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 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships. FAR too much World of Warships. There's some stuff I wanted to do over the weekend but I failed because ... World of Warships.

I haven't been so addicted to a game in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

You and me both.

WHY ARE WE NOT FRIENDED?

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

That kind of always confused me. I've known at least a couple girls that actually enjoyed 'The Witcher' and it just doesn't seem like they're the target audience. I'm not saying people can't enjoy what they love as some love their 'ponies' but it just feels strange to me. Mostly it's the fact that Geralt is kind of a man-***** and pretty much bangs any and every woman. I suppose they could enjoy it from the female perspective but Geralt (a dude that looks like a necromancer/corpse with cat eyes) doesn't exactly seem like the most exciting sexual partner unless you're into having sex with dead bodies and/or are a twilight fan in which case you may want to seek help.

The Witcher isn't about sex. Not in the slightiest. It's a leftover from the first game that had the stupid card idea and people who reduce the game down to this just don't know much about the game. The first game's combat was bad, the sex cards were bad, the crafting was way too cumbersome, but it was the best RPG story-wise, by a huge shot, until The Witcher 2. It was a RPG that had actual /decisions/ that /mattered/, not that Bioware crap.

For my wife - she enjoys RPGs and doesn't care about the character's gender. Geralt doesn't bang anyone in sight, but he doesn't turn down any offer either. Why would he? He's a man and on top of that, he's sterile and immune to most diseases. Riskless sex, yes please. He's tall, handsome, has a deep voice and is a strong man...so...I don't see how women wouldn't be attracted to him, in the contrary. As stated before, she plays games because of characters / stories and Witcher excels at those.

Bonus points for me alos enjoying the game

I'm very much looking forward to playing The Witcher 3, and plan on going all-out Nilfgaard (huzzah, huzzah!)

Meanwhile, I'm playing Sunset Overdrive - quite enjoying it so far.

My computer isn't manly enough for Witcher 3 :(
And I just upgraded it too >.<

Dragged back in to MWO... Dayamn they made serious improvements.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Ok, finished up sunrider. 8 hours, although it's probably should be more like 10, as I accidentally skipped a few side missions (pretty good for a free game). That and I'm really good at tactical games, but damn is that game frustratingly hard. I might try and to a play-through on spacewhale mode (the hardest difficulty) just to see how long it takes me .

I'd really like to see the dev take the battles and management features of that game and make another, more expansive game. It felt like there was available progression in that game that I couldn't get to because there wasn't enough battles. Although it did leave at a bit of a cliffhanger, so a sequel might be possible.

I also discovered that I kind of like the visual novel form (makes sense, I like books, video games, and a good portion of animu), so I might try some more of those.

I've played it. It's fun, though some of the audio comments can get a bit tedious.

"Ima firin' mah lazers!"



From what I understand, the game isn't complete yet. The base game was released, and a subsequent patch was released that added more missions and storyline. One more content patch is on the slate, and will probably occur during the fall of this year. That patch should wrap up the storyline.

And, as you point out, the missions can be *very* difficult. I played it in VN mode just for fun, and even in that mode some of the missions could very easily have been lost (I didn't actually come close to losing any of them, but some minimal tactical thinking was still required to beat them).


The reason why the last content patch hasn't been released yet is due to another project that's available on Steam. Sunrider Academy moves the protagonist to a school of the same name. The protagonist is the school's Student Body Vice President, and is helping the President (guess who) get three clubs back on track. Said clubs are run by girls who are suspiciously similar to Sunrider Academy characters - namely, Miss "Firin' Mah Lazers!", the baking-obsessed engineer, and the character recovered from stasis (can't remember the names off the top of my head; it's been a while). AFAIK, the other girls aren't represented in the game. There's a demo out that covers the first part of the game, and I believe the completed game is now available for purchase on Steam.

Cool, I'll have to check it out.

I do enjoy a good management game.

Geek And Sundry played Sunrider Academy on their "So you don't have to" show on twitch, where they play... rather esoteric games.

