What game are you playing?

[Tweed]

I should play wasteland 3 again

You should it’s a very good game. Hopefully inxile next project is just as or better then the previous game.

You are right about W3, and very optimistic about their next game

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[1998]

You should it’s a very good game. Hopefully inxile next project is just as or better then the previous game.

You are right about W3, and very optimistic about their next game

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And M$ buxx. They tried it the CRPG way, they failed. Now I would be surprised if anyone there even gives a **** about how their next game turns out.

[Rand]

Tried something called Breachway.

(I didn't buy it. I downloaded it for a test.)

It's like FTL in a lot of ways, except there's no running your guys around your ship, and the combat actions you can take are deck based card draws.
That makes it annoying AF. Often, you HAVE to do something to prevent being pummeled, but you don't have the right cards in your hand and have no idea how long it will take to get them.
Oh, and it's hard to control exactly what cards you have in your deck for each ship system as they are offered to you from a random set and if you want a specific one it could take forever to be offered to you.

Otherwise, the maps are similar in that you can't just travel at will. You either must move closer to the area exit or use rare and expensive fuel to maneuver off path. Unlike FTL where it was the pursuit that slowly cut off rear areas but you could backtrack if you were fast enough.

Just play FTL. It's a better game in literally every way. Including price.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I should play wasteland 3 again

You should it’s a very good game. Hopefully inxile next project is just as or better then the previous game.

You are right about W3, and very optimistic about their next game

I’m concerned with Microsoft DEI mandates that all studios supposedly have to follow. I hope I’m wrong but can’t ignore the possibility of happening to inxile.

[Acrux]

It's looked ridiculous ever since it was first announced.

viewtopic.php?t=601-clockwork-revolutio ... roika-devs

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Tried something called Breachway.

(I didn't buy it. I downloaded it for a test.)

It's like FTL in a lot of ways, except there's no running your guys around your ship, and the combat actions you can take are deck based card draws.
That makes it annoying AF. Often, you HAVE to do something to prevent being pummeled, but you don't have the right cards in your hand and have no idea how long it will take to get them.
Oh, and it's hard to control exactly what cards you have in your deck for each ship system as they are offered to you from a random set and if you want a specific one it could take forever to be offered to you.

Otherwise, the maps are similar in that you can't just travel at will. You either must move closer to the area exit or use rare and expensive fuel to maneuver off path. Unlike FTL where it was the pursuit that slowly cut off rear areas but you could backtrack if you were fast enough.

Just play FTL. It's a better game in literally every way. Including price.

>checks title

>it’s early access

Getting really tired of indie studios selling games when it barley a minimum viable product.

[Rand]

Tried something called Breachway.

(I didn't buy it. I downloaded it for a test.)

It's like FTL in a lot of ways, except there's no running your guys around your ship, and the combat actions you can take are deck based card draws.
That makes it annoying AF. Often, you HAVE to do something to prevent being pummeled, but you don't have the right cards in your hand and have no idea how long it will take to get them.
Oh, and it's hard to control exactly what cards you have in your deck for each ship system as they are offered to you from a random set and if you want a specific one it could take forever to be offered to you.

Otherwise, the maps are similar in that you can't just travel at will. You either must move closer to the area exit or use rare and expensive fuel to maneuver off path. Unlike FTL where it was the pursuit that slowly cut off rear areas but you could backtrack if you were fast enough.

Just play FTL. It's a better game in literally every way. Including price.

>checks title
>it’s early access
Getting really tired of indie studios selling games when it barley a minimum viable product.

Compared to FTL, it will never be a viable competitor.
And it's too similar to not be one.

[KnightoftheWind]

Finally decided to start a playthrough of the original Spyro trilogy on PS1, via the DuckStation emulator. I have to say the first game has taken me completely by surprise, I never thought I would enjoy it as much as I am now, and used to relegate Spyro in the "just another platformer" category. Yet this game is overflowing in the soul department. The visuals are dreamlike and incredible, despite how low poly everything is. The music especially sells this feeling perfectly, and is likely the best OST I've heard in ANY platformer. Koji Kondo may have composed some catchy jingles (some of which were plagiarised btw) but this composer, Stewart Copeland, should be celebrated a lot more than he is. There isn't a single bad song here, nor is there a single bad level. Some are worse than others, or more confusing than others to be sure, but there really isn't a moment where you take a deep breathe and turn the game off out of boredom or frustration. Everything just flows nicely. It's fun to bash enemies in with your charge attack, or burn them to a crisp with your flame breathe. It's fun collecting the gems they drop, and the gems scattered around the level. It's fun rescuing dragons, most of which are voiced by the legendary Clancy Brown. This game is a BANGER, and I'd go so far as to label it the best 3D platformer in my book. This may change with Spyro 2 and 3, but for now these are my thoughts on the matter.

