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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #600 on: 28 Jan 2016, 11:57 »

Rocket League is super-fun with friends. I was playing with a buddy the other day and it was greatness, complete with a John Cena moment when I got a half court goal with a crazy arc and shit.

I've just ordered an Xbox One Forza 6 edition, should be getting it in a week or so. I'll be hitting that as soon as possible.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #601 on: 28 Jan 2016, 14:13 »

I'm still working on such highly technical aspects as 'getting car to drive where I want' and 'hitting the ball' :)

I've seen some amazing plays though, and even pulled a few off, mostly by luck but still...
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #602 on: 28 Jan 2016, 15:55 »

Oh yeah I'm also on that part of learning Rocket League. It's still insane fun tho.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #603 on: 28 Jan 2016, 23:56 »

Anybody else here playing Endless Space?
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #604 on: 29 Jan 2016, 01:51 »

I've just ordered an Xbox One Forza 6 edition, should be getting it in a week or so. I'll be hitting that as soon as possible.
Add me on Live when you get it, man! Gamertag is LJ Felix :)
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #605 on: 29 Jan 2016, 13:13 »

Anybody else here playing Endless Space?

Not right now, but I have recently.
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« Reply #606 on: 29 Jan 2016, 15:24 »

I own Endless Space, but haven't started it yet.

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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #607 on: 29 Jan 2016, 16:31 »

If you're talking about Metal Gear Solid 5, I'll say that it's exactly the kind of game that sucks *me* in.

That said, it's very Kojima. Yeah, that's how I'll put it.

Very Kojima = Extracting Bears with Extreme Prejudice?




Loving it so far! How could this one sneak past me for so long?
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #608 on: 29 Jan 2016, 18:45 »

Sid Meier's Pirates is on sale through Steam and I'm really tempted to buy it
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« Reply #609 on: 29 Jan 2016, 19:43 »

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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #610 on: 30 Jan 2016, 03:09 »

I own Endless Space, but haven't started it yet.
Anybody else here playing Endless Space?

Not right now, but I have recently.

Well, if any of you feel like playing a round, you can add me on Steam (just send me a PM and I'll give you the link to my profile). I'm awful, though, can't even win against an easy AI. But I love the game.
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« Reply #611 on: 30 Jan 2016, 08:54 »

If you're talking about Metal Gear Solid 5, I'll say that it's exactly the kind of game that sucks *me* in.

That said, it's very Kojima. Yeah, that's how I'll put it.

Very Kojima = Extracting Bears with Extreme Prejudice?




Loving it so far! How could this one sneak past me for so long?

Ah yes, the fun of wasting resources extracting the local fauna! I like to imagine Kaz is on the Command Deck when he gets a report of Snake has fultoned another animal for the Conservation NGO, he looks up and sees a bear hurtling towards him with all the indignation of being tranqed and having a balloon attached to its foot.

That'll learn him for insulting Quiet.
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« Reply #612 on: 30 Jan 2016, 19:32 »





Well, if any of you feel like playing a round, you can add me on Steam (just send me a PM and I'll give you the link to my profile). I'm awful, though, can't even win against an easy AI. But I love the game.

I sense a game shark >_>

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« Reply #613 on: 31 Jan 2016, 04:04 »

Well, if any of you feel like playing a round, you can add me on Steam (just send me a PM and I'll give you the link to my profile). I'm awful, though, can't even win against an easy AI. But I love the game.

I sense a game shark >_>
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« Reply #614 on: 31 Jan 2016, 10:35 »

Well it's like a pool shark or card shark, but y'know, different venue.

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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #615 on: 31 Jan 2016, 11:17 »

So we can plug codes into them to cheat on our old NES games? :)
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #616 on: 31 Jan 2016, 16:23 »

If you're talking about Metal Gear Solid 5, I'll say that it's exactly the kind of game that sucks *me* in.

That said, it's very Kojima. Yeah, that's how I'll put it.

Very Kojima = Extracting Bears with Extreme Prejudice?




Loving it so far! How could this one sneak past me for so long?

Ah yes, the fun of wasting resources extracting the local fauna! I like to imagine Kaz is on the Command Deck when he gets a report of Snake has fultoned another animal for the Conservation NGO, he looks up and sees a bear hurtling towards him with all the indignation of being tranqed and having a balloon attached to its foot.

