Been playing the open beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division most of the day. It’s some legit shit guys. If you have an Xbone/PS4 or a capable PC give it a go. It barely feels like an Ubisoft game and it might be their greatest game yet.
You two are monsters. Actual monsters from the abyss.
I know, I know. It’s just so painful to do. 
. In all honesty I would go back and re-do it, but I can’t because I didn’t have a hard save, so when my autosaves and quicksaves eventually caught up, the gnome was back where I had left it on the tracks and I couldn’t retrieve it anymore.
The earlier quicksave of the chapter “Riding shotgun” is literally just as soon as I kill the chopper. The save before that is back in “freeman pontifex” in the part of the level where zombies are constantly running into an enclosed shed thing, so before you get the car. I’ll probably restart there for the achievement, I don’t know when the next time I’ll play Ep 2 is, so I might as well go for it.
Are there hidden grubs or something? Like you need to use grenades to get them cause you can’t see them? I’ve played through those levels and I’ve checked everywhere! I look all up and around the caves, I’ve checked any of the lockers that will open (there is 1 hidden grub I’ve found in a locker). It’s driving me mad.
That’s…actually relieving to hear, honestly, cause i really wanted it to be good.
Played Morrowind for a couple hours today. At first I thought I’d never be able to get into it, but after a couple mods for widescreen resultions, HD load screens, HD text and faster sprinting, I think I’m actually really starting to enjoy it.
The combat is balls though. It’s near impossible to fight more than one enemy at once.
Yes, sort of.
There are a couple of grubs in hidden places (or at least where you normally wouldn’t look, like lockers), and other. They are mostly in the open areas of the cave, are pretty hard to reach with the guns. For best results and minimal frustration, I’d personally recommend starting the chapter and in the same time, watch a guide for the achievement (preferably on your mobile, much easier than alt-tabbing to YT).
All this talk pretty much makes me want to give it another try, lol. It’s the last achievement I didn’t unlock in the HL2 series. I have all of them in both HL2:EP1 and HL2, but EP2 is trolling me really, really hard.
Luckily I have 2 monitors, so I can just chuck a video/guide in firefox whilst I’m playing. Technically still have to alt tab but borderless window makes that effortless. I’ve been avoiding guides because I wanted to do it all myself, but I’ve really tried my best and failed, so I have no choice now tbh. I used a guide for Portal 2 monitor smashing, so I’m not sure why I didn’t use a guide fort his achievement.
But yeah, do it. Get that last achievement, I bayleaf.
Agreed. I hate the dice-roll attribute-based aspect of it. If I stick a dagger right in an enemy’s goddamned face, I expect to hit them with the dagger. I don’t want my chance of hitting them with the dagger determined by some convoluted formula that takes into account the quality of the dagger, my weapon skill, my fatigue, my aim, my luck, the weather, my fucking birthday, whatever. That’s NOT the way to make real-time combat rich and interesting in a videogame.
Exactly! I haven’t played Oblivion yet, so I don’t know if it’s Oblivion that fixed it, but Skyrim’s combat is much better. There are only 2 factors to missing: Bad aim, and the enemy moving so fast that you miss.
I’m trying Dark Souls again. I really, really, really want to like this game, but it’s making it so fucking hard.
EDIT: It’s like I love every goddamn thing about it except actually playing it.
EDIT EDIT: Still playing Dark Souls. It’s got a learning curve you can luge down, but damn if it isn’t a great game. I think it’s a game with many awesome elements that are sometimes put together in bafflingly bad ways. It does bad things for my blood pressure but I still love it.
A friend bought me Far Cry Primal after raving on and on about how awesome it is.
I’m about 7 hours in and honestly, it is quite fantastic. It’s like the Ancient Kyrat segments of 4 all over again, but now you get to control a whole menagerie of animals instead of one mystical white tiger. And now instead of a magic bow, you have all the goodies of the cavemen and women of prehistoric times. And they can all be lit on fire. You know, cause fire bad, or in this case, doubles weapon damage and is badass. The crafting isn’t too tedious, tho gathering supplies can be a bitch to do. Especially fucking feathers, to upgrade your quiver. Try hitting a hawk with a bow, it’s harder than hell and so frustrating.
All the weapons are satisfying, but the bow is just wow to use. I feel like they stepped it up with this game somehow? I don’t know how to explain it but the bow feels deadly, and head shots are very rewarding. The rock distract got an upgrade too, once you unlock the sling anyways. It can be used as a weapon to head shot and kill people or animals.
Story wise it’s kinda meh. It opened very well, it looks and plays well, but so far it doesn’t have much for a narrative to me. Don’t get me wrong, the setting is quite nice, but the actual story is very discordant, I guess is the word I want. It seems stringed together loosely, but I dunno, I’m not far into the story line yet. I think.
Gameplay is phenomenal. Taming and riding a sabretooth is literally the best feeling ever. Weapon combat is great, but there’s no blocking mechanism to the game. All in all I give it a 7/10.
I’m an RPG nut. LOVE my RPG’s, MMORPG’s prefered but not required. Been rocking out in FFXIV a bit, and it’s been great.
Outside of those, I just started Rise of the Tomb Raider and it’s been pretty good so far. A little slow in cutscenes for me (the ingame ones, not the pre-rendered ones), but thats probably because I’m pushing my system just a daaaash too far.
Guacamelee: Gold Edition. Already played it in 2014, decided to go back and play through it again. This time I’ve been working through the achievements for Steam.
100%'d all the areas except the “el inferno” challenges which I’m slowly working to get all the gold medals on. Unfortunately I won’t be able to get 2 achievements because they require you to play the game on hard mode and since I’ve just finished the campaign again, I’m not playing it a third time any time soon.
Some good old battlefield 4. Decided to change things up a little and tried to go the whole match without killing anyone directly and seeing if I could keep my number 1 spot, or at least stay in the top 3 of that match anyways. At first, when I turned it on, I didn’t even think of doing it. But when I rapidly captured half the objectives and assisted like 6 people and was leading, in first place, by like 1500 points, I thought “fuck it, wonder if I can.”
I kept 1st place for 75 ish percent of the match before I lost connection.
Loads of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.
I got Hush down to a quarter of its health on my first try!
Started Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest today. From a story perspective I wish I had the Birthright version, because I really didn’t want to choose Nohir route. Once I got farther in it though, the writing is really going to interesting, morally grey places.
Tomb Raider. I don’t know what it is about the controls but something feels a little sluggish and ‘off’. The bow feels friggen awesome though, I love it.
Going to start a new run of Dishonored. Going to try get Ghost/Shadow/Cleanhands this run. Not sure if I’ll include “mostly flesh and steel”, we’ll see.
I just beat Snake eater and I totally ruined the rather emotional ending by forgetting that I was wearing the fucking oyama makeup
EDIT: shit wait that wasn’t the end which gun do I pick I wasn’t paying attention fuck
EDIT 2: Nevermind it was okay
Imagine that ending with the Cold War facepaint…
That outfit is ridiculous, I agree.
I was actually playing the 3DS version though, and I don’t know how to get all the crazy extra camo stuff in that version, where it’s pretty much enabled by default in the HD version
I’m still cranking through Dark Souls.
I just did the Grave of Artorias, and that level was pretty much as perfect as gameplay gets, for me: Dark Souls combat with Skyrim openness. Also did the Painted World of Ariamis.