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 greenskin lynn wrote:
been playing through the megaman x collection on and off the last few weeks
i played the first 3 a lot way back when on the snes, but never got around to the later games
didn't realize back then that the games have an actual continuing story
currently playing on x7, which is proving to be my least favorite of the series so far (honestly, i've found myself liking them less and less from about x4 onward, initially from level design, but then later from the poorly explained upgrades you can maybe get from rescuing bots during missions)

The X games remain one of my absolute favorite series of games, but they definitely fall off hard. I'm not sure any game in the series is as good as the original MMX. That is just a nearly perfect game and easily one of the best on the SNES. I still love X2-3 and X4 is generally highly regarded. I don't enjoy it as much as the SNES games, but its undoubtably the best of the 32-bit games.

X6 is just a disaster made quickly by Capcom without the Megaman team's involvement. It's just kind of a disaster of broken level design and shoddy mechanics. X7 is one of the worst games of all time, being a late 90's attempt at transitioning to 3D somehow done in the early 2000s. X8 is generally well liked, but I think it's mostly just a result of being a mostly competent game after two disasters. Of note, someone just released a demake of X8 that completely reworks it in the 16-bit style of X1-3 that's apparently quite exceptional. I've been meaning to check it out.

Story wise, the series was supposed to end after X5 and it really shows. X5's finale is pretty great, though getting there is messy with the time limits and upgrade parts and odd upgrade issues along with some pace killing attempts at excessive tutorials that were common of its time. The story after that technically continues in the MMZero games on the GBA, which are definitely a better continuation, particularly starting with MMZ2. X tends to get sidelined as Inafune really preferred Zero, but that's true of everything starting wtih MMX4.

Also, you should check out Day fo Sigma. It's an anime prologue to the series that was released with the X1 remake on the PSP. They did a really great job bringing the world to life with it.

Played and enjoyed some Wasteland 3 and then grew bored and went back to the Xcom 2: long war of the chosen mod.

Just whenever i think i'm out they drag me back in (with xcom).

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Played and enjoyed some Wasteland 3 and then grew bored and went back to the Xcom 2: long war of the chosen mod.

Just whenever i think i'm out they drag me back in (with xcom).

Loved both games and X-com definitely has that replay-ability itch. I've gone back to it numerous times. If you haven't already, you might enjoy Phoenix Point. It's on STEAM, very similar style game and VERY fun if you give it a chance.

 LunarSol wrote:

 greenskin lynn wrote:
been playing through the megaman x collection on and off the last few weeks
i played the first 3 a lot way back when on the snes, but never got around to the later games
didn't realize back then that the games have an actual continuing story
currently playing on x7, which is proving to be my least favorite of the series so far (honestly, i've found myself liking them less and less from about x4 onward, initially from level design, but then later from the poorly explained upgrades you can maybe get from rescuing bots during missions)

The X games remain one of my absolute favorite series of games, but they definitely fall off hard. I'm not sure any game in the series is as good as the original MMX. That is just a nearly perfect game and easily one of the best on the SNES. I still love X2-3 and X4 is generally highly regarded. I don't enjoy it as much as the SNES games, but its undoubtably the best of the 32-bit games.

X6 is just a disaster made quickly by Capcom without the Megaman team's involvement. It's just kind of a disaster of broken level design and shoddy mechanics. X7 is one of the worst games of all time, being a late 90's attempt at transitioning to 3D somehow done in the early 2000s. X8 is generally well liked, but I think it's mostly just a result of being a mostly competent game after two disasters. Of note, someone just released a demake of X8 that completely reworks it in the 16-bit style of X1-3 that's apparently quite exceptional. I've been meaning to check it out.

Story wise, the series was supposed to end after X5 and it really shows. X5's finale is pretty great, though getting there is messy with the time limits and upgrade parts and odd upgrade issues along with some pace killing attempts at excessive tutorials that were common of its time. The story after that technically continues in the MMZero games on the GBA, which are definitely a better continuation, particularly starting with MMZ2. X tends to get sidelined as Inafune really preferred Zero, but that's true of everything starting wtih MMX4.

