What game are you wasting time on?

[laclongquan]

There's no point of enduring this. It doesn't get better. This game is a really bad combination of the mechanics limitations of many RPG engines with limited RPG options of a tactical game. The worst of both worlds.

This. I soldiered on despite ignoring warnings from both Awor and DraQ, and the game is really somewhere between mediocre and plain bad. I still don't understand how, even in TB mode, it manages to be less fun and so much more boring than FO1 despite having full party control. I blame it mostly on encounter and location design, but whatever it is, it just makes the game tedious to go through. There are maybe a couple of misisons that are more interesting, but I don't even remember them, and that's not a good sign.

The first mission is the worst because it exarbate the problem of the whole game:

The whole game you can field big group of soldiers? First mission you get half that.

That in turn worsen the first experience of the first map. With full squad you can do at least two-prong attacks. With three chaps, all you can is fielding them in one group. Though solo is viable, it take bloody long to play that way.

The normal size map with half the fixed squad make it played twice as long. As first mission, it really should cut down to half or third the normal size, so that player can breeze past it, and get to the meat of the game.

Imagine you play Fallout 1 with the rat cave outside V13 is four times as big and four times the rats. You should imagine the borefest it is.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Lots of games recently.

Mass Effect 2. 20 hours in and I can safely say that it's not as good as the first game. You have somehow even less control over your character. The missions are honestly quite boring. I don't know if I'll find the will to finish it.

i felt the opposite.
me2 cuts all the copy-pasted pointless, repetitive planets, all the settings are quite unique now, tied to the characters you bring with you and the shooting gained some variety with the need to use the limited ammo weapons to take down the biggest enemies.
i honestly enjoyed some of the missions, especially the one during the solar flare.
after all the first me didn't need that non-linearity at all, it was just filler.

 

[DalekFlay]

You have no idea.

Sad thing is that the game could've been really good, but it was stuck in development hell for years.

Tits, though.

 

[BLOBERT]

ROGUR LEGACY AND WASTELAMD

WASTELAND IS HARDER THA I REMEMBERED AT LEAST WITHOUT CHEESING IT TOTALLY BUT NOW I THINK I GOT THE HANG OF IT AGAIN

WASTELAND ULTIMA V PHANTASIE 3 AND MM2 WERE MY FAVORITE RPGS GROWIBNG UP

 

[kingcomrade]

I've been playing Multiplayer Space Marine. Very few people play it any more, and the PvP modes are poorly balanced. But the horde mode is fun in the first two sections because you can be an assault marine and chainsaw things.

 

[EmoBunny]

"What are you doing Johnny Reb?"

"Waiting for you Billy Yank."

Anyone want to see a let's play of this? http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2081/the-civil-war

 

[octavius]

After some searching I found a free full version of CyberMage and installed it. Gotta love D-Fend Reloaded that will install from anything from Zip files, to real CDs, to BIN and ISO files.
After messing with the remapper I got WASD and mouse to work, but the controls still felt unintuitive and the mouse too unresponsive, and not at all as fluid as the controls in older games like Doom or even System Shock.
But what really killed my interest in the game was the absolutely terrible AI. If you move towards a door and if there is an enemy behind he will see you right through the door, but that is not the worst part; he will even try to shoot you through the door, like it wasn't there.

Also, theres no aiming in the vertical plane, which would have been fine if the auto-aiming worked properly. If enemies are behind some obstacle and you only see their head and chest, they can't shoot you and neither can you shoot them.
Look at this screenshot. If you aim at those two bozos you will hit the metal in front of them, but if you aim on the wall to the right of them, then you will hit the wall in the same height as their head and chest. Un-fucking-believeable.

The game may have a good setting, level design and story, but with shitty gameplay that doesn't help.
I'd love to see a remake of this, though, with better controls and mouselook.

 

[DwarvenFood]

This weekend I have been playing Savant - Ascent and I have no idea why O.o

Woah that looks amazing! What the hell? What game is that?

Here you go:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/259530/?snr=1_7_15__13

Nice, 1 euro.. buying for steam cash made selling useless cards !

 

[Boyarpunk]

Relaunched Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, which has been sitting in my Steam games list for several years now unplayed but I suddenly got the itch to play it.

 

[goatvomit]

Grid 2 with a pad makes me feel all dirty inside and to get the best abo track Bathurst one should dole out more money. Perhaps something interesting will come on steam sale.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Finished the existing part of the main campaign in Legends of Eisenwald.
Really enjoyed it. Just wish they implement a combat log soon.

