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Post by LazBro on Jan 13, 2022 8:35:46 GMT -5
I had just come to post about how God of War (2018) hits PC tomorrow, and I'm willing to pick it up at day one price, especially since I have tomorrow evening to myself to game for 5+ hours, but I was worried the port was going to suck shit, because so many PC ports have lately. That's what I was going to post about, but then I found this: kotaku.com/god-of-war-is-getting-rave-reviews-on-pc-1848348366Gravy. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 13, 2022 9:33:18 GMT -5
I still maintain that Gen 7 (PS3/360/Wii) is an aesthetic low point for video games. 3D graphics (arguably) finally come into their own but Video Games are Adult Now so everything is inexplicably sepia.
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Post by patbat on Jan 13, 2022 9:47:43 GMT -5
I still maintain that Gen 7 (PS3/360/Wii) is an aesthetic low point for video games. 3D graphics (arguably) finally come into their own but Video Games are Adult Now so everything is inexplicably sepia. Yeah, people like to say Gen 5 was the worst, but at least PSX/N64 games were in color |
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Jan 13, 2022 11:49:19 GMT -5
No Man's Sky - This game so far has been pretty Zen for me. I am mostly focusing on exploring and building in the first 3-4 systems nearest to my current chosen home base.
I keep asking my one coworker who's played before for advice, which helps when I don't feel like reading everything online because I already spend way too much time by myself.
I managed to scrounge up enough money to buy a slightly nicer multitool (though I am DEFINITELY planning to buy the one available on the Anomaly station, "The End of War", a rifle with like twice as many tech slots as my current pistol), and am on my way to setting up some automated mining rigs so I can afford to buy a nicer ship as well.
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 13, 2022 12:51:45 GMT -5
this is what it's all about
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Jan 14, 2022 10:59:19 GMT -5
No Man's Sky - It's kind of funny how you get new ships in the game. You can find crashed and abandoned ships and get more that way, but you can also talk to any NPC who lands a ship near you, in station or on a planet, and compare their ship to yours and make an offer - either to buy it outright or trade your current ship to them. If you don't buy it right then, they take off and you'll probably never see that specific ship again as they're all randomized.
I found a ship I REALLY wanted, but was a little short on money to buy it...so I sold everything I could in my inventory to him first, then was able to buy it outright!
I finally got up enough money to buy that big rifle multitool I wanted, and discovered that it changes occasionally (daily?) so it wasn't there. I managed to find a good one on a different station anyway.
After that managed to find an ancient ruin with glowing orbs worth 40,000 units each - that cause Sentinel robots to appear and attack you when you pick one up! My gun at the time barely damaged them, so I ran to my ship and took off...then decided to try turning my ship around and firing on them, which killed them instantly. I did this two more times to pick up three orbs, and also found a bunch of keys and a buried chest containing a relic book worth 1.8 million!
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Post by LazBro on Jan 14, 2022 21:32:47 GMT -5
I had just come to post about how God of War (2018) hits PC tomorrow, and I'm willing to pick it up at day one price, especially since I have tomorrow evening to myself to game for 5+ hours, but I was worried the port was going to suck shit, because so many PC ports have lately. That's what I was going to post about, but then I found this: kotaku.com/god-of-war-is-getting-rave-reviews-on-pc-1848348366Gravy. Jesus H Ballsack it looks incredible and runs like a ballsacking dream! It's the most impressive pure expression of video game graphics I've ever seen. RE Village is like a joke compared.
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Jan 17, 2022 12:00:14 GMT -5
No Man's Sky - It's kind of funny how you get new ships in the game. You can find crashed and abandoned ships and get more that way, but you can also talk to any NPC who lands a ship near you, in station or on a planet, and compare their ship to yours and make an offer - either to buy it outright or trade your current ship to them. If you don't buy it right then, they take off and you'll probably never see that specific ship again as they're all randomized. I found a ship I REALLY wanted, but was a little short on money to buy it...so I sold everything I could in my inventory to him first, then was able to buy it outright! I finally got up enough money to buy that big rifle multitool I wanted, and discovered that it changes occasionally (daily?) so it wasn't there. I managed to find a good one on a different station anyway. After that managed to find an ancient ruin with glowing orbs worth 40,000 units each - that cause Sentinel robots to appear and attack you when you pick one up! My gun at the time barely damaged them, so I ran to my ship and took off...then decided to try turning my ship around and firing on them, which killed them instantly. I did this two more times to pick up three orbs, and also found a bunch of keys and a buried chest containing a relic book worth 1.8 million! I spent WAY too much time playing this over the weekend, but my wife spent almost the same amount of time playing Zelda with our daughter watching her, so it evens out. I really wish I'd known that certain mission lines that involve hiring aliens to work on your base would ALSO result in being given free blueprints and recipes before spending hundreds of nanites and tech fragments to unlock them first... I now have a respectably sized home base complete with a biodome for plants, landing pads for my starship and planet rover, and three aliens in residence - an overseer, scientist and weapons dude. I also have a freighter with two frigates for sending out on missions. One of these days I'll remember to get a screenshot to share. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2022 15:35:53 GMT -5
I also picked up Disco Elysium Director's cut on PC. I've only played a couple of hours but it looks very promising and I appreciate the game roasting me for my boring normie choices in dialogue (I almost immediately got the "Rigorous self-critique"* and the "Regular Law Official"** thought because I always try to play nice in RPG and to be fair it also reflects me pretty well IRL. The writing is top notch. Some of the initial dialogue you get interacting with your reflection in the mirror is the hardest I've laughed at a video game in ages. |
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Post by sarapen on Jan 17, 2022 17:38:01 GMT -5
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim looks pretty nice. Sometimes you just gotta let out your inner 13 year old and pilot a giant robot through Tokyo, you know? This game seems like it'll scratch that itch, at least. The same company as Dragon's Crown and Odin Sphere as well. I think I'll buy it before the PS store holiday sale ends on the 19th.
