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Deathklaat wrote: Just started playing some Conan Exiles. The developers definitely saw some of the shortcomings of Ark and fixed them. Combat is really good with dual wielding and multiple attack types. Crafting is much easier to understand, building structures is much easier than in Ark. Game performance is really good for being brand new to early access, i bumped the graphics from high to ultra and could not notice an fps loss.
Combat is good? Its basically flailing away until the other guys dies. yes you can block and (awkwardly) dodge but its terribly buggy so its basically 'left click until someone dies'.
I also wouldn't call performance really good. Loading times are astronomical and I am getting a lot of artifacts and muddy textures on ultra settings. There is a lot of stutter while parts of map loads as well.
I am however enjoying it for all its annoyances, bugs and obviously broken/rudimentary features.
I spent ages working my way to thralls (which require a lot of unlocks to craft the required equipment) yet when I finally 'break' a thrall I find that there are very limited options, I can't even give her equipment or get her to gather rocks for me. At the moment she is standing on top of my house half naked. It is an area that will apparently be expanded on in the next major patch but still it was very annoying to have put all that effort in for very little reward.
i haven't had the same performance problems as you, i get a slight slowdown when i sprint to new areas while they load, sometimes the textures do get a bit blurry but that has been it. No slow load times at all.
Thralls have classes and they are only able to do that one thing, it is a bit hard to judge what class an NPC is without getting really close. I also find i get a bit carried away with the club to knock them out and kill far more than i intend to.
I have found a use for my thralls. The part of the map that I have set up my camp has loads of archers and they are easy to capture so I have set up a firing line on the roof of my house which I use to depopulate the local area of spiders by kiting them into firing range.
Overall, I'm kind of conflicted about it. Batman is very much one of those things that I'm really rather passionate about.
So, it is well made, no technical issues, none of that stuff. And if you're not an uber Bat geek, you'll probably have a great time with it.
Me, personally though... Yeah, conflicted about it. They took several major character changes and differences from, I guess I should put it as, my preferred mythos of Batman and, well, I don't really think the changes for the better.
Some characters were done well, some... less so. (In my opinion).
Overall, I think even the story from the Arkham games win. There's so much material from those games that are just effectively my own personal canon now, they just win.
Finished it a few weeks ago. And have to agree. There was some good stuff. But there were a *lot* of big changes to the "norm" regarding various characters. Most of it I was okay with. I wasn't happy with the change to
Spoiler:
make Thomas Wayne a monster, though. It was so stupid (imo) that I kept expecting a reveal that the proof video was really Clayface.
Still continued on Crusader Kings, and we just had our first crusade.
... It was embarrasing.
You would think having around 20 vassals would be a good thing. I signed on in order to get in a better standing with the church, but almost immediately, things went downhill. we were against the Fatmids, and somehow their levy armies were as high as 3000+ soldiers. One terrifying juggernaught of a force somehow amassed 23000 soldiers! Seeing this commitment as a waste of resources, I poked at a settlement a couple of times to make some sort of contribution and left immediately, but everyone else involved decided to throw an unrelenting charge at the Fatmids.
In total, there were around 16 lost battles, and only one victory. The pope called off the crusade soon after.
Word of warning, though- this is about a 30 year old series, one of the FIRST major Western RPGs, which means it created a lot of the mechanics you see today, through trial and error. Arena is best played with both hands on the keyboard (coming from an age before the mouse) and you'll probably have to bump the tic rate up in DOSBox. Read/watch some tutorials on it- it's confusing and difficult to figure out otherwise, since it originally came with a manual.
Daggerfall- well, I haven't played that one, but be aware that the surface area of explorable terrain is about 3x the size of Great Britain- Fast Travel is required, and as it is procedurally generated, you can't count on walkthroughs for everything. It's also very, very confusing. The good news is, it has Timey Wimey shenanigans in it, meaning it would make perfect sense for your character from that to show up in the Future.
Morrowind is amazing. I seriously think it's the best of the Elder Scrolls series, at least in terms of writing and atmosphere- get some of the mods for it to update the combat, textures and environments, and you'll think it was a modern AAA title. This game also gives a good reason for your character to show up, since
You've probably played Oblivion, so I won't mention that- though I do think it's not nearly as good as Morrowind, though that's mostly just my opinion, and an unpopular one at that.
