What game are you wasting time on?

[Wunderbar]

an interesting optimization puzzle where you have to strategically eliminate enemies and open up various areas of the mansion while managing limited resources and lugging around key items. Like many modes that change up gameplay, the choice of character seems intended more as a vector for replayability than as a straightforward difficulty selector.

I was rather impressed with the mansion layout, particularly how much agency you're granted to explore and indeed to make mistakes that have long-term consequences.

the remake doubles down on this. There are slightly more puzzles to solve, more supplies to manage and story-related items to lug around, the mansion layout is more sophisticated (for example, there's a door with a broken knob that can be opened in only one way). The player is incentivized to avoid killing zombies (both because of lack of ammo, and because downed zombies can now raise from the dead again), which creates another element to keep track of when planning your route through the mansion.

REmake is all around great game that improves on almost everything from the original, the only controversial thing about it is probably the change of art style.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

rage 2 is absolutely shit with essentially zero redeeming qualities besides having fairly decent shooting mechanics

 

[RoSoDude]

an interesting optimization puzzle where you have to strategically eliminate enemies and open up various areas of the mansion while managing limited resources and lugging around key items. Like many modes that change up gameplay, the choice of character seems intended more as a vector for replayability than as a straightforward difficulty selector.

I was rather impressed with the mansion layout, particularly how much agency you're granted to explore and indeed to make mistakes that have long-term consequences.

the remake doubles down on this. There are slightly more puzzles to solve, more supplies to manage and story-related items to lug around, the mansion layout is more sophisticated (for example, there's a door with a broken knob that can be opened in only one way). The player is incentivized to avoid killing zombies (both because of lack of ammo, and because downed zombies can now raise from the dead again), which creates another element to keep track of when planning your route through the mansion.

REmake is all around great game that improves on almost everything from the original, the only controversial thing about it is probably the change of art style.

Sounds cool. I'll definitely play it sometime, I just thought that if it really is the improved experience everyone says it is, I'll still appreciate it with the context of having played the original first. The changed art style I can go either way on, just glad I got to experience the original's special vibe. I care about gameplay more than aesthetics, anyway (though the latter is particularly relevant for horror games).

 

[JDR13]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

You could just as easily be describing Fallout 3/4 there

 

[Ash]

REmake is all around great game that improves on almost everything from the original, the only controversial thing about it is probably the change of art style.

Not quite. He's going to love what they did to his favorite track (Mansion basement).

The soundtrack is decline.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I recall borrowing RE 1 from a friend on original PSX. Played as Chris, ran out of ammo on the first zombie, tried to knife stuff, kept dying. Said this game sucks.

Fren tells me, play Jill and try to conserv ammo. "Wha? DON'T kill everything??" Ended up having a blast.

Also come on, this is the best song in the game:

 

[DeepOcean]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

You could just as easily be describing Fallout 3/4 there

This is as descriptive as white male caucasian or kinda brown asiatic man.

 

[baud]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

rage 2 is absolutely shit with essentially zero redeeming qualities besides having fairly decent shooting mechanics

Having decent shooting mechanics isn't a good enough reason to play a FPS?

 

[Ghulgothas]

Two months, 2 discarded characters and 2 full playthroughs later and I've finally had my fill of UnderRail. I don't think I've ever fallen so deeply into a game before as I've with this one, Infusion is now on my list of RPGs I'm personally lookin' forward to.

Anyways, as a palette cleanser I've decided to reinstall Quake, a game I haven't touched in years. I'm eager to see how it feels after trying a majority of this new wave of classic shooters, as well as seeing what it's custom map and mod scene has to offer. Arcane Dimensions and whatever has the most positive consensus on the Good Quake Maps thread. Also mulling over installing the Quake 1.5 Mod since it doesn't seem to suffer from the same problem as the Thief HD Mods and is ostensibly very customizable.

 

[Gamezor]

Two months, 2 discarded characters and 2 full playthroughs later and I've finally had my fill of UnderRail. I don't think I've ever fallen so deeply into a game before as I've with this one, Infusion is now on my list of RPGs I'm personally lookin' forward to.

Anyways, as a palette cleanser I've decided to reinstall Quake, a game I haven't touched in years. I'm eager to see how it feels after trying a majority of this new wave of classic shooters, as well as seeing what it's custom map and mod scene has to offer. Arcane Dimensions and whatever has the most positive consensus on the Good Quake Maps thread. Also mulling over installing the Quake 1.5 Mod since it doesn't seem to suffer from the same problem as the Thief HD Mods and is ostensibly very customizable.

