What are you playing?

The combat is really simple. On top of that, despite them going for such an old school look, they didn't bother going for old school sound. The music and sound effects are all knock-off weird. As always since Chris Latta's death, the Star-Scream performance is cringey.
 
Mine was a bow user too, but with fire arrows. I got a poison immunity rune early on, put it on, and left it on for the rest of the game. The fire arrows would kill you in less than 3 hits when fired by a captain.
I went on a bit of a killing spree and found out that once there are only about 6 or so captains left, they start repopulating even if you never advance time, die or finish missions. Booh. That said, I've killed off permanently all the ones who cheesed me off at the start - couple of poison archers (I'm immune too now), couple of skirmishers, a berserker and one of those shield jackasses. My current nemesis is...someone I haven't met yet? Huh. Impressive :p
 
I went on a bit of a killing spree and found out that once there are only about 6 or so captains left, they start repopulating even if you never advance time, die or finish missions. Booh. That said, I've killed off permanently all the ones who cheesed me off at the start - couple of poison archers (I'm immune too now), couple of skirmishers, a berserker and one of those shield jackasses. My current nemesis is...someone I haven't met yet? Huh. Impressive :p
Once you get mind control, you should be able to overtake an entire region and have it populated solely by your own captains and warchiefs. Not sure if they'll start killing each other after that.[DOUBLEPOST=1444323244,1444323110][/DOUBLEPOST]
The combat is really simple. On top of that, despite them going for such an old school look, they didn't bother going for old school sound. The music and sound effects are all knock-off weird. As always since Chris Latta's death, the Star-Scream performance is cringey.
I don't really have any vested interest in Transformers; it just looked like a good game. But simplistic combat sounds more like Platinum's Legend of Korra game. Maybe they do that when they know a game is more likely to be played by kids. Either way, that was my sole interest. I have no reason to play button-masher games when I could just replay Bayonetta 1 and 2. Thanks for the heads up.
 
At least Korra was a 20 dollar game, Transformers Devastation is full priced.[DOUBLEPOST=1444323488,1444323415][/DOUBLEPOST]And oh Jesus, the Witcher's first expansion comes out today. This year man. This has been a HELL of a year for games.
 
Not at all surprising stats wise. Should run just fine if you're running any other big game out this year (such as Witcher 3 or MGS5).
 
Battlefront is bad. :(
An EA game is bad! Jay, don't sugarcoat this, say it ain't so.

Next you'll tell me Activision just crapped out a bullshit shovelware Tony Hawk sequel that's basically unplayable as a last gasp cash in before they lose the license in a month or two.

WHAT?!
 
I didn't expect it to be as I hoped it would, I was willing to compromise but what I saw in gameplay vids now is so meeeeh.
 
Jay's a dad now; he doesn't have time to keep up with this shit.
Only on my 2nd flu/cold of the season! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee

Call me an optimist but I thought with this new IP they'd actually try instead we got some BF/CoD space hybrid with jedis.

Son, I am disappoint.
 

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Only on my 2nd flu/cold of the season! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee

Call me an optimist but I thought with this new IP they'd actually try instead we got some BF/CoD space hybrid with jedis.

Son, I am disappoint.
Yeah, the game you're looking for is the 2005 Battlefront 2.
 
Witcher 3... it's pretty good... overall I like it a lot.

I prolly get hate for this but Gwent is such a shitty game. I couldn't be bothered in wasting my time and money to build my deck to play with nerds who want to play with their "legendary" cards while I'm still working with shit common cards. The whole concept of playing with wildly better cards than others if shit. Also, I can't attack or do anything.

Laaaame.

I wish these guys didn't get ! on my map, they make it seem they're important but all they are is shiiite.
 
Witcher 3... it's pretty good... overall I like it a lot.

I prolly get hate for this but Gwent is such a shitty game. I couldn't be bothered in wasting my time and money to build my deck to play with nerds who want to play with their "legendary" cards while I'm still working with shit common cards. The whole concept of playing with wildly better cards than others if shit. Also, I can't attack or do anything.

Laaaame.