And of course you know Skyrim.
As it turns out, getting Morrowind on GOG gets you the CD versions of Arena and Daggerfall too. It was a nice surprise!
Thanks for the heads up. Especially looking forward to Morrowind now.
I'm going to assume Morrowind isn't full of plot twists, so I might check out your LP a bit later. Looks good so far!
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Wyrmalla wrote: Fallout 4, man is the writing and quest design in that game subpar. Quests, and the dialogue, amount to "go do the thing", with hardly any side paths and exposition. It kind of hit me seeing someone play Oblivion (which was hardly the best in the series for it) just how poor Bethesda's recent titles have been in that regard. That and recollections of New Vegas, plus having played the Witcher series at the same time as the more recent Elder Scrolls (and thinking that Bethesda just weren't even trying in comparison).
Oh at last! Someone who says it. In so far I've only seen blokes willing to kneel at Bethesda. Seriously, outside NV, the only remotely good title we've had was oblivion (and even then it was already marking downhill).
Have you played Morrowind? It's been years but my sense of it (and a general online consensus) is Morrowind is one of the better RPGs out there. The story was pretty decent (although the main quest only really made sense if you were a Dunmer).
I remember liking the story and RPG-ness (not a word, I know) of Morrowind over Oblivion (and Skyrim). Oblivion and Skyrim aren't bad games, but they could have been so much more.
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Wyrmalla wrote: Fallout 4, man is the writing and quest design in that game subpar. Quests, and the dialogue, amount to "go do the thing", with hardly any side paths and exposition. It kind of hit me seeing someone play Oblivion (which was hardly the best in the series for it) just how poor Bethesda's recent titles have been in that regard. That and recollections of New Vegas, plus having played the Witcher series at the same time as the more recent Elder Scrolls (and thinking that Bethesda just weren't even trying in comparison).
Oh at last! Someone who says it. In so far I've only seen blokes willing to kneel at Bethesda. Seriously, outside NV, the only remotely good title we've had was oblivion (and even then it was already marking downhill).
Have you played Morrowind? It's been years but my sense of it (and a general online consensus) is Morrowind is one of the better RPGs out there. The story was pretty decent (although the main quest only really made sense if you were a Dunmer).
I remember liking the story and RPG-ness (not a word, I know) of Morrowind over Oblivion (and Skyrim). Oblivion and Skyrim aren't bad games, but they could have been so much more.
As an RPG, yeah, a lot better. Oblivion and Skyrim are basically sorts of Hack'n'slashers with a lot of customization and a storyline, but there's not as much freedom to choose how you go about doing things. Like, in Morrowind, I could potentially go through the game as a merchant, buying and selling, collecting alchemy ingredients and bits from dwemer ruins, running from major fights, then using those proceeds to buy powerful potions, enchantments, and scrolls to do the major story-mode combats with. Can't really manage that in Skyrim, I imagine. Even the Stealth route in Skyrim is more about sneakily dealing damage, rather than avoiding confrontations.
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Wyrmalla wrote: Fallout 4, man is the writing and quest design in that game subpar. Quests, and the dialogue, amount to "go do the thing", with hardly any side paths and exposition. It kind of hit me seeing someone play Oblivion (which was hardly the best in the series for it) just how poor Bethesda's recent titles have been in that regard. That and recollections of New Vegas, plus having played the Witcher series at the same time as the more recent Elder Scrolls (and thinking that Bethesda just weren't even trying in comparison).
Oh at last! Someone who says it. In so far I've only seen blokes willing to kneel at Bethesda. Seriously, outside NV, the only remotely good title we've had was oblivion (and even then it was already marking downhill).
Have you played Morrowind? It's been years but my sense of it (and a general online consensus) is Morrowind is one of the better RPGs out there. The story was pretty decent (although the main quest only really made sense if you were a Dunmer).
I remember liking the story and RPG-ness (not a word, I know) of Morrowind over Oblivion (and Skyrim). Oblivion and Skyrim aren't bad games, but they could have been so much more.
