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BikeJesus

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31860 on: August 18, 2018, 07:06:52 PM »
I just finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided last night, and it was a great game. Very detailed environments, a good story, and satisfying gameplay with plenty of player choice. Steam says I sunk 43 hours into my playthrough, and there is still 3 DLC missions to play, and a Breach mode.

I played the game stealthy, and finished it without killing anyone. That said, whenever I would get spotted, I would go on a psycho killer rampage and unload all my ammo. It was fucking awesome.

Oh, and some nice butts.
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Also funny shit like this . . . I slipped through this whole area and looted all the guns, and then when the cutscene played, the npc's didn't have their weapons. Probably a glitch, but I laughed.

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chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31861 on: August 18, 2018, 09:27:40 PM »
Home for a week, where I've left my PS4 while working remotely. REALLY not sure what I want to play. TORCHLIGHT overstayed its welcome — I can't help but feel I would have been more engaged on Hard difficulty, but it also didn't seem like something that'd set me on fire even if it was harder to progress.

I haven't played GTA Online in a dog's age. May go back to that.

Mainly feel like reading tabletop RPG manuals.
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Nabbis

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31862 on: August 19, 2018, 09:41:35 AM »
Bought a bunch of games for cheap. Deus Ex:MD, Dishonored 2, FFXV and Re7. Gonna take me a while to paddle through all that.

BobFromPikeCreek

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31863 on: August 19, 2018, 01:52:29 PM »
Nioh - Imagine Dark Souls, but you can force every boss to fight you in slow mo, and you're invincible for a quarter of the fight. That's this game. Still fairly fun, but man is it easy to just completely break. If you engage with the revenant system at all the game's balance just completely falls apart, and the magic/living weapons are just absurdly OP.
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toku

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31864 on: August 19, 2018, 01:54:35 PM »
Still really want to get Nioh but I've heard the pc port is kinda shoddy so I might just wait until I get a ps4.

BobFromPikeCreek

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31865 on: August 19, 2018, 02:07:44 PM »
I'm playing on PC and minus a couple crashes it's been mostly ok.
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MMaRsu

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31866 on: August 19, 2018, 03:21:32 PM »
When I played it on pc it ran fine

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31867 on: August 19, 2018, 05:18:13 PM »
Wizardry 8 have enemy scaling. I hate that. You make all this progress, then go back to an earlier area and get your ass handed to you by a cockroach.
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31868 on: August 20, 2018, 01:54:31 PM »
Finding now that I wasn't taking Wizardry 8 serious enough. The game is like "Strap in bitch, I'm not joking." Last night I had my first encounter where I foolishly went into a crossroad without thinking and somehow over the course of 5 minutes aggroed no less than 34 enemies, in one fight. The ensuing fight depleted me of a lot of my stock and ended up killing one of my characters. But I made it. That feeling of triumph and accomplishment is something that I've only felt on occasional games like bloodborne, Doom 2016 and Civ.  I think I get it now. I can't take anything, even the automapping for granted. I wish more games were like this.
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kingv

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31869 on: August 20, 2018, 03:22:38 PM »
So wizardry 6/7/8 are free on twitch prime this month... if you were to play just one, is 8 the move to make?

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31870 on: August 20, 2018, 03:28:56 PM »
Wizardry 7 is the GOAT
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tiesto

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31871 on: August 20, 2018, 06:42:39 PM »
Only Wizardry game I played was the NES port of the first game... bone-crunchingly difficult dungeon crawler. Was 7 and 8 when the series switched over and became mostly Japanese developed, or were they from the original team?

