[Nocturnal]

I could never finish the first mission of Witcher. The design of Geralt bothered me so much, he's completely unlikeable in the game and so different than how I imagined him. And I really wanted to finish the games, being a big enough fan of the books.

[Dolmen 2.0]

I'm Playing Modern Warfare 3. I. am. loving it.

Solo play is great, I'm steadily leveling up in spec ops. think I'm a captain right now. its just a great game.

I hear its the last of the modern Warfare range? what a shame. such a great game.

This post has been edited by Dolmen+: 30 May 2012 - 08:07 AM

[Obdigore]

It could be the last of the Modern Warfare games, we don't know what IW/Sledgehammer is working on for the 2013 release on the new consoles, nor do we know how the lawsuit Activision vs West/Zampella is going to turn out.

[Traveller]

Nocturnal, on 29 May 2012 - 08:00 PM, said:

I could never finish the first mission of Witcher. The design of Geralt bothered me so much, he's completely unlikeable in the game and so different than how I imagined him. And I really wanted to finish the games, being a big enough fan of the books.

You should have taken it a bit further? My first impression was that he looked all weird (body shape) but that was only in the first mission. He's really grown on me now though, the voice acting is good, and he reminds me a bit of Garret in Thief. I like the way the dialogue is like the system in Mass Effect - you choose something and he puts it in his own words, rather than just reading the line. Some of the Intimidate options are just great.

EDIT btw I haven't read the books either, so I don't have anyone to compare it to.)

This post has been edited by Traveller: 31 May 2012 - 02:13 PM

[Gothos]

Nocturnal, on 29 May 2012 - 08:00 PM, said:

I could never finish the first mission of Witcher. The design of Geralt bothered me so much, he's completely unlikeable in the game and so different than how I imagined him. And I really wanted to finish the games, being a big enough fan of the books.

Now it makes me curious. Which books in particular? Where are you from?

[Mentalist]

Finally finished Bioshock 2.

I gotta say, I think i enjoyed it more than the original.

Edit: I just installed Deus Ex on my gaming PC, with the New Vixion textures mod.

SO PRETTY!!!!

I wanted to play The NAmeless Mod and/or 2027 on it, but I just may end up playing through the original again.....

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 03 June 2012 - 07:16 PM

[Gothos]

The new what now textures? I must have it.

For now, Steam is downloading Just Cause 2 right now. We'll see if it's any good! (5.8 MB/s transfers ftw)

[Mentalist]

Gothos, on 03 June 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

The new what now textures? I must have it.

http://www.moddb.com...s-ex-new-vision

[Nocturnal]

Gothos, on 31 May 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

Nocturnal, on 29 May 2012 - 08:00 PM, said:

I could never finish the first mission of Witcher. The design of Geralt bothered me so much, he's completely unlikeable in the game and so different than how I imagined him. And I really wanted to finish the games, being a big enough fan of the books.

Now it makes me curious. Which books in particular? Where are you from?

Montenegro, I don't see how's that relevant?
As for the books, I read the following: The Last Wish, and the first two from The Witcher Saga (Blood of Elves, Times of Contempt). I think the third one is also translated (since I obviously can't read Polish), but I didn't get the chance to buy it so far... actually didn't even think about buying it, since I've a bunch of other series to finish.

[Gothos]

Relevant as in if you could read polish you'd have a broader picture

[tiam]

I started up a Skyrim file. I really enjoyed my Stealth archer on my first run through so went an Orc heavy armour fighter (which I never do as theres no flexibility in methods of fighting) for something different but started on master this time. Difficult to begin with and I dont know what id do without berserk but now im tempted by an Orc archer to see if the Berserk thing allows for double damage for bow stealth shots.

Ive put in about 50 hours before I activated the dragons like I did on my first run through. Now they dont survive a few berserk power attacks with 2 one handed weapons but this will change when I get Elder Dragons im sure. My archer was so flexible for all the guilds (except the mages guild) but im not sure how good the Orc is going to be. Hes a tank though with severe weakness to magic.

This post has been edited by Jean-Claude Van tiam: 03 June 2012 - 10:41 PM

[Defiance]

I just finished Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Man, it sucked.

