GasBandit
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He's resisting though because a year ago I tried to get him into Killing Floor and gave him a complex.
Arkham Origins
Ugh. I can't. I just can't play this garbage anymore.
Anarchy (z-level villain who has potential, but wasted here as yet another villain showing up for no reason) showed up and I had to race to a bomb. Except there was a building right in my way that CLEARLY had points that I SHOULD have been able to grapple to. But nope, it didn't even give me an indication that I couldn't grapple. Nothing. Wasted a whole minute of the timer just figuring out how to get AROUND a building that I shouldn't in any right have to go around.
Not only that, but the new gadget after Deathstroke? Useless. When you got a new gadget in the other games, they gave you several useful instances to use it. Usually with, say, a few Riddler trophies nearby to nab. Or something story-line wise used. Not here. It's like "Welp, here's your new gadget. You can use it to get out of this room, and then across this other room. And then...that's it, pal. Hope that was fun."
There were a few crime scene reconstruction things, but they're incredibly unintuitive, particularly where you need to rewind and fast foward.
Oh, and then after doing all that crime scene reconstruction, you'd think that's a great moment to have a surprise or forward the story. Nnnnnope! They just toss in a single cop with a shield (shield enemies commonly in City), tell you how to beat him, you do, and you're sent on your merry way.
It's like this game can't be assed to do even half the game in a way that makes sense or flows with the game as a whole. It's like they had all the playing pieces from Asylum and City and didn't understand why they all worked well together.
So yeah, I think I'm done. I just can't stomach this shit anymore.
Ugh. I can't. I just can't play this garbage anymore.
Anarchy (z-level villain who has potential, but wasted here as yet another villain showing up for no reason) showed up and I had to race to a bomb. Except there was a building right in my way that CLEARLY had points that I SHOULD have been able to grapple to. But nope, it didn't even give me an indication that I couldn't grapple. Nothing. Wasted a whole minute of the timer just figuring out how to get AROUND a building that I shouldn't in any right have to go around.
Not only that, but the new gadget after Deathstroke? Useless. When you got a new gadget in the other games, they gave you several useful instances to use it. Usually with, say, a few Riddler trophies nearby to nab. Or something story-line wise used. Not here. It's like "Welp, here's your new gadget. You can use it to get out of this room, and then across this other room. And then...that's it, pal. Hope that was fun."
There were a few crime scene reconstruction things, but they're incredibly unintuitive, particularly where you need to rewind and fast foward.
Oh, and then after doing all that crime scene reconstruction, you'd think that's a great moment to have a surprise or forward the story. Nnnnnope! They just toss in a single cop with a shield (shield enemies commonly in City), tell you how to beat him, you do, and you're sent on your merry way.
It's like this game can't be assed to do even half the game in a way that makes sense or flows with the game as a whole. It's like they had all the playing pieces from Asylum and City and didn't understand why they all worked well together.
So yeah, I think I'm done. I just can't stomach this shit anymore.
Last night I was Googling and found out how easy it is to mod a wii. So... Now I have all the nes/snes/genisis/etc games on mine
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For... For some reason I read this as the what video game are you playing thread... huh...
GasBandit
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AdminBandit to the rescue!
Heh. I finally got caught up in this thread and thought, "...didn't I see this conversation somewhere else already?"
Over Xmas got the chance to play Snake Oil and the new v4.0 of Fluxx. Fluxx was as good as Fluxx always is*, but Snake Oil ended up being more entertaining than I thought it would be, even though we played it with a 13yr-old present (which meant having to keep it tame).
--Patrick
*It should become one of those standard games that everyone has in their game closet, like Scrabble or Uno.
I'm not going to even try to defend Origins, and I don't encourage you to press on unless you're desperate to watch the rest of the story play out, but I do feel obliged to point a few things out.
