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Witcher 3 and MLB The Show,… be a man, boy.
What video game are you playing?
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I tried to get into MLB The Show several years ago, but it's a baby game. When it comes to baseball I only play Base Wars on NES.
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In order of priority:
- Witcher 3 is the GOAT Action RPG. You should be ashamed to show your face in this thread never having finished it even once.
- Doom is a masterpiece. Few other games pull together all the elements--music, pacing, advancement--so seamlessly. Turns out punching your way out of hell to a heavy metal soundtrack is fun. Who knew?
- Divinity II is the best turn-based RPG I've ever played. It's very complex and difficult, so I don't recommend it to many, but you'd probably love it.
- Shadows of Mordor is great. It's sort of a cross between the stealth free-running of Assassin's Creed and the combat of Arkham Knight, all set in Tolkein's Middle Earth. The Nemesis system is very engaging, so you'll have a blast exacting revenge on the Orc captains that managed to kill you. This game is a little uneven in some aspects (the talent tree features some real duds sprinkled among totally over-powered abilities, the Runes you use to upgrade your weapons are a little counter-intuitive, etc.) but I still loved it. If those aspects bother you, the sequal (2017's Shadow of War) is much more polished.
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Shadow of War is fun
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Yeah, I always planned on returning to Witcher 3, but I put in a lot of work unlocking pretty much the whole map without doing much of the story. After losing my save I wasn't looking forward to restarting and redoing all that lost work.
Divinity II does sound like it's up my alley, and if I recall Chris Avellone had a hand in the game and I pretty much love anything he's worked on (New Vegas, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, NWN 2, SW Knights of the Old Republic 2, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, etc).
I picked up the Dragon's Age games on sale awhile back after enjoying the first one years ago. I got the impression they didn't compare, but it sounds like they were much worse.
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My favorite thing about Divinity was being able to play co-op with friends, made it much more fun for me because that's not typically my kind of game.
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ACamp1900
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I may look into it. I know many love it,… so those who play,… how hard is this game? I gave up on Metroid Dread bc at a certain point the difficulty killed the fun,…
Should I just stay with the show/nhl for now??
Should I just stay with the show/nhl for now??
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IDK if you are a masochist but I discovered something about myself playing this game.
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As a Notre Dame fan and Cincinnati native, I found I fit right into the “repeatedly punched in the metaphorical dick” Elden Ring demographic nicely.
Something about the repeated failure in pivotal moments just felt so… normal.
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Was combing through some old comments and found this, 7 years before Cyperpunk would ever be released!
Did Brick jinx the game?!
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I think everyone did. Projekt's work with Witcher 3 gave them a ton of hype for the game. And the fake trailer looks incredible. Pair that with all the promises that were made about gameplay and the hype was off the chart.Was combing through some old comments and found this, 7 years before Cyperpunk would ever be released!
Did Brick jinx the game?!
Unfortunately, it was a total bust. And even if they waited to release for a year or two like some have suggested, we can still see it was never going to be the game that was promised.
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It never resonated with me and I believe I have posts buried here someone to show it but that was more subject matter than the game being the mess it turned out to be... in fairness.
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Being a fan of ND and the Browns is all the 'kicked in the dick" I can take... gaming for me is a stress release, not builder. I appreciate cack finding that breakdown but I still think I'm going to pass. Elder Scrolls/Red Dead/Witcher or the like can't be too many more years... I can wait as my RPG tank doesn't need filling as much as my sports gaming tank does.
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aha this meme, kudos!
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So I finally finished Witcher 3 last night. Every contract, every side quest, all the DLC. I ended up getting every point of interest too except for the treasures in the Skellige sea. I guessed that none of them were Places of Power I'd be missing out on, and I really didn't feel like diving for all that shit...like I need a 12th pair of Assassin's Trousers.
Overall I was impressed with the game, although to be honest I was not completely sold until the DLC. The game's dark atmosphere is great, but I found the quests in Heart of Stone and the atmosphere of Toussaint to be a refreshing change of pace. I about died during the wedding party with Shani when Geralt is possessed, not to mention when your horse starts talking to you in Toussaint when you're tripping on mushrooms! The fucking spoon house and breaking that curse creeped me the fuck out. Obviously the main quests were very well done and engaging, although some of the side quests and contracts were a bit of a slog at times. Great quests overall though, characters were wonderful. I thought the combat was supposed to be more unforgiving, but I was surprised to find you can abuse Quen quite a bit and just mash the slash and dodge buttons quite a bit to get through fights. I never really bothered to parry. I started playing around with some other builds late, but I didn't bother much with oils and potions. I'm literally Rowan's Witcher from VLDL.
