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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.

Overall, enjoying the hell out of it so far.

Buying Mad Max now.

I'm downloading BF4's Summer Patch right now.

Zavod 311 Graveyard Shift, here we come!

Pre-ordered Fallout 4. Would have been nice to get hold of the limited "Pipboy" edition, but never found one for sale in the UK.

Roll on the 10th November!

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?

Btw, male Shepard+Tali=OTP.

So yeah, Mad Max....... is AWESOME!

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.

Zavod 311 Graveyard Shift is a pretty cool new map on BF4! Finally some use for that IRNV on Sniper Rifles!

@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.

 Deathklaat wrote:
So yeah, Mad Max....... is AWESOME!

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...

How tough are an Iguana's gonads?

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).

Playing Rocket leauge a bit too much

Also CS go (why cant i open a damn knife already)

Downloaded MGS

cant wait.

 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).

Bah. It's not at all like baldurs gate then? Such lame. Much boring. May pass.

 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).

 Psienesis wrote:

 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.

 Psienesis wrote:

 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:

 Psienesis wrote:

 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

Dawn of War?

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.