XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

I'm playing the same thing. If you keep your tech ahead of exalt a bit then exalt die like chumps even when they have laser weapons and some genetic implants.

If you want perhaps we could play a game some time. I have to warn you I have probably 700 or 800 something hours playing xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within. It's almost all single-player experience but it should translate somewhat.

Killzone Shadow Fall.

I preferred the multiplayer in Killzone 3.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

I'm playing the same thing. If you keep your tech ahead of exalt a bit then exalt die like chumps even when they have laser weapons and some genetic implants.

If you want perhaps we could play a game some time. I have to warn you I have probably 700 or 800 something hours playing xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within. It's almost all single-player experience but it should translate somewhat.

Pretty sure you'd slaughter me then. I'm barely surviving this thing. It's way harder than Enemy Unknown. Lost a whole squad saving Newfoundland and just somehow made it through the attack on your base. That attack was just plain stupidly difficult. Don't even know how I beat it but one guy barely crawled his way out of there.

Just finished getting the last of those little Maiamai squid things in Zelda.



Only 100 of the little guys...

Pretty much has been nothing but super street fighter 4 AE.

Been playing a lot of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

I'm enjoying it, even the multiplayer. There are some things I'm not fond of(notably the dog in MP--dog has a ridiculous melee attack range and it will hunt people across the entirety of the map while not showing up on satellite scans) but overall the game is a lot of fun.

 carlos13th wrote:
Killzone Shadow Fall.

I preferred the multiplayer in Killzone 3.

I didn't get to play the multiplayer, but I loved the (little bit) of the campaign mode I got to play. Much better than KZ3, and had the potential to be better than KZ2.

Dragons Age ultimate or whatever, at least until xmas clears and I can throw monies at bg2:ee/starbound/something.

It's been fairly entertaining, though I hope to get more party members soon, the bickering between the first two was cute at first but it wears on you quickly.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

I'm playing the same thing. If you keep your tech ahead of exalt a bit then exalt die like chumps even when they have laser weapons and some genetic implants.

If you want perhaps we could play a game some time. I have to warn you I have probably 700 or 800 something hours playing xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within. It's almost all single-player experience but it should translate somewhat.

Pretty sure you'd slaughter me then. I'm barely surviving this thing. It's way harder than Enemy Unknown. Lost a whole squad saving Newfoundland and just somehow made it through the attack on your base. That attack was just plain stupidly difficult. Don't even know how I beat it but one guy barely crawled his way out of there.

Newfoundland? Is that the fishing village?

Man, that mission is a mess. Probably hardest mission in the game.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

PSN and Pawn name same as here if anyone wants to use my pawn. Can friend folk if they are lower level. Also entirely willing help out with materials or gear.

been playing Deadpool,

Game is hilarious

I saw that, hilarious is good, is it also fun at the same time?

 Kanluwen wrote:
Been playing a lot of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

I'm enjoying it, even the multiplayer. There are some things I'm not fond of(notably the dog in MP--dog has a ridiculous melee attack range and it will hunt people across the entirety of the map while not showing up on satellite scans) but overall the game is a lot of fun.

I thought the Alien Invasion mode was good too. Been fighting a lot of aliens lately....


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 malfred wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

I'm playing the same thing. If you keep your tech ahead of exalt a bit then exalt die like chumps even when they have laser weapons and some genetic implants.

If you want perhaps we could play a game some time. I have to warn you I have probably 700 or 800 something hours playing xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within. It's almost all single-player experience but it should translate somewhat.

Pretty sure you'd slaughter me then. I'm barely surviving this thing. It's way harder than Enemy Unknown. Lost a whole squad saving Newfoundland and just somehow made it through the attack on your base. That attack was just plain stupidly difficult. Don't even know how I beat it but one guy barely crawled his way out of there.

Newfoundland? Is that the fishing village?

Man, that mission is a mess. Probably hardest mission in the game.

Yes, mission was completed but I don't know how anyone could survive that. And I'm actually angry at how difficult the attack on your HQ is. Ridiculous, ridicolous I say! It's all these dang kids in the internet saying the game was easy! Leave something for the normal people!

Anyway, despite that I'll say it's added a lot more variety to the game. I'm back to not knowing what's going to happen from moment to moment in a way that I can't say since my very first play through.

"Extinction" was definitely fun but I'm very disappointed that it will not be updated at no charge or have "Extinction" episodes sold separately from the main multiplayer packs.

I've bought Rage today, for €5,-
Enjoying it so far!

Getting a templar build going for Path of Exile. Really enjoying my spectral throw staff

 FirePainter wrote:
Getting a templar build going for Path of Exile. Really enjoying my spectral throw staff

Of the character options, the Templar is by far my fave, and my highest level. If you get a staff going, and put quite a few passive points into the staff spots (as in, as many as possible) you really, REALLY dont need a second weapon.

Just bought Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 FirePainter wrote:
Getting a templar build going for Path of Exile. Really enjoying my spectral throw staff

Of the character options, the Templar is by far my fave, and my highest level. If you get a staff going, and put quite a few passive points into the staff spots (as in, as many as possible) you really, REALLY dont need a second weapon.

Yeah that is what I am going for with this build massive power from the staff and spectral throw not sure if I will have the dex to use it at high levels but it should be fun.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just bought Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity.

Check out some of the mods that are available. There are a huge number that add a lot of depth and changes to the game. Including better planets, more variety, star trek/star wars/ B5/ stargate/ battlestar/ fan made ship designs and powers. It really is a fun skirmish game

Ooooooo I like the sound of Stargate mods. I was a big fan of Stargate back in my youth, it was my Star Trek.

Enjoy many long hours

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/314779

I'm going to try to play XCOM to get the 4 man squad
achievement. What should my loadout be?

I'm thinking Assault Assault Sniper Heavy

Stargate? Going to pretend I didn't see that and move on as quickly as possible, I've got too many time sinks as it is

Battlefield 4 on PS3.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Been playing a lot of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

I'm enjoying it, even the multiplayer. There are some things I'm not fond of(notably the dog in MP--dog has a ridiculous melee attack range and it will hunt people across the entirety of the map while not showing up on satellite scans) but overall the game is a lot of fun.

I thought the Alien Invasion mode was good too. Been fighting a lot of aliens lately....


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 malfred wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
XCom Enemy Within which is pretty much like admitting to being back on crack.

I'm playing the same thing. If you keep your tech ahead of exalt a bit then exalt die like chumps even when they have laser weapons and some genetic implants.

If you want perhaps we could play a game some time. I have to warn you I have probably 700 or 800 something hours playing xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within. It's almost all single-player experience but it should translate somewhat.

Pretty sure you'd slaughter me then. I'm barely surviving this thing. It's way harder than Enemy Unknown. Lost a whole squad saving Newfoundland and just somehow made it through the attack on your base. That attack was just plain stupidly difficult. Don't even know how I beat it but one guy barely crawled his way out of there.

Newfoundland? Is that the fishing village?

Man, that mission is a mess. Probably hardest mission in the game.

Yes, mission was completed but I don't know how anyone could survive that. And I'm actually angry at how difficult the attack on your HQ is. Ridiculous, ridicolous I say! It's all these dang kids in the internet saying the game was easy! Leave something for the normal people!

Anyway, despite that I'll say it's added a lot more variety to the game. I'm back to not knowing what's going to happen from moment to moment in a way that I can't say since my very first play through.

In enemy within? The first time I heard about the fishing village I took several heavies. I lost probably 4 guys of my 6 and won the mission but I didn't win that playthrough and this was on impossible difficulty. The first time I fought the base mission I won with one guy remaining. The next game I played things were pretty easy. I took out exalt like a bunch of noobs though the first time I did suffer some casualties esp. on the exalt base where I had only one guy remaining (enemy rockets can be tricky). A lot of this is based on how hard you can tech up and still based on officer training and some foundry stuff. I use some gene mods but not that much now. It was hard because I didn't know what did what but now I do. The only problem I had this game other than normal impossible difficulty was the xcom base defense and that's because I fought cyberdiscs, mechtoids, sectoid commanders and other crap all at once. It wouldn't have been bad but when you have 3 or so soldiers to start with and 2 get mind controlled off the bat or so then it gets pretty freaking ridiculous. I lost that base defense but I reloaded the game and beat it no problem. Last time I fought the fishing village I had no casualties. Oddly enough on impossible difficulty I only had to reload about 3 times which is a record low. Like I said staying ahead in tech can be pretty freaking important if you do it right. Sometimes it's just luck of the draw with missions.

@malfred: Actually I still think assaults can be useless but less so now. What difficulty are we talking about? It's obviously classic or impossible since that's the achievement. Only 4 guys is actually pretty hard since I go for squad size pretty fast. If I'd say classes you should probably have 2 heavies. It might sound weird but 2 heavies will give you lots of rockets and that can destroy a lot of cover as well as give you plenty of explosive attacks. Explosives help a ton at eliminating enemy cover and making the rest of your shots easier. The sniper can go on high ground and do pretty well. If you take supports take one at least with med-kits though early on smoke grenades are probably more useful till you see mutons and similar with plasma grenades. Thankfully smoke grenades are more useful now with mechtoids and certain baddies but it won't help vs psychics. Against psychics that can mind control you try to make your closest guys to them get out of line of sight since they pretty much force you to take a mind control. If you take a support go for the foundry two items upgrade and also get mimetic skin on them. Basically you should dash with this character and go into full cover. This is your scout obviously. You can also set up your attacks a bit back behind the scout and the scout can even throw things like flashbang grenades at the enemy (provided they're biological and not high psionic) and ruin their shooting horribly. It should allow you to see your enemies before they see you so that you don't walk into an ambush and can force the enemy into a storm of overwatches if they're coming your way. Make sure that you don't move your mimetic skin scout and possibly don't overwatch them either. Sometimes you shouldn't even hunker down with them as it ruins sight. If it just ends on them and an enemy is in their view just use some items on them that won't physically hurt them so you can remain in camo and use it to help your squad-sight snipers. If you have nothing to use and it ends on them then just click end turn.

I can't even imagine playing Classic with only 4 guys. Just thinking about it is aggravating.

I don't think I could play impossible with just 4 guys. I could probably play classic ironman on 4 guys but impossible I have enough trouble with just the 6. Squad size upgrades are usually the best early upgrades to get besides laser weapons.

Just classic. And def not Ironman.

Why do you think that Assaults are weak? With Close Combat
Specialist, I can put some hurt on a Crysalid swarm!

 malfred wrote:
Just classic. And def not Ironman.

Why do you think that Assaults are weak? With Close Combat
Specialist, I can put some hurt on a Crysalid swarm!

Assaults aren't super weak it's just of the classes I use I try to use them the least. Sometimes they run off too far forward when you run and gun and another enemy squad gets spotted too soon only to flank said assault. I'm not sure if my old opinion of them still stands for 'enemy within'. They're ok just not fantastic. I love lightning reflexes the most of their abilities for some reason.