It's less a management sim and more a dating sim, from what I saw.

You don't have any qualms about incest, right?

I watch a feth-ton of anime. What do you think.


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I just played the first battle in space whale mode. I was almost defeated by two missile cusiers. With a net profit of $38. This isn't going to go well.

Edit: and I was killed in two rounds on the second battle. Something tells me that this might not be possible.

I got my hands on Shadows Of Mordor as it was on sale on Steam. Now granted I have just begun playing, but it seems my dislike from this game stems from me playing it on consol the the times I played it before aquring my own copy.
Liking the whole feel much, much better. So it looks like it was well worth the price

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Skyrim has the worst story of any video game seen in a long time. It literally is a zero effort, sit down one afternoon "story". Really liked the game, but even FIFA games have a better story.

An ocean with the depth of a puddle is a line DayZ's creator Dean Hall came up with once when talking about that game with TotalBiscuit. Its certainly true, if you want anything more than a open world romping experience then you'll have to look elsewhere. Witcher 3's coming out soon however, so its not like it'll have a monopoly at even that aspect much more.

Which is just tragic, really. They proved through Morrowind and even (ugh) Oblivion that they can write engaging characters and deep stories. Skyrim suffered from 'AAA Syndrome' I think, where they got distracted by the shiny effects and fancy graphics and 'oh, duel wielding!' and all, and lost sight of the core ideas of an RPG.

I've been playing metriod prime lately as I got the trilogy on Wii U and I love it!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships. FAR too much World of Warships. There's some stuff I wanted to do over the weekend but I failed because ... World of Warships.

Still waiting for my beta invite.

How unbalanced is it? WoT is one of the most unbalanced multi player games that I have ever played.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:


Speaking of xcom does anybody wish they'd add more enemy human sub-factions to face or have an EXALT focused expansion where you play as EXALT and fight both xcom and somewhat the aliens. Just as long as they give EXALT more crap it'd make sense for an interesting alternate timeline game.

Yes. Really just anything that's more XCom. Haven't heard anything about a sequel or anything.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:


Speaking of xcom does anybody wish they'd add more enemy human sub-factions to face or have an EXALT focused expansion where you play as EXALT and fight both xcom and somewhat the aliens. Just as long as they give EXALT more crap it'd make sense for an interesting alternate timeline game.

Yes. Really just anything that's more XCom. Haven't heard anything about a sequel or anything.

There have been some vague hints that they're up to something. Unfortunately, I don't think any actual details have been provided.

And Firaxis and 2K have not abandoned the property. Firaxis did a week-long publicity event focusing on a different game each day, and XCom was included. And I still get updates on Facebook regarding the game. No real news, but lots of stuff that ensures that people are still thinking about the game.

I will be very surprised if we don't see a sequel announcement in the not too distant future.

Anvildude wrote:

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Skyrim has the worst story of any video game seen in a long time. It literally is a zero effort, sit down one afternoon "story". Really liked the game, but even FIFA games have a better story.

An ocean with the depth of a puddle is a line DayZ's creator Dean Hall came up with once when talking about that game with TotalBiscuit. Its certainly true, if you want anything more than a open world romping experience then you'll have to look elsewhere. Witcher 3's coming out soon however, so its not like it'll have a monopoly at even that aspect much more.

Which is just tragic, really. They proved through Morrowind and even (ugh) Oblivion that they can write engaging characters and deep stories. Skyrim suffered from 'AAA Syndrome' I think, where they got distracted by the shiny effects and fancy graphics and 'oh, duel wielding!' and all, and lost sight of the core ideas of an RPG.

Fully correct. If it comes down to it, the only upside Skyrim had were the graphics.

