The Many a True Nerd video for Callisto Protocal suggested that the jeopardy is taken out of the melee dodging system as soon as you realise that if you just start every fight (against the mooks, at least) holding a direction then you'll be absolutely fine.
My general experience is that if a game is this divisive then it's basically a 6.5/10 which one lot have decided is a manky turd and one lot have decided is an underappreciated megaclassic and must be defended to the death.
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How you getting on with it now you've had it a month? I've ordered another, after selling my initial preorder to CeX for profit.
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Run to the Epic Store within the next 18 hours if you want Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics for nowt.
There's some other good stuff coming up too. Mutant Year Zero if you want a twist on XCOM type stuff. Prey. Control (lots of people like it a bit more than I did.)
I must have been offered that Prey game for free from like 5 different services and I’ll still never play it.
I downloaded the 2006 Prey the other day. I'm more interested in checking that out. Now that Unreal's off store shelves, I wonder how quick those games will wind up on abandonware sites.
I got a 360 with the 2006 Prey and it fucking blew my mind back then. First taste of HD gaming and having had a shite PC for a few years only it looked amazing.
It was pretty good at the time though but I imagine its aged like a Chernobyl victim.
Then I got Gears of War. Holy shit that was incredible.
The 2006 Prey is an absolutely atrocious game.
You're an atrocious game.
Picked up Disco Elysium for cheap. It passed me by on release and know very little about it, but every mention of it is so glowing so terms agreed and contracts signed, here we go!
Punch Cuno.
I die a lot. Or at least, I did.
Finally fucked up the Tree Sentinel yesterday, after grinding myself to a semi-respectable level, though.
Turns out I'm a major n00b, and ran over there when I first emerged into the world, thinking I could do him over, before getting annihilated.
Good times
I am loving it but I would say that it is in a bit of a niche area for general gamers. The facebook groups have been flooded with new owners who don't have an understanding of pc gaming etc. If you don't mind a little bit of tweaking here and there it is great, but some people seem to think it was just a switch pro.
Anyone here play War Thunder at all? It's free so worth a go at least.
It's one of the only non-FM games I seem to have any patience for these days. Tanks, planes and ships so plenty of variation and there are arcade/realistic/simulator modes depending on how arsed you can be.
I've hit mid-Diamond in SC2 which is higher than I ever got 10 years ago when I was actually trying.
Is it because you got better, or because it is easier now?
I think I am better but mainly I think I care less so I'm able to crank out more games without raging. Also possibly a bit of a meta-shift maybe? TBH I have no idea.
Could be a smaller community now as well. Still, progress is progress.
Leagues are still divided by percentage of playerbase.
Started Prodeus on Steam.
Glorious thing. Old school FPS, no fat, just shoot, gore, intricate levels, secrets. Love it so much.
I'll be giving it a go at some point. Heard the minigun is a joyous thing.
I got miles morales. I’d advise getting it now or waiting till the next winter sale because there’s a small joy from playing a game set at Christmas on Christmas.
GeForce Now is garbage.
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Bought Marvel's Midnight Suns today.
Haven't played much so far but it is very XCOM-ie as you'd expect but it does lean a lot heavier on the RPG aspect than XCOM.
Just did the first mission with Blade and he's my early favourite so far.
Went back to Gran Turismo 7 for the first time in a while. I can't be arsed with it much beyond car collecting. I forgot how crap the roulette pulls were. I rarely got a car out of them. I was also hoping to go back to more new tracks. Just Road Atlanta is new for me.
Whilst I'm the mood for ticking boxes, Vampire Survivors is still pulling me in. I should get the DLC but I've not wrung everything out of the base content yet.
Had a game on PES 2013 today, Liverpool vs England. Liverpool team was shocking. Borini, Allen and Kelly all started by default.
Games fantastic though. Trying to decide whether to stick with that or PES6, now I’ve got option files working for both.
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Was doing a mission just now which crashed at the very end 3 times :\
Hadn't been too buggy for me up until this point. I had thought it was because I ended the mission in a funky way (created a portal then pushed the last remaining goon through the portal off the building) but when I tried a "normal" KO approach it still crashed.
Finished Triangle Strategy yesterday. It was pretty good, in the end. The battles were fairly challenging, although the AI is a bit shit. Very often I felt like I won via cheesing my way through the moronic AI as opposed to coming up with some amazing tactics. I feel a bit tempted to try some of the other paths, but I most likely will never bother.
Now onto Tactics Ogre Reborn until the new Fire Emblem comes out.
Would be keen to hear your take on Tactics Ogre Reborn. Loved the original game, but I worry it might be a bit too tedious now (I remember a lot of grinding for levels and badges).
Spent an ungodly amount of time updating the roster of Here Comes The Pain on PS2, with dreams of creating Kenny Omega and playing through thecampaign/story/season mode, only to find out I’m absolutely dreadful at the game.
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So far it has been the opposite of Triangle Strategy. The beginning of TS was too heavy on the story with few battles. TOR has so far been a bunch of random battles held together by a semblance of a story which I can't really be arsed to try to follow. More time is needed to judge it properly.
Midnight Suns has the exact same fiendish, time devouring loop as XCOM. But with an added RPG hub. Bastards I think given the missions I've seen so far aren't that dynamic it makes sense that they've kept them short and punchy (arf) and just like a big old scrap rather than trying to drag them out too much.
I've decided now's the time to finally get Duke Nukem 3D off my list. Half-way through the second episode and the level design really feels fresh and cool. It also seems really ambitious for the time and you can see how that completely, 100% fucked the series to death.
I've also started Monster Hunter World. For real, this time. I wish I could go completely offline in that game just so I could pause. There will come a point where I completely shit the bed but the early quests are real easy going.
Is it (MHW) any good? It's tempted me for years but never enough so far.
It's fine for what it is. Rise is free on Gamepass a couple weeks from now.
mate im shit at all video games except HCTP and SYM, i'm fucking sick, i'll be your personal ps2 wrestling game trainer mateSpent an ungodly amount of time updating the roster of Here Comes The Pain on PS2, with dreams of creating Kenny Omega and playing through thecampaign/story/season mode, only to find out I’m absolutely dreadful at the game.
Give me some basics please. Grapple system, finishers, tactics, how to pin/run/climb/get and use weapons etc.
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Competed in my first ever SC2 tournament. Lost 1-2.
Set up Ryujinx, any tips on getting stuff modded up looking it’s best DS?
I've got WWE 2K22
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Is that the famously disastrous one or was that 20/21?
It's quality, but it's a HUGE timesink and takes a bit of getting into. Took me like 300 hours to do the main story + post story monsters (including Iceborne).
If you do buy it, there'll be armour and weapons available to you called "Defender" gear. They were made to allow people to speed through the base game to get to Iceborne when it released. They are completely overpowered in the base game and make the difficulty trivial; I would not using them or you'll start Iceborne and realise you absolutely suck.
Don't use defender gear.
That was 2k20, they then skipped 21 to work hard on 22.
It's a lot better but still flawed.
Indeed.
I've only done one of the Showcase (Rey Mysterio vs Kane) and its really well done. Gameplay seems simple enough to keep me interested, and the amount of great downloadable AEW wrestlers is great. Not being able to use them in MyRise (career mode) is plain dumb though. Do you know if downloaded custom wrestlers ever feature in MyRise, as NPCs?
Also MyFaction (FUT for WWE) can get right in the bin. Got the season pass and most of it was packs for that. No thanks.
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I tried Monster Hunter and got bored quite quickly.
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