun. Is this where that "the cake is a lie" meme came from?
Yup that and others, but that's the more famous one.
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And now that we've mentioned its existence, we never need mention it again. O0
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And now that we've mentioned its existence, we never need mention it again. O0
Sorry, but in LEGO Dimensions, one of the missions for Batman, Gandalf and Wildstyle is to obtain a Birthday Cake from....You Guessed it...the PORTAL level :D
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Sorry, but in LEGO Dimensions, one of the missions for Batman, Gandalf and Wildstyle is to obtain a Birthday Cake from....You Guessed it...the PORTAL level :D
*twitch*
...man, the Portal games are great. I should really replay those.
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I really enjoyed the intro to Portal 2. Hopefully I#ll get the time to make some progress this week.
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The Portal games are amazing, just don't play Portal 2 co-op with my old roommate or myself--we'll portal you into a hole at every possible opportunity. >:D
I've been playing a lot of Shogun II: Total War, Skyrim, and Battle for Wesnoth (a surprisingly-addictive little free indie game), as well as playing Brawl and Mario Kart with my brother.
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I really enjoyed the intro to Portal 2. Hopefully I#ll get the time to make some progress this week.
Aperture Tag is pretty good too.
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ok this will drive few folks nuts freelancer and terminus
oldies but goodies nothing to do till friday so my memory chest had been unlocked...
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I just started yet another playthrough of Mass Effect.
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I just started yet another playthrough of Mass Effect.
I'm jealous...I sold my Xbox 360...don;t know if I can play all 3 on the Xbox1
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I just started yet another playthrough of Mass Effect.
The fact that I keep telling myself that I'm going to go back and do a run-through of all three games is the only reason I still have my PS3, despite it having been over a year since I last plugged it in.
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The fact that I keep telling myself that I'm going to go back and do a run-through of all three games is the only reason I still have my PS3, despite it having been over a year since I last plugged it in.
Huh? My family still has MegaDrive, several NES, N64, and then some in good working condition each with number of games to play with. I don't see us ever letting go of them even if we don't use them regularly. Of course number of best games made for those machines are now available to the newest hardware, even to the PC. Therefore there is no great need to unplug PC/Xbox One from monitor/TV to be replaced with one of the old machines. I don't need to plug MegaDrive to play Street Fighter II New Challengers becouse I've got Street Fighter Alpha II on my PCs bought from Good Old Games.
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Huh? My family still has MegaDrive, several NES, N64, and then some in good working condition each with number of games to play with. I don't see us ever letting go of them even if we don't use them regularly. Of course number of best games made for those machines are now available to the newest hardware, even to the PC. Therefore there is no great need to unplug PC/Xbox One from monitor/TV to be replaced with one of the old machines. I don't need to plug MegaDrive to play Street Fighter II New Challengers becouse I've got Street Fighter Alpha II on my PCs bought from Good Old Games.
On the other side of the coin there are retro game enthusiasts that would say playing emulations, especially PC emulations of console games is a different experience. I kind of get it. Playing Sonic 2 on my old Genesis is way different than playing it even on XBox. Unfortunately, this is the same reason why i have to buy an overpriced Turbo Graffix 16 in order to scratch the itch of a certain Bonk's Adventure enthusiast.
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On the other side of the coin there are retro game enthusiasts that would say playing emulations, especially PC emulations of console games is a different experience.
i make a guess most of them think about playing on PC = small screen, keyboard & mouse only. We know better, right? Right!?
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I'm jealous...I sold my Xbox 360...don;t know if I can play all 3 on the Xbox1
Yeah, looks like only ME1 is backwards compatible for XBox1 for some reason. No love for the PS4 either.
I'm actually doing my playthrough on PC this time around instead of 360 for some reason...Which will probably come back to bite me due to that I've none of the DLC for ME2 on PC and I'm not even sure I can get it for the Steam version.
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i make a guess most of them think about playing on PC = small screen, keyboard & mouse only. We know better, right? Right!?
Depends on the person. I've encountered rants about any attempt to take games out of their original context. I don't think anyone has made the argument that something like a multi cart is bad. But, any hardware with specs different from the original in terms of display, audio or even processing power is an altered experience. I'm not nostalgic for the display lines that appeared in Double Dragon when too many sprites were on screen. But, i know there are people who think this is absolutely critical to the true experience of the game.
I was just at Too Many Games last weekend and i can say the retro community can be insane. There are advocates for not using modern televisions, and certainly not monitors. Even crazier, vendors that cater to this idea. I suppose with every passion there is a purist that rides the line of ridiculous, and some that would call those people degenerate sellouts.
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I was just at Too Many Games last weekend and i can say the retro community can be insane. There are advocates for not using modern televisions, and certainly not monitors. Even crazier, vendors that cater to this idea. I suppose with every passion there is a purist that rides the line of ridiculous, and some that would call those people degenerate sellouts.
Do they insist on playing Elite on BBC Micro and refuse playing any other version of it on any other machine? What is their attitude about monitors that were made for home computers of the time (BBC Micro got those too)?
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Do they insist on playing Elite on BBC Micro and refuse playing any other version of it on any other machine? What is their attitude about monitors that were made for home computers of the time (BBC Micro got those too)?
I couldn't say, because that is a reference with which i'm not familiar.
BUT! I have sat in on panels about, no joke, American tube TVs vs Japanese tube TVs and which is the better choice for playing an American localized version of a Japanese game intended to be played on an American localized version of a Japanese game system.
aka...
NES better on American TVs vs Japanese TVs.
But, i should point out this is a very, very tiny and weirdly vocal minority. I have no opinion, other than the prospect of paying someone for dumpster diving for a 1970s wood paneled, cabinet style floor sitter is insane.
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But, i should point out this is a very, very tiny and weirdly vocal minority. I have no opinion, other than the prospect of paying someone for dumpster diving for a 1970s wood paneled, cabinet style floor sitter is insane.
So that's who grabbed my wife's TV when we moved her and her mom to the 'burbs a while back.
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BUT! I have sat in on panels about, no joke, American tube TVs vs Japanese tube TVs and which is the better choice for playing an American localized version of a Japanese game intended to be played on an American localized version of a Japanese game system.
aka...
NES better on American TVs vs Japanese TVs.
Is that in some way significantly different from debate about different monitors from different manufacturers from different countries? Computer magazines make reviews and comparisons about that subject, and some mags take in (new smart) TVs too.
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Is that in some way significantly different from debate about different monitors from different manufacturers from different countries? Computer magazines make reviews and comparisons about that subject, and some mags take in (new smart) TVs too.
I suppose not. The idea of an "authentic" experience isn't that different from how something is "supposed to be played" on modern hardware. Tedious, but worse because of the nostalgia factor.
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Picked up Stellaris and Gloria Victis during the current Steam Sale, and bought Windward for my son (I already have it).
Stellaris is easily worth the $35 I paid for it; enough depth to keep you engaged, yet no unnecessary complications added to simulate "depth."
Gloria Victis is a low-magic, medieval MMO that is still in its Alpha; I primarily bought it because once it goes live, you won't get all of the included content. You will be able to purchase access to such via microtransactions (more detail is on their website). For $18, it's worth it to me to give them a shot. The gameplay seems good, especially for an alpha, and the graphics are definitely nice. There's no targeted attacks - you have to swing your weapon and/or aim your bow so you actually hit your target. This means you actually have to aim your bow upward to some degree, depending on how far away the intended target is.
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Do they insist on playing Elite on BBC Micro and refuse playing any other version of it on any other machine? What is their attitude about monitors that were made for home computers of the time (BBC Micro got those too)?
I play Elite on my BBC model B, complete with green-screen monitor for nostagia every now and again, but I don't consider the experience of playing it on my PC via emulator to be in any way inferior when it comes to the game itself.
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Couldn't sleep after an argument with the better half a couple of nights ago (who knew a half-German, half-Irish woman would have a temper?), and since I was up anyway and didn't want to dive into Fallout 4 in the middle of the night I powered up the old PC and threw in Command & Conquer: Generals for old times' sake.
Glad I did- I forgot how much fun that game is. Did a game against the AI as each of the major armies, and won via:
+American airstrike-pummeling with a follow-on from a small team of Humvees loaded with snipers and missile infantry
+GLA tank swarm backed by Scuds to deal with enemy defense structures. ("Anthrax: It does a body... bad...")
+China infantry zerg-rush backed by BTRs and air-dropped minigunners, with an assist from a few MiGs to deal with stragglers
Why did I stop playing this?
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Stellaris is easily worth the $35 I paid for it; enough depth to keep you engaged, yet no unnecessary complications added to simulate "depth."
When did you start playing? The 1.2 patch dropped this week, there were some significant changes to the diplomacy system.
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I suppose not. The idea of an "authentic" experience isn't that different from how something is "supposed to be played" on modern hardware. Tedious, but worse because of the nostalgia factor.
Nostalgia does weird things to people, especially when it comes to video games. The old console wars still flare up now and then, and God forbid you should ever mention anything bad with a Sonic game (weirdly, Mario fans tend to not be anywhere as vociferous; I have no idea why). I strongly suspect that the combination of high prices and relative youth of the mainstream video game market drives people to an extreme form of confirmation bias: I was bought and enjoyed X, thus X must be the best. The outright vicious marketing tactics of the past certainly didn't help any.
But anyway. Most of the "professional" Let's Players and Streamers use XBox 360 controllers when using emulators, so that's what I use. They're sturdy, relatively inexpensive, and comfortable in my hands. Sometimes I have to remap buttons, but that's more because some older games had baffling layouts (Mega Man, I am looking DIRECTLY at you). I played these games on crappy TV sets with awful controllers back in the day. I've put in my time, and now I'd rather enjoy the game rather than fight the controls.
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On the other side of the coin there are retro game enthusiasts that would say playing emulations, especially PC emulations of console games is a different experience. I kind of get it. Playing Sonic 2 on my old Genesis is way different than playing it even on XBox. Unfortunately, this is the same reason why i have to buy an overpriced Turbo Graffix 16 in order to scratch the itch of a certain Bonk's Adventure enthusiast.
it is a totally different expiriance ...as much as i love my desk top and lap top there is some element missing that makes emulated games played not as much fun...
for example i recently tried playing NES super mario bros with my youngling while back we did not enjoy it because controllers did not pause other player in order to kill them...
also if you are playing pc desktop or laptop you cannot play them on the sofa or floor...( no we do not have tv in my house no need for it)
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Crusader Kings II
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because some one made the bt mod for supreme commander and updated it...now i am going to play it this evening...
damn your dark black heart who ever made that mod...i will not be getting much bed rest as per doctors orders... ;D
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Nostalgia does weird things to people, especially when it comes to video games. The old console wars still flare up now and then, and God forbid you should ever mention anything bad with a Sonic game (weirdly, Mario fans tend to not be anywhere as vociferous; I have no idea why). I strongly suspect that the combination of high prices and relative youth of the mainstream video game market drives people to an extreme form of confirmation bias: I was bought and enjoyed X, thus X must be the best. The outright vicious marketing tactics of the past certainly didn't help any.
Emotional investment frequently plays a part, but I suspect in the Sonic/Mario divide it might have to do with the fact that Nintendo has continued to deliver very solid Mario titles while Sega has turned out a lot of Sonic duds. Speaking as someone who owned a Sega Genesis as a kid.
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also if you are playing pc desktop or laptop you cannot play them on the sofa or floor...
Yes you can. You can get wireless controllers, you can get extension cords to your existing controllers, you can get wireless keyboard with a touchpad, you can get monitor that is larger than average colour TV of the 1980's, you can even get video projector & projection screen. New video projectors are available for less than 100 €/$ and of the used ones you can get bigger/better for the same cost. There is no need to say "cannot".
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My controllers are wireless, and even have a nifty recharging dock. I could run a cable from my computer to a TV, if I had a TV. I'm given to understand that there are wireless dongles that can stream video from computers to TVs as well, but I've not done much research into them.
If your particular nostalgia is sitting on the floor, then the market has you covered.
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When did you start playing? The 1.2 patch dropped this week, there were some significant changes to the diplomacy system.
Bought it about a week ago; I did note the changes to the diplomacy system.
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Yes you can. You can get wireless controllers, you can get extension cords to your existing controllers, you can get wireless keyboard with a touchpad, you can get monitor that is larger than average colour TV of the 1980's, you can even get video projector & projection screen. New video projectors are available for less than 100 €/$ and of the used ones you can get bigger/better for the same cost. There is no need to say "cannot".
its not quite the same...the fights over tangled controllers are fun also resetting the console race from sofa to consoles are fun too and life skill is not to get tangled in cables...
or my fave parents shutting tv off or switching chanells when you are almost at the end...
so emulation expirience is rather deluted...
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Cheers love, the cavalry's here. I just downloaded Overwatch and will try to play it after work tonight.
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Cheers love, the cavalry's here. I just downloaded Overwatch and will try to play it after work tonight.
WOOOOHOOOOO!
See you in the trenches soon. :D
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WOOOOHOOOOO!
See you in the trenches soon. :D
Copy that, chances are I'll be Reindhardt tanking it up.
I want that Gurren Lagann skin of his.
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Copy that, chances are I'll be Reindhardt tanking it up.
I want that Gurren Lagann skin of his.
I got Pharah's Thunderbird skin and I don't care about anything else anymore. :D
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its not quite the same...the fights over tangled controllers are fun also resetting the console race from sofa to consoles are fun too and life skill is not to get tangled in cables...
or my fave parents shutting tv off or switching chanells when you are almost at the end...
so emulation expirience is rather deluted...
Jokes, right? Because if you miss that, you may need some real help.
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It wouldn't shock me if someone liked something like this for nostalgia reasons. Nostalgia is a disease of the mind.
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It wouldn't shock me if someone liked something like this for nostalgia reasons. Nostalgia is a disease of the mind.
Very true. PROTIP: The world was worse when you were young.
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Very true. PROTIP: The world was worse when you were young.
But... i had no responsibilities back then. Surely things were objectively better then and the passage of time, not my transformation into an adult is to blame.
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But... i had no responsibilities back then. Surely things were objectively better then and the passage of time, not my transformation into an adult is to blame.
Life was so much better when I had no freedom!
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its not quite the same...the fights over tangled controllers are fun
I don't recall getting controllers tangled. At least not while playing the games. But packing up the things... Less tangling up than with desktop PC O0
also resetting the console race from sofa to consoles are fun too
Didn't do that. And it is your own fault for getting PC without reset button.
and life skill is not to get tangled in cables...
Can learn that with desktop PC and all the damn cables connected to it. My 2 speakers alone have 3 cables!
or my fave parents shutting tv off or switching chanells when you are almost at the end...
Attach digibox or other kind of TV receiver to your PC, make sure it comes with remote controller, and you can annoy your own kid like that.
so emulation expirience is rather deluted...
If you say so...
Also:
for example i recently tried playing NES super mario bros with my youngling while back we did not enjoy it because controllers did not pause other player in order to kill them...
I did not know I was supposed to enjoy of that >:(
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Also:I did not know I was supposed to enjoy of that >:(
Remember when your awful older sibling would toss you down pits in Battletoads?
I don't, because I was the awful older brother. HA HA HA, glorious!
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Remember getting to level 5 in Battletoads? No, you don't, because nobody ever made it to level 5.
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Remember getting to level 5 in Battletoads? No, you don't, because nobody ever made it to level 5.
Battletoads has more than one level!?
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I got Pharah's Thunderbird skin and I don't care about anything else anymore. :D
Same. It came out of the lootbox I got for getting to 25, so the very first comp match I did was as the Thunderbird. We lost, but we won in my heart.
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Jokes, right? Because if you miss that, you may need some real help.
you are right i need help lol but this is one experience i would love to give my kids so they can appriciate what us old foggies had to go through to play a game and as result enjoy it more through suffering
btw i do miss some of the stuff but cables are not one thing in particular i miss
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I dont really have much times for games, so right now its just Tales From The Borderlands.
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Remember getting to level 5 in Battletoads? No, you don't, because nobody ever made it to level 5.
I did ^-^
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I did ^-^
Look, I know this is the internet and all, but let's not lie to each other. Especially not about something so blatant, okay?
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Look, I know this is the internet and all, but let's not lie to each other. Especially not about something so blatant, okay?
Why do you think I'm lying? ???
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Why do you think I'm lying? ???
Because that game is hard as *****. ;D (And I'm joking; I know it's possible.)
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Because that game is hard as *****. ;D (And I'm joking; I know it's possible.)
game is not hard ...its called old school...
something kids with todays games never learned or enjoyed learning
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game is not hard ...its called old school...
something kids with todays games never learned or enjoyed learning
Do we need to keep your cane at hand so you can yell at them to get off your lawn, too? 8)
Please avoid blanket statements such as that; as a rule, they are inherently false.
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game is not hard ...its called old school...
something kids with todays games never learned or enjoyed learning
I have to agree with Aokarasu: you're missing target here. Even today are made games that could have been technically made back in the 1990's or even earlier and they're just as hard as Battletoads, Sonic, Megaman, Final Fantasy, and the rest.
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Good news: Got the self-refurbished Super Nintendo hooked up on Friday afternoon to do some retro gaming for the long weekend.
Bad news: Promptly wiped out all weekend by eye infection, making sensitivity to light- and thus TV screens- extremely painful.
MUST. KILL. EVERYTHING...
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enjoyed learning
For Battletoads? ???
*dies laughing*
Oh dice no it wasn't, it was a lesson of poor game programming.
Player 1 and Player 2 mechanics where you can troll each other just incite you to strangle your friends with a cord.
Lucky them if you happen to only have wireless controllers.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of "old school" games that are fun.
That title is just a travesty at times.
This is coming from someone who didn't mind it too.
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Battletoads really was intended as a torture device.
Side note: When a young Hellbie used to rent games, he tried Battletoads once, found it to be just too pain to enjoy, and decided to instead look into the other game that caught his eye- "Mechwarrior". He fell in love with the game to the point that the store owner eventually gave him the rental copy, saying it belonged more to him anyway than to the store by that point. It was the first introduction for our young hero to the Battletech universe. (Side note: My hatred of House Davion came from their refusing my pay demands, which were always enormous because I was an idiot and didn't understand economics. Davion won't pay me a kajillion C-bills? Screw these guys, anyone else hiring?)
Also, beware buying old SNES games. Some are relatively painless, some are hard to find in good shape (it wasn't until a couple of years ago I finally got my hands on Choplifter III again, forgot how fun that one could be)... and some are just stunning in their mark-up value (hi Super Metroid!)
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Battletoads really was intended as a torture device.
Side note: When a young Hellbie used to rent games, he tried Battletoads once, found it to be just too pain to enjoy, and decided to instead look into the other game that caught his eye- "Mechwarrior". He fell in love with the game to the point that the store owner eventually gave him the rental copy, saying it belonged more to him anyway than to the store by that point. It was the first introduction for our young hero to the Battletech universe. (Side note: My hatred of House Davion came from their refusing my pay demands, which were always enormous because I was an idiot and didn't understand economics. Davion won't pay me a kajillion C-bills? Screw these guys, anyone else hiring?)
Also, beware buying old SNES games. Some are relatively painless, some are hard to find in good shape (it wasn't until a couple of years ago I finally got my hands on Choplifter III again, forgot how fun that one could be)... and some are just stunning in their mark-up value (hi Super Metroid!)
exactly ...it was a torture device with no cheese at the end lol
this is why kids gave up early and the ones who kept going can wear a badge of hard core gamer...
and o i deal with trespassers not with stick but with something more frightening...wow character deletion...yes i am that evil VBEG
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...I like to think one can wear a 'hardcore gamer' badge and still not play a game they didn't enjoy.
(My badge of pride is the save file showing Omega Weapon's death in Final Fantasy VIII)
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I'm perfectly okay with not being a "hardcore gamer" if it means not having to play bad games. Now go read this piece (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-04-19-don-daglow-im-calling-bullshit-on-core-mid-core-and-casual) about Dan Daglow on how much damage catering to challenge junkies did to the video game industry.
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this is why kids gave up early and the ones who kept going can wear a badge of hard core gamer...
The idea of "hard core" gamer is comical at best.
But if you enjoyed that game, good for you.
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...I like to think one can wear a 'hardcore gamer' badge and still not play a game they didn't enjoy.
(My badge of pride is the save file showing Omega Weapon's death in Final Fantasy VIII)
you too?i wear that one with pride also unfortunetly i had to play it again on ps3 since my ps 1 hadbeen dead/stolen and burried almost 20 years. i just had my youngling start to play ffVIII and she is complaining about the fmv in it...but loves the story so far .....
her major gripe? repetetion of farming.
i wonder how she will take to MDK ?
btw had any one else ended up cursing the tmnt for nes? especially the disarm the bomb levels underwater?
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES was a lousy game. TNMT 2 The Arcade Game was much better.
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*Gets flashbacks to the PC port of that game*
No, no please, the overworld music is now repeating in my head again.
Donatello just died in a level, I have to restart. No I won't use Mikey or Ralph.
*Burns down his PC*
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*Gets flashbacks to the PC port of that game*
No, no please, the overworld music is now repeating in my head again.
Donatello just died in a level, I have to restart. No I won't use Mikey or Ralph.
*Burns down his PC*
glad to know i was not the only one ready to sacrifice my nes after playing that particular gem
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If the NES version was just as bad as the PC port, then yes I do understand your pain.
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If the NES version was just as bad as the PC port, then yes I do understand your pain.
lmao it seems as kids we were gluttons for pain were we not?
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We didn't know any better, there weren't any alternatives.
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So I never got into Pokemon. I now have a 3DS (with a fair number of virtual console games including said Super Metroid) and decided to try Alpha Sapphire.
It's an interesting RPG. With three badges so far, I have a better feel now for the monster-trading and luck-of-the-draw romps through grass. There's a little bit in the Types combat that reminds me of Final Fantasy V style jobs, which is attractive. I also have a single Shiny Linoone that evolved from a Zigzagoon. She's orange colored so I named her Cowboy out of respect for friends back in Oklahoma.
I don't think I can get deeply into the game though. It's super grindy and repetitive. I constantly have to look back at my smartphone to look up either specific weaknesses or the type table. The ancillary mechanics like beauty contests, breeding, pokeblocks, and such are more distracting than engaging. It's fun, but not extraordinary into-it fun. I might try Sun or Moon, but not too sure about that yet. The Steam backlog calls.
What it mostly feels like mechanically? Dragon Quest. The same kind of repetition without the depth of combat mechanics that games like Final Fantasy offer. Dragon Quest is good, sometimes brilliant, but it occupies a very specific niche that hasn't change a whole lot since the late 80s, early 90s. Pokemon feels like that to me; a storied franchise that works and serves its niche well. I see the attraction, but the spell hasn't blessed me.
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Speaking of JRPGs, has anyone tried the new Star Ocean? I've been contemplating it but I wanted to hear more about it before deciding.
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Huh. Screenshots look to me like for all the world it's a standard ATB game. Is it Ys-esque? I'm more inclined to try the new I Am Setsuna though. That heritage runs deeper for me.
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Speaking of JRPGs, has anyone tried the new Star Ocean? I've been contemplating it but I wanted to hear more about it before deciding.
It does look really good based on screenshots but then again I am huge JRPG fan.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES was a lousy game. TNMT 2 The Arcade Game was much better.
Disagree on both counts.
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i wonder how she will take to MDK ?
I've got it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK_(video_game)). Time has left it badly behind.
btw had any one else ended up cursing the tmnt for nes? especially the disarm the bomb levels underwater?
Now THAT game is a challenge!
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If the NES version was just as bad as the PC port, then yes I do understand your pain.
The NES version was beatable. The PC port pushed a jump further out than the player could jump, and there was no way to get around it.
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The NES version was beatable. The PC port pushed a jump further out than the player could jump, and there was no way to get around it.
That might explain my younger self's reaction: "Okay forget this I'm playing Commander Keen."
lmao it seems as kids we were gluttons for pain were we not?
Maybe for titles I absolutely adored, but mostly for achievements before we got the achievement systems in place today.
We didn't know any better, there weren't any alternatives.
Too true and the best answer for the question posted above.
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Finished my 10 game 'prep' run for Overwatch's first competitive season. Landed in the 34-rank bracket, which is surprisingly higher than I gave myself credit for. Only had 3 victories across the 10....but to be honest, the first 3 matches ran to the absolute possible last minute and it was hair-splitting decisions for each.
I've taken a shine to using Pharah, Junkrat, Lucio, Mercy, Gengi, and Symmetra pretty regularly. I have yet to use Roadhog, McCree, D.Va, Tracer, or Zenyatta, and dabbled a little with the rest.
Sniping just isn't a skill I have, even with the generous hitboxes in this game...
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Finished my 10 game 'prep' run for Overwatch's first competitive season. Landed in the 34-rank bracket, which is surprisingly higher than I gave myself credit for. Only had 3 victories across the 10....but to be honest, the first 3 matches ran to the absolute possible last minute and it was hair-splitting decisions for each.
I've taken a shine to using Pharah, Junkrat, Lucio, Mercy, Gengi, and Symmetra pretty regularly. I have yet to use Roadhog, McCree, D.Va, Tracer, or Zenyatta, and dabbled a little with the rest.
Sniping just isn't a skill I have, even with the generous hitboxes in this game...
I main Reinhardt.
Heck, if I ever play AToW and roll up a Battle Armor character he's going to be how I play that.
I love the attitude, the look, and just how good it feels to hit things with that damn hammer.
Though if he's my Jedi, then D.VA is my Sith.
When I play her, I hold my own.
When I have a Mercy on my side, I'm even better.
When I have another D.VA on my side, I cackle with evil glee.
Probably not competition worthy (still only at 20 rank or so) but enough to not totally suck.
I troll people as Junkrat and I clear out trolls with Pharah, though her jets sometimes go a bit too far for my tastes.
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just for fun does any one remember these lost and happy moments with our console games?
and do you remember either throwing/crushing/jumping on the controller for some of the stuff that seem to happen to you every time you played?
i do remember these fun moments with fondness as if pulling your teeth...
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1380_the-13-most-annoying-characters-in-video-game-history/?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Video+Games&wa_user3=photoplasty&wa_user4=recommended
enjoy the memories...i certainly did! lol
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I'm doing some enhanced old-school Bioware/Black Isle goodness.
Just started playing Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition, and downloading Baldur's Gate and BG2 Enhanced Editions (which I'd purchased a couple of years ago but having played in quite a while). Think I'm going to make a Half-Orc Berskerker 2-Handed weapon specialist. Or go Fighter-Thief so I can wield the Holy Avenger in BG2
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Doom! the original, I'm owning my nephew Six Ways from Sunday, who is a (console) FPS elite (went to State Esport Comps) on Time, Health, Armor & Secrets.
Also I'm handing him his head in Unreal Tournament & Halo (the original) multi-player.
Edit: but all that comes to an end after dinner tonight since his school holidays finish tonight.
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I like how Star Wars Battlefront is running a double points event this weekend, literally a day after I maxed out my rank at 70. ::)
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I'm beginning to understand the appeal to Roadhog.
Like a walking shotgun, point at enemy and blam away.
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Recently picked up Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil edition for PS4. Started up a new Crusader....Even though I have a level 54 Crusader and various other characters I've yet to reach 70 with on PC...
Also started up some new characters in Diablo 2 again.
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Are there significant differences between PC and PS4 versions of the game?
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Are there significant differences between PC and PS4 versions of the game?
There's a few. Most notably the ability to dodge, you don't have to be online to play, and couch co-op. Mob density seems a tad lower, yet monsters seem like they have more health to possibly make up for that.
Also, the Witch Doctor can only have 5 Zombie Dogs summoned instead of 6....I am not terribly fond of that particular change. So, I doubt I'll start up a WD on the PS4.
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Telltale Game of Thrones. Oh my god, its exactly like the TV show! I just finished episode 1 and Ramsay Bolton is lethal! O0
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Halo 5 Warzone Firefight. I finally have a portion of Halo 5 multiplayer that i actually kind of like.
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Halo 5 Warzone Firefight. I finally have a portion of Halo 5 multiplayer that i actually kind of like.
I didn't know Halo 5 even had Firefight. Learn something new every day, I guess.
I avoided 5... 4's single-player was very underwhelming, and it sounded like 5 was just as bad in that regard. Combined with few of my 4 multiplayer folks coming back for 5, figured it was worth saving the money this time around.
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wrong topic. Sorry.
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i was forced to teach my oldest youngling to play sim city(the ea version not maxis)
she wanted to run her city so i showed her how with no cheats
i hate it when they look over your shoulder when you try to clean your old stuff out
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I've been hitting Rainbow Six Siege really hard on my Xbox of late. I haven't played a shooter this much since COD:Black Ops 2.
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I didn't know Halo 5 even had Firefight. Learn something new every day, I guess.
From what i've heard, it was a post launch addition.
I nabbed Halo 5 for free from XBL and have yet to crack it. I think i'm just done with that phase of my life.
So i tried PvP in Battleborn and found it really interesting. I'm not familiar with MOBA types, so this was something of an eye opener.
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Just maxed out my rank at 140 on Battlefield 4. [cheers]
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World of Warships
Heroes and Generals
Empire: Total War
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I discovered that the Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale have a Story Mode option that makes your characters immortal. Perfect for those boss fights that I actively hated.
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Anyone going to try I Am Setsuna to get their Chrono Trigger on? It comes out tomorrow and I'm thinking of making a day one purchase.
So far reviews are praising the story as heart rending but criticize some of the combat mechanics as getting a little overweight and the world as somewhat samey.
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Anyone going to try I Am Setsuna to get their Chrono Trigger on? It comes out tomorrow and I'm thinking of making a day one purchase.
So far reviews are praising the story as heart rending but criticize some of the combat mechanics as getting a little overweight and the world as somewhat samey.
I'm heavily considering picking this game up, it definitely has me intrigued.
Currently I just started playing Way of the Samurai 3 on PC....I am currently so lost as to how to even truly begin in this game. *laughs* I definitely enjoy it, but, I'm just as confused now as I was when I first played it on 360 a few years ago.
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Even though I'd told a friend more than once it had no real appeal to me, I broke down and downloaded "Rise of Icarus" last night. Only level 8 at the moment, but the game is quite beautiful, and the mechanics seem pretty decent so far.
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Just downloaded Hawken for PS4 but haven't tried it yet.
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Picked up Gravity Rush Remastered and Skullgirls Second Encore during a sale that the Playstation Store was having. Both are quite fun.
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I just bought Shadow Complex Remastered from Steam. Is on sale. Downloading now.
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Picked up Gravity Rush Remastered and Skullgirls Second Encore during a sale that the Playstation Store was having. Both are quite fun.
i thought skull girls was pc/windows?
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When it first came out. It's been available on PS3/PS4 for a couple of years.
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When it first came out. It's been available on PS3/PS4 for a couple of years.
stopped following consoles just as ps 3 came out
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The makers of Skullgirls is making another title called Indivisible that includes some Skullgirls characters and the Shovel Knight. I'm not familiar with their previous work, but the art style is interesting.
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last fighting game i had was mugen with over 1k charicters and ability to add more as needed or wanted fun game but after awhile repeatative
i think it was almost 8 gb
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Skullgirls is a lot of fun if you like the frantic style of 90s 2D tournament fighters. And unlike certain other tournament fighter games I won't name (cough*StreetFighterV*cough) it's got great single-player support.
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Been playing Starbound 1.0. Boy has that game expanded and flourished. The plot points, biomes, and quests have all really diversified. The game has a much more coherent theme in survivor mode.
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Been playing Starbound 1.0. Boy has that game expanded and flourished. The plot points, biomes, and quests have all really diversified. The game has a much more coherent theme in survivor mode.
Does it still delete half your base every time you leave the screen? 'Cause that kiiiind of annoyed me in the Beta. ;D
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I've been distracted lately, not been playing alot (aside on a naval based - movecraft modded Minecraft Server). Last couple months as a mobile device i use while i'm out and about using my machine's windows10 game called Space Jet 3D. Its simple, (i don't own a XBox by the way) seems to be fast and enjoyable, you get to play against users who seem to be international as well local.
Sadly, i'm late in getting into the game, seems like the popularity is dying out. I don't like multiplayer (only) games as general rule, but is nice once and while.
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Does it still delete half your base every time you leave the screen? 'Cause that kiiiind of annoyed me in the Beta. ;D
Er, nope?
There are pretty pictures of wanton destruction in an early cutscene though:
(http://www.nodwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/starbound2016-01.png)
There's kind of a Stargate SG-1 vibe to some of the plot they've put together. So Stargate + Star Trek + Terraria.
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I've been enjoying Brigador. Any one here try it?
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I was wandering around looking for an old-schoolish Japanese style CRPG and I then stumbled upon "Trails in the Sky".
About a hundred or so hours later, I finally declare completion of both it and the sprawling Second Chapter... and then it goes on sale on GoG.
Bah.
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Started playing PotBS (Pirates of the Burning Sea) again for the first time in a long while.
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I just got through Broforce (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOAQ7t9JjY)
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Well, with last couple months i got a Smart Phone for the first time. (yeah, i'm Luddite i guess) One first games i spotted which turns out to be cool Multi-Player MechWarrior-clone is WWR, Walking War Robots. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1gAkpbA-A). It's not easy to use it on my droid, but it's fun quick fighting matches type game. I recommend it if you want something fast and easy, play with Mechs. Robots (i hate calling them that) are essentially Omni-Podded, with 3 sizes, with each class getting one-weapons hardpoint as you get bigger machine.
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Haven't really gotten to play it yet, but just picked up MGS V: The Phantom Pain. This almost completes my collection of the series.
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Gave try for newest MechWarrior Online. I see some improvements since open beta. How do I buy 'Mechs and stuff?
Steam has Mass Effect series for sale. -75%. Gonna get it. Dunno if I'll play it though.
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Steam has Mass Effect series for sale. -75%. Gonna get it. Dunno if I'll play it though.
Steam does not offer Mass Effect 3. The package only includes 1 and 2.
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For the millionth time, I am trying some Terror from the Deep. Time to jinx myself and mention my incredible start. Currently midway through August of first year. Egyptian Cartel left me after three months, but my funding is still going strong. I was having major trouble with an artifact site. Finally took my four highest MC strength people from training and sent them. Took the base with just those four. Second artifact site added a sonic displacer to the group. The tank killed everything on the top level. The aquanauts never left the sub. I'll need to deal with the first colony soon. That's when my soldiers will start dying again. One day I'll win this thing.
Meow Liao
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Desperately trying to finish my to-do lists before Legion comes out, and failing
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For the millionth time, I am trying some Terror from the Deep. Time to jinx myself and mention my incredible start. Currently midway through August of first year. Egyptian Cartel left me after three months, but my funding is still going strong. I was having major trouble with an artifact site. Finally took my four highest MC strength people from training and sent them. Took the base with just those four. Second artifact site added a sonic displacer to the group. The tank killed everything on the top level. The aquanauts never left the sub. I'll need to deal with the first colony soon. That's when my soldiers will start dying again. One day I'll win this thing.
Meow Liao
lmao i remember those missions well...
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I always managed to trigger the bug that made progression in that game impossible. I think it's fixed on Steam, but in the original release if you researched things out of order, it would never trigger the flag for the next series of enemies/upgrades. The tempo of alien attacks would increase, but it would always be the basic enemies, and you could never actually move forward. Eventually you would be overwhelmed.
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My son's curiosity has triggered a replay of Dark Forces :)
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Been getting back into doing GTA Online with Redshirt and GhostBear, the new stunt tracks are just batshit-insane. It's like the old Hot Wheels orange tracks, with the loops and tubes and such- I cannot enough recommend trying it out if you have the game. (And of course if you're playing it on Xbox One, why not join us for a race or two? Only rules are that you have to be a good sport about it and you have to run Redshirt off the track at least once.)
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My son's curiosity has triggered a replay of Dark Forces :)
Good game that. Within technical limits of the time, it was pretty well made. Stealing the Death Star plans is great tie-in to the movies. And it looks like Rogue One is gonna change that >:(
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It's not like any of the old Star Wars games were ever canon to begin with.
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I've been playing Stellaris. Best 4X game in a long time. Someone has modded in Battletech symbols too, so my Draconis Combine is slowly creeping over the galaxy.
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I've been playing Stellaris. Best 4X game in a long time. Someone has modded in Battletech symbols too, so my Draconis Combine is slowly creeping over the galaxy.
Stellaris is really well done, and there's a Star Trek mod being worked on by someone.
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Stellaris is a fun game, though I did have to take a break from it for a little while. My recommendation for mods is to grab a copy of Synthwave Stellaris Music. Download it, ignore the version warning, and enjoy some game appropriate music.
And Shin, Stellaris calls itself a Grand Strategy game more than a 4x game.
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i got bored with it it just reminded me too much of moo2
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i got bored with it it just reminded me too much of moo2
Not a bad thing in my book.
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i got bored with it it just reminded me too much of moo2
Both take place in space.
Both feature aliens.
Both feature tech advancement.
...sure, I guess somebody could make an argument that they're alike.
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Not a bad thing in my book.
It's a poor comparison. Stellaris glosses over combat in favor of interstellar diplomacy and empire building. And empire building in the sense of Star Trek's Federation more than the heavy lifting of planning out each and every planet your empire controls.
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It's a poor comparison. Stellaris glosses over combat in favor of interstellar diplomacy and empire building. And empire building in the sense of Star Trek's Federation more than the heavy lifting of planning out each and every planet your empire controls.
Sounds more like MOO3...
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One of the major improvements over MOO (or any other of the major 4X games I've played) is the establishment of goals for a declared war. Each goal adds a certain point value, and your victories/defeats contribute positively or negatively toward that point goal. Once you reach it, boom, the war is over; no more dragging a war on forever and a day because the AI is being a belligerent piece of space flotsam.
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Speaking of MOO the firm Wargaming has acquired the license and is coming out with a new version. You can get early access via Steam already.
They are not stinting on voice actors, check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhzlgohX2SM
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Steam has Mass Effect series for sale. -75%. Gonna get it. Dunno if I'll play it though.
I'm playing this. I'm totally playing this!
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Finally got around to reinstalling and probably going to just completely restart Fallout 4 with a whole new character.
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Speaking of MOO the firm Wargaming has acquired the license and is coming out with a new version. You can get early access via Steam already.
They are not stinting on voice actors, check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhzlgohX2SM
Yeah, been following this. It comes at a good time. I'll finally have to get a new PC. I'm so reluctant, though. The recent Homeworld and X-Com revivals were good. I suppose the worse of gaming isn't as bleak as Hollywood when it comes to revivals.
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Got back into World of Warcraft and been having a blast. The new Legion expansion's coming out next Tuesday and the pre-patch period has been fun. There are Invasions which give crazy experience so I've been leveling new characters so quickly. New Demon Hunter class is pretty fun to play though it doesn't have much of a skill requirement.
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GTA Online, got chased by a trio of folks out to just troll other players. Gave them a merry time- they were in an armored car, but I was in the games' equivalent of a Koeniggseg supercar, so good luck catching me guys. Well... unless I don't give a corner the braking it deserves and go skidding...
...right through a gap in the retaining wall of the raised on-ramp...
...into the air...
...and landing almost perfectly on top of the flatbed of a large truck, which didn't so much as flinch as it merrily drove along the northbound interstate. I couldn't get my car off of it- I was perfectly stuck so all four tires were off the trailer- but my opponents were stuck still facing eastbound and by the time they could get caught up I was long gone.
Thanks for the ride, nameless trucker! O0
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Elite Dangerous. I have a HOTAS coming in the mail tomorrow so this ought to be interesting.
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Elite Dangerous. I have a HOTAS coming in the mail tomorrow so this ought to be interesting.
Much much MUCH better with a HOTAS.
If you are using the x55 (not sure about other makes), this is a GREAT online reference maker for your HOTAS:
https://www.mcdee.net/elite/
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Much much MUCH better with a HOTAS.
If you are using the x55 (not sure about other makes), this is a GREAT online reference maker for your HOTAS:
https://www.mcdee.net/elite/
X52 Pro.
Now that is a very useful website. That will make remembering the 5 bazillion controls a lot easier. Thanks!
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Darkest Dungeon- tough but addicting game. I like the Hellion and Graverobber classes. O0
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Darkest Dungeon- tough but addicting game.
I got that and I'm not addicted
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To each their own. I've heard dark rumors of people who didn't like Undertale, even before encountering the insane fanbase.
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I just got King of Fighters XIV. Very fun. Unlike Capcom, SNK does not appear to feel the need to change elements of a tournament fighter's gameplay that the fans actually like. They also seem to have figured out how to release a game that has all its advertised features available on launch.
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Considering having another go at EU-IV as soon as I finish up my Empire-TW game as India. I've taken South and Central America, and I'm working on the Caribbean and North America.
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I have seen said Empire is worst game in the Total War series. What is your opinion about it? Is the formations fighting 1-on-1 still in there or has it been patched out?
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I think its OK. Napoleon Total War and Medieval II I didn't like as much as this one. Shogun and Medieval I are better for me, as is Shogun II and the original Rome is the one I most enjoy.
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Has anyone been beta testing new MOO? I a couple of my friends have early versions, their playing they bought on steam. It's coming along, i've been itching to get new games (i've not bough any new new games in few years now.)
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Star Wars Republic At War which is a mod for Empire At War set during the Clone Wars; a lot of fun though the AI is really dumb sometimes
Also playing Dragon Age Inquisition for the 360
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My last bought game is RUNNING WITH RIFLES. Top-down shooter, maybe hundreds little soldiers shooting at each other, crewing vehicles, and dying. Lots. Multiplayer servers available where players can come and go as they please. One comment from the game chat:
I'M HAVING FUN JUST DYING LOL
Still on sale in Steam. 1 day left.
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Has anyone been beta testing new MOO? I a couple of my friends have early versions, their playing they bought on steam. It's coming along, i've been itching to get new games (i've not bough any new new games in few years now.)
I'm still having a hard crash of the game after playing about 2-2.5h.
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Started playing Armored Warfare almost 2 weeks ago. Modern era World of Tanks, for those not familiar with it. I am enjoying it more than WoT, especially since you have unlimited garage space, and no gold ammo. It's currently suffering from an anemic fanbase - there's extremely long waits for any PvP matches during NA morning through early afternoon. Thankfully, they do have co-op PvE missions you can run.
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I was currently playing through Transformers Devastation for PC on Hard Mode as Bumblebee. Man, that battle against Menasor while playing as Bumblebee was hard. But I manage to defeat him. Yes I do Synthesize my weapons very often
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The trick to beating Menasor and Devastator on higher difficulties is to stay in the air as much as possible, since most of their attacks target ground-level opponents. Also, remember that Bumblebee does extra damage when he's behind opponents.
Finally Devastator's Drills are the most ridiculously broken weapons in the game, due to how the Heavy Melee charged attack works. With an appropriately leveled one equipped, a single drill shot can potentially remove about a quarter of Menasor's life. And on higher difficulty levels, Bee is really the best character because his agility for dodging attacks is really going to do a lot more to keep you alive than Prime or Grimlock's armor.
I just picked up Armored Trooper Lenyos. And I'm not sure if I wasted my money. Game so far really doesn't seem significantly better to the ones I can play for free on Kongregate or Armor Games.
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I just picked up Armored Trooper Lenyos.
Any relation to Armored Trooper VOTOMS?
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My mistake, the name is actually Assault Suit Lenyos. It's apparently based on some old Sega Genesis game. New version doesn't seem to be that much different- updated graphics but it's still a sidescrolling shooter with levels that are about five minutes long.
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wasnt it a game about convicts being surgically altered to be able to wear them things in order to be on you are going to die type tv show?
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Started up yet another playthrough of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. This time around I seem to understand it a bit more and I'm making better progress. Fun game, but, damn is it vague and not very user-friendly.
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I've been ripping through Titan Quest Remastered lately. A far better sequel to Diablo 2 than Diablo 3 ever was.
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Halo 5 has been making me incredibly salty lately, considering how good I was at prior games in the franchise. I can't even compete without downing an energy drink.
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Still trying to get up the guts to play the last mission in Shadowrun Dragonfall.
In the mean-time playing Rimworld and holy cow is it good. A mashup of Dwarf Fortress and the survival sims we've seen on Steam the past few years with a bit of a Firefly/western aesthetic.
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Also attempting a run-through of the Dragon Quest series. DQ-II is borked on my iPhone (battles crash the game after a language update) but appears to work on the iPad.
Very grindy, but fun with the visual upgrades since the Famicom/NES days.
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Halo 5 has been making me incredibly salty lately, considering how good I was at prior games in the franchise. I can't even compete without downing an energy drink.
Have you tried the standard Warzone or FireFight? FireFight is 8 players versus all NPCs. Standard Warzone 8 v 8 teams and is a combo of slayer, territories, and kill the NPCs. Those helped me get my feet of the ground with multiplayer. My usual approach with the Halo games has been to run through the campaign (on legendary) as a way to get used to the controls, weapons, etc. Then jump into multiplayer.
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I'm currently going through Bullet Hell (literally) with BattleStorm on Steam. And, I liked it. I'm currently at world 3, level 5
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Have you tried the standard Warzone or FireFight? FireFight is 8 players versus all NPCs. Standard Warzone 8 v 8 teams and is a combo of slayer, territories, and kill the NPCs. Those helped me get my feet of the ground with multiplayer. My usual approach with the Halo games has been to run through the campaign (on legendary) as a way to get used to the controls, weapons, etc. Then jump into multiplayer.
I do play Firefight pretty regualarly, mostly because I'm trying to get the Mastery Cert. That said, since I last posted, I've gotten better. So there is that.
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Always enjoy a good intense/horror game this time of year, what with Halloween and all. I've played through the first two Dead Space games, and absolutely loved them both. I actually probably liked the sequel better than the original. However, has anyone played through 3? Any good, solo? I seem to remember it didn't get very good reviews, but I thought it might still satisfy the craving.
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Well, it isn't horror, per se, but Dark Souls offers a good dark, creepy, uneasy tone to it (and I'm kinda on a Dark Souls kick at the moment O:-) ). Bioshock 1 can also offer a good halloween vibe at times, especially the beginning.
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Always enjoy a good intense/horror game this time of year, what with Halloween and all. I've played through the first two Dead Space games, and absolutely loved them both. I actually probably liked the sequel better than the original. However, has anyone played through 3? Any good, solo? I seem to remember it didn't get very good reviews, but I thought it might still satisfy the craving.
Dead Space 3 is not a bad game. I had fun with it. What it is not, however, is a Dead Space game. It's an action game, rather than horror. It's also got some really immersion-breaking elements, like co-op only zones and microtransactions to buy better weapons...which are all the more frustrating to see, because like I said, it's not a bad game.
But if you liked DS2, you'll probably detest 3. There's no eye moment, for certain.
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Dead Space 3 is not a bad game. I had fun with it.
Interesting review. I think I might go ahead and score a copy, what with the current sale 'n all.
Appreciate you sharing the point of view!
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Interesting review. I think I might go ahead and score a copy, what with the current sale 'n all.
Appreciate you sharing the point of view!
Oh yeah, as long as you know it's not going to be the same experience as the first two going in, and you can snag it on sale, it's a decent game.
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Dug out Sid Meier's Civ IV- Beyond the Sword. I must have gone mad..... :D
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Started up yet another playthrough of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. This time around I seem to understand it a bit more and I'm making better progress. Fun game, but, damn is it vague and not very user-friendly.
for real. i wanted to like it but it was just doing nothing for me so i moved on to other things. i guess it makes a good technical display.....
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Dug out Sid Meier's Civ IV- Beyond the Sword. I must have gone mad..... :D
I still play the revamped Pirates! game.
A fun game is a fun game, no matter the years.
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I still play the revamped Pirates! game.
A fun game is a fun game, no matter the years.
You're right. Which is why my old PS2 is off to the repair shop, because I desperately miss Warship Gunner 2 despite its age and story that is less interesting than the ingredients list on a cereal box. I want my warship-building back!
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Man, I had that game when it first came out and have been looking for a replacement for years.
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Dug out Sid Meier's Civ IV- Beyond the Sword. I must have gone mad..... :D
What do you mean by gone mad? It looks like majority of opinion is that it is the best one in the series. Hey, wanna play PBEM with me?
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What do you mean by gone mad? It looks like majority of opinion is that it is the best one in the series. Hey, wanna play PBEM with me?
By "gone mad" I meant that I remembered how much time the game always sucked away, and I started it up again anyway! :D
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Future War and Final Frontier mods were the best for that game.
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What do you mean by gone mad? It looks like majority of opinion is that it is the best one in the series. Hey, wanna play PBEM with me?
you poor man...you are now caught in cycle of one more turn ...! and yes it is the best of the series...still playing the dune mod for it
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you poor man...you are now caught in cycle of one more turn ...!
I'm NOT! I've got over it. So anyone in here up for Civ4 PBEM?
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Gave up on E.Y.E. for now and am currently binging on Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition as well as EDF 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair.
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I'm NOT! I've got over it. So anyone in here up for Civ4 PBEM?
Sorry, don't play PBeM.
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I am replaying: Hitman: Codename 47, Dishonored and Arma Cold War Assault.
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XCOM 2's mod community has me drowning in customization options.
And yet it still feels limited.
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Friend of mine got me interested in Tom Clancy's The Division. The immersion is amazing, and the environment is a big part of that. Shooters are far from my favorite category of game, and tend to avoid them. This one is fantastic.
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I'm thinking about getting a new game and I'm currently debating on whether to pick up Skyrim Special Edition for PS4 when it releases in another week or getting Witcher 3 Special Edition, which is already out.
Anyone played both games and have thoughts?
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I'm thinking about getting a new game and I'm currently debating on whether to pick up Skyrim Special Edition for PS4 when it releases in another week or getting Witcher 3 Special Edition, which is already out.
Anyone played both games and have thoughts?
Witch 3 is great, but to get the full meaning need to at the very least play Witcher 2.
Skyrim, you can easily, EASILY sink over 300 hours into that.
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I'm hesitant to get a modern game on my laptop, which isn't optimized for gaming, and I'm certainly not going to pick up an XBox 360 just to get a single game.
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Kerbal!!!!!
(My Lander is about 12Km off to the right in the basin of the crater. It took a half hour to get up into the lowlands to take the shot... so beautiful.)
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I've been thinking about getting the new Master of Orion. Has anyone played it who would tell me your opinion of it?
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Can someone share me his opinion about new Flashback (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsL1E4zSNrA)?
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After GTA Online last night, couldn't sleep... ended up spending a couple of hours going old-school on Super BattleTank: War In The Gulf for the Super Nintendo. A game old enough to drink now... and one best played while drinking, so you have somthing to do during the long, boring treks between targets.
Seriously guys, I mean I get it, not all targets are near each other, but... ugh. At one point, a march between a Hind helicopter and a T-72 tank took enough time that at 75% speed I had enough time to leave to hit the restroom and grab a cider from the fridge, and still was back in my chair with time to check my ammo load before engaging the tank.
I theorize that years after this came out, folks at Obsidian played it, decided that long treks across desert terrain with nothing to do would be fun, and made Fallout: New Vegas. ;D
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Thinking about picking up a "new" FPS for PC with decent bot support, but it seems every post-Black Ops 2 CoD (The franchise I usually default to for Bot fighting) is not optimized for PC, and Black Ops 2 isn't good for Windows 10 apparently.
Anybody have anything like that? Preferably with a decent amount of customization.
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Skyrim, you can easily, EASILY sink over 300 hours into that.
Skyrim is crack, straight and to the point.
Then again it does come from the Elder Scrolls line up of gaming drugs, they are habit forming after all.
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Skyrim is crack, straight and to the point.
Then again it does come from the Elder Scrolls line up of gaming drugs, they are habit forming after all.
then you must remember everquest...or evercrack thankfully i never got addicted to it...but civ series...'scuse me as ii complete one more turn
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but civ series...'scuse me as ii complete one more turn
I hope it is the PBEM turn I had send on your way...
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When I have the time, I play a lot of Europa Barbarorum 2. :)
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but civ series...'scuse me as ii complete one more turn
Oh my GOD what a time suck >:D.
OK, I'll get some breakfast right after this turn... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND now it's Nightime!
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last night i had re installed trainz 2006 for my oldest youngling...she had not gone to sleep till 4 am went to sleep woke up at 7 ate something and now i cannot pry her claws off from her moms laptop...
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Dishonored.
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I played WoT exclusively for the last couple months, but now I'm back on Rainbow Six Siege. These new Brazilian operators seem...odd. At least one's carrying a SAW, so there's that.
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then you must remember everquest...or evercrack thankfully i never got addicted to it.
My brother played Evercrack, I got into Guild Wars because I didn't have money for subscription fees.
As for Civ, I'm playing the new version and overall it isn't that bad but I'll need a few more games to really get a review.
A few more games, well see you all in half a decade!
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My brother played Evercrack, I got into Guild Wars because I didn't have money for subscription fees.
As for Civ, I'm playing the new version and overall it isn't that bad but I'll need a few more games to really get a review.
A few more games, well see you all in half a decade!
i had not touched guild wars in ages...
as for civ 6? let me get back to you on that one i have to do one more turn with it G( be aware civ games bend time space in strange ways as you play)
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Victoria II from Paradox Interactive.
Because I'm mad, that's why.
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messaiah
old but fun posses people make use of them dispose of them all because god wants you to clean up the earth
rather funny forgot how much fun it was to play
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Just started up Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Been having fun with it so far.
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Skyrim: SE just unlocked.
New coat of paint, good 'ol Skyrim.
New GPU with which to abuse the game (Ultra-all)
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Fired up the new X-COM again for another go-round.
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Fired up the new X-COM again for another go-round.
not the original one? you poor soul..now you are trapped in one more turn hell!
always enjoyable no matter how old it gets! every pc i have or had always had a copy of it on it...and my oldest youngling is hooked too
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The wife got the new Skyrim yesterday. She is playing the hell out of it while I'm at work.
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The wife got the new Skyrim yesterday. She is playing the hell out of it while I'm at work.
I just got it today.
I'm quite surprised by the fact that the PS4 version supports modding, despite the PS4 version of Fallout 4 being unable to.
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I just got it today.
I'm quite surprised by the fact that the PS4 version supports modding, despite the PS4 version of Fallout 4 being unable to.
Funny you say that when you posted this in the Fallout 4 Thread ;)
https://bethesda.net/en/article/2vD2Mjgezeu8O22KKGGcyI/mods-and-4k-coming-to-playstation-4-for-skyrim-and-fallout-4
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Notice the timestamps on those two posts.
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Notice the timestamps on those two posts.
I Did, hence the smiley face. Woulda thought you'd at least come back here and correct the above post ;)
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I was too busy playing Skyrim.
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I was too busy playing Skyrim.
If it wasn;t for the fact I spent over 300 hours on Skyrim when it first came out....
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Spending alot time on droid-based Walking War Robots MMO (now named War Robots), the mecha game i find it better than MWO. Not as optimized, thou you do want get upgrading your mechs. There Halloween special going on right now, you get jackolanterns earned from playing and you get randomly chosen weapon. Anything can be got from earning silvers during the game play, but you you can do buy credits. I usually don't unless i want drop 10 bucks.
So far, it's enjoyable 5 minute game with mecha fighting streets and other landscapes against 5 other players.
Halloween stuff has ghosts of past mecha downed in fight walking around during battle.
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ok a question elite:dangerous
is it strictly on line and is it pay to play? :-\
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ok a question elite:dangerous
is it strictly on line and is it pay to play? :-\
Yes to always online. Sorry
No. Pay once and good to go. Note. Can still pay for extras like bobble heads and paint schemes.
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I have mostly been playing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and some other fighting games on my PS3 but I have also been playing some FFX remastered and Dragon Age 3. I bought PS3 version of DA3 from sale becouse I don't want to deal with whole always online that PC version has that is big reason why I don't game on PC anymore. I am considering getting PS4 for games like Tekken 7 and World of Final Fantasy.
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I am considering getting PS4 for games like Tekken 7 and World of Final Fantasy.
Found money means I'm picking up a PS4Pro, WoFF and FF XV.
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Yes to always online. Sorry
No. Pay once and good to go. Note. Can still pay for extras like bobble heads and paint schemes.
thanks...i very rarely have time to play any way when it comes on line stuff take mwo for example when ever i have time to play it i end up not playing because it patches...as a result i had not even been able to play it even once in 15 months!
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Still playing my Droid based (now renamed from Walking War Robots aka WWR) War Robots MMO game. Alot growth in the game, it not too ubber. There is incentive to up gun as you level up beyond 5 to stay compeditive, but there no crazy need to buy stuff unless your impatient. There was this really cool Halloween even that about end in couple hours, that you could get free Robots (mechs - pilots eject when it dies) weapons and equipment. Its very Battletech to me, least it's like 3D version of MWO but perhaps slower pace than it.
It's a 3rd person view, you can form teams of 5, the robots are setup like OmniMechs where you can switch around the weapons, but there size categories for weapon mounts from light to heavy which varies from machine to machine. There 3 Robot/Mech size classes, light medium and heavies.
