What are you playing?

[MMaRsu]

@Bepbo you can find some really good horses and break em in, no need to buy them

[Nintex]

Found Epstein's sex dungeon in AC Odyssey or was it Depardieu? Sure looked like him before I slit his throat.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Finally finished DQ XI It's Dragon Quest. You either love that or hate that.

Serious question, how have you time to finish that game? I liked it enough, but at 25 hours I just felt I could to play so many other games/do other things in the 100+ hours it apparently takes to finish it.

It took me almost  a year from when I started it to finish it. Just put in a hour or so here or there.

[archnemesis]

I finished the Switch version in 70 hours over maybe 3 months. Portable mode makes long RPGs much more accessible.

[Chooky]

there's no urgency in DQ games, which i love. makes it easy to play an episode or two, then put down the game for a while until i feel like coming back. they're so well-desinged that there isn't really a "derusting" period where i have to learn how to play again.

[Spieler1]

Since Rondo of Blood changed my opinion on classic Castlevania a couple of years back, I'm returning to this series every now and then. I played a few hours of CV1 and don't know why I remember it to be clunky, it's very good.  I didn't like the static jump back in the day, but now I don't mind at all. I usually prefer faster paced games and in the past I disliked the slower nature of the classic games, but now it feels right. Even in the first game there's just something about whipping monsters with a rocking OST.

[Bebpo]

@Bepbo you can find some really good horses and break em in, no need to buy them

Hmmm, how do you get a horse? Lasso it? It's been a while since the tutorial. Also are there any good horses in the south?


One thing I don't like about RDR2 is to fish the legendary fish you just use the same bait which you have to buy from a spot near Lagrass. I tried fishing for a couple of them before getting there and no luck.
Meanwhile with legendary animals you can just use any gun you have on you, and damage doesn't even matter, so you just track and bit and fight. Much, much easier.


OH, and I just learned last night, 30+ hours in, how to RETRY A MISSION FROM CHECKPOINT/ABANDON MISSION. You pull out your list of tasks with left d-pad and then select the mission and hit abandon. Man, this would have helped a couple times. They really should've let you abandon/retry just from the start screen like every.other.game.

[shosta]

atmospheric indie game recs? Something I can relax to after a hard day of living my hellish existence. I like exploring.

[Great Rumbler]

atmospheric indie game recs? Something I can relax to after a hard day of living my hellish existence. I like exploring.

[Bebpo]

Caught a big fish in RDR2. Doesn't seem like there's much you can do with besides put it on your horse and admire it, sell it for a few bucks or donate it. Also ran across a chance encounter of a prison escapee looking for me to shoot off his handcuffs. Instead hogtied him and left him for the sheriff lol I like when the game is more rpg and let's you do whatever.

[MMaRsu]

@Bepbo you can find some really good horses and break em in, no need to buy them

Hmmm, how do you get a horse? Lasso it? It's been a while since the tutorial. Also are there any good horses in the south?


One thing I don't like about RDR2 is to fish the legendary fish you just use the same bait which you have to buy from a spot near Lagrass. I tried fishing for a couple of them before getting there and no luck.
Meanwhile with legendary animals you can just use any gun you have on you, and damage doesn't even matter, so you just track and bit and fight. Much, much easier.


OH, and I just learned last night, 30+ hours in, how to RETRY A MISSION FROM CHECKPOINT/ABANDON MISSION. You pull out your list of tasks with left d-pad and then select the mission and hit abandon. Man, this would have helped a couple times. They really should've let you abandon/retry just from the start screen like every.other.game.

Yes you walk slowly towards a horse ( or from your current horse ) and use the lasso on him/her. You'll have to break her in and I think you can stable a few horses so you can try different ones. There are a few horses that are much better than the rest, but personally im not sure which ones. I know there is an albino white horse in the snowy part of the mountain where you first start, on some frozen lake, which has great stats. Im currently using that one.

I think you will also obtain a lure specifically to catch legendary fish, but im not sure..  I should continue my playthrough but really want to upgrade my 1060 3gb to a rx 5600 xt..

Caught a big fish in RDR2. Doesn't seem like there's much you can do with besides put it on your horse and admire it, sell it for a few bucks or donate it. Also ran across a chance encounter of a prison escapee looking for me to shoot off his handcuffs. Instead hogtied him and left him for the sheriff lol I like when the game is more rpg and let's you do whatever.

