Finally decided to play Binary Domain, a game some consider to be "underrated". It's a third person military cover shooter released during a time when those sorts of games were a dime-a-dozen, and the game doesn't leave a great first impression. You play as military dudes doing military dude things, but thankfully the dialogue in this game is enjoyable and often quite funny. Your Based Black Man partner character is a surprising highlight. The game has a heavy sci-fi theme, and the crux of the story is the appearance of realistic human-like robots that don't even know they're robots.
Which also leads to the biggest difference between this and all the other military shooters of it's day; you aren't fighting human enemies, all the enemies are machines and they come in different colors and sizes. You can dismember their legs which slows them to a crawl (literally), or blow off their heads which confuses and causes them to fight amongst themselves. An interesting idea, but that mechanic isn't all that useful once you upgrade your primary weapon enough. The other new feature is the ability to talk to your teammates and respond to their dialogue IRL via your microphone. The game gives you certain prompts that you can say, and that will register in-game. I couldn't use this feature as I don't own a headset, but it sounds neat. Of course the game gives you the option to bypass this and just use your controller or keyboard to respond.
Other than these two aspects, the gunplay itself is decent enough but my main issue with this game is that it goes on for too long. The developers constantly have you shooting the same bots over and over again, and bullet sponge bosses that outstay their welcome after the 15+ minutes you spend fighting them (no joke). The story begins to lose steam quickly as you are faced with these onslaughts, and they never stop coming. You kill 100 robots?, well sorry chud but here comes 200 more via helicopter in the next cutscene!. This is one of those games I feel needs a proper remake so that it's concepts and ideas can be better realized, and in a more unique way. The game screams seventh generation PS3/Xbox 360 title, from it's visual style down to it's gameplay. My score is a 5/10, it's average.
When BD came out it was the era of brown and bloom, so something with normal colors was refreshing.
I did have a headset but I could hardly get the voice commands to work.
I also found the game overlong (didn't finish) and the robots too bulletspongey.
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Posted: May 4th, 2023, 14:07
by Emphyrio
I've been playing a lot of Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2. It's relaxing.
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Posted: May 4th, 2023, 19:39
by Dead
Been playing lots of Infra Arcana and a little Realms of Antiquity. Reinstalled Inquisitor to give it yet another try, but too much of the basic gameplay is tedious for me to want to continue.
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Posted: May 4th, 2023, 19:57
by Acrux
I think Inquisitor works best if you console yourself enough points to have a decent movement speed. That and repetitive combat later on are the real weak spots.
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Posted: May 7th, 2023, 05:23
by BosanskiSeljak
Counterstrike. 17 years later and I still can't get that game out of my life, no matter how many times I uninstall, I always come back. And I'm a faggot who follows the competitive side so it'll never truly leave my life.
The only anime shit I'll ever have a soft spot for. Played the hell outta one of the Dragon Ball games on gameboy advanced back in the day (legacy of goku I think?) And that fighting game on GameCube.
What's Kakarot like? Might have to pick it up just for some nostalgia
The only anime shit I'll ever have a soft spot for. Played the hell outta one of the Dragon Ball games on gameboy advanced back in the day (legacy of goku I think?) And that fighting game on GameCube.
What's Kakarot like? Might have to pick it up just for some nostalgia
Hard as fuck.
It's the whole storyline in game form. It's alot like budokai tenkaichi for ps2 was back in the day but much improved. I needed by DBZ fix and the other option for a modern game was the classical 2d fighter one and I much prefer the 3d world fighting aspects of the Budokai games.
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Posted: May 15th, 2023, 20:17
by Roguey
Finished Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Thought melee/ranged combat was obnoxious, but I get the impression that was the point. I do like how they kept things grounded to the point where I finished the game with a kill count in the double digits and how in all the mandatory combat heavy quests you can just hang back and let the army you're fighting with do most of the work. The stealth options were nice to have too.
Didn't care for the writing. Henry's character arc seems inspired by Enzio's from the Assassin's Creed games and I found him initially obnoxious there too. The game also has no resolution. Was Vavra so full of hubris that he conceived this as a multi-game epic from the start or was the initial idea so ridiculously big that he had no choice but to break it up? Either way, I hated how the epilogue was full of characters prattling on and on about politics I don't care about. In my head canon ending, Henry says to hell with this and just retires with Theresa, earning easy money winning archery contests. Perfectly fine not seeing how the rest of it goes.
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Posted: May 15th, 2023, 22:13
by maidenhaver
I'm still in Darkgrave in Edgey Ring. 34 and I haven't left the starter zone, just like irl.
I'm still in Darkgrave in Edgey Ring. 34 and I haven't left the starter zone, just like irl.
Playing with your Barbies, tea parties, and dressing up in your mommy's clothes tends to do that.
