What game are you wasting time on?

[Ryzer]

Don't waste any point until you are a Jedi, otherwise you will spend at pure loss.

 

[ferratilis]

Depending on the difficulty, finishing Taris at level 2 is possible, then you can use all the remaining levels for the Jedi class. The biggest problem is surviving the arena and Bendak Starkiller, but it's manageable by spamming stims and grenades or abusing the AI by moving in and out of melee range.

 

[MpuMngwana]

But why would you do that, Kotor is not nearly hard enough to necessitate such degree of min-maxing. Sure a 2 base/18 jedi character will have an easier time late in the game but you won't have much trouble if you take 4 or 5 levels in the base class while not making Taris (arguably the best part of the game) needlessly tedious.

 

[flyingjohn]

Tenchu 1. It is practically a fossil thanks to Tenchu 2 existing, minus the music.
A stealth ninja game with somewhat big levels and plenty of tools to use, what could go wrong?

-The biggest problem is the draw distance. You can't see shit. To offset this you have a enemy awareness meter. Which would be nice, minus the thought that it doesn't pick up multiple guards.
So if you kill a guard and there is somebody close, said person will be alerted even though you can't even see said person. This happens frequently.
2 makes this better by actually giving you the ability to see shit in front of you.

-Camera and controls do not work in any way, shape or form. The camera gets stuck at everything and I mean everything.
The controls are terrible. Tank controls with absolute dogshit mobility make for some great fighting/jumping experience. A small hole in front of you?
You better pray you actually correctly jump over it instead of dying because you character decided to jump 1 cm less then expected.
2 has a functioning camera. and also has plenty of mobility improvements. Just the jump alone is night and day.

-Level design is dogshit. The levels are pretty big for a psx game. Unfortunately, most of the content on said levels is meaningless to the general objective.
Even the smaller levels fail at this.
Just the first level is a great example of this. You open up by spawning near a big compound. You can:
- go to the roof and just jump to the next roof and got to your objective
-Try to clear the compound for no reason and get jack shit
-Go all the way around and clean the street to get jack shit again
Most of the speedrunign in this game is activating a run very fast scroll and just go straight to the end of the level. It takes around a 2-3 minutes.
Why would you even explore the level?
The Tenchu community loving these levels is a enigma to me?
Tenchu 2 levels are somewhat boring from a design perspective but you are going to experience most of the level because of how objectives are placed.
-Piss easy to earn grandmaster rating because you don't even have to engage most enemies.
-Final boss is a lightning spamming piece of shit

Everything else is decent I guess. The voice acting is corny 90's, the ninja tools do allow you some fun to play with the enemies(from breathing fire to a disguise, to triple shuriken's, etc...).
But I will agree that the music in 1 is better just by the virtue of 2 not even having stage music.

Just play 2 or any of the later ones.

EDIT: Worth listening to the ost for this gem alone:

 

[NecroLord]

Don't waste any point until you are a Jedi, otherwise you will spend at pure loss.

5/15 has always been my favorite combo.
You get some of the feats and skills of your first class (in the Scout's case - implants) and you get almost the full benefits of your Jedi class.
Yeah, just you Sith wait until daddy gets his hands on a double bladed lightsaber with uber Strength, Master Speed and Master Flurry (and Power Attack)!

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Tenchu 1. It is practically a fossil thanks to Tenchu 2 existing, minus the music.
A stealth ninja game with somewhat big levels and plenty of tools to use, what could go wrong?

-The biggest problem is the draw distance. You can't see shit. To offset this you have a enemy awareness meter. Which would be nice, minus the thought that it doesn't pick up multiple guards.
So if you kill a guard and there is somebody close, said person will be alerted even though you can't even see said person. This happens frequently.
2 makes this better by actually giving you the ability to see shit in front of you.

-Camera and controls do not work in any way, shape or form. The camera gets stuck at everything and I mean everything.
The controls are terrible. Tank controls with absolute dogshit mobility make for some great fighting/jumping experience. A small hole in front of you?
You better pray you actually correctly jump over it instead of dying because you character decided to jump 1 cm less then expected.
2 has a functioning camera. and also has plenty of mobility improvements. Just the jump alone is night and day.