Its a fun game, it can be frustating when you run into some guys with higher tier weapons but i think the game balance the pick on who your playing against. With what the person has in their garage.
Until my oops moment caused by me trying move the game on to my sd chip, essentially i was into level 18 in my
workshop. Workshop another way to get 3rd tier of new robots/weapons. The older starter Robots and the weapons can be upgraded to compete with the newer flasher ones.
My favorite is the Galahad, which was Medium Mech, it was part release of 3 robots/mechs that Knight themed machines with Shields that can be retracted, increase armor on certain part of the mech verse attaching it.
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Just downloaded Hawken for PS4 but haven't tried it yet.
I just got it for XB1. Decent enough gameplay, but a weird game for sure. F2P, so it is basically a platform for in game purchases. No single player story mode, even though it has a decent opening cinematic and training mode that hint at a story.
It has a heat management mechanic, too. So, in addition to being a F2P game and all the threadbare production put into said games, it is also a mechwarrior rip off.
Not bad. Good thing it is free. I'd have been much more critical if i spent money to get it.
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Fired up the new X-COM again for another go-round.
not the original one? you poor soul..now you are trapped in one more turn hell!
If you want to play either X-COM: UFO Defense or UFO: Enemy Unknown (same game with different names), I recommend you to reinforce it with OpenXcom. It adds bunch of new tricks, like support for mouse wheel and radar ranges on the map. Also has got bunch of mods, where most prominent seems to be X-PirateZ. Look 'em up.
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X-COM: UFO Defense is available on Steam and Good Old Games. And GOG has it on sale right now!
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I just got it for XB1. Decent enough gameplay, but a weird game for sure. F2P, so it is basically a platform for in game purchases. No single player story mode, even though it has a decent opening cinematic and training mode that hint at a story.
It has a heat management mechanic, too. So, in addition to being a F2P game and all the threadbare production put into said games, it is also a mechwarrior rip off.
Not bad. Good thing it is free. I'd have been much more critical if i spent money to get it.
I played through the training mode and decided I didn't actually care about the game, then deleted it.
Playing through Skyrim right now. Just maxed out my werewolf powers last night (earned three points in a single transformation), then completed the Companions quest line and cured myself- I'm already well past the point where I was getting any serious benefit anyway. To be honest, the Companions are the first group in that game that it actually feels like it makes sense for me to be made leader of after completing the quest line. I'm a barely competent mage and only an okay thief so really the roles of Archmage and Guildmaster ought to have gone to one of the NPCs who, you know, actually know how to run the places.
Actually, that's one thing that's always sort of bugged me about the Elder Scrolls series: it's entirely too open as to what your character can do. It would have felt more natural if joining one organization prevented you from joining a different organization and if all the Daedric Princes weren't willing to overlook that you'd just done a major service for their arch-nemesis in their attempts to make you their champion.
Also, I wish I could max out smithing faster (yes, I've already got the Transmute Iron to Silver to Gold spell and am using it to crank out gold rings). I've got something like half a ton worth of dragon bones and scales stored in my house.
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Dark Souls III
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Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars and Stellaris, I like mentally comparing the two.
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Burnout Paradise
on rare occasion, Burnout Takedown (love the sound track and the road tracks)
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Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars
Lost track of this one. Long time fan of the series. Thoughts so far?
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Been playing "The Dwarves" religiously on PC recently. I also just picked up "The Last Guardian" tonight, so, I'm hoping I get a chance to check it out soon.
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Lost track of this one. Long time fan of the series. Thoughts so far?
I have not bought it yet, but I plan to: after all the voice acting alone is worth it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhzlgohX2SM&t=5s
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I finally did it!!!! After all of these years, I beat Xcom 2 TFTD. [cheers] [applause]
Finished Mass Effect 2 about 3 weeks ago.
Next up needs to be finishing Witcher 2. I started back into that one about two weeks ago after a 6 month break. Need to keep up this streak of finishing games.
Meow Liao
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Finished Mass Effect 2 about 3 weeks ago.
Need to finish of ME3 in time for Andromeda ;)
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Just finished the main plot for Dragonborn in Skyrim. Now to finish the side quests.
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Lost track of this one. Long time fan of the series. Thoughts so far?
Well my Steam review for it was pre-Antares patch, but overall it seems to be a step backward in terms of complexity.
When I got it on discount, thank you Black Friday/Cyber Monday, I noticed how it seemed to have only the MOO1 races.
Terran Khanate is only available when you purchase the Collector's Edition, I did not.
There's clearly a return to form towards the first MOO, for good and for ill in my opinion.
As I first played it there were no Leaders for Fleets or Colonies.
The Spy system was a little expanded, but still very fire and forget.
Negotiations seem to take a direction towards how Civ 5/6 go about it, but it isn't that bad.
Combat is not turn based, but Real Time (like MOO3 but not as horrible), allowing you a radar view or to click through over the "shoulder" camera views for a more cinematic experience.
"Custom" races is merely choose an existing race as a "genetic template" (read that as any cinematic or ship looks for that race) then picking your traits. A minor quibble but something worthwhile to note.
Pros
It is fracking gorgeous. Though seeing a cinematic for every time you land on a planet to colonize it does wear thin. I think you can turn off that option, but every biome has their own little "Starship Voyager landing" moments.
The voice acting is absolutely top notch. If you know "that voice" from a sci-fi, then they might be here.
The graphics of the game are nice, it does provide a good atmosphere and actually give each race a personality. Bulrathi are Russian Space Bears that honor the environment, Meklar are Cylon meets Borg, Silicoids are rock beings with booming voices, etc.
The combat can be auto resolve or you take it on with the radar mode as discussed earlier. Yes the lack of turn based there was a problem for me, but I'm beginning to adjust towards it.
Cons
Movement is based on Jump Nodes ala Wing Commander and NOT by warp distance. This does provide some "battle lines" for games, but those that loved the warp parsec bubble travel will be irked by this change.
According to some fans, the Mrrshan lore got tweaked and thus upsetting some. I can't remember how or why, but be aware that some fluff for characters might have changed from MOO1/2 to CTS.
Zooming out to see the galaxy is a pain in the butt. I have to scroll back extra hard for the camera not to rubber band me back to a smaller view. Leading into that the navigation from system to system is a pain as well. Fleet management is a joke, but hopefully they'll work on that.
In MOO1/2 pollution was merely a loss of industry if I remember right. Now in CTS Pollution actually harms your morale and food production too. So those Atmospheric Renewers and other tech like that are a godsend if you want a industrial powerhouse.
Customization is very sparse in this game. Name a Planet System and that's pretty much it.
The UI at times frustrates me to no end. Building your own ship designs is limited in a way that hampers it compared to say MOO2.
Antares Patch:
With the release of this patch (free) the game got a little more interesting. Antares fleets will come down, taunt you, and raid. Leaders are back, though the UI could use some work in implementing them better.
Overall I think they listened to the cries of the fans there and starting going away from strict MOO1 related play and are shifting to incorporate MOO2 more, thus leading me to....
The Latest DLC
For $10 you can get the Gnolam, Elerian, and Trillarian races. That's pretty much all the DLC has.
By god you're longwinded Atlas, get on with it!:
If you're looking for some complexity that springboards from the old MOO2 and goes further with it then get Stellaris. That is the best micromanage space game I've seen in a while.
If you're looking for a very cinematic MOO game and can stand how MOO1 played, then for better and worse this is your title.
They didn't really do what Firaxis did with X-Com (for example, different companies I know but still), take the core gameplay and adapt it to a newer audience. The developers here really did seem to just paint by numbers the old MOO, give it a new set of graphics and voices then shipped it out, but that isn't horrible honestly.
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I finally did it!!!! After all of these years, I beat Xcom 2 TFTD. [cheers] [applause]
Do you mean X-COM: Terror from the Deep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM%3A_Terror_from_the_Deep)? XCOM 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM_2) is totally different game. In addition X-COM and XCOM are different game series you know. Do you spot the difference in the spelling?
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Do you spot the TFTD? Terror from the Deep.
Meow Liao
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Okay, the amount of dead dragon body parts I have stored in my house has now exceeded a metric ton. I really need to boost smithing faster- just got to 93 in it.
Also, my character is now an umpire a vampire lord. For all the talk of how much better it's supposed to be than a werewolf, I'm really not seeing it: the whole not regenerating health, stamina, or magika in sunlight is incredibly annoying and few of the powers really seem to actually be worth using at my character's level. I'm just going to keep with it until I max out the skill tree for the perk, then get it cured. Might switch back over to werewolf just for the disease immunity without drawbacks.
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I finally did it!!!! After all of these years, I beat Xcom 2 TFTD. [cheers] [applause]
Well done! O0
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I got a totally hilarious kill in World of Tanks last night.
Was in my T1 Heavy and went one on one with an enemy Captured KV-1 (a premium tank that counts as both German and Russian for what crews it can run). We traded a few shots when he realized that my 76 mm gun was doing a lot more against his frontal armor than his 57mm was doing against mine, so he backed over a cliff into a depression. Unfortunately, the back of his tank was level with the edge of the cliff so I simply rolled right over it and onto his back like a monster truck, then rolled back and forth a couple of times to crush him into the ground.
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I've been playing Overwatch a ton lately, and I have to say-I thought my games where I get stomped in MWO were bad.
Seriously, I keep having matches where I move to the right position, or try to do the right thing, and then I get absolutely ROFLstomped because everyone on my team was doing something stupid or worse yet, I was actually doing something stupid.
What's worse is that I can tell the enemy team's skilled by rank normally. I look at their side and I can see they all have high levels, are gold or higher ranked, and by watching gameplay can tell that they are normally a team. So it's like getting PUGstomped but a thousand times worse because of the universally lower health in Overwatch as well as the standby of "Teamwork is OP".
TL;DR, RAEG.
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Upon the recommendation of a few of my friends, I downloaded Star Trek Online. So now I'm flying around in the Klingon Warbird Huntress.
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In Christmas I spent 2 whole days playing through XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and got through of it sometime after (in workdays). I spent New Year's Day playing Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, reinforced with Caveman2Cosmos. Denmark declared war on me and attacked my border city with up to 30+ units per turn! :o Defense hold it. In between I bought entire X-COM series (5 games) and Xenonauts for total 12 €uros + some cents (thanks for the sales, Steam), and I've been enjoying of Xenonauts Community Edition. When I deal with that, I'm gonna fire up OpenXcom, play through entire X-COM series, and after that, X-Division (major mod for Xenonauts). Maybe X-PirateZ (major mod for OpenXcom with new story line) too. This is gonna take a while...
Klingon Warbird.
What is that? Can you provide a screenshot or something? I thought Warbird is Romulan ship. ???
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Over the holiday break I dabbled in GW2's Wintersday, Overwatch's snowball fights, and somehow just absorbed Star Wars The Old Republic again.
Also Broforce, lots of Broforce, mindless and fun blow up enjoyment.
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Over break, played way too much Overwatch and got XCOM2 for Xmas, and have been thoroughly sucked in. I've had to restart 3 campaigns now because holy hell, those aliens are bastards...
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What is that? Can you provide a screenshot or something? I thought Warbird is Romulan ship. ???
Sorry, I meant Bird of Prey, got the two confused. It's just the default ship you get for creating a Klingon warrior.
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Been playing Overwatch (PC) as well as Kirby Planet Robobot (3ds). Man what's more satisfying than Kirby in a Mech Suit. :D
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I got a totally hilarious kill in World of Tanks last night.
Was in my T1 Heavy and went one on one with an enemy Captured KV-1 (a premium tank that counts as both German and Russian for what crews it can run). We traded a few shots when he realized that my 76 mm gun was doing a lot more against his frontal armor than his 57mm was doing against mine, so he backed over a cliff into a depression. Unfortunately, the back of his tank was level with the edge of the cliff so I simply rolled right over it and onto his back like a monster truck, then rolled back and forth a couple of times to crush him into the ground.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Playing some Hearts of Iron IV. Decided to go for a goofy game, started a 1936 Polish game without Historical AI Focus and whipped open the console. Poland, with a little help from the UK, took down the Soviet Union with four divisions of Modern Armor. An alliance with Germany kept the south, west, and north borders quiet. Japan declared against the US in late '36, took Pearl Harbor in mid '37.
I'm going to see how big I can get Poland's name on the map! ^_^
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I got the new DLC for the Binding of Isaac - Afterbirth+ - and it's trash garbage. Luckily, and a little sadly, a fan mod called Antibirth also came out recently, and it's far better. But all told, after over 1200 hours in Isaac, I think it's time to move on.
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ok got a belayed bd present an old dvd rom and a standard ps2/3 controller for pc from one of my buddies.
imagine my joy when i opened the files on that dvd rom
over 4500 old school arcade games and mame emulator to run them....JOY!
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ok got a belayed bd present an old dvd rom and a standard ps2/3 controller for pc from one of my buddies.
imagine my joy when i opened the files on that dvd rom
over 4500 old school arcade games and mame emulator to run them....JOY!
Does that collection have a name? You said DVD-ROM, right? So it isn't home made, but official product, right?
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ok now i think i should get planet rollercoaster because of this mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-4yrjI3WE
my buddy is rollercoaster tycoon fan and had been after me for ages to start playing it...
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X-Com: Afterlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Afterlight)
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I'm on a portable binge doing a lot of DS and 3DS gaming. Working on Mario/Luigi Dream Team. The ending is getting long, but still very enjoyable as Nintendo's emphasis on gameplay is always a joy.
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X-Com: Afterlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Afterlight)
Haha. Very funny.
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X-Com: Afterlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Afterlight)
it was ok but controls were a B.....
i recall some mods fixed it
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Brutal DooM 64.
:D
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Spending the weekend getting the late-game stuff done for Final Fantasy XV- ready to finish it, just headed back to get a few things done first (I want the main character's sword upgraded fully before doing anything else).
This has been a mixed bag of a game, honestly. The bad news: The story probably made sense to someone, but that knowledge was lost along the way. It's a mess- apparently the Kingsglaive movie helps clear a lot of it up, but I haven't had my hands on a copy, so... wut? Characters in the game appear important but never appear again (good and bad), lore and backstory are apparently either assumed basic knowledge by the player (not the case) or is tied up in other media instead- or just deleted completely- and there's a very strong sense of confusion throughout.
...And then you get in the car with your three buddies to go do hunting jobs or dig through a dungeon somewhere, and life is just so good you lose hours on it. This is where the game shines- shut off your attempts to understand this madness and just enjoy the ride. The world is just gorgeous, the creatures unique and interesting (and many familiar to series fans!), and while the combat system is VERY different from past efforts it isn't in a bad way- it's actually a lot of fun. Your other party members mostly take care of themselves, you only need to use healing items on them so often, and so you just run Noctis. Combat reminds me in a lot of ways of the fighting from the Arkham games, of all things- very fluidic and free-form, basic if you want and able to be expanded into more complex strategies when you're more comfortable. It's a blast- no spoilers, but things change to a more linear setup later in the game. Don't worry- you'll be able to go back to the open world and continue there.
I was very wary about coming back to the series. It was a long time since their last effort, and a much longer time prior to that since they did one I enjoyed (FFVIII, actually). This could have used someone from outside Squeenix to come in, play it, and tell them their story was a mess- but they've got a good game here regardless. Strongly suggest it if you need something fun to play.
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it was ok but controls were a B.....
i recall some mods fixed it
True, I have the Martian Assault Mod, which lets me have lots of enemy troops attacking. (When you can only send 6-7 troops in, and the enemy has ~30 troops defending, that is lots of fun.)
I also added the extra weapons mod, so I now have one of my soldiers armed with a flamethrower.
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I was very wary about coming back to the series. It was a long time since their last effort, and a much longer time prior to that since they did one I enjoyed (FFVIII, actually). This could have used someone from outside Squeenix to come in, play it, and tell them their story was a mess- but they've got a good game here regardless. Strongly suggest it if you need something fun to play.
Sounds very Kingdom Hearts in the story department.
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Spending the weekend getting the late-game stuff done for Final Fantasy XV- ready to finish it, just headed back to get a few things done first (I want the main character's sword upgraded fully before doing anything else).
This has been a mixed bag of a game, honestly. The bad news: The story probably made sense to someone, but that knowledge was lost along the way. It's a mess- apparently the Kingsglaive movie helps clear a lot of it up, but I haven't had my hands on a copy, so... wut? Characters in the game appear important but never appear again (good and bad), lore and backstory are apparently either assumed basic knowledge by the player (not the case) or is tied up in other media instead- or just deleted completely- and there's a very strong sense of confusion throughout.
From what I've heard, the movie doesn't make any more sense than the game: the plot sounds like something that was cooked up by Rube Goldberg and Dick Dastardly.
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Hate to say it...Just restarted again the MASS EFFECT trillogy, with intention of being such a Jerk, that I get my entire team slaughtered in the second game (but Jerk Shep makes it out alive), want to see what happens for the third game, who my companions are, etc.
So, far, Shep is such a racist jerk I am sure I have completely shut out Liara as a Romance option, but, Ashley is also a racist, so maybe work on her...If I don;t sacrifice her on Vemire....
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One thing I've always found funny about the first Mass Effect is how everybody complains about Ashley's racism, but Garrus is given a pass.
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One thing I've always found funny about the first Mass Effect is how everybody complains about Ashley's racism, but Garrus is given a pass.
Garus maybe 'somewhat' racist, but with Ashley, she comes right out an admits it.
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Garrus is actually quite racist in the first game, but you primarily only see it if you pair him up with Tali or Wrex (and he doesn't realize how prejudice he's being at the time), unlike Ashley it's not something he talks directly to Shepard about.
Also, Shepard can't survive the Suicide Mission in 2 if everyone else dies: you've got to have two or three survivors. But you should also make sure you take your time before going on the Suicide Mission to make sure that the crew bites it as well.
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Also, Shepard can't survive the Suicide Mission in 2 if everyone else dies: you've got to have two or three survivors. But you should also make sure you take your time before going on the Suicide Mission to make sure that the crew bites it as well.
yeah, this is like my 4th playthrough of the whole series, but never did as a complete and total jerk. Usually a little jerk on one, and a little bit saint on the other. But always had the ship completely tricked out and survive the final mission, but this time...I wanna see them all die :D
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...And then you get in the car with your three buddies to go do hunting jobs or dig through a dungeon somewhere, and life is just so good you lose hours on it.
Did you pick up the various Final Fantasy soundtracks to listen to while riding in the drop top?
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yeah, this is like my 4th playthrough of the whole series, but never did as a complete and total jerk. Usually a little jerk on one, and a little bit saint on the other. But always had the ship completely tricked out and survive the final mission, but this time...I wanna see them all die :D
I always tell myself I'm going to do a total jerk run on ME 1 & 2, but, once I start I somehow always end up going right back to pretty much full-on Paragon. *laughs* One day I'll manage it.
As to what I've been playing currently, I just picked up Resident Evil VII. Enjoying it quite a bit so far. Aside from it being in first-person it actually feels closer to the older games in the series to me, which I'm really happy about.
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yeah, this is like my 4th playthrough of the whole series, but never did as a complete and total jerk. Usually a little jerk on one, and a little bit saint on the other. But always had the ship completely tricked out and survive the final mission, but this time...I wanna see them all die :D
I have sunk hundreds of hours into the ME series but I've only managed to do a full Renegade run once. Renegade Shepard was okay in the first game but in the second and third I just felt like I was increasingly forced to play a Stupid Evil (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StupidEvil) character and taking actions that were actively screwing over myself just to be more Renegade (also, I could never not do the Paragon interrupt to give Tali a hug).
I've kept my PS3 around by telling myself that some day, I'll do one more playthrough of the series but really I'm kidding myself and should just factory-reset the thing and sell it at this point.
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I've kept my PS3 around by telling myself that some day, I'll do one more playthrough of the series but really I'm kidding myself and should just factory-reset the thing and sell it at this point.
I'm doing it on the Xbox One - 360 Port.
I love ME soooo much, I have the Collectors Edition full game, all DLC etc for 360 and PC, as well as some of the limited edition models (a Normandy in Cerberus Colors, and an Alliance Fighter).
Porbably the BEST thing of ME 3, is you can almost see my Office in the beginning of the game ;)
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Oh yeah, you're one of the guys from Vancouver.
To keep this sort of on topic, upon the advice of one of my online friends, I downloaded and tried out Trove a few days ago, which is an MMORPG with Minecraft type graphics.
I'm finding it to be incredibly boring and plan to delete it when I get home from work tonight.
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ok oldie but fun and i forgot how much fun it was to play
metroid for nes and super metroid for snes
emulation is so good i did not have to dig out any of the gaming systems from storage
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OK, just finished ME1 (doing casual combat etc...Hey i did say this is like my 5th playthrough and simply doing it for LoLZ).
Finished with my RENEGADE through the roof! it is max. The last few Missions (Feros and killing all colonists controlled by the Thorian), Vermire and killing Wrex (something I had never done in all my playthroughs).
But, still have a few achievements that have alluded me and I have no clue what I need to do to get them.
EVERY mission I had Tali and Liara, and yet, not achievement for playing majority of Game with the Assari nor Playing majority of game with Quarrian.... ???
I mean, seriously EA/BIOWARE? If I NEVER take anyone else (except Ashley and Kaidan at the beginning because they are the only options), then how do I achieve those achievements?
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http://www.pcgamer.com/xcom-ufo-defence-is-free-on-the-humble-store-right-now/
xcom original free for about 24 hours
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OK, just finished ME1 (doing casual combat etc...Hey i did say this is like my 5th playthrough and simply doing it for LoLZ).
Finished with my RENEGADE through the roof! it is max. The last few Missions (Feros and killing all colonists controlled by the Thorian), Vermire and killing Wrex (something I had never done in all my playthroughs).
But, still have a few achievements that have alluded me and I have no clue what I need to do to get them.
EVERY mission I had Tali and Liara, and yet, not achievement for playing majority of Game with the Assari nor Playing majority of game with Quarrian.... ???
I mean, seriously EA/BIOWARE? If I NEVER take anyone else (except Ashley and Kaidan at the beginning because they are the only options), then how do I achieve those achievements?
It's a matter of how many missions you complete with them as your party members. To get the achievement, you've got to complete a certain number of missions with them in your party so you probably aren't doing enough side-missions.
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http://www.pcgamer.com/xcom-ufo-defence-is-free-on-the-humble-store-right-now/
xcom original free for about 24 hours
Page has it mislabeled. It is X-COM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM). XCOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown) is another series.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Not without it's flaws. However, I can't seem to put it down. So good. Mmmm...
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ok with dread and joy i am about to loose few weeks of my life...found my old disks for final fantasy VII and VIII for pc port....
gods above and below existing and dead...help me now because i do not plan to see sunlight for those weeks
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Been playing through Shadow of Mordor GOTY Edition on PS4 recently. Finally got through all of the Weapon Legend side missions...Some of the ones for Acharn drove me up a wall. [madflame]
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I've been playing Black Ops 3 on the side lately. All things considered, I think that it's better than Infinite Warfare in practically every way.
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On the Continuing Advebtures of jerk Shepard, Finished ME2 with the following:
Never Woke Grunt
Turned Legion over to Cerberus
Killed Samara and took Morinth in her place
Succeeded in Killing off Kasumi, Garus, jack, Tali, Thane, & Moridin in the Suicide Mission
Only survivors were: Zaede, Morinth, Miranda, Jacob
In ME3, I have successfully "broken up" with Miranda (she cried as she walked away), continue to be the biggest Jerk in Galaxy, and found out that if you don't heal your Scares in ME2, they come back in ME3 >:D
Ah, Sheppard...you're such a jerk!
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So you're going to be stuck with EDI, Liara, and Vega as your only squad mates in ME3, unless you plan to dig up Javik?
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So you're going to be stuck with EDI, Liara, and Vega as your only squad mates in ME3, unless you plan to dig up Javik?
Got Javik.
And if they the only ones, then they the only ones.
Again, part of the curiousity in me in seeing how the game progresses with all my past decisions. And I must say, they did do a fine job of it. I t gives the game the 'feeling' of being a living game.
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Picked up the Division. Pretty fun so far.
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On PC I've currently been playing Grim Dawn. Started up a Warder (Shaman/Soldier) this time around.
On PS4 I've been playing Berserk and the Band of the Hawk as well as NieR: Automata.
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about 50% through HORIZON ZERO DAWN...less than 2 weeks for ME: Andromeda!
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Yeah, HZD is amazing.
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Yeah, HZD is amazing.
Who?
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Horizon Zero Dawn
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I got a free copy of Hard Reset Redux from Twitch Prime, so I've been plugging away at that. It's...not great. The graphics are quite good, and the gameplay is pretty solid so far, but the story is butt. Stinky butt.
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Getting back into Elder Scrolls Online.
I have so many recipes to cover now that houses are in.
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Well, I beat Horizon Zero Dawn. It was a lot of fun, but I ended up not bothering to complete everything on it- just started getting too repetitive and the late game just doesn't offer enough stuff- I had all the best weapons by about 1/3rd of the way through and if you know what you're doing you can get absolutely the best suit of armor even earlier, which is a total game breaker. It level caps at 50, which doesn't give you enough skill points to get everything, but there are enough quests that grant extra skill points that you can still make it. Unfortunately, some of the skills are underpowered- I never even used the Strike From Below skill once in the game so the only reason to get it was to get the Leader Strike (which I used a lot), and unless you go for it straight from the start, Scavenger Plus is pointless because you'll have no trouble finding enough parts on the machines you kill.
Still, it's a fun game and I'm quite happy with having purchased it.
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Well, I beat Horizon Zero Dawn. It was a lot of fun, but I ended up not bothering to complete everything on it- just started getting too repetitive and the late game just doesn't offer enough stuff- I had all the best weapons by about 1/3rd of the way through and if you know what you're doing you can get absolutely the best suit of armor even earlier, which is a total game breaker. It level caps at 50, which doesn't give you enough skill points to get everything, but there are enough quests that grant extra skill points that you can still make it. Unfortunately, some of the skills are underpowered- I never even used the Strike From Below skill once in the game so the only reason to get it was to get the Leader Strike (which I used a lot), and unless you go for it straight from the start, Scavenger Plus is pointless because you'll have no trouble finding enough parts on the machines you kill.
Still, it's a fun game and I'm quite happy with having purchased it.
Well, almost done (think I'm around 85% or so), I am enjoying it, but then, I am a completor, doing all side missions. Yes, the level Cap is...weird. You actually earn with all side mission and other things more skill points than you can spend them on. I have all skills unlocked, and am still getting skill points :-\
As to the story, very interesting, and I enjoyed it.
OK, so one of the 'side missions' I did was to assist a character in SunHold in tracking down a man who was wanted by the Sun Priests, this led to a big battle in the mountains that saw the demise of the Sun Priest. Later I was told to meet another gentlemen to assist the SunHold royal family (the mother and young King) to felle across the lake to Meridian. The led to a big battle with a Rock Spitter, more troops and ultimately a one-on-one pretty much with a turned Thunderjaw.
THEN I went into the Gaia/Zero Dawn complex under Sunhold. When I was then captured and sacrificed in the Arena, the villan went on about how I assisted the royal family to flee to meridian, and how it mattered little in the grand scheme. So, not sure if that part of the speech would have mattered or not if I did not do the side quest before entering the Gaia/Zero dawn complex.
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No, that part of the speech only occurs if you do those quests beforehand.
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got my gog on!
had this sitting for awhile since doctors told me to take it easy over next few weeks due to heart issues i finally have time to play oldie but fun
star control 1 and 2 and ill follow it up with urguan masters...
should keep me busy and relaxed for few days at least
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Anyone else preorder Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition?
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I'm currently playing (slowly) Interstellar Pilot. This best be described as Elite, but a Light weight version.
My game on Droid, however you can use it on any platform if you download a emulator (I've not tried this yet).
Its basically a space simulation game where you can control a singular ship and potentially more as you increase your fortunes. It's free for the basic version, with 8 potential star systems to interact with (alternate 8 different ones in different game mode). Ships travel between systems via wormholes. There are fighters to battleships as well civilian vessels.
The game offers a player different style of game play. Instant action allows you just do a one-off fight, while other modes allows you to take your time and play in differient size space settings. WHere you can perform certain job roles from miner, explorer, trader, enforcer etc. There huge slew different type ships. The free download offers only fighter size ships with biggest being shuttle. However, 1.99 allows you access to the capital ships. Your ship has cargo holds, passenger modules you can add, tractor beam to snag debris and of course minerals from mining.
While flying the ship, the universe is 3d. Combat is pretty much straight forward, where you can circle your enemy and fire your array of weaponry. Depending on the ship you can mount from few different kinds of energy, missile and even space mines as you fly.
So far I've enjoyed myself. Its simple version of Elite essentially, but its intended to operate on a phone so it not as complicate as PC simulator. Despite being phone game, I find it remarkable how vast it is in things you can do and universe you can travel. There no real how to play file, but there is tutorials to learn how to operate the ship, but not in-dept stuff on how make money in detail.
If your looking for some easy and it's time killer. This potentially good semi-depth game, but not too deep.
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Anyone else preorder Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition?
Instabuy.
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I'm in the middle of Zelda for the Switch.
My goodness this game is amazing. It's like Zelda got mixed with Skyrim and they poured a whole bucket of Studio Ghibli paint all over it. It's beautiful.
The hardware is very nice too. The controller is surprisingly comfortable and the transition to portable is quick and easy. Good fit and finish. Good UI. No cloud saves (boo!).
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i was watching gunhed last night...is it my imagination that all the mechs from armored core series are pretty much gunhed with extra weapons?
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I think that could be situation where one influences the other. I remember Japan back in the day like similar machines, nod to another design. I remember how the original Gundam strongly resembles the original G1 Optimus Prime.
Or It's Gunhead design similarities is just a continence. I wish they had made a Gunhead video game! That would been awesome to play!
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I think that could be situation where one influences the other. I remember Japan back in the day like similar machines, nod to another design. I remember how the original Gundam strongly resembles the original G1 Optimus Prime.
Or It's Gunhead design similarities is just a continence. I wish they had made a Gunhead video game! That would been awesome to play!
they did it was for turbo graphics 16
you can find a lot of youtube vids of it
yes you can scream daaaaang! i missed it...
here is another bad news it was only re leased in japan....
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finally broke down after being POD hell and 2 hours of trying to install skyrim legendary edition after week of not touching it out of disgust over steam
i started to play it.
too much like fallout 3 with low tech weapons
but oth scenery is way better....
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Picked up a copy of The Division for the pc for $16. I'm now sad I shied away from this title because of the many poor reviews. I actually quite enjoy it so far. Of course, it's had many patches since launch, and I always dislike paying $60 for any title. Hope it continues to be fun for a good long time. I kind of get the feeling it will be. Looking forward to testing the DLC down the road too...
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I bought a new copy of Wolfenstein: The New Order. Still great fun.
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ok found old copy of titans of steel...
and just found a big crack on the disk ^##&^%$#!!
if that can be followed with swift kick to my teeth my day will be complete
looked around and joy! guess what ! i can replace it! thank gads for abandon and freeware!
now waiting for other shoe to drop with bad news...or something bad to happen...it usually does
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Having finished both my high and low chaos playthroughs of Dishonored. I am now playing Arma: Cold War Assault and Civilization VI.
And of course... Well you know...
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My opium adicction...i mean, MMO: Eve Online
Games i have tried lately:
X-COM 2 (did not finished it)
The Witcher 3 (ended main history and Hearts of Stone, i dont dare to do Blood and Wine on risk of dropping from life)
Starbound (nice but it quickly loose the fun)
Stellaris (I tried the recent Utopia expansion, but there is still something missing from the game for me)
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I have reinstalled the old Star Craft + Brood Wars. Getting back into the big free for alls against computer opponents. 4 to 7 computer enemies. Most of the battles don't get past the first death wave. If I survive, I tend to stop there just to see how large the kill/loss ratio can go. And those first fights tend to be the most thrilling battle of the game. I usually play Terran and go with the bunker/tanks defense. I just like watching tanks make zerg go splat. It's my favorite defense to build.
Meow Liao
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I have reinstalled the old Star Craft + Brood Wars. Getting back into the big free for alls against computer opponents. 4 to 7 computer enemies. Most of the battles don't get past the first death wave. If I survive, I tend to stop there just to see how large the kill/loss ratio can go. And those first fights tend to be the most thrilling battle of the game. I usually play Terran and go with the bunker/tanks defense. I just like watching tanks make zerg go splat. It's my favorite defense to build.
Meow Liao
so gonna do a little zerging are we?
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Microsoft's spring sale netted me Witcher 3 and its expansions for $25. Haven't had a chance to touch it since downloading on Sunday evening.
But, some vanilla porter in the fridge and a busy better half mean I have a plan for the evening now.
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Microsoft's spring sale netted me Witcher 3 and its expansions for $25. Haven't had a chance to touch it since downloading on Sunday evening.
But, some vanilla porter in the fridge and a busy better half mean I have a plan for the evening now.
Prepare youself to loose a few hoursa of your life playing that game.
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Just picked up Saint's Row 2, since GoG has it for free right now.
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Bit of a PSA but Ars Technica and GoG appear to be partnering to talk in depth about DRM and licensing old games. They're also making Witcher 1 available for free for the next day or so.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/
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You need to create an Ars account to get the code for Witcher Enhanced Edition.
Account creation is currently unavailable.
*bleep*
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You need to create an Ars account to get the code for Witcher Enhanced Edition.
Account creation is currently unavailable.
*bleep*
I noticed they were having issues a little while ago. Lee Hutchinson is one of the site authors (one of two on the space beat from Houston).
ChrisSD wrote:
OMG Lee broke Ars!
It's been a while since I ruined the site, so it's about time, I 'spose.
Hey, on the upside, it means I can write an after-action "What the happened?!" article that you guys will all probably enjoy, too :D
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OKAY. Things should be a little more stable now and codes should once again be get-able.
Quick notes:
1) We're still limiting this to logged-in users
2) We've temporarily disabled new user registration in order to combat the multiple-thousands-per-second of registration attempts that was making the backend weep (massive simultaneous user registration isn't typically something you design for, and it's a use case that we're not really set up to handle well due to all of the non-cacheable stuff that has to happen)
3) We're working on more ways to smooth this out
4) New user reg will be re-enabled shortly (i.e., at some point in the next few hours as of the timestamp on this message) once we implement some more workarounds
All in all it's been a fun morning.
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I started to play Disgaea PC. It's fun.
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Dishonored 2. I am playing as Emily in low chaos.
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Bit of a PSA but Ars Technica and GoG appear to be partnering to talk in depth about DRM and licensing old games. They're also making Witcher 1 available for free for the next day or so.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/
Okay, now you just have to enter a valid email address and they'll email you the code.
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Empire: Total War.
Its very early days, and I'm playing Prussia and I have managed to establish two colonial territories in Canada. ;D O0
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Empire: Total War.
I have seen rant over YouTube about combat sucking big time on that. In video cavalry charge ended up to 1-on-1 duels with enemy formation which ended up taking too much time. I also recall video having ton of cursing, so I don't bother looking it up because of forum rules. How does that game work for you?
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I have seen rant over YouTube about combat sucking big time on that. In video cavalry charge ended up to 1-on-1 duels with enemy formation which ended up taking too much time. I also recall video having ton of cursing, so I don't bother looking it up because of forum rules. How does that game work for you?
It works fine for me. I have learned that, once a cavalry unit charges into infantry, immediately move it away and regroup. Otherwise its momentum is gone and the cavalrymen will be outnumbered and surrounded by very angry infantrymen with bayonets. :)
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It works fine for me. I have learned that, once a cavalry unit charges into infantry, immediately move it away and regroup. Otherwise its momentum is gone and the cavalrymen will be outnumbered and surrounded by very angry infantrymen with bayonets. :)
Wait, what good are bayonets against tank armor? ;)
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I've been getting a lot of action oriented games on my laptop lately, thanks to GoG having various freebees I've wanted. Can anyone recommend a decent controller for a Windows 10 system? Trying to play with a touch-pad isn't working.
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I use XBox 360 controllers; they're plug-and-play, as you might expect.
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I'll look into getting one, then.
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Mario Kart 8 deluxe tonight. Great presentation but it always comes down to just plain fun multiplayer. Haven't tried the revived battle mode yet though.
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Wait, what good are bayonets against tank armor? ;)
Wrong cavalry Colonel, wrong cavalry!
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Aside from yet another playthrough of Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines I've been on a bit of an RTS kick as well, playing Age of Empires II HD edition and Halo Wars: Definitive Edition.
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I use XBox 360 controllers; they're plug-and-play, as you might expect.
Picked one up this afternoon, and it's working well on Saints Row 2 and The Witcher.
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Picked one up this afternoon, and it's working well on Saints Row 2 and The Witcher.
Yeah, I like how they feel, and not having to muck around with settings is nice.
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To be honest, I've preferred the ergonomics of Sony's controllers ever since the PS2. But I used to have a 360 so I'm used to the control scheme and it's just nice to be playing something like Saints Row 2 with a proper controller instead of the keyboard.
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ok silent hill 1 and 2
for pc port
forgot how much fun it was
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To be honest, I've preferred the ergonomics of Sony's controllers ever since the PS2. But I used to have a 360 so I'm used to the control scheme and it's just nice to be playing something like Saints Row 2 with a proper controller instead of the keyboard.
Interesting. I found that the PS4 controller was the first I could hold without cramping, probably because it's a wider grip. I actually switched from the 360 controllers to the XB1 controllers last year. They're both Xinput on Windows, but I discovered that I prefer the lighter control resistance of the XB1 as well as a proper D-pad (I think the 360 controller was designed before Nintendo's patent expired).
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Interesting. I found that the PS4 controller was the first I could hold without cramping, probably because it's a wider grip. I actually switched from the 360 controllers to the XB1 controllers last year. They're both Xinput on Windows, but I discovered that I prefer the lighter control resistance of the XB1 as well as a proper D-pad (I think the 360 controller was designed before Nintendo's patent expired).
ok i know i will be smacked for this but i myself miss the n64 controller
it was the only one that fit my hands and after few uses was very intuitve to use...
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Stuck inside on a cold, rainy(flooded) day. The Wife has been watching Hallmark movies and I've been left with cold beer and Ripping N' Tearing through Doom(2016) on PC today :D ...Since I remembered that I can actually run it now after replacing my old GTX 780 with a 1070. :-[
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ok i know i will be smacked for this but i myself miss the n64 controller
it was the only one that fit my hands and after few uses was very intuitve to use...
Hey, whatever works for you. I suggested the 360 controller because, well, it's what I like, but everyone's hands are different.
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Yeah, whatever works. The third handle was still odd though.
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I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on my Nintendo Switch (yes I do love the Switch), and yesterday I was playing Shovel Knight on the same system and I totally dig Shovel Knight :))
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I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on my Nintendo Switch (yes I do love the Switch), and yesterday I was playing Shovel Knight on the same system and I totally dig Shovel Knight :))
Portable or plugged in? I've found to my surprise I've been using it more as a portable machine even though the TV mode works very well.
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Well, just finished the mainstory for....GTA V! :o
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I'm back to Binding of Isaac, mostly the excellent fan mod "Antibirth." While it certainly has its issues - especially in the disappointing Afterbirth+ DLC - it's still my favorite game, and I'm looking forward to another thousand hours in it.
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Been playing through "The Surge" at the moment. Pretty fun game, I must say.
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Portable or plugged in?
Portable.
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Portable.
Wait till you try it multiplayer. Although the shoulder buttons on the joycons are really loose, the experience isn't bad in a party atmosphere. That commercial was actually true believe it or not. I'd like to try with another owner on local net sometime.
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ok i had been playing skyrim on and off for few weeks now
and by accident i rode a dragon...
apparently its not a bug...did some digging and found that out by accident not by trying ...fun surprise...
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There's a Shout that allows you to command a dragon to let you ride, but it's honestly on the lame side since you can't actually control the dragon, you just circle around the area for a while.
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ok old school slash and dash steal everything in sight...
diablo II LOD
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Closing in on the end of Breath of the Wild. 109 shrines, 319 korok seeds, and all divine beasts. Still looking to upgrade all the armor. What a delightful game of exploration.
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Just started Final Fantasy XV and have Horizon Zero Dawn after that [rockon]
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Arma: Cold War Assault and I just started playing Skyrim again.
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Been playing through Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and Jade Empire again. I also just went a bit crazy on the GOG Summer Sale and now have Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition, Pillars of Eternity and its expansion, Worms: Armageddon and W.M.D. as well as Rebel Galaxy.
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Playing through Saints Row 2 again, but this time I'm hitting all the Diversions before starting the main story to see how many unlockable bonuses I can rack up. Already have unlimited pistol, SMG, and Shotgun ammo, plus increased health regen, improved melee damage, and extra stamina.
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I have placed an order for Seek and Destroy. I loved the demo many years ago. I hope I can still enjoy of the game. Because it is a little known game, here is gameplay video for you to look at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedVthEuSUI)
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Demo (http://download.cnet.com/Seek-Destroy-demo/3000-2119_4-10002364.html) for you to try it out. Could require use of DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) to get it to work.
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Downloaded demo and played first scenario of it. Still a fun game O0
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Been having a lot of fun with friday the 13th
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I have placed an order for Seek and Destroy. I loved the demo many years ago. I hope I can still enjoy of the game. Because it is a little known game, here is gameplay video for you to look at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedVthEuSUI)
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Demo (http://download.cnet.com/Seek-Destroy-demo/3000-2119_4-10002364.html) for you to try it out. Could require use of DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) to get it to work.
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Downloaded demo and played first scenario of it. Still a fun game O0
Got the game today on good old CD-ROM. Needs DOSBox to work, but it works. Except for USB gamepads: no matter how I calibrate them (in Windows and in the game), it is out of whack [tickedoff]
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ESO's latest expansion, Morrowind.
Overall kind of fun for a MMO.
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ESO's latest expansion, Morrowind.
Overall kind of fun for a MMO.
Story any better than get
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Story any better than get
One of the main story quests has you doing a solid for Vivec, not too many fetch quests there. Mostly a mystery, but yeah there's the occasional "I need this..." type of mission. Afterwards I went around Vvardenfell and helped out Ashlanders, House Redoran, etc. I'm still low level on my Warden who I exclusively have on that island, but I'm enjoying it.
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I've been playing Heroes and Generals. Not bad for a free game.
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Currently it's Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
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Started playing Giga Wrecker recently. I got it during this year's steam summer sale that started today. So far so good (In terms of the game) It's been made by the same developers of Pokémon
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Just Cause 3. I'd say more, but I'm too busy surfing jet fighters into statues.
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Just started playing Gigantic (still in beta, evidently). It's an action MOBA, played third person perspective style. I really like the quirky art style, though I doubt I will ever be really "good" at the game. It requires faster reflexes than I have.
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Picked up the Division. Pretty fun so far.
It's a wonderfully immersive game. I wish my laptop's GFX card was better.
The Cleaners suck. Period.
Paul Rhodes. Oh, lawdy, Paul Rhodes. He really makes the game worth it.
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star crawlers...
finally out of beta fun simple romp through the dungeons but in wait for it....space!
yah not much changed there but game play is a bit like some of the very early might and magic stuff
still fun if you are into retro with high def graphics
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It's a wonderfully immersive game. I wish my laptop's GFX card was better.
The Cleaners suck. Period.
Paul Rhodes. Oh, lawdy, Paul Rhodes. He really makes the game worth it.
Excellent game and story. Not a fan of the must have team aspect of it or the darkzone. I have yet to survive more than 5 minutes in the darkzone without sherpas.
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Two games have recently crossed into my targeting sights.
MasterxMaster: NCSoft's answer to the gaming shared universe like Heroes of the Storm. As a Moba-ish dungeon crawler with PVE and PVP, it feels rather like an arcade and that's fine with me. I've only spent a day on it, but I do plan on playing more.
At the moment I'm downloading The Secret World Legends because it has gone Free to Play and I always wanted to join the Illuminati.
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Excellent game and story. Not a fan of the must have team aspect of it or the darkzone. I have yet to survive more than 5 minutes in the darkzone without sherpas.
Have yet to venture into the darkzone (and in all likelihood, that won't happen until I have a better comp to play it on), but I enjoy playing it with friends.
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Picked up the Necromancer pack for Diablo 3 and have been playing through the campaign again, and then onto Adventure mode again!
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I noticed alot friends of mine playing Diablo 3.
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Lately I've just been going through nearly all the Elder Scrolls games I have. Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, ESO, and even the Legends card game.
I do have Battlespire and Redguard, but I haven't the itch to play them just yet.
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I'm such a grundnar, been trying to get myself to fully invest in steam. I've been eyeing Civ6, Void Destroyer (maybe it's sequel depending on how BAD my computer is)
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Zelda: A Link to the Past, with an eye on memorizing the game and then moving on to the very popular Randomizer mod.
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front missions 4 for ps2
damn i missed that one...a lot and armored core last raven...
how the blank these never made into pc port ill never know....
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front missions 4 for ps2
damn i missed that one...a lot and armored core last raven...
how the blank these never made into pc port ill never know....
Yeah, I love that game. My bro has his PS2 still, I get to play my game once in a while. I get really suckered in to trying decide which direction to go since there 2 forks to choose from. Front Mission 3 still my favorite thou.
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front missions 4 for ps2
I love FM4; was excited when I first heard about FM Online, but then was frustrated to hear it was only available in Japan. FM Evolved sounds like an Armored Core clone, which is not why I play FM games.
Got into Earth Defense Force because of a friend. Post of a cheesy giant insect killing game. Silly fun at its finest. Best played with friends.
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Picked up Cold Waters. It's the submarine portion of Red Storm Rising essentially. Loads of fun, nice cross between arcade and sim. Sunk my first Kirov cruiser this morning and was then promplty sunk by three helicopter dropped torps. I really need to stop using Harpoons.
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I love FM4; was excited when I first heard about FM Online, but then was frustrated to hear it was only available in Japan. FM Evolved sounds like an Armored Core clone, which is not why I play FM games.
Got into Earth Defense Force because of a friend. Post of a cheesy giant insect killing game. Silly fun at its finest. Best played with friends.
I've yet to play it, but from what i get from HBS's Battletech gives me the Front Mission vibe. I can't wait to play that.
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ok had any one messed a bit with this one yet?
Poseidon - Project Dark Sky
is it worth it?
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If you have Steam, Humble Bundle has the Shadow Warrior remake for free for the next day or so. It's a neat game, far better than the original.
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Been trying out Dreadnought, now that it's in Open Beta. So far, I like it better than Fractured Space; though similar in some ways (MOBA type game), they have their differences, as well. In Dreadnought, you do have ship tiers to progress through, and you don't have statted crew. The reverse is true for Fractured Space.
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I tried Dreadnought out at PAX East like 2 years ago. It was like playing a old side-down rail shooter style Starblade arcade game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starblade) when i was kid in early 1990s. Where you were basically a gunner, with little to no control of the ship. I've been told later that they can be positioned/moved somewhat. It properly different now. Each ship in Dreadnought has unique role, like sniper etc. It was fun at PAX East, but i'm surprised it took soo long to come out.
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Matrix Games had send me coupon. I used it to buy Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun. I played first 2 tutorial scenarios moments ago. This looks much like Shogun: Total War, but is entirely turn-based. Game play & controls are similar to Battle Academy series, but scale is different with hundreds of soldier in a "counter". And facing matters whole damn lot: flank attacks are devastating. Gotta keep the lines straight, flanks covered, and still have reserves to fill gaps in the line and mount flanking attacks. Easier said than done: units like to pursue fleeing enemy and run off the map while doing it.
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Let's play video of the game I had watched before buying it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFrrTwPtHg&list=PL_OljWwpy7h_OH2JEjCTJMJQT-yQdjR3Y&index=1)
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ok since i am going to have an extended stay at hospital in few days my buddy offloaded mass effect on me...and no i had not played it or looked at it when it came out...
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Pretty much completed Gundam Breaker 3 and now playing the asia release of SD Gundam G Generation Genesis.
I can't believe my old habits of replaying early missions to unlock Mobile suit developement came back so soon. Currently my selectable fleet is at the starter ship, a Gaw, and a Zanzibar. My mobile suit complement is at least Advance of Zeta to ZZ Gundam and I've only gone as far storywise to finish the 0079 story and both MS Igloo stories. I'm about to start the 0080 missions with backup in the form of the Queen Mantha, Big Rang, Full Armor 7th Gundam and the Dendrobium for my mobile armors. Thinking of picking up the Jotenheim for space carrier use too for that section.
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Gundam Breaker is crazy fun. I have one and two but three is still too expensive for my blood.
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After playing Diablo 3 extensively again, I got the itch to fire up Diablo 2 once more and start up another Druid, going for a Werebear build.
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DOOM (2016). While I love survival horror-- this game knows it's audience to a 'T' and doesn't skip a beat in it's 13+ hrs. Absolutely LOVE it!!
Although, I do wish the DLC content was targeted toward the single player campaign. PvP is not at all why I purchased. Also, I wish I had a better PC... chug, chug, chug!...
Thinking about picking up Space Hulk: Deathwing again. After the latest patch, it's supposed to be really good. PvE Co-op should be promising.
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DOOM (2016).
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Also, I wish I had a better PC... chug, chug, chug!...
Doesn't that just remind of you about playing the first & original Doom on 386 processor? ;)
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Ha! Indeed. 8)
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Playing Witcher 3 and it's taken up a good chunk of my life
Also, playing Star Wars Armada once a week at my local Hobby Shop
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Chrono Trigger. I've never played it before.
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Chrono Trigger. I've never played it before.
Classic, total classic. Funny story: I played it for two hours in 1996 at a random acquaintance's house and spent the next four years looking for it, not knowing what it was, just that I wanted to play more of it.
Which version? I like the NDS one because it has the Akira Toriyama cutscenes for some dramatic moments, without the lag of the PS1 version.
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Ok, this one is a little old, but goshdurn is it fun.
Second playthrough, cannot skip any part of it, but still
the game is:
UNTIL DAWN (https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/games/until-dawn-ps4/)
Sadly, killed almost all the Teenagers in my first attempt, trying to keep em all alive my second go round
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Ok, this one is a little old, but goshdurn is it fun.
Second playthrough, cannot skip any part of it, but still
the game is:
UNTIL DAWN (https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/games/until-dawn-ps4/)
Sadly, killed almost all the Teenagers in my first attempt, trying to keep em all alive my second go round
That game brings out the psychopath in me. Kill as many as I can.
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Suddenly finding myself on quite the RPG kick: Playing through KOTOR 2 again, Prepping another playthrough of both Deus Ex and VtM: Bloodlines. Adding to the list: I just bought The Age of Decadence and Dungeon Rats.
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Classic, total classic. Funny story: I played it for two hours in 1996 at a random acquaintance's house and spent the next four years looking for it, not knowing what it was, just that I wanted to play more of it.
Which version? I like the NDS one because it has the Akira Toriyama cutscenes for some dramatic moments, without the lag of the PS1 version.
SNES.
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I've been playing a bit of everything of late...
Battlefront (2015)
Breath of the Wild
Pokemon Sun
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Probably others...
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Just conquered the world a couple of times on Civilization III on the old PS3.
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Yesterday I received my order: Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition. Arcade versions of some great games, including Mortal Combat series, Wizard of Wor, and TOTAL CARNAGE! Great stuff I tell you.
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I'm really looking forward to Agents of Mayhem coming out in few days.
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I'm... playing Fallout Shelter on my tablet. For some reason, it relaxes me right now knowing that there's something going on in there, that's there's a solid time when I can log in, do something, leave it alone, and when I NEED to do something that's stressful I can have it open, look away for a moment, and then look back as necessary. This last month's been pretty hellish, and anything that helps is something I'll grasp for with both hands.
Plus, my first attempt at Survival Mode was ruined by a glitch last year, and planning how to do it right has been an interesting challenge - I'm surviving Deathclaw attacks and my main annoyance is that they wreck my resources, not that they kill my guys! It took patience, and I have no reason why to enjoy an old Android game like this, but I do.
So, are there any other Android tablet games I should look at?
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I'm... playing Fallout Shelter on my tablet. For some reason, it relaxes me right now knowing that there's something going on in there, that's there's a solid time when I can log in, do something, leave it alone, and when I NEED to do something that's stressful I can have it open, look away for a moment, and then look back as necessary. This last month's been pretty hellish, and anything that helps is something I'll grasp for with both hands.
Plus, my first attempt at Survival Mode was ruined by a glitch last year, and planning how to do it right has been an interesting challenge - I'm surviving Deathclaw attacks and my main annoyance is that they wreck my resources, not that they kill my guys! It took patience, and I have no reason why to enjoy an old Android game like this, but I do.
So, are there any other Android tablet games I should look at?
I don't know how into RPGs you are, but any of the Beamdog versions of the Baldur's Gate games are instabuys, especially Planescape Torment. Also Square's Final Fantasy Tactics is phenomenally broad in the tactical units you can level up and bring to bear.
If those aren't your style, Horizon Chase is a lovely modern take on old school racing games. And the music is bar none some of the best I've listened to and a power-chord addict's dream. Shoot, I'm listening to it right now. Holy cow this music is cool.
http://www.horizonchase.com/#
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just finished playing mass effect 1...disappointed...
should i try number 2?
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just finished playing mass effect 1...disappointed...
should i try number 2?
What disappointed you with ME1?
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The boring gameplay?
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ME1 was, until Andromeda, the weakest in the series. I think my favorite was ME2.
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me1 was just too quick and did not give the sense of urgency at all...it just felt blah and plain...concept of the story was ok but could had been made a bit deeper...side missions were more of who gives a damn...had no impact on main story save for extra expiriance points and as for shops you were better of finding stuff than buying.
i found it tad boring only saving grace was the controls with one hik up... it would try to make you duck involuntarly behind the objects
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Driving that damn space buggy everywhere is a royal pain in the ass. The only redeeming feature is jumping off the highest peaks.
Last time I played thru, I did the full exploration crap. Drove around to every marked location. Found something that wasn't marked, and after that, I started doing search patterns to cover huge sections of maps. Even without the extra searching, I bet the majority of that play thru time was spent driving.
All to be replaced with scanning from orbit in ME2. I ended up with 100ks of unused resources.
Meow Liao
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me1 was just too quick and did not give the sense of urgency at all...it just felt blah and plain...concept of the story was ok but could had been made a bit deeper...side missions were more of who gives a damn...had no impact on main story save for extra expiriance points and as for shops you were better of finding stuff than buying.
Once you got one million credits, you unlocked the Specter Master Gear weapons at the C-Sec store and Normandy Quartermaster. Those guns were the best in the game by a far margin. That and the medigel and grenade capacity boosts were the only things you really needed to buy (though you should make sure you have all the licenses for Mass Effect 3).
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ok installed and about to play the second mass effect...i hope that bloody buggy controls are fixed..for weird reason i seem to end up driving it wheels up a lot of the time..
mulling over if should install additional content or say to hell with it and play it vanilla? or is it even worth installing additional content?
i mean first game was a tad disappointing to me...
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The Mako doesn't reappear in ME2.
As far as DLCs go, if you're getting all of them, it's fine: combat got heavily overhauled and you get some new guns (including one that's necessary, since the stock shotgun in ME2 is garbage), two new characters, and some other stuff, all of which affects ME3.
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I just made a BIG mistake....installed the Blood&Wine DLC for The Witcher 3. I really hope to have the enough force of will not to loose hours of life again just riding on Roach and enjoying the view...
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Once you got one million credits, you unlocked the Specter Master Gear weapons at the C-Sec store and Normandy Quartermaster. Those guns were the best in the game by a far margin. That and the medigel and grenade capacity boosts were the only things you really needed to buy (though you should make sure you have all the licenses for Mass Effect 3).
What do the licenses do in Mass Effect 3? It might have been one of those things I've never noticed...
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There's a quest involving Conrad Verner in ME3 that requires you to have purchased a license for the Elkos Combine, among various other minor actions in that game, in order to complete. It's not worth much but it's utterly hilarious if you put it all together.
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My wife and I fired up Everquest. Wow, many changes but still much that was familiar. We ran around like tourists lol.
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My wife and I fired up Everquest. Wow, many changes but still much that was familiar. We ran around like tourists lol.
I like the changes, for the most part, but the empty old world zones make me sad and nostalgic. There's Project 1999...but, ugh, those non-Luclin graphics.
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I'm back in a Asian MMO I enjoyed: Asta
The first distributor, Webzen, junked it after six months, I think. Now someone else has it and running it through Steam.
It's just fun enough for a free-to-play. And I was able to use the basic character visual files from the previous build (never got around to uninstalling it), so I'm happy with that.
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My wife and I fired up Everquest. Wow, many changes but still much that was familiar. We ran around like tourists lol.
thought it was done and dead?
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thought it was done and dead?
Servers are still up and running. Limited to 2 characters unless you shell out money, otherwise its free to play.
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Man, I remember when it was considered so sinister because fans called the game "Evercrack."