That'll learn him for insulting Quiet.

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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #617 on: 31 Jan 2016, 18:49 »

A bear versus a man missing an arm, a leg and developing severe cataracts.
The poor bear never stood a chance.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #618 on: 31 Jan 2016, 19:11 »

Started playing Batman: Arkham Knight. It's a little daunting to see my friends 100% completion thing every time I boot it up. Also, there's a Zur En Arrh skin in the game and I want it so bad, even if it looks awful for the game
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« Reply #619 on: 01 Feb 2016, 10:49 »

The embargo has lifted on XCOM 2 and one of my favourite players has started a run. But I don't want spoilers before it's out on Friday. But I want moar XCOM! But I want to play it myself!

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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #620 on: 04 Feb 2016, 02:42 »

I've just ordered an Xbox One Forza 6 edition, should be getting it in a week or so. I'll be hitting that as soon as possible.
Add me on Live when you get it, man! Gamertag is LJ Felix :)

K dun, should be osaka199 ( 'w')

So yeah, my console arrived. Played some Horizon 2 X1 and some Forza 6 yesterday, great games. Any idea what are the ranges for Drivatar difficulties? Because I have both games in "Highly Skilled" and damn them boys trash. Also, the vibrating triggers is a very interesting feature, specially since I use a ton of RWD vehicles and no traction control so it's really a great indicator of when you're at the very limit of grip.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #621 on: 04 Feb 2016, 02:57 »

Well it's like a pool shark or card shark, but y'know, different venue.
So, according to Google, someone who is really good and dominating the game? Basically the opposite of me.
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« Reply #622 on: 04 Feb 2016, 06:32 »

Well it's like a pool shark or card shark, but y'know, different venue.
So, according to Google, someone who is really good and dominating the game? Basically the opposite of me.
That's part of it. The other part is that they pretend to be really bad at the game, so as to lure unsuspecting marks to play against them, thinking it will be an easy win... Then they turn the tables and clean up on the marks.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #623 on: 04 Feb 2016, 13:36 »

I've been playing more Dark Souls again. I suck hard at it, but I'm having fun in small doses.

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« Reply #624 on: 04 Feb 2016, 13:50 »

Any idea what are the ranges for Drivatar difficulties? Because I have both games in "Highly Skilled" and damn them boys trash.

Moved Forza 6 to Expert. Dem bois still trash.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #625 on: 04 Feb 2016, 14:19 »

I've been playing more Dark Souls again. I suck hard at it, but I'm having fun in small doses.

A PS4 and Bloodborne was my Christmas gift this year. I really want to play more of it... I haven't even beat the first boss yet, I wind up just farming the same guys near the beginning. Sadly the nature of the game and the respawning system means you really need to devote a block of uninterrupted time to play it... And between my work schedule and Fallout 4, finding that time has not been easy. Well, if I can get some free time this weekend, I may dive in head first and try to get to the boss.
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« Reply #626 on: 04 Feb 2016, 15:41 »

Wrapped up Primordia the other night.

While there are certain tendencies I could do without, I generally like the games that Wadjet Eye Games publishes. And being a robotic, wasteland hermit who followed the Gospel of Man was neat.

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« Reply #627 on: 04 Feb 2016, 17:19 »

Huh. I'm so glad I didn't allow anybody to spoil Dark Souls for me. I just passed THE point in Dark Souls where you get reminded of the scale of the whole thing.

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« Reply #628 on: 06 Feb 2016, 17:22 »

Picked up Wind Waker HD, haven't played it since September last year. I completely beat the original, but enough time has passed that I still need to figure things out on my own. It's sad to say that I had to look up how to beat the first boss. The gamepad is taking a little time to get used to, but I'm having a great time with it.
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« Reply #629 on: 06 Feb 2016, 18:28 »

My literal first impression and mini review to XCOM2
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« Reply #630 on: 07 Feb 2016, 20:04 »

Picked up the Shadowrun Return games during the Steam Lunar Festival sales.

And I have to say I'm loving them, already finished Dead Man's Switch. All three stories were backed by kickstarter, but anyone who bought the games afterwards were given free upgrades to the special editions when they were completed.

