General Video Game Thread

[Monogram]

@Miss-Demeanor said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@SG said in General Video Game Thread:

I was in the beta(or super early FTP release, I forget which), too, but got to the grinding hell of the mid level 20s. That saved me from the game. I've heard they fixed that stretch of the game, but the endless wind sprint fetch quests of the middle of the game really left a bad taste in my mouth.

The first 20 levels was fantastic, though, I'm tempted to jump back in and take another swing at it.

With the current 250% XP boost until April 10th, you can do just class quests and still hit level 20-25 by the time you're off the starting planet. No need for grinding at all!

What I've been recommending is to do ALL the quests on the starting world, even the Heroics (once you get your first companion), then do nothing but class quests and Heroics on every world after. You can hit 56-60 by the end of Chapter 3 if you use your xp boosters they drop on you now and then for the Heroic missions. Doesn't hurt to buy up the Story/Explore bonuses in your Legacy either, but not necessary. I've got a Gunslinger that's about to hit 70 and I'm just past the prologue for Shadow of Revan. Didn't even do any of the Makeb stuff.

This is legit. I've been doing only Class and Heroic quests and I have my smuggler at level 52 and I'm still in Chapter two.

[Jaded]

Torment: Tides of Numenera is finally out. I almost Kickstarted this in 2014 when it was announced but missed the boat.

Today I'm reading reviews on it and it seems like more than half of the promised content offered through stretch goals was cut, a lot of game budget was used to redesign base game mechanics to make it marketable to consoles, and the entire campaign can be done in about 10 hours.

This has moved me onto the fence about purchasing it. Does anyone have any actual gameplay experience with this that might be able to give a review opinion about it?

[Ghost]

Someone ran away from me in For Honor yesterday. It felt awesome.

For you For Honor players, I was playing a Raider managing point B in Dominion mode. I was hacking apart those little NPC assholes. A guy (Orochi) ran up to me to fight and I took him down to about 1/3rd health when a Conqueror ran up to help him, which put me in a 2v1 situation. I grabbed the Conqueror, threw him into a fire to get him to fuck off. For about 5 seconds I was godly. 2v1 and I'm shoving people around and controlling the fight. I killed the Orochi (non execution) and then the Conqueror tried to cold cock my Raider. Two seconds later I executed the Conqueror with a neck snap.

2 dead bodies at my guy's feet within 2-5 seconds of each other.

I go back to clearing out the little fighter NPC guys but keep an eye on the spawn point because both guys died within seconds of each other, so were likely to respawn together and maybe retry the 2v1.

Orochi respawns. I watch him run out towards me...Stop...Then run to capture another point.

Conqueror respawns, runs out towards me, stops, watches for a few seconds, then runs off to capture another point.

Fuck. Yeah. Making yourself a living embodiment of "fuck that, not doing that again" felt great.

[ThugHeaven]

@Jaded I asked about it a couple days ago when it was mentioned. I saw it on Steam and grabbed it, because I loved Planescape: Torment.

Brass Tacks: Ok, so I love it. It's not so much the graphics or the nostalgia. It's very much in the vein of old school isometric view games like Fallout 1 and 2 or Baldur's Gate and that's great. But what I love about it is it's like a choose your own adventure book. I've been into those lately. There's tons of dialogue and dialogue choices, it's just as much an interactive novel as it is a video game.

I managed to squeeze in a few hours of gameplay, so I'm still in the first city. I'm slowly figuring out the system. I'm not sure if the game can be finished in 10 hours, maybe it can. But before I saved the game, I met a character that just told background information about the world. I could see myself playing this for quite some time, though.

How's the combat? Wellll, I think I'm about halfway through the first city and I've fought twice. One fight was the tutorial fight and the second was entirely optional. In fact, I think you can get through the whole game without fighting at all. It seems pretty bad though. The monsters seem waaay overpowered and winning doesn't seem worth it. You end up burning up all your edge points and there isn't much a tangible reward for doing so.

But then again, the original Planescape had pretty bad combat too. I'd say if you love combat and loot, avoid it. But if you love a good story and a very detailed world, go for it!

[Sparks]

Soooo...

Horizon Zero Dawn.

Oh my god.

(If anyone needs me, I'll be hunting robot dinosaurs for the foreseeable future.)

[Thenomain]

Great, so there are three video games I want to play now.

• Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Torment: Tides of Numenera (I still think "Planescape: Torment" as the single best story told in any video game)
• Horizon Zero Dawn

The problem? I neither have a PS4 nor do I have a bajillion dollars to pick up everything that I want.

"Will Code For Videogames."

[Jaded]

@ThugHeaven
Thanks for the information Thug I appreciate it. With what you've said and what I've read since my original post, I have decided to wait for the price drop down to the $15-25 dollar range.

[Templari]

@ThugHeaven Need wire. Need so much wire!!!

[Monogram]

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

"Will Code For Videogames."

Oh? I could see ME: A falling on your doorstep in that case.

[Sparks]

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

"Will Code For Videogames."

I don't believe you, mister "sure, I'll write documentation".

[Thenomain]

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

"Will Code For Videogames."

I don't believe you, mister "sure, I'll write documentation".

Note: Even to this day I feel bad about that.

[Faceless]

I picked up Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands for PC. If you did too, shoot me a PM with your Uplay name and we'll shoot people in the face together!

[GangOfDolls]

@Faceless said in General Video Game Thread:

Ghost Recon Wildlands

I got to play test this at Pax. I totally thought I was griefing my friend at the console station to the left of me and I turned out that I kept shooting some nine year old's toon over and over, instead.

I'm a bad person.

It was fun though!

[Tinuviel]

Played about eight hours of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

It's okay.

[Thenomain]

I've been playing Saints Row 4, which I got as part of some Humble Bundle some years ago. It's also okay. If it weren't for the humor, it would be boring as sin, but with the humor it's more like watching a bad movie that is still fun to watch.

[Insomnia]

Plus it has a great soundtrack, and you can run around naked.

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I'm currently lost in Horizon Zero Dawn. My only complaint is that the NPCs are a bit shouty when trying to get your attention, and you can't shoot them to shut them up.

[Thenomain]

@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

Plus it has a great soundtrack, and you can run around naked.

Not naked enough.

[SG]

@Thenomain Keith David playing Keith David was the best.

[Thenomain]

@SG said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain Keith David playing Keith David was the best.

No, best was the "Opposites Attract" duet. I sat and listened to the whole thing. (No spoilers, but it's well-written; the joke set up hours before the punchline.)

I think that Borderlands has a better tongue-in-cheek-gangsta feel, but I strongly disagree with Yahtzee that Saint's Row 4 goes too far into silliness. It's silly for silliness' sake, and that's okay.

The Big Bad is an 80s-era stick-up-ass douche who would, in another context, be shaking with rage and yelling, "Nnnneeeeerrrrrrrrrdss!", and that is perfect.

[Insomnia]

@Thenomain There were supposed to be velociraptors in it too.