The gadget you get from Deathstroke is so good in silent predator maps, it's not even funny. You can hook fire extinguishers to bad guys and swoop in and beat silent takedown them in the smoke screen, you can straight up pull them up to a wall for an instant takedown. You can badmouth the game, but that gadget was awesome
The crime scene recreations were my favorite part of the game, and they involve recreating almost all of the major story points. All you did was the basic tutorial of how to they work just like every other game in creation. I thought they actually involved you in the crime scene investigation, unlike the previous games where it was "find the thing to analyze, then follow the trail" every single time.
That being said, yeah, the grappling thing is horrible. I have no idea how they didn't add grapple points to everything they should have. Arkham City seemed like you could really grapple off of any point you'd realistically expect to, but Origins, when I started it, I literally thought my grapple button on my controller was broken.
GasBandit
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My Fallen Enchantress - Elemental game ran its entire course. I won. It was an epic journey of struggle, statesmanship, diplomacy, questing and the triumph of libertarian values over centralized government! It was a beautiful story of my own forging that spanned over a hundred years and culminated with GasBandit, sovereign of Gasbandia, defeating all remnants of the fallen empire, supporting his allies, subjugating his enemy sovereigns and forcing them at swordpoint to become his vassals, and finally defeating the lieutentant of an eons-old ultimate evil to wrest from him a source of incontestable power that placed GasBandit, and Gasbandia, indefatigably ascendant over all life in the world!
It was beautiful. I may cry. I'm afraid to play it again because surely no replay can match the epicness of the first one, and I will be sad to see the story retold without the champions and heroes who were by my side the first time to see me through to victory! Like, imagine every single playthrough of Mass Effect or Dragon Age got you 5 or 6 random allies from a pool of 30 instead of the same guys.
All the same, I spent a further 15 bucks and bought all the DLC. Maybe one of these days (after I get production finished on the next HF Academy day) I'll start it up again and see what happens...
It was beautiful. I may cry. I'm afraid to play it again because surely no replay can match the epicness of the first one, and I will be sad to see the story retold without the champions and heroes who were by my side the first time to see me through to victory! Like, imagine every single playthrough of Mass Effect or Dragon Age got you 5 or 6 random allies from a pool of 30 instead of the same guys.
All the same, I spent a further 15 bucks and bought all the DLC. Maybe one of these days (after I get production finished on the next HF Academy day) I'll start it up again and see what happens...
Half-Life 2
As I said before, I wanted to play this on the new gaming rig to see what it looked like on max settings. It didn't disappoint. Even with dated graphics, it still looks amazing. And by god, it's still a great game. I'm now moving on to Episode One & Two. Might go through Portal 1 & 2 from here, just to finish the run of Valve games. I'd say Left 4 Dead, but it's multiplayer and I don't know anyone who would be interested in playing through that. Ditto the multiplayer on Portal 2, which I've never played.
As I said before, I wanted to play this on the new gaming rig to see what it looked like on max settings. It didn't disappoint. Even with dated graphics, it still looks amazing. And by god, it's still a great game. I'm now moving on to Episode One & Two. Might go through Portal 1 & 2 from here, just to finish the run of Valve games. I'd say Left 4 Dead, but it's multiplayer and I don't know anyone who would be interested in playing through that. Ditto the multiplayer on Portal 2, which I've never played.
figmentPez
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I'd be down for either of these. I have never played the multiplayer of Portal 2 before.
GasBandit
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Halforums gaming nights on the odd friday have brought up L4D2 more than once. But really, the bots aren't THAT bad. If you really wanna play it with somebody else though, hit me up sometime. One "movie" of L4D generally takes an hour to play through if you dilly dally around a lot.
What he said. I still have L4D2 installed atm. If you own L4D2, I'd recommend installing it over L4D because it has all the L4d scenarios anyway.
figmentPez
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The bots can be frustrating if you're still learning the game, though. One other human is enough to combat that, though, IMO.
Dark Souls: Long live the four kings. Pricks. After Butterfly and Sif, I thought the bosses were starting to get easy. Hah. Hah.
Now onto the Duke.
Now onto the Duke.
