General Video Game Thread
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My vassals suck (Playing M&B Warband PoP). Seriously, every time I'm not babysitting them, they get captured and I have to search half the map to free them. I wish I could have training sessions with them like I do with the village elders. This game really makes time fly away.
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So playing the new DLC for Crusader Kings II called Monks & Mystics. Another big game changer and even after 5 years makes the game a whole new experience. I believe Steam currently has all previous CKII stuff on sale for like £30 (marked down from £178, so big savings). So its a good time to get it all if you haven't yet. Go ... go and play a secret Satanist!
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Yesterday I got a beta invite to Rising Storm 2. Flying helicopters is waaaay hard at 160 ping. Those trees come in FAST.
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@Ataru It still needs major work, but it's pretty fun thus far.
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I've gotten lost in Rimworld. Usually I'm not big on colony sim games but this seems to eat the time and makes me rather invested in what happens to the colonists and the development of the colony. I recommend it if you like city/sim builder games like this.
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Seconded on Rimworld. I play it daily. It's Dwarf Fortress for those of us who need at least rudimentary graphics.
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@Admiral
I can say that the game is one of the most unusual things I have played in quite awhile. The relationship system is awkward and hilarious at the same time.And then beavers. The damn beavers. My very first colony I lost because first the beavers arrived to eat the trees...and then the next event made them manhunting. All my colonists eaten to death by beavers.
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So EverQuest is now 18 years old... makes me feel even older, but they're coming out with a new progression server that is /stopping/ at my favorite expansion (Lost Dungeons of Norrath)...
So this is pretty cool to me, really looking forwards to the new server and getting my nostalgia on.
Only problem is I have work, etc, so not enough time to really get involved in a raid guild or anything.
Hello! Long time listener, first time caller...
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Mass Effext: Andromeda is pre-loading. That is all.
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Really want to try out Horizon: Zero Dawn just because I've heard so many good things about.
ME: A will be a day one buy regardless of anything. Even if I'm not pre-ordering, because I don't believe in that whole 'Day One DLC' or 'Pre-Order DLC' bullshit. Not getting suckered into that shit ever again.
MUSH-free since 02/2017
This may or may not change in the future.
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@Monogram It's really fun, you just need to remember to go far enough into the tall grass though. I can actually stealth in the game, and I suck at stealth in games. The AI for people enemies well - people are dumb. The mobs though? Not dumb.
ME preloading.
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@Monogram said in General Video Game Thread:
ME: A will be a day one buy regardless of anything. Even if I'm not pre-ordering, because I don't believe in that whole 'Day One DLC' or 'Pre-Order DLC' bullshit. Not getting suckered into that shit ever again.
There is no Pre-Order DLC on ME:A, nor have I seen any Day One DLC. Oh it will come, no doubt, though one of the many, many Extra Credits reveals that Day One DLC is something like 75% more likely to be purchased than later DLC. You can wisely not throw away your money like that, but you can't ignore numbers like that.
I regret buying Fallout 4 while it was brand new, but I'm too much of a Mass Effect Fanboi not to do it here. Mm, check out that Asari ass.
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@Lithium Ah....16 years of my life wasted on that damned game, only to be tossed out like trash when they became Daybreak.
No...I'm not bitter at all.
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Initial thought to ME: Andromeda. They need to release a patch, because I had a bunch of glitches happen where I entirely skipped the whole playthrough of going down to Habitat 7 at the beginning of the game and arriving at Nexus. I should've known something was up when my character was waking up in stasis and was constantly clipping through another character model.
They might want to get that day one patch out because holy damn.
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I'm loving the shit out of ME:A
I have two complaints:
I hate that you get only three active powers at once, for what I'm assuming is console reasons. Fuck you, consoles.
Two, I hate the new omnitools. They don't look like GUI's, they look like weird golden squareish blobs on top of your arm. I miss the whole haptic interface model of the whole ME universe.
Oh, and three, there's a solid chance when I approach a character with a dot saying they're talkable I don't get that dot converted into an "E" button to actually talk to them. In many cases I've had to spin around walk away look at other things and come back a few times before the dot converted into an "E".
Re: Skipping going down to Habitat 7? I... don't think they need a day one patch to allow that, I think they need a day one patch to fix whatever bug let you even DO that. The story doesn't at all make sense if you skip Habitat 7. In fact I did the start through a couple times and didn't even realize it was possible.
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@ixokai To your third point? Fuck yes that needs fixing. If I have to do the Harlem Shake with my mouse to get things working, something is wrong. And why, come to think of it, is it necessary for me to hold the button all the time? So much holding it's like Bioware is afraid that if I don't get 'interaction finger' (it's like tennis elbow) that I'll leave and stop loving them. Eesh.
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@ixokai said in General Video Game Thread:
I hate that you get only three active powers at once, for what I'm assuming is console reasons. Fuck you, consoles.
My understanding is that you can quick-swap your loadouts for active powers. And three active powers is more than the active, button powers you had in ME3, if I recall.
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The only power you need is a fully loaded automatic assault rifle.
He/Him
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@Tinuviel said in General Video Game Thread:
The only power you need is a fully loaded automatic assault rifle.
Pretty much.
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@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
@ixokai said in General Video Game Thread:
I hate that you get only three active powers at once, for what I'm assuming is console reasons. Fuck you, consoles.
My understanding is that you can quick-swap your loadouts for active powers. And three active powers is more than the active, button powers you had in ME3, if I recall.
No, you the main character had 8 buttons in ME1+2+3.
The companions had only three active powers. And some classes had more or less 'active' powers depending on a particular class (and what bonus power you use), but I just sunday finished a ME3 engineer run through and I had at least 6 total active clickys.
Certain classes Some characters had more or less active powers, depending on if they have passives or not, but it varied.
