What video game are you playing?

[IrishLion]

Anybody get Fifa yet?

 

[NorthDakota]

Anybody get Fifa yet?

I'm purchasing for pc soon

 

[ACamp1900]

Anybody get Fifa yet?

Yes, took an extended weekend for it... Playing right now...

Graphics, it's the best looking FIFA yet, very noticeable how great it looks.

Play, passing and all free kicks are different, passing seems much more technical and FKs have been overhauled... Don't have either down yet but welcome the change.

Added features, if you're a career mode guy like me it's very limited, they added very little.

Haven't played the other modes

If you like the series it's a nice upgrade.

 

[nlroma1o]

I can't remember the last time I pre-ordered a game... I try to make a point not to pre-order... but I am so damn excited for Battlefield 1 I just broke my rule and I went all in and preordered. 10/18 cant get here soon enough.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Got the complete edition of Witcher 3 for my birthday. Incredible game. Might end up giving Skyrim a run for it's money as my favorite. Not very far in (just arrived in Velen last night), so I'd appreciate any tips you might have to offer. My only complaint thus far (and it's a minor one) is that a lot of Talents/ Skills on offer seem pretty weak.

 

[nlroma1o]

Got the complete edition of Witcher 3 for my birthday. Incredible game. Might end up giving Skyrim a run for it's money as my favorite. Not very far in (just arrived in Velen last night), so I'd appreciate any tips you might have to offer. My only complaint thus far (and it's a minor one) is that a lot of Talents/ Skills on offer seem pretty weak.

Awesome game. I'm going to start up a second run through of it this winter for sure.

I wouldn't consider myself good at the game, so I don't know if I have any useful info for you. The one thing I noticed was I think you get more XP for completing missions and tasks that are above your skill level. Also, I applied my skill points primarily to sword combat and igni. I used those the most. Also, pay attention to the mutagens and potions. When applied correctly they really do give you a huge boost and you feel like you're stronger with them than with out.

 

[IrishBroker]

Got the complete edition of Witcher 3 for my birthday. Incredible game. Might end up giving Skyrim a run for it's money as my favorite. Not very far in (just arrived in Velen last night), so I'd appreciate any tips you might have to offer. My only complaint thus far (and it's a minor one) is that a lot of Talents/ Skills on offer seem pretty weak.

The Witcher is one of the best games Ive ever played, across any system.

Take it slow and do the side missions, it's worth it.

 

[IrishBroker]

Awesome game. I'm going to start up a second run through of it this winter for sure.

I wouldn't consider myself good at the game, so I don't know if I have any useful info for you. The one thing I noticed was I think you get more XP for completing missions and tasks that are above your skill level. Also, I applied my skill points primarily to sword combat and igni. I used those the most. Also, pay attention to the mutagens and potions. When applied correctly they really do give you a huge boost and you feel like you're stronger with them than with out.

Yep, but be careful. Those battles can take forever, and you'll get slaughtered if you aren't skilled in combat.

 

[phillyirish]

Got the complete edition of Witcher 3 for my birthday. Incredible game. Might end up giving Skyrim a run for it's money as my favorite. Not very far in (just arrived in Velen last night), so I'd appreciate any tips you might have to offer. My only complaint thus far (and it's a minor one) is that a lot of Talents/ Skills on offer seem pretty weak.

The best game for the current Gen in my opinion. I just beat the first expansion and it was amazing. The story in this game is so well done. Just started the last expansion and will be pretty sad when it's all said and done.

One tip I would say is to make sure to experiment with all the signs. Generally Ard is great against human enemies (and smaller flying ones), knocking them down to instant kill with your sword. Queen is great against big baddies i.e. golems, the ones who can take a good chunk of your health with one hit. Yrden obsviously for wraiths and other ghostly enemies. Axio while has its role against certain beast, really is best to upgrade to make certain dialogue sequences less frustrating. I loved Ignii early on but rarely seem to use it in the late game.

Again this game is fucking amazing. Story gets real deep and you really deal for some of the characters, especially Geralt and Ciri.

