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Name games you've played in February

Tackle

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I played some Poker, lost a thousand bucks, realized it was bullshit, then uninstalled the software.
So you claim, but I can see you've posted just this Thursday that you played Baldur's Gate?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/what-game-are-you-wasting-time-on.50372/page-932#post-9340277
Damn I'm kind of honored that people are already going through my post history

But yeah, I played like 30m of Siege of Dragonspear and didn't like it. Haven't had much time for gaming this month, just BG1 and the occasional bing bing wahoo on the Switch.
 

Maxie

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I played some Poker, lost a thousand bucks, realized it was bullshit, then uninstalled the software.
So you claim, but I can see you've posted just this Thursday that you played Baldur's Gate?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/what-game-are-you-wasting-time-on.50372/page-932#post-9340277
Damn I'm kind of honored that people are already going through my post history

But yeah, I played like 30m of Siege of Dragonspear and didn't like it. Haven't had much time for gaming this month, just BG1 and the occasional bing bing wahoo on the Switch.
Bitch attempts at jocularity have to be double-checked, especially coming from accounts made literally this week. There are people on this website who make alt accounts to act snide where acting snide is frowned upon, as it's apparently funny to them.
 

StaticSpine

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Played but didn't finish any of those:
  • Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age - cool, but got tired of the game playing itself
  • Indivisible - tried for the second time, but still didn't click
  • Nunholy - okay Hades clone with anime nuns, but didn't bother to finish a full run
  • Hades II - not my cup of tea, the same as 1
  • Valkyria Chronicles 4 - good game, but I lost interest when the maps became bigger
  • Death Must Die - nice VC clone, but still in EA
  • Subverse - not good
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio - started playing
 

Dark Souls II

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I played some Poker, lost a thousand bucks, realized it was bullshit, then uninstalled the software.
You're just one hand from winning BIG. Do not stop. Only losers stop. Just keep playing!

On a more serious note, IRL poker is a completely different beast from the online poker-based minigame, if you think you could enjoy poker you should try out some IRL tables. Haven't played in years but back in the day it was always profitable just enough to sustain my hobbies of alcoholism and BPD high school girls.
 

Ezekiel

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Finished...

Tomb Raider III :4/5:
Hi-Fi Rush :2/5:

Would be interesting to see classic Tomb Raider levels in wireframe, camera pulled way back. So intricate. Gratifying to unravel. Worth the many, many hours I spent not making progress.

Hi-Fi Rush is every other modern combat system. So many years of developers thinking the only way to defend should be to time an action, whether dodge or parry, both the same thing, in essence. Hard automatic turning of the character towards enemies built in because their position doesn't really matter when the attack has to be dodged or parried anyway, in turn making the developers feel free to make enemies more numerous and wilder in terms of where they move in the arena (with the cameras, the stick that you have to leave the action buttons for, often inadequate). I keep going back to Streets of Rage 2 as I complain these systems because of how much it achieved without a dodge button and only a special attack that made you invulnerable while sacrificing health. These newer games aren't about foot movement and finding good positions in the way the old were, even though fighting in real life and the movies they try to emulate are so much about foot movement and positions. I could pull a better fighting system out of my ass. The environmental traversal of Hi-Fi Rush is so automated and crappy that there is only the fighting, and it's mediocre. The bosses are full of checkpoints that upon death revive you with full health that you did not enter the checkpoint with, because the developers KNEW the scenarios were too weird and would set players up for failure. "This will be cool. Will be cinematic and cool. They'll like that!" Lives or tickets had to be removed from games because of how long they became, but it has made developers lazy. They no longer look at battles as progressive challenges and balance their games that way. With the checkpoints, each little part of the fight or the level as a whole becomes a separate thing, a new challenge. There's no continuity. I'm not explaining it well because I've already said all this and am now writing it as fast as possible. Story was stupid anime bullshit with lame characters. For a game about music, the music was bland, with a curious lack of songs. Final two levels did have songs, and they sucked and didn't fit the action.
 

