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Posted September 19, 2015
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real.geizterfahr: I changed my usual approach (one "main game" and lots of smaller side games) and am playing quite a few bigger games at the moment:

Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition - I'm not that much into "hard" games anymore (where you have to play long parts of the game again and again and again), but whenever I saw a picture of one of the awesome boss monsters I wanted to play this game. Now, after googling a bit, I've found many people saying that Dark Souls isn't THAT hard and that you just have to play a bit more defensive than in your usual Elder Scrolls RPG. Well... I took advantage of Steam's sale last weekend and got the game. I'm not too far into it yet, but up until now they're right. The game isn't too hard. You just have to keep in mind that every single enemy can kill you if you just stand there and take the blows. So keep your shield up, learn do dodge attacks (roll to a side), learn how to parry and counterattack and learn how to hit enemies quickly while they swing their weapons (wouldn't have thought that it's that complex!). If you do this, you won't die all the time. Boss fights are another thing, but the normal enemies are not that dangerous. At least that's what I'd say after 4 hours in the game.

The only negative thing so far: The game doesn't tell you a lot about its mechanics (Humanity, dying, reverse hollowing). Neither in game, nor in the manual -.- Devs shouldn't rely on gamers to create wikis. Writing a useful manual can't be that hard (and is better than wasting developmnent time for tutorial levels).

Dishonored - Not too far into the game yet (just got the gift from the Outsider), but I think I'll like this one. Finished the first part without killing anyone and it felt like a strange mix of Thief and Deus Ex :P There are even tranq darts! I think I'll stay on the 100% non-lethal stealth path. Thanks to a functional save system (auto save, quick save and manual saves), there are no "penalties" for failing.
Agh! I wish I could have gotten Dark Souls in that last sale, the more I look into it the more assured my interest becomes. Thanks for the tips/mini-review so far. I thoroughly enjoyed Dishonored. I started out trying to do 100% no kills, and was enjoying it for a bit, but then it became a bit too tedious and was removing from some of the enjoyment for me to stick to it 100% so I killed a few here and there!
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Mercset: Is System Shock 2 fun?
If you like tense sci-fi horror atmosphere and like to be scared a bit, absolutely! The gameplay is great too.

I haven't had much time to play games lately, it's just that time of year (for the past few months.) For the little stints I get here and there I've been spending a little time exploring Terraria. It's certainly not my type of game and I feel it is mostly pointlessness, but exploring for exploring's sake has proven to be a bit fun, surpisingly, which is probably what I need, a little mindless distraction time-waster, after all the super-stress that life has been lately.
Post edited September 19, 2015 by drealmer7
Posted September 19, 2015
I played Demon Soul's up to level 50. Based on that I'd definitely recommend checking out the Dark Souls. Good games, tough like games used to be and well made.

Demon Soul's was like being stuck in a horrible medieval prison for the whole game, not one flower or blade of grass or sunshine in the whole game. Dark, medieval, oppressive, violent worlds.
Posted September 19, 2015
When you run into fricken Sauron from Lord of the Rings who casually walks up to you and tries to murder you on the first level is some good times actually.

The un patched Demons Soul's actually got harder the more you died. The worlds turned black and spawned powerful red aura enemies.
Posted September 19, 2015
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Mercset: Ah I see, thanks!
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bad_fur_day1: I tried System Shock 2 for the first time a little while ago having never played it before. I wasn't overly impressed. I think it could benefit from having played it when it was shiney and new released, like Deus Ex. And when you only had a couple of games. Like jumping into Deus Ex now, it might feel a little old. Unlike Deus Ex I had no nostalgia with it.
I played it for the first time last year or so I think, finished it. I had played System Shock 1 through already a long time ago (and loved it even with its cumbersome controls), but not SS2 for some reason.

I have hard time deciding now if I liked SS2 or not. There was lots of I liked it in, but also there were many things that irritated me, like upgrading your abilities seemed very restricted (I was playing on the hardest difficulty, so I apparently got only little amount of nanonites or whatever, I had to be very careful to decide which abilities I try to improve so that I don't waste them), and also how I felt almost the whole game that I was constantly out of ammo, and almost getting stuck due to it.

Some of the enemies were very irritating. I think e.g. those "wives" or whatever they were called, and the exploding robots. All this might be partly because I was playing it on the hardest difficulty, that's why it felt aggravating at many points. I wish increasing difficulty makes a game challenging and rewarding, not making you just pissed off.