Defense heavy assaults might be ok but only if you throw them into indestructible cover and I say this because the grenades tend to start flying when your defense is too high if the enemy has any. If you have any sort of cloak ability at all you will not go for the free shot within 4 tiles ability. It ruins cloak and makes your guy a bullet magnet. I think it was 'bring it on' that added critical damage by +1 per enemy the squad sees up to 5 if you got a critical. It's good early on.

I suppose my problem is in harder difficulties you need heavies. Snipers can also use somebody as a scout like a support with mimetic skin spotting for you. I suppose the issue is for me assaults are too up in your face and I like to play carefully. If you played 'enemy unknown' you'd realize assaults were very 'in your face'. That's kind of the nature of that class. Anyway heavies are pretty much needed in classic and possibly impossible difficulty. Using at least 2 per squad with rockets and grenades will lower the difficulty of the mission to a fifth of the difficulty. Not to mention if you have a heavy major you get the minus 2 damage ability when in cover and if you stay in indestructible cover and don't get flanked and use combat stims then you get absurdly low damage from attacks to the point where the enemy will use 5-6 elite mutons to throw alien grenades at you and you'll still survive with just one guy. The reason why is first combat stims halve your damage and prevent critical damage and then you get the extra minus 2 to whatever damage you take while in cover and not flanked. So basically if they shoot their normal weapons at you they do crazy low damage. Probably 3-4 per heavy plasma if they hit and if you have titan armor on it's even funnier. Big time bullet sponge.

Also if you're talking about chrysallids and close combat then it helps but you're better off going with in the zone snipers. An 'in the zone' sniper can eliminate a whole horde of chrysallids without trouble esp. with ammo conservation since they always count as in the open. Find a decent area to see from and you'll see maybe 5 dead chrysallids per turn from one sniper.

I've played 3 tactical missions in XCOM so far. The first one saw three of my guys die, but I think that's unavoidable in the tutorial. Then in the next two I had someone get shot in both missions, taking them out for days at a time. And my Sniper has never fired a shot.

I'm bad at this game...

First time I played Iron Man I lost like 43 guys so don't feel bad.

Yeah Iron Man will take your soul and burn it for eternity. At least the first time around, You know abit more the second go around.

Really want to pick up the expansion though, whats the opinion now that its been out awhile? Worth it?

EDIT: Apparently jumped over a whole page talking about it... Whoops! Sounds good, And hard. Which is what I'm looking for after getting too used to the plain game. Sounds like a good time to jump back in. Lot's of hours are about to disappear again.

Had a horrid mission where I lost 3 people, came back with one fine, one injured, and one civilian who didn't seem to like me (one of those Exalt guys I guess - I think it was the first of those missions).

Did the one where you rescue the Traid guy. That was fun. Faced Crysallids in my first error mission. Saved 8 of 18 civvies and lost one of my best snipers. Woosa no! She died as she lived... standing at the back doing nothing until a Crysallid jumped her.

Now I'm fighting Mutons for the first time, but for the first time in a while I have mostly laser weapons and all my guys were healed, so I've got lots of ranked up people with cool nicknames.

But I'm doing ok now. Few more days and I'll have a Satellite over Germany, and then maybe another in France. Genetics lab on the way.

For all its faults....I'm really enjoying Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior

Playing some old Star Wars Republic Commando with buddies. Anyone's welcome to join as long as you can keep your mouth in check

 DA's Forever wrote:
Yeah Iron Man will take your soul and burn it for eternity. At least the first time around, You know abit more the second go around.

Really want to pick up the expansion though, whats the opinion now that its been out awhile? Worth it?

EDIT: Apparently jumped over a whole page talking about it... Whoops! Sounds good, And hard. Which is what I'm looking for after getting too used to the plain game. Sounds like a good time to jump back in. Lot's of hours are about to disappear again.

Yes definitely worth it. Pretty much makes it a whole new game. In fact, for the consoles it is actually a new game.

I am playing the game of basking in the glow of all the gifts I recived!

On a more serious note : I am currently playing Project Gothham racing 4

I'll be playing Battlefield 4 on my Xbox 360 tomorrow, probably.

Possibly Mass Effect 3 for the second time. Maybe Civilization if I get it for Christmas.

Booting up Battlefield 4 now on my 360. Doing the obligatory 30 min process of installation and patching...

My girlfriend got me Injustice for PS3...too bad my cat was kind enough to spill water on my second controller, and ruin it. Looks like I'll be buying another one to play it properly

Just finished installing BG2:EE. I was going to get CoD Ghosts, but apparently I'm a bit behind on system specs these days, 4/6gb ram patch notwithstanding. Poorly running shooter is like chewing glass, I'll stick with my oldschool rpgs over that.

Still playing XCOM. Just fought off the base attack. Those pesky aliens thought they could take my base, but I saw them off. Only lost one guy - one of the security personnel. Not even part of my regular squads.

I hate Sectoid commanders though. And DAMN are Plasma Rifles expensive.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Still playing XCOM. Just fought off the base attack. Those pesky aliens thought they could take my base, but I saw them off. Only lost one guy - one of the security personnel. Not even part of my regular squads.

I hate Sectoid commanders though. And DAMN are Plasma Rifles expensive.

It's only really hard to make the more elite plasma weapons as you can't capture aliens with them. You should absolutely capture mutons and most things and just use their recovered weapons. Remember you still have to research the tech for the weapon to use it though. Also weapons tend to have a minimum engineer count to make.

Sectoids and sectoid commanders are good to take weapons from. Light plasma rifles are ok to get but if you can get them you may as well just research the plasma rifle research and get the rest of the plasma research (I don't think researching light plasma rifles leads to the other more awesome plasma weapons either). Alien grenades are fantastic early on so capturing mutons or sectoid commanders has a benefit beyond just the plasma rifles as you can use them automatically when the enemy is captured though you will have to research to get infinite amounts of plasma grenades.

So yeah if you want more plasma weaponry then just capture some baddies with plasma rifles (usually mutons). You have to capture at least one to get the research. Also keep in mind you have to capture enemies anyway just to get a hold of the plasma tech that they use.

If you see sectoid commanders go out of their line of sight. They have to have line of sight to use psychic powers. Sure they almost always succeed in psychic attacks but they can only use them if they have line of sight to your guys. If they don't they just go on overwatch or try getting around and plasma pistols don't do jack anyway in comparison to the better alien weapons on overwatch. If your guys are far away like snipers then you may actually want to just throw them on overwatch but anybody near enough to sectoid commander can just stay out of their line of sight esp. with their first move and they'll be ok.

Mostly Counter Strike Global Offensive with some Red Orchestra 2 and DoW Retribution mixed in...As of today I picked up and am installing Left 4 Dead 2 and Deus Ex Human Revolution so those may become my primaries for a bit

Capturing aliens alive is hard though. I tend to just blast Mutons. Can you capture Mechtoid's alive?


And I now have two Mech Suits. Put two of my Squaddies who never saw any combat into a pair of 'em, just so I have some. One with a flamer the other with a rocket fist. Looking forward to trying them out.

Finally beat XCom. Actually after seeing off the attack on my base it was a compete cakewalk from that point on. Only lost 1 guy for the entire remainder of the game and that was just a fluke. Most missions ended up being a total slaughterfest because all the new stuff you can get.

All the new content makes the difficulty spike in a weird place about a third of the way through but I'm glad to have it and I'm sure another play through is coming.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Capturing aliens alive is hard though. I tend to just blast Mutons. Can you capture Mechtoid's alive?


And I now have two Mech Suits. Put two of my Squaddies who never saw any combat into a pair of 'em, just so I have some. One with a flamer the other with a rocket fist. Looking forward to trying them out.

I really liked the MECs. They can become very powerful.

You can't be a MEC and get Meld genetics as well, can you?

Just repicked up a copy of Demon's Souls... After the first time of so much frustration, this second time playing the game has been a bit better... I have actually managed to defeat the first demon (usually I got stuck at the first black soul/fog bank before)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You can't be a MEC and get Meld genetics as well, can you?

No. Also, you can't capture Mectoids.


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Playing Episode 1 of The Wolf Among Us and then Episode 1 of season 2 of The Walking Dead The Game.

ZombiU. Hot damn this is a good game. Shame we probably will never see a sequel or continuation. Still got a ways to go in it though. And sadly my best survivor ate it bye a surprise exploding zombie....... totally sad about that

Playing the Orange Box. Little bit if Half Life 2 and a little of Portal.

Trying to get Civilisation 5 working but my -ing computer seems to crash whenever I play a game that's not either Dawn of War or Minecraft.

Working through Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, sunk 20 hours into it so far and I think I'm close to finishing it. Also play a bit of Minecraft and Starbound inbetween.

How are you finding starbound? Is it much different from terraria (if you've played that)?

Working on BG2:EE but very slowly, kind of sick.

I wouldnt say Starboud is too much different than Terraria.

Its got the same basic gameplay, mine stuff, make armour, kill boss and repeat. I think what helps Starbound is the sheer vastness of it compared to Terraria. Finished with a planet? Hop into your ship and go to another one. Starbound is still in beta atm with frequent updates. Its good but unless I get over 95 hours of play out of it then Terraria remains the better game lol.

It really a touch one to call imo, others may find it easier lol.

Interesting, thanks for the info. It's on my list, but the list progresses pretty slowly.

Starbound is a little cleaner than Terraria to me. I mean despite being in Beta its a lot easier to get my head around things. I would hazard waiting a while till the full release to experience the game properly, but for the moment it has good prospects. Yes there are a lot of planets, but the progression system's not fully implemented yet, so you may quickly find yourself without things to do once you reach what's currently the end unless you want to either build things, or look for the most powerful randomly generated weapon you can find to kill your friends with. =P

Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

I have been playing Remember Me.

I have been pleasantly surprised, it is very enjoyable.

 Happygrunt wrote:
I have been playing Remember Me.

I have been pleasantly surprised, it is very enjoyable.

yeah, I clicked on a let's play of it a few weeks back out of boredom, and it's actually pretty good to watch.

I played a bit of remember me on PS+ really wanted to like the game and loved the concept but I struggled to get into it.

 carlos13th wrote:
Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

Completely agree with this. I played a couple hours of it with my girlfriend's brother, and we spent the entire time destroying other ships and finding islands. We only did one actual story mission XD

 mega_bassist wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

Completely agree with this. I played a couple hours of it with my girlfriend's brother, and we spent the entire time destroying other ships and finding islands. We only did one actual story mission XD

Is there any sort of crazy wall climbing and acrobatics like in Assassin's Creed 2?

GTA 5 and AC4
AC4 is really meta and weird. The framing device is odd andlike i said meta.

Welp got into and am addicted to starbound...

^ I didn't expect to... I bought Starbound, Skyrim with all dlc (hurray for mods), Fallout 3 (never played), Fallout New Vegas, and a game I can't remember this second. I was hyped for all but the first. What do I get addicted to? Starbound

TMNT Out of the Shadows

It got terrible reviews but I am really enjoying it.