-Level design is dogshit. The levels are pretty big for a psx game. Unfortunately, most of the content on said levels is meaningless to the general objective.
Even the smaller levels fail at this.
Just the first level is a great example of this. You open up by spawning near a big compound. You can:
- go to the roof and just jump to the next roof and got to your objective
-Try to clear the compound for no reason and get jack shit
-Go all the way around and clean the street to get jack shit again
Most of the speedrunign in this game is activating a run very fast scroll and just go straight to the end of the level. It takes around a 2-3 minutes.
Why would you even explore the level?
The Tenchu community loving these levels is a enigma to me?
Tenchu 2 levels are somewhat boring from a design perspective but you are going to experience most of the level because of how objectives are placed.
-Piss easy to earn grandmaster rating because you don't even have to engage most enemies.
-Final boss is a lightning spamming piece of shit

Everything else is decent I guess. The voice acting is corny 90's, the ninja tools do allow you some fun to play with the enemies(from breathing fire to a disguise, to triple shuriken's, etc...).
But I will agree that the music in 1 is better just by the virtue of 2 not even having stage music.

Just play 2 or any of the later ones.

developed by from software

 

[flyingjohn]

developed by from software

The original ps1 games were made by Acquire.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

developed by from software

The original ps1 games were made by Acquire.

 

[flyingjohn]

developed by from software

The original ps1 games were made by Acquire.

After the ps1 games Activision sold the rights to From and others. The original titles were made by Acquire.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright, so I finally escaped Taris after fighting Calo Nord and Davik and taking the Ebon Hawk from him. Just focus on Calo, as he goes down easier and throw grenades at him. Grenades are incredibly useful early on, but they lose their effectiveness as you progress through the game (the only grenades which remain effective are the Adhesive grenades and the Thermal Detonators, but those are not exactly common).
Finally became a Jedi Guardian on Dantooine, ready to kick some ass and chew spice bubblegum! Force Speed is, as always, incredible. Some kath hounds and mandalorian raiders to kill, some more quests and annoying Bastila is really fun!

 

[markec]

Replayed Duke 3D and enjoyed myself very much. Before I started I considered my top build engine games to be Blood, Shadow Warrior and then Duke 3D. After replaying it my rankings didnt change but I do think that Duke is much closer to Shadow Warrior then I remembered. One of the side effects of playing the game is that now I start noticing fire extinguishers wherever I go and get a urge to shoot them with a gun.

Thinking to either start playing newly purchased Metro Exodus or Redneck Rampage a game that I tried playing multiple times but never finished.

 

[Tavar]

(...)
But I have now decided to play Gothic 2, I played it once before about 12 years ago but I never finished it because I decided to be a mage and I couldnt defeat most of the dragons with that class so I gave up after completing maybe 60-70% of the main quest

This time I will become a paladin or fighter

If you play Gothic 2 Gold then mages are actually very good at killing dragons as you can just summon a demon which will just kill them on its own or transform into a dragon snapper. If you want a non mage build which can handle everything then I recommend an archer. If you play Gothic 2 without any addon then all classes will work fine.

 

[BruceVC]

(...)
But I have now decided to play Gothic 2, I played it once before about 12 years ago but I never finished it because I decided to be a mage and I couldnt defeat most of the dragons with that class so I gave up after completing maybe 60-70% of the main quest

This time I will become a paladin or fighter

If you play Gothic 2 Gold then mages are actually very good at killing dragons as you can just summon a demon which will just kill them on its own or transform into a dragon snapper. If you want a non mage build which can handle everything then I recommend an archer. If you play Gothic 2 without any addon then all classes will work fine.

Thats interesting, Im playing Gold but 12 years ago I played normal Gothic 2. I didnt think of even using demons or other summons and tried to kill the dragons with fireball and lighting bolts which thinking back doesn't make much sense

But Im going to stick with my Paladin build anyway, its nice to play a fighter class

 

[Tavar]

Thats interesting, Im playing Gold but 12 years ago I played normal Gothic 2. I didnt think of even using demons or other summons and tried to kill the dragons with fireball and lighting bolts which thinking back doesn't make much sense

But Im going to stick with my Paladin build anyway, its nice to play a fighter class

They buffed spell scrolls in the add-on so that they can also be used by non-mages. Make sure to pick up strong spell scrolls (Summon Golem, Summon Demon, Rain of Fire, Transform into Dragon Snapper) when you have the chance. These scrolls will be a great help in the difficult parts of the game.

