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Shadow of Mordor: me: this is terrible why does this man walk so slow the stealth sections: intentionally slow so you can better plan your moves and kill things me: you may be as slow as you like woah note to self, uninstall giant games more often and then go exploring in your library, being able to install big games makes for more varied fun I also appreciate how detailed all of the lore entries are. You can really tell that a LotR nerd was involved in this part, and I appreciate that.
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Wamdoodle posted:tbf, the Division games are RPG's wrapped in third person shooter gameplay
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Div2 is pretty cool and the Diablo comparisons are apt. I reinstall it every few months just to kit out a specific build until I get bored. It's managed to keep me entertained despite tacticool shooters not usually being my thing.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Shadow of Mordor: If you happen to be good at games, be sure to die sometimes, lots of things happen when you die and it's okay.
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HopperUK posted:If you happen to be good at games, be sure to die sometimes, lots of things happen when you die and it's okay. Dying has literally no consequences in the game besides a few minutes wasted on a current mission if active. It has many fun and enjoyable benefits thanks to the overall design of the game.
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HopperUK posted:If you happen to be good at games, be sure to die sometimes, lots of things happen when you die and it's okay. Actually good advice, we're not kidding.
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Unfortunately if you buy the GOTY Edition of Shadow of Mordor (which might just be the default version now) it starts you off with all these OP weapon runes that make it almost impossible to die at the start. So if you want the full Nemesis experience you probably shouldn't use them.
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HopperUK posted:If you happen to be good at games, be sure to die sometimes, lots of things happen when you die and it's okay. I'm bad at games so don't worry, death is inevitable! exquisite tea posted:Unfortunately if you buy the GOTY Edition of Shadow of Mordor (which might just be the default version now) it starts you off with all these OP weapon runes that make it almost impossible to die at the start. So if you want the full Nemesis experience you probably shouldn't use them. After Red Dead Redemption gave me the world's most perfect horse and basically ruined me for horses thanks to the GOTY edition having all the good stuff in it, I've learned to be wary of DLC weapons. Oh, and this is a problem in Dynasty Warriors 7 and 8 as well - did you get the dlc weaponry? Congratulations it's power level 900 and can kill instantly. It is also usually shaped like a tennis racket or something equally silly.
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Mar 1, 2020 03:15
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm bad at games so don't worry, death is inevitable! Yeah I got that dlc edition of dw8 but fortunately the OP weapons are all so stupid looking I can’t bring myself to use them. It’s like the chicken hat in mgs5, being op comes with an unplayable aesthetic price
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Hmm I see that FF12: Zodiac Age is on sale, how big of an improvement is it over the original? Because I wanna replay it but I'm fine with the ps2 clunkiness, so if it's just, like, "We made the textures bigger and saturated everything" I'd just as soon save my money and replay it on my ps2.
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Omi no Kami posted:Hmm I see that FF12: Zodiac Age is on sale, how big of an improvement is it over the original? Because I wanna replay it but I'm fine with the ps2 clunkiness, so if it's just, like, "We made the textures bigger and saturated everything" I'd just as soon save my money and replay it on my ps2. Its a massive improvement over the original. If you really liked the generic everyone-can-do-anything style character progression well that's gone in favor of more specialized jobs but other than that its a huge upgrade in every way. Good port too
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Omi no Kami posted:Hmm I see that FF12: Zodiac Age is on sale, how big of an improvement is it over the original? Because I wanna replay it but I'm fine with the ps2 clunkiness, so if it's just, like, "We made the textures bigger and saturated everything" I'd just as soon save my money and replay it on my ps2. There are two major benefits: 1 - There are now classes, so the license board is no longer character based but class based. For FFXII TZA, you get to choose two classes per character. 6 characters, 12 classes, so you can go around the whole board in one run if you want. 2 - There is a new level of speed up, 4x or 8x. Helps for the slower moments, and VERY noticeable on the long treks. If it's PC, you also can get mods! Lots of people rebalanced skills/classes or have new themes, so there's some fun there. I personally wish they kept the difficulty as is, many of them are by experts who have played the game a lot and therefore aim for a higher difficulty, but it's an option. There are also QOL improvement mods, like graphics upgrades, camera, and making Montblanc able to reset classes. So you don't have to be locked into your choices if you're unsure. If you liked FFXII at all and want another run, I think it's an excellent buy and a big upgrade myself!
