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Frankenberry wrote: Still playing D3 for the time being until I end up with Destiny.
Stuck at level 70 with most of my characters so now it's the soul-destroying gear grind with the goal of being able to do Torment 6 solo at a decent pace.
Reminds me why i stopped playing diablo 3 but this was during like the 2nd or 3rd version of the game and before 'reaper of souls'. I just hated the grind for money or crap to sell on market and then to beat inferno difficulty. It was no longer fun starting at act 2 it was just a pain.
I've played since launch, so I know exactly what you're talking about, but honestly it's gotten a great deal better overall with loot 2.0. It just sucks that I get 10 or so legendaries and none of which are apart of the set that the character I'm playing, actually needs.
I honestly can't stand that crap. Just play a game that requires skill instead of grinding for loot or experience like you know 'xcom: enemy unknown' ;P. I got great at 'enemy unknown' but i still have issues playing dark souls. I was last at the Ornstein and executioner smough battle and after over 4 hours trying to beat it i've still not beaten it. I got super close once after killer ornstein and bringing the executioner down to a small bit of health left (probably a couple hits till death) and then i died. Dark souls is one of the greatest soul crushing games.
Anyway i must be a masochist playing xcom: enemy unknown, xenonauts, dark souls and even warhammer fantasy (against more often than not tournament level players or OP armies which everybody flocks to when they can't win through skill).
Thankfully i think i took somebody's advice and went back to skyrim. It's got a lot of grinding though and i'm finding myself playing it way too much. I swear this game either causes ADD in people or attracts them to it like a moth to flame.
The other game i've been playing quite frequently is Wargame: Red Dragon. We should really start a Dakka steam group on that if we haven't already (i'm oblivious to it if it exists). I love cold war era games and this is probably the best one i've played. It might even be the best rts i've played in years though the rts genre has mostly died sadly.
Still hoping for a dawn of war 3 and a warhammer fantasy rts. Not sure what to think of the 'total war' guys getting the warhammer fantasy license. Some people are super happy but i've never really been into the total war games (even if the guns in 'fall of the samurai' are awesome) and there's no telling how they'll work out magic and duels. Would also be cool if there was a such thing as a magical duel though wizards are normally powerful enough.
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Flaming - go search GOG for Shadow of the Horned Rat. Fantasy RTS. There's also Dark Omen.
If you really don't like grinding, do stuff like GTA or Saints row, I'm about to start my 8th playthrough of Saints Row 2, Then I'll hit Saints Row 3 and finally finish with 4.
Also for ludicrious gibs, do Just Cause 2 for fun.
the shrouded lord wrote: i stopped playing skyrim and in two days did the entire halo reach campaign. i love the ending. now i' gonna move on to halo 3.
Oh I loved that ending when I played it.
Spoiler:
Especially since the ending was somewhat designed as an unwinnable level. Halsey's speech at the end made your characters death feel worth it and brought the (short) story of a Spartan to a close quite nicely.
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agreed. also, the actual 'final fight' as it were, looks both badass and kind of like the character knows he0she is finished.
i mainly want to do halo 3 because i've actually never gone through the entire thing single player. after that halo odst, than i'll go buy halo 4 again.
The Reach campaign is probably my favourite on any game ever (followed by Halo 3), as each level offers something different, and the narrative really does work. The characters are good enough that their deaths actually matter, and all bar one go down in really badass ways.
Spoiler:
Jorge nukes a Carrier
Carter crashes a Pelican into a Scarab
Emile goes toe-to-toe with an Elite Zealot and goes down laughing.
Kat gets shot in the head from a mile away because, presumably, she forgot to put her shield up )
And the last mission is great, the way the visor display slowly cracks and tints. The baddies just keep coming, and you can count the bullets draining away as you make one last stand.
Great game, really a 10/10.
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i have an obsession with the whole last stand thing. and massive armour. a psychologist coud probably explain it, but i just love it.
halo reach IS that. the last stand for reach, and for noble team. BTW, did anyne else get the feeling you weren't meant to like emile? he's awesome but it seems like you shoudn't like him if that makes sense.
speaking of the books, i'm reading the kio 5 trilogy.
also, I'm planning on making a few Halo background videos, starting with the Arbiter after halo 2 aniversary comes out so i can se the HD footage.
