drahkon Posted August 12 Posted August 12 On 7/12/2024 at 8:23 AM, drahkon said: Give us (me ) some impressions of Astrea: Six-sided Oracles. On 7/12/2024 at 10:07 AM, Dcubed said: You may be waiting a while as I’m gonna be pretty busy with work over the next few days but you’ll get some impressions at some point! So, thanks for nothing I started a run just now. Did the tutorial and beat chapter 1. Took me 31 minutes and my brain hurts. There's so much to think about: Dice values, corruption, purification, buffs, debuffs, your own dice, enemy dice, sentinels, sentinel dice, virtues, what dice to choose as rewards, what dice to improve in a shop,... FUCK. Barely managed to defeat the first boss. It took me until the last turn to realize a certain synergy I have with one of my sentinels. Yay me. Well, onto chapter 2. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow 1
drahkon Posted August 13 Posted August 13 (edited) Look at this madness. This is just one die Been at this fight for 10 minutes now. Brb. Edit: Lost a heart because I was stupid I hate this game. Managed to win the fight, though. I love this game. Edit²: After 1 hour and 23 minutes my first run ended in death. Edited August 13 by drahkon 1
Happenstance Posted August 18 Posted August 18 Decided to move my gaming PC back out of the office as it just wasn't getting enough use in there no matter how much I kept telling myself I'd remember to go back in after I finished work so I bought myself a nice little 27 inch monitor to go on my small corner desk and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. 2
Happenstance Posted August 22 Posted August 22 Gonna finally give Diablo IV a try as it's free to play over the long weekend
Dcubed Posted August 22 Posted August 22 The 27' version of the Spatiallabs glassesless 3D display is finally out! https://store.acer.com/en-gb/acer-ds2-gaming-monitor-3d-spatiallabs-view-psv27-2-black Anyone got a spare 2 grand to throw my way as an early xmas present? On a related note... looks like Samsung are now throwing their own hat into the ring, having announced their own line of glassesless S3D displays (seemingly using the same tech as Acer's Spatiallabs line of screens). https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225133/samsung-odyssey-3d-gaming-monitor-glasses-free-announcement Am loving this newfangled revival of the 3DS' S3D tech! Long may it continue!
Happenstance Posted August 23 Posted August 23 On 8/18/2024 at 2:37 PM, Happenstance said: Decided to move my gaming PC back out of the office as it just wasn't getting enough use in there no matter how much I kept telling myself I'd remember to go back in after I finished work so I bought myself a nice little 27 inch monitor to go on my small corner desk and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Swapped out a few things and got some back lighting for my monitor to spruce up the setup a bit. Other than getting a new webcam which can wait until I see a nice one with a bigger discount I think I'm done.
Happenstance Posted August 25 Posted August 25 (edited) Just finished the PC version of Uncharted 4. I'd forgotten just how great that game actually is. The character animation and voice acting especially is just top of class and imo still hasn't been beaten. Really hope the rumours of an Uncharted 1 remake are true, other than that I'd happily take the Uncharted trilogy ported to PC next. I've played 1 & 2 loads over the years but hated 3 on my original playthrough so I'd be interested to see if that was still the case. Edited August 25 by Happenstance 2
Hero-of-Time Posted August 25 Posted August 25 Uncharted 4 is my least favourite of the series. I found it dragged on far too long. I still enjoyed it but it's just I hold the other games to a very high standard. Totally agree about the voice acting and animations. The ones that feature the more personal moments between Nate and Elena are amazing. 1
Julius Posted August 25 Posted August 25 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Uncharted 4 is my least favourite of the series. I found it dragged on far too long. I still enjoyed it but it's just I hold the other games to a very high standard. Yep, this is true for me too. The game looks visually stunning, the grappling hook is great, soundtrack is fantastic, excellent OTT set-pieces as usual and mechanically it is much deeper than the earlier games...but spending so much more time with Sam than Elena felt like a huge misstep for me, highlighted that the peak of the game for me is a car ride with Elena. It also just kind of gets into the territory of overexplaining Nate's past. While I'm definitely more of a TLOU fan than I am an Uncharted fan, I've said it before, but Uncharted 2, just for my tastes, is the only Uncharted game which I played and came away from going "wow, from start to finish, that was actually great." The first game is just a bit of a pain to go back to these days (so I fully agree @Happenstance, I really hope that a remake is in the works, because it needed it back when I played it on 2018, and I imagine needs it even more so now) but had such a solid core, and did so many weird things which the later games never quite matched – I'm still of the opinion that the Nazi bunker section is one of the biggest tonal shifts in gaming, and I'm convinced the only reason things like that happened less as the games went on is because The Last of Us gave Naughty Dog a much more appropriate outlet for some of what was going down in that bunker. 3 I think really just ends up in a weird spot where it's not quite as good as 2 (completing it's role as the classic trilogy closer with aplomb) and so its weaknesses are almost exaggerated just by being compared to 2. I've yet to play Lost Legacy, despite it sitting on my shelf for so long, but I think knowing that it's relatively short is such a positive that I'm happy to wait for when I have a day or two to just charge through it. Edited August 25 by Julius 1
