Jehan-reznor wrote: Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
I just take cover behind a rock...
As for game balance, if you play on pc and can mod Skyrim I recommend Perkus maximus. It's a very drastic overhaul to the perk trees, replacing the boring passive bonuses like +x% damage with more situational perks like bonus damage for attacking staggering enemies, more damage for shooter over/under a certain range (longbow/abortive).
I'm lvl 19 now and basic bandits are still dangerous.
Got Steam Marines, a turn based strategy/rogue like platformer. It's pretty fun, and can be a bit unforgiving, (ambushes. Ambushes everywhere.) and overall, I'm enjoying my time with it.
Jehan-reznor wrote: Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
That's of course going for optimization. Doing a half-mage in Skyrim is actually really pretty difficult- I'm attempting what is essentially an Oblivion/Morrowind style Sorcerer (attack magic, heavy armour) on one account and I'm having a rough time of it. On the other hand, with my High Elf Paladin, with most of my perks in Block, I'm having a blast- things are tough, but not too tough. That perk that allows you to block most elemental damage with your shield is lifesaving, and makes fights against Dragons all the 80's Fantasy Movie you could want.
Went and bougth Shadowrun Hong Kong last nigth, and so far I am enjoying it greatly. So much depth in the game and its a great story so far.
The developers seems to be on a really good flow with their Shadowun publishing as of late
Skyrim. Got it at Christmas, started playing about 3 months ago and I've been addicted to it ever since. I'm at the stage where I've
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trapped Odahviing and am about to go to Skuldafn
and am about level 43 at time of writing. Archer/Assassin Nord, with soul stealing glass bow, fire and frost enchanted glass daggers and a paired Mehrunes' Razor and Dawnbreaker combo. Not the best, but I like it.
Sgt_Smudge wrote: Skyrim. Got it at Christmas, started playing about 3 months ago and I've been addicted to it ever since. I'm at the stage where I've
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trapped Odahviing and am about to go to Skuldafn
and am about level 43 at time of writing. Archer/Assassin Nord, with soul stealing glass bow, fire and frost enchanted glass daggers and a paired Mehrunes' Razor and Dawnbreaker combo. Not the best, but I like it.
Good luck.
I know I had it, Mehrunes Razor's effect worked on Alduin!
I've been playing a lot of Oblivion recently. Playing as a level 4 dark elf Night blade. I'm trying to role play with him a little bit and thinking about writing out the backstory I have for him in my head.
ds9lord wrote: I've been playing a lot of Oblivion recently. Playing as a level 4 dark elf Night blade. I'm trying to role play with him a little bit and thinking about writing out the backstory I have for him in my head.
Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
Playing starcraft 2: heart of the swarm. I kinda wish I could pre-order 'legacy of the void' for no other reason than to play with those new beta units. The protoss don't get much of anything cool but did you guys see that terran helicopter that can switch modes? It can either attack massed aircraft (like mutalisks, void rays and similar) or it can change modes and become a long ranged air based siege cannon that does 85 damage per shot to ground targets at a good distance. Personally I think it should be toned down a bit but it looks super cool in the concept art.
Starts showing it off at 0:27 and to me it's a fitting addition that I like the look of at least.
Other than that I'm wondering if I should play some command and conquer 3 or maybe some 'wargame: red dragon'.
It might take time though since I have to reinstall everything on my computer but starting off at square 1 even if annoying can be fun just to start over fresh again. For those who don't know my computer was shut off multiple times in a storm and my computer needed to be fixed with a new copy of windows 7 and yes I know that's old. It got rid of some viruses sure but everything needs a reinstall.
I gave Skyrim a try for about an hour. What with the stale and clunky melee combat system like from NV I found it boring. Just gonna play Fallout 4 after christmas
Anvildude wrote: Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
Overlord Thraka wrote: I gave Skyrim a try for about an hour. What with the stale and clunky melee combat system like from NV I found it boring. Just gonna play Fallout 4 after christmas
Anvildude wrote: Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
Wierdly enough that's one of the things I liked about Oblivion. I get a little tired of always being the hero of destiny. "Only you can save mankind"! Bah.
Though Morrowind's plot had a nice twist on the whole destined hero thing, if I remember right.
Picked up Black Mesa (Half Life 1 remake). Its on Steam for 20 quid but you can get a copy from moddb wesbite for free.
Well worth a look - its HL1 fully reskinned with a huge gfgx update, level tweaks and sans the aweful Zen nonsense. Fun.
I've gotta admit, if have been more annoyed about Oblivion if it weren't for the fact I was basically playing Richard Sharpe's sidekick. Cause, face it, that's awesome.
Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Compel wrote: I've gotta admit, if have been more annoyed about Oblivion if it weren't for the fact I was basically playing Richard Sharpe's sidekick. Cause, face it, that's awesome.
Well, I have started playing the addictive "black hole for time" game known as Hearthstone. For such a relatively simple game, it sure is fun and there seem to be some deep strategies for deck building! Biggest problem is that it is hard to quit playing that and start painting all my miniatures...
Survived multiple assassination attempts, organized by my sister and uncle, only to die of consumption without a legitimate child. So now I get to play as one of the people who failed to murder me. Oh, Crusader Kings.
Sigvatr wrote: Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Easy way round that. Tell the game you are a fighter, then play a thief*. As the mobs level with you, and you only level in Oblivion by increasing your major skills, you won't leve uo so fast, and neither will the mobs.
Downside is you become OP pretty quickly as your sneak levels fast and things just don't notice you so much. If you use a bow you end up being able to take most things down in a single shot before they even notice you are there.
Similar situation for saying you're a thief and then playing a fighter. Stomp round in heavy armour taking everything they can throw at you and cutting them in two or turning them into Strawberry jam at every oportunity. You will only level according to how many locks you pick.
Or you could take a middle ground, so you work on the above for a while, then when you think you are getting OP for the stage of the game, level up your major skills to gain levels until you are happy again, then continue.
This was a major exploit in the game, and the reason they dropped the idea for Skyrim.
So, Did some Marvel Heroes, getting a little tired of Captain America, but the only other 2 heroes I remotely like are Deadpool (underpowered) or someone like Doom.
Doctadeth wrote: So, Did some Marvel Heroes, getting a little tired of Captain America, but the only other 2 heroes I remotely like are Deadpool (underpowered) or someone like Doom.
I levelled up Punisher the other day, was massively impressed with his funness factor.
Sigvatr wrote: Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Easy way round that. Tell the game you are a fighter, then play a thief*. As the mobs level with you, and you only level in Oblivion by increasing your major skills, you won't leve uo so fast, and neither will the mobs.
Downside is you become OP pretty quickly as your sneak levels fast and things just don't notice you so much. If you use a bow you end up being able to take most things down in a single shot before they even notice you are there.
Similar situation for saying you're a thief and then playing a fighter. Stomp round in heavy armour taking everything they can throw at you and cutting them in two or turning them into Strawberry jam at every oportunity. You will only level according to how many locks you pick.
Or you could take a middle ground, so you work on the above for a while, then when you think you are getting OP for the stage of the game, level up your major skills to gain levels until you are happy again, then continue.
This was a major exploit in the game, and the reason they dropped the idea for Skyrim.
*other combinations are available.
That's considered an exploit? That's just basic gameplay in Morrowind (I actually just wrote a pretty in-depth post about 'efficient' levelling in Morrowind, vs "Speed" levelling). I guess it's different for games with the 'level adjustment' mechanic. I do miss the huge variety of skills that Morrowind (and to a lesser extent, Oblivion) had- oh Mysticism, where have you gone?
That's considered an exploit? That's just basic gameplay in Morrowind (I actually just wrote a pretty in-depth post about 'efficient' levelling in Morrowind, vs "Speed" levelling). I guess it's different for games with the 'level adjustment' mechanic. I do miss the huge variety of skills that Morrowind (and to a lesser extent, Oblivion) had- oh Mysticism, where have you gone?
If a game requires extensive meta gaming...it's not a good game.
Well, the thing is in Morrowind, there were so many skills that were useful, vs how many you could fit in Major and Minor, that you ended up getting those Misc skills up anyways. And since there wasn't Scaled Difficulty, you didn't need to worry as much about 'out-leveling' places. The super-efficient levelling system is almost impossible to play, anyways, since the hit-chance in Morrowind is based on the skills, not the 'physical' swings.
Got Fallout 1 & 2 due to never playing them, and am doing a guy that's dumb as a brick but hits like a train. I'm having a blast beating giant scorpions to death right now.
Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote: Yes Blizzard, opening TGT at 6/7pm for the EU server was the perfect time, no way that everyone's free at that time to try & login
Playing Bioshock 2 for the first and second time.*
*My internet connection is currently running between 4kb/s and around 200kb/s so I can't always connect to my Live account, therefore I have 2 sets of saves and am somewhat further along on the set where I can't connect. Elite Dangerous is out of the question, and I'm just not in the mood to do more on the witcher yet.
Stepped back into Dark Souls 2 since a friend has recently picked it up on Steam (the old 32 bit, not the new 64 bit Scholar of the First Sin). I know it's only been a few months since I've beaten DaS2, but man does it feel good to be back in that game
The recent anniversary of ff14 had an event in which you accidently get teleported to the 18th floor. Which is the floor in squares office that makes the gamd. All the games designers are there to thank you for making the game great and for giving them a second chancde.
I decided to try to be disciplined and at least finish one Dragon Age Inquisition DLC (The Jaws of Hakkon) before diving properly into Pillars of Eternity.
I can't figure out that in the time since I last played it, there's been some massive rebalancing and now Hard Mode is properly hard. Or I've just forgotten how to play and aren't casting Barrier anywhere near as much as I used to.
This is spoiled because it talks about the ending of Colonial Marines. Bit of an older game, but I just finished it for the first time.
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Finished Aliens: Colonial Marines, and found the ending disappointing. I spent all this time going on for a way out, and I don't even get the credit for the final boss fight kill (which was interesting enough, I'll give it that). You just get your kill stolen and then interrogate a guy who turns out to be an android. I just think the ending firmly cemented my belief that the game is good for shooting xenomorphs by the dozen, and the plot comes second. Bit of a rant, but that's just my take on the ending.
Jehan-reznor wrote: Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
Did some of the deadric missions, that helped a lot, now playing bloodborne, no matter how high your character is, one wrong move and your dead.
Also started on the Pillars DLC. Even after time away where I forgot what my characters do, its still way too easy on the hardest difficulty. Although that's mostly from me using basic weapons to make it seem more difficult.
Apparently in Vanilla Skyrim, dual wielding maces in light armour isn't the path to being survivable.
