LazBro
Prolific Poster 
Posts: 10,278 
|
Post by LazBro on Jun 2, 2014 15:33:03 GMT -5
I almost got back into Skyrim, but after 10-20 minutes of play the game kept having critical driver errors which crashed the game. To be clear, this is a good thing.
|
|
Post-Lupin
Prolific Poster
Immanentizing the Eschaton
Posts: 5,673
|
Post by Post-Lupin on Jun 4, 2014 17:05:36 GMT -5
Liking Wolfenstein: New Order a lot, but goddam it game designers, stop with the instadeath jumping puzzles!
|
|
|
|
Post by The Most Popular Commenter on Jun 8, 2014 17:32:50 GMT -5
E3 time.
HALF-LIFE 3 AND LAST GUARDIAN ARE COMING!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Nudeviking on Jun 8, 2014 20:19:50 GMT -5
I almost got back into Skyrim, but after 10-20 minutes of play the game kept having critical driver errors which crashed the game. To be clear, this is a good thing. After spending like 12 hours playing Skyrim this weekend after a several month absence (Steam told me I'd last played in March) I kind of wish there'd been critical driver errors, but no...I killed some kind of vampire overlord with his Daria as a vampire daughter and Dolemite: Vampire Hunter. I also maxed out blacksmithing and now just plow through every dungeon with random dragon weapons and armors. If I knew what the main plot of the game was, I'd just beat that and be like, "I beat the game," but I have no idea what the main storyline is that I'm supposed to beat. |
|
|
|
Post by nachomatrimony on Jun 8, 2014 23:02:03 GMT -5
E3 time. HALF-LIFE 3 AND LAST GUARDIAN ARE COMING!!!!! Also unannounced Nintendo titles! Do you think The Last Guardian is still a PS3 game at this point? E3 is largely a menagerie of gross bullshit, but I can't help but get a little excited for it every June. There's always something cool or ridiculous enough on display to satisfy me. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 23:52:28 GMT -5
I just hope Last Guardian doesn't pull a Duke Nukem and ends up sucking from being stuck in development for too long. And also, I can only feel that something will get in the way of this game. It's like it has too much promise to not end up having something go wrong.
Half Life 3? Should I play Half Life 2 or something?
|
|
|
|
Post by nachomatrimony on Jun 9, 2014 11:40:01 GMT -5
I just hope Last Guardian doesn't pull a Duke Nukem and ends up sucking from being stuck in development for too long. And also, I can only feel that something will get in the way of this game. It's like it has too much promise to not end up having something go wrong. Half Life 3? Should I play Half Life 2 or something? I've justified its prolonged development by reasoning that large cat-birds must be a real pain in the ass to program right, especially if Ueda was aiming for something no less than lifelike. We'll see what happens. Heh, I thought Half-Like 3 is just a rumor (again). |
|
|
|
Post by The Most Popular Commenter on Jun 9, 2014 14:40:47 GMT -5
New Phantom Pain trailer!
|
|
|
|
Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Jun 9, 2014 15:22:35 GMT -5
I just want Nintendo to announce some cool Wii U games for the Holiday season because I sort of want to get one mainly due to Smash Bros, Mario Kart and Mario platformers but don't feel it really has enough software yet for me to bother with it.
|
|
Paleu
AV Clubber 
Confirmed for neo-liberal shill.
Posts: 1,258
|
Post by Paleu on Jun 9, 2014 15:33:26 GMT -5
I love Skyrim to death, but the fact that you are literally the chosen one in every single major questline is at best laughable and at worst obvious player-pandering.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tea Rex on Jun 9, 2014 16:23:13 GMT -5
I'm playing through Dragon Age II right now, to psyche myself up for Inquisition. It comes out 5 days before my birthday - I think it would be a lovely 30th b-day gift, myself.
I'm gonna play a dwarf lady, so that I can get some sweet, sweet Varric action!
|
|
|
|
Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Jun 9, 2014 16:56:55 GMT -5
I'm playing through Dragon Age II right now, to psyche myself up for Inquisition. It comes out 5 days before my birthday - I think it would be a lovely 30th b-day gift, myself. I'm gonna play a dwarf lady, so that I can get some sweet, sweet Varric action! Femdorfs are always the correct decision. |
|
|
|
Post by nachomatrimony on Jun 9, 2014 18:54:33 GMT -5
I love Skyrim to death, but the fact that you are literally the chosen one in every single major questline is at best laughable and at worst obvious player-pandering. That's become my central gripe with the series. Not only are you the chosen one, but most side-quests end with you finding some powerful, long-lost treasure or awakening an ancient, supremely evil force of some kind. And yet you clear through these things as if they're narrative footnotes, told to you in a feeble attempt to make you feel special. It's all very masturbatory. I just kind of want to be a dude in Tamriel. That way when I do stumble upon something powerful in that world it might just surprise me. I derive little pleasure from running all the guilds and being the savior of all the land. It's too much pressure! *sobs* |
|
|
|
Post by ComradeQuestions on Jun 10, 2014 6:16:30 GMT -5
I started playing Arkham Origins recently, and is it just me, or are there way less grapple-able areas than before? In Arkham City, pretty much anything with a horizontal surface you could grapple and perch on, but in this game I feel like I'm constantly gliding around, looking at things like "I want to grapple onto THAT" but never given the option.
