What game are you wasting time on?

[Great Deceiver]

Nice, I'll give it another go.

 

[NecroLord]

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

Sponsored by pfizer.

 

[Arbiter]

Unreal: Return to Na Pali. I have never played the expansion before. I also replayed the base game - this was merely my second run, even tough I completed Doom 1 at least a dozen of times and Quake 1 and 2 several times.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Nice, I'll give it another go.

flyingjohn still busted on Xenia. I tried both the default DX12 renderer and the experimental Vulkan one.

Here's what I get (nvidia card):

 

[flyingjohn]

Nice, I'll give it another go.

flyingjohn still busted on Xenia. I tried both the default DX12 renderer and the experimental Vulkan one.

Here's what I get (nvidia card):

That is really weird? Here is what i get on a AMD card running on Win10:

Just downloaded xenia master to try it out to see if something changed. Probably something about Windows since I doubt Amd has better drivers when it comes to dx stuff compared to Nvidia.

 

[Great Deceiver]

https://github.com/xenia-project/game-compatibility/labels/gpu-driver-issues-nvidia

Apparently the game has issues with nVidia drivers. Oh well.

 

[Arbiter]

^This level was pretty disgusting tho

It's called "trypophobia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

 

[Kabas]

^This level was pretty disgusting tho

It's called "trypophobia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

Nah, that wasn't the gross part. It was the constant farting sounds.

 

[The Decline]

Started a new campaign in Terratech after leaving it several months ago. Still have all the mods installed I had before, but something big must have changed because there are now factions among the NPC vehicles and some are now friendly. Also seeing some bases being built by them as well. A lot more interesting than the first time I played. Now I need to rebuild my block collection and get back my flying fortress.

 

[Semiurge]

Doom II: The Plutonia Experiment

The first level offers a nice challenge, but already in the second I've found a broken door that won't open with the yellow key it requires. I will see what happens if I don't save and load in the level before that point. The level "Mount Pain" from TNT had such an area where a protective suit would become stuck in a floor if you saved and reloaded after its room was reset. These addons seem to have poor quality assurance.

Edit: forgot a certain yellow panel that opens the door

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I'm playing Wasteland 3 again since I got all of the DLC in the winter sale. Just started doing the Steeltown quests and I decided to try to resolve everything without deaths (at least so far). But I forgot that I have the Provost in my party and there is no way to stop him from just blasting people, so after making sure to keep this asshole alive so I can see his hidden quest through, I now have to decide whether to backtrack out of my Steeltown progress, kill the Provost myself, or just kill all these workers who really don't seem to deserve it at all.

Currently just frustrated and don't really feel like playing anymore for tonight.

What a retarded oversight.

 

[Average Manatee]

Doom II: The Plutonia Experiment

The first level offers a nice challenge, but already in the second I've found a broken door that won't open with the yellow key it requires. I will see what happens if I don't save and load in the level before that point. The level "Mount Pain" from TNT had such an area where a protective suit would become stuck in a floor if you saved and reloaded after its room was reset. These addons seem to have poor quality assurance.

I don't recall either of those and I've played those levels before a few times each. Might check with a different source port? I'm pretty sure I saved during mount pain because fuck mount pain.

 

[BruceVC]

I just finished ELEX 2 and I had a good time, its lacking in certain areas but overall its a worthwhile PB open-world RPG and it still has the things that are prevalent in PB RPG like Gothic that include joining and working with factions, the mechanics of crafting and enemies on the map that can kill you immediately until you much higher level. So its fun and engaging

I gave it a fuller review on the official thread. I am now seriously considering DA:Inquisition, I have played the first DA but not DA:I

I am going to be selecting and installing mods today, any advice would be appreciated

 

[Semiurge]

Doom II: The Plutonia Experiment

The first level offers a nice challenge, but already in the second I've found a broken door that won't open with the yellow key it requires. I will see what happens if I don't save and load in the level before that point. The level "Mount Pain" from TNT had such an area where a protective suit would become stuck in a floor if you saved and reloaded after its room was reset. These addons seem to have poor quality assurance.