I do have a couple things that have always bugged me about this game though. For one...I love pretty much all the NPCs, but Geralt as a main character just falls kinda flat imo. I get the whole "Witcher emotions are dead" thing, but hell...even Vesemir has more life in him during conversations than Geralt. I feel like Lambert isn't as dull, and even Eskel. The monotonous voice of Geralt just gets to me, I felt the same way about Ulysses in Fallout NV, least favorite part of the whole game. I'd almost rather Geralt be a silent protagonist, it would be easier to see myself in his shoes. To go along with that...why the fuck is Yennifer considered the canon true love? I like Yen the character, but she really doesn't provide a good foil to Geralt. Geralt is emotionless and often serious, Yen is often just bitchy and quite serious herself. They just do not work together as a romance. Triss, on the other hand, is more lighthearted and sweet. That's a perfect foil to Geralt. I've always felt like they work together better and so I obviously went with that romance in the end. I just found myself smiling often when they interacted together, but when Yen's there it's always such a downer.
Before I get down from my soap box there's one more thing I'm going to nag...fucking Gwent. I fucking hate Gwent. Don't get me wrong, I've played my fair share of side card games in RPGs. Sometimes I actually enjoy the diversion. Gwent becomes more than a fucking diversion though, it becomes a got-damned full time job. It's not even a challenge once you get some decent cards, the CPU is often so predictable you can force their hand. I would be fine if they left Gwent as a side hustle, but there's literally a damned Side Quest to collect every fucking card in the game. It's impossible for me to leave a Side Quest up if it's in the journal, so I ended up challenging every asshole I could find to Gwent so no cards were missed. Wouldn't you know it, by the time I got to the end of Blood and Wine I had everything except two damned cards, both of which are random rewards from random players. So what do I have to do? I have to go through a fucking list and go town to town to track down every merchant to see who I missed. A couple dozen towns later I found a couple Armorers in Skellige that I probably missed because the town was a 1 time stop and the merchants were closed for the night. So seriously...fuck Gwent.
Plot/Characters: (A) - I would have gone A+ here if Gerant wasn't so monotonous with his dialogue. It's always been a gripe of mine though, so I wasn't too harsh here.
Graphics: (A) - I thought this game was released later than 2015, but given it was 7 years ago I felt like the models and terrains were well done for the time. No complaints, beautiful scenery. The dreary backdrops in the main game got a bit old, but the DLC Toussaint and NE Novigrad balanced it out nicefly.
Sound: (B) - Voice acting was pretty good overall, but I didn't feel like the sound track was amazing or anything.
Gameplay: (B-) - I felt like the combat was hyped up to be like Dark Souls, but it wasn't particularly difficult and with the right build you could basically faceroll most fights just abusing dodge and quick attack. Boating is buggy at times, there were a number of times I would be trying to leave a dock and the boat would be kind of...stuck. I'd try to be pulling away from the dock, but it's almost as if the boat was stuck on it's side with nothing in front of it, and then the boat would somehow take damage once it finally came loose. Fortunately you don't spend much time boating in the game, because the boats are about as strong as paper. It's one reason I skipped diving for treasure in Skellige.
Entertainment: (A-) - I felt like I spent half my time playing Gwent for one damned Side Quest. I would have much rather spent more time exploring the world. There was something intrinsically satisfying kicking the crap out of Bandits and other assholes that were up to no good, never really felt like it got old, especially when they underestimate the Witcher and talk trash. I love kicking the crap out of those shit talkers.
Replay Value: (B+) - There's definitely several quests I wouldn't mind going back to revisit and see how my choices would affect the outcome. I did reload a number of saves to see how different scenarios played out so my first playthrough would have the outcomes I wanted. Coincidentally everyone seems to talk about the Baron quest line online and many seem to think the best outcome is for the Baron and his wife to leave and help her memory return. WTF?! And leave the orphaned kids to be eaten by the Crones?! No fucking way. I get that the Baron and his wife were both assholes at points in their lives and redemption is great, but not at the expense of the kids. I ended up changing the wife back from the water hag into human, she got her moment of clarity with her daughter and husband, then the Baron hung himself...but the kids lived. Of course the town gets wiped out too, but they were kind of asking for it since they kept fucking with the tree. No way if you have a soul do you let those kids get eaten, they've been through enough. Besides, it was Anna's wish they live anyway.
