Jackalope
Arcane
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition. It's awesome!
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What game are you wasting time on?
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Your face, your ass, what's the difference?
WhiteGuts
Arcane
- Joined
- May 3, 2013
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Finished Firewatch. Nice and cozy little game, far from the "masterpiece" the mainstream crowd is claiming it to be, but not as pretentious and empty as say Gone Home and the likes.
Superhot, nice little gimmicks, interesting narrative too. But that shit got kinda stale quickly.
I'm also replaying PoE with the expansion installed, lel.
Superhot, nice little gimmicks, interesting narrative too. But that shit got kinda stale quickly.
I'm also replaying PoE with the expansion installed, lel.
Baron Dupek
Arcane
Risen 3
You know what's worse than bad voice acting? Terrible british voice acting. By the Emperor my ears!
Another bad thing is combat. Imagine that - you're few meters away from enemy, in 99% games you have time to react but here? Combat is all about rolling and watching you and enemies launching themselves at each others. Imagine Neo vs Agent Smith fight in metro (and other Marix brawls where people jump at each others) but for 40h. Who need sanity anyway?
Other than that - it's the same Risen, where exploration is p.gut and there is no lvl scalling so going somewhere might get you killed.
And they changed Patty look again and turned her into milk machine walking semen bank for bored sailors. Yuck.
You have no problem with experience (even without treasure that give +10% to XP gain) but economy works better than in most cRPGs. You never have too much gold. Pity that minigames can't be repeated.
You know what's worse than bad voice acting? Terrible british voice acting. By the Emperor my ears!
Another bad thing is combat. Imagine that - you're few meters away from enemy, in 99% games you have time to react but here? Combat is all about rolling and watching you and enemies launching themselves at each others. Imagine Neo vs Agent Smith fight in metro (and other Marix brawls where people jump at each others) but for 40h. Who need sanity anyway?
Other than that - it's the same Risen, where exploration is p.gut and there is no lvl scalling so going somewhere might get you killed.
And they changed Patty look again and turned her into milk machine walking semen bank for bored sailors. Yuck.
You have no problem with experience (even without treasure that give +10% to XP gain) but economy works better than in most cRPGs. You never have too much gold. Pity that minigames can't be repeated.
Khorne
Arbiter
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2015
- Messages
- 238
Replaying Soldier of Fortune 2 with extra gore, found a CRT monitor in one of the ship cabins with DOOM title screen, somehow I missed that previously.
Also Sunless Sea, very addicting that one, kinda funny how they censored every word containing "damn" but one can still rip the heart out of some poor unfortunate soul and use it in fathomking quest.
Also Sunless Sea, very addicting that one, kinda funny how they censored every word containing "damn" but one can still rip the heart out of some poor unfortunate soul and use it in fathomking quest.
Man, that psi build was fun, but I had to try a new stealth/trap/grenade/throwing knives build and it's even funner!
Master of Orion.
Looks like I finally will be able to win on Impossible playing the Alkari. Finding two Artifacts worlds nearby helps. Also no Sakkra (my arch enemy) or Meklars (always gives the birds a hard time for some reason), getting the right early techs to research (Robot Controls, Nuclear Drives), and the Mrrshans and Psilons starting right next to each others also helps a lot.
In an unusual twist the Darloks are in the lead when it comes to having most planets.
Looks like I finally will be able to win on Impossible playing the Alkari. Finding two Artifacts worlds nearby helps. Also no Sakkra (my arch enemy) or Meklars (always gives the birds a hard time for some reason), getting the right early techs to research (Robot Controls, Nuclear Drives), and the Mrrshans and Psilons starting right next to each others also helps a lot.
In an unusual twist the Darloks are in the lead when it comes to having most planets.
DramaticPopcorn
Guest
Just completed AC: Black Flag and man was it exhausting.
I've only played AC 1 and quit it out of boredom, some people rigorously recommended Black Flag to me as the best in the series, and boy oh boy if this is the highlight of the series, I truly dread to see how other games turned out. (not that I will ever check em out anyway).
Your character is a random guy who wanted to be a privateer but somehow, right off the bat, he possesses ALL the stealth, parkour and fighting skills that are trademark for an ancient and secretive order, which is never questioned during the course of the story. ?????
The story itself is nonesensical and, apart from all the pirate fighting among themselves or against empires, it's completely devoid of any character. The whole Assassin vs Templar meta is just silly and never did manage to interest me.
The gameplay is complete and utter shit, jesus christ man, that fucking freerun bullshit, that AI. Ship combat I didn't mind that much.
The gameworld is huge and is incredibly well crafted, the visual fidelity of enviroments is honestly stunning at times.
