What game are you wasting time on?

[Trash]

Far Cry 3. While the story is crap and the gameplay really isn't holding up and the actual gunplay feels stifled I do enjoy it enough to want to actually finish the fucking thing. Moments like sneaking around an ancient Jap submarine base are also nice.

Not to mention those Chinese underground ruins. Amazing scene design hackneyed by fucking railroaded gameplay.

 

[deuxhero]

Dynasty Warriors 7 : Empires. Fuck yes. Pity about the Jap only voices but w/e. Playing as a custom and joined the Yellow Turbans.

is it any good...?

I'm part of the subgroup in the Warriors community that slurps up any of the 'empires' games up with little to no criticism so I would say yes its good. If I have any criticisms its that you're pretty much the only competent member of your ruler's army. Maybe its just my shitty luck, but Cao Cao was taking territory after territory then I joined up and he failed to win any battle I didn't personally take part in. Theres also the usual 'it gets old quick' problem that pretty much any of the warriors games have, but thats a given at this point.

I do have a few other issues with the game, but they have little to do with it specifically and more to do with the series itself. Mostly the lack of certain people as proper characters and the inclusion of certain people as proper characters and a few cosmetic grievances here and there. To quote IGN (laugh it up), 7Empires preaches to the choir. If you didn't like any of the Warriors games this won't change your mind, increased focus on the strategic elements be damned, but if you like to slurp up any and all games in the series in general this is right up your alley.

EDIT: Also Goddamn. What is it with Japan and these squeaky child voices for female characters ?

EDIT 2 : Roman Warriors needs to be made btw, imo. Also empires expack for every musou game, don't care whether it makes in context or not.

I played the demo and took 5+ tries to beat it, and only then very narrowly (sliver of health and 12 seconds). Am I missing something important (I assume I am as I didn't figure out what the point of the bases was and they have to be there for a reason)?

 

[Sceptic]

I still can't believe I finished the game without a hint book when I was younger.

It's really not a difficult game. Every puzzle is pure trial and error, so there's never really an obstacle to progression - you just keep trying all combinations of stones, then all passages in the maze, then all potion combinations, etc, until you get to the next "puzzle". It's a pretty shit game TBH, if you just look at gameplay quality, but the presentation is so well done that you get carried away with it. It's very typical of Westwood games from the mid-90s in this respect. It's Westwood's LOL1 in the land of adventure games.

Also, fuck you, LOK3 is the best and most awesome. Though everyone probably hates it because it's a CRPG

People keep calling SS series a spiritual successor to Doom, which is like calling a disco ball a spiritual successor to the Sistine Chapel.

Well at the time it was a throwback to Doom-style gameplay, when all other FPSs were going the Half-Life way. No endless cutscenes, no NPCs to talk to, no endless linear corridors (well... fewer endless linear corridors), just open spaces with lots of enemies to mow down. If anything it's more like Plutonia Experiment than like original Doom, though I've always thought it as closer to DN3D anyway due to one-liners, general attitude of Sam (especially before he lost his glasses) and heavy (and very clever) use of scripts to enhance level design and monster killing as opposed to scripts that you just watch (Half-Life style).

Was a good game. Second Encounter was even more fun. Too bad series went derp afterwards.

Amazing scene design hackneyed by fucking railroaded gameplay.

Funny, even Far Cry had this problem in some of its levels, but every game in both FC and Crysis franchises has managed to make this worse with every iteration, when the LACK of railroading was FC1's major strength and by far its most attractive feature.

 

[deuxhero]

Well at least they didn't make the endgame populated by monsters that take an entire assault rifle clip to kill...

 

[Humppaleka]

Just beat Doom 3. Quite good in my opinion, the pace got more and more frantic and the game was fun as hell. Propably the best corridor shooter there is, though FEAR is a good competitor. I'm debating with myself if I should bother with The Suffering or Area 51, both apparently freeware nowadays. On another note I solved my fps problems with GTA IV, how? Plugging in a gamepad. Goddamn consolitis affecting even performance now... Now it runs fine but it randomly turns on gamepad controls and surprise surprise, you can't turn back kb+m until you restart the game. Fun.

The Hotline Miami achievement hunting continues...

