Discussion What's your favourite video game you've been playing?

[Deleted member 217926]

I loved the music in that game. Yeah it's pretty short and it's got a great story that somewhat makes up for the clunky gameplay. I enjoyed it but I doubt I'll play it again.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Let me know how it is, I'm wanting Rise Of The Tomb Raider, but I'm going to wait for the price to fall a bit. Besides I'm still into Fallout 4. I just barely made it to For Independence and got it setup with three of the 10 power generators and a good collection of gun turrets, food, water, and beds.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Will do. I don't see finishing The Witcher 3 anytime soon though.That game is huge.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I see why I didn't find it as I played as the woman so I got the dress.

Don't know what you mean by that because I'm playing as a male and I see dresses as loot all the time. Just for the hell of it I tried one on to see if a male can wear one, and they can. Looked very strange with my Heavy DC Helmet on though. Would be funny if there was a distraction perk, kinda like that crazy scene in MacGruber with the celery stick. LOL

I agree that Courtney is great, Jack was one of the best side characters of ME.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Just that specific loot was a suit for the male character as you found and was a dress for the woman. So I got the dress. Same +3 Charisma.

I put a pretty dress on the guy at Sanctuary who kept being all depressed because his kid? got killed. The one who's wife is always badmouthing you. It didn't cheer him up :lol:

The Witcher 3 might be the best looking game I've ever played. Seriously just blown away by the animation both of the scenery and the characters.

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And Triss in particular is extremely.....well drawn. 😀

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I still don't feel like I've even made a dent in this game at 70 hours.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

...Even IF it were caused by joining a rival faction though, you'd think they'd warn you...Bethesda do some crazy stuff.

one of the things i really enjoy about Fallout 4 is the fact that they don't go out of their way to explain circumstances all the time. i'd much prefer having to pay attention to dialogue and investigate what's going on than to have red flags everywhere warning about the outcome of your decisions. another aspect i really enjoyed was figuring out a lot of the game mechanics instead of having mini-tutorials everywhere teaching crafting and other options. seems to feel a lot more personal for me when the information is well earned instead of spoon fed. but i know it's also what turns a lot of people off of games like this.
a lot of that learning aspect is what makes these games great for replays later. you can incorporate all the stuff you learned through the game much earlier and will pickup lots you probably missed through original playthroughs. one of the main reasons i try to stay away from online guides, walkthroughs, and youtube for my first time through games.

glad most people seem to be really enjoying it.

Just got Rise of the Tomb Raider. Really looking forward to it since all the reviews seem to say it's amazing. It won't be released until the 28th and I doubt I'll even start it until I finish The Witcher 3 though. It really is a great time to be a gamer.

can't wait to play it. the last release was the funnest quick-time filled game i've ever played. and one of the best looking at the time.

am getting into Wild Hunt to finally play the Hearts of Stone and the added DLC missions i had originally missed. just finishing Bloody Baron and the Crookback Bog quests, had forgotten how messed up most of these little stories are.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It is pretty messed up. And some of the scenes you come upon are just horrific. Whole villages murdered with the people left to rot. How many hours did a playthrough take you?

Those resized screenshots don't do justice to my 32" 1440p monitor. It has a 100% Adobe RGB color gamut as well so those colors are just amazing.

Agree about Fallout 4 and all the Fallout games in general. You have to pay attention or you might not like the consequences.

I've played the first Tomb Raider twice and enjoyed it both times. I agree it was a great game both graphically and the gameplay. Camilla Luddington did a great job as Laura and this new game looks to be as good if not better than the last one.

 

[Antoine Baky]

GTA San Andreas

 

[Kevin Fox]

GTA San Andreas

Good ol' San Andreas... I can hardly remember those frustrating storyline missions...

 

[Frag Maniac]

one of the things i really enjoy about Fallout 4 is the fact that they don't go out of their way to explain circumstances all the time. i'd much prefer having to pay attention to dialogue and investigate what's going on than to have red flags everywhere warning about the outcome of your decisions.

another aspect i really enjoyed was figuring out a lot of the game mechanics instead of having mini-tutorials everywhere...

Oh I'm not talking about "red flag" warnings. Maybe "warning" was a bad choice of words. What I'm talking about is there's no real way of telling what the same yellow coded dialog option will yield, and sometimes it has disastrous results. They should instead just make their tone change, or via dialog let you know influence is not going to work. I have Charisma buffed to 6 now though, and if I remember to wear Reginald's Suit and the Newsboy cap before important dialog, it will be 9 effectively. There shouldn't be any problems with conversations anymore.

You don't really HAVE to figure out gameplay mechanics, and I don't think that is their intent. The Help menu has extensive text tutorials. It's just that most either don't know about it, or are too lazy to read it. It helped me build up my castle walls. Just wish they had a half height shack foundation, because a few of them are showing under one of the arched entryways. The hold to pick up snapped together objects feature is also ridiculously sensitive. It should only collectively pick up items you've already snapped together, but it clings to any objects you've placed nearby too.

