What game are you wasting time on?

[BLOBERT]

BROS I AM SO TOTALLY EXCITED I HAVE FINALLY BUGHT A LAPTOP WHICH CAN PLAY SOME SEMIMODERN GAMES WELL MAYBE GAMES FROM 5 YEARS AGO OR SO

BROS RIGHT NOW I AM PLAYING FAR CRY AND IT IS PRETTY FUN

 

[72x]

jews

 

[visions]

Fairly recently went back to my KOTC playthrough, currently at the Fire Giant fortress. Although since I don't gimp myself intentionally, most of the encounters have become too easy, I very rarely have to try a fight several times, like in the beginning. The combat is still enjoyable though, and some of the fights have been fairly challenging (most recently the king of the Frost Giants and his cohorts).

 

[Sceptic]

BROS RIGHT NOW I AM PLAYING FAR CRY AND IT IS PRETTY FUN

I really need to go back and replay the game with the 64-bit patch.

 

[visions]

I think Far Cry would benefit from being a little shorter, starts feeling kinda dragged-out from the second half onwards.

 

[torpid]

Played through Call of Juarez. Was okay, though the game was more linear than it appeared at first glance, and very much a railroad shooting + scripted events kind of FPS, the sort that you go through once and never play again. The story was great however, which is always a plus in this kind of shooter, and the actor who voiced the priest did a magnificent job, so the righteousness flowed through my veins as I dispensed the Lord's justice with dual six-shooters.

 

[Sceptic]

I think Far Cry would benefit from being a little shorter, starts feeling kinda dragged-out from the second half onwards.

Length is fine, it's the indoor corridors with trigens that needed to go. Fortunately the rest of the game is fun enough to compensate. Last level sucks ass though.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

GTA IV with a gamepad

The shittiest GTA. I love how every mission is the same and any planning and tactics are always prevented in some arbitrary fashion. It's gameplay just revolves around not making mistakes with shoddy controls.

Let's blow up those guy's van before we go in and start shooting, so that they can't escape - nah, it hasn't spawned yet, and if you try to block the backdoor with your car it will despawn.

Let's just walk over and shoot that guy - nah - you have to be in a vehicle!

Don't like motorcycle chases because the controls are shit? Well fuck you, your vehicle is, again, going to despawn.

Maybe there's a way out of this building other than through every armed person in it? Nope, can't blow up wooden doors, can't climb, can't do anything but popamole shoot everybody.

Kill that guy before he escapes - nah, he's unkillable until you have chased him enough.

What a good and fun game to play. I also had to check gamefaqs if the stupid friendship and date things affected anything important, luckily they don't so fuck them.


I'm currently wasting time on Crusader Kings. A fun game but quirky as hell, and the AI is an asshole, I mean I have killed your armies and conquered everything and not even white peace will do. WTF. Also I always play some amount of SC2, because I like reading losers whine.

 

[Ruprekt]

I much prefer the gta iv vehicle handling. However, it is hopeless (borderline unplayable) without a gamepad. And the game runs lke shit on anything less than an i5 or quad core.

Not a 'codexian' thing to say but the visuals and atmosphere do make up for the dumbed down strategic level of the game for me: along with the (IMO) improved driving. The dating/taxi/etc missions are tedious ... but you can avoid those and I just play these games for the plot and driving anyway (your mileage may vary).

 

[mediocrepoet]

I finished NWN2 and got reminded the hard way how many bugs there still are in the thing including one or two that I'd never encountered before... and I lack the willpower to push forward to replay MotB.

Instead, I rewarded my fortitude by starting Wizardry VI in DOSbox. It's still awesome.

 

[Thrasher]

I am playing NWN 2: SOZ. Definitely a different NWN repetitve experience. If anyone gives this a try, make absolutely sure you create a character with the best possible hide or sneak skills so as to avoid the terribly repetitive Overland Map encounters. Best part of SoZ is being able to create an entire party of 4 from scratch.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Replaying Threads of Fate: Of Pretty Princesses and World Domination.