I wish these guys didn't get ! on my map, they make it seem they're important but all they are is shiiite.
I hated Gwent too initially, but it grew on me.
 
Gwent is rad.

Accept it.

The only downside is the Northern Kingdoms and Nilfgaard decks are so superior than the monsters and Scoia'Tel decks based on just the spy cards alone and that by the time you get enough of the other non-starter deck cards to make a good non-Northern Kingdoms deck, the game is almost over.
 
Ooooh, fuck. I'm playing KotOR now, and FUCK PAZAAK.
It's slightly better in KOTOR2 since you have at least a 50/50 chance of going first. In the original KOTOR, you always went first, which was a bit of a dick move. Also, the game sucks. The only place you want to play it is on Yavin, honestly :p
 
It's slightly better in KOTOR2 since you have at least a 50/50 chance of going first. In the original KOTOR, you always went first, which was a bit of a dick move. Also, the game sucks. The only place you want to play it is on Yavin, honestly :p
I'm at the bit where you're supposed to defeat Twitch, and walkthroughs are like "Oh, yeah, you'll need like 25 healthpacks and 10 grenades..." and it's like, "That's more than I've used for the entire game up to his point."
 
Ooooh, fuck. I'm playing KotOR now, and FUCK PAZAAK.
See, I didn't have any issue on Pazaak.

By the time the enemies start using crazy cards, you'd had ample opportunity to build your deck and it was you vs the cards that came your way. So sometimes you had roll-luck, sometimes not but you dealt that way. your goal was to burn the enemy special card deck ASAP.

I Gwent, after the first tutorial game, they have these fucking crazy ass special cards and you have this shit deck with 1s and 2s. I'm not spending money on this side quest, you don't get any special GEAR from it like you'd so in Pazaak when you won. So, I'm starving for money to get better gear and consumables (playing on hard)... I'm not spending all this cash to buy slightly better cards.... wtf.
 
I wanted this to be available live, but Halforums decided to go down, so oh well.

Second Alien: Isolation stream, this time with cursing and terror:
 
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In reviewing, that was a lot of "the Great Locker Adventure" with sudden deaths and cursing. I may just post some highlights tomorrow.

I don't know. I'm giving this game a couple more days, and then I may be sending it back to Gamefly on Tuesday, because I'm sucking at Hard mode, but now Normal is going to feel trite knowing I could get away with a lot more than I'm doing. But there's no mail the next two days in the U.S., so I might as well give it another go until then.
 
See, I didn't have any issue on Pazaak.

By the time the enemies start using crazy cards, you'd had ample opportunity to build your deck and it was you vs the cards that came your way. So sometimes you had roll-luck, sometimes not but you dealt that way. your goal was to burn the enemy special card deck ASAP.

I Gwent, after the first tutorial game, they have these fucking crazy ass special cards and you have this shit deck with 1s and 2s. I'm not spending money on this side quest, you don't get any special GEAR from it like you'd so in Pazaak when you won. So, I'm starving for money to get better gear and consumables (playing on hard)... I'm not spending all this cash to buy slightly better cards.... wtf.
One of the best side quests in the game involves a big, high stakes Gwent tournament. Just a heads up.

And very few guys you play early on (save for that one Smith chick) are really that tough to beat.

What I'm saying is, git gud skrub.

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The Wolf Among Us thanks to the free giveaway on Google Play Store.

"Oh, this girl in the opening of the game seems quite nice, I think I'll treat her as well as I can, I'll bet she'll show up again later in the game and AW CRAP."
 
Welp, correct if I'm wrong, but based on playing Alien: Isolation last night, I think I'm finally getting the hang on Hard mode. I made a lot of progress without dying at a point, and I'm actually close to the end of this mission. I'm kind of glad Jay got me to switch the difficulty; it's been less "I am so scared and never see the Alien, which makes it scarier" and more of me having a gameplay experience. Which is still tense and can be scary, but there is a method to the madness and I'm coming to understand it. The actual game is nothing like Dark Souls, but it does feel like it has that tough love approach to teaching you how to play, and it's working.

So, I bought it.

Should I make my own thread so I'm not bogging this one down or is it okay to keep posting the links here?
 
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