Well, in terrible gaming news, EA is obviously trying to get World's Worst Company award for the 3rd year in a row, by destroying the cherished franchise of Dungeon Keeper, by making it a horrible F2P app game, where you get to dig A SINGLE BLOCK EVERY 24 HOURS! Unless, of course, you pay for 'gems'. And, they even went so far as to fly a virtual middle finger to every fan of the old games, by putting the Bullfrog logo on the You Lose flag! (http://s30.postimg.org/juau3ftnl/1392003886135.jpg) Bullfrog was the company that made Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 (and quite a few other good games), which EA destroyed to take their IPs.
How the everloving FUCK is EA still in business?
Yeah, I've been boycotting EA for a few years now. Yes, that means I have not played PvZ 2 or SWTOR. I think the last game of theirs I ever bought was C&C: Red Alert 3. I just wish there were more people out there willing to tell EA "no" with their wallets ...
However, if you're pining for some good Dungeon Keeper style gameplay, I've heard lots of good things about War for the Overworld. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/)
CiV 5 is awesome. Play with 8 civs and 32 independent states, and no max turns. fun fun fun.
CiV 5 is awesome. Play with 8 civs and 32 independent states, and no max turns. fun fun fun.
But Civ IV is the one with the Alpha Centauri mod. :O
CiV 5 is awesome. Play with 8 civs and 32 independent states, and no max turns. fun fun fun.
But Civ IV is the one with the Alpha Centauri mod. :O
But Civ 5 has like 9 Touhou civilizations on the workshop and oh my god I CAN NOT get enough of this game :love
Well each single character is the leader of a whole civ.....
They so do do well! :D
Although there isn't a Reimu but there is a Remi.
What's not interesting about turning the world into Gensokyo!
Lack of danmaku.
Lack of danmaku.
You are such a killjoy :pout
Like, it's Civ, not some 3D aerial fighter :p
If I'm going to turn something into Gensokyo, simple civ bonuses won't cut it. :pLike, I understand that, but you can't get much more out of Civ than that. That'd need to be a whole 'nother game entirely :p
Yes, that means I have not played PvZ 2 or SWTOR.Honestly, you're not missing a thing on PvZ 2, it's a terrible game.
Civ V: why do I always go for 'marathon' settings? :p
Civ V: why do I always go for 'marathon' settings? :p
Another kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482445197/unsung-story-tale-of-the-guardians?ref=email), for fans of Final Fantasy Tactics!
I refuse to turn the difficulty up on Civ games because that's... boring. :/Same here, the difficulty generally doesn't result in AI changes beyond the changes in AI actions made due to not having as much science/money/culture/army/whatever. I just set it to the fair setting and be done with it.
I refuse to turn the difficulty up on Civ games because that's... boring. :/Same here, the difficulty generally doesn't result in AI changes beyond the changes in AI actions made due to not having as much science/money/culture/army/whatever. I just set it to the fair setting and be done with it.
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today. Anyone esle picked it up yet?Dear god why?
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today. Anyone esle picked it up yet?Dear god why?
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P...FF 14 is a terrible game, too.
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P...FF 14 is a terrible game, too.
Another kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482445197/unsung-story-tale-of-the-guardians?ref=email), for fans of Final Fantasy Tactics!
Instead of a square tile system, Unsung Story will use triangular tiles, with units standing not at the center of tiles, but at the intersections. This gives units six possible directions of movement.
I am curious though. You said, "another." What others have there been?
Hexes are only unpopular because people can't Geometry too well.
Looks cool to me. Hope they make their goal and bring out a top-notch game.
Fire Emblem.I am curious though. You said, "another." What others have there been?
I think he meant "It's another kickstarter for the thread, but this one's special because..."
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P...FF 14 is a terrible game, too.
I have a feeling they went with triangular to perhaps make it easier on people. Having it based on intersections is more noticeable than hexes perhaps. Though I definitely don't get why hex is a problem, but I'm also pretty good at math and geometry so I suppose I won't ever see why it's a problem. *shrug*
I have a feeling they went with triangular to perhaps make it easier on people. Having it based on intersections is more noticeable than hexes perhaps. Though I definitely don't get why hex is a problem, but I'm also pretty good at math and geometry so I suppose I won't ever see why it's a problem. *shrug*
You can't draw proper perpendicular lines in an hex board. 90% degree angles are the most common angles in pretty much all architecture and design, and that's because they're the easiest to do math with.
Has it been mentioned that GOG is giving away Dungeon Keeper Gold for free?
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P...FF 14 is a terrible game, too.
Replaying Curse of Monkey Island.
I wish people would do more 2D-animated point-and-clicks.
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today. Anyone esle picked it up yet?Dear god why?
I have been waiting for an Elder Scrolls MMO since Morrowind. And most of the gameplay I have seen looks pretty good to me. And I haven't been into anything heavy for a while.
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today. Anyone esle picked it up yet?Dear god why?
I have been waiting for an Elder Scrolls MMO since Morrowind. And most of the gameplay I have seen looks pretty good to me. And I haven't been into anything heavy for a while.
I've got the Imperial Pre-Order as well.I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P
I stopped right after I got my relic. I refuse to grind anymore.
That's how MMOs work nowadays. "Give us money so you don't hate this game!"That's how F2P's work. With sub MMO's they insist on sucking up time, instead.
...Sort of this. If I were consulted -- and the sad fact of the universe is that I rarely am -- I'd have much preferred a Skyrim 2.0 with tighter gameplay and a few other tweaks and a robust co-op. My wife has gotten really into Skyrim, which is almost enough to make me want to pick it up again. Except, there's no way we could play it together anyway.
I would absolutely prefer a regular Elder Scrolls game. A co-op gameplay mode would be great as collaborating on delving into a dungeon or taking down a big boss with a friend could be fun, but is ultimately unnecessary to my enjoyment of the game. And I don't need to do that running around with a bunch of people who are likely to take me out of the atmosphere of the game.
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Also, what's with Elder Scrolls (side note, Skyrim is my only experience with the series) never continuing/completing plotlines? [POSSIBLY SPOILERS for an old game:] If memory serves, the political state at the end of Skyrim is still pretty up for grabs. Why not make a game where you actually resolve that and/or change the world a bit?Eerr, you "change the world a bit". You either help the righteous Stormcloak rebellion succeed, or help the dirty Imperials that wanted to execute you crush it. Earls fall and rise by your hand.
P.S.: the in-game social aspect of Skyrim is actually my wife's biggest issue with it. It's odd what the game does and doesn't keep track of. You can be THE Archmage, but then go to a town a few miles away, and everyone treats you like some rube off the street.It was kinda random for me. Some times they treated me as if I was indeed some rube of the street. But other times they praised one of my character's many deeds.
The guards comment on your deeds. Listen to them a bit--they'll say stuff related to your skills and race (or vampirism, werewolf status, etc) , too. The big issue is that they will just as likely spout the line unlocked by joining the Companions as completing it.There's a mod for that. That same mod also reduces the number of adventure-related knee injuries in Skyrim.
Point is, coding limitation. Random civilians can't comment in all your deeds, so they probably pick something at random.It would only be a "limitation" if the devs painted themselves into a corner. Most NPCs already keep track of one of your series of deeds that they care about, adding a couple more that they would care about to a lesser extent (like, oh, single-handedly dictating the entire political landscape of Skyrim, or saving the world from being devoured by a dragon, for a couple examples) doesn't have to be that big of a deal.
You just answered your own question.You are the dragonborn/archmage/guildmaster/savior of the world, your suit alone is probably worth more than that person's whole life earnings. You know important people and live a life of adventure and emotion. You have fame, riches and power. If you also prove you're a nice guy up close, I would say it's only natural for most single women to readily accept your marriage proposal. :PPoint is, coding limitation. Random civilians can't comment in all your deeds, so they probably pick something at random.It would only be a "limitation" if the devs painted themselves into a corner. Most NPCs already keep track of one of your series of deeds that they care about, adding a couple more that they would care about to a lesser extent (like, oh, single-handedly dictating the entire political landscape of Skyrim, or saving the world from being devoured by a dragon, for a couple examples) doesn't have to be that big of a deal.
Oh, and then there's the really bizarre stuff like various women being totally ready to marry you just because you did some minor, decent thing for them.
I think the larger limitation is that nobody wants to record all those audio clips for every race/gender combo in the game. Just... a kind of stupid waste of resources to add a little atmosphere, when you already have the omnipresent guards acknowledging you.The guards aren't omnipresent. After becoming Thane of Whiterun and killing several bands of bandits in that area, I went to Markath and was forced to endure guards taunting me about my sweet roll being stolen.
I think the larger limitation is that nobody wants to record all those audio clips for every race/gender combo in the game. Just... a kind of stupid waste of resources to add a little atmosphere, when you already have the omnipresent guards acknowledging you.The guards aren't omnipresent. After becoming Thane of Whiterun and killing several bands of bandits in that area, I went to Markath and was forced to endure guards taunting me about my sweet roll being stolen.
I think the larger limitation is that nobody wants to record all those audio clips for every race/gender combo in the game. Just... a kind of stupid waste of resources to add a little atmosphere, when you already have the omnipresent guards acknowledging you.The guards aren't omnipresent. After becoming Thane of Whiterun and killing several bands of bandits in that area, I went to Markath and was forced to endure guards taunting me about my sweet roll being stolen.
One game that did the tracking-of-you-doing-stuff really well is Fable. In Fable the things you did really did have a major impact on what the NPC's had to say about you n' stuff.
For once, i don't know or have a mod that fixes that :P
Compared to developing the game as a whole? There's actually a mod that changes the guard dialogue so that you don't hear the stupid sweet roll comments in a particular hold once you're Thane, and for a game series that's supposed to be about immersive gameplay it's pretty damn lazy.I think the larger limitation is that nobody wants to record all those audio clips for every race/gender combo in the game. Just... a kind of stupid waste of resources to add a little atmosphere, when you already have the omnipresent guards acknowledging you.The guards aren't omnipresent. After becoming Thane of Whiterun and killing several bands of bandits in that area, I went to Markath and was forced to endure guards taunting me about my sweet roll being stolen.
The developers didn't add tags that would restrict what the guards would say to you. They set up flags that would cause new dialogues to show up (becoming a member of the Companions triggers them noting your new membership), but later flags don't disable earlier ones (becoming the Harbinger doesn't untrigger the original flag).
It may be annoying, but look at how much dialogue they recorded for those random lines. They don't have the manpower it would take to edit those flags, and they don't want to invest in that department for future instalments. Editing those flags would take considerable time.
Compared to developing the game as a whole? There's actually a mod that changes the guard dialogue so that you don't hear the stupid sweet roll comments in a particular hold once you're Thane, and for a game series that's supposed to be about immersive gameplay it's pretty damn lazy.I think the larger limitation is that nobody wants to record all those audio clips for every race/gender combo in the game. Just... a kind of stupid waste of resources to add a little atmosphere, when you already have the omnipresent guards acknowledging you.The guards aren't omnipresent. After becoming Thane of Whiterun and killing several bands of bandits in that area, I went to Markath and was forced to endure guards taunting me about my sweet roll being stolen.
The developers didn't add tags that would restrict what the guards would say to you. They set up flags that would cause new dialogues to show up (becoming a member of the Companions triggers them noting your new membership), but later flags don't disable earlier ones (becoming the Harbinger doesn't untrigger the original flag).
It may be annoying, but look at how much dialogue they recorded for those random lines. They don't have the manpower it would take to edit those flags, and they don't want to invest in that department for future instalments. Editing those flags would take considerable time.
Indeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.
@Oscelamo
My feeling was that the political conflict was not resolved in any real fashion. But, maybe I just missed something. It's been a long time, so maybe I'm just forgetting stuff. I remember the peace conference, but that didn't seem to feel like any lasting end to the conflict.
What there really should be is a Skyrim 2 that either picks up your character exploits from Skyrim 1 Mass Effect-style or lets you select a backstory. Or, at the very least, there needs to be some mention of the Blades Order, et al. in the next Elder Scrolls entry, which I substantially doubt. Being the Archmage doesn't really affect the player's experience. You get a cool house, that's about it. The path to get there is totally cool, but in a game that seemed to tout its gameworld and NPC aspects, it's odd that you don't get to do much with them once you acquire some role.
Indeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.
My feeling was that the political conflict was not resolved in any real fashion. But, maybe I just missed something. It's been a long time, so maybe I'm just forgetting stuff. I remember the peace conference, but that didn't seem to feel like any lasting end to the conflict.The peace conference is an optional quest in case you don't solve the political situation before deciding to go after the final boss.
I'm not sure how I'd go about implementing all of that, maybe just late game questlines or something. Or, a sequel, as noted above. Or, a less atomized management of the IP, which I think is a real issue with Elder Scrolls, at least from what I've gathered. But, the game seemed like it wanted to set itself apart in this regard, but it went through fairly standard (which isn't to say unenjoyable) quest lines to get you to various social positions, and then it was just off to the next set of fairly standard RPG questlines. And, it probably doesn't help that it was all bookended by bog standard main questlines.
Heh, Skyrim vanilla has a lot of bugs, but still less than Fallout 3. :pIndeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.
It's kind of hard to sustain that argument when Skyrim uses the same engine Fallout does, and the game-breaking bugs stem from the way their engine handles things - which means some of those bugs go all the way back to Fallout 3.
Given they did not have to code the game FROM SCRATCH again, you'd think they'd dedicate SOME time to, y'know, fixing what they know would STILL be broken in the next game.
Granted, with the kind of community Bethesda games get, and their main attention being on PC consumers, I can see how that's not high on their priority list either...
...I don't have the greatest of recollections of Skyrim's plots. And, I guess I had forgotten how the political plot was resolved. Maybe I was expecting to do more with that funky dragon crown.
Basicall, it's a matter of scale. You're not expected to worry about high politics in Skyrim, just like in Mass Effect you don't have to worry about dirt-covered raiders randomly trying to jump you in the street, or having to crawl around sewers killing rats with rusty weapons.
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One game that did the tracking-of-you-doing-stuff really well is Fable. In Fable the things you did really did have a major impact on what the NPC's had to say about you n' stuff.
For once, i don't know or have a mod that fixes that :P
lol, I remember in Fable once I got my attractiveness and reputation up pretty high all it took was simply talking to a single woman (or man) to get a heart over her head and start asking about a wedding ring.
Indeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.Some things? Skyrim for PC was almost beta quality on release with the battery of bugs present in the game, like rank 5 of the Light Fingers perk making it impossible to steal significant quantities of gold. Look at the Patch History (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Patch) for the game to see some of the ridiculous stuff that had to be fixed after the game was released. These don't even address a number of quest-breaking bugs that have to be picked up by the unofficial patches, instead.
...I don't have the greatest of recollections of Skyrim's plots. And, I guess I had forgotten how the political plot was resolved. Maybe I was expecting to do more with that funky dragon crown.
Basicall, it's a matter of scale. You're not expected to worry about high politics in Skyrim, just like in Mass Effect you don't have to worry about dirt-covered raiders randomly trying to jump you in the street, or having to crawl around sewers killing rats with rusty weapons.
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But, this statement strikes me as crazy. You save the world. I mean, isn't the main plotline apocalyptic? You are the Hero of Destiny and Dragons have just returned and you deal with them extensively.
Further, you can (optionally) become the lone Archmage in the entire realm where the game takes place, get at least partly along the way of doing something or other with the High King of, again, an entire realm (and the only realm that matters for the game). And, deal with the vast Empire's continued dominance/control over this realm.
How is this not high politics? How can winning or losing the chilly equivalent of Vietnam not be a big deal? How are the Harbingers or whatever they called not handpicked uber warriors?
I guess if you view Skyrim as "I'm a no-name wandering guy in a taiga" then my comments will seem bizarre. But, then Skyrim is "yet another RPG with scenery porn" and I wonder why they bothered creating all those factions/guilds for you to interact with in the first place.
But, this statement strikes me as crazy. You save the world. I mean, isn't the main plotline apocalyptic? You are the Hero of Destiny and Dragons have just returned and you deal with them extensively.Oh, sure, the Skyrim storyline is epic, and you do save the world.
Further, you can (optionally) become the lone Archmage in the entire realm where the game takes place, get at least partly along the way of doing something or other with the High King of, again, an entire realm (and the only realm that matters for the game). And, deal with the vast Empire's continued dominance/control over this realm.Because no matter what you do in Skyrim, at the end of the day you still have a single follower that you can order around at a time. You don't even get your personal carriage or a personal palace.
How is this not high politics? How can winning or losing the chilly equivalent of Vietnam not be a big deal? How are the Harbingers or whatever they called not handpicked uber warriors?
I guess if you view Skyrim as "I'm a no-name wandering guy in a taiga" then my comments will seem bizarre. But, then Skyrim is "yet another RPG with scenery porn" and I wonder why they bothered creating all those factions/guilds for you to interact with in the first place.I see Skyrim as a no-name working himself a name. You start as a pennyless prisioner waiting to be executed, then you work your ass until you're somebody relatively important that gets some respect (altough some guards will always sneer at you, you can always sneak-attack them later). You may never become some super politic, but damn you'll have acess to the top products from the local factions/guilds and get to boss some of their people around.
Further, you can (optionally) become the lone Archmage in the entire realm where the game takes place, get at least partly along the way of doing something or other with the High King of, again, an entire realm (and the only realm that matters for the game). And, deal with the vast Empire's continued dominance/control over this realm.Because no matter what you do in Skyrim, at the end of the day you still have a single follower that you can order around at a time. You don't even get your personal carriage or a personal palace.
How is this not high politics? How can winning or losing the chilly equivalent of Vietnam not be a big deal? How are the Harbingers or whatever they called not handpicked uber warriors?
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today. Anyone esle picked it up yet?Dear god why?
I have been waiting for an Elder Scrolls MMO since Morrowind. And most of the gameplay I have seen looks pretty good to me. And I haven't been into anything heavy for a while.
I've got the Imperial Pre-Order as well.I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P
I stopped right after I got my relic. I refuse to grind anymore.
You refuse to grind so you pre-ordered an MMO? O_o
My feeling was that the political conflict was not resolved in any real fashion. But, maybe I just missed something. It's been a long time, so maybe I'm just forgetting stuff. I remember the peace conference, but that didn't seem to feel like any lasting end to the conflict.The peace conference is an optional quest in case you don't solve the political situation before deciding to go after the final boss.
If you aren't in an hurry to save the world, you can go around conquering forts and cities for either faction until you kill their top leader, and then the other big leader makes a grand speech. Along the way earls and their courts and guards will have been replaced, all that will be left of the other faction are some scattered bases across the countryside, and you're told you can go wipe them out if you please, but they don't pose any real threat anymore to the current government.
Of course, that demands you actually worked up your ranks in either factions, so you may've missed that.I'm not sure how I'd go about implementing all of that, maybe just late game questlines or something. Or, a sequel, as noted above. Or, a less atomized management of the IP, which I think is a real issue with Elder Scrolls, at least from what I've gathered. But, the game seemed like it wanted to set itself apart in this regard, but it went through fairly standard (which isn't to say unenjoyable) quest lines to get you to various social positions, and then it was just off to the next set of fairly standard RPG questlines. And, it probably doesn't help that it was all bookended by bog standard main questlines.
Well, I guess the problem here is that Skyrim isn't Mass Effect. Aka you're trapped in some forsaken frozen wasteland whose entire population consists of a few hundred dudes, and half the world is in ruins with the wilderness monsters out of control. You're not the high ranking officer of a capital ship that sits side by side with the most important dudes in the galaxy in the first couple of hours in the game, neither do you get to go around planets with a team of the best hand-picked warriors in existence.
Basicall, it's a matter of scale. You're not expected to worry about high politics in Skyrim, just like in Mass Effect you don't have to worry about dirt-covered raiders randomly trying to jump you in the street, or having to crawl around sewers killing rats with rusty weapons.Heh, Skyrim vanilla has a lot of bugs, but still less than Fallout 3. :pIndeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.
It's kind of hard to sustain that argument when Skyrim uses the same engine Fallout does, and the game-breaking bugs stem from the way their engine handles things - which means some of those bugs go all the way back to Fallout 3.
Given they did not have to code the game FROM SCRATCH again, you'd think they'd dedicate SOME time to, y'know, fixing what they know would STILL be broken in the next game.