I loved what I played in underrail but had to quit when I hit a wall because my build was no good. I plan to return to it soon. I like that the game allows you to make a bad build and have learned I always have more fun if I don’t look up good ones or walkthroughs which I kinda ruined fallout for myself by doing. Figuring it out is what makes the game fun. I just didn’t really want to immediately play the same content again.

 

[octavius]

Reached the last part of my Heroes Chronicles replay (with handicaps), and on the fourth map of Revolt of the Beastmasters - The King's Son -, I've come very close to losing.
The enemy starts with a strong hero who wreaks havoc in the neighbourhood, and with few troops and (thanks to rushing the previous maps) no god-like stats on Tarnum it took a while to defeat that hero and secure the area. But then a second strong hero appeared with 200 archers, 350 Pikemen and 85 Royal Griffons, and I had to abandon three of my four castles. When I tried defending my first castle I barely beat him on manual control, but since I'm playing with auto-combat I decided to retreat instead.
After recruiting all troops in my last castle at the beginning of the next week I was able to defeat him, with only a stack of Lizardmen left (actually my best stack since as part of his gimping Tarnum has Expert Archery).

So at least there's one challenging map (medium sized) in all the Chronicles, except for a few small ones in The World Tree and The Fiery Moon.

 

[octavius]

I actually had to give up. The enemy just has too many troops and too many high level heroes.

But playing this way, with auto-combat has really taught me to hate the AI even more. It's too bad quick combat is bugged (only enemy heroes use spells), 'cause AC is just too frustating when you can't afford too much losses.

Final verdict on the Heroes Chronicles:

Conquest of the Underworld, Master of the Elements and Clash of the Dragons are pure garbage. So easy that it's an insult too all but complete novices. May be worth it for storyfags who has only read a few Drizzt books or something before and has an unfulfilled craving for Fantasy.

Warlords of the Wasteland and Sword of Frost was quite fun playing with handicaps, and slightly challenging. But they were also the two first ones I played this way, which may have influenced things.

The free (if you already purchased some of the other Chronicles) downloads The World Tree and The Fiery Moon are actually the best ones IMO from a gameplay perspective, offering a moderate challenge, especially the first couple of maps.

Revolt of the Beastmasters is the most uneven one, with the first three maps about on par with WotW and SoF difficulty wise, but the fourth map is brutal for a gimped hero who rushed the first three maps.

All suffer from extreme storyfaggotness, with lots and lots of events about the most banal and trivial things that are completely unconnected from what your units are doing, and with writing that is barely above fan fiction level. The overall story is quite interesting, though, and there are interesting bits of lore.

 

[ebPD8PePfC]

My journey toward the top of the chess world continues. After going through the tutorial section of Lichess I no longer need two queens in order to mate my opponent. Truly a fearsome beast, I've decided to avoid crushing the spirits of men in favor of playing against AI. The main advantage is that most games against the computer end really fast because it moves instantly. It's very easy to zone out and grind a hundred one minute games listening to podcasts, and I'm pretty sure I'm improving. I'm faster and tend to blunder less, though my end game is still garbage.

Games played: 2050~
Your Blitz rating is 1200.
You are better than 18% of Blitz players.

 

[Abu Antar]

I tried out the demo for Xuan-Yuan Sword VII. It was pretty cool. A random screenshot of a waterfall.

 

[Ezekiel]

Trying to play Crazy Taxi again. I've modded the original music in. I feel like the crazy dash (let go of accelerator, shift down, shift up and accelerate) was much easier to do on Dreamcast than on Steam. It only works about 20 percent of the time. What's the point if I can't get crazy high scores like when I was a kid? The DC emulators frustrate me. They perform far worse than Gamecube, PS2 and N64 emulators.

 

[Maz]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

rage 2 is absolutely shit with essentially zero redeeming qualities besides having fairly decent shooting mechanics

Having decent shooting mechanics isn't a good enough reason to play a FPS?

Is having enough stealth mechanics a reason to play Assassin's Creed? Shooting in this game is really fun, but this is a game; if it were just a shooter, like doom(there really isn't a story there. they were like " ok ok there's this gun, there are these enemies, idk go kill them?") i'd play it; because it'd be just shooting, no story, no essential characters or quests, but since this game tries to do more and fails, I say it is not worth £39.99 at all(but hey, I think it is on gamepass huh?)

 

[Farewell into the night]

I'm having a blast playing Noita. Man, I love this game.

 

[Tancred]

Nostalgic blast from the past - replayed Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean on my old Gamecube.