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Big scales (scales), fishscale, big weight (fish) 

[MMaRsu]

atmospheric indie game recs? Something I can relax to after a hard day of living my hellish existence. I like exploring.

I know Rumbler recommended My Time at Portia, but I found Stardew Valley a much more relaxing sim. Top down view, no camera interaction so that is a little bit more relaxed imo.

[Coax]

Managed to find a Reshade config that alleviates significantly the sick feeling I got while playing Ghost of a Tale earlier. Need to tweak it a bit to reduce the posterization effect of dark boosted areas but the auto brightness and quasi-sharpening effect (it's a sharpening that only applies dark not light edge contrast) has really helped so I don't mind some image quality sacrifice.

Third spoiler tagged pic is how ridiculously dark some areas can be at night without a light in the vanilla game, which I'm sure added to the original eye strain. Kind of a fetch quest-y game but quests seem to be becoming more interesting. Travel on foot with the slow as molasses full metal incognito armor is the main thing consuming time though, unfortunately.

pure darkness

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[Don Rumata]

Caught a big fish in RDR2. Doesn't seem like there's much you can do with besides put it on your horse and admire it, sell it for a few bucks or donate it. Also ran across a chance encounter of a prison escapee looking for me to shoot off his handcuffs. Instead hogtied him and left him for the sheriff lol I like when the game is more rpg and let's you do whatever.

What else are you going to do with a fish? 
There's a fishing quest later on in the game, tho.

[Bebpo]

Caught a big fish in RDR2. Doesn't seem like there's much you can do with besides put it on your horse and admire it, sell it for a few bucks or donate it. Also ran across a chance encounter of a prison escapee looking for me to shoot off his handcuffs. Instead hogtied him and left him for the sheriff lol I like when the game is more rpg and let's you do whatever.

What else are you going to do with a fish? 
There's a fishing quest later on in the game, tho.

Well since it went on the back of your horse and you had to lug it around I thought you'd get something special out of it. Like maybe some crafting item like animals give.
You can't even eat it! Doesn't show up on your campfire menu. I googled and it confirmed all you could do with it is sell it (was worth like $4) or donate it.

Big scales (scales), fishscale, big weight (fish) 

There's no way to carve it for materials though?

[D3RANG3D]

Been playing a lot of Dark Souls lately, pwned the Bed of Chaos.

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Started up Demon Souls too.

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[Nintex]

Played AC Odyssey.

Brought a 'cyclops' looking for a friend together with a lonesome fisherman in between killing cultists. 

LVL 40 now, moving towards the end of the main Odyssey but still so much to do 100+ hours in 

[The Sceneman]

After xmas and new years Ive been pretty busy but things are settling down a bit o Ive got some more time for vidya.

Been playing (and ruining my achievement completion % ratio) the following off GamePass:

Doom 2016 - just beat this recently with all collectibles and challenges complete. Great game which really grew on me, and I'm looking forward to Doom Eternal.

Goose Game - finished the main 'quest', still gotta go back and do the rest of the bonus objectives. Nice game which doesnt overstay its welcome as someone else said.

Human Fall Flat - not really my kinda game. I get that the joke is youre wrangling a weird physics engine but it just isnt fun. Im up to the water level and i think the sailboat/raft BS has made me give up. I also gave up on Outer Worlds because its just a really shit game. How its getting GotY awards is beyond me.

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night - got 100% map now just grinding out the item collection. Its boring so I'm picking away at it slowly.

Enter the Gungeon - I generally do a couple of runs when I boot up my box then play something else. Really fun game but I suck at it. Need to watch a few tutorial clips to learn the secrets and stuff. Furthest Ive gotten is level 4.

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

[Rufus]

Senua's Sacrifice
Not as intensely dark as I had imagined. Not in a way that would drag my seasonally affected ass down, anyway. Just killed Valravn, going for Surtr next.

[HardcoreRetro]

The asmr female voices gave me a boner.

[Svejk]

Senua's Sacrifice
Not as intensely dark as I had imagined. Not in a way that would drag my seasonally affected ass down, anyway. Just killed Valravn, going for Surtr next.

It gets psychology darker the further you go I would say.  Listening about her past throughout gets more messed up too.  I really enjoyed that game... Headphones headphones headphones if not already.

[Rufus]

I always use headphones when I play games. Don't even own speakers that are worth a damn.

[Bebpo]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

Senua's Sacrifice
Not as intensely dark as I had imagined. Not in a way that would drag my seasonally affected ass down, anyway. Just killed Valravn, going for Surtr next.