[cyberfriend]

Black for ps2

[Roguey]

Finished The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. Far more scripting here than in Seasons and it also took me two fewer hours, though there were a couple of times where I got fed up enough to look up what I had to do online. Having to complete a dancing minigame to progress was also aggravating. Didn't like this as much, as expected given how I quit in frustration decades ago. Glad it's over.

That's the end of my Switch Online queue. Been quite a while since Kirby from back in January. I'll keep trying out every game in the library at least for a few minutes, might find some others that will interest me enough to complete.

[Roguey]

Finished Super Mario Bros 2 USA, figuring I'd give this a complete playthrough for once. I don't like how loose the controls are at all, but I kept with it because the level design can get pretty creative. Would have been aggravating without rewinds of course, especially the final boss. Never would have completed this on a regular NES like I did 1 and 3.

[DDC]

Working on clearing older games and will reload during Black Friday/Winter Sale. I can be bad about finishing my games because I get so much bundle **** that my library gets so messy that it's easier to just buy a new game to play than go through it all. But I've been trying to resist that because I have a lot of older games that are just better than the new games I'd buy instead.

Latest was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. I had a playthrough from years ago stalled at 75%, but I decided to run it back from the beginning. Good game overall, but the controls are slightly sloppy and it was a bit on the short side for what it aspired to be. For a true SOTN killer, the castle needed a few more areas.

Now I'm on to blowing through the Black Ops 6 campaign on gamepass. Just figuring out the prior story is a game in and of itself. I played the prior Black Ops games and I don't remember any of who the **** these people are and have no idea what is going on.

[WhiteShark]

Latest was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. I had a playthrough from years ago stalled at 75%, but I decided to run it back from the beginning. Good game overall, but the controls are slightly sloppy and it was a bit on the short side for what it aspired to be. For a true SOTN killer, the castle needed a few more areas.

If you like these games, I highly recommend emulating the DS entries. Portrait of Ruin in particular is one of my favorites.

[gerey]

and I don't remember any of who the **** these people are and have no idea what is going on

That was my experience with all Call of Duty games. I never had much of an idea what was going on, what I was supposed to be doing or why, and who any of the characters were supposed to be.

It was all just noise, explosions and ****** gameplay.

[DDC]

Latest was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. I had a playthrough from years ago stalled at 75%, but I decided to run it back from the beginning. Good game overall, but the controls are slightly sloppy and it was a bit on the short side for what it aspired to be. For a true SOTN killer, the castle needed a few more areas.

If you like these games, I highly recommend emulating the DS entries. Portrait of Ruin in particular is one of my favorites.

I played a couple on the GBA but they just started making too many of them and I gave up. I was thinking about playing the Lords of Shadow trilogy because I remember playing halfway through the first game and it being pretty decent and something I wished I had finished. I liked those low-rent God of War/Devil May Cry clones that have since mostly morphed into ****** open world games/full-blown RPGs/soulslikes. Steam has a HD version of Mirror of Fate that caught my eye.

[Xenich]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

[Acrux]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

Have you tried Sins of Solar Empire 2 (or 1, for that matter)?

[Xenich]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

Have you tried Sins of Solar Empire 2 (or 1, for that matter)?

A long time ago, I will load that up as well and give it a go. Which is better?

[Acrux]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

Have you tried Sins of Solar Empire 2 (or 1, for that matter)?

A long time ago, I will load that up as well and give it a go. Which is better?

For base game, 2 is a little more streamlined (in a good way). However, it doesn't have any of it's DLCs released yet, so there's not nearly as much content as 1 and no campaign yet. Just skirmish.

[1998]

Finished Super Mario Bros 2 USA, figuring I'd give this a complete playthrough for once. I don't like how loose the controls are at all, but I kept with it because the level design can get pretty creative. Would have been aggravating without rewinds of course, especially the final boss. Never would have completed this on a regular NES like I did 1 and 3.

