What game are you wasting time on?

[niknikaia]

Is it possible to play The Black Parade without an OLED monitor , i can't see shit most of the time...

Also I'm thinking to continue the Hordes of the Underdark and after finishing it try the other popular modules.

 

[Abu Antar]

Having beaten original Shin Megami Tensei V on Switch, in preparation for the Vengeance version, I can say that I feel some people were a bit harsh on it. Was there some repetition? Yes. Did I like the game? Yes. I don't mind the game not putting heavy focus on story, either.

Now, I am putting in the hours in Xenoblade Chronicles DE, since I have the Swtich hooked up and ready. What can I say about it? "What a bunch of jokers!"

This year is stacked with stuff that I want to play.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Suikoden spiritual successor) in April
SKALD in May
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance in June

Still haven't beaten Unicorn Overlord or Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

 

[jackofshadows]

Finished Fallout: Sonora. Ehhh. What a mess, didn't like it overall even though liked some parts, as the whole "DLC" (Necropolis plus, basically) is pretty decent. But man, was it developed by storyfags, dunno about a better description. No final dungeon in any form (faction ones hardly counts), random encounters are so dull (it seems as 70% are damned scorps) but sooo frequent as if you're suppose to tag survival. The focus is on factions and quests. While some of them are decent even, they're drown in a sea of very pointless and boring ones. Less is more is not about this game. These guys in general aren't aware about moderation concept and cutting off shit content. Oh and the new weapons suck and there aren't many of them overall anyway.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Das it for HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED.

Final thoughts:

- Game is just as COOL as it was 20 years ago.
- The Library is just as FUCKING SHIT as it was 20 years ago.
- The final warthog ride through the exploding Pillar of Autumn in the middle of a three-way FFA between bots, Covenant and Flood remains one of the top-tier kino moments in gaming.

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

 

[Caim]

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

If you play Halo 2 on any acceptable difficulty there is a trial of fire in there that all FPS players should go through at least once.

 

[NecroLord]

LOL at playing Halo.

 

[Average Manatee]

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

If you play Halo 2 on any acceptable difficulty there is a trial of fire in there that all FPS players should go through at least once.

All I remember from Halo 2 is the fucking snipers.

 

[Zlaja]

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

Halo 2 greatly expands on the Covenant faction and gives you a better understanding of their motives.

- The Library is just as FUCKING SHIT as it was 20 years ago

Fuck you, library is great.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Fuck you, library is great.

What exactly is great about empty copypasted corridors with endless copypasted enemy respawns?

 

[NecroLord]

What exactly is great about HALO?

 

[Darth Roxor]

What exactly is great about HALO?

Surprisingly high difficulty, lots of fun enemy infighting, great visuals and overall production values, some really great fights/setpieces, vehicles that don't feel tacked on, punching alien scum square in the face, very solid story and storytelling for a shooter as well as atmosphere.

Plenty of good things to be had in the game as long as you take your head out of your ass.

 

[Gandalf]

Das it for HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED.

Final thoughts:

- Game is just as COOL as it was 20 years ago.
- The Library is just as FUCKING SHIT as it was 20 years ago.
- The final warthog ride through the exploding Pillar of Autumn in the middle of a three-way FFA between bots, Covenant and Flood remains one of the top-tier kino moments in gaming.

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

I remember playing Halo 2, but it wasn't as cool as the first one.

 

[Hell Swarm]

Das it for HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED.

Final thoughts:

- Game is just as COOL as it was 20 years ago.
- The Library is just as FUCKING SHIT as it was 20 years ago.
- The final warthog ride through the exploding Pillar of Autumn in the middle of a three-way FFA between bots, Covenant and Flood remains one of the top-tier kino moments in gaming.

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

Play the full trilogy then ODST and Reach if you want more.

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

If you play Halo 2 on any acceptable difficulty there is a trial of fire in there that all FPS players should go through at least once.

now the question is if i should proceed to halo 2 which i never played

If you play Halo 2 on any acceptable difficulty there is a trial of fire in there that all FPS players should go through at least once.

All I remember from Halo 2 is the fucking snipers.

They're straight unfair on Legendary. Even with the scrab gun they're a fucking annoyance. Still worth playing through on Heroic though.

I'm saddened no one wants to talk about Monster hunter stories.

 

[Denim Destroyer]

System Shock 2: Decided to replay this one as a PSI user. It has been quite a few years since my last play through which was a Navy Technician. While the major beats of the game were still embedded into my memory time and a new play style lead me to some new experiences. Going through most of the game as a wrench swinging, self buffing glass cannon was a nice change of pace from the cakewalk provided through the Naval route. With that said the game still falls apart once you reach The Body of The Many and the last section with Shodan was still a disappointment. Next time I feel like playing System Shock 2 as a PSI user I will try on the Impossible difficulty just to see if I can stretch out the initial challenge even further.

