What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now?

[Mr Poltroon]

Just now, Mkilbride said:

Seemed like a good deal, didn't it? I got sucked into that trap a few years ago as well.

 

To buy all the DLC for the games, which include MAJOR story DLC, it'll cost you 110$ in BioWare points. Haha. Yeah, such a great deal! To top it off, EA recently announced a remastered Trilogy with all DLC included and updated visuals / gameplay.

 

Also, the Mako is coming back for the new Mass Effect game, as people bitched at it's removal.

1) If it's not there, it makes no difference. I'll probably get around to buying DLC at some point. Maybe. However, the game sure has more that enough content as is right now.
Seems like a rather sound business scheme on their part. A cheap main game with expensive DLC. A bit of a sham as the main games were expensive at release, though.

If the game makes me want more, then the game is doing its job properly, and I'm prepared to pay for it. Why the hell wouldn't I pay for what I want? As is, I got a cheap deal in case it doesn't suck me in enough to warrant DLC.

2) I like the Mako. What I didn't quite like was the fact that there seemed to be a monstrous mountain between me and every single objective.

[Kurisu-Chan]

2 minutes ago, Tiagofvarela said:

1) If it's not there, it makes no difference. I'll probably get around to buying DLC at some point. Maybe. However, the game sure has more that enough content as is right now.
Seems like a rather sound business scheme on their part. A cheap main game with expensive DLC. A bit of a sham as the main games were expensive at release, though.

If the game makes me want more, then the game is doing its job properly, and I'm prepared to pay for it. Why the hell wouldn't I pay for what I want? As is, I got a cheap deal in case it doesn't suck me in enough to warrant DLC.

2) I like the Mako. What I didn't quite like was the fact that there seemed to be a monstrous mountain between me and every single objective.

It's because mass effect maps were pregenerated, they didn't even made them, they just asked a PC to map every planet.

 

And, that PC basically said "let's put Himalayas everywhere!!" 

[Darklord Rooke]

4 minutes ago, Tiagofvarela said:

1) If it's not there, it makes no difference. I'll probably get around to buying DLC at some point. Maybe. However, the game sure has more that enough content as is right now.
Seems like a rather sound business scheme on their part. A cheap main game with expensive DLC. A bit of a sham as the main games were expensive at release, though.

The game is complete 'as-is', the DLC is just added flavour on the top. Some of them are okay, some of them are exceptional, none of them are needed.

People really need to get over their 'DLC-hate'.

[Kurisu-Chan]

Not for Mass effect 3, mass effect 3 DLCs are very important for comprehending the lore. 

[Mkilbride]

1 hour ago, Rooke said:

The game is complete 'as-is', the DLC is just added flavour on the top. Some of them are okay, some of them are exceptional, none of them are needed.

People really need to get over their 'DLC-hate'.

Mass Effect 2's DLCS are incredibly important. Many of them directly affect 3, by explaining major plot elements that are coming in it. Without playing many ME2 DLCs, you will be completely confused upon starting Mass Effect 3.

[Fred the Barber]

2 hours ago, Rooke said:

The game is complete 'as-is', the DLC is just added flavour on the top. Some of them are okay, some of them are exceptional, none of them are needed.

People really need to get over their 'DLC-hate'.

I agree with literally everything in this post. That doesn't happen very often.

[Darklord Rooke]

6 hours ago, Mkilbride said:

Mass Effect 2's DLCS are incredibly important. Many of them directly affect 3, by explaining major plot elements that are coming in it. Without playing many ME2 DLCs, you will be completely confused upon starting Mass Effect 3.

Only 1 DLC in ME2 is REALLY relevant to the story, and even that isn't necessary.

I played Mass Effect 3 without playing the story oriented DLCs from number 2. In fact I still haven't played them because they don't seem important or interesting to me nor do they seem to be great experiences. I was not confused. Storytelling isn't about showing every little thing which happened in a certain time frame, it's also not about letting the reader know every little thing that happened in a time frame. The events that happened were alluded to in sufficient detail in number 3, and anyone who's curious about what happened can go and play it. 

4 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

I agree with literally everything in this post. That doesn't happen very often.

Well, I AM a very agreeable fella  

[Darklord Rooke]

7 hours ago, Kurisu-Chan said:

Not for Mass effect 3, mass effect 3 DLCs are very important for comprehending the lore. 