 

[dnf]

The Suffering is a good tps horror theme game

 

[Admiral jimbob]

The Suffering is terrible. It starts out well and very quickly turns into a series of overly-long wave-survival arenas, followed by full health and ammo restoration, followed by a token spooky corridor, repeat. I gave up about a third of the way in.

 

[Gragt]

I didn't find The Suffering very fun but whatever, I thought I'd finish it. Then at some point a script broke (I think it was on a beach), the game saved the checkpoint and I had no early saves. Between starting over again and dropping the game, well, I chose the easy one.

 

[Humppaleka]

Thanks for the tips, I think I'll pass both. Got enough good games to play so I don't have to endure the worse ones (hurr durr finished Darksiders though).

 

[circ]

SKYRIM

And I have never played a more buggy game. Ever. NEVER EVER EVAR. Obsidian, you suck try harder.

CTD because there are too many save files in the saves folder? Sure, I'll get right on that player person.
CTD becaue Bethtard can't into shadows? No problem! AND THOSE SHADOWS LOLU. WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE BECAUSE THEY SURE AS FUCK DON'T LOOK LIKE LOLSHADOWS.
CTD just for the fuck of it because there's no log or error message? OK!

ALMOST EVERY SINGLE QUEST HAS A CHANCE OF BUGGING THE FUCK OUT. ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE.

HI GOD PERSON I JUST FINISHED THIS QUEST FOR YOU... OH WAIT NO DON'T DROP ME FROM UP HERE I'LL... FUCKING DIE.

This is after 2 years of patching. 2 fucking years what the fuck are you doing??

AND OH GOD THAT FOLLOWER AI. NO FUCKING STOP I TOLD YOU TO WAIT DON'T GO UP THE TOWER HUNTING THAT BANDIT. AND... YOU DUMB SHIT YOU PUSHED ME OVER THE CLIFF ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE WITH ME?? OH I'M DEAD TOO.

BUT. IF YOU WANT SOME MOAR OF THAT GOOD SHIT, INSTALL DAWNGUARD. CTD NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? OK, WE INTRODUCE GAMU FREEZING. HOW THAT? NICE HUH?

There are a shitload of mods. And I got myself some big tits and hot sweaty skin. And massive fucking muscles on one character. You can add cloaks, change the interfacu and so on. But no one seems to have noticed the shitquests or that there are like 5 people voicing about 500 people. GOOD JOB.

WHAT TEH FUCK BETHESDA. SERIOUSLY. WHAT THE FUCK.

 

[circ]

Performance is not a problem in Skyrim? Please stop the bullshits. Shit they made the shadows drain CPU instead of the GPU because they couldn't make it work on consoles otherwise. That in itself introduced a shitload of problems. I'd blame mods or drivers except it happens without mods too, undending CTD's as early as meeting Anduil or whatever for the first time as you're about to get your head chopped off. You must be playing some kind of special version, because even with the latest patch shit is broken as fuck. Also, please install Dawnguard.

 

[sea]

I've had Skyrim crash on me only a small handful of times, ever. Maybe 5-10 times at most in almost 200 hours. As far as I recall, most of those crashes were more or less after the game came out and before patches. Performance is also totally fine although it could be better (the shadows are an obvious sticking point).

 

[laclongquan]

Fallout New Vegas. Finally. Imma wandering the Mojave in a true prospector fashionL clunky eyebot floating above, lesbian Bitch-On-Steroid on my side, trusty varmint rifle in hand.

EDIT: it's not that I hate Veronica or anything. It's just the BOS monicker making such a cheap shot.

 

[Cool name]

After leaving it on hiatus I just went back to playing through the entire Resident Evil saga. Zero in Hard with no bonus things unlocked is going to give me a few white hairs. Bloody pair of Hunters on a bloody small room full of bloody small cages piled everywhere. Bloody fight with the Tyrant in a really small room when all my bloody equipment is on a location I can't return to until I bloody kill him. Bloody leech zombies in narrow corridors where you can't dodge for bleep. Bloody pair of Hunters on a winding narrow catwalk where you can't dodge for bleep either. Bloody small inventory with six slots when all real weapons do take two. And those small monkeys... THOSE SMALL MONKEYS!

 

[anus_pounder]

Finally got Call of Warhammer working, so theres that.

