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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,496 Views)
Moo
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Dark Souls 2 would be a great deal better if it wasn't purposefully annoying so often. The combat might not have Bloodborne or DS3's intensity, but it's got a nice and easy flow that reminds me of Zelda, where it's just fun if not all that challenging. It's got none of DS1's clunkiness, even if it lacks its punch. The game is really pleasant until it branches out after The Lost Bastille and turns the dickery up to eleven. Archers that make every room a pain to explore, enemies breaking fog door animations, poison everywhere, overly dark areas, unmanageable enemy hordes, that foggy forest area... To its credit, none of the bosses are annoying, but none of them would be in my top 10.

Anyway, I'm going to forge ahead with the DLC and hopefully complete it this time (last time I only completed the main part of the Iron King DLC). I got a shock when I lit the last great soul fire and that mysterious ashen blob man exploded out of it and talked about stuff. That is cool.

EDIT: My bad, Royal Rat Authority is definitely an annoying boss due to the toxic rats.
Edited by Moo, May 6 2016, 08:42 PM.
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Best PvP in the series though.
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I haven't played the Ivory King DLC yet, but Dark Souls 2 is true to the tradition of each game's DLC being superior to the main game. Sunken King is my favourite area, enjoyable and atmospheric and surprisingly not annoying in light of its frequent use of poison. It was quite fun to explore. I loved the fog wall fakeout that leads to the lake of dinosaurs. The voice of the singing woman haunting the Dragon's Sanctum was a great touch. The bosses weren't inventive, reminding me of Nashandra, Guardian Dragon and, uh, a room with three invaders. Pleasant enough though. I got them all on my first try and only died once to those stupid statues that spit petrification juice.

Iron King is more annoying. I don't want to imagine how annoying it would be if you didn't have a bow and arrow to pick off stupidly placed enemy hordes. Iron Passage is just savage and moronic. It's got a nice atmosphere though, and two of the best bosses (Fume Knight and Sir Alonne, the second of which I haven't managed to beat yet).

EDIT: Ivory King DLC is crap until you clear the storm but after that it's very nice. The main boss is another great one albeit a bit of a chump after the razor sharp precision needed against Sir Alonne. That invader that appears unnanounced as a phantom and gestures and does not initially attack was so damn cool. I had no idea if it was a real person or not because it mimics stuff people do like dash away a long way to chug Estus. This DLC is the best for lore: that ending is on level with some of the coolest stuff in the series.
Edited by Moo, May 10 2016, 01:22 AM.
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This concludes my annual obsession with Dark Souls, I'll stop talking about it until the Dark Souls 3 DLC comes out.
Edited by Moo, May 10 2016, 01:28 AM.
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Okay one more thing. I made that last post before finding the Frigid Outskirts in Ivory King. Here it is, here it is: the worst area in Dark Souls. Imagine an area as big and barren as Lost Izalith. It might be even bigger, but it's impossible to say, cause there's a blizzard that makes the screen so white you cannot see one fucking foot ahead of where you are. As you aimlessly run about you get attacked by horses you cannot outrun and are difficult as shit to fight because you can't make out what they're doing. This shithole is NOT like the Shaded Woods where you can hug the walls to find your way. It's just a big field of white with infinite asshole horses. Nothing comes close in sheer cuntitude: not Black Gulch, Shrine of Amana, Blighttown or Bed of Chaos. Garbage.

Okay I'm done.
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Played the Cyanide & Happiness game for the first time on the weekend! So much fun!

Everyone has 7 comic panels in their hand. One person is judge and reveals the top panel from the deck. They then place a panel from their hand either before or after that panel and players must then add a third panel to complete the strip. Final panels are placed faced down and the judge chooses a winner.

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Fire Emblem: Fates - Fredrick Conquest. I'm playing on Hard/Classic,

Remember, just like in XCOM. An 88% chance to hit, is a 12% chance to miss.