Also there are quite the moral dilemmas in this game. A lot of times you'll find you have to choose whether you side with Hitler or Stalin.

 

[ACamp1900]

My best man keeps telling I have to try Witcher 3... I want to take on that and the Uncharted games but time is always hard to find....

 

[gkIrish]

Got the complete edition of Witcher 3 for my birthday. Incredible game. Might end up giving Skyrim a run for it's money as my favorite. Not very far in (just arrived in Velen last night), so I'd appreciate any tips you might have to offer. My only complaint thus far (and it's a minor one) is that a lot of Talents/ Skills on offer seem pretty weak.

Look through this thread and you will find a lot of talk about Witcher 3. I know I have posted about it and others too.

 

[greyhammer90]

Can't embed but Overwatch Halloween HYPE

https://youtu.be/jupt7Dh-Fgk

 

[IrishBroker]

My best man keeps telling I have to try Witcher 3... I want to take on that and the Uncharted games but time is always hard to find....

Uncharted is awesome. Talk about a great story...

The whole series is amazing

 

[IrishInFl]

Playing the newly released Duke Nukem 3D 20th anniversary on PS4. It's got multiplayer, so if anyone wants to play, that would be cool. My PSN username is IrishInFl

 

[NorthDakota]

Yes, took an extended weekend for it... Playing right now...

Graphics, it's the best looking FIFA yet, very noticeable how great it looks.

Play, passing and all free kicks are different, passing seems much more technical and FKs have been overhauled... Don't have either down yet but welcome the change.

Added features, if you're a career mode guy like me it's very limited, they added very little.

Haven't played the other modes

If you like the series it's a nice upgrade.

This one is much more technical that the ones I've played. There is less scoring it seems like. On Fifa 15, I'd usually score 3-5 per game and concede 1-2.

Now I'm scoring about 1-3 and giving up 0-1.

I have done a couple seasons with Liverpool. May start a new one with Schalke(Goretzka, Meyer, Geis, solid midfield!).

 

[ulukinatme]

Picked up the first Dark Souls game on a Steam Sale last week after hearing greyhammer talk about it. I've always liked the "From Software" guys. They did the original Armored Core games, they afford you so much custom features and options when creating characters and using weapons. You're never limited to just a few weapons or even several.

I'm liking the difficulty and the concept so far. Returning as hollow means never having to reload after a death. The game was billed as having this deep, complex plot where much is left unsaid and you have to figure things out. I'm not sure that's really the case here. Rather than making you think or piece the things together yourself, I think the fact so much is unsaid (Almost a complete lack of dialogue all together, it's almost entirely just hack and slash) it's almost like they forgot to put a plot in. It seems like you just go ahead killing one boss after another, picking up keys in a Resident Evil style of progression that unlock different parts of the world and your next goal. The only time you get any kind of idea what may be going on is when you run into a very rare NPC that may talk about their own quest. Occasionally these NPCs change their dialogue, but I never know when, and sometimes I find myself going out of my way to return to some of these NPCs just to see if they have anything new to say...only to be disappointed. There's no narrator to advance the plot, and that's fine, but if I didn't know any better I would say there isn't a plot. At the point I'm at there's a very loose story where I know I'm supposed to ring some bells, but I don't quite remember why. I'm still pretty early in the game I gather, I've rang one bell and the last boss I killed was the Gaping Dragon. I'm very much enjoying the game, but I'm just not seeing this deep, thinking game I understood it to be. Not yet anyway.

 

[greyhammer90]

Picked up the first Dark Souls game on a Steam Sale last week after hearing greyhammer talk about it. I've always liked the "From Software" guys. They did the original Armored Core games, they afford you so much custom features and options when creating characters and using weapons. You're never limited to just a few weapons or even several.