Graphics were mediocre. Combat system was utter trash. Balance was terrible. Story not existant. Zero memorable characters. Lots of immersion breaking i.e. by having a "civil war" with 10 combattants per battle. Poor AI. Bad interface. Etc. Skyrim was a giant game with lots of exploration but if you closely look at its individual components, you wonder why you love the game so much.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

That kind of always confused me. I've known at least a couple girls that actually enjoyed 'The Witcher' and it just doesn't seem like they're the target audience. I'm not saying people can't enjoy what they love as some love their 'ponies' but it just feels strange to me. Mostly it's the fact that Geralt is kind of a man-***** and pretty much bangs any and every woman. I suppose they could enjoy it from the female perspective but Geralt (a dude that looks like a necromancer/corpse with cat eyes) doesn't exactly seem like the most exciting sexual partner unless you're into having sex with dead bodies and/or are a twilight fan in which case you may want to seek help.

The Witcher isn't about sex. Not in the slightiest. It's a leftover from the first game that had the stupid card idea and people who reduce the game down to this just don't know much about the game. The first game's combat was bad, the sex cards were bad, the crafting was way too cumbersome, but it was the best RPG story-wise, by a huge shot, until The Witcher 2. It was a RPG that had actual /decisions/ that /mattered/, not that Bioware crap.

For my wife - she enjoys RPGs and doesn't care about the character's gender. Geralt doesn't bang anyone in sight, but he doesn't turn down any offer either. Why would he? He's a man and on top of that, he's sterile and immune to most diseases. Riskless sex, yes please. He's tall, handsome, has a deep voice and is a strong man...so...I don't see how women wouldn't be attracted to him, in the contrary. As stated before, she plays games because of characters / stories and Witcher excels at those.

Bonus points for me alos enjoying the game

Well i only played the first game. Perhaps i went in hearing the complaints though. For me though i'm a massive pervert i don't really like to combine it with anything though i find dirty movies that have ridiculous set-ups (the crocodile hunter searching for the devine booty or a dude removing a mattress tag and getting arrested by a mattress policeman if he doesn't take it up the butt) to be absolutely hilarious.

So yeah for me at least it was immersion breaking to play and partway through going through about a paragraph of dialog with a woman she is somehow convinced to bang. I won't lie that it excited me but in such a way to break immersion.

You have to admit Triss is pretty freaking hot though. Sorry if my hormones are acting out but dayum i'd tap that. I'd tap that till i died of exhaustion probably.

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In a positive light as i said before 'The Witcher' has some nice fantasy setting and interesting plants and mythical creatures. Elves and dwarfs fought together in the first game. Perhaps you guys would judge me for choices in the first game but i chose 'the order' or in other words the religious dudes. It was more because the non-humans kept taking humans hostage and the fact that up till the bank scene when i was forced only two choices of both main quest-line characters i preferred the holy knight priest dude. This is more how i felt of the elf guy (which i thought was a jerk that was full of himself) and the knight (which was religious but nice and totally vouched for you before). Sadly later when i had to help out the town they reversed the roles with the female characters and one was totally rage induced (partly with reason) while the other was nicer in general. I wanted to help the non-humans escape but couldn't at that point. I only really saw myself as a peace-keeper in the game or somebody to help out civilians.

I also found the potions interesting but without them 'the witcher' was basically half a man (joke about that however you wish).

Personally i couldn't enjoy the decision-making in the first 'witcher' game. Everything seems so extreme in one direction or another. Seriously can i protect the witch in the first act without burning down a whole town and killing everybody just because the angry mob fights back. Surely not every single person in the town was super bad and i don't think it required an absolute purging even if the witch was super good. Seriously only crazy people murder on that type of scale (purposely anyway).

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships. FAR too much World of Warships. There's some stuff I wanted to do over the weekend but I failed because ... World of Warships.

Still waiting for my beta invite.

How unbalanced is it? WoT is one of the most unbalanced multi player games that I have ever played.

This may shock and appal you, but I don't think it's unbalanced at all.

Yes, I can see your reaction:


Right, hear me out:

Many times the match maker is spot on. Sometimes the matchmaker gives more ships to a side that doesn't have as many high tier ships as the other. Good idea in theory, bad in practice. The "ZERG RUSH" usually wins but I've had very balanced matches too. You just need a team with functional human beings instead of "LOLOLOL I'M ON A BOAT, LOLOLOL!"