Anyways, I'm leveling up quicker than I was before going back to the Taking Independence save. I've finished all Knight Rhys' side quests, and just did IMO one of the best side quests for Scribe Haylen. It's the one at Hub City Auto Wreckers. The layout of bridgework and AI is fantastic. Plus there's an Assaultron, lots of Gunners with laser weapons, a flamethrower trap, and a crane bridge. The icing on the cake was I ended up getting all but the right arm piece of a Heavy Combat Armor set from a chick with a Fatman. I was expecting the Assaultron to be the toughest part of the battle, but he went down very quickly with a toss of a grenade and a few blasts from my 139 damage shotgun.

 

[Gman450]

I must have stopped before getting to that scribe Kayden's quest. I think I finished all of Rhys's quests and by then I got to level 30. So I told myself, why waste more time, let's get the story moving already! I never entered Diamond City till then, but from there on I only did story quests. I just couldn't bring myself to do any more of those.

I finished Spec Ops: The Line yesterday. It was short but it felt long enough and not fleshed out too much. The story is indeed very good, much better than those of shooters releasing these days. I usually enjoy Call Of Duty stories too, but I haven't played those in a while.

 

[Maarsch]

Back to dark souls again

Asylum demon - Check
Taurus demon - Check
Moonlight butterfly - Check
Capra demon - Check
Bell Gargoyles - Check
Gaping dragon - Check
Stray demon - Pending
Chaos Witch Quelaag - currently trying

I'm not even half-way yet, am I?

 

[Gman450]

Nope. Quelaag was really difficult but not as much as Ornstein or Smough though. Damn, I had it with those two!

 

[Frag Maniac]

I must have stopped before getting to that scribe Kayden's quest. I think I finished all of Rhys's quests and by then I got to level 30. So I told myself, why waste more time, let's get the story moving already! I never entered Diamond City till then, but from there on I only did story quests. I just couldn't bring myself to do any more of those.

I finished Spec Ops: The Line yesterday. It was short but it felt long enough and not fleshed out too much. The story is indeed very good, much better than those of shooters releasing these days. I usually enjoy Call Of Duty stories too, but I haven't played those in a while.

My bad, it's Scribe Haylen. Jeez my lack of sleep from playing this game is making me loopy.

Found another that's as good if not better than Rhys' Hub City one. It's a Haylen quest at Dunwich Borers.

I'm finding the side quests too interesting to skip, and they also serve to level up quite well. I'm at about level 30 now.

I just accidentally spoiled a major story detail about Paladin Danse reading a wiki, DAMN!

Spec Ops: The Line is a fantastic game, and for me not just it's story. I got rather defensive of it on several occasions when people said the gameplay sucks. To me it was one of those visceral combat games like Kane & Lynch 2. Both games I played through several times on the hardest mode just for the challenge of the combat.

 

[Ragahv]

I play GTA V because you can do what ever you want, evolve is a good game, elder scrolls online is very good MMO and RPG and also some free ones like: Shayia from areia games which is a free rpg game website made for pc. All you need is an account with areia games.

 

[Ragahv]

Play guild wars 2 online?

 

[Gman450]

My bad, it's Scribe Haylen. Jeez my lack of sleep from playing this game is making me loopy.

Found another that's as good if not better than Rhys' Hub City one. It's a Haylen quest at Dunwich Borers.

I'm finding the side quests too interesting to skip, and they also serve to level up quite well. I'm at about level 30 now.

I just accidentally spoiled a major story detail about Paladin Danse reading a wiki, DAMN!

Spec Ops: The Line is a fantastic game, and for me not just it's story. I got rather defensive of it on several occasions when people said the gameplay sucks. To me it was one of those visceral combat games like Kane & Lynch 2. Both games I played through several times on the hardest mode just for the challenge of the combat.

Lol, I never bothered with her name. I knew the more hostile brotherhood guy's name was Rhys, because he always gave us a hard time. I'm a little disappointed that Rhys never started trusting us despite doing all of those side quests. His tone kinda does change after doing a few.

I played through Spec Ops on Normal difficulty. At first I was headshotting nearly all of the enemies but then their numbers started to grow and I just resorted to spraying. They all die fairly quick, two or three bullets to the chest and so on.
My main problem with the game was I never could get in and out of cover well enough. I died several times whilst running to a covering position just to see that Walker simply stood there and got riddled with more bullets. When they threw grenades right at your spot, I had a hard time trying to move away from it and to an adjacent covering position without taking a hit.
It was only by the end I understood when to hold down or just simply tap the sprint button to run/auto cover.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I never bothered with her name.

Just did another of Haylen's quests at Vault 95. Holy crap what a battle that was!

I played through Spec Ops on Normal difficulty. At first I was headshotting nearly all of the enemies but then their numbers started to grow and I just resorted to spraying. They all die fairly quick, two or three bullets to the chest and so on.