I got an Argonian 'Dervish' I'm using, level 10. I'm still having trouble with some enemies- though I suppose it's no shame to have trouble taking on a nest of vampires as a melee character.
But I felt more fear than I have in a long while, trying to run down a mountain while a dragon circles overhead, occasionally pausing to frost-breath me. I couldn't do anything to it, since I'd only just completed the Greybeard's quest bit- had no good shouts, my bow skill wasn't that great, and the dragon refused to land.
I'm really thinking that the key to enjoying Vanilla Skyrim is to just pick an archetype and stick with it, instead of 'jack of all trades'ing. My Paladin's focused on sword and shield, and doesn't wear or use 'evil' looking stuff (sorry Orcs!), and I'm having a blast doing the 'shield wall' thing, and going all St. George on dragons. My Sorcerer really struggles in closed-in areas, especially in conflicts with a lot of enemies. Drawn out combat is especially tough, since he still runs out of magicka relatively quick. And even my Battlemage has become more enjoyable since I decided to rely on Magical protection instead of shields- Wards and Alteration spells to supplement the armour.
Just finished Bioshock 2 for the good ending. Debating whether to go through it all again for the bad one. Maybe after I've picked up a set of maps that give out the locations of all the weapon upgrade stations. Was dissappointed I didn't get to do them all, but ended up using the shotgun and machine gun the most anyway.
Otherwise, I'll probably go back and finish The Witcher.
Replaying State of Decay, since I got the Year One version on sale some time ago. Having fun and I'm in a pretty good rythmn with my survivors and keeping them alive.
Annoying that they released this as a whole package but didn't bother fixing glitches and such that have been apparent from day one.
Downloaded World of Tanks for the XBone over the weekend.
Played some games last night with the funky looking Tier 2 French TD. So far been blown up horribly every match, but dragged some suckers with me to hell a few times. I think I should probably start on the US/UK/USSR light/medium tank trees first and come back later to continue up the French tree.
Anvildude wrote: Apparently in Vanilla Skyrim, dual wielding maces in light armour isn't the path to being survivable.
I got an Argonian 'Dervish' I'm using, level 10. I'm still having trouble with some enemies- though I suppose it's no shame to have trouble taking on a nest of vampires as a melee character.
But I felt more fear than I have in a long while, trying to run down a mountain while a dragon circles overhead, occasionally pausing to frost-breath me. I couldn't do anything to it, since I'd only just completed the Greybeard's quest bit- had no good shouts, my bow skill wasn't that great, and the dragon refused to land.
I'm really thinking that the key to enjoying Vanilla Skyrim is to just pick an archetype and stick with it, instead of 'jack of all trades'ing. My Paladin's focused on sword and shield, and doesn't wear or use 'evil' looking stuff (sorry Orcs!), and I'm having a blast doing the 'shield wall' thing, and going all St. George on dragons. My Sorcerer really struggles in closed-in areas, especially in conflicts with a lot of enemies. Drawn out combat is especially tough, since he still runs out of magicka relatively quick. And even my Battlemage has become more enjoyable since I decided to rely on Magical protection instead of shields- Wards and Alteration spells to supplement the armour.
If you think that's tough, try requiem. You would not be able to scratch those vampires.
A playthrough of Mass Effect 1&2. Just beat the main story mode (Everyone lived yeh) and now I'm going to download arrival before getting the third one later. Playing as a biotic adept with an assault rifle is a lot of fun. Who doesn't love chucking people over ledges into bottomless pits with your mind?
Hand to hand is pretty fun even on a keyboard and unlike The Witcher, it doesn't require me to use half of the keyboard during fights.
Driving took a bit of getting used to on keyboard but it is loads of fun, smashing stuff and blowing things up never gets old.
The game is so pretty, I am running the game on max settings and I am not seeing any slowdown or stuttering at all during cut-scenes or gameplay and that includes turbo-boosting explosions.
The game really makes you feel like you are playing an action movie, the explosions are huge and the carnage is everywhere. I REALLY enjoy harpooning another driver and yanking them out of their car and taking them for a drag through the wasteland and then sling-shotting them into another car or a cliff or some random object.
I got the game on Playstation 4 yesterday, and I agree with everything you said in your post... Only one small gripe about the game, but it's so minor/rare that it doesn't truly detract from the game
GrimDork wrote: @Compel, how is Pillars like Critical Role? Does the party devolve into bar fights with dancing juggling bears?
I was soft hooked based on similarities to the BG series, but critical role is pretty amusing too.
Mostly because pretty much the entire cast of Critical Role is in Pillars of Eternity one way or another. The DM, Matt Mercer actually voices your first two party members. That, and I'm playing a Ranger called Vex with a pet bear called Trinket. :p
I wouldn't call the game a laugh riot, it's pretty serious. However, there has been one or two comedic moments in the local inn so far.
Been installing Mad Max since yesterday. Got to 80%, went to bed. Its been half an hour since I got home from work and booted up Steam...Now its at 82%.
Ahh that's cool. I may have to pick it up, been on the short list for awhile, just haven't been buying games. Should watch more critical role too, probably as close as I'll get to playing dnd for awhile.
Finally playing Mad Max after a 2 day install. Seems a little like Shadow of Mordor so far, which is a good thing. Got one question though...a bit of a conundrum really...
I got Manhunter for 49 cents, mostly for laughs, and I couldn't find much else to get with the remaining <$1 funds I had in my steam account. It's downloading right now, but we'll on its way. I'm actually a bit excited to try it out, and happy I didn't pay full price on it ($5).
GrimDork wrote: Ahh that's cool. I may have to pick it up, been on the short list for awhile, just haven't been buying games. Should watch more critical role too, probably as close as I'll get to playing dnd for awhile.
Pillars is nothing like DnD!
For a start, your starter weapons dont have a 60%+ chance of one shotting you, and the difficulty curve is far more forgiving(regardless of difficulty).
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Been installing Mad Max since yesterday. Got to 80%, went to bed. Its been half an hour since I got home from work and booted up Steam...Now its at 82%.
Are you on dialup? Mine downloaded all the movies I got with the bundle and the game inside of 20 minutes.
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GrimDork wrote: Bah. It's not at all like baldurs gate then? Such lame. Much boring. May pass.
It's otherwise very much like BG. You can encounter enemies that you have little to no hope of beating at your current level, and most fights require tactical thinking and party-control.
Just did a skirmish of Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins as the Dark Eldar. I spent most of the game building up defenses as armies fought each other right next to me and my infiltrated turrets shot away at them.
I'm actually planning on getting 'Act of Aggression' as it has come out and is still on sale for now. I should hopefully get it on Saturday.
For the most part the game I'm currently playing is 'Payday 2'. It's incredibly addicting for some reason and if you get bored you can try doing some missions in stealth rather than go in guns blazing and then the game goes from a combination of left 4 dead or some military/GTA game and turns into a stealth action game where you either try not to get spotted or just prevent any alarms being triggered or calls being sent out from officers/guards. Basically 'Payday 2' is 2 games in one and both are very good. There are insane amounts of DLC you have to pay for though.
The other game I'm playing less frequently is starcraft 2 from time to time. It's pretty good. I'm noticing at least against zerg with protoss that going air heavy is the way to go. The only AA they have are hydras, infestors, mutalisks and some others. They're good sure but protoss aircraft are either fast or powerful. If you back them up with a few high Templar with psi storm riding around in warp prisms you can pretty much waste zerg wherever you go. I was having trouble vs terran that use siege tanks with tons of back up and their ridiculous range so I started building some Tempests which tend to work wonders as they have super long range and can snipe out the tanks fairly well forcing the terran player to move out of position rather than have me come to them. Against protoss using protoss all you have to do to win is use void rays or be a total jerk and use some cheesy tactics (dark Templar rush in a bad spot, cannon rush or even the cannon plus zealot through warp prism technique I made). That said I tend to be nicer vs protoss players and haven't fought them as much so I'm less prepared to know what to do. I'm not that fond of mirror battles for some reason and never have been. You'd be surprised all the cheese some protoss players can pull though. Usually I don't do that though (which is why I try not to spam void rays or dark Templar rush).
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Been installing Mad Max since yesterday. Got to 80%, went to bed. Its been half an hour since I got home from work and booted up Steam...Now its at 82%.
Are you on dialup? Mine downloaded all the movies I got with the bundle and the game inside of 20 minutes.
My internet is at a good speed but I also download games over steam very slowly. Seriously 5-8 hour downloads are a common occurrence but outside of steam games downloads are fairly fast.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Been installing Mad Max since yesterday. Got to 80%, went to bed. Its been half an hour since I got home from work and booted up Steam...Now its at 82%.
Are you on dialup? Mine downloaded all the movies I got with the bundle and the game inside of 20 minutes.
gakky wi-fi signal. My desktop PC is situated within the house as far as you can possibly get (excluding the attic). So its a weak as feth signal. And for some strange fething reason, the case of my desktop itself blocks the signal, so I have to put it on the floor under my desk and turn it so the antenna's facing towards the wifi router. Its really awkward and means leg space is a little cramped underneath my desk.
And theres like a million devices all using the same wi-fi network. 3 tablet devices, 3 smart phones, 2 laptops, smart TV, Xbox 360...and my desktop upstairs in my bedroom, the only device in the house not typically operated in the same room as the router...
I really ought to look into getting some sort of wi-fi booster.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Been installing Mad Max since yesterday. Got to 80%, went to bed. Its been half an hour since I got home from work and booted up Steam...Now its at 82%.
Are you on dialup? Mine downloaded all the movies I got with the bundle and the game inside of 20 minutes.
gakky wi-fi signal. My desktop PC is situated within the house as far as you can possibly get (excluding the attic). So its a weak as feth signal. And for some strange fething reason, the case of my desktop itself blocks the signal, so I have to put it on the floor under my desk and turn it so the antenna's facing towards the wifi router. Its really awkward and means leg space is a little cramped underneath my desk.
I really ought to look into getting some sort of wi-fi booster.
This might explain some things for me as well. For whatever reason the signal on my phone is at its worst where I live since I must be in the middle of nowhere (or somewhere crappy pretty much). Seriously I've had better reception at my work under several floors in a factory going through steel multiple times. I'd say my signal has been at it's worst in northern Michigan (nobody lives there) and in Pontiac (nobody wants to live there).
Sorry for the noobiness of this question, but what sets Starcraft apart from, say DoW besides the races? Does it play like that game does, or partly similar, because from what I've heard it doesn't sound half bad, and I am tempted to get it
The more recent Dawn of War games are glorified MOBA games with a single player campaign. Starcraft is an old school Real Time Strategy game in the tradition of classic games like Command and Conquer. Base building, micro management etc.
