What are you playing?

[BlueTsunami]

Is going through the single player worth it for GTAV? I have this itch to play it and finish. I originally dropped out when you could start building teams for heists years ago.

[Positive Touch]

I thought the campaign was fun (if disturbing sometimes) and worth playing. you can keep skip missions if any are giving you trouble, which I wish more games would implement.

[eleuin]

Yeah getting back into the the swing of things bloodborne has been relatively easier than other souls games

Most bosses have some sort of transformation state and quickly teeing off on them has helped alot - Darkbeast Paarl, Shadow of Yharnam, the spider

Amygdala was a pushover

Chalice bosses have been a non-factor so far too

[kingv]

I'm sorta the same way. I start Bloodborne and get to what I call "Father Gasgas" and just get completely destroyed. I put it down for something else. Everyone tells me "No man, that's like the hardest boss until the end." Maybe I should listen to them. So far I've been like 

I thought it got harder from there. I beat Gastone on like the second try and basically gave up after blood starved beast

[Great Rumbler]

I called in some help on the BSB and we torched in about five seconds.

[kingv]

I also remember a part where you had to like take on a bunch of those little werewolf motherfuckers and I kept dying.

I Ben with the faster pace I didn’t feel like the combat system was really well suited to taking on multiple enemies at once.

[desert punk]

I’ve been playing Pharaoh (1999) for the last few weeks.
 
Played it as a kid but was too stupid and lacked the necessary attention span to really get into the game. My housing blocks constantly reverted back to slums no matter how many bazaars or whatever other necessary municipal building I built. Or Buildings burned down or collapsed because the fire brigade or the architects always came too late to prevent this shit 

Now I know how to use road blocks to control movements of my citizens and suddenly I got stable apartment blocks and no blazes devastating half of my city, I also figured out a slew of other things that makes life easier 

Got to admit though that the game doesn’t really explain a lot of these things adequately in the tutorials. Had to look it up online instead.

Anyway, game is a lot of fun, though it’s also a massive time eater, particularly when you got to build monuments. And fighting is some fiddly shit. Don’t know how many of my soldiers drowned because they just wouldn’t get out of the way when the Nile’s flooding 

Not sure I’m gonna finish all the missions, because I also bought Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (the last 2D city builder from Impressions Games, based in Ancient China). And then there’s a game called Lethis, a 2D Caesar-type city builder based in a fantasy steampunk world, that’s been released a few years ago. When there’s a sale for it on Steam or GOG, I’m gonna try that one out too.

[HardcoreRetro]

BSB can be tricked by just throwing the blood cocktails. It has to eat that stuff before going back into an attack state. It's also easy to parry.

[Spieler1]

Got Burnout 3 Legends and Suikoden II on my PSP for a train ride. Mostly got addicted to Burnout.

[archnemesis]

I also bought Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (the last 2D city builder from Impressions Games, based in Ancient China).

This one is really good. I got it for free from GMG and found it thoroughly enjoyable.

Are people still making resource simulators? The last one I played for more than a few hours was Banished. The last few Anno games haven’t clicked with me.

[desert punk]

Are people still making resource simulators? The last one I played for more than a few hours was Banished. The last few Anno games haven’t clicked with me.

Like I said, there's Lethis: Path of Progress, a Caesar-clone with Victorian steampunk aesthetics, released by some indie studio 2015 or so.

Haven't played it yet but what I've read and seen looks cool!

Here's the launch trailer:

[archnemesis]

Maybe that is what I've been looking for. To the wishlist it goes!

[Raist]

Are people still making resource simulators? The last one I played for more than a few hours was Banished. The last few Anno games haven’t clicked with me.

I'm keeping an eye on that one, seems very much like a western-themed Anno/Settlers-like.

[BlueTsunami]

So ive fired up GTAV. Its amazing how different it feels in terms of content even from the get go than it did when I first bought it. I bought it when it was first released and the campaign felt a bit barebones. Playing it now it seems like theres more to do. Theres even a wider selection of cars. I don't remember seeing those mock mustangs when I initially played.

[Freyj]

OMG Divinity and the CC in the last area. I swear to christ I spend half the game reloading saves and hoping that I don't get CC locked into watching the enemies take 4-5 turns for 10 minutes. They seriously need to nix this shit in their next game, it's absolutely awful in a Lone Wolf play through.

[Nintex]

Twilight Princess HD

The cave of shadows is some bullshit I keep dying in the last room.

With that said, this remaster is pretty awesome but makes the game somewhat easier. Finding all the secrets in TP was always challenging because it was such a blurry mess. It was really hard to make out where you could hookshot for example.
In crisp HD every important detail stands out. Other than that still one of the if not the best Zelda with the old 3D formula. The variety in enemies, gameplay types, dungeons is quite something. We were pretty spoiled back in 2006.