Tackle

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I played some Poker, lost a thousand bucks, realized it was bullshit, then uninstalled the software.
You're just one hand from winning BIG. Do not stop. Only losers stop. Just keep playing!

On a more serious note, IRL poker is a completely different beast from the online poker-based minigame, if you think you could enjoy poker you should try out some IRL tables. Haven't played in years but back in the day it was always profitable just enough to sustain my hobbies of alcoholism and BPD high school girls.
I thought about trying live as it can't hurt to have more information to play with. I know poker can be an incredibly complex games with books upon books written about it and even coaches peddling their lessons. But it's entirely possible to go on shitty downswings and lose a bunch of buy-ins despite making the best decisions possible, and that kind of soured the deal for me.

+EV hobbies btw
 
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Tried a bit of Path of Exile 2 since I got free access. Didn't like it so far.

The rest was mostly messing around with Total War Warhammer 3.
 

BLOBERT

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BROS

NINJA GAIDEN 2 BLACK
SIFU
A DARK ROOM
THE LAST BLADE
GAROO MARED WOLVES
MORTAL KOMBAT
A MILLION OTHER ARCSDE FUGHTERS
ZAXXON
GYRUSS
 

Raghar

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance - Finished the UEF campaign, in one mission (the last one with QAI) I managed to trigger a bug that ended the mission prematurely in victory, apparently a Mavor (or 2) sniped a commander before some scripts triggered related to operational area expansion, which skipped the hole part with bringing Brackman's Megalith to QAI. Was a bit funny.
Best campaign is for Aeon. And because SMD can't shot down satellites, satellite is horrible cheat.
BTW have you tried to load Aeon bots into 3 Continentals and fly over enemy base?
I think I played "reclaim only experimentals" campaign. You need to add some challenge into the game.
 

Nekron

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Dota 2 - one of the greatest game ever make
Elden Ring - also one of the greatest game ever make, i always play sometimes for co-op characters
NFS: Underground 2 - i really likes the city in this racing game
Yakuza 0 - around 20 hours in, the game is very much the funny and cool, but sometimes i have hard time to want play 'story' focus game like these
 

Raghar

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As you clearly see, I played Sudoku. Chess. (That's horrible waste of time.)
Then I played my HoI4 campaign Japan vs whole world with boosted US. (And without abusing HoI4 rules by invading US in 1938.) It's 1952 and enemies have 87 million loses. I still didn't find target to use one of my 47 nukes.

And while I play old version, Paradox developers looks like they are mentally disabled. Like if Japan has 20 carriers, why wouldn't US make more than 8 carriers they have? Even historically they were making Carriers, Battleships, Heavy cruisers... Like WTF is with Paradox developers. Well USN is mostly under water, and I don't talk about submarines. What is preventing US to create 10 new carriers that would deploy 2-3 years later? Battleships with new standards... Well they are losing battleships to my submarines because they are sending them unescorted. But aside of that...
Like Paradox created incredibly dumb rule that when USN fleet that is siting in a port behind Panama, and who is saying they are protecting sea zones in front of Panama, it can according to Paradox developers stop enemy invasion even when they STAY in the port on the island east from Panama, while Japan is invading from west Panama coast. And to attack US fleet to blow it to pieces to prevent theirs ON PAPER protection of the seazones west of Panama, you need to go around whole South America, and conquer bases near to be able to strike USN fleet that is refuzing to move from the port, and be allowed to invade.

I also started campaign of UBOAT with better sinking they introduced in the patch. I managed to blow up 12000+ GRT on several of my missions with Type IIA. Also I'm trying hard sinking 4000 tons ships with 20 mm AA gun that Type IIA and Type IID have, it takes about 1200 rounds when I'm lucky.
I didn't programmed it, thus UBOAT doesn't have dynamic campaign, and successes or failures don't change course of war. It kinda sucks because even flight simulators in 90s had dynamic campaign that tried to mimic real conflict.