I blew through Assassins Creed 4 last week, finished the game yesterday. Great story, it was my first AC game, always meant to try em out. The multiplayer is kinda fun too.

I think next on my list will be the Tomb Raider update for Xbone in January.. missed it when it first came out.

Beat ZombiU. Totally enjoyed it, now Im messing around with survival and whatnot. Pretty awesome game IMO, definitely a must have on WiiU. Im thinking of picking up Super Mario 3D worlds after my next check or two. That game looks the gak and its been getting insanely good reviews as well.

During that time, Ive been messing around in Disney infinity with the kids. Pretty neat idea and a huge improvement over Skylanders.

Been playing Race the Sun since it finally got greenlit on steam, it's a really fun endless racer. Also planning on restarting on Skyrim.

Still playing Enemy Within... don't have a powerful enough psyker to progress to the final mission.

In other news: Feth Sectopods. Takes my entire team to take one of them out, and I've got two particle cannons!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Still playing Enemy Within... don't have a powerful enough psyker to progress to the final mission.

In other news: Feth Sectopods. Takes my entire team to take one of them out, and I've got two particle cannons!!!

You just need to make the PSI armour and slap it on your favorite psyker.

Rise of Legends. Oh god that's fun!

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Still playing Enemy Within... don't have a powerful enough psyker to progress to the final mission.

In other news: Feth Sectopods. Takes my entire team to take one of them out, and I've got two particle cannons!!!

You just need to make the PSI armour and slap it on your favorite psyker.

Yes Canuck is right. Sectopods only got this hard in 'enemy within'. They were never so hard in enemy unknown. Now for whatever reason damage done to them is lessened and heat ammo doesn't seem to do much of sh*t to them. In fact they used to be about as strong as as slower version of the mechtoid. Good thing about mechtoids is that if you have a heat ammo heavy with a heavy plasma and you have the ability where using the main weapon first doesn't end your heavy's actions (and therefore gives you two shots) then you can basically take a mechtoid down with just one heavy.

SkavenLord wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

Completely agree with this. I played a couple hours of it with my girlfriend's brother, and we spent the entire time destroying other ships and finding islands. We only did one actual story mission XD

Is there any sort of crazy wall climbing and acrobatics like in Assassin's Creed 2?

Yeah still plenty of that. The city's don't have the same huge epic ness as Italy in ac2 but the free running Is still good. You can use trees now to help run between buildings.

Running along the mast of one ship to another or swinging across to take out someone on another ship is fun.

Sadly they seem to have done away with most of the chances to do knife in the crowd assassinations, which were probably my favourite parts of the older games,m

 carlos13th wrote:

SkavenLord wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

Completely agree with this. I played a couple hours of it with my girlfriend's brother, and we spent the entire time destroying other ships and finding islands. We only did one actual story mission XD

Is there any sort of crazy wall climbing and acrobatics like in Assassin's Creed 2?

Yeah still plenty of that. The city's don't have the same huge epic ness as Italy in ac2 but the free running Is still good. You can use trees now to help run between buildings.

Running along the mast of one ship to another or swinging across to take out someone on another ship is fun.

Sadly they seem to have done away with most of the chances to do knife in the crowd assassinations, which were probably my favourite parts of the older games,m

From what I remember, the main character doesn't even like using the hidden blade, right?

Was just finishing up downloading the baldurs gate reloaded mod for NWN2 and watching a tutorial on it. Looks like the guys did a fantastic job porting the campaign to the NWN2 engine and 3.5ed. Hopefully it will be much more interesting than the NWN campaigns

Wait what. Can you elaborate, i'm a bit fuzzy due to some kind of winter illness, but some kind of baldur's gate in the NWN2 game? I'll have to google it later, but I always love sharing thoughts on classics like BG. Is there a Minsc for instance? And boo? If there's minsc and boo and you, surely it has to be excellent

 mega_bassist wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:

SkavenLord wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.

Completely agree with this. I played a couple hours of it with my girlfriend's brother, and we spent the entire time destroying other ships and finding islands. We only did one actual story mission XD

Is there any sort of crazy wall climbing and acrobatics like in Assassin's Creed 2?

Yeah still plenty of that. The city's don't have the same huge epic ness as Italy in ac2 but the free running Is still good. You can use trees now to help run between buildings.

Running along the mast of one ship to another or swinging across to take out someone on another ship is fun.

Sadly they seem to have done away with most of the chances to do knife in the crowd assassinations, which were probably my favourite parts of the older games,m

From what I remember, the main character doesn't even like using the hidden blade, right?

His swords are the default but I don't remember them saying e didn't like it. He seems an expert in them the moment he recives them though.

 carlos13th wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:


From what I remember, the main character doesn't even like using the hidden blade, right?

His swords are the default but I don't remember them saying e didn't like it. He seems an expert in them the moment he recives them though.

Ah, okay. Just curious since I didn't get to play a whole lot of it.

You may be right and I just missed it.

There seem to be far less weapons in this game too. So far the only permanent Melee weapons are fists duel swords and hidden blades.

Got Tomb raider and Batman Origins at Christmas, played a little Tomb Raider, seems really good. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who's curious about it or on the fence. Even from the little i've played.

However i'm still trying to get through Darksiders 2. It's a funny thing, i find the lore and story Utterly uninteresting but there's something really compelling about finding out what the next relic or boss is going to look like. I couldn't care less about what 'the Archon' or 'the Lord of Bones' has to say for himself but i am curious to see him etc.

Now that i've written them down it's funny to see three Gear-Gated Action Adventure games (Or 'metroidvania games' if you don't know much about games). I think i'm gonna be severely burnt out on that style of game soon.

Really enjoying State of Decay.

 Perkustin wrote:
Got Tomb raider and Batman Origins at Christmas, played a little Tomb Raider, seems really good. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who's curious about it or on the fence. Even from the little i've played.

I second this - I was on the fence for along time, and I 100% loved it. Even the ending was super gratifying.

Playing Saints Row IV and Payday 2... enjoying the hell out of those games

Also the NBA 2k series can go feth itself...

Just completed AC: Brotherhood(only took 32 hours lol), still got a few things to wrap up before moving onto Revelations.

Same as last post really, just different AC game on the horizon lol

About to go play Killzone 3 some more.

I'm at the point where I can finish X-Com (just send someone into the Galloping Gollop Chamber), but I choose not to. I want 100 meld to upgrade my second MEC to the highest level, then I'll go in with my Alpha Team.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm at the point where I can finish X-Com (just send someone into the Galloping Gollop Chamber), but I choose not to. I want 100 meld to upgrade my second MEC to the highest level, then I'll go in with my Alpha Team.

Good luck,you should be fine. The last mission is no longer the hardest because of all the new content like MECs.

Nothing ATM because I'm in work. But I started playing Battlefield 4 today

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm at the point where I can finish X-Com (just send someone into the Galloping Gollop Chamber), but I choose not to. I want 100 meld to upgrade my second MEC to the highest level, then I'll go in with my Alpha Team.

That's harder in the harder difficulties to do because sometimes your A-team suffers casualties just before you are satisfied with your team forcing you to train noobier guys and hope to god they don't die as well.

For 'enemy within' I suggest you take the gene mods that makes your guys impossible to mind control and also take the ability that always makes your guys bleed out instead of auto die and take an extra two turns to bleed out (for a total of about 5). The ability to always bleed out instead of auto-die is incredibly useful on your vets because you really don't want them to die.

Broke down and got Heroes of Might and Magic 6: Then I bought Disciples II and III because I wanted to play that kind of game, but feth Uplay.

The cake is a lie!

Glory to Arstotzka.

Been playing a lot of this "Dust" game.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Nothing ATM because I'm in work. But I started playing Battlefield 4 today

I got it at launch and the bugs/balance issues drove me friggin insane. I played hard for a few weeks and I havnt touched it since just before China rising launched. It might have improved..... but I havnt wanted to find out.

Getting back into Mechwarrior 4 Mercs. Lookin' to play with a friend online.

"One of these is not like the others, only one of these is guaranteed to come home.."

SimCity on PC ! nettraper is nickname on there Add me and lets build a power house !

Valkyrie Profile Lenneth on a series 3000 PSP. yay for UMD!

 GrimDork wrote:
Wait what. Can you elaborate, i'm a bit fuzzy due to some kind of winter illness, but some kind of baldur's gate in the NWN2 game? I'll have to google it later, but I always love sharing thoughts on classics like BG. Is there a Minsc for instance? And boo? If there's minsc and boo and you, surely it has to be excellent

Some folks started making it about 6 or 7 years ago when NWN2 first came out. Just finished mid 2013. You can get it from the Nexus mods website. Its supposed to be almost exactly the same as the original game, but ported into the 3.5ed and the NWN2 engine so much better graphics and what not. I made it about 25 minutes through the prologue with my ranger/bard/RDD then found out that you cant get past lvl 10 and completely lost interest. I wish they would continue a great story like baldur's gate all the way through epic level, like into the 30s or 40s or something and eventually achieve demigod status or something. Unfortunately, I have not found a single PC DnD game that achieves that (NWN2 MotB gets close but starts at 18 and ends at 30).

 BrookM wrote:
Glory to Arstotzka.

The title of the website still makes me laugh.
papersplea.se

So it's the plot and events from the original Baldur's gate? And faithfully recreated? I may just have to dig out my NWN2 from wherever it's gotten to. Remember in the original BG you didn't even get to 10, so that seems fairly in-line with things. While I'd love for them to do TotS, BG2, through to ToB... I'll take a modernized recreation of the original for sure

BF4 and loving it. Despite the huge amount of hate levelled towards the launch and stability, I've had very few problems tbh.

Absolutely loving Silk Road and Altai.


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 GrimDork wrote:
So it's the plot and events from the original Baldur's gate? And faithfully recreated? I may just have to dig out my NWN2 from wherever it's gotten to. Remember in the original BG you didn't even get to 10, so that seems fairly in-line with things. While I'd love for them to do TotS, BG2, through to ToB... I'll take a modernized recreation of the original for sure

I think they said that it includes the expansion as well which allowed up to roughly 10th lvl. I did not get into it very far but yes it is supposed to be as close to 100% identical story wise as they could possibly get with the NWN2 engine.


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 Ratius wrote:
BF4 and loving it. Despite the huge amount of hate levelled towards the launch and stability, I've had very few problems tbh.

Absolutely loving Silk Road and Altai.


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Some of the bugs are starting to show up for me after playing it for about a month. Thus far, they are fairly minor and they dont seem to come up that often. I might have something goofy happen once or twice in a match that makes me scratch my head for a moment and thats about it.

I'm playing Battlefield 4 on PS3 and I'm seriously having a blast! The tanks are great fun.

 nettraper wrote:
SimCity on PC ! nettraper is nickname on there Add me and lets build a power house !

Nice, I just picked it up myself. I played the original on an Amiga. My name should be SickSix.

War Thunder, Spelunky and a mix of others. Spelunky gives me fear of spiders (got a huge spider in the dark level).

