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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 22, 2021 9:09:59 GMT -5
Started playing Roundguard, a roguelike Peggle? The mechanics are basically Peggle, certain dots are enemies who damage your pinball and are damaged by you simultaneously, and there are a few variations. You can upgrade your armor and weapon and there are four flavors of pinball with different abilities, which are upgradeable and swappable. It's OK so far, but nothing really outstanding, perhaps because I suck at it. Monster Train has been a better roguelike, but I still can't beat the level boss ever.
I also started playing Farm Together with my partner, which feels like a free-to-play game because you're raising crops and animals and they all take time to do so, but there are no microtransactions ever, so it's all real-time. Exciting!
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Post by liebkartoffel on Nov 22, 2021 9:48:51 GMT -5
Started playing Roundguard, a roguelike Peggle? The mechanics are basically Peggle, certain dots are enemies who damage your pinball and are damaged by you simultaneously, and there are a few variations. You can upgrade your armor and weapon and there are four flavors of pinball with different abilities, which are upgradeable and swappable. It's OK so far, but nothing really outstanding, perhaps because I suck at it. Monster Train has been a better roguelike, but I still can't beat the level boss ever. I also started playing Farm Together with my partner, which feels like a free-to-play game because you're raising crops and animals and they all take time to do so, but there are no microtransactions ever, so it's all real-time. Exciting! I've played Beast Breaker, which has a similar Peggle-meets-X premise, except it's a straight-up RPG instead of a roguelike. It was fun for a day, but the story wasn't interesting enough to keep me invested and the gameplay wasn't so addictive that I'd want to just mindlessly play through a level while I watched TV. |
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Post by LazBro on Nov 22, 2021 11:42:14 GMT -5
We should be finishing up Banjo-Kazooie in another session or two. We've finished all the levels and collected everything. (Well, not all Mumbo tokens, but everything the game keeps track of.)
I'd like to think I can beat the infamous game show finale in an evening (avg. 60-75 minutes of playtime), but we'll see.
After that I plan to take a break again and spend our evenings doing non-screen related stuff for awhile. But then I think I might go big and play a Final Fantasy. 7-10 are all on Switch, and I was playing the earlier Final Fantasies by the time I was my daughter's age. I'm sure I was playing at least FF1 when I was 7/8. And FFIV came out when I was 7, so I probably played that first at 8/9.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Nov 22, 2021 11:54:28 GMT -5
yeah, roundguard was ok but I didn't find myself hooked for long. That said I think that's the case with all roguelikes, I don't understand how some people can play them for weeks on end, I don't think my brain works that way.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Nov 22, 2021 12:12:32 GMT -5
About 15 hours into Tales of Arise, which is about 12 hours further than I've made it into any other 3D Tales game, so Bandai Namco should consider that a win. It's good clean JRPG fun, but I found the preset combat mechanics so unintuitive--basic attack mapped to R1? why?--that I had to remap everything.
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Post by LazBro on Nov 22, 2021 12:20:50 GMT -5
yeah, roundguard was ok but I didn't find myself hooked for long. That said I think that's the case with all roguelikes, I don't understand how some people can play them for weeks on end, I don't think my brain works that way. Getting in early on roguelites, like I did with Dead Cells and Rogue Legacy 2, is its own kind of fun. Like you I have trouble sticking with them for very long, and because I started playing those two so early after release (into early access), every time I get the hankering to go back it's like a completely different game. I somehow enjoy watching the games grow more than I think I would have if I'd held off a couple years and only played them when they were good and finished. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 22, 2021 12:32:08 GMT -5
yeah, roundguard was ok but I didn't find myself hooked for long. That said I think that's the case with all roguelikes, I don't understand how some people can play them for weeks on end, I don't think my brain works that way. Getting in early on roguelites, like I did with Dead Cells and Rogue Legacy 2, is its own kind of fun. Like you I have trouble sticking with them for very long, and because I started playing those two so early after release (into early access), every time I get the hankering to go back it's like a completely different game. I somehow enjoy watching the games grow more than I think I would have if I'd held off a couple years and only played them when they were good and finished. I've mentioned elsethread that I've really enjoyed some (deck-based) roguelikes like Monster Train and Slay The Spire, but for me, those are the only ones that really clicked. Roundguard is merely OK, and I actually really suck at Rogue and Nethack. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Nov 22, 2021 12:45:06 GMT -5
I enjoyed the original Rogue Legacy but never got particularly far in it, played Slay the Spire a while and enjoyed it but didn't stick with it. Those are really the only two though.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 22, 2021 21:45:36 GMT -5
Holy shit fuck you Verdant Brink!