This one is a bit of a pain. My advice? Wear the Rare Ring of Sacrifice when you get to him in the library. Curse hurts and the only way to break it is to ether buy the curse breaking items off the confessor in the Undead Church or to farm them off of the clamshell looking dudes.
I knew a curse boss was coming up, but I didn't know which it would be.
But if I die, the ring breaks, and then if I haven't beat him I'm SOL. Or can the ring be fixed?
No, but you're only going to need one... but if you are worried about his curse, you could tangle with Nito in the Tomb of the Giants first. There is a red phantom in the Tomb on the way to Nito that you can kill that will cause a suit of (pretty heavy) curse resistant armor to spawn in the room you fight Nito in. Just go human, kill the Phantom, kill Nito, then warp back to his room and look for the armor. The Paladin set it actually one of my favorites but it is REALLY heavy.
The whole point of wearing the ring against Seath is in case you die to him: curse persists through death and reduces your maximum HP, but a Rare Ring of Sacrifice will break the curse if you die. So once you start seeing a stairwell full of crystals (it'll be after the second elevator in the Duke's Archives), put it on because you are close to the boss.
Might & Magic X: Legacy
Very conflicted feelings about this game. It's an Ubisoft M&M game, you'd expect AAA standards, but apparently it's made by an 8-man team in under a year, so pretty much indie expectations would be more appropriate.
Either way, it's pretty much an old school TBRPG. Some small bugs and glitches, story is...not always too great but I can live with it, I still like the way of doing things...Mostly it gives me a desire to go replay some of the older M&M games It looks a lot better, though. Anyone who liked the original M&M games (NOT the Heroes of M&M series! Don't be confused! I like both, but they're very different ) will probably like this too.
Some UI idiocies (only one action bar is very limiting for mages, you can't properly move the map around,...) with apparently not much in the way of modding/patching going on, and, of course, it uses UPlay (but no always-online, apparently, so...Eh)
Very conflicted feelings about this game. It's an Ubisoft M&M game, you'd expect AAA standards, but apparently it's made by an 8-man team in under a year, so pretty much indie expectations would be more appropriate.
Either way, it's pretty much an old school TBRPG. Some small bugs and glitches, story is...not always too great but I can live with it, I still like the way of doing things...Mostly it gives me a desire to go replay some of the older M&M games
It looks a lot better, though. Anyone who liked the original M&M games (NOT the Heroes of M&M series! Don't be confused! I like both, but they're very different ) will probably like this too. Some UI idiocies (only one action bar is very limiting for mages, you can't properly move the map around,...) with apparently not much in the way of modding/patching going on, and, of course, it uses UPlay (but no always-online, apparently, so...Eh)
I wanted to do Seath next so I could do awesome stuff at the giant blacksmith; he seemed to need something from the Duke's place.
Believe me, I know how shitty curse can be. I accidentally fell into the lower part of the Depths with the frogs and had to walk to the parish rooftop to get it fixed, then back down to fight the dragon. I'm gleaning from what you're saying that Seath is pretty easy, so I'll do as you say.
I take it Nito's tomb is in the Catacombs? Because I hate the Catacombs and was hoping they were optional. Damn infinite skeletons.
There's zombies on our laaaaaaaaaaaaaawn! We don't want zombies on our lawn.
Catacombs is not optional and doing it early (the boss is piss easy) is usually beneficial, because he gives you the ability to kindle bonfires 2 more times for extra estus. Once you beat him, you can take a ladder up and into the Tomb of the Giants, which is...
- Full of Giant skeletons that hit hard
- Has several items you want (like the aforementioned Paladin set and the Covetous Silver Ring)
- IS PITCH BLACK if you don't have a Skeleton Lantern, a Sunlight Bug helmet (and you can't get that until you finish the fire area unless you want to dump 50+ humanity), or the Light Sorcery. Yes, this is the worst area in the game... they do something like it in DS2, but it's NOWHERE near as bad because you get torches in DS2 by default.
