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So, Witcher 2 started being a bit frustrating mostly due to the sudden death nature of the combat with no autosave. I have become used to fairly regular autosave, but W2s is very erratic. It seems to only save when you recieve a quest, but not when you finish one. Annoying. Had to replay several bits now because I am not in the habit of save spamming. Getting better at the combat, but it is pretty janky and awkward in places.

So, being frustrated, I decided to give Nethack a go. My first run as an Orc Barbarian ended with me opening the first door I found and getting zapped by a kobold wielding a death ray wand.

Hmmm.

Back into Payday 2 with some others, slowly working our way towards unlocking the secret ending.

Started playing Crossout a little. It's pretty fun. Grindy, but the grind is full of pretty explosions and chunks being blown off vehicles, and cars with one wheel limping into a capture point and winning the game, so that's something for it.

It's got this, like, super-integrated Store system, which is interesting. It's clearly built to make microtransactions easy and simple, to encourage them, but it's also tied directly into the base free-to-play game, too, where you can sell any equipment that you win, as well as basic scrap resources, for the premium currency, and then use that to buy better parts and the like. Like, it has time-based crafting for most everything that utilizes prizes from missions, but it's almost faster and easier to just sell your stuff and buy the better equipment via market. Smoothly implemented, all in all, though.

Red Dead Redemption 2 on my Ps4, so far the game has yet to make me feel invested in it. I find the whole package quite stale, but I will at least try to sink a few more hours into it before I drop it.
This is something that makes me a bit frustrated since I liked the first game, and wanted to like this one. But so far it seems that emotion will elude me when it comes to RDR 2

Completed the quest to find the serial killer in Read Dead Redemption 2 !

I'm almost done RDR2, I think I'm about halfway through Epilogue 2. It's a nice setup for the events that take place in the first game. Maybe RDR3 will be a pre-prequel where you play as a young Dutch? I"m gonna have to replay RDR1 now, a lot it I just don't really remember so I think it'll be fun to play that like it's a sequel to this one.

So after the fiasco that Rockstar made with GTA:5, I decided to avoid RDR2....seems like I made the right choice.

And then, probably going to wait for Fallout 76 to become less pricey and more fixes and content added. I heard a LOT of stuff about Fallout 76 being quite low in content and quite...uninspiring to explore.

Disappointing to hear RDR2 isn't living up to expectation, I think I might wait for it to drop off in price a bit before I try it for myself. Liked the first one, but I'm not 100% sold on the whole psuedo-prequel thing.

I've been playing FO4 on survival, which added a bit of interest to a game I was pretty much bored with. Of course, once you get to lv 20-30, with a few good settlements and access to vertibird travel, it does drop off in terms of challenge pretty sharply, compared to early-level where a radroach is a threat, and a single super mutant is an utterly terrifying prospect.

I also picked up "Oxygen not Included" on Steam, which is by Klei, who made "Don't Starve" - it's a fun little ant farm style thing, with a lot of complexity and depth. "Riding the disaster curve" is an expression that I think fits quite well - you run out of oxygen, so you build a ventilation system, but that needs power production, which produces heat... it's the most in-depth resource management game I've ever played (not saying much, admittedly) but despite the steep learning curve, it's a fun game.

Eumerin wrote:
Just started up another game of Mass Effect: Andromeda.

And in related news...

On the odd chance that anyone was still holding out hope for an immediate continuation of the story, the newest Mass Effect novel is covering the story of what happened to the Quarian ark. And with that, the last immediate dangling plot hook from the game is addressed. Presumably, the story would have been covered in a DLC. But since no additional single-player levels were released, it got a novel instead.

Also, for N7 Day (November 7th), Bioware releeased a graphics update for the game to improve the graphics on the XBox One X.

Ah Good. Hope its better than all the other ME:A books that have come out so far.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Disappointing to hear RDR2 isn't living up to expectation, I think I might wait for it to drop off in price a bit before I try it for myself. Liked the first one, but I'm not 100% sold on the whole psuedo-prequel thing
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Its definitely not a bad game, I’d wager most developers would give their left nut to release a product like RDR2. I’ve been critical of it, but I’ve mainly just been playing explore and hunt, doing the odd side of the road white dot quest or bounty hunt mission. The most recent story mission that I played, the gang was chased out of the starting town and the flight/gunfight was intense.