I really want to get 100% on GTA 5. But that requires the Rampage story line and the racing. Which I suck at

I've only got the really tedious stuff left to do like the triathlons, sports, radiation and the jumps as well which are quite difficult, i think. Haven't really went back to it for that reason.

I gotta say that the mission i had most difficulty with was the final TP industries one, where you had to bomb the airfield. That took a few tries.

 KingCracker wrote:
I got it at launch and the bugs/balance issues drove me friggin insane. I played hard for a few weeks and I havnt touched it since just before China rising launched. It might have improved..... but I havnt wanted to find out.

They seem to have gotten a lot of it sorted, but I haven't played the campaign yet. A few minor annoyances with the 360 freezing and losing the save file, or occasionally unlocks not being available in the first game. But other wise it is pretty good.

 Ratius wrote:
BF4 and loving it. Despite the huge amount of hate levelled towards the launch and stability, I've had very few problems tbh.

Absolutely loving Silk Road and Altai.
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I nerf them with my Recon's C4

Lord of the Rings: War in the North.

How did I miss this?!

And now that I said I was more or less glitch free my console keeps locking up

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
And now that I said I was more or less glitch free my console keeps locking up

NextGen or PC, PS3, 360?

NextGen is I think two patch cycles behind but DICE is working overtime trying to get fixes out. "China Rising" had some unfortunate issues that got past testing.

Should be marking exams before I go back to work tomorrow, but instead I decided to download and play DDO. Very responsible.

Going to be a late one tonight!

Its understandable. Marking is boring as hell.

Finished XCOM. It ended... abruptly. My best soldier did kill the Uber-Ethereal though, so I'm happy with the result from a narrative perspective.

Onto... Far Cry 3, maybe?

 Kanluwen wrote:
"China Rising" had some unfortunate issues that got past testing.

Implying that BF4 isn't some huge unpaid beta-test.

Started AC: Revelations, wow it's all coming back to me now. I did have a save at 78% sync but deleted it to restart. I gave up with trying to get 80+% sync on Brotherhood.

As always throw some Minecraft in-between for good measure.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
And now that I said I was more or less glitch free my console keeps locking up

NextGen or PC, PS3, 360?

NextGen is I think two patch cycles behind but DICE is working overtime trying to get fixes out. "China Rising" had some unfortunate issues that got past testing.

360. I didn't think any of the next gen consoles had an outstanding selection so we may get one when some strong games come out (The Division has my interest). At least no freezing so far tonight (bar the weather)..... just random disconnects from servers

I've just been playing a sh*tload of fallout 3. When the time came to sacrifice somebody for the water purifier I decided to throw in my follower Fawkes who was immune to radiation anyway. Overly heroic sacrifice? Not on my watch. Everybody lives including Fawkes because he was immune anyway and when sarah lyons stops being unconscious (I'm not a sick b*stard like some of you out there) there's going to be lots of my character boning with her ;P. Too bad it's the implied let's be in the same bed together while naked and kissing type of sex rather than the actual kind. Sadly it doesn't even have that much. While I think 'the witcher' makes their main character into a man-whore it's at least nice to see something even if it is a copy paste sex scene from what little I've seen of witcher 2. Just would be nice to see some characters that build up emotional connections to do a little more than say they like each other and blushing.

Dunno about all of that, but I do know I was a bit cross with Bethesda/whoever for trying to make me feel bad for wanting to save the day *and* live. FFS... I felt I should be rewarded MORE for being a smart and progressive adventurer who saw past Fawkes' exterior and knew he was meant for something greater than his cage's incinerator button. But no, game decided to make me feel like a jerk for not jumping down the throat of heroic sacrifice.

*Ahem...

Still enjoyed the game more than New Vegas, for whatever reason.

 GrimDork wrote:
Dunno about all of that, but I do know I was a bit cross with Bethesda/whoever for trying to make me feel bad for wanting to save the day *and* live. FFS... I felt I should be rewarded MORE for being a smart and progressive adventurer who saw past Fawkes' exterior and knew he was meant for something greater than his cage's incinerator button. But no, game decided to make me feel like a jerk for not jumping down the throat of heroic sacrifice.

*Ahem...

Still enjoyed the game more than New Vegas, for whatever reason.

Fawkes deserves more love I think and fleshing out. He was by far my most interesting, trustworthy and overall best follower of the whole game. I never even met that freaking dog yet if I will. Also Fawkes is a freaking tank. He makes the brotherhood of steel guys look like chumps and I don't think his health even got close to low.

I gave him a chance like a lot of people and it paid off so hard it was unbelievable.

Been throwing a gak tons of mods on skyrim yesterday just to see how much I can tax my machine.

 Soladrin wrote:
Been throwing a gak tons of mods on skyrim yesterday just to see how much I can tax my machine.

We get it, you got the Chuck-Norris-on-Roids of the PC world, stop rubbing it in our faces.

flamingkillamajig wrote: Too bad it's the implied let's be in the same bed together while naked and kissing type of sex rather than the actual kind.

the actual kind

the actual kind

Then you clearly haven't been looking through the mods thoroughly enough (there is a mod out there, for pretty much every bethesda game, that adds the 'actual kind' in as you so desire.

As for me, I've been bouncing between brutal legend, skyrim, LEGO LotR, Prison Architect and New Vegas like some wierd videogame ADHD.

World of Tanks.

I am addicted. I played way into the morning last night. I am thoroughly enjoying this game. Look me up if you are new as well. I am only Tier 2 right now.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Been throwing a gak tons of mods on skyrim yesterday just to see how much I can tax my machine.

We get it, you got the Chuck-Norris-on-Roids of the PC world, stop rubbing it in our faces.

I will never stop rubbing things on your face.

Went back to World of Tanks, my little cat wants to have a walk from time to time.


But somehow I always end like this



Maybe a wink of Mother Russia to join my comrades and ride a KV or IS into battle.

Currently playing New Game + on Darkness 2.

It's really easy early game. They should have scaled the enemies.
That said, it's really fun using gun-kata on gangsters. They just all die

 Soladrin wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Been throwing a gak tons of mods on skyrim yesterday just to see how much I can tax my machine.

We get it, you got the Chuck-Norris-on-Roids of the PC world, stop rubbing it in our faces.

I will never stop rubbing things on your face.

The restraining order says otherwise.

Restraining orders are just playing hard to get

 Soladrin wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Been throwing a gak tons of mods on skyrim yesterday just to see how much I can tax my machine.

We get it, you got the Chuck-Norris-on-Roids of the PC world, stop rubbing it in our faces.

I will never stop rubbing things on your face.

Why does that sound so dirty/kinky coming from a European?

Well isn't the actual phrasing 'rub it *in* your face' not on? Maybe that's the problem

picked up Tochlight 2 on Steam and really having fun.

STILL playing a ton of World of Tanks and kicking ass. My IS-2 and IS should be breaking the 60% w/r shortly.

Doing another play through of XCom. Trying to mop up some of the achievements I missed.

Installed and started playing Far Cry 3. A few observations so far:

1. It’s a lot of fun.

2. I like how your hands/weapons are part of the environment, so that when you go near a wall your gun actually comes up and you can’t use it. Quite a bit different to most FPS where the gun is just a graphic that takes up no physical space in the world.

3. Crafting progression is silly and arbitrary. I need two boar skins to build the next weapon sling? Ok. Done. Now I need… three goat skins? Why can’t I just use the other boar skins I have? Wait now I need two leopard skins? Why are my guns so precious that one of them demands I craft a leopard skin holster for it? This is one area where TB was 100% right. I’m charging through them because I’m persistent, but it doesn’t make it any less stupid.

4. All my deaths have been funny so far. First death was when I went to hunt boar, and ended up staring down a Sumatran Tiger. The exchange was:

“Ok, I’m at the way point.”
“Oh, some bandits. I’d better get down.”
“What was that growl?”
“Is that a tiger?”
“That’s a tiger!”
“It’s seen me.”
“It’s coming right for me!”
*blam blam blam blam blam*
“Ahh! It’s got me!”
*blam blam blam blam blam*
*dies*

Another death came from me sliding down a steep hill for about half a second and hitting a small rock. It was so stupid. And the final time was me getting ganged up on by Komodo Dragons. I got them back though. 4x4 across your spine – take that you fething lizard!

5. The game looks ever so pretty on my PC. All settings on max, some parts just look real.

6. My first time in the water was hunting down blue-flowered plants. I looked to my left and noticed a distinctly crocodilian shaped shadow in the water. Swam to shore, looked back and lo and behold, there’s a crocodile hiding in some lilies. A few rounds later I was collecting his hide.

7. The game told me that my next weapon required a shark-skin holster, and for that I needed two sharks. Hmm… I wasn’t about to go hunting sharks in the open water plus water-based enemies just freak the hell out of me in video games (I blame the Ichthyosaur from Half-Life for giving me that phobia… of maybe the eel things in Quake 2). Anyway, I was nearing a coastline with the patrol boat I’d found when I jumped back into the water and noticed a few schools of fish and then something… bigger. Jumped back into my boat and yep, there’s a shark milling around. Well… lucky I just happen to have a Russian 12.7mm mounted machine gun here. That made fishing for sharks easy.

8. Spreading fires look amazing. Did it by accident once. Fire went everywhere whilst some crazy leopard took everyone else out for me.

I’m liking this game.

@H.B.M.C. Okay, after reading that post, for some reason I wish you made a let's play on Far Cry 3.

Trine 2

Still tryin' ta get the ol' Mechwarrior up and runnin' online

playing some monster hunter 3 ultimate.....it small doses....cause a lot of the big monsters are bastards to kill....or eat like an hour of my time

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Inspired by the "What are you reading right now" sticky I figured the Video Games subforum could definately use one. So what are you playing right now and how do you like it?

I'm loving space marine still even know also, Tau fire warrior- an old ps2 game- is brilliant to

Fire warrior....... good still........ it wasn't good ever and certainly not now. gak doesn't usually age well


Are you done kind of strange spam bot?

I have today off, so shortly I will be sitting in front of the TV and playing Battlefield 4

Heroes of Might and Magic 6. It's .... okay.

 KingCracker wrote:
Fire warrior....... good still........ it wasn't good ever and certainly not now. gak doesn't usually age well


Are you done kind of strange spam bot?

Ahhh, I love that game. Nothing better than blasting CSMs with the Rail Rifle.

My Far Cry 3 saga continues. My deaths continue to be very silly.

1. Got killed by another komodo dragon. It attacked me while I was fighting bandits. Came back and ran over all of them in my car. That’s my preferred anti-Komodo measure: Run the fethers over!

2. I had to go shark hunting again, which is more difficult without a big machine gun. Damned bull sharks take two sniper rounds to take out, but I got there in the end. Freakiest part was when I was swimming back to my boat and swam over a shark. It didn’t get me, but I drove my boat into the coastline as fast as I could to get away. I hate sharks.