Dawn of War 2 plays more like an RPG strategy game, with map design slightly reminiscent of MOBA's.
Not DoW II, but the first set, Dark Crusade, Winter Assault, and Soulstorm, which I prefer over DoW II as an RTS. To me, DoW II skirmishes are a bit of a joke, but I would have loved to see them have had tyranids and necrons in vanilla.
Well, it looks like the new endless legend expansion came out yesterday (I don't know how I missed that) so I'll be lost in that for the next few days at least.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Well, it looks like the new endless legend expansion came out yesterday (I don't know how I missed that) so I'll be lost in that for the next few days at least.
Wait what?! I love 'Endless Legend'. You may also be tempted to know that Endless Space 2 was previewed at the last games convention.
@2BlackJack1: StarCraft 2 is both good and bad. The problem is it's a strategy game from back in the day. Rts's these days (what few are left) tend to put resources, gatherers and builders on the backburner (as they should be in my opinion). Games these days are less about the bases you build or resources you harvest so much as grabbing points that give you resources to build your armies and skill with fighting and little else effects the games.
That said starcraft 2 has a lot of buildings and that is sometimes tactical to destroy. Same goes with supply destruction, gatherer destruction, destruction of factories, HQ's and so on. The issue I have with starcraft 2 is it's a balancing game of placing buildings to hotkeys, using hotkeys to build units and buildings faster and placing units to hotkeys. It also depends in which order I build everything. My issue with starcraft 2 is how competitive it is to a ridiculous degree. I hear most people that have ever played are bronze league while I have gotten to the top of silver league (still pretty bad) and considering I've beaten the campaign on the hardest difficulty I think that will tell you just how good master league and grandmaster league players are (grandmaster league is the top 100 players in a region I think). The league levels from lowest to highest are bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, master league and grandmaster league.
There are some decent tactics and some cheesy stupid ones at super low level play as well as people that use noob accounts and lose some games on purpose to lower their ranking so they can play with worse players and win more easily (though I don't think I've seen this as much). It's still a fun game though you may have trouble beating some factions as compared to others. Against zerg it's often not easy to expand to a 3rd resource point (at least with protoss) as they'll be all over you in seconds.
Another super important aspect of the game is scouting and preventing the enemy from scouting as when you know enough about the build order you can tell what they're going for. At lower level play people usually don't know everything they're doing so you will probably be ok but at higher level play it's practically down to a science. Scouting can also tell you the buildings they have and knowing what they can build with each building shows you what you might be facing soon.
Find which faction suits you most and stick with it. Zerg are spammy and can amass an army really fast and generally have the fastest army. Seeing a crap ton of mutalisks pop up not long after throwing down a spire is a scary reality provided there's enough larva. Protoss have huge advantage using power to warp in infantry using warp gates and their air units are really good. Protoss in general have plenty of caster units that help a ton so learning these should be good. Terran have the best range most of the time and also some of the best ranged units. Some of the flat damage that terrans do is the highest as well.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Well, it looks like the new endless legend expansion came out yesterday (I don't know how I missed that) so I'll be lost in that for the next few days at least.
Wait what?! I love 'Endless Legend'. You may also be tempted to know that Endless Space 2 was previewed at the last games convention.
I know right? I only know about this because I decided to look through the steam store popup thing instead of just xing it out.
Looks like it's very espionage focused, something I did want them to add.
And I did see that, it looked really good, taking the concept and bringing up a notch.
Also it was probably lost in my wall of text but I'm gonna see if I can get 'Act of Aggression' while it's still on sale. If I can get to the games workshop I could probably go to a nearby game store and get it on Saturday. I may have to not get the dark eldar codex though or at least for now. Guess we'll have to see.
If I get my roommate situation fixed up (which should be soon hopefully) then I should have more money to buy games and warhammer stuff which should be good.
Ok, thank you killamajig, I'll probably get the game, because some friends have it and worst case scenario I can always do stuff with them along with the campaign.
Also, I've been playing Manhunter, and managed to make my AK invisible. Only the flash from firing it is there, and it's funnier to me than annoying that it happened.
It's a perfect RTS in mechanics. Basebuilding is a major part of the genre, it's where the strategy comes in(see the Civ series and westwood games for proof). The competitive nature of the game has led to that becoming irrelevant what with zerg rushing and other tactics. It's led to the death of all tactical styles other than that.
Turtling is gone. As is aggressive expansion. I remember the most fun I've had in a multiplayer RTS was RA2 when my opponent and I played on a 6 player map(Arctic circle, I think) and we had a 15 hour game where we fought in a cold war, where each move had to be forethought completely. THAT is what a RTS should be, not whatever abomination DOW2 is.
I started playing the Elder Scrolls Online last night. Put in a few hours and new I'm a level 7 Dragonknight (stupid name). Biggest issue? That they've tried to make the game too much like a generic RPG, so I don't think it captures the feeling of the series perfectly. Case in point: the Dunmer wear metal armour rather than sets made from Bone and Chitin. Sure they could get away by saying that whilst allied with the other races they've been using foreign materials, but it just breaks from their aesthetic too much personally.
But yes, I digress a tad. Its a new MMORPG to me, so there are things to get used to (especially because I haven't played one of those in a while). XP for instance seems to be based more around exploring and completing quests instead of killing monsters. Entering a higher level area and killing the monsters there appears to give less XP than killing monsters are your level as an example. Oddly I've somehow made my way out of the starting city and found myself three zones away with the Argonians somehow after getting caught up on one particular chain of quests (something about saying hello to the person who fished me out of the sea took me to Skyrim where an invasion was happening, and from there we took a boat to the other side of the continent. ...Sorry, but I take it nobody noticed that Morrowind is between those two countries?).
I do like that there's a variety of armour and weapons made from the same material to show off the different races approach to crafting. Especially because you can find multiple racial bits of gear when looting, though when buying from traders its mostly just the local types. Its also cool that there's just items lying about the place that you can pick up. Not just treasure chests with giant arrows above them, but plenty of junk crates and barrels with swords and crap sitting on top of them. Sure I you can't pick up enemy weapons or the odd prop, but at least they've done something in this regard.
I would say that the store could have more in it. ...Sorry is that a weird thing to say? I had a look at it and found that there wasn't really that many different outfits and pets available. I would have liked to have seen more references to other games in the series there. Though perhaps its that the game gives you these through gameplay instead, so that may it may not be so bad.
So overall I wouldn't say the game's too bad. I'll stick with it for a while yet (hey I spent money on it, so I need to get its worth) and see how things develop. Its not the same experience as the previous games, which I can slight the devs, because apparently originally it felt less like WoW 2.0, but its enough so far. Walking through the Skyrim dungeons in a different game or seeing updated models of the Morrowind stuff is cool enough to keep me going for the moment anyway.
It's a perfect RTS in mechanics. Basebuilding is a major part of the genre, it's where the strategy comes in(see the Civ series and westwood games for proof). The competitive nature of the game has led to that becoming irrelevant what with zerg rushing and other tactics. It's led to the death of all tactical styles other than that.
Turtling is gone. As is aggressive expansion. I remember the most fun I've had in a multiplayer RTS was RA2 when my opponent and I played on a 6 player map(Arctic circle, I think) and we had a 15 hour game where we fought in a cold war, where each move had to be forethought completely. THAT is what a RTS should be, not whatever abomination DOW2 is.
Personally I think 'Star Wars: Empire at War' was one of the closest games to get it right. In between that game and dawn of war 1 were the games I loved most.
Another issue I have with starcraft 2 is that you can't queue units without spending resources to queue them. Even the old rise of nations just had an infinite queue system that would work as long as you had money. It's just annoying how there are some mechanics that require so much babysitting in starcraft 2 that it took from starcraft 1 that have been fixed in starcraft 2.
I will try to get 'Act of Aggression' as I was always interested in 'Act of War' and it seems like a combination of that and command and conquer's tiberium series. Basically you have the U.S. faction, the high tech exo-suit/power armored good guys and the under-handed stealthy high tech bad guys. Considering command and conquer is now dead this would be super exciting to play. It's also by the same team that made 'Wargame' so you know it's gonna be good.
This should give you an idea and yes the game has just been released.
Wyrmalla wrote: I started playing the Elder Scrolls Online last night. Put in a few hours and new I'm a level 7 Dragonknight (stupid name). Biggest issue? That they've tried to make the game too much like a generic RPG, so I don't think it captures the feeling of the series perfectly. Case in point: the Dunmer wear metal armour rather than sets made from Bone and Chitin. Sure they could get away by saying that whilst allied with the other races they've been using foreign materials, but it just breaks from their aesthetic too much personally.
But yes, I digress a tad. Its a new MMORPG to me, so there are things to get used to (especially because I haven't played one of those in a while). XP for instance seems to be based more around exploring and completing quests instead of killing monsters. Entering a higher level area and killing the monsters there appears to give less XP than killing monsters are your level as an example. Oddly I've somehow made my way out of the starting city and found myself three zones away with the Argonians somehow after getting caught up on one particular chain of quests (something about saying hello to the person who fished me out of the sea took me to Skyrim where an invasion was happening, and from there we took a boat to the other side of the continent. ...Sorry, but I take it nobody noticed that Morrowind is between those two countries?).
I do like that there's a variety of armour and weapons made from the same material to show off the different races approach to crafting. Especially because you can find multiple racial bits of gear when looting, though when buying from traders its mostly just the local types. Its also cool that there's just items lying about the place that you can pick up. Not just treasure chests with giant arrows above them, but plenty of junk crates and barrels with swords and crap sitting on top of them. Sure I you can't pick up enemy weapons or the odd prop, but at least they've done something in this regard.
I would say that the store could have more in it. ...Sorry is that a weird thing to say? I had a look at it and found that there wasn't really that many different outfits and pets available. I would have liked to have seen more references to other games in the series there. Though perhaps its that the game gives you these through gameplay instead, so that may it may not be so bad.
So overall I wouldn't say the game's too bad. I'll stick with it for a while yet (hey I spent money on it, so I need to get its worth) and see how things develop. Its not the same experience as the previous games, which I can slight the devs, because apparently originally it felt less like WoW 2.0, but its enough so far. Walking through the Skyrim dungeons in a different game or seeing updated models of the Morrowind stuff is cool enough to keep me going for the moment anyway.
I think a lot of the aesthetic differences are because of ESO taking place in the Second Era, while all the singleplayer Elder Scrolls games so far have taken place in the Third Era. There's some significant differences in what's going on- for example, instead of a singular Empire (I don't think Talos has been born/started conquering yet) you have the 3 coalitions (and Cyrodil)- the Dunmer may not have developed Bonemold yet (and Chitin, I think, was unique to Vvardenfell).
