Gizmojunk
Antediluvian as Feck
Play the campaigns as a Thief leader; the additional city options are worth it.
General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?
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Antediluvian as Feck
Okay, I will put it on my wish list and wait for it to go on sale and then buy it.
Regarding Live A Live, glad to hear it. What has been your favorite storyline so far?
Mine is the near future story as I loved all the Japanese anime tropes
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
It was actually the far future chapter. I'm a fan of Alien and Aliens, so it was pretty cool that the whole chapter was an homage to the first movie (mixed with 2001 Space Oddysey with a rouge AI). Plus it was nice to have a chapter that does something different than the other chapters, keeps things fresh.
Cube was definitely in my party in the final chapter, it's a pretty damn busted character.
That was also an interesting story and I enjoyed it a lot going the first time through it. Indeed a very good mix of both Alien and 2001.
Its been a while since I played Live A Live so I don't recall if Cube was overpowered or not.
The Cowboy chapter was also very different compared to the other campaigns.
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
It's a tanky character with high damage and it can also heal. My party was the cowboy, the ninja and cube, made short work of the final chapter.
Beat the main story of Dragon Quest 3 remake. It's the Dragon Quest shit i love, so obviously had a lot of fun. Plenty of story segments that weren't in the original, gives the story and characters more weight.
Now to go for the postgame stuff, apparently there's a bunch of shit to do.
Oh damn, Dragon Quest. I have forgotten about those. The first one for NES is the first RPG I've ever played I think.
Completed Elden Ring, 100% blind playthrough, it took me 78 hours.
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
Getting a bundle remake with 2 that comes out this October, definitely getting that. I think old NES games are some of the best examples for modern remakes, specially if they are in a long running series, just to see how it is with all the improvements of the sequels.
The remake of the first one is the one i'm most interested about, specially since they have shown that fights are no longer just one on ones.
I honestly don't remember much of that game except for some vague images. I was maybe 10 or 12 when I played it. I might check it out though, but with a backlog of around 50 titles, that doesn't seem too likely for the time being.
Krizu
I personally welcome our feline overlords
I recently bought Manor Lords, so I think I'll be playing it for a bit, though I haven't started it yet.
Prior to the summer, when I played more actively, I really enjoyed Reciever 2. A very charming indie game for gun nuts lol
Prior to the summer, when I played more actively, I really enjoyed Reciever 2. A very charming indie game for gun nuts lol
Well just finished Lost Vikings 2.
I made the experience easier for me by using save states as well as the extra powers cheat, but some of the puzzles and fights can be so annoying as your characters can die so quickly even if you try to play it as safe as possible. Especially the last level can be a bitch.
This Saturday I also gave Robocop Rogue City Unfinished Business a try as I played Robocop Rogue City.
I don't know why but I didn't find it as engaging as the main game, finding it somewhat 'lacking'. There is something missing despite that the experience is the same.
I made the experience easier for me by using save states as well as the extra powers cheat, but some of the puzzles and fights can be so annoying as your characters can die so quickly even if you try to play it as safe as possible. Especially the last level can be a bitch.
This Saturday I also gave Robocop Rogue City Unfinished Business a try as I played Robocop Rogue City.
I don't know why but I didn't find it as engaging as the main game, finding it somewhat 'lacking'. There is something missing despite that the experience is the same.
After finishing Lost Vikings 2 I decided to get back to Lost Vikings 1 and finish that game properly.
Yeah I used save states again in order to overcome the difficulty as there are just too many situations in which one can lose quickly.
I want to play this game for fun and not frustration because the characters fall onto instant death spikes or electric currents.
All and all I enjoyed this game and only had to use a walkthrough a few times in order to progress.
I guess its now back to Robocop Rogue City Unfinished Business.
Yeah I used save states again in order to overcome the difficulty as there are just too many situations in which one can lose quickly.
I want to play this game for fun and not frustration because the characters fall onto instant death spikes or electric currents.
All and all I enjoyed this game and only had to use a walkthrough a few times in order to progress.
I guess its now back to Robocop Rogue City Unfinished Business.
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
Got Robocop Unfinished Business. It's more of the same stuff that made the original great, but it seems at least the PC port has a myriad of technical issues like stuttering, framerate drops, texture pop-in, and just models loading in the middle of cutscenes. They should have delayed it honestly.
If you're a fan of the original but still haven't gotten this standalone expansion, i would wait for patches to come in.
If you're a fan of the original but still haven't gotten this standalone expansion, i would wait for patches to come in.
What I found comical was that at the start of the game it failed to load a model for one of the NPCs, all I saw was his hat floating in the air.
That had me confused for a moment until I realized what was going on.
It gave me a good laugh but it's indeed disappointing that these flaws remain in the game.
How far are you by now?
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
The cutscene where Robocop reaches the OmniTower took forever to load, character models had only their floating head for like thirty seconds. Kind of funny, but really jarring and disappointing that they released the game like this.
