Rizopas on 21/9/2022 at 11:42
Quote Posted by Anarchic Fox
Does it let you respec? I remember that being my big problem with Diablo 2, having a fun summoning build with a Druid that hit a brick wall at some boss, then being stuck with that build.
Yes actually! Through the Den of Evil quest quest but only 3 times (on each difficulty), and also (
https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Respecialization) respec tokens, which you can make by obtaining 4 essences from beating act bosses on Hell difficulty.
Malf on 21/9/2022 at 12:33
That seems counter-intuitive, as what if your build is the reason you can't beat Hell difficulty in the first place?
Thirith on 22/9/2022 at 07:09
I'm finding that I can't just play Sekiro, because some days it's simply too stressful and too frustrating to fail the same fight again, so I started replaying Dying Light in parallel. It's a weird one: until you've levelled up a number of times, both combat and traversal are pretty frustrating. Once you've about 5-10 hours into the game, it starts being fun. At the same time, it is pretty repetitive in terms of its missions - but some evenings that's just what I need to unwind. More than that, though, I've never really played the expansion (The Following), so I thought I'd replay the main game so I'd remember how to actually play this.
Mind you, I think I'll probably take a break from Dying Light once I get to the second main map, because I've a hankering for some piratey fun. Arr.
P.S.: As far as Sekiro is concerned, I just got through the Genichiro fight. I liked that one a lot, even if it took me a lot of attempts to beat the guy.
henke on 22/9/2022 at 07:47
That's the Sekiro boss I gave up on, so congrats on being better at games than me, Thirith! :thumb:
As for my gaming:
TOEM - finished it. Short and sweet!
TEARDOWN - finished this too. It's great!
You Suck At Parking - physics-based arcade car-parking game. Very challenging and fun.
Half Life: Alyx - in the Northern Star hotel right now. It's freaky in here.
Weird West - plays better since the latest patch. I'm on the last chapter now.
Thirith on 22/9/2022 at 11:45
Quote Posted by henke
That's the Sekiro boss I gave up on, so congrats on being better at games than me, Thirith! :thumb:
Oh, I doubt I'm better, though I may be more stubborn/masochistic. It is exceedingly rare that I give up on a game or a book. Films and TV series, sometimes, but also not very often.
Aja on 22/9/2022 at 17:13
Genichiro is the gatekeeper. If you can beat him, you can beat Sekiro. Not that it gets any easier, but I think that moment really drills in the idea that you pretty much can't beat any of these bosses right away; you have to study them, learn their moves, and figure out how to deal with them. It's core to the experience and, in my opinion, what makes the game great.
Renault on 23/9/2022 at 19:03
I finally finished Days Gone. Good lord, this game just went on forever. I'm very in the middle on it, there were some great parts, and then some excruciating parts as well. A big open world is usually lot a fun, but it really detracts from it all when the game just gives you dozens and dozens on meaningless "kill this guy" or "wipe out this group" type of completely generic quests. The motorcycle driving is pretty fun though, and the standout of the game is taking out the huge hordes of zombies, which can number anywhere from 50 to 500 each. These battles get very intense and usually require proper planning and stocking up on supplies. You could make a whole game (or at least a DLC) out of this aspect of the game.
Anyway, I'm glad to be done with it so I can move on to something else. I think for the immediate future, I'm done with these "monthlong killers," I just want to play something that's done in 10-20 hours.
Harvester on 24/9/2022 at 21:42
I always wanted to finish the original Doom on Ultraviolence, having only finished it on lower difficulties or played it with god mode. So I finished The Ultimate Doom using GZDoom, the early levels of Thy Flesh Consumed were pretty hard when I was low on ammo but otherwise it went alright. Then I played John Romero's unofficial fifth episode Sigil, but I chose to play it on Hurt Me Plenty because I heard Ultraviolence adds cyberdemons and doesn't give you the ammo to fight them, which didn't really appeal to me. Sigil is a good episode, the geometry is really erratic, like natural 'hellish' landscapes (such complex geometry obviously wasn't possible back in 1993), giving the levels an 'evil', oppressive atmosphere. I liked the use of shootable triggers. While in The Ultimate Doom I found all the secret levels I didn't manage to find the secret level in Sigil. I recommend it to Doom fans but most will have played it. I didn't pay $6.66 for the Buckethead music, I'm not that much of a metal fan anyway and MIDI music suits me fine for Doom.
I could continue with Doom 2 on Ultraviolence, but Return to Monkey Island is looking at me all seductively, so I'm buying and playing that first.
Tomi on 25/9/2022 at 20:37
I was supposed to start playing something less story-heavy, but I ended up playing Vampyr, and just finished it as well! Has anyone played it?
The story took me nearly 40 hours to finish, but as usual, I played every side quest that I could find and explored everything. Vampyr reminds me a lot of VtM: Bloodlines, and not only because of the vampires. There's a lot of dialogue (perhaps even a bit too much, but at least the voice acting is excellent), and your actions are supposed to have some consequences in the game, although I'm not sure how much. Probably not that much. Having said that, I was being a nice vampire and didn't kill any citizens, which probably was a more boring way to play, but I can't help being a goody two-shoes in every game that I play. The side quests were quite disappointing in the end. These stories are too often left unfinished in a way, and their only purpose is to increase an NPC's "blood points" so that you get more XP when you drain their blood. But I never did that, so it was all a bit pointless.
Combat brings a nice change of pace, even if the combat system is quite basic, and the camera controls and player movement often feel really clumsy. Towards the end there's a bit too much combat for my liking though. I like the setting too, the dark side of post-WW1 London, even though this is now the third game in a row that I've played that features plague in a major role. At first I thought that Vampyr looks really ugly for a 2018 game, and it isn't the prettiest one for sure, but I learned to appreciate its art style after a while. The music is great as well, although it isn't memorable at all, but it really adds to the dark atmosphere.
The story is Vampyr's strongest point though, and I really enjoyed it. It kept progressing nicely even though I spent too much time on those side quests. Apparently there are multiple endings in the game, and I think I got the "good ending" for not killing any citizens. I kinda hate it when games have that sort of multiple endings though, I wish things weren't always that black and white.
WingedKagouti on 25/9/2022 at 21:19
Quote Posted by Tomi
There's
a lot of dialogue (perhaps even a bit too much, but at least the voice acting is excellent), and your actions are supposed to have some consequences in the game, although I'm not sure how much. Probably not that much..
It's somewhat similar to Dishonored 1 in that regard. Though
killing or appeasing the leaders of the various boroughs will have a bigger impact on both the borough itself and the ending.