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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 17, 2022 18:55:00 GMT -5
I told myself I'd never get attached to one of my Guild Wars 2 key farm characters, but here I am with her at level 80, farming items to make her ascended gear. I have no idea where to begin with finding ascended gear stuff. Does that become easier once the expansions are complete? I just started Path of Thorns, leveling up my glider and mastery skills in Verdant Brink. My recommendation is to go to Metabattle to look up what kind of build you'd like to play with your character. Like I wanted an absolute tank for this character so I looked up a power warrior build. Metabattle will recommend the best ascended gear for that build. THEN, go to gw2efficiency.com/ and use the crafting guide to look up when you need for those items. And then finally use the wiki to see where to get those items. For farming suggestions I find Reddit to be a good source. |
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Nov 18, 2022 11:20:24 GMT -5
Back home this weekend for Easter I fired up my old computer and got hooked again on Skyrim. This game is like cocaine for me.
Help it's happened again
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Post by LazBro on Nov 21, 2022 15:26:45 GMT -5
Crysis: Remaster Trilogy on sale for $30 US. Picked it up.
Crysis is one of the first games I played after getting my first decent gaming rig as an adult and becoming a PC guy. It was several years old at that point already, but it still felt like a spiritual threshold that had to be crossed. I remember liking it but am not entirely sure I finished it. Played Crysis 2 on console through GameFly. I never played Crysis 3.
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Post by LazBro on Nov 22, 2022 8:13:47 GMT -5
Crysis: Remaster Trilogy on sale for $30 US. Picked it up. Crysis is one of the first games I played after getting my first decent gaming rig as an adult and becoming a PC guy. It was several years old at that point already, but it still felt like a spiritual threshold that had to be crossed. I remember liking it but am not entirely sure I finished it. Played Crysis 2 on console through GameFly. I never played Crysis 3.
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Post by sarapen on Nov 22, 2022 8:37:26 GMT -5
After 400 hours I've finally finished Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The goddamn final dungeon is bullshit, the thing about teleporting between different versions of the dungeon sounds neat but in practice is annoying. The fights are also hard but in a grindy way, not a fun way. Actually there's another quest after this dungeon if you want to fight the real mastermind behind your troubles, and that bit is a little better. I may go back to see what happens if I max out upgrading everything in my kingdom and just use a cheat to go through the boss fights.
However, I don't really replay this kind of RPG so this is pretty much it. My kingdom is ruled by a lesbian tiefling queen with her tiefling consort, with an army full of mercenary wizards. I feel like the ending presentation could have used a little more flair, but I got a lot of game out of that $35 I spent so I'm satisfied.
I've bought Wrath of the Righteous but I'm not about to immediately jump into it, especially since I hear there's another set of DLC that's coming soon. Hopefully Owlcat Games has improved the annoying stuff from the first game. Incidentally, isn't the studio in Russia? I wonder how they get paid what with all the war sanctions.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 22, 2022 9:41:05 GMT -5
After 400 hours I've finally finished Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The goddamn final dungeon is bullshit, the thing about teleporting between different versions of the dungeon sounds neat but in practice is annoying. The fights are also hard but in a grindy way, not a fun way. Actually there's another quest after this dungeon if you want to fight the real mastermind behind your troubles, and that bit is a little better. I may go back to see what happens if I max out upgrading everything in my kingdom and just use a cheat to go through the boss fights. However, I don't really replay this kind of RPG so this is pretty much it. My kingdom is ruled by a lesbian tiefling queen with her tiefling consort, with an army full of mercenary wizards. I feel like the ending presentation could have used a little more flair, but I got a lot of game out of that $35 I spent so I'm satisfied. I've bought Wrath of the Righteous but I'm not about to immediately jump into it, especially since I hear there's another set of DLC that's coming soon. Hopefully Owlcat Games has improved the annoying stuff from the first game. Incidentally, isn't the studio in Russia? I wonder how they get paid what with all the war sanctions. There's a lot I like about Wrath of the Righteous but in my experience Owlcat has not improved on the little functionality and other things that cause frustration. If you hate that final dungeon there's an entire area you'll hate just as much. Pathfinder games are always ones I really like the bones of, and I love some of the characters, but the gameplay can be frustrating. For games that integrate kingdom management I think Tyranny does a better job without being frustrating. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 22, 2022 9:47:26 GMT -5
I have no idea where to begin with finding ascended gear stuff. Does that become easier once the expansions are complete? I just started Path of Thorns, leveling up my glider and mastery skills in Verdant Brink. My recommendation is to go to Metabattle to look up what kind of build you'd like to play with your character. Like I wanted an absolute tank for this character so I looked up a power warrior build. Metabattle will recommend the best ascended gear for that build. THEN, go to gw2efficiency.com/ and use the crafting guide to look up when you need for those items. And then finally use the wiki to see where to get those items. For farming suggestions I find Reddit to be a good source. I've never even played Guild Wars 2, and yet this post speaks to me on an almost primal level. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 22, 2022 9:57:56 GMT -5
I'm playing, for the first time, a little game called The Last of Us. I say the first time - I started it in February but then, I dunno, it was like something happened to make games set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia rather less appealing.
