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Post by Taibi on Sept 24, 2020 1:02:24 GMT -5
I finished the 15 missions in Tropico 6 yesterday. One of them was a pain - Referendum. Enjoyed the last one - Battle Royale - though it had some annoying elements too. Might play a few sandbox games to get some of the remaining achievements.
This morning I loaded up Dead in Bermuda.
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Post by Tig on Sept 24, 2020 9:19:05 GMT -5
Buddy and I finally got GTA V Online figured out. It's fun when you have a friend.
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Post by Tig on Sept 29, 2020 18:27:15 GMT -5
Just picked up Squad. It looks like Insurgency with a deeper demand for cooperation like Hell Let Loose. Have't played it yet but it looks fun. Any game where an A10 Warthog comes to save your ass is bound to be entertaining.
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Post by Mako on Sept 29, 2020 21:48:08 GMT -5
I've watched Squad streamed before, awhile back. Looks really good!
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Post by Tig on Sept 30, 2020 9:47:19 GMT -5
So far it feels more exciting than Arma but so did watching paint dry. Definitely easier to find action. I'm disappointed in the graphics, though. Definitely 2005 at best. Glad I picked it up on sale because it certainly doesn't look like a $40 game.
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Post by fantasiawht on Sept 30, 2020 10:24:07 GMT -5
I was excited to finally play some KCD... and I'm not feeling it. Doing anything at all is such a chore. I don't really need to watch my character's hands (akwawardly) pick up everything I want to interact with. And I'm already stuck, lol. Combat is too complex for my slow reflexes, too, I can't figure out what direction to attack from, what's being blocked, how to feint, etc. It just feels like button mashing until I die.
Puttering around on some other things in my library, trying to find something that catches my interest. Tried some Distrust, reminds me a bit of This War of Mine, but not as good. Tried Among Us, which is all the rage, but the learning curve is really high, it's really hard to pretend to be a crew member when you don't know much about it. Play Fortnite with my kids sometimes. My son and I are playing a game of Civ VI multiplayer.
Hue is a neat puzzle game based around manipulating the colors of your surroundings (if an object is blue, for example, and you turn the world blue, it disappears into the background and effectively doesn't exist - now do that for 8 different colors eventually).
Still playing a lot of MTG in my spare time!
Looking forward to Cyberpunk...
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Post by Tig on Sept 30, 2020 10:59:24 GMT -5
Sorry KCD doesn't connect with you. I can't wait to upgrade my rig so I can play it in its full glory.
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Post by WickedCrustacean on Sept 30, 2020 13:01:23 GMT -5
It's weird how good Operation Flashpoint was as a single player game, and then how bad ARMA games are. It's like they totally forgot about the story/level design parts and just made game engines rather than games afterwards.
Fantasia, KCD combat is awesome once you get used to it (slightly modded, it's even better, but even the vanilla system is pretty good). It's definitely not button mashing. To get a good grip on it, train with Captain Bernard next to that huge 2 castle settlement in the south.
The idea is you play defense with timed blocks (when the enemy attacks, time block it), while at the same time, looking for offensive opportunities with combos. Combos are sequences of directional attacks that you learn as you level up. If an enemy timed blocks you or you miss, that stops the combo, but if you get a hit or they regular block you, the combo can continue. So the idea is to practice combos with Bernard, until you get muscle memory for it. Then, when you get a chance, you continue the combo, the end of which is a spectacular high damage attack.
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Post by Mako on Oct 1, 2020 20:19:11 GMT -5
Not a game specifically, but I'd gotten a bunch of credit at Staples that needed to be used before it expired and so I finally got a new headphones set. Was able to get a HyperX Cloud II in red for about $9 to cover what the credit didn't. I wouldn't have bought there if it weren't for the credit since they cost a little more than other places, but hey, $9 ain't bad for $100 headphones!
I'd really been needing some since all my old ones were 15-20+ years old and wouldn't work on my PC anymore. I've noticed a lot of streamers using the HyperX ones, so have been looking at those for awhile now.
Haven't tried the mic yet. It's supposed to be okay. If I have problems I still have the Antlion wireless mic I won last year I can use instead. It's nice because the mic is detachable, so I can use them as just headphones, too.
The audio is excellent. I've listened to some music to test it out. It's just stereo normal, but it comes with a USB attachment that lets you turn on 7.1 surround sound. That really gives it a nice boost. Should be perfect for shooters and other first person games. Haven't had a chance to try that yet. Will finally have speech for online games, too.
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Post by Tig on Oct 28, 2020 10:35:18 GMT -5
Playing the first Witcher on a 3rd attempt to get past part I. After completing Witcher 3, the Netflix series, and even reading one of the books, I have a newfound appreciation for the series (book still sucked). I kind of feel more attached to the characters this time so, hopefully, it will pull me along.
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And I suddenly remembered why I keep not completing the first game. Tons of walking, no fast travel, and I can't for the life of me beat the giant dog boss at the end of the first act. @#$%
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Post by fantasiawht on Oct 29, 2020 9:17:43 GMT -5
Put some specter oil on that sword! Make sure you've done as many sidequests as you can to be leveled and have more talents to spend.
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Post by Tig on Oct 29, 2020 9:29:56 GMT -5
I don't have any. Going back through my save games to see if I can get some without having to restart too many segments. Ugh.
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Finally. I had to go back an hour and start over so that Abigail would trade with me for the oil. I had read on Steam that a trick was to use a place of power to up your telekinetic attack and do a knockdown on the beast, then finish him quickly. I tried that. Nope. Barely got through with any red left in my health bar. How the heck do people play this on hard?
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Post by fantasiawht on Nov 2, 2020 8:40:48 GMT -5
Some Steam sales, so I picked up Inside, which was a good and moody puzzle platformer but definitely not worth more than the $7 I paid for it.
Friend and his wife have been trying to get me to play Divinity: Original Sin, and the Enhanced Edition was on sale from $30 down to $14, so I picked that up and we had a blast starting off with it. There's this hilarious feature where your characters have dialogues with each other and you can debate about what to do in various situations that NPCs present. If you disagree, you have a Rock-Paper-Scissors battle to resolve it.
So for example, we came upon this starving guy who wanted our help stealing some fish from a vendor. My friend and I disagreed (I was against it), but he won the RPS battle. But then immediately after, a guard shows up and accosts this guy, who claims he paid for the fish. Well I reported the thief to the guards and this time won the RPS battle, so the net effect was we let this guy rob the vendor and then reported him for it, hah.
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Post by WickedCrustacean on Nov 2, 2020 11:32:01 GMT -5
Divinity Original Sin is best played in Co-Op. For me, it's way too silly and stupid to be enjoyed as a single player cRPG. Way too many cat jokes.
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Post by Tig on Nov 3, 2020 0:07:52 GMT -5
Annnnnnnnd I just uninstalled Witcher for the 3rd time. So boring.
Looking for RPG's but everything is so @#$% expensive. Ooh...big sale at GOG.
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