As an RPG, yeah, a lot better. Oblivion and Skyrim are basically sorts of Hack'n'slashers with a lot of customization and a storyline, but there's not as much freedom to choose how you go about doing things. Like, in Morrowind, I could potentially go through the game as a merchant, buying and selling, collecting alchemy ingredients and bits from dwemer ruins, running from major fights, then using those proceeds to buy powerful potions, enchantments, and scrolls to do the major story-mode combats with. Can't really manage that in Skyrim, I imagine. Even the Stealth route in Skyrim is more about sneakily dealing damage, rather than avoiding confrontations.
If I might play devil's advocate though, I must say the game does take a bit of getting used to if you're new to it. Expect a lot of attacks to miss early on, and you'e walking pace to be... not the best. Of course, if you have the patience, I've heard you gradually become much, much more powerful as the game progresses.
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Wyrmalla wrote: Fallout 4, man is the writing and quest design in that game subpar. Quests, and the dialogue, amount to "go do the thing", with hardly any side paths and exposition. It kind of hit me seeing someone play Oblivion (which was hardly the best in the series for it) just how poor Bethesda's recent titles have been in that regard. That and recollections of New Vegas, plus having played the Witcher series at the same time as the more recent Elder Scrolls (and thinking that Bethesda just weren't even trying in comparison).
Oh at last! Someone who says it. In so far I've only seen blokes willing to kneel at Bethesda. Seriously, outside NV, the only remotely good title we've had was oblivion (and even then it was already marking downhill).
Have you played Morrowind? It's been years but my sense of it (and a general online consensus) is Morrowind is one of the better RPGs out there. The story was pretty decent (although the main quest only really made sense if you were a Dunmer).
I remember liking the story and RPG-ness (not a word, I know) of Morrowind over Oblivion (and Skyrim). Oblivion and Skyrim aren't bad games, but they could have been so much more.
As an RPG, yeah, a lot better. Oblivion and Skyrim are basically sorts of Hack'n'slashers with a lot of customization and a storyline, but there's not as much freedom to choose how you go about doing things. Like, in Morrowind, I could potentially go through the game as a merchant, buying and selling, collecting alchemy ingredients and bits from dwemer ruins, running from major fights, then using those proceeds to buy powerful potions, enchantments, and scrolls to do the major story-mode combats with. Can't really manage that in Skyrim, I imagine. Even the Stealth route in Skyrim is more about sneakily dealing damage, rather than avoiding confrontations.
If I might play devil's advocate though, I must say the game does take a bit of getting used to if you're new to it. Expect a lot of attacks to miss early on, and you'e walking pace to be... not the best. Of course, if you have the patience, I've heard you gradually become much, much more powerful as the game progresses.
I think that might be part of the draw for the game. It really gives you such a sense of progression, going from someone who has to treat Mudcrabs as a serious threat, to a literal godslayer.
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Picked up Nioh yesterday and it's a blast. Combat is a step slower than Dark Souls, but in a good way, due to being able to change stances which opens up more combat variety than Dark Souls.
The two new Spanish Operators are pretty interesting. The Defender is far more useful in Terrorist Hunt(my preferred game mode) than the Attacker(half the AI seem to leave no footprints for Jackal to track ).
Attacker and Defender are equally awesome in MP though.
So am I. All the trailers have me unbelievably hyped for it, and it doesn't help that I keep watching YouTubers play it. It's making me want to play it so much more
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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
Stellaris. Made some fanatic collectivists called the Benevolent Collective, am generally being an overly aggressive expansionist space commie. When the new expansion comes out, I'll play as the Culture, but for now... muahahaha.
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So I have the open Beta of For Honor, and I can... technically play it... But even on lowest settings, I have extremely low, often sub-30 FPS, and some sort of odd mouse-lag (maybe, I might just be terrible at playing as of yet).
Now, the framerate might be 'fixed' by, like, not recording with Fraps while playing. Except I wanna put For Honor on my channel!
Eh. I was wanting a new computer anyways.
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I'm probably going to be Team Knight (partially because the general for the Knights is one of my favorite YouTubers), if only I could get it to work right...
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Back into Final Fantasy XIV for a month or so, managed to get my character up to Dragoon and decided to give the artisan classes a try. I can forage for wood and do some cooking now.