Really fantastic so far. The mission design, the map layouts, the new gimmicks and the varying objectives is what I wanted from a new Fire Emblem; it was something that was sorely missing from Awakening, even though that game did some cool new things to the mechanics. I welcome some of the more suttle changes, the enemy being able to pair themselves adds so much variables now. Weapon degradation was removed and the Bronze/Iron/Steel/Silver weapons are no longer just superior statistical upgrades anymore - they're just options with different strengths and weaknesses.

There is also this cool little My Castle thing in between missions. You build up a castle, add facilities, interact with your army, manage equipment, set up castle defenses for siege missions. It's not the most complex thing in the world (It's reminiscent of MGSV's Mother Base), but it's a nice break in between the tense and stressful main missions that the game throws at you.

One thing, though is that I think the whole prologue leading up to the break to the different paths feels rushed, especially if you're on the conquest/nohr side. It just seems so underdeveloped and skewed heavily towards picking Birthright/Hoshido.

I also got forced into getting Overwatch because so many friends just got this game the other day. I played abit of the Beta and really liked what I played. I havent even installed it yet, though.
Edited by Red Panda, May 24 2016, 09:25 PM.
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May 24 2016, 09:22 PM
Fire Emblem: Fates - Fredrick Conquest. I'm playing on Hard/Classic
I'm a filthy casual and went with Birthright. However, I may check out Conquest at another time.
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Fired up the Wii U again, after getting through some of my shame pile backed up games on Steam.

Started Yoshis Wooly World and I cannot stop smiling, the game rivals Captain Toad for cuteness.
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Just started Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. Definitely shaping up to be another outstanding expansion to an outstanding game.

Toussaint is really beautiful, rivaling and arguably surpassing Skellige. Feels like a combination of Italy and France so far.
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More references from CDPR about things they do better than 99% of devs / publishers today.
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Flashy armour and twiddly moustaches.
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Some great interface refinements;
Inventory split up into further categories
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Map screen allows you to zoom out further, add different custom waypoints, and has a dedicated world map button (no more accidentally leaving your region's map when zooming out!)
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You can buy missing crafting ingredients with a button push. Additionally, when repairing gear at a blacksmith you can also press a single button to repair all equipped, which is nice. Numerous other overhauls as well.
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Also fresh from the patch notes, something I've been waiting for for the last year or so:
Adds book titled 'A Miraculous Guide to Gwent' which displays number of gwent cards missing from player's base-game collection and information on where to find them, thus facilitating completion of achievement titled Collect 'Em All. Tome in question can be obtained either from gwent playing scholar in Prologue or from merchant near St. Gregory's Bridge in Gildorf district of Novigrad.
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May 31 2016, 04:18 PM
Just started Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. Definitely shaping up to be another outstanding expansion to an outstanding game.
Are you on GOG or Steam? I see a 6GB GOG Galaxy download and patch install for it, but it still says "Coming Soon" when I open up the game.
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I'm on GoG, it started downloading automatically when I opened the client this morning and worked fine when I launched the game.
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May 31 2016, 04:44 PM
I'm on GoG, it started downloading automatically when I opened the client this morning and worked fine when I launched the game.
I'm not sure what happened. It automatically downloaded a 7GB update this morning, but I just noticed this...

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When I clicked Blood and Wine, it kicked off another 8GB download update. I don't think any recent patches were 7GB, so I have a feeling it's redownloading and installing the DLC :-/
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I have mine set to automatic but it was a single 8.6GB download for me that seems to have included both the expansion and the 1.21 update
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The architecture of this expansion is really refreshing for Witcher 3. When we found out it was going to be set in Toussaint I was actually somewhat disappointed because I feared it would be too similar to Velen in that it was another green, hilly kind of area. At the time I really wanted it to be set in that desert region that I've forgotten the name of,
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. However now that I'm playing it, it's a substantially different atmosphere with totally different buildings, weather, culture and geographical features from Velen. Velen is really a very gloomy, often rainy, swampy area with rundown buildings by comparison. I also like it thematically, I like the violence and moral ambiguity going on in the shadows behind all the sophistication, wealth and high culture.

But yeah, it really is one of the prettiest games I've played. Very bright, colourful and vibrant.
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