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Posted November 18, 2014
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darkgriffin: Nobake, have you tried Divinity: Original Sin?
It's on my list, along with the rest of the Divinity series. OS looks quite different from the rest, but it looks pretty awesome. As long as the weakest enemies don't oneshot you like in D&D games I think it will be fun when I get to it.
Posted November 18, 2014
Once I realized that the Runaway series wasn't that fun I switched to very much enjoying Tex Murphy Under a killing moon and looking forward to the sequel. after all that adventuring I am going to be in the need for some rpg with some Icewind Dale perhaps, or one of the other d and d games in the fall sale pack.
Posted November 18, 2014
Currently playing:

steam : the baconing
gog : neverwinter nights 1
clone famicom : rockman 3
phone : south park pinball
ps3 : max payne 3

having a blast in all the games
Posted November 18, 2014
Just got a new laptop. Haven't had a computer to game on in over 10 years (Been playing consoles). I got to say this whole GOG/STEAM thing is awesome. Not spending $60 for just one game is a very nice change.

Anyhow I picked up Sanitarium for $2 on the flash sale and despite it being very rustic (Not full screen, bad controls, and poor resolution) I am actually really liking it. The dark gloomy atmosphere and cool story are really cool and even the voice acting is cool. The voices are downright creepy.

I also have started playing Path of Exile, which I read alot of people like better than Diablo 3 and its free. So far its pretty darn cool. I think how the game handles saving is weird and its waypoint thing is just ok. But looking at how big the skilll tree is pretty cool.

Only one more stamp left for The Witcher 2. I cant wait to play that tomorrow. Looks like a darker Obvlivion style game. Is the world bigger or smaller than Oblivion?
Posted November 18, 2014
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Leroux: I'm playing Nehrim, the love child of Oblivion and Gothic. Everything that's good about Oblivion, but no autogenerated areas, everything handcrafted, no level scaling, experience from solving quests and slaying monsters, level up points you can spent at tutors to learn and improve skills, greater focus on the main campaign, new setting independent of Elder Scrolls, and so far no big boring cities full of traders either.
To be honest I've totally ignored Oblivion up to now, due to the type of game it is, but this mod looks really interesting. Looks like one more RPG to add to my backlog.
Posted November 18, 2014
PC = Oni

Only discovered this recently. It's a sci-fi 3rd person shooter with anime style graphics and a highly enjoyable martial arts combat engine. Made by Bungie. If you haven't heard ot this before, check it out. I'd like to see it on GOG.


Console = Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

It's an adventure game (in the style of the 3d Marios, Banjo, Spyro etc). While it's not up with the greats, it's proving to be a fun game with decent enough gameplay and low difficulty. I especially like that it's set in the Great Australian Outdoors - not too many games like that around!
Posted November 18, 2014
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darkgriffin: Nobake, have you tried Divinity: Original Sin?
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Nobake: It's on my list, along with the rest of the Divinity series. OS looks quite different from the rest, but it looks pretty awesome. As long as the weakest enemies don't oneshot you like in D&D games I think it will be fun when I get to it.
Original Sin does have easy mode difficulty. From what little we played of it the difficulty turns most of the game from a more heavily tactical combat into a nice flavor of "these are chumps and then the boss requires some light tactics to beat, but are not just pushovers".

On normal a few mobs near the town can one shot you at level 1-2. The designers are pretty fair about it and usually let you fight a single or a small bunch of enemies near the entrance to give you an idea what difficulty to expect from that area and a chance to turn back. It also autosaves quite a bit when entering into new areas(in a separate slot then your manual save or quick save), so as long as you save after doing some shopping or clearing a small combat, you won't lose much when you die.

You can change difficulty mid game at any time outside of a combat, so it's pretty friendly in the sense of difficulty curves.
Posted November 19, 2014
A bit more Saints Row 2. The MANDATORY side missions are close to making me uninstall this game. It doesn't help that so many missions in this game consist of "defend this person/thing for this amount of time" or "destroy this item/vehicle in this amount of time" or "get to this place within this amount of time". The checkpoints can be off too, like you go into a warehouse and fight your way to the top floor and you get the objective that you're to defend something there, but the checkpoint is where you first entered the warehouse.

Plus the amount of vehicle chases is getting ridiculous, and to make it even better, most of them involve destroying an enemy's vehicle, and a lot of the time the pedestrian (IE: no affiliation with you or the enemy) cars will speed right up to the side of the enemy's car and will keep pace with them, effectively acting like a motorized Kevlar vest.

In short the game is quickly becoming not very fun at all and I'm closer to uninstalling it than I am to soldiering through the side missions to be able to play the main story missions.
Posted November 19, 2014
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Nobake: After finishing Baldur's Gate I went the the first dungeon in BG2, but haven't been able to make myself pick it back up since.

So I figured I'd give Neverwinter Nights a shot. After fighting through some technical problems I loaded up the original campaign, which went something like this:
NPC - "There's a plague in the city! Save us!"
Me - "I'm an evil necromancer, plague and death are kinda my thing."
NPC - "But... plague! You're the hero, you must save us!"
Me - "I said I don't care, go die painfully in a corner while I laugh at you."
NPC - "SAVE US!!!1!1!!"
Me - "Alright, alright already." *Accepts and goes where directed*
NPC - "Criminals have escaped and they're ransacking the city!"
Me - "Sweet! Where do I sign up?"
NPC - "SAVE US!!!1!1!!"
Me - "Fuck this campaign."