 

[GreyViper]

Got Addicted to Sword of Stars The pit Gold, sooo hooked on it. Other then that AC4: BF courtesy of SkidishRowish and Space Rangers 2HD AWA, JA2 UC/DL 1.13 last two are the shit that keeps me going, oh the heavenly gun porn.

 

[spekkio]

Shifter 1.8.4 for Deus Ex.

What I liked:

- the ability to switch between different tools, grenades, melee weapons with an "alt-ammo" button,
- weapon modifications (more damage to some, flare darts setting targets on fire, more ammo taken from corpses, "constant" scope),
- unique weapons: nothing great, but nice touch,
- automated Power Recirculator, Regeneration being permanent (you don't have to keep enabling it over and over),
- the ability to turn charged items on and off. Too bad it's borked: if you switch the charged item to sth else or put it down (Mouse 2), you won't be able to turn it off. Or I'm doing sth wrong here...
- new weapon mod (rate of fire),

What I didn't like:
- The possibility to upgrade your augs with aug canisters - makes the game too easy.

My augs at the end of the game:

- Getting EXP for kills / KOs: makes the game too easy in the end (initial 4-10 EXP for a human enemy is not that bad, but 90 EXP for bots...). Penalty points for killing/KOing friendly NPCs are nice, but way too forgiving (~10 EXP). I was expecting that the author reduced the amount of EXP gained from completing quests / reaching locations to weaken his new EXP system, but it's not the case...

My skills at the end of the game:

- The possibility to find upgrade canisters and weapon mods on corpses: makes the game too easy.

My sniper rifle (main weapon) at the end of the game:

Final verdict: since it breaks the game's difficulty. Skip it.

I'm gonna try BioMod now and compare it to Shifter.

 

[Tytus]

I tried to waste my time with Dead Space.

Never played the series so I decided to give it a shot, but not deal. For some reason the game is stubborn enough to show my normal screen cursor on top of the game one. Which wouldn't be so bad if they moved in the same area of the screen, but they do not. Their range of movement is totally different and because my brain is trained to follow the mouse cursor I just can't play it. And I even don't know what is causing it. I tried to change the settings, reinstalled the driver, reinstalled the game itself, tried playing in window mode. Nothing works. So I wasted a lot of time on a game that I couldn't even play. I'm such a genius.

 

[laclongquan]

UFO Aftershock. Dont listen to the hater.

First set the difficulty to normal or veteran. You dont want to waste time with the repetitive maps. Quick in and out is best.

Then enjoy a very nice combat squad game the like of JA2 or Silent Storm.

 

[sser]

Warlock multiplayer - trying to beat Armageddon mode with a buddy. Getting late-game, didn't realize Warlock had such an insane amount of content. I keep seeing new stuff even though I've dropped a lot of hours into the game.

 

[Blonsky]

Kings Bounty: Legend
At first i thought that the game was made kind of lazy(you start a fight versus bears but end up fighting bears with swordsman and undead or other random units in their army), but after awhile i stoped taking it that serious and started having more fun.
Random armies are at the begining very tricky (wolfs cry can make all your army runing around doing random shit) but it keeps every fight uniqe, and later the game turns more into economics and resources then fighting.
Also it has new features that become available to you only after you played it for awhile(skills, spirits, wife and kids) so it still keeps me learning how tu use them.
The game crashed a couple times during gameplay and it only has a campaign, no scenarios or random maps but its still a nice game.

 

[Tytus]

Kings Bounty: Legend
At first i thought that the game was made kind of lazy(you start a fight versus bears but end up fighting bears with swordsman and undead or other random units in their army), but after awhile i stoped taking it that serious and started having more fun.
Random armies are at the begining very tricky (wolfs cry can make all your army runing around doing random shit) but it keeps every fight uniqe, and later the game turns more into economics and resources then fighting.
Also it has new features that become available to you only after you played it for awhile(skills, spirits, wife and kids) so it still keeps me learning how tu use them.
The game crashed a couple times during gameplay and it only has a campaign, no scenarios or random maps but its still a nice game.

Yeah, but the "feature" of disabling ghost help during the boss fights was retarded. We can't make the boss fight hard enough with the Ghosts so, we'll just disable it. LoL. We so clever.

 

[spekkio]

BioMod 1.0 for Deus Ex.

