What game are you playing?

[BlueMemphis]

Finished Dispatch, dunno what possessed me tbh other then a desire to waste money even though it's sales and plenty of stuff to buy.
But since i did it, can give my 2 cents on it.

It's...ok.
I really didn't like the dialogue, as plenty of others said, its very repetitive haha peepeepoopoo type of humor over and over. It actually made me seriously dislike invisigal because she was one of the worst offenders of it.
Also yes, massive emphasis on penises, did gay people write this? Turn off nudity, there's just 2 scenes of invisigals boobs and it's not worth it.

But i did actually like the dispatch mechanic, so it's the telltale like game with the best "gameplay", although how much of that actually matters i don't know. The hacking minigame sucked balls though, pure time waster and shame you can't disable it like qtes.

Still, for my tastes, the best of the telltale genre is Tales from the Borderlands and I guess the first 2 Walking dead (in terms of mechanics its probably the worst but well, the story was effective). Dispatch would be fighting for 3rd place.
And yes it is very pozzed, the diversity stuff is obvious.

[Oyster Sauce]

Still, for my tastes, the best of the telltale genre is Tales from the Borderlands and I guess the first 2 Walking dead (in terms of mechanics its probably the worst but well, the story was effective). Dispatch would be fighting for 3rd place.
And yes it is very pozzed, the diversity stuff is obvious.

Have you tried The Council?

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

Been playing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. An excellent survival horror title for the 'Cube which boasted a ton of innovations for the genre, including it's infamous "sanity" mechanic, that were simply never iterated on or repeated again. The game has a lot of charm and excellent atmosphere, with a very Lovecraftian plot of course. The story isn't deep, but entertaining enough, and the idea of playing as multiple characters across history is novel. It certainly gives the game a great sense of scale which no other title in the genre has.

It was one of a handful of quality games Silicon Knights ever made before going bankrupt, and I wonder what could have been if they had released this game on all platforms at the time, and if it were successful enough to guarantee a trilogy and the devs' continued existence to this day. Alas, any developer who partnered with Nintendo back then paid dearly, even the likes of Capcom. The CEO of Nightdive stated that Eternal Darkness is near the top of his list when it comes to remasters, and if the stars align and Nintendo agrees to sell the rights then that would be awesome. The game deserves a wider audience.

Bro, I played this recently too! I was initially let down by it (after hearing so many great things), but the more I thought about it after beating it, the more I realised its excellence. A remaster/remake would be sweet. Heck, if they could do what Capcom did with RE2 Remake that would be sick.

[BlueMemphis]

Have you tried The Council?

I have not...But it turns out it's in my game list, must have purchased it during a past sale and forgot about it in my backlog lol.

Ok well guess i know what i'm playing next then, opinions on the Council incoming.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Happy Thanskgiving!

Reporting on my latest attempt at Dark Souls, which took about 14 hours.

My previous Prepare to Die run ended more than 80 days ago at the Capra Demon, which is a broken boss that resulted in my becoming disgusted and uninstalling.

This time I was able to run Remastered (couldn't make it work previously) and the Capra Demon was a breeze. The twist is that it was nerfed between Prepare to Die and Remastered. Less poise damage, less damage on hit, and the dogs are delayed by ~10 s. So now I understand why people suggested I git gud.

I got to Blight Town in one direction and the Tomb of Giants (?) in another, and then uninstalled again.

Here is the problem: many of the level designs feel like you are exploring a butthole. Anor Londo looks pretty on Youtube, and the Undead Burg and Cathedral were OK. But many other levels are dismally unattractive and tortuous: catacombs, depths; and blight town on this newest playthrough.

Dark Souls 2 had a much better artistic vision with regard to all environments; there is no ugly level in that game. The more oppressive ones are short, and not viscera-like mazes .Even the gutter and the spitting statue level below it did not overstay their welcome and had good artistic design.

Too much of time played was spent hanging in unsavory locations.

Verdict: 3/10 still. Massive drawbacks extinguish the value of the combat and the melancholy environments.

What would you say is the most visually appealing Souls game? Is it DS2 or Elden Ring?

[Classix]

World of Warcraft
LOTRO
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 1

I have fallen again into my old ways of playing too much mmos.

Hey buddy, What classes on WoW and Lotro? I always love to see these kind of posts as the itch is ever persistent.

[Finarfin]

World of Warcraft
LOTRO
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 1

I have fallen again into my old ways of playing too much mmos.