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 18, 2022 8:36:09 GMT -5
what the crap lois
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Post by LazBro on Jan 18, 2022 12:30:54 GMT -5
Suddenly a lot for me to be excited about after a full year of mostly just playing Sekiro.
God of War (2018) came out last week.
Nobody Saves the World comes out today. A cartoony, top-down action-RPG from the Guacamelee people.
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster comes out "sometime in February."
Elden Ring comes out February 25.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands comes out March 25.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 13:16:24 GMT -5
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 20, 2022 14:43:04 GMT -5
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Post by Celebith on Jan 21, 2022 11:41:25 GMT -5
Suddenly a lot for me to be excited about after a full year of mostly just playing Sekiro.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands comes out March 25.
I've only partially been paying attention to this - for some reason I thought it was dropping much later this year. Currently working through the pre-sequel, totally under-equipped for one of the main quest boss fights and grinding a bit. I wish areas leveled to your character on the first play-through, though - going back to early areas is only netting me one xp and under powered gear. |
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Post by LazBro on Jan 21, 2022 11:45:14 GMT -5
Suddenly a lot for me to be excited about after a full year of mostly just playing Sekiro.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands comes out March 25.
I've only partially been paying attention to this - for some reason I thought it was dropping much later this year. Currently working through the pre-sequel, totally under-equipped for one of the main quest boss fights and grinding a bit. I wish areas leveled to your character on the first play-through, though - going back to early areas is only netting me one xp and under powered gear. The Tiny Tina DLC for Borderlands 2 (Assault on Dragon Keep) is by far the best piece of Borderlands content ever released, and while I don't really expect Wonderlands to live up to it, I'm excited for them to go wacky with the franchise again. Borderlands 3 is a very good Borderlands games, but I don't know, the kicks don't kick like they used to.
First run level scaling is kind of a bummer across the series. It's mostly fine for main campaign, but if you play like I play - no grinding exactly, but definitely completing all missions and always killing everything as I go along - then you're overpowered by the end and DLC is hardly worth playing.
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Post by Celebith on Jan 21, 2022 11:55:48 GMT -5
I've only partially been paying attention to this - for some reason I thought it was dropping much later this year. Currently working through the pre-sequel, totally under-equipped for one of the main quest boss fights and grinding a bit. I wish areas leveled to your character on the first play-through, though - going back to early areas is only netting me one xp and under powered gear. The Tiny Tina DLC for Borderlands 2 (Assault on Dragon Keep) is by far the best piece of Borderlands content every released, and while I don't really expect Wonderlands to live up to it, I'm excited for them to go wacky with the franchise again. Borderlands 3 is a very good Borderlands games, but I don't know, the kicks don't kick like they used to.
First run level scaling is kind of a bummer across the series. It's mostly fine for main campaign, but if you play like I play - no grinding exactly, but definitely completing all missions and always killing everything as I go along - then you're overpowered by the end and DLC is hardly worth playing.
Assault on Dragon Keep is great, and the grenade mods are almost essential for end-game builds. Considering the silliness of the game overall, it did an amazing job of narrating how everyone processed their grief. Plus, Ashley Burke and the rest of the voice team is all top notch. Definitely looking forward to this release, although I have enough other things to hold me over until it goes on sale. |
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 21, 2022 17:36:34 GMT -5
new justin wong mvc 2 tier list dropped
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 21, 2022 18:33:37 GMT -5
Someone elsenet told me about We Happy Few and the concept intrigued me enough that I grabbed a copy from the library. Another person told me about Pupperazzi and I may have to get this game now. |
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Post by LazBro on Jan 24, 2022 14:33:43 GMT -5
God of War (2018) might actually be too long. I'm at 25.4 hours played, and I've avoided consulting a walkthrough or even looking up the basic story beats, so I have no idea how much further I have to go. I suppose it could be very soon, but it doesn't feel like it. Back half, for sure, but not just about to be over.
I know part of it is my play style, where every time I get a new traversal ability or the environment shifts to reveal new optional areas, I immediately try to do everything.