Not entirely unexpected I guess, but why let me make an evil character and then not let me be at least sort-of evil? So I moved on to Shadows of Undrentide, which is much better in that regard so far. However, it is reminding me of why I don't generally like D&D games - they're typically a giant pain in the ass.

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I also finally started playing Steins;Gate, which is pretty awesome. As long as you can get past the ridiculousness of using a microwave as a time-travel device it is really well done. Awesome characters with good dialogue, and a lot of funny jokes as long as you get the references.

As an aside, I need to better learn how to talk about things I like. When I don't like something I tend to write several paragraphs about what I didn't like and why and it turns into a big wall of text. When I do like something, I tends to be like "Yeah, it's pretty sweet." and stop there.
In DnD games, the word "evil" is usually interchangable with the word "stupid" and when your dialog options only reflect the "altruistic hero" and "shortsighted moron", it's hard to even consider them roleplaying games because you are obviously being railroaded to be the good guy, your only other "stupid evil" option has consequences. Never mind playing evil, try playing Baldur's Gate with a neutral mindset, you just can't. I don't see whats so bad about being expected to get paid for your work (the only dialog options that express this are along the lines of "I'l help you .......for a price") or why I have to blatently tell everyone that I'm the good/evil guy. NWN handled it better, too bad the OCs were dull though (but I may give NWN:SOU another go one day, it was defiantely the best of the three). It's not that D&D games are bad, it's just the devs still decide to use these overused black/white morallity tropes, railroad you into playing the game how it was supposed to be played and still have the balls to call the game an RPG.

Back on topic

I'm on a roll for clearing my backlog!! In the last few weeks, I finished thief 2, Unreal Tournament 99, Dungeon Keeper (Deeper Dungeons expansion) and now I've just started Unreal Gold. Still, I should really finish off Heroes of Might and Magic 3 someday, just got the Armageddon's Blade campaigns to finish (minus "Playing with fire"). Also close to finishing Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency core campaign but I can't finish the last level >:(
Posted November 19, 2014
Not a lot of time for gaming recently but when I do make time it's IWD:EE. Currently in Dragon's Eye. So far this beamdog release is wonderfully free of bugs, though the story is as bland and uninspiring as I remember, particularly compared to BG2. Still, a worthy game.
Posted November 19, 2014
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Ragnarblackmane: Not a lot of time for gaming recently but when I do make time it's IWD:EE. Currently in Dragon's Eye. So far this beamdog release is wonderfully free of bugs, though the story is as bland and uninspiring as I remember, particularly compared to BG2. Still, a worthy game.
IWD story: Save the spine of the world from some demon guy
BG story: Save the sword coast from some Bhaal spawn guy
BG2 story: Save yourself from some wacko elf guy


Neither game's story is particularly inspiring. I seriously want to know why IWD gets flak for this yet BG doesn't.
Posted November 19, 2014
I just started Medal of Honor Allied Assault.
Posted November 19, 2014
I started resident evil 1 on the playstation 1 the other day

choose to play chris :)
Posted November 19, 2014
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IwubCheeze: In DnD games, the word "evil" is usually interchangable with the word "stupid" and when your dialog options only reflect the "altruistic hero" and "shortsighted moron", it's hard to even consider them roleplaying games because you are obviously being railroaded to be the good guy, your only other "stupid evil" option has consequences. Never mind playing evil, try playing Baldur's Gate with a neutral mindset, you just can't. I don't see whats so bad about being expected to get paid for your work (the only dialog options that express this are along the lines of "I'l help you .......for a price") or why I have to blatently tell everyone that I'm the good/evil guy. NWN handled it better, too bad the OCs were dull though (but I may give NWN:SOU another go one day, it was defiantely the best of the three). It's not that D&D games are bad, it's just the devs still decide to use these overused black/white morallity tropes, railroad you into playing the game how it was supposed to be played and still have the balls to call the game an RPG.
To me they are definitely RPGs. In my mind there are RPGs that let you create the role you want to play, then there are RPGs that give you a role to play. I'd never thought about it like this before, but now I see that these games have many surface elements of the first type - detailed character creation, dialogue trees, and a morality system for example - but are intended to be played like the second type, which makes for an unsatisfying and frustrating bait-and-switch experience.

Regardless, I'm still playing NWN at the moment. I got stuck in the SoU campaign after finishing the first chapter, so now I'm taking my character through some different modules to gain some levels. Finished Siege of Shadowdale earlier, not sure where I'll go next.
Posted November 19, 2014
Wrestling MPire Remix. Despite the bugs and the unimpressive (though I admit that I've grown to actually really like the them) graphics this game is just fun. Go download it from MDickie's website, it's DRM-Free and well, free. If you like fighting games at all, or have a even a passing interest in wrestling, then you'll like this game once you take some time to get used to it.
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