Been playing Octopath Traveler, myself. Some ways into Chapter 2. Really enjoying it, it definitely gives me the feeling of Square's 16 bit games. Lovely monster sprites too. I don't care altogether too much about the stories not really intersecting (though a Live A Live esque finale would have been stunning, though I don't really predict that's the case here). My biggest issue is that the dungeon design is a bit weak - a dungeon just usually seems to be one or two areas  that don't really have any distinct puzzles, environmental hazards, or memorable layouts. (this may change as I play more)
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31872 on: August 20, 2018, 07:24:19 PM »
7 and 8 were still the original team at Sir-Tech.
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HardcoreRetro

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31873 on: August 22, 2018, 09:58:47 AM »
Got Yoshi's Woolly World today. Found it without the Nintendo tax. Now I only need claymation Kirby and my WiiU library is complete.

Game is way too easy, but it's pretty much what I expected. Hopefully the bonus levels bring something to the table.

Edit: First bonus level I played was cool.
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Mistress 9

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31874 on: August 22, 2018, 02:22:21 PM »
Ive kinda wanted to get back into No Mans Sky again but last time I tried playing after the updates I was so confused with all the new stuff, since there was no explanation of how to do anything. It was also so long that I'd played that I forgot the controls anyway. Should I just start the game over completely to relearn everything or just wing it and figure it out?

Nabbis

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31875 on: August 22, 2018, 03:39:12 PM »
Is it actually a good game now? Might try it out if it is.

HardcoreRetro

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31876 on: August 22, 2018, 04:14:12 PM »
I think it's now pretty much the game they promised from the beginning. So if that sounded cool to you, get it.

Mistress 9

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31877 on: August 22, 2018, 04:15:26 PM »
I thought it was good pre-updates. But then again I didn't watch or read about any of the hype surrounding it before its release so I wasn't disappointed like everyone else.

It is suppose to be better though.

HardcoreRetro

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« Reply #31878 on: August 23, 2018, 03:47:12 PM »
Almost done with Assassin's Creed Rogue. It's basically just more AC4, but they also introduced a new enemy type which they should've kept.

This new enemy can use the same mechanics as the player, so they're waiting on rooftops or hiding in bushes waiting for a stealth kill. Pretty cool.

BlueTsunami

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31879 on: August 23, 2018, 03:48:23 PM »
DQXI in a little over a week :rejoice
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StealthFan

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31880 on: August 23, 2018, 04:10:22 PM »
Going through Shenmue and considering finally STICKING to Lost Odyssey. Might fuck with Ys Origins.
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31881 on: August 23, 2018, 07:02:32 PM »
I wanted to love Lost Odyssey. I really did.But too much loading. Too slow. I remember I timed how long it took to load from flash scene to the first fight command input and it was like 11 seconds or something. 
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31882 on: August 23, 2018, 07:14:42 PM »
Still going through Bayonetta on Switch

Saw that Joy cutscene  :doge

Grace and Glory are massive fuckers :fbm

The whole handheld to tv concept really works with this game.

tiesto

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31883 on: August 23, 2018, 08:47:16 PM »
Going through Shenmue and considering finally STICKING to Lost Odyssey. Might fuck with Ys Origins.

Well, to play through Origins once takes about ~12 hours, a little faster the second time (you have to beat it 2x to open up the TRUE final boss)... extremely fun game and my personal favorite Ys.
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BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #31884 on: August 23, 2018, 09:51:51 PM »
Nioh's kinda meh. I find the combat very easy to exploit, and you're mostly fighting the same handful of enemies over and over in similar looking caves and shrines. How some people say this is better DS I have no idea.

Hoping The Surge is better. Will be playing that next (ty papa GR).
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StealthFan

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31885 on: August 23, 2018, 10:17:42 PM »
Hoping The Surge is better
nicca i hate to be the bearer of bad news
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StealthFan

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31886 on: August 23, 2018, 10:19:53 PM »
Nah The Surge ain't bad. The level design is just shit. I'll definitely check out the sequel. The developer has already improved since Lords Of The Fallen.
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seagrams hotsauce

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31887 on: August 24, 2018, 10:41:18 AM »
Ive kinda wanted to get back into No Mans Sky again but last time I tried playing after the updates I was so confused with all the new stuff, since there was no explanation of how to do anything. It was also so long that I'd played that I forgot the controls anyway. Should I just start the game over completely to relearn everything or just wing it and figure it out?

