What game are you wasting time on?

[NecroLord]

Was there a SINGLE expansion pack to a classic shooter that wasn't a letdown? Off the top of my head (Blood, Duke, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, Doom...), they are always either shit or just meh.

The first Quake expansion was an incline IIRC.

Yeah, Scourge of Armagon was great, but Dissolution of Eternity was as well.

 

[Kabas]

but Dissolution of Eternity was as well.

While a bit weaker than scourge of armagon overall and easier on hard difficulty, it's still featured some nice looking locations.

Also, oneshoting death knights with triple rocket launcher feels satisfying.

 

[Kabas]

Tried some other boomer shooter demos by the way.

Ultrakill
I liked it. Not a super fan of small arena shooter format but the movement feels great.
Chose the harder difficulty instead of recommended normal one and the game kicked my ass a few times, especially at that dual statues boss fight.
Cultic
Meh. Graphic wise I prefer crispy to blurry. Very long loading times for something that looks so blurry.
Demo level felt kinda empty at the beginning but sorta pick ups the pace later. Shooting itself feels good, but blowing up cultists feels nowhere near as satisfying as it is in Blood.
Played it on normal, should have chosen the harder difficulty.

Speaking of Blood, i am currently in the middle of the third episode. It's not bad so far.

 

[adddeed]

Having fun with Tides of Numenera. Its a nice change of scenery compared to the usual medieval RPGs i play. Plus the music and some of the aesthetics give me nostalgic feelings from when i played PST, so im having a good time with the game. 10hrs in so far.

 

[Kabas]

Some other demos i played

Wizordum
A cute little game. Feels a bit too simple for my tastes. Like the graphics.
While it doesn't require to hit enemy seven times in order to get the kill, the basic mace doesn't feel as satisfying to use as the one wielded by cleric from Hexen. Weird.
Beyond Sunset
Looks very pretty. Another game in which i suffered because i didn't listen "before you get used to controls we recommend you choose easier difficulty bla bla bla" and picked hard.
It marks all the secrets on your map for some alien to me reason.
It's also reminded me of Selaco, in the sense that it made me instantly not wanna read any of the logs.
Overall, the game is somewhere between ok and good. Made me wish i could jump on top of enemies like Caleb.

 

[Dr1f7]

man resident evil (1) really falls off after leaving the mansion
was a great spooky zombie game now I'm here dealing with crocodile people, sharks, bees, snakes, plants?
also at this point in the game I know none of the enemies are really going to be a threat so the thrill is gone
wtf were they thinking

 

[Dr1f7]

man resident evil (1) really falls off after leaving the mansion
was a great spooky zombie game now I'm here dealing with crocodile people, sharks, bees, snakes, plants?
also at this point in the game I know none of the enemies are really going to be a threat so the thrill is gone
wtf were they thinking

also the puzzles are immersion breakingly simple
guy designing mansion puzzles must have been a literal zombie: "HAHA NOBODY WILL EVER REALIZE THAT YOU CAN RUN UNDER THE NOISY MOVING EAGLE STATUE!! *drool*"
"HAHA NOBODY WILL EVER REALIZE THAT YOU PUSH THIS STATUE INTO THAT SLOT MWA-HAHAHA *drool* *drool *drool"
"HAHA NOBODY WILL EVER THINK TO LOOK AT THE PAINTING RIGHT NEXT TO THE CLOCK I AM EVIL GENIUS HAHAHAA *drool* *drool *drool"

 

[Kathlyn Kitty Kat]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1972410/Siege_of_Dungeon/
Promising so far.

 

[Kabas]

Finished Underdark Overbright, an episode for Quake that showcases the copper mod.
I liked these levels very much, they look pretty and feel fresh to play despite not introducing any radical changes to the Quake formula.
My favourite combat encounter was probably the one in which you face two vores and the surrounding them zombie crowd. The former are just asking to guide their missiles towards the latter.

Also tried Punishement Due. So far i feel that certain encounters are a bit too bullshit but it's good overall.

Also completed the third episode of Blood. It was kinda weaker compared to the previous two. That carnival level still remains the game's peak for me with some other levels coming close second.
Switched to Nblood sourceport for the fourth episode, it's a lot better than buildGDX so far.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Been going through Tropico 6. The only other Tropico I played was 4 and that was way back at launch without any of the DLC. The kind of series that's hard to even remember what's different between iterations.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Minami before and after studying sociology in american college:

 

[Darth Roxor]

I knew it would happen. After playing Heretic I of course had to start Hexen.

Send help.

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[Unkillable Cat]

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[Wunderbar]

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[Lagole Gon]

Despite minor complications, young Miss Okusawa says taking six different booster shots was the right call:

 

[Kabas]

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I am yet to encounter the worst example of this, sounds concerning.

By the way, i finished the four original episodes of Blood. Chernobog is a bitch.

The fourth episode was better than the third one, but still not on the level of the first two.
Only issue i found with NBlood sourceport is Caleb struggling to get out of water. All Blood sourceports i tried seem to have at least some issues.
It was a good experience overall. Movement feels great, setting enemies on fire never gets old and levels have just the right amount of mazeness to them.
It's quite telling how the very first shooty weapon you get is a flair gun that slowly sets people on fire. Like, the priorty was to give player a slasher maniac arsenal rather conventional FPS weapons.
burning gargoyles out of, would burn them again.