I recommend the Light Sorcery. If you have the Artorias of the Abyss DLC, what you do is go down to the lake with the Hydra (in Darkroot Basin), kill it, log out, log back in, then CAREFULLY follow the wall with the ladder around all the way to the back, through the water, where you'll see a golden crystal golem. Kill it carefully, then talk to the person inside. She'll offer to teach you sorceries and then disappear. Hit her sign on the shore near where you fought the Hydra and she'll sell you stuff. She has the Light Sorcery.
Now why did I tell you that? Because there is no way you'd know to go there and find her without a guide. I know I had to.
I've actually found her by accident (was searching for Valley of Drakes, thought it was past the Hydra). I don't have the DLC and I don't think this is the Prepare to Die edition, but she did talk to me. I'll have to keep in mind her sign for whenever I escape so I can get that light for past the catacombs. I think I've seen the giant skeletons in a gif about Dark Souls being too scary.
The Duke wasn't the pushover. I was the pushover.
Now I can't go anywhere.If you saw her, you should have the DLC I believe. All you need to do to start the DLC now is to bring the broken pendant (found on a crystal golem near the start of the archives) back to where you fought the golden golem to free her.I've actually found her by accident (was searching for Valley of Drakes, thought it was past the Hydra). I don't have the DLC and I don't think this is the Prepare to Die edition, but she did talk to me. I'll have to keep in mind her sign for whenever I escape so I can get that light for past the catacombs. I think I've seen the giant skeletons in a gif about Dark Souls being too scary.
The Duke wasn't the pushover. I was the pushover.
You are actually supposed to lose that fight against Seath. You can't win it... which is why I told you to use the Rare Ring of Sacrifice when fighting him that time because otherwise you lose humanity AND get cursed AND get stuck in the prison. At least now you are just stuck. The next bonfire is a bit away but once you get past the tentacle girls and the lizard men, things get quite a bit easier.
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I killed that golem, but I can't remember if I picked up a pendant. I'll check tomorrow night.
I see now why it would've been an issue. I did some stuff outside my cell ... I'd have continued playing, but after carefully handling the squid-heads and serpents, I got killed by the mages ... and then killed by them again before I could grab my souls. Losing 30,000 souls was kind of a morale injury.
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
DAMMIT, VALVE!
[DOUBLEPOST=1420777841,1420777733][/DOUBLEPOST]If I had any kind of photoshop artistic skill, I'd make a gif of the final moments from HL2:E2, only (spoilered in case you reading this haven't seen the ending)
DAMMIT, VALVE!
[DOUBLEPOST=1420777841,1420777733][/DOUBLEPOST]If I had any kind of photoshop artistic skill, I'd make a gif of the final moments from HL2:E2, only (spoilered in case you reading this haven't seen the ending)Replace the Advisors with Gabe and Valve itself. Replace Eli with a logo for HL:E2 (or HL3, whichever). And the caption would end with, "No, Valve! No! Don't leave me!"
Now you understand the obsession over Half-Life 3.Half-Life 2: Episode 2
DAMMIT, VALVE!
Replace the Advisors with Gabe and Valve itself. Replace Eli with a logo for HL:E2 (or HL3, whichever). And the caption would end with, "No, Valve! No! Don't leave me!"
Dark Souls: The Crystal Cave can fuck right off. I mean, I got it, I figured it out, but what a fucking nightmare. So thankful for people leaving orange signs on the invisible paths.
Oh, I understand fully. I understand fully every time I replay the game. This isn't my first run through HL2 and its episodes.
GasBandit
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Don't worry, you'll be back when your town hall is around level 7, and everything you're trying to build/upgrade takes 4 days to complete unless you spend real money.
There are basically three ways to do that part.
- Look for the areas the falling crystal "snow" lands on. These are the platforms.
- Buy a bunch of glowing stones from the Undead merchant in the Aqueduct and spam them to see the floor.
- Hope someone put down signs.
And really? That's not even the hard one. There's a CURVED invisible path in on of the areas that leads you to a Blue Titanite Slab you'd need for making a +10 Magic or + 5 Enchanted weapon (unless you get the one from the DLC...)