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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

Anvildude wrote:
@ Overlord Thraka

Ooof- don't like Skyrim? Might I ask why, precisely? Depending on why you don't like it, Morrowind might actually be right up your alley- it's enough different in terms of gameplay and story that you may still enjoy it, even if you dislike Skyrim. Graphics can be updated with mods, easily.

And speaking of Mods- you're a PC gamer- have you tried modded versions of games you enjoy? I know that Oblivion, at least, has one or two completely different games developed using the Modding engine Bethesda provided.


Oh I've modded the crap out of most of my games.

I found Skyrim boring and the menus awful. Werewolf mode was cool though

 
   
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You might enjoy Morrowind, then. Completely different menu system, and the story in Morrowind is second to none. Plus, it's a game which actually demands you properly explore, and pay attention to things like directions that the NPCs give you- for having very little voice-acting, the NPCs are actually a lot more characterful than anyone in Skyrim or Oblivion, I think. The text-based interaction menus allow for a lot more character building.

Just... avoid Marksmanship combat- bows, crossbows, throwing stars, daggers and darts. For a first-time player, the chance-based mechanics on those are super annoying.

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Alternating between Black Desert Online and Battlefleet Gothic, with a bit of Battle Brothers.

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pontiac, michigan; usa

Ok just beat commander difficulty in ironman mode of xcom 2. That went ridiculously well in both the radar relay battle and the final battle. Seriously grappling hook being a free move and mobility PCS increase for rangers means they can move like freaking speed demons and then flank and shotgun the crap out of some really tough enemies. In the radar relay battle none of my 3 soldiers even got wounded (I brought a stealth ranger, sniper sharpshooter and a grenadier with well lots of grenades). I didn't lose even one soldier in the last battle. I think a couple got just below half health at one point but nothing too terrible. I still had a little bit of medkits left but my grenades were down to just one plasma grenade. All in all insanely successful mission. I'm kinda unhappy my sniper rifle had only 3 rounds but the scope was probably needed.

Perhaps I lucked out somewhat at the end. Either I'm getting really good at xcom 2 or I got some good streaks of luck. The terrain of the last mission is also pretty standard so that's helpful.

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Nuremberg

Dark Souls still. In the Depths, got Cursed by Basilisks! Argh. Now I need to kill the Gaping Dragon on half health and trek to the belltower to get a purging stone. Frustrating!

Edit: Got murdered by the Dragon when it charged me, lost my souls. Decided, eff it, gonna go get the cure now. Made it through the sewers and up to Firelink shrine, then forgot to lock on with my halberd and accidentally "attacked" off the edge of the stairs into the abyss.

Sigh.

Sometimes I wonder if I have the patience for this game.

(also, wow is the online community for this game full of some of the most toxic people I have ever come across!)

Still, it's amazing when you succeed, but I wonder if I have the patience required to gain these successes. And I say this as someone who beat the jetbike level of Battletoads as a kid.

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Rynn's World

Been playing a LOT of Fallout 4, I now have The Division on my radar ( at least when I get payed in a couple of weeks ).

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Nuremberg

Haha! Take that, Gaping Dragon.

Killed it, and got enough souls for the crest for the forest gate into the bargain. Phew. Now I just need to find the door to Blighttown. Might just do some generic exploration first though. Have a feeling there's places I haven't been yet like the forest.

   
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Way too much Fallout 4...

Tempted to go back and give Bloodborne another go, but it just didn't seem like a game for me. Then again, I didn't give it much of a try as I only beat the Cleric Beast before I stopped playing. I'm wondering if it's because I never played Dark Souls II or anything before jumping into Bloodborne so I didn't know what to really expect...
   
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 GrimDork wrote:
Valkyria chronicles plays kinda like a 3rd person shooter Final fantasy tactics. Sort of. The game plays a lot like I would expect an corvus belli Infinity inspired PC game to play. You get a pool of orders based on how many units you bring and you can spend orders unevenly, pumping several into one unit so it can go commando behind enemy lines (though it's movement distance will steadily shrink with each activation as it wears out). There's breaching walls with your tank, using it to cover your lighter units. You can belly crawl through the grass to sneak up on dudes. And the enemy is always shooting back (at somewhat limited efficiency) to help keep that element of not-really-turn-based 'realism'. Well both sides do it, everyone shoots when people run inside their lines of fire, it just isn't as effectual as when you're actually spending orders to make shots.