It gets psychology darker the further you go I would say.  Listening about her past throughout gets more messed up too.  I really enjoyed that game... Headphones headphones headphones if not already.

Yeah, I played the first hour or so of this with headphones and the sound design was the best part for sure.

[Svejk]

Jumped around with some VR last night.  Finally beat the last level of Super hot VR. Goddam that game is fun.  Also got into a good groove with Dirt Rally VR too.  Was tearing up the roads.  After a stiff drink, I was unstoppable.  .
Then jumped back to Sekiro and the monks were kicking my ass, so jumped to Ace Combat 7... Mission 10 was pissing me off... Gonna have to sortie a better load out... Escort missions suck ass.

[Bebpo]

So I'm trying to play RDR2 and the Rockstar server is down and I can't boot it   That always-online DRM future.

Anyhow, been getting a lot of the challenges done. In RDR1 I don't think I bothered much but in this I'm finding it fun to do a lot of them (saving all the bandit ones for endgame since I'm almost maxed honor and don't want to lose a bunch robbing people). I really do wish they weren't gated in order though. Like on the herbalist 10 challenges, I'm stuck at #2 because I need to pick 4 types of berries and even using dead eye everywhere and grabbing every plant, I've found like...1.

Best part of the game is still all the camp camaraderie. I can't believe the amount of unique interactions and dialogue lines of everyone in camp as the story/days progress. They must have written/animated/voiced 100s of these but it really brings the camps alive and makes everyone feel like real people. I also like some of Arthur's dialogue, he's got some good lines and delivery, especially when he's getting standoff-ish with Dutch as the story is progressing. Definitely starting to feel like a pretty amazing game.

I also really like hunting in this game. I've got no interest in hunting animals irl, but it's pretty satisfying getting a clean kill and taking the skin/carcass back to sell/craft. Fishing is ok, but every game has fishing and I wouldn't say this one is one of the best, but it definitely looks nice. I'm surprised the legendary animals/fish aren't super hard challenges like in other games but just like standard animals/fish that are a bit harder to find.

[demi]

I finished Darksiders 3 over the weekend (Game Pass). I enjoyed it more than Jedi: Fallen Order and I think it does a better job at "emulating" the Souls experience than that game as well.

Darksiders 3 got a rough launch, but it did receive some patches that helped it tremendously, as well as giving you the option to play it like a "Zelda game" (like Darksiders 1 & 2) with Z-targeting.

Up to a certain point I started just googling for information and discovered that Darksiders 3 has probably the easiest "item dupe" glitch I've come across since Wild ARMs. It's so easy I don't see why you -wouldnt- do it.

It really is that easy

So with this glitch I went from Level 5 to Level 300 in less than 5 minutes, and life was good. Almost too good. Then I entered the Bonelands

It turns out due to them "fixing" some sort of soul farming exploit (which is negated with the item dupe glitch anyway?) the Bonelands has an enemy scaling issue where if you are higher than Level 50 at any point, the enemies become so strong they pretty much one shot you. So I had to start playing this as intended like a Dark Souls game, aggroing one enemy at a time, hoping I could 1v1 them (me, the level 300 walking deathgod). Thankfully the main boss of the area also has a cheese so I eventually beat the area and never had to go back to it. Sure enough, the following areas turned into piss easy difficulty again.

The only thing I can think of is that I somehow triggered some sort of "NG+++ mode" since you really aren't supposed to be that high level at that point, and was getting drops intended for a NG+ playthrough (armor upgrades, unavailable in NG and only accessible in NG+).

In any case, I beat it because I'm the best and I would still recommend a play, as intended or not. It's better than Lords of the Fallen, at least.

Also fun fact, this game can be completed in under 5 minutes and shows how broken this game is (the "end portal" is literally underneath the main area)

[Freyj]

Finished up Trails in the Sky the 3rd with all doors. A nice little epilogue and some good lore expansion in some of the doors (Renne’s door Jesus goddam Christ), but ultimately a lot of nonsense wrapped around a dungeon grind. Still better than some of the more laborious stretches of FC / SC though. Can’t understate how much the turbo options in the PC release improved my experience with SC/3rd over FC on the PSP.

Will jump into Zero once the geofront translation is out in a few weeks (hopefully). I’ve been playing the first Kiseki series for what feels like a decade so it’ll be nice to see progression in the series outside of just the ongoing story.