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 23, 2021 8:29:56 GMT -5
Holy shit fuck you Verdant Brink! I'll be honest: until I googled it I thought this was a person. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 23, 2021 12:33:32 GMT -5
Holy shit fuck you Verdant Brink! I'll be honest: until I googled it I thought this was a person.Ā I figured the people who play GW2 would know exactly what I meant and everyone else would be very confused. Might skip a whole major section of this game because I hate this one map so much. |
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Post by The Larch on Nov 26, 2021 5:11:55 GMT -5
I'll be honest: until I googled it I thought this was a person. I figured the people who play GW2 would know exactly what I meant and everyone else would be very confused. Might skip a whole major section of this game because I hate this one map so much. Those HoT maps are quite a bit more intense than maps from the base game. The verticality and mob design takes a bit of time to get used to. It's also a design choice that they almost completely back tracked on in more recent areas. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 26, 2021 14:04:27 GMT -5
I figured the people who play GW2 would know exactly what I meant and everyone else would be very confused. Might skip a whole major section of this game because I hate this one map so much. Those HoT maps are quite a bit more intense than maps from the base game. The verticality and mob design takes a bit of time to get used to. It's also a design choice that they almost completely back tracked on in more recent areas. Good to know! I just got Gliding II and a lot suddenly opened up to me, I think after I master the bouncing mushrooms I'll hate the map a little less. Still, so ready to be done with this section. |
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Post by patbat on Nov 26, 2021 15:58:14 GMT -5
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Post by LazBro on Nov 30, 2021 9:55:14 GMT -5
Started playing Final Fantasy VII for the kids. The original version, not the remake. Having an absolute blast with it so far. Nothing can hold the attention of my 4 year-old for more than a few minutes, so he's just kind of in the room going wild, but my 8 year-old is super into it. It's proving to be great reading practice as well. Her and I trade off lines.
We're playing on the Switch, and I was pleased to learn that this version has boosters. I didn't know that. I thought that was something that started with 9 on PC that they slowly added to the other games with their subsequent special releases, which VII really hasn't had.
I won't use the full hp/mp booster - I have my pride - but the speed booster and no encounters booster can definitely help with playing the game as a spectator activity. I can use the speed booster to more quickly do the grinding I like to do when we're not playing together, and if a dungeon is getting long or the kids are getting restless, I can switch on no encounters to speed things along.
And of course it's been several years since I've played the original game myself, so I'd be enjoying this even if I was just playing for myself. Great game.
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Post by sarapen on Nov 30, 2021 11:36:04 GMT -5
Finally close to the end of Horizon Zero Dawn. I stopped switching between playing that and Ghost of Tsushima because their controls are almost, but not exactly, the same, and I kept attacking when I was trying to sneak. I don't understand why there aren't any large animal predators in the game world. The ecology is going to get really fucked up really fast unless all the robots have some kind of knock on effect on the environment that mitigates this issue.