 

[BruceVC]

Thats interesting, Im playing Gold but 12 years ago I played normal Gothic 2. I didnt think of even using demons or other summons and tried to kill the dragons with fireball and lighting bolts which thinking back doesn't make much sense

But Im going to stick with my Paladin build anyway, its nice to play a fighter class

They buffed spell scrolls in the add-on so that they can also be used by non-mages. Make sure to pick up strong spell scrolls (Summon Golem, Summon Demon, Rain of Fire, Transform into Dragon Snapper) when you have the chance. These scrolls will be a great help in the difficult parts of the game.

I thought that was different, I noticed I can use scrolls. And I have used them in one or two occasions because on low levels you can killed easily. I have used sleep effectively and I just used 4 x Fireballs to kill Dexter. I only have 10 mana so I had to quickly use a mana potion while he was chasing me around

But I will buy some high level spells for future combat, good advice

 

[NecroLord]

Alright, the classic Star Wars Kotor adventure continues!
Dantooine is actually pretty good, peaceful, a nice comfy soundtrack, which is not surprising giving the fact it was composed by Jeremy Soule and Dantooine is a planet with a Jedi Enclave on it.
The mandalorian raid leader Sherruk is an absolute monster in melee. Bastila is very useful here if you gave her Force Whirlwind. USE Force Whirlwind on Sherruk, then pummel him mercilessly! This force power makes or breaks this encounter, this is a pretty rough battle overall.
The Sandral-Matale feud can have different paths. The good resolution requires you to have a pretty high Persuade skill (which I have) in order to convince Shen's father to let him marry Rahasia and go with her. Otherwise, either convince Shen to go back to his father (and get a nice 1000 credits!) or convince the families to kill each other (an obviously fucked up thing and will give you several Dark Side points).

 

[Azalin]

Finished A Plague Tale Innocence a stealth/action game set in France during the Black Plague, you play as a teenage girl who tries to protect her kid brother from the people that are after him and the swarms of rats that are all over the countryside. An interesting little game, the gameplay is solid, the graphics are good, the story starts ok although it becomes too over the top during the final act.I enjoyed my time overall.

 

[Abu Antar]

Finished A Plague Tale Innocence a stealth/action game set in France during the Black Plague, you play as a teenage girl who tries to protect her kid brother from the people that are after him and the swarms of rats that are all over the countryside. An interesting little game, the gameplay is solid, the graphics are good, the story starts ok although it becomes too over the top during the final act.I enjoyed my time overall.

I tried to like it, but dropped it in the second chapter.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I'm taking a break from Baldur's Gate 2. It's been 50 something hours and I'm in the Underdark part. Now I remember why I always felt this part was kinda disappointing. The fights get too micromanagey and without turn based it's just a chore.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I gave Terminator: Resistance a go, mostly because I was bored.

# Graphics are good, though some character models look... off. (Turns out it's the models you'll be having sex with.) That said, animations and movement can be comically bad at times.

# Audio is excellent. Lots of stuff taken directly from the films, then music composed based on the legendary title track.

# Plot and story are typical time-travel stuff... except in the future! Yawn.

# I played on Normal - and save for a few notable moments the main campaign bored me. I'm currently part-way into the Annihilation Line-DLC - and it's not impressing me either.

# At the end of the day this is a modern-day FPS, with modern-day game design ideas. Most of which are retarded. The goggles that let you see machines through walls... also lets you spot when the game spawns in the enemies. Yes, just magically *appear* in the level because you passed a scripted spawn trigger. Sadly the hospital level is the first time most players will see this.

# The enemy AI, ironically enough, is a joke. Enemies have pre-set patrol paths, they follow that blindly until something disturbs them, which they'll investigate. But more importantly, enemies have boundaries. They won't go too far from their patrol paths, they won't pursue the player for long. On large, open levels this can be cheesed by simply running far enough away to lose them. On smaller levels the player may be lucky enough to find 'no go'-spots that the enemies will NEVER enter, under no circumstances.

# Once you enter a firefight with an enemy, they mostly just focus-fire on you until you're dead. Most of them stand still while doing this, a few move about a little in the process, but 'popamole' describes this down to a tee. Strangely enough the T-600 Terminators introduced in the DLC at least try to dodge incoming fire.

# In some levels you have squad buddies you'll have to run to keep up with, and then engage in firefights at regular intervals. To my surprise Friendly Fire is off, I can shoot through my own guys without them even commenting.

# The good parts of the main campaign are the opening levels, as everything still feels fresh and new. The hospital-level gets special praise from me as it's designed to be a stealth level, and fits the stealth-elements in the game. (Too bad the stealth-elements are horribly broken.) I particularly enjoyed the "open" levels, where there are multiple paths to get around. Exploring/scavenging was quite fun.

