What game are you wasting time on?

[Unkillable Cat]

Now I'm up to that

Spoiler

survival horror/puzzle section where you're running around a forge with an invincible monster chasing you.

This is a noob's perspective, this may be standard in im-sims for all I know, but I like it. It's interesting, and came as a surprise.

It's a difference, yes. But for me it was a frustrating trial and error sequence.

 

[Catacombs]

I'm so sick of souls games at this point honestly but it's a good souls game. that's really all there is to it

The opposite is true: I wish there were more souls games, but Elden Ring is shit at it. It's the parody of what made Dark Souls great.

A microcosm of the polarizing response to this game. The best thing, for me, was to just start playing it and make up my own mind

I've played and dropped the first Dark Souls a number of times, mostly because I wasn't good at it. ER, so far, has taught me how to be more patient and careful with fights. I'm interested in revising Dark Souls to apply what I've learned.

 

[Azalin]

Finished Still Life the adventure game from 2005,a nice adventure game of that time,the graphics are tolerable by today's standards,the story is interesting and switches between modern times and 1929 but it ends in a cliffhanger.The puzzles are ok although it has some slider puzzles that i don't like and that lockpicking mini game was a bitch.Time to start the sequel

 

[Darth Roxor]

Time to start the sequel

stop before it's too late

 

[fork]

Now i am thinking about what to play next.

Play Doom 2 wads.

 

[Kabas]

Speaking of doom wads, i gave Heretic a try.

It has pretty colours, i like pretty colours. Soundtrack is also nice.
I can't help but feel like i am playing an inferior version of Doom though, not to say that this is a bad game - just not as good as Doom. Maybe it's because of difficulty? Didn't want to touch anything above medium because i heard something about enemies becoming HP sponges, but things are so easy so far the tome of power is something i use to reduce tedium instead of being my "Oh shit!" button.

 

[NecroLord]

Speaking of doom wads, i gave Heretic a try.

It has pretty colours, i like pretty colours. Soundtrack is also nice.
I can't help but feel like i am playing an inferior version of Doom though, not to say that this is a bad game - just not as good as Doom. Maybe it's because of difficulty? Didn't want to touch anything above medium because i heard something about enemies becoming HP sponges, but things are so easy so far the tome of power is something i use to reduce tedium instead of being my "Oh shit!" button.

Yeah, Heretic can be pretty rough. Watch your ammo(especially in the later episodes) and make adequate use of powerups.
Still an awesome game. The whole doom clone thing is just bullshit. Heretic is not a fucking clone. It just shares many elements with Doom.

 

[Kabas]

especially in the later episodes

I do hope the things are going to get rougher for me.
My favourite weapon is the powered up version of the sith gauntlets that leech health. Very satisfying to use.

 

[Darth Roxor]

You should play Dark Forces Kabas

 

[NecroLord]

You should play Dark Forces Kabas

Fuck yeah.
Kabas Start with Dark Forces, then play Jedi Knight and its expansion, Mysteries of the Sith.

 

[Kabas]

I did complete the Dark Forces 2 jedi knight some time ago, only thing that trully irked me about it was how the game rewards you with extra force points for finding all the secrets. You know how painfull it is to complete the level and see that you only found 9 out of 10 secrets?!

Wanted to take a bit of break from star wars after completing it, but Mysteries of the Sith is definitely on my to-play list.
Dark Forces 1 is also on that list, didn't it get a new sourceport or something recently?

 

[NecroLord]

I did complete the Dark Forces 2 jedi knight some time ago, only thing that trully irked me about it was how the game rewards you with extra force points for finding all the secrets. You know how painfull it is to complete the level and see that you only found 9 out of 10 secrets?!

Wanted to take a bit of break from star wars after completing it, but Mysteries of the Sith is definitely on my to-play list.
Dark Forces 1 is also on that list, didn't it get a new sourceport or something recently?

Don't think so.
The GOG version has worked like a charm(at least for me).
Yeah, Jedi Knight is really big on secrets. The level design is great(if a bit overwhelming at times).

 

[fork]

There's really no reason to play Heretic with hundreds of Doom wads around.

 

[good fucking shit happen]

Only run into one issue. I am playing it on BuildGDX and i noticed some weird slowdowns after a few reloads, one time the game even crashed. Maybe i should try playing on something else?

Public service announcement: EVERY Blood port fucking sucks donkeyballs and the original is the only version worth playing.

 

[Kabas]

Was curious and took a peek at the Trepang2 demo. Heard it is a FEAR-like.
Experience would have been more enjoyable if the fps didn't stutter on my lap so much, probably. That's the thing i hate about the vast majority of modern games - they barely look better than most of the old ones, yet they demand so much more from your machine.

Beat another Blood level, had a good time.