start over. the newer quest stuff is apparently totally broken in older saves. i got it after the NEXT update and can say that it's only partially broken with a new game. there were several points where quests would be totally broken that would later seemingly fix themselves out of the blue for no discernable reason, so that stuff is progressable if you're willing to be a little extra patient. black holes totally broke on me though, still not sure if they're working again lol

chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31888 on: August 24, 2018, 09:09:47 PM »
Went back to Headlander, an 80% complete save… and I have no idea how to do anything.

Quit a metroidlike at 80%? Bad idea.

Bunch of new stuff in GTA Online, but figured it out pretty quickly. Except the part where I catch fire and die repeatedly. I guess someone has an orbital laser.

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« Reply #31889 on: August 24, 2018, 09:46:44 PM »
think I'm gonna try and stick it out with FF15. Maybe try some of the DLC.

I got Murasma Rebirth on my Vita, along with Soul Sacrifice Delta (been picking at this for years now), Oreshika and Sundered.
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tiesto

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31890 on: August 30, 2018, 11:39:51 PM »
Just wrapping up the last of the chapter 2 quests in Octopath. My opinion of the game hasn't changed much at all, still a shit ton of fun, still think the dungeon design could've been a bit more interesting.

Also downloaded The Messenger but haven't played it yet. Ninja Gaiden is one of my favorite NES action franchises (2 being an all time great for me), so I'm eager to play this. Even if the 8 -> 16 bit switching looks like it could get a bit gimmicky.
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« Reply #31891 on: August 31, 2018, 07:23:40 AM »
Also downloaded The Messenger but haven't played it yet. Ninja Gaiden is one of my favorite NES action franchises (2 being an all time great for me), so I'm eager to play this. Even if the 8 -> 16 bit switching looks like it could get a bit gimmicky.

Before any switching happens, you're going to get to run through what is the equivalent of a full 8-bit game.  I'm in the-bit parts now and things have started to ramp a bit difficulty-wise.  Got owned by the boss on the current level.  :'(
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31892 on: September 01, 2018, 10:13:29 AM »
I finished Legend mode of Hyrule Warriors on normal last night and just moved on to Adventure Mode. This shit looks massive. I might just do one map then take a break from this game.

Freyj

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« Reply #31893 on: September 01, 2018, 02:09:20 PM »
I would absolutely be playing NMS rn if it weren’t $60.

seagrams hotsauce

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31894 on: September 01, 2018, 04:08:51 PM »
No Man's Sky

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Finally there!

First I did the Polo & Nada missions up to the last one i.e. Zoology LVL10. Afterwards I did the Atlas Path then the Artemis (16/16) one - chosen to "refuse" Atlas (did not want to spawn a new simulation) and was transported 500k LY back :rofl Then it was a pure nightmare of:

a) warp to the furthest Black Hole system possible
b) summon your freighter
c) land inside and switch your main ship to the shitty one (no upgrades)
d) go through the Black Hole with your shitty ship
e) summon your freighter
f) land inside and switch your shitty ship to the main one (best Hyperdrive)

Repeat a) - f) ad nauseum. Actually it wasn't ad nauseum... only about 100 times (!). Yes, it was one of the WORST GRINDS EVER - in the same shitty league as killing 700 Silver Knights on Anor Londo stairs in Dark Souls III or killing Adamantoises in Final Fantasy XIII.

The work above took me about 10 hours, literally, doing nothing else. Jesus does this game suck or what??? Top three worst grinds ever.

And that ending... is no ending as this game is infinite. JOKE'S ON ME, hahahaha.

Avoid this game. Have some pics instead.