What looks good:

- the ability to switch between different tools, grenades, melee weapons with an "alt-ammo" button is still there,
- weapon modifications (like "constant" scope for the Sniper Rifle) are there,
- new concept of charged items: they degrade with use, not with time. So, such items work the same way as "automatic" augmentations (see below),
- new concept of augmentations: 3 different types: passive (uses no energy), automatic (uses energy only when it works) and active (uses energy all the time - the classic way). It looks interesting enough to excuse another playthrough... :D
- number of grenades you can carry now depends on your Demolition skill,
- getting EXP for kills / KOs is disabled, thank god.

What needs to be tested:

- The possibility to find upgrade canisters and weapon mods on corpses - probably still there, but not game-breaking.
- The possibility to upgrade your augs with aug canisters - probably still there, but not game-breaking (just don't use them).

Will check in the future...

 

[SerratedBiz]

I tried to waste my time with Dead Space.

Never played the series so I decided to give it a shot, but not deal. For some reason the game is stubborn enough to show my normal screen cursor on top of the game one. Which wouldn't be so bad if they moved in the same area of the screen, but they do not. Their range of movement is totally different and because my brain is trained to follow the mouse cursor I just can't play it. And I even don't know what is causing it. I tried to change the settings, reinstalled the driver, reinstalled the game itself, tried playing in window mode. Nothing works. So I wasted a lot of time on a game that I couldn't even play. I'm such a genius.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2960942

See if that helps.

 

[Tytus]

I tried to waste my time with Dead Space.

Never played the series so I decided to give it a shot, but not deal. For some reason the game is stubborn enough to show my normal screen cursor on top of the game one. Which wouldn't be so bad if they moved in the same area of the screen, but they do not. Their range of movement is totally different and because my brain is trained to follow the mouse cursor I just can't play it. And I even don't know what is causing it. I tried to change the settings, reinstalled the driver, reinstalled the game itself, tried playing in window mode. Nothing works. So I wasted a lot of time on a game that I couldn't even play. I'm such a genius.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2960942

See if that helps.

Thanks, bro...bug. I have the Origin version installed. I know, I know... I still feel dirty. But the finding the executable isn't rocket science. Hopes this works on Origin version too, though.

And this just lazyness of the developer. How dare they make a game and not think to make it compatible with all the future operating systems, they should be more far-sighted. The game should be compatible with upcoming systems for at least 50 years.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

star trek online.

damn, i need to stop, but it seems like every new game i try is worse than the previous one (there's been a huge fuss about faerun mod for civ5, in the end it's worse than vanilla) and i need starships, some sort of progression and a goal to work toward to.
larping with the boffs also helps.

 

[Tytus]

star trek online.

damn, i need to stop, but it seems like every new game i try is worse than the previous one (there's been a huge fuss about faerun mod for civ5, in the end it's worse than vanilla) and i need starships, some sort of progression and a goal to work toward to.
larping with the boffs also helps.

The game when the quests are go destroy 15 Jem'Hadar/Klingon fighters/birds of prey and you can basically stand in the spawn point with a group and kill them as they jump in the system without any actual opposition? Yeah, I tried to play that game.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

that was like 2 years ago. maybe 3, i lost count.
since the defense attribute has been added as soon as you're still you die.

 

[SerratedBiz]

I tried to waste my time with Dead Space.

Never played the series so I decided to give it a shot, but not deal. For some reason the game is stubborn enough to show my normal screen cursor on top of the game one. Which wouldn't be so bad if they moved in the same area of the screen, but they do not. Their range of movement is totally different and because my brain is trained to follow the mouse cursor I just can't play it. And I even don't know what is causing it. I tried to change the settings, reinstalled the driver, reinstalled the game itself, tried playing in window mode. Nothing works. So I wasted a lot of time on a game that I couldn't even play. I'm such a genius.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2960942

See if that helps.

Thanks, bro...bug. I have the Origin version installed. I know, I know... I still feel dirty. But the finding the executable isn't rocket science. Hopes this works on Origin version too, though.

And this just lazyness of the developer. How dare they make a game and not think to make it compatible with all the future operating systems, they should be more far-sighted. The game should be compatible with upcoming systems for at least 50 years.

Well then, you're just getting punished for your sins.

But seriously, I read in one post in Origin forums that the overlay was causing problems (just like on Steam) so you might want to try disabling that one as well.