Also, it wasn't Bethesda that worked on it- it was Zenimax Online- a completely different department in the corporation- which, I think, explains some of the differences. I think if it had been a proper Bethesda-helmed game, there wouldn't be Exp at all, and you'd level as you do in most Elder Scrolls games, through practice of skills, purely.
Got the Brithis forces DLC for CoH2 from a friend, and I am somewhat dismayed by it. Although the devs have done a lot to make the Brithis forces more fun to play with and against. There are still some glaring things that needs attention, like how ridiciously insane the Tulip rockets for the Sherman firefly, and the roling iron box of death that is the Churchill tank.
I've installed Fallout 3 for maybe the 4th or 5th time and starting it for the 2nd time. First time playing it I got as far as a little past the first town's set of stuff. This new game I'm starting again I just reached the town but I'm wondering if I should continue bothering with this or just jump to New Vegas.
I'm wondering the same thing with possibly starting Oblivion or just jumping to Skyrim (pretty much same situation with Oblivion; never got past maybe the first areas.
In the mean time... still more hearthstone... still more terraria
This weekend I'm re-installing LoL after a 2 or 3 year hiatus since some old buddies want to start playing online again.
I also plan to get started with a Season 4 character for Diablo III.
Getting back into Lord of the Rings Online. Anyone wanting to mess around killing stuff, hit up Teutonir on the Evernight server
Details: Level 28 Champion North Downs & Lone Lands unlocked. Got a horse. Human hanging around the north downs and bree
PM if interested
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djphranq wrote: I've installed Fallout 3 for maybe the 4th or 5th time and starting it for the 2nd time. First time playing it I got as far as a little past the first town's set of stuff. This new game I'm starting again I just reached the town but I'm wondering if I should continue bothering with this or just jump to New Vegas.
New Vegas is ultimately a superior vanilla game. It's like Fallout 3 was a excellent test and then NV nailed it dead on
I'm finding it quite hard to judge difficulties in Pillars.
Like, is this bounty or area is too hard for me, or whether I'm just being rubbish.
I'm currently level 6, a wood elf ranger (with pet bear called Trinket, naturally)
My main team seems to be:
Trinket for tanking
Eder for tanking
Aloth as ranged wizard
Durance for ranged healing
An Adventurer Rogue for sneaky backstabbing
Kana as summoning chanter. I've got him shooting people because he seems surprisingly squishy for a straight up fight.
I've just completed Act I and I've just completed the 4th level of the Endless Paths. I think I'm going to head into the Defiance Bay catacombs right now.
Sometimes being underleveled is fun in that kind of game, makes you push yourself and you've gotta be sneaky/cheaty. Sometimes it's more fun to be the right level or overleveled and just faceroll it
GrimDork wrote: Sometimes being underleveled is fun in that kind of game, makes you push yourself and you've gotta be sneaky/cheaty. Sometimes it's more fun to be the right level or overleveled and just faceroll it
I'm level 12 with level 6 equipment on the hardest difficulty and there is no challenge.
For the record, my party is:
Player created paladin, focused on tanking. Adventurer paladin, focused on offtanking/heals for the tank and revive fodder/ Two adventurer barbarians for melee support. Adventurer priest for healing. Adventurer chanter for buffing.
Just bought 'Act of Aggression'. I'll give my thoughts on it when it finishes it's super slow download (6 hours).
Other than that I've been playing starcraft 2 yesterday and won all the games I played that day (protoss stargate units are stupid strong). I think I may finally get to gold league soon. I also may get the colossus profile pic soon.
Finally in payday 2 yesterday I managed to solo 'shadow raid' on overkill in one try I think (or a couple at most). Oddly enough some stealth missions in payday 2 work much better the fewer people you have as each person messing up and not planning together tends to ruin things. All it takes is one alarm. That said without a teammate in shadow raid I couldn't steal the nobunaga armor. It's rather unfortunate as some places really need some ecm and various other things like silent drill or silent saw.
I'm trying to wrap my head around enough Japanese to muddle my way through Dragon's Dogma Online, a Free to Play "MMO" game in the Dragon's Dogma universe. Plays very much like DD.
Left Mobius alive because he's alright, but wiped out the think tank. Evil fethers...Besides, I have plans of conquest for the Mojave in the name of the glorious NCR. Don't want to let a bunch of mad scientists get in the way.
Sadly, I missed out on the Roxie ending because this was my first time playing Old World Blues and I didn't know about her so didn't the quest to create her. Also haven't found Rex yet as this is my 2nd playthrough (got bored with the last one, and had to restart anyway to run some mods).
So there won't be an army of cyberdog puppies terrorising the Mojave in my Fallout universe.
Left Mobius alive because he's alright, but wiped out the think tank. Evil fethers...Besides, I have plans of conquest for the Mojave in the name of the glorious NCR. Don't want to let a bunch of mad scientists get in the way.
Sadly, I missed out on the Roxie ending because this was my first time playing Old World Blues and I didn't know about her so didn't the quest to create her. Also haven't found Rex yet as this is my 2nd playthrough (got bored with the last one, and had to restart anyway to run some mods).
So there won't be an army of cyberdog puppies terrorising the Mojave in my Fallout universe.
So some info on 'Act of Aggression'. As a vet of rts's so far the campaign is somewhat hard but nothing too difficult yet. I don't win every mission first time playing through currently but that may be due to not knowing enough about each unit. There also doesn't seem to be a difficulty setting for campaign but I probably overlooked it.
According to the achievements the good guys (chimera) have the longest campaign. The cartel's is shorter but I don't know yet on the uses for that.
A great amount of the cartel's units are stealthed including some apc's and helicopters as far as I've seen. Attacking out of stealth and possibly while obscured gives damage boosts (2x normal damage for a short time). Considering some of the cartel's units that'll certainly pack a huge punch.
As far as I've seen the cartel have the largest range of infantry covering just about every role if not all of them. Usa so far has mortar, anti tank and marine infantry. Chimera has the exo-suit super-soldiers that run faster, tank better, heal themselves and can destroy some vehicles and infantry with ease.
So far as far as units go the cartel's stealth rocket helicopters are so ridiculously potent. They love throwing many of them at you and their damage is sick when they unleash their rockets.
Anyway it'll take some time to get used to this game.
The only comparison to command and conquer generals I see is the look of some of the units. The game is closer to Act of War mixed with Red Alert 2 and the tiberium universe in command and conquer.
Oh and on a side note this game's music is awesome techno. If nothing else you can groove to it and remember the glory days of command and conquer with it.
Hey, I'm looking for help with a raid in Lord of the Rings Online. Anyone around level 29 with access to the Lone Lands. I want to do the raid on the Weathertop but I can't quite beat it myself yet.
I can Skype, or Teamspeak or use in-game text chat or whatever
Humble bundle is having a big tom clancy sal right now, so I picked it up for later. 10 games, and a beta key for the new rainbow 6 multilayer, not bad for $10 .
Hearthstone. I played Magic the Gathering for 10 years, and prefer Hearthstone for it's more disinct play styles for each hero. That and the lack of complicated rules.
Matthew wrote: Just conquered Gaul as Julii in Rome Total War. Now I just need to handle the situation in Greece...
Go conquering down the coast and blockade some ports. Or land a sizable Army on Greece mainland and capture, pillage (destroy everything that gives you money), and go option three when putting them to the sword or sell the population for high Denarii's(?). Make sure you leave the largest city eastward and Sparta intact. Being one a launching point for further land conquest and the other for Naval invasion on some island........or you maybe have done this this before
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Got out of my car to scavenge some scrap, when some Warboys come thundering past me and run me over.
"Witness me Chumbucket!"
I died only once, at his hands, when I called for the car, he came speeding in and ran me over.
I do like how sometimes during combat the Warboys call me "Kamakrazee" when Fury mode kicks in.
The last thing I did today in Mad Max before logging off and getting on with some painting ...
Spoiler:
I think this LOTR Galadriel model would make a nice Warlock for D&D. I'm painting mine to match this colour scheme.
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... a sand storm rolled in.
Apparently when storms roll in, you're supposed to take shelter in a stronghold because there are large chunks of debris flying through the air that will destroy your car and knock you the feth out if they hit Max when he's on foot. But if you take the risk, there are very valuable crates full of hundreds of units of scrap rolling and barreling across the desert that you can chase down and loot.
But the problem is...those crates are moving fast. VERY fast. And theres zero visibility. Cue a mad chase through the desert at high speed. It was like the chase sequence in the fire storm in Fury Road, only this time theres just Max...chasing crates. And dodging rocks and flying metal debris.
I eventually cornered a couple of crates when they got pinned up against a cliff. But they're tough buggers to crack open. I tried harpooning them and dragging them away from the cliff, so I could run them over. But the wind kept them pinned to the cliff. So I climbed out and ran over, intending to use my shotgun to crack them open (had 3 rounds).
But what I didn't realise was...there was a sniper watching me, a couple hundred yards along the cliff. So there I was, getting shot in the ass, getting knocked off my feet by low flying metallic meteors, rolling about desperately trying to dodge that final bullet or chunk of metal that would finish me off long enough to shoot the crates and pick up the scrap.
Suffice to say, I didn't linger long afterwards. I must have made about 500 scrap from those crates.
Finished off my Hearthstone daily a lot faster than usual. Was able to do it with my favorite class (Warrior). Also finished off another wing of Blackrock in Hearthstone... again with Warrior. Just gotta earn more gold for the next and last wing.
Played some Terraria today... started a new character and world.
Got a couple parts into Act II for my Diablo III Season 4 character.
Reinstalled the Dawn of War series and started up Dawn of War.. just got done with the first mission... brings back the memories.
Later more Diablo III... hopefully will finish Act II before this evening.
So picked up Assassins creed Unity on PC, figured it was about time, and having played it for 2 hours roughly I have had 3 CTD, 1 major clipping issue and an AI pathing issue and this is all before I even reach the "Ubisoft Presents" part. Oh this does not bode well at all. Still the game shall have it uses.
Also been playing a lot of Runescape on the old school servers. How I've missed mass amounts of grining haha.
Finished Shadowrun Hong Kong last night. Interesting story. Hacking got a nice overhaul.
I'm currently downloading the new Nobunaga's Ambition. I played 2 waaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, and Steam is having a small sale on the current version (which ends tomorrow morning). I felt interested enough to take a look.
Spent far too much time playing the demo of Chivalry: Mediaeval Combat on the 360 last night. There's something quite appealing about it's particular blend of mindless violence and actual tactical fighting.
Restarted back up Destiny since I stopped when the Dark Below came out. Realized that because I bought the digital verison of Destiny on 360 I automatically got the digital verison on the One. That and my character and all gear carried over too. So I forgave Bungie.
