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Warframe, Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal, Terraria, Tropico 5, and Stardrive 2 are my last five played games right now. All of them quite good.

 Melissia wrote:
Warframe, Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal, Terraria, Tropico 5, and Stardrive 2 are my last five played games right now. All of them quite good.

So are the Tropic games like simcity? I have 4 but have yet to play it.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Well, my luck in mount and blade has finally turned around, I now control a city and two castles, with a steadily growing army. Although the swandians seem to have the innate ability to piss off everybody so it's constantly fighting a multi-front war...

BTW thanks for all the advice/suggestions everybody. I just realized I forgot.

Ugh, I hate the Swadians. Their knights are pretty good fighters though.
But yeah, congrats on the new castles! Did you side with a nation, or start your own?

 djphranq wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Warframe, Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal, Terraria, Tropico 5, and Stardrive 2 are my last five played games right now. All of them quite good.

So are the Tropic games like simcity? I have 4 but have yet to play it.

A little. But not very much.

You select every building that's built, aside from the shacks that the people build on their own if they can't live in something nicer that you built. You essentially run the economy, and determine whether your island's income comes from tourism, industry, sucking up to the foreign powers, etc... The game requires balancing the various factions - both internal (greens, religious, military, etc...) and external (US, USSR, Europe, Middle East, and China). Annoy the US or the USSR too much, and they'll invade you.

The game doesn't take itself too seriously, and has a lot of humor sprinkled throughout.

GTA V, ran into a hacker yesterday, who was fairly nice for once, having a little fun. Then did some War Thunder, the new night maps are amazing, with the light effects off the spotlights being really cool, and not being able to see 3/4 of the enemy force also means planning is key.

Binding of Isaac rebirth, did another chest run, I want to do a mega-satan run but CBF.

Minecraft. hm, looking to try and finish my road, and also do the top two floors of my wizard tower/lighthouse.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

Meh. It doesn't make sense to me that each race would only ever live in and fight for their home province. Some people emigrate, some people might be political exiles and fugitives. In all the Elder Scrolls games there are NPCs of all races scattered throughout the world whatever the province, whether it's Skyrim, Morrowind or Cyrodiil.

And the numbers of players playing a race in the "wrong" faction will be balanced out by the fact that you have to pay extra for the privilege, buy the adventurers pack like I did or the imperial edition. Most players won't bother, so it'll only ever be a minority.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

Meh. It doesn't make sense to me that each race would only ever live in and fight for their home province. Some people emigrate, some people might be political exiles and fugitives. In all the Elder Scrolls games there are NPCs of all races scattered throughout the world whatever the province, whether it's Skyrim, Morrowind or Cyrodiil.

And the numbers of players playing a race in the "wrong" faction will be balanced out by the fact that you have to pay extra for the privilege, buy the adventurers pack like I did or the imperial edition. Most players won't bother, so it'll only ever be a minority.

It's more to do with how Cyrodiil isn't a jungle, and with how somehow the Daedra manage to invade Nirn with 5 out of the 6 towers still active.

Got to the finale stretch of PoE, and by Odin! I hate cowardly evil doesr whom sees the need to hide behind 20+ feet tall living statues!!! After several tries I gave up out of sheer frustation. Need to rearm and retool my party me thinks, thankfully I have a abundat pile of alternative weaons and armour. But I wish I had taken more front line figthers with me and less characthers with ranged weaponry

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

Meh. It doesn't make sense to me that each race would only ever live in and fight for their home province. Some people emigrate, some people might be political exiles and fugitives. In all the Elder Scrolls games there are NPCs of all races scattered throughout the world whatever the province, whether it's Skyrim, Morrowind or Cyrodiil.

And the numbers of players playing a race in the "wrong" faction will be balanced out by the fact that you have to pay extra for the privilege, buy the adventurers pack like I did or the imperial edition. Most players won't bother, so it'll only ever be a minority.

It's more to do with how Cyrodiil isn't a jungle, and with how somehow the Daedra manage to invade Nirn with 5 out of the 6 towers still active.

Oh, so you were making a non sequitur.

Which Alliance zone would people say is the nicest?

Doing the WT level 4 grind to enter. Doing the ME 410 for the germans first so I can get a decent multi-role platform. Then I want to try and pick up the fighters. Once I have the ME 410, Essentially its just roll down with the 4s and get the HO.

