Funyarinpa Posted May 22, 2015 Posted May 22, 2015 Realizing I do not have anything to play currently besides Super Metroid (and which, while solid, is in no noticeable way better than Zero Mission, somebody please tell me the differences), I am redownloading Bioshock yet again. Quote
Desert35 Posted May 22, 2015 Posted May 22, 2015 Going through the Witcher 3 since Tuesday and I just can't get tired of it! This game is just so good I can't stop playing it Quote
solidbatman Posted May 22, 2015 Author Posted May 22, 2015 Foolishly bought all the dlc for Crusader Kings II. Back to that! Quote
Turnip Sensei Posted May 22, 2015 Posted May 22, 2015 Everyone is playing The Witcher 3, and I'm just sitting here, grinding barghests, drowners and ghouls in the original. *Pats head encouragingly* You have lots of great things awaiting before the third game. My Witcher 3 playthrough is already almost longer than what takes to beat the first two games once. I don't think I'm that far in the story either, I've played around and done side quest. This game is ridiculously huge. Also from what I've seen there's some really different consequences to your actions like in witcher 1&2. And because of that I feel like I'm going to have to play it few times through, like I did with the previous games, but I'm not sure if I ever have the time for it. And Skellige is probably the best location I've ever seen in a game. Those snowy peaks and icy cold open sea... Quote
nohman Posted May 22, 2015 Posted May 22, 2015 And Skellige is probably the best location I've ever seen in a game. Those snowy peaks and icy cold open sea... >Almost to Skellige >Had planed on taking a break today from the Witcher 3 to watch some anime >Nevermind Quote
Decay Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 The Witcher 3 is probably the best open world RPG ever made. It's so, so good. I'm still in the midst of the Bloody Baron questline and holy cow, how did they turn what should be a generic stepping stone quest into something so compelling, with such good writing, and so many alternate paths to take? Every part of this game is so supremely well crafted. I can't get over how good the faces look. Look at this friggen guy: Not only is the modelling and texture work excellent, but the facial animations are phenomenal. Every character emotes so well. The Witcher 3 proves that perhaps the most important aspect of natural-looking animations is subtlety. The subtle grins, smirks, frowns, glances to the side, etc, it's all done so well. LA Noire had an enormous amount of money spent on its facial animation tech and it's probably outclassed by this game. I guess the lip syncing isn't as good but it gets the job done and the actual emoting is way less exaggerated and more natural looking. (The crazy part is how that's just a guy you'll spend only a few minutes talking to. They don't spare any expense even for minor characters like him.) nohman 1 Quote
Funyarinpa Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Everybody is worshipping Witcher 3 and here I am redownloading Bioshock 1 and playing Super Metroid Quote
Funyarinpa Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Played BioShock 2 yet? God, that game had some absolutely stupid gene tonic combos. Wrench Lurker + Natural Camouflage + Fountain of Youth + Armored Shell = you will never die, ever. Dunno why people hate on it; it's not as good as the first game, but it's pretty damn close. I have played all series and TBH BS2 has the best gameplay out of the three (BS1 best lore, but since I was spoiled on BS1, BSI takes the cake for best story) Played System Shock and Dead Space completely too (Didn't play the console exclusive games though, such as DS2 Severed, Extraction and Ingnition) Edit Cannot decide to whether buy a GBA SP off of a friend (parents might get angry, lol) or save up for like two more months to get Persona 4 Golden, Danganronpa 2 and 999 off of Amazon. Quote
BookwormOtaku Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Been replaying Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC so I'll be refreshed on everything whenever SC comes out (hopefully) this year; currently at chapter 1. This time I'm taking my time to talk to NPCs and also rechecking every treasure chest I open because what those chests have to say are often hilarious Took some time to play a bit of Dragon Age Inquisition mainly to mop up what sidequests I can to get enough influence for a perk I'll need at that ball that's the next story mission. A few things I've noticed though: 1) I'll wait till I hit the game's level cap to to take on a dragon, I got slaughtered by what's supposed to be the weakest of the bunch regardless of what strategy I used. 2) After collecting all the Hinterlands' shards the reward is apparently... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7mHxdHlRY 3) Tried to do that horse race quest, how the #@$%^*& do I get on a horse . Quote
monkeysrumble Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Beat the KOTOR 1 Restoration mod and got to M4-78 planet in KOTOR 2 then stopped. I started playing Fate/Extra last night and just got past week 2. I always hear mixed things about Fate/Extra but after playing it I guess it's pretty fun, I kind of like some of the ideas that they've thrown in there. The combat system is a bit annoying though. Quote
RinXD Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Sadly ive been addicted to Stranded deep for about 2 months now Quote
darkkira1332 Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Playing S4 league(I know, its not that good) again after leaving it few years ago. Meanwhile, I am working with my ship girls in kancolle on keeping the oceans safe. Quote
EldritchCherub Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum for the first time. Combat is very fluid and the characters are pretty interesting, the added interviews lying around are also pretty fun to listen to. Gotta love when time freezes right when Batman delivers the final blow to enemies, POW! right to the kisser. Quote
