Yeah 2BC is the point where I’m not sure I’m still having fun. I’ve done a few runs and the furthest I’ve gotten is the Time Keeper once and he proceeded to wreck me pretty hard. There’s just so little room for error, not sure how much better equipment is going to help with the fact that even weaker enemies are a massive threat to your run. I guess I’m obligated to try out the new update though.
oh wow, just found this thread and folks are talking video games my crusty ass is interested in.
I do enjoy watching some of those old NES speedruns for sure. haven’t really checked out Into The Breach or Dead Cells yet but they’re on my list (by which I mean I bought them previously on a Steam sale).
I just started a new game of Hollow Knight a couple days ago; I’d forgotten how much fun that game is to just explore and how well designed it is. I’d been doing the boss rushes for a long time before I finally put it down last year.
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are you upgrading your ++ stuff to S? are you respecing to dead inside and other boss related mutations before the TK?
Only the stuff I think I’ll keep around and I used to wait until the final boss but I’ll shift to before TK.
About 50 hours and 85% of the way through CrossCode. I’m really loving it. Story is pretty good, but I love the characters and the gameplay is a blast. I just opened up the two final upgrades and am headed towards the finish now.
Considering this is free on xbox game pass and I’m gonna end up with 60+ hours, I am highly satisfied and prepared to give it a big recommend
I got ghost of tsushima.
Major complaint - they made mounting your horse R2 button and strong attack is triangle. After 1000+ hours of red dead and having mount a horse be the triangle, I keep strong attacking my mount. Which comes with a delightful behavior of running away from you for a long ass time if you hit him.
What’s funny is this is clearly a RDR2 inspired game. And they mapped R2 to mount a horse. So after 100 hours playing this game, I know I’m gonna go on Red dead online and accidentally shoot my expensive ass horse with R2. Oh yea - and the button you mash in red dead to make your horse sprint dismounts you in this game.
I can only assume it was intentional. Pretty evil. No way to change it either. Honestly might ruin the game for me.
(It is GREAT otherwise)
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HB and GOG offers today:
[ ] $12 Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition
[ ] $17 Paradox Humble Bundle – games I don’t already own include Imperator Rome, Tyranny, Battletech, Victoria series
I guess the obvious answer is [ ] por que no los dos? but I’m too busy and I’ll probably never play any of the games.
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Battletech can be played casually and is pretty fun. The others require a lot of time. I’d also say that Imperator: Rome just isn’t that fun - other than slightly improved graphics, I’ve never found an urge to play it over older Paradox Grand Strategy Games. Plus with CKIII coming out, I see no reason to buy it now, even if it is cheap.
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Oh snap. A G4 reboot? Starcade comeback?
Is that so? I got it from someone, probably on here, but the reviews I read made it sound like it was insanely deep and complex and I never got around to trying it.
I played it through the campaign once and found it pretty intuitive to play. Perhaps to play optimally you need to really get into all the details, but I found it pretty straightforward and fun to switch the weapons and armor on my mechs.
Finally got around to playing monster train and of course played it like 8 hours today. Slay the Spire knockoff for sure but I like a lot of what they do better and at least you don’t have to math every single turn as they’ll tell you if you have lethal. Must have game if you loved STS. Beat: PC only somehow.
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Thoughts on Crosscode after completing the main story at around 50 hours, and now 54 hours in attempting to 100%
This is a fantastic game in a lot of ways. Let’s start with price. This game is 20 dollars or free with Xbox game pass for both PC and Xbox. For what I am getting out of this (will be close to 70 hours when I finish 100%) it is an absolute steal.
The core gameplay mechanic of beat em up, twin stick shooter, bullet hell hybrid with puzzling and giant bosses never stops being fun. The main dungeons are MASSIVE, some taking upwards of 3 hours + to complete. The main storyline is riddled with sidequests to help keep you leveled heading into the next section, and most of them are quite fun, from standard fetch quests, to massive puzzles, all the way to a tower defense sidequest.
This game is HARD. Sometimes unreasonably so. The puzzles are not easy at all, and some seem almost stupidly devilish once you have the four main element types. One great feature the developers included are difficulty sliders, both for damage taken, and enemy attack frequency. I played the entire game with both at 100%, but after over 3 hours on the final boss, I finally said fuck it and dropped both by 10% because jfc, the final boss is stupid hard. I believe he has 12 phases. Part of that was my fault as I was not properly prepared consumableswise (I almost never use consumables in RPGs but they are essential to use correctly in this game) and once you start the final boss fight there is no way to exit out and go get more consumables that I found.
The writing and characters are great. Witty, funny, heartfelt and interesting for the most part. The story gets a bit up it’s own ass in the last chapter, but prior to that, it is a lot of fun learning where the story is going.
The music is outstanding. To the point that I am playing my favorite tracks while driving now. The main character’s theme is fantastic, the desert area theme is inspired, and the beginners stage theme oozes fun. I would love to see this guy compose for other games because he nailed it for this one.
Final thought: The game started production in 2012. Released for PC in 2018 and hit consoles three weeks ago. Buy it, play it, love it. The team seemed to work damned hard on it, and they deserve more attention.
I haven’t 100%ed a game in decades. I’m certainly looking forward to this being my first in a long time.
10/10
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Continuing my journey through games I never got around to playing, I am now catching up n Obsidian’s stuff, namely Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2. Finished 1, am halfway through 2, then I’ll probably go back and try to get the “Ultimate” achievements on both…which is the entire game on the hardest, 1-save difficulty, solo…AND you have to kill all the optional big bosses.
These are more traditional Aurora Engine-style games (though I think it’s not technically the old aurora engine) with way more stat management than the Divinity games. There are also a lot fewer guides and builds out there because they weren’t quite as popular as the DOS games, so the hardmode will definitely be more of a challenge.
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Have you played rimworld?
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Nice! I started the first Pillars game but didn’t get very far. Need to step up my gaming follow through! I just bought Romancing Saga 2 for my iPad, a unique Square Enix game that was not initially released in the US but was ported a few years back. Apparently the game follows a lineage of rulers so if you die it moves onto the next generation and is apparently a little more focused on kingdom management than like story and character development. I died at the beginning of my first run but I’m going to give it another shot. Love the cheerful sprite-based graphics.
I enjoy the game, but feel there is even more math than STS. Yes, they tell you the current state of things, but they don’t tell you what will happen if you make a certain move. It’s a pain on the bosses trying to figure out what order to put out characters. I’ve had times where I’ve played a card only to see my total damage go down. This is particularly a pain on the boss that gains damage every time he gets hurt - to actually do the math would take forever so I just wing it and hope I’m right.
Not yet. I have a backlog of like 50 games, and that’s on the list, heh.
There comes a point in every gamers life where they have to weight the backlist so that they eventually get around to legitimate GOAT candidates. Rimworld deserves that treatment. So does the Witcher 3, although I’d be very surprised if that hadn’t made it into your rotation yet.