Granted, with the kind of community Bethesda games get, and their main attention being on PC consumers, I can see how that's not high on their priority list either...
According to Cracked.com, the bolded part is incorrect. (http://www.cracked.com/article_20673_5-video-games-with-disturbing-implications-you-didnt-notice.html)
Indeed, you can always polish a program more. But eventually you have to release it to the public. There will be flaws, that may be corrected by others later on that have the extra free time for it, but the original developers of Skyrim had a deadline to meet. Some things will always slip trough the cracks.Some things? Skyrim for PC was almost beta quality on release with the battery of bugs present in the game, like rank 5 of the Light Fingers perk making it impossible to steal significant quantities of gold. Look at the Patch History (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Patch) for the game to see some of the ridiculous stuff that had to be fixed after the game was released. These don't even address a number of quest-breaking bugs that have to be picked up by the unofficial patches, instead.
... you use horses? :OI tried to. I really did. Then I fast-traveled and forgot where I left it.
... you use horses? :OI tried to. I really did. Then I fast-traveled and forgot where I left it.
... you use horses? :OI tried to. I really did. Then I fast-traveled and forgot where I left it.
I thought owned horses followed you when you fast travel? Or did I mod that in. I honestly don't know what's modded and what's vanilla anymore.
In case you didn't hear, Twitch has been playing pokemon in a stream now. Yes, the original one.
The catch?
Viewers get to vote for what actions for the player to take. All actions. Every single step. Which leads to insane results, like taking hours to use Cut, releasing your top pokemons, and constantly running in circles.
This article details several of them. (http://kotaku.com/the-miraculous-progress-of-twitch-plays-pokemon-1524605696) My favorite would be the part where Helix Fossil seems to have been raised to deity status, because somehow most of the time a decision needs to be made, chances are that the votes lead to trying to activate said item.
The biggest question so far is if it's possible to win the game at all with 50 000 people competing to control poor Red's mind at the same time.
I'm absolutely fed up with Blighttown (Dark Souls). I've been stuck in the place for 3 hours since killing the boss, and cannot physically make progress without being harassed by the mosquitos so much that they force me off of the platform I'm standing on to my death.
I've put up with the game up to this point, but Blighttown is seriously making me consider quitting.
I'm absolutely fed up with Blighttown (Dark Souls). I've been stuck in the place for 3 hours since killing the boss, and cannot physically make progress without being harassed by the mosquitos so much that they force me off of the platform I'm standing on to my death.
I've put up with the game up to this point, but Blighttown is seriously making me consider quitting.
Do you have the Master Key?
If so, you can skip Blighttown entirely by taking the elevator to New Londo, moving along the wall to the base of a broken tower, and going past a locked door into the "backdoor" to the swamp (compared to the rest of Blighttown, navigating your way to the swamp is a breeze). The swamp is a pain, of course, and there are still mosquitoes there, but it beats falling to your death.
You can actually avoid all but one or two of those toxic shooting dart creatures if you go the New Londo Master Key route and you're headed straight for the lower bell.
I'm absolutely fed up with Blighttown (Dark Souls). I've been stuck in the place for 3 hours since killing the boss, and cannot physically make progress without being harassed by the mosquitos so much that they force me off of the platform I'm standing on to my death.
I've put up with the game up to this point, but Blighttown is seriously making me consider quitting.
Do you have the Master Key?
If so, you can skip Blighttown entirely by taking the elevator to New Londo, moving along the wall to the base of a broken tower, and going past a locked door into the "backdoor" to the swamp (compared to the rest of Blighttown, navigating your way to the swamp is a breeze). The swamp is a pain, of course, and there are still mosquitoes there, but it beats falling to your death.
Another thing, which works whatever way you go... bring a ranged weapon. Crossbow works if you don't have much Dex.
Snipe the mosquitos before they get to you, then focus on the blighted mutants.
Go slow, falls are everywhere.
Find the first bonfire, then proceed down to the second at ground level. If you make it there you're home free.
Rusted Iron Ring helps, but if you don't have it, no need to go all the way back to get it.
Blighttown is rough but you can do it. You have it for PC? Give me your ID, we should co-op sometime.
...you could have completely ignored said framerate lag if you'd played offline.
Just thought you might've wanted to know that. For future reference.
If you've already rung the bell, then you've beaten Quelaag. Kudos on doing that with the Drake Sword, given how much she reduces of its damage.
You should be able to procure a Lightning Spear in the upcoming fortress. It will serve you fairly well against pretty much anything throughout the Anor Londo area, except for its boss. (But then again said boss is an asshole regardless of what you're built to do). And a specific type of enemy which, mercifully, you won't encounter much of.
There are still some frustrating times ahead of you in that section as far as pitfalls go, but nothing as bad as "ground moves while you're trying to cross it" Blighttown.
Solaire is actually not that great a summon and there are lots of folks out there who make decent partners for that particular fight.
Anor Londo itself is also a pretty good spot to farm once you're past the archers: bring a parry-capable shield and equip a nice weapon and you're in business. You can pretty much one-shot most of the knights with the right weapon - either a silver or black knight longsword will do the job nicely.
If it helps any, Smough is weak to fire, while Ornstein resists lightning. Personally, I find Smough easier to deal with after power-up than Ornstein, though.
Solaire is actually not that great a summon and there are lots of folks out there who make decent partners for that particular fight.
Anor Londo itself is also a pretty good spot to farm once you're past the archers: bring a parry-capable shield and equip a nice weapon and you're in business. You can pretty much one-shot most of the knights with the right weapon - either a silver or black knight longsword will do the job nicely.
Solaire turned out to be useless: I got invaded while summoning him, the other player appeared in the same room, and he plus the two Sentinels murdered both myself and Solaire. :shakefist. I hate greifers, and that one had half a star on his Rep score (Xbox's way of rating players, goes up to 5 stars). I tried to go the boss battle alone, but I got cornered and died in three hits (even with Havel's armor).
I two-shot the knights with my Zweihander (got it up to a +10 today, and I want to keep upgrading it).
If it helps any, Smough is weak to fire, while Ornstein resists lightning. Personally, I find Smough easier to deal with after power-up than Ornstein, though.
Everyone does; Smough's power-up just increases his damage (and changes his resistances), while Ornstien's changes his move list and makes him harder to predict.
Actually, there are two NPCs to get pyromancy spells from in the game (they both teach different spells too) besides the guy you probably freed waaaaaaaaaaaaay back on your way through the Undead Burg. One of them is a covenant (I forget her name, but basically, you trade humanity for going up levels in said covenant). THAT'S the one with the most damaging Pyromancy spells in the whole game. The other one can actually make your Pyro glove go above +15, plus she teaches a crapton of spells herself. While it is true that the Pyro glove is the only investment you need for pyromancy to work, it DOES have a hard cap - and the enemies don't. You also need to invest in attunement for multiple spell slots. So you can't rely on pyromancy all the freaking time...
That said, intelligence-based magic and gear can get pretty freakin' nasty...
You've dropped the Drake Sword for the Zwei, good good. Drake Sword is no good to keep around.
If you're still fighting Pikachu and Snorlax, two things of note. The only way to find humanity at this point, short of backtracking (not recommended) is dropping sign and helping others. This is because none of the silver knights have humanity, fun fact. They're gods/giants after all. (Well, not really, but that's another story...)
Now I always kill Super Pikachu, cause Leo Ring everyone. Personally I don't think he's that much harder than Super Snorlax, but I suppose I can see where they're coming from. If you do happen to get a summon, for the first part you can have the summon draw aggro from one while you deal with the other. After that it mostly depends on which one of the supers you're fighting, but I'd always keep yourself above 1/2 hp. If you're low on supplies, don't be afraid to play defensive and draw aggro so your summon can wail on him.
Super pikachu's electro-butt stomp is a killer, and he spams it often. I found shields work better than rolling. Grass Crest has pretty good electric resistance.
After this is done, the Lordvessel is yours. I'll be interested in knowing what Lord you seek out first.
I have various things to say about Dark Souls...
First is that the part i found most annoying to play through was Sen's Fortress with a close second being the Library after Anor Londo, especially after the auto-death to Seath.
Second is that Blighttown is REALLY easy if you bring a bow and snipe stuff out of the way before you get there. Manual aiming on the bow absolutely ROCKS, and can even make you able to completely bypass all of New Londo by sniping the dude that's up the tower (forgot his name), and getting the Key that unlocks the path to the turn-thing, thereafter you have a new path opened up that's Firelink -> New Londo - Valley of Drakes (bridge part).
Third is that Pyromancy is completely and utter OP, and if you farm the souls you get in the dragon-guarded bridge when he breaths fire and kills all the Hollow Soldiers, you can then fast-track to Lower Undead Burg, kill Capra Demon, go to the Depths and free the pyromancy guy. Then, spend all your multiple-thousand souls into pyromancy upgrades, and go to Blighttown. In Blighttown, look for the woman that's Queelag's sister and teaches pyromancy, and farm souls until you get Pyromancy Gloves up to +15 and have bought all the spells. Shouldn't take long - Each trip up the bridge to the dragon gives you 555 Souls, and you can repeat that in about 15 seconds per run. After you've done that, you can power-through almost the entire game by just spamming Pyromancy that'll 1-hit-kill almost every mob, and even 1-hit-kill or 2-hit-kill almost all bosses with Power Within (which you get in Blighttown, and is just OP and amazing). You can up the damage of Pyromancy by quite a lot by farming Humanity, too. You simply go into the depths, and farm the rats, preferably using the Gold Serpent Ring from Sen's Fortress, until you go to about 30, which is when it stops scaling pyromancy IIRC. You don't even need a goddamn weapon, and can even beat the game at SL1 - as has been proven by multiple youtubers. But how about Queelag you say. She's immune to all pyromancy you say. Well, get a fast-firing bow, hundreds of arrows, and keep shooting at her female body. It has no poise and anything you hit said part with will poise break her and make the spider unable to move. There's also a safe spot in the area where you can do this from. Easily.
Fourth is that Magic is also completely OP, but not so much as Pyromancy, since you actually have to gain levels and stuff before magic really becomes an asset. You also need specialized gear, and Pyromancy doesn't. You can be anything and still have Pyromancy Maxed Out, whereas magic you need to spec for it. It's still very much powerful. In the beggining it's shit. But after you get Greater Soul Arrow and Greater Heavy Soul Arrow, both of which you can get just after Lower Undead Burg, and eventually Homing Soulmass and it's Greater version, which you can get after Sen's Fortress when you know what you're doing, it becomes insanely powerful.
That's actually the 5th thing i wanted to talk about. Dodging. Dodging is really much, much better than armor, in 99,9% of the game. You can actually complete the game naked because there are NO situation where you're forced to tank a hit (1st Seath fight doesn't count since it's an auto-death either way - and that's why you procured a rare ring of sacrifice before then - That's also my biggest pet peeve with the game. NO GAME WHATSOEVER should force an auto-death). I don't like using Havel's Set for that reason, because it forces mid-rolling even with topped Endurance. It's always better to be less protected, but have the fast roll, than to have an awesome protection and mid-roll. You'll die much more if you aren't able to dodge. This is from experience... Only time it MAY better to wear armor is in PvP, if you use strength weapons and such, because then you can tank poise hits and still dish out the hurt.
The main asset of Havel's armour is the high poise, not it's resistances. The main argument for the heavier armours is their increased poise value, which light armour can't replicate without sacrificing a ring slot.
The Leo Ring dosen't actually boost parries-it boosts counters. The Hornet ring boosts parries, while a counter hit is a strike on an opponent during a swing animation. Hitting someone with a Warpick and Leo Ring will probably splatter them across the highway of eternity, and is probably one of the real arguments for using Hammer class weapons.
Also, grinding up levels or gear, then complaining the game gets easy, is a little weird. It's easy because you overleveled your gear, what did you expect to happen?
Can't drop sign, I have to be human. I can backtrack to the Painted World and farm the Painted Guardians, but I may have to go back into the Depths and massacre rats.
Would you recommend kindling the bonfire? I may backtrack to Quelaan and upgrade my Estus Flask to +5 (since I murdered the Anor Londo Firekeeper), but I'd have to sever my covenant first.
My first priority is whoring myself out to each of the covenants to get their abilities (except the Way of the White). After that I may hit up Nito.
QuoteThat's actually the 5th thing i wanted to talk about. Dodging. Dodging is really much, much better than armor, in 99,9% of the game. You can actually complete the game naked because there are NO situation where you're forced to tank a hit (1st Seath fight doesn't count since it's an auto-death either way - and that's why you procured a rare ring of sacrifice before then - That's also my biggest pet peeve with the game. NO GAME WHATSOEVER should force an auto-death). I don't like using Havel's Set for that reason, because it forces mid-rolling even with topped Endurance. It's always better to be less protected, but have the fast roll, than to have an awesome protection and mid-roll. You'll die much more if you aren't able to dodge. This is from experience... Only time it MAY better to wear armor is in PvP, if you use strength weapons and such, because then you can tank poise hits and still dish out the hurt.
If needed I can switch to the Black Iron set at my leisure (or the Silver Knight set). I like Havel's because I can two-hand my sword and murder the mooks without worrying too much.
Yeah, high poise is awesome. My dodging skills aren't that good, so being able to tank hits is more important to me. The Leo Ring sounds very promising for me, since I do like to interrupt people (even with my sword's low speed).
Any advice for someone who is just starting out the PC version?
Any advice for someone who is just starting out the PC version?
Actually, there are two NPCs to get pyromancy spells from in the game (they both teach different spells too) besides the guy you probably freed waaaaaaaaaaaaay back on your way through the Undead Burg. One of them is a covenant (I forget her name, but basically, you trade humanity for going up levels in said covenant). THAT'S the one with the most damaging Pyromancy spells in the whole game. The other one can actually make your Pyro glove go above +15, plus she teaches a crapton of spells herself. While it is true that the Pyro glove is the only investment you need for pyromancy to work, it DOES have a hard cap - and the enemies don't. You also need to invest in attunement for multiple spell slots. So you can't rely on pyromancy all the freaking time...
That said, intelligence-based magic and gear can get pretty freakin' nasty...
Any advice for someone who is just starting out the PC version?
Any advice for someone who is just starting out the PC version?
I seem to recall a request for TBS games, and I have discovered another one. Wasteland 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/) on Steam. It's in early access right now, and it look like it's based off the great old Fallout 1&2 games!
Actually it is based off of Wasteland 1 which Fallout 1 was inspired by IIRC. :P
Actually it is based off of Wasteland 1 which Fallout 1 was inspired by IIRC. :P
Yeah, I learned that after watching the videos on Steam about the game :blush And here I was not knowing anything about the original Wasteland (which comes with the early access purchase!)
Oh, that game. I wonder if Madagascar is still the final boss.
I am in love with War for the Overworld.
It even turned one of the throwaway lines from DKII into the hatchery replacement. :O
Another Dark Souls noob question:
I've been using all my Titanite shards on upgrading a Spear because I like the reach and the fact that you can block and attack at the same time. Am I shooting myself in the foot for later? Is there a better spear-category weapon I should hold out for?
I don't recall any particular required bosses having extreme lightning resist, whereas there are a few with fire resist. Santuary Guardian in the DLC does though.
Neither can be enchanted with Magic Weapon, Sunlight Blade, etc. If you plan on using these spells, you will want to use a standard spear class weapon basic upgraded +15. In this case, choose the one which weapon set you feel most comfortable with, the damage difference is negligible.
Another Dark Souls noob question:
I've been using all my Titanite shards on upgrading a Spear because I like the reach and the fact that you can block and attack at the same time. Am I shooting myself in the foot for later? Is there a better spear-category weapon I should hold out for?
Since this is my source for Dark Souls info, is there any word about what's going to happen to it after GFWL dies? I have it for PC via Steam, but have been wary of diving into it b/c I was worried that all my progress would be erased or I wouldn't be able to play multiplayer, etc.
Maybe we should split the thread, or at least make a new one.
Maybe we should split the thread, or at least make a new one.
that would be best imo, we did it with skyrim back in the day....
So I recently bought Fire Emblem: Awakening. I am new to the franchise, and chose "classic mode." As I really don't want to permanently lose any party members, I'm doing a lot of trial-and-error to get through battles with zero casualties on my side.
Does anyone here have any advice for newcomers?
So I recently bought Fire Emblem: Awakening. I am new to the franchise, and chose "classic mode." As I really don't want to permanently lose any party members, I'm doing a lot of trial-and-error to get through battles with zero casualties on my side.
Does anyone here have any advice for newcomers?
Just when i thought Dartcraft couldn't be any more of an OP minecraft mod than it already is, i come upon this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-5jGon7Gg8I hadn't even heard of that mod, and now... Jeeeez. Yeah.
A single item, the Time Torch, that can speed EVERY tile entity, block update, machine updates... EVERYTHING in a certain radius, to RIDICULOUS levels, and if you have more than one the effects STACK.
Now the mod isn't just OP anymore, it can completely destroy servers. I don't even CARE how expensive it is to make. There is NO way to balance out that thing. It's so ridiculously overpowered, and when combined with other mods... Well, INSANITY happens. With Magical Crops you could already make a farm for every single resource in the game. Now you can also make those farms NEAR INSTANTLY mature to a level so ridiculous it would be pointless to even play the game outside of creative anymore. You already could make it super fast with Lilypads of Fertility (Xeno's Reliquary) + Lamp of Growth from Thaumcraft + Watering Can from ExtraUtilities, but if you combine all that with Dartcraft, i think it would crash your game. I'm even tempted to try this out on creative to see if the game would crash due to the number of entities being simultaneously displayed.
I just hope packs start sacking Dartcraft altogether after this, or at least this item is made to config default disabled. The Force Tools and the Force Engine are already OP by themselves, and it's just too easy to get Liquid Force for your force infusing. And you can achieve ridiculous Fortune levels by enchanting your body armor with Fortune as well as your Pick, and then add Grinding and Smelting just for the heck of it and get an insane ingots from a single ore you mine, more than you would get by processing it with any other mod with maybe the exception of RotaryCraft, and that mod is Gregtech HARD in order for you to figure out how to balance out the Speed/Torque and Power the machines produce in order to make anything function.
People always talk about how EE2 was unbalanced and it made the game unfunny after you got to the point where you had a Power Flower going on. But you had to work pretty hard in order to get the EMC Values to actually MAKE the Power Flower, and by that point you had already achieved what was pretty much endgame in Minecraft. A few quarries set up, energy requirements met for them, a stable IC2 power source that is capable of processing the output of your quarries, and possibly a Logistics Pipe system that autocrafted stuff for you and made you able to request items on the fly from anywhere.
Dartcraft is worse than EE2. It gives you insanely powerful options right off the bat, and obsoletes any other mod start in terms of how fast you can progress in it's tech tree - Like being able to pack and move an entire base by nesting forced-wrench chests into eachother, giving you fly earlier than any other mod except maybe Morph, the Bleeding enchant, that can cause endless deaths if stacked high enough on a player. Unsatisfied with that, it also makes it impossible to have a balanced pack with Dartcraft included by introducing ridiculous items that knowingly will cause very overpowered interactions with staple tech mods.
I refuse to play a pack that has Dartcraft included. It has reached that point where i can't even just ignore the mod and don't use it, i need to actively tell people that the mod is garbage and not to use it unless you don't care about difficulty, progressing on tech trees, and building up a base at all, and just want to reach creative on survival as fast as you can. I need to preach for it's removal on any modpack, for sanity reasons.
These days, mod authors that actively think about balance and cross-mod interactions when designing a mod are getting rarer by the minute. And i just can't grasp just why mods like that are so popular. Why don't just play in creative?
So I recently bought Fire Emblem: Awakening. I am new to the franchise, and chose "classic mode." As I really don't want to permanently lose any party members, I'm doing a lot of trial-and-error to get through battles with zero casualties on my side.What difficulty are you playing on?
Does anyone here have any advice for newcomers?
Killed my first boss in Dark Souls 2.
Gotta hand it to them for setting an awesome tone: killing the first boss in the game results in you extinguishing a species, since said boss is the last of its kind.
No such thing as an easy route in DkS2.
