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Post by dangerousdave on Jun 18, 2024 6:09:12 GMT
Little Kitty, Big City (Series X)
It’s not quite what I had expected. I had heard there was an overlap with Untitled Goose Game, but in reality this is really just an achievement hunting game. Controlling the cat and exploring is somewhat engaging, but there really isn’t much to do. I hope I finish this before my enjoyment wanes.
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Post by idgaf on Jun 18, 2024 7:52:07 GMT
Valorant beta on Series X. It's clunky, it's far too easy to die, killing people is too difficult, the control scheme is wonky and yet there's something about it that's very moreish. It'd be nice to play with people regularly that communicate.
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Post by apollo on Jun 18, 2024 17:22:26 GMT
Wasteland 3 will have to wait
Like a dragon infinite wealth turned up today- started it and so far its like the last game and its very early on. Will get stuck into that later on after I complete Still wakes the deep as added on gamepass today and its decent walking sim horror so far. Its one of those play on GP rather than buy. So much swearing, I know they oil rig workers but its quite amusing. The boss of the oil rig is great character, hope to push that old git over the edge
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Post by malek86 on Jun 18, 2024 20:40:28 GMT
Boltgun DLC just started. One level done for now. While the campaign is only five maps, it starts out at a fairly high difficulty level (there's an Unclean One in the first level already), and pretty long too. It's also very cheap and you get a Horde mode, as well, so it should be worth it.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jun 19, 2024 8:43:55 GMT
Octopath Traveller - Game Pass
No idea why I started playing this I've got so much to catch up on but I'm enjoying my time so far, I like the battle system and the individual stories are mostly interesting. There's loads of random battle encounters though which do get a bit frustrating.
Think I'll see this through.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 19, 2024 18:06:56 GMT
Wrapped up the game with the cultists in Endless Legend. Went for diplomatic win. If you actually want to win, and not end the game with a draw, you have to kick at least one other player out of the alliance before you reach 100% diplomacy points.
So yeah, what I've learned about the cultists, is that they are a pretty militaristic people. This is because converted villages are like cities that are constantly building 1 single thing, and that is a military unit. BUT you have to be able to convert villages at first, and for that you have to rush archers, because their other military units are shit, and then you always have to do manual combat, so that you can use terrain and formations to protect the archers.
Otherwise you basically only have to invest in influence production, which is needed for village conversion anyway, and which can also be used in diplomacy. So a diplomatic victory is natural for them, despite them being very militaristic. Of course you can also go for quest victory or just wipe out everything. I had so many villages in the end giving me foreign workforce that I could also have gone for wonder victory, but in games with harder difficulty, or multiplayer, this would probably not be the norm with cultists, because remote villages would be much more contested.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jun 19, 2024 19:28:51 GMT
Octopath Traveller - Game Pass No idea why I started playing this I've got so much to catch up on but I'm enjoying my time so far, I like the battle system and the individual stories are mostly interesting. There's loads of random battle encounters though which do get a bit frustrating. Think I'll see this through. If you don't mind a small character/gameplay spoiler... If you have Cyrus in the party (or, relatively early on, have trained someone else in Scholar ), their first passive Evasive Maneuvers reduces encounters as long as you have someone in the party with it equipped (it doesn't stack). If you're already doing that and it still feels like it's too much... Octopath is a bit traditional like that, haha
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Post by hicksy on Jun 19, 2024 19:29:47 GMT
Still Wakes The Deep (PS5)
Unlike Just Stop Oil activists, impressive!
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Post by pierrepressure on Jun 20, 2024 10:22:19 GMT
Octopath Traveller - Game Pass No idea why I started playing this I've got so much to catch up on but I'm enjoying my time so far, I like the battle system and the individual stories are mostly interesting. There's loads of random battle encounters though which do get a bit frustrating. Think I'll see this through. If you don't mind a small character/gameplay spoiler... If you have Cyrus in the party (or, relatively early on, have trained someone else in Scholar ), their first passive Evasive Maneuvers reduces encounters as long as you have someone in the party with it equipped (it doesn't stack). If you're already doing that and it still feels like it's too much... Octopath is a bit traditional like that, haha Yes, I picked Cyrus at the start! I removed the passive as I thought I'd end up being underleveled. Still good so far, onto Chapter 2 now.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 21, 2024 5:53:25 GMT
I haven't really settled on anything else yet, so I just spontaneously started playing Far Cry 2 again.
