Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

[Dark Cloud]

I really should try to play Baldurs Gate, on an easier difficulty because AD&D difficulty is like the game is wearing me like a hat.

[Shu]

I really should try to play Baldurs Gate, on an easier difficulty because AD&D difficulty is like the game is wearing me like a hat.

@Dark Cloud

I am considering snagging the Enhanced Edition at the end of next week during the Steam summer sale. It’s a possibility for my list for sure.

[Dark Cloud]

@Shu Ever play Divinity II the Original Sin?

[Shu]

@Shu Ever play Divinity II the Original Sin?

@Dark Cloud

I have not.

The last CRPG’s I have played were Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous. (Though I have not finished WOTW.)

[Dark Cloud]

@Shu I highly recommend getting Divinity, very good game by the people who are making the upcoming Baldur's Gate

[Psyker Landshark]

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 ANNOUNCED

THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEEEEEEE
INTO THE CLOUDS AGAIN, I FEEL THE BLOOD IN MY VEINS
TIME IS RUNNING FREEEEEEEE

[Dark Cloud]

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 ANNOUNCED

THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEEEEEEE
INTO THE CLOUDS AGAIN, I FEEL THE BLOOD IN MY VEINS
TIME IS RUNNING FREEEEEEEE

@Psyker Landshark

HOLLLLY SHIIIIT THE HYPE IS REAAAAAL

[SleepingSilence]

Dragon's Dogma is under $5 bucks on Steam right now. So if anyone ever wanted to play that...now's your time.

I bought Underhero on my Switch instead.

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Anyway, I'm finally playing Undertale. Thus, I'm happy to discover that this game is still enjoyable (beyond its soundtrack), and that its humor is usually on point.

Papers, Please is interesting and challenging. Similarly to Lucas Pope's other game that I loved, Return of the Obra Dinn. (And I can only imagine that it continues to ramp up in difficulty.) But I don't know how "fun" it is to play. (Especially when certain mechanics interrogation feel purposely unintuitive.) Though I still might attempt to push it through more, maybe?

Stories: The Path Of Destinies is an hour long game that you can playthrough up to twenty four times, if you really love asscreed-style combat. (For a minimal branching narrative that almost always leads to a 'ha, ha you ded'.) But on my fourth run through, (they expect you repeat the same few levels at least five times to get the true ending) my last level broke on me and forced me to restart the entire thing. So I said fuck that and uninstalled.

The Magic Circle is a great idea that is tedious and insufferable to play through. The fucking dialogue/narration...

Immortal Planet is fine. (If not a little slow, and obviously unbalanced from the very beginning.) But I'd rather get back into Dark Souls...

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I am sad, but unsurprised, that Mario Strikers: Battle League is like Tennis, in that it lacks and strips content from the original game.

[Dark Cloud]

@SleepingSilence Duuude if you have a Switch Online subscription, I'll invade ur world punk. If you get Dark Souls..How is Underhero?

I just got Grow: Song of the Evertree and, despite the graphical quality dipping in handheld (on Switch). It's an immensely addictive game with positively beautiful OST. The orchestral pieces are exceptional and the intro nearly brought me to tears

[Fabricant451]

I am sad, but unsurprised, that Mario Strikers: Battle League is like Tennis, in that it lacks and strips content from the original game.

@SleepingSilence

Mario Baseball stays winning by not having another game since the Wii.

[Dark Cloud]

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Mario Baseball stays winning by not having another game since the Wii.

@Fabricant451

Really? Jeez that game was fun.

[Mae]

@SleepingSilence Return of the Obra Dinn is a one of a kind game. I could play a series of games like that and not get bored. Found nothing that comes close though.

Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition is a recent game I played that pays homage to Paper's Please. The world is a dark one but satisfying gameplay. Continuous themes of xenophobia as a central premise so I can't 100% recommend it because it's pretty uncomfortable, but humour littered throughout takes the edge off. Mind you the tone is the same as Paper's Please pretty much.

[Dark Cloud]

Fuck'n Dragon's Dogma II, me want now D:<

[SleepingSilence]

@SleepingSilence Duuude if you have a Switch Online subscription, I'll invade ur world punk. If you get Dark Souls...How is Underhero?

I just got Grow: Song of the Evertree and, despite the graphical quality dipping in handheld (on Switch). It's an immensely addictive game with positively beautiful OST. The orchestral pieces are exceptional and the intro nearly brought me to tears.

@Dark Cloud

Have Dark Souls on PC, I'm afraid.

And I haven't played it yet. Just got it on the cheap, and needed another Switch game to play. But it looks fairly engaging, from what little I've seen through youtube.)

Almost got Spiritfarer on the Switch for the same reason. But in spite of how much I think the narrative will be engaging. I've watched how tedious some of the gameplay/mini-games look, and I keep telling myself that I'd be better off watching someone else's lets play of it.

Even if those tend to improve the likelihood that I'll purchase them.

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Unlike watching silent playthroughs of Eternal Threads and AI: The Somnium Files, and how their once interesting premises were made no longer interesting, by having some of the slowest go-nowhere stories and gameplay that I've endured as a viewer. Seriously, hours go by in these games, and NOTHING happens.

[Dark Cloud]

Atm I'm considering purchasing Portal Knights cause it too is on the cheap. I've suffered loading crashes for Grow recently so :p

[Fabricant451]

Unlike watching silent playthroughs of Eternal Threads and AI: The Somnium Files, and how their once interesting premises were made no longer interesting, by having some of the slowest go-nowhere stories and gameplay that I've endured as a viewer. Seriously, hours go by in these games, and NOTHING happens.

@SleepingSilence

To be fair you're watching a visual novel by Uchikoshi, that dude loves writing super long sci fi stories that open and end strong as shit but have an entire middle part that exists.

[BrokenPromise]

The best part of Somnium Files is talking to the characters as a detective. Change my mind.

I do like how Uchikoshi writes characters, but he tends to put them in these really wacky scenarios that tend to hinge on some very thin character (and sometimes plot) logic. Sometimes it feels like he makes things so convoluted in hopes that you just won't notice that little woopsie right there. This was true for the zero time delema series, and it's true for Somnium Files as well. How much you end up liking his stories hinges on how much you like the characters.

[Fabricant451]

Ever17 remains peak Uchikoshi

[Shu]

Fuck'n Dragon's Dogma II, me want now D:<

@Dark Cloud

Fingers crossed for an ideal fast travel system and/or a steed of sorts.

[Dark Cloud]

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Fingers crossed for an ideal fast travel system and/or a steed of sorts.

@Shu

Maybe the tallest pawn can piggyback the new Arisen? Hmm, will the cycle continue..