Dear lord this game is stressful*. I can only play it for about 45 minutes to an hour before I have to stop and go and watch TV or read a book instead.
*The tension, admittedly, being somewhat undercut by my PS4 doing its best impression of a hairdryer.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 22, 2022 9:59:44 GMT -5
My recommendation is to go to Metabattle to look up what kind of build you'd like to play with your character. Like I wanted an absolute tank for this character so I looked up a power warrior build. Metabattle will recommend the best ascended gear for that build. THEN, go to gw2efficiency.com/ and use the crafting guide to look up when you need for those items. And then finally use the wiki to see where to get those items. For farming suggestions I find Reddit to be a good source. I've never even played Guild Wars 2, and yet this post speaks to me on an almost primal level. Yeah, whenever I tell Iffy what I'm doing when I'm doing GW2 research, he says "that sounds like too much work for a video game". But I find it really fun! I'm crafting ascended weapons for my alt character right now and I love using GW Efficiency to create a shopping/collecting/crafting list and then checking things off that list. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Nov 22, 2022 16:50:54 GMT -5
After 400 hours I've finally finished Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The goddamn final dungeon is bullshit, the thing about teleporting between different versions of the dungeon sounds neat but in practice is annoying. The fights are also hard but in a grindy way, not a fun way. Actually there's another quest after this dungeon if you want to fight the real mastermind behind your troubles, and that bit is a little better. I may go back to see what happens if I max out upgrading everything in my kingdom and just use a cheat to go through the boss fights. However, I don't really replay this kind of RPG so this is pretty much it. My kingdom is ruled by a lesbian tiefling queen with her tiefling consort, with an army full of mercenary wizards. I feel like the ending presentation could have used a little more flair, but I got a lot of game out of that $35 I spent so I'm satisfied. I've bought Wrath of the Righteous but I'm not about to immediately jump into it, especially since I hear there's another set of DLC that's coming soon. Hopefully Owlcat Games has improved the annoying stuff from the first game. Incidentally, isn't the studio in Russia? I wonder how they get paid what with all the war sanctions. yeah the last dungeon was such horseshit I just grabbed a walkthrough. 60% of that game is great but god their signposting is iffy. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 22, 2022 20:09:16 GMT -5
I was forced, FORCED to spend real money on Guild Wars 2 for the first time since I bought the expansions because this mount skin was on sale. LOOK AT IT:
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 23, 2022 5:17:16 GMT -5
I've never even played Guild Wars 2, and yet this post speaks to me on an almost primal level. Yeah, whenever I tell Iffy what I'm doing when I'm doing GW2 research, he says "that sounds like too much work for a video game". But I find it really fun! I'm crafting ascended weapons for my alt character right now and I love using GW Efficiency to create a shopping/collecting/crafting list and then checking things off that list. Sounds like exactly the right amount of work. I mean, can you ever really say you've properly played a game if you don't end up with several pages of scribbled notes at the back of a jotter pad? |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 6, 2022 19:40:13 GMT -5
I've started playing Littlewood, which is a town sim in the vein of Stardew Valley. You're the hero who saved the world... now what? You also don't remember the battle, but you have lain down your arms forever (there's no fighting in the game). You can invite villagers to help rebuild your town, but much like Jimmy Carter, you have to do all the building yourself. You can also farm, catch bees, mine rocks, chop trees, and romance nearly any of the villagers, all done in a very tiny pixel-art style. I've been having a lot of fun with it, and it's good at hitting those little dopamine triggers.