(It does give one hope that the rumored RE4 remake could actually be delivered in full at REmake fidelity, instead of being sliced down they way they did RE3 ... but I dunno.)
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 24, 2022 19:14:52 GMT -5
God of War (2018) might actually be too long. I'm at 25.4 hours played, and I've avoided consulting a walkthrough or even looking up the basic story beats, so I have no idea how much further I have to go. I suppose it could be very soon, but it doesn't feel like it. Back half, for sure, but not just about to be over.
I know part of it is my play style, where every time I get a new traversal ability or the environment shifts to reveal new optional areas, I immediately try to do everything.
(It does give one hope that the rumored RE4 remake could actually be delivered in full at REmake fidelity, instead of being sliced down they way they did RE3 ... but I dunno.)
I'm dealing with something similar with Ghost of Tsushima--about 27 hours in and just finished Act 1 of (I'm assuming) 3, but I basically 100%-ed the third of the island that was available to me. It doesn't help that there are half a dozen separate varieties of dopamine triggers--health-increasing springs, Shinto shrine platforming puzzles, new katana sets to collect, etc.--to stumble upon in between ambushing Mongol patrols and clearing camps. |
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 24, 2022 21:42:09 GMT -5
i shot a monkey with a flaming arrow in the ghost of tsushima dlc
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Jan 25, 2022 2:30:03 GMT -5
No Man's Sky - Just for the hell of it, a couple screenshots:  My current main base. Working on tidying it up over time, adding more buildings in the background, removing the extra room blocks around the ship landing pad, etc. I spend most of my time in the far left rooms on the ground floor.  My primary ship, a Class A fighter. I'm saving up to upgrade it to a Class S (Classes go C, B, A, S) but it's decent for now.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 25, 2022 8:04:36 GMT -5
God of War (2018) might actually be too long. I'm at 25.4 hours played, and I've avoided consulting a walkthrough or even looking up the basic story beats, so I have no idea how much further I have to go. I suppose it could be very soon, but it doesn't feel like it. Back half, for sure, but not just about to be over.
I know part of it is my play style, where every time I get a new traversal ability or the environment shifts to reveal new optional areas, I immediately try to do everything.
(It does give one hope that the rumored RE4 remake could actually be delivered in full at REmake fidelity, instead of being sliced down they way they did RE3 ... but I dunno.)
I'm dealing with something similar with Ghost of Tsushima--about 27 hours in and just finished Act 1 of (I'm assuming) 3, but I basically 100%-ed the third of the island that was available to me. It doesn't help that there are half a dozen separate varieties of dopamine triggers--health-increasing springs, Shinto shrine platforming puzzles, new katana sets to collect, etc.--to stumble upon in between ambushing Mongol patrols and clearing camps. Yeah, and for an open world game I expect that. It's ultimately what turned me off the genre: time investment vs. what I felt I was really getting out of it. God of War has some open-ish sections, but structurally it is still a point-to-point action game, so the length is really standing out to me. The stuff I find in the side paths is rarely useful, either, but it MIGHT have been .... so here we go. One nice quality of life thing is that it tells you how many of the truly major items there are, such as the items that increase health or increase rage meter. So I know that I already have all the health upgrades there are to get, and I know I need one more rage upgrade. That's nice. |
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 25, 2022 17:48:00 GMT -5
who has baiken fever
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 25, 2022 22:10:57 GMT -5
i shot a monkey with a flaming arrow in the ghost of tsushima dlc I accidentally threw a knife into an old lady, and then I felt bad because she bled a bit, got up, and bowed at me. |
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Post by Tifa Gooners In Shambles on Jan 26, 2022 22:13:52 GMT -5
zag nendo.
who is gonna cop the zag nendo
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Post by ABz Borešnaz on Jan 27, 2022 10:21:59 GMT -5
zag nendo. who is gonna cop the zag nendo That may be the first one of these you've posted where I loved the game enough to consider it! Still won't, but it's a very cool fig! |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 27, 2022 11:26:09 GMT -5
I started playing Minecraft again after a very long time and had almost forgotten how much fun it is.
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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 27, 2022 12:37:12 GMT -5
I started playing Minecraft again after a very long time and had almost forgotten how much fun it is. I have a survival world that is almost 10 years old. I recently replaced my laptop's fan, so I started it up just to see how the fan would do during a game. I got off course trying to find some new biomes with the latest update and fell down a huge shaft. Of course I was a long way from my base and respawn point. It took me two tries to get back there and safely down into a cave full of creepers to get most of my stuff back. I lost a lot, but I did get my enchanted diamond sword and most of my enchanted diamond armor back. I really should not go adventuring with all my best equipment. (Not having any luck mining ancient debris for netherite armor yet) The great thing about Minecraft is that you can get bored and step away for a few months or even years and it is right there waiting when you jump back in with cool new updates to explore. I also love that I can go back and explore the worlds that I built with my kids. They seem to have the same relationship with the game where they will step away for a while and then come back. |
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