What game are you wasting time on?

[Great Deceiver]

My last replay was on Windows 10 using jkgfxmod, it worked pretty well but still had some issues like weapon swap looking broken at higher refresh rates than 48hz, etc. It didn't bother me too much because I have a gsync display and just ran it at 48fps, but apparently OpenJKDF2 fixes that and other issues as well.

I just tried it and it seems to work just fine, it even picked up my old saves. I'll include Mysteries of the Sith in my replay sequence as I missed it back in the day. JK2 is still my favourite in the series, such a cool game.

 

[NecroLord]

My last replay was on Windows 10 using jkgfxmod, it worked pretty well but still had some issues like weapon swap looking broken at higher refresh rates than 48hz, etc. It didn't bother me too much because I have a gsync display and just ran it at 48fps, but apparently OpenJKDF2 fixes that and other issues as well.

I just tried it and it seems to work just fine, it even picked up my old saves. I'll include Mysteries of the Sith in my replay sequence as I missed it back in the day. JK2 is still my favourite in the series, such a cool game.

Oh yeah, great game. One of my favorites.
Mysteries of the Sith is also a great expansion, back in the day when developers actually put effort into expansions so they don't consist of only half assed missions and some different weapons.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright, started Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
The first proper mission "Anathema" can give you some trouble, but I did it first try, been a while since I played this game. Avoid getting too close to the guards and
quietly assassinate the Mafia Don in his office (you can reach it by way of the balcony).
The missions in Russia are also awesome. "Invitation to a Party" is a personal favorite, classic mission and one of the best in the series.
The first Japan mission is pretty decent, but "Hidden Valley" is just....
"Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...
I'm at "Shogun Showdown".
Pretty good mission.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...

This the one where you got to poison a dude to death?

 

[NecroLord]

Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...

This the one where you got to poison a dude to death?

No.
You have to get a Crossbow, a disguise and make your through a mountain valley into the castle of a Yakuza Lord.
Absolute hell.

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

 

[Vyadhis]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

 

[NecroLord]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

 

[Vyadhis]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

Yes, I always make absurd out of place characters.

 

[NecroLord]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

Yes, I always make absurd out of place characters.

Would be funny if your character had selection and command sounds like Scorpion's "GET OVER HERE!".

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

If you're playing the GOG version, you do have some QoL features. IIRC the base game was even more barebones.

 

[Vyadhis]

If you're playing the GOG version, you do have some QoL features. IIRC the base game was even more barebones.

Really? What did the gog version add?

 

[Jaesun]

Tried Baldur's Gate 3 for the heck of it. Knowing how degenerate it is, my expectations were low. Laughing at bad games is not a bad pastime.

Beside the disgusting gory part of walking through sphincters, there's not much I can say about the game. The only thing I can point out is that the writing is dumb and the game as a whole is just boring.

What a disappointment. I was prepared for a bad game, not a boring one.

What specifically then is the best cRPG game you have then played?

 

[Darth Roxor]

motherfucker you deserve flogging

 

[Lord of Riva]

I can't even beat stage one of this game.

I'm replaying NWN 2 main campaign currently, even if it's mostly unrelated to mask of the Betrayer which is what I would actually like to replay, as it does not feel complete otherwise imho.

I am getting complete AIDS with the game though, it's so damn shit.

 

[solemgar]

It is done.

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It is done

#nolife

 

[NecroLord]

It is done.

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It is done

#nolife

Rotting Ghoul Exterminator.

 

[Be Kind Rewind]

Alright, started Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Are you playing the release version or the censored one?

 

[NecroLord]

Alright, started Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Are you playing the release version or the censored one?

Gog version.

 

[Vyadhis]

motherfucker you deserve flogging

Why? Because of the vaseline filter? I was just experimenting with what they looked like and forgot to change it. Don't really like that one. I was messing with cnc-draw, this isn't the HD steam version which I sadly do own.

 

[Darth Roxor]

anyone who even entertains the idea of trying out these disgusting scanlines is clearly a degenerate

 

[Darth Roxor]

Das it for Return to Na Pali. Faget warned me about hitscan space marines, meanwhile they appear only in one place, in one level. Now I feel cheated.

Anyway, this mission pack felt kind of pointless and is basically standard fare for classic shooter expansion packs, namely that it's rather uninspired and the only levels that stand out were originally made for the base game but cut (Tarydium processing plant, aztec-ish Nali temple). The Prometheus crash site is such a far cry from ISV-Kran that it's kind of sad.

Also I just don't get why they added the new guns. The assault rifle is basically a hitscan stinger, and then you get a dedicated rocket and grenade launcher even though the eightball gun doubles up as both. WTF?

The ending leaves you with total blue balls too. All this time you expect it to end in SPEHS on the SPEHS KROOZA full of ENEMY SPEHS MUHRINES, and all you get is a stupid cutscene after killing a skaarj warlord in a stupid arena where he gets stuck very easily. Goddamn.


Does Unreal 2 have any redeeming qualities? I've never played it because I heard it was shit, and the fact that it never gathered any sort of weirdo cult fans like most unpopular games do also seems to attest to this.

 

[Avonaeon]

Finally beat Halo 3: ODST and man, what a let down. It had one of the best game trailers I can remember, which is unfortunately leaps and bounds better than the game.


The pacing in this game is horrible, and is told mostly through a lot of flashbacks. You're dropped in as a rookie ODST soldier, but the whole thing goes tits up on the drop, so you wake up a while after in a big empty destroyed city block. You then have to look for clues as to what happened to your teammates, which triggers the flashback missions. The missions aren't all bad, but the walking around the city part is so boring, then suddenly interspersed with ridiculous difficult-spikey encounters and a super cringey audio log storyline.
It has some noteable voice actors but they're completely wasted on the mediocre story. There's also a lot of backtracking through the same city block in between missions and a lot more copy-pasted sections especially toward the end of the game. Completely skippable imho. Just watch the trailer above, it's much better.

 

[Avonaeon]

Does Unreal 2 have any redeeming qualities? I've never played it because I heard it was shit, and the fact that it never gathered any sort of weirdo cult fans like most unpopular games do also seems to attest to this.

I remember it as just OK, while looking amazing (at the time). As for redeeming qualities:

Spoiler

 

[Average Manatee]

Does Unreal 2 have any redeeming qualities? I've never played it because I heard it was shit, and the fact that it never gathered any sort of weirdo cult fans like most unpopular games do also seems to attest to this.

It's a collection of entirely unrelated levels in unrelated environments, usually with some kind of gimmick. It tries to throw constant uniqueness at you which makes it feel like a jumbled mess. Thoroughly mediocre IMO. On the plus side it isn't nearly as drawn out as Unreal so you can bang it out in a long evening if you're interested in seeing what it has.

The main thing I remember is that it did the "you have a home base where you can talk to NPCs and get lore dumps and shit in between missions" way way before other games started doing that. That stuff is just as boring, shit, banal as you'd expect.