I'm liking the difficulty and the concept so far. Returning as hollow means never having to reload after a death. The game was billed as having this deep, complex plot where much is left unsaid and you have to figure things out. I'm not sure that's really the case here. Rather than making you think or piece the things together yourself, I think the fact so much is unsaid (Almost a complete lack of dialogue all together, it's almost entirely just hack and slash) it's almost like they forgot to put a plot in. It seems like you just go ahead killing one boss after another, picking up keys in a Resident Evil style of progression that unlock different parts of the world and your next goal. The only time you get any kind of idea what may be going on is when you run into a very rare NPC that may talk about their own quest. Occasionally these NPCs change their dialogue, but I never know when, and sometimes I find myself going out of my way to return to some of these NPCs just to see if they have anything new to say...only to be disappointed. There's no narrator to advance the plot, and that's fine, but if I didn't know any better I would say there isn't a plot. At the point I'm at there's a very loose story where I know I'm supposed to ring some bells, but I don't quite remember why. I'm still pretty early in the game I gather, I've rang one bell and the last boss I killed was the Gaping Dragon. I'm very much enjoying the game, but I'm just not seeing this deep, thinking game I understood it to be. Not yet anyway.

The game has very little in the way of "plot" in a traditional sense. What it has in spades is world-building and lore. Most of the "story" is hidden in item descriptions. Its unlikely that you will discover the entire underlying narrative by simply playing the game through once (or even three times). Characters come and go on their own, and some only make appearances under the right conditions. Many have motivations that are not explicit, and often will lie to you to achieve their own needs. The game is aware that you are in the dark, and characters will often use that ignorance against you. For example, I played through the game twice before discovering a major character wasn't AT ALL what I thought he/she was and that totally changed the entire underlying narrative of what I was doing and who I was doing it for. TL;DR it is extremely unlikely that you will have ANY idea of who anyone is or why you are doing what you are doing on your first playthrough.

As far as what the game MEANS, my short version: The central theme of Dark Souls is the unstoppable cycle of life and death and the meaninglessness of any act taken to affect that cycle. This is a universe that is almost entirely dead, with its "big bang" moment (the sudden existence of fire and the disparity it created) long in the past. At this point, even the Gods themselves are attempting to burn their own lifeforce to lengthen their reign, but even that is almost over. Some Gods have even destroyed their kingdoms attempting to recreate the original flame, but failed miserably. As a result you are a "hero" who has come at the end of the universe's existence, and the central question is what you do: Do you attempt to lengthen the current cycle, or do you accept that the flame will fade and embrace the dark? The choice is illusory. Neither of these choices is inherently good or bad, and neither of them really matters. The world will end, the only question is if it is now or later.

P.S. I'm super jealous that you get to play this game knowing so little. I wish I could redo that first playthrough again. So many great and frustrating moments.

 

[NorthDakota]

The game has very little in the way of "plot" in a traditional sense. What it has in spades is world-building and lore. Most of the "story" is hidden in item descriptions. Its unlikely that you will discover the entire underlying narrative by simply playing the game through once (or even three times). Characters come and go on their own, and some only make appearances under the right conditions. Many have motivations that are not explicit, and often will lie to you to achieve their own needs. The game is aware that you are in the dark, and characters will often use that ignorance against you. For example, I played through the game twice before discovering a major character wasn't AT ALL what I thought he/she was and that totally changed the entire underlying narrative of what I was doing and who I was doing it for. TL;DR it is extremely unlikely that you will have ANY idea of who anyone is or why you are doing what you are doing on your first playthrough.

As far as what the game MEANS, my short version: The central theme of Dark Souls is the unstoppable cycle of life and death and the meaninglessness of any act taken to affect that cycle. This is a universe that is almost entirely dead, with its "big bang" moment (the sudden existence of fire and the disparity it created) long in the past. At this point, even the Gods themselves are attempting to burn their own lifeforce to lengthen their reign, but even that is almost over. Some Gods have even destroyed their kingdoms attempting to recreate the original flame, but failed miserably. As a result you are a "hero" who has come at the end of the universe's existence, and the central question is what you do: Do you attempt to lengthen the current cycle, or do you accept that the flame will fade and embrace the dark? The choice is illusory. Neither of these choices is inherently good or bad, and neither of them really matters. The world will end, the only question is if it is now or later.

P.S. I'm super jealous that you get to play this game knowing so little. I wish I could redo that first playthrough again. So many great and frustrating moments.