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I've been on a Starcraft kick recently with Starcraft: Remastered and I'm trying to finish up Heart of the Swarm in SC2.
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XCOM 2 is free to play on Steam from yesterday til 13:00 PST Sunday, so I'm giving it a go.
Its's also on sale until 10:00 PST Sunday ahead of the expansion DLC going on sale.
I'm having a blast so far, so there's good odds I'll end up buying it stays this much fun :D
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ok fun but old shattered steel...and just got it on gog
had not played it in dogs age...
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Been playing Sonic Mania on Xbox One.
If you liked the 90s genesis games, you will love Sonic Mania...
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That's good to hear, I've been considering getting it.
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That's good to hear, I've been considering getting it.
controls were always screwy but it felt more like mechwarrior 2 and 3 mix to play
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controls were always screwy but it felt more like mechwarrior 2 and 3 mix to play
I'm pretty sure Ogre was replying to Stinger's purchase of Sonic Mania.
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controls were always screwy but it felt more like mechwarrior 2 and 3 mix to play
I gave run for demo. Didn't like respawning enemies.
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I'm pretty sure Ogre was replying to Stinger's purchase of Sonic Mania.
you may be right...too tired...just got out of hospital 2 hours back...not sure if tubes suck the life out of you or try to put it back in...
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you may be right...too tired...just got out of hospital 2 hours back...not sure if tubes suck the life out of you or try to put it back in...
Intubation sucks, in all its forms.
Also, if you've been waiting on Sonic Mania for PC, wait a bit longer. The moron-a-thons at Sega have decided to ship it with Denuvo DRM and require an internet connection to play a single-player platformer. It's a damn shame, because Sonic Mania is fantastic.
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I have begun playing Mario + Rabbids. The game is a solid take on XCom with a lot more movement. Observations:
- Hit probabilities are 0, 50, 100 only.
- The more granular hit prob. are unnecessary because the XCom mechanics are only a piece of the whole.
- The maps are much more dynamic and mobile. Team jumps let you springboard downrange. It's like using a run movement, but requires you to position a teammate first. Pipes create fast changing defensive arrangements. You can't rely on static cover to keep you safe as you're constantly flanking one another, combining movement actions to surround your opponent only to be surrounded the very next turn.
- The reviews are right. Respeccing your skill tree isn't acknowledging character design failure, it's a critical part of pre-battle strategy. You're creating a particular Mario or Rabbid Peach for the terrain and situation for that level.
- Also the reviews are right to judge that the combination of XCom, Mario, and Rabbids should absolutely not work (I have now seen a bidet joke in a Mario game and it's just kind of there) but it does.
I'm having fun.
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I just made a BIG mistake....installed the Blood&Wine DLC for The Witcher 3. I really hope to have the enough force of will not to loose hours of life again just riding on Roach and enjoying the view...
Finished the main quest for the Blood & Wine DLC, and i do not know how, i got the "good ending". Damm you cutting-onion ninjas for making me shedding manly tears!!!! (I did it the same for the game main quest too O:-))
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Intubation sucks, in all its forms.
Also, if you've been waiting on Sonic Mania for PC, wait a bit longer. The moron-a-thons at Sega have decided to ship it with Denuvo DRM and require an internet connection to play a single-player platformer. It's a damn shame, because Sonic Mania is fantastic.
they must be joking...connected to play all the time? had these twits not learned from what happened when ea tried that with simcity?
cant wait to se the backlash on this one...
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they must be joking...connected to play all the time? had these twits not learned from what happened when ea tried that with simcity?
cant wait to se the backlash on this one...
As Jim "******" Sterling "Son" pointed out in today's video, there are a LOT of angry pre-order customers.
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As Jim "******" Sterling "Son" pointed out in today's video, there are a LOT of angry pre-order customers.
so i should get popcorn some fuzzy drinks and watch the boards as the publisher gets scewered over hot spit...
my buddy just send me copy of tanks vs aliens still in beta but its one of those tower defense things...fun to mess with so far...but its not as good as plants vs zombies...
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so i should get popcorn some fuzzy drinks and watch the boards as the publisher gets scewered over hot spit...
my buddy just send me copy of tanks vs aliens still in beta but its one of those tower defense things...fun to mess with so far...but its not as good as plants vs zombies...
I just signed up for the Ogre Beta. Because sorry BattleTech, but Ogre is my first love, and she never did me wrong.
...this actually explains my tastes in women. Big, strong, actually nuclear-equipped cybertanks...
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I've been on a Starcraft kick recently with Starcraft: Remastered and I'm trying to finish up Heart of the Swarm in SC2.
Pretty much same here, in between bouts with Halo:CE, BF4, DiRT 4, & Overwatch.
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I just signed up for the Ogre Beta. Because sorry BattleTech, but Ogre is my first love, and she never did me wrong.
...this actually explains my tastes in women. Big, strong, actually nuclear-equipped cybertanks...
#SteveJacksonGamesDriveBy
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Waiting anxiously for tomorrow morning for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DEADLOCK release.
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ok this promises to be fun and from what i had been hearing AI is not exactly forgiving....
http://www.pcgamer.com/battletechs-death-from-above-is-its-most-devastating-attack-yet/
i hope this will make into the final product....
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All I'm playing these days are Pokémon Sun and Moon, Planetside 2, Star Wars The Old Republic, and Command and Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath.
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ok this is a fun one my doctor recommended i should play pokemon go...i walk enough he said but may as well have fun doing it...
go figure...btw i have a more than mild dislike to pokemon...that yellow rat is annoying...
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X-Com 2: War of the Chosen at the moment. The addiction sets in for me once more.
GW2: Path of Fire coming out soon, can't wait to get back into Elona.
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I got XCom 2 as part of a package deal over the summer. I am now exercising discipline and not touching it before I do an XCom 1 expansion play through. And before *that* I must finish the final Dragonfall mission and complete Shadowrun Hong Kong.
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OK, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DEADLOCK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iiaky4UN4) is all kinds of awesome fun!
Especially love watching my missions replay out like little mini-movies. Definitely has that BSG Feel to it!
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I got XCom 2 as part of a package deal over the summer. I am now exercising discipline and not touching it before I do an XCom 1 expansion play through.
Pffttt you don't need to play XCom 1's expansion.
Considering how canonically we all bit the dust on hard mode Ironman :))
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Started playing some Battlefield 1 again. I had forgotten how pretty it is.
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The first DLC for Shantae: Half Genie Hero finally got released this week, Pirate Queen's Quest. Play as the evil pirate Risky Boots and hear her incredibly lies about how the plot of the game really went down.
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Beat Agents of Mayhem. It was fun but the gameplay got really repetitive. I could plugging at it, but I don't really care about 100% completion so I think I'll just trade it in before the price drops too much.
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OK, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DEADLOCK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iiaky4UN4) is all kinds of awesome fun!
Especially love watching my missions replay out like little mini-movies. Definitely has that BSG Feel to it!
Best game I have played in awhile.
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I had ½ of the day off from work. Yay. I played through BADASS and gave a serious try for Steam version of Phantasy Star II. Unfortunately Steam doesn't provide maps for the game, so I started looking it up from elsewhere on the Internet. Found some available on eBay. Genesis versions are available for reasonable price with everything, but MegaDrive ones are way overpriced. Guess which console do I have here in Finland? So I managed to find image files of the maps. Better than nothing I guess. But I do wonder: has time left this game behind and should I get The Legend of Heroes instead...?
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ok just finished playing mass effect 2 fun story improved controls which were a plus and that annoying vehicle missions i would love to introdue hammer to to hands that programed them...
now started on mass effect 3 so some one please tell me vehicle controls had been improved?
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Finished single-player for Titanfall 2 over the weekend. Every bit as much of a thundering 'meh' as I was hoping it wouldn't be- ducking into a multiplayer lobby there were only three people (THREE!) available- for a game that came out only a few months ago.
With no real reason to replay it, I think it's heading off to the trade-in bin sometime soon.
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ok just finished playing mass effect 2 fun story improved controls which were a plus and that annoying vehicle missions i would love to introdue hammer to to hands that programed them...
now started on mass effect 3 so some one please tell me vehicle controls had been improved?
Mass Effect 3 doesn't have any vehicle missions. Given how unpopular they were in ME 2, it seems likely that they just decided not to bother including any such content.
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Mass Effect 3 doesn't have any vehicle missions. Given how unpopular they were in ME 2, it seems likely that they just decided not to bother including any such content.
you just made my week...
i made point of not looking up or reading about me3 so i may enjoy it.
damn doctors and their wires and tubes...
and all i get is nothing is wrong you are fine...observation only
so while i am in may as well enjoy the game...for at least 3 days...
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Finished single-player for Titanfall 2 over the weekend. Every bit as much of a thundering 'meh' as I was hoping it wouldn't be.
Bummer. I loved the original. Especially last Titan standing. Guess I should be grateful I never had the spare cash to pick up #2.
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Finished single-player for Titanfall 2 over the weekend. Every bit as much of a thundering 'meh' as I was hoping it wouldn't be- ducking into a multiplayer lobby there were only three people (THREE!) available- for a game that came out only a few months ago.
With no real reason to replay it, I think it's heading off to the trade-in bin sometime soon.
What platform?
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hell girls
mix of tetris columns and monsters
fun but too repetitive after a while
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Questions about compatibility: does Xbox 360 games work on Xbox One? Are there any region restrictions?
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Questions about compatibility: does Xbox 360 games work on Xbox One? Are there any region restrictions?
I don't think that any of the game makers are bothering with backwards compatibility anymore.
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Questions about compatibility: does Xbox 360 games work on Xbox One? Are there any region restrictions?
I don't know about region restrictions, but according to these articles, at least *some* xbox360 games will will run on xbox one
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/xbox-one-backwards-compatible-list,30520.html (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/xbox-one-backwards-compatible-list,30520.html)
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/december-xbox-360-backwards-compatible,news-51989.html (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/december-xbox-360-backwards-compatible,news-51989.html)
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Questions about compatibility: does Xbox 360 games work on Xbox One? Are there any region restrictions?
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
Thanks.
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I played through BADASS and gave a serious try for Steam version of Phantasy Star II. Unfortunately Steam doesn't provide maps for the game, so I started looking it up from elsewhere on the Internet. Found some available on eBay. Genesis versions are available for reasonable price with everything, but MegaDrive ones are way overpriced. Guess which console do I have here in Finland? So I managed to find image files of the maps. Better than nothing I guess. But I do wonder: has time left this game behind and should I get The Legend of Heroes instead...?
I have invested some more hours on Phantasy Star II. I have looked up info from Internet and from YouTube in particular. Game is highly praised by those who played it back in the day when the game was still new. There is some leeway about where to go, but at least in the beginning player can't cross a certain bridge because it is guarded by a bad guy. Can't go pick a fight with him either: player character simply refuses to approach of him. Grinding is a must: need to earn money and EXP for better equipment and combat abilities (game calls it 'techniques'). Simply said: wander around the town until monsters attack you. Combat is typical for early JRPGs: opposing sides are in ranks facing each others and player tells how to attack and when to heal or retreat (if possible). No maneuvering or other kind of movement at all. Story is totally silly: scifi equipment has gone haywire, and first job given to player character with 0 EXP and frakkin' knife, is to go across half the continent filled with monsters, reach the laboratory, and retrieve some records. Game has variety of guns from bows to lasers, and government gives a job of saving the world to rookie agent with a knife to start with!? With This Herring (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WithThisHerring) is strong in this one. Then again, good number of RPGs and adventure games (King's Quest) are like that.
Original game (MegaDrive & Genesis cartridge packages) come with maps, thick manual, and play guide. Steam version has multilingual manual with some handful of pages for each language, no maps, and no guide of any kind. Game itself doesn't provide sufficient information about the equipment. Why should it when those were originally in the manual and game guide? So why doesn't steam provide those? >:( While playing it, I made a serious blunder: I had got the best armour and some good weapons available in the first 2 towns, finally ready to challenge lower levels of the first dungeon, I go to emulator's (totally legitimate from Steam) save menu to save the game, and instead of saving it, I loaded a save #P
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Questions about compatibility: does Xbox 360 games work on Xbox One? Are there any region restrictions?
By and large...YES
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Okay, I'm totally hooked on Phantasy Star II. Good thing I have found maps and info about the equipment, otherwise I would be banging my head against the monitor.
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Okay, I'm totally hooked on Phantasy Star II. Good thing I have found maps and info about the equipment, otherwise I would be banging my head against the monitor.
Yeah, I remember playing the GBA Phantasy Star 1 & 2 cart. It is a game that... did not age well. At all. The challenge in there is how little it tells you about the game, and has some of the worst tropes of the late-80s RPGs turned up to 110%.
For me, I've just beaten
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
...and...
It's okay.
Don't get me wrong, it's a perfectly fine Zelda game, is lovely graphics-wise, and is DEFINITELY worth playing, but it is not as good as Twilight Princess. It's definitely top 10 Zelda games, maybe even top 5, but "Greatest Zelda game ever?" Ehh....
The storyline is only okay; it's nice seeing Zelda with personality and sassy princess is always fun, with the Geruda lady in the flashbacks and the lolibaba Sheikah scientist being quite memorable, but...
All this hype?
It seems like people are gaga over the idea of an 'open world' system tacked on from Fallout 3/NV/4; a crafting system game adapted from Ultima Online's heyday (not that most crafting games don't borrow heavily from UO!); and a huge variety of weapons that don't matter because they break when you try to use them and the key combo is Stasis+ with your strongest weapons.
I don't hate Breath of the Wild. I even quite like it. But... I dunno... it doesn't fully feel like a Zelda game to me. I'm sitting here, staring at the screen, trying to figure out why. Maybe I'm just getting old - I still remember sitting down as a youth to wander around the original Zelda game and spending fifteen minutes working my way past the Lynels guarding the sword powerup only to be told I didn't have enough badges yet - but I don't think age has anything to do with it.
I didn't use FAQs (aside from the building the town quest where I KNEW I'd seen those '-son' names before but didn't feel like talking to every character in the game to find them again!) and I think that 90 shrines is a pretty good haul for that (and could have gotten more if I'd followed up on other obvious shrine quests), but I've no urge to power up the system and finish looking for the rest. Maybe I'll try playing it again without the exploration, just the bare minimum, or maybe even speedrun it? Fight Ganondork without the divine beasts, maybe even without the Master Sword?
I just... I should feel something more than just, 'Meh' after beating a ****** Legend of Zelda game, but no dice. *sigh*
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I'll take a stab at psychoanalyzing it. :)
I agree that the "dungeon" design was a bit pants. I can forgive them because they gave us a lot of delectable bon bons of design in the shrines (fyi: I completed all 120 and opened up the full inventory from korok seeds). But I can understand the expectations of thematic variation and depth that weren't met.
The rest of the game is a kind of reference frame tester. To a lot of people deeply familiar with the traditional game play beats since Link to the Past, this can be off-putting. Which I get. My personal reference frame is the original Zelda, though. To me, the thinness of the story is both a callback to the original and a feature in itself. The exploration offered me a chance to tell my own story and go on my own adventure.
In a way it's like making your own fun as you seek out all the nooks and crannies that keep rewarding you.
The original game did this a lot. There wasn't much story there. Just a chance to explore and find hidden things on a world organized in a massive grid. This is something video games just hadn't done yet and it completely captured the people who played it, sparking conversations about what we had found and what dungeons we had completed. The new game does a lot of this, hitting a lot of memories along the way.
Combine this with the physics engine and you have what I might call a three way cross between Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin (for the opportunities to set oil slicks on fire, natch), and Zelda I.
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Also, Nintendo had a Direct video presentation today and released a demo of a new Squeenix game made by the same studio that did Bravely Default.
And it's good.
A weird cross between old skool FF pixel graphics, filter effects, the Unreal engine (weird I know, but it works), and some nice twists on JRPG action.
Named, for now, Octopath Traveller for some reason. Search me. It's Square Enix, what can you do?
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Yeah, I get that thematic callback to the original Zelda, and thematic callbacks to older Zeldas are something I'm ALL about. Like I said, when I was about 10 years old I spent 15 minutes fighting past the Lynels guarding the sword upgrade (with only 3 hearts!) only to find out I didn't have enough hearts to USE it.
However, even the original game restricted you - you needed the ladder to get to Death Mountain, the raft to get to the dungeon WITH the ladder, and several different dungeons had no compunction about killing you if you hadn't upgraded properly... and you HAD to visit all the dungeons.
I feel BotW owes more to Fallout and Witcher and Skyrim and other games with a wide-open world at the start, rather than to the original Zeldas, which did constrain you. It feels... experimental, and that's not bad, but...
There were lots of good things in BotW - I like how the game only gave you five different tools and gave you them almost right from the start, rather than succumbing to "Item fatigue" where they give you an item in a dungeon that's useful for that ONE dungeon and maybe in like 4-5 other places in the entire game. Even if you count the various armor effects (mountain climbing, temperature, Zora armor, snow/sandboots) or utility weapons (torch, leaf) as 'tools' there are lots of places in the world that they're useful, aside from the leaf, so still avoided that pitfall.
The open world WAS fun, though for some reason I think the only 'story' I came up with was that Link is a mountain climber and wants to find the tallest peaks he can to glide down from to pretend he was pooping on Bokoblin heads.
The first time I saw one of the dragons I was like, "HOLY CRAP THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!" but it soon became a chore... Oooh, there's a dragon! Am I close enough to hit it with an arrow? Can I get to a high point before it vanishes? Well, fine, ****** you, I didn't want your horn anyway Farosh.
The puzzles in the temples WERE lots of fun, though several remain unsolved - no FAQ for my first time through a game, which usually gives me some replay value.
I dunno. Still trying to pin it down. It doesn't help my disappointment that the final boss was a serious chump, with the hardest part being that I hadn't properly trained my horse so it was fighting me while I was trying to fight Ganondork. So I jumped off her and birdboosted up to shoot at the spots. If I'm thinking to myself during the first time I fight the final boss "Golly, this would be a challenge if I were speedrunning the game. What would I want as the bare minimum to fight him?" then something's wrong. At least the Divine Beast bosses required you to do a LITTLE thought and use the tools to fight them off. Comedian Ganondork... not so much.
Maybe I'll replay Link Between Worlds, try to pin down this feeling a bit better.
EDIT: removed all the 'like I said', because I really hate repeating myself.
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I'm sure much of it just me being a sucker for vistas too. I'm a hiker and moved from Seattle to the northern Midwest.
I miss mountains.
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I'm sure much of it just me being a sucker for vistas too. I'm a hiker and moved from Seattle to the northern Midwest.
I miss mountains.
I dig that, and there was a lot of beauty to see. I have a screenshot somewhere from Fallout 4 of the view from atop some building and the ruined grandeur of Boston spread out, so yeah, I appreciate vistas in a game. And frankly, the sense of freedom I felt in Breath of the Wild is matched, maybe even beaten, by Windwaker.
I was playing Link Between Worlds and it kinda slipped up on me:
What I enjoyed in Breath of the Wild was the stuff I've enjoyed in other games, and what I enjoyed in a Zelda game was only partially there.
It was still good, but not quite great. The challenge level was just all over the place - either it was too hard if you tried it early on or pathetically easy if you waited and learned, like the Lynel fights or that island in the far southwest which strips all your items. Zelda games have almost always had a distinct challenge level that graduates very well. Breath of the Wild has all of the latter, and none of the former.
It's... 7/10. 8/10, maybe. I won't mind playing it some more, maybe try a minimalist run and see how little I personally can beat Ganon with (not a fully upgraded Ancient Armor set and buffing foods with all four Beasts backing me up!) but I just... it's like... I shouldn't HAVE to create arbitrary restrictions on myself in order to feel challenged in a game. It's fun for a change to do something like a low-% Metroid run or a DQ8 speedrun after I've already mastered the game, but thinking about such details the final battle?
I'm a bit disappoint.
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Your experience is certainly valid and exquisitely yours. No arguments or diss from me on that.
I do want to try and make the case for the level of my enjoyment and get at precisely why the game moved me so much, not to convince you (again, that's your own experience and tastes and what moves you) but to make the case for my experience. I'm not doing so good, so the best I can do is cite a couple videos that get at that thing better than I can explain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbQ6ti5BQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmIgjAM0uh0
If you haven't seen him, Mark Brown does a phenomenal job analyzing the art and science of design in particular games. He has a series called Boss Keys that do a treatment of each set of dungeons in the Zelda series, early on creating a formal map and analysis of possible paths in every dungeon and how they describe the themes and character of each game. Well worth following.
The first video is of Zelda 1 and the meaning of exploration in any direction and what it looks like to come upon ambiguous and unexpected threats and dealing with the unknown.
The second gets at the comparison between Z1 and BotW better than I've been explaining it.
I don't expect it to convince you of anything, but as I said to illustrate why I was swept off my feet.
Cheers.
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Yeah, I remember playing the GBA Phantasy Star 1 & 2 cart. It is a game that... did not age well. At all. The challenge in there is how little it tells you about the game, and has some of the worst tropes of the late-80s RPGs turned up to 110%.
The original game (for Mega Drive and Genesis) came with maps (on paper) and gameplay guide. I don't have them, but I believe those would help very much to get started with the game. Grinding is mandatory, but it hasn't been too bad for me. By now I have beaten the first dungeon (Shure), I'm ready to enter the second (Nido), lead character is at level 6, and all the characters have nearly the best equipment available at this point of the game (I could make it little better with double sets of ceramic knifes for Rolf and double sonic guns for Rudo). I managed it with information I have found on the Internet (wikis and the likes). Also one would assume 1337 agent should have access to various maps and building blueprints, so I don't feel like cheating for using maps.
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I picked up Pillars of Eternity Complete Edition on the PS4. It's weird playing an Infinity Engine game on a console, but since I had trade-in credit at the local game store it meant that I didn't have to spend real money on it so I went that way instead of getting it on PC.
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Diablo III with some old pals. Had a difficult time getting into the point n' click combat, but with friends, it's actually a lot of fun. Nice and casual, too. I enjoy how the complexity scales. Really nice little title that I would have otherwise overlooked entirely.
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The beta of Ogre. O0
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Diablo III with some old pals. Had a difficult time getting into the point n' click combat, but with friends, it's actually a lot of fun. Nice and casual, too. I enjoy how the complexity scales. Really nice little title that I would have otherwise overlooked entirely.
Been playing more of it than I usually do, trying to get seasonal achievements knocked out on my Necromancer. Finally redid my skill selection to work better with my sets and am tearing through Greater Rifts no problem.
(https://i.imgur.com/SGzsHrQ.jpg?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/NusDEwN.jpg?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/9qV4CFJ.jpg?1)
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Metroid: Samus Returns
It is a very good return to form and a classic 2D Metroid game. Loving it.
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Okay, I'm totally hooked on Phantasy Star II.
In some YouTube vids (some) games in Phantasy Star series are said to be the best games ever. I don't go that far, but so far I have played PS2 more than either Crysis or Mass Effect. Ok, I had some problem with Crysis I didn't bother to solve, and when I bought Mass Effect for reduced price, I was busy playing one more turn of Civ4. But PS2 is still a decent JRPG.
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In some YouTube vids (some) games in Phantasy Star series are said to be the best games ever. I don't go that far, but so far I have played PS2 more than either Crysis or Mass Effect. Ok, I had some problem with Crysis I didn't bother to solve, and when I bought Mass Effect for reduced price, I was busy playing one more turn of Civ4. But PS2 is still a decent JRPG.
Some people have nostalgia-colored glasses, and can't tell the difference between a game that was good then and a game that's good now.
IMHO the older PS games were okay, but hardly among the top JRPGs, as their only uniqueness is the Clarkian science-is-magic setting... and even then it doesn't really do all that much with it in the 'classic' versions. Guns might as well be called bows or staffs or smiley funsticks for the difference between them and sword, and Technics is magic - it's all cosmetic, not functional.
I don't dislike them, and have some lasting affection for Phantasy Star Online as a precursor for basically every MMO right now (both good and bad aspects!) but there are definitely better JRPGs, even from that set of years (88-96).
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XCom War of the Chosen. Great game so far I really like fighting the Lost.
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Metroid: Samus Returns
It is a very good return to form and a classic 2D Metroid game. Loving it.
Just got this, completely agree. And if you are playing on a n3DS, with the 3D on, it is beautiful. The backgrounds are just amazing.
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I don't dislike them, and have some lasting affection for Phantasy Star Online as a precursor for basically every MMO right now (both good and bad aspects!) but there are definitely better JRPGs, even from that set of years (88-96).
Care to name some? What is your opinion about claim Phantasy Stars being the best RPGs on Mega Drive & Genesis?
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Care to name some? What is your opinion about claim Phantasy Stars being the best RPGs on Mega Drive & Genesis?
I'd say... probably best on Mega Drive & Genesis, because those systems had a serious dearth of RPGs. it says something when a game as flawed as the Genesis Shadowrun makes it onto EVERY RPG list for a system - that game was just... so grindy. So very, very grindy. The Matrix computer system was awesome, but everything else was a chore.
Okay, good/great JRPGs of the 8/16 bit era... not naming Final Fantasy, of course, that goes without saying. Some of these you've probably already played, so just skim over any you've seen.
I've heard good things about Beyond Oasis for GEN, but never played it. PS4 is the best of the Phantasy Star games.
Dragon Quest 4 (NES/DS) for the storyline. You play each ally character through their own storyline before you pick up as the main character again - sometimes as goofy stories, where you play as the merchant Torneko and get to find out what it's like on the OTHER side of the counter, and other times as more serious. Hell, DQ5 & 6 are also good - DQ5 also has a great storyline that starts you as a child and you end up the father of the legendary hero, and DQ6 is just so weird that you want to find out what's going on.
If you can, lay hands on the DS versions - they're definitive IMHO. Or the GBA versions of DQ1-3 if you really want to experience them. The NES Dragon Warrior 1 is awful, any game that you can speed up 4x and still play just fine is way too slow.
Chrono Trigger (SNES) goes without saying. Any list that doesn't have that as one of the top five RPGs of all time, if not THE best RPG ever, is a bad list. Once again, the DS version is definitive - has the Toriyama cutscenes of the PS1 version without any of the horrific slowdown of early PS1 games.
Crystalis (NES) is a seeming Zelda clone at first, but has a lot of RPG stuff and that science is magic aspect which is also good, and some pretty neat play aspects - it's a bit aged, but not nearly so bad.
Shin Megami Tensei (SNES) - though it's only available in translated roms, has a very unique setting that persists in a ton of spinoff games to this day.
Lufia & Lufia II (SNES) - Lufia 1 is WAY easy, but the second game more than makes up for it with some of the hardest puzzles you will ever see in an RPG. And technically, Lufia 1 is a sequel to Lufia 2, so it's not bad to play them a bit out of order.
Final Fantasy Legend II (Gameboy) is really SaGA 2, and probably the best of the SaGA games - It has an interesting setting, and several different leveling mechanisms. For example, Robots get stronger based on their equipment. Monsters eat meat from other monsters and can evolve into weaker or stronger versions. Once again, I like the DS version best, if only because GB graphics are.... limited, and the translation was done by a Japanese-native speaker, not English speaker, and so it's really... unique.
Secret of Mana (SNES) is also genre-defining action-RPG, and is one of the few two-player RPGs out there. But I don't really care for it all that much without another player, and the story is kind of all over the place. Seiken Densetsu 3 is probably better overall, because the story changes based on which main character you choose.
Super Mario RPG: Seven Sacred Stars (SNES) is one of the best RPG games ever. Hilarious, good mechanics, interesting storyline, and one of the best optional bosses I've ever fought.
Shadowrun (SNES) isn't a traditional JRPG, but it's also well worth playing - you wake up on a slab in a morgue and have to master magic, computers, and guns to find out who you are. It also was a very early, but very good, isometric view RPG (top down at an angle, think Fallout 1/2?)
Earthbound (SNES) is just... weird. It's a very Japanese take on America, and is just... weird. It's a straight JRPG, but set in a kind of America where it's okay to swing cracked bats at punks to turn them tame and eat hamburgers you find in garbage cans instead of swinging swords at slimes and drinking potions you find in pots.
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones (GBA) is a bit of a cheat as it's 2003, but it's what I consider the best 'classic' Fire Emblem game in that 16-bit style.
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Thank you, iamfanboy. Looking up those games for PC is welcome diversion. I already know number of Final Fantasy games are available on Steam.
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It looks to me Sega console games are more accessible for wider range of platforms than Nintendo ones. There is sizable Mega Drive & Genesis collection on Steam, there is collection for Xbox 360, and I hope replicas of Sega consoles have better availability than Nintendo ones.
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Thank you, iamfanboy. Looking up those games for PC is welcome diversion. I already know number of Final Fantasy games are available on Steam.
Well, I lived through that era as a nerdy kid, so it's a part of my childhood - in point of fact, I remember owning FF2(4) before I owned a Super Nintendo, so a school friend and I would trade back and forth.
But I insist on being unbiased about what's good. I didn't mention, say, Brainlords or Arcana because while I know I enjoyed playing them THEN, they're somewhat unsufferable NOW.
The FF4 on Steam is the DS remake for it, which I'd recommend fairly highly - it's a classic JRPG with a lot of modern design twists. It also is one of the only Final Fantasies with a direct sequel, the After Years. I... liked it, but that's because I loved FF4.
Oh, and everyone says skip Phantasy Star 3. I only got about an hour into it so I'd have to agree. It's bad.
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Beyond Oasis was a good game, but I wouldn't necessarily say that it was an RPG any more than the Super Legend of Zelda was.
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Dragon Age Inquisition. So far its okay, nothing special. I still think Skyrim is the best fantasy RPG game out there.
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Thank you, iamfanboy. Looking up those games for PC is welcome diversion. I already know number of Final Fantasy games are available on Steam.
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It looks to me Sega console games are more accessible for wider range of platforms than Nintendo ones. There is sizable Mega Drive & Genesis collection on Steam, there is collection for Xbox 360, and I hope replicas of Sega consoles have better availability than Nintendo ones.
Sega has long had decent support for PC. Witness Lazy Game Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=581n2n_V_4c
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Sega has long had decent support for PC. Witness Lazy Game Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=581n2n_V_4c
I think it's more that Nintendo controls their own distribution network, and Sega has long since given up on their own consoles so they don't mind selling their stuff in as many venues as possible.
So I beat Apotheon this weekend. It's a side-scroller with one major difference: Graphically it looks EXACTLY like the side art from ancient Grecian jars and urns. Hope this works...
(http://www.cheats.ru/uploaded/a/apotheon/apotheon-003601.jpg)
Very lovely and eye-catching.
Other than that, it's not too different from other sidescrollers, and was a lot of fun - it actually had one of the BEST boss fights I've EVER seen in a sidescroller against Artemis.
My only major complaint is that you have TOO MANY weapons and it's hard to edit your inventory and get rid of the ones that you don't want to use. By the end of the game I was ignoring the weapon hotbar entirely and just pausing the game when I wanted to equip something else.
After beating that, I dipped into Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, but it really grinds my gears in any RPG when you create a character that's supposed to be good at fighting and he still only has a 45% chance of hitting something! Or a magician that can only cast 3 spells before fainting - and it takes 3 spells to kill an enemy! Or a talky character that can still fail at talking to the early game challenges!
Then I started up Undertale, and I have to set it aside. It's a little contemplative and slow for my personal game-playing desire at this moment, but it's still on my computer and I will finish it someday.
I'm not sure what I'm going to leap into next in this game archive I got just before becoming homeless. Maybe The Witcher 1? Or Overlord? Aragami is a stealth action game and I do enjoy those.
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Arcanum was a decent idea with absolutely terrible execution. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the game's flaws: for example, having a high enough haggling skill will actually cause merchants to eventually attack you (the justification being that you're somehow forcing them to sell you things below cost). The Party AI was insanely stupid, especially for spellcasters- it always tries to cast the strongest spell the caster knows regardless of situation (which can easily lead to them transforming into a Fire Elemental for about 6 seconds then falling unconscious because they burned through all their fatigue points). Weapons take damage from attacking things, and repairing the weapon permanently lowers its max HP. Oh, and it's quite possible to hit the level cap about 1/3rd of the way through the game.
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I'm not sure what I'm going to leap into next in this game archive I got just before becoming homeless.
Homeless? How so? Anyway I recommend you to get laptop or tablet with attachable/detachable keyboard with at least wi-fi connection. 1,33 GHz (Atom) processor and Windows are sufficient to play many turn-based games, like MegaMek, and I've got Age of Wonders 3 and Battle Academy to run on 1,4 GHz Atom tablet well enough. If you have shortage of money, look up used machines.
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World of Warships
World of Tanks
Thank me later. 8)
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Homeless? How so? Anyway I recommend you to get laptop or tablet with attachable/detachable keyboard with at least wi-fi connection. 1,33 GHz (Atom) processor and Windows are sufficient to play many turn-based games, like MegaMek, and I've got Age of Wonders 3 and Battle Academy to run on 1,4 GHz Atom tablet well enough. If you have shortage of money, look up used machines.
Shortage of money isn't the problem, it's the shortage of local housing. September 1 I was kicked out of my old house - mostly in line with what I wanted, the carpets and walls were filled with mold, I just failed at finding a new home to live in even though I spent from May to August looking. I actually lost 9 kilograms due to the stress.
Right now we're crammed into a small room in my brother-in-law's house while my wife and I wait to see if we can buy a mobile home and put it in a lot. The internet up here is really spotty, and it's a 25 minute drive down into town (and then up a mountain to get back, so lots of gasoline used), so what I have to do is pretty much what's on my PC. It does mean I'm working through a backlog of games, mostly GOG.com stuff.
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Opened up Pokémon Sun for the first time in awhile so I could get the Pikachu with Ash's hat. If anyone has the game, here are details:
https://www.polygon.com/pokemon/2017/9/19/16335526/pokemon-sun-moon-pikachu-ash-hat
Six different hats and you can only choose one. Have fun.
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Decided to load Fallout 4 back up. Think I'm going to try starting a new game with all the DLCs installed this time and see how that goes.
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Decided to load Fallout 4 back up. Think I'm going to try starting a new game with all the DLCs installed this time and see how that goes.
Cool. Im gonna play that one too as soon as I'm done with DAI and Batman Arkham Knight
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Among other things, I intend to play through Nuka World before meeting Garvey so that I can compete all the content without turning the Minutemen permanently hostile.
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Now that I have a GTX 1070 I went back and played Gothic 3 -- since it means I finally have powerful enough hardware to ALMOST run the game properly. (that's not a joke, 11 year old game and we're JUST getting the hardware to run it as it was meant to be run)
... and amazingly for the first time EVER, I finished it! Or at least, the "play good and support the humans" storyline.
Doing so I started to notice aspects of the game mechanics, particularly the ability to "ski down hills" and the grass terrain that made me realize something -- in many ways it's a precursor to Witcher 3. SO much of what makes W3 good is actually there -- it's just hampered by the technology of the time, particularly it being a 32 bit program meaning it doesn't have the access to the RAM needed to do what they tried to do... though setting up a 4 gig RAMDISK and running the game out of that alleviated a lot of the problems. (on top of the endless community patches, DX11 patches, and so forth)
But I enjoyed it so much I went and grabbed the original off GOG. The controls are still awkward, but it's fun to see it in widescreen, aspect correct, with high def texture replacements and DX 11 effects. The original has always held a soft spot in my heart if for no other reason than having introduced me to In Extremo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKddXCtLfaU). Gotta love medieval songs in dead languages played on a mix of modern and period instruments as metal tunes!
I've actually been playing a LOT of older games ever since I finished my SEVENTH playthrough of Witcher 3. (second playthrough with Blood and Wine installed). With the GTX 1070 it's interesting to see how far I can push older games on resolution, frame rates, and quality. Whilst my media center/gaming rig is hooked to "only" a 52" 1080p TV, (as opposed to my workstation with the 4k 27" display) with nvidia DSR running at higher resolutions than native and scaling it down, the image ends up so smooth I swear it looks better than 4k native. Makes games like GTA 3, VC, and SA, or KOTOR 1 and 2 kind of interesting looking... particularly as it eliminates so many of the moire patterns you are used to seeing in the distance.
I also recently tried Hellbalde, Senua's Sacrifice. So much wasted potential -- combat is a slog that just destroys any attempt at what COULD have been an interesting story piece.
Oh, and if you haven't tried it, check out Perception. It's AWESOME! If you're not familiar with it you play a blind woman who gets around via echolocation. It "draws" the sounds on the screen in kind of a BS manner, and highlights important things you've used to try and recreate the better memory a blind person would have of their surroundings, but as the game progresses they start to take that away from you, so that you become more and more reluctant to make the noises needed to "see" -- making you rely more and more on memory and walking around by sound looking at a black screen. GREAT game to play in the dark with surround audio.
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Hey, given that the PS4 now offers mod support for Fallout 4, can anyone recommend some particularly good ones?
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Hey, given that the PS4 now offers mod support for Fallout 4, can anyone recommend some particularly good ones?
This is based solely off of what's on Nexus Mod Manager, so I have no idea if it's PS4 compatible:
Companions Can Sneak: Just what it says on the tin. Having a companion doesn't immediately mean you fail if you're a stealthy character - vital for playing on Survival.
Everyone's Best Friend: Originally you were supposed to have Dogmeat AND another companion. They disabled the functionality, but this puts it back in.
Better Mod Descriptions: Actually gives the percentages of what each mod changes on a weapon, instead of a vague "Improves this, improves that" crapfest.
Journey: In Survival Mode, the biggest annoyance isn't really the health or whatnot, it's just being forced to walk EVERYWHERE. I'll forgive a game a lot if it doesn't waste my time. Journey lets you fast travel, with limitations that you decide on - either only to settlements (meaning you do have to do some walking, and gives you incentive to unlock more settlements), or other options that are harder or a bit easier.
There's other stuff I've used, like Craftable Vault 81 Cure, Legendary Modification (lets you create and move legendary mods), but the only one I've used and then uninstalled was, sadly, Better Item Sorting - it turned ammo weightless in Survival Mode, which was a weird turnoff. Oh, and No Negative Affinity and No Affinity Cooldown was handy for just getting the perks without having to suffer through Garvey's mediocre voice acting.
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Survival mode doesn't interest me, but allowing a human companion AND Dogmeat at the same time like every other Fallout game sounds great.
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Anyone playing Naval Action for the pc/steam? Any good? I keep coming back to it like a hungry wolf, but... I don't want to waste funds.
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Well... I'm going to struggle through this with my shoddy Japanese skills. But man... have I been looking forward to Sen no Kiseki III.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDT3EMCP3Fg
As far as RPGs go, via their Trails (Kiseki) series, Nihon Falcom has probably taken more hours from me than any other gaming company. It doesn't hurt that the english localizations (Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel) by XSEED Games have been excellent so far.
If anything, they all feel like classic titles in both feel and scope from the classic age of JRPG epics.
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As far as RPGs go, via their Trails (Kiseki) series, Nihon Falcom has probably taken more hours from me than any other gaming company. It doesn't hurt that the english localizations (Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel) by XSEED Games have been excellent so far.
If anything, they all feel like classic titles in both feel and scope from the classic age of JRPG epics.
One YouTube video goes in to detail about Trails* games (sorry, didn't bookmark it and don't remember title either). Entire series takes a place in the same world (unlike Final Fantasy series), but each game is on different location with different set of characters. With this, we can draw comparison to Elder Scrolls series (Daggerfall, Morrowind, Skyrim...). But in addition of that, Trails games have tons of dialogue, politics, trade, and stuff. Like BattleTech source books... I think? And it all makes sense, or at least more so than Fasanomics. I haven't played any games of the series (yet), but I have understood that much about of it. Have I got it right?
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Pretty much the long and short of it. The Kiseki (Trails) series is set on the continent of Zemuria (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/legendofheroes/images/4/4f/Zemuria.png), a formerly medieval-esque continent which has suddenly undergone the industrial revolution thanks to the introduction of a magi-tech power source known as Orbal energy around fifty or so years prior. In turn, this has pretty much thrown the old social order into crisis, with technologically advanced smaller states rising to the forefront, and the growing obsolesce of the older feudal political system.
As to the cast members, well they get around, and they'll occasionally get referenced, or cameo in subsequent series.
They're very dialogue heavy games in a sense, and generally slow burns. The first game in each trilogy/duology is generally accepted as being slower and is usually more focused on world-building than its predecessors. As to the quality of world building, the games themselves just feel organic for the want of a better word. The fact that NPC dialogue (and location) changes after every world progression really gives this feeling of being in a living breathing world. The fact that they even have their own plot arcs (like a couple going through a relationship spat or a jealous department store staffer competing with her older sister) and travel between towns between chapters really gives a feeling of depth in an "I remember you..." sense.
So far, XSEED has churned out very good localizations of the 'Sora' or 'Sky' trilogy on PC and a very good port of the first 'Sen' or 'Cold Steel' game. Cold Steel 2 is on PS3, but is being ported over next year. As to Sen 3, which releases on the PS4 somewhere around... well... today in Japan... one can only hope. They're generally good games though so if JRPGs are your thing, they get recommended mostly without reservation.
Trails in the Sky, Trails in the Sky Second Chapter and Trails in the Sky: The Third are top down isometric games.
Trails of Cold Steel made the leap to 3D and uses a 3rd person chase camera and controls similar to modern JRPGs. It also has a higher concentration of modern high school anime tropes, so if that causes allergies, well... recommendation levels might drop.
(https://i.imgur.com/gG92rL1.jpg)
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Finally unlocked Ballistic Weave in Fallout 4, which I did not get in my first playthrough due to it being bugged. Now my character is wearing Summer Shorts that provide better protection than a full suit of Combat Armor. And since Summer Shorts are one of only two pieces of clothing that allow you to wear stuff on your legs as well as your arms, I've got some serious defenses going on.
And I just hit level 30 so I can now go through Nuka-World and get all those quests done, then finally go back and make contact with the Minutemen in Lexington and unlock Codsworth as a companion.
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Finally unlocked Ballistic Weave in Fallout 4, which I did not get in my first playthrough due to it being bugged. Now my character is wearing Summer Shorts that provide better protection than a full suit of Combat Armor. And since Summer Shorts are one of only two pieces of clothing that allow you to wear stuff on your legs as well as your arms, I've got some serious defenses going on.
And I just hit level 30 so I can now go through Nuka-World and get all those quests done, then finally go back and make contact with the Minutemen in Lexington and unlock Codsworth as a companion.
There's actually quite a bit of clothing that allows all armor pieces to be worn - my favorite is the Military Fatigues for the +2 Agility, but Army Fatigues are available early on and the Vault Suit can be modded even before you get ballistic weave.
So I played about 5-6 hours of Tyranny, a PC isometric RPG that 'minds me a lot of Icewind Dale in that you're managing a party. The story is that you're working for the Big Bad Evil Guy just as he's wrapping up his conquest of the entire world. It's... fine... but for some reason isn't holding my attention right now.
So I moved to Pikmin, the first one. Still not very far.
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There's actually quite a bit of clothing that allows all armor pieces to be worn - my favorite is the Military Fatigues for the +2 Agility, but Army Fatigues are available early on and the Vault Suit can be modded even before you get ballistic weave.
Vault suit can't be modded with Ballistic Weave, so you just get some mild energy and radiation resistance.
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Vault suit can't be modded with Ballistic Weave, so you just get some mild energy and radiation resistance.
I was thinking more early game - like I said, late game I like the Military Fatigues for that delightful Agility bonus. Nothing quite like a few more points in VATs, ya know?
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Since I've already beaten the game once, I used a mod so that my character started with 10s for all stats and I've got a few pieces of armor that give extra bonuses.
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Still working through Metroid as I have time. Over halfway.
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Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, best expansion so far.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II were on sale on GOG over the weekend, so I picked them both up.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II were on sale on GOG over the weekend, so I picked them both up.
I didn't play either until last year - and I enjoyed almost everything about the game... except for the combat. It just reminded me of how badly d20 and Star Wars mesh. Sigh, I miss the old WEG Star Wars.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was... interesting. Played it for the first time last week, and it took me a while to beat it, lots of fun involved. I actually quite liked the time element, and even went through the game making sure that everyone had a happy ending before finishing it off - even though it wasn't strictly necessary - because I LIKED the characters in the game.
Now I'm playing Dragon Quest 8 for the 3DS, a game that I know the PS2 version of forwards and backwards (spent about 3 weeks planning a speedrun of about 8ish hours, for example!) and...
I have mixed feelings. Overall, I like it, but it's TOO easy early on. I could probably nail that same speedrun in 7ish hours or LESS, that's how much difference there is between the two versions - 3DS has visible enemies you can dodge around (cutting out time due to no 'random' encounters!), every time you level up you refill your HP/MP (meaning that the first 15 minutes spent gaining levels for Heal can be spent walking straight into the dungeon, and other time-savers!), and the crafting system is now instantaneous instead of counting steps - that's a big one, considering that a lot of planning went into what to craft when and how far to walk to get it when you needed it! Also, the quicksave system is usable anywhere and doesn't self delete, circumventing the church save system ENTIRELY - another major time saver.
It's so different that it's almost not even the same GAME, planning-wise. That's not bad, just... different.
Other things I like - they have two of the 'side' characters join your party (for those who played the PS2 version, it's Morrie the guy who ran the monster arena, and Red the thief queen Yangus liked) and they're both different enough from other characters that it's fun to figure out how to set up the parties. They have a camera sidequest, given by Cameron Obscura (DQ8 also started the trend of punny English DQ names!) that is remarkably enjoyable. Lastly, they have a lot more costume changes for all the characters - in the PS2 only the girl got any significant costume changes (5 in total!) and the Hero got... one... in EXTREME postgame content.
I like it, and supposedly there's also some hard dungeons in the end, but it's so... different. They also got the same voice actors back to redo a lot of lines, and added new lines as well - one of the most enjoyable bits was taking that classic fantasy and having SO MUCH British voice acting in there. It meshed so well.
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Star Wars Battlefront II beta. O0
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II were on sale on GOG over the weekend, so I picked them both up.
off hand does kotor 2 still have the stuck bug in it in the first part of the game before you get your first companion?
i remember the game just stopping you could look around but your avatar would just jog or run in place.
my fix was to reload walk few steps save and re load.
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Don't know yet (going to play KOTAR 1 first), but GOG uploads games with all official patches already in place.
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TitanFall 2 PC - Amazingly fun. Better than the first IMHO.
Debating picking up Destiny 2 PC - don't really have any friends into it, though.
Was gifted Divinity: Original Sin 2 PC but seem to be the only one on the planet that can't seem to get into it.
Resident Evil 7 First Hour - I must be getting old, because while *really good, it's pretty darn intense for me.
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TitanFall 2 PC - Amazingly fun. Better than the first IMHO.
Debating picking up Destiny 2 PC - don't really have any friends into it, though.
Was gifted Divinity: Original Sin 2 PC but seem to be the only one on the planet that can't seem to get into it.
Resident Evil 7 First Hour - I must be getting old, because while *really good, it's pretty darn intense for me.
I was considering picking it up for XB1. I am normally a PC player, but increasingly all my friends are on the xbone. I hear the campaign is amazing...
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Apparently World of Warplanes has gotten a massive overhaul. It certainly needed it.
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I was considering picking it up for XB1. I am normally a PC player, but increasingly all my friends are on the xbone. I hear the campaign is amazing...
Yeah, titanfall 2s campaign is really good. Cliche, but incredibly fun.
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Currently playing Shadow of War...got one Orc nemesis who is a MAJOR PAIN IN THE TUCKISH! He is Immune to damn near everything, is a commander, has body guards, and can constantly call for reinforcements!
But man, what a fun game!
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I didn't play either until last year - and I enjoyed almost everything about the game... except for the combat. It just reminded me of how badly d20 and Star Wars mesh. Sigh, I miss the old WEG Star Wars.
Yeah, combat is pretty boring even compared to Baldur's Gate.
It's still somehow comforting to know that a long, long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Shepard Shuffle lived.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II were on sale on GOG over the weekend, so I picked them both up.
I would suggest you pick up the Restored Content Mod for KOTOR 2. When the game first came out the developer was rushed by Lucasarts and they never completed it the way it was intended. If you play it unmodded its an absolute mess, but if you add that particular mod, it is the best Star Wars game ever. 8)
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Just played Claptastic Adventure with a friend lady night from the Borderlands Pre-Sequel. A good time was had by all. And boy do I suddenly miss Borderlands and want to play more. It's just stupid fun with sensory overload colors splashed like an artist vomited an entire palette everywhere.
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I would suggest you pick up the Restored Content Mod for KOTOR 2. When the game first came out the developer was rushed by Lucasarts and they never completed it the way it was intended. If you play it unmodded its an absolute mess, but if you add that particular mod, it is the best Star Wars game ever. 8)
I will look for that, thanks.
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Visual novels hardly count as 'games', but I just recently revisited the unfortunately named 'Muv Luv' visual novel after their English release on Steam. I originally struggled through them in the original Japanese (with my barely functional command of the language) on recommendation from a Japanese Friend who kind of trolled me through the whole process, so this was my first time running through them in English. It's still one of the highest rated visual novels according to reviewers, and given it's cited as one of the core inspirations for Attack on Titan, it had huge expectations ahead of it.
Muv Luv and it's sequel Muv Luv Alternative are just as gonzo as I remember them. It is a series that somehow goes from THIS (https://thegeekclinic.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/muvluv5.jpg) to THIS (https://thegeekclinic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/221321.jpg), with all the implications and consequences expected from the respective genres entirely straight faced without blinking.
Muv Luv, is a run-of-the-mill eroge dating sim down to cringe inducing narration of adult acts, barely self-aware enough to laugh at itself while playing genre tropes entirely straight (if with a knowing wink to the audience). There's a clueless male lead so dense to other's feelings that he probably attracts his harem through generating his own gravity. There's a childhood friend. There's a rich heiress. There's a terrible school sports day arc. And there's a stereotypical high-school cast that plays almost entirely to genre expectations.
It is also simultaneously a gripping traumatic psychological thriller set in a world dominated by aliens, politics and giant robots... and somehow, all the high-school harem hijinks are somehow irrevocably tied into that, in a setting I could almost describe as Stein's Gate meets Starship Troopers.
Trying to avoid any more spoilers, all I can say is that there are two kinds of stories that inevitably end in tears; teenagers piloting giant robots and idiots fixing mistakes using time travel.
Muv Luv is both these things.
It is simultaneously one of the worst and best stories I have had the misfortune/pleasure of experiencing.
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K... I don't typically do this, but... after many a review-- I pre-ordered Destiny 2 [for the PC].
We'll see...
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I'd be more interested in Destiny 2 if the first game hadn't been so boring.
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I'd be more interested in Destiny 2 if the first game hadn't been so boring.
You're probably right. I'll probably wish I'd have spent those funds on mech miniatures. However, as a PC guy, I never got to play the original. Also, I get the feeling you really need to play it with friends to get the most out of it. And, while I don't have any friends interested in Destiny 2-- I'm kind of hoping to collect a few along the way... Problem is; I don't have a lot of time to play. Which-- is why I again say; you're probably right.
Never mind. I requested a refund.
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Grim Dawn: A Diablo like game with and old west feel.
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I see that Saurian was released in open beta on Steam a few months ago. The game looks awesome: it's a highly accurate simulator of being a Hell's Creek dinosaur right before the KT Extinction. Currently only the Dakotaraptor is playable, but will eventually include Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Anzu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzu_(dinosaur)), Tyrannosaurus, and Ankylosaurus.
I'm considering getting it, but I'm worried that if I play it too much at this stage I'll lose interest by the time the full game is released. Add it to my wishlist, I suppose.
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Amazingly enough I managed to snag an SNES Classic. Currently playing through Earthbound again. On PC I've been working on Rogue Trooper Redux.
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Currently looking real hard at Wild West Online. I'm not keen on online only games. But I think I might like that one.
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Currently playing Shadow of War...got one Orc nemesis who is a MAJOR PAIN IN THE TUCKISH! He is Immune to damn near everything, is a commander, has body guards, and can constantly call for reinforcements!
But man, what a fun game!
Definitely. It seems that this is a more difficult game than the first one--Captains are all over the place in Minas Ithil. I died a few times before calibrating my "Better run away" meter. And I swear I've killed one captain 4 or 5 times now and he just keeps coming back even more scarred and misshapen.
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Still plugging away at Knights of the Old Republic. Game's not very stable, unfortunately. Tends to kick back to Windows every time a cutscene plays, has some problems with the visuals, and crashes pretty frequently.
Well, I got it cheaply enough that at this point I'm already satisfied that I've got my money's worth in gameplay.
Shovel Knight finally went on sale on Steam, been waiting a few months for that.
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Definitely. It seems that this is a more difficult game than the first one--Captains are all over the place in Minas Ithil. I died a few times before calibrating my "Better run away" meter. And I swear I've killed one captain 4 or 5 times now and he just keeps coming back even more scarred and misshapen.
Yeah, my friendly neighborhood nemisis is still kicking around. Can't even dominate him as he's got ironwill.
And, he's looking pretty haggard now from the times I've beat him, shamed him, etc. Missing one eye, covered in scars, sickly looking.
I hate him!...and Love him at the same time.
Always know he's suddenly gonna make missions a lot harder when I keep hearing...."Surprise!...Thought you were rid of me!"
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I'd be more interested in Destiny 2 if the first game hadn't been so boring.
It's like the first Destiny, except you can carry two MIDAs at the same time.
Just, one's a Legendary SMG instead of an Exotic Scout Rifle. Having never actually played the first one, I find myself really enjoying the second.
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Well: now that WarGaming has given its premier trio some badly needed renovations, I'm playing them way too much.
World of Warplanes 2.0 is very very much improved and a heck of a lot more fun.
World of Warships: got to love the new historic scenarios and Halloween game.
World of Tanks: it's freaking awesome.
find me there: DeathMaster98
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Meanwhile, World of Tanks console continues to pick up new glitches with every update that never get fixed.
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Isn't that the way thing are? Company has software developed and sometimes ditches the majority of the programmers to just run the game and just tweeks it to keep it going until it popularity peters out?
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You should see what Move Games is doing with Asta on Steam...
Last update/maintenance was back on 9/28 and there wasn't going to be any planned changes 'till the 11th.
Since then there's not been a peep out of anyone other than the confirmation the community person dealing with Asta has been moved to another Move Games property.
There's a general belief that Move Games has abandoned Asta after just barely six months. Not good at all...
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Finding that for whatever reason, Fallout: New Vegas runs far better on the One than on the old 360. Still buggy (particularly textures), but the crashing/save corrupting problems that tend to plague it haven't been an issue so far. Rather pleased, if baffled.
Also, I realized almost everything I've been playing on the One recently has been 360 games that are either backward-compatible or remastered from the 360. New Vegas, Civilization: Revolution, GTA 5, Borderlands 2, the Halo Master Chief collection... not sure if that just means there were some really great games on the 360, or there hasn't been as much for the One that I've wanted. (I've done a few One games that have been good, of course, just not recently)
On the fence on the new CoD (skipped the last few, but WWII looks fun to go back to)... right now just biding my time until the new Ace Combat.
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WARFRAME
So gud! Still can't believe it's free.
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Finding that for whatever reason, Fallout: New Vegas runs far better on the One than on the old 360. Still buggy (particularly textures), but the crashing/save corrupting problems that tend to plague it haven't been an issue so far. Rather pleased, if baffled.
Also, I realized almost everything I've been playing on the One recently has been 360 games that are either backward-compatible or remastered from the 360. New Vegas, Civilization: Revolution, GTA 5, Borderlands 2, the Halo Master Chief collection... not sure if that just means there were some really great games on the 360, or there hasn't been as much for the One that I've wanted. (I've done a few One games that have been good, of course, just not recently)
On the fence on the new CoD (skipped the last few, but WWII looks fun to go back to)... right now just biding my time until the new Ace Combat.
Meantime, I'm eying a Wii U because there were a ton of games I missed for the Wii & U that I wanted to play, but the Switch isn't backwards compatible at all. <_< If only I weren't about to buy and move into a house...
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Finding that for whatever reason, Fallout: New Vegas runs far better on the One than on the old 360. Still buggy (particularly textures), but the crashing/save corrupting problems that tend to plague it haven't been an issue so far. Rather pleased, if baffled.
A lot of that was memory leak issues, wasn't it? One would hope that a higher gen system would be better at handling it.
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I just played some Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge on Xbox One Backward Compatibility. With the increased resolution, it looks better than some Xbox 360 games.
Plays great, and it is just nice to play a good ole' FASA game.
I still prefer the PC original though, that was a fun game. More simulator like as well. Man I wish Microsoft would start releasing some old games on GOG...
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I got Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, because of course I did, but I've only played a little of it. I find myself reminded that "video gaming" and "new girlfriend" are not really compatible. On the flip side, she wants me to teach her BattleTech...
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I got Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, because of course I did, but I've only played a little of it.
I decided I wanted to go back and finish Wolfenstein: the New Order before I splashed out on the new one. How are you finding the New Colossus with the little time you've had?