Hero-of-Time Posted August 25 Posted August 25 (edited) Yeah, Lost Legacy is a great time. The banter between Nadine and Chloe is top tier and the smaller game length makes for a snappy experience. Well worth a playthrough. Edited August 25 by Hero-of-Time 1
Happenstance Posted August 25 Posted August 25 Lost Legacy is indeed very good. Not as good as 4 but then I'm not a monster with terrible opinions so your enjoyment may vary. 2
Happenstance Posted September 6 Posted September 6 Grabbed Star Trucker last night. Seems like it could be a nice, chill game like Euro Truck Simulator. I'll definitely have to get better at loading and unloading though, lots of crashes last night 😆
Happenstance Posted September 22 Posted September 22 Bought Thank Goodness You're Here this morning on Steam as it's on sale. Loving it so far, it's so British! 1
Hero-of-Time Posted September 22 Posted September 22 8 minutes ago, Happenstance said: Bought Thank Goodness You're Here this morning on Steam as it's on sale. Loving it so far, it's so British! Love the look of this. I've got it on my PS wishlist.
Happenstance Posted September 22 Posted September 22 8 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Love the look of this. I've got it on my PS wishlist. There's not a lot to it but I've had a smile on my face the entire time I've been playing it.
Happenstance Posted September 22 Posted September 22 That's the credits rolling. Really enjoyed my time with that, as I said smiling throughout but it got some proper big laughs out of me as well. Hope we get a sequel! 1
Will Posted October 1 Posted October 1 So I’m once again having my thoughts on building a PC, and actually might follow through with it this time. Basically I have two targets: Be able to play retro games including Tekno Parrot Be my main gaming machine instead of a PS6 Point one is a now thing and two is something for the future. I’m basically thinking to build something cheap now with a Ryzen 5000 integrated graphics chip and then fully upgrade it in a few years time to cover the more modern games. Is this a sensible thing to do? Will I get much mileage from more recent stuff with something like that or will I be stuck on retro only (which is fine) until I do the big upgrade? Is there anything else I should think about before I go ahead with this?
Happenstance Posted October 4 Posted October 4 Finally bought Diablo IV. I enjoyed playing it on that free weekend but was also playing Uncharted so never bothered picking it up. I'm currently in the mood to play Ghost of Tsushima but want to wait for a better discount so Diablo should be a nice game to play in the mean time.
RedShell Posted October 4 Posted October 4 On 10/1/2024 at 8:03 AM, Will said: Will I get much mileage from more recent stuff with something like that or will I be stuck on retro only (which is fine) until I do the big upgrade? I'm far from an expert on the topic so don't take this at face value, but I reckon you'd struggle with recent stuff (other than simpler/less demanding indie titles, perhaps ) on that setup. From what I can tell it should be ok for the Tekno Parrot thing though. Never actually heard of that until now, looks like it's possible to play Mario Kart Arcade via it though!
Happenstance Posted October 31 Posted October 31 You know what I miss. The massive cardboard boxes that PC games used to come in that took up way too much space.
Hero-of-Time Posted October 31 Posted October 31 36 minutes ago, Happenstance said: You know what I miss. The massive cardboard boxes that PC games used to come in that There's quite a collectors market for those now, especially if they come with the various code wheels that they used to come with.
Happenstance Posted October 31 Posted October 31 8 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: There's quite a collectors market for those now, especially if they come with the various code wheels that they used to come with. I used to see them at those Retro Video Game Markets from time to time. Almost bought the Red Alert one the last time.
Happenstance Posted Thursday at 07:02 AM Posted Thursday at 07:02 AM Got my Steam Replay for 2024. No surprise that Spelunky is top again, that game really does have a hold over me! 1
drahkon Posted Thursday at 02:28 PM Posted Thursday at 02:28 PM Absolutely incredible game. Won 3 runs so far on the first board. I'm addicted. 18+ rating incoming. 2
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