Overall: A/A-
Overall I was impressed with the game, although to be honest I was not completely sold until the DLC. The game's dark atmosphere is great, but I found the quests in Heart of Stone and the atmosphere of Toussaint to be a refreshing change of pace. I about died during the wedding party with Shani when Geralt is possessed, not to mention when your horse starts talking to you in Toussaint when you're tripping on mushrooms! The fucking spoon house and breaking that curse creeped me the fuck out. Obviously the main quests were very well done and engaging, although some of the side quests and contracts were a bit of a slog at times. Great quests overall though, characters were wonderful. I thought the combat was supposed to be more unforgiving, but I was surprised to find you can abuse Quen quite a bit and just mash the slash and dodge buttons quite a bit to get through fights. I never really bothered to parry. I started playing around with some other builds late, but I didn't bother much with oils and potions. I'm literally Rowan's Witcher from VLDL.
I do have a couple things that have always bugged me about this game though. For one...I love pretty much all the NPCs, but Geralt as a main character just falls kinda flat imo. I get the whole "Witcher emotions are dead" thing, but hell...even Vesemir has more life in him during conversations than Geralt. I feel like Lambert isn't as dull, and even Eskel. The monotonous voice of Geralt just gets to me, I felt the same way about Ulysses in Fallout NV, least favorite part of the whole game. I'd almost rather Geralt be a silent protagonist, it would be easier to see myself in his shoes. To go along with that...why the fuck is Yennifer considered the canon true love? I like Yen the character, but she really doesn't provide a good foil to Geralt. Geralt is emotionless and often serious, Yen is often just bitchy and quite serious herself. They just do not work together as a romance. Triss, on the other hand, is more lighthearted and sweet. That's a perfect foil to Geralt. I've always felt like they work together better and so I obviously went with that romance in the end. I just found myself smiling often when they interacted together, but when Yen's there it's always such a downer.
Before I get down from my soap box there's one more thing I'm going to nag...fucking Gwent. I fucking hate Gwent. Don't get me wrong, I've played my fair share of side card games in RPGs. Sometimes I actually enjoy the diversion. Gwent becomes more than a fucking diversion though, it becomes a got-damned full time job. It's not even a challenge once you get some decent cards, the CPU is often so predictable you can force their hand. I would be fine if they left Gwent as a side hustle, but there's literally a damned Side Quest to collect every fucking card in the game. It's impossible for me to leave a Side Quest up if it's in the journal, so I ended up challenging every asshole I could find to Gwent so no cards were missed. Wouldn't you know it, by the time I got to the end of Blood and Wine I had everything except two damned cards, both of which are random rewards from random players. So what do I have to do? I have to go through a fucking list and go town to town to track down every merchant to see who I missed. A couple dozen towns later I found a couple Armorers in Skellige that I probably missed because the town was a 1 time stop and the merchants were closed for the night. So seriously...fuck Gwent.
Plot/Characters: (A) - I would have gone A+ here if Gerant wasn't so monotonous with his dialogue. It's always been a gripe of mine though, so I wasn't too harsh here.
Graphics: (A) - I thought this game was released later than 2015, but given it was 7 years ago I felt like the models and terrains were well done for the time. No complaints, beautiful scenery. The dreary backdrops in the main game got a bit old, but the DLC Toussaint and NE Novigrad balanced it out nicefly.
Sound: (B) - Voice acting was pretty good overall, but I didn't feel like the sound track was amazing or anything.
Gameplay: (B-) - I felt like the combat was hyped up to be like Dark Souls, but it wasn't particularly difficult and with the right build you could basically faceroll most fights just abusing dodge and quick attack. Boating is buggy at times, there were a number of times I would be trying to leave a dock and the boat would be kind of...stuck. I'd try to be pulling away from the dock, but it's almost as if the boat was stuck on it's side with nothing in front of it, and then the boat would somehow take damage once it finally came loose. Fortunately you don't spend much time boating in the game, because the boats are about as strong as paper. It's one reason I skipped diving for treasure in Skellige.