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Post by patbat on Dec 8, 2022 0:54:54 GMT -5
I played some new games thanks to PC Gamepass:
Scorn: Fucking boring
Ghost Song: Fucking boring
Moonscars: Fucking boring
Infernax: Spectacularly fun
Warhammer 40,000 Darktide: Spectacularly fun
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Post by LazBro on Dec 8, 2022 9:14:46 GMT -5
I'm feeling the Crisis Core remake, but seriously, Zack, who just fuckin' ... steps on flowers?
(Will pick this up on PC one day. Budget too tight at the moment.)
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Post by nowimnothing on Dec 8, 2022 13:47:36 GMT -5
I have been reading about Dwarf Fortress for years, it seemed both right up my alley and totally inscrutable at the same time so I never even tried to figure out what all the little symbols meant.
The new Steam release of the graphical version was something I had to try though. Spent about 2 hours last night getting used to the controls. It has not lost much of the inscrutability, but it is playable now.
Do you like getting stuck in a loop in Minecraft where you want to build something, but you have to build the parts first and that means you have to mine something else and by the time you are done, you forget what you were building in the first place? Yeah, this game is like that times 100. So, not for everyone, but it does manage to be endearing because of all the random shit that pops up. It isn't just a resource and crafting game, they also throw in a Sims-like system where you also have to keep your dwarves happy. This all exists within a randomly generated/influenced narrative history of the world.
*I may have called in sick to work today partly so I could spend some more time playing.
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Post by nowimnothing on Dec 9, 2022 8:14:36 GMT -5
Here is a good example of what I mean. My animals were hanging out in the meeting hall that I had just dug out but I did not realize that they were starving until the Alpaca died. Once that happened, then I figured out how to assign them some grazing land on the surface and the rest were herded up there by the dwarves and were fine. I now had an Alpaca corpse in my meeting hall though, so I did the sensible thing and marked it as trash for the dwarves to remove. But for some reason they never got around to moving it and it rotted making several dwarves sick and annoyed by the rotting corpse in their meeting hall. Once the cloud of miasma cleared I figured out that I had never designated a spot for the trash and that is why they never moved the corpse. I promptly did so and the dwarves dutifully hauled the rotting carcass up to the surface. A little while later I noticed some of the dwarves were still getting sick and I could not figure it out. Then I noticed that I had placed the trash area too close to a pond that some of the dwarves had been drinking from and that the Alpaca corpse had been washed into the pond by the rain, fouling the water. I tried for about an hour to get the parts needed to build a well so they would not drink from the pond but that did not work so I figured out how to build a still and convert plants into alcohol. The dwarves are now drunk all the time, but they don't drink from the tainted pond at least.
Eventually the corpse rotted away and the water cleared, so now I just have an Alpaca skeleton at the bottom of my pond and a bunch of drunk dwarves.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Dec 9, 2022 11:27:02 GMT -5
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Dec 9, 2022 11:35:29 GMT -5
My wife and I are having a blast in Guild Wars 2! Last night we completed one of the longest, most annoying jumping puzzles in the game (Retrospective Runaround in Silverwastes) with me navigating and her being backup for the harder portions with mesmer portals to get us back up when one of us fell in the wrong place.
