What game are you playing?

[Gastrick]

Tried playing through Rondo of Blood however, and that game ****** me off to no end. Not only is it difficult, it's 'abrasively' so. It's almost as if the developers knew precisely where to place enemies and obstacles to maximize player misery, and your controls are woeful. It's straight-up NES-style controls, you can't whip in any direction but horizontally, and the flying enemies like crows are nightmares to beat. You also have very few I-frames, so you will frequently take multiple hits from a single enemy. I think the players that praise Rondo are either talking completely out of their *** ("World's biggest Earthbound fan plays game for the first time etc etc"), or are gaming legends. Either way, **** this game. 3/10.

Does anyone know if this is the same game exactly as the PSP version? If so this post sounds crazy, since that one just plays normally and is just average difficulty for these

[Roguey]

Finished Borderlands 2. Picked it up for free when it was available, and yeah my instincts were correct about skipping it. Some of the worst attempts at humor I've ever experienced. Gameplay started off pretty lousy, became tolerable enough and then kept going back and forth between frustrating and tolerable again. Glad that's over with, never touching this again.

[CornCake]

Finished Borderlands 2. Picked it up for free when it was available, and yeah my instincts were correct about skipping it. Some of the worst attempts at humor I've ever experienced. Gameplay started off pretty lousy, became tolerable enough and then kept going back and forth between frustrating and tolerable again. Glad that's over with, never touching this again.

Are you saying that you don't find BUTT STALLION funny?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

This is what smoking every day must do to a man. He looks like he's about to hit 40.

[CornCake]

Never played Vampire the Masquerade before, but I've heard it's a legendary game. Guess I'll find out.

[KnightoftheWind]

Tried playing through Rondo of Blood however, and that game ****** me off to no end. Not only is it difficult, it's 'abrasively' so. It's almost as if the developers knew precisely where to place enemies and obstacles to maximize player misery, and your controls are woeful. It's straight-up NES-style controls, you can't whip in any direction but horizontally, and the flying enemies like crows are nightmares to beat. You also have very few I-frames, so you will frequently take multiple hits from a single enemy. I think the players that praise Rondo are either talking completely out of their *** ("World's biggest Earthbound fan plays game for the first time etc etc"), or are gaming legends. Either way, **** this game. 3/10.

Does anyone know if this is the same game exactly as the PSP version? If so this post sounds crazy, since that one just plays normally and is just average difficulty for these

Not sure. The PSP version remakes the entire game in 2.5D, with voice acted real-time cutscenes included. Maybe the level layouts are exactly the same, but from what I've played of the PSP version it is significantly easier, or at least more fair in it's difficulty.

[Tweed]

X COM 2 is pretty fun. I especially liked it when one of my guys got promoted and then immediately died when the truck he was hiding behind exploded.

Rookie mistake.

[wndrbr]

Playing Cultic Chapter 2, finished six maps so far. It's pretty decent, although not without issues.

The game is basically a Blood + RTCW + Resident Evil 4 + Half-Life They Hunger mashup.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Trails in the Sky remake

Finished the prologue chapter, now headed into the Bose region.

► Show Spoiler

My only real nitpick so far is that they broke the economy. In the original game, you were broke all of the time up until maybe chapter 3 or the final chapter. So you had to very carefully ration your money and think carefully about what your battle strategy was and this which accessories you should buy instead of others. But here I am getting so many of those stat droplets that started showing up in the series in Cold Steel that I can just vendor them for 2,000 mira each and I then I am rich. Fortunately however the quartz economy remains the same since there is no way to buy sepith with mira, so you still have to carefully ration your sepith and really think about whose slot you want to open, and to not just buy quartz simply because you can afford them.


Goodness gracious Olivier, who did you marry?


















Goodness gracious this boss fight took me one hour. I had to alt+tab out and take a break half way through before resuming it. If I had wiped, oh boy. For the first half, I had Schera casting Chaos Brand over and over trying to keep Josette confuse and to confuse the 3 adds, while Estelle and Joshua just kept healing and Clock Ex on everyone refreshed and stacked at 3 charges (I just found that out accidentally, historically the speed buff could only be stacked twice). Joshua and Schera needed to stay above 100 CP so that Joshua could shut down the boss if she ever popped her battle rage, and so that Schera could steal crit turn order bonuses to prevent the boss from one shotting a character. Killed Josette with a Shadow Spear on a zero arts turn order bonus.






Why does my country require you to get a permit to go through gates to different provinces again? Is this North Korea? Are they gonna shoot me or send me to a reeducation camp if they catch me in a province without my permit?




