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For some reason, GTA San Andreas doesn't register my mouse anymore. May try re-installing it later.

Playing XCOM: Enemy Within with the Long War mod.

It's beyond fantastic and turns an already excellent game into something much closer in spirit to the original, earlier games.

 GrimDork wrote:

Shooters are much more predictable, almost always infinitely better for the first round or two and then I slowly get worse as I burn off whatever accumulated 'good at shooters' magic that slowly builds over time. I always seemed to to do better my first map or two after being away for a couple of weeks. But always worse after a few rounds. That's not luck so much as barely perceptible fatigue setting in though, I guess.

I experience this to an extent myself, particularly when playing the Batman combat maps. In "Arkham City" there was a map (now duplicated in Arkham Knight), where there were basically infinite bad guys. Still, you got a medal if you reached 100,000 points. - This, as you can guess, was a high number and something very difficult to pull off. - Infinite badguys, very finite health...
What I found was, I could get very, very near the goal - 92,000 to 98,000 points the first couple of times I tried it in a day. However, the more and more I tried it in a session, the worse I did, until eventually I was struggling to reach 50,000 points.

I eventually decided that the problem was adrenaline. - The more I tried, the more Bats died, the more excited I got. In this case, it wasn't a matter of practice being perfect, it was practice was making me sloppy! I did (after literally years), eventually reach this gold medal score and it was a words of a certain, shall we say, muppet, that helped me achieve it....

Master Yoda of course!

Yeah, frustration plays a factor too, but I find for twitchy games my control and precision fade preeeety quick. For hard levels like that, I usually leave them for a week and come back and that's the first thing I do. Doesn't always work..but sometimes.

Just found out today that I never got the 'Slingshot' DLC for X-com... bought it since it was on sale and reinstalled X-com. I'll probably start another campaign tonight after some hobby work.

 GrimDork wrote:
Ever have one of those sessions where you can literally perceive the ebb and flow of your own luck? I notice it more with tabletop games that directly use dice, but sometimes with games.

I'll start out all crits and max damages, and then it slowly winds down to where I'm rolling all ones, and then back and forth for awhile.

Mainly on tabletop for me, but my luck with anything in general is pretty piss-poor. A lot of the time there isn't even a downward spiral, it'll just be "okay, everything turns to gak now, have fun" for no apparent reason other than because it can. I have witnesses.

Did some DnD type campaigns using 40k models on TT Simulator. I only had luck with Kroot, and everything else got slaughtered to a man. Meanwhile, I had lucky enough rolls to get two knarlocs out of the deal (had to roll several 20's on a D20 for those)

Other than that, I restarted on Mount and Blade Warband. Relearning to fear mass crossbow volleys, and also laughing at Khergit without their horses. They cannot keep a castle for the life of them. And for the record, I'm not using the hilariously OP nords as my faction either.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Did some DnD type campaigns using 40k models on TT Simulator. I only had luck with Kroot, and everything else got slaughtered to a man. Meanwhile, I had lucky enough rolls to get two knarlocs out of the deal (had to roll several 20's on a D20 for those)

Other than that, I restarted on Mount and Blade Warband. Relearning to fear mass crossbow volleys, and also laughing at Khergit without their horses. They cannot keep a castle for the life of them. And for the record, I'm not using the hilariously OP nords as my faction either.

Wait. Tabletop Simulator can do that? I thought it was only limited to the classic board games like chess.

Yeah, the steam workshop, among other places, allows lots of different pieces to be integrated. I even saw a fallout themed monopoly you could play on there. You can still play chess if it suits you, but there's a lot more to it.

I just bought and downloaded the complete edition of Civilization V on Steam, since it was 75% off. I'm a big fan of the Civ series, so I've been waiting for an excuse to get this. Probably gonna be playing it for a while as my go-to game.

Installing Path of Exile to give it a try and because my friend is talking about trying it out for game nights.

Also installing ZMR because why not.

I've still never finished MnB to my satisfaction. I mean technically native is sandbox with no win condition... But I could have theoretically beaten it. And I think prophesy of pendor actually could be beaten... Alas I always get bored before I game over the country.

Path of Exile was interesting... feels... classic. I think I'll stick with Diablo III though.

Still need to try ZMR

Fighting dragons in Skyrim. Good times, mostly.

The thing is, the AI gets a bit confused by multiple threats, don't they? Here I am in a bandit camp, a blood dragon coming straight at me. One of the bandits shouts "Slay the dragon!"

And then she shoots me in the face.

SupCom 2
Its ok. Not as good as the first one though.
They got rid of a few neat mechanics, like using power stations to make factories more efficient.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
SupCom 2
Its ok. Not as good as the first one though.
They got rid of a few neat mechanics, like using power stations to make factories more efficient.

I used to have part 1 but never got around to playing it before I lost the discs. If I haven't really played part 1 is the missing mechanic noticeable with playing Part 2? Its not like some game breaker right?

I don't recall it even being missing.

The mechanic in question is, I believe, where if you surround a production facility [mass extractor, land factory, etc] with power production, it enhances the efficiency of the production facility a bit.

How much depended on the tech level of the power production, the tech level of the production facility, and how much was in contact with the production facility.