Now, don't get me wrong: the gameplay was great. Nowhere near as refined as MGS4's, but for a PSP game it was amazing. Tons of stuff to do, and the development of Outer Heaven was really interesting. But in the place where it counts most for me - the story - it really fell flat. I loved MGS1-4 in terms of storyline. The characters, the plot twists, and all of the philosophical, thought-provoking elements, and social commentary in the games was great. But all of that is just kind of gone in Peace Walker. The story is really simplistic, which in itself isn't bad. What makes it bad are the ridiculous number of plot conveniences, silly "twists", and lousy characters. I found more retcons in Peace Walker than in MGS1-4 combined. That said, I loved the development of Big Boss as a character, as the game more or less answered the question of how he got from his broken state at the end of 3 to the man Solid Snake fights in Outer Heaven.

Anyway, here's some of the stuff that sucked:

Spoiler

Paz. Ugh, Paz and Cecile were even worse than Rose. Cecile was utterly pointless (beyond the great Kojima is God reference), but Paz was even worse because of the plot twist at the end of the game. Paz as a triple agent that steals ZEKE...in her lingerie? What the fuck?

Huey Emmerich. I like Otacon, but damn, there was no need for him aka his father to be in the game. It feels really silly and cheapens the Solid Snake-Otacon bond, as it's basically now a rehash of what BB and Huey went through.

Big Boss snorting the snuff outside of Strangelove's lab. That was terrible.

The technology is waaaaaay too advanced for the Metal Gear universe, which is known for very advanced technology. The AIs that you fight in Peace Walker - especially the Chrysalis and Peace Walker itself - are something that I'd expect to be facing in MGS2 or 4, not over 30 years before that. So, what, did technology just stand still or regress after 1974?

Kaz knowing about Paz and Zadornov all along was a stupid plot twist which added absolutely nothing to the game. So, he knew, okay. But why didn't he mention this to Snake after Zadornov kept escaping. Might be important information, you know, especially since they had already fulfilled what Kaz wanted.

Zero knowing about Outer Heaven and being willing to nuke the United States this early in his Patriot career was really fucking stupid. Also, Paz says that Zero is going to control guns and make a war economy, which is also fucking stupid. It was only put in the game so that people could be like, "Oh man, MGS4 foreshadowing/reference!" Zero having these ideas at this time is ludicrous, especially since him purposely inventing the war economy directly contradicts 4.

Ugh, I could go on and on. But yeah, it was bad.

I've heard Portable Ops is really bad story wise too, but thankfully I never touched that one. Overall, this game makes me doubt Kojima's ability to successfully make MGS5. At this point, I really don't want it - 4 provided complete closure for the series. About the only thing I'd be remotely interested in for MGS5 would be a remake of Metal Gear 1 and 2.

[drinksinbars]

played through metro 2033, good atmospheric game, but some really bad bugs at key points stole a few points from it.

[Dolmen 2.0]

Finished modern warfare 2 yesterday, again. Needed that boost to shoot me into this game and let me just say 'well done infinity, well done!' that last bit with the you know what removed you know where then flung at something somethings thingamajig? That gets me every time. What a game. And MW3 is not failing to impress. First two missions already have my eyes the size of dish plates.

[Mentalist]

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy finally got patched today!

I've been waiting for this patch to get back into it.

[Silencer]

I've actually been playing a lot of Kingdoms of Amalur recently. I know, late to the part and all, but I'm enjoying it (stupid WoW graphics aside). Though it is ridiculously easy. Still fun, at least.

[Lucifer's Heaven]

Silencer, on 07 June 2012 - 02:28 AM, said:

I've actually been playing a lot of Kingdoms of Amalur recently. I know, late to the part and all, but I'm enjoying it (stupid WoW graphics aside). Though it is ridiculously easy. Still fun, at least.

Ha!
See
That was pretty much what I said it had going for it. It is fun to play. Though it is very long, so if you're a ompletionist like me you may find you finish it in big chunks and play some other stuff in between.
And yeah, rather easy. I've been playing the whole game on hard and still finding it really easy

Anyway, I have also been playing some more Amalur recently, nearing the end now.
Been playing the Firefall beta as well, which is quite cool.

