baturinsky
Arcane
I love all DS-es, especially DS2. But I'm not quite into Elden Ring. In part, because I often have a bug with enemies becoming invisible. Closing browser and other memory-consuming apps while I play helps, but only to extent.
Dunno, I like Crysis 2 the most. At least it has sane costume controls.Crysis 2. Just beat the first one and I really liked it, but this seems like massive decline all around. I knew going in it was a different beast and I can stomach a console-y linear setpiece shooter, but this game hasn't done anything to distinguish itself yet. Hopefully it improves.
Don't get your hopes up. Crysis -> Crysis 2 is one of the worst examples of decline I can think of in that genre.
I tried so hard to get into Elden Ring for a good few hours. I really couldn't. Game feels like you are in some kind of dream. Story is almost nonexistent, there are very few npc's with cryptic monologues and that's all about them. Basicly everything attack you on sight.
Combat is very impressive, animations, enemy design is interesting, many attacks that you have to act accordingly, etc. Too bad there are no instant reset - there's a long loading screen after death. Game feels like a hack'n'slash with advanced moves and empty, open 3D world.
Game just didn't mesmerize me. Guess I'm just not a "souls game" fan, there are a lot of people that adore this game, but too bad that's just not me.
Dark Souls is way better than this turd. Might give that one a try if you haven't already.
Have you even read his post? He would have had the same gripes with Dark Souls too, minus the open world.
I enjoyed the Ashes 2063 Doom TC so much that i'm replaying it, this time on Survival difficulty (though I wonder why this one has less enemies than Arcade... hmmm).
Then I'll play the add-on, and afterwards the sequel.
Currently replaying Syndicate. I'd forgotten how glorious these old games are. Will move onto Syndicate Wars which I rate despite everyone saying it wasn't as good as the first one.
It isn't. Still a fun game though.
What I (and a few others) will want you to do, is hold off on Syndicate Wars for a bit and move into the American Revolt-data disk for Syndicate instead, once you're done with the original. We want to know how you fare.
Post all the details. We will read them. We will rate them. :D
Dunno, I like Crysis 2 the most. At least it has sane costume controls.Crysis 2. Just beat the first one and I really liked it, but this seems like massive decline all around. I knew going in it was a different beast and I can stomach a console-y linear setpiece shooter, but this game hasn't done anything to distinguish itself yet. Hopefully it improves.
Don't get your hopes up. Crysis -> Crysis 2 is one of the worst examples of decline I can think of in that genre.
Now play Fallout: Brotherhood of SteelI tried that janky Dark Alliance game since it's leaving PC Game Pass soon and I was morbidly curious.
The jank is whatever (it's pretty bad), but what really struck me is just how not fun it was. I didn't think it was worth the bandwidth to download. It definitely wasn't worth the time I played it for, and I would've been seriously angry if I would've spent money on it.
It felt like taking some free mobile or flash game and doing a bunch of advertising in order to try and get people to treat it like a AAA and pay for it. Wasn't it full price at release before they started reducing the price over time?
Anyway, it's dog shit. Avoid, even if it's free.
Have you even read his post? He would have had the same gripes with Dark Souls too, minus the open world.
I didn't play DS1 so I wouldn't know, but I kinda feel bad for not getting Elden Ring and it's hype. For me it's an empty, strange in a japanese way mix with Fighting Force, Mortal Kombat (that not so much tbh) and Diablo.
I tried that janky Dark Alliance game since it's leaving PC Game Pass soon and I was morbidly curious.
The jank is whatever (it's pretty bad), but what really struck me is just how not fun it was. I didn't think it was worth the bandwidth to download. It definitely wasn't worth the time I played it for, and I would've been seriously angry if I would've spent money on it.
It felt like taking some free mobile or flash game and doing a bunch of advertising in order to try and get people to treat it like a AAA and pay for it. Wasn't it full price at release before they started reducing the price over time?
Anyway, it's dog shit. Avoid, even if it's free.
I tried that janky Dark Alliance game since it's leaving PC Game Pass soon and I was morbidly curious.
The jank is whatever (it's pretty bad), but what really struck me is just how not fun it was. I didn't think it was worth the bandwidth to download. It definitely wasn't worth the time I played it for, and I would've been seriously angry if I would've spent money on it.
It felt like taking some free mobile or flash game and doing a bunch of advertising in order to try and get people to treat it like a AAA and pay for it. Wasn't it full price at release before they started reducing the price over time?
Anyway, it's dog shit. Avoid, even if it's free.
Are you talking about the original Dark Alliance or the new one? I heard the original was OK and was planning to try it out sometime.
I never played any of JA before 2. For antiquarian purposes you could play those and then vanilla JA2, but make sure to experience the 1.13 fan patch of JA2. It is pure autism in its most blissful form.My resolution for this American Summer is to play through some of the Squad-Tactics/TRPGS/MilSims/Autism Enablers this place holds sacrosanct, starting with Silent Storm.
Fun stuff, I will admit that as someone who'd only really played both Nu-XCOMs before touching this that the Point Bank, Fire Mode and Stance System took a few hours to integrate into muscle memory. There's also some inherent jank with audio mixing and sightlines; several fireplaces are so loud I thought the buildings containing them were on fire and the Wehrmacht have mastered the art of blending in among the corpses of their fallen comrades. Hasn't stopped me from enjoying my time with it, though I'm beginning to wonder if it's possible to mod a save mid-campaign; the Swiss Factory with those walking refrigerators and my incompetent engineer are making me rethink some things. Guess I'll save that for the Axis run.
I think Steam updated the listing for S2 and S3 sometime after I bought them, rolling the latter into the former as part of their Gold Edition, no idea how to access Sentinels from that but I'm assuming it'll unlock after I beat the first campaign.
Wondering if I oughtta begin with Jagged Alliance or Jagged Alliance 2 after that, the two look worlds apart.
My advice would be to play JA2, then Deadly Games, and if you liked the latter, the original. The original's approach to time and the map is slightly awkward and doesn't really function as a great introduction to the series.My resolution for this American Summer is to play through some of the Squad-Tactics/TRPGS/MilSims/Autism Enablers this place holds sacrosanct, starting with Silent Storm.
Fun stuff, I will admit that as someone who'd only really played both Nu-XCOMs before touching this that the Point Bank, Fire Mode and Stance System took a few hours to integrate into muscle memory. There's also some inherent jank with audio mixing and sightlines; several fireplaces are so loud I thought the buildings containing them were on fire and the Wehrmacht have mastered the art of blending in among the corpses of their fallen comrades. Hasn't stopped me from enjoying my time with it, though I'm beginning to wonder if it's possible to mod a save mid-campaign; the Swiss Factory with those walking refrigerators and my incompetent engineer are making me rethink some things. Guess I'll save that for the Axis run.
I think Steam updated the listing for S2 and S3 sometime after I bought them, rolling the latter into the former as part of their Gold Edition, no idea how to access Sentinels from that but I'm assuming it'll unlock after I beat the first campaign.
Wondering if I oughtta begin with Jagged Alliance or Jagged Alliance 2 after that, the two look worlds apart.
Remind me please why "buffed"? I took a look at my screenshotFor the first time in my life I actually beat the buffed Harran's Pass fight.
and I don't remember any "unbuffed"/different versions of this fight. Although ^ might be still from the EA so it could be different in other ways anyway.[/quote]