TheMightyEthan Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Lol, well I heard nothing but constant praise for Persona 3 and 4, so I tried P3 FES and bounced off, but then I tried P4G and loved it, so then I went back to P3P and while it wasn't as good as P4G I really liked it too, and it seems like TMS#FE is a logical step from there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 I got Shin Megami Tensi: Lucifers Call ("Starring Devil May Crys Dante!") cos of a glowing review, seemed up my street after Final Fantasy types. Still haven't beaten it but enjoyed what was there. Grabbed Persona...3 portable I think, since it was a SMT spin-off and...nope didn't click at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 After playing the original P4 a bit I found myself pining for the quality-of-life improvements they made in Golden. That timed button press shuffle time can go bugger off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Yeah, like I said I bounced off P3 the first time, I think the only reason I was able to get into it the second time was because I'd played P4G so I was more familiar with the structure of the game and everything wasn't so overwhelming. P4G is definitely a better entry point to the series than P3P (or FES). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Slime Rancher is a game where you catch slimes with a vacuum cleaner gun and put them in force field cages. Then you feed them and they poop, you collect the poop and sell it at a vending machine for money so that you can buy stuff to catch more slimes and get their poop to also put in the vending machine for more money to buy more stuff to catch more slimes to sell more poop and also you can grow vegetables and stuff. In other words, Slime Rancher is the motherfucking GOTY and holy shit where did my saturday evening go?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) I'm waiting for Slime Rancher to be more feature complete before I jump in. I know it's my kind of game but Subnautica, another good early access game, made me pull back a bit from experiencing potentially good games before they are done. And yeah, Hyper Light Drifter is hard. Edited October 9, 2016 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Yeah, at some point I'll do like I did with Subnautica and just stop playing and wait for the full release. But man, this game is addictive in a way Subnautica simply wasn't. Last night I kept telling myself I'd turn off the game soon but ended up playing until my butt was numb. The core gameplay loop is just that much fun. It's borderline Civ-levels of "just one more trip out to grab some stuff". Then you get back and it's "well I guess gotta check on my slimes and gardens and collect/sell". You go to bed and the next morning "wellll.... maybe just one more trip out to grab some stuff". It's just straight up hard to stop playing. The Far, Far Range isn't actually that big, though. There are a few extra areas you can unlock, so I'm probably gonna stop before I unlock them all. At least keep some content fresh for the full release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 It's borderline Civ-levels of "just one more trip out to grab some stuff". Then you get back and it's "well I guess gotta check on my slimes and gardens and collect/sell". You go to bed and the next morning "wellll.... maybe just one more trip out to grab some stuff". It's just straight up hard to stop playing. You should give Stardew Valley a whirl if you haven't yet. "Just one more day..." and suddenly you're up till next in game season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) Yeah, Stardew Valley looks great. The launch hype got to me so I bought it back then even though I didn't really have the time for that kind of game. I've been meaning to go back to it for a while now. Oh and I missed it earlier but yeah, Hyper Light Drifter starts out pretty brutal. It gets much easier once you get good at the combat. Best advice I can give if you're just starting out is go east, not west. Edited October 9, 2016 by FLDemon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 I am sorely disappointed by Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. These have always been the JRPGs that feel like they're made just for me. They focus on things I like. Tight turn based combat design that's fast. A good mix of goofy and the occult in the tone and settings. Difficulty that actually pushes back enough to force the player to pay attention. And not a lot of anime really. No waifus (that's for the Persona games), usually not a ton of dialogue, just a lot of quality game play time. SMT IV: Apocalypse has some of the best dungeon/combat design in the series. The basic gameplay loop that was already fantastic in SMT 4 has been tuned pretty much to be the best version of itself. It's just fantastic. But holy crap the narrative is just awful. There's no more show don't tell, it's all tell. Everyone's teenagers or they're gods with incredibly adolescent worldviews. You have teenage girls fighting over your affections. One of them calls you "Master". Yeah, gross, I know. And I put up with this is JRPGs a fair bit. You kinda need to have a tolerance for anime tropes to play JRPGs in 2016, the two are inextricably linked. But to have this come from a Shin Megami Tensei game feels like a betrayal. It was supposed to be better than this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 I guess they're assuming the popularity of Persona could help with the mainline series? Which is always a sucky assumption to make. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 21, 2016 Report Share Posted October 21, 2016 I've been playing watch dogs on my XO. Gone a bit mad on the side missions, but still on the first act. Really struggling with the convoys though - going to leave those for now .Think it'll help the main story tha I've connected all the areas to ctOS now, so I think that at least was worth doing first. Plus it means I have most of the skill upgrades already. Enjoying the game so far, and not minding the similarity to Assassin's Creed at all. Looking forward to the sequel now. Been streaming it to my laptop with the xbox app. Mostly it's worked well (once I realised it wasn't the smartglass app you're meant to use) but has stuttered sometimes resulting in a few crashes and civillian casualties I hadn't intended. So It's been good for the side missions, but I wouldn't do it for the story ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 Alien: Isolation. I'm about 2 hours in now and I'm not sure I'm digging it. The atmosphere is great, and the Sevastapol station is amazingly designed, but I'm not liking the way the encounters with human enemies are set up. It seems like you're supposed to play it as a stealth game (since they have guns and I have a wrench), but you don't have the ability to track their location very effectively which makes it more frustrating than I would prefer. I'm going to give it another shot tonight, but if it doesn't snag me I think I'm done. Which sucks because the xenomorph was just introduced and I haven't even had an proper encounters with it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 If you're already having a bad time, I can only see that getting worse once the Xenomorph becomes a more major part of the game. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 I feel like my subjective reaction will be different with the xenomorph for some reason, though I can't articulate why. Probably because it's supposed to be this horrible terrifying overpowering monster, and it's the reason I'm playing the game, whereas the humans feel more like irritating obstacles between me and the game I want to play. But yeah, I'm not going to force myself to keep going if I'm not feeling it, I just want to give it one more shot to hook me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 Plus, there's like one Alien to keep track of. Rather than half a dozen dudes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 And she's not that bothersome really I know it's colonial marines, I also know this gif has been through the ringer a lot but best I could find, especially when it's the "shit walking gif", google doesn't fully understand I don't mean like shit as in quality. I'm currently playing Fallout 4 still. I'm a wee bit through the Mechanist quest line, I've also got the Nuka Cola depot on my map but I've been n been destroyed so I figured it's not my time to go yet. Also have the Nick Valentine quest too but yet to start. Oh I also have Vault 88, it's massive! I also knocked through a wall to a Deathclaw waiting so there's a weird bit of concrete walling built up in part of the cave . My only beef is there's a fusion reactor knocking out 150 power, which is huge amount, but a totally pain the but to route that through to the actual vault building area. Also the whole hallway/door requirement thing. Part of me is like "sure it's a vault in here n all, but I might just built a wee village of houses instead". Especially as it's all fairly flat floor. I'm not too far into my vault building, I've a greenhouse, a dorm n the overseers room built so I could like make it partway vault, for the vault experiments n such, and the rest just shacks n shit. I'm running a poll to decide who I join: https://twitter.com/deanbmmv/status/793493146487427073 Phone wise I've been playing Solitaire on a rather well done practically free app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devsisters.SolitaireDeckedOut&hl=en You can buy shit, but you get coins for playing which open lootboxes and it's only for like deck themes and ending animations. Also playing match-3 type called "Legendary", it's fairly usual fair of earning gems, accruing energy over time etc. Though my main enjoyment of it is stumbling across a guild called "Northern Powerhouse" which is all rather fun. The art is quite nice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 (edited) Alien: Isolation. I'm about 2 hours in now and I'm not sure I'm digging it. The atmosphere is great, and the Sevastapol station is amazingly designed, but I'm not liking the way the encounters with human enemies are set up. It seems like you're supposed to play it as a stealth game (since they have guns and I have a wrench), but you don't have the ability to track their location very effectively which makes it more frustrating than I would prefer. I think I might actually remember exactly which part you're talking about. If so, yeah, it was kind of annoying but I can't really think of another section in the game that was that bad. It's a really slow start (keep in mind it's a relatively long game for the genre, so they had plenty of room to build up to it), so I'd say keep playing until you're dealing with the Xenomorph regularly and if you're still not feeling it then stop. Once you're past the opening hours, you'll be dealing with it more than anything else for most of the time. If you think you'll feel differently about it than the encounters with humans then it might be worth suffering through the early parts of the game. Edited November 1, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 GW2, CivVI, and The Witcher 3. Replaying The Witcher 3 with a heavy armor build, and romancing Yen this time around. Doing so in advance of going into Blood and Wine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 11, 2016 Report Share Posted November 11, 2016 So I had a bit of a crack with Bloodborne after a friend lent me a copy. After it taking an hour or so to install and update it then wouldn't load n said the disc was bust (somewhat nerveracking). Anywho an uninstall and reinstall skipping the update and I got it working, until a werewolf came out of a pool of blood and the game decided the disc was bust again. So let it install the update and managed to get it all going hunky dory n play for a bit, being thoroughly confused by the mechanics of a Souls game once again. Then went back to it the next day and it's complaining my save isn't loading anymore so I've given up. Now playing the Japanese FFXV demo which is purely the first hour or so of the game to play through as you like. In Japanese. Now none of you may not know this but Nihongo o hanasanai. But on the plus side in playing the Duscae demo and watching enough streams I can grasp the mechanics and any of the story bits pass me by to be unsullied for the proper release in a couple weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted November 11, 2016 Report Share Posted November 11, 2016 Sorry, Dean. Maybe it was trying to save you the frustration! Been pressing my way through a second run of TW3. Pretty far in at this point. I usually hate replaying games, but it's been over a year since I played vanilla (nearly that since HoS), so it's somewhat fresh. Plus, playing with an entirely different build, and with the option to approach quests differently, makes it easier to bear. Pleasant, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted November 12, 2016 Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 Sorry, Dean. Maybe it was trying to save you the frustration! Been pressing my way through a second run of TW3. Pretty far in at this point. I usually hate replaying games, but it's been over a year since I played vanilla (nearly that since HoS), so it's somewhat fresh. Plus, playing with an entirely different build, and with the option to approach quests differently, makes it easier to bear. Pleasant, actually. I replayed The Witcher 2 a few years ago and found I enjoyed it even more than I did on the first go around. Can't really explain why, other than I took my time with it and actually paid attention to its world and the side plots. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 12, 2016 Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 I'd guess when you first played it was at launch, and replaying later would be the "Enhanced Edition" of the game which'll have included stuff like a tutorial, a stash (which with Witcher 3 they didn't add until the EE too so they must really dislike the idea of a stash, which I guess thematically makes sense), a bunch of extra mini sidequests n some other stuff I can't wholly remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted November 12, 2016 Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) Right now I'm at the final chapter in Trails of Cold Steel. So far it's been pretty fun and also super ~*~*~ANIME~*~*~. And the levels of Guide Damn It have been tolerable. (Still need a guide, though). I did spoil a lot for myself by looking through the artbook that came with the Lionheart edition despite the spoiler warnings they put in there. Edited November 12, 2016 by Baconrath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 After finishing the Dragon Age DLC I started Titan Souls. I've defeated 8 bosses so far. I'm liking it, but it's definitely a game you play in short bursts rather than for long sessions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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