There is definitely alot to like in this game. The early mission where you go out and get drunk with the biracial black/Native character was laugh out loud funny, and some of the situations that you can walk into are fun as well. I found what seems to be a gang of inbreds and had a huge fight with them last night, as well as stormed a fort full of confederate holdouts to collect their boss for a bounty. Great times!

I think my main dislike and major source of frustration is the fact that I’m playing a console(PS4) and find the controls clunky/unintuitive for my tastes.

 Necros wrote:
Maybe RDR3 will be a pre-prequel where you play as a young Dutch?

One of RDR2's themes seems to be "The past isn't as great as you remember it," so maybe RDR3 should go back to the early 1810s and show that no, it's not civilization's encroachment that forces people to be terrible - they're going to be backstabbing, double crossing, murdering monsters that try to dress themselves up as idealistic heroes no matter the situation. And maybe we can meet one of Dutch's, Arthur's, or John's ancesters.

 nels1031 wrote:

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Disappointing to hear RDR2 isn't living up to expectation, I think I might wait for it to drop off in price a bit before I try it for myself. Liked the first one, but I'm not 100% sold on the whole psuedo-prequel thing
.

Its definitely not a bad game, I’d wager most developers would give their left nut to release a product like RDR2. I’ve been critical of it, but I’ve mainly just been playing explore and hunt, doing the odd side of the road white dot quest or bounty hunt mission. The most recent story mission that I played, the gang was chased out of the starting town and the flight/gunfight was intense.

There is definitely alot to like in this game. The early mission where you go out and get drunk with the biracial black/Native character was laugh out loud funny, and some of the situations that you can walk into are fun as well. I found what seems to be a gang of inbreds and had a huge fight with them last night, as well as stormed a fort full of confederate holdouts to collect their boss for a bounty. Great times!

I think my main dislike and major source of frustration is the fact that I’m playing a console(PS4) and find the controls clunky/unintuitive for my tastes.

Yea the controls are odd and realy makes the game suffer because of it. They should have stuck with the normal controll layout in such games. And yes! That mission with the man named Lenny is hillarious.

 infinite_array wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Maybe RDR3 will be a pre-prequel where you play as a young Dutch?

One of RDR2's themes seems to be "The past isn't as great as you remember it," so maybe RDR3 should go back to the early 1810s and show that no, it's not civilization's encroachment that forces people to be terrible - they're going to be backstabbing, double crossing, murdering monsters that try to dress themselves up as idealistic heroes no matter the situation. And maybe we can meet one of Dutch's, Arthur's, or John's ancesters.

Sounds like a cool idea, though I think the lure of the American Civil War may be too enticing for the developers to skip over it and go back that far. These games owe so much to the spaghetti westerns (and the westerns that followed which were massively inspired by them) that skipping over the time period of arguably the greatest of those films (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) would be a tough sell with how many incredible set pieces it would allow for within the game.

Has anyone seen my friend Gavin?

I finished RDR2 last night. Good ending, and if you sit through the 20 minutes worth of credits there's some cut scenes mixed in leading up to I guess the start of RDR1 and you also get to see some of the other characters from Arthur's gang and what they're up to these days. The final battle was cool.

On the map there's a whole unexplored section below Blackwater, never really had any quests take me down there. I'll probably explore a little .. I wonder if they have future DLC plans to add new quests for that area?

Still in and out of Odyssey. I'm really enjoying the approach to the post-launch content that they've started to implement here. Aside from some just nice-to-have features added off the back of community feedback (gear visual customisation, higher level cap with surplus XP carried over if you hit the cap a while ago) there's been a decent flow of stuff to do, including a couple of hour's worth of new multi-part questlines and a new endgame boss or two with unique rewards.