Also finally started getting through LA Noire (and you thought you were late to the party Silencer ). Which I am enjoying quite a lot. Though I think I will see if I can find a conversation walk through. The facial animations really are awesome and I like the idea of how the interrogation should work, but in execution it is really kinda clunky and involves more guess work than anything.
The idea is that when they say something you get to try and work out if they're telling the truth or not. That part is fine and doable and kinda cool. However, they make you choose Truth, Doubt or Lie. Doubt and Lie are basically the same with evidence as the difference. You use Doubt when you don't believe them, but have no proof and just want to verbally push them. You use Lie when you have proof. That's a little finicky, but not necessarily too bad.
The real problem comes with there being only one correct answer, coupled with you don't know what your character is actually going to say.
For example I had a situation the other night: I know this person is lying, and I could totally use this as evidence. But when I select Lie I say something on a completely different line of thought to what I was thinking (you use Lie, your character says something, they rebut, then you pick evidence from your list to shut them down with)... Okay, um, I guess I could use this piece of evidence for that. Or that one. Shit which is it? I could absolutely spin either to shut him down and get the evidence, so which should I choose?
Turned out the correct answer was to use Doubt
So yeah, those can be more frustrating than fun. Think I'll print out an interrogation walkthrough, then when we get to bits, Shiara and I can pick our guesses (she likes watching me go through story based games in genres she doesn't like playing ) then look up who's correct and use that answer

[Obdigore]

The conversations literally don't matter as long as you dont completely fail them. It might take a little more evidence work, but you can't really fail the game in any way, shape, or form.

(L.A Noire, clearly)

[Gothos]

So, Crusader Kings II...
GODS WHAT AN AWESOME GAME!

I am, naturally, playing as Poland and Poland alone.
First game started off rather rough. I gathered everything I had from my own levies and vassals and went against one of the nations up north for some bullshit casus belli... that got everyone of that religion on my ass. Where are they getting all those troops? Insane! In short, I got my ass kicked, ruined the playthrough (at least I thought so when a few thousand invaders marched right into my heartland, I was a noob) and resigned to restart.
Similar problems marred my next 2 "playthroughs" but I kept getting better. The one I'm doing right now (well, back at home at least) is getting pretty interesting. And oh so frustrating.
I started out with a marriage to a hungarian princess, instead of the danish ones I picked earlier. Tried to avoid any trouble and built up my demesne provinces a bit. Not too long into the game, my hungarian brother-in-law asked me to join his succession war against his older brother... for the next few years, my King Boleslav the Bold's party ravaged the hungarian countryside, amounting to over 60% of the war effort when we finally won, capturing wholly 5 or 6 provinces... so yeah, he got tough, he got badass. By the time this was finished my lustful king had already had 5 children, and first reached maturity - prince Alexander. So I married him off to Croatia. Not long after, I forged a claim to Slupsk and declared war on the filthy barbarians - eventually winning with the help of my fresh croatian allies. I also married a daughter off at some point to a swedish prince so they came to help as well when I declared a holy war for Danzig and Chelmno.

This is where everything started going tits up.
My awesome king died in battle. Did I mention I screwed up internal politics a bit in the meantime? Alexander who I married off to the Croatian court I put into a matrilinear marriage... I wasn't sure if that didn't mean game over some time down the line so I panicked and forced Elective succession, and transferred dynasty to Boleslav's other son... Well, I can't recall every detail of it right now, but just as I won the war in the north and got Danzig and Chelmno, my king Boleslav died and the heir was a pisspot. He couldn't hold this large a demesne, and I couldn't find a way to reduce it in a timely manner, and quite soon all my major vassals' opinion of my new boy king was hurtling towards the abyss. Before two months passed, both Mazovia and Silesia rebelled. The only thing my new king had going for him is rather high martial score, but I couldn't fight them both after this much attrition of my own troops, so I had to do some diplomacing.
I surrendered to the Mazovian guy (who due to Elective had a claim on the Kingdom of Poland) and destroyed the Silesian rebellion at his side.
But I knew that this would not do. I was happy that I prioritized military development in Krakow, as I could now field a rather sizable army for that small a country that I held as Duke of Lesser Poland... I've waited a year or so, declared war and claimed Kingdom of Poland, gathered my levies, hired a mercenary company and made a dash for Mazovian provinces... took two of them fully, utilizing the mercenary numbers to storm them, but then the war grinded to more or less a halt. Or, more like, it took rather long. I was slowly making my way through his remaining provinces - I swear, they MUST have unfair bonuses to their levy count the way he was recruiting from those provinces that I just held myself some time back and could never get those kind of numbers from them - and eventually won the war of succession. That's just about when I finished playing yesterday as I noticed that it became 1 am when I wasn't looking. Not sure what to do next, tbh, perhaps consolidate power and develop my stuff. We'll see.

[Morgoth]

When next I buy a laptop, this will be my heroin.