3. Was moving on an enemy camp when I heard a low growl. It was a tiger, but it hadn’t seen me. I marked it and then slowly waited for it to go away. Then I saw another one quite far away, and then the one that was right next to me. I’m glad I have an upgraded shotgun.

4. What’s that Mr. Komodo? You can’t climb? So you can’t get me standing on top of my car? Hahaha! Eat shotgun!

5. Ok… so I need cassowary skins for whatever picky upgrade item I need next? Ok. There’s an island with them. Cool. Oh look, wild dogs. I hate wild dogs. Oh God it’s biting me. Ha, got you. I have no health. Oooh, the cassowary is big and AHH! It head-butted me… why am I dead?

6. Fine! Go back to the island with the cassowaries. Sniper one. Sniper two. Collect skins. Why are the others slowly walking towards me? It’s probably nothing. I’ll go and find the collectable thingies on this tiny island. Hmm… the cassowaries are following me. Why do I feel like I’m being hunted. I’ll jump up here and quickly mark them all so I know where they are. Into the bunker I go, got the letters and some other junk I can see. Hmm… one of the cassowaries is really close now. It’s coming right up to me. Hmm… should I…? Ok. Shotgun time. Blam. OH GOD THEY’RE SWARMING ME! Ahh! I thought these were harmless birds! AHHHH!!!

I’m more afraid of cassowaries now than any other animal.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I’m more afraid of cassowaries now than any other animal.

One might say you've become more...

Cassowary.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I’m more afraid of cassowaries now than any other animal.

One might say you've become more...

Cassowary.

iseewhatyoudidthere

Haha, the animals are pretty vicious. I know the tigers got to me a couple times. Also, who knew that Komodo Dragons were so damned sneaky?

I remembered the first time I encountered an alligator...feth me, I didn't see that coming...

Trying dont starve on PS+

You thought Cassowaries were harmless? They're possibly the bird with the largest Human Kill sheet out there.

They're like God-damned Velociraptors, especially with the slow walk towards you and the way they surround you. I wasn't expecting it at all. I'm never going back to that island unless I have to, and if I do go back I'm going there with a fething flamethrower.

My first death on FC3 was to a Cassowary.

No animals that I see live - just as a precautionary measure.

The only animals in FC3 that ever killed me are Tigers and Crocodiles. Now considering that I've had an odd anxiety and fear issue with video game animals since I accidently alarmed a giant, pixelated husky dog of death which snuck up on me back in Medal of Honour: Allied Assault's second mission, and then proceeded to never play that game again, it was pretty unnerving when it did happen.

Especially this one time when I decided to swim through a cave to find some secrets and get past this natural rock barrier faster only to get snapped on halfway through by one of those ugly buggers. As is procedure I immediately smashed escape and caught my breath.

Tigers are pretty much the sole reason I always take a Flamethrower with me unless an RPG would be far more preferable for a mission.

Cassowaries were easy though. Never even got close to dying to one once and it was only 3/4 of the game when I was literally told by a forum-goer that they were dangerous did I realize they can actually kill you. To my memory they're a lot slower than Tigers, because if they spot you unless you're ready to shoot them and have a high damage gun with enough ammo to kill it, you're going to get pounced, no matter what. Also, I seem to remember that they had about a quarter of the health of a Tiger and one AR burst was sufficient to kill them.

You do realize that Birds are part of the Clade Dinosauria...

Beat the St. John's Council Mission without losing a single guy! Take that you giant Newfie Spiders!!

 Mr.Omega wrote:
Cassowaries were easy though. Never even got close to dying to one once and it was only 3/4 of the game when I was literally told by a forum-goer that they were dangerous did I realize they can actually kill you. To my memory they're a lot slower than Tigers, because if they spot you unless you're ready to shoot them and have a high damage gun with enough ammo to kill it, you're going to get pounced, no matter what. Also, I seem to remember that they had about a quarter of the health of a Tiger and one AR burst was sufficient to kill them.

They're by no means tough - they die if you so much as breathe on them - but they can come in big groups. They are fast, but not initially. Initially they'll just walk slowly around, edging ever closer. Shoot one though and the whole pack goes ballistic. I had backed myself into a dead end with a shotgun when the whole group came at me. It was frightening.

And it's worse because you don't expect it. I mean, it's just a big dumb flightless bird right? I mean, Emus and Ostriches and Penguins are all flightless birds and you wouldn't go running from one of them. Nope. Cassowaries are Far Cry 3's Raptors. Avoid at all costs.

I dunno man Emus and Ostriches are fugging brutal, they can literally stomp you to death with those claws. I'd be more concerned by one of those than like a large deer or something. Maybe not a moose, those are huge, but yeah... big birds are scurry.

This conversation is surreal, I love it.

Currently, I'm flipping back an forth between the Bravely Default demo, State of Decay(which I suck entirely at), and good old Red Alert 2.

 Platuan4th wrote:
This conversation is surreal, I love it.

The damn birds took me by surprise, and Far Cry 3 is proving to be a fascinating and addicting experience.

Moral of the story: Kill everything!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Mr.Omega wrote:
Cassowaries were easy though. Never even got close to dying to one once and it was only 3/4 of the game when I was literally told by a forum-goer that they were dangerous did I realize they can actually kill you. To my memory they're a lot slower than Tigers, because if they spot you unless you're ready to shoot them and have a high damage gun with enough ammo to kill it, you're going to get pounced, no matter what. Also, I seem to remember that they had about a quarter of the health of a Tiger and one AR burst was sufficient to kill them.

They're by no means tough - they die if you so much as breathe on them - but they can come in big groups. They are fast, but not initially. Initially they'll just walk slowly around, edging ever closer. Shoot one though and the whole pack goes ballistic. I had backed myself into a dead end with a shotgun when the whole group came at me. It was frightening.

And it's worse because you don't expect it. I mean, it's just a big dumb flightless bird right? I mean, Emus and Ostriches and Penguins are all flightless birds and you wouldn't go running from one of them. Nope. Cassowaries are Far Cry 3's Raptors. Avoid at all costs.

Have to disagree there, emus and ostriches are easily capable of killing a full grown human, one kick can do it. That said, cassowaries are actually the most agressive out of all the big flightless birds we still got, and quite skilled in the art of showing you your own intestines.

 Soladrin wrote:
Have to disagree there, emus and ostriches are easily capable of killing a full grown human, one kick can do it. That said, cassowaries are actually the most agressive out of all the big flightless birds we still got, and quite skilled in the art of showing you your own intestines.

I didn't say those bigger birds couldn't hurt someone, just that they generally wouldn't. They're more likely to high tail it out of there at the first sign of trouble (their cheif weapons are speed). The Cassowary... the damn thing hunt you.

I remember watching an episode of the Crocodile Hunter, where Steve had to go catching Cassowaries. I think those are the only things he was actually afraid of, from the way he acted. So yeah. Birds be gangsta.

I've started playing Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity. Its is a very fun but long game.

I saw that for cheap on steam, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get into it or not.

Definitely digging on the BG2:EE, twas my game in the day, so that's no real surprise. Hard to say no to extra/new stuff at that.

 Asherian Command wrote:
I've started playing Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity. Its is a very fun but long game.

You should've gotten Rebellion; it comes with Trinity included.

Well with the plan on getting a new kustom built PC in the next month I'll be picking up a few Multiplayer titles. Namely Torchlight II, Mechwarrior Online, Lord of the Rings Online and (possibly) League Of Legends.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Well with the plan on getting a new kustom built PC in the next month I'll be picking up a few Multiplayer titles. Namely Torchlight II, Mechwarrior Online, Lord of the Rings Online and (possibly) League Of Legends.

Torchlight II is wicked awesome! You'll totally dig Multiplayer with it.


I'm currently playing Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (I think that's what its called) on the PSP. I'm currently on Final Fantasy IV at the moment... not sure if I'll bother with the Interlude or the After Years, though, to tell you the truth... I just want to check off FF IV on my list of FF games I've played.

Every now and then I'll continue my single player campaign game of XCOM: Enemy Unknown or Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising on the PC... but mostly focusing on FF IV right now.

 djphranq wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Well with the plan on getting a new kustom built PC in the next month I'll be picking up a few Multiplayer titles. Namely Torchlight II, Mechwarrior Online, Lord of the Rings Online and (possibly) League Of Legends.

Torchlight II is wicked awesome! You'll totally dig Multiplayer with it.
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I know, I've seen let's plays on Youtube and played maybe 3 hours of it myself. But it decided not to load anymore. I can leave the stupid thing up for and hour and it won't load my Lvl 14 Embermage. But then again... playing it on a 2004 machine probably wasn't the best idea...

Rook island is mine!!! I fear no pirate, no mercenary and no cassowary!

Now onto the second island...

Played Trine 2 for several hours today. Man this is a really entertaining game, not to mention it's rather pretty. I think the thief is my fave of the 3 but just barely.

OK, whilst I wait for opportunity to connect to the internet again so I can install Batman: Arkham Origins, I'm playing :-

Oblivion as an Agent
Skyrim pretty much the same character as Oblivion
Fallout 3 with Luck of 10, and high agility and perception, and the alien blaster.
Hellgate: London
and
X: Beyond the Frontier.

Bought Torchlight II. Yup, lives up to the hype. I've put about 8 hours into it since Saturday

Virtue's Last Reward, on the 3DS. It's an intriguing puzzle/story game that also requires you to make choices based on the concept of the prisoners' dilemma. I'm a good few hours in and am enjoying it.

I've always wondered how it was to go through an Elder Scrolls game as a Mercantile or Speechcraft focused character- just how many situations can you bypass or get our of with proper use of bribery and smooth talking?

Probably not nearly enough if you try to do the main plot. Skyrim has beefy helpers to mitigate your own wimpyness but oblivion may be rough.

Yikes… Far Cry 3 gets a ramp up in difficulty once you hit that second island. I hate bullet sponge bad guys, and those mercenary heavies just soak up the damage. I can put 2 magazines of sniper rifle fire into them with my trusty Remington M700 – a gun that has served me very well so far – and they just don’t die. Worse, the ammunition wastage was costing me so much that I ran out of money.

Luckily some bright spark managed to find out the dev console command codes for god mode and unlimited ammo, so I turned those on for a while until I got my money back up and unlocked the .50 cal sniper rifle. I then found out the .50 cal can get a suppressor, as unrealistic as that sounded to me. No I have something that can take out heavies, and can go back to playing the game normally.

You...ran out of money that late in the game? I never had that problem

I have been playing a lot of Remember Me and MGR:Revengeance while occasionally playing FC3.

Also really enjoying The Bureau, oddly enough.

Never run out of money in FC3, rather the contrary, my wallet was always so full I had to waste ammo so I could still loot those pesky mercs.

^^ Exactly the problem I had. One of the first things I maxed out was the wallet capacity.

Ya, it was a bit silly your wallet had a capacity problem that only killing sharks could solve.

Hey, a selfmade sharkskin wallet is really manly, who would't want such a thing?

