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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 4, 2024 10:55:01 GMT -5
I am playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 since a few month. Don't want to finish it, so I keep myself busy with the challenges and sidequests 🙂 I remember I was looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2 for years after all the hype, but was just waiting until graphics cards became available so that I could upgrade my pc. When I was finally able to, I just couldn't get into it at all for whatever reason, but I never made it past the initial snowy areas which I guess is sort of like the tutorial, so I don't think it gave it a proper chance. One of these days I think I will get really hooked on it. I liked the first one a lot and have liked all the GTA games.
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Post by ancientdread on Mar 4, 2024 13:26:20 GMT -5
I am playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 since a few month. Don't want to finish it, so I keep myself busy with the challenges and sidequests 🙂 I remember I was looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2 for years after all the hype, but was just waiting until graphics cards became available so that I could upgrade my pc. When I was finally able to, I just couldn't get into it at all for whatever reason, but I never made it past the initial snowy areas which I guess is sort of like the tutorial, so I don't think it gave it a proper chance. One of these days I think I will get really hooked on it. I liked the first one a lot and have liked all the GTA games. Yes, the snowy area in the beginning is really something like a tutorial. The later game is way different with all its missions and details to discover. In parallel I am playing RDR1 on my PS3 from time to time (found this for small money on a flee market). I think, its a cool game which defines the setting for RDR, but RDR2 puts much more on top. And if you like the GTA series, you will recognize some game elements in RDR2. So I would give it another chance ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 5, 2024 1:10:19 GMT -5
I definitely will give Red Dead 2 another chance eventually, but for the near future I'm kind of wanting to try out a bunch of small indie games I think. I just beat Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos, and wow, I don't even know where to begin. As a free mod (for Gothic II), it is a mindblowing experience, such a labor of love. I sank hundreds of hours into it and loved every minute, but I must say it did not have to be so damn long! But it's not like anything was rushed or padded, there is an insane amount of detail from beginning to end, and it ends in a very satisfying climactic way. Honestly it kind of blows Gothic I and II out of the water. I wouldn't say it'd be good for a beginner to start with necessarily though, because even I myself going way back with Piranha Bytes playing the first Gothic when it came out, found this to be overwhelming at times. I had to look up quest solutions fairly often, because this is definitely not a modern RPG with quest-markers and a mini-map and all that, and I honestly only have so much patience for that sort of old-school tedium. You have to pay attention to the dialogue a lot of the time, or else struggle to decipher the short cryptic journal entries, but that all contributes to the special hardscrabble immersive feeling that made the Gothic games so special. I feel like I could write a ten-page essay about it and still not do it justice. Perfect atmosphere, perfect difficulty progression, perfect combat mechanics, perfect beautiful environment design, and the Polish voice acting seemed excellent but I don't know the language so I can't say too much about that, but the recording quality and inflections all sounded consistent and professional to me. The story and characters I'd also say were good, but in that classic janky sort of Gothic way, warts and all (such as very few female characters). It seemed by the end cinematic that there were a lot of possibilities for changing the outcome of the story. The one thing I think it was lacking was more original music. I think most of the music was from Gothic II (I could be mistaken), and as great as that is and as well as it fits, it did get a bit repetitive after a while. My favorite moment, late in the game, you are at the monastery of the water mages and if you pick a certain overconfident dialogue option with a random mage you encounter, he does a spell that shrinks you to mouse size, and so then suddenly you're navigating these same spaces but with furnitures being the size of buildings and trying to avoid giant larvae and whatnot. That caught me completely by suprise and was such a creative way to use these same assets we've been seeing everywhere but in a fresh way. Anyways, sorry for this long rambling post. There are so many things I want to say about this game, but I am ready to move on to something else! But yeah, total masterpiece, and it's a shame that maybe only die-hard Gothic freaks will be able to properly appreciate it.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 5, 2024 1:24:44 GMT -5
Also, about Archolos I forgot to mention: You can own your own home and decorate it in a variety of ways and store your stuff in a chest and bookshelf and use workbenches and teleport from there and have a dog who guards the door! I thought that was so damn cool and added quite a bit to the feeling of immersion, like properly living in this world. I wish every RPG did this, but even more in-depth. I wish every RPG had like a foundation of game mechanics like the Sims.