I remember it took me 1.5 years or so to complete this back in the day, only took about 4 weeks this time. An interesting card-based battle system and a long-ass story with more than a few unexpected twists and turns. A prequel with refined mechanics/systems was made, but it never got a PAL release so I don't think I'll ever be playing it unless it can be emulated in Dolphin.

 

[Maz]

Worst mistake of my life wasn't playing Witcher 3 for the second time, but was entering a group chat about Witcher 3. They were all like " Yeah yeah Ali, W3 is my favourite rpg too! i think it's the best rpg out there, I mean it's better than SKYRIM". Convincing an Iranian that W3 is not rpg, is a waste of time; never seen a gaming community more toxic that Iran's gaming community. Dropped W3, it is clearly not made for me.

 

[Catacombs]

I'm having a blast playing Noita. Man, I love this game.

Why do you like it?

 

[JDR13]

I tried out the demo for Xuan-Yuan Sword VII. It was pretty cool. A random screenshot of a waterfall.

Played the demo and wasn't impressed. Very linear, and the dialogues were soooo slow without any way to skip them or speed them up. The combat was the only redeeming feature imo.

 

[HansDampf]

Nostalgic blast from the past - replayed Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean on my old Gamecube.

I remember it took me 1.5 years or so to complete this back in the day, only took about 4 weeks this time. An interesting card-based battle system and a long-ass story with more than a few unexpected twists and turns. A prequel with refined mechanics/systems was made, but it never got a PAL release so I don't think I'll ever be playing it unless it can be emulated in Dolphin.

I don't know any other games with that kind of twist where

Spoiler

the protagonist betrays the player.

Also, Battle Theme.

 

[Tancred]

HansDampf it threw me for a loop way back then. When I replayed it, I realised the game puts a lot of subtle hints in the dialogue about that and a few other things like:

Spoiler

• never meeting Rock Cats in the game and even the village doctor saying he's never heard of them attacking people but Kalas claims this is why the player can't remember anything
• Xelha saying she met Kalas in Moonguile Forest when as far as both the player and Kalas know, they met her in Cebelrai just outside Moonguile Forest
• Kalas is contemplating things and recites Xelha's prayer, and she hears and comments 'you remembered! that's my nation's prayer'; hinting that she isn't from the five islands
• the slightly creepy dialogue from the NPC who will eventually be revealed as the true villain of the game, hinting that something isn't right here
  
• and if the player checks the inventory after a certain event, he'll realise the important macguffin has been lost much earlier than the characters realise and put 2+2 together

Motoi Sakuraba did the OST, it's awesome, even if I heard True Mirror so much that it started getting annoying. It's nice standing around in some places and letting the themes play out as well, really adds to the atmosphere of the pre-rendered backgrounds. Every location has it's own distinct feel and identity. This one almost makes it worth getting lost in the Duhr Labyrinth.

 

[baud]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

rage 2 is absolutely shit with essentially zero redeeming qualities besides having fairly decent shooting mechanics

Having decent shooting mechanics isn't a good enough reason to play a FPS?

Is having enough stealth mechanics a reason to play Assassin's Creed? Shooting in this game is really fun, but this is a game; if it were just a shooter, like doom(there really isn't a story there. they were like " ok ok there's this gun, there are these enemies, idk go kill them?") i'd play it; because it'd be just shooting, no story, no essential characters or quests, but since this game tries to do more and fails, I say it is not worth £39.99 at all(but hey, I think it is on gamepass huh?)

So you're saying that the rest of the game isn't on the level of the shooting mechanics?

 

[Maz]

Fuck off. Don't compare this shit to Elex.

Ways that Rage 2 is like ELEX:

1. Open world game, free to explore at will

2. Game is post-apocalyptic and dystopian in nature

3. Game features wide variety of creatures and mutants to battle

4. Game features several factions to work with or work against, all with their own interests

5. Game features a fairly rudimentary character skill system with perks, all upgradeable using items found in-game

6. Game is generally action-based, but has enough RPG-like aspects to keep it interdasting

Shall I continue?

rage 2 is absolutely shit with essentially zero redeeming qualities besides having fairly decent shooting mechanics

Having decent shooting mechanics isn't a good enough reason to play a FPS?

Is having enough stealth mechanics a reason to play Assassin's Creed? Shooting in this game is really fun, but this is a game; if it were just a shooter, like doom(there really isn't a story there. they were like " ok ok there's this gun, there are these enemies, idk go kill them?") i'd play it; because it'd be just shooting, no story, no essential characters or quests, but since this game tries to do more and fails, I say it is not worth £39.99 at all(but hey, I think it is on gamepass huh?)

So you're saying that the rest of the game isn't on the level of the shooting mechanics?

No it really isn't