Entertainment: (A-) - I felt like I spent half my time playing Gwent for one damned Side Quest. I would have much rather spent more time exploring the world. There was something intrinsically satisfying kicking the crap out of Bandits and other assholes that were up to no good, never really felt like it got old, especially when they underestimate the Witcher and talk trash. I love kicking the crap out of those shit talkers.
Replay Value: (B+) - There's definitely several quests I wouldn't mind going back to revisit and see how my choices would affect the outcome. I did reload a number of saves to see how different scenarios played out so my first playthrough would have the outcomes I wanted. Coincidentally everyone seems to talk about the Baron quest line online and many seem to think the best outcome is for the Baron and his wife to leave and help her memory return. WTF?! And leave the orphaned kids to be eaten by the Crones?! No fucking way. I get that the Baron and his wife were both assholes at points in their lives and redemption is great, but not at the expense of the kids. I ended up changing the wife back from the water hag into human, she got her moment of clarity with her daughter and husband, then the Baron hung himself...but the kids lived. Of course the town gets wiped out too, but they were kind of asking for it since they kept fucking with the tree. No way if you have a soul do you let those kids get eaten, they've been through enough. Besides, it was Anna's wish they live anyway.
Overall: A/A-
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I forgot. Viva La Dirt League has been doing a bunch of Witcher videos lately. The latest one had me rollin'.
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The quest completion chime alone gives sound an A++++.
I’m totally opposite when it comes to gwent. In my opinion, Gwent came with a nice mini game called the Witcher III: The wild hunt.
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After the first several hours of card gathering I legitimately felt like there were only a few times Gwent got difficult. There was the tournament in the Passaflora which was a bitch at times, and then being forced to play with the Skellige deck in Toussaint without getting the Cerys card and a few others. I still preferred the Monster deck for easy wins, but I got good with Skellige too once I figured out all it's weird setups. I thought the card distributions were a bit strange at times too. You'd play a major character like Madman Lugos and he'd have a shit deck with a unique card, and then you play his armorer and he'd have an amazing deck. Why does the nameless NPC have a ridiculous set?
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Gwent was definitely easy to abuse. I stuck with the northern deck the whole time, would bait out the CPU into overextending in the first round with a few cheap cards, and would crush with artillery in the second and third rounds. Basically always kept a sunshine in my hand in case a CPU played rain, and there's tons of special cards that multiply/stack for artillery.
I think people have fond memories of Gwent because 1) it's easy, and winning feels good, so Gwent feels good, 2) there are some fun quests that involve Gwent from a world building perspective, 3) dat drum beat. You know the one I'm talking about.
I think people have fond memories of Gwent because 1) it's easy, and winning feels good, so Gwent feels good, 2) there are some fun quests that involve Gwent from a world building perspective, 3) dat drum beat. You know the one I'm talking about.
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playing the new nintendo switch sports that just came out. love playing the bowling online with people from all over
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It is much harder than the Wii version,… I can’t get two straight stiles for the life of me
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I started out by playing the Northern Relms and relying on the blue commandos x2 bonus for each one present. Then I switched to. Mild hard and abusing their spies and throwing the first round and ending up with 47 cards to use for the next 2 rounds.
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Anyone played the new Lego Star Wars? Very childish I know but I loved those games in the mid 2000’s.
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i just bought it recently with nintendo sports and it is a very hot selling game
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I played the first two trilogies back in the day. It was a nice chill experience. No real difficulty of course, but it was unique and the search for hidden stuff and unlockables made it engaging. I'm looking forward to playing them with my kids now that they're old enough, but right now we're still working through the SNES Square Soft collection.
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I was playing Monster deck in a similar way, but reversed the order. I'd play the leader card first thing to get a free Horn in the melee row, then I'd play weaker cards with no bonuses until the computer either couldn't keep up because of the double values or it decided it had played enough cards and wanted to save something back. Then, depending on what they played I'd usually hit them in Round 2/3 with all those Muster units that Monster is known for: Vampires, Crones, Arachas, maybe Gaunter O'Dimm. I'd play 3-4 cards basically and wind up with 16 on the table because of all the Muster abilities. If I had an extra Horn it was a bloodbath.