I am pretty excited for Taken King, I looks to improve the game in a lot of ways.
I tried replaying Fallout:New vegas but it really hasn't aged that well (or I am much less forgiving of its faults). Combat is frankly arse, the world bland, it looks hideous and its still full of bugs.
I tried fixing various things with mods but it simply crashes and I don't have the enthusiasm to fix it. Hopefully FO4 will be interesting.
I am currently playing the Armoured Warfare Early Access 5. Its basically WoT but with modern vehicles and a functional PvE mode. Its significantly better balanced than WoT although the match maker really needs a lot of work before release.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.
I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.
I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.
Did some more Besiege, and made a truck based loosely after Mad Max, and a small vehicle with retractable saws to easily cut down trees, purely for the fun of it.
Eumerin wrote: Finished Shadowrun Hong Kong last night. Interesting story. Hacking got a nice overhaul.
I'm currently downloading the new Nobunaga's Ambition. I played 2 waaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, and Steam is having a small sale on the current version (which ends tomorrow morning). I felt interested enough to take a look.
So...
These days Koei is best known for the Dynasty Warriors games, and the various spin-offs (which have touched on not only the historical conflicts like the Three Kingdoms era, but also Gundam, Fist of the North Star, and more). But waaaaaay back before the first Dynasty Warrior game, Koei made it's initial foray into video games with a strategy game covering the Japanese Warring States era - Nobunaga's Ambition. Koei also released a game focused on the Three Kingdoms era in China, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (which many of you probably already know is also the name of a famous Chinese novel about the era). And both games got sequels. Lots and lots of sequels (particularly the Three Kingdoms games). And then Koei went the action route, starting the Dynasty Warriors franchise. But continued to release new versions of their flagship strategy games. The latest is Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence.
One of the issues with strategy games covering the Warring States era is the ahistorical nature of the games. Historically, Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu formed an alliance that lasted until the former's death. In the various strategy games, the game nearly always starts out with one of the two killing off the other (as their provinces are right next to each other). Sphere of Influence gets around this with "Historical Quests". The missions, which are voluntary and can be safely ignored, encourage you to follow the historical choices made by whichever daimyo you're playing as. Doing so will provide you with minor bonuses, and ensure that certain historical events turn out "properly", no matter how unlikely they'd otherwise be within the game. If you ignore them, then you'll end up quickly jumping the historical rails, and they'll disappear as the trigger conditions end up not applying. A neat touch of you want them, and safely ignorable if you don't care.
Created a fun new world in Dwarf Fortress: The world contains six humans, nine kobolds, and 31,000 goblins. And no dwarfs.
Well, except for my dwarfs, who reclaimed one of the world gen fortresses. They're basically squatting in the remnants of a much greater civilization, trying to eke out a living among wealth that they can't use. It's fun!
Having fun with GTA online for once in my life. Hacker came online earlier, but I switched into passive mode and he couldn't insta-gib anyone, so he left.
Mad max is amazingsauce. Marvel online, I've slowed down for.
I have, one of whom is currently logged out in Isengard and has been for about a year, but that's not really the point. The game itself has changed, its not the game that I remember. Some mechanics have changed, the population is much lower, leveling is significantly easier but there are more timesinks. On top of that I have already done all the early and mid game content multiple times, there isn't really any incentive for me to come back.
This seems to be very common with MMOs once they have been out for a few years.
Wish someone had updated Star Trek: Klingon so I could play it on my Win7 machine, but it just doesn't work. I loved playing that 'game' [well, it was more of an interactive movie, and I'd soooo love to be able to window in window it whilst at work.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.
I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.
I just got tired of endless grinding every time a new expansion comes out.
johnscott10 wrote: So picked up Assassins creed Unity on PC, figured it was about time, and having played it for 2 hours roughly I have had 3 CTD, 1 major clipping issue and an AI pathing issue and this is all before I even reach the "Ubisoft Presents" part. Oh this does not bode well at all. Still the game shall have it uses.
Still grinding away on Warthunder, and getting somewhat tirred of how fragile my American tanks are. Granted faceing t 34/85s and what not is oh so amusing now that I can acctually kill the damned tin cans. Also the Sherman 105 is rubbish!
Logged into Urban Dead after two years away, and by some miracle.. Morathi is still alive, hidden in the same Junkyard I left her in, still heavily barricaded. I'm guessing no zombies come that way.
Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote: Logged into Urban Dead after two years away, and by some miracle.. Morathi is still alive, hidden in the same Junkyard I left her in, still heavily barricaded. I'm guessing no zombies come that way.
That's totally awesome!
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Finished my daily for Hearthstone rather quickly... I felt bad because I was playing as a priest using that cheese 'buff minion life + have life equal attack' combo... first match I nixed a with one hit for 35 damage... Its cool and sad at the same time. 2nd match i didn't rely on that... but at least I'm done with it.... at least for today. Still need 350g more for the last wing in blackrock.
Got through the 2nd part of Diablo 3 with my Season 4 Barbarian... then the system alerted me of a server reset that was imminent...bleh...
Terraria got a bunch of tungsten ore... made enough bars for tungsten armor but I'll save up until I can finish a complete set for the bonus.
Tried playing MW3 multiplayer... kept getting dropped... 'cannot connect to host' type errors so I nixed that.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.
I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.
I just got tired of endless grinding every time a new expansion comes out.
Meh. It's not bad with Netflix on in the background. I play it mostly to relax in the evening. But I still enjoy it very much
After that I played some 'act of aggression' and the campaign was hard. I managed to beat the 2nd last cartel mission which was giving me a lot of difficulty. Then I played the game with online people against AI and holy crap this game gets nuts on the explosions at the late game. Cartel has these late tier artillery tanks that cost a bunch of cash and like 500 rare earth and they just torch buildings esp. amassed. Then you get the aircraft and those are ridiculously powerful. In this game far as I know one of the only good ways to counter aircraft (not helicopters but actual aircraft) is to use other aircraft. Anyway I had a lot of fun turning each of our enemy's bases into multiple smoking craters. I got the most in resources and in kills but my deaths were also fairly high (infantry is rather fragile sometimes but it can be useful if it's in a building or has range).
This should give you an idea of the craziness that the game had (by looking at the craters) and I didn't even snap the craziest in action photos.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.
I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.
I just got tired of endless grinding every time a new expansion comes out.
Meh. It's not bad with Netflix on in the background. I play it mostly to relax in the evening. But I still enjoy it very much
The biggest reason (well, only reason really) why I played it was to explore Middle Earth.
sing your life wrote: Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.
"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people
"Greetings Mechwarriors this is THE B33F Speaking" and "EZ PZ" ~The greatest frenchie alive today (Seriously look him up on youtube. Even if you don't play Mechwarrior Online his stuff is hilarious)
So I tried Saint's Row III on the Steam free weekend. It's was fun, but holy moly was is CRASS. I just can't stand that level of... everything. GTA it is then.
sing your life wrote: Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.
"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people
I find that's an over-done joke about the French. Personally I prefer to joke they're 'smelly French-men'. Not sure if that has any truth to it.
Depends on what they ate for lunch.
I love French style Mussels in a garlic butter sauce, but when I eat it my mom has to fumigate the kitchen by opening all the windows, opening the back door and turning on the extraction fan over the oven because she fething hates garlic.
What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
I remember in all the Historical strategy games I would play that the French typically had he best Cavelry. Case in point: Age of Empires II, where Frankish Knights got %20 more HP. There was even a Hero unit called "Frankish Paladin"
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
They still are pretty fearsome. Anyone really paying attention to the news knows that the French perform successful military interventions in various parts of the world, such as the Ivory Coast. At the lower levels, their military is no joke. The problem for the French has always been their leadership dropping the ball.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
They still are pretty fearsome. Anyone really paying attention to the news knows that the French perform successful military interventions in various parts of the world, such as the Ivory Coast. At the lower levels, their military is no joke. The problem for the French has always been their leadership dropping the ball.
Not just dropping the ball, but in many instances, the manner in which they were organized spelled disaster
Yeah but they failed at Vietnam and then so did the usa. It took us longer to pull out though (to my knowledge anyway).
It's also kinda strange how I imagine their interaction with the united states led to the French revolution as well which ended with napoleon killing a crap ton of people (and he was a fearsome opponent considering how many allied against him). All the craziness of the French revolution aside it's nice not to have monarchy where somebody gets power based on birth. To an extent even the british gave that up to let parliament have more power. Not saying democracy is the greatest either with people not versed in the details of something before voting on it but I'd prefer some of that to a leader that can never understand the standpoint of a common man because they grew up as royalty their whole life.
Anyway back on topic I was having issues playing as cartel in 'act of aggression'. I decided to play against some easy or very easy AI and checking out the tech tree, abilities of my faction and different units at my leisure. I found out the repair add-on building has some pretty sick upgrades and I didn't use it before which would explain why I was doing so poorly. The Amos artillery unit in particular has nasty cluster AOE that can kill a mass of vehicles. Seeing the usa players always playing and always throwing down a crap ton of tanks means this will be super useful in the future. It still might take some time though. To my knowledge the amos is bad at close range so chances are you want to defend with other units (possibly even anti-tank infantry in buildings) while the amos attacks from a distance. I also found out the repair building features an anti-missile defense ability on otomatics which is really nice and makes them good. I will use them a lot more in the future now that they can knock down missiles. The Grinch infantry are still infinitely better at taking down air units but having a detector that can destroy missiles and shoot air is nice.
Verdun is just one example of why you are very, very wrong and as you are American read up about the Kesserine Pass to see just how well US troops fared against their first taste of Blitkreig (hint not well);I'm sure you know how well the US did in Indochina. The French reputation for cowardice is completely undeserved.
I am currently playing the latest alpha/beta/early access (delete as applicable) build of Clockwork Empires. Still lots of bugs, broken/missing features and general balance issues but at least it works (to an extent) now.
toasteroven wrote: Psh. Anyone who's ever played a Paradox game knows that France is, in fact, the most terrifying country in the world.
I'm playing Crusader Kings right now, and... Karlings. Karlings everywhere. Why is there a Karling petty king in England? Why?
Just wondering what country paradox is situated in. That might explain why the French are OP possibly in said game.
Oh and played more 'act of aggression'. It would seem the U.S. army is OP in the game. Kind of funny in a way. It's almost hilarious how much the hard enemy A.I. likes to drop nukes and just how potent all their units are. I mean if the usa was like this in the real world with their liberal use of nukes I'm pretty sure all life on earth would've been extinguished by now.
toasteroven wrote: Psh. Anyone who's ever played a Paradox game knows that France is, in fact, the most terrifying country in the world.