My main problem with the game was I never could get in and out of cover well enough. I died several times whilst running to a covering position just to see that Walker simply stood there and got riddled with more bullets. When they threw grenades right at your spot, I had a hard time trying to move away from it and to an adjacent covering position without taking a hit.
It was only by the end I understood when to hold down or just simply tap the sprint button to run/auto cover.

If you play SO: The Line on the hardest mode, there are a few things you really need to focus on.

1. Using your team well, meaning knowing whom to have them attack, when you can advance without them getting too far away, and what enemies to shoot quickly to keep them alive.

2. Making sure you save the right weapons going into the next area, since they and ammo carry over.

3. Knowing what cover to take, as there are MANY places where you'll get easily killed if you move forward too far.

4. Knowing what places restrict certain angles of shots. There are times when in cover you cannot aim where you need to.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Are you looking for bobbleheads? Pretty easy way to get some nice free stat boosts if you go hunting. I had to use a guide to find them after I was about 100 hours in and had only found like 3.

I used this. No spoilers doing this.

http://www.gosunoob.com/fallout-4/bobblehead-locations/

Then you can build a bobblehead display case at your base. You also get an achievement for 10 and another when you get all 20.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Aw what a bummer. Rise of the Tomb Raider apparently doesn't unlock until noon tomorrow. I was hoping for a 12 midnight unlock like with Fallout 4 because than I could start playing.

 

[Gman450]

I'm waiting for Rise of the Tomb Raider too, but I don't think I'll be playing that one soon. I really liked the first game of the series and it was my first Tomb Raider game too. No wait...I had played one of the older games, the one where you could lock your butler in the freezer in your mansion.

That was a neat mechanic in Spec Ops. Being able to target your team to take out one of the enemies while you take on another was great and it helped me out a lot during combat.
It reminded me a of Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Vegas, but in that game you could order you mates to do a lot more.

 

[McDuncun]

OK, thanks, I'll check that out. I've yet to fight a Sentry Bot, but I have one waiting that I can use north of Sanctuary, but it can only be used a few places.

I've dropped my sniper rifle I had (which was actually 51 damage I found out), because I found a Hardened Sniper Rifle that's 64 Damage. I think I may put a suppressor on it.

I'm currently level 16 and have been unlocking quite a variety of perks, though too busy to do any serious modding yet.

The last one that sucked me in was Lone Wanderer. It's quite nice to have 50 more carry weight and 15% less damage just for not being with a companion. I don't even need PA to carry PA weight.

It seems to me these level up games to a point make damage increasing mods a bit useless, because as you level up, so do the weapons you find.

I remember in Dead Island I was always finding better damage weapons not long after modding ones.

You kmow what is actually great in the game, dofmeat does not count as a standard companion. So the lone wanderer perk is enabled if you travel with him. But I would not take on any of those bots at your current lvl.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

just started Tides of Numenera early release last night. very cool game. does remind me a bit of Planescape in a good "spiritual successor" way.
getting back to the isometric design makes me want to finally play the Pillars of Eternity: White March expansion. and then finish the Wasteland 2 Director's Cut, and then the Original Sin Enhanced Edition...
there's just too many good games and too many genres of them these days. i need a catastrophe to end the release of new games for a while til i catch up. but then i'd be pissed knowing that i'm missing the new Deus Ex, the new Mass Effect, Cyberpunk 2077, etc.

It is pretty messed up. And some of the scenes you come upon are just horrific. Whole villages murdered with the people left to rot. How many hours did a playthrough take you?

i think i remember it being ~120hrs, maybe more. that was pretty early after release so there's been content added since too.
crazy how well this game runs compared to others with much weaker graphics and less going on onscreen. easily 60+fps with everything on and maxed settings, though only at 1080p. definitely is the best looking game i've played yet. Assassin of Kings was at the time too though.

Oh I'm not talking about "red flag" warnings. Maybe "warning" was a bad choice of words. What I'm talking about is there's no real way of telling what the same yellow coded dialog option will yield, and sometimes it has disastrous results. They should instead just make their tone change, or via dialog let you know influence is not going to work. I have Charisma buffed to 6 now though, and if I remember to wear Reginald's Suit and the Newsboy cap before important dialog, it will be 9 effectively. There shouldn't be any problems with conversations anymore.

i don't really remember exactly but are the dialogue colors the chance that your reply will influence them or is it just a color-code about the severity of your response?
many games like this also will have some type of "dice roll" incorporated into your chance so until you hit very high levels it's difficult to tell how your response would hit.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Rise of the Tomb Raider looks amazing.

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I've got everything maxed and I'm getting 48-60FPS.

Edit: That would be with a 2600K at 4.5Ghz and an EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC at 1440p.

 

[Agzastrgath]

Grand Theft Auto

which one is my favorite? all of them. but if i had to put them in order they would be like this
GTA V
GTA San Andreas
GTA IV Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA IV
GTA II
GTA III