That last paragraph reminds me of morrowind. Greatest game I ever played. Would love to go play it again for the first time

 

[ulukinatme]

The game has very little in the way of "plot" in a traditional sense. What it has in spades is world-building and lore. Most of the "story" is hidden in item descriptions. Its unlikely that you will discover the entire underlying narrative by simply playing the game through once (or even three times). Characters come and go on their own, and some only make appearances under the right conditions. Many have motivations that are not explicit, and often will lie to you to achieve their own needs. The game is aware that you are in the dark, and characters will often use that ignorance against you. For example, I played through the game twice before discovering a major character wasn't AT ALL what I thought he/she was and that totally changed the entire underlying narrative of what I was doing and who I was doing it for. TL;DR it is extremely unlikely that you will have ANY idea of who anyone is or why you are doing what you are doing on your first playthrough.

As far as what the game MEANS, my short version: The central theme of Dark Souls is the unstoppable cycle of life and death and the meaninglessness of any act taken to affect that cycle. This is a universe that is almost entirely dead, with its "big bang" moment (the sudden existence of fire and the disparity it created) long in the past. At this point, even the Gods themselves are attempting to burn their own lifeforce to lengthen their reign, but even that is almost over. Some Gods have even destroyed their kingdoms attempting to recreate the original flame, but failed miserably. As a result you are a "hero" who has come at the end of the universe's existence, and the central question is what you do: Do you attempt to lengthen the current cycle, or do you accept that the flame will fade and embrace the dark? The choice is illusory. Neither of these choices is inherently good or bad, and neither of them really matters. The world will end, the only question is if it is now or later.

P.S. I'm super jealous that you get to play this game knowing so little. I wish I could redo that first playthrough again. So many great and frustrating moments.

If a lot of it is tied into item descriptions that makes some sense I guess. I have very few named items, mostly generic weapons and armor at this point. I'm guessing once I find more unique stuff it'll open up a few things. Thanks for the clarification.

That said, the NPCs leaving at will and changing dialogue so frequently drives me a bit crazy. I was speaking to that knight in Firelirk who has been there since the beginning, the one waiting on his friends. His friends finally showed up, and he was withholding some information from me and wanted 2600 souls to spill the beans. I didn't have it on me at the time, so I went to go bash some skulls in...didn't kill any bosses or do anything that I thought would advance the plot or prompt a change, and yet when I went back to the guy minutes later to give him the souls his friends are gone again and he won't ask for the souls! That was frustrating. That's probably a good reason to save those "Souls of Unnamed Warrior" you find rather than cashing them in right away.

I'm beginning to regret my Knight a bit too. For general fights it's easy mode, my shield eats all damage and I can counter attack or parry/riposte for easy kills. Bosses, on the other hand, make me feel like a slug that just eats damage, you would think even the larger ones would be less maneuverable than myself but they all seem more agile. Most bosses I've dropped on my own, but there was one I struggled with...Capra Demon I think. I look at the guide and it says "If you're melee, you're going to have a bad time." It seemed to say that for a lot of fights. I get the feeling range and speed trump all in boss fights. My shield is next to useless unless the boss is only one size greater than me so I can parry. I'm wondering for a first play through if switching to a caster or a more agile Thief might be more effective against bosses.

That last paragraph reminds me of morrowind. Greatest game I ever played. Would love to go play it again for the first time

This thing is nothing like Morrowind imo, but it's pretty fun and challenging. I'll be interested in replaying this with a new character type once I'm done, and then hopefully try the second game next.

 

[wizards8507]

Just got a promotional e-mail from Ubisoft about the "Overwatch map" in For Honor. It has absolutely nothing to do with the game Overwatch, it's just 100% click-bait. Pretty shameful.