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It’s also got a bunch of built in cheats in case you want to speed things along (including a literal fast forward button)
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If the original you played wasn't the International version then it might as well count as a full remake.
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Nope, I played the bare-bones rear end, launch day original... I had no idea zodiac age was such a step up, I'm grabbing the heck out of it- thanks for the reviews!
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OgNar posted:I've been playing Tales from Candlekeep and was considering Gloomhaven which kinda looks like more of the same. Candlekeep is a digital version of the D&D Adventure Game System board games, which are pretty okay as physical board games. Gloomhaven is a digital version of the board game, which is considered to be the best dungeon crawler in the market by a tremendously wide margin. The campaign is the main reason to play it, but the gameplay itself is amazing and playing random dungeons may give you an idea of how tactical and crunchy it can be. The game relies very little on luck, which is also a great plus.
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider's photo mode lets you add some garish filters and I kind of love it.  
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Can't be happy with the wanton destruction and pilfering of ancient ruins, gotta get those likes.
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MMF Freeway posted:Its a massive improvement over the original. If you really liked the generic everyone-can-do-anything style character progression well that's gone in favor of more specialized jobs but other than that its a huge upgrade in every way. Good port too Omi no Kami posted:Nope, I played the bare-bones rear end, launch day original... I had no idea zodiac age was such a step up, I'm grabbing the heck out of it- thanks for the reviews! Something to note: The main storyline for the game was also made considerably easier, and you don't have to touch the gambits system until much later, if at all. Bonus fights (like 70% of the game's content) can still put up a challenge, but basic attacks will serve for quite a while.
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Question for the thread: I'm thinking about picking up Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition (since it comes with all the DLC while also being slightly cheaper than buying the game alone), along with one of the Final Fantasy games. I have it narrowed down to three, but I'm not sure which to get:
EDIT: I suppose there's also World of Final Fantasy, too, but I don't know anything about that, other than than you visit various FF games, where all the characters are cute chibi versions of themselves. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Omi no Kami posted:Nope, I played the bare-bones rear end, launch day original... I had no idea zodiac age was such a step up, I'm grabbing the heck out of it- thanks for the reviews! Insert name here posted:This is from a couple of pages back but I just want to say that this is spot on. People always like to compare The Division and Destiny because shoot mans but I don't thank they're very comparable; The Division (1 and 2) really have more in common with ARPGs like Diablo (especially in terms of stuff like itemization) than Destiny, which is more a shooter first with light RPG elements.
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zedprime posted:When you're creating your account you'll be flagged as a Euro-zone-whichever based on your IP and your choice of country will be within that zone. This sets your base currency and pricing/availability zone. Thanks for the clarification! Will I have a problem if I set my residence to Europe and I want to play with my friends in the US? I know latency can be affected but am I missing anything else?
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Zodiac age is much better than base FF12 just because of the fast forward but I don't think it does anything to fix the fundamental problems of the game (the story being nothing, combat being kind of rear end and less engaging than your average clicker game)
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12 is just not a good game no matter what version you play. Get 10, at least it's enjoyable and 10-2 isn't as bad as people freak out about.
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Givin posted:12 is just not a good game no matter what version you play. Get 10, at least it's enjoyable and 10-2 isn't as bad as people freak out about. 10-2 is great
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I had a lot of fun with FF12:ZA. I loved the combat, liked the story just fine, and played it for a long, long time. Just sayin'.
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Busy Bee posted:Thanks for the clarification!
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Givin posted:12 is just not a good game no matter what version you play. Get 10, at least it's enjoyable and 10-2 isn't as bad as people freak out about. X-2 is the best Final Fantasy game ever made.
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How is 15 story/gameplaywise, boy band jokes aside?
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Black Desert Online has good combat, classes and character customization, and it's all wasted on all these Korean MMO trappings that where already outdated 10 years ago. It's absolutely atrocious.
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anilEhilated posted:How is 15 story/gameplaywise, boy band jokes aside?
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So with a new internet connection i was finally able to download the new CoD Modern Warfare game. I'm just off of the back of playing Metro Exodus and holy poo poo is MW a much better optimised game. I thought with the settings cranked up to max that it'd take ages to load, but not at all. Exodus on the other hand can take almost 2 to 3 minutes for it to get there.
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Is it still running on the Quake 3 engine?
