demagogue on 16/3/2019 at 13:31
Clearly March 15 was the right day to start playing Prey.
henke on 17/3/2019 at 17:28
BABA IS YOU IS GOOD
qolelis on 17/3/2019 at 18:49
Agreed. I've only played the free itch.io version yet, but once I'm done with my backlog and a couple of other things I plan on playing the full version.
SubJeff on 18/3/2019 at 00:28
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
Am I the only one who thinks that 40k would be a great setting for a good CRPG?
A Planetside-a-like 40K game would be great.
Marines vs Chaos Marines vs Eldar vs Orcs.
Thirith on 20/3/2019 at 07:49
I also started Mooncrash recently, but I don't think it's a good game to play in parallel with other games, so I'll probably finish one or two other games before returning to it and starting anew.
Hitman, on the other hand, is a game that can be juggled with other games quite easily due to its episodic nature. I recently finished my replay (or first play in Hitman 2) of Sapienza and yesterday did the DLC hit "The Icon". I love how they've recycled bigger levels in fun, creative ways to give us a different perspective on them, and while "The Icon" is more of a snack than a full meal, it's a snack that I really enjoyed.
I've also installed Arkham Asylum because I've been wanting to replay this more concentrated take on Batman for a while. I've enjoyed the open-world Arkham games, but there's a certain focus that gets lost if you've got most or all of Gotham as your playground. I'm thinking that this shouldn't take me too long, also because after Arkham City and Arkham Knight my impression is that the fights in the first game are largely pretty basic.
Jason Moyer on 20/3/2019 at 15:58
Finally getting around to the Arma III campaign. I'm only a few missions into the proper main campaign, but hoo boy this is a Bohemia game alright. In the Prologue, when pulling up to the checkpoint at the end my AI driver just flat out drove over a friendly (gee, wonder why the AAF or whomever are frosty). The story beats so far are the same shit they've had in every campaign they've ever done, we're on some wooded island and our peacekeeping force is mostly pulled out and suddenly an old civil war breaks out again and hoo boy we're running through the woods shooting at small groups of infantry. Is it good anyway? It's probably better than Arma II, although my memory of that is hazy. I feel like OpFlash and ArmA I had better campaigns though. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that every new ArmA title should ship with Cold War Crisis and Resistance out of the box instead of relying on fan ports. I haven't had a squad yet, but it seems like the AI is at least attempting to use hard cover sometimes which is new. The campaign hasn't flat out broken yet, although that could be because it's like 5 years old rather than being a sign of quality improvements. Anyway, I'm sticking with it for now.
demagogue on 21/3/2019 at 10:23
You probably already know about it, but you should join our online Arma III games sometime.
Thirith on 21/3/2019 at 10:31
Absolutely. Do I remember correctly that you joined in once or twice back when we first started playing Arma 2, Jason?
Concerning the Arma III campaign: I've started it a couple of times but never finished it. For me, Operation Flashpoint is still the Bohemia Interactive game with the best, most interesting, varied and well-structured (though not perfect) campaign. Arma II had great potential, especially early in the campaign, and when it worked it was great and offered the player a surprising amount of freedom, but it was too wobbly to work consistently. The DLC was reasonably fun, though: less ambitious than the main game, but more consistently enjoyable.
Jason Moyer on 21/3/2019 at 16:46
Yeah, I used to play ArmA II with you guys and I think I did an ArmA III session when it first came out, at the time I usually had to work whenever a game was going. If I can ever sort the scheduling out I'll be back onboard, I'm still in the Steam group.
Malleus on 21/3/2019 at 17:18
It's interesting that you shrug off the Arma2 campaign. I thought it was awesome. The situation was probably the most believable in the series, it had decision based branching storyline with multiple endings and the last few missions were so big in scope that the game almost became a strategy game. It was ambitious as hell, I loved it. I haven't played Arma3 though, so I don't know how that compares.