[porkbun]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

I didn't really get into JC3 until I got the DLC.  Getting mechs and the jetpack makes a big difference in the game play and gives it that big over the top feel the base game is missing.

I agree on there being too much side stuff, but that's par for the course for most open world games now.

[MMaRsu]

RDR2 pc port is doing my head in. I continued playing all friday night, saturday too. Sunday when their servers had trouble I got an error ingame stating error gfx state or some shit like that.

It has to do with Vulkan but thats what Ive BEEN using this whole time and now it wont load with vulkan

argh this port

[Bebpo]

RDR2 pc port is doing my head in. I continued playing all friday night, saturday too. Sunday when their servers had trouble I got an error ingame stating error gfx state or some shit like that.

It has to do with Vulkan but thats what Ive BEEN using this whole time and now it wont load with vulkan

argh this port

Yeah it’s not a great/good port. Even on dx12 I had a crash over the weekend when trying to do the 5 min run from Valentine to Rhodes and it crashed midway. Luckily I only seem to get crashes every bunch of hours so it’s manageable but still annoying. Crash during an hour mission means starting from scratch again since no checkpoint saving.   

[The Sceneman]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

I didn't really get into JC3 until I got the DLC.  Getting mechs and the jetpack makes a big difference in the game play and gives it that big over the top feel the base game is missing.

I agree on there being too much side stuff, but that's par for the course for most open world games now.

I think they're doing the same thing with JC4 and all the cool shit is paywallled behind DLC packs and a season pass. Theres a hoverboard in one DLC! I'm temped but the season pass aint cheap (like 50 NZD) so I'll wait for a sale or something.

And get a load of this Shark and Bark Pack. Looks awesome, but its seven bucks!

[Kunai With Chain]

Played and finished Cave Story+ for the first time and it was pretty fun, I had already played Kero Blaster but the controls still took some getting used to despite being pretty similar. I wish the Switch version had some in-game achievements in lieu of Nintendo at least, makes it hard to know what objectives are left to do after finishing the first play through without it. Ended up having to look online at the steam achievements.

I also recently finished Link's Awakening, outside of looking very pretty I didn't get the point of the game. It just kinda existed. It didn't have any challenge, puzzles or story to speak of, even the music was forgettable. But maybe I'm being harsh since it was a remake of a GB game, never played the original but it might have been impressive when it came out and they didn't want to mess about with the remake too much.

[Bebpo]

Stumbled into Saint Dennis when looking for the trapper to sell some legendary animals in rdr2. Haven't really explored it yet, saving it for when the story gets there, but dang, at night the city looks pretty amazing. So cool to have a real legit city in RDR. Also having been to New Orleans it's cool to recognize a lot of it.

I think I'm getting towards the end of ch.3. I've done a ton of missions down here in plantation estate land (which is kinda a small section of the map for the amount of missions/hours spent down here so far), so I gotta imagine it'll be moving a bit east to St. Dennis real soon. Around 40 hours in now.

[kingv]

Been playing some mediocre games lately. On the last episode of telltale Batman. Which is a telltale game. I’m mostly enjoying it though.

Also been playing through Mad Max. This is a really mediocre Ubisoft clone with Batman combat, though I like most of the gameplay systems ok. It’s biggest problem is it is map checklist city. That’s really all the game is and there is like literally nothing else to it, but upgrading your car is fun and it gets noticeably more powerful as you go.

[porkbun]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

I didn't really get into JC3 until I got the DLC.  Getting mechs and the jetpack makes a big difference in the game play and gives it that big over the top feel the base game is missing.

I agree on there being too much side stuff, but that's par for the course for most open world games now.

I think they're doing the same thing with JC4 and all the cool shit is paywallled behind DLC packs and a season pass. Theres a hoverboard in one DLC! I'm temped but the season pass aint cheap (like 50 NZD) so I'll wait for a sale or something.

And get a load of this Shark and Bark Pack. Looks awesome, but its seven bucks!

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I got JC4 at the PSN Holiday Sale for like $15.  With my backlog, I'm cool waiting until I can get the DLC for a couple bucks each like with JC3.

[Don Rumata]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

The map in 3 wasn't bigger than 2 (?if anything, it was smaller, since it had more water), and i don't think 4 is particularly bigger either.
JC is just a very mediocre game that blew up with 2 because it wasn't as competitive of a market, and they were the cute underdog.
That said, i also agree 2 was a bit more fun, because of the different biomes, though 3 had more complexity in the geography and the wingsuit was very cool.
Progression was horrid, like you said, but i modded that shit, so whatever  .