Shadowrun Returns: Deadman's Switch: I bought this game when it was brand new but never finished it until a few a days ago. The Deadman's Switch campaign itself was nothing spectacular. It is your typical plot of a local threat evolving into a potential global catastrophe which can only be stopped by the player's intervention. Combat is your standard middle of the road turn based system. All actions cost action points and there is a rudimentary cover system. Encounters are nothing noteworthy until the end where they started to become more creative. With that said I still had fun with the game and decided to buy Dragonfall and Hong Kong since I heard those improved on the underlying base system. Overall

 

[NecroLord]

System Shock 2: Decided to replay this one as a PSI user. It has been quite a few years since my last play through which was a Navy Technician. While the major beats of the game were still embedded into my memory time and a new play style lead me to some new experiences. Going through most of the game as a wrench swinging, self buffing glass cannon was a nice change of pace from the cakewalk provided through the Naval route. With that said the game still falls apart once you reach The Body of The Many and the last section with Shodan was still a disappointment. Next time I feel like playing System Shock 2 as a PSI user I will try on the Impossible difficulty just to see if I can stretch out the initial challenge even further.

Shadowrun Returns: Deadman's Switch: I bought this game when it was brand new but never finished it until a few a days ago. The Deadman's Switch campaign itself was nothing spectacular. It is your typical plot of a local threat evolving into a potential global catastrophe which can only be stopped by the player's intervention. Combat is your standard middle of the road turn based system. All actions cost action points and there is a rudimentary cover system. Encounters are nothing noteworthy until the end where they started to become more creative. With that said I still had fun with the game and decided to buy Dragonfall and Hong Kong since I heard those improved on the underlying base system. Overall

Psi build can be crazy powerful.
So many different "spells" to choose from.

 

[Zlaja]

Fuck you, library is great.

What exactly is great about empty copypasted corridors with endless copypasted enemy respawns?

It's a gauntlet/endurance test, showcasing the true horror of the flood.

 

[BruceVC]

I completed Hogwarts after 80 hours and its a good game and scores an easy 71/100 on the globally followed " BruceVC game rating system "

I provided detailed feedback on the official Hogwarts thread so I wil just summarize whats good about the game and whats lacking

Firstly the developers did an excellent at creating the Hogwarts world with all its magical paraphernalia, lore, secrets and characters so anyone who loves Harry Potter will appreciate this game

There are lots of fun activities and puzzles to solve and you get incentivized to explore and find crafting materials because buying potions is expensive so its better to craft. Crafting is done well and so is breeding beasts for their ingredients

The companion side quests are interesting like the Sebastian quest and his endeavors to save his sister

Combat is fun but its limited in how stategic you need to be, you can only have 4 spells open at a time and its quite possible to defeat every enemy with only 4 spells even though you can swop to other spell bars on the HUD I found I didnt need to most of the time

But the main negative for me was the repetition of enemy types. You fight the same enemies more or less throughout the game which includes human wizards, goblins, wolfs and spiders and sometimes the odd troll

And because you use the same spell strategy to defeat them it can become boring and repetitive

But overall good game and worth playing if you want a light-hearted but engaging fantasy world to adventure in and explore. But sadly no chainmail bikini armour

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Completing Fallout 3's main quest made me realize why people hate Emilio. It is a really poorly written and designed questline for a RPG. You are railroaded down a certain path and if you try to veer from what the writer wants you to do you get punished with objectively inferior outcomes that makes no narrative sense other than you being a bad person.
There are literally just 2 outcomes in the end; poison purity or not. If you poison purity nothing happens except you die if you drink too much water and there's some dialogue and sick NPCs. If you don't poison it nothing happens except you don't die and there's no sick NPCs. That is lame.
Sacrificing barely counts as an outcome because if you pick literally anyone but yourself you get literally nothing. If you do pick yourself you get stupid amounts of karma, to the point that it actually offsets the so called "genocide" option.

Honestly, the best part about Fallout 3 is the Capital Wasteland, which I think is a superior game world to the Mojave, just because it is it so much bigger and not as safe.
Everything else is pretty mediocre.

Also Operation Anchorage is a waste of a DLC that screws up the game's already poor balance by giving you an early, indestructible suit of power armour. The only thing that makes it worth while is the gauss rifle.

Apparently there's a mod called Lone Wanderer Edition that's supposed to fix a bunch of the gameplay issues, but I don't see how its going to salvage the quest chain unless it removes the shitty find your dad plot line, tranquility lane and gives you the option to actually help the Enclave for the true evil bastard experience.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Doing a little emu tinkering with Xenoblade Chronicles X on Cemu (which I haven't touched since BotW at least 6-7 years ago). Amazing that you can run this so smoothly at 4K at a constant 60 FPS (10-core Intel, RTX 3070). The game looks beautiful but... it's still kind of typically bad jap game design where you can't even button mash during battles because everything is auto-fighting. Is there a reason to continue? Please give me one. On paper at least, I love the concept of roaming a vast alien planet open world where you are among the tiniest creatures in that world. It's like Shadow of the Colossus on 'roids and dozens of varied gargantua instead of one..

