What game are you wasting time on?

[NJClaw]

Knights of the Chalice 2 and this is extremely appropriate because I am literally "wasting time" because the game loves to crash, corrupt your saves and behave in unpredictable ways.

This won't stop me Pierre. This won't fucking stop me from playing your damn game.

 

[markec]

Finished The Operative: No One Lives Forever.

When the first game was released I completely missed it and only played the second one which I enjoyed very much. So it was always nagging me why many people preferred the first one over the sequel, seeing how I liked the second game, first being even better must have meant its a brilliant game.
But I never went and played it, either due just forgetting about it or, when I did try, having technical difficulties. After all this years i finally went and played trough it.

After finishing it I must say that it is a better game then its sequel and it feels like a true spy game, more then the sequel. When compared to the second game it feels like the first game is a spy game with shooter elements while second game feels like a shooter with spy elements. It has more variety in missions as you have quite a few of them where you need to go full stealth and avoid everyone. There is also more variety in environment, as you go from diving into shipwrecks to space stations.

The game has its flaws, I played on highest difficulty and still found the game to be way to easy. Boss fights were underwhelming, both in terms of challenge and creativity and many gadgets while cool are completely useless.

I still like both games and both of them are well worth playing. After playing it I just got reminded how far more creative developers were years ago, and how it will be pretty much impossible to see as good as games like this anytime soon.


I also started playing Spellforce 3 : Soul Harvest and Persona 4 Golden, now Im deciding on which one should I focus on.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Serious Sam is the hardest game I've played in a long time.
Normal was too hard for me, so I restarted on Easy instead, but so far (just reached Suburbs of Memphis) it's been too easy. But I have less patience for action games these days, so I prefer a bit too easy to save scumming.
It boggles my mind that someone can complete this game on highest difficulty.

But it's a fun game, and the enemy menegarie is quite original.

I'll be honest, I can't complete Serious Sam: The First Encounter on Normal either. It's the last level, there's an extensive arena fight right before the endboss appears and I can't beat that legitimately. (What I do to beat it is to have a werebull chuck me up on the arena walls, so I can clear the herd without fear of getting hurt.)

The Second Encounter I can beat on Normal, no problem. It's also the better game.

 

[curds]

Serious Sam is the hardest game I've played in a long time.

Def the hardest FPS I've played, but one of the best too. I finished it on normal. I liked someone's description (I think here, on the codex) of it as a first person bullet hell or SHMUP.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Just finished F.E.A.R 2 for the first time. It definitely doesn't stand up beside the amazing shooting from the first game, but it was good enough to make me move onto 3 next. I didn't anticipate it happening, but I've come to kind of care about the story. I hope there's some sort of peaceful resolution for Alma.

Aside from that Dragon Quest 11. I started it then bailed last year, because I got distracted with something else, but this time I'm much further along and I love it. It hasn't become an obsesssion like DQ8 did the first time I played it, but I'll definitely complete postgame and all that shit. Really love it.

 

[Bohrain]

Bought Digimon Cyber Sleuth from Steam summer sale. Filling the compendium tickles my autism, but I dislike how you either have to grind or idle and let the monsters get exp from ranch.

 

[Abu Antar]

Bought Digimon Cyber Sleuth from Steam summer sale. Filling the compendium tickles my autism, but I dislike how you either have to grind or idle and let the monsters get exp from ranch.

There's an Exp. trick but you'll basically destroy the game's difficulty.

 

[Bohrain]

I haven't really struggled in fights even though I've kept it on hard. Leaving your mons to idle on the farm overnight levels them up to an extend that you have more than enough tools on your disposal at all times.
SMT IV ruined monster raising RPG's for me because it had so solid fundamentals. You die in couple of turns even in normal fights if you don't pay attention, there is a constant need to fuse better demons and nothing is really gated behind grinding. In comparison Cyber Sleuth involves pretty annoying grind to get some specific skills and fights feel slow paced. You can go through bosses with pretty suboptimal party compositions, but having the relevant buffs and elements skills saves so much turns.

 

[Azalin]

Finished Kathy Rain,quite good indy adventure game made with the AGS engine.Characters are interesting,plot was ok although it got a bit weird in the end,puzzles were mostly straightforward.Recommended for a sale

 

[Sranchammer]

May our children forgive us

 

[Catacombs]

May our children forgive us

Nevada is nothing but a wasteland, as it should be.

 

[The Decline]

May our children forgive us

Nevada is nothing but a wasteland, as it should be.

It's worse than a wasteland, it's a country founded by Mormons.

 

[cosmicray]

Finished Kathy Rain,quite good indy adventure game made with the AGS engine.Characters are interesting,plot was ok although it got a bit weird in the end,puzzles were mostly straightforward.Recommended for a sale

Also finished it right now. If you like Blackwell series, you will probably like Kathy Rain. All around a good adventure.

 

[overly excitable young man]

Geneforge 1. Great game. I expected much less but something screams "just another map" in my head when i play it.
Also the UI while looking like crap is very manageable.

 

[jackofshadows]

Underrail. I played it only once on release and amazed yet again how great it feels. Very excited about expansion content, all PSI stuff (haven't messed with it before) and crafting (completely ignored on my first run).

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Just finished F.E.A.R 3. It was short as fuck and the story resolution was a little weird. It felt like it was leading to a decision, but then it didn't. Finishing each level unlocks the ability to play that level as Paxton Fettel, and I'm guessing his conclusion to the story is different, but I don't really feel compelled to play through it again as it was just a pretty typical cover shooter.

Disappointing really. F.E.A.R 2 was a step down from the gameplay of 1, but 3 is as plain as can be.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Which one is the one where

Spoiler

the woman straps you down and rapes you?

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Which one is the one where

Spoiler

the woman straps you down and rapes you?

Spoiler

Alma rapes you near the end of 2, and in 3 you play as the half brother of that child, and eventually recover the kid from a dying Alma. The woman who strapped you down was in fact your team-mate, who was then killed by Alma

 

[JDR13]

Which one is the one where

Spoiler

the woman straps you down and rapes you?

Spoiler

Alma rapes you near the end of 2, and in 3 you play as the half brother of that child, and eventually recover the kid from a dying Alma. The woman who strapped you down was in fact your team-mate, who was then killed by Alma

That's just confusing af

 

[PulsatingBrain]

That's just confusing af

Reading it condensed like that might be a little jarring, but it wasn't difficult to understand as I played through it

 

[mk0]

Wrapped up Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, great popcorn game. Combat is very satisfying, especially the kick, that never gets old even when you're bashing your already dead opponent's head against the wall. The rest of the game is so-so, don't know why they bothered adding rpg mechanics to an 8~ hour linear corridor game.

Also what the fuck was that ending, they should've definitely added a few more seconds of CGI demon succubus goodness as a reward for finishing the damn game.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Mahjong is worse than crack men.

 

[Jvegi]

New Vegas, the first time I went beyond Primm. It's promising so far, although this bread crumb trail style of story progression is really distracting, artificial and major decline from F1.

The aspect I still can't grasp my head around is the actual gameplay, especially combat. It's so terrible, broken and laughable I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Why is my 3rd level character with 4 strenght and endurance able to clear the building full of bad guys by her lonesome on hard difficulty?

Why IN THE FUCK is my companion immortal? How can I take this seriously? Say what you want about F1&2 combat, but it's like Muhammad Ali next to a retarded toddler.

 

[samuraigaiden]

crack men

 

[Wunderbar]

Jvegi you should've started on Hardcore + jesawyer mod.