Tried to play 4 for an hour, and it was so bugged to hell, i couldn't even enjoy that little time with it, maybe it's fixed now?

[Bebpo]

RDR2 - Shit got real at the end of ch.3

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I kinda figured with all the camp stuff that some of these/most of these people in the gang are gonna die and it'll have more impact after all their missions and stuff.

RIP SEAN
First to go

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[Bebpo]

Also, good writing there in that arc.

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Was a nice twist with the families setting Dutch's gang up and striking back. You've seen this kind of story a million times where a bunch of grifters are playing some rural folks and figured it would play out like usual with something going wrong and the gang getting found out and having to run.

So having the families be smart and clearly aware of everything that has been happening and trying to kill the gang was a well written original twist. That shootout in Rhodes gave me Tombstone vibes.

Also story is definitely starting to have some uncomfortable moments of bad dudes doing bad things, like after the Valentine bank robbery you go back to the first debt collector mission place and have a conversation with the wife who makes you feel pretty shitty about what you're doing. And the part in the manor where dutch is dragging the old lady down the stairs after you killed the whole family is pretty fucked up stuff.

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[MMaRsu]

RDR2 - Shit got real at the end of ch.3

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I kinda figured with all the camp stuff that some of these/most of these people in the gang are gonna die and it'll have more impact after all their missions and stuff.

RIP SEAN
First to go

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Just did that part last night as well, still an amazing part.

I will continue to play tonight as well, just got past that mission you showed up there.

I am very curious what you will think of the story when all is said and done

[porkbun]

Just Cause 4 - I didn't play JC3, but this doesn't seem as good as JC2? Im not really sure what I'm meant to be doing, theres tons of objectives on the map and I'm kinda just doing stuff. The game didn't really explain its progression systems very well. I miss completing locations by destroying all the infrastructure - it looks like this is back to extent but its more of an XP gauge of sorts? I dunno. The game looks good and its fun enough though. The novelty physics gimmick toys are pretty cool.

I didn't play 4, but 3 was definitely less fun than 2. If your game is as repetitive as JC, maybe making a bigger and bigger map is gonna stop being a plus at some point.

The main issue with 3 was all your skills/gear were locked behind stupid mini-game activities for progression which made it very unfun to progress and get up to full wrecking ability speed. Instead of some race being a fun optional side activity to change things up it suddenly becomes a mandatory frustrating race. Bad design but I guess they figured no one was playing their side stuff so they forced it in.

I didn't really get into JC3 until I got the DLC.  Getting mechs and the jetpack makes a big difference in the game play and gives it that big over the top feel the base game is missing.

I agree on there being too much side stuff, but that's par for the course for most open world games now.

I think they're doing the same thing with JC4 and all the cool shit is paywallled behind DLC packs and a season pass. Theres a hoverboard in one DLC! I'm temped but the season pass aint cheap (like 50 NZD) so I'll wait for a sale or something.

And get a load of this Shark and Bark Pack. Looks awesome, but its seven bucks!

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I got JC4 at the PSN Holiday Sale for like $15.  With my backlog, I'm cool waiting until I can get the DLC for a couple bucks each like with JC3.

Speak of the devil the JC4 season pass is already 50% off ($15) on PSN.

[BIONIC]

Finished base Witcher 3 story + all missable story quests + all contracts + all land-based POIs (fuck the sea ones) in 140+ hours, after chipping away at it for a bit over three weeks.

Awesome fucking journey.

Series as a whole just kept getting better (and the first one was already pretty awesome!). I do miss just how tightly structured the second game was though. Lots of superfluous crap in 3 that would’ve been better off axed in order to tighten up more deserving content. Oh, and the combat being bad is such a dumb fucking meme at this point. It’s not amazing by any stretch of the imagination, but the interplay between swords/signs/potions/oils/bombs is really cool.

Anyways, I still likely have 50+ hours to finish both expansions, so still lots of shit left. I didn’t hate the ending I got, but it felt pretty underwhelming. Hopefully Blood and Wine is a more satisfying conclusion.

[kingv]

I thought blood and wine is extremely satisfying, especially if you have been in since the first game.

I skipped the 2nd, personally, just couldn’t get into it.

[D3RANG3D]

Been playing a lot of Dark Souls lately, pwned the Bed of Chaos.