I like how big and threatening the yetis look down from this perspective. Their hair makes them more menacing. Never noticed the spider eyes before. Was that in the original?




Double checking the sprites... oh yeah, I guess they did have spider eyes but they were too small for me to notice.




I like how when you shop, you see the party of characters on the left side and they talk a bit, so you aren't just looking at a spreadsheet on your fullscreen.





I was running up the road to the Ruan gate to unlock it as a fast travel node and scanning the minimap for chests when I saw this weird indentation in the road. It's a cave. Is this new? I don't recall there ever having been a secret cave in the original. And there are a ton of elites inside. Is this supposed to be a challenging farm spot?

[Finarfin]

Destiny 2
Dying Light 1 and The Beast

[DecadeRiptide]

Vermintide II

[Boulder Gains]

Finished Borderlands 2. Picked it up for free when it was available, and yeah my instincts were correct about skipping it. Some of the worst attempts at humor I've ever experienced. Gameplay started off pretty lousy, became tolerable enough and then kept going back and forth between frustrating and tolerable again. Glad that's over with, never touching this again.

I don't know how true it is but I remember reading years ago that the guy who voiced Handsome Jack ad-libbed most of his lines because he said the original script was bad. Now that's not exactly surprising because Anthony Burch wrote it but I can't see why anyone would want to take credit for the game's "humor."

[Roguey]

I don't know how true it is but I remember reading years ago that the guy who voiced Handsome Jack ad-libbed most of his lines because he said the original script was bad. Now that's not exactly surprising because Anthony Burch wrote it but I can't see why anyone would want to take credit for the game's "humor."

Burch himself told this story.

https://www.gearboxsoftware.com/2013/09 ... some-jack/

*This was an adlib by Dameon Clarke, the voice of Handsome Jack. It’s easily Jack’s single most popular line, and I didn’t frigging write it. I will never forgive Dameon for this.

And yeah, Jack can be funny because of his delivery. "God these pretzels suck" isn't a funny line in and of itself, it's the way he says it.

I'll give Burch credit only for Claptrap's crying fit at the end. That robot was so annoying during every interaction that hearing him in torment at the end was hilarious.

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm a sucker for a villain that sees himself as the hero of his own story, shame BL2 is just unfunny humor

[Bing_xiLim]

Destiny 2
Dying Light 1 and The Beast

Surprised to see Destiny is still going. Heard it's been in terrible shape for quite a while. Forsaken was probably the last decent expansion before it all went to complete ****.

[Finarfin]

I don't know how true it is but I remember reading years ago that the guy who voiced Handsome Jack ad-libbed most of his lines because he said the original script was bad. Now that's not exactly surprising because Anthony Burch wrote it but I can't see why anyone would want to take credit for the game's "humor."

Burch himself told this story.

https://www.gearboxsoftware.com/2013/09 ... some-jack/

*This was an adlib by Dameon Clarke, the voice of Handsome Jack. It’s easily Jack’s single most popular line, and I didn’t frigging write it. I will never forgive Dameon for this.

And yeah, Jack can be funny because of his delivery. "God these pretzels suck" isn't a funny line in and of itself, it's the way he says it.

I'll give Burch credit only for Claptrap's crying fit at the end. That robot was so annoying during every interaction that hearing him in torment at the end was hilarious.

[Jordy]

X COM 2 is pretty fun. I especially liked it when one of my guys got promoted and then immediately died when the truck he was hiding behind exploded.

RIP this ruskie, whatever his name is. Died before he could get his promotion.



Been playing in short bursts and having a blast. There are occasions where you pull off a perfect ambush (mostly by accident) and it feels amazing.

I didn't give the first X-COM much of a chance so I might have to revisit it. Also need to look for mods to remove DEI.

[J1M]

Never played Vampire the Masquerade before, but I've heard it's a legendary game. Guess I'll find out.

Combat is janky but the rest is top notch. You said you only had good games left, but I still see Redemption sitting there ready to ruin your day.

[Irenaeus]

Been playing a bit of Battle Brothers again whenever I can for inspiration.

[DecadeRiptide]

Proud to announce that I uninstalled Vermintide II after just under 1,000 hours

[J1M]

Sounds fun, did you play with RL friends?

[rusty_shackleford]

Proud to announce that I uninstalled Vermintide II after just under 1,000 hours

Have you played their wh40k game?

[DecadeRiptide]

Proud to announce that I uninstalled Vermintide II after just under 1,000 hours

Have you played their wh40k game?

