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Post by freknur on Feb 23, 2022 9:36:12 GMT -5
I'm addicted to "Vampire Survivors." It's a great game that's all about putting together the best build you can in a half-hour run. The graphics are terrible, but the gameplay along with the meta-mechanics lead to an addictive cycle that is hard to escape from.
I also play Dwarf Fortress from time to time, but I usually get frustrated quickly. I'm eagerly awaiting the Steam release, though. I think it could be really good.
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Post by Digol on Mar 1, 2022 5:56:24 GMT -5
A huge agree with freknur in that I am also very much looking forward to the Steam Dwarf Fortress release. Otherwise, I was playing Dragon Quest Builders II (don't bother playing the first one, the second is much better), incredible game, really amazing localisation as well. Of course I have now been completely derailed by Elden Ring, which really is very very good indeed.
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Post by mahrgdidj on Mar 2, 2022 10:05:39 GMT -5
…Of course I have now been completely derailed by Elden Ring, which really is very very good indeed. Yup, the wait was worth it. If anybody wants to co-op or cross swords, I’m MahrGDidj on PSN.
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Post by Digol on Mar 3, 2022 6:34:25 GMT -5
…Of course I have now been completely derailed by Elden Ring, which really is very very good indeed. Yup, the wait was worth it. If anybody wants to co-op or cross swords, I’m MahrGDidj on PSN. Sadly I am on PC or I would jump in - I dream of the utopia of cross play across all the systems
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Post by crystallogic13 on Mar 6, 2022 4:48:37 GMT -5
Indeed Elden Ring seems to be totally worth it, although there seems to be a lot of problems with the PC version, at least for some people.. (Bandai seems I think is having quite the opposite situation of what CD-Project RED with Cyberpunk -great PC release but buggy console one).. While the Souls franchise and type of games are so legendary, I find this kind of difficulty very hard, so I'll probably watch a lot of it through streams youtube I'm afraid, though I'm jealous of people who can push through As always my VG playlist seems kinda stuck, alternating betweeen the usual Magic (Microprose's old one patched with Manalink), some Diablo 3, emulators and checking games, but yesterday I got away and enjoyed 2-3 levels of Brutal Doom, which is so great and relaxing (yes I used though IDKFA and IDDQD no shame ) ..
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Post by beeebon on Mar 31, 2022 0:05:28 GMT -5
Spelunky. Fiendishly difficult 'rogue-like' platformer but very addictive. I am really crap at it though!
Recently started Deponia which is a pretty satisfying modern point and click adventure.
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Post by Daytol on Mar 31, 2022 0:15:48 GMT -5
Spelunky. Fiendishly difficult 'rogue-like' platformer but very addictive. I am really crap at it though! ^I've got that on my Chromebook (no sound though, as it was unofficially ported) and played the scaled-down PICO-8 version. It's cool!
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Apr 1, 2022 14:32:34 GMT -5
Now that Cyberpunk 2077 FINALLY got the console upgrade to current generations earlier this year, I've been playing it and finally it's starting to become the game it should be. The more I play, the more I get into it. Not the gameplay itself necessarily: the mechanics are pretty simple, straightforward and in some aspects even rudimentary for a modern game, but the writing is so good. There are NPC's you really learn to care about, stories you want to see unwind, etc. Part of the missions have pretty good design, with multiple ways of completing them. However, the world design just isn't as fun and, uh, learnable as in, say, GTA V. You never start feeling "home" in it like you know your way around it with ease.
And there still are lots of bugs in the game, from dialogue going missing to music glitches to UI bugs and so on. And some missions have pretty clumsy design with little indication of where you should go.
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Post by beeebon on Apr 18, 2022 1:09:04 GMT -5
Darkest Dungeon. Very addictive
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Post by forrestdweller on Apr 20, 2022 8:25:17 GMT -5
Playing: TES IV: Oblivion. (Perfect game to play along to Dungeon Synth of choice)
Was minding my own business up to level 6. Then out of nowhere I got some sickness while fighting a bandit in a cave, then someone came and bit into my neck and sucked the life out of me. So then I came up to someone at a camp who was asleep, tried to interact with them. Two choices: Feed person or wake up and talk to sleeping person... Me being the nice person that I am, I decided to "feed the hungry" ...right?
...Well guess what? Instead of giving them a piece of bread and carrot like I thought I would... My character ended up kneeling down and sucking the hickey right off their neck... Guess I'm living the vampire life now...
I go to see my last save... I... saved over everything since level 1. No other real saves going up to level 6, right around the time I became infected with Vampirism. Left with 2 choices: Roll back to the prison and try to save the king again... Or die in the sun as I wake up in a bed roll of a random camp outdoors at level 6 with no chance of riding my horse and it's armor to a chapel to cure my newfound Vampirism...
Great I'm level 1 one again. I live and I learn with a bitter grudge in my taint... Note to self, make multiple saves and make consistent saves all the time, everywhere... Cause Nosferatu feeding on everybody out here...