Hey buddy, What classes on WoW and Lotro? I always love to see these kind of posts as the itch is ever persistent.

Warcraft is usually Paladin, Mage and Warrior. Lotro current playing a Captain and planning on making a Mariner. Used to play a Champion but thought since I am rusty, I'll play another class until I get the hang of it again.
Got a Blood Elf Paladin, Orc Mage and a Dracthyr Warrior.

[J1M]

Looking forward to Metroid Prime 4. Bought a Switch almost a decade ago to play that game.

Maybe this post belongs in another thread.

[Classix]

World of Warcraft
LOTRO
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 1

I have fallen again into my old ways of playing too much mmos.

Hey buddy, What classes on WoW and Lotro? I always love to see these kind of posts as the itch is ever persistent.

Warcraft is usually Paladin, Mage and Warrior. Lotro current playing a Captain and planning on making a Mariner. Used to play a Champion but thought since I am rusty, I'll play another class until I get the hang of it again.
Got a Blood Elf Paladin, Orc Mage and a Dracthyr Warrior.

I tried Captain back sometime after Moria. Kept him as an AoE farmer for the Barrows area around lvl 25 something with a Turtle trinket or something to stop XP gain to farm Barrow Treasures and Bones for rep stuff. Made a fuckin killing. Guardian is my favorite though for group stuff, years ago at least... Beorning solo and the odd dungeon was a blast. Haven't followed Lotro in awhile after that black/diversity character creation bs they came out with. I just liked the 'Smaug hoarding' aspect of Lotro. I'd build up **** tons of gold and just ask others trivia questions in towns or simply open trade and give it away for lower players with some perfect crafted items. I was gifted many items from some generous people out of nowhere so I did the same in return when the coffers were overflowing. Wish you well on there whatever it is you're doing. Good deeds and intentions pay off my man. Fight hard buddy. : )

[Finarfin]

Looking forward to Metroid Prime 4. Bought a Switch almost a decade ago to play that game.

Maybe this post belongs in another thread.

Not really a surprise but seems like my brother will gift me Metroid Prime 4 as a christmas gift

[Finarfin]

Hey buddy, What classes on WoW and Lotro? I always love to see these kind of posts as the itch is ever persistent.

Warcraft is usually Paladin, Mage and Warrior. Lotro current playing a Captain and planning on making a Mariner. Used to play a Champion but thought since I am rusty, I'll play another class until I get the hang of it again.
Got a Blood Elf Paladin, Orc Mage and a Dracthyr Warrior.

I tried Captain back sometime after Moria. Kept him as an AoE farmer for the Barrows area around lvl 25 something with a Turtle trinket or something to stop XP gain to farm Barrow Treasures and Bones for rep stuff. Made a fuckin killing. Guardian is my favorite though for group stuff, years ago at least... Beorning solo and the odd dungeon was a blast. Haven't followed Lotro in awhile after that black/diversity character creation bs they came out with. I just liked the 'Smaug hoarding' aspect of Lotro. I'd build up **** tons of gold and just ask others trivia questions in towns or simply open trade and give it away for lower players with some perfect crafted items. I was gifted many items from some generous people out of nowhere so I did the same in return when the coffers were overflowing. Wish you well on there whatever it is you're doing. Good deeds and intentions pay off my man. Fight hard buddy. : )

I got inspired to play again because I saw that Umbar was added, meaning pirates so gotta power level to get to them.

[logincrash]

Still, for my tastes, the best of the telltale genre is Tales from the Borderlands and I guess the first 2 Walking dead (in terms of mechanics its probably the worst but well, the story was effective). Dispatch would be fighting for 3rd place.
And yes it is very pozzed, the diversity stuff is obvious.

Have you tried The Council?

It's pretty good. Going into it blind and trying to solve all the puzzles without looking up any guides is fun. A lot of reactivity.
The mystery is nice, though the MASSIVE SPOILER physical explanation of the demons being just soundwaves kinda made them look lame in my mind.

[logincrash]

Wanted to replay Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.
It's so poorly optimized that I had to do about 45 minutes of troubleshooting to fix micro-stutters and it still ran poorly.
Sadge.

[Manny V]

Wanted to replay Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.
It's so poorly optimized that I had to do about 45 minutes of troubleshooting to fix micro-stutters and it still ran poorly.
Sadge.

from a fookin 12 year old game? jaysus

[logincrash]

Wanted to replay Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.
It's so poorly optimized that I had to do about 45 minutes of troubleshooting to fix micro-stutters and it still ran poorly.
Sadge.

from a fookin 12 year old game? jaysus

Yeah, it's a ****** PC port. It doesn't really work with modern multi-core CPUs.
A similar situation to Saints Row 2.

