Thirith on 7/6/2021 at 08:12
I finished Route B of Nier Automata over the weekend. Curious to see what they'll do with Route C (as well as D and E, which I understand to be much, much shorter), but I'm also looking forward to being done with the game before long.
RK'Spectre on 8/6/2021 at 12:44
The Long Dark, almost exclusively. I'm amazed myself. It has put a spell on me or something.
Oh wow... have I really just dared to make a post after all these years?
demagogue on 8/6/2021 at 15:20
If you squint hard enough, 2012 and 2021 are basically the same year.
These days, while I'm still playing some Control and DCS, mostly it's Teardown, another Henke recommendation. If you just watched his videos, you may get the wrong idea about what most of the game actually is. For one thing, only half or 2/3 of the missions are timed. The other 1/3 are about methodically tearing something apart, where you can take your time and play around with it. And even the ones that are timed, most of the mission is methodically setting up your run piece by piece in a slow and ambling way.
And then aside the actual missions altogether, there are little hidden doodads all over the place that you can explore, and then you can just amble around and wreck sh*t up just for the sheer thrill of it. So it's a lot more chill of a game than I was expecting, which is a good thing.
But you do still have these periodic runs for some action. Even then, they're only as frantic as you want to make them. If you only did the necessary objectives, you don't really have to push all that hard. But if you wanted to get all the optional ones as well, then you would have to be really clever and treat it like a Mirror's Edge speedrun that you've practiced a good number of times to get down.
Anyway, fun game. Legit fun gameplay. Great art direction and world building. The story is funny. And you get to bash stuff apart and let off a lot of steam whatever else happens.
henke on 8/6/2021 at 19:54
Haha glad you finally got around to posting, RK, we need some new blood around here. :) Yeah TLD is great, I'm hoping they release the next story episode till next winter, as playing those when it gets cold has been a tradition for me.
RK'Spectre on 8/6/2021 at 20:17
Quote Posted by henke
Haha glad you finally got around to posting, RK, we need some new blood around here. :)
Thanks henke, I kinda remember you... ;) I'm not really new, more like... reanimated?
I was active in 00s with a different account. Then I screwed up and was, uh, "retired".
Boy, this community became a lot calmer since then... But the cute old emoticons are still here! :thumb:
henke on 14/6/2021 at 10:58
I played through the Resident Evil 3 remake. It's a step down from RE2, but still a good time. The initial city part was the most fun, tho the epic final bossfight had me cackling with glee as well. :D
Thirith on 15/6/2021 at 19:04
A bit sad to say that I never came to see what others see in Nier Automata. I never hated it, but neither did I find all that much to love, other than perhaps the music. It did do some interesting things and I ended up not minding the near-replay that is Route B all that much, but I still feel I spent a lot of time on a game that I never really clicked with all that much.
Malleus on 16/6/2021 at 19:11
Started playing Assassin's Creed Unity and wow, this hits all the right notes. It's so good in establishing a sense of place and time, Paris is an amazing location, the architecture, the costumes are amazing, the character animations are great, the variation in NPCs are stunning, the city feels very lifelike, just walking around the streets is a joy. Combined with French dub, it feels super immersive. There are some mechanical improvements too, compared to the earlier games, the parkour up/down controls are better, and we can crouch now, which was really needed, and the whole thing feels less janky. Mission design is also much better than in the previous games. It's really impressive so far, I like it.
henke on 17/6/2021 at 06:53
It's not even 10 in the morning and I've already played 2 cool new things.
SABLE DEMOYeah, there's a demo of this thing on Steam, available for the next few days. Quite meaty too, took me 70min to play through the whole thing, but you can take your time and explore and maybe find more stuff than I did. The missions and sidequests you can pick up are mainly just fetch quests, but it's fine since this lets you engage with what the game does best: moving around its world and taking in the sights. The hoverbike and gliding mechanics work as you'd expect and are fun to use and the game looks great. There's a bit of jank to the camera and movement, but nothing too upsetting. I'm hyped for the full release.
Sophie's Safecracking Simulator[video=youtube;n5RJie3BbXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RJie3BbXA[/video]
Here's something you taffers might dig, it's a really in-depth safecracking simulator and it's (
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1651780/Sophies_Safecracking_Simulator/) DIRT CHEAP at 2€. After doing the tutorial I feel like I might actually have a decent shot at cracking the simplest model of 3-lock safe by just feel. The game also gives you all kinds of tools to assist your cracking, including full X-ray vision, but the challenge is of course to crack it with as few tools as possible. Play with a gamepad and you can really feel each pin drop.
