Buy it now, it's the cheapest you will be able to get it for a long while, plus with the monthly bundle you get well over $100 games each month, as well as access to the Trove which is a bunch more games you can download too.
Also, if you sign up for humble monthly right now and use my affiliate link, I get a bonus, if that sort of thing floats your boat.
ETA: I haven't gotten to play it much lately, mind you, as my father is slightly obsessed with it right now. >.>
@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
Buy it now, it's the cheapest you will be able to get it for a long while, plus with the monthly bundle you get well over $100 games each month, as well as access to the Trove which is a bunch more games you can download too.
Also, if you sign up for humble monthly right now and use my affiliate link, I get a bonus, if that sort of thing floats your boat.
ETA: I haven't gotten to play it much lately, mind you, as my father is slightly obsessed with it right now. >.>
Perfect time to get another copy!
@ortallus I already have the key though, so I could give it to my dad, except I've already used the xpacs on my accounts, so likely the extra key will be used for giveaways on my stream, along with Owlboy.
Recently started playing Tyranny.
This is a much, much better game than Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Started playing Warframe after not touching it for almost two years. A lot has changed and there's a lot of stuff I don't really understand, but for a free to play game, it's pretty good.
Slowly picking my way through Wolfenstien. Old Blood/New Order/New Colossus. Got all three in a bundle. I probably shouldn't be trying to play it like it's stealth. I should be running and gunning. I assume it's this bad habit to try and stealth any FPS I get my hands on. Especially after dumping so much time into Skyrim/Fallout.
I want My Time At Portia so bad. 
But not on Mac. Q.Q
A friend of mine bought me Conan Exiles and I've been playing it quite a bit the past couple of weeks.
It's like a more frustrating Minecraft, but with schlongs flapping in the breeze while you rapidly die of dehydration and starvation. People keep saying the combat is good, but it's mostly cheesing with arrows and rockem sockem robots.
Somehow I'm having a lot of fun with it. Definitely one you have to play with friends on a private server, though. I would lose my mind on a PvP server where some griefer can just show up and knock down your castle.
@sg said in General Video Game Thread:
A friend of mine bought me Conan Exiles and I've been playing it quite a bit the past couple of weeks.
It's like a more frustrating Minecraft, but with schlongs flapping in the breeze while you rapidly die of dehydration and starvation. People keep saying the combat is good, but it's mostly cheesing with arrows and rockem sockem robots.
Somehow I'm having a lot of fun with it. Definitely one you have to play with friends on a private server, though. I would lose my mind on a PvP server where some griefer can just show up and knock down your castle.
Yeah, you also want to modify resource gathering and possibly thrall 'taming'.
Conan Exiles is essentially a reskinned ARK, but some of the plans they have for it in the future are pretty interesting. Check out their roadmap videos on YouTube. There will be these giant "herds" of NPCs that will essentially be armies. They'll attack keeps and do all sorts of other stuff.
But yeah, the combat to me was definitely not the draw.
@ortallus That sounds pretty cool, I was wondering how siege engines would work.
I feel bad playing early access, I'm finding a lot of 'placeholder object #2103s.'
I have a feeling combat gets better when your ping isn't 180, though.
More of a confession really, but I've never played any of The Witcher games. I plan to change that here soon.
I have that as well, @SG. Hit me up sometime, I'd play it. I enjoy survival games. Though you're definitely right about the melee combat being little more than rockem sockem robots. Maybe what your friends/associates mean by great combat is... gory?
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@faceless The starvation is gory as fuck. My character got hungry once and his stomach exploded, tearing him in half!!
And what are you doing?! Drop everything and play the witcher!!
don't try to play the witcher 1. I got all 3 and figured I'd start there and I made it about 10 minutes before I had to bail. Apparently in games 2 and 3 the devs learned how normal people play games, so that's good.
Yeah, I've been told I could skip Witcher 1. I've even been told by a couple people I should just skip Witcher 2. Go straight to Wild Hunt/3.
Meanwhile, I've had like one person respond to the idea of skipping 1 and 2 with: "But you'll miss the story!"
I'm not sure how important the story of 1 & 2 is in comparison to the unending annoyance that would likely be generated by the game itself.
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Any Monster Hunter World players out there? So far I'm enjoying it.
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
don't try to play the witcher 1. I got all 3 and figured I'd start there and I made it about 10 minutes before I had to bail. Apparently in games 2 and 3 the devs learned how normal people play games, so that's good.
Solid advice. Witcher 1 has a massive fun tax for the first third of the game. Once you break out of the city, it's good times, but oh man that initial investigation is a chore and a half. It took me 3 installs and 4 years to get through it.
@faceless i watched two five minute videos that summed up the story of 1 and 2
Imagine a lot of "and then Geralt fought a thing and a woman was shady" repeated a lot
@ortallus But it's Funcom, so don't bank TOO much on plans coming to fruition.
@faceless Witcher 3 might have been the best RPG I've ever played.
@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
@ortallus But it's Funcom, so don't bank TOO much on plans coming to fruition.
Also fair, and really, I shouldn't promote anything of theirs after they pissed me the f'n off on TSW:Legends.
Game itself wasn't terrible, but I signed up for a month of the patron thing, figured it would simply expire after the month, as I very carefully paid attention when signing up, seeing if it said it would be a recurring subscription. Nope! You're automagically enrolled in a rolling sub, without being asked or even informed. At least, at the time that's how it was. I hope I raised a big enough stink they fixed it, because the assholes put my account in overdraft, and then when I went to pay a bill, I went even further into overdraft. Cost me 70 bucks that they refused to pay.
I told them if they could show me anywhere in the patron registration process that you agreed or were notified that it was a rolling sub, I'd drop it, and they said, "We'll get back to you on that." They never did. They also refused to give me a refund on the sub fee, at first, but after about a week of raising hell, they finally agreed to the refund, which allowed me to get the two overdraft fees dropped when I spent several days playing phone tag with the bank, explaining how Funcom had screwed me (and finding online links of others making similar complaints).
Suffice to say, one of the absolute worst customer services experiences in my life, and they'll never get another penny out of me personally.
@faceless
There is a mod that you can download for the Witcher 1 that actually offsets the learning curve for combat and streamlines a lot of the game's old issues. It was developed by one of the Witcher 3 devs after Wild Hunt came out.
Most people can skip the first game easily enough but I do recommend the second game. It was an enjoyable playthrough and is a great lead in to Wild Hunt - you can even bring over your save file.
But if you skip 1 and 2, you're going to find that Wild Hunt is hands down the best open world RPG that has been released since Skyrim. And I do not foresee anything changing that until CDPR releases their Cyberpunk game.