 

[Naraya]

they barely look better than most of the old ones, yet they demand so much more from your machine

What to expect when most of them are made in Unity.

 

[NecroLord]

Beat another Blood level, had a good time.

Have you reached the "Dark Carnival" level yet?
One of the best in any FPS.

 

[Kabas]

Beat another Blood level, had a good time.

Have you reached the "Dark Carnival" level yet?
One of the best in any FPS.

I wanna! I wanna!

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Just finished ATOM RPG. Loved it. Will probably play it again at some point. Trudograd is running significantly worse on this laptop so I am likely going to wait til I get back to the main PC for that.

Also finished Murder by Numbers yesterday and that was also great but now I'm on the hunt for another good puzzle game.

Currnetly installing Solasta and hoping the DLC is on sale when the steam winter sale starts tomorrow. Is the Elven racial trait still OP as fuck?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Ninja Destroyer You want to keep an eye on Kabas here, he has such sights to see.

 

[Victor1234]

Cossacks 3. Once you mod the game files a bit to nerf the AI's ridiculous cannon advantage (they get much longer range than you), it's very enjoyable. I never played their games when they first came out (Rise of Nations and Age of Empires instead) but I'm more than making up for it now.

 

[BruceVC]

I finished Days Gone and its a worthy and thoroughly entertaining Zombie killing game, 70/100. I made a more detailed post on this in the official Days Gone thread

Now I have that exciting decision to make, what next? Im thinking ELEX 2

 

[mkultra]

Vampire Survivors. Still decent if i'm listening to a stream / podcast. Runs crappy on a 2500 euro graphics card lol... overall i liked the earlier versions of the game better, it's too hard now imo + it ran better too for me, now it has pretty constant hick-ups when there's tons of shit on the screen.

Horizon Forbidden West. Some decent updates to the graphics in comparison to Zero Dawn, like the moss and the vegetation, also faces and expressions looks great in comparison to the old game and i dare saying to almost any other game. Everyone i've talked to or helped so far is either black or asian and with evil or just scummy old white men everywhere, pretty cringe. Story continuation is absolute trash "oh that thing you did to save humankind actually didn't work so we just have to continue like before." so fucking cheap, even if i'm bloody used to it by now.

Ultima 7 with Exult. Can't believe its been 30 fucking years. Why the hell do i see people complaining about the interface?? I was expecting it to be trash after 30 years but no, works great, very no-nonsense, just makes sense and in many ways it feels very modern. The combat is pretty crap but i mainly see it as a open world adventure-rpg. I could never finish it back in the day due to some bug so i might actually finish it this time around.

 

[axx]

Finished Escape goat 1 again after so many years.
Also finished Titan Quest Eternal Embers and I'm quite disappointed. Wrote my impressions/review on GOG

here

Eternal embers doesn't and can't fix some of the glaring issues facing TQ after 3 expansions:
- experience points have become irrelevant since you'll level up just 2 or 3 times throughout this expansion. Besides, increasing your strength from 1200 to 1215 won't make you any stronger and you have nowhere to invest those extra points in the mastery tree - the relevant skills are probably already maxed
- picking up gold has likewise become irrelevant, buying weapons from merchants costs tens of millions of GP and you can effectively lose all the gold you've hauled throughout the game just to buy a couple of items
- farming relics for artifacts is as painful as ever. Chances are you'll be collecting a bunch of greater/divine recipes because you need recipes from lower difficulty levels. That's a massive time waster to get.
- with lowered resistances on "legendary" you'll essentially be a glass cannon. Prepare to die often.

Eternal embers itself has some annoyances worth mentioning:
- the areas can be massive and you'll frequently get lost as there is no clear indication where you have to go to progress. This "open world" concept gets old pretty fast
- halfway through the game you'll enter Egypt again and the this part of game is just badly optimized and dull. Massive areas, endless optional dungeons and repetitive battles with same enemies over and over again. On top of it all enemies seem to drop only one specific relic - Serket's touch. You'll have no incentive to fight these enemies, but you'll have to since you'll probably be lost, desperately trying to find the next rebirth fountain

It's a shame some of these issues destroy my overall impression of Eternal embers, especially because it's visually by far the prettiest of the expansions. One thing is for sure - unless developers address some of the issues above, there is no need for any extra expansions. Just start working on TQ2 instead.

Currently playing BG1 (EE) again and it's just as good as I remember it to be. I had to disable character scripts and some other EE stuff.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Ninja Destroyer You want to keep an eye on Kabas here, he has such sights to see.

Kabalas reminded me how I've played Blood for the first in pure Dos. After Duke Nukem 3d it was a very different experience. I thought Doom was scary, but this was on another whole level. I had a batch of games during that time, that I've replayed many times - MDK, Hexen 2, Dungeon Keeper. Strange mix, but they were, and are great titles that I enjoy even after so many years.