Oh, I'd probably get better results asking in the jrpg forum, but has any of the japfans here heard anything about SRW Alpha translation ? Aeon Genesis page is stuck at 65% and I'm not even sure if the team is still alive.

 

[oscar]

Call of Warhammer as Hochland. My leader randomly decided to start worshipping Chaos (suppousedly my piety score was too low?) and now I'm at war with the rest of the Empire surrounded by other states.

 

[Ulminati]

Working my way towards Berlin in the Red Turn campaign for Unity of Command. Many potato conscripts died to bring potatoland into loving embrace of Mother Russia

 

[Tytus]

I'm trying to get into NWN2 cause I never finished but the horrible beginning/tutorial village is defeating me with sheer boredom. For some reason every Obsidian RPG game has an atrocious start (Kotor 2, Nwn2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas). So I started reading Forgotten Realms and Campaign books instead. Still counts as a game, right?

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

I'm trying to get into NWN2 cause I never finished but the horrible beginning/tutorial village is defeating me with sheer boredom. For some reason every Obsidian RPG game has an atrocious start (Kotor 2, Nwn2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas). So I started reading Forgotten Realms and Campaign books instead. Still counts as a game, right?

To jerk off / not jerk off on Simbul's tits is a viable C&C, if I remember my childhood correctly.

 

[Tytus]

I'm trying to get into NWN2 cause I never finished but the horrible beginning/tutorial village is defeating me with sheer boredom. For some reason every Obsidian RPG game has an atrocious start (Kotor 2, Nwn2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas). So I started reading Forgotten Realms and Campaign books instead. Still counts as a game, right?

To jerk off / not jerk off on Simbul's tits is a viable C&C, if I remember my childhood correctly.

So I can't even choose the body part I want to jerk off onto? Lame. This is not true C&C.

 

[MicoSelva]

I'm trying to get into NWN2 cause I never finished but the horrible beginning/tutorial village is defeating me with sheer boredom. For some reason every Obsidian RPG game has an atrocious start (Kotor 2, Nwn2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas). So I started reading Forgotten Realms and Campaign books instead. Still counts as a game, right?

Wasn't there a mod to skip starting village in NWN2?
Or maybe I mistake it for a BG mod that skips Candlekeep or a BG2 mod that skips Irenicus' Lair.

Anyway, on topic: Brutal Legend. Fuck yeah!

 

[Tytus]

I'm trying to get into NWN2 cause I never finished but the horrible beginning/tutorial village is defeating me with sheer boredom. For some reason every Obsidian RPG game has an atrocious start (Kotor 2, Nwn2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas). So I started reading Forgotten Realms and Campaign books instead. Still counts as a game, right?

Wasn't there a mod to skip starting village in NWN2?
Or maybe I mistake it for a BG mod that skips Candlekeep or a BG2 mod that skips Irenicus' Lair.

Anyway, on topic: Brutal Legend. Fuck yeah!

I would rather play the game without modifications - it feels like cheating to me - so I haven't even checked. I probably would have go through some romance mods to find it - like full romance with Neeshka or something.

Brutal Legend - you mean the game with an awesome world but atrocious game mechanics? But you're playing on the PC. The game always felt a little like so Sacrifice or Citizen Kabuto (when in it came to commanding the troops) so maybe PC controls are better.

 

[Misconnected]

Anyway, on topic: Brutal Legend. Fuck yeah!

Ewww! Brutal Legend is a fucking terrible game. A hilarious everything else, but sweet gods of metal the gameplay is such a pile of dull & awkward fail.

 

[MicoSelva]

Ewww! Brutal Legend is a fucking terrible game. A hilarious everything else, but sweet gods of metal the gameplay is such a pile of dull & awkward fail.

I'm actually enjoying it quite a lot.
Also: bad gameplay will never stop me if I'm determined to finish a game. I mean, I survived Max Payne 3, what could be worse?

Brutal Legend - you mean the game with an awesome world but atrocious game mechanics? But you're playing on the PC. The game always felt a little like so Sacrifice or Citizen Kabuto (when in it came to commanding the troops) so maybe PC controls are better.

I liked both Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Sacrifice, so I'm probably the intended target demographic for Brutal Legend too.

 

[Gragt]

Wasn't there a mod to skip starting village in NWN2?

Yes, the "Skip tutorial" button.