Each story is self contained, the first taking place in Seattle where a friend of yours has been murdered and he's ask you to investigate. The second is based in a Berlin district and the third is set outside the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. Storywise, they feel like the length of a Shadowrun campaign a friend would have run a while back, long enough to keep players hooked, short enough that they weren't going to get bored.

Combat is simple enough while the story can be engaging. The archetypes in-game aren't fixed, so you can have a mage packing an assault rifle while they're summoning spirits.

The Hong Kong special edition of the game was released Thursday, I think, and contains several new missions as well as a playable epilogue.

Definitely fun if you like cyberpunk or tactical RPGs.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #631 on: 07 Feb 2016, 20:17 »

I got Prison Architect on sale. Started a decent prison but caught a legendary prisoner early on, and it killed most of my guards, started a riot, and everyone just walked out of what was left of my prison... The RNG hates me.
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« Reply #632 on: 07 Feb 2016, 21:34 »

I've already played through the first two Shadowrun Returns games, and thought they were pretty good. I am a fan of turn based tactical RPGs though, and a huge Shadowrun fan, so I'm like, 100% the target audience. I picked up the Hong Kong edition on the Steam sale, and look forward to leaping into that. I also picked up the Witcher 3 and Elite: Dangerous as well, since they were both half off and on my 'to play lists'. Started the Witcher, but I haven't got far in it. Pretty cool so far though. I'm really looking forward to seeing what CD Projekt Red does with Cyberpunk. Elite: Dangerous will have to wait to be played though, until my flight stick arrives. I tried to play it with mouse and keyboard.... It's possible... just really horrible to do. Any twitch of the mouse would send my ship careening around, even with sensitivity turned down... And even just playing the tutorial levels I felt the motion sickness coming on because of the jerky movements with the mouse.
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« Reply #633 on: 12 Feb 2016, 12:48 »

Picked up Firewatch today and went through the first ingame day.

Its alright. I mean I was looking forward to it when they announced it and yeah its fun and funny (seriously, your first day on the job is dealing with two drunk skinny-dipping teens who are hiding behind a rock), but I'm feeling kinda meh about it. The mouse is a little too sensitive for my liking, which makes it a little difficult to find that point to interact with at a distance, switching to running or jogging doesn't actually feel like you're moving faster.

Not a game I would suggest buying right now, but maybe during the next Steam sale.
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« Reply #634 on: 12 Feb 2016, 13:17 »

After some 30 some hours of Skyrim I also picked up Oblivion during the last steam sale. It was my favorite game ever, BUT I FORGOT THAT SAVES GLITCH ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Also, I really appreciate the amount of autosaves Skyrim has now...
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« Reply #635 on: 12 Feb 2016, 13:26 »

I should you know... finish Oblivion at some point...
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« Reply #636 on: 12 Feb 2016, 13:27 »

I should you know... finish Oblivion at some point...

I have played Oblivion for probably 400 hours. I have finished the main questline once...
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« Reply #637 on: 12 Feb 2016, 13:32 »

Yeah, I haven't finished Skyrim, Oblivion or Morrowind... But then I never got very far in Morrowind before the way outdated graphics got to me... I just keep getting distracted, then when I come back I start over again...

I've also never finished Fallout New Vegas, but that was by choice, because I hated the main quest.
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« Reply #638 on: 12 Feb 2016, 13:37 »

I see you're also the type of person that does that. The only long RPG I think I ever finished (besides Oblivion) was fallout 3. I didn't finish New Vegas, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Farcry 3... I finished... Borderlands 1 and 2?

There's something about getting close to the finish that makes me not want to go any further.
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« Reply #639 on: 12 Feb 2016, 14:33 »

The thing about borderlands is that about 300 hours in you quickly realize the story doesn't really matter. You're a god killer, it's time to have some fun. And devising builds to eventually get to OP8 is fun.

And thus, my friends, is how I ended up finishing the BL2 story 8 times already. With BL1 is a bit different because no character struck me as something to build for utter chaos and destruction as Lilith. As I said on a skype group of trackmania dudes, I am a Gaige player, so chaos is my game.