Spent some hours sneaking around in the night, collecting diamonds and macheting (machetizing?) unsuspecting militamen. Mostly while trying to do a few of the weapons convoy missions to unlock more options.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jun 21, 2024 6:37:24 GMT
That’s the dream Switch Port. Far Cry 2. Sort it out Ubisoft!
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Post by ekz on Jun 21, 2024 8:32:00 GMT
I haven't really settled on anything else yet, so I just spontaneously started playing Far Cry 2 again. Spent some hours sneaking around in the night, collecting diamonds and macheting (machetizing?) unsuspecting militamen. Mostly while trying to do a few of the weapons convoy missions to unlock more options. Probably nostalgia only, but this is (IMO) by far the best far cry.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 21, 2024 8:47:07 GMT
FC2 is definitely the most interesting one. 3 was so successful that they've just copied it over and over with minor variations (though I did like Primal a lot). But 2 is weird and player-hostile (often intentionally so), so it was far more memorable to me.
And the fire physics were amazing. Still are, really.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2024 10:48:25 GMT
2 was cool until the middle, when the thing happens. That was stupid.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 21, 2024 14:29:10 GMT
You mean the ship section where you are being constantly bombarded by Mortars?
Nah, it is just better in many areas. Just depends if you can appreciate the things it does do better. It will always be somewhat of a simulation that doesn't care much about player convenience.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2024 14:51:01 GMT
No I mean the assault on Mike's bar. I understand lots of people probably think this is like a great dramatic turn of events, but it felt so cheap when I played it. Just everyone wiped out and the player miraculously survives. Also the mechanics of it are very poorly done, when you're good and actually manage to kill the guys without getting hit much, you notice that there is no dwindle in attacking gunfire, it's just coming out of nowhere. The player's agency is basically irrelevant.
But yeah the mortars were also stupid.
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Post by skalpadda on Jun 21, 2024 16:11:07 GMT
I played FC2 a lot but never got that far in the story. I just liked sneaking around in the jungle and blowing up convoys. And occasionally passing out from malaria. Great game.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 21, 2024 18:32:47 GMT
Yeah, it's difficult to get around the map quickly, especially while on a higher difficulty. I inevitably end up on foot a lot of the time. zagibu : It's true that the scene isn't exactly well done. In general FC2 often takes a bit of a nose-dive when story sections show up as at least some of them don't take advantage of what the game is actually good at. Story-wise though I didn't care too much, but I get it. For some reason I have been more annoyed at somewhat similar events in Kotor2 and Pillars 1. It really annoys me when I put in that much time go get to a certain place and then a story event just smashes all of the effort.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2024 19:57:11 GMT
Where does it happen in Pillars 1? Are you talking about the very beginning?
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2024 23:51:46 GMT
Played a game of Endless Legend with the Ardent Mages. They can place magic pillars that cost dust on the map that give boosters to the tiles around them, either for resource production or for movement speed. In battle, they can cast spells on the battlefield, for example to heal own units or boost their stats. Apart from that, they are pretty standard. Their military units hit hard, but are fragile.
The situation on the other continent got out of hand pretty quickly. The cultist player wiped their two opponents pretty early and could then convert villages uncontested. I went over there towards the end and started destroying their villages, but as a plan B I pumped science first and researched all the industry tech (even the Era 6 one), built all of the industry improvements in my most heavily forested city and then started to build the wonder.
Managed to finish the wonder on turn 286, only 14 turns before default score win.
Don't think I could have surpassed the cultist player in score before turn 300. I was over there and destroying their villages, but it seems the last 20 or so turns of a game are always winter, and in winter, movement is very slow. Maybe I'll reload, stop building the wonder and try it the hard way sometime. By the way, most of the cultist player's score (Amar) was military. They weren't leading in any other section, but had like 20x as many military units as everyone else. 95% were probably minor faction units from villages.
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This was the final region distribution and you can also see the popup for placing one of the magic pillars that only this faction has. In the bottom left you can see the small explored area of the second continent where in the end, the cultist player was alone. You can barely make out their pink home region that would contain their only city, but my army is quite a bit away from it in the highlighted area below it, and could only move 2 tiles per turn because of winter. Then you would also need a few turns for a siege, because cultist cities have very strong defenses.
Ardent Mages have a pretty sick quest item in their faction questline. This staff can kill standard units in a single hit. Because all of the units Ardent Mages can field are pretty fragile, it's important that they can act first. Luckily, the hero has a skill that boosts initiative.
