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Streets of Rage 4.

Its brilliant. Not much else to say.

SamusDrake wrote:
Streets of Rage 4.
Its brilliant. Not much else to say.

...it really is. My Steam library shows 72 hours played already.

My suggestion for Skyrim- work to Roleplay in it a little. Like, figure out who your character is, and try and stick to that.

As an example- I have one character who I decided was going to be a Paladin-type. One-handed sword, shield, heavy armor, healing magic. And I wouldn't use 'evil' looking stuff like Daedric or Orcish (I know the Orcs aren't evil, but their stuff is all spikey). And honestly? Limiting myself like that made the game so much more enjoyable, even though I'd played it over and over again before.

Didn't get a lot of gaming in due to a heatwave, but Risk of Rain 2 got its full release a few days ago, so instead of trying to sleep I spent a couple of hours in the early and cool hours playing through it and on the second try unlocking the captain.

I'm exploring the Battle Brother's DLC as well. My gladiators have proven that crowns are for suckers, and keep me perpetually in the poor house as I strive to keep them alive, and replace my cannon fodder. Then we wandered into a library, and ran away from nearly 30 uber skeletons, zombies, and a bloody LICH!

We're coming back for that sucker someday, and we will have his skull on our banner!

 BrookM wrote:
Didn't get a lot of gaming in due to a heatwave, but Risk of Rain 2 got its full release a few days ago, so instead of trying to sleep I spent a couple of hours in the early and cool hours playing through it and on the second try unlocking the captain.

I'm playing Risk of Rain 2 too! ...heh, tutu. *ahem* anyway...
Only 7 hours so far and to be honest I've not made it past 3rd teleporter yet, it's really rough going. But with every run I get a little better and I understand a little more about how it works. It's telling that the gameplay is that solid that I've not been put off by that difficulty curve yet.

 Super Ready wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Didn't get a lot of gaming in due to a heatwave, but Risk of Rain 2 got its full release a few days ago, so instead of trying to sleep I spent a couple of hours in the early and cool hours playing through it and on the second try unlocking the captain.

I'm playing Risk of Rain 2 too! ...heh, tutu. *ahem* anyway...
Only 7 hours so far and to be honest I've not made it past 3rd teleporter yet, it's really rough going. But with every run I get a little better and I understand a little more about how it works. It's telling that the gameplay is that solid that I've not been put off by that difficulty curve yet.

It takes a few tries to get a feel for it, especially as you'll discover more and more upgrades and super abilities.

I mainly managed to beat the game because I got lucky when I played as a Huntress with seven or so syringes that boost your attack speed, allowing me to really spam my primary attack while staying mobile. Sometimes stacking the same item can be a good thing, like the fireworks, one time I had twelve of those, so whenever I opened a chest, it was beautiful, not to mention a powerful bonus attack.

Oh, absolutely. I've played a lot of Slay The Spire, I get the idea of building a nice broken combo to run with... my problem is usually that I can't find the gear I need to make that happen in time. Either I'll be running around with loads of gold and nothing to spend it on but having difficulty finding the teleporter - or I'll have loads of gear around but not the gold to unlock it. Meanwhile while I'm attempting to explore and fix either of those situations, that difficulty timer is ticking up and I can't do anything to scale with it.

...I'll get there. Just need to get familiar enough with the maps to know where the teleporter can appear and the hidden places that aren't easy to spot.

Teleporters can somewhat easily be found by checking if there are any coloured particles (usually red) in the air, those are always near one.

The randomness of what items you get can kill things. They've implemented a scrapping mechanic which turns a random item into scrap which will sometimes take priority when you find an item printer, but so far, no luck here.

Playing Total War: Warhammer 2 as high elves and fighting hard against dark elves, One of the greatest strategy games ever, this game is absolutely amazing so it has extremely addicting gameplay and It's unbelievably well balanced considered the number of different races.

 Super Ready wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Streets of Rage 4.
Its brilliant. Not much else to say.

...it really is. My Steam library shows 72 hours played already.

Sooooo goooood

I got Total War: Troy on the epic game store during their give away, and after several hours I can safely say that this is the dullest Total war to date, no variations in units, a very lacking musical score, and worst of all its just not fun. While it looks good and is surprisingly stable for a CA game that just was released. They do deserve credit for making a good religious system that makes sense game-wise, even if the god specific mythical units lack enough punch and flair to stand out. I hope with more content and mods that the game can improve and reach a better state that will appeal to me more. So hold of unless you are a die-hard CA fan or need that Bronze age fix satisfied.

