What game are you wasting time on?

[I'm Big Into Anal]

swtching between sith lords and immortal throne

started dragonfall but i need to make time, ptoper time, to take it all in

Spoiler

he hee

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I was trying to divide my time between completing the last chapter of Final Fantasy XIII (a bad game, but I have the compulsion to complete it, then never touch it again) and finishing Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (dull as shit so far, but people say its great... I don't know why).

Then the new patch for The Sith Lords came out and I decided to do my yearly replay of that game...

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Finished Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. A terrible game. If you like fighting swarms of enemies who run at you arcade-style, with some really pretentious drawn cutscenes thrown in here and there, this is the game for you.

Also, the duel 'minigames' are irritating as fuck.

 

[Abu Antar]

Finished The Witcher 2 after more than 4 years. What kept me from playing it was the combat and other games. Liked everything else. Sided with Roche and in the final quest also helped him. I don't regret my decision. There's something special about a guy cutting off someones balls.

 

[Jick Magger]

Playing Metro 2033 Redux. The whole thing just feels wrong, with the revamped combat and gun customization not meshing at all with the level and environment design of the original. One of the harder portions from the original game, where you have to sneak past Communist and Nazi soldiers in the middle of a war-zone, is now piss-easy because I bought a silencer for my rifle earlier and could just snipe any passing sentries, and everyone else couldn't see me because the dumbed down stealth meant that I was pretty much invisible so long as I stuck to the shadows.

I finished the book around the same time I started playing, and it is interesting to see all the changes they made in the transition from book to game. Namely that pretty much everything from when Artyom first meets Bourbon to when they climb up the control tower at the end is different. There's the obvious change in the density of action scenes, as Artyom spends most of the book trying to avoid conflict and letting other, more experienced soldiers do most of the fighting for him. They also excise alot of the weirder parts of the book (like an awkward section where a covenant of Jehovah's witnesses try to convert Artyom which seems to exist solely for the author to deliver an anti-religion tract, the borderline religious caste system of Polis station, and the cult of luddite worm-worshiping cannibals), and make the mystical nature of the Metro alot less ambiguous, primarily by making recharacterizing Khan as an Obi-Wan mentor figure as opposed to a weird crazy old man. There're also the obvious changes to make the game more distinct and less samey, with the addition of franken-guns (all the guns in the book are either unnamed or generic eastern-bloc firearms), trips to the surface far more frequent to avoid making the Metro get too repetitive (in the book Artyom only goes to the surface near the tail end of the book, and spends most of that time being escorted around by Stalkers who're much more experienced in traversing it than he is), and anomalies that're an obvious attempt to cash in on STALKER's popularity (though in the book there are similar anomalies, such as the 'singing pipes', none of them have a physical manifestation and they all follow the theme of fucking with people mentally rather than physically harming them).

 

[dunno lah]

Finished Strife on Veteran. I don't know if I'm just poor at navigation, but there are some levels that feel really obtuse. Especially, one the last few levels (that you'll revisit) where you can't tell what the switch you're pressing does to which part of the level. I spent more time on that map just running back and forth to find my way to the exit. I also got pretty annoyed about the maze-like sewers and mine tunnels in this game but I think that's the aim of those kinds of places.

I think this game could really use a remake, not because it sucks, but I think improving the stealth and interactive elements could make this game amazing. Shooting is great, Levels are big and "realistic" looking and the whole premise and world design is really appealing. I also like that the game really stays true to it's "Trust No One" tagline.

One more thing, Blackbird's voice. Sexiest voice I've heard in games.

 

[Rabbid]

Right now I am playing Runescape. Had to get this off my chest.

 

[Ashery]

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Ever read Roadside Picnic? It's the book the STALKER series is loosely based off of. And I do mean loosely, as it'd be impossible to do a proper adaptation of it as any type of game allows for the development of meta-knowledge over the course of successive characters.