But for all the scale and eyecandy , there is just 4 mission types in the whole game. Main Story missions, Templar hunts (which are like 9 in total, which isn't a whole lot) and assassinations which can't even count as missions since they carry no impact on the story or the world in any concievable way.
Everything else is collectibles and only OCD can be an incentive to collect them all, meaning that there's no reason to visit most areas at all.
You know how when a game sometimes has features that were added as an afterthought and they stick out as a sore thumb? Well, 90% of optional content in this game looks like an afterthought, this might as well be a movie and be just as (or maybe even more so) effective in conveying its message.
Overall, tons of wasted potential, wasted effort and an unholy abomination for gameplay.
I've only played AC 1 and quit it out of boredom, some people rigorously recommended Black Flag to me as the best in the series, and boy oh boy if this is the highlight of the series, I truly dread to see how other games turned out. (not that I will ever check em out anyway).
Your character is a random guy who wanted to be a privateer but somehow, right off the bat, he possesses ALL the stealth, parkour and fighting skills that are trademark for an ancient and secretive order, which is never questioned during the course of the story. ?????
The story itself is nonesensical and, apart from all the pirate fighting among themselves or against empires, it's completely devoid of any character. The whole Assassin vs Templar meta is just silly and never did manage to interest me.
The gameplay is complete and utter shit, jesus christ man, that fucking freerun bullshit, that AI. Ship combat I didn't mind that much.
The gameworld is huge and is incredibly well crafted, the visual fidelity of enviroments is honestly stunning at times.
But for all the scale and eyecandy , there is just 4 mission types in the whole game. Main Story missions, Templar hunts (which are like 9 in total, which isn't a whole lot) and assassinations which can't even count as missions since they carry no impact on the story or the world in any concievable way.
Everything else is collectibles and only OCD can be an incentive to collect them all, meaning that there's no reason to visit most areas at all.
You know how when a game sometimes has features that were added as an afterthought and they stick out as a sore thumb? Well, 90% of optional content in this game looks like an afterthought, this might as well be a movie and be just as (or maybe even more so) effective in conveying its message.
Overall, tons of wasted potential, wasted effort and an unholy abomination for gameplay.
sullynathan
Arcane
fucking around with darksiders. Painfully average god of war clone with some cool designs here and there.
A user named cat
Guest
Outlast. Around 2 hours in and I'm done with this shit, uninstalled. Game is awful, just incredibly boring and predictable. This is supposed to be scary? I guess if you're 12 and find jump scares and braindead AI frightening. It's the same repetitive, linear bullshit as that stupid Alien: Isolation Hide n Seek game. Nothing but Clocktower ripoffs. There are Amnesia: DD mods that even put this to shame.
Just finished Assassin's Creed: Unity. Interesting historical setting, but not used as much as I hoped. The whole (French)revolution feels more like backdrop when it should have been the actual story. The ending of the main story is a total fuck up. It's like they ran out of money, time and interest to finish it. Long time since I experienced an ending so bad and disconnected.
Now it's time to mess around in Syndicate. Hoping it will be better.
Now it's time to mess around in Syndicate. Hoping it will be better.
sullynathan
Arcane
Superhot is game of the year so far.
Syndicate is much better than Unity.
Nothing. I hate all games.
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2014
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- 14,303
Replaying Summoner on PC. I played it on PS2 many years ago but it was a joke port. I like the actual game and my eyes don't hurt playing the PC version.
I also completed my 15th game of the year yesterday. Hoping to beat 60 games in 2016.
I also completed my 15th game of the year yesterday. Hoping to beat 60 games in 2016.
DeepOcean
Arcane
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2012
- Messages
- 7,405
Don't keep your hopes up, the protagonists are better written but the story is as pointless as Unity. Ubisoft one year per game policy assure the story of all Ass creed games will be crap.
Blonsky
Prophet
Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen it works on toaster class PC, other then that its pretty average.
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
Still playing Destiny...the community is receiving a series of updates speaking of an update that will show what is included in the next update. 
speaking of community this gotta be the shittiest one I've ever seen, makes the CoD forums look like a quantum physicist symposium
speaking of community this gotta be the shittiest one I've ever seen, makes the CoD forums look like a quantum physicist symposium
Excidium II
Self-Ejected
It's like Grindan MMO + Console FPS communities, what could be bad?Still playing Destiny...the community is receiving a series of updates speaking of an update that will show what is included in the next update.
speaking of community this gotta be the shittiest one I've ever seen, makes the CoD forums look like a quantum physicist symposium
sullynathan
Arcane
but is it fun?
laclongquan
Arcane
Nearly end stage of UFO Afterlight and I do look forward to the immediate replay. Putting to good use all the things I just learnt.
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
Worse than that, I'm talking about "multiple threads bitching about a dev yawning in the background of a twitch transmission" shitty.
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