[Purple Filth]

More Monster Hunter

Just killing monsters in the Ancient Forest Expeditions right now to get some parts. 

After that i'll continue the main quest

[Nintex]

Finished the Cave of Shadows, finally.

I also got all heart pieces, poe souls and stamps (so far).
My guess is the 2 or 3 still missing are in the final dungeon.

Zelda
 

[kingv]

The biggest complaints on fallout 4 is that there is way less choice than fallout 3.

The simplification of the dialogue system took out most of the interesting quest branching.

It’s much more straightforward, with a choose your own adventure style ending.

[Freyj]

It’s great game but I hated the crafting. I relented and unlocked the weight limit because I felt so compelled to pick up anything of value.

[Shuri]

I got the stv cart for Die Hard Arcade, i've been playing that all evening. shit is still fun.

[Kevtones]

Fuck, my PS4 HDMI outlet seems to be busted. Did some flathead work on the metal and the HDMI is still not going in more than 60-70% of the way. See well below for some honest questions about that.

What I'm playing:
So I'm booting up my old XBOX 360 for Netflix and see some weird games from the Xbox Indies program. So many updates.


1) Sine Mora - isn't this a Suda game? It's okay so far but I'm not sure the text dumps are good. The presentation is ace for the time but it doesn't seem to be building towards something. Playing this because I'm developing a game myself (yep)

2) Radiant Silvergun - this is still super polished and great. I like its progression system. The chaining shows its age but it looks nice in motion still and the presentation holds up.

3) Silent Hill HD. I did regular voices and the port sucks and the gameplay still sucks. It's not fun. However, I will concede there are times where I'm looking to have 'not fun' and be irritated to somehow find curiosity in the annoyingly mysterious. Silent Hill 2 is tremendous in that respect.

4) Xenoblade 2 - I really, REALLY like the soundtrack, the world, and the variety. That said, it's a complete botch in terms of direction. The tutorials are monotonous and insane, the systems universally fail to unify, there are frequent and terrible sexuality issues, the blade system ends up feeling like a dice roll of anime loading screens... It's telling when the Reset thread about the new patch has 1/3 posters getting hyped about a press +skip option. Still, I won't stop playing it. I've never liked the battle system in these game but I can't quit it now, especially with a broken PS4.


I'm tempted to buy a PS2 actually. Came across my copy of The Red Star today. Why is this game not the crown jewel for PS2 Collectors? Fucking love that game and I have no way to play it.


PS4 questions:
I'd go buy a new PS4 Pro but...

1) How is the Pro?
2) Can I move my accounts or is this some weird Nintendo shit?
3) Will I lose my copy of PT?

[Raist]

1) How is the Pro?
2) Can I move my accounts or is this some weird Nintendo shit?
3) Will I lose my copy of PT?

2. Yes
3. No

[Kevtones]

1) How is the Pro?
2) Can I move my accounts or is this some weird Nintendo shit?
3) Will I lose my copy of PT?

2. Yes
3. No

So I will not lose my copy of PT? That's great. Most important tbh.


Thank you.

[Raist]

It just transfers like everything else .

Pretty sure there are ways to re-DL it too.

There's about one million guides on how to transfer stuff to a new PS4. I think they added a LAN option at some point even (otherwise you need an external HDD).

edit:there you go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3151860/personal-technology/how-to-transfer-everything-from-your-old-ps4-to-your-new-ps4-pro.html

[CrazyDiamond]

Seeing that Burnout Paradise announcement today reminded me of my time playing Burnout 3 back then so I decided to pick it up again

This game is just as great as I remember and holds up amazingly

[chronovore]

Being playing a lot of Bloodborne this week. I've owned for about two years, but until this week I never got past the first area. This was right after, or around the same time as, I was putting a lot of time into Dark Souls 3, so I wasn't really in the right mindset for Bloodborne's more aggressive combat. But I've got it down pretty good now and I've been making progress, although I really think it's a more difficult game overall than any of the Souls games [except Demon Souls, which I've only played a bit of]. So far I've got all the bosses in Yharnam knocked out and I'm working my way through the forested areas towards Byrgenwerth. I gotta say, Yharnam might be my favorite location in the franchise, the twisted, nightmarish caricature of Georgian London is so great.

Started playing a bit of this last night, on a friend's copy.

Yup, this is Dark Souls.

Yup, this is a Japanese developer who DGAF about menus.

Yup, they still don't care about helping the player come to terms with their game.