Why? 'Cause this ain't WoT, boys and girls, here every ship counts, every ship manages to damage the opponent, never mind the tier and if that wasn't enough, Torpedos are the supreme equalizer.

No ship is God, the premium all have their strengths and weaknesses. I've already seen a Yamato going down HARD without doing diddly squat because it advanced solo through an area where many of us were gathered. Yes, it took a hell of a beating, but battleships aren't eternal.

Of course, next big update we are getting American Battleships and Japanese Air Carriers, so who knows what happens to balance then!

P.S: Because of the overwhelming requests, Wargaming decided that if you buy one of 3 Premium ships they have for sale (already got 2 of them Wargaming is already making money out of me and it's a closed beta ) you get CBT access so if you are really desperate for HOT, SEXY, JUICY AND STEAMY SHIP ON SHIP ACTION (and who the feth isn't?!), this may be your chance!



Come, KONGOU IS WAITING FOR YOU!



Are you going to leave that girl hanging?!

(and here's a review of the current premium ships that give you access to the CBT)



(Yes, I had FAR too much fun with this post )

More shogun 2: fall of the samurai. I defeated a bunch of enemies after a little bit of a rough start and now i'm making 4.5k koku a turn which is pretty sweet honestly. My tech is kind of in the crapper from taking so many traditionalist territories and reducing my tech level so much.

I was going to buy that new Hearthstone Adventure, but something got goofed up during the code activation thing and now I've lost €20,-

I'd ask Blizzard for help, were it not for the fact that they want me to give them my fething ID! What the hell, Blizzard?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I watch a feth-ton of anime. What do you think.


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I just played the first battle in space whale mode. I was almost defeated by two missile cusiers. With a net profit of $38. This isn't going to go well.

Edit: and I was killed in two rounds on the second battle. Something tells me that this might not be possible.

I played it on normal, but ended up cheating part way through. Still a kind of neat game. It's the kind of game I love because I just want to tinker with the mechanics so much. There are a few aspects that I want to see changed. Like the energy system, I don't like systems where movement and attacking share the same bar because one is way way more importation then the other and you end up getting really static slug fests. It's a little worse in SR because you have such high ranges too. I also didn't like how every character had a set of the same attacks they could have at least named them differently. Finally the dating sim aspect was rather odd because your the commanding officer. Your not allowed to date any of them (maybe Krystal, but I doubt it), but they keep coming onto you. :S I also whould have liked more dialog choices.

They defiantly need more dialogue choices. I often disagreed with both of them, and there really needs to be a "exasperted snark" option, which is what my reaction was most of the time.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

This may shock and appal you, but I don't think it's unbalanced at all.

How often is one team completely demolished by the other? It seems to happen around 50% of the time in WoT.

Well I bought the Yubari, this had better be good or I will hunt you down!

Given that there are apparently a few people on here who play it is there a fleet (or whatever platoons are called)?

nomotog wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I watch a feth-ton of anime. What do you think.


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I just played the first battle in space whale mode. I was almost defeated by two missile cusiers. With a net profit of $38. This isn't going to go well.

Edit: and I was killed in two rounds on the second battle. Something tells me that this might not be possible.

I played it on normal, but ended up cheating part way through. Still a kind of neat game. It's the kind of game I love because I just want to tinker with the mechanics so much. There are a few aspects that I want to see changed. Like the energy system, I don't like systems where movement and attacking share the same bar because one is way way more importation then the other and you end up getting really static slug fests. It's a little worse in SR because you have such high ranges too. I also didn't like how every character had a set of the same attacks they could have at least named them differently. Finally the dating sim aspect was rather odd because your the commanding officer. Your not allowed to date any of them (maybe Krystal, but I doubt it), but they keep coming onto you. :S I also whould have liked more dialog choices.

Just remember that there's still one more part to be made available. Your dialogue choices up to now will likely influence the final ending.

Does World of Warships have the same problem in world of tanks, where you can just fire all day at an enemy tank and do nothing, but all it takes is one shot and you die outright?