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I decided I wanted to go back and finish Wolfenstein: the New Order before I splashed out on the new one. How are you finding the New Colossus with the little time you've had?
I haven't played enough to form an opinion yet. Hopefully tonight.
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Among other things, I intend to play through Nuka World before meeting Garvey so that I can compete all the content without turning the Minutemen permanently hostile.
So I started a Fallout 4 game yesterday with this intention - playing through Nuka-World first - when I realized two things as I'm struggling through that early game:
1) I hate Preston Garvey.
His character is flat, his voice acting is boring, the benefits - aside from his Perk - are lame, and the Minuteman ending is the second most unstable of all (at least for the actual future of the Commonwealth).
2) I HATE raiders in Fallout.
I mean, seriously despise raiders; I actively enjoy killing them and I think it's the prospect of blowing them apart on a regular basis that draws me back to the FPS Fallouts. They're human jackals, and one of my greatest fears of a post-apocalyptic society is that kind of jackal would rise to the top - like the Legion in FNV. I could never see myself seriously siding with the Legion when I played FNV; even my evil cannibal sociopath character gave up when he realized that he'd never be in charge and if he wanted power, he had to take Vegas for himself.
Same deal for the Nuka-World raiders. They're repugnant. I'm trying to come up with a backstory, trying to convince myself that 'this character would do this' in order to see, what, maybe 5 minutes of actual dialogue and 3-4 extra hours of gameplay that I wouldn't really enjoy?
I... I feel like that's weird. I mean, I paid for the game, why would I actively not want to at least TRY some of the content? But raiders just piss me off at a visceral level.
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I haven't played enough to form an opinion yet. Hopefully tonight.
Hoookay. Wolfenstein II is going to be a very polarizing title. It is absolutely a rip-snorting, lead-slinging, shoot-Nazis-by-the-truckload adventure across a dark alternate 196X. It is also an examination of racism, antisemitism, and the flaws in the American dream. It attempts to explain, in stark and brutal terms, just how the hero can be such a frankly efficient - not (quite) to say sociopathic - killer. I'm not finished with the campaign yet, so I'm not sure how this will all play out in the end, but I am honestly surprised and heartened that the developers had the sheer cajones to even mention such things in a "AAA" title.
I am really beginning to get Spec Ops: The Line vibes here. This is a good thing.
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Played Fallout 4 for a few weeks but quit. I didnt like the choices I had to make. If they were going to put me in charge of the Institute then I ought to be allowed to make peace with the Brotherhood of Steel for chrissake. Why does everything have to be either or? >:(
Currently playing ME Andromeda. So-so. I just find it tedious having to keep mining for minerals just to upgrade your gear all the time.
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Hoookay. Wolfenstein II is going to be a very polarizing title. It is absolutely a rip-snorting, lead-slinging, shoot-Nazis-by-the-truckload adventure across a dark alternate 196X. It is also an examination of racism, antisemitism, and the flaws in the American dream. It attempts to explain, in stark and brutal terms, just how the hero can be such a frankly efficient - not (quite) to say sociopathic - killer. I'm not finished with the campaign yet, so I'm not sure how this will all play out in the end, but I am honestly surprised and heartened that the developers had the sheer cajones to even mention such things in a "AAA" title.
I am really beginning to get Spec Ops: The Line vibes here. This is a good thing.
And that's why i'll skip it. I don't need berated by politics 24/7.
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Played Fallout 4 for a few weeks but quit. I didnt like the choices I had to make. If they were going to put me in charge of the Institute then I ought to be allowed to make peace with the Brotherhood of Steel for chrissake. Why does everything have to be either or? >:(
Because the Brotherhood is far too dogmatic to ever make peace with the Institute. They know "the one true way" and everything else is false and must be destroyed.
Currently playing ME Andromeda. So-so. I just find it tedious having to keep mining for minerals just to upgrade your gear all the time.
It's not bad if you just stick with a couple of lines to upgrade, especially once you hit the research cap. At that point you should find enough stuff to allow you to build whatever you want, since you really don't need to load up on tons of gear.
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"Finished" Mario Odyssey. The game will offer a lot of jumping and exploration even after the plot is complete. Three more kingdoms available to mess around in with changes to all the others after you're done.
Also playing Elite Dangerous. Not seriously, but rather enjoying courier flights.
Need to get back in and finish Metroid Returns as well as Mario:Rabbids.
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Damn Blizzcon. Back to WoW. Haven't played it really in years. Like, since 2010 or so. Excited for Battle for Azeroth, hope it is good.
Good old Halo PC/Custom Edition is fun as ever, especially with SPV3 campaign remix mod. Battle Rifles and Grizzly tanks in Halo 1 is fun.
Need to continue Fallout 4 at some point...
And Wolfenstein 2 was pretty good, though i do like The New Order somewhat more. TNC has some incredibly moments for sure though, and blasting Nazis and KKK wast great. And the shots the game makes... #P [blank]
Unfortunately, the headbob in the game is too much for me and i get slight dizziness and/or nausea over time, which is very rare for me. So, unless they add a patch to disable headbob, i can't replay the game :(
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Hoookay. Wolfenstein II is going to be a very polarizing title. It is absolutely a rip-snorting, lead-slinging, shoot-Nazis-by-the-truckload adventure across a dark alternate 196X. It is also an examination of racism, antisemitism, and the flaws in the American dream. It attempts to explain, in stark and brutal terms, just how the hero can be such a frankly efficient - not (quite) to say sociopathic - killer. I'm not finished with the campaign yet, so I'm not sure how this will all play out in the end, but I am honestly surprised and heartened that the developers had the sheer cajones to even mention such things in a "AAA" title.
Well, that's come pretty close to convincing me to buy it ;)
I'm really enjoying Wolfenstein TNO so more & similar sounds good
(The fact that it's single-player only and microtransaction-free already had me biased in it's favour)
I am really beginning to get Spec Ops: The Line vibes here. This is a good thing.
I've never played a Spec Ops game, but if they have a Wolfenstein vibe I might have to give them a look. For some reason I'd assumed that the Spec Ops games were online-multiplayer focused like Call of Duty & Battlefield so I'd given them a miss.
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I've never played a Spec Ops game, but if they have a Wolfenstein vibe I might have to give them a look. For some reason I'd assumed that the Spec Ops games were online-multiplayer focused like Call of Duty & Battlefield so I'd given them a miss.
Spec Ops came out back in the 1997 or so, so it couldn't rely too much for Internet multiplayer. Pity I couldn't get it to run on my PC for whatever the reason :(
Speaking about which, I haven't got CD version of Worms Armageddon to work either. So I paid & got it from Steam and that one works without a hassle.
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Spec Ops: The Line is the only title in the franchise worth buying. The rest are rather generic "me-too" titles trying to ride Call of Duty and Medal of Honor's coattails. The Line's gameplay is a fairly basic third-person shooter, but the story is amazing. Its main influence was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, if that gives you a clue.
And that's why i'll skip it. I don't need berated by politics 24/7.
*sighs* It's not "politics." It's trying to tell a story more than just "grizzled dude mows down Nazis."
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*sighs* It's not "politics." It's trying to tell a story more than just "grizzled dude mows down Nazis."
To some people, anything that intrudes on their safe space and gives them a bad case of cognitive dissonance - "Hey, these people are definitely evil, but they seem to want the same things I do..." - is politics. Such delicate flowers they are; especially because they feel very entitled to try and push THEIR politics, but the moment you mention yours the rage is evident. :-\ My father...
In another topic, I need help finding a game.
I'm looking for a 'freemium' style strategy or simulation game where you set things to build and then can either wait hours for it to finish or pay money to do it right now - in the same vein as Fallout Shelter, ya know?
Not that I'm planning to pay anything, but my anxiety levels are through the roof and I find it easier to distract myself with that sort of game, where I can think, "Okay, I've got six hours til that batch of dwellers finishes up their Endurance training, and Squad A is will be arriving at their quest location in five hours..." than a more typical game - yes, my anxiety goes down WHILE I'm playing Masters of Orion II or Fallout 4, but the moment I stop playing they're back up to where they were again.
Only problem is that I've 'beaten' Fallout Shelter - my Survival Mode vault is over 100 dwellers, with two full team of near-max stat questers and 6 full-time explorers, and Deathclaws die on the third room with no input from me. So the game does nothing for me any more.
So, any recommendations?
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To some people, anything that intrudes on their safe space and gives them a bad case of cognitive dissonance - "Hey, these people are definitely evil, but they seem to want the same things I do..." - is politics. Such delicate flowers they are; especially because they feel very entitled to try and push THEIR politics, but the moment you mention yours the rage is evident. :-\ My father...
Games are entertainment at their core. Unfortunately even sports are being infected with politics making it rather hard to get away from the constant barage. In this particular case, mowing down nazis and their robotic dogs looked like fun. Oh wait, the Communists are the "good" guys.
Nice projection, not even close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. ;)
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Spec Ops: The Line is the only title in the franchise worth buying. The rest are rather generic "me-too" titles trying to ride Call of Duty and Medal of Honor's coattails. The Line's gameplay is a fairly basic third-person shooter, but the story is amazing. Its main influence was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, if that gives you a clue.
That does sound interesting.
(I've never played a Medal of Honor game either)
*sighs* It's not "politics." It's trying to tell a story more than just "grizzled dude mows down Nazis."
I like single-player games because they can tell stories, and I don't mind stories (in games, movies, or novels) that might go a little out of my comfort zone as long as they stick to telling their story and don't become preachy about it. If I want to mindlessly mow down bad guys, there's always Doom >:D
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Guys, you're killing me here.
I'm trying to keep my mod hat off but the further you go into talking about the politics that are about the politics, the more official I have to get. Especially about the whole football thing. Don't go there. Please. It's like catnip to people who just can't help themselves.
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I am very disappointed in you all. Thank you, Bedwyr.
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Having eschewed the Triple-A releases of the season, I'm currently having stupid amounts of fun with Zwei II (Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection).
It's another one of Nihon Falcom's classic 2000-era energetic JRPG brawlers in the vein of their YS liscence, adopted and localised into english by XSEED and having cleared two dungeons so far, I'm finding it a silly fun brawler and an excellent time killer too.
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Excuse me, what were the forum rules about linking to merchandise again?
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Excuse me, what were the forum rules about linking to merchandise again?
Mea Culpa.
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Because the Brotherhood is far too dogmatic to ever make peace with the Institute. They know "the one true way" and everything else is false and must be destroyed.
But the Brotherhood's ideology is very similar to the Institute's- they both adore technology so a compromise could theoretically be reached. If the game had an option to rise through the ranks of the Brotherhood until you took over as leader, then I would have gone through that route and make peace with both sides and unite them along with the Minutemen.
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The problem is that both the Brotherhood and the Institute are highly dogmatic, insular, and xenophobic organizations. Yes, they're extremely similar to each other, but that's going to be a point of contention between the two: they both think that their way is absolutely right and everyone else is absolutely wrong.
The Institute is using the FEV to create Super Mutants, and also creating Synths that look like humans, both of which are 100% counter to Brotherhood doctrine. If it were somehow possible to work your way up in the ranks to lead the Brotherhood (which honestly would have taken decades given how many people there are above you in the chain of command), you'd probably be shot for blasphemy for just suggesting such a thing. Assuming that the two factions had somehow managed to avoid open warfare prior to that.
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Yeah, the main reason I picked the Institute over the Brotherhood for my 'official' ending is because they're scientists, first and foremost. Present them evidence that they've made serious mistakes in the past, that they could lead the Commonwealth in a new golden age of humanity, and they will eventually be persuaded. Isn't that why Father/Shaun brought you to do in the first place?
On top of that, there are internal divisions about what to do about the synths and the Commonwealth that a strong leader could use to guide them in the 'proper' direction of more outreach and generally trying to make the world above a BETTER and safer place for all its inhabitants - synth, human, and ghoul alike.
The Brotherhood under Maxson are technology-hoarding racists, plain and simple - by humans, for humans, and if you ain't human you ain't dick... at least if you're OUR kind of human. I mean, Danse has been a solid Paladin for HOW many years, loyally following the BoS, but not only will THEY kill him for being a synth, but he'll kill HIMSELF for being one as well? I don't see any way to change that attitude even if you side with them. The Outcasts of Fallout 3 won the BoS, and Elder Lyons lived in vain.
When you rub that attitude up against all of the ghouls who are just ordinary people, looking to get by, or the synths that are plainly children-in-adult-bodies, desperately wanting to become more than just tools... yes, the Commonwealth would be SAFE under the Brotherhood, but only for smoothies. How long would Nick Valentine or Daisy be allowed to live in peace if the BoS were in charge? What happened to the Underworld in the Capitol Wasteland?
Technology-hoarders, too. I mean, we know that MaCready's son is sick with a curable disease in BoS-controlled turf. Why didn't he go to them for a cure? Because they care about the BoS first, and the rest of you dirt-farmers can give us food for protection.
I wanna like the BoS, but their story arc since Fallout 1 has not been kind to them. In a lot of ways, that's actually great - showing the grand decline of what was once the last bastion of pre-War military - but as far as siding with them in Fallout 4?
The other two endings are worse. I mean, what does the Railroad DO after they blow up the only production of synths in the world, and the most high-tech bastion in the world still in the hands of humans? And the Minutemen are a fine idea, the civilians banding together to protect themselves, but it's a short-term solution held together by the charisma of one person - you - and when you die, it's going to fall apart again.
One of the things I like the most about Fallout 4's story is that they presented the Institute very clearly as bad guys from about 10 minutes into the game, and as you go on you find out that, like Zangeif, they are bad guys, but not bad guys.
At least IMHO.
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Yeah, the main reason I picked the Institute over the Brotherhood for my 'official' ending is because they're scientists, first and foremost. Present them evidence that they've made serious mistakes in the past, that they could lead the Commonwealth in a new golden age of humanity, and they will eventually be persuaded. Isn't that why Father/Shaun brought you to do in the first place?
Actually, I think he was thinking that you'd see things his way. He had no respect for the Commonwealth surfacers at all.
On top of that, there are internal divisions about what to do about the synths and the Commonwealth that a strong leader could use to guide them in the 'proper' direction of more outreach and generally trying to make the world above a BETTER and safer place for all its inhabitants - synth, human, and ghoul alike.
Yeah, just like how Comstar was able to change and never ever reverted to its evil ways after Sharilar Mori took the helm, right?
The other two endings are worse. I mean, what does the Railroad DO after they blow up the only production of synths in the world, and the most high-tech bastion in the world still in the hands of humans? And the Minutemen are a fine idea, the civilians banding together to protect themselves, but it's a short-term solution held together by the charisma of one person - you - and when you die, it's going to fall apart again.
At least IMHO.
Both the Railroad and Minutemen are interested in the long-term stability of the Commonwealth. Remember, a great deal of the issues were directly caused by the Institute's policy of "kidnap leaders and replace them with synths" and the fact that the Institute destroyed the Commonwealth's last government. Without them around to keep interfering, the region is in a good position to form a new government that rules the entire region, with a proper standing military force to deal with raiders, Super Mutants, and other issues (the Super Mutant problem should decrease as well, since the Institute isn't making them anymore). The Institute might have had some good tech, but they weren't the only ones with tech: heck, Tinker Tom seems to have much greater innovative skill than they do. Look at the Railroad heavies: the only faction troops in the Commonwealth who are bettor armed and armored than they are are Brotherhood Paladins with full Power Armor.
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Actually, I think he was thinking that you'd see things his way. He had no respect for the Commonwealth surfacers at all.
But he left it in your hands.
Yeah, just like how Comstar was able to change and never ever reverted to its evil ways after Sharilar Mori took the helm, right?
Well, didn't the Jihad lead directly to the Republic of the Sphere? It's hard to call that a negative outcome in the long run, despite the lives lost.
Both the Railroad and Minutemen are interested in the long-term stability of the Commonwealth. Remember, a great deal of the issues were directly caused by the Institute's policy of "kidnap leaders and replace them with synths" and the fact that the Institute destroyed the Commonwealth's last government. Without them around to keep interfering, the region is in a good position to form a new government that rules the entire region, with a proper standing military force to deal with raiders, Super Mutants, and other issues (the Super Mutant problem should decrease as well, since the Institute isn't making them anymore). The Institute might have had some good tech, but they weren't the only ones with tech: heck, Tinker Tom seems to have much greater innovative skill than they do. Look at the Railroad heavies: the only faction troops in the Commonwealth who are bettor armed and armored than they are are Brotherhood Paladins with full Power Armor.
Tinker Tom's a drug-crazed lunatic - yes, smart, but highly unstable. And my question stands: What does the Railroad become when its only reason for existence is gone? All it wanted to do was help the synths escape the Institute. Well, no more synths, probably ever again - two hundred years of research, built on intact pre-War knowledge, gone in a flash! It isn't liked in the Commonwealth - helping synths only makes them sound like they liked the Institute.
The Minutemen, though... yes, they're well liked, but they're well liked because of the PC. If we're positing that the PC can parley that into a unified Commonwealth government, then my own supposition that's possible with the Institute isn't so far fetched. Listen to Mama Murphy.
"You're wearing a lab coat. You're standing with... men of science. Visionaries. Brilliant but misunderstood. I see a land marked up, like a great experiment. Each test a new beginning. Each sacrifice an acceptable loss. You will not be loved, but you will save humanity. However you choose to define it."
Maybe the Institute is worse than I remember, I haven't gotten into there yet. But it's the only one where she straight says you save humanity. But what's brilliant is that you CAN justify siding with any of the factions without going straight to "Sociopath who likes enslaving women and burning an entire village as an example to our enemies" like Legion in FNV.
In other thoughts, sticking to Survival Mode is INSANE in the level up department - I'm at level 50 and I haven't even gone into the Glowing Sea yet, let alone touched the DLC! That 200% exp is pretty crazy, though it IS helped by the fact that I went Intelligence 8, thinking I'd need Nuclear Physicist at 9 because Fusion Cores wouldn't random drop (they do!). I mean, in Survival you want at LEAST 7 to start with for Chemist anyway, so only one wasted point, but still... oh well.
It's fun stalking around in Stealth Boy Power Armor with full Sneak, Sandman, and Ninja perks - after the armor triggers you still get sneak damage bonuses on anyone who's just Cautious to you and not Danger. Railgun with full Rifleman from a sneak attack pretty much one shots anything up to and including Behemoths, and sudden combat isn't scary once you can mix Psychojet - see Chemist perk.
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Funny you should mention the RotS, given that it's a cult of personality that went to pieces in the absence of its leader.
But he left it in your hands.
Because he thought you'd agree with him about how awful the Commonwealth was.
FO4 doesn't have an obviously good ending, but as you point out, doesn't have a faction you'd have to be pants-on-head stupid to support, either.
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I recently played my way through X-Com 2 a couple of times, because one of my favourite Youtubers was doing a playthrough of the new DLC and made it look interesting. I had fun, although having seen the War of the Chosen campaign played through a couple of times, I think I'd enjoy everything from that DLC other than the chosen :P
I'm currently fiddling around a little in Project Zomboid while I watch some playthroughs of the Directors Cut edition of Wastelands 2, which is in one of the Humble Bundle offers and looks interesting, if a bit... unintuitive?
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The rest are rather generic "me-too" titles trying to ride Call of Duty and Medal of Honor's coattails.
Minor correction, the first one was a ''serious'' FPS akin to Rainbow Six and first Delta Force, predating CoD and MoH, but graphics are really dated now, so I wouldn't reccomend it.
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Potential bad news about the makers of TitanFalls. (https://www.geek.com/games/ea-acquires-titanfall-developer-respawn-entertainment-1722274/) The company named Respawn was bought out by 100+ million dollar deal by EA. Aka the place where games go to die. #P I'm not a fan of EA so forgive that last part.
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I think this is good news. Sounds as if the Respawn team will remain intact under the EA flag. Hopefully [mostly] autonomous. And that Titanfall 3 will most likely be green-lit. Also, I have hope for this unnamed Star Wars game if Respawn is now at the helm.
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Given what EA did to Bioware and Mass Effect, I can't help but feel nervous for fans of Respawn and Titanfall.
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I think this is good news. Sounds as if the Respawn team will remain intact under the EA flag. Hopefully [mostly] autonomous. And that Titanfall 3 will most likely be green-lit. Also, I have hope for this unnamed Star Wars game if Respawn is now at the helm.
Being bought out by EA is never good news, especially for the consumer. I don't blame the owners of Respawn for selling out for $400 million, but this is a Bad Thing for fans.
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Being bought out by EA is never good news, especially for the consumer. I don't blame the owners of Respawn for selling out for $400 million, but this is a Bad Thing for fans.
Titanfall 3 will have art direction outsourced to a second studio while Respawn is asked to retool it into a spiritual sequel of the Smash TV series that includes a lottery where the winner gets the biggest mech. Lottery tickets are handed out in proportion to the boosts activated by players through micro transactions. :)
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And they'll be forced to use the Frostbite engine for it.
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winner winner chicken dinner.
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I think you're being overly pessimistic regards Respawn and TF.
EA know they've messed up with some of their closures, it's even
been stated recently by them. I'll be open minded about it, especially
considering some of Respawns smarter plays with TF2.
The refusal by Respawn to segregate the playerbase with Map Pack
DLC, was a brave and smart move. That segregation killed TF1's
long term viability, and for once someone noticed and did the right
thing.
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Words are cheap in the video game industry. EA literally closed a studio just a couple weeks ago.
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I think you're being overly pessimistic regards Respawn and TF.
EA know they've messed up with some of their closures, it's even
been stated recently by them. I'll be open minded about it, especially
considering some of Respawns smarter plays with TF2.
The refusal by Respawn to segregate the playerbase with Map Pack
DLC, was a brave and smart move. That segregation killed TF1's
long term viability, and for once someone noticed and did the right
thing.
i've been watching EA murder studios since before puberty, there's no way they're going to suddenly pull a 180 and treat this studio right after all the other times they bought studios to kill them off so they don't need to compete as hard. EA is the biggest liar in videogames, and whatever they say they've learned not to do from bad publicity is what they're gonna do bigly the moment there's no more pressure on them.
i never got around to playing titanfall. i feel bad about that now.
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i never got around to playing titanfall. i feel bad about that now.
You can still score Titanfall 2. I think it's $19 on Origin. I haven't looked at player retention numbers recently, but it doesn't take me long to get into a PvP or PvE drop. Certainly shorter than MWO. And, the single player campaign (while about as cliche as you can possibly get) is *great fun. I think if not for it's poor launch v Battlefield One and CoD: whatever-- TFall 2 could have been huge. We'll never know. All I can do (as a fan of both 1 and 2) is hope for the best in 3. But yeah. Deep down, we're all familiar with EA's past.
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i've been watching EA murder studios since before puberty, there's no way they're going to suddenly pull a 180 and treat this studio right after all the other times they bought studios to kill them off so they don't need to compete as hard. EA is the biggest liar in videogames, and whatever they say they've learned not to do from bad publicity is what they're gonna do bigly the moment there's no more pressure on them.
i never got around to playing titanfall. i feel bad about that now.
Agreed. This is multiple decades of bad behavior. I give EA credit where credit is due (they were very receptive early on to providing access to their library to GoG; thus I have Wing Commander and Ultima games available to me legally), but they have a corporate culture and habits that predict future behavior. It doesn't have to be malice either. Just neglect, holding a studio too tight, holding a studio too loose, abusing the development schedule, and so on. They make money and apparently some good games (my last EA game I can remember was Mass Effect 2), but I don't regard them as good people and I really don't like their business strategy.
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Just Started AC4: Black Flag for the third time. Mind you, I don't really care for the storyline too much. I just love the sailing and pirating aspects. I loved Sid Meier's Pirates! back when I played it in black and white on a Macintosh and used a map to navigate the Caribbean. AC4 just feels like Pirates with pretty combat, boarding and hand to hand combat.
I think my favorite thing is when I'm sailing, and my crew starts singing "what do we do with a drunken sailor.." The shanties are all fantastic.
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this is rather surprising that EA made the world news normally they end up in gaming forums and gaming magz but hey...
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41981979
btw does any one even remember when EA was a game making company and what their original mission statement was?
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ok crysis...still strains my desktop and i am running latest i7 with 1080nvida series card...wth? is the game designed 10 years back will not play with todays maxed out machines as it was meant to? i remember some jokes about it back when that only way to run the thing is to use a cray...
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So Picked up HITMAN (https://hitman.com/) yesterday. So far only played the two 'intro' missions. And I must say, a lot of fun, and a lot interesting ways to go about taking out the target :D
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Decided to play the freemium Simcity Buildit, and man... that freemium... You can get to about 150k population before you HAVE to start paying if you want to keep growing.
Specifically, the angle they push is 'buying' more land for your city to expand onto. I did the math on it and basically you're paying $1.32*x, where x equals 3(1+y), where y equals however ****** much they feel like they should charge for this tiny plot of land. So basically, to expand in the direction I wanted to, it would have been twenty dollars for a plot of land that would hold 8 residential zones. With three more to buy in that region before getting to the mountain expansion. Yes, the game drops the items necessary to expand those zones, but does so at a ridiculously low rate - or you can find suckers who put them up in the online shop and TRY to be the first one to buy it. And the ingame currency they want for that particular transaction is also quite difficult to get - you might get about 30 cents worth in a day, if you're lucky.
I decided to delete it instead. I mean, it kept me entertained for a weekend, that ain't bad right? Maybe I will just go back to Fallout Shelter.
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I can understand the issues with freemium, i have same issue with Mecha Droid game War Robots.
It's a fun game, MMO on phone with details you'd hope for if the Battletech mobile game was a real thing.
However the Russian developers keep racking up the prices for better equipment and Bots (their mechs, they just can say that.) Their newest Mech, Inquisitor through various ways to obtain it would total $350 dollars.
It's insane.
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World of Tanks console is having the same issue. Prices of premium tanks have gone up by about 50% since this time a year ago and the number of players is down. It's really not helped that they tie both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game to the Xbox 360 version, resulting in maps being removed or shrunk and other limitations because the 360 can't handle them. There's some slight justification for the One edition since it's cross-system compatible with the 360 but the PS4 most certainly isn't so we're getting reduced gameplay for nothing.
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So stop playing those games. Seriously, don't give them your time nor money. Go play something that isn't actively working to rip you off.
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Regarding the Institute in FO4, you need to realize something. They're the spiritual descendants of Vault-Tec, and I mean that in all seriousness. All the demented "experiments" we find in the Vaults? Those are things the Institute would be quite willing to test on surface-dwellers. At what point does helping that become a good idea?
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So stop playing those games. Seriously, don't give them your time nor money. Go play something that isn't actively working to rip you off.
I'm actively looking for an alternative right now. I'm debating on which one, leaning toward Diablo III though Star Wars Battlefront II has me intrigued.
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Battlefront II is sooooo much better than its predecessor.
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Yesterday I bought two Retro Link Sega Genesis Classic USB Controller for PC and Mac (copy-pasted from Amazon.com) for 21,90 € each, totals 44 € with a plastic bag. So Genesis/Mega Drive gamepad replica with USB plug for PC & Mac. This is a bad one: when I shake the thing a bit, buttons shake and rattle. And it is too small. On the same day I placed an order for Retron GN6 controllers, which have got very positive reviews on Amazon.com.
On Monday I send out an e-mail to a computer store with a request to assemble desktop computer to go with HTC Vive. I listed the stuff I wanted, some very specifically ("Core i7-8700"), others more vaguely ("Back-lit keyboard"). Attached is a PDF file of the offered components and their prices. I didn't expect it to break 4k €! Oh man... Can you recommend me cheaper back-lit keyboard? Oh, and processor can be hard to get at the moment. Gonna change it to i7-7700. And I could drop off 2 gamepads to reduce price, but then my brother and I need to cannibalize from the game consoles to play 4-player games on it. Speaking of which, which games in the Worms series have best support for gamepads? And they're still looking for monitor (more cost to come!) to meet my requirements: 4k, refresh rate of 80 Hz or more, 56 cm wide at most because of placement restrictions; Would you happen to know one that meets those requirements? What do you think about the components on the file?
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Aw rats! Quick check of the motherboard confirmed that i7-7700 isn't gonna work on it. So if I get the computer in this year with i7-7700, I may need to change the motherboard for newer processor in the future. Oh man, I really, REALLY want to have this for the Christmas to show off to family members coming for visit... :-\
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Well, deleted World of Tanks today. Took some of my old games to the used game store (I figured if I'd literally forgotten that I still had a game and hadn't thought about it for months, it was an indication that I was never going to get a sudden hankering to play it again) and got Star Wars Battlefront II. Pretty fun so far.
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Regarding the Institute in FO4, you need to realize something. They're the spiritual descendants of Vault-Tec, and I mean that in all seriousness. All the demented "experiments" we find in the Vaults? Those are things the Institute would be quite willing to test on surface-dwellers. At what point does helping that become a good idea?
Well, no. They're not. That would be the Enclave. They set up the experiments for their own amusement and education, and then had their own set of shelters, complete with stocks of weaponry, so that they could swoop out and re-establish the United States of America.
What did I find in the Institute? That they had tried to establish a unified government of the Commonwealth, which had collapsed under the greed of several above-ground people. That's good! I mean, yeah, they wanted the stable government so that they could more easily expand upwards, make people aware of them, but regardless it was for a logical reason that benefited humanity as a whole and themselves as well.
They also worked on F.E.V. That's bad, and no excusing that - particularly the kidnapping and forced mutation/murder of multiple individuals.
It's also interesting to note that in conversations overheard, there is an even split between Institute attitudes. Just as many members feel that synths are becoming human, who think that the Institute should work to better the Commonwealth, and that being insular and too focused on science to the detriment of humanity is wrong.
So stop playing those games. Seriously, don't give them your time nor money. Go play something that isn't actively working to rip you off.
I started up Calculords - a game about math and scifi combat by the comedian Seanbaby. Free and fun - and funny. The enemy taunts catch me off guard sometimes. "Your mother must not have read the alcohol's warning label."
I also signed back into my Survival Mode vault in Fallout Shelter and I'm making it a going concern for a bit. Who knows how long til I get bored, but... It's there.
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What did I find in the Institute? That they had tried to establish a unified government of the Commonwealth, which had collapsed under the greed of several above-ground people. That's good! I mean, yeah, they wanted the stable government so that they could more easily expand upwards, make people aware of them, but regardless it was for a logical reason that benefited humanity as a whole and themselves as well.
Well, that's the version of events as told by the group that regularly kidnaps people, replaces them with Synth duplicates, and mutates the original with the F.E.V. for the evulz. Of course, their opinion of the Commonwealth is that it's a rancid latrine, so they're not exactly what you would call objective when it comes to things and we already know that they're exceedingly self-serving.
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Well, that's the version of events as told by the group that regularly kidnaps people, replaces them with Synth duplicates, and mutates the original with the F.E.V. for the evulz. Of course, their opinion of the Commonwealth is that it's a rancid latrine, so they're not exactly what you would call objective when it comes to things and we already know that they're exceedingly self-serving.
Well, the tone of Director's Recording #52 kind of implies they had a lot invested in it, and wanted it to work - and did so before they had any real ability to replace people with synths. Since it's an internal note I doubt it's any kind of propaganda.
Look, Director, I'm going to make the same recommendation I did last time. We did everything we could. Four years dedicated to preserving this "Commonwealth Provisional Government." You've seen the same reports I have. It's falling apart, and fast. We need a plan for what happens when that fall is complete. I know some of the other Divisions have suggested we just cut off all contact; hide underground and pretend nobody's home. That would, in my opinion, be a mistake. We can't just give up on these people. And with the Android program, we don't have to. We'll soon have the capabilities to deploy androids to the surface in great enough numbers to maintain order. Just... Just think about it, all right? Keep it in mind moving forward.
We don't know when the CPG was a going concern, because Nick Valentine is the only other person to mention it, and he says "Synths attacked and wiped out the people who were trying to get it together" - which kinda... contradicts the above memo.
And there's PLENTY of incidental dialogue and conversational paths that show while some people take the rancid latrine view, others do not. I'd forgotten most of that, but going back into the Institute for the first time in my Survival game brought it home.
Too bad I effed up and stepped off the Libertalia shanty boat village in full power armor and sank straight to the bottom. And couldn't get back up. And lost about an hour of gameplay thanks to not saving.
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Well, no. They're not. That would be the Enclave. They set up the experiments for their own amusement and education, and then had their own set of shelters, complete with stocks of weaponry, so that they could swoop out and re-establish the United States of America.
Spiritual descendant, not literal. The Institute makes self-aware slaves (Synths), murdered every other person in Vault 111 except for your family (Kellog's memory is clear that their deaths were ordered), and is planning on killing the family running the waste plant farm once their research data is collected.
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Battlefront II is sooooo much better than its predecessor.
I am enjoying the campaign quite a bit thus far...
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Battlefront II is sooooo much better than its predecessor.
Is it? I'm not intending to be a downer here, but-- after allowing myself to get really excited for 2, and then watching the reviews, it really just seems like more of the same-'ole-same to me. **Gorgeous to look at, but light on substance. I hated the vanilla 'feel' of ship combat in the first. Waaaay too arcade like (give me X-Wing Alliance any day of the week). Actually, I would have been just fine with it, so long as it was actually fun. However, I didn't experience an ounce of fun in X/A-Wings/Tie's. That's not being spiteful. Just honest. Snow-speeders were fun, but that was because you had more to keep you thinking, and on your toes. Also, only 4 hours of SP campaign? Man, that's rough. Online play appears to also be about exactly the same. Dunno... perhaps I'm missing something, but... after paying for the Ultimate edition last go round, I'm a little deflated post reviews for 2.
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CIV IV the ultimate soul sucker...
in near future ill have to destroy that disk...but in mean time just one more turn!
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I wrapped up Wolfenstein II's story missions. Not bad. It left a LOT hanging, though. I'm not sure if it was rushed, or if they just wanted to leave solid sequel hooks. Either way, I had fun.
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Dead Rising 4, and Zoo Creator.
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Is it? I'm not intending to be a downer here, but-- after allowing myself to get really excited for 2, and then watching the reviews, it really just seems like more of the same-'ole-same to me. **Gorgeous to look at, but light on substance. I hated the vanilla 'feel' of ship combat in the first. Waaaay too arcade like (give me X-Wing Alliance any day of the week). Actually, I would have been just fine with it, so long as it was actually fun. However, I didn't experience an ounce of fun in X/A-Wings/Tie's. That's not being spiteful. Just honest. Snow-speeders were fun, but that was because you had more to keep you thinking, and on your toes. Also, only 4 hours of SP campaign? Man, that's rough. Online play appears to also be about exactly the same. Dunno... perhaps I'm missing something, but... after paying for the Ultimate edition last go round, I'm a little deflated post reviews for 2.
I've only played about 2 hours, and with that, on the campaign, but the act of even having a campaign is awesome. Story is solid so far (They use an Imperial Raider corvette from X wing miniatures as their home base!), and it is overall quite fun.
Space combat is very good. Think rogue squadron, but with modern AAA graphics. No more lockon, 4 degrees of freedom (Typical in arcade flight). Had to mess with the controls a bit to get them to my liking, but overall, very good. I'd kill for a 100% starfighter mode campain, that would be fun...
If you are looking for multiplayer, you might want to wait a see a bit, but overall, I'm enjoying the game.
As a side note, why does everyone hold the original battlefront II on such a high pedestal? Yes, it was quite fun, but it wasn't what I would call the crowning achievement of Star Wars gaming. The AI was stupid and repetitive. If you got the hero, vs AI was a cake walk. Campaign was fun. Space combat was not very good. It was easier to win a space battle fighting on foot in the enemy ship than it was from a starfighter. It was overall an arcade game without much depth of play. I much prefer Jedi Knight II to Battlefront II...
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I'm wondering how long it's going to take before characters from Star Wars Rebels get added to the game. You know it's going to happen.
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Cant wait for some more time to pass so i can talk some more about battkefront II. Stoooid NDA
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CIV IV the ultimate soul sucker...
in near future ill have to destroy that disk...but in mean time just one more turn!
I know those feelings, it beckons me as well.
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Cant wait for some more time to pass so i can talk some more about battkefront II. Stoooid NDA
Given that the game is already out, how long does that NDA stand?
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Given that the game is already out, how long does that NDA stand?
Let me ask this....When does the Single Player Campaign End? i.E. What happens
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Given that the game is already out, how long does that NDA stand?
I'm putting my money on "early 2018," so EA doesn't lose Christmas sales.
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Let me ask this....When does the Single Player Campaign End? i.E. What happens
So it's either got something to do with Episode 8 or the plot of a future expansion?
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So it's either got something to do with Episode 8 or the plot of a future expansion?
No, Yes
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Great, an expansion involving Darth Tantrum. Can hardly wait.
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As a side note, why does everyone hold the original battlefront II on such a high pedestal?
Dunno... I love the original X-Wing, TIE figher, and especially Alliance best. Oh, and KotOR I/II. Mmmm...!!
Ah... the good 'ole days, when games actually had a soul. Kidding! ...somewhat.
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Mmmm...!!
Ah... the good 'ole days, when games actually had a soul. Kidding! ...somewhat.
I'm sure many games still do. Saying none don't is like saying PC games are dying. Also if you want games from the good 'ole days, many are still available. Just go find out are they as great as you think they were.
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Clearly you missed my last... ;)
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Great, an expansion involving Darth Tantrum. Can hardly wait.
You're misunderstanding. See, the campaign has no end.
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You're misunderstanding. See, the campaign has no end.
Well...lets just say...The "Fan Theory' that Del and Iden are Rey's Parents....Yay....Nope.
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Well...lets just say...The "Fan Theory' that Del and Iden are Rey's Parents....Yay....Nope.
Wait. What stupid theory is this now? I was talking about EA's assorted revolting business decisions. I really don't care about fan theories.
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Wait. What stupid theory is this now? I was talking about EA's assorted revolting business decisions. I really don't care about fan theories.
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/879631/Star-Wars-8-Rey-parents-The-Last-Jedi-Battlefront-2-Skywalker-Snoke
https://moviepilot.com/p/did-star-wars-battlefront-ii-just-reveal-who-rey-s-parents-are/4501690
https://www.inverse.com/article/38557-rey-s-parents-star-wars-last-jedi-battlefront-2-ii-iden-versio-del-meeko
http://www.slashfilm.com/does-star-wars-battlefront-ii-reveal-reys-parents/
https://www.inverse.com/article/38557-rey-s-parents-star-wars-last-jedi-battlefront-2-ii-iden-versio-del-meeko
and, well, there's more, but based on what was in the missions I did...NO.
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Wow. I literally could not care less about that. Is this something people are really debating, or is it just something lazy website writers can crib off each other?
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Wow. I literally could not care less about that. Is this something people are really debating, or is it just something lazy website writers can crib off each other?
Well...(and this I have no issues discussing because the Game is out now and people have gotten to this), it is revealed during the Mission that Del and Iden eventually marry and have a daughter, and of course, with Rey's parentage still unknown the more rabid fans will pick up on ANYTHING that points to...Hey a couple of Characters have a daughter, Rey's a girl with unknown parents, they must be related!
And having played stuff that goes beyond the initial release...No, Rey is not their daughter.
And frankly I am amazed that people would even think that! yes, a major plot reveal will be in a video Game, and we will learn who Snopes really is (canonically) in a 1 panel comic strip in a Marvel cross-over comic with the DCU, because that sort of stuff is great for any franchise ;)
But in all seriousness, it was nice to see Ships from the Star Wars Armada game in the Battlefront game, and piloting a Bespin Cloud Car in Combat....lets just say...funny!
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That's not the dumbest fan-theory I've ever heard, but it's pretty close to it.
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So I’ve been playing Skyrim on the Switch even though I have both versions, including the Special Edition on Steam. The game runs like butter with a graphical fidelity of something between the X360 and the X1. The real magic is in taking it portable, doing quests on the go, and especially the ability to put the system to sleep and wake nearly instantaneously with almost no power draw when off. That’s stonking amazing. I pulled it out of my case, pressed power, selected the paused game and began playing inside of three seconds. I *like* that.
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So I’ve been playing Skyrim on the Switch even though I have both versions, including the Special Edition on Steam. The game runs like butter with a graphical fidelity of something between the X360 and the X1. The real magic is in taking it portable, doing quests on the go, and especially the ability to put the system to sleep and wake nearly instantaneously with almost no power draw when off. That’s stonking amazing. I pulled it out of my case, pressed power, selected the paused game and began playing inside of three seconds. I *like* that.
It makes me wish I had liked playing Skyrim; for some reason the game did nothing for me, no matter how much I like Fallout and so forth. The Switch IS great because it's portable and still looks good on the TV. Hopefully the next game we're getting for it is Fire Emblem Warriors.
Me, I've been playing Pokemon Ultra Moon.
I... I think I'm over Pokemon. I'm only going through it because my wife is going through Ultra Sun, and I'm doing what is called in the pogeymon world Nuzlocking - where you HAVE to catch the first pokemon you meet in each route, you can't catch any more in that route, and if a pokemon you're using faints you have to stick it in the PC forever.
It's challenging, to be sure, but not really challenging ENOUGH - because once you get to a certain point, if you've been using a small enough team, your 'mons are 10 levels over the opponent's and if you're careful you won't lose any.
But on the other hand, playing online is TOO challenging for me. It frustrates me, not because they're good, but because I'M bad. I can't predict for beans, and though I spent days of my life (not just, ya know, a couple of hours a day, but literal 24-hours total multiple days) breeding about 50 different competitive pokemon. Which isn't easy, they have a genetics system that governs the stat values and some moves can only be learned by passing down from a different kind of pokemon and more - but I can't claim that it was anything more than a waste of effort.
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So I’ve been playing Skyrim on the Switch even though I have both versions, including the Special Edition on Steam. The game runs like butter with a graphical fidelity of something between the X360 and the X1. The real magic is in taking it portable, doing quests on the go, and especially the ability to put the system to sleep and wake nearly instantaneously with almost no power draw when off. That’s stonking amazing. I pulled it out of my case, pressed power, selected the paused game and began playing inside of three seconds. I *like* that.
I am very seriously considering a Switch. I wouldn't mind doing another run through Skyrim, and what I've seen of the new Mario and Zelda games looks fantastic.
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It makes me wish I had liked playing Skyrim; for some reason the game did nothing for me, no matter how much I like Fallout and so forth.
Skyrim is honestly kind of a dull game. It doesn't take very long before you're just fighting the same enemies and doing the same basic quests over and over until you get the next armor upgrade or the next spell or whatever. It's honestly too open ended and like most Bethesda titles doesn't have much of a plot.
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Day off from work and I spent all of it at home! Today I played 3 different games!
Phantasy Star II (part of the Sega Mega Drive collection on Steam) with replica of Genesis controller (Hyperkin GN6)
Battlerite (members of anime club wanted to play it)
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition (FUUN!)
Yesterday I installed & played DoomRL (RL = Rogue Like)
I had a good weekend :)
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messed around with front missions 5 and for pc over the hellday weekend
wish my japaniese was better when it came to fm 5
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ok another soul and time sucker because one turn is not enough...ever
original 90s xcom
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ok another soul and time sucker because one turn is not enough...ever
original 90s xcom
Term you're looking for is X-COM, because XCOM is from 2012
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And both series are on sale on Steam. Xenonauts too.
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I REALLY hate game breaking glitches.
So in Fallout 3, I never did the Pitt or Point Lookout DLC. They just didn't look interesting - rummaging around as a slave? Wandering around a swamp fighting hillbillies?
Decided to get around to it with the PC version I've got the Fallout Wasteland Explorer (FWE) mod on - if you're wondering where a lot of the improvements for Fallout 4 came from, like dashing and grenade hotkeys, it's from FWE. No joke. Makes the game hard, but fun.
Went through Point Lookout, the only worthwhile bit of which is the mission where you're playing the Chinese spy trying to destroy the captured submarine, and then went on to the Pitt. Walked around, gathered all the ingots, stealth splashed a lot of enemies, then got to the part where you're supposed to hit the arena.
AND THE WOMAN'S DIALOGUE ISN'T THERE.
It defaults to some sort of "What goes on here" questionnaire instead of letting me enter the arena and continue the game. Went back to a point where I hadn't gathered all the ingots, tried it again, same glitch.
So I wasted 2 hours of my life doing this DLC. Just a total waste of time, because it's broken and I don't know how or why. I don't think it's the FWE, because everything else works in the entire game, but man... what a pisser. I'd be more mad if I'd actually cared or been interested in the story.
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The Pitt was IMO the worst DLC for Fallout 3. And that's saying something.
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I found nothing of any value in FO3's DLC.
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I found nothing of any value in FO3's DLC.
I actually enjoyed Mothership Zeta - it was an interesting change and an exploration of the world. A large part of Fallout's aesthetic belongs to the 1950s, and saucer-flying aliens with big heads is a HUGE part of that. I like that it explored the idea that the Zetans were responsible for the war being triggered, but never SAID that they were - leaving it a mystery. Was humanity responsible for its own destruction, or was there an outside source?
Broken Steel was okay only because it raised the level cap and let you do some cool fighting alongside the BoS. Powered armor infantry performing combined arms actions with a giant robot and VTOLs? What's a Battletech fan NOT to enjoy about that? Plus, it allowed your rad-proof companions to actually DO THEIR JOB and do something that is a light tickle for them, but lethal for you.
Fallout 3 is my favorite of the games, storyline-wise. It has a solid flow to it, and that initial sequence of LIVING in the Vault as a tutorial is one of the flat-out best devices I have EVER seen. New Vegas was the tired trope of amnesia and revenge, FO4 had almost the same thing going on with revenge being the primary motive, but with FO3 you experienced the peaceful life of the Vault with your father, only to have him disappear and be thrust out into the world with him as your only touchstone.
FNV had the hands-down best DLC. FO4 had the best moral choice, with all of them equally good or bad. But FO3 had the best overall story IMHO.
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I thought New Vegas's story was less about revenge than it was about figuring out what the hell you'd gotten mixed up in while the amnesia part was really glossed over enough that you could safely ignore it.
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I thought New Vegas's story was less about revenge than it was about figuring out what the hell you'd gotten mixed up in while the amnesia part was really glossed over enough that you could safely ignore it.
I have to withdraw it - the Courier CAN remember things, if it's your choice, through dialogue. The Lonesome Drifter can be asked if he's 17 by a male character with Ladykiller, and acts relieved when he says 28, for example. So the Courier must just be very, VERY new to the Vegas area, and thus ignorant. Or else stricken with short term memory loss from the bullet, which is also quite believable.
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Picked up Diablo III for PS4. My Barbarian has so much life-gain on hit that it takes a seriously strong enemy to actually cause me to drop below max HP for any length of time. I'm trying to power-level up to the point where I can play with some of my friends on the PS4 network who've had the game for a while.
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Picked up Diablo III for PS4. My Barbarian has so much life-gain on hit that it takes a seriously strong enemy to actually cause me to drop below max HP for any length of time. I'm trying to power-level up to the point where I can play with some of my friends on the PS4 network who've had the game for a while.
Just join them anyways...The nice thing is sure they may be way up in level, but the XP you will gain at that level is insane. Plus the loot drops will be higher level (and some will drop just for you), as well as giving you access to gems that would be levels ahead of you.
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Good to know. I'm burning through levels pretty quickly as it is: nearly hit level 20 in just an afternoon's rather casual play.
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I just started playing RimWorld, and the last couple of things I can remember that sucked up quite such a percentage of my time were/are Project Zomboid and Civ III.
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I just started playing RimWorld, and the last couple of things I can remember that sucked up quite such a percentage of my time were/are Project Zomboid and Civ III.
Likewise. I'm watching one of my best cleanup workers sit in the brig for days waiting for his Alcohol detox to finish. Then there's the poor lady addicted to luciferium. I didn't realize it was basically a death sentence when she joined the settlement. The poor settlers had to put her down after her third or fourth drug rage.
This game is *deep* and I still haven't manufactured one spaceship part.
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Got all three Witcher games on Steam sale and TOAW IV as it came out, so I'm splitting my time between the two.
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Likewise. I'm watching one of my best cleanup workers sit in the brig for days waiting for his Alcohol detox to finish. Then there's the poor lady addicted to luciferium. I didn't realize it was basically a death sentence when she joined the settlement. The poor settlers had to put her down after her third or fourth drug rage.
This game is *deep* and I still haven't manufactured one spaceship part.
I picked a region to start in where I had a year-round growing season, and discovered I get 50 celcius summer heatwaves in which putting aircon units on -60 couldn't bring the temperature down below 20 celcius. So, I built a fridge in the mountain, and now I have to periodically set fire to it because of insectoid infestations, and I have no idea what I'm doing but raiders keep trying to break into my wild boar farm.
But then I recruited someone with the ugly trait, because how bad could that be? It turns out they're a hard worker, and beat a slothful character to death *in my rec room* before I knew what was going on.
Wibble.
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I picked a region to start in where I had a year-round growing season, and discovered I get 50 celcius summer heatwaves in which putting aircon units on -60 couldn't bring the temperature down below 20 celcius. So, I built a fridge in the mountain, and now I have to periodically set fire to it because of insectoid infestations, and I have no idea what I'm doing but raiders keep trying to break into my wild boar farm.
But then I recruited someone with the ugly trait, because how bad could that be? It turns out they're a hard worker, and beat a slothful character to death *in my rec room* before I knew what was going on.
Wibble.
I get similar heatwaves. The key for me is to stack cooling units per room. My fridge zone is a giant walk-in freezer where I keep crops, meat, and dead animals. Completed meals stay in an adjacent fridge. That way the constant walking traffic doesn't keep the doors open to the storage fridge. The size of the fridge forces me to have five cooler units to maintain temps. It's not a huge problem for me as I have great geothermal energy sources, but if your electrical system is stressed, I find that putting two passive coolers in each bedroom works pretty well (no barracks; each settler gets a separate building).
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I get similar heatwaves. The key for me is to stack cooling units per room. My fridge zone is a giant walk-in freezer where I keep crops, meat, and dead animals. Completed meals stay in an adjacent fridge. That way the constant walking traffic doesn't keep the doors open to the storage fridge. The size of the fridge forces me to have five cooler units to maintain temps. It's not a huge problem for me as I have great geothermal energy sources, but if your electrical system is stressed, I find that putting two passive coolers in each bedroom works pretty well (no barracks; each settler gets a separate building).
I've found that the best large freezer is one dug into a mountain, with a kind of cavity wall around it most of the way round. I basically built a large rectangular room, with an airlock at one end; opposite the airlock, I put a wall-lined channel to the outside, with a pair of cooling vents in it and plain vents at the open end, and then put a two-wide corridor all around the remaining wall. The freezer itself seems to stay at a constant temperature even during the worst heatwaves. I like the passive coolers in the bedrooms, too - I'm practically swimming with wood. I've just started experimenting with deep drilling, which has been something of an experience. Based on what's come out of the three deep drilling sites I started excavating within the boundaries of my colony, I might be sitting on top of a giant uranium-powered reactor like the one in Total Recall...
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So I beat Diablo III, but instead of taking me back to the beginning of the game it's just taking me to the beginning of Act V?
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Recently I've revisited X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter. It brings back so much childhood memories
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Recently I've revisited X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter. It brings back so much childhood memories
What joystick are you using? I got a USB joystick just for this purpose and it didn't work with Windows 7.
I found the Ghostbusters 360 game - the one that came out a few years ago written by Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis - at a flea market for a buck. HILARIOUS. Absolutely worth more than the money I paid, not that I'm going to go back and give him more.
RAY: Oh no, Slimer's escaped again!
VENKMAN: (deadpan) No, wait, come back.
JANINE Hello, Ghostbusters. Mmm, mm-hmm. No, we do not advise that you attempt to perform a Peruvian
type-5 exorcism on yourself! Mm-hmm. But listen, listen, once you've tied yourself to the chair, it's very difficult to do that to the cat even if you could catch it.
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I finally found the elusive SNES Classic and have been playing Secret of Mana. So much better than the iPhone version.
Also: dem controllers. It’s nice to have the real thing in hand again.
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What joystick are you using? I got a USB joystick just for this purpose and it didn't work with Windows 7.
I'm using a Thrustmaster TFlight Hotas X
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I'm using a Thrustmaster TFlight Hotas X
I bought new computer last week. I was offered that 'stick. I told them it is too big and got Thrustmaster T-16000M FCS instead. Haven't played with it yet: I'm having too much fun with Vive and its motion controllers. Yesterday I got everything work right (SteamVR applications used to crash on a stupid bug) and today I played Dreadhalls. Creepy! Gonna try the joystick with Battlezone (VR one), but I need a table, one that can be folded and put inside the closet and out of the way for room scale gaming.
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on and off for few years flyff and just got my paws on void destroyer and its sequel void destroyer 2 both are space sim/space shooters
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I've just started playing Steel Strider. It's a pretty challenging but fun sidescrolling run-and-gun PC Mech game that plays like Contra (or Probotector in European PAL format) and Turrican.
Info on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/404100/STEEL_STRIDER/
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Started playing "Dex" last night. Haven't gotten very far, but it does seem to be a nice Cyperpunk RPG. One interesting thing about it is that it is a sidescroller. Combat and cyberspace does seem pretty stacked against you though...
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Got all three Witcher games on Steam sale and TOAW IV as it came out, so I'm splitting my time between the two.
Of all things to find here, a fellow TOAW grognard! Admittedly, I haven't bought IV yet. Am still GMing a grand strategy game using III.
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Well, I have been at it since '99, really couldn't bypass it. Just like you can't bypass the supply points under new supply rules.
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Yesterday I got Heroes of Might and Magic series for 10 € from Good Old Games. Firing up HOMM2.
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found old disk of freelancer...soon as i install it ill get my claws on crossfire mod and will nit be seen till after x mas
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Well, I have been at it since '99, really couldn't bypass it. Just like you can't bypass the supply points under new supply rules.
Ah, yes, the overextended rules. My days of sending small non-Special Forces units on long trips behind enemy lines are probably at an end...
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Yesterday I got Heroes of Might and Magic series for 10 € from Good Old Games. Firing up HOMM2.
Not 3??!?!?!?!ZOMG?
Definitely a good game though. I think I have enjoyed every game in the series. 3 is my favorite and 5 is close behind in part for its aesthetics.
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I'm playing GTA V.
I've got to say, Trevor is about the most unpleasant and unlikable video game protagonist I've ever seen. Franklin and Michael are both likable enough, but if there were some way to just walk Trevor into a meat grinder or something at the beginning of the game, it'd be so much nicer.
I also wish the combat controls were a bit tighter: I keep moving or aiming in the wrong direction from where I'm moving the stick and the dodge button doesn't consistently work.
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Not 3??!?!?!?!ZOMG?
I have played it before. And Clint recommends 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIhOMrSUg0)
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Since MegaMek is doing funny stuff in my new laptop I bought and started to play Elite: Dangerous last night (no expansions) to see if I like it (since I was a big fan of the original back in the 80´s and the follow ups).
Im totally lost. I played Eve Online for 7 years but got tired (and upset with all those changes in last couple of years) and to me seems the only thing in common is... space... and ships... nothing else. Going to spend the evening googling/reading stuff on the net however if anyone here plays and got some good advice... Ill listen ^-^
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I have played it before. And Clint recommends 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIhOMrSUg0)
Like I said, it is very good. A maturation of the first game's new formula.
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Dishonored 2 and World of Guns: Gun Disassembly.
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Stellaris should be considered an addictive item...shesh...4 hours went "puff" playing that.
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I'm playing Super Mario Odyssey that I got for X-mas. A lot of fun
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GTA V. This would have been awesome if it were not for all the buttons you have to know. Egads, why couldnt they have made it simple like in the previous GTA games? >:(
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GTA V. This would have been awesome if it were not for all the buttons you have to know. Egads, why couldnt they have made it simple like in the previous GTA games? >:(
And the fact that there's no in-game instruction book for you to look things up. You can see tips that have popped up in your playsession but not something that showed up two sessions ago.
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Yesterday I fired up Crysis on my new desktop to see if it can run it and how well. Today I did it again with Fraps. 1920x1080, all graphics settings maxed out, and Fraps shows around 100 frames per second, sometimes more, sometimes less. Despite some downloads and Discord going on the background. I thought the new game rig would have got it closer to monitor's 144 herz refresh rate, but I guess I would need second graphic adapter (or more) for that.
Core i7-7700
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
16 GB of RAM
SSD
Win10 Home
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So I'm stuck on GTA V.
I've got the FIB mission to raid the Agency chemical plant, but the mission refuses to start. Every time I go to the location, regardless of what character I'm using, I get a message saying "Mission has been disrupted, come back later."
This has been going on for almost a week out of game. It's not giving me any hints as to what I need to do to get the mission to start, which is by this point extremely frustrating.
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So I'm stuck on GTA V.
I've got the FIB mission to raid the Agency chemical plant, but the mission refuses to start. Every time I go to the location, regardless of what character I'm using, I get a message saying "Mission has been disrupted, come back later."
This has been going on for almost a week out of game. It's not giving me any hints as to what I need to do to get the mission to start, which is by this point extremely frustrating.