Also, you should check out Day fo Sigma. It's an anime prologue to the series that was released with the X1 remake on the PSP. They did a really great job bringing the world to life with it.

i feel like i saw day of sigma way back when, but who knows
funny enough i did play some of the mmzero games back in the day, and they were pretty solid from what i recall
got looking up story stuff and apparently the timeline after mmzero is suppose to kinda end at megaman legends, which i have fond memories of, but would never have really though was part of the overarching storyline
haven't been able to get the interest to play any more of x7 since my last post. honestly i think i'm going to skip going any further with it and see how x8 is

Yeah, the Legends thing is hard to pin down simply because Legends didn't really get to play all its cards and ended on that cliffhanger of a second game. In the game, the great disaster that destroyed the world feels very standalone, but it being tied to X5's colony drop is either a really solid retcon or very much intentional given those games were developed together.

The main frustration of it all to me is they never actually do anything with Wily in all the story they set up for him. It's just left as endless allusions without a real confirmation. ZXA ending with a fight with Dr. Albert, creator of Model W but not Wily we swear being the end of that build up is such a letdown.

Sadly, with Inafune gone (for sadly good reasons) it seems unlikely we'll get any real content. Mega Man seems confined to the DLC costume mines now along with his Darkstalker pals :(

 naxium wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Played and enjoyed some Wasteland 3 and then grew bored and went back to the Xcom 2: long war of the chosen mod.

Just whenever i think i'm out they drag me back in (with xcom).

Loved both games and X-com definitely has that replay-ability itch. I've gone back to it numerous times. If you haven't already, you might enjoy Phoenix Point. It's on STEAM, very similar style game and VERY fun if you give it a chance.

I enjoyed Phoenix Point but man if you want to get good it has an encyclopedia of stats. I got alright at Phoenix Point but the end game eventually got boring. I never actually finished a whole run of the game sadly. I tried doing the boy scout "Phoenix" path route for ending but ending-wise it seems like it's the least fulfilling.

Btw if you can find yourself a good mod that cuts out the excess side missions i'd suggest you play Gears Tactics. The first two Acts are pretty good but the 3rd one just drags on with way too many of the same side mission types. It's sad because without the extreme padding in Act 3 it'd be a short game but a really great game. I haven't seen any updates on it despite the game being so close to a successful good game. It could've been so much more.

I keep not playing Mutant Year Zero regardless of how interesting it seems and how much i think i could dig the setting and gameplay. I've heard it's pretty good but i think some reviews were annoyed by the gameplay. Something about all the stealth kills being tedious eventually. I'd like to give it a shot anyway though.

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Not sure how some of you are so good at Hearts of Iron 4 but maybe it's because i mostly played the democracy side as either the UK or France and i never intervened during the czech disagreement with germany as france (which is a mistake to not do i think) and the UK has to fight in lands with bad development like africa mostly which is alright but hard. The UK is definitely an interesting fight where you have to fight wars on most fronts while maintaining resources and fighting World War 2 almost solo. It seems like a really frustratingly hard experience where naval and air superiority are huge as well as RADAR.

Then you have Japan when you play as the baddies which isn't too bad but is in resource negative situations making it hard to make planes without taking some good land from european colonies.

 nels1031 wrote:
Downloading Mechwarrior 5: Clans. Once I get back from work, I'm diving in.

Looks to be a single player campaign where you are a participating in the Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere. Its got mixed reviews on Steam, but I'm gonna give it a shot after work. I tend to get my money's worth out of Mechwarrior/Battletech PC games.

It plays much more arcadey than the base Mercenaries game I think, but dear god the character facial designs and animation are horrifying.

The progress mechanic is too busy as well, with 6 different currencies to balance. Credits, character xp, mech xp, and three different salvage gubbinz.

Also, thinking about it, it seems more like Mechwarrior boy band edition, and that’s even with the fact that half the star are female.

Yeah, its not really grabbing me like other Battletech games have.

 Snrub wrote:
Reinstalled Darkest Dungeon this arvo. Holy crap I'd actually forgotten how much this game doesn't pull its punches.
"What's that? You want 60 stress on Dismas and a negative quirk for both him and Reynauld before you've even reached the hamlet for the first time? Sure thing, now go and get fethed!"