I did like War in the North, - It's a good diversion and a game to play when you're in between other, bigger titles. I even remember replaying several of the missions a few times, just because I wanted to. - It was weird there was only 2 'Challenge Maps' in the game though, I can't help but feel they were planning for more of them.
In a similar vein, you might want to look at Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's fully single player but feels pretty similar.
And, is utterly massive. - You'll finish levelling LONG before you finish exploring the game, it actually feels MMO sized.
mega_bassist wrote: Picked up NHL '14 for cheap...and boy, I suck at hockey games
The Ai in that seriously hates me, just playing in single games you can play a relatively balanced game, scrap a win and if you rematch the AI will just roflstomp you into next week
Be a Pro is more fun unless you want to be a goalie which is just really hard
Currently debating whether to study for my exams or paint some Deathwing
mega_bassist wrote: Picked up NHL '14 for cheap...and boy, I suck at hockey games
The Ai in that seriously hates me, just playing in single games you can play a relatively balanced game, scrap a win and if you rematch the AI will just roflstomp you into next week
Be a Pro is more fun unless you want to be a goalie which is just really hard
Man, you're not lying. I played three games yesterday, and lost all three. I actually had to look up a video on how the face-off system works since it's not explained at all.
...it also doesn't help that the last NHL game I played was '02 I believe...they've updated A LOT
thenoobbomb wrote: I think Mel was referring to the eyebrows of all Belfs in existence
If "belf" refers to "Blizzard's bastardization of the concept of an elf", then yeah.
fething cockroach eyebrows...
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mega_bassist wrote: Picked up NHL '14 for cheap...and boy, I suck at hockey games
How is it? I haven't played a hockey game since the one I have on sega saturn...
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Melissia wrote: If "belf" refers to "Blizzard's bastardization of the concept of an elf", then yeah.
fething cockroach eyebrows....
Ex fething cuse me.
Spoiler:
I'll have you know the male Blood Elves are among the best things ever concieved.
The females are nowhere near as good, too much sexual dimorphism. But that does not detract from their male counterparts. They are athletic, a perfect balance of strength and agility, and their pragmatic culture makes them one of the not-really-that-many interesting parts of WoW lore.
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Robocraft. It is in early access right now. But basically it is World of Tanks and MineCraft had a baby in space. It is fething awesome! You can create tanks or hover craft and the damage modeling provides some funny things to watch sometimes.
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
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the shrouded lord wrote: but Ash, the female Blood eves have BOOBIES. honestly, I can't take a female blood elf in WoW seriously and usualy end up just making a wargan lol.
Imagination helps. Yay for being a roleplayer, ignoring the model and staring at the lore.
I tended to prefer female characters in WoW after awhile. I mean I kept going back to my lanky male troll. I think I had a shaman, hunter, maybe something else all trolls. But for melee fighters, the females had more interesting/annoying fighting animations, which kept things interesting Like how the female undead tended to flip around a lot, goblins too. Plus the femdead could have sick bride-of-Frankenstein hair.
Almost nostalgic enough to play wow but I'd probably balk at the monthly fee now for how little I'd play it. And needing to buy an expansion too.
I always liked the aesthetics that Blizzard applied to the various Elven races; the starlight eyes for the Night Elves and earth tones for hair, and the very 'highborn' look to all the Blood Elves.
Blood Elf lore sucks total ass though, then again, I despise almost everything that Metzen did after vanilla WoW so I might be biased.
On a different note, Reach was pretty cool, but I didn't see the point of telling that story. You already knew what was going to happen and it didn't introduce anything you didn't already know (except introducing characters you genuinely end up liking in a story that you KNOW will kill them). I'm a fan of the Last Stand though, and as someone mentioned before, I'm pretty obsessed with them too.
Truthfully I wish the series had ended at Halo 3.
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Frankenberry wrote: I always liked the aesthetics that Blizzard applied to the various Elven races; the starlight eyes for the Night Elves and earth tones for hair, and the very 'highborn' look to all the Blood Elves.
Blood Elf lore sucks total ass though, then again, I despise almost everything that Metzen did after vanilla WoW so I might be biased.
Bah, the best Warcraft lore is from Warcraft 2! After that? Largely nonsense.*
I decided to try out the free sims maker for Sims 4. Making new sims has always been my favorite part anyhow. It's alright. Not alright enough to make me really want to shell out cash for the game yet.
*This is not serious. I just lost track of the plot after Warcraft II. Because they started adding a lot more plot.
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