Did you report the glitch in the RS forums?
I died ten times trying to figure out how to swim before I had to google it. ::)
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No, but I got a tip on how to get around it. You have to use a taxi to fast-travel to the mission site.
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I'm back to Binding of Isaac, trying to finish up the last few (~40 of about 340) unlocks in Afterbirth+. It's a slog.
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So I decided to wade my way through the Borderlands Pre-Sequel again after hearing that on the True Vault Hunter mode for Athena, Tiny Tina interjects herself into the commentary. "Tell it again!" "What, right away?" "Yeah, but this time make it sound harder, and give all the enemies different names!"
And it's not like the Pre-Sequel is BAD, it just... isn't great. There are great MOMENTS, like when you find out you're putting together the Constructors that so plagued you in Borderlands 2, but it just isn't as good as BL2.
However, the main problem is that now that I've hit TVHM, I can't play the game unless my wife is there because she might miss a Tiny Tina comment. And that would result in great pain for me.
So after watching my brother-in-law fumble around in Dark Souls 1 (before starting he said, "I'm the best at this game, I'm awesome," which made me check him for a peroxied comb-over :D) I decided to start playing the game again. He got kind of mad that I made it look easy, even though I don't like it. The only reason it's hard at all is because the game hides important information from you (poise? Weapon scaling?) and doesn't stop you from going to areas where you can get killed right away. Following a guide makes it feel much more like any other game.
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I regard the pre-sequel as adequate and still a fun romp with the formula. Not brilliant, but serviceable. And it is fun to float on the moon, do butt slams, and hear some Aussie slang I wasn't familiar with (and have no idea whether any of it is current).
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Finally picked up The Witcher III GotY compilation during the steam winter sale. Can't praise it enough. Brilliant RPG. Quite possibly my favorite. Although, I did have to install a mod. Don't want to go into the 'why' here though... Between this, and TitanFall 2 PvE... my Christmas/New Years break was highly satisfying. Although, my desktop full of unfinished minis won't stop looking at me in that way...
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Finally picked up The Witcher III GotY compilation during the steam winter sale. Can't praise it enough. Brilliant RPG. Quite possibly my favorite. Although, I did have to install a mod. Don't want to go into the 'why' here though... Between this, and TitanFall 2 PvE... my Christmas/New Years break was highly satisfying. Although, my desktop full of unfinished minis won't stop looking at me in that way...
Isn't it amazing? I was shocked when it came out that it could do big like Bethesda but with really good stories.
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Isn't it amazing?
Don't get me wrong, Witcher II was good. But this-- this is something else entirely. So polished. Combat is very much akin to Dark Souls 3. Which, took me by surprise. I remember combat in II to be cumbersome/clunky. It also scratches my pen 'n paper itch in so many ways! One that is savored in the moment-to moment interactions. Mostly, the superbly detailed and interesting side-quests. Mmmmmmmm...
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The only Witcher I've played was a bit of the first, and that was so bad it utterly ruined any interest in the sequels. No, don't try to sell them to me; the damage has already been done.
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I regard the pre-sequel as adequate and still a fun romp with the formula. Not brilliant, but serviceable. And it is fun to float on the moon, do butt slams, and hear some Aussie slang I wasn't familiar with (and have no idea whether any of it is current).
Are you talking about a game?
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Are you talking about a game?
Responding to iamfanboy re: Borderlands.
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Encouraged by this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrfX0yze5E) I have started to play Darkest Dungeon again. I restarted from the tutorial and by now I have played longer than before. But where can I get firewood to make a camp?
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Just finished Nier Automata: awesome sound track and visuals. Interesting story as well.
Challenger
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I regard the pre-sequel as adequate and still a fun romp with the formula. Not brilliant, but serviceable. And it is fun to float on the moon, do butt slams, and hear some Aussie slang I wasn't familiar with (and have no idea whether any of it is current).
Who knows, with Aussies? I half-suspect that one of 'em will make up a word and every other Aussie will go along with it because it's a funny joke to play on foreigners.
Though Tiny Tina's comments thus far are well worth it, at least if you like Tiny Tina. :D
Though playing Athena is... well, pretty easy. I'm like 5 levels under what the enemies are and still tearing through them.
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Who knows, with Aussies? I half-suspect that one of 'em will make up a word and every other Aussie will go along with it because it's a funny joke to play on foreigners.
Though Tiny Tina's comments thus far are well worth it, at least if you like Tiny Tina. :D
Though playing Athena is... well, pretty easy. I'm like 5 levels under what the enemies are and still tearing through them.
Now you make me want to go put in some quality Aspis time.
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Video games are starting to make me feel really tired and sad, kind of like most movies these days. So much of the old fun is gone, now that I know how terrible the industry behind them is.
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Video games are starting to make me feel really tired and sad, kind of like most movies these days. So much of the old fun is gone, now that I know how terrible the industry behind them is.
"Everyone likes sausage, but no one wants to know how it's made."
Every industry sucks, once you know what's involved. I mean, I work in preschool, and when I was in the infant section changing my eighth dirty diaper in as many minutes was, quite honestly, terrible. Somehow each of them stank differently than the previous one, and getting peed on isn't as funny as you might think.
But we all exchange precious moments of our lifespan for the money we need to keep that lifespan going, and I would rather look at it differently: What these people have (sometimes) destroyed themselves for is meant to be enjoyed, shared, and loved.
...Sometimes.
Now you make me want to go put in some quality Aspis time.
It doesn't hurt that I found a legendary mod in a shop machine that gives +3 to all the best skills - the regen with the Aspis out, extended Aspis time, more life, more gun damage, bigger clip/faster reload, and shield regen if you've got electrocute up - so when I start getting in trouble, I pull out the shield and protect myself while I heal. Got REAL lucky with that.
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What these people have (sometimes) destroyed themselves for...
That is not what I meant at all. Not even close. I'm talking about bad business practices, the hunger for profit above all else. I'm sick of giving them money for broken, unfinished messes and being expected to be grateful for them. A buddy of mine got Skyrim for the Switch, and he was still hitting game progression bugs that have been in the game's code since the initial PC release! Bethesda put in the money to port the game to its dozenth platform, but not a cent towards fixing bugs that the community figured out years ago. Wolfenstein 2 - a game which I mostly enjoyed - had a "vault" on the main menu counting down...and when it hit zero, it turns out it was just the opportunity to buy some damn DLC. And don't get me started on loot boxes and microtransactions. Remember when we mocked "horse armor" and "pay to win" mechanics? Remember when Dead Space 3 was panned for taking a horror franchise and turning it into a bland shooter overtop a microtransaction delivery system? Well, that's every "AAA" game now. You're not buying an experience anymore, you're paying $60+ for a digital store.
And that's what the big publishers want. They don't want anything to stand out artistically, they don't want to deliver an immersive alternate world and story, they just want to hoover cash out of your wallet. They want to trap you in a Skinner box and have you tap-tap-tap away at that "buy game gold" button just to satisfy the collector's urge they've instilled in you. They've turned their games into boring grindfests just so that you're more "incentivized" to pay a couple bucks to skip ahead.
And I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being treated like a wallet with hands. I'm sick of them playing mindgames with me, I'm sick of their social engineering to make all this seem acceptable, and I'm sick of paying $60 for games that don't work yet try to sell me more.
So yeah, I may fire up one of the games I've already bought, but I am not buying anything more from those greedy bastards. I'm not buying another console or high-end video card. I'm voting with my wallet, and if they never change, well, I don't care, because I'll be doing something else.
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This is OT and begging for arguments and retorts. Kindly take it to another thread and discuss much more calmly please.
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The cool thing about Borderlands the Pre-sequel is you get to play as Handsome Jack- who is the best character evar. If they ever put out an add-on for Borderlands 2 with HJ as a playable character, I would gladly pay for it. The Telltale version is excellent too. 8)
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The cool thing about Borderlands the Pre-sequel is you get to play as Handsome Jack- who is the best character evar. If they ever put out an add-on for Borderlands 2 with HJ as a playable character, I would gladly pay for it. The Telltale version is excellent too. 8)
No, best character in Borderlands is Tiny Tina.
Second is Mister Torgue High Five Flexington.
THIRD is Handsome Jack.
And best playable character is still Gaige. Though HJ is up there, as is Claptrap.
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Currently juggling playing Elex, Resident Evil VII, and the glorious insanity of EDF 4.1.
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I got Deus Ex: Mankind Divided since it was free on Playstation Plus.
Played it for about 20 minutes before I got bored.
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No, best character in Borderlands is Tiny Tina.
Second is Mister Torgue High Five Flexington.
THIRD is Handsome Jack.
And best playable character is still Gaige. Though HJ is up there, as is Claptrap.
Get out of my mind!
Also:
- Playing the DQ Builder demo on the Switch. Minecraft meets blue slimes for great justice.
- Trying to finish the Zelda Master Sword trials. The mistakes I make on later levels like 10 and 11 make this pretty hard.
- Happy to see World Ends With You coming to Switch as well as a DK Country port from the Wii U.
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the glorious insanity of EDF 4.1.
Is that an acronym of something?
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Is that an acronym of something?
Most likely Earth Defense Force.
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Get out of my mind!
Also:
- Playing the DQ Builder demo on the Switch. Minecraft meets blue slimes for great justice.
- Trying to finish the Zelda Master Sword trials. The mistakes I make on later levels like 10 and 11 make this pretty hard.
- Happy to see World Ends With You coming to Switch as well as a DK Country port from the Wii U.
Am I really the only person in the world that didn't have a problem with the Master Trials? Admittedly I used Ancient Arrows on the Lynels in the third Trial, rather than deal with that nonsense...
And the thing is, I'm TERRIBLE at beam deflection, so I didn't try.
I mean, yes. It was hard. Probably the hardest thing in Zelda I've seen. But patience and husbanding your resources like a veteran Resident Evil player will see you through.
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Is that an acronym of something?
Most likely Earth Defense Force.
Yep. Earth Defense Force.
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After watching documentary series The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux on YouTube by Kim Justice, I got this itch to try out some of the man's games. In comments is said this:
Black and White would be INSANELY AWESOME on Android tablet and Ipad! U know when u pet him and slap him etc!
I don't need iPad nor anything with Android on it, because I already have a Windows 8 tablet. And since the game seems to be still available, the significant questions are: is the game Win8 compatible and can I make a disc image out of it and use that on the tablet?
Gotta ask it, because attempt to run Crysis from disc image (on proper desktop) crashed to SecuROM >:(
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Documentary in question includes videos about Mr. Molyneux and he drops F-bombs. Along with the comments of viewers. So look it up by yourself if you care.
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After watching documentary series The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux on YouTube by Kim Justice, I got this itch to try out some of the man's games. In comments is said this:I don't need iPad nor anything with Android on it, because I already have a Windows 8 tablet. And since the game seems to be still available, the significant questions are: is the game Win8 compatible and can I make a disc image out of it and use that on the tablet?
Gotta ask it, because attempt to run Crysis from disc image (on proper desktop) crashed to SecuROM >:(
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Documentary in question includes videos about Mr. Molyneux and he drops F-bombs. Along with the comments of viewers. So look it up by yourself if you care.
if you are going to play black and white its fun but playing as good guy is tougher than evil...leashes are good tools to teach your creature use them. from original 3 creatures you get to choose smartest one is the ape...you can download if you can find them 8 more creatures. something fun to listen for while playing...creepy whispers...and if you used your name hehehehe not going to spoil it if you dont know it. also since you already have win tablet make sure you run deamon tools lite options have to run the secure rom protection in it already. enjoy it.
i did not care for the sequel but you as i recall could import your creature into it.
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Save yourself the trouble. First off, anything by Molyneux tends to have whatever was the strongest DRM at the time. Second, don't believe YouTube comments; there is no tactile response to the creature love/abuse, it's just a click with the mouse with a bit of an animation. Third, Black & White sucks. I know it's a cherished memory from some peoples' childhoods, but it definitely does not hold up. You think you're getting a cool critter trainer, but really what you do in B&W is scroll, click, and wait. And wait. And wait. Last time I played, I realized I was paying more attention to the YouTube videos I had running as background noise, so I shut B&W down and just watched the videos instead.
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Molyneux is probably the most overhyped game maker in history.
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Playing Grey Goo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25yaqYz3hzs) right now, having fun on the last Goo mission (aka keep getting killed).
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Still having issues with the Zelda DLC so I switched to Tiny Metal, a very good Advance Wars clone with middling unit callouts and dialogue and I Am Setsuna. Trying to complete Setsuna before the follow-up Lost Sphere gets released later this month. The game grew on me and though it has some hackneyed plot beats it's still engrossing. The mechanical riffs on Chrono Trigger are pretty decent. I'd say they stuff too many mechanics options in for the strategy to be meaningful. It reminds me of Disgaea's kitchen sink strategy to character options and growth.
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darn it after matti was talking about black and whit i rummaged in my stash of old pc games...found it and creature isle addon...
to find that both disks were cracked after the move! ohhh how the non existent gods mock me!
ok casulty list grows
my original gta 2
mechwarrior 2 3 4 and mercinaries along with black knight
kotor 1 and 2
x wing
mechcommander 1 and 2
battlechess
ultrabots
ascendency
omicron
stalker
civ2 and all its expansions
civ 3 argh my 4th! curses!
my old original power hits for mechwarrior games floppies are gone!only box remains
sim city 4
call to power
sid mayers raillroads
railroad tycoon 2 and 3
elder scrolls 2 3 4
terminus
trainz 2004 and 2006
damn it all i had some of these for almost 20 years....
>:( i swear this had not been a good evening for me
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damn it all i had some of these for almost 20 years....
>:( i swear this had not been a good evening for me
Yeah, I've lost MW4:Mercs and F-14 Fleet Defender. Maybe some others. And one disk (for magnetic media, disc for optical) in Sid Meier's Civ had some damage, but game itself worked when I tried. (Almost) All other games are backed up on external hard disk drive (Sid's Civ too) and SecuROM is a bitch.
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Is it the way you’re storing the discs? I don’t say that to be mean, but just observing that’s a lot of lost titles. I have a cd binder full of old discs and keep the boxes separate, all in a plastic tub.
I changed from cardboard boxes after my garage flooded. Now it’s all plastic tubs off the floor on pallets.
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CD-ROMs break down over time anyway. Even properly stored discs from the 90s might have simply worn out by now.
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i recently moved so they were damaged in the move.
at east some of the stuff i had did not go boom...
original magic the gathering plains walker is still intact...
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My car is undergoing repairs so I'm stuck at my brother's place and I'm looking forward to spending another cold night in a poorly heated room. I'll pass this evening by downloading Duke Nukem Forever and giving it a try with this badass VR capable PC (Core i7-7700, GeForce 1080 Ti, 16 GB of RAM). Don't worry, I bought the game for reduced price.
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You paid real money for it?
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Oh yeah, those loading screens are going to look fantastic in VR.
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Oh yeah, those loading screens are going to look fantastic in VR.
Based on what I have read about playing games without VR support, there's no point to it. And I didn't. But what I played of it, I liked it. And will play more.
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Based on what I have read about playing games without VR support, there's no point to it. And I didn't. But what I played of it, I liked it. And will play more.
I had some time with a Vive while traveling over Christmas and concluded a few things:
- People used to FPS games adapt more easily.
- I really don't think FPS games are a good fit for VR unless you allow actual walking (maybe via that slip-step setup I saw a college team promoting and that got pooh-poohed on Shark Tank).
- Teleporting is really frustrating as a solution to movement.
- The best killer app right now is Google Earth because it already works through teleportation and is instantly attractive to gamers and non-gamers alike. I spent nearly a half-hour showing a friend looking at the monitor sights around downtown LA.
- Field of view and peripheral vision will be very important developments going forward. Right now the sensation for me is of looking out at a new world through diving goggles. It's an inherently inhibiting experience.
- Resolution needs to double. The new Vive goes up 75%, so I'd be interested in seeing the result. Right now the experience is still that of a dim world seen through a screen door. About as dim as 3D vs 2D movies. Cutting the VR cable is also a bit deal, but I wonder if the wireless connection can get enough throughput at much higher pixel resolution.
- The best experiences are most likely standing or sitting. That means games with particular quirks like Superhot and Audio Shield or what I'll call "cockpit" games. That means dedicated simulators like Forza, Elite Dangerous, or MS Flight Sim/X-Plane.
Honestly that last part is most attractive to me. Using games to teach particular flight skills saves training time and I'm already mentally making lesson plans (I'm a flight instructor) that relate to VR. Half the confidence in building instrument flying skills involves knowing intuitively where all the controls are for a checklist and keeping the airplane reasonably level while you're pushing knobs and buttons and changing digital flight plans. It's about getting enough of that workload into muscle memory so that you can "think ahead of the airplane".
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I had some time with a Vive while traveling over Christmas and concluded a few things:
- People used to FPS games adapt more easily.
...maybe?
- I really don't think FPS games are a good fit for VR unless you allow actual walking
Space Pirate Trainer and Superhot VR work for me. I got nausea from playing Dreadhalls, and good deal of creeps. Men around 50 years of age with military service behind them tell they were scared.
- Teleporting is really frustrating as a solution to movement.
Works just fine for me with New Retro Arcade: Neon. Less nausea compared to seamless FPS style of movement.
- The best killer app right now is Google Earth because it already works through teleportation and is instantly attractive to gamers and non-gamers alike. I spent nearly a half-hour showing a friend looking at the monitor sights around downtown LA.
Sounds cool. I gotta try that when table isn't in the way (camping table which can be disassembled and put inside the closet, but I don't want to do it every day)
- Field of view and peripheral vision will be very important developments going forward. Right now the sensation for me is of looking out at a new world through diving goggles. It's an inherently inhibiting experience.
I have to agree on that one. Picture is sharp at the center, but gets unfocused away from it. It's like my eyes are too far away from the screen. My eyes might be deeper in the head than with most other people, so that's a factor.
- Resolution needs to double. The new Vive goes up 75%, so I'd be interested in seeing the result. Right now the experience is still that of a dim world seen through a screen door. About as dim as 3D vs 2D movies. Cutting the VR cable is also a bit deal, but I wonder if the wireless connection can get enough throughput at much higher pixel resolution.
Look up TPCast for last year's Vive. New Vive Pro (still upcoming?) will have official wireless adapter from HTC.
- The best experiences are most likely standing or sitting. That means games with particular quirks like Superhot and Audio Shield or what I'll call "cockpit" games. That means dedicated simulators like Forza, Elite Dangerous, or MS Flight Sim/X-Plane.
I have Battlezone. It's cool, but... I'm a wargamer. I want turn-based war games like BattleTech and MegaMek. Some RTS games could work too. If only Peter Molyneux would get his act together and make VR versions of Dungeon Keeper and Black & White. In that case player could use his own hands without a mouse and that'd be great 8)
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Played Interstellaria, was a so-so experience.
Now playing Starbound and honestly it's silly fun, just the sort of time waster I need while waiting for the new Civ 6 expansion.
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Now I'm currently playing through Darksiders: Warmastered Edition.
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Just got past a tough Boss in I am Setsuna before the sort-of sequel Lost Sphear comes out. I’m being increasingly drawn into the plot.
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So I broke the Borderlands Pre-Sequel final quest in the next-to-last portion, and I'm done with it.
Not sure how - maybe it's because I got knocked aside at an odd angle and landed on a platform on the bottom floor of Tycho's Ribs- but the next portion of the quest isn't popping up (Destroy the shield), even though I CAN destroy the shield and walk through to the final area, the area warp doesn't rigger, the final boss zone doesn't spawn, and none of the dialogue triggers... WHICH IS WHAT I REALLY WANTED.
I'm stumped. I've tried walking back in through the actual entrance (required beating a very annoying boss). I've tried going to lower difficulty modes and then heading back to the expected difficulty. No go. Heck, I can even finish other quests that take place IN the final area, but the trigger doesn't trig.
THIS IS WHY I HATE GAMES THAT DON'T HAVE MULTIPLE SAVE FILES. If something goes wrong, seriously wrong, then you have no recourse but to just kind of shrug and give up. And in a game that took me 40+ HOURS to reach this point?
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I had something like that happen in Borderlands 2, where the door to Angel's arena wouldn't open. It's rare, but very frustrating.
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guild of dungeeniring fun little game make your own dungeon and monsters along with some treasure tossed in...the soundtrack and narrator are bit on tongue in cheek humor
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I've been flaying FTL for the first time in a few years, and finally managed to to complete a run
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I started playing Civ V for the first time this morning.
I've just won a culture victory, it's 12 hours later, and I'm going to bed now...
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I started playing Civ V for the first time this morning.
I've just won a culture victory, it's 12 hours later, and I'm going to bed now...
6th iterration is more evil...culture victory is the second hardest to religious victory to get.
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Galactic Civilizations 3 is my current annoyance. Thinking of loading up Baldurs Gate II and play it soonish. Want a good RPG to play.
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided. Somewhat annoyed that they switched it to first person- I preferred the third person view in Human Revolution, but I'll stick with if for a week or so.
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided. Somewhat annoyed that they switched it to first person- I preferred the third person view in Human Revolution, but I'll stick with if for a week or so.
Really great little RPG. Starts out a bit rough, but-- I enjoyed it so much that I've played through two times now (which is exceedingly rare for me). I keep meaning to try out the 'A Criminal Past' DLC as it received a lot of praise. However, Titanfall 2 and Witcher III have been taking up all my precious little gaming time recently.
My friends all play Vermintide together, and have been trying to get me into it. I've played all of one session with them, and it was quite fun. Although, I was so low in skill-- I felt like I was holding the group back (which I'm sure was in fact the case). Thinking about ordering Vermintide II so I'm not a boat-anchor. Looks like a nicely polished upgrade to teh original. And, who doesn't love smashing some Chaos face?
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I made a visit to a video game store in the nearest town (over 40 km from here). To my surprise they are stacking 8 bit game console cartridges! They have Game Gear too!! Castlevania is priced 59 €!!? I reeally wanted to buy it, but I'm not sure would I play it...
For now I'll play Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword with Caveman 2 Cosmos mod. One more turn...
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I made a visit to a video game store in the nearest town (over 40 km from here). To my surprise they are stacking 8 bit game console cartridges! They have Game Gear too!! Castlevania is priced 59 €!!? I reeally wanted to buy it, but I'm not sure would I play it...
For now I'll play Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword with Caveman 2 Cosmos mod. One more turn...
It's because the only people who buy the actual cartridges these days are the collectors, the people trying to recapture some weird sense of nostalgia, and a famously "NES Hard" game like Castlevania 1 has to be a massively popular choice.
Anyone who just wants to play the game has emulators or other resources.
Galactic Civilizations 3 is my current annoyance. Thinking of loading up Baldurs Gate II and play it soonish. Want a good RPG to play.
So, I may get lynched for this, but...
Am I the only person that has no fondness for Baldur's Gate?
I didn't like the original and stopped playing within 3ish hours, maybe 4. I tried playing the remake they did recently, and ALSO stopped - it reminded me how much I hate AD&D2e without any of the quirk and charm of Planescape Torment's setting.
So I started the remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden, AKA Shadows of Valencia, on 3DS. It's pretty good, but it does have a beginner's trap of early game, offering an "Equal class change" to four of your starting characters, with the same options (Cavalier/Merc/Mage/Cleric)... but doesn't tell you that two characters get EXCLUSIVE spells as Mage and Cleric, respectively, and the other two suck at those jobs. I guess that is in the tradition of early NES and especially Fire Emblem games, but I am still vexed about it.
One neat feature is that they have a rewind: a timeturner device that lets you flip battles backward. Pretty handy if you've just let one of your most valuable units accidentally stray forward, or a lucky crit just offed your only healer... which happens a fair bit in Fire Emblem, and it means you're not constantly resetting the game. I'm sure next time I play Awakening I'm going to miss this feature a LOT. It has a set number of uses though.
So far the story is pretty generic, but it IS an NES game from the late 1980s. (bringing it back to Matti's post!)
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On the flip side, if you do manage to collect up some old cartridges, you should go ahead and play them. Unlike most media, their lifespans are not affected by use. Do keep in mind that part of the reason prices are going up on old systems and games is that they are reaching the end of their lifespans, so despite untold millions of (for example) NES consoles and cartridges having been manufactured, chip failure is becoming a concern and limiting their availability.
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So, I may get lynched for this, but...
Am I the only person that has no fondness for Baldur's Gate?
I didn't like the original and stopped playing within 3ish hours, maybe 4. I tried playing the remake they did recently, and ALSO stopped - it reminded me how much I hate AD&D2e without any of the quirk and charm of Planescape Torment's setting.
I'm actually replaying Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition right now, and while it's enjoyable in a "there's not much I need to do with my time right now" way, it really is a limited game. Vancian spellcasting and 2nd Edition D&D rules certainly do show a lot of limits in gameplay.
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ok final fantasy XI on reach server...
after some friends installed it on my laptop while i was sick...
some heads will roll later for touching my laptop....
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My gaming rig is busted and income is....not incoming, but at least it's given me time to go back to my console games and actually finish more of them than i used to have. bayonetta's proving tricky to get all-gold on, but it's also fun enough i don't want to stop trying.
So, I may get lynched for this, but...
Am I the only person that has no fondness for Baldur's Gate?
I didn't like the original and stopped playing within 3ish hours, maybe 4. I tried playing the remake they did recently, and ALSO stopped - it reminded me how much I hate AD&D2e without any of the quirk and charm of Planescape Torment's setting.
i don't hate it or anything but it sincerely lacks in any real meat for me. no style, not much substance and...eh. not a story i got behind. i played it, and then promptly forgot it.
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So, I may get lynched for this, but...
Am I the only person that has no fondness for Baldur's Gate?
No, you're not. I played it for a time and stopped soon after when I encountered bandit archers that one-shot-kill my characters from the edge of LOS. I tried the game again, but just no. It looks like the game requires intimate knowledge of AD&D2 rules. While I had sufficient interest to read through 2 editions of BattleTech rules in order to master MegaMek, I don't feel like it for D&D & derived video games.
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No, you're not. I played it for a time and stopped soon after when I encountered bandit archers that one-shot-kill my characters from the edge of LOS. I tried the game again, but just no. It looks like the game requires intimate knowledge of AD&D2 rules. While I had sufficient interest to read through 2 editions of BattleTech rules in order to master MegaMek, I don't feel like it for D&D & derived video games.
And you would not be wrong there at all. While it is (IMHO an AWESOME game), it is definitely geared towards people who are into D&D, as the spells, combat, monsters, etc all require a Tabletop knowledge.
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Especially THAC0.
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And consequently understanding why the better types of armor make your AC lower.
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has any one played railway empire yet?
i still mess around with trainz 2006 and 2012...
is it similar or just another sim city type clone with transport tycoon tossed in?
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I fired up Empire: Total War. Playing as Austria. I successfully sent a large expedition to capture Morocco, and I plan to use it as a springboard for campaign in the Americas. I traded Silesia to Prussia, and now they are happy with me and fighting with Poland-Lithuania over it, so its keeping those two out of my hair.
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I been trying to play "The Witness". It's a PC puzzle game. It's interesting, but also incredibly frustrating as (and I make no claims of being really good at puzzles) I just can't seem to figure out the logic behind many of them. I've had to break out a guide or two to figure out a few and even with the solutions I still can't figure out the logic governing them. :/
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I started playing Civ V for the first time this morning.
I've just won a culture victory, it's 12 hours later, and I'm going to bed now...
12 hours, so a short match? ;D
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Besides TOAW IV And FTL I'm also playing Warfare, generally fun RTS with way too much Russian gear for Saudi Arabia.
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So I’ve been digging back into Steamworld Dig on the Switch and a play-through of Super Mario World on the SNES Classic (it’s a shorter game than I remember).
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SNES Classic
I have it. I was going to hand it over to my sister & her family in Christmas. But I mentioned about it to my father, and he told me I should tell about it to my sister beforehand and NOT give it as a surprise. After short arguing, I gave her a call, and can you guess what she said? That she don't want to her kids start playing video games yet. Aargh! I had to look up and pick up alternative gifts. So the console is still unopened and been sitting inside the closet since December. Maybe on next Christmas...
I have thought about opening it and playing around, but I have plenty enough of games on my computers to keep me busy.
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I will say in its favor that unlike knockoff controllers that get close (iBuffalo, 80bitdo), the controllers here are the unmatched real thing. The light-ness, hand-feel, and button resistance is perfect. So playing FF-III (ne-VI), the Sabin control inputs are very familiar.
The controllers, like the NES Classic, use Wii adapters and I'm looking into creating a small Wii to USB adapter for the PC. The control signals are I2C which is pretty common. I could do it with several different chips if I designed my own circuit board.
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Psychonauts became available as a downloadable game for the PS4. I am happy.
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I've made some progress in Metroid: Samus Returns on 3ds in the past few days
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I've reinstalled Borderlands and Minecraft. I am killing time with extreme prejudice.
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Early Access for Armored Warfare on PS4 just live. I'm still downloading, but it looks pretty fun.
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I've reinstalled Borderlands and Minecraft. I am killing time with extreme prejudice.
Instead of Minecraft where you do everything yourself, try Factorio:
Trailer 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8)
Trailer 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI)
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Early Access for Armored Warfare on PS4 just live. I'm still downloading, but it looks pretty fun.
Okay, played it for a few hours.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's got a robust PVE system, and matches are based on five man squads. Since it's in early access, the PVP isn't really worth talking about yet. The upgrade system is good.
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Finished a replay of Mass Effect 2 a few weeks ago, and imported it to ME3.
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Instead of Minecraft where you do everything yourself, try Factorio:
Trailer 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8)
Trailer 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI)
Looks like kind of a puzzle game, where the "puzzle" has only one ultimate solution but requires a lot of steps. Not really my bag.
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Looks like kind of a puzzle game, where the "puzzle" has only one ultimate solution but requires a lot of steps. Not really my bag.
I haven't played it, but I would guess that it's more like problem solving through design. Very appealing to programmers and computer scientists looking for creativity and optimization. I think games like Human Resources (from the guy that did World of Goo) and SpaceChem (from the guy that did Infiniminer, the predecessor to Minecraft) have similar DNA.
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I haven't played it, but I would guess that it's more like problem solving through design. Very appealing to programmers and computer scientists looking for creativity and optimization. I think games like Human Resources (from the guy that did World of Goo) and SpaceChem (from the guy that did Infiniminer, the predecessor to Minecraft) have similar DNA.
Ah, then definitely not my thing. I play Minecraft for the roleplaying aspects, not the "build neat systems" aspect. The entire point, for me, is to sit there and wear out pickaxes for hours on end looking for just a few more diamonds.
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Glad to help.
Might consider Dragon Quest Builders though. It's Minecraft-esque and focuses heavily on light-hearted questing and town building. Don't know if you have a Switch or PS4 (or Vita). I just got the Switch release and it's a fun take on the Minecraft model. Your description of what you get out of the game seems similar.
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I'm PC-only at the moment, but I am planning on getting a Switch later this year, so I'll check it out.
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Some games can be played either way. Sid Meier's Civilization series can be played through to victory without knowing all the details about how the games work. But on top difficulty levels, it is necessity to know and apply the most optimal ways to play the game and "gaming the system" to win.
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Picked up Fallout 4 via steam sale. I like it so far.
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Picked up Fallout 4 via steam sale. I like it so far.
look into moding it asap nexus mods has some fun ones...lets see for starters lightsaber is fun
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I've been playing Fire Emblem Heroes, a little freemium game about collecting and using the various FE characters from across all the games. It has some interesting aspects, but I'll probably get bored in another week or two.
However...
As I was browsing through the wiki, looking at some of the characters, I found one of the MANLIEST images I've EVER seen.
All the characters in the game get four pieces of art done by really popular (Japanese) artists: Portrait, Attacking, Critting, and Injured. The women don't end up too cheesecake, which is nice for a change, even if the Injured is always of 'clothing damage' trope and rarely interesting. But one of them, for an obscure villain from the Gamecube FE, is just...
Awesome.
(https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/thumb/d/de/Full_Injured_Oliver.png/340px-Full_Injured_Oliver.png?version=ad9edf0f60c362ab7c5098154341cb24)
It's like... WHAT DO YOU NAME IT?
"Behold, your Fatlord and Savior?"
"My body WAS ready!"
I just... maybe it's lack of sleep giving me the giggles over this. PLEASE tell me that it's at least somewhat amusing, even out of context?
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A bold strategy, if we attack him further we risk irreparable damage to our own will to live.
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A bold strategy, if we attack him further we risk irreparable damage to our own will to live.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/65os7odbIW6pa/giphy.gif)
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ok off beat but it is pc gamer related this makes a very interesting read and explains a lot of frustration over such thing as ....&^%^#@! i am dead i know i moved faster than that guy in fps and rts games.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latency-problem-why-modern-gaming-pcs-are-slower-than-an-apple-ii/
when i was still hanging out with some friends at rutgers about 6 years back we did similar test to prove that lag does exist when one of our buddies kept complaining about getting creamed in quake II...hey my friends are strange...we only had 3 machines and a laptop tho...sample was to small to make it statistically valid.
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ok off beat but it is pc gamer related this makes a very interesting read and explains a lot of frustration over such thing as ....&^%^#@! i am dead i know i moved faster than that guy in fps and rts games.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latency-problem-why-modern-gaming-pcs-are-slower-than-an-apple-ii/
They write about Apple IIe and they have a photo of Macintosh... At least they got the year right for Apple IIe.
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Given the original Trails of Cold Steel JRPG was basically a Japanese High-School masquerading as a military academy, starting up Trails of Cold Steel II which was ported to PC over the weekend, all I can really say is... wow, coming in from HA-HA-HIGHSCHOOL antics, things sure escalated by the time of the sequel.
It's a bog standard JRPG, but in a setting that currently feels like the Roaring Twenties meets the Succession Wars
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It's a bog standard JRPG, but in a setting that currently feels like the Roaring Twenties meets the Succession Wars
As I understand it, Trails of Cold Steel is sequel to Trails in the Sky and both series are from the same team. Specialty about those games (or at least Trails in the Sky) is said to be very detailed word and characters. That is, characters tell more about themselves than in most other RPGs and world has about as much detail and information as in BattleTech source book. I haven't got nor played any of the games though; I have hefty backlog of games and I'm getting more.
Right now I'm downloading Project Cars 2 (36,6 gigabytes!! :o). Don't have steering wheel for it, so I start with a Thrustmaster T.1600M. What, haven't you played driving games with a joystick before? As I wait for for the game to come through, I have played Sacred Gold, this time with Daemon.
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As I understand it, Trails of Cold Steel is sequel to Trails in the Sky and both series are from the same team. Specialty about those games (or at least Trails in the Sky) is said to be very detailed word and characters. That is, characters tell more about themselves than in most other RPGs and world has about as much detail and information as in BattleTech source book. I haven't got nor played any of the games though; I have hefty backlog of games and I'm getting more.
Right now I'm downloading Project Cars 2 (36,6 gigabytes!! :o). Don't have steering wheel for it, so I start with a Thrustmaster T.1600M. What, haven't you played driving games with a joystick before? As I wait for for the game to come through, I have played Sacred Gold, this time with Daemon.
Yup. I'm a huge Kiseki fan, despite my crummy Japanese. Playing it again in English is a huge bonus.
Honestly the world building in Falcom's "The Legend of Heroes" is second to none.
It's kind of tough right now since I want to squee like a fanboy about the series, but just about everything I can say is going to be a spoiler. Sen no Kiseki (Trails of Cold Steel) has taken a sideways jump into science-fantasy though, though... given we got 'Mecha as part of the bargain, I can't really complain.
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My brother was showing me a PC game he started playing via Steam, Fractured Space. Big ship combat, more angled to a shooter, but your driving the ship vs the ship being brought to area where you do the shooting. Certainly pretty, you can play it Multiplayer, teaming up.
It looks interesting, i'm not totally convinced my 2009 desktop can handle it, it's free. So has anyone played it? I dabbled with it little, but it was set little higher level for me to fight when i've played before. Though my brother said the single player is tougher than the Multiplayer.
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My brother was showing me a PC game he started playing via Steam, Fractured Space. Big ship combat, more angled to a shooter, but your driving the ship vs the ship being brought to area where you do the shooting. Certainly pretty, you can play it Multiplayer, teaming up.
It looks interesting, i'm not totally convinced my 2009 desktop can handle it, it's free. So has anyone played it? I dabbled with it little, but it was set little higher level for me to fight when i've played before. Though my brother said the single player is tougher than the Multiplayer.
Played it quite a bit, haven't played in a while tho.
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attack of the earthlings
funny game played from perspective of one being invaded...
you defend yourself from a corp that claims it never tests or harm living things when developing and creating new products...but they are heavely armed ;D
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wartile a figurine game with vikings pretty neat board game with rt elements figurines move when time for the turn is charged and yes you can dress and equip them
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Playing Mass Effect again. It's been a while since I played it last time, so I started from the beginning. If I could bother to play it through this time. Last time I got distracted by Civ4, Xenonauts, and Phantasy Star II.
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Playing Mass Effect again. It's been a while since I played it last time, so I started from the beginning. If I could bother to play it through this time. Last time I got distracted by Civ4, Xenonauts, and Phantasy Star II.
Heh. Been playing a lot of ME2 and 3 of late. I also finally got Civ5 this weekend.
I happily got nothing done.
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Just received a SNES Classic mini and I'm playing Starfox (SNES).
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Just received a SNES Classic mini and I'm playing Starfox (SNES).
They appear to finally (finally) be reasonably available on store shelves where I've checked. It looks like the supply is catching up.
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I have SNES Mini myself. I was going to hand it to my sister & her children last Christmas, but my father told me to tell her beforehand about it instead just handing it out as a surprise. Turned out sister don't want to allow her children to play video games just yet. Maybe on next Christmas...
But what am I going to do with the console in the meantime? It is still wrapped in plastic and all...
They appear to finally (finally) be reasonably available on store shelves where I've checked. It looks like the supply is catching up.
I wish same could be said about NES Classic Mini :(
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I wish same could be said about NES Classic Mini :(
They haven't restarted manufacturing again yet. I do expect to see them on the market again in coming months.
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I'm still on a SNES kick here. I can't escape it! Anyways, as for SNES games that I was playing, Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (finally beat the second dungeon and received the Zora Flippers, then I was also on a Kirby kick via SNES Mini with *checks the back of the box* Kirby Super Star, and finally, a good chunk of Super Metroid
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Such good games. Ones I wish they had put on it:
- Final Fantasy II (my first video game melodrama; poor Anna)
- Chrono Trigger (because Chrono Trigger!)
- Actraiser (the only game I can think of that ever made a narrative out of a god game plus a beautiful 2D platformer)
But they did have a really good lineup on there.
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This is one of my creations on Minecraft, the French Battleship Jean Bart. It's not as DETAILED as many ship sculptures out there, but she moves and works vs a building. Best I can do on the Navycraft plugin (https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/navycraft-lite.42297/reviews). Since size/scale is factor. The main guns are too big to turn as full turret, but they d fire. The side guns and rear guns turrets are fully operational, with armor and secondary guns. With plugin, TnT is fired terrible consequences what happens when it detonates. ;) Alot fun. I also added torpedoes tubes for sake of adding more firepower, hidden on her broadsides.
(https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1733/navalclash-jean-bart-maiden-voyage-july-30th-2017-launch-1503242546.jpg)
(https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1733/navalclash-jean-bart-rear-1503242669.jpg)
I can't recommend the server this ship is on, i can direct anyone to the spigot where you can try get to work. Also, i'd recommend downloading the texture pack that works with this, Here (https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/official-navalclash-resource-pack-2017-navycraft/).
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I bought Mega Drive Flashback HD and handed it over to anime club on last December. To my surprise, it don't see much of use. In last month's anime watching session I got only 1 or 2 to play Mortal Kombat 3 and Altered Beast. Since I didn't get anybody else to play with it, I got started with Phantasy Star. And do you know what? That game can be saved almost at any time! And to my understanding the game is Master System version running under emulation. 8 bit console game that can be saved and loaded at will like a PC game... Holy Frak!
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Uploaded Skyrim again (with a bunch of mods) since I was done with all the new games I wanted to play and ... it's still the best. It may be outdated in terms of graphics, but it's just sheer fun and never ends. 8)
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Uploaded Skyrim again (with a bunch of mods) since I was done with all the new games I wanted to play
"All the new games" you say? Can you share your opinion about Kindom Come: Deliverance?
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ok it seems that civ 6 had a bug that been missed and explain why Ai was not to good or as good as civ 5
https://www.pcgamer.com/typos-in-a-civilization-6-data-file-are-messing-with-the-ais-priorities/
all because of a typo this would explain a lot of negative reviews
btw it seems not to had been fixed either found it in my copy and corrected it and it seems game has new life in it.
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"All the new games" you say? Can you share your opinion about Kindom Come: Deliverance?
I said all the new games I wanted to play. That game doesnt interest me much, and based on the reviews it seems buggy.
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I said all the new games I wanted to play. That game doesnt interest me much, and based on the reviews it seems buggy.
Do you know of any recent game that isn't? ::)
I have read much of the same and seen it in gameplay videos. I have seen some BS said (thank goodness it's not in Finnish language) about that game too. I'll wait until the game (Kingdom Come: Deliverance) gets patched up and then buy it. Until then, I'm drooling over the videos made by Metatron (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8krF5n8V00) and Shad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhOMHdMVXM).
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*continuing to click F5 to see if it's Far Cry 5 day... over and over...* ;D
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Do you know of any recent game that isn't? ::)
I have read much of the same and seen it in gameplay videos. I have seen some BS said (thank goodness it's not in Finnish language) about that game too. I'll wait until the game (Kingdom Come: Deliverance) gets patched up and then buy it. Until then, I'm drooling over the videos made by Metatron (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8krF5n8V00) and Shad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhOMHdMVXM).
Whatever floats your boat, pal. I'll stick with the classics because theyre classics.
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Bravely Default.
I don't hate it. But it's just a Final Fantasy game based around the Job system. The mechanic (Default to defend and store up extra actions, Brave to take extra actions, which you either have to have saved up via Default or pay back in later rounds by doing nothing) is neat, however...
I'm not sure I see why so many people spoke so highly of the game. It's not BAD, it's worth playing, and I'm enjoying it, but it's also not the greatest 3DS game ever made or the second coming of the Final Fantasy series, as so many reviews claimed it to be.
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Bravely Default.
I don't hate it. But it's just a Final Fantasy game based around the Job system. The mechanic (Default to defend and store up extra actions, Brave to take extra actions, which you either have to have saved up via Default or pay back in later rounds by doing nothing) is neat, however...
I'm not sure I see why so many people spoke so highly of the game. It's not BAD, it's worth playing, and I'm enjoying it, but it's also not the greatest 3DS game ever made or the second coming of the Final Fantasy series, as so many reviews claimed it to be.
I think I'm with you. It's a perfectly fine JRPG with a nice mechanic. The chibi appearances are an acquired taste. But I agree that it's not the second coming by any stretch.
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Tropico V - every expansion... while I wait for Tropico VI :))
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Subnautica
Took a break from Skyrim since I pretty much finished all the main quests and I decided to try this one out for a few hours...
The next thing I knew it was morning already lol.
The underwater sequences are great, and being a certified diver its very realistic with some exceptions (fish dont bellow, and the pressure when you descend isnt covered). I havent dived in years but I'm starting to get the itch after playing this.
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Speaking of Tropico, I played a lot of Surviving Mars last week and this (same developer). I have to say, I see a flawed gem.
Pros:
- I get to be Mark Watney's mission project manager!
- Resource gathering and balance is addictive
- The thematic clothing of the game is very good. Some of the plaintive synth music playing as I tilt the camera to ground level looks just like a Chris Foss painting
- Environmental challenges are really very appropriate (dust storms, static storms, dust-devils, etc)
- The tech tree is unique in that there are five major subjects but you can research in any order you wish
- The balance between robotic support systems, human labor, and Earth support missions is very good and feels real
Con:
- I play on the couch with my Steam controller. The controller interface is currently usable, but has bugs including tooltips not showing up for the right building, having to tab over to another construction page to enable the selection, etc. It gets irritating. I may go back to the mouse interface and use a fan controller profile.
- Pathfinding is passable, but rovers and trucks regularly do not use tunnels which is stupid. If I turn my programmer brain on, I can think of multiple search methods to prioritize the efficiency of tunnels. No excuse for this.
- Resource sharing between pads (you lay down outside storage pads) is a hot mess. It's not bad through the mid-game but late-game resource management gets teeth gnashingly frustrating when you have to get electronics and metals 2/3 of the way across the map and the flying shuttle-craft just don't seem to "get it".
- Route management to help with resource management is pretty much absent. I can set up a temporary route to haul resources from location 1 to location 2 until location 1 runs out (then the vehicle just sits there). This is brain-dead and requires all the wrong kind of micromanagement.
- Domes exist as entirely separate entities. Until you have flying shuttles, colonists will not move between domes beyond a set distance. This makes specialization very very difficult. Which is silly because resources across the map are unevenly distributed. If you have to replicate 3/4 of services for every dome but not make resources available everywhere, then you'd better have good resource management tools (Narrator: They don't have good resource management tools).
On the whole I waver between really liking the game and really wanting to like the game. The flaws only really start to emerge mid-to-late game, unfortunately. So you're left with a very unsatisfying abusive relationship. Loving and wooing at first, but then acting like a senseless simpleton later.
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Picked up Far Cry 5 today, sadly haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, but, soon...soooooon.... :drool:
For that matter, I still need to finish Far Cry 4 sometime.
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I played a lot of Surviving Mars last week and this (same developer). I have to say, I see a flawed gem.
Thanks for sharing. Please do tell if problems ever get fixed and I just might buy the game then. Regarding theme of the game, this video is interesting to watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcVpMJp9Th4)
You can do it, Elon!
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Vermintide II - The original was... meh. Loving this one, though. Lots of nuance to combat. Looks amazing, too. Best Warhammer title since SpaceMarine. No doubt.
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Best Warhammer title since SpaceMarine.
:o
Have you tried Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon or Total War: Warhammer series?
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/589360/Ni_no_Kuni_II_Revenant_Kingdom/
Studio Ghibli art style in this game. I'm very interested in it.
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After reading the Far Cry 5 thread & asking a couple of questions, I finally installed Far Cry 3 last night to try & get a feel for the series.
I don't think I'm going to be a huge fan of the "open world" aspects, but I loved the psycho bad guy and the stealth/combat felt reasonable.
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still waiting for ys viii on pc...
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still waiting for ys viii on pc...
I fully expect to get Memories of Celceta before it.
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that would be painful
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If anyone has been wanting to play Crusader Kings 2 but hasn't gotten it, Steam has the base game for free right now...
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Just recently downloaded StarCraft II. So far, so good.
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that would be painful
NISA announced YS VIII should release on April 16th. They also got Adol's name wrong in the tweet.
I think this qualifies for a facepalm.
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ok this is new but i was expecting this to happen about 4 years back when the ransomware became more mainstream.
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-kind-of-ransomware-forces-you-to-play-pubg-to-unlock-your-files/
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ok this is new but i was expecting this to happen about 4 years back when the ransomware became more mainstream.
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-kind-of-ransomware-forces-you-to-play-pubg-to-unlock-your-files/
i mean, i know i was desperate to find players that sucked more than i did, but at least i never-
well okay, i'm mad i didn't think of this. ;D
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After not playing for 5 years, I decided to reload Planetside 2.
My battle rank got demoted back down to 1, but at least almost all of the stuff I certed into is still there. I tried to rejoin my old outfit, but they may be kaput.
Im on the Connery serve (US West coast) if anyone wants to know.
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Been playing The Legends of Pirates Online which is a POTCO remake.
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NISA announced YS VIII should release on April 16th. They also got Adol's name wrong in the tweet.
I think this qualifies for a facepalm.
I would be playing it right now but apparently NISA thought it would be cool to lock the internal resolution to 1800p so no matter what I set the resolution to I get 10-40 FPS in most situations. it's all but unplayable for me in its current state.
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After not playing for 5 years, I decided to reload Planetside 2.
My battle rank got demoted back down to 1, but at least almost all of the stuff I certed into is still there. I tried to rejoin my old outfit, but they may be kaput.
Im on the Connery serve (US West coast) if anyone wants to know.
I'm on that server too. I've been playing for all 3 factions.
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I would be playing it right now but apparently NISA thought it would be cool to lock the internal resolution to 1800p so no matter what I set the resolution to I get 10-40 FPS in most situations. it's all but unplayable for me in its current state.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302553069567213581/435492155042168852/x9Xzkxi.png)
It's a NISA game. Being unplayable is more of a design feature.
I bought it, scrabbled around for an hour and after it crashed twice, I had it refunded.
You should have seen the absolute blind screeching panic from the Legend of Heroes fanbase when the rumor that NISA was sniffing around Sen no Kiseki III surface.
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(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302553069567213581/435492155042168852/x9Xzkxi.png)
It's a NISA game. Being unplayable is more of a design feature.
According to Good Old Games, game is from Nihon Falcom, the same as Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel.
And what's with 1800p resolution?
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According to Good Old Games, game is from Nihon Falcom, the same as Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel.
And what's with 1800p resolution?
Probably a typo for 1080p.
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According to Good Old Games, game is from Nihon Falcom, the same as Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel.
And what's with 1800p resolution?
Yeah. Ys VIII was made by Nihon Falcom and the game was released to critical acclaim in Japan.
This absolutely shoddy localization port was done by NIS America however. Apparently, they outbid XSEED Games, the company which had previously worked on practically all the previous Falcom English releases, with the promise of a simultaneous PC port.
Said port was seven months late and the original localization was enough of a fiasco that NISA was forced by pressure to go back and redo the translation which felt machine translated in places. There's a reason the game is referred to in several circles as "Ys: Dana's Big Hole (https://i.imgur.com/Djp4P7F.jpg)"
If it isn't apparent, I'm somewhat upset over NISA's generally shoddy localization of Japanese games. Not happy with Nihon Falcom over their decision to allow a new localization company to jump in and take a swing at the series midway either.
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So I first posted about Fire Emblem: Heroes what, almost three months ago? February?
And I'm still playing it.
If you give no damns about Fire Emblem (and honestly it's a great game series with a lot of challenge to it, so if you've never played one give it a try) then skip the rest of this post, because I wanted to gush about how FEH is quite possibly one of the best free games I've ever played, because it combines
1) Extremely generous free-to-play segment - like, 5 new heroes costs you 20 points, you get 300 points JUST from the story mode, and can get 160-200 free points a month while playing their updated content.
2) gatcha-style collecting of several hundred different Fire Emblem characters from the games dating over thirty years. It also lets you upgrade the lower-ranking heroes into ones with better stats and skills, so if you really like what objectively is a 'bad' hero, you can MAKE them good.
3) High-end free content is puzzle solving, and the solution is unique to each player because each player has a different collection of heroes to solve said puzzle WITH.
4) The whaling (that is to say, pay-to-play content) is only at the very top end of one segment of the game, and it involves the ranking of players online with not-exceptional rewards for BEING at that top end. If you don't care about that, you can safely ignore the hell out of it.
I mean, last year I played a LOT of freemium games thanks to the stress I was under (time-restricted Farmville style games helped me a lot because I could divert my thoughts to "In three hours I have to log back in...") and FEH really does stand out. Most freemium games clamped down real quick and demanded real money in order to keep playing - I was having fun with the tablet Simcity until it got to the point of "If you want your city bigger, pay real money! We're waiting..."
If they don't demand real currency, then the top-end content tends to be nonexistent - Fallout Shelter is that kind of game, where once you get to a Survival Mode vault that has over 100 Dwellers, can survive Deathclaw attacks with no problems, and you've done all the quests you can before you get sick of the repetitive gameplay... the only thing to do is fill out your list of crafted weapons and armor, and troll for lunchboxes to MAYBE get a legendary Dweller.
Not so FEH. Almost every week there's something new to do. I'm actually looking forward to a week where there ISN'T something intense because there's a lot of little side play modes that have updates I've neglected because of the time restricted events.
The only thing that makes me sad is that I didn't start playing this again sooner. Then again, my internet was unreliable until about the point I started playing it, so probably for the best.
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What system is FEH on?
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So, I discovered the app FPS War Robots a while back, but it wasn't something I could get for my Kindle Fire, until lately. Now, I've been playing it. It's very much like MechWarrior, but with a more 'primitive' style of Mechs. I like it, even if there's no story to it. Just PvP. But, the customization and upgrading and then playing on a side just speaks to my inner MechWarrior.
Also, a friend convinced me finally to pick up Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. I'm only up to the first town, but I like the game so far, so I'll be dedicating time to this, as well.
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What system is FEH on?
It's a phone game. Android is what I play it on, but I'm told iOS has it too.
I mean, I've been PLAYING other games - Bravely Default, Bioshock again, Shantae 3 - but I keep booting up my tablet and spending time on it.
This is how much I like it: I've spent money on it. Not a lot, just twenty bucks over the last few months for some 'limited time specials', but I didn't HAVE to in the slightest. I just wanted to throw some money at the creators.
So, I discovered the app FPS War Robots a while back, but it wasn't something I could get for my Kindle Fire, until lately. Now, I've been playing it. It's very much like MechWarrior, but with a more 'primitive' style of Mechs. I like it, even if there's no story to it. Just PvP. But, the customization and upgrading and then playing on a side just speaks to my inner MechWarrior.
Also, a friend convinced me finally to pick up Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. I'm only up to the first town, but I like the game so far, so I'll be dedicating time to this, as well.
I always meant to give War Robots a try, but at the time my internet was flaky so I wanted offline content.
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I'm back to Binding of Isaac, my favorite video game that I also hate. 1,340 hours in it and counting. ::)
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I've always wanted to try a fire emblem game. A co-worker told me about it, and she liked it a lot. She was referring to the Gameboy Advance versions, but that's good enough for me. Still have a DS which plays those, as well as a working game cube with attachment.
If Brave Exvius goes the same way as you're talking, I may switch over.
But, the friend who introduced me to this has been playing from the beginning, and he says he's been doing so for free completely, the entire time.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/steampunk-world-war-1-rts-iron-harvest-will-have-over-30-mechs-and-a-powerful-pet-bear/
this is something to look toward to in few months
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I've always wanted to try a fire emblem game. A co-worker told me about it, and she liked it a lot. She was referring to the Gameboy Advance versions, but that's good enough for me. Still have a DS which plays those, as well as a working game cube with attachment.
If Brave Exvius goes the same way as you're talking, I may switch over.
But, the friend who introduced me to this has been playing from the beginning, and he says he's been doing so for free completely, the entire time.
The best GBA Fire Emblem is Sacred Stones - there are very, VERY few direct sequels to the FE games, and ironically enough the GBA Fire Emblem is one of those sequels to a game which was never released outside Japan. So you don't need to start with that one, if you have access to Sacred Stones - frankly, the GBA Fire Emblem isn't that great, for all that the FEH devs are obsessed with Lyndis from it.
The Game Cube Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance, is quite good, and it does have a direct sequel in Radiant Dawn for the Wii - that actually draw from each other. Character's stats go up in Radiant Dawn if they're used in PoR, and there are drop items in PoR which aren't used for anything in THAT game, but in Radiant Dawn they come in handy.
If you have a 3DS, though, the best Fire Emblem game of all time, full stop, is Awakening. Hell, it's one of the best games that has ever come from Nintendo. Nintendo basically told the devs, "Fire Emblem isn't selling any more. This is the last FE game if it doesn't do well." So they did it up right, figuring they'd go out with a bang and even if it flopped, at least in ten years it'd be regarded as a hidden gem...
And it did not flop.
I... I even bought DLC for it. Side story stuff, not main plot items hidden behind a paywall, and it was absolutely worth it.
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Tried playing with my bro on Fractured Space on steam. My computer bit challenged so it's no so fun with FPS is in single digits. It's fun-ish, but i'd like something with more depth.
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Yesterday I played through Mass Effect 2. I consider getting back to Darkest Dungeon again. And I'm attracted towards Mass Effect 3 just to complete the trilogy. And yes, I have seen spoilers about its ending.
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The thing to remember about Mass Effect 3's ending is that it's about 15 minutes out of roughly 60 hours of gameplay if you've got the DLCs.
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Yesterday I played through Mass Effect 2. I consider getting back to Darkest Dungeon again. And I'm attracted towards Mass Effect 3 just to complete the trilogy. And yes, I have seen spoilers about its ending.
And a lot of the complaining about ME3's ending was the reason they released a massive free dlc that extended the ending and made it... better?
I didn't hate it personally, but then I played through the games long after all the controversy died and I found it to be perfectly satisfying. A lot of people probably disliked it for an extremely petty reason I won't mention for spoiler reasons, but there IS a fair bit wrong with it.
Sadly, the guy who wrote the first two games and the first three novels (Drew Karpeshyn) was forced out from ME3 and the ending he WAS building towards isn't the ending of the game. That's a legit reason to dislike it, because (and this isn't canon in the universe) the reason HE had for the Reapers to come through is because the Mass Effect itself endangers the universe; it induces negative effects in nearby suns which causes them to... die.