I enjoyed the first System Shock more, especially with the new mouselook mod that make the user interface modern. I replayed it just before diving into SS2.
Posted September 19, 2015
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bad_fur_day1: I played Demon Soul's up to level 50. Based on that I'd definitely recommend checking out the Dark Souls. Good games, tough like games used to be and well made.

Demon Soul's was like being stuck in a horrible medieval prison for the whole game, not one flower or blade of grass or sunshine in the whole game. Dark, medieval, oppressive, violent worlds.
I haven't looked into Demon's Souls much because it's not availabe on steam or gog (I don't play console games), but it does sound like it could appeal if they ever ported it.
Post edited September 19, 2015 by drealmer7
Posted September 19, 2015
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drealmer7: I haven't looked into Demon's Souls much because it's not availabe on steam or gog (I don't play console games), but it does sound like it could appeal if they ever ported it.
I think it's pretty much the same thing, as far as I can tell Demons Souls is Souls game 1. I'd go straight for the Dark Souls games on PC.

From what I can tell Dark Souls are sequels of Demons Souls, so just basing my recommendation from what I've played of Demons Soul's. It was very good, from what I've seen the sequels didn't seem to change much of the formula.
Post edited September 19, 2015 by bad_fur_day1
Posted September 19, 2015
Don't know about "playing" since it keeps crashing, but I'm trying to play Banished on wine/playonlinux. Sure would be nice if GOG/the sole coder made a proper linux build...

Otherwise I've had a slight flirt with Wasteland 2 again. The 2 million crates with random junk, that for some reason is more secure than Fort Knox, does my head in, but I'm trying to ignore it. It's like trying to ignore oxygen though. It's bloody everywhere! :D
Posted September 19, 2015
In order to experience the original difficulty the Dark Soul games had you're pretty much stuck with the console versions since you can delete patches on the PS3 and Xbox 360. As far as the PC goes, unless there's a mod that I'm not aware of or GFWL allows you to uninstall patches (Dark Souls) you're stuck with the patched up versions that are up on Steam, which did make the games (at least Dark Souls, not entirely sure about Dark Souls 2) easier. Playing through Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, I'm having an easier time progressing through this game than the other ones. Maybe it's due to the team that was behind it (or the patches and DLC), but so far this game feel a lot easier than the other games due to multiple bonfire locations (way more than I remember in Dark Souls), enemy AI being slightly easier, and a few other things.
Posted September 19, 2015
I'm considering giving OpenRCT2 a go
Posted September 20, 2015
Starpoint Gemini 2. (from the weekend sale). Pretty fun so far. A little on the thin side for story and specific lore/side quests, but overall there's still quite a bit to do. Plus the graphics are nice and purdy.
Posted September 20, 2015
Shadow of Mordor curently, and going to be starting on Banished soon (in a day or so), and see how well it runs through wine! (OpenSuse)
Posted September 20, 2015
Scratches (Director's Cut). Installed from CD and it was a pain in the butt to get working. The OS is windows 7 professional 64bit. The first thing happened was a BSOD and I had to reboot. Tried again and same thing. BSOD after BSOD. I searched online and found out the "refresh rate" I think was set to 0 and needed to be set to 60. There was a couple other things that was buggy and I couldn't get the supposed "correct patch" to run either, so maybe l'll end up never being able to finish it .. I don't know?

Anyway, the game is actually pretty good now that it is working.
Post edited September 20, 2015 by NoAGood
Posted September 20, 2015
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

I only played 3-4 hours so far but i enjoy playing it. The arabian setting is nice and the story is also pretty good. A very nice action adventure that reminds me of similar games i played on the SNES. I'll definitely play through this one soon (i hope).
Posted September 20, 2015
With the new PC I'm finally giving at NWN 2 with the max graphics, but I can't decide if it's heresy to give my elf bright red hair. Also, do elves have any theft attributes?
Posted September 23, 2015
I'm now onto my replay of KOTOR2, right on the heels of KOTOR1. This is a power playthrough, trying to finish as many quests and max out everything as much as possible. Such a good story -- more complex than KOTOR1, with more interesting characters. Now with TSLRCM installed I'm hoping that there will be more closure to the ending than my first playthrough, which left literally everything hanging without explanation.


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tinyE: With the new PC I'm finally giving at NWN 2 with the max graphics, but I can't decide if it's heresy to give my elf bright red hair. Also, do elves have any theft attributes?
Go crazy - it's an RPG, it's your character, build him/her however you want!
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