What other games are we all playing?
- Thread starter Schindler
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Me a couple evenings ago, not in the mood for the usual Elite/X/whatever usual space stuff: "meh, finished Halo 3 a few weeks ago, why not take a look at ODST". Several dozens GB of Halo 4 yet to download, no luck.
"Uh...ok, I still have to finish the latest Doom after all". 3 GB update starts downloading, no luck.
"Sod all, it's back to flying again then, still have a long trip ahead in MFS2020". Didn't download the last update yet, several GB, no luck.
On the verge of ending my evening session percussively, I noticed the Prey icon I have had sitting there on my desktop for at least a full year.
Why I never tried that before I have no idea, gem of a game.
"Uh...ok, I still have to finish the latest Doom after all". 3 GB update starts downloading, no luck.
"Sod all, it's back to flying again then, still have a long trip ahead in MFS2020". Didn't download the last update yet, several GB, no luck.
On the verge of ending my evening session percussively, I noticed the Prey icon I have had sitting there on my desktop for at least a full year.
Why I never tried that before I have no idea, gem of a game.
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Everything that I wanted from a single player, OFFLINE game with PLAYER CHOICE. And much much more....
That being said, I'm still stuck in the creation menu trying to get the most optimized build for my character in skills, perks and cosmetic looks. I'm so glad CDPR made the cosmetic an actual functional part of the game. Tied it into something concrete like the Cool stat. These two personal characteristics and your backstory (Nomad/Corpo/Street Kid) DO affect how NPCs (both main and random world) react to you. And if the game engine is mod friendly, I'm looking at playing futuristic Skyrim II for at least the next decade
THANK YOU once again CDPR for what Bethesda failed to do with #SavePlayer1!
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Everything that I wanted from a single player, OFFLINE game with PLAYER CHOICE. And much much more....
That being said, I'm still stuck in the creation menu trying to get the most optimized build for my character in skills, perks and cosmetic looks. I'm so glad CDPR made the cosmetic an actual functional part of the game. Tied it into something concrete like the Cool stat. These two personal characteristics and your backstory (Nomad/Corpo/Street Kid) DO affect how NPCs (both main and random world) react to you. And if the game engine is mod friendly, I'm looking at playing futuristic Skyrim II for at least the next decade
THANK YOU once again CDPR for what Bethesda failed to do with #SavePlayer1!
I really like the paths. Whole system is really RP friendly. Playing the nomad as the first path, I already double-crossed most people I've met and got the person who considered me the best friend killed. I'm such a donkey, but I'm enjoying it immensely, because as a nomad, why WOULD I care about anybody in this filthy city?!CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 CP 2077 *
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Everything that I wanted from a single player, OFFLINE game with PLAYER CHOICE. And much much more....
That being said, I'm still stuck in the creation menu trying to get the most optimized build for my character in skills, perks and cosmetic looks. I'm so glad CDPR made the cosmetic an actual functional part of the game. Tied it into something concrete like the Cool stat. These two personal characteristics and your backstory (Nomad/Corpo/Street Kid) DO affect how NPCs (both main and random world) react to you. And if the game engine is mod friendly, I'm looking at playing futuristic Skyrim II for at least the next decade
THANK YOU once again CDPR for what Bethesda failed to do with #SavePlayer1!
And yes, I also keep CDPR in high regard, if for nothing else then for keeping the singleplayer story-heavy games alive and kicking major butt.
i’m still trapped in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Been here since 1990.
current and 1st playthrough is Street kid. I figured this would be the easiest (playing on normal difficulty) to get the feel of the game. 2nd time around will be Corpo on next hardest difficulty. Final playthrough Nomad on the highest difficutly where I know the map, well versed in combat/RP tactics and strategy.
IMO nomad has to be the most challenging backstory & RP because V doesn't know anybody in night city when starting out. Hell, he probably doesn't even know the other nomad tribes well and/or isn't even on good terms with the other nomads. Either way, something went down that got him kicked out? Running in the opposite direction. Was pretty telling in the intro tutorial where he rips off his tribe patch.
Also none of the street kids & definitely not Corpos are going to trust him. Just the raggedly sight of him alone is probably offensive to their olefactory senses..
So earning that trust from these main groups and other gangs/clicks will be a steep uphill climb. On highest difficulty, it could become a cliff hanger lol.So good luck on your first playthrough.Oh yeah...the only tactical advantage early on in the MQ is Johnny being a nomad. So odds are Johnny is most likely to trust and bond with V early on if you opt nomad.
As for bugs, I haven't encountered anything game breaking yet (knock on monitor screen). At least nothing to the magnitude I suffered with KCD. Just texture pop outs and sometimes NPCs fazing in/out of existence. Have yet to see any SC T poses. Although YT reviewers like Yong Yea and Skill Up are now extensively covering this now that the game's out.
But all of this seems to be happening disproportionately on the console side (for obvious platform limitations). I really hope this doesn't end up going the way of Bethesda & F76 launch. CDPR has been pretty transparent with their development and marketing of the game to date (minus a minuscule of shady dealings not releasing the game for a beta console test). I wish they had delayed the console launch for a year the way the industry conventionally does. It would've given them all the time they needed to polish the game. Take whatever feedback the PC and PC modding community had to offer and implement it in the game for console. I fear this simultaneous release on all platforms is going to come back and bite them in the rear.
