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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left: Of the ones I've played Dead Space > Arkham Origins > Red Faction: Armagedon > The Bureau
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left: Hahahah at 80% of that list being on your 'must play' queue. Play Arkham and Dead Space til you get bored, muck around with the destruction physics in RFA.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:33
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SynthOrange posted:Dishonored endings: I dont know. I like them both though. One they're so scared shitless that you're coming after them they commit suicide before you get there and the other you get to kill them yourself. Hmmm, choices choices My take on the low-chaos ending was that they were untrustworthy bastards to the very end, and murdered each other before you could do the deed. Edit: So, so beaten.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:33
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left: Dead Space is a 'horror game' the same way Doom 3 is, but it's a pretty drat good third person slow-shooter. DS2 is a better shooter and an even worse 'horror' game, but still pretty loving fun. And I REALLY enjoyed XCOM. Many others didn't. Treat it less like a 3rd person shooter and more of an RTS in third person - everyone on your team needs constant attention. I had lots of fun with it, though. Arkham Origins is really fun, but it's literally more of the same of Batman Arkham City. Alice, RFA, PoP08 are all games that you'd play for an hour and then put away. Drifter fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Aug 11, 2014 04:35
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left:
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Aug 11, 2014 04:38
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SynthOrange posted:Hahahah at 80% of that list being on your 'must play' queue.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:40
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left: The order you listed the titles in is a pretty accurate barometer for quality. Arkham is great, dead space is a lot of fun, Alice is fun but drags, Absolution is great outside of quite a recurring annoyances, PoP is boring, Armageddon is bad, XCOM is pee pee doo doo.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:45
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I'm wondering if they planned it that way, but the intro of Red Faction Armageddon is one of the few times you will get to blow up large scale outdoor structures before getting stuck in tiny tunnels for the rest of the game. Just run around the intro zone and enjoy knocking over houses with tons of people inside.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:49
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I finished Arkham Origins a couple weeks ago, it was actually a lot of fun and Shock Gloves were a really fantastic fun addition. They should have gave them to you a bit sooner but eh. If you liked Arkham City, you should definitely give it a shot. I also recommend to play it on Normal--don't play it on Hard, it's a slog through the beginning until you get to about mid-game but mostly just makes enemies take more hits to kill and you take less hits to die.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:55
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Oh I've definitely become a proponent of playing these types of games on easy if the easier difficulties translate to less bullet sponging. Bullet sponge enemies are just the antithesis of fun. With Dishonored it's rad that one sleep dart does the trick every time. I mean I can play it on normal just fine but if there's a chance that enemies go down faster I'll take that option every time.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:09
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About Heroes of a Broken Land a few pages back. It is actually a good game if you like dungeon crawlers with a bit of Heroes of Might and Magic thrown in.Bieeardo posted:I like the aesthetic, but the devs seem to be of the opinion that obtuse mechanics give a game an old-school pedigree. Got this one in a bundle ages ago and dig it out every few months, but so far it really hasn't been very compelling. What obtuse mechanics? The game is easy to understand. There is a guide here on Gamefaqs which can count as a manual: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/726774-heroes-of-a-broken-land/faqs/68943
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Aug 11, 2014 05:16
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Quest For Glory II posted:Finished Dishonored, it was pretty good. I haven't done the Knife of Dunwall or Brigmore Witches yet, those'll be next. That's the 25th game I've beaten since the summer sale, and I've got 3 left to play from that sale. Although one of them is Walking Dead S2 so I'll probably wait until September or whenever the season finale comes out. The cool thing about Dishonored is that if you want, you can do the high chaos playthrough in about 3 hours. It's pretty satisfying after doing a no kills stealth run. There are so many fun toys to kill groups of guys with, it's awesome.
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Does the girl hate you in a high chaos run?
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Aug 11, 2014 05:24
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No she loves you and draws cute pictures of you standing atop a pile of corpses. It's adorable.
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saucerman posted:About Heroes of a Broken Land a few pages back. It is actually a good game if you like dungeon crawlers with a bit of Heroes of Might and Magic thrown in. Chargen was a complete WTF the last time I touched it, with no intuitive way to assign classes and a stat reroll button that both apparently rerolled your entire party, and only allowed for two or three rerolls because... magic. gently caress, I dunno. I played my share of old-school Apple II and early PC RPGs when I was a kid, and nothing prepared me for how bizarre and pointless an experience that was.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:30
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Accordion Man posted:They don't kill themselves, Havelock poisoned Pendleton and Martin. It is anti-climatic, but I kind of like the fact that they realize their plan to gently caress over Corvo was an awful idea because Corvo is far beyond them in power and Havelock just resigns himself to his death. Yeah, this is why I prefer the subtlety of the low-chaos ending to the cinematics of the high chaos one. It's just so... quiet, and yet still shows Corvo as a force to be reckoned with.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:32
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Plus it puts you in the position of the guys that usually come after you. You find a huge big mess and are just left scratching your head trying to figure out what the gently caress happened.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:33
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I just watched a 5 minute video of a press forward map in Trackmania 2 Canyons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gM0duBAdg It impresses the gently caress out of me that people design poo poo like this. It's so amazing. I watched the entire thing, it's loving awesome.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:36
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Drifter posted:I just watched a 5 minute video of a press forward map in Trackmania 2 Canyons. I'd never want to play that, but it's beyond impressive. VVV I could be wrong, but I think there was some steering in that too. Almost looked like drifting, but might have been hard turns. VVV Kragger99 fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Aug 11, 2014 05:47
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Drifter posted:I just watched a 5 minute video of a press forward map in Trackmania 2 Canyons. That is so cool. press forward is literally what it means right? You just press go and the map does the driving for you?