~Weeaboodex

 

[Metro]

I went back to Gothic 3 to finish it just for finishing sake. Put it on 'easy,' though because slogging through a thousand orcs just got mind numbingly repetitive. Whoever at PB thought it would be fun to require you to pretty much exterminate a few thousand orcs (at least for the Innos path) as part of the main quest(s) should be flogged.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I still have Gothic 3 installed and I go back to it occasionally. It stutters and performs like a real bitch at times, but in terms of open world I have only seen Fallout: New Vegas and Morrowind do better.

Right now I'm on my third, definitive walkthrough of The Witcher 2. I'm going to try to do every quest, make the decisions I think are right, and finish with the best swords and armour, ready for import into The Witcher 3. Once I'm done I think I'll mess around with the Broken Sword remastered games.

 

[Stylo123]

playing hunted: the demon's forge. good stuff so far.

 

[Metro]

I still have Gothic 3 installed and I go back to it occasionally. It stutters and performs like a real bitch at times, but in terms of open world I have only seen Fallout: New Vegas and Morrowind do better.

I have mixed feelings about the open world of G3. Yes it's huge and well done from an aesthetics perspective but as the chests are all random it sort of takes away from the fun of exploring. You could kill a couple of trolls and the loot behind them will be a couple of endurance potions and a scroll you can get ten feet away from Ardea. I sort of understand why PB did that (they didn't want people looking up the location of the super powerful item and going to get it first thing) but randomization was a really poor fix.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I still have Gothic 3 installed and I go back to it occasionally. It stutters and performs like a real bitch at times, but in terms of open world I have only seen Fallout: New Vegas and Morrowind do better.

I have mixed feelings about the open world of G3. Yes it's huge and well done from an aesthetics perspective but as the chests are all random it sort of takes away from the fun of exploring. You could kill a couple of trolls and the loot behind them will be a couple of endurance potions and a scroll you can get ten feet away from Ardea. I sort of understand why PB did that (they didn't want people looking up the location of the super powerful item and going to get it first thing) but randomization was a really poor fix.

I think the purpose of killing beasts like trolls is to collect the skins for a quest you might pick up later on (the real beauty of the game for me, being able to collect things and hand them in for quests instead of getting the quest and having to backtrack), or just for the xp. I remember getting swords and armor from ruins or important NPCs.

 

[Jaz]

started playing silent hill 3 cuz I'm on a horror trip right now. love the great atmosphere so far. I hope the room is not as disappointing as everyone say it is.

 

[Satori (original)]

It's a good idea but poorly executed, the actual apartment is greatly atmospheric however.

 

[Ivar the Boner]

Just started my first FreeSpace 2 playthrough. I repaired my old quickshot qs-201 and installed old radeon in my secondary PC (my main computer don't have game port compatible with qs-201)
and all that fuzz was totally worth it. Fucking sweet, sweet game.

 

[laclongquan]

jews

You break up your vow of silence to post this shitty link?

 

[Quilty]

Just started my first FreeSpace 2 playthrough. I repaired my old quickshot qs-201 and installed old radeon in my secondary PC (my main computer don't have game port compatible with qs-201)
and all that fuzz was totally worth it. Fucking sweet, sweet game.

Enjoy losing your Freespace virginity, it's delicious.

I'm losing hours to Silent Hunter 4 again.

 

[Metro]

Finally getting around to playing Spellforce that I got over a year ago for $3 (with all expansions).

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Damn Stone Soup, it's 5am soon

 

[sea]

Writing a walkthrough for Fable III, so I've been playing that mostly constantly for the last few days, but I'm taking some time out for Minerva's Den, the BioShock 2 DLC. I got BioShock 2 a few months ago for five bucks and was pretty impressed with how it actually improved on the first, even if the story was kinda throwaway. Minerva's Den, meanwhile, features by far the best level design in the series so far, with really open (for BioShock standards) levels, and it doesn't hold your hand in making your way through them in the same way the previous two games did. Definitely reminds me a lot more of System Shock 2 in that respect. Maybe not worth the ten bucks I paid, but aside from its abrupt intro, it's definitely a level above what I was expecting.