I actually preferred that over 3 as a kid, don't know why, its clearly inferior. But I liked the floaty Luigi controls for some reason.

[DDC]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

I don't know the current state of it (and last time I checked they had ****** it up), but for a time Stellaris was the best large scale space 4x. Loved the complexity of it, all the little story events, great music, etc.

Endless Space 2 is pretty bad. Cartoonish and lacking in depth. Endless Legend is alright, but I'd say get all the expansions if you want to play it.

I've been thinking about jumping on Fantasy General II from this bundle. $3.50 for the game and all expansions is pretty good.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-m ... ons-bundle

[rusty_shackleford]

I didn't care for endless space 2.
Stellaris was OK, but it's yet another paradox game: the same game they keep remaking with different settings and a new UI.

[Tweed]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

Could try MMMerge for a tweest.

[KnightoftheWind]

Started a playthrough of Spyro 2 a few days ago, and got burnt out pretty quick. The game has an entirely different feel from the first game IMO. Instead of a well polished 3D platformer with a focus on exploration, it's now more-or-less a collection of scenarios and minigames you have to complete for annoying NPCs. Many of which can be frustrating. The game also lost most of the quiet, dreamlike ambience from the first game in favour of overthetop cartoon zaniness. With the only remaining exception being the hubworlds, which keep the ambience and tone I loved from the first instalment.

After hearing so many positive things about Spyro 2, I expected more from it. Instead I'm walking away disappointed, it's a shame. But for young kids, it should be a fun time.

[wndrbr]

this game came out today. It's a sci-fi rpg from the creators of Encased.

After Encased bombed in sales due to being an unfinished mess, Dark Crystal Games went under, but the devs themselves regrouped and founded a new studio. In addition to Encased devs, the new studio also has a bunch of devs from Larian St. Petersburg (they used to work on BG3 before Larian closed St. Petersburg office because of the war). 'Saturn' was funded by the gubermint so it's available for free, although if you liked the game you can purchase a support pack.

An apocalyptic event will happen in 3 days, and you have to figure out what's going on and try to resolve the situation. Time mechanics work similarly to Disco Elysium, time moves forward if you do something or move between locations. And if you die, you start from day one - the game constantly saves in the same slot, so you can't save-scum and must live with the consequences of your decisions. Subsequent playthroughs should feel different due to the variety of character builds, branchings story paths, and the usage of metaknowledge that you have accumulated on previous attempts (kinda like Deathloop / Outer Wilds).

[1998]

this game came out today. It's a sci-fi rpg from the creators of Encased.

After Encased bombed in sales due to being an unfinished mess, Dark Crystal Games went under, but the devs themselves regrouped and founded a new studio. In addition to Encased devs, the new studio also has a bunch of devs from Larian St. Petersburg (they used to work on BG3 before Larian closed St. Petersburg office because of the war). 'Saturn' was funded by the gubermint so it's available for free, although if you liked the game you can purchase a support pack.

An apocalyptic event will happen in 3 days, and you have to figure out what's going on and try to resolve the situation. Time mechanics work similarly to Disco Elysium, time moves forward if you do something or move between locations. And if you die, you start from day one - the game constantly saves in the same slot, so you can't save-scum and must live with the consequences of your decisions. Subsequent playthroughs should feel different due to the variety of character builds, branchings story paths, and the usage of metaknowledge that you have accumulated on previous attempts (kinda like Deathloop / Outer Wilds).

Actually interested in it. I liked Encased more than I should have. Not even because its unfinished content-wise, they whole skill system was busted. Still I enjoyed it for the 15h or however long it was.

Will this be a full release or EA? Usually I would prefer full release, but in this case I am not sure tbh.

[wndrbr]

this game came out today. It's a sci-fi rpg from the creators of Encased.

After Encased bombed in sales due to being an unfinished mess, Dark Crystal Games went under, but the devs themselves regrouped and founded a new studio. In addition to Encased devs, the new studio also has a bunch of devs from Larian St. Petersburg (they used to work on BG3 before Larian closed St. Petersburg office because of the war). 'Saturn' was funded by the gubermint so it's available for free, although if you liked the game you can purchase a support pack.