Never have I had such a love/hate relationship with any other video game. I've never walked away from any other game in such anger, frustration and general despair and then gone running back to it with furious determination as often as I have with DD. It was worth every cent of the... $20(?) I paid for it on Kickstarter.

Ya, its a good one but something about the ending turned me off. I did get the DLC though and plan to do another playthrough. I think I've recovered from the PTSD of the first playthrough.

I feel so starved for a good sengoku basara game, but they aren't being localized anymore (if even they are still getting sequels)

On the other hand when it gets colder I still have a gaming rig tucked away in a cabinet that has Yokai watch 4 + + on it, dunno when I'll get to it..
currently having more fun with shin megami tensei 5 vengeance whenever I have some spare time, 3rd area is a blast, also no longer have difficulty with bosses since getting lucky with a white magatama (+3 lvls for the nahobino) just before gaining another lvl so +4 levels makes you pretty sturdy.

Been playing Mount and Blade Warband Last Days of the Third Age mod. It's a LOTR mod for MB. Really great, enjoying myself tremendously. After a couple of experimental plays to get my feet wet again I did a playthrough as Dale with the idea of welding an alliance of elves, men and dwarves in the North. Worked great, picked to be a Man so I could ride a horse and so on, had mostly Men for Cav, Dwarves for Heavy Infantry and Elves for archers. After a tough start ended up steaming south and saving Minas Tirith when it was nearly the last Gondor fief. Major highlight was doing the defense of the Hornburg.

Now playing as Gundabad orcs. If you play as an Orc you are physically smaller than a man and it has an impact on a lot of things, so it's kind of playing on hard mode. But after a very tough start I've managed to fight my way to defeating all my northern rivals and am heading south into Rohan. I have mostly been playing pure Gundabad with some Rhun Cavalry this time, and it's been interesting. A lot of advice to make a bunch of wolf riders, and it worked well for me in the early game, but now that we're sieging all the time I have just massive hordes of orcs and train them up to be top tier and eat all our prisoners. But it's definitely a harder fight than having the three race alliance I had last time.

I'm enjoying myself so much I'll probably do an Isengard playthrough after, and I haven't even explored the various secret side questions and magic items that the mod offers - been playing it fairly straight so far.

Mount and Blade is such an incredible game for me, I could play it forever. There's nothing else like it and there are so many incredible mods. I'm not even that tempted by Bannerlord because Warband hits the spot for me so well.

T'was October, so played some scary stuff. Obligatory 🎃

Silent Hill 2 remake, was a lot of fun.

Still Wakes the Deep, also a lot of fun, but quite short and ha, really needed the subs for some of that Scottish slang that was thrown about.

Also.. Factorio released its expansion, so starting a new game on Sunday on a dedicated server with some other peeps, I do not look forward to the horrors of the spaghet. 😅

Doing my 2nd run (in recent times) of xcom 2 lwotc since my last one didn't go so well.

I'm kind of low on a lot of things but i should be able to liberate a region very soon in late june. I should also have a few options for liberating other regions soon.

More Factorio, slowly getting somewhere.

Also played Mouthwashing, not at all what I expected it to be, but ultimately very good, maybe my personal pick for horror game of the year.

And started a Plague Tale - Requiem after finally getting it to work. Some bits are very annoying and the checkpoints are sometimes too far and in between, making the taking of risks in some areas a very punishing thing. But other than that, pretty good, playing less with Hugo and more with Lucas as your sidekick, does make for a better game.

I got to this game pretty late compared to my friends, but I'm getting through my backlog and I've started GoW Ragnarok. It's been a while since I played the last GoW but it's as punchy and intuitive as I remember the previous game was, so it's been fun swapping between the blades of chaos and the leviathan axe.

Stellaris.... i wanna play wide space khanate with habitats.

I strugle with habitats. I struggle with pops and i most certainly struggle playing wide.

3rd run of xcom 2 lwotc is going really well. Power armor is 4 days from completion and basic coilguns are already out. I need to get advanced coilguns however and that should take a while. That said it'll probably only take a month of fakey super fast game-time to get to the chosen's avenger defense and i hope i'm prepared this time since last time that's what ended my run of the game.

Still plugging away at my Gundabad campaign in MB:W Last Days of the Third Age.

We've defeated the Free People and now the civil war between Isengard and Mordor has started.