EldritchCherub Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 On what platform? But yeah, that game is absolutely stunning. Basically the game equivalent of The Dark Knight. I got Arkham City for free through Xbox Live, and it's also quite good, especially if you get the Catwoman DLC. Not worth getting anything but the GotY at this point, though. I'm playing the PC version. I got the GOTY editions for both AA and AC, the reviews tend to be leaning toward bad for Arkham Origins so I'll probably stay away from that one. Quote
solidbatman Posted May 23, 2015 Author Posted May 23, 2015 I'm playing the PC version. I got the GOTY editions for both AA and AC, the reviews tend to be leaning toward bad for Arkham Origins so I'll probably stay away from that one. From what I understand about Origins, it does nothing new, and simply retreads old ground while being buggy. So its not a bad game, just nothing new. Quote
Getsuya Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Ori and the Blind forest. Ori is the most adorable thing ever. This had better become a series. I don't think I will ever be able to have enough Ori in my life. Quote
Fred the Barber Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 I think I spent ~8 hours today playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Somebody help me. Thunderbro 1 Quote
Thunderbro Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 I think I spent ~8 hours today playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Somebody help me. Were you playing the original or Curtain Call? Quote
Fred the Barber Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Curtain Call. It's crazy how addicting it is. I felt this nice sense of accomplishment the first time a character hit level 99, and I went to fiddle with their abilities, and found the Reset button. More CP? Yes please. Now I have to see just how deep this rabbit hole goes... It's somewhat surprising how distinct all the characters are, in terms of utility. I just reset most of my best characters (the second reset, for most of them), and I swapped them out for my second string / people that I'm trying out. The result is surprisingly lousy - they take out maybe 1/3 or 1/4 as many enemies as my old party, so they hardly get any experience. I actually think I'd make progress more quickly after just a couple rounds if I dropped out level ~80 Squall and replaced him with level 1 Terra on her second reset. Squall is terrible. Right now my favorite characters are Terra and Cloud, though I don't mind Lightning #2 either. - Terra with Trance + a big list of spells - Cloud with Omnislash + Sacrifice 3 + Added Cut - Lightning #2 with One Man Army + Added Cut They just rip through enemies, especially bosses. I'm mostly using Tifa #2 with Final Heaven + Brawler 2 + Brawler 3 is my fourth, but I'm looking for someone better. I like having Locke around for general utility skills - Level 2 Libra, Treasure Hunter, and Steal are all very nice to have. I imagine his Luck being super high is helping in some background way (drop rate for items / rarity or such), but his other stats are so low that it's hard to justify keeping him around... Quote
Funyarinpa Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Bought Metroid 2 because I am enjoying Super Metroid on PC, this game is shit. Dropped Mass Effect 3 for the time being, I am still just as shit with Bioshock. Nothing to play on Vita, might buy a GBA SP as early as tomorrow! Quote
Kosakyun Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Playing Melty Blood Actress Again: Current Code PC. I need to beat Dust of Osiris again and again. Rather, I also need to get the first game again. M-Muh storyline. Quote
Mevvrynne Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Spent my entire day off with a friend doing Van Helsing 3 on fearless. Finished in 10 hours. Quote
Funyarinpa Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 I really should finish MGS1, I play on epsxe as well but there are some game content related issues due to that so play on an actual console if you can Quote
Decay Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 So yeah... Witcher 3 is pretty easily the best open world RPG ever made. It makes Skyrim look some low-effort indie game in comparison and DA:I literal burning garbage. Every time I play, I get impressed by how incredibly good it is at almost everything. The interface is a bit clunky, which is a shame. Movement can be wonky when you're trying to interact with stuff. But combat is fun, more so than any Bethesda or Bioware title. The side quests are all of very high quality with a ton of unique characters. Every quest feels different, there are no generic fetch quests, and the ones that come closest are camouflaged excellently behind some strong storytelling. I like the tracking stuff you have to often do, it feels like a better version of Batman's detective vision gameplay. And the main storyline is VERY good. I don't think there is such a story-dense open world RPG in existence. The Witcher 3 takes a top-of-its-class standard plot-heavy RPG and melds it perfectly into an open world, with all of the open world gameplay executed near perfectly. It is quite literally the best of both worlds, and I don't think we'll see anything like it until CD Projekt releases their next game. I really hope this encourages Bethesda and Bioware to step up their game. So as you can guess it's what I've been playing for the last week. I also managed to sneak in a few Hearthstone arena runs. Ain't played any VNs in a while. Kenshin_sama and nohman 2 Quote
Kenshin_sama Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Well, I'm sold. I'll need to wait a week for my next check to come in though. Also, how much enjoyment would I be losing if I were to go straight to The Witcher 3? Even if this is supposedly a standalone storyline, I've read online that the previous games add more to the experience. I would like give this game a go first and play the other two later, but not if it's far from ideal. Quote
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