Also. Wake island makes me want to cry. My teams don't even KNOW how to fight it properly.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

Meh. It doesn't make sense to me that each race would only ever live in and fight for their home province. Some people emigrate, some people might be political exiles and fugitives. In all the Elder Scrolls games there are NPCs of all races scattered throughout the world whatever the province, whether it's Skyrim, Morrowind or Cyrodiil.

And the numbers of players playing a race in the "wrong" faction will be balanced out by the fact that you have to pay extra for the privilege, buy the adventurers pack like I did or the imperial edition. Most players won't bother, so it'll only ever be a minority.

It's more to do with how Cyrodiil isn't a jungle, and with how somehow the Daedra manage to invade Nirn with 5 out of the 6 towers still active.

Oh, so you were making a non sequitur.

Which Alliance zone would people say is the nicest?

No, I was simply saying how those things break a lot of canon from all the previous games, and I dont even care about the time travelling books!

I have almost table-flipped with the Pillars of Eternity's Chapter II end

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I have almost table-flipped with the end of Pillars of Eternity's Chapter II end.

Spoiler:

I was very pleased with the Council scene, how I had the oppurtunity to protect Animancy and help the Duc reach a decision. I've heard nothing but good things from Lady Webb about him so I wanted to meet the Duc. I was happily wondering how this would change the land, how Chapter III could be different if I accused Animancy and he banned it from Dyrwood.

NOTHING mattered, the bad guy shows up, kills the Duc, feths up everything and goes away. feth sake.

I know rigth, it was very VERY unamusing to watch all my hard labors come unraveled! I think I went on a murder spree afterwards


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Found out I am two levels below what is needed to kill the end boss..... And with no way out of the damp pit of damnation the cretin decided to hide inn I need to restart my quest for vengance!! Much hair has been torn out in sheer rage at this moment in time

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Just started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I want to play a stealthy archer (which is what I typically play in Elder Scrolls anyway) so went with a Bosmer Nightblade). But I want to pick my faction and not be locked by race so bought the Adveturers Pack.

Which faction would people recommend? Which regions are the most interesting and fun, quest and geography wise? I'm partial to Ebonheart Pact because Skyrim and Morrowind.

ESO makes me scream out in rage with it's "lore".

Meh. It doesn't make sense to me that each race would only ever live in and fight for their home province. Some people emigrate, some people might be political exiles and fugitives. In all the Elder Scrolls games there are NPCs of all races scattered throughout the world whatever the province, whether it's Skyrim, Morrowind or Cyrodiil.

And the numbers of players playing a race in the "wrong" faction will be balanced out by the fact that you have to pay extra for the privilege, buy the adventurers pack like I did or the imperial edition. Most players won't bother, so it'll only ever be a minority.

It's more to do with how Cyrodiil isn't a jungle, and with how somehow the Daedra manage to invade Nirn with 5 out of the 6 towers still active.

Oh, so you were making a non sequitur.

Which Alliance zone would people say is the nicest?

No, I was simply saying how those things break a lot of canon from all the previous games, and I dont even care about the time travelling books!

Well remember the good old catch all excuse that history can be rewritten because of the Elder Scrolls (for instance Vivec's origin going from him being a prostitute/ gang member who joined up with some nobody mercenary to having always been a god who had done so many epic things before he even met Nerevar) . Not that that is an excuse for them messing up their own canon of course, but I suppose it can help soothe that pain. Though I will say that that clause does explicitly account that Cyrodiil was a jungle, but was turned into what it was in Oblivion through the bending of the scrolls by the Imperials (*cough* retconning *cough*).

Hey at least they have an interesting way of handling these mistakes.

No no, Talos used the CHIM (ie he used the Creation Kit) to clear Cyrodiil of its jungles as a reward to his Red Legions! *nods*

And Vivec was just a simple NPC till he realized he was in a game and save scummed his way to becoming a god.

...Which is actually canon.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
And Vivec was just a simple NPC till he realized he was in a game and save scummed his way to becoming a god.

...Which is actually canon.

He also floated by making a chair invisible with console commands.

 Trondheim wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I have almost table-flipped with the end of Pillars of Eternity's Chapter II end.

Spoiler:

I was very pleased with the Council scene, how I had the oppurtunity to protect Animancy and help the Duc reach a decision. I've heard nothing but good things from Lady Webb about him so I wanted to meet the Duc. I was happily wondering how this would change the land, how Chapter III could be different if I accused Animancy and he banned it from Dyrwood.