But my memory, which may be wrong, it telling me that it was in 2, but maybe didn't have the visual connections between the power production and the factory.

If you never played 1, it's not a big deal to not have it in 2, but it was an extra tactic that you could use [and possibly still can. Might try a quick round tonight to double check, but that's only because this has piqued my interest - I have too much settlement building in Fallout 4 to be away from that for too long.

 djphranq wrote:
Path of Exile was interesting... feels... classic. I think I'll stick with Diablo III though.

Still need to try ZMR

Diablo and Path Of Excile are two widely different games, but both are good in their own way. Except for Diablo 3 witch was horrid

 djphranq wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
SupCom 2
Its ok. Not as good as the first one though.
They got rid of a few neat mechanics, like using power stations to make factories more efficient.

I used to have part 1 but never got around to playing it before I lost the discs. If I haven't really played part 1 is the missing mechanic noticeable with playing Part 2? Its not like some game breaker right?

It doesn't break the game, but Adjacency Bonuses did open up new strategies, and added a bit of depth.
They also changed how building works; before you can start construction at any time, and it would slowly drain your resources by a certain amount, meaning that you had to balance income and usage.
In supcom 2 that doesn't happen; it only constructs when you have the required resources, you can never go in the red. I thought the old system was more interesting.
You can no longer assist in building structures either, which sucks.

There's no tier either; everything has been simplified with a blanket research system.
The research system is ok I guess, but I felt more confortable with the tiers; you do some pretty insane stuff with Tier 3 extractors and high tier shield generators.

Overall, the scale feels smaller to me, which is not how supcom should be.

SupCom2 lost me by turning the Illuminate into a faction with ridiculously-named units. I didn't even bother installing the game after reading the manual and seeing it; it was simply an instant, irreparable turn-off.

Oh, and 'Cybranosaurus Rex'? Fething really?!

 Avatar 720 wrote:
SupCom2 lost me by turning the Illuminate into a faction with ridiculously-named units. I didn't even bother installing the game after reading the manual and seeing it; it was simply an instant, irreparable turn-off.

Oh, and 'Cybranosaurus Rex'? Fething really?!

Yeah, that too.
Everything felt wrong. Like they tried designing it for a younger audience or something.

I don't want to say they dumbed it down, as that phrase is used way too often concerning changes to mechanics...but they dumbed it down.

Hit Infamy level 4 on Payday 2 and now I can slowly grind back up to level 100 again with my two decks.

I was playing Borderlands 2, which I enjoyed until I got to the Bunker bot in "Where angels fear to tread". Whomever thought that was appropriate for a single level 24 player should be fired and never given a job anywhere again.

 Trondheim wrote:

 djphranq wrote:
Path of Exile was interesting... feels... classic. I think I'll stick with Diablo III though.

Still need to try ZMR

Diablo and Path Of Excile are two widely different games, but both are good in their own way. Except for Diablo 3 witch was horrid

Can you elaborate? Maybe I just haven't gone further enough into the game to see the differences?

Gave Sunless Sea a go on the free weekend at the suggestion of a friend of mine. Very interesting roguelike so far and might pick it up if it goes on sale for less.

Also tried giving Deus Ex a go, but the game's incredibly dark. Like, literally dark. I can't really see a thing that's going on.

 djphranq wrote:

Can you elaborate? Maybe I just haven't gone further enough into the game to see the differences?

Personally he was just being terrible.


PoE and Diablo, on the surface play similarly: top down, 3rd person hack/slash type game with skills....

From there, EVERYTHING is different. If you've played both, you undoubtedly know the leveling systems are vastly different, and in PoE your skills are largely determined by socketed gems. This opens up significant variations in play style between classes, etc.


Personally, I think Diablo 3 is a good game. While I don't really "like" the season/drop system they've gone with, it works for them. Unless there's some expansion for PoE that I don't know about, I personally felt that the game was a bit too short.

Started playing Bloodborne, having decided to go with a PS4. Really enjoying the atmosphere, but the controls have changed a bit from the souls games, which is taking a bit to get used to

RP-PvP campaign on Argent Dawn EU. I am having a blast!


On the second last picture, I am that Tauren paladin in the distance!

SH Ascension. Fun so far but pretty darn hard.

Also tried giving Deus Ex a go, but the game's incredibly dark. Like, literally dark. I can't really see a thing that's going on.

Dx1?

Definitely check your gamma settings in menu and have a look at:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/new-vision

Improves the gfx a bit.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 djphranq wrote:

Can you elaborate? Maybe I just haven't gone further enough into the game to see the differences?

Personally he was just being terrible.


PoE and Diablo, on the surface play similarly: top down, 3rd person hack/slash type game with skills....

From there, EVERYTHING is different. If you've played both, you undoubtedly know the leveling systems are vastly different, and in PoE your skills are largely determined by socketed gems. This opens up significant variations in play style between classes, etc.


Personally, I think Diablo 3 is a good game. While I don't really "like" the season/drop system they've gone with, it works for them. Unless there's some expansion for PoE that I don't know about, I personally felt that the game was a bit too short.

Boy you have not seen me being terrible And yes, i am very,very aware that skills and What not are different.