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Pokemon emerald while waiting for everyone else to finish their banal after-lunch chats.

Emerald was great. I was thinking about getting the saphire/ruby re-makes, but I need to get a 3ds first, mine's broken.

 Melissia wrote:
Pokemon emerald while waiting for everyone else to finish their banal after-lunch chats.

HAH! You said b-ANAL.

I just finished playing the last Court, achieving a most satisfactory ending.

A pretty neat wee game that kept me occupied during the bad weather on my holiday, far away from my PC with Dragon Age Inquisition.

Its worth having a play, all you need is an origin account. You don't even need to spend any money unless you really want to.

http://lastcourt.dragonagekeep.com

About to break my Inquisition disc. So far, I've had TWO instances which render missions unable to be completed due to MY PARTY SELECTION.

Once was because I had a necromancer who raised a dead enemy, which then caused a plot integral cutscene TO NOT TRIGGER.

Wow that sounds kind of terrible.

 GrimDork wrote:
Wow that sounds kind of terrible.

Between DA:I and AC:U, I've heard nothing but bugs and crashes lately. Not all the time mind you, but of course those folks with issues speak the loudest. Lousy feeling to spend that much for a non-functioning game.

 GrimDork wrote:
Wow that sounds kind of terrible.

Make it three.

When they finish this game and get rid of all the broken combat mechanics, inaccessible areas, and ability interaction bugs, then it will be good. Until then, it's mediocre at best.

Right now, I'm lucky I have a save of a recent point. The first one today caused me to lose six hours worth of progress, because a party choice caused a mission to be incompletable.


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 gunslingerpro wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Wow that sounds kind of terrible.

Between DA:I and AC:U, I've heard nothing but bugs and crashes lately. Not all the time mind you, but of course those folks with issues speak the loudest. Lousy feeling to spend that much for a non-functioning game.

I've had multiple times when dialogue crashed and I was forced to fix it by manually shutting down the PS4 from the button/mains.

Far Cry 4 for PS4. It's good. Much like Far Cry 3, but for some reason (and I still can't put my finger on why) not quite as enjoyable. Still a great game, but doesn't have the same magic as the third.

Bioshock Infinite.
Really not enjoying it Im afraid. The setting/plot are totally uninspired considering Im an "Irish European", the plasmids/abilities are not a patch on previous games, making it basically a run n gun and the main character is another cut out, broody, one dimensional ala Thief 4 and Deus Ex3.
GFX are top notch and some of the locations are cool but for me it reeks of style over substance. Ho hum.

Been playing Awsomenauts, it's awsome.
Joking aside, it's managed to be a moba that is different from LOL and DOTA2. I really like the aesthetic, and it's quite cheap. It has an interesting finantal model as well, once you have bought the game you can easily unlock all the character's and items by playing games via a leveling system. Other than a few character (about 3 or so) that you can get in the starstorm expansion, the only thing that you can buy are skins.

Also been playing on the Dakka FTB server, quite fun.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Emerald was great. I was thinking about getting the saphire/ruby re-makes, but I need to get a 3ds first, mine's broken.

I rtaher like it as well.

I have a friend that has Alpha Sapphire, she's quite enjoying it, so there you go.

Also, this is relevant:

That is beautiful.

Still grinding away at Payday 2, already at level 60 after reaching the second level of Infamy two days ago.

I've also been playing Rise of Nations a lot again.

PD2 is great fun. Not sure I want to do infamous though. Maybe, iunno.

Playing mordheim and xcom: enemy within.

Mordheim isn't half bad. Looking back on it the guy i saw make a video of the game as well as one of the developers must have been clueless. You can see which weapons and stats your guys have with the 'left shift' button. Most skaven have shooting weapons they just usually aren't equipped early on which is odd considering they tend to do much more damage than most skaven attacks.

 Melissia wrote:
PD2 is great fun. Not sure I want to do infamous though. Maybe, iunno.

It's mostly bragging rights, you get the cool shades and semi-cool masks, for the time being at least. They're still working on the top tier Infamous skills. It's also a great opportunity to respec a bit and try something different or buy more skills you normally couldn't get due to restrictions.

Though it won't be long now until Clover is released and with her in the gang we'll probably get another new perk deck and skill tree, meaning a free respec with refunds for all.

State of Decay. Good game, but that "play when you're away" feature just has to go. I can't be bothered resetting my system clock every time I want to play just because the devs thought that mechanic would be cool. I'm having a go at installing some mods right now, which means exiting and reloading the game multiple times. Now yeah, I could just backup my save, but its annoying that every time I enter the game events seem to have gotten worse. On the subject of mods, eugh, its a right irk trying to find which one is causing a problem. I was eight hours into the game, but had to restart it to use the mods properly. So I did, made it as far as the church, then tried loading a rucksack into a vehicle. Oh right, a mod's made it so you can't do this anymore due to being older than the patch which allowed that. How do I fix that? Uninstall the mod (whichever one it is), start a new game, then spend a half hour or so replaying the tutorial to the point where I can load a rucksack into a car again.