 

[Meatloaf]

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I'm beginning to regret my Knight a bit too. For general fights it's easy mode, my shield eats all damage and I can counter attack or parry/riposte for easy kills. Bosses, on the other hand, make me feel like a slug that just eats damage, you would think even the larger ones would be less maneuverable than myself but they all seem more agile. Most bosses I've dropped on my own, but there was one I struggled with...Capra Demon I think. I look at the guide and it says "If you're melee, you're going to have a bad time." It seemed to say that for a lot of fights. I get the feeling range and speed trump all in boss fights. My shield is next to useless unless the boss is only one size greater than me so I can parry. I'm wondering for a first play through if switching to a caster or a more agile Thief might be more effective against bosses.

A generally good tip for bosses is to learn how to read their attacks and dodge rather than block. A lot of bosses can eat your stamina in one hit, making your shield relatively useless. Also keep an eye on your equip load; if you have too high of a percentage your character will be slow overall and "fat roll".

 

[greyhammer90]

Just got a promotional e-mail from Ubisoft about the "Overwatch map" in For Honor. It has absolutely nothing to do with the game Overwatch, it's just 100% click-bait. Pretty shameful.

Have you had a chance to play the Halloween challenge yet? It's pretty excellent. I really hope they continue to do more co-op things. They could even use it to flesh out the lore.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Look through this thread and you will find a lot of talk about Witcher 3. I know I have posted about it and others too.

I love the Dark Souls-style combat mechanics. Seems obviously superior to Bethesda's basic hack-n-slash system. Thus far, I've relied almost entirely upon Quick Attack, Dodge and Quen. Aside from the occasional Aard or Igni to clear poison gas, and Yrden versus Wraiths, none of the signs seem worth the hassle.

All of my skill points have gone into Combat. I'll start investing in Alchemy late game to pump my damage, but it doesn't seem worth the investment early on. And the Signs tree looks really weak. I wouldn't mind improving Quen, but I'd end up having to waste too many points in crappy skills to advance down the tree.

Gwent is amazing! Really impressive strategic depth for a game within a game. Will likely spend this evening on Gwent-related quests and rescuing merchants that have cards I need for my Northern Realms deck.

 

[ulukinatme]

A generally good tip for bosses is to learn how to read their attacks and dodge rather than block. A lot of bosses can eat your stamina in one hit, making your shield relatively useless. Also keep an eye on your equip load; if you have too high of a percentage your character will be slow overall and "fat roll".

Yeah, I've gone to almost completely two handing my sword for boss fights and removing whatever secondary gear I don't need. I'm almost wondering if taking the armor off would be better too, just for the extra maneuverability/speed. Right now I'm probably at 60% of my total equip load and I feel too slow.

 

[IrishBroker]

I love the Dark Souls-style combat mechanics. Seems obviously superior to Bethesda's basic hack-n-slash system. Thus far, I've relied almost entirely upon Quick Attack, Dodge and Quen. Aside from the occasional Aard or Igni to clear poison gas, and Yrden versus Wraiths, none of the signs seem worth the hassle.

All of my skill points have gone into Combat. I'll start investing in Alchemy late game to pump my damage, but it doesn't seem worth the investment early on. And the Signs tree looks really weak. I wouldn't mind improving Quen, but I'd end up having to waste too many points in crappy skills to advance down the tree.

Qwent is amazing! Really impressive strategic depth for a game within a game. Will likely spend this evening on Gwent-related quests and rescuing merchants that have cards I need for my Northern Realms deck.

I got fucking addicted to Qwent. Almost needed to call the gambling hotline.

 

[greyhammer90]

I got fucking addicted to Qwent. Almost needed to call the gambling hotline.

The qambling hotline?

 

[ACamp1900]

I am loving FIFA but have been wanting something Halloweenish to play, I almost bought Dead Rising 2 at Target, 19.99.....

 

[greyhammer90]

I am loving FIFA but have been wanting something Halloweenish to play, I almost bought Dead Rising 2 at Target, 19.99.....

PS4? Until Dawn.

 

[IrishBroker]

PS4? Until Dawn.

I hear that is creepy as shit....

Dying Light is a great game if you are into something with more action

 

[ACamp1900]

PS4? Until Dawn.

reps for the suggestion... I've played it though and couldn't get into it...

Dying Light did look promising... I guess my sweet spot for horror games is really small...