I got tired of that in WoT

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Does World of Warships have the same problem in world of tanks, where you can just fire all day at an enemy tank and do nothing, but all it takes is one shot and you die outright?

I got tired of that in WoT

Not actually how WoT works but sure.

And yes and no. it all depends on where you hit a ship, with what etc. Torpedo's can and will sink you in a single spread. Battle cannons (15 inch and up) can kill you in a couple of hits to the citadel.

 Soladrin wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Does World of Warships have the same problem in world of tanks, where you can just fire all day at an enemy tank and do nothing, but all it takes is one shot and you die outright?

I got tired of that in WoT

Not actually how WoT works but sure.

And yes and no. it all depends on where you hit a ship, with what etc. Torpedo's can and will sink you in a single spread. Battle cannons (15 inch and up) can kill you in a couple of hits to the citadel.

WoT has the armor and armor slope thing: If your shell doesn't penetrate it does nothing or the slope of a tank's armor can make a shell bounce.

In WoW you will always damage enemy ships, doesn't matter what tier you are. The major damage is when your shell penetrates the citadel, otherwise you may do reduced damage because it didn't fully penetrate or it over-penetrated (like a battleship shooting against a destroyer. It will either work very well or the shell will just over-penetrate without exploding and will do minimal damage).

Of course battleships are suppose to hurt like hell. We fire once every 30 seconds.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

This may shock and appal you, but I don't think it's unbalanced at all.

How often is one team completely demolished by the other? It seems to happen around 50% of the time in WoT.

Not that many. I've never seen ridiculous scores like I see in WoT either with one guy carrying the entire team.

The max I have seen was 4. I ALMOST got 5 (once) but I got wasted by a destroyer... using it's cannons and I was in a tier VIII battleship. I was in such low health after a battle with a cruiser and an enemy Battleship he didn't even need to use torpedos.

Once I remembered what the shift key was for its actually quite a decent game. I did just get broken in half my a team mates torpedo salvo though (he apparently failed to notice me steaming next to him for most of the match).

I have managed 3 kills in my Katori.

Eumerin wrote:

nomotog wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I watch a feth-ton of anime. What do you think.


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I just played the first battle in space whale mode. I was almost defeated by two missile cusiers. With a net profit of $38. This isn't going to go well.

Edit: and I was killed in two rounds on the second battle. Something tells me that this might not be possible.

I played it on normal, but ended up cheating part way through. Still a kind of neat game. It's the kind of game I love because I just want to tinker with the mechanics so much. There are a few aspects that I want to see changed. Like the energy system, I don't like systems where movement and attacking share the same bar because one is way way more importation then the other and you end up getting really static slug fests. It's a little worse in SR because you have such high ranges too. I also didn't like how every character had a set of the same attacks they could have at least named them differently. Finally the dating sim aspect was rather odd because your the commanding officer. Your not allowed to date any of them (maybe Krystal, but I doubt it), but they keep coming onto you. :S I also whould have liked more dialog choices.

Just remember that there's still one more part to be made available. Your dialogue choices up to now will likely influence the final ending.

Who knows how. The game has a few alignment bars. You have your kind of good guy vs practical guy bar. Then each of the girls has their own bar attached to them. Your final choice likely has a consequence all by itself.

The real question is how long will it take for the next episode and if they will be making any improvements to the mechanics. Oh and that reminds me. The command point mechanic was rather cool, but under used. I loved the idea of a limited currency that let you pick extra dialog choices, but I could only recall two times when I had the option and they options weren't much different then the ones you already had.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Once I remembered what the shift key was for its actually quite a decent game. I did just get broken in half my a team mates torpedo salvo though (he apparently failed to notice me steaming next to him for most of the match).

I have managed 3 kills in my Katori.

Yes, sometimes you get some VERY oblivious torpedo users.

I decided to take a break from continually dying in PS2, and tried out warframe. Quite fun.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I decided to take a break from continually dying in PS2, and tried out warframe. Quite fun.

PC, PS4, or Xbone?