I'm playing Crusader Kings right now, and... Karlings. Karlings everywhere. Why is there a Karling petty king in England? Why?
Just wondering what country paradox is situated in. That might explain why the French are OP possibly in said game.
Oh and played more 'act of aggression'. It would seem the U.S. army is OP in the game. Kind of funny in a way. It's almost hilarious how much the enemy likes to drop nukes and just how potent all their units are. I mean if the usa was like this in the real world with their liberal use of nukes I'm pretty sure all life on earth would've been extinguished by now.
I'm still playing Heroes of the Storm, I'm really surprised this one hasn't gotten old. It really is a solidly made game. If you've never tried it and have always kind of liked the idea of a MOBA but have never found the execution works for you it's worth a trying.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
I remember in all the Historical strategy games I would play that the French typically had he best Cavelry. Case in point: Age of Empires II, where Frankish Knights got %20 more HP. There was even a Hero unit called "Frankish Paladin"
No single cavalry unit in Total war has a chance in hell against the Gerdaminers of France. And yes, France generally rock in Total war and AoE
Verdun is just one example of why you are very, very wrong and as you are American read up about the Kesserine Pass to see just how well US troops fared against their first taste of Blitkreig (hint not well);I'm sure you know how well the US did in Indochina. The French reputation for cowardice is completely undeserved.
I am currently playing the latest alpha/beta/early access (delete as applicable) build of Clockwork Empires. Still lots of bugs, broken/missing features and general balance issues but at least it works (to an extent) now.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
I remember in all the Historical strategy games I would play that the French typically had he best Cavelry. Case in point: Age of Empires II, where Frankish Knights got %20 more HP. There was even a Hero unit called "Frankish Paladin"
No single cavalry unit in Total war has a chance in hell against the Gerdaminers of France. And yes, France generally rock in Total war and AoE
I always found them to be easy pushovers with my massed English Longbowmen.
I've always found France to be a complete non-issue in M2. I've yet to use them myself, but I have a strategy thought out. As opponents, though, Milan is a far greater threat, as is the HRE. France has never been worse than an annoyance--a thorn in my side as I'm fighting the HRE. They just throw stacks at settlements hoping to starve them out, because they've no hope of winning a siege, and I have to spend time sallying out to deal with them. Not difficult, just time-consuming.
I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband: Viking Conquest. I'm targeting the Mons Islands for a start to a large kingdom as they are small enough that I should easily conquer them, and they already are fighting 4 different kingdoms. (First battle was 49 v 200 something, my elite veterans curbstomped them). All I have to say is when did I paint my armor red?
2BlackJack1 wrote: I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband: Viking Conquest. I'm targeting the Mons Islands for a start to a large kingdom as they are small enough that I should easily conquer them, and they already are fighting 4 different kingdoms. (First battle was 49 v 200 something, my elite veterans curbstomped them). All I have to say is when did I paint my armor red?
I've been playing the story in that game. It's actually surprised me! Some of the choices it forces upon you are hard choices, if you've not made them before.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.
I remember in all the Historical strategy games I would play that the French typically had he best Cavelry. Case in point: Age of Empires II, where Frankish Knights got %20 more HP. There was even a Hero unit called "Frankish Paladin"
No single cavalry unit in Total war has a chance in hell against the Gerdaminers of France. And yes, France generally rock in Total war and AoE
I always found them to be easy pushovers with my massed English Longbowmen.
Lol I should have seen that comming
Avatar 720 wrote:I've always found France to be a complete non-issue in M2. I've yet to use them myself, but I have a strategy thought out. As opponents, though, Milan is a far greater threat, as is the HRE. France has never been worse than an annoyance--a thorn in my side as I'm fighting the HRE. They just throw stacks at settlements hoping to starve them out, because they've no hope of winning a siege, and I have to spend time sallying out to deal with them. Not difficult, just time-consuming.
HRE is easymode brother, and no wonder since France starts sandwitched between England, Milan, HRE and to some degree Spain
Got Chivalry the other day and I'm quite pleased. Not only is it beautiful, and sounds great, but my Internet handles it quite nicely. I even managed to snag 16 kills in my first game of a free for all. (Granted, I died like 24 times, but who's counting, right?)
Treated myself and bought Warhammer Armageddon. On the one hand, I loved Panzer General, and it's nice to have a game that scratches that itch after all of these years.
On the other hand, I want more playable Ork scenarios, dang it.
toasteroven wrote: Treated myself and bought Warhammer Armageddon. On the one hand, I loved Panzer General, and it's nice to have a game that scratches that itch after all of these years.
On the other hand, I want more playable Ork scenarios, dang it.
I really enjoyed that game, and it was cool to see so much of the Forgeworld stuff brought in and used.
I just finished the PC version of Space Hulk, which was a pretty much identical copypasta iteration of the board game, and had lots of fun with it after picking up on sale dirt cheap a few months ago. However, some of the DLC missions were absolutely absurd and far too luck dependent (particularly all of the Messenger of Purgatory missions and the first Harbinger of Torment mission) and with very limited viable routes to success and too many "gotcha" setups, I don't think they could be beaten against a competent player-controlled Genestealer opponent. Stupidly, frustratingly hard and way too easy to have one bad dice roll easily result in disaster and any turn where you're stuck with just 1 CP means you're just going to have to restart the mission. That said, I did like the Defilement of Honor, Sword of Halcyon, and Fangs of Fenris DLC's.
Yeah, I've been having a lot of fun overall. There's definitely a feeling when I win that it's because I made the right choices, not just that I got lucky.
Aye, if you've tried some of the DLC, the Space Marine campaigns end up being a bit difficult, I need to get the Ultramarines DLC, the BA one was pretty hard as you're having to fight through lots of built up stuff where CC's you're only option and you lose units very quickly, but lots of fun anyway.
Still completely hooked on Hearthstone. I'm trying to build a better deck, but it's hard when I don't want to spend any actual money on in-game purchases.
Vaktathi wrote: Aye, if you've tried some of the DLC, the Space Marine campaigns end up being a bit difficult, I need to get the Ultramarines DLC, the BA one was pretty hard as you're having to fight through lots of built up stuff where CC's you're only option and you lose units very quickly, but lots of fun anyway.
I've got through the first two BA missions; they were tough, but a good sort of tough. I've got a favorite unit already; one of my dreadnaughts who held a bridge against a constant assault for quite a few turns, tying up orks who would have caused a lot of damage elsewhere. And I found that you can rename them! He's Wilberforce now.
Picked up Amnesia. Free on Steam until 10pm GMT tonight.
Great sound on it, especially with earphones. GFX are a bit dated but you cant have everything.
Really interesting mechanic, you cant really fight enemies at all, they'll whoop you, so you have to hide, run or try and lock doors on them.
Puzzle elements involved too.
Quite engaging thusfar.
Finally finished Resident Evil 6 (and on Veteran difficulty, yay!). I was at the final campaign for the longest time and after recently beating Pillars of Eternity, I decided it was time to finish yet another game from my Steam list. Slow and steady wins the race
Besides that, I'm getting into Hearthstone again.
Now, to choose another game from my Steam list to complete ....
The Community Mission in Battlefield 4 was to get 3 defibrillator kills. So I did that, it's ridiculously easy, managed to get them all in one game I joined halfway.
The new Empires of Sand faction DLC was pretty neat. Also introduced some new Horde mechanics and in game events that may be precursors to how stuff will play in Total War : Warhammer.
If I'm not playing Attila, I'm sniping weapon arms off of mechs in MechWarrior Online in my Raven.
The new Empires of Sand faction DLC was pretty neat. Also introduced some new Horde mechanics and in game events that may be precursors to how stuff will play in Total War : Warhammer.
If I'm not playing Attila, I'm sniping weapon arms off of mechs in MechWarrior Online in my Raven.
Holy crap did I just play against you in 'Act of Aggression' or did somebody have a similar name? Anyway that game is nuts terminators for chimera are stupid strong and stealth bombers are super stupid.
Other than playing 'Act of Aggression' I've been playing 'endless legend' with a friend which is amazing.
They had a similar name. I avoid RTS multiplayer, as it really puts into perspective how bad I suck at those games and it forces me to reflect on my life choices.
Act of Aggression is a cool game though, I purchased it on release and had some fun with it. Unfortunately it came out , or I bought it, around the same time as Mad Max and that took all my attention before I got into MechWarrior.
I've been messing about, making a few low lvl characters for each alliance to see which faction regions and classes I prefer. I've got a lvl 15 Aldmeri Alliance Bosmer Nightblade (focused on archery), a ~lvl 7 Ebonheart Dunmer Nightblade (focused on dual wielding and stealth) and a ~lvl 5 Daggerfall Covenant Redguard Dragon Knight. So far I'm enjoying the Dunmer Nightblade the most, she's a fething whirlwind of death. That leap ability is fun to use, the dual wield flurries do a lot of burst damage and the animations look cool.
And its great to be visiting Skyrim again and Morrowind...sort of - I've played an hour or two of Morrowind but couldn't really get into it. But thanks to Shoddycast I'm so familiar with Dunmer lore and history that I expect at least some degree of nostalgia despite not having played much of the game.
Been playing Act of Aggression's campaign. I've tried Skirmish a couple of times, but it appears that the beta Easy AI is now the Very Easy AI, and I'm still not up to taking out the Easy AI.
I've also been playing Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence. I'm currently slowly working through the historical quests for the Oda clan. The new Ashikaga Shogun just asked me to help him get his power base back.
Decided to try out Age of Empires II HD.... so far just doing the 'learning' campaign.
It's pretty fun... I'm just missing some modern conventions that you see in most rts games now like centering on your unit when you click on its portrait or when you get an alert you can somehow click it and the camera will center on the situation. I still have one part to go with the learning campaign. After I finish that, I'm not sure if i'll continue with this game. I'm going to give Age of Empires III a try next.
Eumerin wrote: Been playing Act of Aggression's campaign. I've tried Skirmish a couple of times, but it appears that the beta Easy AI is now the Very Easy AI, and I'm still not up to taking out the Easy AI.
My suggestion is don't play multiplayer until you can probably handle hard A.I. on your own. The USA A.I. is a bit OP on hard difficulty though. If you play cartel build the amos and get the special upgrades as soon as you can as those torch through tanks. You'll still need some back up units though to take hits and hit them once they're weak though.
The game is often weird in that some units are must have's and others just sorta suck. Spectres are good, amos are good and a few other units for cartel but scorpios (early tanks) suck pretty hard with only 7 hp. I know infantry with more hp than that. For usa they have their tanks and nlos as well as nukes and esp. stealth bombers. Not to mention that heavily spammed plane rush they always love. Finally for chimera their most potent unit is probably the terminators and maybe a couple ninjas if there's air units.