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Ya, it was a bit silly your wallet had a capacity problem that only killing sharks could solve.

Considering you have pockets........there shouldn't be a problem at all

 Weltenwolf wrote:
Hey, a selfmade sharkskin wallet is really manly, who would't want such a thing?

Not saying it's not really manly just saying I don't see why it holds more bills than the other one I made out of stray dogs.

I always rationalized it as him making ANOTHER wallet. Him carrying around three wallets for the immense amount of money always amused me.

I was getting vaguely interested in this game of which you speak but... if the guy isn't smart enough to convert to carrying his too much money in some kind of backpack or sack (i don't care if it's made of sharks, thats fine if it floats your boat)... he can't be too bright of a protagonist =/

Well, he is definitely not the brightest star in the sky.

 GrimDork wrote:
I was getting vaguely interested in this game of which you speak but... if the guy isn't smart enough to convert to carrying his too much money in some kind of backpack or sack (i don't care if it's made of sharks, thats fine if it floats your boat)... he can't be too bright of a protagonist =/

Oh he has a backpack. And an ammo pouch. And four weapon slings. And a syringe pack. And an explosives pouch. And a thrown weapons pouch. An arrow quiver. A rocket pack and his wallet.

The pack is somewhat magical. Sometimes it can hold 96 leaves. Other times it can hold the skins of 96 bears.




Honestly the crafting thing is about the most artificial thing in the game but it does force you to explore the island, so that's a good thing.

It sounds interesting enough, I hadn't ever looked into it. Just looked like some kind of action game and I only ever get a small percentage of those that are made. Limiting your money seems a bit odd though, although I think they did it on bioshock as well.

It's not that much of a limitation. I ran out because I walked into a situation I wasn’t prepared for. Most of the time you have more than what you need.

But generally Far Cry 3 is excellent. It gives you an expansive world to explore with plenty of variety to be found and lots of different methods of getting around. It has a fun story that plays on the conceit of FPS protagonists that murder hundreds of people a day and has you playing through the eyes of a guy who gets a little too used to killing. The combat is visceral and exciting, and you can approach the game in many different ways. I tend to go the stealthy approach (and stealth works really well in this game), finding good vantage points, marking targets, using distraction techniques, silenced weapons and various other tricks.

And then occasionally a tiger jumps you whilst you’re lining up the perfect shot.

I might have to put it on my list for steam, I've got so many games I haven't gotten to yet... but it does sound interesting for sure.

Now enough talk of this modern nonsense, back to my fairly oldschool baldurs gate shenanigans...

Dark Souls is currently devouring my... soul. Loving it though. Great game. Not forgiving which is a nice change.

Just started Arkham Origins New Game Plus, after beating the normal campaign.

Love me some Arkham series!

Anyone do that game mode after New Game Plus? Looks insane.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yikes… Far Cry 3 gets a ramp up in difficulty once you hit that second island. I hate bullet sponge bad guys, and those mercenary heavies just soak up the damage. I can put 2 magazines of sniper rifle fire into them with my trusty Remington M700 – a gun that has served me very well so far – and they just don’t die. Worse, the ammunition wastage was costing me so much that I ran out of money.

Luckily some bright spark managed to find out the dev console command codes for god mode and unlimited ammo, so I turned those on for a while until I got my money back up and unlocked the .50 cal sniper rifle. I then found out the .50 cal can get a suppressor, as unrealistic as that sounded to me. No I have something that can take out heavies, and can go back to playing the game normally.

Do side quests for the signature weapons, or learn the skill for heavy takedowns

Reinstalled WoT. Taking me a minute but I am getting my head back into it.

Played through Fallout these last two days, good fun, especially now that I decided to take something completely different: Small Guns, Stealth and Repair along with thFast Shot and Bloody Mess traits, because of the alternate ending.

Also, managed to score me a suit of power armour, got that hardened, but ended up not really needing it as stealth worked a whole lot better than I thought, especially paired with the ability to talk the Master out of his wicked ways and sneaking my way through Mariposa virtually unopposed thanks to a high stealth skill.

I love this game.

I put about four hours into Fallout 3....and never played it again.

Am I doing it wrong?

 mega_bassist wrote:
I put about four hours into Fallout 3....and never played it again.

Am I doing it wrong?

No, you are mostly doing it right. Play the first two is what I would recommend.

No you must be doing something wrong. FO3 is one of the best games ever.

It's kind of hard to describe why, but I think I still like it better than new vegas. Kind of the same with oblivion and skyrim, but skyrim brings enough to the table that I still prefer it overall.

Still plowing through BG2:EE, already planning out my next guy to run through it all from bg1. Torn between lv 13 stalker dual to cleric, or cleric/thief.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
No you must be doing something wrong. FO3 is one of the best games ever.

Is it only just me here, but FO3 was weak compared to the others in the main series, especially one and two. And best game ever? If we were going for the FPS RPG genre, I say Deus Ex gets that almost hands down over FO3.

Yeah, at the time I was happy Fallout 3 happened just because I didn't want the franchise to die; that said compared to 1 & 2 it was pretty garbage. I liked NV better than three because of the setting, a little more humor, and a better UI/upgrades and crafting system, but it still wasn't as good and 1 & 2.

And now Wasteland 2, kiddies!

Using my 'totally not a WFB Chaos Lord on Steed" Chaos Knight in Dota 2. Heck, I even named his sword the MURDER SWORD!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a .50 Cal sniper rifle! I fear no heavy trooper now.

About half-way done on Fary Cry 3's second island. I even managed to take out a privateer base using nothing but the grenade launcher. I did it from atop a nearby radio tower! Used the GL as a mortar basically. First shot took out 3 guys!

I still play XCOM:Enemy Within, 492 hours invested now and completed it a zillion times, got 99% on achievements. Yet, it still is fun!

Other than that I play Civ 5 (597 hours in) and waiting for Age of Wonders III. I so hope it is not some Heroes VI clone, but am afraid it is. Yet, I need to keep having faith in my countrymen.

I prefer new vegas awsell. The tone and setting seems far more in sync with the first two games.

Aye, Fallout 3 is certainly more dour and surprisingly heavy on the survivor logs of people in the first few days and weeks after the bombs fell, dayumn.

The one thing I couldn't stand in that game was how filthy everything was! I mean, I can understand it in the abandoned cities, or the vaults were people were sealed in longer than they should have been, but in places people built? Why was Megaton pretty much covered in dirty old newspapers and muddy cardboard boxes everywhere, including indoors!? Could nobody take a hammer and straighten out some of the bent up table legs? Replace a couple of the broken locker doors? I mean seriously!

Yeah, that really bothered me. I got it in Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 - some areas seemed a lot more built up than 1; the NCR and Vault City areas were nice while there were other less built up trashy areas. But Fallout 3 especially felt like it took place thirty years after the war, not 200.

DC was harder hit than anywhere else in America for obvious reasons.


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 Low_K wrote:
I still play XCOM:Enemy Within, 492 hours invested now and completed it a zillion times, got 99% on achievements. Yet, it still is fun!

Other than that I play Civ 5 (597 hours in) and waiting for Age of Wonders III. I so hope it is not some Heroes VI clone, but am afraid it is. Yet, I need to keep having faith in my countrymen.

I'm embarrassed to admit I started another play through of XCom. My second normal play through was so easy it was a little unstasifying so I've moved up to Classic. Much more difficult!

Finished Far Cry 3, conquered Rook Island and rescued my friends (feth that other ending!).

Now what...?

I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Finished Far Cry 3, conquered Rook Island and rescued my friends (feth that other ending!).

Now what...?

BLOOD DRAGON.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Finished Far Cry 3, conquered Rook Island and rescued my friends (**** that other ending!).

Now what...?

Torchlight or the Sequel?
Space Marine? That's pretty much all I could suggest to you

I dislike Space Marine quite a bit. Didn't find it at all entertaining.

I do want to go back to Torchlight II though.

 BrookM wrote:
BLOOD DRAGON.

Of course!

I got that two Steam sales ago! I should play it.

Yes. Yes you should.

Blood Dragon is everything that is right with neon.

Like there's ever anything wrong with neon.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I dislike Space Marine quite a bit. Didn't find it at all entertaining.

I do want to go back to Torchlight II though.

 BrookM wrote:
BLOOD DRAGON.

Of course!

I got that two Steam sales ago! I should play it.

I got torchlight 2 during a steam sale as well as torchlight 1. We could play that if I've got time. I'll give you my character name in a PM or something. I've only mostly just started.

Honestly though rpg's aren't really my thing. I much prefer rts games and strategy in general. If anybody wants to play any games I'm all for it when I have the time.

Recently I bought the whole 'company of heroes' series, torchlight 1 and 2 (got a 4 pack for me and my friends), world in conflict and soviet assault and 'the secret world' (I plan to join the illuminati faction in the game currently). These were all bought on sales with Christmas money.

I might also play xcom some more. Some friends talked about it with me that there should totally be an exalt campaign. I think their genetic enhancements could be really sweet and the faction overall has a nice style even if they are illuminati stereotypes.

Tried SWTOR again today. Downloaded it all, played 10 mins and thought "I can't be arsed with this" and uninstalled it again.

Did anybody get the jedi knight series when that was on sale? I thought about it but I have academy on disc still and I rented and beat jedi outcast way back.

 Velour_Fog wrote:
Tried SWTOR again today. Downloaded it all, played 10 mins and thought "I can't be arsed with this" and uninstalled it again.

You're missing out.

I've been playing a fair bit of Planetside 2 when I'm not working or building things... Running with the right groups of people makes the game so much more enjoyable but with the Briggs server here the number of players on is generally smaller during the day and so there are only ever really 2 major big battles actually going on at any time... Oh well, back to earning more certs

I had a bit of fun with planetside 2, usually got on at low traffic times of the day or what have you, and spent too much money on goodies... but fun nonetheless. I found it especially fun to abuse the engineer's AV turret for pinpoint sniping (and of course killing vehicles), and to run people over with the flash. And fury flash, and wraith fury flash. Lots of flash.

About worked my way up to Throne of Bhaal, though I've already got another BG1 character rolled up and on deck for when that's done. My enthusiasm for this game is like a disease

 Velour_Fog wrote:
Tried SWTOR again today. Downloaded it all, played 10 mins and thought "I can't be arsed with this" and uninstalled it again.

Wait... Old Republic... so the MMO? Or just vanilla KOTOR, 'cause KOTOR's a great game.


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 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Did anybody get the jedi knight series when that was on sale? I thought about it but I have academy on disc still and I rented and beat jedi outcast way back.

Outcast and Academy were fantastic games. Played those two to death when they came out. Best part of Outcast was a mod - not even a mod really, just a level - called "The Ladder". You basically fought escalating waves of Reborn Jedi (and then the game's bosses), all to the tune of The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up". Use the command codes to slow down time and you can do the whole fight in slow motion to this amazing soundtrack.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I'm embarrassed to admit I started another play through of XCom. My second normal play through was so easy it was a little unstasifying so I've moved up to Classic. Much more difficult!