[chronovore]

So ive fired up GTAV. Its amazing how different it feels in terms of content even from the get go than it did when I first bought it. I bought it when it was first released and the campaign felt a bit barebones. Playing it now it seems like theres more to do. Theres even a wider selection of cars. I don't remember seeing those mock mustangs when I initially played.

The launch version of the game was riddled with bugs which rendered it playable but held back much of the flavor and tuning. For example, some of the phone calls which players get, telling them about other characters, where to go, etc. didn't trigger. I think the "Strangers" mechanic was broken, as I missed most of them despite paying close attention to the minimap, and never heard anything about the tow-truck and Tonya until my 2nd playthrough.

The mock-mustangs may have been in there. Franklin's car is a combination of a Charger and a more recent Mustang. But there are dozens of more vehicles than at launch. Definitely more cars and wider performance variation.

[Raist]

Being playing a lot of Bloodborne this week. I've owned for about two years, but until this week I never got past the first area. This was right after, or around the same time as, I was putting a lot of time into Dark Souls 3, so I wasn't really in the right mindset for Bloodborne's more aggressive combat. But I've got it down pretty good now and I've been making progress, although I really think it's a more difficult game overall than any of the Souls games [except Demon Souls, which I've only played a bit of]. So far I've got all the bosses in Yharnam knocked out and I'm working my way through the forested areas towards Byrgenwerth. I gotta say, Yharnam might be my favorite location in the franchise, the twisted, nightmarish caricature of Georgian London is so great.

Started playing a bit of this last night, on a friend's copy.

Yup, this is Dark Souls.

Yup, this is a Japanese developer who DGAF about menus.

Yup, they still don't care about helping the player come to terms with their game.

[demi]

LOL

Acting like you need an emotional support animal just to play Bloodborne RIP

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I finished Call of Duty WW2 - singleplayer was actually pretty good. Going to dive into multiplayer and zombies next

[archie4208]

Ys 8: Why are there so many cutscenes?
Rime:

[Positive Touch]

rime is god of war with no combat. also it wants to give me feels but it doesn't feel like it really justified it. not a bad game so far but it doesn't stand out at all either.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Rime is a so-so ICO clone. I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it's anything special.

[Spieler1]

The initial trailer was so cringey that I'm never going to touch it. Ripping off the Journey mountain (now with a nonsensical key-design!), taking the ICO aesthetic quite shamelessly - plus whimsical music!

ugh, pretentious knockoff.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Still plugging through Xenoblade Chronicles I'm in the snowy mountain area. I've gotten pretty good at the battle system, but because I can blow past most normal fights I'm underleveled for the bosses.  When I look online everyone keeps saying you need to be about within 4 levels of the boss. Argh. What a pain. The main thing is I keep on missing every 2nd or 3rd attack even after I do buffs. If I could hit, then no problem but from what I'm reading that missing is likely caused by being too low a level.

Which brings me back to Dragon Quest VIII I got the S rank in the monster arena so I got Morrie on my team now. But I'm at that damned god-bird fight and I'm a good 10 levels under what I hear other people have taken it on with. Looks like I have to grind here too.

[Mr. Gundam]

Seeing that Burnout Paradise announcement today reminded me of my time playing Burnout 3 back then so I decided to pick it up again

This game is just as great as I remember and holds up amazingly

I'd love a remaster of Burnout 3 or Burnout Revenge. Closed courses = good. Open world = bad.

[HardcoreRetro]

About to give the Assassin's Creed Origins Discovery Tour a try. Can't wait to be disappointed, uninstall the game and shove it into the cupboard with all the other stuff I'm never playing again.

[CrazyDiamond]

I'd love a remaster of Burnout 3 or Burnout Revenge. Closed courses = good. Open world = bad.

Was Paradise bad? I only played 3 but every time I see people talking about this series they seem to agree that 3's the best

[Mr. Gundam]

I'd love a remaster of Burnout 3 or Burnout Revenge. Closed courses = good. Open world = bad.

Was Paradise bad? I only played 3 but every time I see people talking about this series they seem to agree that 3's the best

Paradise was a cool idea but it required you to memorize courses or you'd take the wrong turn and fall out of races.

I just wanted some closed course racing.

[Spieler1]

I liked NfS Most Wanted reboot which iirc was like Burnout Paradise

[CrazyDiamond]

Back then I got the feeling that they wanted to go the NFS route with the open world, Underground 1 and 2 are like that too. I guess that's typical of EA. Though I'm pretty sure in NSF they closed off the paths you're not supposed to take.

[Spieler1]

Still, rereleasing remastering yet another already HD-game like Paradise instead of the OG trilogy

[I'm a Puppy!]