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Aug 11, 2014 05:51
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Kragger99 posted:I'd never want to play that, but it's beyond impressive. It's like the auto-playing SMW levels from a while back, there's no input other than hold forward.
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Aug 11, 2014 06:05
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flatluigi posted:It's like the auto-playing SMW levels from a while back, there's no input other than hold forward. Right? that's what (also) makes it so goddamn impressive, to have the designer just take into account the vehicle physics for turns and flips and drifts and everything. As I said, SUPER impressed by that stuff. Way more than the minecraft things. Except for the working calculators and junk, those are pretty cool. And the pig cannons.
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Drifter posted:I just watched a 5 minute video of a press forward map in Trackmania 2 Canyons. I got motion sick watching this. That has never happened to me before, I don't like it 
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Aug 11, 2014 06:29
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Ciaphas posted:I got motion sick watching this. That has never happened to me before, I don't like it Watch this one, then, it'll help you feel better. Gotta go fast. 
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SynthOrange posted:Plus it puts you in the position of the guys that usually come after you. You find a huge big mess and are just left scratching your head trying to figure out what the gently caress happened. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Aug 11, 2014 06:49
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GreenNight posted:Can you still start BG1 with a character, take him through Tales of the Sword Coast, import him into BG2 and then Throne of Baal? Cause that poo poo owned, even taking with you the various pantaloons. …as a hilarious (but perhaps not entirely sensible) bonus, since both EEs run on the exact same engine, you can then take your ToB character and import it into BG1 and run through all games again. Some (but not all) unique abilities will be lost, but you'll have your entire stack of 9th level magic to nuke all those annoying fire-arrow kobolds with. The normal weapon immunity you gain at the end of BG2? It'll still be there… In fact, the biggest problem with running BG2/ToB character in BG1 is the images and sound sets.
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Aug 11, 2014 07:03
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Started on Dead Space and got to chapter 3, I had no idea this game is already 6 years old, it definitely shows it, although maybe it was just a half-assed console port from EA. It's weird that there's no autosave and only 3 save slots.
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Aug 11, 2014 07:38
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I believe it does have checkpoints before major combat sections, but other than that there's no autosaving. I imagine the decision to only have 3 save slots was supposed to evoke older horror games. They kept it in 2, but got rid of it in 3. FWIW I thought the port was pretty well optimized. Runs well on my laptop, and there are very few games this thing can run without framerate drops.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Started on Dead Space and got to chapter 3, I had no idea this game is already 6 years old, it definitely shows it, although maybe it was just a half-assed console port from EA. It's weird that there's no autosave and only 3 save slots. Word of warning: The game has an annoying bug that likes to randomly change the difficulty-setting when you "continue" the game. To avoid that always manually load the last save.
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Aug 11, 2014 07:46
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Bieeardo posted:My take on the low-chaos ending was that they were untrustworthy bastards to the very end, and murdered each other before you could do the deed. This sounds supremely accurate given that high chaos is this exact same thing but more explicit, especially with Pendleton. "Some stray bullet. I'm never even going to know who beat you to it."
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Quest For Glory II posted:Started on Dead Space and got to chapter 3, I had no idea this game is already 6 years old, it definitely shows it, although maybe it was just a half-assed console port from EA. It's weird that there's no autosave and only 3 save slots.
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If you die in Dead Space you (generally) restart pretty close to where you were. The save system seemed pretty appropriate for the atmosphere, especially on harder difficulties.
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Bieeardo posted:Chargen was a complete WTF the last time I touched it, with no intuitive way to assign classes and a stat reroll button that both apparently rerolled your entire party, and only allowed for two or three rerolls because... magic. gently caress, I dunno. You only have the choice between four classes in the beginning and the stats are random with a limited number of rerolls, that is true. However, you don't need to worry too much about the stats as you can upgrade them later (to >20) with items and also at shrines inside the dungeons and plus you can buy more characters (you need at least three parties to beat the game anyway). Because of that I don't mind too much but I can see how that feels limiting and maybe the randomness could be removed.
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Kragger99 posted:I'd never want to play that, but it's beyond impressive.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm almost dry of "AAA" games.. I've got these left: Also just install black flag, it's indeed pretty big but 1: that size is getting more common so get used to it, and 2: it owns bones.
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Aug 11, 2014 08:13
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Zedd posted:but 1: that size is getting more common so get used to it, Only the highest uncompressed audio files in our new videogame generation.
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Aug 11, 2014 08:26
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Why can't all video games be 10 - 20mb like the good old days.
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30GB used to be a fuckton a few years ago. Hell, I even bought a disc-non-steam copy of Max Payne 3 back when it came out because gently caress waiting for 30 gigs to download. Now 50+ GB I don't want to do. Goddamn it current gen why did you decided to catch up now?
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Aug 11, 2014 08:45
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Ciaphas posted:I got motion sick watching this. That has never happened to me before, I don't like it The trick is to just look at the ca-  Yeah I thought I was also going to be sick right at the start but it ended up mostly alright.
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Sober posted:30GB used to be a fuckton a few years ago. Hell, I even bought a disc-non-steam copy of Max Payne 3 back when it came out because gently caress waiting for 30 gigs to download. HDD space is cheap, man. Have an SSD for your OS and monster games with the long load times and a 3 TB HDD for general use.
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