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Post by LazBro on Nov 30, 2021 12:26:22 GMT -5
... I won't use the full hp/mp booster - I have my pride - but the speed booster and no encounters booster can definitely help with playing the game as a spectator activity. I can use the speed booster to more quickly do the grinding I like to do when we're not playing together, and if a dungeon is getting long or the kids are getting restless, I can switch on no encounters to speed things along. ... Oh, and I forgot to mention a couple other really good changes. Limit breaks charge WAY faster. Like I think I've already seen Aeris' Healing Wind more times in this run than I would see across the entire first half of the game playing the PS version (I never main Aeris), and I've only just made it to the Train Graveyard. Every character limit breaked twice during the Aps fight. And also stealing is supposed to be much easier, which will be good in Shinra Tower when I try to get my Hard Edge. |
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Post by patbat on Nov 30, 2021 13:03:07 GMT -5
Finally close to the end of Horizon Zero Dawn. I stopped switching between playing that and Ghost of Tsushima because their controls are almost, but not exactly, the same, and I kept attacking when I was trying to sneak. I don't understand why there aren't any large animal predators in the game world. The ecology is going to get really fucked up really fast unless all the robots have some kind of knock on effect on the environment that mitigates this issue. I don't want to spoil anything, but suffice to say that the plot will explain the lack of organic apex predators eventually. |
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Dec 2, 2021 21:04:26 GMT -5
halo infinite looks so insanely fun, i should have bit the bullet and got a series s on black friday  |
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Post by Trurl on Dec 2, 2021 21:43:12 GMT -5
This weekend I reinstalled two previous MMORPGs and played a new character to level 20 under the Free to Play models - World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic. WoW was utterly fucking boring. Minus a few changes in the early areas of the game, and automatically getting new spells as I leveled, this game is OLLLLD now. It really, REALLY needs a fricking graphics update more than just "slightly better character textures/models now". SWTOR was, by comparison, at least still kind of fun. Also dated, but it's ten years old to WoW's 17-18. The improvements in the game seem minor, except for one difference - the one starting dungeon for level 10 is playable solo now, and they give you a "combat droid" to accompany you on it, and it's actually fairly fun that way. I will probably continue playing SWTOR again. The only way I will go back to WoW is if Mrs B wants to. I read this the other day and thought to myself "I never really gave an MMO a shot before, I should give one a try", and I had a couple hours to kill so I installed SW:TOR and played it for a bit. Probably won't continue; still don't really have any interest in playing online. But I thought that name I came up with for my character sounded sufficiently Star Wars-y - Bute Mroing. |
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Dec 2, 2021 22:55:41 GMT -5
This weekend I reinstalled two previous MMORPGs and played a new character to level 20 under the Free to Play models - World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic. WoW was utterly fucking boring. Minus a few changes in the early areas of the game, and automatically getting new spells as I leveled, this game is OLLLLD now. It really, REALLY needs a fricking graphics update more than just "slightly better character textures/models now". SWTOR was, by comparison, at least still kind of fun. Also dated, but it's ten years old to WoW's 17-18. The improvements in the game seem minor, except for one difference - the one starting dungeon for level 10 is playable solo now, and they give you a "combat droid" to accompany you on it, and it's actually fairly fun that way. I will probably continue playing SWTOR again. The only way I will go back to WoW is if Mrs B wants to. I read this the other day and thought to myself "I never really gave an MMO a shot before, I should give one a try", and I had a couple hours to kill so I installed SW:TOR and played it for a bit. Probably won't continue; still don't really have any interest in playing online. But I thought that name I came up with for my character sounded sufficiently Star Wars-y - Bute Mroing. ROFL, it works. Only thing more Lucas-y would be to add "-ster" on the end. Bute Mroingster! |
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Post by LazBro on Dec 3, 2021 13:05:36 GMT -5
This time, as with all of the many times I have played this game except maybe the first, the Kalm flashback was unbearable.
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Dec 3, 2021 18:25:28 GMT -5
these look pretty cool
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Dec 5, 2021 16:29:59 GMT -5
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Dec 6, 2021 14:28:31 GMT -5
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Post by Djse's witty holiday moniker on Dec 11, 2021 12:02:57 GMT -5
FYI Switch users - my friend code is SW-7041-8718-2612. Come see the ridiculous amount of time I spend playing Tetris 99.
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Post by monodrone on Dec 13, 2021 8:05:43 GMT -5
FYI Switch users - my friend code is SW-7041-8718-2612. Come see the ridiculous amount of time I spend playing Tetris 99. I also have a switch now which is, from what I can tell, the best way to play Civ 6 and Rocket League. SW-5158-8490-9801 is mine. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 13, 2021 9:49:46 GMT -5
I told Iffy I downloaded Civ VI and he asked if we could play together, which is about the cutest thing ever.
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Dec 13, 2021 21:48:11 GMT -5
baiken laugh
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