Burnout 3

[bdoughty]

Skyrim SE and Fallout 4 on Xbox One X in the glorious 4K update. Which basically broke both games and slowed everyting to a crawl. Thanks Todd.  MS should have made a 1080p/60FPS option mandatory to go along with the 4K. Witcher 3 did it and only took 550MB update for both 4K/30 and 1080p/60.  Fallout alone dumped an extra 20 GB to get a shitter version of the game.  Throw in a few graphical mods and you are screwed.

So unless they patch that disaster. Just Rocket League and Cities Skyline.

[bdoughty]

In the meantime I'm also playing Fallout 4.

If you could care less about achievements there are some great mods that will save you some time and make building things much more enjoyable and not break the immersion too much.

SEO - Place a wireless fusebox anywhere in a settlement and it covers the whole settlement. No more running wires, with a couple exceptions. Of course a simple cheat mod can grant you any of the crafting items (as little or as much as you want)

https://bethesda.net/en/mods/fallout4/mod-detail/4045054

See-Through-Scopes - Will make using a Sniper Rifle far more enjoyable as it removes the fade to black while zooming. Also adds better zoom on most base game guns. DLC Scopes are also viable from the same guy. I run the whole game with the Nuka World DLC Handmade auto rifle (7.62 round) and play a VATS free with it a 10mm pistol and combat shotgun.

https://bethesda.net/en/mods/fallout4/mod-detail/969715

FUCK. LOOKING. FOR. DUCT. TAPES.

Grow lots of Corn. Tato, Mutfruit and have some purified water. Go to cooking station and it creates Vegetable starch which makes 5 adhesive when scrapped to the workbench.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vegetable_starch

[eleuin]

Beat Bloodborne

Lvl 80 at the end. I think out of all souls games I missed the most stuff here on my first playthrough. Didn't know how to get in the area after Healing Church Workshop.
Met NPCs but didn't know how to advance their storylines.

Sent the cannibal dude back to the Chapel but he merked the guy who asked me to find people and disappeared a little later.
There was that lady in hypogean gaol but she wouldn't move and then was gone too

Also realized I missed all of the Old Hunter DLC, didn't think things through before ending the game 

Ending

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chose to submit, knew refusing meant a boss fight but that didn't mean much to me. I didn't even think of consuming the umbilical cords so I'm glad my character avoided becoming the new watcher.
Mergo's Wet Nurse as a final boss fight was kind of underwhelming but so were Gwyn and Nashandra so it's w/e

[close]

Overall really enjoyed my time. The focus on aggression was a welcome change. The trick weapon mechanic was cool, just wish I found more skill scaling weapons
Went most of the game using the thread cane, later on adding the axe and Tonitrus

It was definitely on the easier side, never felt the need to call on help after the first two bosses (which I beat with a friend years ago)

Not sure if I'll ever go through NG+ though, these games are exhausting. Chalice dungeon progress carrying over is a nice touch at least

Still have to replay DS2 to go through the DLC and the whole of DS3 after stopping quite early on

[Cerveza mas fina]

Wait you didnt fight the final boss of Bloodborne? I wouldnt call that beating it tbf as the final boss is pretty damn hard

I guess officialy its an ending but...

[bdoughty]

Find a legendary two-shot weapon and you can pretty much dump all those Stimpacks. Trade them in for Rad-X and Radaway if you are planning to do Far Harbor (DLC).

[demi]

Beat Bloodborne

Lvl 80 at the end. I think out of all souls games I missed the most stuff here on my first playthrough. Didn't know how to get in the area after Healing Church Workshop.
Met NPCs but didn't know how to advance their storylines.

Sent the cannibal dude back to the Chapel but he merked the guy who asked me to find people and disappeared a little later.
There was that lady in hypogean gaol but she wouldn't move and then was gone too

Also realized I missed all of the Old Hunter DLC, didn't think things through before ending the game 

Ending

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chose to submit, knew refusing meant a boss fight but that didn't mean much to me. I didn't even think of consuming the umbilical cords so I'm glad my character avoided becoming the new watcher.
Mergo's Wet Nurse as a final boss fight was kind of underwhelming but so were Gwyn and Nashandra so it's w/e

[close]

Overall really enjoyed my time. The focus on aggression was a welcome change. The trick weapon mechanic was cool, just wish I found more skill scaling weapons
Went most of the game using the thread cane, later on adding the axe and Tonitrus

It was definitely on the easier side, never felt the need to call on help after the first two bosses (which I beat with a friend years ago)

Not sure if I'll ever go through NG+ though, these games are exhausting. Chalice dungeon progress carrying over is a nice touch at least

Still have to replay DS2 to go through the DLC and the whole of DS3 after stopping quite early on

You didnt beat Bloodborne btw

Still missing 2 boss fights (that are way better than Mergos Wet Nurse)

[Bebpo]

Chalice dungeons are crap though. It's shit they hid some of the best optional bosses down there where you gotta grind all these dumb floors. Bloodborne's one of my favorite games of the last decade, especially with Old Hunters which was so.good, but I did a few bosses in Chalice dungeons and shelved it at that point.