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Started up Demon Souls too.

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Am on the last boss, need to try a different armor/ring/weapon strategy got my ass handed to me.

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Died a couple more times and shit slapped him.

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[Stro]

I finally got PS Now to actually run for me and played GOW Ascension but about half way I gave up on it because I was bored and it just made me want to play MK Shaolin Monks instead.

[RyoonZ]

Finished Atelier Ryza

This one is very welcoming to newcomer. It simplified a lot of its game mechanic and removed the time limit. It also is the beginning of the sub series, so it's brand new world. Character design is amazing as you can see from it getting all the fan arts even before the game came out. I like the sidequests, there's no more board quests and it's getting replaced by NPC requests which have their own mini stories kinda like Yakuza sub stories. It's on the short side as well, it took me 50 hours to platinum, probably only 30 hours for the main story.

RDR2 - Shit got real at the end of ch.3

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I kinda figured with all the camp stuff that some of these/most of these people in the gang are gonna die and it'll have more impact after all their missions and stuff.

RIP SEAN
First to go

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That last screenshot was the hypest moment in the game, it peaked there to be honest.

[Great Rumbler]

It simplified a lot of its game mechanic and removed the time limit.

The time limit hasn't really been a big part of the series in a while, and the last one to have a really strict time limit was Rorona [in 2009]. And the remake of Rorona took it out completely.

[BIONIC]

Finished all of Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone in about 16+ hours.

Pretty fun expansion, and Shani is just

She has the weirdest fucking accent though. She tries to do an American accent, but constantly slips into her real one which sounds kinda Australian or something.

A crazy amount of branching choices. I’d definitely be interested in replaying it at some point, but that won’t be anytime soon though.

Very heavy on cutscenes and dialogue weirdly enough. Not too much witchering it felt like.

Will try to knock out Blood and Wine within the next week.

[Svejk]

I know I am 25 years late but Skyrim is fucking amazing.

- Dragons resurrecting Dragons
- Fus Ro Dah!
- Nordic setting
- Giants vs Dragons Radiant AI
- runs 60 fps in Full HD, 4x AA, 16x AF, ENB on on my business laptop

60 hours in and barely scratching the content. ETA 250 hours to 100% the game.

Always down fo dat Skyrim talk...


Jeremy Soule's finest work too.. 

Are you using any mods?

[Stro]

Mafia III sure is a repetitive game

[Stro]

I was going to push through and finish Mafia III anyway despite it just being the same 3 step mission over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over but fuck this game. They spent all that money on licensing every song you've ever heard in a Vietnam era movie just to have you do the same mission on repeat for 20 hours.

[Nintex]

I was going to push through and finish Mafia III anyway despite it just being the same 3 step mission over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over but fuck this game. They spent all that money on licensing every song you've ever heard in a Vietnam era movie just to have you do the same mission on repeat for 20 hours.

The design document:

"You can shoot the KKK while listening to Vietnam songs"

That's it, that's the game. Now give us $100 million.


lvl 44 in Odyssey now. Cleaning up quest lines. Still so pretty 

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Would slut for Alkibiades again 

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[Freyj]

Running only 4 mods:

- SkyUI (imagine releasing the PC game back in 2013 without it...)
- Show Enemy Level (seriously why isn't this a thing ?!?). This is the whole fucking mod:

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; ${level} - Enemy level
; ${name} - Enemy name
; ${color} - Color set in [LevelDifferenceColor] section
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<font color="${color}">Lv.${level}</font> ${name}
- some ENB with better lightning (one of the top downloads @ Nexus) - no trees, roads, chars, buildings etc. just better lighting and FX
- SIMM (Better Meshes - more polys per object)

The "show enemy level mod" gives interesting implications: I did some dungeon with LVL1/6/13 Draugrs @ my char LVL 14; generic stuff, you know? and then the boss of this dungeon is a LVL50 Lich that OHKO's me (Vokun).

The fuck is this scaling... ?!?

Found my first one-handed Ebony. So nice

Skyrim needs almost as much mod help as Oblivion for scaling and perks and what not to not be turbofucked, it just runs better and looks nice out of the box.

[porkbun]

I was going to push through and finish Mafia III anyway despite it just being the same 3 step mission over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over but fuck this game. They spent all that money on licensing every song you've ever heard in a Vietnam era movie just to have you do the same mission on repeat for 20 hours.