[Tinky Winky]

Finished The Faery Tale Adventure aka the proto-open world walking simulator. Lilura gave this **** 8.5 out of 10 but it's actually just plain terrible from combat, balancing, pacing to map design. This is pretty much the very first time that a game recommended by Lilura turned out to be terrible and I'm not sure if I can just blindly trust xir anymore. Literally the only saving grace of this trash is muh open world in 1986, but it's nothing worthwhile unless you are on the spectrum and is into grandpa techs likes how Lilura does.


I also find out that this game does have a sequel, Halls of the Dead. It looks much better than the first one, but from what I've gathered, it's unfinished and mediocre at best. Plus it's genuinely SNCA (even more obscure than both Betrayal in Antara and Perihelion!) so I think I'll just pass.

[rusty_shackleford]

Finished The Faery Tale Adventure aka the proto-open world walking simulator. Lilura gave this **** 8.5 out of 10 but it's actually just plain terrible from combat, balancing, pacing to map design. This is pretty much the very first time that a game recommended by Lilura turned out to be terrible and I'm not sure if I can just blindly trust xir anymore. Literally the only saving grace of this trash is muh open world in 1986, but it's nothing worthwhile unless you are on the spectrum and is into grandpa techs likes how Lilura does.


I also find out that this game does have a sequel, Halls of the Dead. It looks much better than the first one, but from what I've gathered, it's unfinished and mediocre at best. Plus it's genuinely SNCA (even more obscure than both Betrayal in Antara and Perihelion!) so I think I'll just pass.

There's very few games worth playing before ~1993. Mostly just cool historical stuff.

If you're looking for a game from dinosaur era worth playing tho, try Starflight. IIRC, I preferred the Amiga version, can't remember why right now.

[Tweed]

Finished The Faery Tale Adventure aka the proto-open world walking simulator. Lilura gave this **** 8.5 out of 10 but it's actually just plain terrible from combat, balancing, pacing to map design. This is pretty much the very first time that a game recommended by Lilura turned out to be terrible and I'm not sure if I can just blindly trust xir anymore. Literally the only saving grace of this trash is muh open world in 1986, but it's nothing worthwhile unless you are on the spectrum and is into grandpa techs likes how Lilura does.


I also find out that this game does have a sequel, Halls of the Dead. It looks much better than the first one, but from what I've gathered, it's unfinished and mediocre at best. Plus it's genuinely SNCA (even more obscure than both Betrayal in Antara and Perihelion!) so I think I'll just pass.

There's very few games worth playing before ~1993. Mostly just cool historical stuff.

If you're looking for a game from dinosaur era worth playing tho, try Starflight. IIRC, I preferred the Amiga version, can't remember why right now.

Amiga is the best "old" version. The Genesis one is worth playing though.

I think there are less differences between the Genesis version of FTA and the Amiga release.

► Show Spoiler

The guy who painted the box cover for FTA became a furry.

[rusty_shackleford]

Finished The Faery Tale Adventure aka the proto-open world walking simulator. Lilura gave this **** 8.5 out of 10 but it's actually just plain terrible from combat, balancing, pacing to map design. This is pretty much the very first time that a game recommended by Lilura turned out to be terrible and I'm not sure if I can just blindly trust xir anymore. Literally the only saving grace of this trash is muh open world in 1986, but it's nothing worthwhile unless you are on the spectrum and is into grandpa techs likes how Lilura does.


I also find out that this game does have a sequel, Halls of the Dead. It looks much better than the first one, but from what I've gathered, it's unfinished and mediocre at best. Plus it's genuinely SNCA (even more obscure than both Betrayal in Antara and Perihelion!) so I think I'll just pass.

There's very few games worth playing before ~1993. Mostly just cool historical stuff.

If you're looking for a game from dinosaur era worth playing tho, try Starflight. IIRC, I preferred the Amiga version, can't remember why right now.

Amiga is the best "old" version. The Genesis one is worth playing though.

I think there are less differences between the Genesis version of FTA and the Amiga release.

► Show Spoiler

The guy who painted the box cover for FTL became a furry.

Genesis one is bugged iirc

[Tweed]

Genesis one is bugged iirc

Which one? Starflight or Fairy Tale Adventure? I owned and completed both of them on the Genesis multiple times without any problems.