Battle itself was pretty easy in the end. One of the spells you can use is a bit overpowered. It can stun 7 hexes of enemy units for 2 turns. I had a battle in which i was outnumbered 3 to 1, but because there is only ever 8 units on the field when the battle starts, and the rest of the units have to pour in round after round as reinforcements, it was easy to stun more than half of the starting army, then just kill the rest before they can even act. Didn't lose a single unit this way. You can see in the top row how all my units can act before the enemy due to high initiative.
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The pillars mechanic is probably there to try to force you to build cities differently, because a pillar can only be placed on a free tile, so a city design that leaves the center open would work best. But due to how districts only level up when they are surrounded by 4 other districts, it's not really possible to create an efficient city design with empty tiles. So I just designed the standard triangle city and boosted only one side from the outside.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 22, 2024 12:18:04 GMT
Currently playing the early campaign of Advance Wars 2 reboot.
So far it's a lot easier than the first game, even though they nerfed some of the more powerful COs (Max no longer just autowins with his ridiculous tank power). But I'm still liking it more overall, there's a lot more mission variety than in the first game. Better maps, too.
What I'd really like is a new Advance Wars game! But I guess it has less popular appeal than modern Fire Emblem games, in that you can't make your neotanks kiss.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 22, 2024 14:18:48 GMT
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
Finished the first game and thought it was brilliant. It's one of those games I have a lot of nostalgia for but never really made any progress in. I remembered the bit with the pool and the bear and the dinosaur, that's about it. It's nowhere near as cryptic as I remember though - entering a new area can look a bit daunting but it's all pretty straight forward once you find the start of a thread. The level design is just great. I don't think I ever got stuck or didn't know where to go. No collectibles, no side quests. All you have to do is progress. I find playing it very relaxing
Played it with tank controls and, while it is a bit odd for a platform game, once you get use to it, with the way the levels are designed, they work really well and allow a good amount of precision and reliability in your movement. Combat is basic and you will likely either trade damage or try and find a way to cheese the AI (very doable in a lot of instances). Finished with over 2000 bullets for the magnums and probably over 100 health items combined, so not a difficult game
Takes a bit of a turn at the end where it goes all fleshy and weird, with a titan from AoT as the boss. Found that area less enjoyable than the rest of the game due to there being a lot more enemies that either get right up in your face or have projectile attacks. Lara really needs to pack a tranquiliser gun or learn the Crocodile Dundee trick for the animals. She is a bit of a wanker
I like the remaster for the most part. My only real gripes are how saving and loading is handled in the menu and that you can't delete your saved games. A quicksave feature would also have been really handy
Going straight into the second game now and looking forward to it
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 22, 2024 15:18:09 GMT
I've just started Dead Space (2023).
I'm only about an hour in, but I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jun 22, 2024 17:09:00 GMT
Aunt Alison Click the left analog stick to load. The right stick to save.
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Post by askew on Jun 22, 2024 17:21:20 GMT
Aunt Alison Click the left analog stick to load. The right stick to save. In-game? This seems dangerous.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 22, 2024 17:46:43 GMT
They don't call him dangerousdave for nothing
With the amount of saving I do, that will save me so much time as long as I don't press the wrong one by mistake
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Post by JuniorFE on Jun 22, 2024 17:51:42 GMT
They don't call him dangerousdave for nothing With the amount of saving I do, that will save me so much time as long as I don't press the wrong one by mistake "Phew, that boss was an utter cunt but I'm finally done, better save" ... "FFFFFUUUUU-"
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 22, 2024 18:24:03 GMT
Where does it happen in Pillars 1? Are you talking about the very beginning? I mean after you are done with all of your investigating in Defiance Bay and then you have Thaos show up and do his thing. Nullifies everything the player has done, but doesn't finish the job either. He always seemed too much of a plot device in that part of the game and a bit of a deus ex machina in general. Or walking conspiracy theory if you prefer.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 22, 2024 19:04:14 GMT
Ah, yeah, I understand how that can feel disappointing. And I agree that it basically makes all your prior work irrelevant. It's kind of like how Indiana Jones is totally irrelevant to the actual outcome of the first movie he features in.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 22, 2024 19:07:26 GMT
They don't call him dangerousdave for nothing With the amount of saving I do, that will save me so much time as long as I don't press the wrong one by mistake "Phew, that boss was an utter cunt but I'm finally done, better save" ... "FFFFFUUUUU-" Replace boss with jump
Also, the swimming/underwater sections in these games are actually good and Lara's "No" might be my favourite bit of voice acting of anything ever
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