What are you playing?

[Bowielee]

I've been alternating between Marvel Heroes and Borderlands 2. I haven't had a chance to play any of the DLC yet, so I'm working on getting my Assassin through the main storyline.

What level are the DLCs anyway, and do you just access them through the waypoint system like the first game?

 

[Gilgamesh]

I've been alternating between Marvel Heroes and Borderlands 2. I haven't had a chance to play any of the DLC yet, so I'm working on getting my Assassin through the main storyline.

What level are the DLCs anyway, and do you just access them through the waypoint system like the first game?

You can access the BL2 DLC at anytime but some of them are level locked.
Torque's is around Level 18 as well as Scarlett.
Hammerlock and the new Tina are locked at 30.

If you finish the game once, (say you're level 35) you can start a -True Vault Hunter- mode and as soon as you get to CLaptrap's place you can port directly to any DLC and it'll be capped at the level you started the -True Vault Hunter Mode- (in this instance level 35).

 

[Null]

I'm kind of done with JRPGs in general. Mass Effect and Dragon Age ruined them for me. Well, that's not accurate, rather, it showed that there's a brilliant alternative the kind of endless grinding, random battle having, repetitive, getting powers with no explanation or hint before you level up and are awarded it, boring characters and plots full of metaphysical bullshit. Shit, half the time when a JRPG does actually give you interesting side characters, when you try and interact with them, the game basically goes, "Nope, go back to wandering around so you can level up some more and gather some ridiculously rare items for something that'll pay off in the last act of the game if you find some hidden guy who can make you the Ultimate Sword of Infinite Glory, without any hint that you should have hung onto them instead of selling them as vendor trash, and you need like a hundred of them. Off you go, there's a cutscene waiting over the next hill."

 

[GasBandit]

You can access the BL2 DLC at anytime but some of them are level locked.
Torque's is around Level 18 as well as Scarlett.
Hammerlock and the new Tina are locked at 30.

If you finish the game once, (say you're level 35) you can start a -True Vault Hunter- mode and as soon as you get to CLaptrap's place you can port directly to any DLC and it'll be capped at the level you started the -True Vault Hunter Mode- (in this instance level 35).

So if I started True Vault Hunter at 34, and now I'm 38, all the DLC content will be 4 levels under me?

 

[Ravenpoe]

I just played through all of To The Moon in one sitting.

I'm now suffering from a severe case of feels.

 

[Gilgamesh]

So if I started True Vault Hunter at 34, and now I'm 38, all the DLC content will be 4 levels under me?

From my best knowledge, yes. However if you enter a new dlc at 38 it might be level 38. What I can tell you, is that True Vault Hunter mode is infinite. So if you finish the game again, then restart in True Vault Hunter mode at say, level 40, then you could do the DLCs you haven't completed at that level.

 

[figmentPez]

I just played through all of To The Moon in one sitting.

How long a session is that?

 

[Ravenpoe]

How long a session is that?

According to Steam, 3 hours.

 

[GasBandit]

Welp. First goblin to come along in a full set of iron armor and weapon chopped all my gnomes to pieces, no contest. Fun! (tm)

 

[LordRendar]

What year were you?

 

[GasBandit]

What year were you?

Winter of 4. I had just massively expanded my Great Hall and filled it with statues in the hopes of attracting more workers.

I probably should have dug deeper, but I was paranoid about zombies and such. Some of my gnomes were already infected.

Which made it kind of funny, while the ironclad goblin soldier smashed his way through my settlement, there was time for the zombie-infected gnomes to rise up... and he killed them again.

 

[LordRendar]

I always bought up all the Iron I could from the Merchant (if they sold any) and prioritized making Iron weapons and Armor.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Seriously, why am I the only person to ever love Alpha Protocol? This is an amazing (though flawed) game, I still find new things every time I replay it.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Just downloaded and played WarThunder for the first time last night... this game is everything that World of Warplanes is TRYING to do, but until WoWP stops being a memory leech and lets me play it without critically failing, I think you'll be able to find me elsewhere

 

[LordRendar]

Seriously, why am I the only person to ever love Alpha Protocol? This is an amazing (though flawed) game, I still find new things every time I replay it.

I would love to play it,but there is this lagging everytime I use my mouse and it is driving me nuts.

 

[GasBandit]

I always bought up all the Iron I could from the Merchant (if they sold any) and prioritized making Iron weapons and Armor.

Unfortunately the merchant never offered. I pretty much bought everything every merchant ever brought me except livestock because I had more than I could handle of yaks and alpacas. Wish I could have sold THEM to merchants.

 

[CynicismKills]

D&D Mystara collection pulled a Civ 4 on me, was up till like 3am playing it on my laptop. Drop in/out multiplayer is smooth as silk and the achievements to buy art/house rules (unbreakable armor, challenge modes, etc) make it worth replaying. Good times.

 

[LordRendar]

Unfortunately the merchant never offered. I pretty much bought everything every merchant ever brought me except livestock because I had more than I could handle of yaks and alpacas. Wish I could have sold THEM to merchants.

Just checked the Wiki.The merchant doesnt sell Iron anymore. Seems a lot has happened since I played.How many soldiers do you sport?

 

[Ravenpoe]

So, having never played any of the kingdom heart games, a friend decided it was time I try them. In fact, he insisted.