BrookM wrote: Back into Final Fantasy XIV for a month or so, managed to get my character up to Dragoon and decided to give the artisan classes a try. I can forage for wood and do some cooking now.
The online game? Say, I've been half interested in it (gotta say it's predecessor's finale was short of epic) and wondered: it plays well and is the in-world lore worth it?
BrookM wrote: Back into Final Fantasy XIV for a month or so, managed to get my character up to Dragoon and decided to give the artisan classes a try. I can forage for wood and do some cooking now.
The online game? Say, I've been half interested in it (gotta say it's predecessor's finale was short of epic) and wondered: it plays well and is the in-world lore worth it?
It's for me at least a fun MMO that's quite low on grind and allows for one character to do all classes and sidejobs, so you're not stuck with one character having one class and all that.
There is a lot of lore, each quest comes with text dumps of exposition and whatnot, but I usually click through these.
It's well worth trying, as the core game is €10,- and comes with a month for free, giving you ample time to give it a try, at a minimal investment.
Also, old pic, but you get to ride the Chocobo as a mount and it's given out early in the game.
BrookM wrote: Back into Final Fantasy XIV for a month or so, managed to get my character up to Dragoon and decided to give the artisan classes a try. I can forage for wood and do some cooking now.
The online game? Say, I've been half interested in it (gotta say it's predecessor's finale was short of epic) and wondered: it plays well and is the in-world lore worth it?
I enjoyed it a lot. It's very well put together, imo. The graphics are gorgeous. And there are constant free updates (provided you have the needed expansion) to the main storyline. I'd say that it's my favorite MMO.
The reason I'm not playing it now largely has to do with the end game. The end game is a bit schizoid. Parts of it are clearly aimed at the non-hard core elite gamer. But other parts focus on the tendency of Asian MMOs to embrace the grind. If you're not careful, it's *very* easy to get yourself sucked in and spend waaaay too much time online playing.
As for the artisan and gathering classes, be aware - they're easy to get to 50. But once you get past that (i.e. into the expansion levels), they're going to get a lot more difficult.
The second expansion is due out later this year. Entitled "Stormblood", the focus will be on Ala Mihgo. Yoshi P, the head of the development team, has apparently been dropping hints about Red Mages.
I recently played Until Dawn and Resident Evil 7. That's enough horror games for me for now.
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And now, bloody bloody vengeance shall be wreaked on him and all of his kin.
Except for me of course. Got to remember that I am his kin also. I do not want to wreak bloody vengeance on myself by mistake.
Crusader Kings II is the game, of course
Which is your steam name? I'd like to play with someone at CK II.
That souns like it could be fun, but before i do anything, do you know how it works with all of the expansions? like, do people need the same ones to play a multiplayer game?
Well, I don't play a lot of video games, and my one console is packed up since we move on Friday from Colorado to Texas. But, thank goodness for phone emulators. It is nice to go back and replay some good classic PS1 games. I am still shocked how good some of the games can look when condensed down onto a smaller screen. The opening to Lunar 2: Eternal Blue brought back some good memories, and I am excited to start my journey through a game I never got to finish.
NH Gunsmith wrote: Well, I don't play a lot of video games, and my one console is packed up since we move on Friday from Colorado to Texas. But, thank goodness for phone emulators. It is nice to go back and replay some good classic PS1 games. I am still shocked how good some of the games can look when condensed down onto a smaller screen. The opening to Lunar 2: Eternal Blue brought back some good memories, and I am excited to start my journey through a game I never got to finish.
Speaking of great PS1 games, I'd say go back and replay Breath of Fire III. That's a great classic
NH Gunsmith wrote: Well, I don't play a lot of video games, and my one console is packed up since we move on Friday from Colorado to Texas. But, thank goodness for phone emulators. It is nice to go back and replay some good classic PS1 games. I am still shocked how good some of the games can look when condensed down onto a smaller screen. The opening to Lunar 2: Eternal Blue brought back some good memories, and I am excited to start my journey through a game I never got to finish.
Speaking of great PS1 games, I'd say go back and replay Breath of Fire III. That's a great classic
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