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It is - at the same time - the best and most important game of the last 10 years:

+ 100% procedural
+ infinite
+ seamless cave to galaxy
+ Asimov/ 2001 atmosphere
+ unparalleled and delivered ambition

and the worst one:

- grind to get to the end
- mobile games stamina
- limited everything
- farm everything

I hate it and love it. I am glad I finished it right at the very moment they released the first "community event" as I fear it will turn from this beatiful, incredible, stoic almost therapeutic tranquil sci-fi odyssey into a "multiplayer fiesta" with weekly events, grinds etc. like Path of Exile or Final Fantasy 15. Note: Path of Exile is excellent but there is no end to the content they are releasing!!! It should stop! 10 incredible Acts is enough!

And to think people were sending death threats to Sean Murray because this game lacked MP........... why? It does not need MP at all.

imagine that grind but black holes stop working 60k away from the center and you have my last 7-10 hours in the game lol. i still haven't done any of the freighter stuff beyond the very first stages so i might get around to it in a few months, but boy oh boy did that take the wind outta my sails. i did enjoy most of my time with the game though, despite it being pretty janky, especially the quest stuff. a pretty enjoyable, simplified mix of stuff like Rust crossed with Elite Dangerous.

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31895 on: September 01, 2018, 04:28:24 PM »
Sounds like you bought the bullshit just like Molyneux, congrats
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« Reply #31896 on: September 01, 2018, 06:19:56 PM »
been slowly picking at Horizon. was bored as shit for the first few hours and couldn't for the life of me figure out why. then i turned off the hud and remembered games are way more to me fun when i can play them intuitively instead of relying on a million icons and guides and whatnot.

also playing Mafia 3... and while i can sorta see how reviewers didn't like it, this game is still fun as fuck. it definitely feels unambitious in that it plays like a ps2 game, but it's still fun sneaking around and stabbing hillbillies in the throat. shame they couldn't have the whole game be scripted missions with lots of cutscenes like the first hour tho, bc the writing is really good.
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chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31897 on: September 01, 2018, 09:32:20 PM »
Finally fired up my 360's copy of DISHONORED. I love the world, the look, and the overall atmosphere. It's steampunk without everything having brass gears glued to it. It has internal consistency.

But I'm not very good at it just yet. The movement is unusual, made more so by my controller's somewhat misbehaving left analog stick. I slide when I don't intend to. I slip under tables as i approach to read a letter that's on top of it. I fall from rooftops. It's annoying, but the game appears to allow for scumsaving, so I'm getting accustomed to using that before trying anything weird. It feels SO STRANGE to scumsave on a console game.

toku

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31898 on: September 01, 2018, 09:37:44 PM »
One of those games I wish was just a solid movie/comic book instead. I like stealth games too but I pretty much only care about the world. I think I walked around everywhere with the heart out :lol

BlueTsunami

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31899 on: September 01, 2018, 09:58:05 PM »
How boneheaded are SquareEnix. Lets release an important JRPG AFTER a meaty three day weekend. I mean, we missed the Summer entirely. Nothing like a timesink right at the start of the school season. We're gonna need a bigger pillow *Dragon Quest writhes in agony*
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31900 on: September 01, 2018, 10:04:28 PM »
been slowly picking at Horizon. was bored as shit for the first few hours and couldn't for the life of me figure out why. then i turned off the hud and remembered games are way more to me fun when i can play them intuitively instead of relying on a million icons and guides and whatnot.

I'm currently playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 which wants you to put on a mission locater from the get-go and it's crazy how much a difference it makes if you suddenly turn such things into a lame af checklist.

HardcoreRetro

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31901 on: September 02, 2018, 03:30:14 AM »
A Hat in Time? More like a crap in time.

Both the level design and the platforming are kinda rough. How some people put this above Super Mario Odyssey is beyond me.

MMaRsu

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31902 on: September 02, 2018, 10:01:51 AM »
Finally fired up my 360's copy of DISHONORED. I love the world, the look, and the overall atmosphere. It's steampunk without everything having brass gears glued to it. It has internal consistency.

