Played a few hours of No Man's Sky and found it to be really disappointing. It did push me to load up Ark again which I'm playing on a PVE server hosting the new TheCenter map.
Played a few hours of No Man's Sky and found it to be really disappointing. It did push me to load up Ark again which I'm playing on a PVE server hosting the new TheCenter map.
I beat Zombie Army Trilogy! It was okay.
- Played through the entire thing two player on the hardest difficulty. I turned that difficulty down to Normal for the final mission because the final boss encounter was too damn hard for us.
- The level design is pretty good and the secrets are well-hidden.
- The Sniper Elite engine was designed for the slower pace of the Sniper Elite games and feels a bit janky for the more hectic action that this game features. It was easy for me to get used to after a short while but my co-op partner never stopped being annoyed by this.
- There are random spikes in difficulty that can really take you by surprise. Many times these more difficult encounters were more fun than frustrating to me and were a welcome change of pace.
- The last act of the game has some encounters that feel like they last too long and the checkpoints are too few and far between.
- Act 1 and 2 (previously released as standalone games and now updated to the Sniper Elite 3 engine for Zombie Army Trilogy) are overall way more enjoyable than the third act.
Next up: Going to finish up Starbound.
Make sure toe grab the Mech mod for Starbound.
I've been feeling like I want to play a JRPG for a few years now but haven't been able to get into any past an hour or two since a Suikoden replay 2 years ago, and it was a year again before that that I played Devil Summoners. Started up a lot of others but none of them stuck.
A few months ago I started up The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and once again only got an hour or two in, but I picked it back up a week or so ago and I think I'm feeling it this time.
I beat Starbound! I liked it! It's so much better than it was when I last played it 2 years ago. I still like Terraria better.
Now I started over again with a bunch of mods installed (including the Frackin' Universe mod which seems to add a ridiculous amount of stuff).
Next up: EDF! EDF!! EDF!!! (Earth Defense Force 4.1)
EDIT: BONUS COMPLETION - I beat the 4th Hitman episode this weekend in a few different ways. It's good, but probably my least favorite map thus far. There's not a lot of room for play/experimentation but what's there is fun.
EDIT, EDIT: Also I finally started playing Dishonored.
playing fortnite now...not sure what to think of it.p
Jumped back into Marvel Heroes for a weeklong bonus experience event.
Started up Pokemon Y. As I thought about all the things I don't like about Pokemon GO I realized how many of them are solved in the mainline games so I hopped back in.
Started Project: Snowblind not too long ago as well. Pretty good so far, controls are a little off but overall (having never played it before) I think it has aged pretty well.
Ran into an issue early on in Starbound. Had to go to a nearby planet and find artifacts to find clues to the first..gem? Searched the entire village and found 90% of the stuff. Can't seem to find the last 10%. Do I need to find dungeons in the ground?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Gathering that information can be tricky! Sometimes you can get it all in one place, other times you need to visit a few planets. Finding all the Avian stuff was the hardest for me personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
If you've scanned everything in a village and talked to everyone in that village and still don't have enough to move on with the story - you're done there. Check the rest of the planet surface and if you can't find what you need, move on to a different planet and hope to find another dungeon, temple, or village with stuff you haven't seen yet.
I'm fairly certain I still have my old universe saved if you want to meet up and see if I can use the matter replicator to help you out.
Dove back in to Titan Quest with the release of the Anniversary Edition. Such a good game, maybe my favorite ever in the genre.
Grim Dawn is good, damn good... But Titan Quest is still the pinnacle of ARPGs in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I have the Anniversary Edition downloaded, but am hesitant to start it just yet, due to the fact I know I'll lose myself in it again.
How do I even leave a sector? There are only two planets where I am at and only one has people I can search.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
you know, I could never get into TQ. I really wanted to, but I jsut couldn't/ I honestly don't know what it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wurm
Looks like TQ Vault/TQ Defiler still work on the anniversary edition after a little bit of tweaking. Makes the game a lot easier to replay IMO as you can just skip a lot of that early slog.
You need to land on a nearby moon to get the ore you can use for fuel. Pink stuff, I don't remember the name. Starts with an E, I think. It's the only stuff you'll even find on a moon so you can't miss it. Oh, and moons don't have a breathable atmosphere so be sure to build your first EPP before you depart.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
If for some reason your starting system doesn't have any moons, you can buy liquid fuel from the vendor to the left of the outpost.
After you've put some fuel in your ship, just sit down in the captain's chair and zoom out until your system becomes a dot in a sea of black amid other dots. Those other dots are other star systems. Mouseover the different stars to find out what kind they are. Click on them to see how much fuel it would take to travel to and to see what kind of planets are out there. Stick to the "Gentle" stars until you've geared up a bit.
Same here. Something about that game just didn't appeal to me back when it came out. It felt really janky for some reason. I started up a new game after Anniversary Edition was released and I think it's pretty okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Can you elaborate on how this improves the game? Should I be using this as a mostly new player?Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Character modder. Lets you change your skill, mastery points, point allocation, money, open any waypoints, etc. Basically a full on cheat program.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Once you've played through the game for a while, it's not too fun to restart from square 1 to try out a new character build, especially with all of the possible available builds (45 total class combinations).
I like to jack my character up to level 30 or so (IIRC) and unlock the second difficulty so I can skip straight to it. Also have to get a bunch of money and unlock all the waypoints in the first difficulty, as the equipment available in the first village of the second difficulty sucks compared to the last shop of the first difficulty, and monsters in that second difficulty will make short work of you without some decent equipment no matter if your level is up to par.
Not worth starting a thread over it, but I have 3 invites to the closed alpha for For Honor which is having a test this weekend. Add brennok on Uplay and then I can invite you.
DL is 13GB and runs 15th 9:00 AM EST-18th at 8:00 PM EST.
I'd love to check that out. I'm Kamakazie27 on UPlay. I have sent you a friend invite.Quote:
Originally Posted by innocentbastard
EDIT: Thanks, man. I played one duel and this game seems really cool.
I'll take one. I'm either taggart6 or whexican. Most likely taggart6. We might already be friends too.Quote:
Originally Posted by innocentbastard
For Honor is really cool. I thought it was going to be just a third person Chivalry knock-off but it's totally different and a lot of fun.
Been playing a bunch of Farcry 4 just recently. I find peaceful to wander around the mountains killing dictators.
In the meantime, I've not played anything "new" in the last 6 months or so. Work got crazy, and I ended up not even spending time here.
Started Always Sometimes Monsters a little while back. It's an RPG Maker game and it shows, but it's set in modern day so if it's using normal stock RPG Maker assets like 99.99% of the games out there it's not as obvious. Follows the tradition of games saying they have things like "realistic worlds and realistic interactions" when "realistic" actually means "everything about life is terrible" (crappy job, crappy apartment, just got broken up with, everyone's on drugs or having breakdowns, etc.). A few hours in and it's not too bad, though. It's at least a good change of pace type thing.
Got probably an hour in yesterday on Dust: An Elysian Tale and it seems good so far. Pretty polished.
Also started Earthtongue a few days ago but that's hard to review. It's kind of one of those non-game type things, as you're cultivating a very pixelly space garden.
The wife and I have started playing minecraft locally this week. It's been fun to discover some of the updates with the "Frostburn" release.
Dust: An Elysian Tale is pretty solid. I enjoyed it.
I've been liking Super Star Path but what I assume is the last level/boss kind of sucks. Very steep difficulty spike IMO.
::edit::
I beat the last boss!
...then lost because I hadn't collected all the emeralds on previous levels and thus didn't have the power to finish him off in a final cutscene-ish thing. Weak.