deuxhero
Arcane
Played Deus Ex and just finished Ocean Lab. Turns out the elevator down to the minisub has no way to bring it up down again. Luckily I remembered as I typed this out I can just swim out of the sub bay so this isn't a softlock.
On console, I am mixing up Resonance of Fate sessions with Elden Ring sessions. It took me 15 minutes to understand one of the tutorials on RoF. Felt like a moron. Looked it up online, and it turns out that the tutorial could be better at explaining things. Still feel a bit stupid, though.
The old camp storyline always felt that way to me too, like it was rushed and not really throught through. It was still an amazing game though. I think the most incredible feel is when you're far into the game and start realizing just how incredibly small the map actually is, despite having felt pretty damn large up until then.Finished G1 and it was good. Still, after wasting hundreds of hours on G2 (never finished TBH) and Archolos, G1 seems a bit... unfinished
Funny, I could never force myself to play the first game of the new Tomb Raider for more than an hour or two but I liked Fallen Order a lot. Not a great game by normal standards, but compared to most of the shit released in the last decade it's pretty good.I'm enjoying Fallen Order quite a bit.
People who liked the Tomb Raider reboot or Uncharted are probably the most direct audience: impressive visuals, elaborate but streamlined platforming, constant dialogues and cutscenes, railroaded main story where the areas you traverse are full of (obvious) secrets that might require a revisit when you get new tools and moves, etc.
It does have some Souls-ish DNA but beyond marketing fluff it's really a stretch to make a big deal out of it.
People interested in Star Wars 3D platformers might also be interested in Lethal Alliance, either on DS or on PSP.
Funny, I could never force myself to play the first game of the new Tomb Raider for more than an hour or two but I liked Fallen Order a lot. Not a great game by normal standards, but compared to most of the shit released in the last decade it's pretty good.I'm enjoying Fallen Order quite a bit.
People who liked the Tomb Raider reboot or Uncharted are probably the most direct audience: impressive visuals, elaborate but streamlined platforming, constant dialogues and cutscenes, railroaded main story where the areas you traverse are full of (obvious) secrets that might require a revisit when you get new tools and moves, etc.
It does have some Souls-ish DNA but beyond marketing fluff it's really a stretch to make a big deal out of it.
People interested in Star Wars 3D platformers might also be interested in Lethal Alliance, either on DS or on PSP.
The old camp storyline always felt that way to me too, like it was rushed and not really throught through. It was still an amazing game though. I think the most incredible feel is when you're far into the game and start realizing just how incredibly small the map actually is, despite having felt pretty damn large up until then.Finished G1 and it was good. Still, after wasting hundreds of hours on G2 (never finished TBH) and Archolos, G1 seems a bit... unfinished
Still playing Warlords Battlecry III and wow, has this game got its hooks into me despite being so buggy that if you use one of it's offered features - a Patrol function - it actually crashes within a few seconds, 5 minutes at the most (this is a reproducible bug that I discovered on two different computers when I was chasing my tail trying to troubleshoot all the crashing thinking it was my config) but I'm really digging it. It has enormous depth and some of the early battles feature a boss so powerful she can decimate your entire army with just one or two spells.; at least in the Protectors mod she does. In fact, i had to go back to vanilla because I had bitten off more than I could chew for someone who's not only a noob to the series but has only played about 3 or 4 RTS games in all my years of gaming and never to completion. I have this feeling though that if you master this game, you master any RTS. The base building is fun and involving and once I figured out how to group different army types together then easily select them with a shortcut key, it gave the game a huge QoL boost for me.
Tip: be sure to RTFM because the in-game tutorials don't tell you nearly enough, like optimizing your hero by using aligned allied characters. I'm playing as a druid; a physically weak, squishy character but with decent killing spells. Share your tips if you wish.
Ok Gothic 3 now with essential patches. This game is not that bad (so far).
Still playing Warlords Battlecry III and wow, has this game got its hooks into me despite being so buggy that if you use one of it's offered features - a Patrol function - it actually crashes within a few seconds, 5 minutes at the most (this is a reproducible bug that I discovered on two different computers when I was chasing my tail trying to troubleshoot all the crashing thinking it was my config) but I'm really digging it. It has enormous depth and some of the early battles feature a boss so powerful she can decimate your entire army with just one or two spells.; at least in the Protectors mod she does. In fact, i had to go back to vanilla because I had bitten off more than I could chew for someone who's not only a noob to the series but has only played about 3 or 4 RTS games in all my years of gaming and never to completion. I have this feeling though that if you master this game, you master any RTS. The base building is fun and involving and once I figured out how to group different army types together then easily select them with a shortcut key, it gave the game a huge QoL boost for me.
Tip: be sure to RTFM because the in-game tutorials don't tell you nearly enough, like optimizing your hero by using aligned allied characters. I'm playing as a druid; a physically weak, squishy character but with decent killing spells. Share your tips if you wish.
I fucking love this game. The hero mechanic was brilliant, and Im honestly surprised it spawned no copycats/refinements of the idea.
I played the unpatched game, but, tbh, found the campaign easily abused. Just take a good general, add it to your retinue, and you can 4-man every mission. IIRC, I spammed the Dark Elven general, High elven general, and Dwarven General (good against towers.) Theres also that unique chance in campaign to add a "special" unit to retinue, which also breaks everything down. The demon and vampire general were also fun. Sadly, the game can be broken, quite easily. I remember playing an archmage (I also played a druid, found archmage superior because of the greater spell selection, and thus, ability to abuse) and really, all I ever did was summon thousands of workers with the summoning school, place them in mines, convert asap, and that research tech while the hero and retinue slaughtered everything in their way. Still, an awesome, super fun game.
Yet Tannenberg is still expensive .Verdun is free for a few days and on sale. I like it so I bought the 4 pack for 15 dollars.