Like the sun that Tali was studying in ME2 when you pick her up.
So the Reapers come through, sweep up the races that are using the Mass Effect before they - in all ignorance - destroy EVERYTHING, and because they're not TOTAL asshats they try to keep each race they destroy 'alive' by making a new Reaper out of it. Each Reaper is simultaneously a record of a race and its tombstone.
Sadly, that was not the ending and the reason they used.
Get the Citadel DLC for ME3, if you can. It's absolutely amazing and hilarious.
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Drew Karpeshyn's proposed ending for ME3 has it's own problems. Namely that ME1 had already established that Mass Effect technology was based on Reaper tech. So the Reapers were giving civilizations technology, then killing them for using it.
Also, that made the plot of the series into a ripoff of a Star Trek TNG episode.
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Drew Karpeshyn's proposed ending for ME3 has it's own problems. Namely that ME1 had already established that Mass Effect technology was based on Reaper tech. So the Reapers were giving civilizations technology, then killing them for using it.
Also, that made the plot of the series into a ripoff of a Star Trek TNG episode.
I suspect that not wanting to blow the universe up themselves is why the Reapers spend most of their time out in the deep black and dormant. It's also my headcanon that the relays and tech left behind were ways of delaying the damage of the Mass Effect, by shaping a young race's use of it into the most efficient and least destructive way possible... but the end result was inevitable.
Complaining that a scifi plotline rips off Star Trek is like saying "Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!" Across six shows with what, a thousand or more episodes, of COURSE some scifi ideas will match up with something done in an episode or so. Hell, Star Trek has ripped ITSELF off on multiple occasions - V'ger was in a TOS episode, and also the main adversary of the Slow Motion Picture.
But Karpeshyn gave the potential to explore the idea much more in-depth, rather than touching on it in 44 minutes and burying it amidst hundreds of other episodes. It's an idea that deserves a bit more examining; the difference between a short story and a novel trilogy.
And ME's Westley is a smartass cripple who's boning a robot/his ship. Already winning there. :P
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Get the Citadel DLC for ME3, if you can. It's absolutely amazing and hilarious.
ME3 doesn't seem to be on Steam, but I found where I can buy & download it. I know about Citadel DLC from beforehand (seen trailer on YouTube). But it don't seem to be part of Deluxe Edition. Are N7 Arsenal Pack and From Ashes worth of extra 10 €?
And ME's Westley is a smartass cripple who's boning a robot/his ship. Already winning there. :P
Do you mean Joker? Yeah, he was kind of badass in ME2. Though I was little surprised to see him hose down with a rifle from doorway, because I had send Jack to escort recovered crew back to the ship. I guess having Joker on that scene was easier to get done than anyone of the characters player choose for the job. Same thing with characters' weapons and armour in first ME's cut scenes.
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Also two AIs citing the Bible is... words fail me
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I found the character you get in From Ashes to be very interesting, and a lot of the characters have unique interactions with him, particularly Liara. He also adds a surprising amount of information about what happened the last time the Reapers appeared.
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:-X
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Runescape!
Look me up if you play... truetanker1
( Shameless plug... )
TT
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Replaying Skyrim with mods and ALL the DLC this time! 😁 still a great game!
And shooting Romulans on Star Trek Online... 😉
Oh, and Minecraft. Because I like building giant statues of mechs... 🤣
Some guys like seeing their Minecraft actually MOVE and shoot. >:D
(https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=52558.0;attach=45737)
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I just started Phantasy Star II again and grinded some levels. Dezo isn't a nice place. Especially the dungeons.
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Got the urge to reinstall Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Sure is a lot faster with the Golden Nug that lets you learn end-game schematics right in the intro. Decking out my whole team in Tier III or IV weapons and armor means I can steamroller areas that I barely made it through when I was four or five levels higher in my original playthrough.
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Insomnia bit me hard last night, and while I don't really remember getting out of bed and sitting at the computer to do it, I realized I'd played through the first four missions of the Soviet campaign from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.
I forgot how goofy and fun that game can be. I didn't enjoy 3 very much, but 2 is pretty wonderful, even now twenty years later. (Realized at one point that my mission was to attack the World Trade Center, which felt... weird.)
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Bioshock 2, latest playthrough. It's been a few years, thought I'd give it a go. I played a rescuer last time, thought I'd play as a harvester this time. I harvested the first Little Sister without much in the way of qualms, but when I was about to pick up the second Little Sister after killing her Big Daddy and she said,
"I-I'll be extra quiet, Daddy. Please don't get mad."
...I stopped. Turned the game off and went to play something else that didn't make me want to throw up, even a little bit. Yes, it's just a video game, but holy crap was that awful to hear.
I only started a harvester playthrough because I was slightly curious about what Eleanor has to say in the final level if you've been a complete monster. I'll probably find a playthrough somewhere, hopefully without some jackass yammering through it.
I think I might do a survey and see who, among people I know that have played Bioshock, harvested or rescued their first time through the game - and which they prefer. I have an uncomfortable feeling that the Venn Diagram for harvesters and real-life jerkholes overlaps quite a bit. It's one thing in Bioshock 1, on the Survivor mode, to harvest that first Sister so you've got enough ADAM for those early Big Daddy fights. But enjoying it might mean you're a bad person.
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So, playing State of Decay 2 and just lost 2 of my BEST community members cause the guy I WASN"T controlling was an idiot.
HIM: "Hey, there's a warehouse we should check out."
ME: OK, Lets Go!
Drive there, as I'm trying to park the Truck, he jumps out, triggers a horde AND a HOWLER AND A FRIKKEN BLOATER!
Suddenly we are Swarmed by Zombies in a little narrow walkway, HOWLER attracting more by the minute, the bloater runs in and BOOM - BLOOD PLAGUE FEVER, down Guy the NPC/Dude NOT controled by me...BOOM, down I go, Get back up to stagger 5 feet before horde drags me down again.
I valiantly make 3 attempts to get up, but Nope...succumb to the Blood Fever and the frikken horde.
Idiot!
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Drive there, as I'm trying to park the Truck, he jumps out, triggers a horde AND a HOWLER AND A FRIKKEN BLOATER!
So he was Leeroy Jenkins and you lost your BEST community members because you weren't in control of that character.
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So he was Leeroy Jenkins and you lost your BEST community members because you weren't in control of that character.
Yep...Normally the character that tags along follows you, but in a few quest scenarios they (or others) I guess take the lead, and he blew it for our community.
Now I only have two characters left. An older lady with medical training, and some new nub I picked up. :(
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Man. Dead of Winter may be a board game, but after reading that, they got so many things right!
Sheesh.
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Pillars of Eternity II Deadfire is a most excellent game, deep, and a worthy Baldurs Gate successor. That is all.
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Better than the first one? Because the whole everything-is-so-dark-and-depressing theme bored me so much that I actually forgot I owned the game after a couple of days of not playing it.
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I was playing Megaman 2 via Legacy Collection on Steam, man it's so hard to decide on what stage to start off first.
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Better than the first one? Because the whole everything-is-so-dark-and-depressing theme bored me so much that I actually forgot I owned the game after a couple of days of not playing it.
Hard to say because I didn’t find the first one unusually dark. The first village and understanding the hollowborn crisis was very dark, but It was mostly that region. The game became more hopeful, especially once I reached Caed Nua, my castle. Certainly not darker than finding out I’m the offspring and potential avatar of the God of murder slated for divine possession. Eder was always good for a laugh around animals. Aloth yielding to his alter ego, Iselmyr, was sometimes awkward and funny.
But there is something a bit brighter about it. Jauntier maybe with the pirate theme. Still a serious story. Still serious themes. Still lovable companions. I get to fight other ships on the high seas and explore the archipelago. Dual wielding pistols is dang cool. And I still love the tactical way they handled the chanter class.
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I was playing Megaman 2 via Legacy Collection on Steam, man it's so hard to decide on what stage to start off first.
Metal Man give you the best weapon, but probably the easiest to beat is Flash Man, at least if memory serves. Heat Man's gun is nice, but you'll want Item-2 (the flying Item) to avoid those stupid disappearing blocks, and that's from Air Man.
Remember, though, You cannot defeat Air Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opADNvgeZYY).
Good gods, that video for "Airman ga taosenai" still brings a smile to my face ten years later. There's a ten-year anniversary edition that has updated vocals, but the SAME animation... and the updated vocals are, I dunno, squeakier.
I have noticed a bad thing about myself: I have no threshold for frustration any more. I decided to play Bioshock Infinite on 1999 Mode after discovering something that would let me pass that final fight - dropping Return to Sender traps around the spot you need to protect so you can eliminate your enemies without worrying as much about it - but I can't get past the second part of the first stage of the game, where you're on your WAY to the first Fireman.
And I know that I've done it before. I had to stop playing it years ago after spending two hours on that final battle fruitlessly, because I didn't really use Return To Sender until last week's playthrough. This time? It was the first stage.
Then, with Shantae 3, there was a boss - at least it was a BOSS, and not just ordinary enemies! - that was driving me into controller-throwing rage.
I hope I recover my composure soon. It's frustrating to be so easily frustrated.
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For Mega man, you need a better weapon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4FC_lKZwAE :D
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A while back, Unreal used to be available for free in GOG. I missed it, but right now it is available for some 1,69 €. Bought it, and played first few levels. Still a fun and enjoyable game. :thumbsup:
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Clint's video about the game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjS6rLKnU0c)
For Mega man, you need a better weapon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4FC_lKZwAE :D
LMAO! :thumbsup:
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Finally beaten Flashman! (this is just the beginning of me trying to beat Megaman 2) I'll read more tips on who's next (especially those who posted them for me to know ;D)
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Game will be playing count? Fallout 76 tease video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=94&v=-ye84Zrqndo)
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/news_feeds/icons/mobile/000/032/118/4ca.jpg)
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I so badly really want to see a Fallout were it shows the beginning. Like from Washington DC, and your a Spec Ops officer, get to meet the President or someone in charge after the bombs dropped and have to escape to a shelter with early mutants and people turned Raiders. Maybe even a " Tour of Duty " on board U.S.S. Constitution...
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Made more progress in Super Mario Odyssey by completing New Donk City. Man that Underground Power Plant level was a pain in the ass, especially the vertically rotating platform.
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But the music video was so cool...
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I played DoomRL today. RL = Rogue Like, so the game itself is derivative of Rogue with a Doom skin pack. Quite fun. But I can't seem to get through of Phobos Lab: died twice there just today. Maybe one more try...
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I played DoomRL today. RL = Rogue Like, so the game itself is derivative of Rogue with a Doom skin pack. Quite fun. But I can't seem to get through of Phobos Lab: died twice there just today. Maybe one more try...
Got to Deimos and got BFG9000!
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I played DoomRL today. RL = Rogue Like, so the game itself is derivative of Rogue with a Doom skin pack. Quite fun. But I can't seem to get through of Phobos Lab: died twice there just today. Maybe one more try...
Made it through to end!
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Just Finished DETROIT last night. A good game of a particular Genre in my opinion. And a good use of choices I make in chapter 3 helping/hindering me in Chapter 12 or even a Finale critical decision choice dependent on earlier questioning/clues found.
All in all, I enjoyed it, and am definitely gonna play through a few more times to try and save everyone, or try a more violent revolution (went for the full Peaceful, positive Public opinion.)
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Playing Far Cry 3 Classic Edition. Finally had time to sit down and play a little of it today.
Item crafting already annoys me.
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Played FTL again I'm going to unlock C version ships. Federation cruiser and stealth cruiser C versions suck.
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Playing Far Cry 3 Classic Edition.
Classic Edition? I looked it up on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Cry_3)
Far Cry 3 will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as a Far Cry 3: Classic Edition, on June 26, 2018.
What day is it now?
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It was released May 26th. Whoever wrote that Wikipedia entry got the month wrong.
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Made it through to end!
I got interested and did a few playthroughs myself. In the latest one I had a nuke in my inventory and found an invulnerability globe near the stairs of the 7th level of Hell, so I took it, went down the stairs and nuked the Mastermind. Results were ... interesting.
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I got interested and did a few playthroughs myself. In the latest one I had a nuke in my inventory and found an invulnerability globe near the stairs of the 7th level of Hell, so I took it, went down the stairs and nuked the Mastermind. Results were ... interesting.
You should have brought us a screenshot
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I so badly really want to see a Fallout were it shows the beginning. Like from Washington DC, and your a Spec Ops officer, get to meet the President or someone in charge after the bombs dropped and have to escape to a shelter with early mutants and people turned Raiders. Maybe even a " Tour of Duty " on board U.S.S. Constitution...
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And I was right... woot! Is it Nov. 18th yet?
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You should have brought us a screenshot
That would have been spoilerific. Also it didn't occur to me to take a screenshot.
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I just noticed that Nintendo is getting cool looking Mecha base game called Daemon x Machina, reported on ANN. (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-06-12/nintendo-announces-daemon-x-machina-game-with-designers-shoji-kawamori-yusuke-kozaki/.132811)
It reminds me of Armor Core that was on Playstations in it's early years. The designer apparently has done with Macross anime series in the past too.
Looks like it will be fun. Too bad i'm only have PC. :'(
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I bought The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and started playing it. I knew it has lots of dialogue, but DAMN, it has LOTS of dialogue! This isn't your average JRPG either: combat is turn-based, but it includes movement, and pole arms have longer reach than swords. Great!
Then on another forum I read Humble Bundle has Shadowrun Returns available for free ::)
All right, I'll buy that one too even if I don't get the time to play it.
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I got myself into Elder Scrolls Online during that last sale and I'm now wandering around good ol Vvardenfell.
Send help.
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New Gundam Breaker and Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition. (No, I'm not the one naming these things) Waiting for my Macross Delta Vita to come in as well.
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I bought The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and started playing it. I knew it has lots of dialogue, but DAMN, it has LOTS of dialogue! This isn't your average JRPG either: combat is turn-based, but it includes movement, and pole arms have longer reach than swords. Great!
(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/947/824/4a0.jpg)
This is how it starts. Estelle is Bestelle.
The ability to speed through animations with the new Turbo Mode coded into the PC Game is a lifesaver. You'll thank XSEED immensely after your hundredth or so casting of "Aerial".
Also dialogue and villager flags update after EVERY major plot event, so they'll usually have something new to add to the discussion. Mind you, I said new, not useful.
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Not so much what I'm playing - I already went through it about a dozen times - but I introduced my roommate to Undertale. She burned through it in about four days, inadvertently doing the "Pacifist" run, and is currently bawling downstairs at the ending. I'm not sorry.
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Not so much what I'm playing - I already went through it about a dozen times - but I introduced my roommate to Undertale. She burned through it in about four days, inadvertently doing the "Pacifist" run, and is currently bawling downstairs at the ending. I'm not sorry.
Oh for goodness sake, go comfort her and hand her a handkerchief.
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Oh for goodness sake, go comfort her and hand her a handkerchief.
She'll be fine...in a week or two. :)
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Ok. Really should have picked Macross Delta sooner. Only 4 missions in and having fun with the Nightmare and Cheyenne II destroid.
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I'm playing Conan Exiles on the Xbox One at the moment. Given that I'm a huge fan of the Robert E. Howard writings I'm enjoying the game immensely. :thumbsup:
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I was surprised by how panned that game was in all the reviews.
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I'm working my way through a videogame challenge I joined on BoardGameGeek, and just finished The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief, which I enjoyed rather a lot, despite a few glitches that meant I had to reload periodically. I'm torn between trying to complete a couple of other mystery/adventure games I've been meaning to play for ages (Gabriel Knight 3, and Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter) or seeing what the Valkyria Chronicles is like.
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I got hearts of iron iv on humblebundle monthly. Haven’t played much since the original. No internet until Wednesday so I have to wait a few days to see if I can still cause total chaos as Turkey again
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Picked up Dragon Crown Pro since it was on sale in the Playstation store. I was a huge fan of Capcom's two Dungeons & Dragons arcade games back in the day, and Dragon Crown really scratches the same itch.
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Picked up Dragon Crown Pro since it was on sale in the Playstation store. I was a huge fan of Capcom's two Dungeons & Dragons arcade games back in the day, and Dragon Crown really scratches the same itch.
Goodness I remember these, beat-em ups in the tradition of Bad Dudes and Double Dragon. Those were the days...
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Yeah, I must have spent hundreds of dollars playing Shadow Over Mystara, twenty five cents at a time.
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Picked up the NES Classic on Friday. I've meddled a little with several games but spent most of my time in it on Final Fantasy so far. It's a pleasant sort of nostalgia.
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Rainbow shops and flat mountains ftw.
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Picked up the NES Classic on Friday.
Where the Hell did you got that!!? To my understanding it was sold out the month it came available.
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Where the Hell did you got that!!? To my understanding it was sold out the month it came available.
Nintendo rereleased the device Friday and will keep way more in production like they are with the SNES classic.
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Yeah, I must have spent hundreds of dollars playing Shadow Over Mystara, twenty five cents at a time.
I do remember this one!
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D&D: Shadows Over Mystara was the only arcade machine in the Specialists' Mess on the base I was stationed at worth a damn, especially since there were severe restrictions on portable electronics at the time I was on the force.
I fed way more cash into the damn thing than I'd care to admit.
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D&D: Shadows Over Mystara was the only arcade machine in the Specialists' Mess on the base I was stationed at worth a damn, especially since there were severe restrictions on portable electronics at the time I was on the force.
I fed way more cash into the damn thing than I'd care to admit.
If I recall it was a four player side-scrolling beat-em up. I seem to recall the characters that could be played were a dwarf, elf, a warrior and a cleric or mage.
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Smells like a version of Gauntlet.
Of which I happen to own.
The Midwest Arcade PS2 disk, and ever PS version out there on videodisk.
Ah memories...
" Player 1 has shot the food! I've not seen such bravery! Player has limited Invisibility. "
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If I recall it was a four player side-scrolling beat-em up. I seem to recall the characters that could be played were a dwarf, elf, a warrior and a cleric or mage.
There was also a thief.
Smells like a version of Gauntlet.
Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight. The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability. Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.
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There was also a thief.
Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight. The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability. Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.
I remember being told that the four man wail of anguish from myself and three other Sergeants when we stuffed up the Staff of Wizardry final strike silenced the entire bar.
Not that we noticed. ::)
The desperate claw back to a picture finish was amazing but took all our concentration. I don't think we'll ever be able to do something like that ever again.
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Never got the Staff of Wizardry, but I do remember spending several dollars repeatedly killing myself with the Cursed Sword in order to turn it into the Legendary Sword.
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There was also a thief.
Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight. The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability. Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.
Sounds Like either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara
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Sounds Like either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom
Tower of Doom was the first game. Shadows over Mystara was the seque though I never actually played ToD (on grounds of never actually encountering a machine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara
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Tower of Doom was the first game. Shadows over Mystara was the seque though I never actually played ToD (on grounds of never actually encountering a machine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara
Yeah...thought I had selected Shadows of Mystara as the second link....DOH!
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I saw that Assassin's Creed: Origins is on sale on the Playstation Store this week. Having heard many good things about it from numerous friends, I decided to go head and try it out. I'm really liking it so far.
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Spoiler Warning For Pretty Much The Entire Kiseki Series So Far:
Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki (The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV) Famitsu Magazine Additional Cast Announcement (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dhzf3UNXUAAAjUu.jpg)
*Cue Screaming Fangasm.*
Sure, the pic quality is potato level, but I've seen enough. They sure as hell weren't kidding when they said this would have the largest playable cast of all the Kiseki (Trails) games so far.
I'm just glad they're back (https://twitter.com/HDKirin/status/1017062784318619648?s=19).
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Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Is the D&D game like one of the Gold Box series? Should I crack cartridge open and change a battery?
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Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Is the D&D game like one of the Gold Box series? Should I crack cartridge open and change a battery?
Don't believe so, if by Gold Box you mean the wonderful SSI games like Pool of Radiance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance), and the rest.
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Been playing a good slew of NES games on the NES Classic mini which it arrived in the morning, such as Punch Out, Metroid, Final Fantasy 1, the classic Donkey Kong arcade game, Gradius, and Super Mario Bros
Aaaaaaaaaand, on PC Steam, I played the Spiritual Successor to Descent called Overload days ago. It's awesome so far.
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Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun.
Yesterday I was going to test those games and find out does D&D game need battery replacement. So I turned CRT TV on, I heard some cracking, and then TV went off and didn't go on again. And I just got composite cables for it too! xp
I still have some CRT monitors, like 19" Samsung Syncmaster 959NF. Do you happen to know of adapter or the like for composite (console) and VGA (monitor) cables?
CRT displays have been recommended for old consoles, because those round the pixels. Though I guess that applies only to PAL and NTSC quality displays and not for the ones that go up to 1600*1200 pixels.
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I bought From the Depths earlier this week on Steam. However, it seems to be learning curve thing trying to get use to. It's sort of sandbox creative game of sorts, my computer being the old box it is (2009) with GeForce 8600 Nvidia 8600 GT can barely handle it and the original Void Destroyer games i bought. xp
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Recently via steam...
PREY - Exceptional so far. Decidedly influenced by System Shock, Deus Ex, Half-Life, BioShock, and Portal.
Spintires: Mud*Runner - loved the original. The followup is nicely improved. This is my go-to stress free sim. Although, I do wish that I could haul some old Russian military gear to the front-line or something. Amp-up the engagement just a bit. Logs are fun though, and challenging.
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Stellaris- pretty good, though what bugs me is that I cant seem to find the tech tree so I dont know what comes next after I research something, and the combat is real time, which pretty much means no tactics are involved, just whoever has more ships and better tech wins.
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Still playing Fallout 4, level 56 now...
Just don't play enough ya know? Like 8 hours a month, if that.
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I divide my time between Skyrim, Wold of Tanks, and Star Trek Online.
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Just beat the final boss in Convoy, going to do a bit more world exploring now.
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Has anyone played ADOM or Nethack recently? Have there been other improvements since 90's besides graphics?
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I've been playing a bit of "The Long Dark".
its a first person post apocalyptic survival game.
it has EPIC atmosphere.
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Started with Xenonauts- the spiritual successor to the original X-COM game so ... I sent in a squad on an alien crash site...
Took 70% casualties. Ugh. I thought I knew how this game was played. :(
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Just finished a board of Naval Ops: Warship Gunner for PS2 last night, haven't played that game for over a year! Got me a nice bounty, trying to get 999 of each class destroyed, heard there was an in-game bonus. I've made the twin-hulled cruiser bonus twice, but sold it one time, this time I'm keeping her!
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Wow, hang on to that game. It's practically impossible to find anymore.
I keep hoping that it'll get re-released on PS4 the way a lot of other PS2 titles have been.
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Started with Xenonauts- the spiritual successor to the original X-COM game so ... I sent in a squad on an alien crash site...
Took 70% casualties. Ugh. I thought I knew how this game was played. :(
Xenonauts suffers from "enthusiast syndrome." That is, it was made by enthusiasts of the original X-Com - the kind of folks who have put thousands of hours into it - so they made it so it challenged them. It can be ridiculously difficult for the average gamer.
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Stumbled on an SNES classic in stock at target today. already added an extra 50 games on top of the included ones
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Xenonauts suffers from "enthusiast syndrome." That is, it was made by enthusiasts of the original X-Com - the kind of folks who have put thousands of hours into it - so they made it so it challenged them. It can be ridiculously difficult for the average gamer.
Good point. All this game is doing is making me want to play the original all over again too. :o
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About Xenonauts and X-COM:
Good point. All this game is doing is making me want to play the original all over again too. :o
I was struggling with Xenonauts too. I give you some pointers based on my experiences.
Real military don't use shields, so I don't either. Still players tell they have had success with them. Are shields overpowered or what?
I use 4 riflemen, 2 assault (shotgunners), and 2 snipers/machine gunner. ALWAYS back up when advancing with enough points for reaction fire. When you open a door, have 2 or more soldiers around of it with full action points. One opens the door, others (shotgunners preferred) go in. And more soldiers need to protect the flanks. Loner (rifleman or machine gunner) can cover flank/rear while others advance.
If you plan to ambush an advancing enemy at short range (with a shotgun) and there is a corner, place your soldier along the wall (if possible) some distance away from the corner. Enemy has to round the corner to get LOS, and that makes a reaction shot at his side. Even better if enemy has his attention on your soldier at front of him (and behind a cover or a shield).
Concentrate firepower! Bring as many troops against as few enemies as possible! Beware enemy grenades however. In surprise and strong enemy encounters, throw grenades (smoke), fall back, and regroup.
You can increase strength of your soldiers by equipping them heavily. I equip them at their max capacity (or little over) that don't bring penalties. Soldiers with most of muscle should carry med gear or stun baton and as many grenades as they can.
Develop laser rifle ASAP. Lucky shot can take down even an android (whatever the game calls it) with a single hit.
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If you play UFO: Enemy Unknown or X-COM: UFO Defense, I recommend you to reinforce it with OpenXcom. Look it up.
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Wow, hang on to that game. It's practically impossible to find anymore.
I keep hoping that it'll get re-released on PS4 the way a lot of other PS2 titles have been.
No kidding, I got the original, the sequel AND the third one. That's the Anime version where the Sub comes in... and Rocket Rubber Duckies on a BattleCarrier with the Cat Laserbeam Cannon! ( When it fires you hear the cat scream like on halloween. )
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The Rubber Ducky aircraft line was ridiculous. And crazy powerful.
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SO glad i kept all three of mine. I think i like Naval Ops: Commander the most.
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Just went and outfitted an older WW2 aircraft carrier with those damnable Rubber Duckies in a game last night! Went against that Sink 3 BB's scenario and all those escorts... funny! I also love that large superstructure fight!
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I have got back to ARK: Survival Evolved with my newest and most badass computer. Still a cool game because dinosaurs are cool. Also with GTX 1080 Ti and 16 GB of RAM: what a wonderful world 8)
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Finally picked up Destiny 2 for the PC.
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In case anybody cares, Steam has Chrono Trigger for half the price. Also says the PC version now has original graphics available. Can anyone in here comment about its game play and bugs?
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It's a very straight-forward early JRPG. There's not really much to say about the gameplay, and I can't recall any bugs. I far prefer it to any Final Fantasy.
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The game shines in a few ways:
1) the story is fairly bright, straightforward, and exciting in a "Scooby gang goes back in time" kind of way.
2) It was one of the first JRPGs to introduce multiple dependent endings.
3) The music and art direction are iconic and beloved.
4) The fight system was likewise loved for the touches of positioning (mostly things like area of effect in spells) and the fact that they let you see what was coming up, except for surprises jumping out of bushes, rather than do the standard interruption common to Final Fantasy.
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It's a very straight-forward early JRPG. There's not really much to say about the gameplay, and I can't recall any bugs. I far prefer it to any Final Fantasy.
Are you and Bedwyr talking about Steam version of the game? I have read it is (or used to be) modified version of iOS version with some differences to original console game and additional bugs.
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Are you and Bedwyr talking about Steam version of the game?
The game generally.
I read that Square improved the Steam version: https://kotaku.com/now-if-only-square-would-treat-final-fantasy-vi-on-pc-l-1828495016
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I was talking about the SNES original.
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I'm currently playing the new Spider-Man game on PS4.
It's fun, but I feel like the dodge ability isn't powerful enough. It'll get you away from a regular punk with a crowbar or a pistol, but during boss fights I take far too many hits (and Spider-Man cannot take hits).
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Started playing Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age. I've always been a fan of this series, and so far, I'm really enjoying this one as well.
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Does anyone in here play Kingdom Come: Deliverance? I'm on the fence, but I'd like to know game's current status. Does it have crossbows yet, and is there any major bugs left?
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World of Guns and Skyrim.
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Compile Hearts and Shanghai Manjuu announced a collaboration to make an Azur Lane themed shipgirl 3D shooter for the PS4.
This could be an interesting diversion.
It could also be terrible... but eh. I'll take that risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x5V-PMa8_w
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This goes little off topic, but I'm too lazy to open new topic. Should I? Anyway in another forum is complained about early access games and was posted a link to YouTube video where is complained about early access games. So I actually made some research.
Yesterday (13.9.18) is listed 50 new releases on Steam. Yeah, I counted them:
Available now (NOT early access): 36
Early access: 6
Coming soon: 8
Are there too many games in early access?
Has been complained about DLC and games that are incomplete without DLC. Youth these days... In my youth we had to go all the way to town and buy DLC from computer store on CD or floppy disk! And I have bought new games which have more content than most older games of respective genre. I tell you, Project Cars 2 from last year without any DLC has much more content than Outrun, Test Drive 2, or any game in Lotus series. Doesn't have a track editor, so it loses to Stunts in that department.
Sorry about this rant. But seeing all the complaints about those subjects, micro transactions, and loot boxes is just... :ugly_stupid:
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Persona 5; am about 103:35 hours in and am now on the last area- though now I am just grinding given that I can get an infinite number of replenishment from Lavenza
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I've fallen back into War Thunder again
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Beat Persona 5; now what do I do with my life?
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Beat Persona 5; now what do I do with my life?
Look up & play another game? Steam alone gets tens new games daily.
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Yeah, but most of them are bad enough that they wouldn't be a deal if the developers paid you to play them.
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Man, it sucks that Insurgency Sandstorm's campaign got delayed, possibly indefinetly.
The game itself plays like a dream already, but I wish that the Insurgents and Security had more/better options for clothes. The only non-neon color it seems the Insurgents can wear is dark gray and khaki (And they can't wear helmets), and the lack of solid-color coats/undershirt/face mask options kind of drags the Security customization down a lot. Given the whole 'pseudo-realism tactical stuff' they go with, some overlap would probably help.
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Yeah, but most of them are bad enough that they wouldn't be a deal if the developers paid you to play them.
In that case I have some recommendations. Since Darth Nicholas has played a JRPGame, I totally recommend Trails in the Sky & sequels (Trails of Cold Steel). Best JRPG I have played.
Of the other RPGs, Kingdom Come: Deliverance has got praise (and controversy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come%3A_Deliverance#Controversy)) for its historical accuracy. I have been told many bugs have been fixed by now. I'm still on the fence, because I have enough unfinished games, some of which I haven't even installed yet.
ARK: Survival Evolved is RPG about survival in deserted island inhabited by dinosaurs. Game can be played solo, but it is best online with bunch of other players. More the merrier. Totally hooked in this - again.
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All my other friends who've played Ark talk about is how full of trolls and griefers it is.
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All my other friends who've played Ark talk about is how full of trolls and griefers it is.
Just change server then. I haven't really seen any on the server I'm playing now. Let me check... EU-PVE-Official-TheIsland45. Decent people most of them. One was generous enough to hand me over a tyrannosaur rex because he had too many of them. One from Sweden had messed up with tribe settings and apologized for it. Decent folk over here.
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And it isn't like other multiplayer games (like MekWars) wouldn't have trolls and the like. As one MegaMek/MekWars player sums it up (from my failing memory):
But what real life military wouldn't have internal troublemakers, incompetent generals, and plain *****? That's the way of life, in game or out
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Currently playing BattleTech (comp not TT) campaign and on a side I occasionaly play FTL and DRL, I decided to do a DRL challenge (after BT mission crashed right as I was finishing the last mech). So I did Angel of 100 challenge combining it with Angel of Max Carnage challenge to make it easier. It was grueling but I made it, finding Enviroboots on level 27 was a lifesaver.
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I want to shoot some stuff. Recommend me good FPS for an outdated PC that runs Crysis.
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Never mind, I already found one on my own: Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
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Or not. I read reviews before paying I this hit my eye:
I got this along with MOH:AA Warchest and having been wowed by it's predecessor, this turn out to be a very disappointing experience.
So any good shooters that won't be disappointing?
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You could always replay Doom 1 & 2 on gog.com; for some reason I still find them entertaining two decades later. Maybe it's the music.
Most FPS games are just different skins slapped on top of the same engine. So it all depends on what kind of skin you want slapped on top of it: shooting at Nazis? Zombies? Space zombies? Nazi zombies? Space Nazi zombies?
Or if you want a different FPS game, have you played the Dishonoured series? I'm finally about to get started on the second one, and I really liked the first. It's not really a shooter as such, more a stealth FPS. One of the aspects that I like is that based on your actions (how many people you kill, how gruesome of a revenge you take) the game actually gets HARDER, with more plague victims wandering about, more alert guards, and swarms of rats that can mulch your legs - and a reasonably different ending for each of the choices: Kill some, kill none, or kill 'em all. Lots of routes through the levels, which makes it rewarding to replay the game.
I got paid a PS4 and Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 "Final Mix XXL Grande Edition With All The Fixins", but after just one trip through KH1 I'm a little burnt out on KH games. It's kinda funny how they added voice acting for Chain of Memories, which takes place between 1 and 2, but Haley Joe Osment's balls dropped in the intervening ten years so it's a major disconnect going from 1 to CoM. Plus, CoM's mechanics SUUUCKED HARD. Just so hard.
But I stand by my assertion that if you changed every instance of the word "heart" with the word "soul" you get a much better dialogue experience in KH.
While I was banned I also played through South Park: Fractured But Whole, and it is WORTH IT if you're a South Park fan. Just freaking hilarious in all aspects. Especially how the kids are mostly concerned about how much money their competing superhero franchises are going to make, because of course that's the most important thing. Timmy as a Professor X psychic was what killed me the most.
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Saints Row 2 is a decent third-person shooter on PC. A little glitchy, but as long as you save often it should be okay.
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SD Gundam G Generation Genesis (that's a mouthful) for the PS4; Bandai made an English Sub version though all the audio is in Japanese so it is very playable. This game is quite huge and you can play through every UC Gundam title from the main television and movie series to even the side games that no one has ever heard of
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Most FPS games are just different skins slapped on top of the same engine. So it all depends on what kind of skin you want slapped on top of it: shooting at Nazis? Zombies? Space zombies? Nazi zombies? Space Nazi zombies?
LOL! Now I want to know what game has space Nazi zombies! Also any game that has space Nazi without zombies? :D
Otherwise I'm warming up with The Original Strife: Veteran Edition. Not bad.
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LOL! Now I want to know what game has space Nazi zombies! Also any game that has space Nazi without zombies? :D
Well you DID ask..
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfenstein-New-Order-PC/dp/B00CPKUV9I?th=1 (https://www.amazon.com/Wolfenstein-New-Order-PC/dp/B00CPKUV9I?th=1)
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Shooters for older PC
Serious Sam
Brutal Doom
Far Cry
And if you prefer tactical shooter Operation Flashpoint (with ton of mods), Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six 1-3
As for space Nazis, the only one I can think of is Killzone 2&3 for PS3.
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I have some questions about Elder Scrolls Online because a friend got me the game s few days ago; does magic work like in the other games because looking at the skills for Sorcerers- I 'be noticed that I can't throw fire or ice spells unless I have to use staffs for them?
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I had a fun weekend playing Planetside 2: got together with my three online chat friends and we blew some stuff up. First we tried a ride around in a harasser, but my terrible gunnery skills ended up getting us all killed. Then we moved onto a Liberator for ground attack using an aircraft, but the weapons were so weak and we kept missing (my outfit is notorious for being terrible at skills but we are cool people to hang out with lol) so I ended up gunning with a hover tank called the magrider. We ended up farming a lot of kills as we just gunned downed the enemy while overlooking their base from a hilltop lol.
The game is currently on a Halloween themed special, so this means pumpkins pop up all over the place and if you shoot them you get seeds with which to buy custom stuff. One of my buddies was trying to hunt an elusive galactic pumpkin to get a reward, but he logged out to take a break. Just as he was logging back in, I spotted one of the rare pumpkins and shot it, earning myself enough seeds to buy a skull bandana for my character, and my friend missed it by one minute. He was pissed lol.
Here is my brand new skull bandana for my Vanu character ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/4rfO54J.jpg)
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I had bought Birth of Rome (part of Alea Jacta Est series) years ago, but I didn't play it until yesterday (Sunday), thanks to having a day off from work. I read little over half of the manual, then played tutorial followed by Third Samnite War. 105 turns or so... 8 PM already... One more turn... Oh frak, past 10 PM now! I might play another scenario of this...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was on sale on Steam couple weeks ago, so I bought it. I have played it some hours (3 according to Steam), and it looks promising. Beginning is like heavily scripted tutorial not unlike Elder Scrolls series of games. But I like combat system better than what is in Morrowind and Mount & Blade.
Other games I have played recently are Trails in the Sky, ARK: Survival Evolved, and The Original Strife: Veteran Edition.
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I can't afford to buy games anymore so I'm milking Elder Scrolls Online, World of Tanks, and Star Trek Online for all they're worth!! 😁 I'm hoping to get Fallout 76 for Xmas...
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Fallout 76, and having a lot of fun doing post-apocalypotic things with other people
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Red Dead redemption 2
Had since the Midnight Release...played about 6+ hours each since and only JUST NOW started chapter 4
there is THAT MUCH to do.
And I haven't even had a chance to fire up HITMAN 2 yet :(
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Red Dead redemption 2
Had since the Midnight Release...played about 6+ hours each since and only JUST NOW started chapter 4
there is THAT MUCH to do.
And I haven't even had a chance to fire up HITMAN 2 yet :(
Red Dead looks great and I've been impressed with the clips I've seen it's just I HATE westerns.... 🤣 I wish I could like this game... 😢
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History Channels : Civil War for Playstion2.
Historical battles with weird but true storylines...
I hate the one shot musket, but love the rapid fire pistol revolver. Damn thing can't reload as you'll have to fire the entire cylinder. AND you'll have to pick your targets... miss and having to reload on the run in the middle of a battlefield with little or no shelter...
At least health returns, slower than an ice cube in hell! Love the sound effects too..
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From back in the days when History Channel actually produced stuff about real history?
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Yeah, that and Medal of Honors...
Ohwee... what fun blastin' Nazis and such!
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Just installed Star Control:Origins. Instead of playing the game, went straight to the ship designer.
Made an SDF-1 (apparently the 2nd one) and a Mospeada Garfish. Considering what other ships to try and recreate.
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Just installed Star Control:Origins. Instead of playing the game, went straight to the ship designer.
Made an SDF-1 (apparently the 2nd one) and a Mospeada Garfish. Considering what other ships to try and recreate.
Nice!! Maybe try building a meltran or zentran battle cruiser?
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Considering what other ships to try and recreate.
Something BattleTech related?
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I tried Underworld Ascendent. The game seems somewhat promising, but the save system is currently execrable and needs to be fixed (a "save" at least during the tutorial takes you back to the beginning of the level, starting over with all items obtained... so you can grab duplicates). Apparently they can't figure out how to save game states during level play. No idea why this is; maybe environmental simulation states? Performance is less of a concern to me. I see some framerate slowdowns and inefficiencies, but I can play through them just fine.
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Since Ultima Underworld is my favorite game of all time, I’ve been eyeing that will cautious interest. The steam reviews have been pretty rough. I’ll probsbly wait a few months for them to work some of the the kinks out (like I should have done with Ys VIII)
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I bought Heretic & sequels from Steam and started playing Hexen: Beyond the Heretic. Because Goblin Slayer isn't available character, I chose the next closest thing: Fighter. Because it doesn't seem to be available on Steam nor any other (legitimate) downloadable service, I have placed an order for physical copy of The Settlers (European PC version, English) through eBay. Seller promises the game box and all of its contents. £20 for that + shipping (£27 total). I just hope the diskettes aren't corrupted.
Since Ultima Underworld is my favorite game of all time, I’ve been eyeing that will cautious interest. The steam reviews have been pretty rough. I’ll probsbly wait a few months for them to work some of the the kinks out (like I should have done with Ys VIII)
Ultima Underworld has been around like 25 years. What do you expect few months more to do for it?
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I was talking about the new game bedwyr brought up. It’s a new game developed by some of the original team from the early 90s
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Yep. I just created an Invader class jumpship. To me, that's the iconic spacefaring vessel for Battletech. Oh and a Mospeada Horizont troop transport.
Something BattleTech related?
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I was talking about the new game bedwyr brought up. It’s a new game developed by some of the original team from the early 90s
I played through the intro level last night finally and (hopefully) have that progress auto-saved for later. The impression I'm getting so far is that the mood is very Underworld. They do a goo job creating atmosphere and the need to quietly hide from perceived danger. I'm aware that they brought back the rune magic system (huzzah!) and there's lots of name drops and location callbacks like the four pools and pillar-ed hall of King Vernix.
Saving aside, this appears to be somehow divided by discrete levels like a 2D Mario game (boo hiss). That's disappointing because the original game was a master class in creating an atmosphere of lived-in society and ecology. Mere design details like putting in a rubble-blocked grand staircase through Sir Cabirus's ruins adds verisimilitude to the basics of your character trying to stay alive by scrounging bits of food and broken armor. Discrete level design fails to live up to this ideal.
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Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition
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Working on Red Dead Redemption 2.
Rockstar went overboard on some things.
Fistfights, hunting game, and upgrading your camp are fun.
Making sure you eat a balanced diet, maintaining your gun, and shaving are not.
I'm surprised there isn't a minigame for washing your socks.
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Working on Red Dead Redemption 2.
Rockstar went overboard on some things.
Fistfights, hunting game, and upgrading your camp are fun.
Making sure you eat a balanced diet, maintaining your gun, and shaving are not.
I'm surprised there isn't a minigame for washing your socks.
I'm in Epilogue II right now, and one of the best things about the game I think is the nod it give to the First game.
There is a part where if you play poker at Camp, and John is in the game, they joke about all going down to the lake to swim, and then tease John because he's scared of water and can't swim.
And in the Epilogue when you play as John, if you DO try and swim, you immediately lose 100% of all Stamina, and john is in very real danger of drowning!
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That's funny.
I decided to name my horse Worthless. I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference.
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I decided to name my horse Worthless. I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference.
Whitworthless :)
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Nope. It's not a Battletech reference.
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That's funny.
I decided to name my horse Worthless. I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference.
It sounds familiar but I can't place it
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Another funny thing I found in Red Dead 2: Arthur says "for sure" a lot. And he pronounces it like a Valley Girl.
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Another funny thing I found in Red Dead 2: Arthur says "for sure" a lot. And he pronounces it like a Valley Girl.
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/52357672/fer-sure.jpg)
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Steam has BattleTech on sale, so I bought it. Loading times remind me about early consoles with CD drives, namely PlayStation.
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They just released Flashpoint! But since my current rig is off limits to downloads...
I haven't been able to play the first basic training mission of the core game since I backstarter'd it waaaay back when! Even with the supposedly 'Gold " member status I received back then form Kickstarter, I haven't been able to download it. I'm still waiting for an Alienware for christmas to do this... hopefully! :)
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Having some light reading at hand for loading times is advisable.
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I also picked up Battletech on the steam sale. Runs well enough on my 2015 i7 laptop but damn it heats up
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I also picked up Battletech on the steam sale. Runs well enough on my 2015 i7 laptop but damn it heats up
Download MSI afterburner and tweak your fan settings for you Graphics card. I do that for my PC and it really helps.
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I had ordered PC version of The Settlers (known as Serf City: Life is Feudal in America) and it arrived today. Floppy disks still work. Backed them up, installed the game, gave a test run under DOSBox, all work. Game is still a beauty to look at, maybe even more so than some of the more recent games (like those made with RPG Maker).
Having some light reading at hand for loading times is advisable.
Noted. Settlers manual has well over 100 pages of reading.
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If anyone picks up the newly release X4, let us know if it's good. I played a lot of X3 back in the day, but was disappointed to hear how Rebirth ended up. Elite: Dangerous scratches a lot of that spacefaring itch, but not all of it.
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That's funny.
I decided to name my horse Worthless. I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference.
Okay, I'll tell you.
Worthless was the name of the horse ridden by the Alan Dean Foster character Mad Amos.
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Okay, I'll tell you.
Worthless was the name of the horse ridden by the Alan Dean Foster character Mad Amos.
Thank you! I knew I'd read it somewhere...
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I also picked up Battletech on the steam sale. Runs well enough on my 2015 i7 laptop but damn it heats up
I hear you. My laptop looks like a WoB party house when I am playing
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Been binge playing, you guest it... Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu on the switch (I know many of you members that are Pokefans prefer the Eevee version). (I'm still friggin hyped for Smash Bros Ultimate which is coming this coming Friday! :D)
and Weeks ago I've played a good chunk of an F-Zero inspired game called Redout on Steam
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I just finished playing Ecco the Dolphin for Sega Genesis... nostalgic eh?
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I hated the final boss fight on that game so much.
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I just finished playing Ecco the Dolphin for Sega Genesis... nostalgic eh?
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So much Nostalgia!!! I remember playing it on my cousin's Sega Genesis when I was a little kid!
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I remember playing hell out of Sega Genesis before i shipped to Japan. Since game in question was The Revenge of Shinobi.
When i went, i kept hearing the game's music playing in my head when i got there. It was good game.
(https://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/main_wide/public/revenge-main.jpg?itok=ErrvPeCk)
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I'm still rock'n the Star Trek Online and Elder Scrolls Online. Free games for the win!! I'm dividing my time between battling Borg snowmen and Klingon Ice fishing, and hunting Werewolves with a group of mouthy Khajit...
I've also been playing the Commander special event on World of Tanks and I've discovered I am a TERRIBLE tank tactician.... ;D
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Last week I decided to try the Archangel of 666 challenge in Doom the Rougelike. My plan was to use technician's Scavanger trait to build the best weapons and armor, then see how far can I go. Well, once I levelled up enough traits in this tree to block th Malicious Blades I found the Dragonslayer sword and equipped it. Since I could not unequipp it I had to go the melee route. The resoult?
(https://i.imgur.com/R2w3t2P.png)
It's really powerfull weapon and it gives you permanent berserk, with speed, attack and resistances bonuses, even Cyberdemons take only two or three strikes to die.
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Do we have a forum or a topic for BattleTech video game by Harebrained Schemes?
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Do we have a forum or a topic for BattleTech video game by Harebrained Schemes?
yep:
https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=61233.0
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Thanks
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Been binge playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate since I picked it up earlier this morning (Friday PDT). I finally rescued and unlocked my favorite fighter and pokemon, Lucario!
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Played a round of Smash TV on PS2... what fun, what joy... I'll buy that for a dollar!
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Been binge playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate since I picked it up earlier this morning (Friday PDT). I finally rescued and unlocked my favorite fighter and pokemon, Lucario!
I'm starting to wonder if Bowsette will be a DLC character for that game.
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Also played my first ever Smash game. Pretty fun. This thing is like a huge toy box.
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Played a round of Smash TV on PS2... what fun, what joy... I'll buy that for a dollar!
Do you mean this game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_TV)? I may have played it at some point, and I find number of other games to be better. Total Carnage for example (have it as part of collection on CD).
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Ayup!
Got the Midway Arcade edition... P!aying ever so often, mostly Gauntlet, Smash TV and Joust / Joust II!!!
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I just spent the past day and a half unscrewing my entire Fallout 4 game, and the process only took 4 reinstalls.
Ugh... Make that 5.
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Just installed Star Control:Origins. Instead of playing the game, went straight to the ship designer.
Made an SDF-1 (apparently the 2nd one) and a Mospeada Garfish. Considering what other ships to try and recreate.
How do you like Star Control Origins? I didn't realize it came out.
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What level are you on in Fallout 4? I just got to 70... ran across the derelict missile command pyramid down in the desert way south about three months ago when I was still a 39-40ish. Man, try killing a Mutated Ledgenary Glowing RadScorpion with an extended Ripper! And then have a Blood Widow Stingwing chase you into a nest of Black Bloatfly while during one of those freaky green lightning storms that spring up ever so often.... Radaway please!
Talk about Stimpaks ever other attack!
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If you have the Far Harbor DLC, there's a Ripper with the Staggering Legendary ability in IIRC the lumber mill.
Melee combat is officially a cakewalk at that point.
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Just the plain version, but thanks for the update....
Maybe Santa might send me some MO this year....
I've gotten a FatMan that shoots a secondary projectile, gave it the experimental MIRV... half the screen brightens up, and almost the whole screen at dark!
Still have that Alien Blaster and almost 350 rounds, got the stuff to upgrade it to fusion, but haven't yet.
Really wish that they'd allow us to fix and mod a Motorcycle or one of those many mini-weird cars that you see lying around....
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Be careful using Big Boy:there's a bug that if you get 5 ranks of the Explosives damage-boosting perk, using the Experimental MIRV will cause the shot to explode in your face, instantly killing you. I don't think it was ever fixed.
Upgrading the Alien Blaster to Fusion charges is fantastic: you lose about 5 points of damage but actually gain clip size, unlike what it says.
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I've boosted most of my weapons to near max...
Standard load is the Never-reloading 10MM, attached suppressor and harden with long clip, using small recon sight. Extended Ripper, Quad-Irradiated Missile Launcher, Kellog's .44 upgraded to Bull, Le Fusil Terribles, upgraded max, Ashmaker upgraded to Tri-barrel and Spinner defense, Silver Shroud SMG and Reba II, upgraded.
But generally, I use any weapon... even fists!
I've run across three times wounded Mutant Mongrels, healed them with Stimpack and they even follow me, even if I have Dogmeat with me!
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Feels odd, like it should have been Star Control 2.5/3. Theres numerous references and clear nods to the original game. The journal system is interesting, and they have an in game map that darkens the star systems you visit so you don't repeat them if you strip mine the system.
Overall i'm satisfied, game can be a bit tedious, but it's a rpg style game overall.
How do you like Star Control Origins? I didn't realize it came out.
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This is my review of Elite Dangerous this evening:
Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied.
This concludes my review of Elite Dangerous this evening.
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This is my review of Elite Dangerous this evening:
Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied.
This concludes my review of Elite Dangerous this evening.
Private Server...No Worries!
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This is my review of Elite Dangerous this evening:
Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied. Docking request denied.
This concludes my review of Elite Dangerous this evening.
You were outside of 7.5 km weren't you. Or a heavily populated system
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You were outside of 7.5 km weren't you. Or a heavily populated system
Nope. Sitting 500m from the station at zero velocity. It was the problem that deep space stations have with limited pads. All are occupied so you can't get in. What's weird is that one of the pads my size was empty and I was still being denied clearance to land. Dunno why; something must have glitched or it wasn't part of the active pad selection the game sees. I tried exiting and restarting the game a couple times, hoping that would clear NPC traffic, but no luck. I have a mission reward waiting for me there.
I'll probably open a ticket at some point if I can't get in again.
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Nope. Sitting 500m from the station at zero velocity. It was the problem that deep space stations have with limited pads. All are occupied so you can't get in. What's weird is that one of the pads my size was empty and I was still being denied clearance to land. Dunno why; something must have glitched or it wasn't part of the active pad selection the game sees. I tried exiting and restarting the game a couple times, hoping that would clear NPC traffic, but no luck. I have a mission reward waiting for me there.
I'll probably open a ticket at some point if I can't get in again.
Are you playing on Open Play, or Private Server? in OPEN play you must compete for pads with all the rest of the general plebs on whatever server you are on (and that could potentially be a hundred or so).
In Private Play, there is you, and only you. and I have never been denied docking in Private play (except in the cases of being more than 7.5 km out).
If it is still happeneing in private Play, then yeah, likely a ticket issue.
As to that pad that 'looks' empty, are you sure there wasn;t a Ship Inside the pad?
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If it is still happeneing in private Play, then yeah, likely a ticket issue.
As to that pad that 'looks' empty, are you sure there wasn;t a Ship Inside the pad?
Oh good point, I forgot that.
Yeah, this is on solo play; it's just been NPCs blocking. Like 5 NPC ships competing for 2 pads and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. Never happened before in Elite.
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Mega Man legacy collection was in the November humble bundle monthly so I’ve been slogging through the challenges embarrassingly poorly. Somewhere in 1991, ten year old me is laughing derisively
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It's because none of us have the reaction times we did when we were kids anymore.
And we tend to forget just how freaking hard those games actually were the first time around.
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It's because none of us have the reaction times we did when we were kids anymore.
And we tend to forget just how freaking hard those games actually were the first time around.
I think that decline is a small percentage of the issue. We have a tsunami of games available to play now and little incentive to just focus on a few like we once good. Then there's patience. We're willing to put up with a lot less. And then there's just lack of time given job and family needs.
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I think that decline is a small percentage of the issue. We have a tsunami of games available to play now and little incentive to just focus on a few like we once good. Then there's patience. We're willing to put up with a lot less. And then there's just lack of time given job and family needs.
This is my view as well. Back in the 80s most of us only had a handful of games so you just kept playing the same ones over and over. Quickman’s deathbeams were much less frustrating when I used to play that stage multiple hours a week for a bit. Also there’s something not quite right with the Xbone d-pad. Things went better after I dug out my usb-converted NES controller after the impotent rage had built up enough
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Oh good point, I forgot that.
Yeah, this is on solo play; it's just been NPCs blocking. Like 5 NPC ships competing for 2 pads and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. Never happened before in Elite.
Cool...never een that many NPCs either. I may need to jump in sometime soon and tool around and get my exploration Ship Up and retooled.
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Digital TVs also have a slight amount of lag compared to analog TVs.
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Cool...never een that many NPCs either. I may need to jump in sometime soon and tool around and get my exploration Ship Up and retooled.
The new update released that has a lot of new scanning and mining mechanics like scanning planetary rings for hotspots, impact detonators, and full detonators to crack asteroids apart.
There's also a new night vision mode and the dark side of planets have been tuned down so that you actually need to use it.
The last bit is an upgrade in the universe information (like a much better encyclopedia/catalog), how you report and use system scanning, and some other UI tweaks.
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Yesterday evening I pondered and wondered, and then I pulled the trigger. I bought Empire Deluxe Combined Edition and gave it test run, which ended up costing me couple hours of sleep. It is improvement over older versions of the game, I give it that. I'd better read manual about supply, resources, and nukes before I take those in the game. I bet this is decent game for a Windows tablet, though I have played it on my desktop only so far.
About MegaMan and other classics:
It's because none of us have the reaction times we did when we were kids anymore.
And we tend to forget just how freaking hard those games actually were the first time around.
Speak only for yourself. I remember full well what "Nintendo hard" used to mean, how beating first level in Probotector (censored version of Contra for European market) was a challenge behind several tries etc. And just in last summer (or early autumn) I got 72-pin connector changed on family's NES and speed-ran through Probotector once more while I was checking did I connect the part right. I admit, I had gotten little rusty. But I beat the game without having to use continues. I think... ::)
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I felt bored this morning...
So I whipped out the special edition of Maximum Carnage for SNES... yes the red game, not the classic grey!
Played for four hours... then some chores until bout an hour ago...
Might play some more or box it back up... haven't decided... maybe Demon's Crest? Eh... who knows!
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So you all know, I finally got into the station (and paid a fine for squatting on a landing pad out of frustration).
I'm looking at all the new keybindings for FSS and DSS scanning modes and... it's a lot. I may need to sit down and completely re-think my Steam Controller setup. I like how it works and have some muscle memory of it now, but holy cow does this change things.
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Might play some more or box it back up... haven't decided... maybe Demon's Crest? Eh... who knows!
Boxed it up again, after a nice wipe down...
Put SNES into cold storage until next time...
Playing Runescape : World 12, look me up, truetanker1...
Almost got killed by a Level 305 Chaos Elemental... I'm about 101 now...
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That is what we like to refer to as "level-inappropriate encounter."
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Well the thing is... 130 or so is the maxed level a Member can be.... there's bound to be higher levels to compete against. If you overkill something, what's the use? Not gaining much... it's like playing the hardest game with infinite armor / ammo lock on and no-damage against final bosses all day! Wow the first two or three times, but hours later? For what!?!
So they put some hard levels that randomly show up, waiting for unsuspecting players... I was out exploring a known region I've ran thru before... but haven't really looked at since the upgrades a few years ago. I've been busy doing other meaningful tasks like: Fishing, Cooking, Herbal-ing, Construction among a few... there's 27 skills each up to level 99, some go up to 130, maybe higher Jagex hasn't released anything new yet, their hinting that they might soon for 2019 a skill increase soon. I can't do the 27th skill yet, so it's still locked at 0... I need three other skills to open that up to be 90+... I've got 1 skill ready, but the other skills aren't even close... I'm mostly in the mid-to high 60's/70's in most skills. I've got a few 80's here and there...
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PS: Oh that "level-inappropriate encounter."
I had?
I was 103 points of health... since posting the first time... I've been healing at a church in Lumbridge, yeah using my prayer to heal. I have 7400 points of health now... my " current " max... for a 101! could have used any of my cooking skills to eat for health or a Potion...
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Your level maxes out at 130, but there are monsters in the game that can be 200+ levels higher? Honestly, that seems like lousy game design. It just seems like character level should be related to your ability to take on monsters.
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Some are team events...
Also you can get, either build or buy in game using in game coins, higher weapons and such.. some potions do increase your levels.
