It does take a bit to get going. One you have you first passive income (auto-trader, etc) the game really opens up.
What other games are we all playing?
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Fired up Battletech again for the first time in a year or two. I love games with strong mod communities, because after setting it down for awhile it's almost like a brand new game when you fire it back up again. I'm playing the (so far) excellent Battletech Revised mod that does a great job fixing the (IMO) main issues with the default game (unbalanced weapons, power creep of +,++ weapons and bad stock mechs (hurts the AI)).
I may try BEX CE at some point as well.... forgot how much I love Battletech - definitely one of the best games to come out of kickstarter ever.
I may try BEX CE at some point as well.... forgot how much I love Battletech - definitely one of the best games to come out of kickstarter ever.
You can build your empire from the map once you have the funds to do so. Gameplay gravitates to more map activity in later stages. To use the map efficiently you need to explore it first. And noone forces anything down your throat, you entered a fan thread with a different idea what X4 is and of course people would correct that.
I tried playing it again not long ago but the spawning really ticks me off. AI swarms me with like 10-12 mechs even at easiest difficulty in the free mode.
I'm not really having that issue much... AND the mod I'm playing sets all your mechs with full evasion and guarded if enemy mechs spawn within a certain distance of your spawn point (and you can always restart mission as well).
While waiting for Odyssey to be playable i jumped back into racing, and actually the: F1 Challenge VB mod.
Its a mod for the old EA game F1 Challenge 99-02 with all F1 seasons ever made being put in it. Its a mental 100GB for such an old game and it still looks like its from 2002 but its a blast.
Its a mod for the old EA game F1 Challenge 99-02 with all F1 seasons ever made being put in it. Its a mental 100GB for such an old game and it still looks like its from 2002 but its a blast.
This NMS update crept up on me in my Steam library just now. Didn't realize Hello Games just released this recerntly. Graphics are wonderfully crisp, the volumetric lighting makes the gameplay that much more immersive (especially for the spelunking exploration mechanic). And the overall release really looks solid. As an indie gamer that spent the last several years trying to redeem itself, Hello Games has overachieved the impossible i.e. surpassed themselves since the last 2-3 DLC for NMS IMO.
Just wish they had leaned more towards the realistic v. cartoony end with the graphics overhaul though. But other than that highly subjective pet peeve, Prisms update is exemplary
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRhamOB3-Rc
Just wish they had leaned more towards the realistic v. cartoony end with the graphics overhaul though. But other than that highly subjective pet peeve, Prisms update is exemplary
Playing quite a lot of Days Gone on PC lately. It's really a pretty amazing game, far FAR better than the critical reception it received. It doesn't achieve RDR2's level of world building mastery, but I'm still enjoying it darn near as much
Apparently Days Gone has been underwhelming with the critics. I've played for about 15 hours and can attest that the critical reception is almost entirely off base and motivated solely by the all too common sjw issues of the day.
It's a fantastic open world adventure with tons to see and do, bone crunchingly satisfying combat, engaging, well voice acted characters and a compelling zombie apocalypse story. If I had to compare it to another game (and a similarly overlooked gem) I'd say Mad Max from a few years ago.
It's interesting to see this game get dumped on while HZD was widely feted and I thought it was meh at best
It's a fantastic open world adventure with tons to see and do, bone crunchingly satisfying combat, engaging, well voice acted characters and a compelling zombie apocalypse story. If I had to compare it to another game (and a similarly overlooked gem) I'd say Mad Max from a few years ago.
It's interesting to see this game get dumped on while HZD was widely feted and I thought it was meh at best
White girl with dredlocks cosplaying as put upon noble savage > cishet AMAB riding motorcycle through ruins of a a fallen society. YOU KNOW THE RULES!
Uh Dying Light + every DLC was on sale for the cost of coffee+a cookie in NYC (or any international airport) so I've been playing that. Open world FPS parkour in post-apocalyptic-zombie multicultural middle eastern city is for sure a winning formula. But y'know the devs actually did a good job, too. 4 player drop in drop out campaign coop multiplayer is not so much the icing on the cake as the entire cake itself. The game is the icing. Weirdly the game that this most reminds me of: River City Ransom for the original NES. It's coop brawling with an emphasis on crowd control and taking running charges at your targets to launch their flailing bodies into the stratosphere, plus gradual incremental upgrades to your moveset IF (and only if) you manage to win a bunch of fights without dying. Also rooftop jumping like you're amateur Batman.
Yeah, that's right on the money. The thing with HZD that I just couldn't get past was the horrendous voice acting and cringe writing overall
Weird. I thought HZD had one of the best stories and writing I seen in a game in a very long time. A console owning friend, knowing my love of open world games, warned me off Days Gone as 'at best a 7/10 game' - to each their own I suppose?
I may well give Days Gone a go based on its irreverence to today's media fueled issues of social importance.
I legit love this game. I made a comparison to Mad Max yesterday but I actually think it one-ups MM in a few crucial regards.