[rusty_shackleford]

Genesis one is bugged iirc

Which one? Starflight or Fairy Tale Adventure? I owned and completed both of them on the Genesis multiple times without any problems.

Starflight

[Tweed]

Genesis one is bugged iirc

Which one? Starflight or Fairy Tale Adventure? I owned and completed both of them on the Genesis multiple times without any problems.

Starflight

I guess you're right. There's a bug with the weather that will blow the TV around and you can't destroy the Uhlek brain world. Or rather, it doesn't stop them.

[Tinky Winky]

Finished The Faery Tale Adventure aka the proto-open world walking simulator. Lilura gave this **** 8.5 out of 10 but it's actually just plain terrible from combat, balancing, pacing to map design. This is pretty much the very first time that a game recommended by Lilura turned out to be terrible and I'm not sure if I can just blindly trust xir anymore. Literally the only saving grace of this trash is muh open world in 1986, but it's nothing worthwhile unless you are on the spectrum and is into grandpa techs likes how Lilura does.


I also find out that this game does have a sequel, Halls of the Dead. It looks much better than the first one, but from what I've gathered, it's unfinished and mediocre at best. Plus it's genuinely SNCA (even more obscure than both Betrayal in Antara and Perihelion!) so I think I'll just pass.

There's very few games worth playing before ~1993. Mostly just cool historical stuff.

If you're looking for a game from dinosaur era worth playing tho, try Starflight. IIRC, I preferred the Amiga version, can't remember why right now.

I still play nes platformer/shooter classics like Contra and Megaman occasionally these days but yeah, most of the archaic RPGs don't really feel worth playing, the only exception so far is Uncharted Water but even that can be repetitive after a while.

World of Warcraft
LOTRO
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 1

I have fallen again into my old ways of playing too much mmos.

Try setting up your own private singleplayer server, which is exactly what I always do these days. The modern MMORPG community is plagued with filthy minmaxxers so it's better for you to play offline anyway. I can't honestly enjoy MMORPGs anymore because of this ****** of a culture, even private servers of classic Maplestory, a supposedly comfy social game for casual, tend to be filled with them instead of functioning neurotypicals like how it was back in the 2000s.

[Finarfin]

I would if I knew how to, but tbh I don't really interact much with people. WOW, LOTRO I treat like Singleplayer games anyways.

[LemonDemonGirl]

God I wish there was a way to play WoW single player and have people in your instance groups be all ai npcs

[Tinky Winky]

I would if I knew how to, but tbh I don't really interact much with people. WOW, LOTRO I treat like Singleplayer games anyways.

Ragezone should have resources for all the popular MMO games, many of those are packed in a way that I'm pretty certain even a karen can do it. Editing server is more complex but there should also be premade editors for that job.

[Oyster Sauce]

God I wish there was a way to play WoW single player and have people in your instance groups be all ai npcs

There is. They also run around the world doing quests, gearing up, talking to you, etc.

[Brother Michael]

World of Warcraft
LOTRO
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 1

I have fallen again into my old ways of playing too much mmos.

Hey buddy, What classes on WoW and Lotro? I always love to see these kind of posts as the itch is ever persistent.

Warcraft is usually Paladin, Mage and Warrior. Lotro current playing a Captain and planning on making a Mariner. Used to play a Champion but thought since I am rusty, I'll play another class until I get the hang of it again.
Got a Blood Elf Paladin, Orc Mage and a Dracthyr Warrior.

Is WoW worth playing if I haven’t given up on life?

[J1M]

Wanted to replay Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.
It's so poorly optimized that I had to do about 45 minutes of troubleshooting to fix micro-stutters and it still ran poorly.
Sadge.

from a fookin 12 year old game? jaysus

Yeah, it's a ****** PC port. It doesn't really work with modern multi-core CPUs.
A similar situation to Saints Row 2.

Have you considered emulating a console version?

[Kolgrim]

Been playing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. An excellent survival horror title for the 'Cube which boasted a ton of innovations for the genre, including it's infamous "sanity" mechanic, that were simply never iterated on or repeated again.

Haunting Ground did it a few years later. The devs had a different take on the mechanic but I think it really fits the story. In the game the sanity meter is invisible and certain events or choices you make can drop it. If it gets too low then Fiona, the MC, will do things like freeze on the spot and be uncontrollable or she will take off in a continuous sprint that forces you to steer her like a runaway car. Anyways you should check it out if you haven't. It's a great horror game.