I prefer to make my own stuff... I do have the Highest in Game Non-Member armor available... I bought that... took me 2 months of selling highest makeable cooking items at the time, Chocolate Cakes ( level 50 )... I can make up to level 90 now. That was about 6 or so years ago... I've been playing since '04! ( Wasn't a member then... was more like mid-30's in free worlder stuff... they had just upgraded everything to 99 levels maxed ).
I also make armor, weapons and just sold runes, potions and various items... IF I sold everything sellable in my bank, about almost 1 and a half Billion... or so... I currently have 55 Million and change in coins...
The game isn't just about beating up things... it's to unwind.. I've been a member for like 6 years... I play at most, about 3 hours a day give or take, mostly on the weekends... it adds up.
Black Queen Dragon is only 900 levels, try fighting the Kalphite King, level 2500! But there is a Keris dagger that helps.
Full listing of creatures:
https://www.tip.it/runescape/bestiary (https://www.tip.it/runescape/bestiary)
https://www.tip.it/runescape/items/view/6655-keris (https://www.tip.it/runescape/items/view/6655-keris)
I believe you can apply poison to the blade as an attachment, which might help...
Haven't tried it, but I have seen both Dragon off-hand and Dragon Daggers with Weapon Poison... but a little research says as of 2012 it was removed from the game... might have to double check it, I have a friend who has one, or rather had one... still plays on and off. I'll ask them...
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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is available on Steam for free for limited time in case anybody cares.
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If I'm reading it correctly, you can play it for free until tomorrow (December 19th) but they're not actually giving the game away.
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What level are you on in Fallout 4? I just got to 70... ran across the derelict missile command pyramid down in the desert way south about three months ago when I was still a 39-40ish. Man, try killing a Mutated Ledgenary Glowing RadScorpion with an extended Ripper! And then have a Blood Widow Stingwing chase you into a nest of Black Bloatfly while during one of those freaky green lightning storms that spring up ever so often.... Radaway please!
Oh, were you responding to me? Sorry.
Uh, due to that error-which I found out was F4SE bugging out, sadly-I'm back down to a fresh Level 15 save now.
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" Stupid human, Mutants better! " and " Must find Milk of Human Kindness " are the two most laughable phrases followed by a Synths " My sensors need calibrating, Hello? Is someone there? " when I'm kneeling in front of them sneaking around in full daylight using a Stealth Boy!
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I just started Here be Monsters, the Chinese Sub quest...
Since " One " cannot bring aboard their Power Armor... I found a way, use Companion to smuggle it aboard...No Helmet, so no lightsource...
I haven't done much exploring yet...
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Just played the free demo of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
It's pretty, and mechanically it's mostly OK, but the story isn't doing anything for me so I doubt I'll buy it unless I find it with a really deep discount
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I got both the 2013 Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider through Humble Bundle Monthly and enjoyed them - though I probably wouldn't have nearly as much if I had gotten them at MSRP.
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Actually I think it might have been Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Whichever one is most recent.
I really enjoyed the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot and thought the movie was decent too.
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I'm about to start the harrowing grind that is reaching rank 152 in Halo 5. Wish me luck, friends.
Oh, also, some new stuff learned from a recent 343i stream;
-Black Undersuits confirmed (again) for Infinite, they pointed out what black undersuits specifically mean ("All parts of armor that isn't the metal pieces" (paraphrase)) and that the art department (sparth) is well aware of the high demand for black undersuits
-Halo Infinite will have Halo Reach Inspired Player Customization, Brian acknowledged that many fans view reach's customization as the best iteration and said fans of reach's customization will be pleased
-Halo Infinite slipspace engine was developed with PC in mind (different hardware combinations ETC), and that PC will be "treated as a first-class citizen", but that halo PC flighting programs may come later than the other flights, due to technical challenges with developing for PC. AntiCheat for PC was already confirmed earlier this year.
-Players who reach level 152 in Halo 5 will receive a special reward in Halo: Infinite
-Halo Infinite will have (4) player splitscreen
-Slipspace Engine is not completely made from scratch, elements from previous Halo's were used
-In response to requests for more customization in Halo 5 (new armor/emblems/etc) 343 guys said that they were "running out of things to add to Halo: 5" - seems like they want to wind down development on Halo: 5 and focus full-time on infinite.
-Flighting Programs for Infinite will start small but over time will have more and more players, will be opt-in, and will be happening right up to release.
-343 are in the process of starting a Halo: Infinite pro team
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Steam has winter sale on and year ago GOG had crazy sales too (got 5 games of Heroes of Might & Magic series for 10 €). What are we buying? I'm considering Syrian Warfare. Is it up to the par with Ground Control, Dawn of War, and Total Annihilation?
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I've received Kirby: Star Allies for the switch as a gift from my relatives. I do have a soft spot for the Kirby games. :) (did I say that already?)
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Steam has winter sale on and year ago GOG had crazy sales too (got 5 games of Heroes of Might & Magic series for 10 €). What are we buying? I'm considering Syrian Warfare. Is it up to the par with Ground Control, Dawn of War, and Total Annihilation?
It's closer to Act of War and Men of War. There is no base building or unit production, you have limited number of infantry squads and vehicles, getting reinforcements through the campaign along with the ability to capture and repair damaged enemy vehicles. It takes a bit to get used to, especially properly reading cover and arcs of fire. Interestingly, the predecessor game is gone for the steam store.
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Currently going back and forth between the glorious insanity that is EDF 5, and the glorious nostalgia trip that is the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
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On a whim I bought the Capcom Beat'M Up Bundle.
With the classic Final Fight to less well known entries like Captain Commando , the outright obscure Armored Troopers, to the never-before-released-on-console Battle Crashers, it's a fun time-waster.
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Steam has winter sale on and year ago GOG had crazy sales too (got 5 games of Heroes of Might & Magic series for 10 €). What are we buying? I'm considering Syrian Warfare. Is it up to the par with Ground Control, Dawn of War, and Total Annihilation?
I can recommend Might and Magic 10 if you like the grid-party RPG vibe. It's a lot of retro style fun.
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FTL is 75% off, it's a rougelike where you command a spaceship and try to get through eight sectors to final destination, with enemy armada at your heels. Great replayability value, but word of advice if you choose it, play with advanced tech disabled at first, so you learn the ropes with basic tech.
Panzer Corps is 90% off. It's a succesor to Panzer General and it has tons of payable DLC campaigns. Same price at Matrix/Slitherine store.
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I'm considering Syrian Warfare. Is it up to the par with Ground Control, Dawn of War, and Total Annihilation?
I pulled trigger for Syrian Warfare and gave it a test run. Very similar to Ground Control 2, just with more polish, some advances, and more micromanagement: engineers can lay variety of mines and player can order vehicle crews to abandon their rides. No base building, but infantry (and other guys on foot) can go into buildings. Player can spend command points to buy variety of units. Good variety of vehicles, civilian ones too (truck, bus, car, Hilux...), and those on foot can commandeer them. Quite decent RTS with historical background to boot.
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Bit of advice, give your ATGM teams order not to fire their missiles, otherwise they will waste them on technicals, runing out of ammo by the time SVBIEDs or tanks engage you.
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Santa saw that I was a good little MechWarrior this year... so in my Hole(y) Sock... I got a Nestle Crisp bar, some mini-sour Candy Canes, an OOP NIB Marauder from Ral Partha and the complete Fallout 4 Add-on package...
Meaning I have all the add-ons except Creation Club points....
Woot!
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Wow, wonder where they found a NIB Marauder.
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You see them floating around once in a blue moon. There was an NIB Marauder IIC on eBay last week. I got a sealed Marauder II a few years back
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Just started playing Heroes & Generals again after a long absence. Several new maps was a pleasant surprise.
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Just started Crusader Kings 2. Its.....complex.... 😂 my first 2 dynasties died out within 4 generations due to illness, assassinations, marital mismanagement, and sons who want to become monks and take stupid vows of chastity!! 😡
But I find it fun and fascinating.
I watched a 47 hour playthrough by a YouTube guy called "Many a True Nerd" and that sold me on the game, so I knew it was a game of juggling wet cats before I got it. 😉
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OpenRA got me to revisit the original Command and Conquer AND Red Alert. Pretty fun.
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Been having fun I fallout 76, just reached level 60 and have been spending the last 10 levels helping lower level players. I set up my camp near a vault so they have a safe place to grab food and water. I've also given away a lot of ammo and stimpaks. Stimpaks are easy and plentiful so it helps get rid of wright for me 😅.
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You goys couldhave warned me about the Machinist in FO4.... I took way less ammo than I normally take, left my Laser Gatling and almost all my .50 cal ammo behind! Luckily I had over 400 Stimpacks saved....
But wave after wave of Trashbots wasn't enough? Sheesh...
And I was slowed down because I keep everything I see...
I play PakRat for a reason.
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That was an issue for you? By the time I did that DLC I already had a zillion rounds of ammo.
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I pack light mostly...
Sure ammo is 0 weight, but I tend to go thru a round every trigger pull....
Not like the Automatics... burrp goes the clip... my Never ending Suppressed 10mm runs about 200 average a board... I use Kellog's Bulledified .44 most encounters and the Le' Troubles shotgun too...
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I always go melee build so I give hundreds of rounds away a week. Poor level 8," got any shotgun ammo?" *drops 800 rounds.*
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I got a fully armored X-01 with Telsa and Bloody Knuckles mods, Jet-pack and Rad Scrubber with Bright Light helmet. Both legs have that Servo-enhancer that allows more carrying capacity. I just recently added the Ammunition producer plant... all I need is Lead and Fertilizer to make 10mm rounds...
Thinking of adding a Food Processer plant... haven't decided yet.
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Star Control: Origins just got pulled from GoG and Steam for DMCA infringement. Current owners can still play, and I was just considering adding more classic anime ships too.
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Thinking of adding a Food Processer plant... haven't decided yet.
You'd be the only one to benefit from it, when you lack mods. They don't provide any food to settlers.
Which is stupid, mind you, but I might be more annoyed than I used to due to this who FO76 thing leaving a bitter taste in my mouth.
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wizard of legend came in this month's humble bundle. pretty good action rogue-like
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I'm getting back into Rising Storm 2, and I forgot how satisfying it is to get headshots in that game. That nice PLINK you get when you nail someone in the helmet is the best sound.
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Like the sound of armor penetration in Steel Panthers and Close Combat. As long as it was not one of your tanks that was hit.
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Planetside 2 again, and it looks like the bulk of our regular outfit has moved to the Soltech (Japan) server. Looks like I'm going to have to build my character up once more.
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Nuka-World.... Ants and the bad language!
Oh boy.... now where's Cappy again? ;)
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Nuka-World.... Ants and the bad language!
Oh boy.... now where's Cappy again? ;)
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Where are you at on Odyssey now? I recently re-beat Bowser on a new playthrough (old cartridge got stolen at the airport). I'm at about 40-50 moons in Mushroom Kingdom and haven't touched the Cube moons of the game's 2nd half.
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Playing a Steam early release called Graveyard Keeper. Introduced by a friend, it's a crafting/tech tree oriented game with an art style and feel like Stardew Valley. But it's dark. Actually quite dark and demented. Your character does things with cadavers that are just... ew. I'm a sucker for this kind of game flow and I like it so far, but I'm not sure whether I'll be interested in RP'ing a reluctant necromancer or inquisitor.
Also, apparently, the characters talk about the Town as if it's an actual place to visit. You can get a town pass, but lightning kills you every time you try to travel there. It is apparently a dev joke, but I think it's a bit too obscure to be detected by players.
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Proper response to an uppity Synth Courser who you happen to need a Courser chip from;
- Three doses of Nuclear ordnance
- Fifteen doses of Missiles
- One dosage of 44 Magnum directly to the cranium, applied as a critical hit.
In case it wasn't obvious, I really, REALLY hate the courser in that particular mission.
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I liked the snarky response you could give him.
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I liked the snarky response you could give him.
I used to, until I realized how much I like calzones and how my character would problably be one of the few left on Earth to know how to make one.
Now it just makes me sad.
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Curse you for pointing that out! Now I'm sad!
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2 Nuke Mines is all it took, had Curie with me in a her new body, so there! She did have Ashmaker tricked out tho...
If that helps... I currently am using Ada in Nuka World in max capacity... god I hate MR. Floatys... :D Sooo many bad puns here.
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I'm pretty sure my reaction to that Courser was to just employ Spray N Pray in his general direction for a short amount of time.
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I did DRL Archangel of 666 challenge again, this time without Dragonslayer. Still, I found no less than four nuclear (self charging) BFGs during the play, modifying one into BBFG9000, doing duble damage of regular BFG. Superb for clearing out the masses of monsters often surrounding me at the start of the level.
(https://i.imgur.com/0LzQjna.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZNJ8w1m.png)
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I started a new game of Kingdom Come Deliverance last night. I like it pretty well. Much better after I learned how to draw my damn sword!!! ;D I think I died 6 time in the first real fight just button mashing trying to braw the sword... xp
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Less of a 'playing' and more of a 'building'-I recently bought the Halo 5 "Hannibal Mantis" set, and it kind of rekindled the desire to get Halo sets once again.
Seriously, this thing's awesome. The usage of ball joints in the leg make it far more posable than any mech lego set I've ever used short of Bionicles, and that's not even getting into the posing joy that is Megabrand's Halo minifigures. Articulated KNEES and ELBOWS, people, that's the future right there. The quality has really taken a massive step up from that Halo Wars-era Warthog I got way back when.
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New Super Mario U is good. I never had a Wii U so this was a fine opportunity to dive into some lovely HD side scrolling action. Nintendo's virtuosity at exploring mini mechanics for one or two levels is really dominant here and a pleasure to explore as they confidantly play with whole sections of the screen to introduce challenges. Animations are top notch but more complicated and longer than the SNES days. The direction changes and skid stops also take longer. The interactive elements of the world map are fine but Nintendo doesn't do much with them. For example, I don't see a lot of decision making opportunites. The paths are colorfully and well disguised to not look linear but linear they are. It's more SMB3 than SMW in design. I liked the latter more for a reason. I have not yet gotten a chance to play single screen coop yet. It may be that the party game aspect is the real feature of the game that opens up so much more.
Altogether I think the Wii U port is a very solid Switch addition. They needed a decent 2D partner to flesh out the Mario lineup and this does an excellent job. But there are very good reasons Super Mario World is the Platonic ideal of a 2D platformer. The multi path hidden key exit alone created an interplay between overworld and level that I still have yet to see in a game.
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MechCommander Gold with Darkest Hours mod. As fun as I remember it.
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PsihoKekec~
PM sent...
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I've decided to do a play-through of the original Super Mario Bros. NES game via Switch Online's subscription. With Practice after practice, I've made it to World 4-1. I know this following sentence would be a cop-out but, are you ready for it? here we go... I used the save state feature whenever I completed a level or save to a safe spot to take a break from it.
PS- remember folks, this is a thread for Non-BT video games.
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PS- remember folks, this is a thread for Non-BT video games.
Does Hawken count? xp
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Does Hawken count? xp
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In terms of Non-BT video games, you can talk about other mech games that is not Mechwarrior and/or Battletech such as Armored Core and as you mentioned, Hawken. :)
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such as Armored Core
Speaking of, I heard that a new Armored Core's all but confirmed, but I can't remember where I heard that from.
On another mech note-or, rather, a mini-mecha note (Because Power Armor/Battle Armor doesn't adequately describe it to me), Anthem's preorders are available now.
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I've decided to do a play-through of the original Super Mario Bros. NES game via Switch Online's subscription. With Practice after practice, I've made it to World 4-1. I know this following sentence would be a cop-out but, are you ready for it? here we go... I used the save state feature whenever I completed a level or save to a safe spot to take a break from it.
Youth these days, can't play through a platformer game without saving.
You know level 1-2 has a short cut, right? When you come to the steel beams (or whatev) going up and down, go up all the way and jump on top of the top-most bricks just below status bar. Run all the way to the end, and you should come across a room with 3 pipes going down and text "WARP ZONE" if I recall correctly.
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I've decided to do a play-through of the original Super Mario Bros. NES game via Switch Online's subscription. With Practice after practice, I've made it to World 4-1. I know this following sentence would be a cop-out but, are you ready for it? here we go... I used the save state feature whenever I completed a level or save to a safe spot to take a break from it.
PS- remember folks, this is a thread for Non-BT video games.
it's all good fun. bragging about living through the "nitnendo hard days" is like my great grandfather grousing about his sons getting to use tractors instead of an animal-drawn plough. i would have given a finger back in the 80s for savestates.
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To say nothing about the old Mega Man games. Man, those aren't Ghosts and Goblins or Ninja Gaiden hard, but they were still in the top tier for NES.
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You know level 1-2 has a short cut, right? When you come to the steel beams (or whatev) going up and down, go up all the way and jump on top of the top-most bricks just below status bar. Run all the way to the end, and you should come across a room with 3 pipes going down and text "WARP ZONE" if I recall correctly.
*sigh* yes I know. I'm totally aware of warp zones
Youth these days, can't play through a platformer game without saving.
*facepalm* I'm an adult who's almost 3 decades old
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I like platformers with save games. I no longer have the time or the attention span needed to play a game for three straight hours.
Not to mention the fact that it allows for much larger and more complex games.
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To say nothing about the old Mega Man games. Man, those aren't Ghosts and Goblins or Ninja Gaiden hard, but they were still in the top tier for NES.
sometimes you can just feel the coder's gleeful sadism. I'm pretty sure part of the QC check before some of those games went out the door had a box to tick off entitled "makes children cry."
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sometimes you can just feel the coder's gleeful sadism. I'm pretty sure part of the QC check before some of those games went out the door had a box to tick off entitled "makes children cry."
Arcade quarter design habits.
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Arcade quarter design habits.
that and "we can't have people paying $40 for a game they clear in a day or less."
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"we can't have people paying $40 for a game they clear in a day or less."
I suppose. Last year I replaced the 72-pin connector on family's NES and I tested it out with Probotector (censored version of Contra for European market, because killing humans in a video game was too cruel around here). I played it through in 30 minutes or so and had to use continue for it. I have gotten rusty since time before. But when I played the game back in the '90s, it was serious effort and achievement to get through the first level.
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And NISA, the company which ruined Ys 8 for me just announced they were releasing the English localization of "Trials of Cold Steel 3" (which they fixed exceedingly rapidly).
My day is ruined.
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I don't know why Battlefield 1 spikes my blood pressure so much.
I mean, it's totally as though seeing the entire team thinking artillery trucks and sniping are both waaaaay better for offense on Operations than Supports, Assaults, Medics, and Assault/Heavy Tanks, and proceeding to be even more of spineless cowards than a penal platoon with no supervision. I shouldn't be topscoring by being an aggressive Assault Tank, guys, come on.
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That reminds me of a few of the games I played of World of Tanks.
Though by far the worst was one where a fully upgraded IS on our team (basically an IS-2 by that point) spent the entire match hiding out with the artillery and refused to engage the enemy at all despite being the top tier vehicle in the match. It even hid from an M5 Stewart, which couldn't even punch through an IS's rear armor and would die in one shot from the IS's gun. Literally, as soon as it saw the Stewart it hid behind a rock and kept backing away every time the Stewart advanced until it backed into a corner and got obliterated by enemy TDs.
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Though by far the worst was one where a fully upgraded IS on our team (basically an IS-2 by that point) spent the entire match hiding out with the artillery and refused to engage the enemy at all despite being the top tier vehicle in the match. It even hid from an M5 Stewart, which couldn't even punch through an IS's rear armor and would die in one shot from the IS's gun. Literally, as soon as it saw the Stewart it hid behind a rock and kept backing away every time the Stewart advanced until it backed into a corner and got obliterated by enemy TDs.
Good god, I think I'd pop a blood vessel. How on Earth someone even gets to a high tier unit like that, despite playing like that, is beyond me.
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I'm guessing it was a kid playing on their parent's account. But there were a heck of a lot of players who were total idiots that would screw over the team in a variety of stupid ways.
I gave up on the game a year and a half ago anyway. Became too much pay-to-win while the developers kept cranking out increasingly more OP premium tanks while never fixing the bugs and taking out the best maps because they didn't work on the Xbox360 while I was playing on the PS4.
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Just bought the girlfriend kh3 as a early Valentine's present.
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So I got into the Anthem demo this weekend and I have to say.
It has so many elements from Destiny that it makes my head spin, down to ubertough "Can't possibly be solo'd" boss fights that take forever and a day to finish and enemies dropping colored 'gems' when they die containing a random item; The beginnings of what's already looking like an extensive, but cosmetic-only, microtransaction system; And buggy performance issues, especially on console. And on the Destiny thing, it even has an endless array of 'trash' weapon drops for weapon models that all act fundamentally the same in many ways.
But in spite of that, the combat itself is fluid and fun when there aren't any issues, and flying and exploring is amazing. It's like all the great scenery porn of Avatar with Iron Man Suit/Salamander Battle Armor hybrids. I can't comment on the effectiveness of the Interceptor or Storm Javelin, but both seem extremely powerful. The Ranger's good, but kind of boring, and the Colossus... Oh, the Colossus. It's fun to use, but the differences it has between the other three chassis is a downright unneeded and painful nerf for the otherwise great unit.
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If only EA weren't such a rotten company.
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Ace Combat 7! Love it!
I've previously only played AC6 (loved it, the reason i've been impatiently waiting for this one) and AC Assault Horizon (ignoring the close quarters quick-time event thing, it does play mostly like Strangereal ACs but didn't have the right feel, meh overall).
There's just something special in arcade flight combat game. Pity the genre has basically no representation beyond AC... though i suppose it is hard to compete with it, varied mission design and finely tuned gameplay take time and effort.
Multiplayer's a surprise as well. Barebones, with only team deathmatch and free for all modes but flying against humans is a fun challenge.
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I used to play on PS3's Ace Combat Infinity, it was fun online only free game. Hows does this new one compare aside from the graphics?
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Well, i jumped right into this one. Muscle memory carried over from Ace Combat 6. Figure the fundamentals are the same. Some details have changed: standard missiles work slightly differently (in AC6 they got proximity fuse, in all others they need direct hit), certain planes can now do post-stall maneuvers like the cobra maneuver, clouds have effect on radar and winds can push your plane around.
But otherwise it is Ace Combat. Maybe an issue for some, for me it is a selling point.
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I've been playing Ark: Extinction on a mates PvE server, having a great time, but playing alongside my kids is super stressful.
Just like in real life, it seems I only turn my back for a second and one of them is doing something stupid which will likely get us all killed :-P
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Kingdom Hearts 3... is good. Maybe even great, but I refuse to make that call until I finish playing it.
I'm shocked. I mean, how many game series have had THIS many midquels and re-releases and overhype and far too much obscure lore and toxic fandoms and STILL turned out even ADEQUATE sequels, let alone highly playable and entertaining ones?
And that involve some of the latest Disney properties as kinda-blatant plugs?
There are moments when I've been annoyed (screw you, Olaf! SKIP SCENE PLS), and some where I've been confused BECAUSE of all that stacked-up lore in KH games that I didn't play and didn't care to. But it's been legitimately entertaining almost all the way through, with some great design choices and worlds that could be their own game ENTIRELY - the Pirates world has a solid sailing and exploration mechanic that could easily serve as the foundation for a game by itself!
The fascinating thing for me is how they integrate the worlds into the actual PLOT of Kingdom Hearts - which is basically about how the villains are trying to use souls of stories and the heroes of those stories to fuel their ambitions. (Replace every instance of the word 'heart' with 'soul' to get an idea of the actual scope of the story). Take the Pirates world, where part of the original plot is that Davy Jones has pulled his heart out and put it in a box. Since in KH lore doing that makes you into a Heartless, the villains are quite interested to see HOW he accomplished this feat and want to find his heart to study it and replicate it.
The only non-core game that you HAVE to play not to be confused a little is, I think, Birth By Sleep - which I did NOT play, but is available on the KH2.8 ver5 Super Final Impressive Remix which I do own (as a gift) but never got around to doing anything with. The overarching plot involves characters from that game.
But KH3 does an adequate job of covering who those characters are, I think, though it is a bit hard to take seriously exposition coming from Mickey Mouse's voice.
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I'm shocked. I mean, how many game series have had THIS many midquels and re-releases and overhype and far too much obscure lore and toxic fandoms and STILL turned out even ADEQUATE sequels, let alone highly playable and entertaining ones?
Does BattleTech and related stuff (MechWarrior: Dark Age, Mech Assault, and what have you) count?
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I've been having fun with Apex Legends.
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Currently working on Persona 5.
Once you're a certain number of levels higher than an enemy, you should be immune to auto-kill attacks from them. There should also be a limit to how many times in one combat enemies can summon reinforcements.
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Does BattleTech and related stuff (MechWarrior: Dark Age, Mech Assault, and what have you) count?
I would in fact count them. After all there's a lot of good Battletech stuff... and some bad stuff that people thought would kill it.
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HEAR YE HEAR YE, Gentlebugs! The vile criminal Hornet, the so-called "Protector" of the feral Deepnest, has been captured and brought to Justice! She will answer for her crimes against bugkind, and her perverse bestial bloodline will end with-HURK!
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https://youtu.be/pFAknD_9U7c (https://youtu.be/pFAknD_9U7c)
Hornet, Protector of the Deepenest, The Gendered Child, Princess of Hallownest, Guardian of the Kingdoms Edge, Warden of Greenpath, Daughter of Three Mothers, blah blah blah...she's got her own game now. Silksong.
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I've recently played the demo version of Daemon X Machina for the Switch. It's a pretty good mech game.
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Still stuck in Nuka-World's Kiddie Kingdom looking for an elusive Hidden Cappy... Been everywhere... even the hint on the Pip-Boy isn't helping... out of my suit running around...
I'll find it soon enough...
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Well, you can go for it if you're a completionist, but FYI the in-game reward isn't much.
It's just some different Nuka-Cola bottles.
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Well, you can go for it if you're a completionist, but FYI the in-game reward isn't much.
It's just some different Nuka-Cola bottles.
Errrr wot? You get far more than that as a reward.
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Sorry, I'm thinking of one of the other quests. It's late, I should be going to bed instead of posting. xp
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I found it so don't worry guys... wished I had found Rachel before I confronted Oswald the Magnificent.
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Empty Epsilon (http://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/), space sim, playing & streaming it right now
https://www.twitch.tv/sbsxansta
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Streaming ended, replay available here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/381628986##
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"Do I n-need your IP-ad-dress..."
^ That stuttering is said by me. My Engrish sounds even worse than I thought.
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Tetris 99 is total chaos
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I've recently played the demo version of Daemon X Machina for the Switch. It's a pretty good mech game.
I like it too, though I hope the variety of missions is bigger. The first two missions felt like the game could drop into the hole that Starlink did which is an amazing game but gets repetitive.
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Thinking about picking up Stellaris console edition. Anyone here play it on pc?
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Thinking about picking up Stellaris console edition. Anyone here play it on pc?
Yep. It's pretty good, Decent successor to MoO2.
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Please tell me that means master's of Orion 😄😄
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And not molybdenum dioxide? ^-^
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Please tell me that means master's of Orion 😄😄
You are correct, sir!
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You are correct, sir!
!!!!!! Loved that series as a little kid, definitely gonna pick it up then.
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!!!!!! Loved that series as a little kid, definitely gonna pick it up then.
You might want to take a look at some YouTube vids. MOO games are turn based and Stellaris is RTS. So find out first what you're getting into (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfPED-Q-Ps). If turn based is a requirement for you, there are Endless Space 2 and Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars from 2016.
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You might want to take a look at some YouTube vids. MOO games are turn based and Stellaris is RTS. So find out first what you're getting into (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfPED-Q-Ps). If turn based is a requirement for you, there are Endless Space 2 and Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars from 2016.
I'm fine with either honestly, been reading up on reviews and for 38$ it looks like a fun way to kill time when my buddy's aren't on to play Apex.
I'm a console player so my options for these kind of games is sorely limited unfortunately.
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I know some here have mentioned sites like GOG for getting ahold of older games.
But has anyone had experience with the site old-games.com? they seem to have a # of older games for download, similar to how GOG does it (it seems)....
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I made a search for the site and got a link to GOG forum. Speculation goes it's pirate site and mods will warn (or ban) you for typing (most of) the address.
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I made a search for the site and got a link to GOG forum. Speculation goes it's pirate site and mods will warn (or ban) you for typing (most of) the address.
IF pirate THEN
set Mod_Mood = <laughing_bones_xxx_dynamite_LoL>
"Dead men teeeelll no taaaaales." #lifelongdisneylandfan
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I just finished a game of Age of Empires II, for PC.
Twas fun...
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Did... did you just make a Full Metal Jacket reference, Azur Lane... ???
You did. You did didn't you. (https://i.imgur.com/3mDy8WL.jpg)
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I made a search for the site and got a link to GOG forum. Speculation goes it's pirate site and mods will warn (or ban) you for typing (most of) the address.
Which is why i didn't do a full linking..
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Just so y'all know, it doesn't take a link either. Just soliciting pirated stuff will get you into trouble. There's a line and it's roughly at "Hey, can someone find me some Warez?" to borrow a nineties term. Sometimes it's unclear whether someone wants to *buy* the product, but usually that susses out in the followup exchange.
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Dragon Quest XI currently half off on steam... hmmm
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XCOM 2 War of the Chosen at the moment.
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Darkest Dungeon, because apparently I'm sucker roguelikes. I blame FTL for sending me on this spiral.
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Picked up Stellaris on the console, wasn't disappointed. Managed to make clan sea fox,yeah yeah!
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Old skool but I recently picked up a PS4 (my old 360 finally died a peaceful death) and I've been playing Skyrim through. Such a glorious waste of time.
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Old skool but I recently picked up a PS4 (my old 360 finally died a peaceful death) and I've been playing Skyrim through. Such a glorious waste of time.
Did you make a mage only to end up a stealthy archer?
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Mages got so nerfed in Skyrim.
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I will never not play a stealthy archer in elder schools
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I found an excellent way to grind archery in Skyrim.
Go west of Whitehall until you find a small bridge. There should be a couple of mammoths that spawn in the region. If you shoot a mammoth, you can run under the bridge and they can't reach you, allowing you to pepper them with arrows (or spells) until they both die, netting a bunch of skill and some good loot at low level for basically no risk.
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Not a video game, but analog RPG, and I don't wanna open a new topic for it. GURPS with setting taking after Skyrim video game. In player adventuring party are a man and a woman, both with following features: handsome/beautiful, sex appeal, and lecherousness. First night, some dice rolls, and at end of it human man got infection from vampire woman. Player characters (all 3 of them, including the vampire) started to look up ingredients for the cure.
Player of 3rd character: We have enough
Me: For how many nights? ;D
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GURPS is a good game system for shenanigans.
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Stellaris has been a blast. Im on my third empire as a fanatical spiritualist/pacifist! I've uplifted one primitive species but during the process I lost a scientist,uh oh!? He later turned up having engrained himself into the population with the intent of leading them and revealed himself all, it was me dio!!! Style. After making them my vassal I incorporated them into my empire at the same time he claimed he would lead them to glory, feel bad for his failed plans. I started a war of liberation to try out the war mechanics and had a blast fighting a 2 on 1 war against a couple of guys that lasted about 3 decades with lots of pew pew pews untill I finally won and liberated one of the filthy xenos homeworlds for the kek,this new fledgling empire was then turned vassal by another empire ive had semi decent relationship with. But the orthorri empires in a federation with another guy who i dont get along with and they ended up going to war with me shortly after,my 2 friends were worthless in this fight so after about 40 years of fighting we ceded for peace and basically chunked one of my allies in the concessions. While observing another primitive species I once again lost another scientist and had a good idea of what would happen...i was wrong. The Surat exposed himself and claimed to be their new God king and flipped me the bird, I promptly landed a couple squads of psi warriors and killed their new God along with a number of his fanatical warriors and probably tainted their development, Spock would be pissed. Then war 2 electric boogaloo begun when the 2 biggest empires decided to have another go with me,throwing out 80k fleets at me that through guile,perseverance and sometime luck I have managed to fend off. 30 years into the war they are trying to make peace, but I've occupied a few of their world's and plan on sending small fleets of corvettes in to smash their resources as they have done to mine, turn about is fair play,quiaff?
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Then war 2 electric boogaloo begun when the 2 biggest empires decided to have another go with me,throwing out 80k fleets at me that through guile,perseverance and sometime luck I have managed to fend off. 30 years into the war they are trying to make peace, but I've occupied a few of their world's and plan on sending small fleets of corvettes in to smash their resources as they have done to mine, turn about is fair play,quiaff?
Make peace with one of them, then curb-stomp the other.
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I would but they're a federation. Wars been going on 50 years and now it's a galactic war with everyone they have ever picked on hitting them. Currently occupying 6 of their planets which is nothing with how huge they are,if they offered me a federation invite it would be a federation victory. My favorite battleship is what I named the gausszilla.
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Conquer from within...
Boom! You won...
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Just got back into Elite Dangerous after acquiring some Saitek hardware. I do like HOTAS but really need mounts that don't cut off blood circulation.
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Been stuck in Melbourne for a week, with an antique laptop, so only old games for me.
Currently torn between Neverwinter Nights and Caesar 3 for most hours this week.
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Purble Place...
My kids won a contest against me, if they won I'd play nothing but Purble Place for a week...
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And that's the last time you're going to challenge them to a contest?
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NO... would you?
I'd rather have fun than play stupid games for no reason.
It's called own up and good parenting... Learned time ago that for a happy family, if you mess up, deal with it.. but don't be a poor sport in the process.
Now in Battle tech... challenge them to a battle, IF they win, either Ice Cream for breakfast on Sunday or up an hour later on Saturday night... 10pm! And when they lose, chores all day Sunday, while I play Runescape or Fallout 4! ( Usually three to four hours of chores... ) Or Purble Place for a week...
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I lack children or the desire for them. Parenthood is not an aspiration of mine. ;)
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my daughter is 14 months so i can currently beat her at everything.
diablo 1 hit GoG for $10... i am tempted...
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I saw that too, but I just played Diablo III a year ago and remember how Diablo titles are really basically idle clickers where you can die.
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i didn't ever play the first one much. Diablo 2 was in that magical wheelhouse where i had both the time and attention span to play video games for like eight hours a day.
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i didn't ever play the first one much. Diablo 2 was in that magical wheelhouse where i had both the time and attention span to play video games for like eight hours a day.
If nothing else it has an entertainingly horrific end cutscene.
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that i have seen
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If nothing else it has an entertainingly horrific end cutscene.
That's not what using your head is supposed to look like!
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That's not what using your head is supposed to look like!
"Hey mate, ya got some ibuprofen or something?" <person runs away screaming> "No? Alright."
I think it had such an impact because it came from nowhere. It was a violent and sudden non sequitur.
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And crazy, downer endings like that weren't common yet.
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pulled out zelda: skyward sword this weekend. i dislike it as much as before. twilight princess was a better game on almost every level.
also fired up yoshi's wooly world. it's a ****** masterpiece and i will brook no opinion to the contrary.
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pulled out zelda: skyward sword this weekend. i dislike it as much as before. twilight princess was a better game on almost every level.
also fired up yoshi's wooly world. it's a ****** masterpiece and i will brook no opinion to the contrary.
Yoshi's Crafted World will beat it. Fite me. :)
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I've just about beaten Persona 5 on NG+ mode and barely managed to max out all Confidants (got Haru's final scene on the very last possible day).
Now it's time to grind the cash needed to summon blatantly OP Personas for the final boss. I mean, sure, I could be the boss with what I've got now, but where's the fun in that?
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Yoshi's Crafted World will beat it. Fite me. :)
Raphael's School of Athens and The Sistine Madonna are both masterpieces. this isn't highlander.
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Just picked up Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Having a lot of fun with it so far, but, I've got to teach myself to NOT play it like I would play Dark Souls or Bloodborne. *laughs*
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Stellaris Console Edition for the PS4 (computer isn't even close to running it) and I have to say this game is really challenging; I am on my fourth playthru and have to say that playing as a benign Democratic Empire is somewhat more rewarding than the past three Star Empires
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Btw, the two Fate games for the PS4- are they multiplayer only or single player with an actual story?
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I'm pretty sure all the Fate titles are single player.
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The blizzard nostalgia train keeps rolling with Warcraft I and II.
I mostly think about warcraft in context of BT. I hadn’t had $50 or whatever it cost in the summer of ‘95 I would have missed Mechwarrior 2, as Warcraft II swallowed my friend group’s attention for almost a year. No mw2, no 4th ed box set in late ‘96 with my birthday money and I would have almost certainly declined to join my friend’s uncle’s bt campaign.
Also wc2 joins dune 2 and the first c&c red alert as the only RTSs I ever enjoyed
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Only been playing VEGA conflict. Though steam on both pc and cell.
When I get an hour I play some fallout shelter on my PS4 since I don’t have psn or much free time I can slip in on it between. Chores for a few minutes if lucky while wife not home.
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Stellaris Console Edition for the PS4 (computer isn't even close to running it) and I have to say this game is really challenging; I am on my fourth playthru and have to say that playing as a benign Democratic Empire is somewhat more rewarding than the past three Star Empires
I'm part of a 4 star nation federation and took out a fallen empire just before the other one could wake up. Just fought a 25 year war with them where I held my ground and was finally gonna fight their fleet when they sued for peace. Currently got my fleet to 200k with the end game crisis around the corner.
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Just so you guys know, there's a few days left (till the 3rd) that Elder Scrolls Online is free with the opening quest for the new Elseweyr zone. This is one of the few MMOs I like because it has near-Skyrim quality voiced solo quests. Like, I haven't needed to be part of a group at all in the time I finished the (very good) Morrowind content.
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I recently purchased myself a Nintendo Switch and got Mario Kart 8 for it and downloaded the NES games for it along with Tetris 99. So far, it's a pretty good video game system.
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I recently purchased myself a Nintendo Switch and got Mario Kart 8 for it and downloaded the NES games for it along with Tetris 99. So far, it's a pretty good video game system.
The big revelatory moment for me was playing Breath of the Wild for ten minutes on a bus ride, putting the system to sleep, then pulling it out eight hours later and playing the game right where I left off. I don't think anyone has done that "one weird trick" before: instantaneous deep sleep with little to no power loss, making the Switch in some ways more mobile than any previous dedicated game system
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The big revelatory moment for me was playing Breath of the Wild for ten minutes on a bus ride, putting the system to sleep, then pulling it out eight hours later and playing the game right where I left off. I don't think anyone has done that "one weird trick" before: instantaneous deep sleep with little to no power loss, making the Switch in some ways more mobile than any previous dedicated game system
Nintendo handhelds have been like that since at LEAST the DS, and it's in large part due to the fact they treat putting something to sleep as required for the whole system and not "well, except for these which they might find helpful to run in the background!" which is something i wish other handhelds and friggin' phones would learn.
i left my 3DS in sleep mode for 3 days with half a battery* and it was still not ready to warn me it needed a recharge when i noticed.
*forgot i turned it on at all, honestly.
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I'm part of a 4 star nation federation and took out a fallen empire just before the other one could wake up. Just fought a 25 year war with them where I held my ground and was finally gonna fight their fleet when they sued for peace. Currently got my fleet to 200k with the end game crisis around the corner.
Part of a three-day Federation right now and we've pretty much gutted our rivals though there are two Fallen Empires on either side of the map; one i get along with and the other pretty hostile if the borders get too close to it. Right now I am working on repairing a broken ringworld within my territory
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Nintendo handhelds have been like that since at LEAST the DS, and it's in large part due to the fact they treat putting something to sleep as required for the whole system and not "well, except for these which they might find helpful to run in the background!" which is something i wish other handhelds and friggin' phones would learn.
i left my 3DS in sleep mode for 3 days with half a battery* and it was still not ready to warn me it needed a recharge when i noticed.
*forgot i turned it on at all, honestly.
My 3DSxl lasted usually about 3 days before dead. The problem is that streetpass and WiFi functionality stays on. The Switch in sleep mode is down with no WiFi. It’s similar in performance to the Kindle.
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Part of a three-day Federation right now and we've pretty much gutted our rivals though there are two Fallen Empires on either side of the map; one i get along with and the other pretty hostile if the borders get too close to it. Right now I am working on repairing a broken ringworld within my territory
Nice!! I forgot to research that so I'm currently doing that to repair the ringworlds I got from one fallen empire. I was right about the end game crisis coming up... The unbidden popped up near me but I had gotten my fleet to around 215k. So while the rest of the galaxy stood around and watched, I helped out a homie and kept taking out the smaller fleets with a science ship nearby to scoop up the remains. Finally took on their fleet of 195k in a pretty epic battle that only knocked my fleet of battleship and cruisers to about 160K.
Built up and finally took out the other fallen empire who had a bunch of cradle worlds!! I promised them I would be coming back for that pop they took one day.
Now the galaxy is pretty much split between my federation and another one with a couple bit players who are standing back eating popcorn.
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Nice!! I forgot to research that so I'm currently doing that to repair the ringworlds I got from one fallen empire. I was right about the end game crisis coming up... The unbidden popped up near me but I had gotten my fleet to around 215k. So while the rest of the galaxy stood around and watched, I helped out a homie and kept taking out the smaller fleets with a science ship nearby to scoop up the remains. Finally took on their fleet of 195k in a pretty epic battle that only knocked my fleet of battleship and cruisers to about 160K.
Built up and finally took out the other fallen empire who had a bunch of cradle worlds!! I promised them I would be coming back for that pop they took one day.
Now the galaxy is pretty much split between my federation and another one with a couple bit players who are standing back eating popcorn.
That's cool; just got an alert in my situation log that something is approaching my galaxy so I am now preparing for war. Pretty sure my end is safe but I have a feeling one of the rivals i gutted will fall quickly
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Finished the Darkest Dungeon, got Reynauld and Dismas to the end.
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Borderlands GOTY enhanced is getting a shakeout for sure.
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Finished the Darkest Dungeon, got Reynauld and Dismas to the end.
Congratz! Do you have count how many hours you have with the game?
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Currently level 98 Fallout 4, and only 52% completed...
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Congratz! Do you have count how many hours you have with the game?
70 hours, 114 ingame weeks without Crimsom Court, game warned me it's too hard for the first playthrough.
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So a few play throughs back in Stellaris I noticed a planet named Rasalhague and appropriately fan boied. While checking out the wiki today I randomly decided to check out the Easter egg section only to find out it is indeed a Battletech reference!!
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In light of the devastating fire at the Notre Dame de Paris, Ubisoft wants to give all gamers the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of the cathedral through Assassins Creed Unity on PC free... https://register.ubisoft.com/acu-notredame-giveaway/en-US
Interesting... I was watching reporters and historians talking about rebuilding Notre-Dame yesterday. They were estimating some 20-40 years to fully rebuild... IF they could even source the appropriate materials in our time. <That was a lot of ancient oak that went up in the night> Apparently, oak has been over-harvested in Europe. Anyway, lots of interesting facts, but they did mention that one of the sources they would likely draw from was the Assassins Creed Unity game, that had recently done a full laser-scan of the entire architecture. Surprising, and fascinating times we live in.
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That's cool; just got an alert in my situation log that something is approaching my galaxy so I am now preparing for war. Pretty sure my end is safe but I have a feeling one of the rivals i gutted will fall quickly
Sounds like the Swarm is coming. "Safe" is a very nebulous term with them.
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That's cool; just got an alert in my situation log that something is approaching my galaxy so I am now preparing for war. Pretty sure my end is safe but I have a feeling one of the rivals i gutted will fall quickly
Isn't the swarm the one you just gotta use nothing but energy weapon and armor against? The game I'm playing I managed to vessel 8 races within the first 100 years and took out 3 fallen empires before 2400, I won but I'm waiting for end game crisis. Also finally got the worm!! What was will be!!
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I've watched couple videos about Subverse video game under work by Studio FOW. This from game's senior producer:
What is going on?!?!? I go to bed and dream of soaring on a magic carpet ride with Ai Uehara, and I wake up to find out we not only made £1,000,000...WE FLEW PAST IT INTO A WHOLE NEW WORLD WHERE A SILLY SPACE BOOBIES GAME IS PROBABLY GOING TO RANK IN THE TOP 20 VIDEO GAME KICKSTARTERS OF ALL TIME.
Outrage is to be expected, and I'm interested to see if it exceeds that of Mass Effect and Dead or Alive 6.
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If you're going to Google Studio FOW or Subverse, results WILL BE NSFW and in violation of the forum rules. You have been warned.
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Played this short, weird little adventure game called Minit. You pick up a cursed sword that kills you every minute and sends you back to the last house checkpoint with your progress intact. The puzzles aren’t intensely difficulty but you have to think fast and remember where everything is. Most of the collectibles are off the main trail. I finished the game with only 39% collected
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Played this short, weird little adventure game called Minit. You pick up a cursed sword that kills you every minute and sends you back to the last house checkpoint with your progress intact. The puzzles aren’t intensely difficulty but you have to think fast and remember where everything is. Most of the collectibles are off the main trail. I finished the game with only 39% collected
That one is a clever game. I don't think I finished it, but I def. enjoyed the time I spent with it.
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Playing War Robots, Steam version. This is a freedium Mecha-based game, which pits you against live players in selected battlefields.
It's fairly quick game, 10 minutes game play, with large selection of Bots (as their called) which have interchangable weapons.
It's kinda of a switch to me, since i played the droid version for many years, got used to how swift things were. However Steam one newer, but robots are more slower but more mecha like. It's still fun, though you got grind earn gold and silver to buy and develop parts to get better weapons.
You can use your Steam account to buy components, in-game cash, bots and weapons as well if you get tired of waiting.
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Finally picked up the Forbidden Gods expansion for Grim Dawn, and started on my third Character. This time I'm rocking a dual-pistol Purifier. Been having a lot of fun with this build so far, it's a definite switch from the usual melee Characters I run.
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cleanup
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BattleZone is on sale this weekend on Steam.
Search word gives me 5 hits. Looks like all are on sale. I already have the VR version. Otherwise a good game, but I REALLY NEED A MANUAL! :ticked:
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burned through the first three dragon quests on my phone over the past week. i had played them a bit back in the day on NES but never finished any of them. the second one especially is super old school with the whole "you actually have to talk to npcs and gather (and remember!) cryptic clues" business. the third might be the best 8-bit jrpg made - and actually had a fairly sizable plot twist (for the time) as you slowly realize it's the prequel legend that sets up plot of the first two games
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NHL19 is a free download on Xbox and I quickly have learned I know nothing about hockey 😂😂. I'm used to the NBA games so I'm having to look up what a butterfly style is and such, very humbling but fun.
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Got in the mood to play through the Crysis series again, when I realized that for some reason I've never actually finished Warhead or Crysis 3! ??? So, I'm skipping the first game for the time being and rocking through Warhead at the moment.
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Playing War robots on Steam.
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Got in the mood to play through the Crysis series again, when I realized that for some reason I've never actually finished Warhead or Crysis 3! ??? So, I'm skipping the first game for the time being and rocking through Warhead at the moment.
I have installed original Crysis on my two newest desktop computers. I still haven't played it through. Looks like I'm dedicated wargamer now with first-person shooters left behind.
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I have a Gameboy Micro, last charged......at least 10 years ago. (I have just about all iterations of the Gameboy Console, part of having worked in the industry, might be missing a few)
Needed a time killer for camping, and wanted to see if it was still alive. Still says it had a full charge, and camping it went. Super Robot Wars OG 1 with the stars was liberating in a way. (Lasted 2 nights before complaining about charge too!)
My 3DSxl lasted usually about 3 days before dead. The problem is that streetpass and WiFi functionality stays on. The Switch in sleep mode is down with no WiFi. It’s similar in performance to the Kindle.
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cadence of hyrule is fun. i thought they might make a crypt of the necrodancer sequel (one of my favorite games in the past ten years) but i don't think anyone expected a zelda crossover.
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Picked up BioWare's Anthem for $20 and just finished the main campaign. This game gets a ton of bad press, but if you just play it as Mass Effect in battle armor, it's fine. Not great, but fine.
It definitely feels like a BioWare game awkwardly grafted onto social loot shooter mechanics.
It's got the mission, talk to people at base, mission cycle from ME, but none of the people you talk to go on your adventures or impact the game or campaign in any way, so you wonder why you're bothering.
Dialogues give you a kind of Renegade/Paragon reply option, but again, they don't seem to make any difference, so why bother?
There a some good things. The suits are fun, flying is cool, environment designs are nice.
Guns are kind of dull, just shotgun, AR, sniper etc archetypes, but the special abilities are fun to play with. Combos are a thing, like ME3.
Anyway I suspect the guns all actually perform the same regardless of displayed stats, to allow high and low level players to do missions together.
Only thing that seems to matter is the cooldown on your abilities.
Enemies are seriously bland. Missions either defend the point or kill the VIP style. Bit repetitive.
Inventory is straight out of ME1.
Some of the basic things are pretty bad though. The UI for menus in particular is pretty crap and unintuitive. Game does a very bad job of explaining the mechanics.
Like if I level up my "Arcanist" ranking I get access to "blueprints" but I've no idea which ones. Or at a high level you get to use "consumables" but it never tells you what they do or how to access them.
But overall I feel like I got my money's worth. I don't need a game that demands I play forever to keep up. Okay story, kind of fun combat, and I'm satisfied.
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Anthem likely would have gotten better press had EA not sabotaged Mass Effect Andromeda to promote it.
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It seems to me that many gamers nowadays aren't happy with anything. Best sellers seem to suffer of "It's popular, now it sucks". When the most appreciated games from generation ago are re-released on new platforms, those are called expensive (regardless of how low the price), bad port, laggy (every replica of an old console/computer with built-in games), and whatever else. Game reviews (at least those written in English) like to bash Eastern European ethnicity (Witcher series, Kingdom Come: Deliverance) and appearances of women in Japanese games (Dead or Alive 6 + more). If BATTLETECH video game hadn't had 3 pronouns, it would have been bashed about by something else. Just... BS
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"Gamers" is a category that encompases people from nearly every age category, race, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, and gender you can name. I don't see why it's a surprise that part of that group has different things that they complain about with different games. Or if they complain about companies who have a long habit of cranking out mediocre content every year and charging a premium for it while.
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Steam sale is going on, I picked up Particle Fleet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1xeotT7Nc)
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So I got back into Halo MCC in order to beat all five currently in the Xbox version on Legendary-and then I'll swap over to finish 5 on Legendary after that. Starting with Halo 4, the easiest one.
And then, if I get bored enough due to being away from my computer for the next six months, I get to do a LASO run in... All 7, when Reach gets added.
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Aggressors: Ancient Rome is available with with -40% off the price. At a glance it may look like Civilization IV (or Civ6 with square grid instead of hexes), but game has bit more depth and complexity than vanilla Civ4 (or even Beyond the Sword), but maybe not all the way to extent of Caveman2Cosmos mod. What Aggressors has going for it is historical accuracy: civilizations are NOT equal but have significant differences. Rome starts pretty far in tech tree, Carthage starts with most of the land, Germans start with handful of units, 0 cities, and is at the start of tech tree etc. Game is also highly moddable and one Japanese has made a mod about his homeland in warring states (Sengoku Jidai) period.
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I'm currently enjoying Dr. Mario World on android
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So I remembered that I never finished the Warfare (next game, Syrian Warfare, is better known), so I gave it another try and in the middle of one mission it occured to me that the game engine would be a good fit for a MechCommander game. Too bad I have no idea about modding.
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Dark Souls III
Yum!
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Grim Dawn
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While Borderlands 3 isn't out yet, Moze the Gunner and Iron Bear, her 15 ton Mech, almost but not quite hit a lot of Classic B-Tech notes. And Iron Bear's customizable-get yourself some bear-claws, some grenade launchers, and some miniguns to rip through the hordes of Pandora's finest scum. Whether you go for the Demolition Woman, the Bottomless Mags, or are the Shield of Retribution, Moze is a solid Vault Hunter. Or so it looks.
https://youtu.be/AfmfrpgXF3k (https://youtu.be/AfmfrpgXF3k)
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I went to scratch a bit of DRL itch and went to do Angel of Masochism challenge. Which means only healing comes from leveling up (and blood skulls). At first attempt I got killed by Spider Mastermind, but I got her on second try.
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I have been putting large hours into Fire emblem three houses really good game if you have a switch I recommend you pick it up
pro's
decent tactical combat
lots of story and re-playability
still has the dating SIM aspects
cons
still has the dating SIM aspects as this isn't for all people
can be time consuming
not the hardest game about but they have a harder difficulty incoming
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I'm having fun with Grim Dawn. It's an aRPG in the style of the Diablo series but I'm enjoying it more than anything in this genre that I've looked at since Diablo 2
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I could not resist World of Warcraft Classic...
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Well, I've been playing through Dragon Age: Inquisition, but, taking a slight break due to the release of Blasphemous.
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I just picked up Metal Wolf Chaos XD.
Fun game of the turn-of-the-millennium era third-person shooter variety.
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Picked up a couple of games for $10 each.
Star Wars: Battlefront II -- Campaign only so far. Ho hum, tbh. Guess it's different from a lot of shooters I'm used to--no radar, and the damage indication/direction interface isn't especially informative, so I spend way too much time trying to figure out who the heck is shooting at me. The MC is pretty fragile too, so that gets me killed pronto.
Wolfenstein: The New Order -- Now this I like. Dual-wielding guns for extra dakka. Kinetic, exciting mission and level design. Retro dieselpunk design that's clearly having way more fun with its premise than poker-faced BFII. I'm having a lot of fun.
I mean, it's kind of odd how the MC maintained his muscle mass ... I skip one leg day and my matchstick bones snap under the merciless pull of gravity, while my man goes full potato and gets about as much exercise as a chicken nugget, yet comes out the other end with musculature even Rob Liefeld would've called 'a bit much.' But that's part of the charm.
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I finished the demo for Dragon Quest XI on the Switch. Got to level 12+ on 8-10 hours. That's a really generous chunk of game.
Trying to figure out what's next. I'll probably hold off on Borderlands 3 till it's on Steam. I may make another go at Pillars of Eternity on the Switch, assuming that short chunks of gameplay are easier to sustain.
Or Divinity Original Sin II which just came out (and supports cross-play from Steam!!).
Got to finish Wasteland II as well.
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BattleTech is on humble bundle monthly for October. $13 gets you the base game and seven other games on steam. You can cancel right away if you don’t want to maintain a subscription
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Or Divinity Original Sin II which just came out (and supports cross-play from Steam!!).
Which platforms does Original Sin II have cross-play support on?
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Which platforms does Original Sin II have cross-play support on?
For me Switch and Steam. Don't know about XB1 or PS4 (or GoG).
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I've mentioned it before. SO this is sad thing i do because i'm such dork for Minecraft and Naval Combat.
I play on a server that has special spigot (mod to the minecraft, not something someone logging in needs) to allow large vehicles to play.
This server called NavalClash, it has mix problem with players being bit salty despite them being some teenagers (yes groan, i put up with it). They have no clue how old i am, i keep to myself. I try keep the place going because fun to play.
I wanted share what looks like.
Imgur Link (https://imgur.com/gallery/Bk6PnWK) This is a GIF of a ship2 tournament.
Game evolved from the World War 2 now their using missiles.
I still prefer the big boats, like this Ship5 size ship (largest usable one) on the server
This is my King George V, its just not as detailed because scale/limit of ship movement.
(https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/navalclash-hms-king-george-v-front-view-in-docks-ship5-battl-1569721944.jpg)
(https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1903/navalclash-courageous-b-variant-aircraft-carrier-ship4-front-1547961966.png)
This my smaller Ship4 size Aircraft Carrier, named the Courageous. Which players can launch Wildcat fighters from it's flight deck.
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I've been trying Metal Wolf Chaos XD and I'm just about ready to give up on the game. I've died eight time on the Grand Canyon level due entirely to the fact that it's far, far too easy to fall off one of the many narrow ledges you're forced to use, resulting in instant death. And since it's a fairly long level, that means you've got to go all the way back to the beginning. Which also causes you to lose all the hostages you've rescued and collectables you've picked up.
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Sounds like "Nintendo hard"
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It is. And it's annoying because other missions are not nearly as difficult.
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finished the Link's Awakening remake on switch. going to pick up with Dragon Quest XI and Ys VIII now that i'm not so busy.
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finished the Link's Awakening remake on switch. going to pick up with Dragon Quest XI and Ys VIII now that i'm not so busy.
I just finished it as well. I'd played it before on GB Color, but not to completion. This was a delight to play and really scratched that Link to the Past itch.
And I'm off to do Dragon Quest as well, alternating with Battletech whose campaign I *still* haven't finished. I am very glad I played the full demo of DQ which was 18 hours of generous free gamplay into the main quest.
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Call of Duty: WWII was part of humble monthly.
it continues to hold than I am VERY BAD at the more realistic end of FPS games
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Played HAWKEN on X-Box One.
Not as good as MechAssualt to me... kinda Armored Core-ish.
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The Outer Worlds. Everything you want from a Fallout game that Bethesda never delivered.
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Started the game after deciding to spring for the introductory price of the XBOX PC game pass. Playing the game for a dollar this month.