But I'm not very good at it just yet. The movement is unusual, made more so by my controller's somewhat misbehaving left analog stick. I slide when I don't intend to. I slip under tables as i approach to read a letter that's on top of it. I fall from rooftops. It's annoying, but the game appears to allow for scumsaving, so I'm getting accustomed to using that before trying anything weird. It feels SO STRANGE to scumsave on a console game.



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chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31903 on: September 02, 2018, 11:48:33 AM »
How boneheaded are SquareEnix. Lets release an important JRPG AFTER a meaty three day weekend. I mean, we missed the Summer entirely. Nothing like a timesink right at the start of the school season. We're gonna need a bigger pillow *Dragon Quest writhes in agony*

Japan doesn't care about American holidays.

chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31904 on: September 02, 2018, 11:51:00 AM »
Finally fired up my 360's copy of DISHONORED. I love the world, the look, and the overall atmosphere. It's steampunk without everything having brass gears glued to it. It has internal consistency.

But I'm not very good at it just yet. The movement is unusual, made more so by my controller's somewhat misbehaving left analog stick. I slide when I don't intend to. I slip under tables as i approach to read a letter that's on top of it. I fall from rooftops. It's annoying, but the game appears to allow for scumsaving, so I'm getting accustomed to using that before trying anything weird. It feels SO STRANGE to scumsave on a console game.


 :D
Oh, shit. Movement is totally broken?
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demi

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31905 on: September 02, 2018, 12:02:11 PM »
Dishonored is stupid broken with Blink and the Void powers. Save Scumming rules and is how all stealth games should be played

If your stealth game doesnt let me save scum it's trash
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31906 on: September 02, 2018, 01:19:21 PM »
From what I played of no man's sky, the technical achievements were amazonf, but like many procedural generated games, kind of lifeless. The world's were interesting to look at, but only really in your immediate surroundings, because while the planet's were planet-sized they were covered in the exact same terrain without any interesting waypoints.

And the actual game itself was just terrible. It was just walk around and get resources while running from the terrible combat with the robots.

This was near launch, so no t really sure how much it has improved. My thoughts were that somebody one day is going to use that technology to create something amazing

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« Reply #31907 on: September 02, 2018, 07:02:17 PM »
Moar Nier

I'm at 75% quests now. And basically it all comes down to:

- Killing
- Death
- Suicide

This game wants to squeeze out the last drop of hope you might have to see an happy end  :lawd
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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31908 on: September 02, 2018, 07:38:19 PM »
Might have to get Scum. I didn’t know you could shit in the game. Sold.
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« Reply #31909 on: September 02, 2018, 11:15:55 PM »
Been Playing Warframe as usual and some Destiny 2


Also was trying to beat the Senator on Hard in Metal Gear Rising: Revengenace but i'm just trash :fbm

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« Reply #31910 on: September 03, 2018, 04:56:18 AM »
Aquanox, aka Archimedean Dinasty 2. It's a space combat 'sim', except you're under the sea.

The surface has become unhospitable to human life, so humanity now lives below the ocean. You're Emerald "Deadeye" Flint (which tells you all about the writing you need to know), a mercenary/secret agent who does missions for various factions to keep the underwater cyberpunk civilization 'Aqua' from tipping over the edge.

I couldn't be fucked to set-up my joystick and KBM was too uncomfortable, so I tried the 360 controller configuration PCGamingwiki provides and it works great. Navigation is still awkward, but I can do the missions without too many retries now.
I do however end up in boring damage races a lot, locked face to face with the enemy, rather than exciting dogfights or long range engagements. Seeking torpedos are scarce and expensive (I prefer to save up for ships or powerful guns), and you have no lead indicator, so this might just be the way they expect you to play.

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31911 on: September 03, 2018, 06:47:56 AM »
Just got Darkest Dungeon.

It's a bit... overwhelming? And it's quite lacking in the explanations department.

Other than that, it's OK so far.

