Sulphur on 20/9/2024 at 09:35
Quote Posted by Thirith
Far Fry 4See, there's your problem. It probably thinks you're playing on a
potato PC.
*ba-dum-tssh*
Thirith on 20/9/2024 at 10:53
Heh. ��
Tomi on 20/9/2024 at 15:05
Once or twice every year I get this urge to play Slay the Spire. I then play it obsessively for a couple of days, until I've had enough. It's such a great game, easily the best deck builder that I've played. The way how everything's balanced in it is just masterful - no matter what cards I get and what events happen, most runs in Slay the Spire are exciting until the end. Apparently there's a sequel coming out next year, and it's going to be interesting to see what kind of changes they'll make to the game.
Tomi on 20/9/2024 at 23:05
I just finished Scorn. I don't know what to say. It deserves a place on my list of triple-D games. It's disgusting, disturbing and depressing! And I'm not kidding here, there's a lot of truly effed up things happening in the game. I mean, there was this one scene for example where I ripped a mutated fetus out of a womb, killed the poor thing with my pokey stick while it was twitching on the floor, then put the dead fetus in a goddamn blender, and filled some vial with the lovely fetus juice. Stuff like that is normal in the world of Scorn... aaand I think it's a bit too much at times! It's fitting for the game's atmosphere though, and together with the wonderful audio and the stunning (albeit monotonous) visuals it creates quite a unique experience. It's surely not an experience for everyone, though.
The actual gameplay is pretty terrible, or almost non-existant. It does its job, but don't expect it to be a good game. The player moves frustratingly slowly and I constantly got lost in the endless corridors that all look like the same, while I was searching for the next disturbing device or disgusting artifact and trying to figure out what to do with them. The puzzles and their solutions were often quite interesting, as I described above. There's also some combat in Scorn, but while the grotesque enemies add to the already oppressive atmosphere, I often found these fights frustrating rather than entertaining.
At the start of my journey in Scorn I was somewhat frustrated how nothing in the game seemed to make any sense to me. I kept playing the game all the way to the end because I really wanted to find out what it's all about. It took me about 6 hours to beat Scorn, and I'm still confused. The ending is maybe the least satisfying ending of a game that I've experienced for a while, but I'm not even mad because I guess it's appropriate in a way.
Sulphur on 21/9/2024 at 13:34
So I've been wrapping up Assassin's Creed Odyssey, or trying to at least. There are three main quest lines, and I finished the first one (family) a while ago, which left me to figure out Atlantis and go murder the remaining baker's dozen Cult of Kosmos members. I've finished both of those now, and they're really weirdly done. There's a lot of build-up and table setting for both, with the cult members being, after all, the reason the events of the game get set in motion. So imagine my surprise at how both of them end with a short cut-scene that basically just says 'good job, here's a perfunctory wrap-up, bye!' and then plonks you back on the map. Technically the game had a proper ending with the first quest line, but after mincing up all those bodies to get to the head Cult member, I was expecting something with more of a bang and a wallop. Even so, I wouldn't mind if the remaining quest endings were thoughtful or subverted the story in a way that put paid to the notion of Kassandra's journey of vengeance/justice, but the resolutions didn't do much of anything.
Usually I'd go, 'oh well, it's the journey, not the destination', but the journey's been a few really fun high points (Pephka!) in an ocean of pretty blanditude.
Oh well, it's not the journey or the destination, it's the time I should've spent playing Genital Jousting instead. I'd say I'm done, but there's the DLC left which is apparently 30 hours for both. Some say Atlantis is one of the best DLCs in AssCreed, but I'm lowering my expectations to about the same depths one would expect Atlantis to be found at.
nicked on 21/9/2024 at 18:41
Yeah Scorn is something else. Every scene in the game is an exquisite painting... Just not one you'd ever want to hang on your wall. And it's a strange mix of feeling completely uncompromising, while also feeling cut down and compromised.
Discendo Vox on 22/9/2024 at 05:40
I'm working on 100%ing all challenges in Hitman: World of Assassination's Freelancer mode. Like many "long tail" GaaS systems, the grind required is absurd. I'm getting close to the last required prestige in the mode, at least- though there's still hundreds of missions of grind left after that.
I'm also working with a team to finish up the content of a big rebalance mod for the venerable Payday 2. We've been dormant for a long time, but I'm hoping we can get back into gear and finish up the player skill part of the rebalance.
Thirith on 22/9/2024 at 08:59
Since Far Cry 4 doesn't like my machine (much of the time it runs well, but it regularly drops from 60+ FPS to under 20 FPS, which just isn't much fun), I decided to finally play a more modern game, although still a Ubisoft one: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. And so far it's a delightful, beautifully designed Metroidvania, with fun platforming and combat and some nice (though relatively light) puzzling.
henke on 22/9/2024 at 12:52
In addition to UFO 50, I'm also playing Parking Garage Rally Circuit, which came out on Friday.
[video=youtube;b0xH7Kmqz1c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0xH7Kmqz1c[/video]
The vehicle handling is so arcadey it feels more like a suggestion of what a car handles like than anything approaching realism, but it's very fun and has a bangin' ska soundtrack.
Sulphur on 23/9/2024 at 02:18
"Bangin''" and "ska" are words that are mutually exclusive to each other.
Having said that, the tracks are pretty good.