I finished the game, but that was definitely my biggest issue with the game.  Also you get way too overpowered way too early in the game.

[Bebpo]

Got back to RDR2. At first I was feeling there wasn't a lot to do in this game besides some of these challenges and collect-a-thon and bounties, but at this point in the game in ch.4 I'm kinda amazed at how much there is to do on this map. Guy in Rhodes has a stagecoach tip-off, there's new bounties everywhere, stranger missions that are actually quests left and right, at camp Lenny's got a stagecoach mission, Uncle's got a herding mission, there's always someone with a fishing mission, Arthur's ex has a mission, etc.....

I'm saving all the main yellow required missions for last and doing all the white optional mission stuff but there's just tons and tons of it.

Plus all these chance encounters you run into, which some are like full on mini-sidequests
Plus gang camps you discover and can take out
Plus homesteads you run across
legendary animal territories....

Pretty impressed how meaty the game is. I doubt I'll finish all the challenges, and not going out of my way to look for collectibles, but I do plan on doing every white & yellow mission and can definitely see this being a 100 hour+ game with that.

Also Javier playing the guitar everywhere in camp is so good. Adds a lot along with the millions of conversations different camp people are having with each other.
At the start of Ch.4

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When you get back from saving Jack and everyone is singing together it's great 

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[Bebpo]

RDR2 - Things didn't go so well in St. Denis. Got to Ch.5.





Pacing is definitely back on track at this point. Sometimes the pace would kinda die down in ch.3 & 4 when you're stuck in one area doing mission after mission and stranger stuff. But now the main plot is really moving and hard to put down.

I still have no idea how the game is going to use the rest of the map considering the small chunks of the map each chapter has used so far (ch.1 = northwest grizzlies, ch.2 new hanover plains, ch.3 plantations, ch.4 st denis). There's still the entire eastern/northeastern coast of the map I haven't explored, the blackwater side on the southwest, and then the

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RDR1 map to the southwest of blackwater.

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I know the game's 6 chapters, so assuming ch.5 is on Guarma that's a lot of map left to cover in a chapter and a bit. Then again story progress is only 54%, so maybe there's a lot of story left. But if the story progress% includes gold medals than that's not really accurate since most of my missions are bronze, so who knows.

Will just see where the story goes.

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RIP KEIRAN, JOSEA, LENNY

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[Nintex]

Won the olympics for Sparta 

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Does Testikles always gets eaten by sharks? Occasionally weird things happen in this game 

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[Bebpo]

So close to the end of ch.5 in RDR2 repeatable crash at the start of a main story mission every time so can't do the mission. Googled it and apparently other people are hitting it but running in safe mode for just this one mission seems to allow you get by it. Great port there!

https://www.reddit.com/r/RDR2/comments/dydu4u/icarus_and_friends_bug/f80jbjj/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/1750142526436030441/

[Bebpo]

A bit into ch.6 now. I'm really enjoying the character writing for Arthur. The end of the money lending questline in particular was really good where instead of

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beating people down for their debts, you go around absolving the debts and helping people

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I had it spoiled (pretty much the only story spoiler) that

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Arthur gets TB, so that wasn't a big surprise, but the way the game is handling it is interesting.

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Pretty much wrapping up stranger stories/sidequests now before getting back to the main story since I'm getting closer to the end.

[Bebpo]

Working through some backlog, playing AC Origins DLC Expansions. Finished The Hidden Ones which was ok. Was nice for getting back in the hang of things and remembering how to play AC Origins, but not much of a story, Sinai Peninsula isn't a very interesting historic locale and it's like 4 hours long. Reminds me that AC Origins is fun, but too easy and no real strictness in stealth.

Started on Curse of the Pharaoh which is supposed to be the more meaty expansion, so will see how it stacks up. At least straight from the start Thebes is an interesting historical place. Plus there's an ancient sci-fi artifact and people back from the dead which sounds interesting.

Jumping back to these DLCs does show me that I'm probably gonna skip Odyssey completely. Origins gameplay feels a bit dated at this point and Odyssey being more of the same probably won't do much for me. Hopefully the upcoming one has some interesting gameplay changes to it.

[Don Rumata]

I didn't love either of the DLC, but the second one is definitely more interesting.

They kind of mirror Witcher 3 in that sense: The first one is short but more story related, the second one goes wilder places, but feels a bit more detached, plot wise.
Of course, they don't really compare to W3's in terms of quality, still, exploring the Duat and all those places is sort of fun.