I don't think so? Apart from Vermintide I've only ever tried Darktide

[rusty_shackleford]

Proud to announce that I uninstalled Vermintide II after just under 1,000 hours

Have you played their wh40k game?

I don't think so? Apart from Vermintide I've only ever tried Darktide

Do you know what Wh40k is?

[DecadeRiptide]

Have you played their wh40k game?

I don't think so? Apart from Vermintide I've only ever tried Darktide

Do you know what Wh40k is?

I know there is Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, and also Age of Sigmar?

I think Age of Sigmar carries on from Warhammer Fantasy, where as Warhammer 40k is it's own seperate universe. Apparently 40k used to be in the same universe as Fantasy but Games Workshop decided to split it early on.

The sci-fi/fantasy theme I saw in Darktide was cool but I liked the medieval/fantasy theme from Vermintide more. Also, people said that Age of Sigmar is a mix between the two themes??

Correct me if I am wrong?

[DecadeRiptide]

Proud to announce that I uninstalled Vermintide II after just under 1,000 hours

Have you played their wh40k game?

Also I misread and thought you were referring to the Total War: Warhammer games. What is Total War: Warhammer anyway, is that like another universe or is it part of 40k?

[Tangerine]

I've only ever tried Darktide

Warhammer-40k-Darktide-Preview-01-Header.jpg

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't think so? Apart from Vermintide I've only ever tried Darktide

Do you know what Wh40k is?

I know there is Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, and also Age of Sigmar?

I think Age of Sigmar carries on from Warhammer Fantasy, where as Warhammer 40k is it's own seperate universe. Apparently 40k used to be in the same universe as Fantasy but Games Workshop decided to split it early on.

The sci-fi/fantasy theme I saw in Darktide was cool but I liked the medieval/fantasy theme from Vermintide more. Also, people said that Age of Sigmar is a mix between the two themes??

Correct me if I am wrong?

darktide is in the wh40k setting
did you like it?

[DecadeRiptide]

Do you know what Wh40k is?

I know there is Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, and also Age of Sigmar?

I think Age of Sigmar carries on from Warhammer Fantasy, where as Warhammer 40k is it's own seperate universe. Apparently 40k used to be in the same universe as Fantasy but Games Workshop decided to split it early on.

The sci-fi/fantasy theme I saw in Darktide was cool but I liked the medieval/fantasy theme from Vermintide more. Also, people said that Age of Sigmar is a mix between the two themes??

Correct me if I am wrong?

darktide is in the wh40k setting
did you like it?

It was good but had optimization issues and I liked the medieval/fantasy setting of Vermintide more

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I don't think so? Apart from Vermintide I've only ever tried Darktide

Do you know what Wh40k is?

I know there is Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, and also Age of Sigmar?

I think Age of Sigmar carries on from Warhammer Fantasy, where as Warhammer 40k is it's own seperate universe. Apparently 40k used to be in the same universe as Fantasy but Games Workshop decided to split it early on.

The sci-fi/fantasy theme I saw in Darktide was cool but I liked the medieval/fantasy theme from Vermintide more. Also, people said that Age of Sigmar is a mix between the two themes??

Correct me if I am wrong?

That is pretty much correct.

As for Fantasy becoming AoS, it was because it was becoming unprofitable. Fantasy tabletop players had already bought the armies they wanted (often buying lookalike pikemen models from 3rd party companies) and threw a fit whenever GW tried to introduce cool new whacky models like Dwarf tanks for people to buy. Fantasy players weren't showing up to their local games stores with their fantasy armies. Seeing people playing with their armies is how the game gets advertised and convinces people to start purchasing their armies. LotR was more profitable and seeing more play. Meanwhile, people were showing up with their 40k armies and were buying the cool new models there. And since this business is about manufacturing and shipping lots and lots of plastic, it has thin profits margins and cannot survive a declining brand.

AoS ditches the realistic armies (stops the bleeding of sales to other companies) and makes AoS players more inclined to buy new crazy looking fantasy models. As for AoS being a "mix" of the two themes, it is because of the main poster faction of AoS, the Stormcast Eternals, look a lot like space marines from 40k.

What is Total War: Warhammer anyway, is that like another universe or is it part of 40k?

It is Fantasy as a licensed RTS game. There are three Total Warhammer games but they each have 4 different factions. If you own multiple games, you unlock the ability to use more factions in a single game. Ie if you own the trilogy you can play as all 12 factions in the third game. There is also a lot of DLC units.