But hey, I'd always heard good things, so let's give this a try!

....

I... I don't like it.

 

[CynicismKills]

Rogue Legacy. Look it up, it's amazing.

 

[Tinwhistler]

Just checked the Wiki.The merchant doesnt sell Iron anymore. Seems a lot has happened since I played.How many soldiers do you sport?

Weird, I bought iron yesterday.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Finished Radiant Historia a second time. It was nice not to binge on it over five days as I did in my first playthrough when the game came out.

This game is so great. It makes me sad that it will be forgotten because so few RPG fans even heard of it, let alone play it.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Finished Radiant Historia a second time. It was nice not to binge on it over five days as I did in my first playthrough when the game came out.

This game is so great. It makes me sad that it will be forgotten because so few RPG fans even heard of it, let alone play it.

I should get around to playing that.

 

[bhamv3]

I'm playing Organ Trail on my phone.

This game is brutal. It's utterly cruel. It makes you watch as your fuel and food dwindle, your car batteries die, your companions get bitten by zombies and gradually turn, and people keep charging exorbitant prices for that one car part you need so you can keep going and not stay in the same place waiting to die.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Rogue Legacy. Look it up, it's amazing.

Oh god... what time is it? How long have I been playing?

How many fucking ancestors do I have?

 

[bhamv3]

I'm playing Organ Trail on my phone.

This game is brutal. It's utterly cruel. It makes you watch as your fuel and food dwindle, your car batteries die, your companions get bitten by zombies and gradually turn, and people keep charging exorbitant prices for that one car part you need so you can keep going and not stay in the same place waiting to die.

FUCK I literally just died 20 miles from the last finish line. One last turn would've done it, and I died from THE FUCKING CAR HITTING A BUMP AND GETTING WHIPLASH.

Fuck this game, and fuck whiplash.

I'm gonna try again now.

 

[Gared]

Rogue Legacy. Look it up, it's amazing.

Well damn, now I know what I'm buying come payday.

 

[CynicismKills]

Yeah I killed pretty much my whole evening on it, ridiculously addicting.

For the curious.

 

[Gilgamesh]

bhamv3 - I'd love to play this game if the shooting controls weren't so ass.

 

[bhamv3]

bhamv3 - I'd love to play this game if the shooting controls weren't so ass.

Yeah, it's true, the shooting controls suck balls.

 

[Null]

So, having never played any of the kingdom heart games, a friend decided it was time I try them. In fact, he insisted.

But hey, I'd always heard good things, so let's give this a try!

....

I... I don't like it.

I bought Kingdom Hearts years ago. Played it for one hour, said "Fuck this". Haven't touched it since.

MC Chris has a fantastic rant about Kingdom Hearts 2:

 

[GasBandit]

Weird, I bought iron yesterday.

Maybe it still sells on the higher tier merchant, which I have yet to have visit.

Just checked the Wiki.The merchant doesnt sell Iron anymore. Seems a lot has happened since I played.How many soldiers do you sport?

Five. They were mostly in bronze with a couple pieces of copper here and there, but they might as well have been wearing cardboard for what iron did to them.


Anyway, started over again last night... hoo boy, rough going. Those yak tear through straw like nobody's business. I ended up having to deconstruct 5 straw beds (and I only built the standard 8) just to keep them fed til I could grow more for them.

Seems more difficult getting started this time around, but maybe that's just because I tried to wall in an extra large plot right from the start. It's winter of year 1 and it's been a pretty lean year... no drink left, but I have a well and about 130 fruit and probably enough straw to get us through to spring.[DOUBLEPOST=1372433769][/DOUBLEPOST]In other news...

HOLY BALLS is it painful trying to teach someone to play Killing floor over voice chat. I can successfully solo on normal, but try to teach ONE friend and we can't even survive wave 2 on normal. Ow ow ow.

Also, my normal "gaming with friends" night was pretty much ruined by one of em having a mac, which patches later than the PC version apparently. He can't connect to us, we can't connect to him, until the company doing the mac port finishes updating it to the latest version.

 

[AshburnerX]

HOLY BALLS is it painful trying to teach someone to play Killing floor over voice chat. I can successfully solo on normal, but try to teach ONE friend and we can't even survive wave 2 on normal. Ow ow ow.

I know this pain. I spent a night of frustration trying tot each two friends to play Left 4 Dead 2 and in the end I basically had to let them get themselves killed enough that they'd finally listen to me... and Left 4 Dead is MUCH simpler than Killing Floor, where you need to worry about a lot of other things. You are a saint if you made it through the night without killing them.

Let me know if you want to team up again. It was fun last time.

 

[Null]

As an extension of what MC Chris is saying - "There's no instant gratification" - that is such a big thing in gaming. I love games where your character feels as badass as they're supposed to be, and games where instead of an hour of tutorial before you get into the real game, they throw you right into the action and teach you the commands as you go. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Resident Evil 4, Warhammer 40K Space Marine, Mass Effect 2 & 3 all do this. The game says, "Okay, here's a few minutes of set up to set the stage, and GO!"

 

[Gusto]

Eh. One of the things I like most about playing RPGs is the humbling feeling of starting off as a relative wimp and knowing you can get better.