 

[BruceVC]

Completing Fallout 3's main quest made me realize why people hate Emilio. It is a really poorly written and designed questline for a RPG. You are railroaded down a certain path and if you try to veer from what the writer wants you to do you get punished with objectively inferior outcomes that makes no narrative sense other than you being a bad person.
There are literally just 2 outcomes in the end; poison purity or not. If you poison purity nothing happens except you die if you drink too much water and there's some dialogue and sick NPCs. If you don't poison it nothing happens except you don't die and there's no sick NPCs. That is lame.
Sacrificing barely counts as an outcome because if you pick literally anyone but yourself you get literally nothing. If you do pick yourself you get stupid amounts of karma, to the point that it actually offsets the so called "genocide" option.

Honestly, the best part about Fallout 3 is the Capital Wasteland, which I think is a superior game world than the Mojave, just because it is it so much bigger and not as safe.
Everything else is pretty mediocre.

Also Operation Anchorage is a waste of a DLC that screws up the game's already poor balance by giving you an early, indestructible suit of power armour. The only thing that makes it worth while is the gauss rifle.

Apparently there's a mod called Lone Wanderer Edition that's supposed to fix a bunch of the gameplay issues, but I don't see how its going to salvage the quest chain unless it removes the shitty find your dad plot line, tranquility lane and gives you the option to actually help the Enclave for the true evil bastard experience.

Interesting post, I played FO3 about 12 years ago but I didnt use any mods

I am to replay it and Im definitely going to use mods and that Lone Wander Mod, I see it contains 50 mods that improve balance and gameplay. For me this is a "must have mod " because it improves so much overall

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/2761

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Doing a little emu tinkering with Xenoblade Chronicles X on Cemu (which I haven't touched since BotW at least 6-7 years ago). Amazing that you can run this so smoothly at 4K at a constant 60 FPS (10-core Intel, RTX 3070). The game looks beautiful but... it's still kind of typically bad jap game design where you can't even button mash during battles because everything is auto-fighting. Is there a reason to continue? Please give me one. On paper at least, I love the concept of roaming a vast alien planet open world where you are among the tiniest creatures in that world. It's like Shadow of the Colossus on 'roids and dozens of varied gargantua instead of one..

I've been looking more into auto-battlers, mostly looking for a new audience to sell my game to. I'm going to have to learn more about Xenoblade Chronicles X now.

I also downloaded AFK Journey after reading about it on Penny Arcade. It's a free-to-play gacha game that gives you rewards while you're AFK, but you have to log in every day to claim your rewards. Penny Arcade's in-comic commentary: "AFK Journey is so pretty that I wish it were literally any other kind of game. Like, a playing game."

It really is a waste of time. There's nothing you do in it except click on pretty things in a colorful motion-filled UI. In a day AFK, you'll earn hundreds of thousands of coins and books and potions and whatnot that you use for equipping your heroes and leveling them up. And then you get rewards for logging in, like diamonds and recruitment letters that you can then spend for a chance to recruit a new waifu. The waifu guaranteed after 60 attempts changes every week, and your attempts are cleared when the next waifu is made available, so you'd better log in and play the virtual slot machine every chance you get, or else you should just pay the $10 for the pack of loot that will let you keep playing the slot machine.

Do you like virgin waifus? Scary goth waifus? Furry waifus? AFK Journey has you covered.

I'm hoping I can play in order to learn something about appealing to the autobattler community, and maybe also learning about how to hook your players, without actually becoming addicted to this stuff.

 

[NecroLord]

I decided to play some Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.
Still getting used to the controls and general feel of the game.
This is going to be fun.
Classic Star Trek awesomeness.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Having beaten original Shin Megami Tensei V on Switch, in preparation for the Vengeance version, I can say that I feel some people were a bit harsh on it. Was there some repetition? Yes. Did I like the game? Yes. I don't mind the game not putting heavy focus on story, either.

Ran this through Ryujinx today because I wanted to see how far this emu has progressed since I last attempted Shin Megami Tensei V (about 1 year ago, where it ran like shit). I'm pleased to say that the newest Ryujinx runs it exceptionally well now, 40-60 FPS and no burps. Gives me strong Nocturne vibes so I may give it a playthrough if I can get past that lady-boy lead character..

 

[kites]

After something like a dozen hours in the roguelike Shiren 5: Tower of Fortune (..) it’s fully clicking for me as something to jump in-and-out of between work, and I’m sure I’ve probably only scratched it’s surface.

Early on I would get upset at it’s RNG, with it’s item/enemy spawns, monster closets and brutal day/night system.. but there’s little things you learn, and while you will always eventually lose your levels and undoubtedly face unfair RNG - you will be building your knowledge-base, companions, and accruing a banked cash/cache to pull from/upgrade/item pot remix. I will admit it took me longer than it should have to check out the Point Shop with it’s Undo Grass. It also helped after a certain point unlocking a shortcut, and slowly working my way through the Statue Cave training maps between deaths has made it feel way less punishing. While still simple on the surface it feels suitably deep without becoming “work” (yet)..

 

[BruceVC]

I have decided to play Sons of the Forest next, I loved the first one and it was best survival game I have ever played

Further updates to follow