Then we proceeded to run through a story mode dungeon (Twilight Arbor) with just the two of us instead of the usual 4-5 party members. The final battle was a pain, and it took us 5-6 attempts and looking up strategy on what order to take out the 5 enemies you fight at once, but we did it!
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 11, 2022 12:48:10 GMT -5
My wife and I are having a blast in Guild Wars 2! Last night we completed one of the longest, most annoying jumping puzzles in the game (Retrospective Runaround in Silverwastes) with me navigating and her being backup for the harder portions with mesmer portals to get us back up when one of us fell in the wrong place. Then we proceeded to run through a story mode dungeon (Twilight Arbor) with just the two of us instead of the usual 4-5 party members. The final battle was a pain, and it took us 5-6 attempts and looking up strategy on what order to take out the 5 enemies you fight at once, but we did it! I completed Retrospective Runaround and all the big enemies for the mastery points and now I never want to go to the Silverwastes ever again.
We should team up some time for my favorite event: Octovine.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Dec 11, 2022 13:06:25 GMT -5
My wife and I are having a blast in Guild Wars 2! Last night we completed one of the longest, most annoying jumping puzzles in the game (Retrospective Runaround in Silverwastes) with me navigating and her being backup for the harder portions with mesmer portals to get us back up when one of us fell in the wrong place. Then we proceeded to run through a story mode dungeon (Twilight Arbor) with just the two of us instead of the usual 4-5 party members. The final battle was a pain, and it took us 5-6 attempts and looking up strategy on what order to take out the 5 enemies you fight at once, but we did it! I completed Retrospective Runaround and all the big enemies for the mastery points and now I never want to go to the Silverwastes ever again.
We should team up some time for my favorite event: Octovine.
Haha, I've done the Octovine like 10-12 times now, and with Mrs B twice. It's fun when there's enough people on the map to coordinate it. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Dec 16, 2022 10:18:35 GMT -5
I'm playing, for the first time, a little game called The Last of Us. I say the first time - I started it in February but then, I dunno, it was like something happened to make games set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia rather less appealing. Dear lord this game is stressful*. I can only play it for about 45 minutes to an hour before I have to stop and go and watch TV or read a book instead. *The tension, admittedly, being somewhat undercut by my PS4 doing its best impression of a hairdryer. I'm now as far as the conclusion (I think) of the Sam and Henry subplot. I've moved on from finding it so stressful I can't play it for more than an hour at a time, to finding it so bleak I can't play it for more than an hour at a time. And my wife asks me why am I playing it then?. To which I try to explain that I have to finish it. |
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Post by LazBro on Dec 16, 2022 13:30:42 GMT -5
I'm now as far as the conclusion (I think) of the Sam and Henry subplot. I've moved on from finding it so stressful I can't play it for more than an hour at a time, to finding it so bleak I can't play it for more than an hour at a time. And my wife asks me why am I playing it then?. To which I try to explain that I have to finish it.
Granted I liked the game all the way through, but it is so worth finishing, because it has the strongest ending of any game I can think of. In terms of story presentation, not necessarily gameplay. |
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Post by sarapen on Dec 18, 2022 19:11:27 GMT -5
I regret to inform you all that the trailer for Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is better than the game. As you can expect, the gameplay is basically Elite, with you flying a spaceship around getting in dogfights, robbing interstellar traders, and buying and selling cargo across the stars.
The neo-Western aesthetic is kind of neat in the trailer but it got kind of annoying in the game. Haha, this lizard alien talks like an American long-haul trucker. Oh neat, all the star systems are named after US states and the planets are named after podunk towns and cities in the American West. Haha haha.
And speaking of aesthetics, the game would have done better to stick to the cartoon stylings of the trailer instead of the computer graphics in the actual gameplay because at best it’s just serviceable.
The starship combat stuff didn’t really grab me, either. It was just kind of there. I suppose I could have given it a bit longer to see if it would click with me but the aesthetic wasn’t doing it for me so I just had to give up. Oh well.
