It’s the worst, especially because they drop it so close to the beginning of the game and my completionist brain is like MUST DO INFINITY JUMPS. I eventually had to force myself to move on.
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i’ve been absolutely overwhelmed (in a good way) by Total Warhammer: Warhammer 2: More Hammers. i’ve only ever really played RTS games, never a strategy game of this style with political/economic/geographic layers in addition to just fighting. i’ve started a coop campaign with a friend - it’s been an absolute blast seeing how things play out. it’s seriously really difficult to put it down sometimes…
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I made it to 100 once many years ago. I felt like my heart was going to explode because it was beating so fast by the end. Much like the lightning dodging in 10, I can proudly(?) say I did it, and I’ll likely never try again.
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The best part is that in the remaster, to get everything you have to make it to 1000. It takes something like 8 straight minutes of jumping. Completely absurd.
I didn’t attempt it, just wrote off Kimahri or whoever’s weapon is bolstered by it. I’m still shook by getting to 0.0 on Chocobo Racing.
In my post-Remake Final Fantasy fever dream, I’ve finished Final Fantasy 15 for the first time. This has to be one of the most frustrating games ever made. There is so much squandered potential. So many potentially great characters who rapidly change motivations with no explanation whatsoever. Lunafreya is one of my favorite characters in a FF game ever - the performance, design, determination, sincerity - and she could’ve been 100 times better. And I know people tend to love Ardyn as the villain, but he’s just a cliche-spouting pile of clothes. There’s a sequence where he’s “taunting” Noct over an entire level and his taunts were just so pathetic. I was waiting for Noct to just yell “you’re so boring,” because it was so bad I was convinced it had to be on purpose.
There was potential for an all-timer, and it’s completely squandered in one of the most horribly paced, poorly told open world stories I’ve ever experienced.
And yet… I would still recommend it, I think? The open world stuff is really good. Combat is fast paced and deeper than it appears at first, and some of the unique monster fights are tense and thrilling. And the Chocobros really are the best.
Now to decide whether to move to 9 or 13 next.
Edit: some aggressive autocorrect
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I’ve just started 9 (after deciding to leave 15 on the back burner a while) and I’m really enjoying it! Your post makes me think I need to give 15 a shot after all.
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I have to admit, as frustrated as I was by the story, it still managed to wreck me in the end.
I know some of the plot holes are filled by the various DLC episodes, but I kind of don’t want to play them just out of spite.
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Can we post about games we’ve been watching?
Ever since I started working from home I have been really behind on my podcasts. At first it was because I wasn’t driving as much, but slowly the anxiety of a large back catalogue and the impending threat of Covid 19 in the United States just kind of made me not listen to anything. Although I often turned to Waypoint and MBMBAM for happiness in a dark world, I just couldn’t bring myself to listen.
Queue… Everything the last few days, and having to start this work week (still working from home, thank goodness) as though nothing has been going wrong, it almost seemed too much to handle. I decided to watch old Breakfast and Battlegrounds streams while I worked, and it’s been so relieving. It’s been wonderful to hear Austin and Patrick yell and shout, it’s so carefree and something I need. I know that this is a privileged position—I still have a job, I can afford to tune out of the news for 8 hours/day, and I can work from home (I’m part of the high risk population). However, it’s felt like coming home to voices and ideas that I love, without the guilt of being 3 months behind on the podcasts.
The nice thing about watching PUBG, is that there are such long stretches where so little happens. I can focus on work with the voices in the background, but take breaks to watch engagements and firefights. It’s the perfect background spectator game.
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For going on 10 years now, I’ve hated Fallout: New Vegas. I’ve had umpteen restarts on that game, all of them ending in another crash to desktop/rage quit at the Caravan table/wiping my puke off of the low-res textures.
But my most recent restart, begun a few weeks ago, has finally been the one that stuck. I love New Vegas now. Quarantine changes people, I guess.
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I completed The Order: 1886 after buying it for about a tenner a couple of years back and, it’s fine? Definite value for money as it’s really limited in its gameplay with a functional story that does spice up a bit as it goes on. I will say though I am totally happy with a game taking less than 10 hours to complete, it definitely didn’t outstay it’s welcome. It’s a shame there probably won’t be a sequel as they created a pretty cool world even if the story beats felt largely predictable throughout but still enjoyably silly.
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After Watching Wayneradiotv play it with the Science Team from Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware, I got Payday 2 and looking forward to robbing banks with friends.
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Is that archived on YouTube?! That sounds like the best thing
Not on YouTube, but you can watch the Twitch Vod here. The video player on Twitch is actually a bit better and is better about remembering where you left off.
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I feel like a decent percentage of my posts on this forum for the last year or so have been me hemming and hawing about whether or not Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a game that I should try. Well, the game is currently 30% off for the Switch, and nothing else I have tried to play in the last few weeks has been appealing–when Animal Crossing: New Horizons suddenly loses its charm, boy does it lose its charm–so I finally decided that I would check it out. I logged an hour last night, clearing the boat tutorial, and have nothing profound to say about the game spare that I am continually impressed by how much some of these ports are getting out of the Switch. I also thought the game has done a nice job thus far of introducing tutorials and explainers in way that doesn’t feel too overwhelming but is still informative–I mean, dear god, there is a lot of information to process. I am looking forward to making more progress in my first CRPG.
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Tbh I wasn’t really enjoying Divinity until I knocked the difficulty down. I’m more intrigued by making character choices (which are numerous) than the combat.
I’ll be interested to hear how you feel about it after you put more time in 
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I was playing Mad Max but after about 17 hours according to Steam, I think I’m gonna drop it.
It’s a beautiful game and the car combat is glorious, but it’s also just kinda dull. I thought about the prospect of doing the game’s monotonous activities for at least 60 hours, and I would do them because I’m broken, and I just can’t convince myself that it’s worth it.
Should I stay the course? Does it get better later?
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I don’t know where you got the 60 hours figure; I beat that game with most upgrades unlocked 25 hours in. With that said, it doesn’t get better, it mostly gets worse. There’s a sequence at Gastown involving a race which is the most satisfying climax the game has to offer, and just before the point where it takes a sharp turn into a deep ditch. I’d say if you want “an ending” just get there then stop.
I figured I’d be doing most of the map-clearing stuff, which would end up being around 60, but I think I’m just gonna move on
I played through all of Mad Max, but I feel like the car upgrade stuff was a huge missed opportunity. They try to act like there’s offensive vs defensive trade-offs, but there’s very, very few times where having the highest level upgrades isn’t the obvious best choice.
