What game are you wasting time on?

[Ezekiel]

Who designed the waterfall area in Tomb Raider? I dislike it. Took me a long while to find the last gear and now can't find way out.

The whole game is like that. If you're not enjoying that area I would back out now.

But I beat Tomb Raider II. I don't believe you.

 

[Hell Swarm]

Who designed the waterfall area in Tomb Raider? I dislike it. Took me a long while to find the last gear and now can't find way out.

The whole game is like that. If you're not enjoying that area I would back out now.

But I beat Tomb Raider II. I don't believe you.

Tomb Raider 2 is quite different to 1. 1 has a lot of confusing level lay outs and a lot less action.

 

[NecroLord]

I have been playing some Heretic and enjoying it a lot.
Against my better judgement, I am using GZDoom (already played vanilla), even though I am really not a big fan of the port.
Episodes 4 and 5 can be brutal, you may think of them as the "Thy Flesh Consumed" of Heretic.
Especially e4m1...

Can't wait to start Hexen.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Episodes 4 and 5 can be brutal, you may think of them as the "Thy Flesh Consumed" of Heretic.
Especially e4m1...

Necrogauntlets + tome of power goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[NecroLord]

Episodes 4 and 5 can be brutal, you may think of them as the "Thy Flesh Consumed" of Heretic.
Especially e4m1...

Necrogauntlets + tome of power goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Thing is it leeches health off of enemies and restores your own, so you can keep it up so long as you don't take too much damage from multiple enemies.

 

[Darth Roxor]

It's my go-to weapon against maulotaurs. There's nothing else even remotely as efficient.

 

[NecroLord]

It's my go-to weapon against maulotaurs. There's nothing else even remotely as efficient.

Phoenix Rod with Tome of Power turns into a flamethrower.
I like it better than the Necromancer Gauntlets against maulotaurs, but you need to pair it with an Invincibility Ring or else be very careful and quick to evade the maulotaur's attacks.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Hence gauntlets are the most efficient. No ammo spent, no IDDQD required, no dodging, just pop a tome and go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

 

[flyingjohn]

Playing resident evil 4, reached the castle and nope. If i want a escort simulator i would play something else. Mikami understood Ashley was dogshit design and made her hide in garbage for a reason in the village.

 

[Zlaja]

I'm currently grinding in The First Descendant trying to unlock a character, and I need this one final item for research that has a 20% drop rate from a dungeon for completing it. I've now run this fucking thing 7 times and I'm still short. On the other hand, a specific useless item that only has a 2% drop chance dropped already on my second try. These numbers can't be right. I'm being played. Also, I'm too old for this shit!

 

[Spukrian]

I'm playing Ravenloft Strahd's Possession. Currently in the Elven Tomb with a Human Paladin, an Elven Fighter/Mage, Mischa the Cleric and Glorianna the Mage. It's rough. I was savescumming my way through the tomb, sadly I didn't spread my saves around in new slots and my save got corrupted(?) and I lost 3 hours of progress. Oh well.

I discovered an annoying bug that the Gauntlets of Dexterity seems to give Dex +1, except the game doesn't seem to implement Dex >19: my Dex 19 Elf F/M equips the gauntlets and has Dex go up to 20 but there is no Dex bonus to Armor Class (i.e. the AC is worse with the Gauntlets equipped than without)?



EDIT: Savescumming because the tomb is filled with level draining undead and there's no way to restore drained levels. In general I don't savescum.

 

[flyingjohn]

Final fantasy Itadaki street. A little bit more complex monopoly. Experience can be summed up with my last game:
"Tied with vaan in a hour long game and i get a single card that loses me 2k value and thus the game". Fun times.
Monopoly might be one of the worst board games to try to emulate because of the dice luck being the end to all.
Just play Catan or any train board game.

 

[Sigourn]

I finished Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2's Episode One.

For the uninitiated, the Bloodstained series is a franchise produced by Iga, director of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The Curse of the Moon games are inspired by classic Castlevania, as pure action platformers.
What makes Curse of the Moon so fun to me is that, apart from being challenging platformers, they have excellent replay value as beating the game unlocks further playthroughs with increasing limitations, such as losing a certain party member for story reasons.

Very recommended to play these titles.

 

[NecroLord]

I played (and finished, as it is a rather short game) Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death.
Highly recommended, but only for real Judge Dredd fans (I know I am one).
A very arcade-like shooter, unsurprisingly it has an Arcade mode of play where you get to kill a certain number of undead or make as many arrests within a time limit, stuff like this.
Obviously has a Story mode, which is the single player campaign.
At the end of each mission, you are awarded a score and rating all based on your overall performance, which is the total time you took to complete the mission (the faster, the better the score), how many arrests have you made, how many secondary objectives you completed, how many undead you have eliminated.
"Cadet" rating is the worst, while "Judge Dredd" is the best one.
Game is very faithful to the source material, it might as well be considered canon.
Judge Dredd is voiced by Toby Longworth, who does a great job, he voices Dredd in this ultra manly and gruff voice, which is pretty cool and very fitting of Judge Dredd, the most feared and respected Judge of Mega-City One.

 

[luj1]

I have been playing some Heretic and enjoying it a lot.
Against my better judgement, I am using GZDoom (already played vanilla), even though I am really not a big fan of the port.
Episodes 4 and 5 can be brutal, you may think of them as the "Thy Flesh Consumed" of Heretic.
Especially e4m1...

Can't wait to start Hexen.