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4A Engine. It's made by some people who originally took part in the development of the engine used by the STALKER games and split when they just couldn't stand to work with it anymore because it sucked so much. e: assuming you meant Exodus. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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pretty sure COD is still rooted in id tech but it has come a very long way so I don't know if you could really say its running on a quake engine any more. this latest cod was a pretty reasonable step up in fidelity for once. and well optimised for PC.
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Max Wilco posted:[*] Final Fantasy XII I played very briefly, but never made any major progress in. However, I feel like I never gave it a fair shot. The only thing I really remember from it was that there some dumb thing where to get one of the super-powerful endgame weapons, you had to make sure not to open certain chests scattered throughout the game (I remember reading Zodiac Age removed that). I also remember that the game has a secret super-boss that has like 15 million HP. I asked about it over in the RPG thread, and was warned away from it, but the descriptions here make it sound like the Zodiac version is worth checking out. One of the big draws of it for me was that it was directed by the same guy (Yasumi Matsuno) who worked on stuff like Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and Vagrant Story, and that it tried for the same kind 'medieval-era wartime drama & political intrigue' type of plot, and that plot is still there, but it's bogged down by Square Enix mandating that they had to have a 'teenagers who want to be sky pirates' to appeal to Akihabara teens or something (might be mixing that up with Nier). You mentioned Matsuno, so prepare for the wall of words. This is his peak for me and I love all those games you mention. But he burned out very near the end of this game and left the project: you can see that in the very final bits of the plot where it devolves a little into typical FF bad guy writing and boss fight, but that's at the very, very end of a huge and lengthy story. If you like the kind of usual big sweeping countries at war plot told by a common person story that Matsuno has done before, this is where it gets done at scale. He's never done anything like this since, I think that burn out was pretty terminal sadly. The story is told from a teen, Vaan's perspective but he doesn't do the typical FF angsty teen much if at all - Penelo the other teen keeps him grounded when he does try to go in that direction. Some of the others in the party are more central to the plot and have far more consequential roles to play, so this is a very good thing - you're an observer along for the ride and your youth and inexperience lets you ask questions the others couldn't. It's great that while you're an observer to the fates of nations, you're along for far more individual reasons. The world is huge and lovingly made, with a depth to it. The gambit system is polarizing, but I think it works very well in a game like this that has a lot of combat over a very long story. The game is crisply made, there's a lot of attention to detail in UI and experience. There are many secrets and some secret bosses. The final secret boss was done by the team as an homage to Yasumi Matsuno (hence: Yiazmat, and the hunt is called "Farewell to a Legend"). I never fought it because it takes a couple hours supposedly, though I did all the other Elite Marks secret or not. The other long fights are nowhere near this extreme and I enjoyed them. I've never played an MMO other than to try out ESO and that Star Wars one because of write ups in this thread about how non-MMOish they are. Both were OK to me and I bounced off them, because I didn't like the MMO aspects - this game did not feel like either. So I don't get the MMO comparisons or criticism - the gameplay systems work well together, including the gambit-based combat. It feels like any of his other games - very cohesive and everything works together. If you like Matsuno's games in general, this is a must buy. It's not a typical FF game - it's very recognizably his creation just done at the scale of production of an AAAAA FF game. E: I remember an interview with Matsuno who said that the story was significantly improved by making Vaan ("teen caught up in big things") the initial focus of the story instead of Basch ("silent hero with deep secrets") as originally planned. I like that part of the writing. So if that's holding you back - and why not, it's every FF game - don't worry about it. v1ld fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Speaking of MMORPGs, I'm just waiting for Path of Fire to go on a 50% sale before hopping back into Guild Wars 2 for a ride from start to finish. Path of Fire comes with a free Heart of Thorns now. Very nice. I was also itching for card games and decided to reinstall Slay the Spire. Apparently it's 2.0 now with more content and a fourth character. Super sweet. I also got back into Monster Hunter World after beating The Division 2. I also still need to continue D:OS 2. Goodbye free time.
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I'm a couple hours into Hollow Knight, just defeated the Mantis Lords and went into Deepnest. Is there some kind of light radius upgrade I can get that eventually makes this area less annoying? Also, I feel like I missed something in Fungal Wastes. Some NPC told me about upgrading my nail near the old city before Mantis Lords but I couldn't see a way to progress past the bridge.
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