Story-wise, it also seems like a game with no beginning. Being called "Origins", I expected more origin-story type setup, but instead it just sorta drops you into the middle of a "day in the life" of Batman, with only a perfunctory establishment that it takes place in the past. The gameplay and brawling are still hella fun, at least.
...
Incidentally, picking up this game sorta dovetails with the E3 announcements for me. Whilst I played the previous Arkham games on PS3, I'm playing this one on my year-old gaming PC, and greatly enjoying the better graphics and load times. Enough that I was wondering whether eventually getting a PS4 was even worth it -- I was looking forward to Arkham Knight and the remastered Last of Us (which I haven't played), but I could just play those on PC and PS3, respectively. But now, with the additional announcements of Little Big Planet 3, Grim Fandango (which I never finished way back when, because of bugs), and GTAV (which I also never finished)... yeah, I guess I'm getting a PS4.
Edit: Oh snap, and Last of Us is hitting PS4 in July? Guess I'm getting a PS4 sooner than I thought!
|
|
|
|
Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Jun 10, 2014 10:30:38 GMT -5
Holy shit, Grim Fandango remastered?
I'm going to have to get one of these PS4 things some day. At the latest, the day that Grim Fandango comes out. And at the earliest... The day before Grim Fandango comes out I guess. I haven't really been paying attention to what's been coming out for it.
|
|
|
|
Post by nachomatrimony on Jun 10, 2014 15:28:34 GMT -5
So Kirby Canvas Curse 2 is a thing.
|
|
|
|
Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Jun 10, 2014 15:42:10 GMT -5
So Kirby Canvas Curse 2 is a thing. Was the first one good? It looked interesting but I never tried it. |
|
|
|
Post by nachomatrimony on Jun 11, 2014 15:40:32 GMT -5
So Kirby Canvas Curse 2 is a thing. Was the first one good? It looked interesting but I never tried it. I liked it quite a bit at the time, but it's been ages since I've played it. Nintendo demoed it on their E3 Twitch stream and it looked good. They nailed the claymation art style and I imagine the gamepad is a more comfortable vessel for that type of game than the DS. |
|
|
|
Post by Chancellor Puddinghead on Jun 11, 2014 16:15:20 GMT -5
I almost got back into Skyrim, but after 10-20 minutes of play the game kept having critical driver errors which crashed the game. To be clear, this is a good thing. After spending like 12 hours playing Skyrim this weekend after a several month absence (Steam told me I'd last played in March) I kind of wish there'd been critical driver errors, but no...I killed some kind of vampire overlord with his Daria as a vampire daughter and Dolemite: Vampire Hunter. I also maxed out blacksmithing and now just plow through every dungeon with random dragon weapons and armors. If I knew what the main plot of the game was, I'd just beat that and be like, "I beat the game," but I have no idea what the main storyline is that I'm supposed to beat. One of my older personal video game rules is to always finish side quests and skills before finishing the main quest. This rule was put in place when the game would end once you finished, rather than the new way of letting you back into the world after the end to "clean up". Applying this rule to Skyrim, by the time I had finished the third major side quest (for me it was Dark Brotherhood), I had maxed out Smithing, Alchemy, Sneak, Archery, and One Handed, as well as a pretty good foothold into the rest of the non magical trees. What were once great, fearsome Dragons were now minor inconveniences brought on by Fast Travel. I could all but touch enemies before they'd notice I was even standing there. Giants were falling to a single sneak attack with an arrow. And the great rewards I was getting from major quest bosses may as well have been Toilet Plunger +1 against Gnolls with Hay Fever for all the good they were doing me. I got bored and I don't think I ever did finish the main quest. |
|
|
|
Post by sarapen on Jun 14, 2014 9:55:15 GMT -5
The season passes for Walking Dead Season 2 and The Wolf Within are on sale on PSN right now if you were waiting for something like to happen, like I was.