An apocalyptic event will happen in 3 days, and you have to figure out what's going on and try to resolve the situation. Time mechanics work similarly to Disco Elysium, time moves forward if you do something or move between locations. And if you die, you start from day one - the game constantly saves in the same slot, so you can't save-scum and must live with the consequences of your decisions. Subsequent playthroughs should feel different due to the variety of character builds, branchings story paths, and the usage of metaknowledge that you have accumulated on previous attempts (kinda like Deathloop / Outer Wilds).

Actually interested in it. I liked Encased more than I should have. Not even because its unfinished content-wise, they whole skill system was busted. Still I enjoyed it for the 15h or however long it was.

Will this be a full release or EA? Usually I would prefer full release, but in this case I am not sure tbh.

the full game has already came out in a russian digital store. It will come out on Steam in a few days (devs said they stumbled upon some issue with moderation).

[Oyster Sauce]

LiS 2 started to recover from the Episode 1 TDS, but then roving gangs of white desert bandits showed up. At least the music is good.

Was not expecting this game to redeem itself so heavily in the ending, at least the one I got where we killed a female reverend, a bunch of cops, and then became telekinetic cholo vigilantes in Mehico

First two characters you meet in LiS 3 are a cuckold and his girlfriend's black son.

3 was the worst mystery game I've ever played. Nothing interesting happens. The conclusion is so mundane that I feel personally offended they thought it was ok to make a video game about it. Just pointless trash.

[Xenich]

Was playing MM7, got a few hours into it and remembered I had beat it, it all came back and then... well... moving on.

Tried Darksiders, didn't care for that at all...

Looking for a 4x, need something to sink my teeth into so... It is one of these:

1. Galactic Civilizations II/III
2. Endless Space 2
3. Sword of the Stars
4. Endless Legend

Or a few others if I can find anything of interest.

Could try MMMerge for a tweest.

Yeah, I read into it. Sounded interesting, but I have played everything except MM8 and while I like the games, as soon as I start playing I remember everything and it just feels like I am going through the motions.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I tried out Monster Hunt Wilds due to seeing chatter about it on IRC.



First, I like that the game lets you dress up like a visual kei star.

You also get to pick from a few really gimmicky weapons, like a sword that can transform into an axe, or blowing on a giant tuba to buff the group and then swinging it around like a mace. You can do aerial leaps with a lance like a dragoon from Final Fantasy while also throwing insects at the enemy. There are also dual blades with a grappling hook that lets you do Levi's spin attack from Attack on Titan.

I only saw a few creatures but they looked pretty unique, a giant road monster with a large muscular tongue, and these monkey/lion/bear things.

The story is vaguely interesting with the player being an agent of some sort of government and being sent to spy on this newly discovered territory. One of the female NPCs claims that my weapon techniques are only ever used against monsters, but given the opening flashback where I was meeting with that higher up and being sent on my secret mission, I am skeptical.

My two big complaints thus far has been the performance, and the tutorialization.




I am using a 3070 Ti and it is 2024, and yet somehow games continue to run worse and worse. The game was set to medium graphics setting by default (recommended?) and I didn't turn anything up, and yet I was still getting framedrops, and the game did not look that good outside of the handful of high fidelity cutscenes, or certain menus such as the above tent/equipment screen. The game had massive performance drop when I exitted my first multiplayer mission to the hub and it was populated by other players. Some characters had ridiculous LOD models that were never replaced even after several minutes passed by. Obviously there is the word "beta" being thrown around, but I have heard the "it's just a beta! It will get better!" rhetoric thrown around too many times only for it to not get better.

I spent about an hour and a half playing, most of that time trying to figure out the controls and how to use my weapon, and I still struggle to play correctly. The controls are unintuitive and the UI IMO is not well designed, with you having to constantly glance up at the top right to see the button combinations, which change after every press and then revert to the default if you do not continue a combo after a couple seconds, so that makes it difficult to follow what is going on. I was spoon fed tutorial boxes on how to use the Insect Glaive when I fought the first toad boss, but I have yet to figure out how to repeat that boss fight and get those prompts to appear for my other weapons. I joined a multiplayer quest for the toad boss and the prompts did not appear. Also spent a lot of time puzzled trying to find the item I need to use to scatter the two adds from the second bear boss; tried grabbing everything nearby the boss' location and then throwing it at him and the adds, as well as checking my tent for items, and I am still confused as to what I am supposed to do.

Will keep an eye on it.