Here's how it goes: the game has a new mechanic wherein if you kill a given enemy a certain number of times, the enemy will stop spawning. Sounds like it makes things easier, right?
The game also has this mechanic, however, where your HP gradually diminishes with each subsequent death (maxes out at 50%). You can restore this loss by using an item, the Human Effigy.
Unfortunately, what this basically means is that if you die a sufficient number of times going for a boss fight, you'll eventually have to fight said boss in such a state that the slightest mistake proves fatal. And you can't really grind your way out of the mess, either, since you'll eventually run out of farmable enemies.
There is a way to restore the enemies, of course. It's an item that restores ALL of them (boss included if you killed it), but makes them harder. Higher damage, higher HP, higher defenses. Said item has irreversible effects (it is not yet known whether a NG+ resets the difficulty or not).
There's lots of whining going on at Gamefaqs because of this mechanic right now.
Speaking of pack depreciation. Buildcraft is pretty worthless. All it offers is a couple of engines to produce energy (ic2/thermal does it better), item transport (applied energistics is unbeatable), and a method to auto mine (thaumcraft's arcane bore, computercraft's turtles, minefactory's stuff, redpower's block breakers & frames, god I could go on forever). BC is almost entirely depreciated the moment you start adding more packs in, it's just their Quarries auto load chunks and are pretty simply to make with no a intelligence requirement to upkeep. IC2 at least supplies methods of power and things to expend it on (armor, resource extensions, auto-processing, etc). Thermal Expansion does this as well and there are pros and cons in each. TE might break the bank on energy loops, more complicated upgrading, and it's crate storage has minimal impact with AE involved. IC2 offers new trees, armor, tools, but for some reason people bitch about Solar Panels.I have people telling me to drop IC2 and BC2. Build craft works with TE and Forestry without a converter. Guess which one I'm dropping?
Whatever you do through, do not install Gregtech. Oh, it's sell point is to make IC2 harder to "extend the game", but dear god what a f*cking pain in the ass. It's not very well made, capable of royally fucking you over (try overclocking an industrial furnace), and has a skyrocketing learning curve that without a wiki NEI tells you it has an impossible circulatory loop (I think it's the machine blocks, they require X but NEI says X is only made from ins. furances which require 34 machine blocks to build). The only positive side to Gregtech is you can use it's Industrial Centrifuge to convert Lava to Tin, Copper, Tungsten, and Electrum. Electrum in turn can be resent through to produce Silver & Gold. Works great with TE thanks to both the infinite energy loop (fixed in 3?) and ability to manufacture lava. Free ingots for all!
Now, in the other packs. Bees suck and annoying as hell without applied energistics stacking the bees for you, it also has no real return rate for use. Forestry is pretty lack luster, certain trees are impossible to create without finding key biomes and establishing a house there (aka impossible with one-claim-only servers), and it's return rate is barely functioning colored blocks (can you use upside stairs yet?). Instead, just pop in the Twilight Forest. Now not only do you have several new wood types to play with, you have actual zones for armed players to hunt for and invade. No joke, the Ghast Towers without flight take highly equipped characters to survive. TW also adds new items, weapons, armor, and some very cool blocks to play with. Like the vanishing one makes a nifty door or even piston free pit drop, hedge blocks are like cacti but can be placed next to each other and damage you while mining them. And honestly, BC's quarry crash bug makes you fight a hill for it's resources rather than cheating up some danger-free auto-mining.
I also second Thaumcraft. Very amazing pack. Consumes quite a bit researching and I could do without Vis griefing the hell out of people, but it's very unique with some very useful items. Rest I'd look at would be support. Minmap, NEI/TMI, anti-grief (if going live), iron chests, maybe flat bedrock, and so on. Stuff people tend to take for granted but forget they are separate mods. Just don't go too overboard with modpacks, Minecraft is a very sloppy game coded by what I can only presume are Mac Users. It's pretty easy for this block game to consume more resources than it takes to run two X-Box 360 games simultaneously.
Yeah, after watching Northernlion review, and then summarily fail hard at let's playing Banished, I had to get it. With the tips I got from the first 3 let's play comments, I crushed it on normal difficulty, so now I'm trying hard. The massive drop in starting materials and lower starting population, not to mention only a wagon for storage, makes it significantly harder to start, but it's a good challenge now.
A few starter tips for newbies, don't make farms initially, they're mid-game stuff, after you've established a good foundation. Put a forester's hut, hunting lodge, herbalist hut, and gatherer's hut together out in some woods, and don't log those trees, with the exception of the foresters who only chop down old growth. Initially, put 3 hunters and 4 gatherers to work, 1 herbalist, 1 forester, and you'll find you have a good food income start. Oh, and make 5 or 6 starting houses on normal, or 4 on hard. Make them wood houses, because you can upgrade to stone later when you have sufficient supplies stored.
Speaking of pack depreciation. Buildcraft is pretty worthless. All it offers is a couple of engines to produce energy (ic2/thermal does it better), item transport (applied energistics is unbeatable), and a method to auto mine (thaumcraft's arcane bore, computercraft's turtles, minefactory's stuff, redpower's block breakers & frames, god I could go on forever). BC is almost entirely depreciated the moment you start adding more packs in, it's just their Quarries auto load chunks and are pretty simply to make with no a intelligence requirement to upkeep. IC2 at least supplies methods of power and things to expend it on (armor, resource extensions, auto-processing, etc). Thermal Expansion does this as well and there are pros and cons in each. TE might break the bank on energy loops, more complicated upgrading, and it's crate storage has minimal impact with AE involved. IC2 offers new trees, armor, tools, but for some reason people bitch about Solar Panels.
Whatever you do through, do not install Gregtech. Oh, it's sell point is to make IC2 harder to "extend the game", but dear god what a f*cking pain in the ass. It's not very well made, capable of royally fucking you over (try overclocking an industrial furnace), and has a skyrocketing learning curve that without a wiki NEI tells you it has an impossible circulatory loop (I think it's the machine blocks, they require X but NEI says X is only made from ins. furances which require 34 machine blocks to build). The only positive side to Gregtech is you can use it's Industrial Centrifuge to convert Lava to Tin, Copper, Tungsten, and Electrum. Electrum in turn can be resent through to produce Silver & Gold. Works great with TE thanks to both the infinite energy loop (fixed in 3?) and ability to manufacture lava. Free ingots for all!
Now, in the other packs. Bees suck and annoying as hell without applied energistics stacking the bees for you, it also has no real return rate for use. Forestry is pretty lack luster, certain trees are impossible to create without finding key biomes and establishing a house there (aka impossible with one-claim-only servers), and it's return rate is barely functioning colored blocks (can you use upside stairs yet?). Instead, just pop in the Twilight Forest. Now not only do you have several new wood types to play with, you have actual zones for armed players to hunt for and invade. No joke, the Ghast Towers without flight take highly equipped characters to survive. TW also adds new items, weapons, armor, and some very cool blocks to play with. Like the vanishing one makes a nifty door or even piston free pit drop, hedge blocks are like cacti but can be placed next to each other and damage you while mining them. And honestly, BC's quarry crash bug makes you fight a hill for it's resources rather than cheating up some danger-free auto-mining.
I also second Thaumcraft. Very amazing pack. Consumes quite a bit researching and I could do without Vis griefing the hell out of people, but it's very unique with some very useful items. Rest I'd look at would be support. Minmap, NEI/TMI, anti-grief (if going live), iron chests, maybe flat bedrock, and so on. Stuff people tend to take for granted but forget they are separate mods. Just don't go too overboard with modpacks, Minecraft is a very sloppy game coded by what I can only presume are Mac Users. It's pretty easy for this block game to consume more resources than it takes to run two X-Box 360 games simultaneously.
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Thaumcraft 4
Ars Magica
Buildcraft 2
ThermalExpansion
Forestry
ExtraBees
ThaumicBees
Mekanism
NotEnoughItems
Applied Energistics
Tropicraft
...Mod that makes all the rubber/ copper/ tin/ etc interchangeable.
...Some sort of minimap?
I really like how hard isn't harder due to any rules changes, just what you start with. And since I want to place myself without having to build around an already built structure (or demolish it later) I just play on hard. In my current game I've come back from 8 people left, only two of them capable of having children. So yes. Everyone in my current 200+ village is related. I don't think I could ever play easy because of how it starts you with houses....that are too close together for a market in the middle and too far apart for anything else. If you could choose where these things were at the start that would be awesome.
In regards to Fire Emblem Awakening:
So, I've pretty much used Master Seal items on characters whenever they hit Level 20. The exception was Donnel, who I expected to transition into something truly badass after Villager. It was not to be, instead I used a Second Seal to make him into a Mercenary.
Now Panne's a Level 20 Taguel, and I notice she doesn't have a typical level cap, much like Donnel's Villager class.
Is using Master Seals a good idea long-term? Is there any good reason to use Second Seals? I already have a very well-balanced team (although Gaius is the only one with thief abilities), so changing classes to entirely new roles isn't a large concern for me.
Picked up "Risk of Rain" today. Hard game. Fun, though.More details please?
Anyone have strategies for it?
Picked up "Risk of Rain" today. Hard game. Fun, though.More details please?
Anyone have strategies for it?
What'd they add?
What'd they add?
Shooed in Chrono Cross references. That game has no business being a Chrono Trigger sequel.
Not totally sure about this, but there was a new sidequest area added after the fall of Zeal that was absolutely atrocious. Basically just a chain of fetch quests and gimmicky boss fights with no lore. There were also a few areas added after beating Lavos that aren't very interesting, either.What'd they add?
Shooed in Chrono Cross references. That game has no business being a Chrono Trigger sequel.
come to think of it, can anyone remember a Toriyama character with no muscle tone that was also not a girl?)...To be fair Akira Toriyama's prime was the mid 80s to mid 90s. Everyone loved big burly muscle men.
Jason Thompson declared Toriyama's art influential, saying that his "extremely personal and recognizable style" was a reason for Dragon Ball's popularity.[7] He points out that the popular shōnen manga of the late 1980s and early 1990s had "manly" heroes, such as City Hunter and Fist of the North Star, whereas Dragon Ball starred the cartoonish and small Goku, thus starting a trend that Thompson says continues to this day.[7] Toriyama himself said he went against the normal convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size, designing many of the series' most powerful characters with small statures.[46] Thompson concluded his analysis by saying that only Akira Toriyama drew like this at the time and that Dragon Ball is "an action manga drawn by a gag manga artist."[7] However, James S. Yadao, author of The Rough Guide to Manga, points out that an art shift does occur in the series, as the characters gradually "lose the rounded, innocent look that [Toriyama] established in Dr. Slump and gain sharper angles that leap off the page with their energy and intensity."[47]Is quite true. Everything from Kid Goku to perfect form Freeza, Vegata's Super Saiyen vs Super Saiyen 2, and Kid Buu. His characters end up like an 80s manly man, but he's always shot for the smaller guy means more power.
Chrono Cross was a decent-but-not-great attempt at tackling the ideas of fate, destiny, and the philosophical side of chaos theory in much the same way Chrono Trigger tackled time travel and paradoxes. At least that's what I think the underlying idea was supposed to be -- I was young when I played it and it gets jumbled up pretty badly in the middle because of just how many little side-stories there are going on in the game.
The way Chrono Cross is a bit of a forced sequel to Chrono Trigger is because...(click to show/hide)
If I had to quantify functional a relationship between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, I'd say it's less a sequel and more a spinoff in the same way that SaGa was a spinoff of Final Fantasy... I think. There are a few copies at my local game shop, maybe I'll pick one up and try playing it again.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3874-Warlords-of-Draenor-6-0-Patch-Note-Preview-Warlords-of-Draenor-6-0-Patch-Note-Preview has me in stitches. I love Blizz's April Fool's stuff.
Crabs have been removed from the game... because if I see another one I’m just going to totally lose it. *sobbing* I’m sorry, I just can’t right now... I just... OK just give me a minute, I’ll be OK.
All hail Nivlac, Eredar Lord of the G.R.O.S.S. Legion!I still like Elsa/Jack Frost, to be honest... Tsundere Ice Queen / Undead Teenage Winter Spirit...
Also, I now want Disney to buy out Blizzard so that Else can be introduced into the World of Warcraft to redeem Arthas. Hey, it'd be a better love story than Twilight.
I saw a hilarious pic of that, but I didn't watch Jack Frost and don't plan to, sooo....All hail Nivlac, Eredar Lord of the G.R.O.S.S. Legion!I still like Elsa/Jack Frost, to be honest... Tsundere Ice Queen / Undead Teenage Winter Spirit...
Also, I now want Disney to buy out Blizzard so that Else can be introduced into the World of Warcraft to redeem Arthas. Hey, it'd be a better love story than Twilight.
Better love story than Twilight.
FTL: Advanced is out. It. Is. Awesome.Eh? What did it add?
FTL: Advanced is out. It. Is. Awesome.Eh? What did it add?
FTL: Advanced is out. It. Is. Awesome.I'm having a little bit of trouble getting past sector 5. :(
...wouldn't it be easier to start a new game?
And Then Smash Happened (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJBPMcbRkk&feature=youtu.be)Froakie has the greatest net coolness evolving to Greninja than any other Pokemon in the game.
...wouldn't it be easier to start a new game?
No, see, the progress I'm talking about carries over. You unlock the things by winning, I want to reset that so I don't have any of the unlocks. I tried deleting local content and redownloading, but it didn't work.
I think since they have Greninja, Squirtle won't be returning.And Then Smash Happened (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJBPMcbRkk&feature=youtu.be)Froakie has the greatest net coolness evolving to Greninja than any other Pokemon in the game.
EDIT: Also, I hope this means they're de-comissioning Pokemon Trainer as a fighter, and instead just adding Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard as individual characters.
Pfft, that's nothing, you should try playing Dominions 4 one of those days. Sending lone units to attack armies is relatively common, and the community even has terms like Thug (highly mobile commander that can solo small groups of enemy troops, ideal for harassing) and Super Combatant (can shred trough a virtually infinite number of non-elite enemy troops). At least as long as the RNG gods aren't displeased with you, since the game uses "exploding" dice mechanics. Also combat is always run by AI, players can only choose to give orders before battle, then your commanders follow them to the best of their ability. And by "best of their ability", I mean that they sometimes just do whatever the please.
For example, just today I had an Ermor assassin attempt to sneak attack my vanilla priest that was busy sacrificing virgins to my pretender god.
This should've been a one-sided bloodbath. In Dominions 4 an assassin can force a 1x1 duel against an enemy commander, bypassing the rest of the troops stationed at the province. And while the assassin has great combat stats, dualwields poisoned daggers and whatnot, a vanilla priest has no armor or weapons to speak of, physical stats of a militia, and their lv 1 holy magic contains zero spells that can harm an human opponent, being more focused on damaging undead/demons or boosting troop's morale.
But wait! Since the priest was assigned to sacrificing virgins, said virgins are brought along to the duel. Forming a defensive ring around the priest. The assassin aproaches and quickly eviscerates the poor drugged girls.
Then the vanilla priest steps up. And punches the assassin. And criticals, one-shotting him!
Now, Ermor in the Middle age is PERFECT for this kind of strategy... Because they already HAVE units with massive undead leadership and casters that are able to right-out-of-the-bat animate hordes of undead.That's mostly a fluff reason, since the game has a background story that connects all ages. Early age is kinda supposed to be all rainbows and flowers, the world's filled with life and magic. Medium age things start getting more gloomy, and Late Ages is kinda preclude to apocalypse as Death spreads everywhere along with industrialization. So early ages there's no undead-only faction, but Late ages almost every faction has Death magic of some sort.
But i haven't found a suitable counterpart in the early ages. The Yomi seem to have some commanders with half-decent undead leadership, and the nation itself has interesting casters that have high-death and also other useful domains, so i can summon some more interesting undead like the Manekin and the clockwork undead i forget the name of.
But it's no match for Ermor in the Middle Ages... But i wanted to play in the Early ages! :/
Shades and ghosts are beastly units so long as the other side has no priests to banish undead, but then you can always summon some beefy flyers to go over quickly and dispatch any enemy priests before your army gets in range of the banishment... Wraiths are also beastly, and undead are excellent for expanding territory because you can stack hundreds of units without having to worry about supplies, since they don't eat.Well, you're kinda lucky you're playing against the AI, because human opponents can and will punish you if you rely only on undeads. There's a late game spell that can outright steal all your undead army in battle at once actually, which the AI will never be able to get.
The other problem i've been having is that water nations are TOO OP. I mean, most nations DON'T have easy access to amphibians, and the units you can hire in coastal regions are complete shit compared to what is brewing below the ocean. I've found that having a pretender god able to cast at least lvl 4 Water seplls is a must, because then you can summon Kraken and own faces... But then said pretender has to be able to go under water, and for most land nations, that's going to be the Master Lich - Which is completely sucky while underwater, and extremely easy to kill.Well, if you're playing with thrones, you probably don't even need to go underwater, so you can just ignore them.
Tell me your secrets... The manual is 400 pages and i've been struggling with the mechanics. I've found out the hard way that overexpanding eventually ends up with loads of unprotected provinces ripe for the taking, and spaced out commanders that can't defend your homeland when inevitably it ends up getting sieged. Turtling is also a no-go, you gotta expand at least some, else you won't be able to amass troops quickly enough. Temple is a must, but it's 400 gold per, and a Fortress is also needed at least on borders so you can produce more of your sacreds and have defensible positionson weak spots...Dominions is indeed a very deep and complex game, and every nation has its own tricks but here's some general strategy that's useful
But then, no money for army! Arrrrrgh it's so frustrating trying to figure out what is a nice balance of offense and defense and micromanage military placement! But, i've found out a BEASTLY combination of units from Helheim who went undefeated throughout the entire game - Huskarls on the front line tanking the army for the valkyries to take out the commander, while two squads of cavalry (sacred of course) surround the enemy from the left and right flanks and go for the rearmost units, all the while the Hangadrott is constantly buffing the cavalry and casting AOE Air spells. It was fucking perfect. I had 80 units and managed to beat a 200+ army with that setup. WITH NO CASUALTIES.Ah, the wonders of sacred cavalry. You should try one of the giant nations.
I still want to play with casters, though.Knowing casters is one of the key parts of Dominions 4. First, you should recruit as much of them as possible. If you're not recruiting a mage every turn in your 3 first fortresses, you better have a very good reason. This will speed up your research and unlock much more options as you get a bigger magic variety.
That's one of the things i found interesting about the game. If you can get your army composition just right, it can steamroll almost everything the AI throws at you, unless you're trying to siege a fortress with 200 units in garrison - At which point you'll take so long to break the siege, your units will be diseased and starving and will be steamrolled by the multitude of mooks. Which makes a hell of a lot of sense if i can say so myself.If you're having so much supply problems, you should consider crafting Bags of endless Wine and other magic items that grant extra supply. Nature mages also produce extra supply, and make it possible to have negative supply in a province for the lulz.
I assume that Construction and Conjuration are the two schools to master first, followed not long after by Alteration and Thaumaturgy? I liked Alteration a lot more after i saw you can change heat scales of provinces with it permanently. SIGNIFICANT production boosts to important provinces if you can get the heat scale to what's preferred by your race. Thaumaturgy seems like a good school with a lot of utility to it, and construction just works very well because great magic artifacts are so damn good.You don't really want to rush to master any particular school. As you already noticed, it eventually becomes a crapload of points.
I tend to go for Chrone or Great Sage as my Pretender forms because of the 10pp cost for new magic schools, so i can have everything on level 5 with a few tweaks here and there and a dormant god. But i'm beggining to think this may not be ideal, since if i could reduce the level of some schools i could have him be an awake god and start my research 10~13 turns earlier, which might be ideal, since it's bound to be a very hefty research bonus. 5 in all gave me 103RP per turn, enough to go from 0 to almost level 2 in one turn.Honestly, if you're relying on your pretender for research, you're doing it wrong. Taking a human wizard sage with lots of different low magics is a viable plan-if you use them for site searching and crafting items and casting rituals your national mages cannot. Every faction has some sort of low level mage that you can mass produce at your secondary sorts for your research needs. Anyway, everything at level 5 is basically a waste of design points. You can perfectly afford to just grab 2 on most paths, then craft items to boost it up. Use leftover points to grab order and growth scales to boost income and get recruitable mages to do the boring study work.
