Nobby-W
Not an axe murderer
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I got an alert but now a Quarter of an hour or so after that and still no email notification. Looks like it's working so far.Replying... Good luck
Yea, I don't consider a game a true crpg unless you can fully customize your character: abilities, look, and equipment. This goes for most jrpgs as well. They can be fun but it isn't the same when you are playing through someone else's story.I can play anything I want, as long as that thing is a stonefaced Witcher swordsman who is named Geralt of Rivia and has three tons of backstory.
Yea, I don't consider a game a true crpg unless you can fully customize your character: abilities, look, and equipment. This goes for most jrpgs as well. They can be fun but it isn't the same when you are playing through someone else's story.
I always imagine Outer Worlds is like Fallout and Borderlands had a child together. I love Fallout. Borderlands isn't my type of game but I appreciate its visuals. What I've seen of Outer Worlds is visually stunning.I finally got around to getting Outer Worlds. I was afraid it was going to be Fallout but with more roaming since there are multiple planets and I wasnt far off so far. I'm still on the first planet but so far I like it slightly more than fallout which I've only played one of in the series (Fallout 4).
I was pleasantly surprised by the game so far with the beautiful planet details and playability reminding me of Skyrim more than Fallout though the story and style are decidedly Falloutish with its sleep stasis intro and what not.
I would actually recommend the game.
Started Witcher 3, mostly because hey huge sale on Steam and everyone says if you love open world RPGs you should play it and...
Honestly, it isn't bad. It isn't that I dislike it. It's just that it misses what I like about open world rpgs.
I can play anything I want, as long as that thing is a stonefaced Witcher swordsman who is named Geralt of Rivia and has three tons of backstory.
It's fun. It just isn't the same thing you know. Also, I dislike that the "open world" isn't open and is instead a bunch of zones.
And while good combat isn't a must (I mean I like Skyrim a lot and look at the combat in that game), the combat in Witcher 3 feels stiff and awful. I keep missing parries for the sole reason that I swear you have to have stood still for an entire second before you can input another command.
And the UI and menus are straight garbage.
There are some positives I'll admit: I like hunting monsters and having to actually discover things to hunt them (like figuring out what happened to create a noonwraith at one point so I could summon it to fight it). The focus on consumables and crafting them is neat. The writing and voice acting is very well done. And I'm sure there is a mountain of content.
But I just can't fathom the hordes of people who act like this is the best game ever made. It's fine. It is fun. But holy hell I don't understand the fanatics at all.
My wife doesn't agree about the piss poorness of the combat at all. She says it's not easy because you need to be precise. You can't just mash away on the buttons. Not that that's necessarily what you are doing. I don't know it myself as I haven't played the game, but she is an experienced gamer so her opinion should hold at least some value.I was lukewarm on it til I encountered two excellent side quests that were really fascinating and fun, it is too bad I had to suffer through so much piss poor combat to get to them.
My wife doesn't agree about the piss poorness of the combat at all. She says it's not easy because you need to be precise. You can't just mash away on the buttons. Not that that's necessarily what you are doing. I don't know it myself as I haven't played the game, but she is an experienced gamer so her opinion should hold at least some value.
Coming off the Soulsborne games it feels very clunky and actually I find that just rolling and button mashing does get me through most fights. Maybe if I turned it up to Max Difficulty it would be more engaging.
You are supposed to hate the barbarians though. If you didn't hate them, they wouldn't be doing their job right.They released Civ 6 on PS4. This is a good thing. I fucking hate barbarians. Why can't these highly advanced fuckers leave me alone. What do I have they could possibly want: they already know spear technology and have boats raiding the coast. This makes no sense
In Civ 1 I would go out of my way to let the barbarians take one city and then contain them by placing guarded fortresses around it but allow them to improve their city.You are supposed to hate the barbarians though. If you didn't hate them, they wouldn't be doing their job right.
As for their tech progression, I haven't had an issue with it in my games. Boats and spears are both on the bottom tier of the tech tree anyway.
Civ 5... Much better than civ 4
Fair enough. I just found 4 to lack depth and be too skirmish focussed. Played a few hours and never went back. Civ 5 is an instant classic for me.How dare you! j'k
Civ4 is *by far* my favorite edition. I prefer Civ 6 to Civ 5... but I love all three.
As for me - currently
PC
Vermintide II - I'm back, rat-faced-rotblood scum! Fatshark fixed all the issues in with their Winds of Magic DLC - so me and my team are back slugging it out in Legendary mode. Glorious game. It makes me actually *sweat* playing it (but only on Legendary mode).
Domina - Little indy game that is pixel-graphics gladiatorial arena manager. Really fun.
The Cycle - It's like Overwatch, and Fortnite had a baby with Borderlands. It works. Don't know how... but it does. Damn fun. (surprisingly so - since I detest the Battle Royale fad.)
Battlefield 4 - Still the best pound-for-pound FPS game imo. Shockingly large population still going very strong.
Console
Days Gone - yeah! this is a lovely game. I'm enjoying the story a lot.
Fallen Order - Cool story. I *like* hard games. But there is a criticism I have about this game: it's unnecessarily hard in context for what a Jedi should be. Granted you're not supposed to be a full blown Jedi, but on Hard mode even then I think that the fights are skewed more towards making the game TOO much like Dark Souls and it's difficult for difficulty's sake. I don't feel like a Jedi as much as a guy running around playing Dark Souls with a lightsaber and a few nifty magic tricks. It's a cool game, but something about it rubs me wrong contextually between the gameplay and the setting.
You try 6? I'm curious to know what you think about it. I feel 6 did a lot to clean up stuff I didn't like in 5... and it took a LOT of 5's elements to its core.Fair enough. I just found 4 to lack depth and be too skirmish focussed. Played a few hours and never went back. Civ 5 is an instant classic for me.
You try 6? I'm curious to know what you think about it. I feel 6 did a lot to clean up stuff I didn't like in 5... and it took a LOT of 5's elements to its core.
That's funny that you say 4 is "too skirmish" - it's *definitely* more conquest, but for me "skirmish" denotes lots distinct units doing very specific stuff. The fact that 4 does Unit Stacking makes it feel more like a conquest game of fast-mass combat. 5 and 6 without unit-stacking feels like what I think of as a "skirmish" game where conquest requires more tactical combat like in an actual wargame. I also think it highly discourages Conquest style play (which is fine, but I think it's too de-emphasized, almost punishing the way it's implemented in 5, especially in the early game.
6 does a LOT to ease that, but they added other things to balance it. I've become fond of their city-building... but at times it seems... "gimmicky*? but that doesn't feel quite right since gimmicks denote a mechanic that is an afterthought, when it clearly is super important.