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Finally bought Dragon Age Inquistion and Im sorry to say I am not very happy with it.

It looks great, but the controls are fething awful. I set aside 4 or 5 hours for playing today and switched it off after 2 because I was fething bored.

The combat seems to basically be "hold the left mouse button down and do nothing else" and the inverntory system is awful. Even looting is annoying because you physically bend over to pick gak up. Levelling is annoying, the UI is confusing and clunky, I'm pretty fething pissed about it in all honesty because Origins was so awesome and I was expecting more of the same.

I might have a cup of tea and have another bash in half an hour, but Im not fething impressed really.

 mattyrm wrote:

I might have a cup of tea and have another bash in half an hour, but Im not fething impressed really.

It very much reminded me of a single player MMO, I have never really liked the Dragon Age series though.

I am currently playing Dark Age of Camelot on the Genesis freeshard, it is essentially the basic game and the Shrouded Isles expansion so roughly the same game that I last played in about 2003.

Its pretty good and nostalgic fun. Its remarkably difficult for an MMO although that's one of the reasons that I am playing it.

 mattyrm wrote:


The combat seems to basically be "hold the left mouse button down and do nothing else"

This sounds like you are playing on a PC. I've heard that the PC port was abysmal from a control prespective, so that may have something to do with your frustration. Apparently, its a serious contender for worst PC port of a console game evar.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:

I might have a cup of tea and have another bash in half an hour, but Im not fething impressed really.

It very much reminded me of a single player MMO, I have never really liked the Dragon Age series though.

I am currently playing Dark Age of Camelot on the Genesis freeshard, it is essentially the basic game and the Shrouded Isles expansion so roughly the same game that I last played in about 2003.

Its pretty good and nostalgic fun. Its remarkably difficult for an MMO although that's one of the reasons that I am playing it.

Never heard of that mate, Ill go check it out.

squidhills wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:


The combat seems to basically be "hold the left mouse button down and do nothing else"

This sounds like you are playing on a PC. I've heard that the PC port was abysmal from a control prespective, so that may have something to do with your frustration. Apparently, its a serious contender for worst PC port of a console game evar.

Ah that explains it. Yeah its fething shocking, you literally just hold the button down and never take your finger off until everything is dead, you hardly have to press anything else or even move the mouse.

I downloaded the Evil Within since it was on sale for $30. Cool so far. Real creepy and super hard, for me anyway. I had to crank it down to the wussy easy difficulty

I played 'Endless Legend' during the free weekend it was available on. You gotta admit the music is super nice, the factions are fairly interesting including minor factions (ghosts, dwarf equivalents, minotaurs for the first 3 i met and other such things). I was playing with the necrophages which are basically bugs that can infect people. Oddly enough i felt the cult looked kinda weird and dumb but the lizard people and other factions were cool. My computer did have issues running the game a bit though which is unfortunate but may be a personal issue with my computer. Gotta admit if it's one thing the 'Endless' series does right is have a lot of creative factions many of which are non-human. It definitely breaks the mold and is unlike tolkien style fantasy (dwarfs, elves, orcs). The game does have an equivalent to wood elves but it also has anger powered mages and various other cool things. Oddly enough Endless Legend has more female portraits for faction leaders (the human or elvish ones where you can actually tell the gender) which is strange and normally i wouldn't care for but admittedly they're attractive so i'll take it ;P. I'll also state that while attractive the women aren't sexualized with certain features. Hopefully that appeases everybody (if that's even possible).

I'm unsure what game i should play next. I'm thinking maybe i should go back to my kajiit cat-man rogue on skyrim but i'm not sure. It's rather strange i actually like cats in a game considering that's only happened in this game and with SWAT KATS the animated tv series about cats piloting a jet fighter craft. God i used to love that show when i was 9 or so. I may need to go back to it some time. Perhaps my hatred stems from the fact i'm allergic to them but also hate cats.

I suppose i could also give xcom: enemy within a try (basically got to the end of impossible ironman and when it was obvious i'd win just got bored and stopped playing). Other possibilities are xenonauts and any of the dawn of war 1 or 2 games. Gotta admit imperial guard are still fun in dawn of war 2 esp. the executioner leman russ. Galactic civilizations 3, Wargame: Red Dragon, shadowrun returns: series and shogun 2 fall of the samurai are also looking decent. Really at this point i have old games but am unsure what to play and i'm kinda bored with everything. Xcom: enemy unknown and within are fun but when you've played 1,000+ hours like i have it loses its appeal. Maybe if there was some new content with new opposing factions or an EXALT campaign i'd totally play. EXALT needed some more love that game and possibly a way to balance the power difference rather than being total chumps.

Started Valkyria Chronicles. I didn't realize it was a strategy/tactics style game, with alternate world 1930s tech and tanks and stuff. Actually kind of cool.

The controls are pants, seems like an awkward port to PC. I'm getting by alright, its not like I need rapid access to intricate controls, its just a few buttons. Bit more obnoxious than it could be, is all I'm saying.

Game play seems pretty interesting so far at least.

WoW of Warcraft. The only setting that's as stupid as 40k.

I'm playing Dark Souls 2, I'm not sure what I got into, but I'm having fun and learning a lot. Though I'm still pretty much useless on my own.

Blatting back and forth between Elite Dangerous on PC (4.5Mil, Lakon 6. Working towards 10Mil so I can spec it out for Exploration, stop playing solo and get out and discover the galaxy to make my name.) and NFSU/NFSU2/GH on PS2.