What do you think is best - a Warlike Pretender that doubles as a commander with big bonuses, a Scholarly Pretender that supports by casting and forging items - Hybrids that can double roles?It depends heavily on the nation. Some have great magic variety with their national mages, and thus their Pretender is best being a combat machine. Other nations have horrible magic variety, and then indeed a scholar Pretender is most welcome. But again, remember that magic 5 in all paths is not really a very good plan.
Tartarian factory and sacred jaguar warriors and communion combos oh my!
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Hoping to discover more strategies with these and other nations and comment them later.
Yeah i've had trouble with giants before. Found out the best way to deal with them is arrow fire, and i do mean arrow FIRE, because fire arrow is just awesomesauce all around. Gives em' a way to bypass etherealness AND 8 points of fire armor piercing damage? Yes?Arrows target an area, and big monsters fill a bigger area, so yes big monsters (and big armies) are easier to hit than lone/scattered humans.
I really don't know what the RNG is behind arrow fire, but, from experience, archers have a much higher precision when targetting large enemies. Which is why you NEVER go with a Giant Pretender SC against a bunch of archers before you get very good protection against arrows. They get pincushioned and die. And it's kinda pitiful, an awakened ancient being being slaughtered by a bunch of savages with arrows. But... There.
Which is why you get a pretender with Awe if at all possible, to try and get as much aggro out of him. If Domscore 10 wasn't so goddamn expensive, i'd put it into SC Pretenders, but that drains almost all of the points and leaves pitiful amounts for magic & scales.Well, again, that may be viable against the AI, but against an human player, if they notice you have a weak dominion, there's a bunch of ways they can rush-push their dominion against you and instakill you.
I've also noticed it's absolutely unnecessary to mess around with scales unless you're going to be spreading your dominion. The scales only get changed if you get your dominion to that province, and the only way to get dominion to spread is by building temples in key provinces that link to at least 6+ other provinces, and propheting away as your army advances.
Of course, spamming temples become quite possible by the later stages of the game, when you already have big armies and lots of troops and have secured yourself quite a large swathe of the map. I've RARELY seen the A.I using stealthy troops to get provinces in the middle of my territory. It's annoying when it happens, but it's so easily taken care of i don't even bother much. For that, a good contingency is having a capable flying squad, like you said, to retake lost provinces. Tien'chi gets the Celestial Hounds as flying sacred summonable troops, and later Demons of Heavenly Fire, and Tien'chi is already pretty much engineered to research and get spells & items going, having nearly all paths of magic and all. So, site searching is quite easy, and you get a ton of gems. Relatively easy to get to Conj 5 and pump demons and hounds every turn until you get a good sized squad ready to go when you need to quickly retake some provinces.Haha, yes, when you're winning, eventually you have more gold than you know what to do with. :P
If PD1 is all you need on most provinces, then i've been extremely overkilling, because most of my provinces are set to at LEAST PD15, which gives them a chance of detecting stealthy units, and the choke points i go for 40 or 50 PD with a fortress. This makes it very hard to siege the fortress, and the forces are most of the time significantly reduced when they do manage to siege it, making it so that i can muster a counter-attack before they can storm the fort.
But, i've been going with Prod2 and growth 3 on Tien'Chi and spreading dominion like crazy, so my income is extremely high, so high that i don't have anything else to spend it on but beefing PD. Not like i need multiple 400+ armies to take over the world or anything. Haven't played on a map big enough to need it.
I've... Been meaning to try other strategies, like dominion push strategies, eliminating enemy dominion to win the game with much less fighting. Pangaea is pretty good at doing this... And i like the fact that Pans auto-produce cannon-fodder for me to throw away as meat shields while my ranged troops wreak havoc amongst enemy ranks.But see, that's the beauty of giant nations-You don't need to pump them out like crazy!
But... I didn't play Nieflheim or any of the Giant races yet. They are a bit complicated to play with because of the high cost of the troops. Takes some strategy to build enough resources & income to pump out giants like crazy. Fact they like cold is kind of nice, though, since many spells, abilities & summons become more powerful in cold provinces.
Finished with finals, so it's time to take on Blighttown. Wish me luck!
I wish you find a master key and take the shortcut like any reasonable person would. :p
Game Dev Tycoon is fun. Also on offer today. Go buy it. : D
Rumours! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=812089)
Rumours! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=812089)
And now further evidence! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YvHBxv-3Y)
Seriously, Beast Souls (or whatever it ends up being called) looks freaking amazing! Dark Souls with wild west guns? Hells yeah!
Don't know how i feel about Beast Souls, on one end it is OMFGWTFBBQ Dark Souls Grimdark Western GAMEPORN YESYESYES.
On the other hand, feels like cheap capitalization on the innovation they managed to start on a dusty genre that started all the way back at Demon's Souls. And they didn't even bother to produce a sequel to that game, instead starting another franchise with a starkingly similar backstory, exact same engine and gameplay, and then starting a sequel on that (because it made more hype, not really because it was a better game, although it was, on several aspects. But they really had to straight-out copy characters, backstory wholesale in many parts, and even characters?).
The one thing i'm finding about Demon Soul's is, i think i liked the atmosphere of that game a bit better in Tower of Latria has a BLOODY GREAT atmosphere that i don't think any level of Dark Souls has to offer in comparison. I feel the rest of the game is a bit underwhelming, in comparison to Dark Souls, though, if i have to be honest. The closed-off ending to Demon Soul's didn't rule out a prequel, or a return of the Soul Art or the Old One, even though the Good Ending is bit closed off, the Bad Ending could be chose as canon and make for an easy sequel.
Oh well.
Terraria's mine cart and fishing patch... <3
Splatoon caught my attention for "I want to try out whatever they were drinking when they designed this game":
-You play asan human that can turn ona squid that can turn into an human.
-Your weapons shoot ink, with the members of each team sharing the same ink color.
-Besides being able to take down opponents, ink also splatters on the floor and walls, turning it to your side's color.
-In squid form you can't shoot, but you move much faster while upon ink-covered surface of your team's color, plus being harder to detect, being able to bypass certain terrain obstacles, and even moving up walls.
-At the end of the match, victory goes for the team that has covered most of the map in their color!
People will surely call me crazy, but I believe there's plenty of potential for fun in this title.
Also, Hyrule Warriors allows you to play as the Zelda girls saving Hyrule for a change! I'm sorry Link, but our princess is conquering another castle. :D
Because it was the hardest stage in the game?The controls are amazingly streamlined compared to the knight game on the Atari and even Flappy Bird likes it's extremes.
Everything else was super easy compared to that shit.The sewer jump in stage 3 requires perfect alignment and limited usage of the jump button to even make it to the platform let alone deal with the respawning enemies that attempt knock you into the water forcing you to go through the building again and in PC port this is literally impossible to do (can't do the correct hop size). After that there is a rooftop section that murder-fucks anyone that doesn't wait ten minutes for the NPC to walk off the edge.
From the perspective of one of the creators/directors, (Miyazaki?), they prefer no sequels. So, in some sense, DSII is a fluke.
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/772/921/b22.gif)At first I was like :twitch
Iwata and Reggie confirmed as characters for Super Smash Brothers! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qc7SA1QqVI)
Because that worked soooo well for Sega, right? :rolleyes
Third party will follow when Wii U starts selling better due to Zelda U/SSB/Bayonetta 2/Xenoblade Chronicles/Hyrule Warriors.
What the WiiU really needs is to make a deal for an only on the WiiU game from a third party....
What the WiiU really needs is to make a deal for an only on the WiiU game from a third party....
You mean like, Bayonetta 2, that's only been mentioned at least a dozen times in this thread, including in the post before and after yours? :eh
ahh, upon looking to see what PlatinumGames Inc. has made, It looks like I have never heard of any of them. So to me it looks like a niche game/publisher.
ahh, upon looking to see what PlatinumGames Inc. has made, It looks like I have never heard of any of them. So to me it looks like a niche game/publisher.
Oh my god. I'm... I'm so sorry.
Please, go play Metal Gear Revengeance or.... maybe W101 or something. Just.... you need to be saved brother. Am remember to LET'EM RIP.
I believe you may recognize a game or two by Platinum, from when their original members were under a different name: Team Viewtiful ...
trappedslider -- What you are basically saying here is...
1) First party Nintendo games don't interest you.
2) Developers who made 3rd-party exclusives for Nintendo consoles don't interest you.Apparently I don't know very many of the smaller publisher's would be more correct
3) You'd rather spend the money it'd cost to buy a WiiU + 2-3 games on JUST an XBox One.Xbox one has the following games that appeal to me coming out : The Halo collection, the new CoD, Watch Dogs ( which is out now and I can play it on my xbox 360. But from what I read the folks working on the WiiU port are looking at how to integrate the game pad for a way better experience but that wont come out till the fall :( ) Destiny,Battlefield: Hardline (which odd because I didn't like the other BFs lol)
So tell me, why the hell do you care about the WiiU? Nintendo is NOT marketing to you because you've already clearly made up your mind that you're not going to buy one.
For fuck's sake, if you own a wii, play freaking Okami. Seriously. I may be wrong but at one point Platinum was Clover, right?ahh, upon looking to see what PlatinumGames Inc. has made, It looks like I have never heard of any of them. So to me it looks like a niche game/publisher.
Oh my god. I'm... I'm so sorry.
Please, go play Metal Gear Revengeance or.... maybe W101 or something. Just.... you need to be saved brother. Am remember to LET'EM RIP.
Okami is veeeeeeeery very good indeed. And it's so much better to play it on a Wii. Drawing in the air is very very fun;
Huh, I would have thought Okami would be higher-priced, but on Amazon it's only $25 or so.It was popular on the PS2 and was re-released on the Wii with some extra content and graphical upgrades, where it became a must-own for anyone who didn't have the PS2 version.
Capcom is now open to buyout. (http://shoryuken.com/2014/06/17/capcoms-takeover-defense-ends-after-shareholder-vote-open-to-buyout/)
I am not particularly surprised by this, given the absolute FIASCO that was Resident Evil 6...
Capcom is now open to buyout. (http://shoryuken.com/2014/06/17/capcoms-takeover-defense-ends-after-shareholder-vote-open-to-buyout/)
And Ubisoft is cranking out the lies to cover their asses over why Watch Dogs on PC contains hidden graphics files from last year's E3 that made it look so good then but so terrible now. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-20-ubisoft-explains-why-watch-dogs-on-pc-contains-hidden-graphics-files) Hell, there have been reports that by turning those old files back on, the stuttering issues in the game actually disappear, so the game improves performance because of it! The exact opposite of what Ubisoft is saying!
Oh for fuck's sake, the graphics are fine.
I'm terribly sorry if the industry pampered you in that department, but everyone AND THEIR DOG who owns the PC version has already pimped out their copy with all the prettiest graphics packs they can get, it's what the whole "PC Master Race" argument is about. "No console version will ever be as pretty as the PC!"
I am SO sick and tired of hearing people complain about the graphics in Dark Souls 2. THAT'S WHAT MODS ARE FOR.
I wanted to be challenged in new and interesting ways. I was. I wanted to face new bosses. I did (well, some of them were basically just bigger humanoids with large weapons, that much I'll grant).
Yes, Dark Souls 2 wasn't designed by the same director. Said director is currently working on Project Beast. Get over it.
Oh for fuck's sake, the graphics are fine.
I'm terribly sorry if the industry pampered you in that department, but everyone AND THEIR DOG who owns the PC version has already pimped out their copy with all the prettiest graphics packs they can get, it's what the whole "PC Master Race" argument is about. "No console version will ever be as pretty as the PC!"
I am SO sick and tired of hearing people complain about the graphics in Dark Souls 2. THAT'S WHAT MODS ARE FOR.
I wanted to be challenged in new and interesting ways. I was. I wanted to face new bosses. I did (well, some of them were basically just bigger humanoids with large weapons, that much I'll grant).
Yes, Dark Souls 2 wasn't designed by the same director. Said director is currently working on Project Beast. Get over it.
Kuro, it's not so much about "PC is master race" as it is that the company didn't deliver the product as originally advertised. We should expect quality products regardless of the system. We should absolutely hold the developers to their promises lest they think they can half-ass the products and try to screw the consumers. We should demand excellence.
I'm not sure who i'd want to buy Capcom....
I'm not sure who i'd want to buy Capcom....
I'm not sure who i'd want to buy Capcom....
Nintendo.
Oh for fuck's sake, the graphics are fine.
I'm terribly sorry if the industry pampered you in that department, but everyone AND THEIR DOG who owns the PC version has already pimped out their copy with all the prettiest graphics packs they can get, it's what the whole "PC Master Race" argument is about. "No console version will ever be as pretty as the PC!"
I am SO sick and tired of hearing people complain about the graphics in Dark Souls 2. THAT'S WHAT MODS ARE FOR.
I wanted to be challenged in new and interesting ways. I was. I wanted to face new bosses. I did (well, some of them were basically just bigger humanoids with large weapons, that much I'll grant).
Yes, Dark Souls 2 wasn't designed by the same director. Said director is currently working on Project Beast. Get over it.
Kuro, it's not so much about "PC is master race" as it is that the company didn't deliver the product as originally advertised. We should expect quality products regardless of the system. We should absolutely hold the developers to their promises lest they think they can half-ass the products and try to screw the consumers. We should demand excellence.
Oh for fuck's sake, the graphics are fine.
I'm terribly sorry if the industry pampered you in that department, but everyone AND THEIR DOG who owns the PC version has already pimped out their copy with all the prettiest graphics packs they can get, it's what the whole "PC Master Race" argument is about. "No console version will ever be as pretty as the PC!"
I am SO sick and tired of hearing people complain about the graphics in Dark Souls 2. THAT'S WHAT MODS ARE FOR.
I wanted to be challenged in new and interesting ways. I was. I wanted to face new bosses. I did (well, some of them were basically just bigger humanoids with large weapons, that much I'll grant).
Yes, Dark Souls 2 wasn't designed by the same director. Said director is currently working on Project Beast. Get over it.
Kuro, it's not so much about "PC is master race" as it is that the company didn't deliver the product as originally advertised. We should expect quality products regardless of the system. We should absolutely hold the developers to their promises lest they think they can half-ass the products and try to screw the consumers. We should demand excellence.
I'm not sure who i'd want to buy Capcom....
Anyone who wants to take that massive library of beloved IPs and have the company make great games with them again ...
I'm not sure who i'd want to buy Capcom....
Anyone who wants to take that massive library of beloved IPs and have the company make great games with them again ...
Square-Enix has been surprisingly proactive about keeping the IPs of the many companies it absorbed relatively alive (particularly Eidos). It might even mean we'd get to see another Breath of Fire game.
I like how the company has been turning around so far, its treatment of FF notwithstanding...
Just because we're complaining about the dressing doesn't mean we don't complain about other parts of the game as well. Personally, i haven't played a lot of Dark Souls 2 yet, just about an hour or so, because i haven't bought the game yet, though a friend brought it over and i dicked around with it for a bit. I've watched a lot of gameplay footage, though, and while the graphic is much superior than it's predecessor, it's nowhere NEAR the level of detail that was advertised in the trailers & early gameplay footage.
And it's more than that. They've made the torch useless. Remember how in early gameplay footage we'd hear all that jazz about how the game would be dark & gloomy and you'd absolutely need a torch in order to see in some areas? That's all but gone, the one area i've seen that's really dark and needs the torch are the ones prior to the rat covenant - no other area needs it.
And the difference is MAJOR. You just need to look at parallel gameplay footage in order to see it. The trailer/early gameplay has MUCH better contrast, blacker blacks, whiter whites, it has much more particle effects going on (look at the sparks from the torch, just look at how they're in the trailers/early gameplay and then in the actual game). The difference is SMALLER on the PC Release, but it's definitely NOT small, it's huge. Even the models for some of the armor, weapons and scenery has much better quality in the early gameplay footage and trailers.
Now want to know what's REALLY sad about that? It's that the trailer/early gameplay was on THE PS3, and it STILL had much better graphics than what it has now, and it still ran at smooth 30fps, which, for PC is kind of bad, but for consoles it's the standard. Do i feel cheated because of it? Hell yes, i do.
When we got Miss Moxxi's Underdome in Borderlands 1, we got a MEGA DLC that added a BANK (something we didnt have prior), a big and fun, difficult, 10 stage slaugtherdome, and a metric shitton of fun. The Creature Slaughter in Borderlands 2? Single map, 5 rounds, done in about 30 minutes, or less if you have good gear.
I should mention that no one liked the Tomb of the Giants in Dark Souls 1, and the easiest form of illumination (And if you're not using a guide, probably you're only one) there took up one hand slot. I'd imagine most people wouldn't have enjoyed most of the game requiring you to use one hand for a Torch.
I actually don't care about loot unless it's purple or orange in Borderlands 2, because of the golden keys. I currently have over 200 banked, and every 5 or so levels, I spend a couple dozen outfitting my character with a new set of all purple gear, and then over the next few weeks, I get enough codes for more golden keys to refill what I've expended. Plus, if I were to ever get down to 50 or so left, I know the PC trick to keep all my golden keys, and could then just use them indefinitely to maintain my purple gear at level. Nothing like always sporting a purple Bandit rocket launcher, purple Jakobs sniper rifle with +180% crit damage, a purple Torgue assault rifle, and one other purple gun as suits my mood, plus a purple class mod, purple grenade mod, and purple shield. I leave on the rare loot increase relic, just to improve the chance of finding an orange.
i'll talk about Diablo 2: Lord of DestructionWoot, a game I've played!
In higher level play, uniques, set items and runewords completely dominate play, yes, but...How is this not exactly what you were complaining about with BL2?
NOT farming a boss for THREE STRAIGHT HOURS in order to get ONE DROP that has a 1/300 chance of dropping.I was a fairly casual D2 player. And, we're referencing something from like decades ago. But, the hardcore D2ers that I know would regale me with accounts of hundreds, if not thousands of Baal, etc. runs with stacked magic find. This strikes me as comments made through rose-colored glasses. That's fine, D2 was a fucking awesome game. But, it doesn't need nostalgia to make it more awesome.
So, I guess I'd prefer a set-up where awesome gear can drop fairly organically within the game.
Ahem ...In higher level play, uniques, set items and runewords completely dominate play, yes, but...How is this not exactly what you were complaining about with BL2?
And ...NOT farming a boss for THREE STRAIGHT HOURS in order to get ONE DROP that has a 1/300 chance of dropping.I was a fairly casual D2 player. And, we're referencing something from like decades ago. But, the hardcore D2ers that I know would regale me with accounts of hundreds, if not thousands of Baal, etc. runs with stacked magic find. This strikes me as comments made through rose-colored glasses. That's fine, D2 was a fucking awesome game. But, it doesn't need nostalgia to make it more awesome.
Also, I think high-end gear/play in all these games gets kind of crazy. It's hard to build a loot system that works when people are at best in slot or near best in slot gear. The one good thing BL has going for it is that different pieces of gear can substantially affect your playstyle and your experience.
As a side note, I have a lot of ambivalence about various loot systems. I do sort of like BL's (and Diablo 2's, if memory serves) drop rates associated with specific bosses. Meaning that if you want a given run or a Hellfire you can farm Scorch or some dead barbarian chieftains. On the other hand, I find boss running tedious. And, it kind of leads to deformed tactics and builds. I kind of just like playing the game -- you come across bosses and so you need to plan for them, but you don't equip yourself 100% for them. Or, if you do, with something like BL2's raid bosses, it's not a career b/c you don't have real incentive to run them 940,000 times.
So, I guess I'd prefer a set-up where awesome gear can drop fairly organically within the game. So, your incentive is just to kind of keep running around. This might wreck the rarity element, I suppose, but in a world of duping and save game editors, I'd rather put the emphasis on the end-user experience, even if that is at the expense of some sort of in-game economy nonsense.
Duping in BL2 (and 1) was really easy because there's nothing the developers could possibly do to stop it (on console). I'm not sure how PC worked, but on console it is literally impossible to stop duping without having games auto-save constantly. But you know what? It doesn't really matter. The game was not meant to the ultra balanced from the start. It's not a competitive game, it's not a hardcore game, it makes fun of hardcore games. There are loots that literally call themselves out for being unbalanced. My only issue with the loot is what I said earlier, too many useless whites and greens. Blues, purples, and oranges were all useful in their own right. I have used a blue gun for much of various characters because it was a great drop, and I've even shared it back because it was so amazing. Same with purple. I don't know why you haven't seen any of the lower tier weapons/equipment better than some oranges, because I certainly have.