NOTHING mattered, the bad guy shows up, kills the Duc, feths up everything and goes away. feth sake.

I know rigth, it was very VERY unamusing to watch all my hard labors come unraveled! I think I went on a murder spree afterwards


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Found out I am two levels below what is needed to kill the end boss..... And with no way out of the damp pit of damnation the cretin decided to hide inn I need to restart my quest for vengance!! Much hair has been torn out in sheer rage at this moment in time

It's really disappointing that the only challenge in that game comes from being underlevelled.

Don't forget, Daggerfall had you mucking about with timetravel, parallel universes, and a big ol' Universe Reset button.

In some settings, non-consistent lore is itself lore. Like Terminator.

The Mount and Blade Warband Iron Europe mode. Its based on the Napoleonic Wars DLC, but the setting is WWI. Its not as active as the DLC, but the least I can say is that you can actually hit the side of a barn with your gun unlike Napoleonic Wars. It'd be nice to see it developed and to have a larger player base, though as it is right now it'll do.

I played it for a bit and wound up picking the sniper class. Let the grunts fight it out in the trenches. Me? I go find a nice rock and sit there plinking off nameplates. Seriously, players in that game have a supreme aversion to turning around and looking at the guy standing on top of a hill 10 metres away... As a bonus this mod actually includes a zooming scope, unlike others, so you can properly snipe (along with the aforementioned guns being semi-accurate this time, though the terrain hit boxes are weird at times, leading to things like barbed wire stopping bullets...).

It'd be nice to see them implement more countries, more weapons, gas attacks, trench weapons (there's units with Trench armour and knives, but that's about it. Armoured sniper and machine gunners would be cool too, but a tad OP), and hell cavalry would be nice too, though that'd somewhat mess with the attrition of the foot soldiers taking trenches. =P

Currentky chasing down the last quest part needed to build my reputation with Definace bay following the untimely demise of a important figure. Still wanting to chocke the person whom had the finale say when it came to how they built the story in this game

Armoed Warfare was a blast this weekend!

Had a few tanks tied up on some battles with the T-64 as they panicked with bounces off the turret, then a BMPT-Terminator remembered he was zippy and could kill me all alone, screw the other MBTs hanging back as my T-64 had done a couple of minutes delaying action, lost a couplke of allied tanks who went too far forward, got killed by those tanks, mainly that "Terminator"

T-64


BMPT Terminator

the 30mm auto cannons are what kills you fastest.

I decided that, after owning it for three years, I should try playing Red Faction: Guerrilla. It's all right, so far. Things break very soothingly.

Life is Strange Episode! I'm so excited I might pee a little.

Also been reading the Star Wars book "Revan". I'm getting hella nostalgic for KOTOR.


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Just finished Life Is Strange episode 4.

I'm still swearing.

Played a bit of GTA San Andreas.
- AI driver runs over pedestrian.
- AI driver flips out and drives into walls.
- Ambulance arrives ramming into 4 cars and a few pedestrians.
- Pedestrian is saved and walks away as if nothing has happened. Meanwhile, the cars the ambulance hit explode and are on fire.

I've also made a pedestrian grinder by standing on a car while another car that's trying to ram me drifts in a circle around the car I'm standing on. People walk into the car's path, get hit, and next thing I know, I have 1000$ by doing almost absolutely nothing.

I've been playing a lot of Ace Combat: Infinity on my PS3 lately.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I've been playing a lot of Ace Combat: Infinity on my PS3 lately.

Any good? Been pondering getting this game

ARGH. What is it with players and domination fights in War Thunder. I always get the team that don't care that domination is won by landing, or who can't land because they will be "exposed" to fire.

Lost my last 3 matches because of it, and lost a wager.

Giving Skyforge a try. Why not? It's free-to-play.

Didn't do much yet, but what I did, I loved it! Very fun MMO with an ARPG combat system, kinda like Tera.

The look of the game is also something I greatly enjoy: Sci-fi but with plenty of fantasy designs. Hell, your starter classes are fantasy-like but very sci-fied: Paladin (Tank), Cryomancer (Ice Mage - DPS) and Lightbringer (Healer)

Edit: Aaaand I forgot to mention a very important detail: You can switch class any time you want. The level up system is something out of Final Fantasy X / XIII with several nodes you unlock and after you reach a certain point with one of the base classes you gain access to all the others.
LOVE this system!