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Post by talvisynth on Apr 30, 2024 7:03:29 GMT -5
- Season 4 going in retail WoW and working on some new gear for my main (ret pala) and a couple of alts that turned out the most active ones for this expansion (demo lock, frost dk). My raiding years are long gone (stepped down already at the end of MoP), thus running casual with LFR (awakened now in S4), weekly dungeons (4 x m0 & timewalking when up) + some occasional solo & transmog runs.
- Replaying System Shock Remake as it just received a major patch with a lot of fixes and adjustments and some content changes. This time trying out the new the female hacker option, and difficulties set at combat 3, mission 2, cyber 1 and puzzle 2.
- Yesterday I started Phantasmagoria from '95 just on a whim. I've got fond memories of reading the PC magazines back in the 90's when these new "multimedia games" started to appear as the CD-ROM was hip. All kinds of janky FMV gringe was released back then and games like this could easily take up to 4-6 CDs with all their pre-rendered scenes, video material and voice acting crammed in. As far as I've followed a couple of Sierra games and point & click groups in FB, Phantasmagoria enjoys a cult status, and I personally remember some hype around it in the old magazines, but never got to play it myself back in the day. Now I finally picked it up from GOG for some good ol' 90's vibes (once again). \o/ Also purchased Phantasmagoria 2 on the same go, so checking that out once done with the 1st game.
- Which reminds me, I've got a couple of minutes (re)played in with Space Quest V and Larry 7. Gotta continue those at some point as well.
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Post by soarloser on May 5, 2024 21:14:09 GMT -5
just magic the gathering for me, and skyrim I guess
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Post by fleshmelt on Jul 7, 2024 12:01:48 GMT -5
i've been replaying resident evil 4 which i beat earlier this year but i'm doing another playthrough just so i can get enough ptas for the infinite rocket launcher so i can blast my way through each level for fun
i also picked up the castlevania anniversary collection which has been pretty good so far, alot less punishing than what i was expecting but i've been cheesing it in ways that castlevania purists will not agree with lol
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Post by crystallogic13 on Jul 9, 2024 3:31:32 GMT -5
So many great games mentioned in last pages : - The hype is getting me to play asap Disco Elysium! I roleplay my actual irl alignment(Chaotic Good) in rpgs, but a punishing game while intriguing sounds hard to swallow for me BUT otherwise your comments reminded me to put the game on my "must play/check", since as it seems its a one of its kind!!! Really hoping to play this one at last in the following year and not forget it .. - About Red Dead Redemption 2 , it is a classic, a gritty and epic game, I loved it from start to finish and as you mentioned, I kinda took it "slowly' since i didn't want it to "end" (the main story since after the end you can keep playing). I don't have enough GREAT words to say about it, it is a must play for all and even more you will worship it if you like GTAs, or Wild West/ Western movies / Spaghetti Westerns!! And it is indeed gritty, and a wonderful game to lose hours just wandering around.. Words can not do justice, I love it and still have it installed for the occasional relaxing play!
- Regarding good old Sierra etc adventure games, Adventures and RPGs as genres were my favorites from way back then, the fans also usually were into both genres! I have still great memories playing as a kid the classics, but some of them were classics and some of them not so much!!! While I will always love Larry 1, Larry 2 and 3 were mediocre at best for example, Space Quest started imho just okish with #1 and #2 but Space Quest 3 was the real deal, a great game! King's Quest also started with a classic although dated KQ1 and had #2 and #3 which I didn't like at all but came back with #4 being a great game (Sq3 and Kq4 had the latest and best parser version of Sierra's engine).. Police Quest while I played endless endless hours as a kid, is more than a "read manual" game than anything else, you really had to check the manual in every scene of the game to be sure you didn't forget to make a cop check or instakill would get you - eventually I consider PQ series probably the worse of Sierra).. From these early parser Sierra titles the ABSOLUTE BEST FAVORITE and you name it, is/was of course Quest for Glory (aka Hero's Quest) series, which is a combination of adventure and RPG unmatched, even today I load up QfG1 and play from time to time, such a perfect fame.. - I never had a problem to consult a solution/walkthrough, or maybe before that some hints (like the Universal Hint System) if I get stuck!! Back in the day you had to either buy a book or probably a magazine that monthly posted solutions from adventures to get unstuck, or send a letter and maaaaaybe get an answer, so you either wait or try and try for hours what little spot you missed and get on.. But even then I never had remorse when I got stuck, time is precious even more now we are older and with technology providing us millions of things to do so if I get stuck today, after a 5 minute break no problem to just check online!! Life is short dear adventurers and dungeon dwellers
- Andrew you are a beast for going into hardcore Gothic mods.. I only played a couple of hours of the first Gothic, always wanted to focus on it and the whole series but it didn't happen, even after all these years.. Might check the remake maybe to lit the spark..