Didn't say D2 was a flawless game - no game is flawless. But give me one better example of a good loot system?DDO.
On Diablo 2 you had to know the people you ran Baal/Mephisto with so that they wouldn't ninja loot the crap out of whatever droppedAhh the good ole days before instanced loot and ninja looting was another method of greed & griefing that pissed everyone off. Horrible times.
First off, from my understanding duping was an epidemic in D2. As were hacks, etc. So, it's unfair to complain that Borderlands has that problem without recognizing that D2 did as well. I seem to recall Stones of Jordan being used as currency ...Uber Diablo requires thousands of them to be turned in to spawn server wide as a SoJ sink, hilarious when you think about it.
Can we just have it read into the record that Diablo 2 was the quizatz haderach of loot mechanics and move on?Sure, and I agree with you wholly. Let's talk DDO's loot now ^_^
I'm going to point to the fact that the idea that rares can trump legendaries on a perfect roll, but that roll will be very unlikely, was very much implemented in a game fairly recently. By Blizzard no less. And, it was by all accounts a disaster. To the point where no less than a dozen hotfixes were introduced to eventually abandon that approach. I'd suggest looking at the response to D3, both critical and fan, and then see if that influences you're thinking. It also has the "real economy" that you tout as an example of D2's awesomeness. It was so awesome and cool that they got rid of it.D3 had a battery of problems, not just loot. The problems they created because of poor endgame balance, a complete lack of character customization, and a poorly implemented RMAH meant that they had to get the loot pretty much perfect just for the game to not be shit. They didn't.
Which is to say whatever it is that makes D2 the One True Way, it's not that stuff. Or, at least not solely that stuff.
And, I'd have to ask my friends, but I believe their reports were that the absurd "economy" (due to duping and bots) in D2 made trading a less than fun experience.It was fine if you went to a fansite like diabloii.net and trade on their forums instead of trying to get noticed in the spamfest trade chat channels. If you wanted hacked or duped gear on Ladder in D2, you generally had to hunt for it pretty hard. Casual traders wouldn't come across them.
Have I mentioned that back when Diablo3 was released, so was PSO2, pretty much, and it was (still is!) fun, free and rid of anything except cosmetic microtransactions?Now that you mention it, have you managed to log to PSO2 in recently? Seems like they suffered a ddos attack that took the servers down for some time, and I haven't been able to log in for the last couple of weeks, altough that may also be because I'm using PSO tweaker for easier patching.
If you want a successful, entertaining game where Uniques do not necessarily out-weigh endgame rares, then play Path of Exile. You don't have an excuse not to because it's free and funded by microtransactions.I've actually tried PoE. But, I couldn't really get into it. The skill system was a bit ... involved, which led it to be opaque. Or, more opaque than even most other aRPGs are nowadays. That, and I also wasn't in love with the gameplay, which is pretty essential. I might try it again at some point, though my time is tightly limited.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the 3DS!!
Oh my god I'm go impossibly happy right now I finally got this~
I only got into the series with Tri on the Wii, but that became my freakin favorite thing ever, ever.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the 3DS!!
Oh my god I'm go impossibly happy right now I finally got this~
I only got into the series with Tri on the Wii, but that became my freakin favorite thing ever, ever.
I've never gotten into Monster Hunter before, how is that game? It always struck me as Dark Souls + Pokemon, except it's Gotta Kill Them All.
It's epic boss fights the game <3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is another game with a heavy focus on boss fights, even if it's a spectacle fighter with only mild RPG elements. Just keep in mind that the game does expect you to know how to play,- button mashing against anything but the first boss will get you ground into a thin, red paste.
Too bad it had next to zero to do with actual fucking Metal Gear Solid.
i got invited to take part in the beta for Warlords of warlords of draenor :coolAwesome~
A new thread, or many spoiler tags, methinks. Are "cheevos" achievements?yeah, i'll do a new WoW thread when i play again and get more screenshots
WoW is aging. When is Blizzard going to start development on a new WoW instead of shitting out an expansion every couple of years? They've already got years of hands-on experience on making the most popular MMORPG of all time and at one point the most popular online game of all time, and WoW subscriptions are dropping every year. The game has aged. A shiny new engine with shiny new graphics would bring in lots of new players and i might even play it as well. There's also the fact that if they made a new game people would have to start over and there wouldn't be a massive content gate you need to traverse in order to get to end game, which i assume is getting to become quite a problem with a massive game like WoW. It's not like they don't have enough money or expertise, so what's taking them so goddamn long? The game is what, a decade old?
I'm going to disagree, I don't think blizzard is going to be going anywhere anytime soon despite what some folks want or think.
I'm going to disagree, I don't think blizzard is going to be going anywhere anytime soon despite what some folks want or think.I think they laid off a substantial number of people a while ago. And, they already merged with a much larger company. So, yeah, I don't think they are going anywhere -- there's little reason for Activision to try and get rid of the brand at this point.
I'm going to disagree, I don't think blizzard is going to be going anywhere anytime soon despite what some folks want or think.I think they laid off a substantial number of people a while ago. And, they already merged with a much larger company. So, yeah, I don't think they are going anywhere -- there's little reason for Activision to try and get rid of the brand at this point.
My point was that Blizzard is not particularly relevant to the video game space: their most recent titles have been expansions or console ports. Nothing remotely approaching innovative, and their revival projects (Starcraft, Diablo) have been marred with numerous false starts. Their proposed new projects have stalled and been scrapped after years of development. These are not typically a good sign in any field, especially a competitive one like high end video games presently is.
Rather you can't kill an MMO that is already dead in the water :v
WoW's just a floater right now.
i'm getting the feeling that neither one of you enjoys WoW or blizzard :v
EDIT: just like i'm not a current fan of how Nintendo is currently operating
i'm getting the feeling that neither one of you enjoys WoW or blizzard :v
EDIT: just like i'm not a current fan of how Nintendo is currently operating
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge fan of Nintendo :v
There's yer problem :lmao
i'm getting the feeling that neither one of you enjoys WoW or blizzard :v
EDIT: just like i'm not a current fan of how Nintendo is currently operating
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge fan of Nintendo :v
There's yer problem :lmao
Haters gonna hate :P
i'm getting the feeling that neither one of you enjoys WoW or blizzard :v
EDIT: just like i'm not a current fan of how Nintendo is currently operating
The only thing I dislike about Nintendo is how they created the "casual" plague that now sweeps the entire world.
The only thing I dislike about Nintendo is how they created the "casual" plague that now sweeps the entire world.
Coincidentally, Nintendo actually recently stated that they also hate how they create the "casual" plague and wanted to cater to core gamers this whole time :eh
The only thing I dislike about Nintendo is how they created the "casual" plague that now sweeps the entire world.
Coincidentally, Nintendo actually recently stated that they also hate how they create the "casual" plague and wanted to cater to core gamers this whole time :eh
i'm getting the feeling that neither one of you enjoys WoW or blizzard :vConsider me jilted. Like Kuro, I was disappointed with D3. And, just with their products in general. The Starcraft resurrection has been mismanaged, etc. I am not into MMOs at all, so my feelings on WoW are essentially nil. I judge the game company by the quality of its products, and then a bit by the quality of their service, relationship to the community, etc. By my estimation, they have not done well, and that's while sitting on some prime video game IP.
EDIT: just like i'm not a current fan of how Nintendo is currently operating
Blizzard is hardly the only big game producer that can be accused of stagnation nowadays.
What number is after Call of Duty nowadays? 6? 1741? Kinda lost count. And then all of its clones.
Then there's stuff like the latest version of Civilization an dungeon keeper.
And everybody seems to be doing "remastered" versions of their previous games nowadays. "Pay full game price for slightly shinier graphics!"
The thing is that Wow keeps making great money for Blizzard. Perhaps not much as before, but still more than enough for them to keep supporting it. And the guys in charge see that data and go "Why should we bother doing an innovative mmo when people paying every month for the same old thing?".
And similarly while people keep buying Call of Duty and Halo +1 and remastered versions, company executives will keep churning them out. Because there's plenty of people buying those.
I blame Sony and Microsoft for having started the graphic warz, where they brainwashed countless people that it doesn't matter how crappy gameplay is as long as it has high frame rate and pretty textures and glow effects.
Anyway, it looks like Blizzard is too busy nowadays entering the freemimum model like Heartstone (that I've heard is quite popular, even if I never played it myself) and Heroes of the Storm.
I blame Sony and Microsoft for having started the graphic warz, where they brainwashed countless people that it doesn't matter how crappy gameplay is as long as it has high frame rate and pretty textures and glow effects.
What's wrong with the newest Civilization? They keep putting out relatively cheap DLC that actually revives the game for me. Like, whole new take on it revival. I know I would be done with the game if it weren't for the DLC.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/08/29/new-nintendo-3ds-reveal/
Fall line up for the WiiU http://www.examiner.com/article/wii-u-schedule-released-with-games-from-now-to-2015
Fall line up for the WiiU http://www.examiner.com/article/wii-u-schedule-released-with-games-from-now-to-2015
Is that... every game that launches in that window?
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/microsoft-said-to-be-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-minecraft-maker/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 MS in talks to buy MinecraftDidn't Notch / Mojang / someone high-up make a comment about not having Minecraft "certified" for Windows 8 a bit back?
As long as the development team doesn't change I don't see why that will happen....
While Mr. Persson is said to accept that he may not stay for more than six months if a deal is struck, Mojang is pressing to try to ensure that Microsoft retains its younger developers.
Soro, they actually shut down the server-bullshit (I know that much, possibly the mods as well, can't remember) when the EULA changes happened? Or at least I think that's when it was. I remember that there was a big "donations can't change what you can do in the game" ruling by Mojang, so donators could only get different-colored names or something.As long as the development team doesn't change I don't see why that will happen....QuoteWhile Mr. Persson is said to accept that he may not stay for more than six months if a deal is struck, Mojang is pressing to try to ensure that Microsoft retains its younger developers.
Honestly, nothing but good news. The game is coded poorly and consumes way to much in resources to run and it's an utter bitch to mod it. And unlike modding back in the glory days, everything users sided is about money. Want to download my coding pack? Watch PlanetMinecraft's advertising to pay for the link collection, watch my adfly bullshit (sometimes x2 or x3 in a row) for the actual file link. Servers activity attempt to limit users to help them create a micro-transaction market, such as Economy and the dumb housing mod that hooks into it (spend real money, claim more land!) or marking certain items (alchemy bags) as donator tier 3 only. It's all bullshit.
Microsoft, even being a greedy bastard, can't make it worse and they won't banhammerz mods since that's a huge reason for Minecraft's success, but their forced code standardization and optimization will be amazing.
I really really doubt that last part will happen. the PC version is already TOO advanced for an xBox. The console will be able to moderately emulate the features of the PC, but PC will always be more advanced. And if somehow they do stall PC development until console is caught up or ahead in version number, the PC will always have an advantage in being able to outperform the console. In other words, the most it could possibly do, is make it so that the console is a beta version of the PC version to come.
Soro, they actually shut down the server-bullshit (I know that much, possibly the mods as well, can't remember) when the EULA changes happened? Or at least I think that's when it was. I remember that there was a big "donations can't change what you can do in the game" ruling by Mojang, so donators could only get different-colored names or something.Have you read the EULA?
ONE MAJOR RULE
The one major rule is that you must not distribute anything we‘ve made. By “distribute anything we‘ve made” what we mean is “give copies of the game away, make commercial use of, try to make money from, or let other people get access to our game and its parts in a way that is unfair or unreasonable”. So the one major rule is that (unless we specifically agree it – such as in brand and asset usage guidelines) you must not:
* give copies of our Game to anyone else;
No brainer.
* make commercial use of anything we‘ve made;
This year the CEO of ALS will make over one million dollars in personal profit off a none-profit organization simply by soliciting for donations.
try to make money from anything we‘ve made; or
They don't make mods and are not hosting the server.
* let other people get access to anything we‘ve made in a way that is unfair or unreasonable.
* They didn't make the mods people limit either.
…and so that we are crystal clear, what we have made includes, but is not limited to, the client or the server software for our Game. It also includes modified versions of a Game, part of it or anything else we‘ve made.
Otherwise we are quite relaxed about what you do - in fact we really encourage you to do cool stuff - but just don‘t do those things that we say you can‘t.
PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
Not disagreeing a word of that. But remember when M$ promised that Halo would come out on PC shortly after Xbox? And how many years later did that happen? They have a hard-on for making one of their consoles finally turning a profit, and will readily screw over PC users every chance they get just to boost console sales, games sales be damned.
Hell, look at the latest Tomb Raider game. M$ ensured console exclusivity for an indeterminate amount of time (last I had heard, anyway) just to try and boost Xbone sales.
PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
Not disagreeing a word of that. But remember when M$ promised that Halo would come out on PC shortly after Xbox? And how many years later did that happen? They have a hard-on for making one of their consoles finally turning a profit, and will readily screw over PC users every chance they get just to boost console sales, games sales be damned.
Hell, look at the latest Tomb Raider game. M$ ensured console exclusivity for an indeterminate amount of time (last I had heard, anyway) just to try and boost Xbone sales.
PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
On the other hand, it's about a bazillion times easier to pirate...I don't know about that.
I wonder if services like Steam are essentially iTunes-ing (yeah, I'll make that a word now) game piracy. iTunes is a good example that if you make it easy for people to buy something, and it's not absurdly expensive, they just will do that rather than bother jumping through hoops, even fairly easy ones, to pirate it.PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
On the other hand, it's about a bazillion times easier to pirate...
I wonder if services like Steam are essentially iTunes-ing (yeah, I'll make that a word now) game piracy. iTunes is a good example that if you make it easy for people to buy something, and it's not absurdly expensive, they just will do that rather than bother jumping through hoops, even fairly easy ones, to pirate it.PCs will always be more powerful on average than consoles. And they will always have more tools for use than consoles. For example, mouse and keyboard gives PC much more versatility with the game than consoles can have unless they blur the lines between console and PC enough that the only difference is NO difference...On the other hand, it's about a bazillion times easier to pirate...
Also, there's the performance thing. PCs will have better performance. A major difference that WILL NOT CHANGE is that PCs have an arbitrarily large world, and the console will be capped. And a business reason they won't change the current release order: it's about 19765298456297465 times easier to check and fix bugs on a PC release than a console release. That way, they can get the new features out, get the stuff checked, balanced, and then release it on console. I would, however, expect a tighter schedule between updates and and port to console.
On the other hand, it's about a bazillion times easier to pirate...I don't know about that.
You have to wait for PC games to hit the torrent sites with the DRM completely ripped out of it and then you run into problems of the torrent being blocks by ISPs, claims made against you (typically by the ISP threatening to drop service), and the "game" is piggbacked by a trojen. It is however pretty ironic that hacked games run better than the full-versions.
Within a few months of the X-Box, 360, and probably the 360-again, their OSes are hacked to download entire discs. Heck, I was playing PS2 games on a friend's Xbox during that console generation. Computers can run emulators for console games pretty easily and the PS4's has already been released. Sure a PC is doing the pirating, but it's doing the pirating of console gaming which has little to no DRM to rip out giving you one quick and easy program to run most of the games per console out there.
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I got pointed at Humble by a friend to get Tropico 3 for free.Yeah, I got an email from them for that deal too. I loved Tropico 4 and Tropico 5 is pretty good too. Have no desire for 3, because, you know, newer ones I already have.... Seriously though. Banished. One of the best city building games I've ever played. Only major issue I have is the inability to flatten land/reuse quarry/mines for something. You might get some land that LOOKS okay, but there's a tiny 1-2 tile spot that blocks all construction.
Don't care for the game, but coincidentally I saw Jet Set Radio for like a lil' more than $1 there.
I remember this game from when was a wee thang. Yes I am definitely buying this :D
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...
I did that too, and now my game crashes when I try to put on or take off certain armor.
On a related topic, I hate how it's cheaper to buy the Legendary Edition than it is to buy the two DLCs that I don't have.
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...
I did that too, and now my game crashes when I try to put on or take off certain armor.
On a related topic, I hate how it's cheaper to buy the Legendary Edition than it is to buy the two DLCs that I don't have.
I haven't had a single mod-related crash or problem in my game for a long time. Have you tried using BOSS to solve your load-order problems? Most mod-related issues stems from having two or more mods modifying the same underlying game code, which can sometimes be made less disruptive by modifying load-order. What mod you think might be causing the issue?
On a different note blizz has officially canceled Titan https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-cancels-next-gen-mmo-170002288.htmlAw.
On a different note blizz has officially canceled Titan https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-cancels-next-gen-mmo-170002288.htmlAw.
That means more WoW, though, so... -shrug- They'll still make money hand over fist for a while yet.
On a different note blizz has officially canceled Titan https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-cancels-next-gen-mmo-170002288.htmlAw.
That means more WoW, though, so... -shrug- They'll still make money hand over fist for a while yet.
The MMO-Champion (http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4343-Blizzard-Cancels-Titan-Project) article says Blizzard is likely working on another project called Prometheus now, but it's just a rumor. Chances are the former Titan team isn't being added onto WoW or any of the other game teams, so they're doing their own thing.
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...My wife just got back into Skyrim. Can you tell me what your favorite mods are? We're on Steam.
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...My wife just got back into Skyrim. Can you tell me what your favorite mods are? We're on Steam.
I keep installing more and more mods on Skyrim...
I did that too, and now my game crashes when I try to put on or take off certain armor.
On a related topic, I hate how it's cheaper to buy the Legendary Edition than it is to buy the two DLCs that I don't have.
I haven't had a single mod-related crash or problem in my game for a long time. Have you tried using BOSS to solve your load-order problems? Most mod-related issues stems from having two or more mods modifying the same underlying game code, which can sometimes be made less disruptive by modifying load-order. What mod you think might be causing the issue?
Speaking of Skyrim mods, do they have any Zelda themed ones or do I have to use my imagination?
. When i'm done, every child in skyrim will have a Dwarven Bow.
I stayed up til sunrise plating Civ 5 last night. It's difficult to get a Culture victory when the other nations on your continent go for Military.
Any chance of a link?I stayed up til sunrise plating Civ 5 last night. It's difficult to get a Culture victory when the other nations on your continent go for Military.
I saw a beautiful Let's Play of a guy avoiding that pitfall. He basically got all the nations in his continent to keep warring on eachother and got them to funnel all their trade routes to him so that in 500+ turns he only had war declared on him once, and that only lasted a few turns, because the guy had to make peace with him in order to more effectively war on the other nations.
When the AI has too many trade routes with you they're much less likely to declare war on you because they end up economically depending on you. In some ways, having the other CIV's go for military victories can actually help you achieve a cultural victory because you're not competing for wonders.
The guy was playing Gandhi on Deity. It was amazing, totally worth watching 30+ episodes. Guy had only 3 cities for the entirety of the game, yet he still managed to push through 1000+ tourism per turn. Liberty is so OP when you go for a culture victory...
Why exactly are you calling making a sequel possible at all "bring it down"? Sony didn't give a single fuck. Microsoft didn't give a single fuck. EA, Blizzard, Activision, Sega, they didn't give a single fuck either. Nintendo gave Bayonetta a second chance. It's now up to the fans to put their money where their mouth is.
Besides, Nintendo had stabilized the Wii U and is currently making a profit out of it. (http://www.tweaktown.com/news/40836/nintendo-shocks-with-big-profit-turnaround-with-stronger-wii-u-sales/index.html) And they have more great games coming, like Zelda U and X. And I bet they have Metroid U on the works as well.
Not to mention the Wii U has been outselling Xbox One (http://bgr.com/2014/06/18/wii-u-vs-xbox-one-sales/) for some months now. So yeah, Wii U's second place and people still go around crying DOOOMMMEEEDDD! :eh
Why exactly are you calling making a sequel possible at all "bring it down"? Sony didn't give a single fuck. Microsoft didn't give a single fuck. EA, Blizzard, Activision, Sega, they didn't give a single fuck either. Nintendo gave Bayonetta a second chance. It's now up to the fans to put their money where their mouth is.