However, I did try the Forspoken demo and mostly liked the combat. The demo is somewhat overwhelming in the beginning because it obviously skips past the tutorial handholding stuff at the start and plops the player into where the open world stuff actually opens up. I'm also hoping that the graphics will look nicer in the finished product. Anyway, it's kind of novel for a video game protagonist to be dropping F-bombs and other 4 letter words in her dialogue. I never, ever, buy a game brand new but I'm somewhat tempted to play a foul-mouthed New Yorker adventuring in Final Fantasy land when the real thing releases in January.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Dec 19, 2022 10:51:03 GMT -5
Mrs B and I finally completed the level 80 personal story in Guild Wars 2 last night. I had attempted it a month ago but the game disconnected and I lost my progress halfway through, and didn't feel like doing it again until she caught up with me. We worked together last night and did it! Really fun final mission when it works.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 19, 2022 15:18:34 GMT -5
I regret to inform you all that the trailer for Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is better than the game. As you can expect, the gameplay is basically Elite, with you flying a spaceship around getting in dogfights, robbing interstellar traders, and buying and selling cargo across the stars. The neo-Western aesthetic is kind of neat in the trailer but it got kind of annoying in the game. Haha, this lizard alien talks like an American long-haul trucker. Oh neat, all the star systems are named after US states and the planets are named after podunk towns and cities in the American West. Haha haha. And speaking of aesthetics, the game would have done better to stick to the cartoon stylings of the trailer instead of the computer graphics in the actual gameplay because at best it’s just serviceable. The starship combat stuff didn’t really grab me, either. It was just kind of there. I suppose I could have given it a bit longer to see if it would click with me but the aesthetic wasn’t doing it for me so I just had to give up. Oh well. However, I did try the Forspoken demo and mostly liked the combat. The demo is somewhat overwhelming in the beginning because it obviously skips past the tutorial handholding stuff at the start and plops the player into where the open world stuff actually opens up. I'm also hoping that the graphics will look nicer in the finished product. Anyway, it's kind of novel for a video game protagonist to be dropping F-bombs and other 4 letter words in her dialogue. I never, ever, buy a game brand new but I'm somewhat tempted to play a foul-mouthed New Yorker adventuring in Final Fantasy land when the real thing releases in January. I enjoyed RGO as the throwback it was trying to be but they either needed to up the story content/throughweave a lot more or make the combat overall more engaging/less repetitive. I forget my specific combat complaints as it was a while ago now but it definitely wasn't up there with the greats made 15-20(+) years ago |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Dec 19, 2022 16:59:20 GMT -5
Hey, the best tactical RPG of all time got a pretty great remaster! I'm about 3/4ths of the way into Tactics Ogre Reborn on Switch, and have next to no complaints. All the changes from the original--level caps, streamlining skills, trajectory guide--are marked improvements, and (practically) everything looks and sounds fantastic. My only issue is with the character sprites, which are clearly just the originals with a smoothing filter applied. Don't know why Square Enix still refuses to get this right, but you get used to it pretty fast. Mostly, though...man, I just missed playing games like this. Triangle Strategy was an...adequate approximation, but, as with Bravely Default and the 16-bit era Final Fantasies, it was just close enough to the TO/FFT formula that its departures felt all the more frustrating. Just let me recruit a bunch of randos, customize them as I see fit, and go to town. I hated the lack of unit customization in Triangle Strategy and that, coupled with the plodding pace, kept me from finishing the game. Anyway, great remaster, would recommend. Hope Knight of Lodis gets the same treatment.
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Post by Frohman on Dec 19, 2022 22:04:23 GMT -5
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Post by sarapen on Dec 19, 2022 22:46:46 GMT -5
Sure, why not. How's ChaosChild, anyway? I heard the anime wasn't all that. |
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Post by Frohman on Dec 19, 2022 23:07:59 GMT -5
Sure, why not. How's ChaosChild, anyway? I heard the anime wasn't all that. It's far and away the most graphically violent game* on the PS4, but it's got a fun newspaper club trying to solve a series of Se7en-esque themed murders vibe if that sounds appealing to you. |
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