 Super Ready wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Didn't get a lot of gaming in due to a heatwave, but Risk of Rain 2 got its full release a few days ago, so instead of trying to sleep I spent a couple of hours in the early and cool hours playing through it and on the second try unlocking the captain.

I'm playing Risk of Rain 2 too! ...heh, tutu. *ahem* anyway...
Only 7 hours so far and to be honest I've not made it past 3rd teleporter yet, it's really rough going. But with every run I get a little better and I understand a little more about how it works. It's telling that the gameplay is that solid that I've not been put off by that difficulty curve yet.

Fun fact: the devs accidentally lowered the difficulty when it first got into Early Access. They soon realized this and wrote a small note saying “WHOOPS! Guess we forgot to turn up the difficulty. Guess we’ll just fix that...” A friend and I were there to experience it, and the difference was practically night and day.

Great game though! Surprisingly good transition from 2D to 3D, without removing the feel of the first one. They really give you a lot of tools to explore the maps (try sprinting with 20 energy drinks), and it feels cool seeing how different bits of equipment work differently for different classes.

 SkavenLord wrote:
(try sprinting with 20 energy drinks)

Had this once as Huntress when I spent a Lunar coin at one of those replace your inventory things. My entire loadout was replaced by energy drinks, making it impossible for me to move around normally.

Got back into Ghost of Tsushima. I am beginning to think open-world games are just too much for me these days. There is just so much to do that it is overwhelming.

 Trondheim wrote:
I got Total War: Troy on the epic game store during their give away, and after several hours I can safely say that this is the dullest Total war to date, no variations in units, a very lacking musical score, and worst of all its just not fun. While it looks good and is surprisingly stable for a CA game that just was released. They do deserve credit for making a good religious system that makes sense game-wise, even if the god specific mythical units lack enough punch and flair to stand out. I hope with more content and mods that the game can improve and reach a better state that will appeal to me more. So hold of unless you are a die-hard CA fan or need that Bronze age fix satisfied.

One of the youtubers I watch is a classical 'expert' so spent a lot of time obsessing about little errors in TW: Troy, but he did have one interesting point on the religious system- it should allow for negative values. Offending the gods (or rather, an individual god), was a huge aspect of Ancient Greek stories. The fact that you can't hack of Hera by praising Zeus to much, offend Aphrodite or whomever means a big loss of flavor/story potential.

Apparently also chariots are absurdly broken as the only heavy charge unit. Watched lionheartx10 pick up two basic chariot units in his Achilles game, and they basically slaughtered there way through the opposing army, 300+ kills each, broke units in record time.

But of course, for me, the Epic exclusive is the big error here. And if Warhammer 3 is out by the time it isn't exclusive anymore, I doubt I'll touch it all.

Onto Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift on my laptop and working to unlock all the sweet sweet art and stuff. Enjoying it a lot, although when I reach the last boss in Arcade mode it's against their Unlimited version which is basically a 'super mode' it takes so many tries it makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Also realised that I own Continuum Shift not just on PC but on PS3 and 3DS I'm such a fanboi lol. The 3DS port is surprisingly great, actually. Also, there's one level where you fight and it has this damn dog in the damn background who won't stop its incessant barking, so annoying especially when losing.

balmong7 wrote:
Got back into Ghost of Tsushima. I am beginning to think open-world games are just too much for me these days. There is just so much to do that it is overwhelming.

I've been feeling this way a bit myself. I tend to end up kind of lost, especially in regard to story. I never thought I'd want a return to old menus where I can pick a level and just play it.

Still fighting lizards in Total Warhammer. Is Kroq-Gar usually a monster in combat? This guy has been bad news since day one. I have to throw about three or four units of clanrats into the lawnmower to hold him back and this is if he is alone and surrounded. Last fight, I had to take down literally every other unit to get his morale to start seriously decreasing.

 Adrassil wrote:
Onto Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift on my laptop and working to unlock all the sweet sweet art and stuff. Enjoying it a lot, although when I reach the last boss in Arcade mode it's against their Unlimited version which is basically a 'super mode' it takes so many tries it makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Also realised that I own Continuum Shift not just on PC but on PS3 and 3DS I'm such a fanboi lol. The 3DS port is surprisingly great, actually. Also, there's one level where you fight and it has this damn dog in the damn background who won't stop its incessant barking, so annoying especially when losing.

Highlight of the series for me. After this the cast got kind of unweildy and they lost a good way to repeat the multiverse gimmick to make the story interesting. The rest of the games are still excellent, but it peaked here for me.