 

[Krraloth]

I can't stop wasting time on smite, halp!

 

[28.8bps Modem]

I've been playing through Shadow of the Horned Rat since it was released on GOG. It's just occurred to me, this was a roguelite before roguelites were cool. It's got all the symptoms: Serious difficulty, constant degradation of your resources, lots of poorly explained choices.



Oh god, I'm a hipster.

 

[Krraloth]

I've been playing through Shadow of the Horned Rat since it was released on GOG. It's just occurred to me, this was a roguelite before roguelites were cool. It's got all the symptoms: Serious difficulty, constant degradation of your resources, lots of poorly explained choices.



Oh god, I'm a hipster.

I don't know man, ENGAGE, CHAAAARGE is too manly for hipsters

 

[Ovplain]

Just spent two hours in Fallout: New Vegas. Which is a record for me, the last time I tried playing the game, I quit after 15 or 20 minutes. Saw a dog with his eyes floating outside his head and just went, 'Oh fuck this!' and quit. That dog's still here now, but I managed to ignore him. With all the praise this fucking game got here, I am sure it's great! Just have to stick with it 'til I hopefully get hooked.

 

[Bigg Boss]

There is a quick mod fix for that if you wanted to bother. I don't remember if Rex had that problem too.

 

[Inspectah]

I've been playing a lot of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup during lunch breaks, it strikes a good balance between complexity for the veteran players and user-friendliness for the newbies.
Great starting point for people interested in getting into ASCII roguelikes

 

[pippin]

I never get the funny glitches in NV I only remember some tumbling corpses and the occasional radscorpion stuck to the ground. I don't even get CTDs.

 

[Jaesun]

Just spent two hours in Fallout: New Vegas. Which is a record for me, the last time I tried playing the game, I quit after 15 or 20 minutes. Saw a dog with his eyes floating outside his head and just went, 'Oh fuck this!' and quit. That dog's still here now, but I managed to ignore him. With all the praise this fucking game got here, I am sure it's great! Just have to stick with it 'til I hopefully get hooked.

The dog eye bug is a video driver bug IIRC (the same thing happens to me). There is a fix for it on the Nexus I believe.

 

[Sjukob]

Currently replaying VtMB with Clan Quest mod , I finished it two times already and now in the middle of third playthrough , I bet after this I will not be touching this game again in the next 5 years . Planning to complete KOTC , Underrail and may be Serpent in the staglands , but heard that game is horribly bugged .

 

[Animal]

Just spent two hours in Fallout: New Vegas. Which is a record for me, the last time I tried playing the game, I quit after 15 or 20 minutes. Saw a dog with his eyes floating outside his head and just went, 'Oh fuck this!' and quit. That dog's still here now, but I managed to ignore him. With all the praise this fucking game got here, I am sure it's great! Just have to stick with it 'til I hopefully get hooked.

Spoiler

 

[Ovplain]

Lovely.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

What's the Fallout 3 pic like? Explosive diarrhea?

 

[iLkRehp]

Ultima IV with a bunch of self imposed rules, sad really.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Getting my ass kicked by DCSS at work, my latest Minotaur Berserker was twinked out at level 10 but I got careless and swarmed by 3 skeleton warriors which I assumed to be regular skeletons and a sky beast. RIP

 

[Ludo Lense]

Decided to go back and finish MDK since I played it when I was like 8? It has aged sort of well. The pacing is annoying at times but I am enjoying it. I also love the character design.

Admittedly I did struggle to get past the graphics at times.

 

[Ivan]

I remember playing those games when we first got an apple computer. I must have been like 5 years old.

 

[Blonsky]

Elminage Gothic
First time i tried the game i got bored with it in an hour. Second time i used a new party, not a default one, and got wiped a couple times in the dungeons. After that i kept playing trying to turn my party into a decent one by class changing, party location swaping and gearing. And now i finally have a decent party and im bored with grinding again.