Several classes: assault, sniper, engineer, lancer (heavy), probably one or two I'm forgetting and then the tank commander spot too.

Another thing I thought was really neat is that you can get a couple dozen or more characters to order around and every single one has a bit of backstory in addition to their own voice actor and quirks. You really feel bad for letting any of them die because of their personalities.

Good stuff, I need to go back an finish it.

Scout (which is a basic trooper with a rifle and a fuckton of movement).

Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
 kronk wrote:
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 sebster wrote:
Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
 BaronIveagh wrote:
Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
 
   
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Yeah scout. Scouts are awesome for figuring out WTF is up ahead so you can bring the right hard counter.

 
   
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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

Putzing around a little in Beam.ng Drive

 
   
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40k all the way

SPACE MARINES
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space marines: an army where if morale is down you look at your commander for inspiration and you valiantly fight on and kill m any in the name of the emperor

imperial guard: if morale gets low your commander shoots one of your comrades and expects that to encourage you
 
   
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40k dawn of war? 40k: space marine? Or were you in the wrong thread (video games here ).


Man you guys have got Valkyria chronicles on my brain... maybe I'll see if the tabtop is compatible controls wise.

 
   
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Hefnaheim

After a somewhat anti climatix boss fight at the end of IWD my elven party are prepared to embark on the expasion pack for said game.
The boss fight was over realy before it started, my sorceres got a series of powerful curses followed by a silly amount of magical spells that took most of its health. Then my Paladins hacked him appart.
   
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pontiac, michigan; usa

 Da Boss wrote:
Dark Souls still. In the Depths, got Cursed by Basilisks! Argh. Now I need to kill the Gaping Dragon on half health and trek to the belltower to get a purging stone. Frustrating!

Edit: Got murdered by the Dragon when it charged me, lost my souls. Decided, eff it, gonna go get the cure now. Made it through the sewers and up to Firelink shrine, then forgot to lock on with my halberd and accidentally "attacked" off the edge of the stairs into the abyss.

Sigh.

Sometimes I wonder if I have the patience for this game.

(also, wow is the online community for this game full of some of the most toxic people I have ever come across!)

Still, it's amazing when you succeed, but I wonder if I have the patience required to gain these successes. And I say this as someone who beat the jetbike level of Battletoads as a kid.


I got to the Ornstein and Smough fight and just could not win. I got super close but couldn't do it. Just can't care anymore. I don't like rpg's too much and the difficulty is something I'd only really deal with in an RTS or turn based strategy game (which is why I could reliably beat impossible ironman runs of xcom: enemy unknown/within).

Seriously the music for that boss fight though nice brings back awful memories.

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If you played a beefy char, you could just tank/estus the crap out of super Ornstein. For more easymode, hire Solaire and some random guy

From my first playthrough I remember that Orstein and Smaug were especially hard if you played with keyboard and didn't have any mods for aiming, because the system would automatically switch targets when those two started jumping around, thus messing all the view and getting rekt in turn.

Played some Hatred today. Last time I played it when it was just released. Has some pretty fun new additions, but the AI is still crap. Torching people is sooo entertaining


   
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Glasgow, Scotland

The Long Dark.

Well on my first playthrough I made it 3 days before being mauled to death by a wolf (right by a bloody rifle too). Everything was going well. I'd just recovered from almost starving to death; having returned to a cabin I'd been to before in the hops I wasn't as good as I thought I was at looting. Turns out I had missed an MRE under a bed, which filled me from near zero calories to full.I leave the cabin, backtrack some more and find some more food, turn a corner and woo boy, a load of loot just sitting there.

...And a wolf.