That's all well and good in itself, but I'm also finding it's just giving me an excuse to keep booting up the game a good dozen hours or so now after I finished the main storylines. I'll hop on to do one of these new quests, and stumble across a new location or two, or decide I want to stage another Conquest battle, and I'll easily get another couple of hours out of it each time.

Started Conan Exiles, as it seems to be one of the few survival games that sticks to antiquity/medieval gear, it's fun so far but I am expecting it to be much better when I play with my friend who also has the game.

Conan Exiles is good fun, though word of warning when playing in coop: you can't travel too far from the host of the server due to limitations of the game. Makes travelling between bases and stashes a bit of a bother.

Been considering reintalling Vermintide again. the first one anyway.

Before making the 50gb download, does anyone know if people still play that one?

 BrookM wrote:
Conan Exiles is good fun, though word of warning when playing in coop: you can't travel too far from the host of the server due to limitations of the game. Makes travelling between bases and stashes a bit of a bother.

Oooh, yeah that'll be a problem, noted, thanks.

 Necros wrote:
On the map there's a whole unexplored section below Blackwater, never really had any quests take me down there. I'll probably explore a little .. I wonder if they have future DLC plans to add new quests for that area?

People have glitched across the river and into Mexico, so there's room for more.

I'm hoping for some Sadie Adler DLC post game but pre-epilogue, or maybe concurrent to RDR1. I want to play as the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest lady in the ol' west.

Don't know if people still play Vermintide 1- at least, not lower-level general play. I think people are still doing Legendary runs and the like, and I think it still has more mods. Do you own Vermintide 2? Because that's just... a fantastic game.

I've hopped over to the sequel myself, the first game was good, but Vermintide 2 is just so much better that I can't go back any more. I mean, more character options, better loot drops that are actually for the character you play instead of something random..

Fairly certain that Vermintide 2 is also heavily discounted on both Steam and Xbox at the minute, you can pick it up for about £12 or equivalent, I believe.

Thoroughly recommend VT2 as well

 BrookM wrote:
Conan Exiles is good fun, though word of warning when playing in coop: you can't travel too far from the host of the server due to limitations of the game. Makes travelling between bases and stashes a bit of a bother.

Ew gross, coop. Don't play coop in games like this. Its not what they are for. Just run a server in the background.

I am heavily considering getting into Red Dead Redemption 2 right now.
Haven't been gaming since a while and Space Hulk Tactics and Martyr disappoint apparently. No decent Warhammer based games on PS4 right now. Wonder if Vermintide 2 will be any good?

Spend more time making games these days, but I have just finished Megaman X 1 & 2 for the SNES. Sadly, MMX3 is proving to be too frustrating to be any fun. The first two games aren't too bad though...

Warhammer 2. 50 turns into a Count Noctilus Eye of the Vortex campain.

This is my first foray into the Vampire Coasts faction and I’m finding it difficult to win battles in convincing fashion. Mortars are a big help to soften the enemy up before they hit my lines, but once the enemy hits my lines it feels like “Mutually Assured Destruction”. Granted, I have the Unit Rarity mod active, so that greatly reduces my Depth Guard numbers, but even they feel soft.

Despite the troubles in battles, or maybe because of it, I’m having tons of fun and I’m going to start a new campaign, now that I understand the mechanics and tricks. Going to send agents out in every direction to get Pirate Coves up and running for easy income for instance. Probably take Sartosa, too, just to have another staging point.

Don't take too many agents. Every time you establish a cove, you get a cost increase for 10 turns, and in the early game, it takes a while for coves to start paying off the initial cost. Especially in cities that might change hands, as coves are destroyed when the city is conquered by someone else.

Personally I found focusing on the ship (and getting more legendary admirals from the tech tree, who also have ships), beats having cities for armies (though cities are important to the coast for just generating money hand over fist). The important thing is to have a level 5 admiral in the 'fleet engineer' office so the ships grow like crazy. It's worth it to take the +5 lord level tech to ensure that.

I've decided to go andd play King of Dragon Pass once again despite never doing even slightly well at that game, ever.