Besides, Nintendo had stabilized the Wii U and is currently making a profit out of it. (http://www.tweaktown.com/news/40836/nintendo-shocks-with-big-profit-turnaround-with-stronger-wii-u-sales/index.html) And they have more great games coming, like Zelda U and X. And I bet they have Metroid U on the works as well.
Not to mention the Wii U has been outselling Xbox One (http://bgr.com/2014/06/18/wii-u-vs-xbox-one-sales/) for some months now. So yeah, Wii U's second place and people still go around crying DOOOMMMEEEDDD! :eh
Each generation you see the previous generation of consoles essentially disregarded or whittled down. You know one of the cool things about the PS2? It could play PSOne games. As in pretty much all of them. Region lock was the only real issue. Then on the PS3, backwards compatibility was a thing at first, and then not at all, until Sony decided to pull its "PS2 classics" crap when they stated that the PS3 could never emulate PS2 games on any level after a certain point and the hackers proved them wrong.The Wii can play gamecube games. The Wii U can play Wii games.
I worry that Bayonetta 2 may remain exclusive to the WiiU even past the point of generation-switching, or in the event someone decides to code a WiiU emulator.
Such clickbait.
Much opinion piece.
How wrong.
Actually, this upcoming Black Friday I plan to finally get my Wii U. I had said before I'd buy it when they released the games I was waiting for, Bayo 2 and Smash. Well, that's coming to pass. Now I just need to avoid medical bills long enough to justify the purchase.
Why exactly are you calling making a sequel possible at all "bring it down"? Sony didn't give a single fuck. EA, Blizzard, Activision, Sega, they didn't give a single fuck eitherThose companies also don't give a fuck about the WiiU either i might add. Unless one of them has decided to support the WiiU oh wait no they don't
Such clickbait.
Much opinion piece.
How wrong.
Actually, this upcoming Black Friday I plan to finally get my Wii U. I had said before I'd buy it when they released the games I was waiting for, Bayo 2 and Smash. Well, that's coming to pass. Now I just need to avoid medical bills long enough to justify the purchase.
So any other games you want for it or is that just it?
There are others, those were just my main system sellers for me. Other things I want; Wonderful 101, Hyrule Warriors, maybe Monster Hunter, Star Fox, and of course the typicals (Zelda, Mario, etc).
I really hope they do well on the Star Fox. It's been so long I've nearly forgotten the sweet sweet taste of G-Diffusers.
Anybody want a copy of Insurgency (http://www.playinsurgency.com/)? I've got 3 to share. First come, first served.(click to show/hide)
Bloodborne is going to have a procedurally-generated area! (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-20-bloodborne-dev-teases-a-proceedurally-generated-area)
I think Bloodborne is gonna be the game that makes me buy a PS4.
Actually, this upcoming Black Friday I plan to finally get my Wii U. I had said before I'd buy it when they released the games I was waiting for, Bayo 2 and Smash. Well, that's coming to pass. Now I just need to avoid medical bills long enough to justify the purchase.
Actually, this upcoming Black Friday I plan to finally get my Wii U. I had said before I'd buy it when they released the games I was waiting for, Bayo 2 and Smash. Well, that's coming to pass. Now I just need to avoid medical bills long enough to justify the purchase.
I'm in the same boat. I want to get a Wii U this week to play Bayonetta 2 (which I actually already own...bought it to get Best Buy's Gamers Club Unlocked for $30), and to a lesser extent also Smash (omg, Shulk's in it! And Baten Kaitos got a song!) and Hyrule Warriors (mixing two of my 3 favorite series...what could possibly go wrong?). Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have all 3 or they'll be on their way to me.
Then next year is Xenoblade Chronicles and Zelda U. About time Wi U had some games I wanted. :)
Actually, this upcoming Black Friday I plan to finally get my Wii U. I had said before I'd buy it when they released the games I was waiting for, Bayo 2 and Smash. Well, that's coming to pass. Now I just need to avoid medical bills long enough to justify the purchase.
I'm in the same boat. I want to get a Wii U this week to play Bayonetta 2 (which I actually already own...bought it to get Best Buy's Gamers Club Unlocked for $30), and to a lesser extent also Smash (omg, Shulk's in it! And Baten Kaitos got a song!) and Hyrule Warriors (mixing two of my 3 favorite series...what could possibly go wrong?). Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have all 3 or they'll be on their way to me.
Then next year is Xenoblade Chronicles and Zelda U. About time Wi U had some games I wanted. :)
MONSTER HUNTER 4G NEXT YEAR WITH XENOBLADE & ZELDA U :love
One of these days I'd like to play Bayonetta 1. Blah...
One of these days I'd like to play Bayonetta 1. Blah...
Then get Bayo 2. Bayo 1 is in Bayo 2. And yeah, that means I have a duplicate now.
One of these days I'd like to play Bayonetta 1. Blah...
Then get Bayo 2. Bayo 1 is in Bayo 2. And yeah, that means I have a duplicate now.
Huh, I have more reasons to eventually get a Wii U then. But the next electronic anything I get has got to be a computer... This 10 year old laptop isn't cutting it anymore.
Huh... If the cart thing is accurate, you could actually upgrade the MSI to an i7 processor and 1TB HDD for the same $780. If that's the case then OMFG get it!
There are still some computers sold with Windows 7 due to demand, yes.
Alas, I can't give any firsthand experience with anything past Vista. This old thing still runs XP and I'm not confident in its ability to do 7 and still handle some of the software I have like Adobe CS2.
Laptops don't tend to have power issues, but there are exceptions here and there. Read through the comments to see if there are any glaring issues. In this case I don't expect there to be since ASUS and MSI tend to do pretty well.
As far as the two laptops go, if you're okay spending the $780ish on the MSI laptop then it will definitely be good for several years. The ASUS one is still good though. I'm not sure on the performance difference between the two CPUs and GPUs.
Huh... If the cart thing is accurate, you could actually upgrade the MSI to an i7 processor and 1TB HDD for the same $780. If that's the case then OMFG get it!
My only complaint about Win 7 is that I need to keep my graphics card un-upgraded in order to play Age of Empires 2 w/o all sorts of weird mixed up coloring issues and a massively shrunk play screen and that I can no longer play Diablo 2 at all. I guess you can't expect newer OS's to support old games forever, but I never had the issues back when my computer had Vista.
XP is great too, but I think they stopped supporting it (security updates, etc...) completely now, so running it is outright dangerous.
Yup, cost is the factor for me upgrading to Win7 from XP. And indeed there are no more security updates so this laptop is likely to get issues if it's not behind the filters and such my dad has set up for the house network.
I need to get a larger external hard drive for this thing, but that won't take much since upgrading from 160 gig or so ought to be cheap.
For reference, my current laptop is an Inspiron 8600 with 2GHZ Intel Pentium M and ATI/AMD Radeon 9600M. And 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM.
For reference, my current laptop is an Inspiron 8600 with 2GHZ Intel Pentium M and ATI/AMD Radeon 9600M. And 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM.
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600Kind of just a plain poor review isn't it?
The predecessor version of the ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility differs by its low clock speed and the worse Z-compression (was improved with 9700). In the beginning it was the fastest graphic card, which was available for notebooks, but nowadays it is part of the lower performance segment.
Beware of versions with 32 MB memory, in most cases they only have a 64 bit memory bus, which deterioriates the speed severely.
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro was a higher clocked version with 350 MHz core- and memory clock (compared with the 300 MHz in the standard version). ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro was a higher clocked version with 350 MHz core- and memory clock (compared with the 300 MHz in the standard version). Further only a version with 128 MB was allowed to get this name.Code: [Select]Manufacturer ATI
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Codename M10
Pipelines 4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader
Core Speed * 300 MHz
Memory Speed * 300 MHz
Memory Bus Width 128 / 64 Bit
Memory Type DDR
Max. Amount of Memory 128 MB
Shared Memory no
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DirectX DirectX 9, Shader 2.0
technology 130 nm
Features Powerplay 4.0, Hyper-Z II, SmartShader 2.0
Notebook Size medium sized
Date of Announcement 01.06.2004
Information 9600 Pro mit 350 / 350 MHz Taktraten und 128 MB Speicher
Link to Manufacturer Page http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityrade...
My only complaint about Win 7 is that I need to keep my graphics card un-upgraded in order to play Age of Empires 2 w/o all sorts of weird mixed up coloring issues and a massively shrunk play screen and that I can no longer play Diablo 2 at all. I guess you can't expect newer OS's to support old games forever, but I never had the issues back when my computer had Vista.
XP is great too, but I think they stopped supporting it (security updates, etc...) completely now, so running it is outright dangerous.
It's a problem with Explorer and there's a "fix" you can do in order to play AoE2 without weird coloring problems.
1. Open Notepad
2. Type:
taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe
3. Save as a .bat file
4. Use it to start the game
You shouldn't have any coloring issues. Weird fix, i know, but i've used it and it works.
Strangely enough, i've installed Diablo 2 here, played with SorO briefly on Hamachi and also had zero problems. I think you just need to make sure you have the latest patch and you'll have no problems. Maybe latest driver for your card as well.
D2 works fine on my Win7 Laptop. Even did a LAN based play though using Hamachi last spring.
Are you sure your issue is the "upgraded" video card you're talking about even works properly?
New Legend of Zelda trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECWlFInyFM)
SimCity 2000 is now free! Well, on Origin anyway... Which kinda means selling your soul to EA. http://kotaku.com/the-best-simcity-is-now-free-1669019578
Didn't matter what you used, Bio or Mech, you could easily carry yourself to victory with Terran.Yeah, I think the game designers are dangerously pro-Terran. They're probably in the pocket of the Big Human interest group :)
Dark Souls II HD to be released in about 4 months, as the ultimate "fuck you" to those who bought the game expecting to see the visuals that were promised on the early gameplay videos.
PC Gamers, ESPECIALLY, are being royally fucked over, because their systems could *easily* support the enhanced graphics that the new version is going to bring.
Thank the heavens i didn't buy DKS2 for PC.
I bought the special limited edition for its goodies, since I knew I was probably going to pirate it.Buy the official, use the pirate.
That's actually generally what I do.
I pirate a lot of games. If I spent more than 40 hours on them, I buy them.
All bow before the Glorious leader! (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3679215&pagenumber=1)
Ok, still just a kickstarter for now, but it seems both hilarious and awesome.
And that's what I get for posting while drunk... Here's the kickstarter link I meant to post. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/884592321/glorious-leader?ref=category) Thanks for pointing it out!
Anyone tried out Lords of the Fallen? According to the reviews, it's clearly Dark Souls-inspired, though with a different balance point and tone.
Personally, I've never had a chance to try out the Souls series. My free time is quite constrained, and that means that most of the gaming I do is of the coop variety. I'm also a little preemptively over the series, to be honest due to the way the company is managing it, viz. the various "fuck yous" to PC gamers as noted in above posts.
Since then, longtime Zelda series producer and director Eiji Aonuma has dropped plenty of hints. In a March 2013 interview in 4Gamer, Aonuma confirmed that the game will fully utilize tablet controls, and that it wouldn't be "traditional". In a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, Aonuma stated that the next title might feature a classic top-down perspective, similar to the 8-bit, 16-bit, and handheld titles.Doesn't that just make want to reach in, yank their head out of their ass, and show them the released game play videos from last years E3? No? Good.
Man, I'd love a top-down perspective in the new Zelda. Clearly not happening, though.
But yeah, not giving them a click.
Relatedly, I thought the main reason to get a Wii U, which I did last month, was for Bayonetta 2 (and later on Xenoblade Chronicles X). And while Bayo is just as good as the first game...I've barely touched it, Hyrule Warriors has been so good and addicting. Merger of two of my favorite series sucking in all my time, who'd have thought? :)
But it's pretty funny, I have probably nearing 100 hours on it now. Barely touched Bayonetta, and Smash is still sitting in the plastic wrap.
Man, I'd love a top-down perspective in the new Zelda. Clearly not happening, though.Have you played Link Between Worlds yet?
Man, I'd love a top-down perspective in the new Zelda. Clearly not happening, though.Have you played Link Between Worlds yet?
We should share names so we can beat each other up in Smash!Maybe once I start playing it, and set up a new router. Why can't Wii U have an ethernet port? :(
Man, I'd love a top-down perspective in the new Zelda. Clearly not happening, though.Have you played Link Between Worlds yet?
Yes! I literally bought a 3DS one year after getting a DS just because of that game. And it was worth it!
Still think ALttP is the best Zelda, but LBW is close.We should share names so we can beat each other up in Smash!Maybe once I start playing it, and set up a new router. Why can't Wii U have an ethernet port? :(
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
I for one welcome our new moon overlord!
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
I for one welcome our new moon overlord!
I don't
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
I for one welcome our new moon overlord!
I don't
You will. :plotting Oh, you will..... :smirk
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
I for one welcome our new moon overlord!
I don't
You will. :plotting Oh, you will..... :smirk
Only if you offer chocolate chip cookies made with love
Wait... You actually had to travel all the way to the border between North and South Korea just to play your Wii?!
Farther actually! Remember, Eiji lives on your moon silently judging you every day while he finishes construction on his Crust Destroyer 40,000. :D
I for one welcome our new moon overlord!
I don't
You will. :plotting Oh, you will..... :smirk
Only if you offer chocolate chip cookies made with love
Your order has been placed with Totally Baked Inc. Your cookies will be delivered shortly.
Fortunately, Eiji has recently returned after convincing some sap to sign away his marriage for a useless benefit, so he has a fresh shipment of love. They will be processed through the nightmare machines and developed into only the tastiest of cookie dough. Just for you.
Yes! I literally bought a 3DS one year after getting a DS just because of that game. And it was worth it!Agreed :D
I want to play Skyrim again... Try out new builds... But i can't be assed to repeat the starting quests again. Neither from the MQ nor from the various Guilds...
I want to play Skyrim again... Try out new builds... But i can't be assed to repeat the starting quests again. Neither from the MQ nor from the various Guilds...
You could just ignore the story and screw around....using alternate life alternate start that way you can bypass the normal start
I want to play Skyrim again... Try out new builds... But i can't be assed to repeat the starting quests again. Neither from the MQ nor from the various Guilds...
You could just ignore the story and screw around....using alternate life alternate start that way you can bypass the normal start
Here's the thing... I've already exhausted the pool of alternate starts for that mod. :(
I FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDd9276h4ZDo3RgOFGfcRbw7mUTScQ4S
Some one is making a Touhou game inspired by Super Smash Bros.!
:love :love :love :love :love
I FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDd9276h4ZDo3RgOFGfcRbw7mUTScQ4S
Some one is making a Touhou game inspired by Super Smash Bros.!
:love :love :love :love :love
I'm totally quoting myself for relevance~
This. So much this :love
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/touhou-super-smash-battles
I FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDd9276h4ZDo3RgOFGfcRbw7mUTScQ4S
Some one is making a Touhou game inspired by Super Smash Bros.!
:love :love :love :love :love
I'm totally quoting myself for relevance~
This. So much this :love
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/touhou-super-smash-battles
I want to play Skyrim again... Try out new builds... But i can't be assed to repeat the starting quests again. Neither from the MQ nor from the various Guilds...
You could just ignore the story and screw around....using alternate life alternate start that way you can bypass the normal start
Here's the thing... I've already exhausted the pool of alternate starts for that mod. :(
Including just escaping from the place?
I want to play Skyrim again... Try out new builds... But i can't be assed to repeat the starting quests again. Neither from the MQ nor from the various Guilds...
You could just ignore the story and screw around....using alternate life alternate start that way you can bypass the normal start
Here's the thing... I've already exhausted the pool of alternate starts for that mod. :(
Including just escaping from the place?
What do you mean by just escaping from the place?
I didn't even know that was an option. What does that entail?I'll boot up and see what happens and then get back to you
EDIT: So i got curious... I booted up a new game, went straight for the door. It's locked via key. I used the TCL command to clip through the door, but there's nothing there. It's literally a floating box in the middle of nowhere at all...
To be clear, we are talking about Alternate Start: Live Another Life mod, right? That's what i've been using...
I must be using an old version of the mod, then, because what happens is exactly as i described to you.
I start in a room, there's a statue of Mara and a bed. There's a door, but it's locked with a key. When i start a new game, the character creation screen boots up and i make my character. Then a popup appears and asks me if i want to choose a class and birthsign for my character (i'm using a mod that applies oblivion carry weight & birthsigns for the characters...).
When i finish the process, i now have to interact with the statue of Mara and choose where my new life will begin. After i do so, the prompt asks me to sleep in the bed. And when i do so, i start wherever i chose to.
After i finished creating my character i immediately tried to open the door, and the following message appears "No one responds to your pounding on the door", or something to that effect. The door is locked via key.
I saved, then used TCL to noclip through the door. Only void beyond that. I loaded up my save, opened up the console, selected the door and used the "Unlock" command to force it open. I then opened the door (the message still appeared, btw), and there's still only void beyond the door.
What version of the mod are you using? Nexus Mod Manager reports that i'm using version 2.3.4 of the mod.
I must be using an old version of the mod, then, because what happens is exactly as i described to you.
I start in a room, there's a statue of Mara
Apparently, it now brings you right back to the cell after you escape even via tcl form the abandoned prison :( glad you figured out what the issue is, hope you have fun with the new starts that you've missed out on.
Seems like the Elders Scrolls MMO is getting ready to go free-to-play (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/video-games/).
Meanwhile Eternal Crusade, the 40K mmo in the works, is (slowly) moving forwards and already selling founder's packs, plus promises early acess "soon".
EC also sports a quite curious subscription system. You can pay money to play a speich meirine, a space elf, a Kaos Marine, or you can not pay anything andplayWWAAAAGGGHHH!!! as a lowly ork boy with limited progression (or pay and get to level up to ork Nob that can go toe-to-toe with a speich meirine).
Their reasoning is the following:
-Orks are supposed to be an horde race.
-Speich meirines are a lot more popular than any other of the 40k factions, and since they want to put enphasis on faction vs faction PvP, they need a reason for people to play anything besides speich meirines, otherwise the servers would probably end like 60% speich meirines, 20% kaos, and the last 20% divided between eldar and orks.
-So, make only orks FtP, and surely there'll be plenty of players lining up to provide cannon fodder for the paying players! And yes, the paying players will explicitly get stronger stuff than the non-playing players, although it seems like 3 free orks may be able to take down a speich meirine assuming equal skill in both sides.
I'm not sure if that's a tactical genius move or insane. I guess only time will tell.
Meanwhile, Nintendo ceases distribution in Brazil.
Because taxes. :banghead
Meanwhile, Nintendo ceases distribution in Brazil.
Because taxes. :banghead
Not just taxes. Brazilian vendors are accustomed to batshit crazy profit margins. I remember reading recently about how even if you compare untaxed prices for cars, Brazilian cars are still the most expensive in all of latin america.
Cost of living here is a really big issue, especially in places like Rio, São Paulo & Brasília, where i live. The sq-ft prices here are insane. Friends my age (mid twenties) are either still living with their parents, even if they're working, or living in ridiculously tiny apartments or sharing an apartment with friends. Not only the prices are really high, you still have to deal with ridiculous interest on mortgages, so you either have to rent or save up enough for a big downpayment in order to get monthly payments to a sane level.
well ESO has gone free to play http://kotaku.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-is-ditching-subscriptions-1680869560 (http://kotaku.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-is-ditching-subscriptions-1680869560)
Wonder why that worked for Nintendo. I mean, they may not be "MWAHAHAHAHA WE'RE PRINTING MONEY" (not since the Wii anyway), but look at poor Sega. It simply didn't survive the PS2 era.
After the relative flop that was the Wii U, i'm wondering if Nintendo will keep investing in the console department. Plus, with cellphones becoming more and more powerful, handheld gaming is shifting towards them and away from portable game devices. What will Nintendo come up with to reverse this trend? We've seen indications that they may invest in emulation of older games for smartphones, but that's one tip of the iceberg...Portable Pokemon, Zelda and Mario games still sell like hotcakes, plus plenty of other people developing for the 3DS (cough Bravely Default). Awakening was a smash hit as well. They have negative reasons to stop investing on their handfels. No matter how good cellphones get, they will always have the advantage of being specialized for gaming. They also happen to be drastically cheaper than your average smartphone from what I see in stores.