In the meantime, Horizon 2 in the Xbox One is so fucking based. Got to Finale 1, beat the crap out of the other Drivatars in my trusty F40. It's a 15+ minute street race ( 'w') Now working towards Finale 2, maybe by then I have a viable hypercar (the Venom GT, while I could manage to win the class with it, is nigh-impossible to drive in its stock configuration, mainly because it's what happens when an american muscle car tuner gets hold of a GT1 Lotus Elise and decides that it desperately needs more power). If I don't, well, F40 time again. And on the other Forza (FM6), I got hard baited on the Track Toys championship.
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« Reply #640 on: 12 Feb 2016, 15:29 »

There's something about getting close to the finish that makes me not want to go any further.

I wouldn't say that's the case for me. I'm fine with finishing games. My trouble is with these long games is I tend to get distracted by something else before finishing. I can put a bunch of hours into a game and either decide I want to try a different kind of character, or a different game will appeal to me or what have you and that game will get shelved. Then when I come back to it later it feels like I'm starring all over again from the middle. So I restart. Over and over. Kind of the same reason I have a ton of half finished armies of miniatures for different tabletop battle games... New Vegas for me it was after getting revenge on the guy who shot you in the head at the start of the game, I didn't care about the main quest anymore. I just went around doing the side missions and stuff.
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« Reply #641 on: 12 Feb 2016, 15:34 »

Borderlands' 1 story doesn't just not matter, but it sucks.

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« Reply #642 on: 12 Feb 2016, 15:43 »

The ending was super weak, no doubt about that.  And the story was basically non existent. It was just there mostly to string one set piece or interesting character together with the next.  It did lay foundation for the universe and the world of Pandora. I felt the writing was better in the DLC and sequel/prequel as well... I mean we aren't talking Oscar material here. It is a shootyman game after all. :)
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« Reply #643 on: 12 Feb 2016, 22:06 »

Oh yeah, I didn't do DLC, and didn't *finish* 2, but it's head and shoulders above.

BL1's story was frustrating many times to me, since it would *start* to go someplace interesting. But only start.

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« Reply #644 on: 12 Feb 2016, 22:55 »

I heard "Tales from the Borderlands" was pretty good story wise. The writers just seem to be more about witty dick jokes than anything else (which, I should add, I'm cool with).
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« Reply #645 on: 13 Feb 2016, 04:18 »

Tales is pretty good, still gotta finish it but it's on the level with Wolf Among Us and Walking Dead. I didn't get very far into BL 1, just could not get into it.
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« Reply #646 on: 13 Feb 2016, 11:42 »

They goofed up hard with the story of BL1 mainly because it was more a proof of concept than anything else.
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« Reply #647 on: 13 Feb 2016, 16:32 »

I'll argue against you on that.

They goofed up hard on BL1's story the same reason many other games of its ilk goof up hard on that aspect: in that industry, it's not a priority, to put it mildly. No 'proof of concept' anything, it's a matter of math and culture, and those add up to results that I can sympathize with, but are still frustrating when something has as much *style* and *atmosphere* as that game did at times.

Sometimes, it would start to grab me. And then it would fumble the ball, and be all the more frustrating for it.

A lot of games run into that, where you can tell they'd planned on going a little further with a point, but had to cut or couldn't figure out how to do it without fucking up the rest of the game. And the story doesn't exist in a vacuum, a game is, ideally, a unified piece with parts that work together to reinforce each other. And BL1, like many games, failed at parts of that, that's all.

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« Reply #648 on: 13 Feb 2016, 18:41 »

Finished up my sea chart in Wind Waker, got every single square filled. Now to collect all the treasure maps and sea chests, collect all the figures...and I guess finish the game.
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Re: What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
« Reply #649 on: 15 Feb 2016, 07:03 »

I'm currently playing Until Dawn and it's... Interesting? Very like a horror film and similar but mechanically better to Heavy Rain. The story is a little weird, like it couldn't quite decide what type of horror it was trying to be, but it's entertaining. Suffers from horror movie characters, but that's helped by being a choice based game so they aren't always dickish. On my second and a half playthrough, because I screwed up a choice and for some reason when I tried to go back it went to my first choices instead of my most recent ones. Definitely fun though, better to play with a friend watching or watch someone else so you have someone to talk to during the unskippable parts.
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