I watched this one crazy game (as I died early into the game from ridiculous plays) and some of my allies were just awesome. Vextras (big stealthed apc with lots of health, decent guns and speed) just attacked and destroyed a lot of bases en masse. Not to mention the guy killed some of the anti-superweapon structures in some of their bases which opened holes for the other guy to launch superweapons into his base. I'd like to think the big brown/black crater left was the size of our opponent's anus after taking it up there so hard.
I'm watching HD cuts of MGS3 and Peacewalker in preparation of getting MGSV. I'm hoping the lesser amount of time put in understanding the story will mean the apparent twist/disappointing ending won't be so bad.
I'm also contemplating picking up a refurbished ps3 to play some of the last gen games I missed out on as an xbox user - Valkryia Chronicles, KH remixes, Demons Souls.
And to anyone with an Android who wants a mobile game that'll suck up your time, get Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
infinite_array wrote: I'm watching HD cuts of MGS3 and Peacewalker in preparation of getting MGSV. I'm hoping the lesser amount of time put in understanding the story will mean the apparent twist/disappointing ending won't be so bad.
I'm also contemplating picking up a refurbished ps3 to play some of the last gen games I missed out on as an xbox user - Valkryia Chronicles, KH remixes, Demons Souls.
And to anyone with an Android who wants a mobile game that'll suck up your time, get Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
There's Valkyria Chronicles for PC now if you are interested. And yes, this one has superior quality to the PS3 version. Obviously.
What's good about Valkyria Chronicles? From what I've seen the story and writing seem to be quite rubbish with numerous failed attempt at aesops and other dumb things.
It's not the story that's the best part (although I personally rather liked it), it's the gameplay. It works well and is loads of fun. It's only a pity there aren't as many defensive missions. Think x-com mixed with a 3rd person tactical shooter mixed with final fantasy (but one of the better ones, like 4).
It's also somewhat unique (IMO) by being a story heavy game, where you can chose to skip the story and just play the game.
Yes, and yes (except for ones needed for the story, but they can get removed from the battle). It's pretty easy to keep them alive on the easier difficulties though. At 0 health, they have like 3 turns or something before they die, do if you can get someone to evacuate them before then, then they will be fine.
edit: a;though that can be very hard if they got seperated from the group, or there are shock-troopers covering the area where they fell. You can get some saving private ryan-esqe moements when you are trying save a character you care about.
edit: a;though that can be very hard if they got seperated from the group, or there are shock-troopers covering the area where they fell. You can get some saving private ryan-esqe moements when you are trying save a character you care about.
Knowing myself and my Fire Emblem experiences, ALL OF THEM must survive the war.
edit: a;though that can be very hard if they got seperated from the group, or there are shock-troopers covering the area where they fell. You can get some saving private ryan-esqe moements when you are trying save a character you care about.
Knowing myself and my Fire Emblem experiences, ALL OF THEM must survive the war.
Dear lord, not Fire Emblem...the memories...1 hour into a mission and that totally unimportant side character you will never use again dies? BETTER RELOAD THEN.
If you go by game-size then yes, describing any of the settlements in Skyrim as 'large' is like an estate agent describing a portable toilet as 'spacious', but I imagine that in lore it actually lives up to its alleged title of 'city'.
After I got my heaten hands on a Ps4 and a copy of bloodborne I have been playing a bit of that, and I dare say for once I am pleased with a game that throwes you to the wolves from the start.
I've just started plaing "System Shock" again, thanks to now being able to download it from GoG.Com.
hoy boy, it's weirder than I remember. A 'shooter' from 1994 where the mouse doesn't exactly let you look up or down [there's a control on the screen for that] but does control aim and movement, 'c' does not toggle crouch [there's a control on the screen for that] and although the typical 'WASD' keys can control movement, the side to side is a strafe, not a turn.
Other than that, it's actually more of a roleplay than a pure shooter.
You are a hacker who has been caught, but instead of the anticipated punishment, you are sent to hack the AI on a space station. with the promise that if you are successful, you will be given a military-grade operation to allow you to increase your skills, and a complete pardon for your previous crimes.
The game starts with you waking up after a 6 month post-operation 'healing coma' and finding that all the crew seem to be (un)dead and the robots are out to kill you. the AI is powering a laser to fry the Earth, and you are the only one who can stop it.
[Dude! insist on the operation BEFORE the hack! That way, they have to wait the 6 months, and as soon as you are done, you are out of there!]
Considering his Avatar is the AI from System Shock 2, Shodan, I hope he already played both of them
Which was why I was giving him the call-out that it is now available again. But Shodan is the AI from the entire series, not just SS2 [and no, that's NOT tricky!] I played both of them when they came out first myself, but these days I find myself hankering for those old games. System Shock, X-Wing, Fallout, Descent, Wing Commander, Beneath a Steal Sky. At least, that'll keep me going until November the 10th.
Just play a game of Dawn of War: Soulstorm Ultimate Apocalypse (mod).
IG (me) and Daemons( a friend) vs Space Wolves and Daemons (bots).
I have learned to respect the Basilisk Magnus and Earthshaker Platforms, they wiped out the Wolves' base, and then a daemonic horde featuring my personal reaver titan wiped out the enemy daemons. It was a fun game, and I have lots of suggestions for the mod but they're all a lot to ask for, and would be rather hard to implement.
I've just started plaing "System Shock" again, thanks to now being able to download it from GoG.Com.
hoy boy, it's weirder than I remember. A 'shooter' from 1994 where the mouse doesn't exactly let you look up or down [there's a control on the screen for that] but does control aim and movement, 'c' does not toggle crouch [there's a control on the screen for that] and although the typical 'WASD' keys can control movement, the side to side is a strafe, not a turn.
Other than that, it's actually more of a roleplay than a pure shooter.
You are a hacker who has been caught, but instead of the anticipated punishment, you are sent to hack the AI on a space station. with the promise that if you are successful, you will be given a military-grade operation to allow you to increase your skills, and a complete pardon for your previous crimes.
The game starts with you waking up after a 6 month post-operation 'healing coma' and finding that all the crew seem to be (un)dead and the robots are out to kill you. the AI is powering a laser to fry the Earth, and you are the only one who can stop it.
[Dude! insist on the operation BEFORE the hack! That way, they have to wait the 6 months, and as soon as you are done, you are out of there!]
Haha. Actually, I've played the second one before. It was pretty fun! I tried finding the first one, but I heard it was abandonware, so unless I downloaded it illegally, I couldn't get it (then again, if it's on GoG, I guess that works) Actually, I think the first one looks even scarier than the second!
I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas recently. Added a few mods and so far I'm loving it.
I played it a fair bit a year or two ago without mods and it was fun, but mods just make it so much better. I'm not very far into it yet, basically just got to Novac and picked up Boone, but I did do a fair few side missions around Goodsprings and Primm before getting on with the main story.
Well, at 35 hours of playtime I finished up wasteland 2's storyline.
[spoiler]My reaction to the final fight can best be described as "Oh god, Lexcanium, no!" In my usual way of getting way to emotionally invested in my characters, I fething cried. At least I made sure he got a quick death (instantly killed by a anti-matriel to the had).
thenoobbomb wrote: I just bought Elder Scrolls Online. Not expecting much, but eh, there was a sale at the local game store. €40,- price cut only this weekend, so...
I picked that up. I softly resent the crafting being pushed on you early in the game. The crafting itself is easy. Just, time consuming. And soul killing, Other than that it's a blast!
Making good progress in learning MKX. Instead of reliably getting my butt beaten by Hard, I actually now have above 50% winrate, though it depends heavily on the character I face.
Just finished replaying Arkham City. I had started playing it again (on hard this time) after Games For Windows Live died, along with all my precious precious achievements.
I still maintain the final song is one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
Been playing Dishonoured in these last few days, witch has been a lot of fun. Aiming to cause as litle chaos as possible, witch has worked out well this time around
Still beating my head against Bloodborne. Most of my fear from playing the game does't come from the horror aspect of the game, but of "wtf is going to kill me around this corner?"
Normally I've been playing this game with a friend, but a business since Thursday has forced me to play solo, if I want to play at all (which I do, because this game is equal parts addicting and frustrating)
Trondheim wrote: Been playing Dishonoured in these last few days, witch has been a lot of fun. Aiming to cause as litle chaos as possible, witch has worked out well this time around
Dishonored is a damn good game. Glad you are enjoying it!
I tried, I really tried playing Fallout New Vegas, but I get motion sick D: it's a fun game, but it isn't worth the damn hassle.
So, finally started Valkyria Chronicles and it's as fun as I hoped it would be. I have to say, I find it a bit ... disconcerting how happy the game feels and looks while civilians are being murdered. What's that Alicia, you just headshotted an enemy soldier? Yeah, you do that celebration at the end!
Now, to create my squad filled with only female characters so their moe DESTROYS the Empire. Adeptus Sororitas FTW.
Good thing I can save mid-mission, this will help avoid Fire Emblem situation where I would reset an entire mission even if I was already at the end if someone died.
Despite everything, I still find time to play Spore now and again. I love it, in spite of all of its flaws, even as those flaws frustrate me every time I play.
I wish other space empires would expand away from my own, rather than directly into it.
I absolutely love spore. I love the possibilities of it, but its a shame that the space stage isn't as good as it could be. I don't have the DLC to enhance the space stage, and I'm not sure what it all does, but if it goes on sale it might be worth looking into.
The Galactic Adventures add-on has the same issues as the base game: wasted potential. You can beam down to the surface of planets, but only preset, mission based ones. And the maxis missions are simple and cheesy.
That said, the adventure creator can be quite fun, and it does let you sculpt your own worlds, after a fashion.
Trondheim wrote: Been playing Dishonoured in these last few days, witch has been a lot of fun. Aiming to cause as litle chaos as possible, witch has worked out well this time around
Dishonored is a damn good game. Glad you are enjoying it!
I tried, I really tried playing Fallout New Vegas, but I get motion sick D: it's a fun game, but it isn't worth the damn hassle.
So, finally started Valkyria Chronicles and it's as fun as I hoped it would be. I have to say, I find it a bit ... disconcerting how happy the game feels and looks while civilians are being murdered. What's that Alicia, you just headshotted an enemy soldier? Yeah, you do that celebration at the end!
Now, to create my squad filled with female characters only so their moe DESTROY the Empire. Adeptus Sororitas FTW.
Good thing I can save mid-mission, this will help avoid Fire Emblem situation where I would reset an entire mission even if I was already at the end if someone died.
Get Edy, she's adorable.
Glad you are enjoying it, it's one of my favorite games.