# But then I got to the level 'Hollywood Heights', and the game just falls apart in quality, and never recovers. You're trying to find a scientist who's hiding there, and he wants you to prove that you're not a Terminator in disguise, by doing a series of nonsensical tasks. Including entering an abandoned house, which he *somehow* then teleports eight super-tanky Terminators into, without anyone even asking how he can do that. By that point it's clear the devs are just trying to 'Gotcha!' the players, and it stinks.

# The worst such case comes toward the end, where you have to escape a level that's mostly on fire, but there's only One Path to Go through the place. I'm close to the end of this 'fake' path, and a super-tough Terminator is spawned into the level RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, and another one somewhat behind me to try to box me in. I cheesed through this section by ignoring the front Terminator, running past him and ducking into a vent. I then watched as this super-tough Terminator 'wall-hacked' through the level, so he could intercept me at the vent's exit. I raged hard at this point, and took him out with a rocket to the face.

# The sex scenes are cringy. 'nuff said.

# The sub-titles were not proofread.

# There's a token 'Strong black wombyn' in the game, but only in one level. I LOL'ed when her questline ended.

# In short, except for getting the atmosphere right, this game doesn't succeed at anything it's trying... and it's trying a lot of things. It's not failing on most fronts, but it's not scoring any real points either. Do I recommend it? Only for the die-hard Terminator-fans, yes... but they probably already have the game.

 

[antimeridian]

I gave Terminator: Resistance a go, mostly because I was bored.

Weird, I just decided to give this a go earlier. Agree with most of your points. It feels like a budget 360-era shooter, plus a smattering of all the worst elements on eighth-gen games on top (you spend the majority of playtime in tedious looting, stealth, and conversations instead of actual, you know, FPS gameplay - but the shooting sucks too). I dropped it after a few hours. I guess if you're a die-hard Terminator fan it's worth checking out, since it seems highly faithful to the feel of the source material. Certainly can't recommend based on its gameplay, though.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

Been playing "Madness: Project Nexus", which is a tie-in beat 'em up for the Newgrounds flash animation series Madness Combat. It's too easy even on harder difficulties (at least from the first 6 or so levels that I've played), and the combat is shallow, but I still like the game for a few reasons. The primary reason is all the fanservice put in for those familiar with the Madness series; the flash animations themselves are very sparse in terms of dialogue and characterization, so it's cool to see the characters banter and stuff instead of being mostly mute. The visuals and the way the characters move is also pretty accurate to the original series, despite being a 3D game rather than a 2D flash animation.

Of course that's not gonna matter to you if you don't care about the original series, but the game's still kind of interesting besides that because of how it feels like a game from 15 years ago (in a good way). The linear levels, simple gameplay, character customization, co-op, and slightly edgy mid 2000s Newgrounds tone all make this feel like a game I'd play with my brother on the Xbox 360, like Charlie Murder or The Dishwasher. For a 2021 game, it's dated in all the right ways, like a very high-quality Xbox Live Arcade title. It's also really polished: the menu navigation, in-game movement, sound effects, and QoL features are all done very well and that, combined with the faithful recreation of the original series's aesthetics, show that it's a game with a lot of effort and care put into it.

 

[NecroLord]

I am playing Doom (with the Chocolate port). I will play all three games (Hell on Earth and Doom 3).
All hail Doom! This game is just relaxing, cathartic, spiritual. Applying a full shotgun spread to a demon's face leads to an enlightened perspective.
My favorite game.

 

[Hag]

I had beaten Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy a fiftyish times and got the golden pot.

Now I've changed computer and lost the golden pot.

Guess there is no other way but up, once again, fifty times.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Last few days I've been grinding away at the Knight's Honor achievement in Dark Souls on PS4. I picked up the trilogy pack mainly for the other 2 games, but this achievement is a nice goal to set to fuck around with the game for a while, since I've already completed the game in multiple ways on the PC version. Because you have to go into NG++ for all the souls, it also means you wind up having a wide range of weapons and abilities.

I'm currently nearing the end of NG+. All that remains here is to get Seath's tail (Moonlight Greatsword), then complete the game, grab a third Sif's soul and get to the giant blacksmith to forge the Greatshield of Artorias.

I briefly considered going for the all rings achievement, but that's just too ridiculous, and so many of them are not really fun items anyway. It's much more fun to build an epic arsenal of weapons.

Yoooooooooo