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Came back to Destiny 2 after a year or so, now it's gone F2P. A lot more to do now, to the point that I'm now tryna figure out what is fun or worth doing.
Gambit started off fun, but I always seem to get teammates who race to pick up the motes and then get themselves killed. I had like 60 kills and 10 motes banked last game, without dying. So that's just getting frustrating.
Nightfall is gun once, but the weekly wants you to run the same mission five times. Which is also not terribly fun. I have a better time with regular strikes, now that there's more variety.
Black armory and Calus stuff are just complicated. Get the treasure to get the rune to get the drop and sigh.
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Brigador. It's like mecha Postal, with a retro feel and lot of merry destruction.
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Brigador. It's like mecha Postal, with a retro feel and lot of merry destruction.
"mecha Postal" ;D
Having both games, it somehow sounds more appropriate than it should :D
Look up RUINER. This one comes with a cyberpunk theme and simple RPG system.
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I'm back into regularly playing Heroes & Generals.
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I've been replaying Fallout 3 the last couple weeks. Its been 10 years since I last played it, so I've forgotten enough to make it an adventure. I love this game series.
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Outer Worlds for me and Man am I Loving it!
Spacer's Choice...It not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice
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Same via XBox PC Game Pass (it was $1 for a month, so why not?) on Win10. My thoughts about the aesthetics:
- Writing and general gameplay is very New Vegas.
- Steampunk interface borrows from Arcanum and Bioshock.
- Saturated art direction from No Man's Sky.
- Companion characters have a lot in common with the Firefly crew. Parvati is basically Kaylee Frye, which is awesome.
- RPG system uses category distribution which feels mildly Shadowrun'y.
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The flaw system in the game is interesting.
Some flaws are a lot less of powerful than others- the addiction to the basic healing item is nearly just a free perk point, for example.
Oh, and just for fun, take the robot phobia flaw and try talking to SAM.
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Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Does not compute
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Been playing Death Stranding for a little bit. So far the game is bizarre, makes little sense at the moment (I just got started, so, stuff may get a bit clearer later on), and a fetch(Delivery) quest/walking simulator extravaganza...Yet, I'm really enjoying it.
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I had decided I didn't really want to play Death Stranding, but everything I hear about it is so bizarre that it is really tempting.
But I have no room for it in my life because I'm playing Monster Hunter World again, because of the Iceborne expansion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Right now I'm busy playing Pokemon Sword.
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Shield here. I'll have to stop soon so I can finish luigis mansion, an xcom replay, and the VR system I'm setting up for flight lesson plans.
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Has everyone heard about the data corruption issue that's been reported for the Switch? Think it was determined to be caused by some way that games get installed.
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Right now I'm busy playing Pokemon Sword.
So am I, I finally got 8 Badges
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Won FTL on normal, I'm so proud of myself.
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Won FTL on normal, I'm so proud of myself.
Nice! Have you played Into The Breach at all?
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No, too many games in my backlog, I sometimes start FTL as inbetween pastime, this time I tried it on normal and actually pulled it through.
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ftl is a bear. i always die on the first boss
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Got to kill missile launcher before it does too much damage and kill the operator so he doesn't repair it. Cloaking is a great way to make the missile salvo miss you.
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Got Crusader Kings II when it went F2P. It's a challenge.
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On an oldschool gaming kick. Morrowind is now on tap. Been quite a while since I last played it, and to boot, I never actually finished it. I'd get bored after doing a million different side quests and put it aside. Think it's time I actually take on the main quest.
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On an oldschool gaming kick.
When I played last time some weeks ago, it was The Settlers, English PC floppy disk version. Runs just fine in DOSBox. Except SVGA resolution where mouse cursor flicker.
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When I played last time some weeks ago, it was The Settlers, English PC floppy disk version. Runs just fine in DOSBox. Except SVGA resolution where mouse cursor flicker.
I have Masters of Magic for my DOSbox gaming. That's some oldschool fun too.
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I have Masters of Magic for my DOSbox gaming. That's some oldschool fun too.
Ahhh...Phantom Warriors, one of THE best 1rst level spells...not so much after you've gained a few levels.
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Subnautica: Below Zero.....Sea Monkeys, zero-visibility storms, and the bloody Ice Worm!!!!
Still, fun game.
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Sitting around 30 or so Pokémon and one gym badge in Shield. I need to go back and finish Luigis Mansion.
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The main story in sword/shield is pretty booboo even for Pokémon standards. It’s not so much an rpg as running from gym to gym while the story happens around you and you occasionally witness it advance. I’ve already got six of the eight badges and the interaction with the game world is more bare-bones than the original games from 1996.
As the target audience is literally kids, i don’t really even expect much - but this doesn’t hold a candle to much older games in there series like Platinum or even Gold/Silver (and that’s not even nostalgia. I only played silver for the first time two years ago)
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Subnautica: Below Zero.....Sea Monkeys, zero-visibility storms, and the bloody Ice Worm!!!!
Still, fun game.
I still need to play subnautica!! It is Extremely My Jam.
My wife just bought another Switch so we can play Minecraft and Splatoon together, so that's basically all that's happening in our house. Splatoon 2 is extremely fun, such a good example of good gamefeel.
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Getting really close to beating The Outer Worlds.
Loads of fun.
Thinking about what I'm going to play next. Either Greedfall or go back to Battletech now that it's got a bunch of patches and DLC.
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Not at all like The Outer Worlds, but confusingly similar in name is Outer Wilds, which is actually my favorite game. It's like a lunar lander murder mystery but for the universe and it's very sad and beautiful.
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I've haven't at a lot time to play games. However, i recently bought a clever old school style space game called Space RPG 3 for droid. I realize not many people pay for games, but it space trading game and roleplaying involved where you do have action. I found most of the time most Droid games are ad filled games that may not live to the flash of the play store shows. This one, is nice. It appeals to me, given i paid 1.49 for the thing, with ZERO ADs. Its nice change of pace.
In the game, you start out in tiny space craft. You do missions if you want, you can pick up cargo in your starter ship if you want, if your suicidal, you will try fight people.
If your destroyed, you go to the last world you stop without penalty, which is nice stress reliever as starting player.
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finally decided to open up my 3DS and fix the buttons so i'm trying to finish off Bravely Default.....not gonna lie, i'm utterly lost and managed to get myself much further into the game than i'm leveled for like i do before my handheld got jank.
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Planetfall. Kinda reminds me of a mix of starcraft and civilization.
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Played old school Age of Empires III last night.
Awesome and hard with five players, not to mention all eight at once!
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Sd Gundam G Generation Cross Rays. I should have paid closer attention to the included series, but as a gateway for those who've only seen what has been released domestically, it makes sense.
I'm too used to playing the G Gen series on a handheld, so it is odd playing on my laptop. There are some new mechanics to me they added that i do like as well.
These are the included series.
After Colony (A.C.)
New Mobile Report Gundam W
New Mobile Report Gundam W Dual Story G-UNIT
New Mobile Report Gundam W Endless Waltz
Glory of the Losers
New Mobile Report Gundam W
BATTLEFIELD OF PACIFIST
New Mobile Report Gundam W Endless Waltz
Cosmic Era (C.E.)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED MSV
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ASTRAY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X ASTRAY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ASTRAY R
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ASTRAY B
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY-MSV
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ASTRAY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E.73 STARGAZER
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E.73 ΔASTRAY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FRAME ASTRAYS
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED VS ASTRAY
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ASTRAY R Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ASTRAY B
Anno Domini (A.D.)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Mobile Suit Gundam 00P
Mobile Suit Gundam 00F
Mobile Suit Gundam 00I
Mobile Suit Gundam 00V
Mobile Suit Gundam 00V: Battlefield Record
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie
-A wakening of the Trailblazer- Mobile Suit Gundam 00I 2314
Post Disaster (P.D.)
Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans
Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Gekko
Others
SD Gundam GX
G GENERATION Series
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That's a lot of Mobile Suit Gundam!!
I've been playing a lot of Bloodborne again, after FINALLY beating Rom. Also, Donut County gets played a lot in my house because my three year old is a little obsessed with it.
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Looking over the official site for the game, it looks like an alternate universe version of G Gen. The announced DLC includes X, Turn A, AGE, Reconguista, and Seed ASTRAY: Princess in the sky.
The rosters for the game are huge, to begin with, and it's actually really fun in the original games to start off with the proto Zaku/GM (Zani) in 0079 and slowly upgrade your unit up the tech tree, to match and even surpass the series units you fight against as you play through scenarios from a given series.
Cross Rays so far doesn't have that feel as most of the series, that I'm aware of, already have the tech in place, so you don't have the progression tree of fighting tanks and Zakus/GMs to start and get thrown against already proven designs.
Yes, you do have the titular heroes from the respective series to help, but playing as a semi purist, it's very difficult to shake off the missing RPG progression feel, especially if you wanted to have a completely custom created crew to start the game with.
Game allows for creating customized characters, and they use the Japanese horoscope (D.O.B. , blood type) to determine starting stats and starting ability, which is kinda fun, especially if you wanted to see what you would be like as a mobile suit or warship pilot/officer.
You start the game with a basic ship with a single hanger capable of holding 5 suits at a time, and enough characters to fully crew the ship, and field 2 teams of 4 characters. One based on the ship, and the other as a Raid group, not tied to the ship but acts independently outside.
The ship can be upgraded to hold 2 teams of 5, and the raid team can be maximized at 8.
It's been fun so far, just tempered by the fact that I'm more of a UC buff than the alternate universes.
I also ordered G Gen Genesis for my Vita and Super Robot Wars V in the meantime.
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Well the HBS Battletech again. At that annoying stage just past Panzyr, with a
mere Dragon to my name for heavies. I want to get my hands on Riflemen,
Marauders and Warhammers. Seen the odd one here and there, but salvage
has been less than kind.
That and my two long term obsessions, Destiny 2 and GTA Online. I'd not
been able to play Destiny 2 for a long time, failing graphics card and an old
messy Windows prevented it. New card and a refreshed install, looks and
plays beautifully.
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Started playing Gigantic Army on steam.
Side scroller, pretty nice for 6 buck game.
(https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=52558.0;attach=55769)
I haven't played something like this in bit.
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Started playing Gigantic Army on steam.
Side scroller, pretty nice for 6 buck game.
(https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=52558.0;attach=55769)
I haven't played something like this in bit.
I did play a similar game 2 years ago called Assault Gunner HD Edition.
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I was looking through Steam for a new game and I saw Total War: Rome 2
Did they ever fix all the buggy issues that game had at launch?
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Currently playing Blackguards, it's ok but nothing special. Also tok a bit of break today to do another DRL challenge and finished Angel of Darkness. Plasmatic Shrapnel combat shotgun FTW.
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I was looking through Steam for a new game and I saw Total War: Rome 2
Did they ever fix all the buggy issues that game had at launch?
Slighly; more playable now if that answers your question
I am going between Trails of Cold Steel 3 and Valkyrie Chronicles 4; I am weary of finishing Cold Steel 3 till I know for sure that 4 will be localized next year by NIS America
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Got a few cheap old arcade games on sale on PSN, GOG, and Steam right now.
Still as cheap and difficult as I remember. But sometimes it's just fun blasting enemies like that.
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Got a few cheap old arcade games on sale on PSN, GOG, and Steam right now.
Names plz.
One of my favourites is Tyrian 2000. I played it through repeatedly some 20 years ago. Is free on GOG.
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Mostly a few SNK titles- some of the Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown games.
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Mostly a few SNK titles- some of the Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown games.
I have got some SNK Arcade collection from Humble Bundle. I got the games in that to work within Retro Arcade: Neon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le5EMFYZPUY). I wish I could get games in Midway Arcade Treasures collection to work in it... :-\
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I checked it. Exact title (in Humble Bundle) is: NeoGeo Classic Complete Collection
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Names plz.
One of my favourites is Tyrian 2000. I played it through repeatedly some 20 years ago. Is free on GOG.
Tyrian is the best. Played that a lot along with Raptor: Call of the Shadows back in the day (and like, every Apogee game).
I'm deep in a Monster Hunter hole rn. Scrambling through the story to try and get to the new Safi'Jiiva siege before everyone is totally done with it. I've got three monsters to go!
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JAST USA has a sale going on. Site offers mostly Japanese visual novels and some RPGs. I just bought Shiny Days which is sequel to School Days.
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Don't they mainly sell adult stuff?
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Don't they mainly sell adult stuff?
Yes
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Humble messed up my download of the current Battletech game. I had to use uTorrent twice get it to download a usable file to install. The people with their help desk deflected it was Paradox Labs' issue. xp
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I'm going to be busy for a while. Asia release so its in English too.
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All Half-Life games are free to play until their new VR game comes out.
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Humblebundle has Europa Univesalis IV with a few of the expansions for $1. You can pay in more for all of the addons
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ok old school time or way back machine
went to a birthday party for one of my friends about a week ago in hawthorne nj at billis midway arcade and found few oldies all the way to early 70 and 80s
first off i had not touched computer space in decades! loved it as much as i loved it then as far as i know he has the only arcade in working order in tri state area
q bert burger time tapper midnight racer pong original cabinet star wars zoo keeper mr do and mr castle original hybrid of pinbal/arcade of pac man junior and few old school pinballs.
had a blast and forgot how much fun it was just to go to the old time arcades...one thing i do not miss smokers! but i did have a blast and was doing something i had not done in ages had a good time
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The SO wanted a Switch for the exercise games, so we finally got one. I bought Breath of the Wild for myself, since I'd heard so much about it and, dang. Beautiful artwork. Visually stunning, just stunning. Only downside is I have too much fun just walking around, I get annoyed when NPCs try to make me actually fight the ancient evil. Yes, yes, calamity, but have you SEEN this view?
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Oh man. This is going to eat up so much of your game time. I'm doing a second playthrough after getting my old cartridge and switch stolen (before cloud saves). Almost done upgrading armor and about 35 shrines to go. Love this game.
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Oh man. This is going to eat up so much of your game time. I'm doing a second playthrough after getting my old cartridge and switch stolen (before cloud saves). Almost done upgrading armor and about 35 shrines to go. Love this game.
Yes, it's been great so far. It's actually surprisingly easy to put down, because I'm always feeling like I accomplished something. More or less constant stream of smugness here.
If I had a quibble, it's that combat seems tricky to get the hang of (I can flurry rush about once in every five attempts) but that's made up for by giving you so many different ways of approaching encounters. The puzzles in each shrine really hit the sweet spot in terms of being intuitive but you still feel like a damn genius when you figure out the solution.
It's all the little details, too. Like the LEAF being a badass weapon. Or knocking down a tree to make an impromptu bridge across a canyon. Or I finally made a horsie friend, then another one. OldFriend had one less go-faster icon than NewFriend, so I told OF to GTFO and now NewFriend and I go galloping across the green sward. Friendship is magic, if your stats are high enough.
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Wait until you figure out aerial acrobatic sniping
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Yes, it's been great so far. It's actually surprisingly easy to put down, because I'm always feeling like I accomplished something. More or less constant stream of smugness here.
If I had a quibble, it's that combat seems tricky to get the hang of (I can flurry rush about once in every five attempts) but that's made up for by giving you so many different ways of approaching encounters. The puzzles in each shrine really hit the sweet spot in terms of being intuitive but you still feel like a damn genius when you figure out the solution.
It's all the little details, too. Like the LEAF being a badass weapon. Or knocking down a tree to make an impromptu bridge across a canyon. Or I finally made a horsie friend, then another one. OldFriend had one less go-faster icon than NewFriend, so I told OF to GTFO and now NewFriend and I go galloping across the green sward. Friendship is magic, if your stats are high enough.
The only time I've found flurry to be really necessary has been in combat with Lynels. And they. are. ******. Fighting Hinoxes and Taluses gets you ultimately down to a pattern and a science.
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Friendship is magic...
You go brony fan you... where else can one see a proud MLP statemen?
Joking aside, this game is so awesome, I steal it from my eight year old when she sleeps.
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Edit: stupid typos, don't try to type faster on a cell that autocorrects faster than you...
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Just picked up Indivisible. I played the demo of it that was released a few years ago, now I'm interested to see what the full game is like.
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Back to playing Elite:Dangerous.
Been quite a while... not too different from year ago (apparently next expansion with bigger changes is coming later this year), but man deep core mining is so cool, seeing asteroids get cracked open is incredible. Also happens to be profitable, all i need now is something better than an Adder for mining.
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You go brony fan you... where else can one see a proud MLP statemen?
Joking aside, this game is so awesome, I steal it from my eight year old when she sleeps.
I have literally never seen a single second of the MLP show, yet thanks to the magic of Internet memes, I know far more about it than I ever needed or wanted to. When in doubt, assume everything I post is sarcastic.
In the meantime this so-called "Modest Test of Strength" keeps handing me various portions of my derriere. Modest test, my ass. And a bit more of my ass. Oh look, there goes a slice of my ass now.
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Back to playing Elite:Dangerous.
Been quite a while... not too different from year ago (apparently next expansion with bigger changes is coming later this year), but man deep core mining is so cool, seeing asteroids get cracked open is incredible. Also happens to be profitable, all i need now is something better than an Adder for mining.
I now have the Valve Index and hope to try out Elite with a hotas setup soon. I hear it's one of the best cockpit experiences out there. Speaking as a pilot, being able to just turn your head and look toward a target/landing area will be invaluable.
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I now have the Valve Index and hope to try out Elite with a hotas setup soon. I hear it's one of the best cockpit experiences out there. Speaking as a pilot, being able to just turn your head and look toward a target/landing area will be invaluable.
Many ships have poor down/front-down visibility. Of course landing is pretty easy in Elite.... At least with flight assist on.
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Speaking as a pilot, being able to just turn your head and look toward a target/landing area will be invaluable.
Have you got a VR set for that?
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Have you got a VR set for that?
Er, yes. The Index. I said that in the post. ???
I'll try to see what performance is in X Plane soon. I don't hear good things, however, because the sim is mostly single threaded, causing a major bottleneck.
Much of the value here will be VFR skills like searching for traffic and eyeballing runway traffic patterns and glide distances.
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Er, yes. The Index. I said that in the post. ???
D'oh! :facepalm:
At first I didn't understand what you meant, but I remember it now.
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Started messing around with the old Ultima games from GoG. Ultima 9 is pretty bad. It has some fan patches that alleviate some of the absurdity, but hoo boy. Not stable, apparently. The dialogue patch (disables voice-over for a better story) lets you input a new character name, but the application that does this is a *16 bit* dos program. I tried using DosBox to this, but neglected to realize that old Windows naming convention can screw up the Ultima folder names. The Ultima 9 folder was listed as "Ultima~7". <takes aspirin>
We have it good people. Digital software distribution and best practices are miles better than things used to be. I forgot just how much crap we put up with.
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9 is indeed bad. on the bright side, you can get the complete version of 7, one of the finest games ever made
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9 is indeed bad. on the bright side, you can get the complete version of 7, one of the finest games ever made
Yup. Got that too. I usually play through the Exult engine.
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Ultima 9 wasn't a game. It was alpha code that someone slapped a logo on and sold to meet a deadline.
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Ultima 9 wasn't a game. It was alpha code that someone slapped a logo on and sold to meet a deadline.
Man I lived through that. I bought the $70 Dragon edition and returned it in a fit of pique. Later I got a cheapo copy of the disc, cloth map, and tarot cards through Ebay and even later the GoG edition. From memory of that episode, I think I concluded:
- EA have been corporate knuckleheads from very early on and engaged in anti-consumer practices with relish.
- They did interrupt development of U9 to throw resources at UO, so that's on them.
- They gave Garriott a much shorter leash with which to run on a reboot development of U9.
- That said, the development team made a huge number of scope mistakes.
- They never should have switched to 3D over-the-shoulder mid-development.
- They never should have done full voice (the cost of floppy disks killed Origin as an independent company already; the capacity limits of CDs should have been a big red alarm from early on).
- The kind and scope of feature limiting decisions they were making to accommodate the new 3D engine should have also raised a bunch of red flags. (Many world simulation elements were abandoned in U8 and they never came back... bad decision right there.)
- They should have had a much greater awareness of canon and continuity. The fans (including me) weren't in much of a mood to tolerate painting the world and its fiction in broad brushstrokes of 'well it's thematically similar'. We wanted to see how the story ended as a sequel, not as a technical experiment in 3D grafix and a spiritual successor.
One good outcome of that affair was that an acquaintance was so upset that he created and managed a mod group as his senior thesis in which they made a remake of Ultima 5 using the Dungeon Siege engine. He's been in the industry for years now and is a lead designer at Bioware (EA!).
I will give EA this: they were very tolerant of the various fan projects and were early in providing their old library to GoG. Enlightened in that respect at least.
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Did you ever play Ultima 8?
The decision to turn that game into an action RPG was terrible. Trying to navigate platform puzzles without any way to control your jumps...
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Did you ever play Ultima 8?
The decision to turn that game into an action RPG was terrible. Trying to navigate platform puzzles without any way to control your jumps...
I did. However, I only ever played the patched version that changed jumping to "jump to cursor" which was a much better experience. My own opinions of the thing:
- The tone change was pretty cool. So were some of the ideas about Pagan like being semi-post-apocalyptic and shrouded in constant twilight (like the Mushroom Planet!).
- Using the narrative (Avatar in unfriendly country) as an excuse to not build in a party was too cute by half, but I could tolerate it. Underworld 2 had played around with some what-if questions about other worlds dominated by the Guardian.
- The various magical rituals were pretty cool but entirely too fiddly. And I'm sorry they were the bright spot in a world bereft of the kinds of simulation we had in 7 and Serpent Isle.
- Something about the world and the plot ended up being kind of... I don't know, bland? In some ways it felt like a cool experiment but I could never dig its world like Britannia.
- I think we were getting to a point where games were going to need better modern game design sensibilities: journal quest tracking, better mapping, etc.
Interesting considerations of the time: The game released in 1994. Baldur's Gate, the first game I remember having automatic quest tracking, released in 1998. Morrowind did the same thing in a patch and that released in 2002. So a lot of game design conventions didn't really solidify till then. And Raph Koster's book "A Theory of Fun" which really kicked off the formal, academic discussion of game design didn't come out till 2004.
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I never did make any progress in Pagan. There just wasn't enough that told me what I was actually supposed to do.
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I never did make any progress in Pagan. There just wasn't enough that told me what I was actually supposed to do.
Might be worth trying it again for fun. Definitely using a guide though; it could be good for a larf.
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Maybe some day. I'd like to beat a few more of the games I already have before I get any more.
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I never did make any progress in Pagan. There just wasn't enough that told me what I was actually supposed to do.
So a throwback to III and IV? :))
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Maybe? I was 12 or 13at the time. The only reason I even got the game was because it came as part of a package with a computer my parents bought.
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the pre- ultima V games (especially III and IV) were exercises in humility from a bygone age of crpg where just accomplishing something on the main quest like felt miraculous.
I was ten-ish trying to map dungeons in IV - no one told me some of the corridors run infinitely. I didn’t come close to finishing either of them until 10 years ago
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I mostly just ran around the starting town. I tried fighting monsters a few times and found that no matter what I did, I'd die as soon as I took one hit because it staggered my longer than it took for the enemy to hit me again.
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Elite Dangerous.
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Elite Dangerous.
Very good choice. I need to get back to that soon.
A friend put me on to an early release game I hadn't heard of for VR: Vox Machinae, a 'Mech game but with cockpit VR. Anyone tried it?
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started messing with outer worlds...so far only complaint i have is head shots do nothing to kill yor enemy outright...interesting story tho
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started messing with outer worlds...so far only complaint i have is head shots do nothing to kill yor enemy outright...interesting story tho
You should check out the Developer Comments on a 12 minute Speed run of the game.
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started messing with outer worlds...so far only complaint i have is head shots do nothing to kill yor enemy outright...interesting story tho
Head shots do inflict extra damage. If you're not outright killing the target it means that your gun isn't powerful enough.
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Head shots do inflict extra damage. If you're not outright killing the target it means that your gun isn't powerful enough.
Oh I thought he might be commenting on his preference for one-shot-one-kill verisimilitude as opposed to RPG hit-point gameplay.
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Head shots do inflict extra damage. If you're not outright killing the target it means that your gun isn't powerful enough.
finally got a one shot one kill on one of the things that look like a monkey...charged up the plasma rifle bam 70 meters...thanks to stealth maxing out at level 9
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Magic the Gathering Arena
unlike MTGO you can get free cards. i've had an itch to get back into it for a couple months - fortunately this scratches it.
as a side note, more sets have been released since time spiral when i stopped playing than existed from 1994 up to that point in 2005. I'm glad arena only deals with the past couple years worth of cards
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finally got a one shot one kill on one of the things that look like a monkey...charged up the plasma rifle bam 70 meters...thanks to stealth maxing out at level 9
Nice. Plasma weapons deal extra damage to animals aside from Mantisaurs, so they're highly effective against Primals (the ones that look like monkeys).
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playing that Death Stranding.
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Baldur's Gate II for PC. Got the full complete edition downloaded, running around with a Human Monk female with a male voice! Just for kicks, skimped on the stats that I didn't need, 19 STR with a high 17 CON and 17 DEX. Rest are 14 INT, 14 WIS and a 10 CHA... so far I can hit for 22 points max, avg. 9-11.
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Is that standard BGII or the Enhanced Edition?
Also, how the heck did you get those stats?
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I play EmptyEpsilon (https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/) on most Saturdays. Starship simulator, several players per ship with different positions (captain, navigator, engineer etc.), multiple ships if enough players are present. Saturday, 16 o'clock (UTC 0). Please come join me & others on Discord (https://discord.gg/mtB2vF). Game is as free as MegaMek 8)
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ok i did not know i even o still had this
death spank the thongs of virtue
i had to double check what it was LOL its a slash dash tongue in cheek game bit old still fun
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Is that standard BGII or the Enhanced Edition?
Also, how the heck did you get those stats?
Enhanced and those stats are the result of random reroll and reassigning the numbers around to custom your character's basic attributes. The system allows certain thresholds and minimums, one being no STR over 19...
Other words, I reassigned my stars to my pleasure.
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I was mostly curious if you'd used a Belt of Hill Giant Strength or had brought the character in from BG1 and had used the Tome of Gainful Exercise in that game to get strength above 18/00. Or had gone down to Watcher's Keep and used the Machine of Lum the Mad.
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Woo! Got trading to elite rank in Elite:Dangerous (by grinding mining, current prices make it very lucrative) and bought an Anaconda. It is awesome, and handles far better than i expected such a big ship to handle.
Still need to figure out a good loadout, i'm terrible with fixed weapons and playing with an Xbox controller doesn't help any. Then again i'm purely a PVE player so it is not like i really need fixed weapon...
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Still need to figure out a good loadout, i'm terrible with fixed weapons and playing with an Xbox controller doesn't help any.
I recommend Thrustmaster T.16000M. Stick returns reliably to dead-center, has lots of buttons, and is cheaper than other sticks with equal quality. Cheaper sticks have problems, like unlinear response and unreliable centering
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Looking at prices, if you're going to invest in a hotas control setup, might as well save up and go for the x52 or x52 pro. The trigger is a bit soft and the software is... well least said soonest mended. I did have a bit too much stick play in my x52 pro, but an additional 3d printed ring put enough tension on the spring to give a nice stiff return to center.
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Can't afford a HOTAS. Plus outside E:D and Ace Combat 7 (which has limited HOTAS support), i don't actually play anything that would benefit from a HOTAS, so i don't really need one anyway.
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I've got one these bad-boys myself:
(https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImage/26-102-073-13.jpg)
LOTS of button, and for Elite, you NEED lots of Buttons.
Especailly as you have the standard Roll/Yaw/Pitch of the joystick, I also have the hat on the flight stick as lateral/front/back thruster for landing
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Can't afford a HOTAS. Plus outside E:D and Ace Combat 7 (which has limited HOTAS support), i don't actually play anything that would benefit from a HOTAS, so i don't really need one anyway.
Also a very good answer!
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Can't afford a HOTAS.
T.16000M cost only $60. Of course without throttle grip it don't qualify as HOTAS. But stick itself has a throttle control, so...
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All in all, T.16000M has a stick with 3 axis (twist), throttle control behind the stick, trigger + 3 buttons and hat on top of the stick, and 12 buttons on the base. 6 buttons can't be accessed easily, unless you convert the stick for left hand (parts for it come with the package) in which case the other 6 buttons can't be accessed easily.
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Stick only goes for 75€ with a quick look. Probably could find one for cheaper with more searching but...
Can't afford it. Clan Invasion kickstarter shipping costs are eating my immediate entertainment budget, plus i'm strictly speaking on negative on entertainment budget already...
EDIT Lowest seems to be 60€ but 10€ shipping from Estonia.
I will admit i'd love to have a HOTAS. But not now. Maybe once i got enough money saved and when it is time to build a new PC (this one is some 5 years old now, hope it lasts a year or two more at least).
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Stick only goes for 75€ with a quick look. Probably could find one for cheaper with more searching but...
Can't afford it. Clan Invasion kickstarter shipping costs are eating my immediate entertainment budget, plus i'm strictly speaking on negative on entertainment budget already...
EDIT Lowest seems to be 60€ but 10€ shipping from Estonia.
I will admit i'd love to have a HOTAS. But not now. Maybe once i got enough money saved and when it is time to build a new PC (this one is some 5 years old now, hope it lasts a year or two more at least).
I absolutely support and uphold your intent. You gotta figure out your budget and stick to it. If you're saving up for a PC as a higher priority, that's valid too. I use HOTAS (and an additional yoke) because I'm a flight instructor (inactive) as well as a drone systems engineer/researcher. It helps me keep my head in the "controlling an airplane through the air" skill maintenance game.
If you ever do get a control system, my advice would be to save up for the best value holding some minimum of component quality, wear, and maker software and RMA support.
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Stick only goes for 75€ with a quick look. Probably could find one for cheaper with more searching but...
Looks like it in brick & mortar stores in Finland too. I got $60 price from Amazon, but order from there will add shipping fee.
If you ever do get a control system, my advice would be to save up for the best value holding some minimum of component quality, wear, and maker software and RMA support.
What have you got for yourself? What is the cheapest joystick or HOTAS you recommend? Personally I have found T.16000M to have enough axis & buttons with sufficient quality & reliability (linear response & centering are good enough).
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Looks like it in brick & mortar stores in Finland too. I got $60 price from Amazon, but order from there will add shipping fee.
What have you got for yourself? What is the cheapest joystick or HOTAS you recommend? Personally I have found T.16000M to have enough axis & buttons with sufficient quality & reliability (linear response & centering are good enough).
X-52 pro. Reasoning: partly because E:D supports it explicitly, but mostly because Logitech provides stable support (it's gotten way better since that garbage company MadCatz sold the Saitek line) and good customization software and because the centering mechanism, a spring, is exposed and manageable. Like I said, there's a bit of extra play in the stick and this spring plate made the tension perfect: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2405980. I steered away from the X-56 as a bit more expensive with more poor reviews on Reddit than the X-52.
Big idio-syncratic reasoning: The Saitek/Logitech flight yoke is part of the same flight control line and I can mix-match elements while blaming one manufacturer for shortcomings. ^-^
Granted, most of the HOTAS people on Reddit will steer you toward Virpil, Warthog, or similar, but that's higher end for people modding extensions and custom handles to provide accurate lever throw and layout for an F-18 on DCS or what have you.
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Looks like it in brick & mortar stores in Finland too. I got $60 price from Amazon, but order from there will add shipping fee.
What have you got for yourself? What is the cheapest joystick or HOTAS you recommend? Personally I have found T.16000M to have enough axis & buttons with sufficient quality & reliability (linear response & centering are good enough).
Cheapest - maybe:
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414X2Z0A7TL._AC_.jpg)
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Cheapest - maybe:
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414X2Z0A7TL._AC_.jpg)
I've got 2 of those. Has enough of axis & buttons with good layout. But response is not linear (there are erratic changes with axis movements) and stick don't center reliably. Case in point: when twist is left at the center, it leans to the right causing constant roll unless I counter it by hand, and there is a sudden bump on the left. When I started using first stick after a while, I thought it was just worn out and bought a new one. Same problems from get go.
Bedwyr, may I assume more expensive Logitech/Saitek sticks don't have these kinds of problems?
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Bedwyr, may I assume more expensive Logitech/Saitek sticks don't have these kinds of problems?
Mostly not. Though it might be good to check the hotas subreddit for peoples' experiences before leaping for one or the other. My own experience would be described as "so far so good".
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There's two more issues with HOTAS, beyond budget limits:
1) If i had one, i'd need more games to go with that. Oops, suddenly a lot of money spent on too many games. DCS and cool modules for it, old X-wing and TIE Fighter games, and no doubt some others.
2) Why limit oneself to a HOTAS? There's so many awesome extras. Oops, suddenly i've spent several hundred euros on VR device and extra button panels and whatever else. Take a look at this: https://i.imgur.com/laCZkqJ.mp4 (though i understand this thing costs thousands).
Hell, just looking at them makes me want one...
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Take a look at this: https://i.imgur.com/laCZkqJ.mp4 (though i understand this thing costs thousands).
Hell, just looking at them makes me want one...
That's not much really. Those who take air simulation very seriously build entire cockpits. In Finland one guy build one in his garage with three projectors pointing to the wall. Let's see can I find a photo... Here you go (http://gortef.mbnet.fi/vali/2014_MB01_070073.pdf) (at least you can check the photos)
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Such systems are also available to the public use, for a fee. Can also include some training.
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Still more than just a HOTAS lol.
Truly, sim enthusiasts ones brand of weird.
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For that matter, I'd rather buy an old Virtual World BattlePod and upgrade it...
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I was looking around for Transport Tycoon Deluxe, especially on GoG. Not finding it, I did see that the open source Open TTD was on the Microsoft Store (!). On further investigation, it appears there are two games on the store. One is for money and sold by a scammer. The other is the official version that was apparently put up in response to the scammer (who violated GPL by not offering the source code). If you have any interest in the game and have lately gotten into the MS Store by, say, the Game Pass subscription, I recommend downloading the correct, official version here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/openttd-official/9ncjg5rvrr1c?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
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I was looking around for Transport Tycoon Deluxe, especially on GoG. Not finding it, I did see that the open source Open TTD was on the Microsoft Store (!). On further investigation, it appears there are two games on the store. One is for money and sold by a scammer. The other is the official version that was apparently put up in response to the scammer (who violated GPL by not offering the source code). If you have any interest in the game and have lately gotten into the MS Store by, say, the Game Pass subscription, I recommend downloading the correct, official version here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/openttd-official/9ncjg5rvrr1c?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
isnt it abandonware? can you look for it there?
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Open TTD are two different games. The latter is actively developed as an open source project from the ground up under GNU licensing.
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I can see why people tell me deployment money can go to your head. Bought two different $20 hats for a Team-of-Mercenary FPS-themed Hat Simulator, the second game in the franchise.
I feel gross. And I still have a Redemptor Dreadnought and Warhansa minis to buy.
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Incidentally I figured out how to get a nice cross section of mods from Nexus's Vortex manager working for Oblivion and am now deep into a play-through. Perhaps this time I'll finish the game. I've done both major expansions, but not the main campaign.
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Just finished Call of Cthulhu for the PS4 and while it was a bit short, it wasn't too bad. Contemplating moving into The Sinking City when I have the money
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Incidentally I figured out how to get a nice cross section of mods from Nexus's Vortex manager working for Oblivion and am now deep into a play-through. Perhaps this time I'll finish the game. I've done both major expansions, but not the main campaign.
what's popular these days? i haven't played oblivion since using Oscuro's megamod
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what's popular these days? i haven't played oblivion since using Oscuro's megamod
Popularity is pretty much locked in amber, so OOO is still there and big.
My goals are pretty much to get Oblivion running like something closer to Skyrim, so lots of texture mods, weather changes, and some quality of life stuff. I only use Francesco as the sole major mod to fix Oblivion's poor leveling practices. A selection of the stuff I use:
- Wrye Bash and scripting mod, naturally
- Francesco
- The unofficial patches
- All Natural Weather
- Qarl's Textures (redemized)
- Improved Trees/Flora
- Other random texture mods like for vegetables, books, and potions
- All of the harvesting mods that change the appearance of the plant/door/chest you just looted
- Character overhaul so older folks can actually have wrinkles and look normal
- And a book/decorating organizer to get around the jumpy physics system as well as a keychain mod and usable horse saddlebags.
There's a few I haven't integrated like the ENB shader system. I'd like god rays, but it's not exactly critical to the experience. Dropping torches and removing those doors from caves would also be nice but I couldn't get them to integrate properly.
The only real bug I've seen so far is that some door and building texture normal maps aren't working correctly. For example, 3D outlines of iron work on a door where there isn't any iron (so it makes the wood look overly carved). That might be load-order, but I'm not sure where to trace it down to and the Oblivion community, except for Steam and Reddit is basically defunct.
All else? Having a grand time. The story is better than I remember, the acting is passable, Francesco fixes the worst of the game, and since I'm playing on a big screen this time I'm not even changing the UI. It integrates very well with the Steam Controller.
EDIT UPDATE: Whatever you do, do NOT use Vortex as your mod manager. It half-heartedly gets about 80% of mods installed well enough. I just fought hard enough to get issues with Qarl's texture pack working and gave up. Go with Wrye Bash as your manager; the workflow is just so much easier.
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Yeah gotta endorse Bash for Oblivion mods. Personally i prefer manually installing everything (i tend to use smaller mods only), but Bash otherwise. Vortex, nope.
Vortex works mostly OK for Skyrim, but for older stuff it has issues.
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finished playing outer worlds...wish ending was bit better...reminded me of what enix had done with FF X
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Which ending did you get?
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The HD requirements for Red Dead Redemption II is 150GB?! Oh my lawd. xp
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Which ending did you get?
the generic one corps got reformed colonies got toghether bal bla bla
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ok sick again...my friends niece gave me her little gift that keeps on giving does not help that heating unit went belly up and repair guy is not around till tomorrow afternoon...so since i am going to be in bed decided to take MEME out of external drive and have ago at old classics
1941 mario bros road warrior time pilot etc
combined that with future pinball bam add on i am not leaving that warm bed...addams family and medival madness...a pure bliss now if was not sick
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OK playing as FL4K in Borderlands 3, and is it me or does it take a long, long time to reload while youre moving? It seems youre not really reloading your gun unless you stand still. :(
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Going to go back to Elder Scrolls in a little while after going through a Witcher 3 and No Man's Sky kick over here.
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In the DRL I was on the last leve before the Spider Mastermind, when macubus blew me off into lava. Should have used medpack before moving from behind the wall. Well bummer, there goes my UV Angel of Purity run.
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Finished Indivisible.
Fun game but not exactly challenging aside from some obnoxious platforming segments.
Started the Uncharted Trilogy Remastered. Can't help but think that the main character could have made a buttload of money just by selling the location of the lost city to archeologists.
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Started the Uncharted Trilogy Remastered. Can't help but think that the main character could have made a buttload of money just by selling the location of the lost city to archeologists.
Oof. Way overestimating the salary of an archeology professor, man. Especially if they have to keep the location secret and can't publish papers and journal articles. ;)
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You don't sell it to a single professor, you sell it to a large institution. Might not be worth as much as a giant gold statue (but who would you sell that to?) but it would still be worth a lot to the right people.
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You don't sell it to a single professor, you sell it to a large institution. Might not be worth as much as a giant gold statue (but who would you sell that to?) but it would still be worth a lot to the right people.
This made me curious about what ethical standards acheological professionals would have (assume that most any museum or consultant would hold the same ethics as binding). I found these:
https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Code-of-Ethics.pdf
https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Code-of-Professional-Standards.pdf
I know I'm being a wet blanket in a video game thread, but it was of interest and I wanted to pass these along. My guess is, no professional organization would accept location information like that for money. I'd guess there would need to be such a great amount of preliminary work and consultancy with the governing authorities that the secret of the location wouldn't be secret for long; it'd get all Official pretty quick. I'd also guess that most of the wild-cat archeology is mostly restricted to truly international locations, i.e.- the sea in international waters with all the mucky back-and-forth of national navies asserting ownership of old wrecks, intimidating private vessels, and what have you. Land is most always under national control and collegial organizations like this just do not want the hassle, risk, and disapproval of their colleagues.
As always, probably best to ask a real archeologist to get more than guesses at "how things actually work".
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As always, probably best to ask a real archeologist to get more than guesses at "how things actually work".
Does this forum have one? Or another member who has contact info of an archeologist?
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Does this forum have one? Or another member who has contact info of an archeologist?
Does someone who was an Archealogy major in University count?
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Success!
A long-held dream of mine has been to finally achieve a great cockpit simulation experience and I got Elite Dangerous working with the Valve Index and an X52-pro control setup. Confirmed that the game smoothly adapts your control setup from the regular game to the VR headset. The HOTAS system does a really good job of navigating the game systems by feel. There may be some deep control items I haven't gotten set up yet (fighters, etc), but on the whole this is an excellent experience and gets the feeling of having your head attached to your commander's body and cockpit seat. Looking around and anticipating the direction you're turning is an absolute joy.
Next goal: get the single-core CPU bound X-Plane 11 working in VR acceptably so that I can practice VFR flight.
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And after that, how soon will the Mech be ready for a test drive Bedwyr?
;)
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And after that, how soon will the Mech be ready for a test drive Bedwyr?
Let me know when MW5 has native support for HMD and I'll give it a test drive.
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Started playing Doom: Eternal...and even though I'm really enjoying the game? I love Doom(2016) a bit more. Mostly due to the art/graphics style: Doom: Eternal at times looks, and in some instances, feels overly cartoonish and Arcade-y. I'm also not the biggest fan of all the platforming either, but, I'm getting accustomed to it now, at least.
Overall though, It's still a lot of fun.
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i know old but
original one more turn and before you know it is sunrise and you have to get your butt to work x com
and ascendancy
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Replaying Silent Storm. I missed it alot.
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I'm fully aware Trails of Cold Steel III just launched today on PC, but at the moment I'm steadily plugging my way through Zero no Kiseki (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0d_nRETiQ), one of the as of yet officially unreleased-in-the-West Legend of Heroes games. Zero no Kiseki (Trails From Zero), is a hard sequel to the Trails in the Sky trilogy, and runs concurrently with the first Trails of Cold Steel.
It's just received a massive fan-translation pack which actually somehow kludged in a number of quality of life features like auto-saving and turbo mode.
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How were you able to get a hold of the PC version? Trying everywhere to look for it.
I had to stop playing Cold Steel 3 till the official announcement for the Western Localization for Cold Steel 4; that way I can slide from 3 to 4 without having to be left hanging; been doing a good job of avoiding spoilers for 4
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finished Borderlands 3- I dont think its as good as the previous ones- not funny enough, and the bad guys are kinda lame. Still a good way to pass the time though.
Just started Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. Great post apocalyptic game so far. Excellent tactical turn based combat. Fitting storyline for the present too.
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How were you able to get a hold of the PC version? Trying everywhere to look for it.
I had to stop playing Cold Steel 3 till the official announcement for the Western Localization for Cold Steel 4; that way I can slide from 3 to 4 without having to be left hanging; been doing a good job of avoiding spoilers for 4
People have recommended taking a plunge into the erogame infested swamp that is DLsite. I personally gave up after I couldn't figure out how to make them accept my gaijin money and ordered a physical copy directly from Falcom last year. It cost me around 3200 yen (approx US$30), not including shipping. You can probably also find copies floating around Amazon.jp.
The Geofront patcher interfaces with the Japanese physical disc installer perfectly. Once you point the Geofront patcher to the directory, it took care of everything and installation was buttery smooth.
EDIT: Just came back to say that apparently we collectively did a number on Falcom's supply and Zero no Kiseki is currently OOS.
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went old school been messing around with old ps1 games on emulation same goes for ps2
future pinball and oldie but goodie laser squad nemesis...yep on retro trip for rest of the week...
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Three more days until Persona 5 Royal comes out.
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Let's see....rebought (as I can't find the original) ELDER SCROLLS OBLIVION for the X-Box, cause yeah, I know I can easily blow about 300+ hours into that.
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Starting Portal, those sentry turrets are soo adorable.
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I've been playing the original starcraft, i forgot how fun that game is :thumbsup:
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Steam had Divinity: Original Sin 2 on 50% sale yesterday, so I bought it. I have it installed, but haven't played it yet. Apologies for not informing y'all sooner while it was still on sale :(
In Discord somebody was looking for a free RPG for Linux. I looked through Gentoo packages (because its WWW interface works in sensible manner), and I found Summoning Wars. Has Windows version too, so I got it and played it a bit. Reminds me about Diablo and Neverwinter Nights.
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I've been playing the original starcraft, i forgot how fun that game is :thumbsup:
Regular or Remastered?
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Regular or Remastered?
Regular, i still have my original cds
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So they finally announced US release of Trails of Cold Steel 4 for this fall; they announced it on April 1st so fans thought this was an April Fools Joke till we were assured it was not. I'm excited and might even take a week off to play the game when it is released
Playing Persona 5 Royal; nice bonus for players who have the original save data from the previous version
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I've been very impressed by the level of additional content that Royal adds. And it's not just the big things, like the new section of Tokyo to explore or the added Confidantes, the minor stuff like having Makoto and Haru show up far earlier in the game is quite impressive, too.
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I am at the end of the Kamoshida arc so the only new content I've seen so far is Kasumi; my goal is to romance her though I heard it is quite tricky to do so.
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There's more cutscenes, Makoto and Haru are both introduced earlier in the game (and Makoto has early scenes showing off her friendlier side), some of the Confidantes have been reworked to provide more usability, you can do things in Lablanc at night even if you've gone to the Metaverse in the day (just being able to study, read, or watch TV shows gives a huge edge in grinding your stats early in the game). And there's a bunch of other small changes.
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mucking around with the original Zork
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There's more cutscenes, Makoto and Haru are both introduced earlier in the game (and Makoto has early scenes showing off her friendlier side), some of the Confidantes have been reworked to provide more usability, you can do things in Lablanc at night even if you've gone to the Metaverse in the day (just being able to study, read, or watch TV shows gives a huge edge in grinding your stats early in the game). And there's a bunch of other small changes.
Oh, one minor change, but also one that makes a huge gameplay difference, is that the Baton Pass mechanic is now a basic combat effect and doesn't require you to have made someone a Confidant. That makes a big difference with how useful party members who can't become Confidants until after their initial palaces have been cleared are.
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Joined a Fleet in Star Trek Online and I've been spending my home isolation grinding my Admiral skills and ships equipment. And dumping resources into the Fleet holdings by the bucket load... :D
I figure if I can't GO to work, my gaming time should at least FEEL like work... ;D
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I figure if I can't GO to work, my gaming time should at least FEEL like work... ;D
One can achieve that by playing Minecraft and building something epic, like The Uncensored Library (loaded with Rule #4, so look it up yourself)
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I like the fact that you can do more during the day in Persona 5 Royal than be limited to only one actvity; makes it easier to get stuff done or get your stats up.
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Playing Star Control Origins- one of the aliens Im talking to is a... virus. Hmmm...
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Playing Star Control Origins- one of the aliens Im talking to is a... virus. Hmmm...
i almost choked on pretzels when it was revealed the slug race had protected humanity from annihilation because they liked making fanfiction of our media
don't know how far i'll get into it because the resource grinding mechanics are more tedious than in Mass Effect. hell, they're worse than Star Control II. it also likes to turn my laptop up to 1000 degrees
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i almost choked on pretzels when it was revealed the slug race had protected humanity from annihilation because they liked making fanfiction of our media
don't know how far i'll get into it because the resource grinding mechanics are more tedious than in Mass Effect. hell, they're worse than Star Control II. it also likes to turn my laptop up to 1000 degrees
Yeah I thought the resource gathering was gonna be a pain too, but I'm about 2/3 of the way done and no longer need to drop into every planet and pick minerals up anymore. There's a few minerals you want to keep from selling off like Francium, but the majority of them are sellable. Even the drones and critters you stun will fetch a high price on the orbital merchants that you come across, so once you hit about 100K RU youre pretty much done on that end. The only time I would drop on a planet after that is when I detect an unknown contact on the surface.
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I just completed Warcraft III RoC & TFT Saturday, now I'm playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade :thumbsup:
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In the steam workshop, I actually made a few custom anime ships, did a requisite SDF-1, a Gundam Musai, and several Mospeada ships also.
Playing Star Control Origins- one of the aliens Im talking to is a... virus. Hmmm...
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I just completed Warcraft III RoC & TFT Saturday, now I'm playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade :thumbsup:
Dawn of War was a good game on its time, and maybe still is. I've played through it, and most of the DLC except Soulstorm. By that point I got burned out. Didn't get through Warcraft3 though, because burned out on RTS. Then I found MegaMek :thumbsup:
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I played Soulstorm, but never finished it because it was the same rehash of dark crusade. I agree, its easy to get burned out on RTS games
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halo master chef collection
had not touched halo game in 12 years...
i still love the soundtrack to the games
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ok started looking through some old stuff dug out this little gem
neighbor from hell and its sequel
man forgot how much fun it was to torture the poor fat slob
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ok little of topic but still gaming related check this announcement about predatory free to play games
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/4665-pcgamingwiki-launches-new-project-to-warn-about-microtransactions-in-every-pc-game/
once it kicks off parents will be able to monitor their wallets a little better
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There once was an old DOS game called Steel Panthers. The thing I liked most about it was that through careful gameplay you could keep the units with which you played the first scenario and build up their experience and improve their equipment as the war went on. It was a battalion / task force level game, turn based, and you could play nearly every faction involved in WW II.
What contemporary strategy game would be most akin to Steel Panthers? Steel Division II maybe?
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What contemporary strategy game would be most akin to Steel Panthers? Steel Division II maybe?
Steel Panthers World at War and WinSPWW2 (Windows Steel Panthers World War 2). First is based on Steel Panthers 3 and second one is based on Steel Panthers 2. WinSPWW2 has got more recent official updates and is more compatible with new computers and operating systems.
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Close Combat was in many ways a real time Steel Panthers, especially III (Eastern Front), where you had one combat group and led it through entire grand campaign. It was heart breaking if a veteran tank crew got wiped out. You also had to deal with unit fatigue during sub-campaigns and upgrade your force between the missions.
However, the ability to load the infantry onto the half track or hitch up a gun only came with V.
I have heard mixed opinions about the new one, mostly due to new graphic engine, but my policy is to wait with new releases anyway, so most of the bugs can be ironed out.
However if you want tactical combat in any theater of WWII, the only alternative to Steel Panthers is Steel Panthers.
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However if you want tactical combat in any theater of WWII, the only alternative to Steel Panthers is Steel Panthers.
Though they don't have Asia nor Pacific, Combat Mission and Battle Academy series are also worth to look at.
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Beat Persona 5 Royal, which means that now it's time for New Game Plus mode.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/mechwarrior-5s-dlc-is-delayed-but-will-be-expanded/
well looks like mech 5 expansion is delayed...not that it was not unexpected
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halo master chef collection
Oh man! And here I thought I was the only one calling it that! ;D
Or was that a typo on your part? :-\ Because I DO call it "The Master Chef Collection" !! :D
Gaming wise, I finished "Metro: Exodus" a few weeks back, and "Terminator: Resistance" a few days ago, both on the XBone. At least "Resistance" wasn't the dumpster-fire train-wreck that was known as "Terminator: Salvation". :P That was the 1st XBone game I ever traded in, and would've been the only if I hadn't bought "Pillars of Eternity". While I LIKED "Pillars", THEY made it so it was Unplayable for me where I lived. It kept checking for some BS "Validation", which was IMPOSSIBLE for it to find since I had no internet at home at the time. Went back to the game store where I was updating my consoles, and it played fine, In The Store. Got it home, couldn't play it. >:( Traded it in and never looked back.
I need to get back to playing "Days Gone" and/or "The Last of Us". Bummed out LoU2 has been delayed, along with "Cyberpunk 2077". :'(
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Close Combat was in many ways a real time Steel Panthers, especially III (Eastern Front), where you had one combat group and led it through entire grand campaign...
I had a blast with CC series all those years ago. Now Im in a Space Engineers mood.
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ok nostalgia kick...since my original ps1 gone missing after i had been robbed back in 98 i hardly ever went back to play it with exception of ramna 1/2 and macross games over my friends who still have them...
final fantasy VII on emulator had been now my steady game for 2 days straight...very unusual for me i foind it i like it as much as i liked it then when i played it for first time
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Just finished playing the PS2 game Fireblade a more modern Airwolf.
Nice game, hell it's complicated but pretty standard playing.
TT
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Picked up Gears Tactics today. Haven't played too much yet, but, from what little I have played I'm digging it so far. Gears of War meets Xcom. :thumbsup:
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ok never again will i play skyrym with thomas the tank engine or randy savage mods!
nope! and whole lot of NOPE!
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autotune bears
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Total War: Empire
I'm playing Sweden and we possess Texas. :)
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Streets of Rage 4 got released this week, for people who want a little classic 90s beat 'm up action.
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Like mega man 11 the asking price is a bit steep. Will wait for a sale
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Rekindling my skills at X-Wing Alliance
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Dynasty Warriors 5 for PS2!
Feeling bored so started playing it at 5 PM yesterday, forgot to sleep!
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Crazy Taxi (via Steam) I've forgot what how much fun the old arcade / console games were.
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Mech Merc Company (Early Access) (via Steam). It gave me the nostalgia of old mech games from the 90s such as the Mechwarrior 2 series, Heavy Gear, etc. (yes I'm aware of Earth/Starsiege when I was a kid)
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I normally don't even consider early access games, but now I went and bought Jupiter Hell. Still has a strong element of the DRL, but enough has changed to warrant some learning. There is more different weapons and gear, two new ammo types, but number of storage places has been reduced to 12. Shotguns still rule, until you run out of ammo that is. No diagonal move, so I'm not sure how melee builds work.
No mouse support was the biggest change for me though, as I came to DRL long after it was implemented.
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Mech Merc Company (Early Access) (via Steam). It gave me the nostalgia of old mech games from the 90s such as the Mechwarrior 2 series, Heavy Gear, etc. (yes I'm aware of Earth/Starsiege when I was a kid)
If earthsiege triggers nostalgia seek immediate medical assistance
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Need remember this game if fully armed and operational enough to make my mech cravings get sated.
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I've gotten pretty into nba2k20 lately
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If earthsiege triggers nostalgia seek immediate medical assistance
But it does. I thoroughly enjoyed the series, and I still hold MissionForce: Cyberstorm to be one of the best 'giant robot' strategy games out there.
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I've been playing the latest Stephen Murphy game, 10 Beautiful Postcards, absolutely wonderful delirious fever dream of a game.
Stephen makes games under the name 'thecatamites', his most well-known one is probably Space Funeral if you're not familiar.
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I've been playing so much Star Trek Online during lockdown, I used the "Prime Directive" to avoid taking sides in a friends argument... ;D
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I've been playing so much Star Trek Online during lockdown, I used the "Prime Directive" to avoid taking sides in a friends argument... ;D
How did they react when you referred to them both as 'primitive cultures' ? >:D
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ok finished the xcom chimera squad
fun quick romp better controls than previous games hope they keep them...cute story if not too predictable and set up is for sequel just like in the fallen
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Somehow got myself pulled back into another playthrough of Deus Ex. I know the story and almost every line by heart at this point, but, I have a blast every time.
...It also reminded me that for some reason, I've never even really started Mankind Divided. I'll have to remedy that after this playthrough.
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Big nostalgia kick, so I installed Crimson Skies on my laptop and made an order from IWM to get the planes available that were in the PC release. Now have to figure out how to paint them. Fortune Hunters are fine, but I'm not all that fond of all that red.
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Big nostalgia kick, so I installed Crimson Skies on my laptop and made an order from IWM to get the planes available that were in the PC release. Now have to figure out how to paint them. Fortune Hunters are fine, but I'm not all that fond of all that red.
Ha! I'll one up ya, bought the RPG game at last year's Gencon with all the plane sets for a measly 30 bucks total. Still NIB... just collecting for future use, and bragging rights. My kids play my Xbox game and love it...
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Elite: Dangerous
Insurgency: Sandstorm (Still my heroine)
Total War:Shogun 2
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currently getting my ass kicked by Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
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generation zero
stealth exploration fps ok so far
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brothers i had commited sacralige! forgive me!
i was given space hulk tactics to try out...i enjoyed it...i feel so dirty....and i am going back for more...
on serious note once one gets used to controls and graphic asthetic it is not that bad
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i've now bought Xenoblade Chronicles for the third time
Wii Physical (sold for almost double what i paid for it)
Wii U Digital
Switch Digital
we'll see if i get more than a few hours in this time...
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Twice here. Once on 3DS and once on Switch. Looking forward to hearing that sweet sweet music on the plains again.
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i would probably would have gotten the 3ds one but i never got a New 3ds.
dunno if the 3ds had an updated score but this one has orchestrated bgm
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God I hate preloading. you have my money. i have your data. let me play command and conquer remastered you cowards!