Looking forward to the macOS beta for Transport Fever 2 next week.
Anyone try rebel galaxy games? Got kind of a borderlands feel. Reminds me of arcade games from my youth in the 80’s.
Now that I've been re-united with my gaming rig for the first time in six months I'm not sure where to even start. I have literally hundreds of games to choose from in my gaming vault, plus a few of the latest big releases such as Cyberpunk and Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Death Stranding (PC) which I haven't so much as fired up yet, so no lack of options for my still very limited luxury time budget. The games that've been calling to me the loudest, though, are American Truck Simulator and X4 Foundations
Great game, just playing through it for the first time myself. It's one of those you can't wait to play again so you can try different stuff.
Surviving Mars is still my current "idle"1 game, and thanks to a game that I'd started a little over a month ago, I can finally check off my last two achievements on Steam:
That last one was the worst, because the vegan quirk only appeared in about one in 20 colonists. Which meant I ended up playing that particular game long past the point where I'd normally consider a game "won." I'd actually thought I'd get the "electric sheep" one last, because it requires a particular breakthrough to be on the map, but it appeared when I discovered what the last breakthrough "on" this map was.
I don't normally chase achievements, but something about this game's handling of achievements tempted me into doing so. Well, that and I just love the music in this game. But at last, the achievements are all done. The game has finally been "completed." At last, I can set aside this particular game, and look for a new "idle" game... wait... there's scenarios?
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1I tend to split games into three categories:
That last one was the worst, because the vegan quirk only appeared in about one in 20 colonists. Which meant I ended up playing that particular game long past the point where I'd normally consider a game "won." I'd actually thought I'd get the "electric sheep" one last, because it requires a particular breakthrough to be on the map, but it appeared when I discovered what the last breakthrough "on" this map was.
I don't normally chase achievements, but something about this game's handling of achievements tempted me into doing so. Well, that and I just love the music in this game.
But at last, the achievements are all done. The game has finally been "completed." At last, I can set aside this particular game, and look for a new "idle" game... wait... there's scenarios? ____
1I tend to split games into three categories:
- "Focused" Games - Games that require intense focus; that I'm easily immersed in, and thus focus solely on the game; or that require me to set up special equipment. Currently, my life is at a point where the time I have to play these kinds of games is at a premium. Examples: Cyberpunk 2077, Elite: Dangerous, most real-time strategy games, or just about any MMO or multi-player game out there.
- "Pausable" Games - Games that I can easily save my game to continue at later time; which I can pause to deal with a situation that arose; or games that are willing to wait for your input. Examples: many single-player games, turn-based strategy games
- "Idle" Games - Games where you spend the bulk of your time waiting for something to happen, and require only occasional input from you. Examples: City-Builders like Surviving Mars and Sim City.
Truck Simulator? Might as well run a hauler out to Colonia, then. 
Truck Simulator? Might as well run a hauler out to Colonia, then.
Truck Simulator? Might as well run a hauler out to Colonia, then.
Truck Simulator? Might as well run a hauler out to Colonia, then.
Truck Simulator? Might as well run a hauler out to Colonia, then.
Tried Cyberplump and after being very off put by everything in it (except Keanu) went bac to Farming Sim, trying some huge USA maps like flint hills - what a blast!
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Well, apart of my shiny new Reverb G2, which will trigger going through old VR games plus backlog such as SW Squadrons, I discovered Kerbal Space Program in my library.
Contrary to my first effort, I did some basic reading on it and it is totally addictive. I just managed to orbit the Mun and get back safely with barely a few seconds left after my last maneuver. It was tense!
Contrary to my first effort, I did some basic reading on it and it is totally addictive. I just managed to orbit the Mun and get back safely with barely a few seconds left after my last maneuver. It was tense!
Never played it myself. Probably didn't have the hardware at the time. And now I've filed it under "horror games" - one of my least favourite genres to pick games from.
Tried to play some Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition the other day only to realize that it's vastly more buggy than the original...almost unplayable really.
A significant number of the string references are broken, resulting in incorrect names and descriptions for things, and many of the rule mistakes that were in the original .2DA files more than twenty years ago are still wrong in the latest patch. All of Beamdog's products are total crapshows, but this is especially bad and is going to take a while for me to fix.
I could just play the originals, with some mods, but I kinda want the new engine in the EEs.
A significant number of the string references are broken, resulting in incorrect names and descriptions for things, and many of the rule mistakes that were in the original .2DA files more than twenty years ago are still wrong in the latest patch. All of Beamdog's products are total crapshows, but this is especially bad and is going to take a while for me to fix.
I could just play the originals, with some mods, but I kinda want the new engine in the EEs.
Review your filing system then, it's not an horror game. You'll just be shooting at anything that moves if you fancy that. And even at lots of stuff that doesn't, just to be sure.
In my modest opinion, simply put, one of the absolute best entertainment products ever made. I blame myself for not having played it anymore in years.