Edit: Shit, I meant The Wolf Among Us. The game based on the Fables comic with Bigby as the protagonist. I think The Wolf Within was a Gabriel Knight game.
|
|
|
|
Post by Baramos on Jun 18, 2014 14:24:29 GMT -5
After spending like 12 hours playing Skyrim this weekend after a several month absence (Steam told me I'd last played in March) I kind of wish there'd been critical driver errors, but no...I killed some kind of vampire overlord with his Daria as a vampire daughter and Dolemite: Vampire Hunter. I also maxed out blacksmithing and now just plow through every dungeon with random dragon weapons and armors. If I knew what the main plot of the game was, I'd just beat that and be like, "I beat the game," but I have no idea what the main storyline is that I'm supposed to beat. One of my older personal video game rules is to always finish side quests and skills before finishing the main quest. This rule was put in place when the game would end once you finished, rather than the new way of letting you back into the world after the end to "clean up". Applying this rule to Skyrim, by the time I had finished the third major side quest (for me it was Dark Brotherhood), I had maxed out Smithing, Alchemy, Sneak, Archery, and One Handed, as well as a pretty good foothold into the rest of the non magical trees. What were once great, fearsome Dragons were now minor inconveniences brought on by Fast Travel. I could all but touch enemies before they'd notice I was even standing there. Giants were falling to a single sneak attack with an arrow. And the great rewards I was getting from major quest bosses may as well have been Toilet Plunger +1 against Gnolls with Hay Fever for all the good they were doing me. I got bored and I don't think I ever did finish the main quest. Yeah, I kind of ruined Fallout: New Vegas for myself this way--went into Old World Blues at like, level 9, now I'm like level 18 and still haven't beaten that particular add-on yet. By the time I get out I'll probably be over level 20 and never even stepped foot into New Vegas yet. I think the fact that the Ultimate Edition gives you more advanced weaponry than you should have helps out this sequence breaking, but on the other hand, that add-on is based around a couple of high-powered weapons they give you as soon as you go into it, and I'd acquired a .357 magnum+ at some point without doing any sequence breaking at all, so...it takes a little effort, but hand-to-hand combat in New Vegas is so over-powered, if you kill one of the Lobotomites and get a proton axe from them, you can basically just rage-kill anything too major. It's not very well designed... It seems clear that add-ons from a gameplay standpoint should be played after the main quest is completed, even if it hurts the climax of the main quest as far as being the logical end of the story. |
|
|
|
Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jun 24, 2014 9:19:23 GMT -5
After a weekend of playing adventure games I'd just bought ( Broken Age, Kentucky Route Zero) I wandered over to try Hate Plus, the sequel to Analagoue: A Hate Story, a visual novel about trying to piece together what happened onboard a now deserted space colony ship (turned out their society devolved into Joseon-era Korean feudalism, as you do.) And there's also an AI you have to communicate with as you decrypt old files from the dead society and try to build a picture of what happened from official reports, private diaries and journals - and your relationship with that AI is gonna matter, and also it's essentially a game about reading and making judgements on what you read and some other interesting stuff. Anyway I really enjoyed the first game, it was clever and painful and a lot of other nice things that was genuinely refreshing for its genre and thus far - in addressing one of the main unsolved mysteries of the original title - I'm liking this too. And while it has retained the anime-esque art style of the original game for the AI avatars, it's also including some more naturalistic still art, like this 'photo' of one of the more notorious characters in the story:  |
|
|
|
Post by The Most Popular Commenter on Aug 1, 2014 16:48:41 GMT -5
10 years ago this happened:
|
|
|
|
Post by Baramos on Aug 2, 2014 23:03:02 GMT -5
Does anyone know when the heists or the Story DLC for GTA V is coming out? I mean, c'mon.
|
|
|
|
Post by sarapen on Aug 12, 2014 20:14:07 GMT -5
Anyone know of any current or upcoming deals for PSN cards? Do these usually come up on Black Friday? Are they region-locked and unusable in Canada? It'll be time to re-up my PS+ subscription in November, and while I'm prepared to pay the full $50 if I can get by with paying less then I'm totally down.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tea Rex on Aug 12, 2014 22:09:22 GMT -5
Finally playing Mother 3. What a weird game so far. Even stranger than Earthbound. I LOVE it.
|
|
|
|
Post by ComradePig on Aug 13, 2014 21:48:29 GMT -5
MGS V is coming to PC yeaaaaaaah.
|
|
eldan
TI Forumite
Posts: 800
|
Post by eldan on Aug 14, 2014 9:29:22 GMT -5
Does anyone know when the heists or the Story DLC for GTA V is coming out? I mean, c'mon. The rumors I've heard is that they're holding off on any DLC until the PS4 and XBOX One versions have been out for a while, since they were putting all their efforts into that. It's really ridiculous that the heists haven't been added yet, though, GTA Online was a really cool idea but it's been a debacle since literally day one. |
|
repulsionist
TI Forumite
actively disinterested
Posts: 3,685
|
Post by repulsionist on Aug 19, 2014 14:26:47 GMT -5
I Wii. That is all.
|
|
|
|
Post by Baramos on Aug 24, 2014 21:15:42 GMT -5
Finally playing Mother 3. What a weird game so far. Even stranger than Earthbound. I LOVE it. I was floored by how few people played Mother 3. I mean, c'mon. People I spent ten years talking about SNES-era RPGs with didn't even play it. Only two people I know did. It's usually at the top of my list for best game of all time, sincerely. |
|