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BrookM wrote: Got Wasteland 2 from my brother, who got it via a KS or some deal.
So far.. ehhhh, clunky I suppose, but it's got heart.
I just finished that a few days ago, I found it very fun. It's by the same guy who made the original wasteland and first two fallouts.
Trondheim wrote: Been playing Dishonoured in these last few days, witch has been a lot of fun. Aiming to cause as litle chaos as possible, witch has worked out well this time around
Dishonored is a damn good game. Glad you are enjoying it!
I tried, I really tried playing Fallout New Vegas, but I get motion sick D: it's a fun game, but it isn't worth the damn hassle.
So, finally started Valkyria Chronicles and it's as fun as I hoped it would be. I have to say, I find it a bit ... disconcerting how happy the game feels and looks while civilians are being murdered. What's that Alicia, you just headshotted an enemy soldier? Yeah, you do that celebration at the end!
Now, to create my squad filled with only female characters so their moe DESTROYS the Empire. Adeptus Sororitas FTW.
Good thing I can save mid-mission, this will help avoid Fire Emblem situation where I would reset an entire mission even if I was already at the end if someone died.
I know Played it from start to end when it was released, and never really got back into it sadly. So much DLC goodness to catch up on
Wasn't able to play Battlefield this weekend due to a lack of batteries, but now an ammo pack has popped up and my controllers are back in an operable state, so I got some catching up to do... 8)
Glad you are enjoying it, it's one of my favorite games.
Ok, Edy is cute but I absolutely love Marina and Jane.
Marina is Sniper Wolf. That's it, long hair, loner, sniper and in the first REAL mission (taking over the bridgehead) when I got her on top of the tower, Nirvana. *BOOM* Headshot.
Jane, just her background is enough for me: Had a flower shop, loved her life and job, the war starts, the Imperials destroy her shop, she decides to enlist to kill as many MF-ing Imperials as she can (She even has the trait "Imp. Hater" ) as payback. <3 What a girl!
Well, as she's one of the earliest snipers you get, I kind of just assumed you had her.
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A bit of advise, the lancers may seem flat out worse than the edlwyss at anti-tank, and, in a way, they are, but they have one very definite advantage, the ability to fire multiple times cheaply. Get a couple of lancers with an engie to re-supplyt and they wreck gak like nothing.
Also, the engies can disable mines (hit the space bar near them if you get the popup, you can actually disable them before they go off if you step on them), fix sandbag fortifications, and the engineer tool works like ragnite on tanks, (fixes them). with the engie tool equipped, go up to a a tank and go into aim mode, and if the crosshair is blue when you are over the tank you can fix it. The distance can be finiky, so try and stay nice and close.
Endless Legend which I beat with Broken Lords. Basically they can't gather food but can heal everything with dust when hurt and they even buyout workers with dust whereas others use food to get theirs.
Then I played more with the 'Cult' and their mechanics are also totally unique. They can't build settlers so you can only make your first city which is your capital. You can build you city bigger than others given district level go up to 3 instead of just 2. It's a bit hard to get luxury goods when they're spread among other lands but I've found pacifying minor villages and then 'uplifting' them to the cult's way makes everything great. I get resources from them, they recruit free guys on their territories per turn and and I even get 1 worker per 'uplifted' minor faction village for helping my citizens in the main capital. This tends to require a crap ton of both cash (to bribe the enemy and force them to pacify) and influence which I can get a lot of right now (and I use to get them to join the 'cult' in their own way).
Honestly getting enough minor factions by getting them to 'join the cult' ends up giving you some of the craziest spam armies. I could just throw wave after wave of crazed cultists at the enemy all dying for the cult and probably doing their job till I send my more elites to do the hard work.
To give you an idea of how many I have I currently have about 11 workers and then another 11 due to all the places I turned into cultists. So I'm at 22 for one city which is giving me some good boosts for now.
Been playing a little Age of Empires 2 HD edition. My workshop glitched out though and now I have a ton of old stuff I no longer want. But it says I'm not subbed to.
I.E: I downloaded amp a few months ago any now it says it's not in my workshop subs even though that's where I got it from
Also, a bit more Valkyaria advce. Try to get all classes up to level 11 (IIRC) by chapter 10 or so (the skirmishes are your friend there). That's where they become elite, and unlock special weapons and abilites, very useful.
Edit: Oh, and if you are sticking Maria (or eventually Catherine) up in a tower to snipe, bring them down after they fire. They have a tendency to get shot off there by tanks and other snipers. I learned that one the hard way.
Ok, Valkyria Chronicles it's without any doubt one of the best things I have ever played in my life. Admittedly, I am extremely biased because my favorite game of all time is a TRPG (Shining Force III) but still, this is DAMN. GOOD. Very happy I'm playing it for PC!
It isn't truly perfect because I spoiled myself a long time ago by watching the anime. Selvaria
Come on, what about Isara! I'd say she's more of a thing to get sad about. Although never watching the anime, there may be differences in perception. But her death was a real punch to the gut, especially as I kept messing up on the mission preceding it, so I was celebrating defeating it.
Come on, what about Isara! I'd say she's more of a thing to get sad about. Although never watching the anime, there may be differences in perception. But her death was a real punch to the gut, especially as I kept messing up on the mission preceding it, so I was celebrating defeating it.
The anime is even worst after checking what happens in the game thanks to youtube
Spoiler:
In the game Is dies but manages to trade a few last words with her brother and the gang. The anime? She's alone with Rosie. She's shot. She dies. Doesn't even say a word to Rosie. She drops dead. And yet I hate Selvaria's abuse by that fething Max even more.
Come on, what about Isara! I'd say she's more of a thing to get sad about. Although never watching the anime, there may be differences in perception. But her death was a real punch to the gut, especially as I kept messing up on the mission preceding it, so I was celebrating defeating it.
The anime is even worst after checking what happens in the game thanks to youtube
Spoiler:
In the game Is dies but manages to trade a few last words with her brother and the gang. The anime? She's alone with Rosie. She's shot. She dies. Doesn't even say a word to Rosie. She drops dead. And yet I hate Selvaria's abuse by that fething Max even more.
Yeesh. That is bad.
Also, if you like Selvaria, play her DLC missions. It gives a lot more on her character (she really cares about the men under her). And I think you unlock some stuff if you complete them all. Plus, you get to play as her, which is pretty awesome.
Bewildered by how people somehow prefer the RPK over the RPK-12, seeing as the latter has a larger magazine, faster reload, and pretty much equal anything except for the slightly larger first shot recoil. I guess it's the wooden stocking the original RPK has? Or the fact that the latter requires a lot more grinding to unlock...
Hmm, the mysteries of the strange world of Battlefield have yet to unveil themselves to me!
Still playing the gak out of Valkyrie Chronicles and loving every second of it. I'm even attempting A-ranking the Skirmishes just for the hell of it (and the bonus XP and money is nice too).
Hell, in fact, all hobby related stuff has been placed on the back burner because I'm too "MUST PLAY VC". Last time this happened was with Dishonored, IIRC.
Co'tor Shas wrote: I'm really glad you like it so much, it's one game that I see as severely under-appreciated.
What chapter are you on now?
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Such a beautiful 2D Selvaria <3 Oh, such an amazing look. <3
Anyway, I have beat Chapter 6's battle and now the gang is going to see the inside of a certain building in a certain desert
I have spent far too much time playing around with Skirmishes and restarting some missions because I keep going "NO! This can't be done so half-assed! My team must be awesome"
EDIT: Oh wow, I can't believe the Vegetable's trade routes turned into an actual mission and a pretty tough one filled with special conditions xD Marvelous!
Found an old Doom II disk, which I tried running, both from installation and straight from the disk. Sadly, after hitting 'Play Game' the menu music kept playing, but that was it. The game didn't even show up on task manager.
In other news, I fiddled a bit more on Besiege, and did a couple more skirmishes of the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for Soulstorm. I've deduced that a maxed out Angron (with the 10 bloodthirsters) can easily solo any other top tier unit from any army. Without his daemon armies things are a lot less one sided, but together you can't stop him.
Edit: Got an emulator, so now Doom is working perfectly
Chipping away at Infested Planet myself, at the final mission now, though I'll be replaying some of the older missions first to get some more cash going before playing that one.
Playing Tomb Raider 1. Yes, the first one from 1996. It's...strange. Graphics are dated and controls are clunky, but the gameplay itself feels better than what I experienced in a lot of "modern" games. Just the right mix of exploring, jumping and shooting. Amazing game.
Mordheim. Its shaping up well but needs some serious balancing before it is released into the wild.
Armoured Warfare. WoT with modern vehicles and better graphics. Its still not in open beta (next weekend) so I'm not sure how the matchmaker is under a real population load. It can't be worse than WoT though.
*looks at some of the above posts*
Seems the folks here have some good taste. B)
I have recently finished Fallout 3 again, in the sense that I fully finished the main game and all DLC minus one as I'm still on Point Lookout. In previous play throughs I have either got distracted by another game half way through or not completed the DLC.
I figured I should at least get that played through before the new game comes out.
Now I'm deciding on whether I should start to play 'Wasteland 2' or Planet Explorers. c:
Mordheim. Its shaping up well but needs some serious balancing before it is released into the wild.
Armoured Warfare. WoT with modern vehicles and better graphics. Its still not in open beta (next weekend) so I'm not sure how the matchmaker is under a real population load. It can't be worse than WoT though.
How's Mordheim for replay value? I've wanted to try that game for some time, but the price tag keeps scaring me off.
2BlackJack1 wrote: Found an old Doom II disk, which I tried running, both from installation and straight from the disk. Sadly, after hitting 'Play Game' the menu music kept playing, but that was it. The game didn't even show up on task manager.
In other news, I fiddled a bit more on Besiege, and did a couple more skirmishes of the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for Soulstorm. I've deduced that a maxed out Angron (with the 10 bloodthirsters) can easily solo any other top tier unit from any army. Without his daemon armies things are a lot less one sided, but together you can't stop him.
Edit: Got an emulator, so now Doom is working perfectly
Take the wad files from your doom 2 install and run it in Zdoom. Doom is still supported by the mod community now and has it's own engines to improve how doom runs. Go dig into the Cacoawards for some cool new maps to play.
At the moment I'm playing Digimon Masters Online. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep grinding away and join a guild or put it down and call it a day, it's extremely korean.
Enjoyed the rainbow six sidge beta. The core gameplay loop is a lot of fun but the things around it like the matchmaking abd parts of the ui I have issues with. Hope it improves before launch but I can't say I am optimistic
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Played it from start to end when it was released, and never really got back into it sadly. So much DLC goodness to catch up on 