If they're making a BB2, hope they ditch the chalice dungeon mechanic and just integrate as many great bosses as possible into the world.

[Raist]

[chronovore]

LOL

Acting like you need an emotional support animal just to play Bloodborne RIP

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I finished Call of Duty WW2 - singleplayer was actually pretty good. Going to dive into multiplayer and zombies next

It might be nice if they walked you through equipping your weapons. It intentionally kills the player-character so the player goes to the idyllic church area for hints, where they can pick up weapons, but nothing is equipped, and the instruction refers to the inventory menu, not the equip menu, trash.gifX100

[seagrams hotsauce]

Playing through Pikmin for the first time in almost two decades and boy, these little fuckers sure get distracted a lot easier than I remember.

[eleuin]

Well damn if the DLC is that good guess I'll have to run through things quickly and actually beat the game

Learning that chalice difficulty is independent of NG+ is nice to know too

[Spieler1]

I finished BB blind in like 23 hours and then did the rest in NG+ with a guide. I'm surprised I got to the snow area without help.

[Cerveza mas fina]

LOL

Acting like you need an emotional support animal just to play Bloodborne RIP

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I finished Call of Duty WW2 - singleplayer was actually pretty good. Going to dive into multiplayer and zombies next

It might be nice if they walked you through equipping your weapons. It intentionally kills the player-character so the player goes to the idyllic church area for hints, where they can pick up weapons, but nothing is equipped, and the instruction refers to the inventory menu, not the equip menu, trash.gifX100

Have to agree here, souls game are obtuse to a point of many things jusy not making sense

My biggest gripe is things like “be in the church at sundown on tuesday and consume a strawberry while having the pom pom equipped to open a portal” like who stumbles on this shit by chance

[HardcoreRetro]

My biggest gripe is things like “be in the church at sundown on tuesday and consume a strawberry while having the pom pom equipped to open a portal” like who stumbles on this shit by chance

Dodongo Dislikes Smoke.

[kingv]

LOL

Acting like you need an emotional support animal just to play Bloodborne RIP

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I finished Call of Duty WW2 - singleplayer was actually pretty good. Going to dive into multiplayer and zombies next

It might be nice if they walked you through equipping your weapons. It intentionally kills the player-character so the player goes to the idyllic church area for hints, where they can pick up weapons, but nothing is equipped, and the instruction refers to the inventory menu, not the equip menu, trash.gifX100

Have to agree here, souls game are obtuse to a point of many things jusy not making sense

My biggest gripe is things like “be in the church at sundown on tuesday and consume a strawberry while having the pom pom equipped to open a portal” like who stumbles on this shit by chance

“Wtf do I do with all of these cancerous ovaries?”

“OMG, you haven’t even REALLY beat the game!”

[Bebpo]

LOL

Acting like you need an emotional support animal just to play Bloodborne RIP

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I finished Call of Duty WW2 - singleplayer was actually pretty good. Going to dive into multiplayer and zombies next

It might be nice if they walked you through equipping your weapons. It intentionally kills the player-character so the player goes to the idyllic church area for hints, where they can pick up weapons, but nothing is equipped, and the instruction refers to the inventory menu, not the equip menu, trash.gifX100

Have to agree here, souls game are obtuse to a point of many things jusy not making sense

My biggest gripe is things like “be in the church at sundown on tuesday and consume a strawberry while having the pom pom equipped to open a portal” like who stumbles on this shit by chance

This is BS, souls games are pretty straightforward. You literally are just walking down one path, if it branches or you explore the branches will come back to where you were, or somewhere else you've been or a dead end with an item, and there's always just one path forward and you fight the bosses in order generally. I've never heard of anything like the bolded having gone through all of them. Maybe some easter egg stuff?

Playing Monster Hunter, the game is way more obtuse than any souls game.

[etiolate]

Playing the latest Astroneer patch. Game is still in early access. They changed a lot of the art and redid the base building system a bit. They made it so you must research tethers before using them which is a huge pain since they are the most basic and necessary tool for the game. The game doesn't really function without them. Other changes I generally like. The bigger habitat makes keeping power up much easier.