Mt thought? Well I'd met a wolf already, but managed to sneak by it. Well this one wasn't having that, and seeing as I'd dropped my flares in the cabin there wasn't much chance of scaring it. As neither the hatchet or hunting knife I'd picked up wanted to magic themselves into my characters hand ("you don't have any weapons", as I spammed the equip key). I did what was logical.



I pummeled the "fight back" button, the little bar on the screen filled up. At 90% things went awry. "Wait, those status effects are pilling up. Why is the screen going all red? Why is the progress bar going down?! Jennifer Hale why are you making those noises?!" ...*spamming random interface buttons at this point*. "Ah hell...".



Fade to black.

Then back to a red haze. "Huh?". Out comes the first aid kit as I sit at 7% health.

For you see, I was in fact playing Will Ferrell's character from Austin Powers ("I'm not dead, just very badly mauled")... Hmn, he did go out into the Alaskan wilderness one time IIRC.

The wolf had retreated, my wounds were healed. 3% health. "Wait... No. Ack. What is that? Oh god no!"



A second wolf then came into my character's blurred vision and mauled them to death.



Its at this point I then remember the exact same thing happened to a guy in a Youtube video I had watched of the same location yesterday.

So, a decent enough game, and a typically noobish experience. For an early access title there's plenty enough there if you're into the straight survival aspect. Its due a story mode though, but, at least in the case of this one title, I can see the devs actually bothering their arses to get to that point (compared to the atypical early access shovelware you find on Steam).

Maybe if I play it enough I'll learn what the "stab the wolf to death" key is...
   
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Started up a campaign of commander difficulty in ironman mode of xcom 2 again. This time was going for the no squad upgrade achievement (meaning you can only have 4 guys instead of up to 6 in late game). After hours and about 3 months into the game it is a failed game. I'm pretty angry. It's hard enough playing that game as is but no squad upgrade just makes it all so much worse. I could've maybe succeeded a mission or two but summoning a codex completely prevented that. Sure I almost won but the fact so many of my guys on hand were 'shaken' means they pee their pants at every possible moment. With 4 guys it just practically assures it'll be that much harder. Perhaps I should've used more mind shields early on or at least on 'shaken' units like a friend suggested once (a good idea actually)?

The sad bit is the early month or two into the game wasn't so bad but the lack of squad members really shows. Maybe I should change up my build plan. After all with no squad size upgrade there's no real point in getting guerilla training school so early. Perhaps i'll go either lab first or proving ground first. The resistance comms are needed though and tend to be my 3rd building since power is the 2nd building. Eh well i'll try again another time but it's very late and I need to sleep now.

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 Da Boss wrote:
Haha! Take that, Gaping Dragon.

Killed it, and got enough souls for the crest for the forest gate into the bargain. Phew. Now I just need to find the door to Blighttown. Might just do some generic exploration first though. Have a feeling there's places I haven't been yet like the forest.

Gotta love the Dark Souls series - It can be a frustrating bitch of a game, but very few gaming experiences give the thrill of a kill like Dark Souls does. I completed DS1 2 times, DS2 4 times and now I'm just waiting for DS3, which comes out April 12th.

In the meantime I have been playing these two games:

- Bloodborne (Completed it like 6 times and got the platinum trophy)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (On my 4th playthrough now, after having soloed the game on Nightmare with a rogue - Time to try and solo as a Sword'n'board warrior).

Come April 12th though, all other games will be scrapped for Dark Souls 3. Can't wait!

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Wanted to get that MMORPG-like feel, but this whole, "take on the Elder Scrolls games in order," thing is starting to become a bit tiresome (especially when the first one demands quite some grinding to get through). Probably going to install either Morrowind or Daggerfall. Maybe Skyrim when I've cleared some space on my hard drive.

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Yeah, Arena is a little bit of an odd-duck in terms of Elder Scrolls games- it's before Bethesda had their stuff together.

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 Nordicus wrote:
 Da Boss wrote:
Haha! Take that, Gaping Dragon.

Killed it, and got enough souls for the crest for the forest gate into the bargain. Phew. Now I just need to find the door to Blighttown. Might just do some generic exploration first though. Have a feeling there's places I haven't been yet like the forest.