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Post by Daytol on Apr 20, 2022 9:37:12 GMT -5
^Sounds like one of those nasty traps you learn in video games the hard way, just like with the original PC game of Starflight: you get your ship destroyed, you have to reinstall everything (seriously!), start the entire game over and not make the same mistake again.
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Post by forrestdweller on Apr 20, 2022 9:55:30 GMT -5
^Sounds like one of those nasty traps you learn in video games the hard way, just like with the original PC game of Starflight: you get your ship destroyed, you have to reinstall everything (seriously!), start the entire game over and not make the same mistake again. Exactly like that, the same feeling at least. I was shocked at how screwed I was having to go back to the prison cave where I started. The Elder Scrolls games are brutal. First time playing Oblivion since playing Morrowind as a kid every Sunday. I can't imagine how pissed you were when you had to restart in Starflight back in the day.
I wish I knew what was happening to me before-hand so I could have fixed it with a "cure disease" potion that would have taken care of it in three days before I turned fully into a vampire where the sunlight kills me rapidly, leaving me with no other choice than to get to a chapel to cure it from by a priest that makes you do a long quest to fix it. I could have made it there if my character woke up in the middle of the night but that didn't happen.
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Post by Daytol on Apr 20, 2022 18:28:43 GMT -5
I can't imagine how pissed you were when you had to restart in Starflight back in the day. Actually it wasn't *too* bad because I wasn't that far into the game. And I think I got the Sega Genesis version not long afterwards, which they really improved everything overall as compared to the pc version; if your ship was lost you could just go back to your last saved game. I wish I knew what was happening to me before-hand so I could have fixed it with a "cure disease" potion that would have taken care of it in three days before I turned fully into a vampire where the sunlight kills me rapidly, leaving me with no other choice than to get to a chapel to cure it from by a priest that makes you do a long quest to fix it. Yeah, it would've been nice, eh? The Intellivison game of Swords and Serpents had a nasty trap too. It was an overhead-viewed fighting dungeon crawler where levels had scrolls scattered around the place. Some of them were decent but others; eh. Several of them, once read, said "ye read, ye move", and it'd move you and your friend to another area of the maze. Get far enough into the game and you find out the hard way of the "Fool's Folly" scroll, where you're transported to a closed off little room where you get swarmed by bad guys. There's no way out; you'll just eventually get killed and then it's game over. They provided a map of the first level, complete with scroll locations in the instructions (if I remember correctly) when you bought the game, but other than that...
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Post by forrestdweller on Apr 20, 2022 22:00:44 GMT -5
I can't imagine how pissed you were when you had to restart in Starflight back in the day. Actually it wasn't *too* bad because I wasn't that far into the game. And I think I got the Sega Genesis version not long afterwards, which they really improved everything overall as compared to the pc version; if your ship was lost you could just go back to your last saved game. I wish I knew what was happening to me before-hand so I could have fixed it with a "cure disease" potion that would have taken care of it in three days before I turned fully into a vampire where the sunlight kills me rapidly, leaving me with no other choice than to get to a chapel to cure it from by a priest that makes you do a long quest to fix it. Yeah, it would've been nice, eh? The Intellivison game of Swords and Serpents had a nasty trap too. It was an overhead-viewed fighting dungeon crawler where levels had scrolls scattered around the place. Some of them were decent but others; eh. Several of them, once read, said "ye read, ye move", and it'd move you and your friend to another area of the maze. Get far enough into the game and you find out the hard way of the "Fool's Folly" scroll, where you're transported to a closed off little room where you get swarmed by bad guys. There's no way out; you'll just eventually get killed and then it's game over. They provided a map of the first level, complete with scroll locations in the instructions (if I remember correctly) when you bought the game, but other than that... Oh that's good they patched the annoying part out in the Genesis version. That's just cruel to have the game throw you into an unbeatable level where enemies swarm you like that with no chance at victory.
I think there has been an old school CRPG revival lately with older more hardcore rpgs being remade lately with better graphics but the same systems. Which is cool to be honest. Or you can always replay a lot of the old classics on MS-DOS and other old systems on Archive.org where you can download them or most are playable right in the browser. It's mostly before my time but I was playing an old Simpsons arcade game on there and was enjoying it a lot!
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Post by Daytol on Apr 20, 2022 22:39:32 GMT -5
^I know what you mean, I found out about an old school bbs a few weeks ago that has games on it that I need to download some software to get it to run in a browser and check it out Oh that's good they patched the annoying part out in the Genesis version. Plus you could save a whopping TWO games at once on it! Starflight 2 had an easier way of going back to a game if your ship got destroyed/the game ended but I forget what it was. Except for the surprise storyline (how the hell did that weenie blob race from the original Starflight get so damn powerful?) it wasn't much of a step up from the original Starflight so I never beat it. It was just pretty much the same old same old, even with new races and all. That's just cruel to have the game throw you into an unbeatable level where enemies swarm you like that with no chance at victory. Yeah, at least that's another thing to like about the Genesis version where you can hit a wormhole into Uhlek territory just to see how long you can last against their warships That's a fun challenge. With the pc original the interface is clunky and slower.
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