Understanding all of the lore isn't necessary for the story. It's like LOTR, understanding all of the lore isn't necessary to read the story, but anyone who's curious can go buy Tolkien's other book(s).

[Mkilbride]

 

Figured people here would get a chuckle out of this.

[Kurisu-Chan]

3 hours ago, Rooke said:

Understanding all of the lore isn't necessary for the story. It's like LOTR, understanding all of the lore isn't necessary to read the story, but anyone who's curious can go buy Tolkien's other book(s).

Javik is necessary, actually he was part of the main game, but bioware decided to put him into a 10$ DLC, the best character of the whole trilogy. 

[Jumpierwolf0960]

I'm currently alternating between Dark Souls II and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

[Jumpierwolf0960]

3 hours ago, Mkilbride said:

 

Figured people here would get a chuckle out of this.

Dark Souls II ?

[Mkilbride]

5 hours ago, Jumpierwolf0960 said:

Dark Souls II ?

No, Dark Souls 1.  Dark Souls II isn't even a Souls game.

[Deep Blue]

played a bit of deus ex... it crashes at the same spot every single time lol I can't even see the real game just the shitty intro mission which is pretty bad and boring. 

[Jade]

1 hour ago, Zenophilious said:

Tried to boot up the first Witcher game after losing steam about halfway through (that happened a year ago), and I'm really not into it and have no idea what's going on anymore.  Is it terrible to not finish the first one and just skip to the second and third?

Ehhh the first withcer game is really not that good and the combat is awful IMO.

For me i just read the summary of the first one and skip it

[Arsudar]

Hmm... I mostly play RPG so here are some games, I cannot remember all the games I played though @@

Dragon Age series (Origins - II - Inquisition)

Witcher III

Elder Scroll V Skyrim

Fallout 4

Demon's Souls - Dark Souls I - II - III (sadly haven't played Bloodborne though)

[Deep Blue]

I just finished inside, what an amazing and surreal experience 

[Funyarinpa]

3 hours ago, Deep Blue said:

I just finished inside

did you use birth control

[Deep Blue]

2 minutes ago, Funyarinpa said:

did you use birth control

Spoiler

 

[Kurisu-Chan]

started danganronpa, closed the first case.

 

It was amazing. 

[Funyarinpa]

Just now, Kurisu-Chan said:

started danganronpa, closed the first case.

 

It was amazing. 

someone post the fucking dancing monokuma gif

[Kurisu-Chan]

Now i just want to murder...

 

You know who.  

[Soulless Watcher]

Playing Dark Souls 2 for the first time on my PS4, and GOD FUCKING DAMN the DLC bosses! It really pisses me off how they were obviously tailormade for multiplayer, I DONT FUCKING CARE HOW MANY DIFFERENT ENEMIES YOU HAVE SPAMMING ME DURING A BOSS BATTLE, I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU WITH THE TWIN RETARDED NPCS CAUSE YOU ARE NOT MILKING A PSN SUBSCRIPTION FEE FROM ME!!!!

I should probably calm down and play a bit of Pokemon Uranium before I have a aneurysm.

[Mkilbride]

On 8/24/2016 at 2:22 AM, Jade said:

Ehhh the first withcer game is really not that good and the combat is awful IMO.

For me i just read the summary of the first one and skip it

I prefer it to 3 so far.

 

As for Dark Souls 2, the game is difficult for the sake of being difficult. It wasn't made by the same team that made DKS1 & DKS3. Miyazaki himself even stated he never intended for the games to be difficult, they simply were because of "How they are."

 

The problem is, with DS2's design team, fans were clamoring them for another difficult game, but they had no clue. The main Team was working on Bloodborne, so they had this series dropped in their lap and they read up on what people wanted - difficulty. So they went and made a game with an insane amount of artificial difficulty. There's a reason more people are still playing DKS1 than DKS2.

 

 

 

I'm back at these motherfuckers on my replay of DS1.  Bah.

[Soulless Watcher]

1 hour ago, Mkilbride said:

The problem is, with DS2's design team, fans were clamoring them for another difficult game, but they had no clue. The main Team was working on Bloodborne, so they had this series dropped in their lap and they read up on what people wanted - difficulty. So they went and made a game with an insane amount of artificial difficulty. There's a reason more people are still playing DKS1 than DKS2.

I knew there was a reason that I enjoyed playing Bloodborne soo much more.