I don't recall either of those and I've played those levels before a few times each. Might check with a different source port? I'm pretty sure I saved during mount pain because fuck mount pain.

The Plutonia "bug" was my own goof, see the original post.

 

[Ryzer]

any advice would be appreciated

Don't play it.

 

[BruceVC]

any advice would be appreciated

Don't play it.

I dont want to make a big deal about it because its an aspect of Romance but I am not happy with how the female characters look, so hopefully I can mod that

I find it both sexist and misogynistic that the artists cant create normal and attractive women like in previous DA games. Im not saying they all have to look like a Viconia, Morrigan or Isabella but at least provide some aesthetic value

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

any advice would be appreciated

Don't play it.

I dont want to make a big deal about it because its an aspect of Romance but I am not happy with how the female characters look, so hopefully I can mod that

I find it both sexist and misogynistic that the artists cant create normal and attractive women like in previous DA games. Im not saying they all have to look like a Viconia, Morrigan or Isabella but at least provide some aesthetic value

It's not just the women... All of the characters in DAI look ugly and goofy. Frostbite is not an engine for third person games, let alone rpgs. The tactical view sucks ass, I haven't played it modded so I can't help you there.
If you are really invested in the story, try setting up the world state in Dragon Age Keep.

 

[Abu Antar]

Game #4 of the year is beaten. This time, it was VirtuaVerse. Interesting premise, and and its pixel graphics were okay, but for some reason it didn't get me hooked. It's a competently made game, but the moment-to-moment story beats didn't really grab me. Gameplay is your standard P&C adventure game fare, with a few obtuse puzzle solutions here and there. I wish there were some memorable characters, but other than the douche that is the main character, everyone else was forgettable.

 

[Zed]

I'm playing Nioh 2. Got it with the PS+ crap last month I think (or the month before that). It's the same as the first game which isn't too bad. Mostly playing it in preparation for Wo Long.

 

[Derringer]

I was going through Wild Arms 4 and 5 since I was just bum-rushing them after 2, 4 gets retarded as fuck and the puzzles suck ass even compared to the earlier ones and 5 feels only slightly less empty, Wild Arms as a whole is a dodgy as fuck game series but I can't say it's any worse than most throwaway JRPGs I've played since the well produced music helps to make them playable.

 

[Stella Brando]

 

[Vic]

Game #4 of the year is beaten.

Respect, it made me aware that I'm slacking, still haven't beaten the first game of this year, despite being initially motivated to beat lots of games by last year's "games you've beaten" thread. I am playing 4 different games currently.... maybe beating games is not for me, I enjoy playing a little bit of this and that depending on what mood I'm in.

 

[Modron]

I mean as long as you stick with those games it's not really a bad thing to diversify can help with not getting burned out. Eventually you'll finish those four games.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I'm playing Dishonored. Doing the last DLC, the one with Delilah. But it's getting tiresome. Did a High Chaos run as Daud, since it makes no sense for him to be stealthy like Corvo. I'm at this mission where you have the dogs with the skulls but I think I'm just going to leave it there.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I've been playing the Blackwell series of adventure games by Wadjet Eye. So far I've finished the first two (Legacy and Unbound) and started the third one (Convergence). It's interesting to see how more mechanics were gradually incorporated over the games as the developers obviously became more proficient at AGS.

I think they're ok so far. Not great - they're a sort of hybrid between an investigation game and a traditional adventure game. You have to check your notes, make connections between events/people to open up more dialogue options, etc. Puzzles have been very primitive and the times I got a little stuck were because of procedural rather than conceptual issues. For example, in the second game you have to find out the first name of a reporter who works at the New Yorker. The "investigation" method of that game is looking up names in a phonebook, so you look New Yorker up, and the main character tells you that she knows where the address of the magazine is located. However, the location doesn't open up on the map until you call the place, which makes no sense.

The writing is serviceable but somewhat bland. These games give off a GK-lite vibe that's not altogether unpleasant, and they're quite short, which probably means I'll finish all of them eventually.