To be honest, finding it way easier than the war against the Free People. My veteran army of elite Orcs is chewing through the less hardened armies of my enemies, whereas before elite Orcs were just about a one to one match for average Men, Dwarves or Elves but no match for top tier unless they had overwhelming numbers. So I've been buzzsawing through the armies of Sauron, already sacked Dol Guldur and the Khandish faction camp. Only problem is finding enough Men in the service of Sauron to take prisoner to keep my horde fed!

Been doing the newest campaign of xcom 2 lwotc and was mostly doing fine until i lost like 6 of my 8 soldiers on an advent hq mission. I still won but the cost was just absurdly high. That said the rewards were super great and i got them early. I should even be able to get an arc blade (tier 2 sword) which at this point in the game is really powerful.

Hearts of iron, with the new DLC.

Music is fire, Germany is broken on multiple points and i am running a multi-ethnic empire like it's a family buisness.

somehow it works.

Trying out Hogwarts Legacy.

Classic WoW servers have had their refresh so me and a pal are starting up again. Trying to do a bit of levelling tonight before I'm caught up in other duties!

Played through Proverbs, normally not my thing, but it had a satisfying loop to it and it scratches my trivia itch just right.

Still working my way through Plague Tale Requiem and more MechWarrior 5 tonight as well.

Void Crew is getting its 1.0 release later today, so really looking forward to that one as well.

Sadly i think my xcom 2 long war of the chosen mod campaign is done for. I've been doing major objectives and destroying alien facilities but avatar progress just fills up too quickly now. like in 6 days it fills up two bars of progress and though that's during the end-game. Maybe waiting till February of the next year just takes too long. It's really frustrating because i have to do all this crap making sure my soldiers have all the final tier weapons and armor and fighting avatar progress while fighting off the chosen avenger defenses. The sad part is it throws it at you nearly at the same time so you're kinda screwed one way or the other. In this case nothing really threatens me much anymore but avatar progress is nearly done with no easy way to counter it.

I hope a double post isn't so bad but last update was like 3 weeks ago.

My xcom 2 long war of the chosen 2nd hardest difficulty on ironman game is going insanely well and i'm in the very late game so this campaign seems like it'll end in victory. I have maybe 14 engineers, 17 or so scientists+full labs+labs boost continent bonus and just pretty much full final tier gear. I also have connected to every region and i'm doing the black site finally. All i really need to do now is the main storyline missions and maybe blow up an alien facility or another hq assault and i'll be done. I had to figure out a lot of new things to get my game to where it is and i killed 2 of the 3 chosen in their strongholds (failed vs the warlock) and fought off the warlock avenger defense. It's about february of the next year now and i have like 50+ soldiers in my roster but maybe 20 aren't useable. I also have 4 regions liberated (i can liberate a 5th if i so choose), i destroyed like 2 of the alien facilities (2 more i can strike at my leisure), killed an avatar and a codex and basically i just gotta do the storyline missions now. It's mostly just big missions left.

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Has anybody play Sins of a Solar Empire 2 yet? Every time i watch it i want to play it more and more and i don't know why. I've never played the first one and i've been curious about grabbing the 2nd game. The game is like 4 months old now but even my dinosaur computer seems like it can run it. I'm looking to play it with friends once my xcom 2 lwotc run is done if not sooner and maybe buy it during christmas break.

No, plugging away at my forever game too, Civ6. Playing as Simon Bolivar on a real earth map. Pretty much have all of the Spanish New World under my control and just got Japan.

Yeah same as before. Killing more aliens, winning more missions, etc. The end as always is somewhat tedious. At least this game should be a win overall.

Just getting into Marvel Rivals and having a Blast as Psylocke, Magik and Luna Snow...

I've begun The Legend of Zelda Tears of The Kingdom. So that's probably my last update for a year... Damn epic games!

Played through Astro Bot. I believe its the second game I've ever got the platinum on. The Playstation pandering is more than a little trite and eye roll worthy, but the game itself is just a wonderful little platformer that copied a ton of homework from Mario. Tons of inventive little levels with clever mechanics and a charming vibe. Someone finally managed to inject the creativity that makes Nintendo stand out into their clone and it absolutely shines for it.