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Posted: May 17th, 2023, 22:46
by Roguey
Finished The Darkside Detective. Cute casual point and clicker with a couple of annoying puzzles. Rolled my eyes at the one enbie reference, but overall pretty funny writing.
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Posted: May 18th, 2023, 00:31
by Maggot
Redneck Rampage and its sequel. I always put it off as shovelware but it's decently entertaining and has by far the best looking build engine maps. I bounced off SiN and Shogo but found the first RR engaging enough to beat, if a bit meandering with some of its key hunts.
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Posted: May 18th, 2023, 01:09
by Klerik
This is the game im currently playing
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Posted: May 18th, 2023, 01:29
by maidenhaver
I killed the boney boatman and a two-headed knight directed me to a teleporter that took me to the skyrim plateau. There I stayed and farmed xp by killing fanatic ninjas, until I reached lvl 52. Still haven't assaulted Stormalong Castle.
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Posted: May 20th, 2023, 23:40
by Vlajdimir Ermenović
I'm gonna give this guy an uncomfortable time
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Posted: May 21st, 2023, 00:58
by Klerik
Zeig Heil
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Posted: May 21st, 2023, 12:54
by maidenhaver
Lvl 67 and Godrick the Grafted kicked my ass. I suck at dark souls, but I think my sword sucks too. I had to use jellyfish ashes and nephi to kill him.
Lvl 67 and Godrick the Grafted kicked my ass. I suck at dark souls, but I think my sword sucks too. I had to use jellyfish ashes and nephi to kill him.
You can't go wrong shedding your character's weight so he or she is a dodging master.
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Posted: May 21st, 2023, 13:24
by maidenhaver
Yes, armored 2-hander is too difficult for me to play. I should probably respec into a glass cannon. I'll die anyway, but in armor I can't run away as fast. Unless you mean just clean my inventory?
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Posted: May 21st, 2023, 13:40
by GhostCow
I've been playing the shit out of Age of Wonders 4. All of the options for creating your own empire add a lot of variety. I always have a problem with these 4x games with randomly generated maps where I'll keep restarting over and over after a few hours because I like see what kind of maps it comes up with. I'll probably keep doing this for dozens of hours until I feel like I've finally gotten a handle on the game. There's always so much shit to learn with 4x games and this is the first one in the series that I've played.
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Posted: May 22nd, 2023, 01:32
by wndrbr
Finished two games recently - "Northern Journey" and "The Case of the Golden Idol".
Northern Journey is an FPS/adventure hybrid. In the vein of Hexen, but way easier, and has focuses on the "adventurous vibes" rather than on hardcore gameplay and puzzles. Similarly to Half-Life, the game constantly throws new shit at the player - every map you visit has something new going on. New enemy types, new tileset, some sort of gameplay gimmick. In one map you're scaling a mountain, next map you battle a giant octopus in a flooded mine, then you're traversing through a valley infected with giant ticks. The levels themselves look very... realistic - as if the dev used to be an avid outdoorsman, and tried to channel his hiking experiences into his creation.
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The Case of the Golden Idol is a point and click adventure game, but not the typical adventure where you collect items and try to use them. Instead the game skews more towards deduction/investigation (like Return of the Obra Dinn), where you must scour the area for clues and keywords, identify all the characters involved, and then reconstruct the chain of events by arranging keywords in a correct order. Highly recommended if you liked Obra Dinn.
Redneck Rampage and its sequel. I always put it off as shovelware but it's decently entertaining and has by far the best looking build engine maps. I bounced off SiN and Shogo but found the first RR engaging enough to beat, if a bit meandering with some of its key hunts.
When I was a kid I had to cheat at the sewer. Worst. Level. Ever.
Started some cheapo game called Tunguska: The Visitation.
Redneck Rampage and its sequel. I always put it off as shovelware but it's decently entertaining and has by far the best looking build engine maps. I bounced off SiN and Shogo but found the first RR engaging enough to beat, if a bit meandering with some of its key hunts.
When I was a kid I had to cheat at the sewer. Worst. Level. Ever.
Started some cheapo game called Tunguska: The Visitation.
Yeah one of the buttons for that level is complete bullshit, but I was also surprised at how detailed of a sewer it was for Build.
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Posted: May 22nd, 2023, 03:13
by General Reign
For sure. Those levels were pretty real but real world design sometimes does not flow well.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2023, 22:29
by Roguey
Finished Resident Evil 3 Remake. Certainly a downgrade from 2 level-design-wise, but I still had more fun playing it than the first remake.
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Posted: May 24th, 2023, 03:33
by Tweed
I keep wasting time trying to play See DeeDee Ay Bee In.
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Posted: June 1st, 2023, 21:58
by Roguey
Finished Silent Hill 4. Didn't like it at first, but it grew on me, some obnoxious logic puzzles aside. I was concerned about the escort part of the second half, but it was all right. Ended up getting the best ending.