But, it's relaxing game you can play when you are reading book, or watching movie.

Mind Over Magic
Crashed on me, bad bad bad developers, learn program better. It kinda tries to find itself, and gameplay changed since 12 months ago. Perhaps in 3 or more years they would decide what exactly they are trying to make. (Now it's a simulation of building a big magic academy.)

Spellcaster University
Also kinda stuff game. In this game you are pressured by time a lot more. Also it's kinda card game.

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
It would be nice if they released it as freeware. Then it would be decent troll attempt.

The Lost Village
It's a game... Kinda. Basically it looks like Chinese developers played some kind of free web browser based games where there are increasing numbers, and you occasionally click and you are rewarded.


Things that I'm eyeing for this month are dealing with social workers to force them to start treating me as disabled since elementary school that is victim of either government officials who were either village people who didn't have clue what they were doing, or they were criminals who when they heard disabled with immunodeficiency... (I'm not really sure how to solve that. Some of theirs "incompetence" likely passed statute of limitations.) In fact, I hate it so much, I'd spend effort to delay it by at least a month. The problem is I need exception from law because local government royally screwed up.

Then I saw new version of Command: Modern Operations. Like I still prefer Harpoon Classic I got for 3 USD which had European battlefield expansion over this. But, I can borrow it and look at it.
Epic released Mages of Mystralia for free, and I found I have it on my account from last free release, and I didn't play it yet.
I'm preparing for epic journey called installing Avowed on my disability aid, and try to run it... with decent speed. Scary. I'd be probably worn out from all that experience that I'd put it on ice after 3 hours of playing and eventually delete directory to free space. (It's borrowed so no cost for me, aside of my valuable time. And I could finish that article meantime. And perhaps even release it, if I find some who would care.)
I might have also time for Rogue Trader horribly murder some black female by an accident, or make her see fate worse than death. Developers try to write high ranked fleet officials as people with either high skills, or brain, or both. Random black female who was diversity hire is normal Earth, you are doing quality games that are better than normal Earth. And it's not on Earth either.
 

Ivan

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Prince of Persia - Lost Crown :5/5:
Strange Horticulture :3/5:
Cyberpunk 2077 - dusted it off and picked up where I left off (near end of Chapter 2) :3.5/5:
 

Sergio

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Legend of Mana (belated 100%). The only game from Mana series that I actually like. Haven't tried Visions yet tho.
Vampire Survivors. Actually got hooked for like 50 hours.. and I still don't know how that happened.
Trails through Daybreak 2. I only recommend it for fans of the series.
Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Very fun pirate game, very shitty Yakuza game.
Battle Brothers. Crucify me if you want to but I gave up after a few hours. I failed to find any enjoyment.
 

Elttharion

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Finished:
428: Shibuya Scramble: :4/5:
Icey: :2.5/5:
Asterigos Curse of the Stars: :4/5:
World End Economica Part 1: :3.5/5:
Sonic superstars: :1.5/5:

Playing:
The Last Remnant: :3.5/5: So far
 

MpuMngwana

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Sep 23, 2016
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Finished:
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk

Playing:
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Bloodborne
Drakensang: The River of Time
 

Baron Dupek

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Escape from Tarkov v0.15.5 via SPT project and bunch of mods on top of it.
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Started late January and run out of quests to do this weekend - including locked ones and special events.
Used "Quest Skipper" few times because either something didn't work or required pure luck. Ended with 300mln RU and 30k € and $. Buy some stuff from Fence, sell on Flea Market for fat profits.
I consider starting over again...
 

rumSaint

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution :3.5/5: - it's K
- River City Ransom: Underground :4/5: - nice throwback to original
- Darksiders Genesis :4/5: - really good in co-op
- Shing :3/5: - very basic

- SPEES MAHREENS 2 :5/5: - still playing with friends
 

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