Classic is just right, difficulty wise. Impossible is very frustrating, I completed it but only once, and will never, ever, ever try that again!

Well this weekend I got Spec Ops: The Line and I've been playing that.

I must say I'm impressed, it's a really good game.

Seaward wrote:
You're missing out.

Well, I've played about 5 months of it before now. Think I've got everything out of it that I'm going to. Is Galactic starfighter that good?

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Wait... Old Republic... so the MMO? Or just vanilla KOTOR, 'cause KOTOR's a great game.

Yep, the MMO.

I will be spending my day off sat in front of my 360, playing Battlefield 4

 Seaward wrote:
I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

Your squad gets better when you get more to choose from. I was a soldier, and my back up was Garrus and Liara

Just completed DMC and BioShock Infinite from PS+ and still playing Dark Arisen (maxed level, but it's fun!) but trying to figure what to play next.

Maybe actually try to play The Last of Us again. . .but I want something fun.

Tibbsy wrote:
Well this weekend I got Spec Ops: The Line and I've been playing that.

I must say I'm impressed, it's a really good game.

I tried so hard to like that game, but after three hours, I had to put it down. Seems like the only other person on the planet that didn't like this game was my brother

 Low_K wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I'm embarrassed to admit I started another play through of XCom. My second normal play through was so easy it was a little unstasifying so I've moved up to Classic. Much more difficult!

Classic is just right, difficulty wise. Impossible is very frustrating, I completed it but only once, and will never, ever, ever try that again!

I'm over the hump now. It's gotten easy since destroying the Alien Base. I think it's because they don't give you any free buildings on classic like an Officer School. So it takes a long time to gear up and improve your troops.

Aliens v. Predator from Rebellion.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


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 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Did anybody get the jedi knight series when that was on sale? I thought about it but I have academy on disc still and I rented and beat jedi outcast way back.

Outcast and Academy were fantastic games. Played those two to death when they came out. Best part of Outcast was a mod - not even a mod really, just a level - called "The Ladder". You basically fought escalating waves of Reborn Jedi (and then the game's bosses), all to the tune of The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up". Use the command codes to slow down time and you can do the whole fight in slow motion to this amazing soundtrack.

That just sounds f*cking amazing! I sent you my steam name btw through a PM. Let me know if you can play some time.

About to put in some minutes (or maybe hours) into Diablo 3... playing as a Wizard this time around... I've been on a wizard/mage/sorceress kick lately since watching Frozen.

Still kicking ass and taking 'Mech names in MWO - mostly, anyways, now that I'm sticking to the nimble Jenner and hulking Battlemaster.

Also, Starbound, though I've noticed it's been a week since I last logged in, probably due to my subconscious wanting to wait for the final wipe before investing further time. Really hope wiring is going to be fixed, as it was fun automating half my home base (the other half is occupied by a barbarian who refuses to update her wood-and-hay environment to the steel-and-glass interiors of my penthouse sci-fi lab).

Other than that, I've started fooling around with the fanmade Attack on Titans game. I have just finished watching the first season on Netflix and randomly stumbled across a number of "Let's Play" vids on youtube, which were rather amusing to watch - and which caught my interest in the hopes of replicating the intense action of the anime. It's rather cute, but also surprisingly detailed, given that you have limited gas, must switch blades once in a while, and have differently coloured flares to signal your teammates. Also, there's an emote for the salute!

Mostly playing as Mikasa. Her special attack is fairly vanilla compared to some of the other characters available, but she was just too badass in the show to pass up~

World of Tanks. I have put entirely too many hours into that game in the last two weeks. This is also the first time i have ever been in a clan. I got recruited my first night in the game. It is a newbie clan but it is cool to have other folks to play with.
My in game name is SickSix if you happen to play and want to platoon. I play on the east coat server.

 Lynata wrote:

Other than that, I've started fooling around with the fanmade Attack on Titans game. I have just finished watching the first season on Netflix and randomly stumbled across a number of "Let's Play" vids on youtube, which were rather amusing to watch - and which caught my interest in the hopes of replicating the intense action of the anime. It's rather cute, but also surprisingly detailed, given that you have limited gas, must switch blades once in a while, and have differently coloured flares to signal your teammates. Also, there's an emote for the salute!

Mostly playing as Mikasa. Her special attack is fairly vanilla compared to some of the other characters available, but she was just too badass in the show to pass up~

Still have yet to watch that show (attack on titans) but I've really been meaning to.

I imagine mikasa's about to throw up with all the twirly whirls and spins in that attack. Watching all that fast motion so much is kind of bothering my eyes actually.

Btw it's nice to see you around again.

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I've been playing 'company of heroes 2'. I suppose I can see some of the complaints for Russians finding that game offensive. I wouldn't know how much of it was true considering eyewitness accounts or stories. I always thought any army but esp. soviets threw propaganda and BS reports as morale boosters. The story feels a bit weird. It's like bad guys vs bad guys (at least the leaders) with good guys sprinkled into the mix but maybe that's just my perception being an American in this day and age . I suppose if you really want to think of it they painted the one antagonist soviet officer as a huge jerk but most of their side seemed decent enough. Conscripts as a unit always sound like they're about to sh*t their pants whenever they do anything. I suppose I can see how Russians would hate that too.

Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet. Also playing Armoured Core For Answer on the PS3

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I dislike Space Marine quite a bit. Didn't find it at all entertaining.

 BrookM wrote:
BLOOD DRAGON.

Of course!

I got that two Steam sales ago! I should play it.

Space Marine just seemed too freaking grim-dark. That's a good chunk of why I'm not really a fan of 40k and prefer warhammer fantasy now. At least in fantasy things can be both dark and light spirited. In 40k if orks didn't exist it'd be entirely grim-dark to where it pukes it out of its *sshole.

Blood Dragon sounds like it could be fun. I might try it if I get the chance.

*Edit* 'The secret world' finished downloading. I suppose I might try it out but I have quite a bit of schoolwork to do.

Started playing World of Warcraft again. I hate my friends at times lol.

Not only have they got me playing again I'm playing as part of the Alliance....

Enjoying it again though, spent roughly 3-4 hours on it already.

GTA Online. Just created my first Race and Death Match last night on my 360.

The 'hitman' games just went on sale for 80% off on steam in case anybody wants. They're going for pretty cheap. I just bought the first 3 for like 4.50-5.00 USD which is super cheap.

VensersRevenge wrote:Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet.

Right on!

And no worries - practice makes perfect. Just keep at it, stick to your lancemates, and try to catch up on all the small, potentially useful details like missile bay toggle, free look, cockpit light adjustment, etc.
The game assumes you begin playing by already knowing a lot you don't actually get told, so it pays off to read the forums, the wiki, or even Battletech background in general.

Also, some helpful links:
Smurfy's Mechlab
MWO Heat Simulator (for planning/previewing weapon usage)
MechSpecs.com forum (for build discussion, in case you really give a dune rat's arse about other people's opinions on what you want to pilot)
Camospecs.com (in case you want to apply canon regimental paint schemes)

Which faction are you joining? Or will you stay merc?

flamingkillamajig wrote:Btw it's nice to see you around again.

I've never been gone, actually - I just cut back on the number of forums I post on ... to 1.
Saves time and nerves.

Hearthstone went into open beta today.

*evil laugh*

Finally!

x-com enemy unknown. It is OMGWTFBBQ kind of good. I love it ermagerd i love it. *gush*

Aside from a few annoying moments (like when I select a research it has a cut scene telling me I chose that research - i think why are you telling me that? : meh that's modern gaming ) it has to be hands down the best game I have played, I was actually thinking normal was too easy until I got to the zombie mission (brazil) and half my regular team was out.

It also doesn't have auto save on automatically - old school gaming awesome right there - I am now starting my game again as my fave trooper died .

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
The 'hitman' games just went on sale for 80% off on steam in case anybody wants. They're going for pretty cheap. I just bought the first 3 for like 4.50-5.00 USD which is super cheap.

I thought about picking those up, but....ehhhh, I played Hitman 2, and didn't care too much for it.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I will be spending my day off sat in front of my 360, playing Battlefield 4

 Seaward wrote:
I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

Your squad gets better when you get more to choose from. I was a soldier, and my back up was Garrus and Liara

Yeah, I know at least who all is or will end up as a permanent member of the squad. Garrus is fine, dude's a bro. Liara's not bad, either. I'd happily dump James, Tali, and Ashley, though. In fact, I may dump Ashley - I originally saved Kaidan however many years ago it was when I played ME1, because I said "Biotic officer > grunt trigger-puller," but then I used a savegame editor to reverse that decision when Kaidan decided to hug me and hold up a boombox playing "In Your Eyes" when I met him in ME2.

I'd happily take Jack and Miranda back. Alas.

Much to my own despair I just reinstalled blood bowl.

Nuffle don't scorn me again.

You know I said I uninstalled SWTOR? I installed it again yesterday and started leveling a Jedi Sage. I might've also... kindof... subscribed too. :S

Guess I was in a bad mood the first time, because I'm quite enjoying it now.

If anyone wants to join me / say hi or whatever my char's name is Zordral and I'm on The Red Eclipse server. (EU)

 Lynata wrote:

VensersRevenge wrote:Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet.

Right on!

And no worries - practice makes perfect. Just keep at it, stick to your lancemates, and try to catch up on all the small, potentially useful details like missile bay toggle, free look, cockpit light adjustment, etc.
The game assumes you begin playing by already knowing a lot you don't actually get told, so it pays off to read the forums, the wiki, or even Battletech background in general.

Also, some helpful links:
Smurfy's Mechlab
MWO Heat Simulator (for planning/previewing weapon usage)
MechSpecs.com forum (for build discussion, in case you really give a dune rat's arse about other people's opinions on what you want to pilot)
Camospecs.com (in case you want to apply canon regimental paint schemes)

Which faction are you joining? Or will you stay merc?

I'm Davion. I knew enough about Battletech lore to make an informed decision. And thanks for all the links!

VensersRevenge wrote:informed decision

VensersRevenge wrote:Davion

ಠ_ಠ


Kidding! If it weren't for Kurita, I would have went either Davion or Merc, myself.

Looking forward to meet you on the fields of honor - one way or the other!

 Seaward wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I will be spending my day off sat in front of my 360, playing Battlefield 4

 Seaward wrote:
I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

Your squad gets better when you get more to choose from. I was a soldier, and my back up was Garrus and Liara

Yeah, I know at least who all is or will end up as a permanent member of the squad. Garrus is fine, dude's a bro. Liara's not bad, either. I'd happily dump James, Tali, and Ashley, though. In fact, I may dump Ashley - I originally saved Kaidan however many years ago it was when I played ME1, because I said "Biotic officer > grunt trigger-puller," but then I used a savegame editor to reverse that decision when Kaidan decided to hug me and hold up a boombox playing "In Your Eyes" when I met him in ME2.

I'd happily take Jack and Miranda back. Alas.