Mission where you play as Alex Muprhy.
ZooBis
First time out of the vault
Currently playing Trepang2 and so far it's been a blast with its over the top slow motion combat. I eventually plan to play F.E.A.R. as it was the biggest inspiration for the game. From what I've heard F.E.A.R. was memorable and praised for its advanced AI along with its over the top slow mo violence. The biggest drawback I faced from Trepang2 is the engine it uses since UE4 is demanding, which doesn't even look good in medium setting while still getting some occasional stutters.
Been wanting to get Trepang2 because I liked FEAR so much. FEAR's AI isn't really all that advanced, it just does things it should do but it also makes you aware of what they intend to do. Enemies say things like "make some fucking cover" or "fall back" and other shit like that while doing those actions so it feels more advanced than it is.
The illusion is what really seemed to matter though, people still praise the enemies in that game for being ahead of their time when from what I understand, they were doing pretty normal shit, maybe batting above average in the grand scheme of things. They create cover by altering the environment mid-fight, they try to flush you out, they cover each other while reloading, they fall back when they need to, but none of that really is complicated and sometimes it's even scripted to do that exact thing but it rarely felt like that.
I just finished Robocop Unfinished Business. All and all it was an okay experience marred with some graphical glitches such as pop ins that should be addressed by the developers.
Its definitely an expansion for people who liked the original game and would like to see more of it.
As I mentioned before in my other post about this game, it started to get a little repetitive after a while, and I needed a break to do something else to refresh my interest in playing and finishing the game.
Now if I have to compare Unfinished Business with Teyon's Terminator Annihilation Line, I think I enjoyed that game a bit more even if it was also more Terminator Resistance.
I guess the open world maps appeal to me more.
Not to say that I think Unfinished Business is bad, but now that I have played I don't think I want to go through it again.
Its definitely an expansion for people who liked the original game and would like to see more of it.
As I mentioned before in my other post about this game, it started to get a little repetitive after a while, and I needed a break to do something else to refresh my interest in playing and finishing the game.
Playing Alex Murphy before he became Robocop was okay but I am not sure if we should have been playing Miranda or the mercenary lieutenant. Basically its an interactive cut scene.
Sure it tells us more about these characters, Miranda more than the lieutenant whose plotline feels like it was tacked on as it did not add much to the general story.
I think the biggest highlight of playing other roles is when the player gets to play an ED-209. Playing as a murder machine was surprisingly fun as we get to stomp through waves and waves of mercenaries, making them experience what Kinny experienced when an Ed-209 goes all lethal on them
Sure it tells us more about these characters, Miranda more than the lieutenant whose plotline feels like it was tacked on as it did not add much to the general story.
I think the biggest highlight of playing other roles is when the player gets to play an ED-209. Playing as a murder machine was surprisingly fun as we get to stomp through waves and waves of mercenaries, making them experience what Kinny experienced when an Ed-209 goes all lethal on them
Now if I have to compare Unfinished Business with Teyon's Terminator Annihilation Line, I think I enjoyed that game a bit more even if it was also more Terminator Resistance.
I guess the open world maps appeal to me more.
Not to say that I think Unfinished Business is bad, but now that I have played I don't think I want to go through it again.
Silica Pathways
First time out of the vault
Playing some of Bethesda's open world TES games. Apparently have the Open Cities mod installed and view distance set to full, since I can see far and I see activity in city from outside of it. And also there's some lag when turning around. See some raiders on horses attack the city. They see me, ride towards me, attack me, hit me, pass me, I quickly turn around and swing my huge two handed sword. Heads roll, nice, apparently, the dismemberment mod is also on. Turns out I've nicked horses too, they also managed to die. Can loot all corpses, even horses, only meat from horses, but better than nothing, I guess. Found some magic arrows on the raiders too. Going to the city, found a mage-trader on my way. Turns out fella has a lot of quests and I could do a quest that requires full set of those arrows, just need one more type of arrow. Then, unfortunately, the worst part comes - I wake up 
The sword was real nice though, I'll try to reconjure it in some future dreams too, definitely beats some lousy shooting weapons with low dmg.
But IRL I'm still doing SSL. Still no Mugen, since still waiting for a new gamepad, the seller figured to take twice as long to make the delivery.
The sword was real nice though, I'll try to reconjure it in some future dreams too, definitely beats some lousy shooting weapons with low dmg.
But IRL I'm still doing SSL. Still no Mugen, since still waiting for a new gamepad, the seller figured to take twice as long to make the delivery.
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Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
I actually thought it was pretty good and had an overall great time. Really my biggest issue was the technical issues, this expansion should have been delayed to deal with the stuttering, framerate drops and models taking forever to load.
But yeah, i think the base game is considerably better. I am gonna wait for patches and maybe when they add New Game Plus before i do another playthrough.