Speaking of touch screens, the first iphone came out in 2007. Nintendo DS meanwhile came out in 2004, way before the mobiles with touchscreen craze. Except Nintendo was smart enough to keep the buttons on their device around.
Most mobile games I see seem like either overpriced crap or propaganda machines. Emulators on the other hand...
DamnitNintendo (and Sony and Sega too I guess)every game developer ever except for those that went bankrupt, if ragtag groups of people can make available most of your old collection of games through the net, why are you so behind them on that matter? It's not like you're selling cartridges/CDs of those games anymore! :shakefist
After the relative flop that was the Wii U, i'm wondering if Nintendo will keep investing in the console department. Plus, with cellphones becoming more and more powerful, handheld gaming is shifting towards them and away from portable game devices. What will Nintendo come up with to reverse this trend? We've seen indications that they may invest in emulation of older games for smartphones, but that's one tip of the iceberg...
I never had an issue with the mouse controls with Dead Space...
Which Witcher game? The first one does have a tutorial about combat, the second one not so much.
I never had an issue with the mouse controls with Dead Space...
Which Witcher game? The first one does have a tutorial about combat, the second one not so much.
The mouse is very, very laggy and there's pretty much nothing I could do about it. On a shooter that I know is going to take precision it's just not something I'll be able to work with. I ought to look around to see if there are fixes for it though.
It's The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. I'll look at it again to see if I missed something.
I'm diving into Path of Exile and it's definitely been interesting. Just a few days after starting the game and I'm already fixing stuff on a wiki.
And now that I've cleaned up one of the notable passives as best I can, I'm going to work on D&D stuff. PBMC is kinda waiting on the base class skill chart...
I'm diving into Path of Exile and it's definitely been interesting. Just a few days after starting the game and I'm already fixing stuff on a wiki.
And now that I've cleaned up one of the notable passives as best I can, I'm going to work on D&D stuff. PBMC is kinda waiting on the base class skill chart...
I do quite enjoy that game.
I'm diving into Path of Exile and it's definitely been interesting. Just a few days after starting the game and I'm already fixing stuff on a wiki.
And now that I've cleaned up one of the notable passives as best I can, I'm going to work on D&D stuff. PBMC is kinda waiting on the base class skill chart...
I do quite enjoy that game.
So far I've liked it, other than some framerate issues and graphics hiccups. I'm looking forward to see how my first build will turn out. Decided to go marauder at first and am really contemplating a build involving Resolute Technique, Unwavering Stance, and Iron Reflexes. I figure I might as well go into maces for the stunning and all that fun stuff as far as offense goes. After those three keystones I'm not sure where I'd go.
Witcher 3 isn't out yet, it is Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings. :P
I tried to get into it, but to me the difficulty curve for learning the game is too damn high... It just seems to me that in order to play the game properly, one has to spend at least 3 hours reading up on skill trees for every hour one plays the game. That really put me off of the game.
The fact that skill stones only drop from mobs/quest rewards makes it so that the only way to properly plan your build is getting info from wikis first, then actually going on to play the game. The crafting of weapons is also WAY too involved... It's a game you really need to pour countless hours into just to be "decent" at it.
It's probably the minmaxer in me screaming at me for not having any sort of pre-planned build, not knowing the optimal path to take on the passive skill tree, not knowing the best farming spots, etc...
Any time i play any kind of game, i always find myself drawn to figuring out what the optimal strategy is. With PoE, it's too much to figure out on your own. The passive skill tree is too huge, there are too many skill stones with varying degrees of effectiveness, plus the modifiers, plus where everything drops, plus all the different kind of weapons... It's just too much.
When i was 14 and was burning myself out of Diablo 2, maybe i would have had the patience and perseverance needed to really dive in deeply into this game. But as of right now, i just don't have the kind of dedication this game deserves, and i can't do what i used to do - do a blind playthrough and figure stuff out on my own...
I'd ask if you were up for some PoE sometime Nanshork, but I figure with me being 7 hours ahead on the clock it would make it difficult to find a time we're both online. :rolleyes
Sent you a friend invite from KhargazTheBrutal, my facebreaker lvl 71 marauder. Not sure if it'll work out since I assume you're on gateway America and I'm on gateway Europe, but we'll see I guess :)
My guess it's just that I would get more desync if I load into a new area you activated.
Playing some DotA 2 with some friends, will log in after that, hopefully you'll still be around by then :)
Welcome to Nanshork and Shadowhunters Path of Exile Lessons, inspired by yours truly. Trust us, we know what we're doing. /teleprompter-commercial-voice.
Lesson 1:
When doing maps, do not open a lockbox marked "Revives all nearby corpses with Onslaught" when said box is just beside the unique boss that almost killed everyone the first time around. It does not go well.
Stay tuned for more informational tidbits as our intrepid adventurers quest ever onward, For Science!
Jumped in on Besiege....
Jumped in on Besiege....
Welcome fellow builder. I look forward to the glorious future where you build Metal Gear. Have you dabbled in chaos engines yet?
Jumped in on Besiege....
Welcome fellow builder. I look forward to the glorious future where you build Metal Gear. Have you dabbled in chaos engines yet?
Having a hard time understanding how to build anything more complicated than a simple rudimentary catapult and a rammer.
Wow... what is a Hexawheel? I saw some videos on the chaos engine, seems fun.
Wow, that's fucking impressive.
One thing i lost a lot of time experimenting with were the suspensions. It's just me, or are they really completely useless?
Are you guys talking about this game? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7JIRF18eE)
This game sounds a lot like Legos of Mass Destruction, and now you're all making me curious.
...how expensive is it?
How come we don't get that kind of treatment with PSN?Sony hates it's customers (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sony_bullshit).
Also, can somebody teach me to make a SIMPLE flying machine in Besiege?
I can achieve lift pretty easily. It's getting the damn thing to stop spinning that's hard!!
Change log - V0.04
ADDITIONAL CONTENT
Added Wooden Pole Block
Added Slider Block
Added Small Balloon Block (Controllable Buoyancy)
IMPROVEMENTS
Added new tool which allows you to see key mapping overlaid on your machine
Propeller can now be flipped
Changed propeller model & texture
Decoupler is now asymmetrical
Added toggle mode to flamethrower
Added toggle mode to contractible spring
Cogs now have less friction
Boulder block gets blood on it when it collides with a man or animal.
Plow block gets blood on it when it collides with a man or animal.
Key Mapper/Parameter tuner :
Added ‘Copy Settings’ button + “CTRL C” shortcut
Added ‘Paste Settings’ button + “CTRL V” shortcut
Can now be closed by pressing ‘Escape’
FIXES
Clicking “OVERWRITE” text will now overwrite save file
Fixed save files not working in some system languages
Fixed piston not showing up in saved thumbnail
Fixed half-pipe not showing up in saved thumbnail
The objective text “1” now disappears on level 12 when you press play
Key Mapper/Parameter tuner now closes when pressing Play
So PlaybyPost if fine and all.....but you know what's better? Being able to actually handle pieces. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/) And have actual discussions. And do it in real time, so a single battle doesn't take a month.
So PlaybyPost if fine and all.....but you know what's better? Being able to actually handle pieces. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/) And have actual discussions. And do it in real time, so a single battle doesn't take a month.
So PlaybyPost if fine and all.....but you know what's better? Being able to actually handle pieces. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/) And have actual discussions. And do it in real time, so a single battle doesn't take a month.
Or do Roll20 for free :3
In related news, I started playing Final Fantasy IV about 2 weeks ago.
Holy shit, this game's story is beautiful. I think that the main character's transition from Dark Knight to Paladin is probably one of the best examples in fantasy RPGs on the holy knight archetype.
Bad news is, I worry I might be overleveled, which might be making the current portion of the game too easy.
Also, WTF is the deal with gaming companies having spats with their devs? Seriously, Konami?! (http://www.pcgamer.com/kojima-and-konami-release-joint-statement-on-the-future-of-metal-gear/)
Hm, I need to get a hold of FF Tactics and FFV. I've got 1, 2, played and finished 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.
To all those who remember playing FFVIII ...
To all those who remember playing FFVIII ...
FTFY
Also :lol
And Sunstone is especially amazing, as it is a good BDSM-relationship story that 50 Shades look like manure. Seriously, the best line I read someone write after reading Sunstone is "Doms don't do what Mr. Grey does. He crosses SO many lines and acts like a rookie and a sociopath. He's an ass, not a Dom."
Might take you a bit to get this pun, it's a little subtle ...(click to show/hide)
No, Selphie taking a selfie.Might take you a bit to get this pun, it's a little subtle ...(click to show/hide)
Genderbent gordon freeman?
Oh! I didn't know that character :lmao
Saw the orange suit and what i thought to be a crowbar and... Well...
Oh! I didn't know that character :lmao
Saw the orange suit and what i thought to be a crowbar and... Well...
http://news.yahoo.com/steams-paid-skyrim-mods-provoke-mixed-reaction-162649810.html not sure how i honestly feel about this
Well, if you were looking forward to Silent Hills, I have bad news for you... (http://www.gamnesia.com/news/report-guillermo-del-toro-says-silent-hills-is-cancelled#.VT1WciFViko)
http://news.yahoo.com/steams-paid-skyrim-mods-provoke-mixed-reaction-162649810.html not sure how i honestly feel about thisMeh.
Bhu, I think you'll get a kick out of this. April 1 Path of Exile catastrophe (http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1233642).
And also:
(http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/07bb2d1ac8037b5e511cc28e3e923946f908f1d2_m.jpg)
http://news.yahoo.com/steams-paid-skyrim-mods-provoke-mixed-reaction-162649810.html not sure how i honestly feel about thisMeh.
Back in the day 'mods' were already free or paid for (but called patches & updates by the devas). The line was drawn at charging for your edits to someone else's work. Mod communities were actually pretty good at policing them selves.
Then came the self-entitled generation. Modders begun to indirectly charge for services, advertisement after advertisement after advertisement for a download link combined with closed-source and 3rd party PAY-ME mergers made Minecraft a glowing beacon of frustration on the map of exactly what happens when people don't give a shit beyond money.
Naturally, along comes the original company wanting to sell out. You can officially charge for your mod if you give us a cut, it's totally fine by us smileyface. If you had moral problems before, well if you think of them as miniature private hires for optional game patches, you won't now. Now there is a market in developing mods for certain games, a novice's trade to inflate the resume and make some cash before landing the big ones. Good? Maybe. Bad? Maybe.
But good buy free stuff?
Now that'll piss some people off amiright?
I don't mind modders getting paid for their hard work. The modders only getting 25% though? Fuck that. At least give them 50%. Even webcam porn sites usually have the decency to give their models at least a 50% cut.Other way I think, modders get 75% but Skyrim gets a 25% take.
Seems like Touhou 15 has been announced, "Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom".
Reisen is a playable character.
Reisen. Is. A. Playable. Character. In. Main. Game. With an actual gun this time and everything. Putting the bullets in "bullet hell".
My head may've just exploded.
Also between that and the title, sounds like the lunarians will be the main theme.
I don't mind modders getting paid for their hard work. The modders only getting 25% though? Fuck that. At least give them 50%. Even webcam porn sites usually have the decency to give their models at least a 50% cut.Other way I think, modders get 75% but Skyrim gets a 25% take.
Also saw this and had to share.
http://imgur.com/gallery/fHuJkHH
I don't mind modders getting paid for their hard work. The modders only getting 25% though? Fuck that. At least give them 50%. Even webcam porn sites usually have the decency to give their models at least a 50% cut.Other way I think, modders get 75% but Skyrim gets a 25% take.
Also saw this and had to share.
http://imgur.com/gallery/fHuJkHH
Nope. 30% to Valve, 45% to Bethesda, and the mod author gets the rest. And the author doesn't get a check from Valve until they earn at least $100, which means the mod has to sell $400 worth. If it only sells $399, the mod author doesn't see a dime.
I don't mind modders getting paid for their hard work. The modders only getting 25% though? Fuck that. At least give them 50%. Even webcam porn sites usually have the decency to give their models at least a 50% cut.Other way I think, modders get 75% but Skyrim gets a 25% take.
Also saw this and had to share.
http://imgur.com/gallery/fHuJkHH
Nope. 30% to Valve, 45% to Bethesda, and the mod author gets the rest. And the author doesn't get a check from Valve until they earn at least $100, which means the mod has to sell $400 worth. If it only sells $399, the mod author doesn't see a dime.
Well it's a moot point for now https://games.yahoo.com/news/bethesda-responds-blowback-over-skyrim-220944400.html (https://games.yahoo.com/news/bethesda-responds-blowback-over-skyrim-220944400.html)
Valve removed the payment option from the game's Steam Workshop, saying "Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating."
Dunno what this is about other than some people here might get excited ... (http://playism-games.com/article/touhou-14-hits-playism-on-5-7-2015)
Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival)
Witcher 1 and 2 are currently at 85% discount in Steam for the weekend. I heard a lot of people talk about that series but never tried it because I didn't have time back when they came out. Have those games aged well in your opinion and are worth buying with this discount?
(not like I have that much free time nowadays, but would be something for my backlog)
Did no one click the first link in my previous post? It has something to do with a thing called Touhou ...
Did no one click the first link in my previous post? It has something to do with a thing called Touhou ...
I see the name mentioned often enough, but I still have no idea what it is.
Witcher 1 and 2 are currently at 85% discount in Steam for the weekend. I heard a lot of people talk about that series but never tried it because I didn't have time back when they came out. Have those games aged well in your opinion and are worth buying with this discount?
(not like I have that much free time nowadays, but would be something for my backlog)
Ah, Einhander is the last of that genre I've played. Reflexes aren't what they once were.
Ah, Einhander is the last of that genre I've played. Reflexes aren't what they once were.
Should have leveled up in Rogue...
Kinda getting back into DDO.Awesome, join Cannith and I'll make a new character to help you through it.
I asked around and got recommended a few builds to start off with again.PM Wizard to me is pretty overrated and it's kind of the same with Paladin. I think it treks back to their archtypes: free-to-play defensive classes with self healing. Very little damage, but when the only values you know are samebuild@lv2 vs samebuild@28 it seems impressive.
I've learned I so don't like the way DDO handles the Grease spell. It drops it right underneath the caster. Can't target it, so you're just left standing there hoping you make your Reflex save and then the Balance check.You can target it. Un-highlight your self and target something that isn't standing next to you.
DDO is pretty dang fun for the first few levels. Once you hit 6 though, about 70% of the dungeons become paid-for content :/If you didn't spend TP, you'd have at least 500 points by the time you finished the free content on a single server. It means if you build two characters on two different serves you'd already have free access to Gianthold. GH has 12 quests and can easily help you progress to lv16 as you beat on giants and dragons, heck some people don't even run it until lv14 so they don't struggle so much.
And that's with having gotten back into it myself less than half a year ago. That's also where I stopped playing again haha.
Who here has Tabletop Simulator?
Steam sales are evil, evil little things.
Steam sales are evil, evil little things.
Indeed..my choices are have money to go see movies or buy games... :shakefist
Nobody gunna mention the real FF7 remake that's finally happening? :o
I've got such an erection right now. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kznek1uNVsg)
My pants burst. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyLJ9AAeRA)
The next Fire Emblem will have a S-rank=>child system again, but without any extra chapters needed to "recruit" them it seems.
People wondering if there'll be time travel shenigans again.
Also rumors that you'll be able to S-rank same gender characters.
So did anyone here take advantage of the Steam Summer Sale?
I snagged a few games myself. I'm particularly enjoying Freedom Planet, (http://store.steampowered.com/app/248310/) which is like a love letter to 90s Sega games. It originated as a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame but eventually turned into its own thing. One can see the influences quite easily, but that doesn't detract from it in any way IMO.
Speaking of crappy, anyone hear about the fiasco that is the Arkham Knight PC port at this point?Just read about it on Kotaku. Makes me happy I'm sufficiently far behind that they (or somebody) will have hopefully fixed it by the time I get around to it.
Speaking of crappy, anyone hear about the fiasco that is the Arkham Knight PC port at this point?Just read about it on Kotaku. Makes me happy I'm sufficiently far behind that they (or somebody) will have hopefully fixed it by the time I get around to it.
It is a little silly/stupid how often these ports get fucked up. You'd think the designers would love to show off the fancy specs of their games on high powered PCs. I'm sure Nvidia, et al. are pissed, too, given that they just rolled out an update to support this damn game.
The next Fire Emblem will have a S-rank=>child system again, but without any extra chapters needed to "recruit" them it seems.
People wondering if there'll be time travel shenigans again.
Also rumors that you'll be able to S-rank same gender characters.
All those futanari, man. :p
Gay marriages for the next Fire Emblem confirmed! (http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/23/8836513/fire-emblem-fates-same-sex-relationships-nintendo)
Plus incest marriages, although those were already kinda around in FE 4 and 8.(click to show/hide)
And you can customize your own castle! Including a swimming pool where you get to have your party members hang out in swimming suits. :plotting
And a "skinship" minigame where you get to rub/pet other party members with the stylus ... :psyduck(click to show/hide)
Oh, there's still tactical combat andconquering with overwhelming violencesaving the world I guess.The next Fire Emblem will have a S-rank=>child system again, but without any extra chapters needed to "recruit" them it seems.
People wondering if there'll be time travel shenigans again.
Also rumors that you'll be able to S-rank same gender characters.
All those futanari, man. :p
Alas, gay couples will use adoption for their children, so futas aren't confirmed. :P
Gay marriages for the next Fire Emblem confirmed! (http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/23/8836513/fire-emblem-fates-same-sex-relationships-nintendo)
Plus incest marriages, although those were already kinda around in FE 4 and 8.(click to show/hide)
And you can customize your own castle! Including a swimming pool where you get to have your party members hang out in swimming suits. :plotting
And a "skinship" minigame where you get to rub/pet other party members with the stylus ... :psyduck(click to show/hide)
Oh, there's still tactical combat andconquering with overwhelming violencesaving the world I guess.The next Fire Emblem will have a S-rank=>child system again, but without any extra chapters needed to "recruit" them it seems.
People wondering if there'll be time travel shenigans again.
Also rumors that you'll be able to S-rank same gender characters.
All those futanari, man. :p
Alas, gay couples will use adoption for their children, so futas aren't confirmed. :P
I was pissed when I found out that the post-battle rank is determined solely by speed, and not damage taken, enemies killed and bases secured, etc. I've been getting D Ranks on virtually all of the story missions up to that point along with the low experience and money that pays out. Sure I can do skirmishes for grinding, but it seems counter-intuitive for a pseudo-turn-based strategy action RPG to be like this.
Why do Lancers keep missing friggin' tanks at close range?! I understand that rifles are the super-accurate weapons, and submachine guns pay for the inaccuracy by the burst fire methods, but lancers are supposed to be anti-tank specialists!
You need to check out your Lancer's traits... I know there are quite a few that lowers accuracy, like Man Hater.
Libertad, how far are you? Did you already play through Episode 7?
It's strange to be playing an anime RPG which doesn't have a magic or psychic system as a gameplay element.
All the times I've already seen this article go around and people keep talking about the Kill la Kill side.
An awesome Berserk game seems way way way more awesome by those people :p
All the times I've already seen this article go around and people keep talking about the Kill la Kill side.
An awesome Berserk game seems way way way more awesome by those people :p
From Soft has a stranglehold right to make a Berserk game.
I mean, LOOK AT DARK SOULS.
LOOK AT EEEEEEEEEEET
You mean the game where you can only win by dodging and hiding behind a shield or using magic like a little girl?
Because last time I checked Guts wins his fights by tanking his opponent's blows like a boss. :p
Also cleaving his way through hordes of enemies, where in Dark Souls getting surrounded by even two enemies usually means a painful death unless you're way overleveled :P
All the times I've already seen this article go around and people keep talking about the Kill la Kill side.
An awesome Berserk game seems way way way more awesome by those people :p
From Soft has a stranglehold right to make a Berserk game.
I mean, LOOK AT DARK SOULS.
LOOK AT EEEEEEEEEEET
You mean the game where you can only win by dodging and hiding behind a shield or using magic like a little girl?