^This level was pretty disgusting tho

 

[Caim]

Been going through Tropico 6. The only other Tropico I played was 4 and that was way back at launch without any of the DLC. The kind of series that's hard to even remember what's different between iterations.

A game pitch that has set up in my mind rent-free recently is Tropico except instead of El Presidente you're an evil overlord in a fantasy world whose objective is building up your dark realm and keeping your subjects productive while lining your pockets and balancing the wants and needs of various factions including the orcs, necromancers, demons, dragons, the unseelie court and more.

 

[fork]

Been going through Tropico 6. The only other Tropico I played was 4 and that was way back at launch without any of the DLC. The kind of series that's hard to even remember what's different between iterations.

A game pitch that has set up in my mind rent-free recently is Tropico except instead of El Presidente you're an evil overlord in a fantasy world whose objective is building up your dark realm and keeping your subjects productive while lining your pockets and balancing the wants and needs of various factions including the orcs, necromancers, demons, dragons, the unseelie court and more.

That's not what Tropico is? Sorry, never played one.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

A game pitch that has set up in my mind rent-free recently is Tropico except instead of El Presidente you're an evil overlord in a fantasy world whose objective is building up your dark realm and keeping your subjects productive while lining your pockets and balancing the wants and needs of various factions including the orcs, necromancers, demons, dragons, the unseelie court and more.

It should also involve crimson skinned horned reapers and a leather clad dominatrix, produced by a charismatic and ambitious lying man.

A crossover that would work but will never be.

 

[The Decline]

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I am yet to encounter the worst example of this, sounds concerning.

By the way, i finished the four original episodes of Blood. Chernobog is a bitch.

The fourth episode was better than the third one, but still not on the level of the first two.
Only issue i found with NBlood sourceport is Caleb struggling to get out of water. All Blood sourceports i tried seem to have at least some issues.
It was a good experience overall. Movement feels great, setting enemies on fire never gets old and levels have just the right amount of mazeness to them.
It's quite telling how the very first shooty weapon you get is a flair gun that slowly sets people on fire. Like, the priorty was to give player a slasher maniac arsenal rather conventional FPS weapons.
burning gargoyles out of, would burn them again.

^This level was pretty disgusting tho

The original source code was finally released/leaked online a couple weeks ago so we should see more accurate source ports soon.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Culdcept.
Have you ever wanted to play mtg monopoly with the added rng of cards?
There is a lot of depth because the monster/territory/item interaction allows for a lot of options.
Unfortunately completely made useless of because of rng. I lost two times to the tutorial because the asshole kept getting monsters and rolling 6's.
So Rng on top Rng and cheating ai just make this a miserable experience considering a a basic match lasts for 20+ minutes.
How the fuck did this series get popular?

There are many ways to mitigate the random nature of dice rolls, and there are cards that force your opponent to land on them (like Kelpie, Old Willow depending on the version). There are subtleties to the game that aren't apparent in the first few times you play, like using territory in creative ways (jumping with a weak creature that's just next to a heavily defended space you want to capture to weaken it etc). If you keep at it you'll see what I mean.

It's an endearing game. I played it a lot, especially the PS2 version.

 

[flyingjohn]

There are many ways to mitigate the random nature of dice rolls

Oh i know, i played the ds and saga version before this. In fact, if you liked this game, then play saga for the 360,it is highly recommended.
But ,most of your mitigation of rng is reliant on you actually getting said cards in the right moment, which is another form of rng.

But you are right about the subtleties ,there are so many ways to interact with said systems that it really earns the title mtg monopoly.
But, board and card rng in the same game? Losing on the bigger maps and wasting hours is not fun because of RNG/Cheating AI.

 

[Nutmeg]

I have been quite interested in culdcept since I found out it was a huge hit in Japan BitD, especially on Dreamcast.

 

[Great Deceiver]

There are many ways to mitigate the random nature of dice rolls

Oh i know, i played the ds and saga version before this. In fact, if you liked this game, then play saga for the 360,it is highly recommended.
But ,most of your mitigation of rng is reliant on you actually getting said cards in the right moment, which is another form of rng.

But you are right about the subtleties ,there are so many ways to interact with said systems that it really earns the title mtg monopoly.
But, board and card rng in the same game? Losing on the bigger maps and wasting hours is not fun because of RNG/Cheating AI.

I did play a little bit of Saga, but then my 360 died on me definitively. Last time I tried it on Xenia it wasn't working. Did they fix it?

 

[flyingjohn]

There are many ways to mitigate the random nature of dice rolls

Oh i know, i played the ds and saga version before this. In fact, if you liked this game, then play saga for the 360,it is highly recommended.
But ,most of your mitigation of rng is reliant on you actually getting said cards in the right moment, which is another form of rng.

But you are right about the subtleties ,there are so many ways to interact with said systems that it really earns the title mtg monopoly.
But, board and card rng in the same game? Losing on the bigger maps and wasting hours is not fun because of RNG/Cheating AI.

I did play a little bit of Saga, but then my 360 died on me definitively. Last time I tried it on Xenia it wasn't working. Did they fix it?

Minus some portrait glitches it works both for vanilla and canary.