General Video Game Thread

[Insomnia]

@thenomain Yeah, well God of War comes out that day too!

[Lithium]

I am so looking for BattleTech, can't wait, I kickstarted it at the 50$ level, haven't even read the new novelettes by Stackpole but just want to /play/ the campaign.

[SG]

I just picked up an orbweaver. It'll take getting used to, but damn, ergonomic setups are pretty nice.

[Packrat]

@thenomain I came up with the best solution to this issue.

I booked all of next week off work along with buying sufficient nice bottled beers and ales to fill an entire cupboard in my kitchen.

Next week I am going to do nothing but read, game, go for long walks then every evening try a few new beers.

[Ganymede]

@lithium said in General Video Game Thread:

I am so looking for BattleTech, can't wait, I kickstarted it at the 50$ level, haven't even read the new novelettes by Stackpole but just want to /play/ the campaign.

I may even try to get a new computer for B-Tech.

Ah, Stackpole. So much nostalgia.

[Lithium]

@ganymede 5 more days!!!!!!11!!!!11@!!

[Auspice]

Since y'all have talked about Martyr a lot...

This sort of thing vexes me. So I'm glad the community is like "guys please, take all the time you need," but it's just frustrating that these companies still won't learn.

Like, gamers by and far are on board with the concept of: we will wait a few weeks to a few months longer for a polished game.

But the Studios still don't get it. Like hey, guys? We don't hate EA just because of monetization. We hate EA also because of their long history of treating their employees like shit.

If your game isn't ready, it isn't ready. Sit back, take a few weeks, polish the game. Let your people rest. Let them see their families. Let them work at the pace they need to make a polished, ready game that everyone will love.

Don't push yourselves and your people to make a deadline with something that isn't gonna be what you want. Because if you do that? Everyone's gonna be disappointed.

And it's just... vexing that the studios still don't get this point.

[Rucket]

oh shiiiittttt i haven't paid attention to this thread?
people are talking about Martyr?

I've had it for a while, just downloaded it again last night to see some of the changes since i bought in last year. such a good game. Everything just FEELS so 40K, which is a huge plus.

Looking forward to launch, but I can wait. I want to finish Far Cry 5, get God of War, do Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire and then can think about fucking up some chaos scum for the Emperor.

[Auspice]

I really want Far Cry 5.

But I need a) the money to afford to buy Far Cry 5, b) the time to play Far Cry 5.

Sigh.

[Rucket]

Yeah it's got a good chunk of content. Of course, I'm a dumb dumb and do everything I can in open world games, so it takes me longer to beat them.

[Insomnia]

Make sure you do everything you want before you kill the final guy, or you won't be able to.

There are also weekly community missions now that give an outfit for the community, and 2 weapons, and a vehicle so far.

This week it's running over cultists / animals with any vehicle you want.

[Rucket]

@insomnia

I don't really care about the community challenges. Besides, I already have the one cosmetic weapon I want... the assault rifle that's all gussied up like the American flag. Perfect for delivering freedom.

[Thenomain]

@rucket said in General Video Game Thread:

Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire

What does it say that I absolutely loved Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment back in the day, but Pillars of Eternity, Numenera: Torment, and even Tyranny mainly bored me. Not Shadowrun tho, oh no, there's a series that got better through three entire games.

I'll catch it on a steam sale because I want to support Black Is--errrrr, Obsidian, but eh.

[Rucket]

@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@rucket said in General Video Game Thread:

Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire

What does it say that I absolutely loved Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment back in the day, but Pillars of Eternity, Numenera: Torment, and even Tyranny mainly bored me. Not Shadowrun tho, oh no, there's a series that got better through three entire games.

I'll catch it on a steam sale because I want to support Black Is--errrrr, Obsidian, but eh.

Wellllllll, I wasn't a big fan of Numenera: Torment, and overall I don't think the game was received as well as the the Wasteland game inExile did. I think it was going to be really difficult to make a spiritual successor to Planescape.

As for Tyranny. Yeah. It's not great. The game does some interesting things story-wise with the whole "serve the villain" thing, but it just falls flat in a lot of places.

Pillars. I really liked Pillars, so I would be curious to know why it bored you. I mean, I have a few complaints of my own, mostly regarding the class system and some of the encounter structure, but having dicked around in the Deadfire backer beta, some of that seems to have been addressed with the new systems. I say seems to, because I haven't played much to avoid spoiling myself on content, and the bit I did play was only a tiny slice of the overall game.

[Ganymede]

Deep Sky Derelicts.

It looks like it could be easy to code into a MUSH. I want to believe it could be, because its combat system is so interesting.

[Ganymede]

@lithium said in General Video Game Thread:

5 more days!!!!!!11!!!!11@!!

My birfday is the day after.

Not-so-amusing: if you pre-order, you get the "Shadowhawk Pack."

First of all, it's Shadow Hawk. Shadow. Hawk.

Second of all, it's the fucking Shadow Hawk. That's like offering nude pictures of Kelsey Grammer as a teaser when you're trying to promote skin pics of the stars of X-Men: The Last Stand.

Jesus, everyone knows you start with the Atlas. It looks awesome. It sounds awesome. You'd run over your own mother to get one.

[Jaded]

@ganymede
I agree. But for game balance a Shadow Hawk, provided it is the right variant, is not a bad choice.

I'm a backer for the game though - I better get this Shadow Hawk that's all I have to say. Lol.

[WildBaboons]

@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

pictures of Kelsey Grammer

If you're bear hunting you could do worse. Just saying. Shadow Hawk is probably the same way, could be worse.

[Ganymede]

@jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

I agree. But for game balance a Shadow Hawk, provided it is the right variant, is not a bad choice.

I'm a backer for the game though - I better get this Shadow Hawk that's all I have to say. Lol.

Admittedly, I'm a purist. I played Battletech just after it was renamed from Battledroids. The Shadow Hawk is part of a trio of 55-ton 'Mechs, all of which are generally the same when it came to armor and speed; however, the original Shadow Hawk could not jump as far as the others, and had a spread of weaponry that made it awkward at medium ranges.

Its two competitors were the Griffin and the Wolverine. The Wolverine hosed people at medium and close ranges; the Griffin pounded opponents at long and medium ranges. (Actually, the Griffin could hose you at anything but extremely-close range with that PPC.) The Shadow Hawk, while having no glaring weakness, also had no obvious strengths, except being able to generally stay out of other 'Mechs' optimal ranges. Against its competitors, however, the Shadow Hawk was out-powered: if you got it in medium range, the other two 'Mechs would pound the crap out of it.

We had a tournament at school once, and everyone who picked the Shadow Hawk as part of their compliment got beaten badly. Why? Because the damn thing was but a distraction. (You had to pick 100 tons worth of 'Mechs, and played on a standard 4-map battlefield.)

So, that's where I'm coming from. If you can take a variant, well, that's different because there are eleventy-billion of those.

[Jaded]

@ganymede
I agree with none of this actually. Your analysis is spot on. And if you added the the Bushwacker - it comes off as an even weaker mech choice.

So the Shadow Hawk Pack pre-purchase package is just a skin and a wallpaper. Not an actual mech. Probably not worth purchasing.