Because last time I checked Guts wins his fights by tanking his opponent's blows like a boss. :p
Also cleaving his way through hordes of enemies, where in Dark Souls getting surrounded by even two enemies usually means a painful death unless you're way overleveled :P
I agree they should hire the artists of Dark Souls for a Bersek game.Nononono, you want cleaving through ranks of mook enemies, that's what Tecmo-Koei is for.
But Platinium should still handle the gameplay, Guts has to be capable of cleaving right through ranks of mook enemies.
Not really. From Soft just has to scale down enemy damage to roughly 10-25% of Dark Souls' values.
All the times I've already seen this article go around and people keep talking about the Kill la Kill side.
An awesome Berserk game seems way way way more awesome by those people :p
From Soft has a stranglehold right to make a Berserk game.
I mean, LOOK AT DARK SOULS.
LOOK AT EEEEEEEEEEET
In other gaming news: Did Kojima predict his falling out with Konami a year and a half ago? (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-20-mgs5-ground-zeroes-easter-egg-suggests-kojima-predicted-his-fallout-with-konami)
I'm thinking of doing naother skyrim play,but this time wiping out the dark brotherhood and becoming a vampire
http://gematsu.com/2015/07/final-fantasy-vii-remake-bringing-dramatic-changes-combat
Worry: Growing.
There's plenty of chances to fail and plenty of people with various opinions of where it could go. I would consider myself willing to accept a lot of changes, but "the combat" is a bit of a sacred cow to me. "Dramatic changes" sounds like code for "rip of FF15's system".
I like FF15.
I won't like it if it pops up in FF7. I'm thirsty for turn based anything, and they've so many good turn based things to go from. 7. 10. 12. Mix and match anything from there, keep materia (because materia is the bomb)....
Yeah, consider me worried. I already didn't have faith.
http://gematsu.com/2015/07/final-fantasy-vii-remake-bringing-dramatic-changes-combat
Worry: Growing.
There's plenty of chances to fail and plenty of people with various opinions of where it could go. I would consider myself willing to accept a lot of changes, but "the combat" is a bit of a sacred cow to me. "Dramatic changes" sounds like code for "rip of FF15's system".
I like FF15.
I won't like it if it pops up in FF7. I'm thirsty for turn based anything, and they've so many good turn based things to go from. 7. 10. 12. Mix and match anything from there, keep materia (because materia is the bomb)....
Yeah, consider me worried. I already didn't have faith.
Capcom asks fans how they feel about an RE2 remake. (http://www.siliconera.com/2015/07/29/capcom-asks-fans-how-they-feel-about-a-resident-evil-2-remake/) My answer is fuck yes, do it, and do it right!
Konami appears to be plunging downhill (http://gematsu.com/2015/08/nikkei-report-bad-things-happening-konami)
Xbox looks to be trying to take a page from Nintendo about releasing games on their console. (http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/03/less-third-party-deals-and-more-first-party-exclusives-in-the-future-for-xbox-says-spencer/)
Grandia II HD remaster is coming to GOG.com (http://www.destructoid.com/here-s-what-the-grandia-ii-hd-remaster-looks-like-297018.phtml)
Vega SFV trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRcsp0h-sB0&app=desktop)
The NVidia Shield is being recalled for being a potential fire hazard (http://www.destructoid.com/nvidia-shield-recalled-over-fire-hazard-296973.phtml)
Team 17 (of Worms fame) is publishing Yooka-Laylee (http://www.destructoid.com/team17-is-publishing-yooka-laylee-296902.phtml)
New Castlevania game is a pachinko game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uk83ceNRo8) Erotic Violence!
Superhot beta gameplay trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Gz2FIlPXk) It's an FPS where time only moves when you move.
Xbox looks to be trying to take a page from Nintendo about releasing games on their console. (http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/03/less-third-party-deals-and-more-first-party-exclusives-in-the-future-for-xbox-says-spencer/)
The best thing your friend could have done is not announce that he's working on it at all. After he finishes it, release it and start telling others, because by then it'll be too late for a cease & desist to stop the game's circulation. Right now, the game is very vulnerable to such a response from Capcom, whether it's been made public or not. And yes, other peoples' RE2 remake projects (or other game remakes) have been C&D'd before they were finished and released because the creators talked about them publicly. I really hope it doesn't happen to your friend, but ...
*watching more news about Konami*
How the fuck did they get anything done, much less build a successful company?
Have you guys looked in to Sword Coast Legends (https://swordcoast.com[/url) at all?
But where's Dragonlance? Where's Dark Sun? Where's Eberron? Where's Ravenloft?
So much wasted potential.
Forgotten realms is neat and all, but man, aren't they milking that cow until its dry. It's like there are no other interesting campaign settings AT ALL.
Minor nitpick: last I played it, DDO WAS set on Eberron.
Nostalgia hit me, and i tried to browse the old neverwinter vault to see whether any new mods might've popped up, and whether i could still download my favorite old ones - plus the ones i hadn't gotten around to playing yet, and i found out...
It's gone. It's all fucking gone.
A new site has gone up, but lacks much of the functionality and support the old one had. Some stuff was ported over, mainly from the Hall of Fame.
It's amazing that Bioware did what it did for modders. Have you received offerrs of employment because of your work in NWN? I know some of the more prominent mod developers have been hired.
I don't know what nerve I touched there, but it's pretty insane to say he got off "easy." They fired him, which is the maximal punishment they can inflict without showing, in a court of law (and therefore a matter of public record), tangible, calculable damages.
I also don't know why Sony and Nintendo can't both be assholes. I guess I have to pick one? Is that the rule? I'm gathering that there's some sort of shadow war between multinational but Japanese-based video game firms that I'm only now becoming aware of.
PSO2 is already in NA, even.
Asiasoft has implemented an IP block to prevent prospective players living outside the region from accessing the game's servers. These restrictions were briefly lifted recently over connectivity issues, but were put back in place after the matter was resolved.
Wow... that really is sad. What an amazing resource (and game) that was...Nostalgia hit me, and i tried to browse the old neverwinter vault to see whether any new mods might've popped up, and whether i could still download my favorite old ones - plus the ones i hadn't gotten around to playing yet, and i found out...
It's gone. It's all fucking gone.
A new site has gone up, but lacks much of the functionality and support the old one had. Some stuff was ported over, mainly from the Hall of Fame.
I see my stuff (http://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/hakpak/original-hakpak/player-resource-consortiums-prc-pack-v35) is still around. Which is nice, given I stopped working on it years ago and wandered over this way instead (and created homebrew). NWN (specifically, the shittiness of the Pale Master PrC) was what got me into Custom Content/D&D Homebrew.
But damn that sucks that the original NWVault went down. The vault was the entire reason for playing NWN, and had so many good modules and add-ons to the game. Just went and looked, and at some point I must have cleared out all the mods I had downloaded. So, can't do anything to help, either.
Damn. GoG is based outside the US so my prepaid gift card won't work. NWN is so tempting...
I liked what I played of BG and IWD to definitely get those and I've heard enough rave reviews of Planescape and NWN to pick those up, too. I was more looking for:
1) Are any of the games subpar and not necessarily worth playing? The price is negligible, but I don't have as much free time as I did when in school full time. But if I'm never going to bother playing it, it's pointless to buy. Are there any on the list you'd NOT recommend? From the short descriptions, all but one sound like BG-style RPGs, and the other one is called a "hack and slash," which I also like.
2) Is multiplayer required for any of them, or a major component of any? I though NWN had significant multiplayer aspects, and that'd definitely be a turn-off for me.
EDIT: Not sure why, but specifically BG 2 and ToEE don't list Windows 10 compatibility, the rest all do. Not sure if they really don't work or they just forgot to update those pages when it came out. But it's something to consider. I still have Win7, but my computer is over 6 years old and I was planning to get a Win10 computer later this year.
That game looks amazing!
Heard from streamers / you tubers that it also takes hours of constant attention to tame dinos. That true? I can't usually play for long blocks of time, so that would... Severely dampen the game for me.
I can't get used to the random pooping.
I can't get used to the random pooping.
Aaaaand quoted.
Why on earth is there a pooping mechanic?
I can't get used to the random pooping.
Aaaaand quoted.
Why on earth is there a pooping mechanic?So you can make fertilizer for your crops of course! Also yes, there's the stuff ketaro mentioned.
so this happened for the xbox one http://www.idigitaltimes.com/two-xbox-exclusive-j-rpgs-announced-when-does-even-happen-474960 (http://www.idigitaltimes.com/two-xbox-exclusive-j-rpgs-announced-when-does-even-happen-474960)
so, can someone give me a basic run down in the difference between a J-RPG and a non-JRPG without using Final fantasy as a reference?
so this happened for the xbox one http://www.idigitaltimes.com/two-xbox-exclusive-j-rpgs-announced-when-does-even-happen-474960 (http://www.idigitaltimes.com/two-xbox-exclusive-j-rpgs-announced-when-does-even-happen-474960)It's mostly a matter of how the story is told.
so, can someone give me a basic run down in the difference between a J-RPG and a non-JRPG without using Final fantasy as a reference?
Yep, just as has been said before, JRPGs are nearly always linear and heavily story-driven, WRPGs are quite often sandbox-y, and let you build your character(s).
I say give it a try before our gross attempts at deconstructing the genre into a palatable concept scare you off. :p
I've been playing a game called Factorio. It appeals to my mass-scale want of crafting stuff quite well, moreso than what I've experienced in Minecraft or Terraria. Then again, it is based on building your own factory (and more) to survive on an alien world, so it's expected that it does the mass crafting much better.
And now I want to go back to Anarchy Online and do crafting/tradeskilling there too.
Well,it doesn't sound like JRPGs will be a thing for me then..Neither are books, films, or choose-or-own adventures, or platforms like Mario or dungeon games like Legend of Zelda.
Konami is ceasing nearly all AAA game production (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-18-konami-ceases-triple-a-console-production-on-all-but-pes-report)I'm guessing you didn't read why it cost much..it's completely customizable and aimed at pro players
New Xbone controller coming out (http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-one-elite-controller-coming-october-27-311721.phtml) And it costs $150! For a single bloody controller!
Well,it doesn't sound like JRPGs will be a thing for me then..Neither are books, films, or choose-or-own adventures, or platforms like Mario or dungeon games like Legend of Zelda.
Basically, what's being described is create-a-character vs play as a character. And if the latter of those are not your thing, 99.999999% of games are not a thing for you. You should stick to tabletop play, and never run a PC based on a sheet someone else made.
I'm guessing you didn't read why it cost much..it's completely customizable and aimed at pro players
I'm guessing you didn't read why it cost much..it's completely customizable and aimed at pro players
For that price, I'd expect the d-pad and thumbsticks to be completely interchangeable, for the ideal layout.
I'm guessing you didn't read why it cost much..it's completely customizable and aimed at pro players
For that price, I'd expect the d-pad and thumbsticks to be completely interchangeable, for the ideal layout.
Here's what it comes with :
Xbox Elite Wireless Controller
Carrying case
Set of 4 paddles
Set of 6 thumbsticks: standard (2), tall (2), and domed (2)
Set of 2 D-pads: faceted and standard
USB cable
AA batteries
Quick Setup Guide and Product Manual
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-one/accessories/xbox-one-elite-wireless-controller/122872 (http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-one/accessories/xbox-one-elite-wireless-controller/122872)
The fact they actually still rely on AA batteries makes me glad I picked the PS4 over it.
I'm actually expecting that PC will make a comeback this generation, the specs for both the XBone and the PS4 are really, really not that much of an improvement over the past generation. To me, both are pretty lackluster compared to how much of a bang-for-your-buck the PS3 and 360 were back when they were first released.
You literally couldn't build a PC that could compare with neither for the price-tag and the fact that both their architectures were significantly different from PC meant that games weren't easy to port over to PC, meaning you needed an even better PC to play the 360 & PS3 games that did get ported over.
Now, everything is x86, meaning porting games over should be much easier. That, coupled with the fact that they're not really that powerful for their price-tag(you can easily build a PC with comparable, if not better performance for the same $), means that, quite possibly, PC gaming might be making a comeback. Especially with how fast new hardware is coming out.
Then, there's the fact that eSports are putting PC back into the spotlight. DOTA2, LoL and CS:GO are getting pretty huge and they're all PC games.
When you factor all of these things, it's not really far-fetched at all that we might see most AAA games ported over to PC much quicker than they used to be, with much better performance & compatibility, making owning a console much less appealing if you already have a gaming rig.
Consoles won't be going away, but they won't be as prevalent as they were for the past generation. GO GO PCMASTERRACE!
1) Assembling a good gaming PC requires you to be familiar with hardware, and even so certain parts don't work well together. Not everybody has the time to learn their gaming rig inside and out;Maybe in the past, but nowadays you can go in a store and find several prebuilt good options at nice prices that'll work pretty well for anything below ultraubergraphics. Also the internet has plenty of guides to help you know what you're doing.
2) PC games have to be optimized to run in a large variety of rigs - which has a downward impact on their performance overall;If your rig is good enough, you can just brute force performance.
3) PC games are SIGNIFICANTLY easier to hack, which as far as the industry is concerned, is a really huge cut in their profits (how big it really is is up for debate, but generally any cut into their profits is bad);Yet pretty much all big games of the PS and Xbox end up released for PC sooner or later. :smirk
4) Console owners typically play different games than PC gamers do. There's something to be said for a demographic here;False and disproved by one word: Emulators. So many PC gamers like console games that they'll go out of their way to code programs just to play console games on their PCs. And make huge rom databases and stuff.
5) All that "Master Race" crap only makes people sound really, really annoying.
I'm actually expecting that PC will make a comeback this generation, the specs for both the XBone and the PS4 are really, really not that much of an improvement over the past generation. To me, both are pretty lackluster compared to how much of a bang-for-your-buck the PS3 and 360 were back when they were first released.
You literally couldn't build a PC that could compare with neither for the price-tag and the fact that both their architectures were significantly different from PC meant that games weren't easy to port over to PC, meaning you needed an even better PC to play the 360 & PS3 games that did get ported over.
Now, everything is x86, meaning porting games over should be much easier. That, coupled with the fact that they're not really that powerful for their price-tag(you can easily build a PC with comparable, if not better performance for the same $), means that, quite possibly, PC gaming might be making a comeback. Especially with how fast new hardware is coming out.
Then, there's the fact that eSports are putting PC back into the spotlight. DOTA2, LoL and CS:GO are getting pretty huge and they're all PC games.
When you factor all of these things, it's not really far-fetched at all that we might see most AAA games ported over to PC much quicker than they used to be, with much better performance & compatibility, making owning a console much less appealing if you already have a gaming rig.
Consoles won't be going away, but they won't be as prevalent as they were for the past generation. GO GO PCMASTERRACE!
Ugh, the whole "PC Master Race" spiel makes me roll my eyes pretty hard. Things that you're gleefully forgetting here...
1) Assembling a good gaming PC requires you to be familiar with hardware, and even so certain parts don't work well together. Not everybody has the time to learn their gaming rig inside and out;
2) PC games have to be optimized to run in a large variety of rigs - which has a downward impact on their performance overall;
3) PC games are SIGNIFICANTLY easier to hack, which as far as the industry is concerned, is a really huge cut in their profits (how big it really is is up for debate, but generally any cut into their profits is bad);
4) Console owners typically play different games than PC gamers do. There's something to be said for a demographic here;
5) All that "Master Race" crap only makes people sound really, really annoying.
1) Assembling a good gaming PC requires you to be familiar with hardware, and even so certain parts don't work well together. Not everybody has the time to learn their gaming rig inside and out;Maybe in the past, but nowadays you can go in a store and find several prebuilt good options at nice prices that'll work pretty well for anything below ultraubergraphics. Also the internet has plenty of guides to help you know what you're doing.2) PC games have to be optimized to run in a large variety of rigs - which has a downward impact on their performance overall;If your rig is good enough, you can just brute force performance.3) PC games are SIGNIFICANTLY easier to hack, which as far as the industry is concerned, is a really huge cut in their profits (how big it really is is up for debate, but generally any cut into their profits is bad);Yet pretty much all big games of the PS and Xbox end up released for PC sooner or later. :smirk4) Console owners typically play different games than PC gamers do. There's something to be said for a demographic here;False and disproved by one word: Emulators. So many PC gamers like console games that they'll go out of their way to code programs just to play console games on their PCs. And make huge rom databases and stuff.5) All that "Master Race" crap only makes people sound really, really annoying.
I can play both console games and PC games in my laptop. And my laptop does not even needs a TV to work. Meaning it goes anywhere and can be set up in a few minutes.
Also mods and no online subscriptions and several other perks.
The fact they actually still rely on AA batteries makes me glad I picked the PS4 over it.MS probably has a tone of shares in Energizer or something.
Actually, for most AAA titles, the cost of a Steam game and a PS4 game level to about the same around here. Difference being that Steam throws occasional sales - oh wait, PSN + does that too. Like every week.
Everything consoles have, PC's do it better, there's no two ways about it.It helps that PCs run console games too :)
As for blu-ray, I've still got a PS3 for watching movies. While I could hook my PC up to my TV, I don't really need to. The PS3 also has Netflix, so it's now my show/movie system, while my PC is for internet browsing and gaming.I know how that is. It's easier to click the PS3 on for Netflix and such, but plugging the laptop in lets me watch anything. Extremely useful when you want to watch something that's not on subscription TV if you know what I mean.
@Kethrian actually, PS3 and 360 both had cloud-saving available and bound-to-account, although it sometimes doesn't work well and you're better off without it. Games can also be bound to account and available as digital downloads in the event of an HD wipe/stolen console.
And you can actually use kb+mouse on ps3/360... But it's convoluted and not easy at all. Either requires specialty hardware or following tutorials on "tricking" the consoles into thinking you're using a controller when you're actually using KB+Mouse...
The reason why consoles don't want you using KB+Mouse? They know that a KB+Mouse FPS veteran will absolutely murder anyone using a controller on the console. It's just a much, much better fit. Also, they want you buying all their hardware. Just another example of companies wanting to make you hostage to their hardware in every way possible.
As for blu-ray, I've still got a PS3 for watching movies. While I could hook my PC up to my TV, I don't really need to. The PS3 also has Netflix, so it's now my show/movie system, while my PC is for internet browsing and gaming.I know how that is. It's easier to click the PS3 on for Netflix and such, but plugging the laptop in lets me watch anything. Extremely useful when you want to watch something that's not on subscription TV if you know what I mean.
Oh, I know you can hook up keyboard and mouse to consoles. I tried it out on my PS3 and it worked fine using the USB ports, at least for using its internet browser. The problem is that games on the consoles are not designed to utilize them, so getting them to work for the games is a pain.Yeah, as Brujon said it's to keep you buying those gamepads :p
Everything consoles have, PC's do it better, there's no two ways about it.It helps that PCs run console games too :)As for blu-ray, I've still got a PS3 for watching movies. While I could hook my PC up to my TV, I don't really need to. The PS3 also has Netflix, so it's now my show/movie system, while my PC is for internet browsing and gaming.I know how that is. It's easier to click the PS3 on for Netflix and such, but plugging the laptop in lets me watch anything. Extremely useful when you want to watch something that's not on subscription TV if you know what I mean.
Pfff, Gameshark? I borrowed a Game Genie for my NES from my neighbour when I was a kid. Tried inputting random codes for a few games. For Super Mario Bros, I turned Mario green and he couldn't jump. Made Link invincible in Zelda 2. Nothing memorable in any of the other games, though.Game Genie unfortunately encoded it's set up in order to sell you new code books.
So owners of the PC version of the game are capable of transferring MP3 files to a "Custom Soundtrack" folder in the game's source file. These tracks can be accessed in-game to play when the helicopter comes in, or as a casette tape on your iDroid.
So I've been accumulating a series of music choices, some serious, others not so much. I felt that Dethklok's Hatredcopter was highly appropriate, for example. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9LOAdP9iIQ)
So, what music choices do you find particularly appropriate for the game, whether to play during missions or when the helicopter's summoned?
Going by what I've heard in a Let's Play, I'm going to assume you are talking about MGS5. I don't own the game, so I can't say what I do use, but I do like the idea of using the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance soundtrack for some of it.