Eugh, sorry is my discontent obvious? Problems: allow for quicksaving, more than one save per playthough and get rid of that play with you're away mechanic. This game's a right bugger to bug test with all those features, or well lack of them. Its an obvious console port, and I get what type of atmosphere they were going for, but atmosphere doesn't trump being user friendly. Ack, I'll probably go back and see if I can fix that issue later, but for the moment despite having just spent a good while playing the game this annoyance has turned me off it. Maybe I'll see about having a go at one of the other campaigns, as like hell am I restarting the whole game again just to see if the mods will work. =P

Heh, and in the time its taken to write this post I'll bet that if I go back into the game at least one survivor's done something stupid. Hmn, I wonder why there isn't a mod which removes that thing?

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And on a less whingy note (I say less, I'm still bitching). I wish zombies didn't spawn all over the place. Stick them in areas outside of where I am immediately, but don't just keep dumping them a few meters down the street. On top of the constant need to help out people every five minutes, this makes it seems like you hardly have a minute to think (probably the intention). I'm fine with the undead hordes and all, but wouldn't mind being able to clear an area out for a bit before even more zombies turn up and I need to hightail it down the street in a vehicle. It'd be nice if you could clear an area then zombies slowly pour back into it. Really I don't see the point in killing the things a lot of the time as I know that it won't effect the total number (ie in Project Zomboid you can clear an area for a good while. Zombies spawn a good distance away and then move towards you over time). There's no point in killing the ones that aren't an immediate threat to you or your base as all that's going to do is wreck your vehicle or drain your stamina. Ok, this isn't really a gripe with much substance, but it would be nice if killing zombies actually did something to their spawn rate or something rather than there always being another one hiding around a corner no matter how many you kill.

And what? Take away the suspense and random stuff that makes you swear out loud whenever someone tries to be clever and feths up?

I'm fine with the play while your away mechanic, sort of. I know I wouldn't like it going into the game, but what I really don't enjoy is that the game seems to be clinging to your leg with it. Its like it wants you to sit there and play it constantly for a few days until you complete it. I don't sit there and dump hours into a game every day, rather I'd rather play a bit here and there over the course of the week at best. So having put in my hour or two one day of the week, its annoying to come back a good while later and find the game's penalized you for not giving your time to it.

So I get why they did it, and I know that you can get around it by just having a well established base, but its about as realistic as removing a pause button. Hey I want to stop playing, but what's that? Oh there's a horde coming towards my base and I'm out of food. Guess I'll have to deal with all that first before I quit playing otherwise when I come back I'll be screwed. If it was an optional feature (like say the need to eat and sleep in New Vegas, which I liked actually) I'd be fine with it, as it is I'm finding that its putting me off a genuinely good, if rough, game.

Oh and on the neediness of missions note. There is a mod I've found that increases the timers of those so you don't have to drop everything and sort them out. However I do wonder why the player seemingly has to sort everything out given that the characters available seem to be perfectly competent when under your control. A moment's piece to loot up a few buildings without hearing a message over the radio about Timmy getting stuck down yet another well would be great. Hell why are you asking the guy who's out on a scavenging run to deal with the issue. You've a dozen other folks sitting right next to you radio lady at home who aren't doing swat. Go send them out to help Timmy whilst the other guy deals with his own problems. Ah, complaining about game mechanics.

Hmn, I guess I just prefer games where you don't have companions, nor are you swamped with missions constantly. The devs wanted to create a game that keeps you on the edge constantly, and well I suppose my play style and the time available to me for gaming just don't suite it very well. Its a shame that there's no mods out there that really sort out those irks of mine, but I guess the community of this game's just not of the same opinion of me. That or things are hardcoded, because screw you if you don't want to play the game the devs envisioned. =P

Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Stuck n rut in "World of tanks"

 Melissia wrote:
Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Got that as well, suggested by TB himself XD.

Deus Ex Human Revolution.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Director's Cut or Vanilla?

Eumerin wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Director's Cut or Vanilla?

Uhhh, there's different cuts? I guess Vanilla...

A strange combination of MWO, Warhammer40k: Armageddon, Risk of Rain, Binding of Isaac: rebirth, Mass effect and CS:GO.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Director's Cut or Vanilla?

Uhhh, there's different cuts? I guess Vanilla...

I never got the director's cut myself. The game is so fantastic though. I just love everything about it. It's pretty much what story should be like in games.

Dishonored huh? I should probably buy that but I just dunno if I'll find time.

Rolling a cleric for the second campaign of NWN, going to snag a level of wizard and eventually arcane archer so I can shoot fireballs for lols.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Director's Cut or Vanilla?

Uhhh, there's different cuts? I guess Vanilla...

I never got the director's cut myself. The game is so fantastic though. I just love everything about it. It's pretty much what story should be like in games.

I liked everything but the boss fights which the directors cut was supposed to fix.