- soarloser I'm also a MtG junkie for years and years and years, thankfully I'm off Arena mostly , but I get my daily dose off Manalink fan-patched-mod (of original Microprose's GREAT GREAT GREAT PERFECT MtG to PC adaptation, much much faster that Arena)!! If you haven't checked it out please do, if you have any problems tell me but you should have no problem, definitely recommend, I actually have my whole inventory (not all cards are in though, no newer ones unfortunately) in the game so I make decks in game with my actual real life inventory, playtest em, have great fun.. Daily addiction mate, harder than the worst drugs for all these years ..
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jul 11, 2024 23:41:24 GMT -5
Andrew you are a beast for going into hardcore Gothic mods.. I only played a couple of hours of the first Gothic, always wanted to focus on it and the whole series but it didn't happen, even after all these years.. Might check the remake maybe to lit the spark.. I played Gothic around when it came out when I was 11, and have been continuing to play Piranha Bytes games ever since, so it's hardwired and feels like home to me. I imagine it would probably be quite difficult to get into playing it for the first time today, but it's worth it for those who can.
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Post by crystallogic13 on Jul 12, 2024 0:11:36 GMT -5
Andrew you are a beast for going into hardcore Gothic mods.. I only played a couple of hours of the first Gothic, always wanted to focus on it and the whole series but it didn't happen, even after all these years.. Might check the remake maybe to lit the spark.. I played Gothic around when it came out when I was 11, and have been continuing to play Piranha Bytes games ever since, so it's hardwired and feels like home to me. I imagine it would probably be quite difficult to get into playing it for the first time today, but it's worth it for those who can. My best friend (departed in 2008 ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) ) was a Gothic fan and back in the day we had fan times trying to locate the Night of the Raven expansion which was only in German unfortunately... He loved it (he was hardcore RPG/Adventurer, the good old oldschool orthodox way ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ) and always telling me to start it but I only later did and never gave it a proper chance.. Another game unrelated he always pushing me to play was Realms of the Haunting, a 1st view horror adventure/rpg, which I also fired up in summer 2013 but never got far into it though it had huge atmospheres, especially since i was playing it at my home village ... Regarding Gothic, too bad I just read yesterday I think that its rights or its studios/developers, along with Risen and Elex I think were bought by some damn big corporate entity which is disolving them ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Damned corporate suits...
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jul 12, 2024 0:50:06 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your best friend's passing, but it sounds like he had good taste. I think Realms of the Haunting is another totally fascinating and inventive game, though one I personally found too cumbersome to get very far. But there is such a powerful visual aesthetic to that 2.5d adventuring, uniquely luscious textures.
It sucks to hear Piranha Bytes is probably not long for this world, but it's not surprising. I honestly have not even bought Elex II yet. I enjoyed the Risen games, but they were a step down, just the Gothic formula with updated graphics and clumsy attempts to make it more accessible to a larger audience. I played a bit of the first Elex but couldn't get into it at the time, and even when that came out I felt like I didn't really understand how they were funded. The last inspired game was Gothic 3, but it was basically released unfinished and needs a community patch to even be playable. It seems like ever since then they've just been trying to play it safe and stay afloat as a business, and you can kind of feel that in the games I think unfortunately. I should play those Elex games fully though, maybe they are awesome. I'm going to start installing Elex now.
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