Hexen is a quantum jump from Heretic

 

[gabel]

They both suck. :/

 

[luj1]

Well Heretic is a reskin of Doom with switch chaser gameplay. So it's fun but nothing deep

Hexen has a cool concept, but is a little tiresome to play maybe

Heretic II is pretty cool tho

 

[Darth Roxor]

They both suck. :/

would it hurt you to be cool at least once holy shit

 

[soutaiseiriron]

Quit Ys Book 1 & 2 for PC Engine CD at the end. Game falls off pretty bad at Darm's tower, which is a 22 floor final dungeon that has one tileset, and one 2 minute music track. It's extremely repetitive and a little disorienting to go through.
Up until that it's enjoyable enough. I missed one item that I needed for progression, couldn't be bothered to backtrack 30 floors (since I have to go both ways) and couldn't cheat to get the item I needed so I could just finish the game, so I didn't.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I discovered an annoying bug that the Gauntlets of Dexterity seems to give Dex +1, except the game doesn't seem to implement Dex >19: my Dex 19 Elf F/M equips the gauntlets and has Dex go up to 20 but there is no Dex bonus to Armor Class (i.e. the AC is worse with the Gauntlets equipped than without)?

I'm not 100% certain here, but according to 2nd Ed AD&D rules there are no bonuses gained from Dex 20 over Dex 19, meaning the bonus is identical for both values (+3 to missile attack values, and -4 to Armor Class). Dex 21 adds +/-1 to both, meaning +4 to missile attack and -5 to Armor Class, but Dex 22 and Dex 23 have those same values, meaning you'd have to get Dex 24 to get better bonuses.

 

[Azalin]

I discovered an annoying bug that the Gauntlets of Dexterity seems to give Dex +1, except the game doesn't seem to implement Dex >19: my Dex 19 Elf F/M equips the gauntlets and has Dex go up to 20 but there is no Dex bonus to Armor Class (i.e. the AC is worse with the Gauntlets equipped than without)?

I'm not 100% certain here, but according to 2nd Ed AD&D rules there are no bonuses gained from Dex 20 over Dex 19, meaning the bonus is identical for both values (+3 to missile attack values, and -4 to Armor Class). Dex 21 adds +/-1 to both, meaning +4 to missile attack and -5 to Armor Class, but Dex 22 and Dex 23 have those same values, meaning you'd have to get Dex 24 to get better bonuses.

Correct, Dex 19 and 20 have the same bonuses you need to go to 21 to get extra

 

[NecroLord]

Strength>Dex.

 

[Spukrian]

I discovered an annoying bug that the Gauntlets of Dexterity seems to give Dex +1, except the game doesn't seem to implement Dex >19: my Dex 19 Elf F/M equips the gauntlets and has Dex go up to 20 but there is no Dex bonus to Armor Class (i.e. the AC is worse with the Gauntlets equipped than without)?

I'm not 100% certain here, but according to 2nd Ed AD&D rules there are no bonuses gained from Dex 20 over Dex 19, meaning the bonus is identical for both values (+3 to missile attack values, and -4 to Armor Class). Dex 21 adds +/-1 to both, meaning +4 to missile attack and -5 to Armor Class, but Dex 22 and Dex 23 have those same values, meaning you'd have to get Dex 24 to get better bonuses.

Correct, Dex 19 and 20 have the same bonuses you need to go to 21 to get extra

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Yeah, I forgot that Dex 20 does nothing...

...but this means it's still a bug if AC goes from 0 to 5 when equipping the gauntlets (I can't remember the exact values and I can't double check yet because I need to replay the tomb).

EDIT: Hehe, my memory is terrible these days. I already have the Gauntlets of Dexterity in my inventory. Did a a quick test: putting the gauntlets on my F/M changes her AC from 3 to 7.

 

[Gostak]

Oof, I updated my Noita install and played a round of impending frustration.
Got a cool build going quickly, vampirism perk and more blood, filled a potion with legit blood got some cool wands and spells.
Especially liked the find of a wand stacked with luminous drill with timer which made for a wall-piercing sniper.
Oh, did I mention I also had the sense enemy/enemy radar thingy perk ...

Yeah, quite an awesome build.
What did I die to just recently then?

In the swamp in the left at fungus area I sniped foes through walls and a big sea of blood formed above and my sniping drilled a narrow way there and I wanted to explore there.
Got stuck between pixels, the sniper-drill wand had not the best recharge and these damn light drills are thin so, it did not free me in time from drowning in all that blood that came down.
I drank my potion and sometimes there was an air bubble which let me catch some air but soon just blood again surrounding me in my stuck place, frantically shooting the wand, kicking "jetting" up, wiggling etc.
I forgot to whip out the empty bottle to have it soak up some of the liquid but I doubt that'd have saved me, there was soo much blood up there.
If you wanna check the gif (while it's still there, I guess; 22MB): https://gifyu.com/image/S5LpT

Now, if you could just drink while fully submerged ... but of course Noita will not have that, too little/ missed frustration potential then.
Well, sure drinking would also need to heal faster than the suffocation damaged which is unlikely, still would be nice (might require an extra button for it then though, instead of just "down").
Would have prolonged the bittersweet suffering if nothing else.

Lesson hopefully learned to be way more careful about such a situation should I get a similar build again.
But for now enough of its frustrations.

*grumble, grumble*

 

[Kabas]

...and Overload is finally finished. Took me awhile.
Not a big fan of "enemies spawn right behind you and instantly start shooting after every switch you hit" thingie that became very common during the last few levels but i do appreciate the change of scenery.
Ended up regretting a few of my level-up choices, mainly not upgrading Reflex to it's maximum. Not the strongest weapon but the ability to hit behind corners is invaluable especially once the game starts throwing Auto-Ops with drillers or other similar ones you don't want to be in the line of sight of. I also didn't try any of the super upgrades for missile weapons.
Cyclone and Driller itself ended up being useless against the late game enemies. Fully upgraded Thunderbolt and Crusher were the MVPs on the other hand.

This game is good but it didn't make me want to try Descent. For now at least.