Kaidan never made it through a single ME playthrough for me I was happy running Garrus to strip shields, and Liara to spam singularity to clear rooms. Then gun down any survivors

 Lynata wrote:

VensersRevenge wrote:informed decision

VensersRevenge wrote:Davion

ಠ_ಠ


Kidding! If it weren't for Kurita, I would have went either Davion or Merc, myself.

Looking forward to meet you on the fields of honor - one way or the other!

It shall be a battle for the ages!



Well probably not, my Cicada will most likely die, but it will be fun.

I've been dumping way more time than I probably should be into a game called "Doomrl".

Just imagine what would happen if Doom got dwarf-fortress-ified. It's got about 50-70% of the frustration involved in roguelike games with none of the hair pullingly complex controls/other minutiae that makes roguelikes incredibly unfun (to me).

It plays a lot like a "top down FPS" actually, just move around, dodge, and shoot. Of course sometimes you run into the odd "bonus level" you're clearly not supposed to survive unless you know what you're doing...

Playing more of The Last of Us.

Still think it is entirely over-rated as a game, but it is less not-fun now.

Maybe.

Great in most regards, but still not fun.

Need to find something new.

I'm currently playing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (what a horribly clunky name) due to its current Steam sale.

Its not actually all that bad. Its clearly been rushed (or rather restarted half way through its development), there are some bugs and it has nothing at all to do with the other XCOMs aside from some of the aliens.

It has some decent ideas and its sufficently interesting to have kept me entertained this weekend.

I was playing Bioshock:Infinite but it really disappointed me. I was expecting something along the lines of the first Bioshock but having to plow through wave after wave of disposable mooks has made me realise that it is just another manshoot. The setting is interesting but its not the game that I was looking for.

This article sums up my feelings on the game nicely(although I didn't get very far in it).

Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

Probably still play BG 'trilogy' for years to come.

 GrimDork wrote:
Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

I saw someone talking about that on youtube. Apparently you can't actually choose which way your character levels up and the skills are all auto assigned based on class level, or something like that at least. I don't know much about the game.

That alone would be enough to make me stay away from it. Diablo 2 has its share of horrible features, but at least you can build your character how you want.

 dementedwombat wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

I saw someone talking about that on youtube. Apparently you can't actually choose which way your character levels up and the skills are all auto assigned based on class level, or something like that at least. I don't know much about the game.

That alone would be enough to make me stay away from it. Diablo 2 has its share of horrible features, but at least you can build your character how you want.

You gain access to the skills, but just because you get a new one does not necessarily make it better.

For example when I ran a bow wielding Demon Hunter, I went trap heavy and never used some of the shots/special abilities.

Yeah, they don't auto-assign anything, you just don't get points to spend. More like how you gain new spells in WoW or game of your choice as you reach certain levels, then you pick 6 skills to use from the batch. So no, you don't draw up a skill plan and either hoard skills or carefully invest them as you go, but if there's a particular spec/gear combination you want to play, you just do it. It would be comparable to having the same character swap being a hammerdin to using some kind of zeal build in all of 6 seconds, as long as you had the gear.

Having said that, and only having played to level cap once and being no expert, I think gimmick builds like whirlwinding assassins and throwing mastery barbarians and the like don't exist in the same way... but that's probably a fair trade to have unlimited respeccing on the fly that only costs your stacking magic find buff.

The only thing I didn't like as I played was the difficulty in getting meaningfully useful gear to drop. You might get a unique bow, but they still have random stats, and it might be sub-par or even effectively useless with a bad roll behind the scenes. Something they did for the console release is getting implemented either with or really close to the new expansion that *hopefully* makes that less of an issue.

Metal gear rising and Blood Bowl.

Banner Saga, love this game. Story starts out slow, but picks way up. It really does feel like your choices matter, unlike many games that make you choose stuff.

So is it Oregon trail with vikings or did I take the wrong message from the trailers?

Completely back on the blood bowl train, having a lot of fun with the steam community for it.

So is it Oregon trail with vikings or did I take the wrong message from the trailers?

Not really, its an turn based rpg at heart. The map mechanic does make it look like Oregon trail, but its deceiving. Its just used to show you going from one area to the next really, you do need supplies to rest but its not like you need to fix wagon wheels or Bjorn has Dysentery, or anything like that.

If you were to compare it to another tacticsy game.. FFT? Ogre battles? Something else perhaps? At least it *looks* like a grid based game.

I switched back to BG:EE, high level first world problems exchanged for being one shot able and under funded. Nice change of pace.

I'm playing mass effect 2 with my renegade femshep (who's lips are curled in such a way that it seems she's always smiling and can't take any situations seriously.

Soldier class, specialising in sniper rifles.

I find I enjoyed Mass Effect 1 the most though because I could snipe enemies from 200m+ away and it felt like there was more skill, there also seemed to be more depth in the side missions in the original. I also like the MAKO quite a lot even though it is like a space hopper on wheels!

I kinda hated both the mako and planet scanning. Scanning was *slightly less frustrating. I liked the way weapon mods worked in the first game. Could make an AR that more or less couldn't overheat, and a sniper rifle that overheated every shot from its over clocked high power.

Yeah weapon mods were good, but I don't blame you for hating the MAKO Do you mean planet scanning as in resource scanning in 2 or just exploring on the surface in 1 because both were quite simple and maybe at times a little dull but both were better than mass effect 3's amount of interactive planets.

I compared driving the MAKO around to planet scanning. Usually if I'm running around with the potential to shoot dudes, I'm not too put out. I don't mind that there was a resource that let me upgrade my ship and keep people from potentially dying etc, and I don't feel that it was terribly too grindy (probably change my mind over multiple playthroughs but I never did that), but it was awful dull. The MAKO, however, was dull AND frustrating. Just seemed like it was easy to flip the damn thing over and it took forever to get places sometimes. Kind of like when you're playing skyrim and headed to a mountaintop location from the wrong side, *almost* can climb it but 15 minutes later you realize its futile =\

The MAKO was the bane of my ME1 playthroughs. It controlled like a sugar-high puppy on steroids, but the jumps were fun; playing with the Geth by bouncing over their shots and jumping on top of armatures and the like was highly amusing.

Oh man, that was the one nice thing about it. You ran over all of the little geth for minimal xp, then you shot the big one until it's almost dead and run it over, parking on top. The you disembark and shoot it on foot for way more xp than killing it in the MAKO

I never had a problem with the MAKO. Planet scanning is the worst!

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I never had a problem with the MAKO. Planet scanning is the worst!

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Playing Warhammer Space Marine for the 360. Some people are annoying but it's fun. I do wish there were more people playing the free DLC along with the Dreadnought assault...have yet to play the latter yet :(

Hahaha, using the mako to ram things was the best! You could just keep ramming armatures till they were halfway up a mountain and then just leave it and snipe it from far away.
Planet scanning was great when I got big deposits, but clearing planets of resources was a grind.
And finally Skyrim, I feel your pain

I like the Warhammer Space Marine game. I have it for ps3.

But I just purchased StarCraft 2 and Batman Arkham City. I know, I get on these video games a little late.

I started playing through the campaign of SC and was just telling myself it is Space Marines vs Tyranids.

I don't know the tale as it goes, but I coulda sworn it was said somewhere that SC was meant to be some kind of warhammer game with marines nids and eldar, dispute leads to having to establish it's own IP. Or something. And maybe someone was making that up too. But yeah, it does have a lot of resemblance. You'd probably need heart of the swarm, but people will be playing SC2 online for.. well ever, until there's a 3 or a mass movement back to the first game (its possible). I had fun with the campaign too though, good stuff.

I liked space marine too, it felt more halo-ish with the shield and armor as two separate bars. The player base didn't stay around very long for PC though. Dreadnought was cool, played it maybe twice, it was taking lascannon and plasma cannon shots like they were nothing and mauling my whole team lol.

 GrimDork wrote:
But yeah, it does have a lot of resemblance..

Its much closer to Starship troopers (and lots of other Sci Fi) than 40k

Playing D'n'D Online at the moment with a friend. Haven't gotten bored of it yet, and you can't beat the price!

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 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I never had a problem with the MAKO. Planet scanning is the worst!

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Bwahahha that's nice

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I'm switching off between Strike Vector and Sanctum 2.

I really like Strike Vector....but feth, it can be frustrating. I haven't had a game with a positive K/D yet Sanctum 2, however, has been a blast so far! Can't wait to play more this weekend.

Tomb Raider Definitive Edition doesn't feel very definitive. Looks good on my PS4 though.

 Doctadeth wrote:
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You can do that, but Tricia Helfer doesn't think it's funny.

 Doctadeth wrote:
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A large concentration of Methane gas has been discovered.

Just finished Assassin's Creed 2. I used to think the game was overrated. I'm glad to have been proven wrong.

Currently playing Skyrim. I cant seem to get off a cycle of Skyrim, MechWarrior, and Everquest 1. No other game seems to appeal to me.
I tried the new DnD online and couldn't stand the cartoony graphix and extreme lack of character customization and the kiddie super fast level advancement. I want to play a rogue/wizard but even though its DnD, they used the crappy 4th edition as base rules, and you cant multiclass.

Still looking for a good RPG which has good customization and decent graphics that aren't designed to entertain toddlers. Ill even take sci fi or fantasy.

Anyone tried Planetfall 2?

Wait, they switched DDO to 4th? Whelp. Not going back to that game.

See I always felt (my local group as well) that 4th edition was built like a video game first and as the pen and paper game we are used to second, which is why it failed somewhat as the pen and paper version. It would be a perfect format for a video game but DDO doesnt really follow a format. Neverwinter online is much better IMHO. It followed 4th edition much more closely, except that you build energy during combat to use your daily powers rather than being limited to using them once per day, encounter powers have short cooldowns, and at-will powers are your auto attacks.

Yeh... I always figured daily powers would amount to an MMOs 5-min CD or so.

As much a I dont love 2nd end BG series still ranks super high on my favorites list. Icewind dale 2 is probably my favorite variety of 3+ ed, I like the custom party but I wish it had npcs like the BG saga.. you can always set up MP offline if you *really* want a custom party...

I'm broken for MMOs lately though or I'd look into those.

Started playing Splinter Cell:Blacklist, it's 66% off so I thought I'd buy it. Good game I must say and beautiful graphics and voice-acting.

Didnt like the voice acting. Guy just didnt live up to iron side. he also sounded to young when talking to his daughter.

Also why is Sam getting younger in each game.

Almost completed The Last of Us. (waiting for the frustration to leave of having to re-do a difficult level for no good reason)

Nothing has changed my mind about it.

Absolutely wonderful game that is really not any fun at all.
Just not my thing, I guess. I appreciate it but do not really enjoy it.

 kirsanth wrote:
Absolutely wonderful game that is really not any fun at all.

Couldn't have said it better. A truly outstanding game where I hated almost every minute of it. Absolute oxymoron.

Picked up PayDay 2 again, debating whether or not to become Infamous. Until then, having too much fun with the LMG's.