After spending a good 6 months playing Dark Souls Remastered with multiple NG+ and PvP sessions... I decided to jump to Dark Souls 3.

I'm a victim of my own success from Remastered as I'm sure I'm waaaaaaaay too deep in Souls 3 with such a low leveled character, as such I'm getting spanked every 5 minutes. I'll probably spend the weekend replaying from the beginning to grind out more souls.

 LunarSol wrote:
Highlight of the series for me. After this the cast got kind of unweildy and they lost a good way to repeat the multiverse gimmick to make the story interesting. The rest of the games are still excellent, but it peaked here for me.

While I haven't played the sequels yet, I did feel Continuum Shift was so good that it would be a hard act to follow.

Things have been turbo gakky as of late, so treated myself to Control, which got its Steam release yesterday. So far really liking it.

 BrookM wrote:
Things have been turbo gakky as of late, so treated myself to Control, which got its Steam release yesterday. So far really liking it.

Control is one of the few games I've marathoned to completion in years. I'm not sure if its "good" but its absolutely fun.

 BrookM wrote:
Things have been turbo gakky as of late, so treated myself to Control, which got its Steam release yesterday. So far really liking it.

Control has been on Steam for over a year now. Yesterday was just the 'Ultimate edition' with the DLC bundled in.

Tried out Persona 4. Expected something grim and horrifying, but was hit with a comfy OP and difficulty settings telling me to ‘relax’ and ‘enjoy’. Definitely getting Diamond is Unbreakable vibes from the looks of things too. This might kind of be the JRPG I’ve been looking for.

Only issue is the crashing. Seems to do this a lot, especially when changing location. Anyone found a fix yet?

 BrookM wrote:
Things have been turbo gakky as of late, so treated myself to Control, which got its Steam release yesterday. So far really liking it.

Yeah, surprised to find this on the store’s main banner. Was the “Ultimate Edition” a hotly anticipated release or something?

finished doom eternal

 SkavenLord wrote:
Tried out Persona 4. Expected something grim and horrifying, but was hit with a comfy OP and difficulty settings telling me to ‘relax’ and ‘enjoy’. Definitely getting Diamond is Unbreakable vibes from the looks of things too. This might kind of be the JRPG I’ve been looking for.

Persona games deal with disturbing topics, and are pretty serious. But the "slice of life" elements introduced starting in the third game distract from the serious elements- such as the fact that you're (not really) shooting yourself in the head each time you cast a spell in the third game.

Your party is a group of teenagers attending a normal high school in Japan. And the games run for an extended period of time. Teenagers have fun. If the game doesn't show that, it's missing the mark.

 Stevefamine wrote:
finished doom eternal

Nice - I got it on release (after waiting for reviews of course!) and loved it to pieces.
DLC's been announced, too, with what looks like a deeper dive into the angelic side of the heaven/hell split.

 SkavenLord wrote:
Tried out Persona 4. Expected something grim and horrifying, but was hit with a comfy OP and difficulty settings telling me to ‘relax’ and ‘enjoy’. Definitely getting Diamond is Unbreakable vibes from the looks of things too. This might kind of be the JRPG I’ve been looking for.

Only issue is the crashing. Seems to do this a lot, especially when changing location. Anyone found a fix yet?

It's been random as to who has what problems with the P4G port. Either you have crashes, stuttering cutscenes, both, or no problems at all. I was in the "no problems at all" camp, but my current PC was built this year so it's still a fairly clean machine with good hardware in it. Anyway, there is some darkness to the game in some spots, but it is fairly lighthearted most of the time, and very fun. I'd never heard of it until the surprise PC release, and now it's in my top 10 games of all time. Also, Yukiko is best girl.

 BrookM wrote:
Things have been turbo gakky as of late, so treated myself to Control, which got its Steam release yesterday. So far really liking it.

Yeah, surprised to find this on the store’s main banner. Was the “Ultimate Edition” a hotly anticipated release or something?

Voss wrote:

Control has been on Steam for over a year now. Yesterday was just the 'Ultimate edition' with the DLC bundled in.

Control has been an Epic exclusive for the past year, it's new to Steam. So there was that bit of anticipation for the Steam release. However, this also includes the AWE expansion (released this week), which in itself has been very much anticipated as it incorporates Alan Wake into the Control universe. I've started a new playthrough of Control to experience the game all over again (and see how the early game is like now that I "know everything"), and play the expansions.