Gotta love the Dark Souls series - It can be a frustrating bitch of a game, but very few gaming experiences give the thrill of a kill like Dark Souls does. I completed DS1 2 times, DS2 4 times and now I'm just waiting for DS3, which comes out April 12th.

In the meantime I have been playing these two games:

- Bloodborne (Completed it like 6 times and got the platinum trophy)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (On my 4th playthrough now, after having soloed the game on Nightmare with a rogue - Time to try and solo as a Sword'n'board warrior).

Come April 12th though, all other games will be scrapped for Dark Souls 3. Can't wait!


At times there's a feeling of "Is this actually relaxing?!?" because I get so tense playing it I practically get a headache. But you're right - victory is much sweeter when you have to work hard for it.

   
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What's left of Cadia

Funny thing is, I've played all of the games in the Dark Souls series (all the way from Demon Souls), and I've never beaten any of them. Oddly enough, I still consider it my favorite game series

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Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
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got voted out of a match in rainbow six siege

was the last survivor of my team, we stood 0-2 and I took a careful approach in trying to take the enemy out

guess i should've barged in and died, that's a better way to lose for my team than to take care when approaching and by scouting ahead with a drone because while possibly still allowing a win also costing time


Pretty mad, actually. These kids should just go back to Call of Duty where they can yell at everyone they're a "cigarette".

   
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Glasgow, Scotland

The Long Dark, attempt 2.

Another day, another playthrough...

This time I spawned outside a ranger station. Yay. I then found some cabins. Yay. And a trapper camp. Yay, and another Ranger Station. Yay.

...Then I ran out of fuel.

And it was night.

...

Knowing the area, I set out for some lakeside cabins. Dawn broke, but then the mist rolled in. Then I discovered that the lake was apparently wolf central.

I lived, sans a pare of jeans and most of my character's health. Despite that I was pretty geared (note the past tense).

With bugger all health less, cold (you can wear a parka,and winter gloves, but neither help if your trousers are full of holes and blood) I was determined to make it the nearby dam's maintenance building.

On the way I came across a wolf by a hunting blind. It was eating a rabbit. In Metal Gear Solid level stealth I snuck into the blind and came away with a load of food.

The going was good. I even found a rifle.

The Dam was close, I could see the door by now (I was even planning moving to the next area). Then I heard it. A wolf had come out of nowhere and was right behind me. Pulling out a flare I threw it and ran.

I was inside. I checked the place outside. Decent loot, but not much other than I already had. All I was concerned about was lighting up a fire and catching some sleep.



Fade to red as the wolf came out of the dark and mauled me to death.

I'm sensing a theme here with this game...
   
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Brum

 Wyrmalla wrote:

Fade to red as the wolf came out of the dark and mauled me to death.

I'm sensing a theme here with this game...


The dam always has a wolf in it

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Glasgow, Scotland

Bah, not the first time I was there!
   
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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

SO just started Valkyria Chronicles. It's very different from anything I've really played before, a cross between Turnbased and Realtime stratagy and Third Person shooting. I like it

Also to try out the last stand last night. That was fun with the new Necron Lord

 
   
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Brum

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Bah, not the first time I was there!


In the dim mists of time that wolf was essentially the games 'boss' as (IIRC) it was the only one in the game.

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Well the old hand to hand combat presumably made wolf fights a lot harder. I killed two in a row at the lake today (it was misty, so after sleeping in a hut I came out to a clear day with two dead wolves on the porch).

No idea where that thing came from though... I guess it spawns in one of the side rooms considering in the few seconds I was in there I'd searched all the rooms bar the hallway to the generators and one cupboard (for the express reason of checking for scares). Good to know for future reference though, as were I to spawn in that area it'd be one of the first places I'd check (even if the loot's not amazing).

...Which brings me to the question: where do trousers spawn? Heh, I found four jackets, three sets of gloves, two hats and two sets of boots, but no replacement trousers. Oh RNG... I suppose the clothes on the dead guys have frozen solid, or maybe Canadians just starch their trousers to the point you need to saw them off?
   
 
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