I find the Gh games really relaxing after a hard day at work.

Cookie Clicker and Postal 2

 BrookM wrote:
Cookie Clicker and Postal 2

That seems like a dangerous combination.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Cookie Clicker and Postal 2

That seems like a dangerous combination.

After reading this I'm glad I don't live in The Netherlands

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Cookie Clicker and Postal 2

That seems like a dangerous combination.

After reading this I'm glad I don't live in The Netherlands

I'll have to keep an eye out

Well, beats the usual "dur hur hur bet ur stoned all the time" comments the slowed witches usually make.

Update on my "Normal" (read: Nintendo Hard) difficulty Earth Federation playthrough on Gihren's Greed:

I beat the One Year War scenario last night. I beat the Zeons back to their home territory of Side 3, and held them there while I increased my tech levels and built up my army. Around turn 80 I went in with 109 units, at least thirty of which were NT Gundams. The rest were GM Sniper IIs and GM Kais (and the ships to transport them). The Zeon had 111 units.

I only lost two mobile suits and one battleship before totally wiping my opponent out.

So now I'm starting on the post war scenarios (Operation Stardust, Z Gundam, Gundam ZZ, Char's Counterattack). This part of the scenario is much, much easier than the One Year War part. So I won't bore anyone with any further updates on my progress, because I know I can beat the game from this point.

In other news, I've been downloading texture updates for Morrowind, because I've had an odd hankering to get back into it, and the look of vanilla Morrowind is not something I can deal with after Skyrim. Thank the Nine Divines for mods.

Just got through downloading "Black Mesa" and going to try installing and giving that a go tonight.

It's a full conversion mod for Half-life 2 which turns it into .... Half-Life! Looking forward to going through the Resonance Cascade in the HL2 engine.

I'm just finishing up what's out of that, very fun.

I'm trying to figure out Chapter Master.

The Iron Hands became renegades on turn 2. Oops!

 djphranq wrote:
Playing Diablo III again. Trying the Season thingie. Still not sure how it works.

It's pretty straightforward. You start a new character. That character can't interact with characters who aren't also Season characters created that season. That means not only no adventuring with them, but no shared bank space, crafting recipes, etc... When the season ends, your character goes into your general character pool.

And you'll get some extra - largely cosmetic - rewards during the process.

Demolition Company Gold. It's a fun game, though very annoyed by the fact that you need to replay certain levels ad nauseum to earn enough money to buy the equipment needed to unlock more jobs.

 Melissia wrote:
Been getting back in to ME3 since two of my friends got it, so we're now running three-four person runs in multi. It's been quite nice.

I'd ask to join but I'd get like 5k ms latency or something, considering we're on different sides of the world.

Do you like my Shepard?

http://imgur.com/a/SlQzM


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 TheCustomLime wrote:
WoW of Warcraft. The only setting that's as stupid as 40k.

Yepyepyep. That too.

Also continuing to mod Retribution. I am considering Warframe as well, my BF swears it's great but I do not see the charm yet.

@ashiraya: Your shepard looks like a combo of a judge from 'judge dredd' and somebody from 'TRON' maybe.

Started playing more skyrim. Mostly finished the quest with katria getting the aetherium shards. All i need to do now is find the forge. Also i managed to clean out cragslane caverns from skooma dealers and so finally got a house in riften which is nice. Funny how this game is so large and how it's totally possible to not even get much of the main questline done.

Warframe was pretty cool back when I played- that was about a year and 5 major updates ago, though.

My suggestion if you do start playing? Figure out the basics of the frames, if you like one that's not immediately available shell out a few bucks during a 1/2 off Plat sale to buy your preferred frame outright, then just play for the sheer joy of hack'n'slash ninja-space-robots, rather than specifically for grinding.

Oh, and a controller may or may not work better as a control scheme than mouse and keyboard- aiming is easier with a mouse, of course, but so much of the game is about precision movement that the greater dimensional freedom and convenience of the controller might help.



I might need to get into modding Skyrim seriously now, considering I might be able to actually make money off it now.

Just got done playing Hearthstone. Tried out a mech heavy deck. It was pretty fun. Played as Jaina and Anduin to finish off a couple 'quests' or 'dailies' or whatever they call them (challenges?)

Tried out Heroes of the Storm last night. It was better than I expected. I wasn't expecting to like the gameplay since I'm not that great at MOBAs but for some reason I found it more playable than LOL or the first DOTA (well to be fair I barely played the first DOTA). I can see myself really getting into Heroes of the Storm. I'm a fan of Blizzard's properties (love the lore and characters) so that was given positive going into the game. I wasn't even expecting to like the graphical presentation of the game. I was just expecting them to be reskinning one of their present games but it feels like its own thing.

Been playing Shogun 2 again. Fall of the Samurai this time.

Also been playing coop divinity original sin and some age of wonders 3.

 carlos13th wrote:
Been playing Shogun 2 again. Fall of the Samurai this time.

Also been playing coop divinity original sin and some age of wonders 3.

I need to try out Shogun 2... I've had a copy in my steam library for some time now and haven't even bothered to touch it. Same with Age of Wonders 3.

With a the attention it's been getting, I've started playing skyrim again. I downloaded the Falskaar mod, so that's been fun, although it bugged out at the begging the first time I tried.

Went back to Destiny. Seem to be getting luckier with my drops lately. Pretty impressed.

Reinstalled tropico 5 since I have room after uninstalling some stuff. Nice and relaxing...