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« Reply #31912 on: September 03, 2018, 07:12:46 AM »
Played through Subsurface Circular. Recommended if you like classic sci fi stories like Assimov. It's probably the most non-game thing I ever played but the basic form of interaction (you interrogate other robots) added something to the story. That's actually more than I can say about interactive storytelling in 99% of other videogames. Also the game might have the coolest implementation of rumble on switch.
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chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31913 on: September 03, 2018, 06:05:27 PM »
Just got Darkest Dungeon.

It's a bit... overwhelming? And it's quite lacking in the explanations department.

Other than that, it's OK so far.

I was unhappy about the L-to-R party ordering having such an effect on combat. Maybe people got smarter about it, but I still spend more time than I want shuffling people around.

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31914 on: September 04, 2018, 01:38:27 AM »
I'm still on wizardry 8 I think I've finally "gotten gud" I can handle/survive most of what's thrown at me now (although sometimes it's still a struggle).
I've gotten to a point where I feel like I've opened up the map extensively and now I can almost go anywhere. But then I'm faced with a problem....where to go?
I miss games like this.
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Raist

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31915 on: September 04, 2018, 02:06:15 AM »
Just got Darkest Dungeon.

It's a bit... overwhelming? And it's quite lacking in the explanations department.

Other than that, it's OK so far.

I was unhappy about the L-to-R party ordering having such an effect on combat. Maybe people got smarter about it, but I still spend more time than I want shuffling people around.

You mean while in combat, or in between?

chronovore

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31916 on: September 04, 2018, 06:33:11 AM »
Just got Darkest Dungeon.

It's a bit... overwhelming? And it's quite lacking in the explanations department.

Other than that, it's OK so far.

I was unhappy about the L-to-R party ordering having such an effect on combat. Maybe people got smarter about it, but I still spend more time than I want shuffling people around.

You mean while in combat, or in between?

During combat. I keep wanting to do useful stuff, but have to shuffle my characters around to get them into or out of range.

Raist

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31917 on: September 05, 2018, 01:59:32 AM »
Just got Darkest Dungeon.

It's a bit... overwhelming? And it's quite lacking in the explanations department.

Other than that, it's OK so far.

I was unhappy about the L-to-R party ordering having such an effect on combat. Maybe people got smarter about it, but I still spend more time than I want shuffling people around.

You mean while in combat, or in between?

During combat. I keep wanting to do useful stuff, but have to shuffle my characters around to get them into or out of range.

Yeah, it can be annoying, especially at the beginning when you have no idea what you're doing, until you find the right combinations that are broken (the classic roguelike formula). It does add some degree of strategy to the game, as opposed to a "plain" dungeon crawler, so that's something.

I wish there was a bit less RNG though, especially for the Quirk system. Doesn't really make sense to me to make a really good run and end up with 4 random shitty negative traits, it should be based on perf and some determined events.


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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31918 on: September 05, 2018, 04:13:39 AM »
think I'm gonna try and stick it out with FF15. Maybe try some of the DLC.

I got Murasma Rebirth on my Vita, along with Soul Sacrifice Delta (been picking at this for years now), Oreshika and Sundered.

You can probably beat the 3 FFXV story DLCs in about 3-4 hours assuming you're not trying to get all the trophies. Each one play's kinda like a scaled down version of another genre.

Also Royal Edition adds a bit more to the final dungeon area, and some more story before the final boss fight.

How boneheaded are SquareEnix. Lets release an important JRPG AFTER a meaty three day weekend. I mean, we missed the Summer entirely. Nothing like a timesink right at the start of the school season. We're gonna need a bigger pillow *Dragon Quest writhes in agony*

Thank goodness for broken street dates, otherwise I'd be feeling this.
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HardcoreRetro

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Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #31919 on: September 05, 2018, 02:31:39 PM »
The invisible question mark clouds in Yoshi's Woolly World are pissing me off. Having to find collectibles you can't see for 100% completion.

They should take the person that came up with this shit, shove yarn Yoshi in their mouth and watch em choke on their own spit.