Why is it always the games like this that make me want a console?
I wanted a PS3 because of Noby Noby Boy
I bought an Xbox 360 for Geometry Wars
Now it’s this.
Damn.
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to be fair, its a step up.
I got Dragon Quest Builders, too. It’s pretty great!
Has anyone gotten to the free build mode? I feel like the structure is cool, but I want to buuild bigger and bigger cities.
Yeah, inquisition sucks in so many ways. It could’ve been good but the combat is such a mess and the objective markers everywhere are just terrible. I started it over like three times wanting it to be good because it almost scratches an itch but I kept regretting it. The plot beats are typically inept too, I have no idea why it’s so much worse than mass effect in that regard. Again, the only good dragon age is the first one, with a lot of mods, largely owing to the combat, and there’s still a ton of milquetoast in there.
I re-bought DA:O for PC a couple weeks back since it was just 8 bones on sale only to be reminded how bad I hated it in the first ~30 minutes of the tutorial. Why do I never learn…?
Sunless Sea (spoilers ahoy!) continues to surprise me with just how good the writing is. I’m on my seventh captain, which would have been a higher number but I started using the cheat where I X out of the game after dying. Restarting puts you back to the last port you autosaved at. I’ve got around 75-80% of the map filled in but I think I made a mistake by declaring my winning goal to be wealthy because it’s going to take a whole lot more sunlight smuggling to achieve. (It didn’t help that after a few soul smuggling runs I told the blind bruiser to get bent. Those fucking cats are too far away and unpredictable darnit). Wish I’d gone for the exploration goal but i thought since I was roleplaying a former street urchin that wealth seemed like the most logical goal?
As I said elsewhere this is a perfect halloween game. I literally yelled out in surprise when a giant eye opened beneath my ship as I was exploring near the southeast corner of the map.
Been playing Thumper:
It’s pretty wild. Mechanically it’s a fairly simple rhythm game (with some nice wrinkles when playing for score), but it just oozes with style. The graphics/music/speed combine to create this really great feeling of tension. I bet it’s even more overwhelming in VR (but I lack a PS4 & the other necessary hardware; they may be adding PC VR support later).
It’s quite a nice trance-y get-in-the-zone game.
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A little sour note about Gears 4 on PC - split screen support doesn’t support horde or versus because “the platform” (UWP) doesn’t support guest users and they made horde online-only. So if we want to play horde together we have to either buy another Windows copy or get Xbox Live on our Xbox. This is just exasperating because if your platform doesn’t support feature parity there may be something wrong with your platform. This is in addition to having to download it twice because it couldn’t patch itself.
Anyone know how DQ Builders is on the Vita (lol)?
I think I’ll enjoy DQ Builders if I can ever commit to play sessions long enough to remember what I’m doing when I start it up again (actually just on the demo still).
Downwell has been scratching my itch for something good for short, action-oriented sessions that can be terminated basically whenever. I’m slowly getting better at it. It’s the first game I’ve met in a while that’s inspired me to actually learn how to be good at it. It commendably requires grace and reserve, but is only really satisfying when you can execute it quickly.
You get to free build after you finish Chapter 1 of story in DQ Builders. Get your city to level 5, as that always gets you bonus stuff in each chapter. There are other hidden goals that unlock extra stuff in free mode, but those are all probably hard to get on your first play through, though the game shows them to you at the end of the chapter. I just beat Chapter 2, of 4, and man, this game is some good stuff.
I took the vita demo for a run after watching someone stream the ps4 one.
Seemed to be pretty much identical, and I didn’t have any control issues (other than the face button setup being a bit weird for my fingers, which I confirmed was exactly the same on ps4)?
Can you tell me how the Chapters work without spoilers? I mean am I spending all this time decorating my city just for them to say “fuck that city now build a new one over here”?
played warioware, inc: mega microgames while microdosing LSD
it’s good
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tried THOTH and Straimium Immortaly today, since I’m determined to get through the 2016 releases I’ve bought before the year ends. I am woefully bad at STGs. I do not want to be woefully bad.
Pretty much, yeah, but I should say that Chapter 2 has a different tech tree/story/goals than Chapter 1, so it doesn’t feel hyper redundant. I’d say get your chapter 1 town to level 5 (max level), then don’t worry much about it. Each chapter so far has ended with a big boss battle that has been satisfying as a whole, though starting fresh does feel a little defeating. I did take some of the ideas about building I had learned in the first town to the second, which helped.
Would you guys recommend Dragon Quest Builders to someone who played Minecraft to death but has never touched a DQ game ever? I get the feeling that the DQ nostalgia probably contributes a fair amount towards the experience.
The anime and games shop at the mall near my office has 25% off all games this week, and this seemed interesting enough that I might consider picking it up
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This is actually literally me! So, yes.
Pushed my luck in Sunless Sea by sailing off the map to the west, and ended up dead by mutiny because I came back with 100 terror, and didn’t escape from the game before I hit port, thinking I could calm down the crew with a bit of shore leave. Oops.
I’d already done this in the other three directions. The best was sailing back from the horrors of Adam’s Way with 2 hull and a single crew member. I was able to limp to Khan’s Shadow to resupply, then slowly made my way to the Khanate to hire a few crew people.
Now the only problem is that I gave my eighth captain the previous one’s chart, with over 85% of the map filled in, which means there are significantly less fragments to find.
Once I buy an ironclad will I’m going to take my ship on a horrifying suicide mission to the unknown, and then bequeath the next captain my veils or something more useful…
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Yeah, I would recommend it. It’s Minecraft with purpose and art design and so much else. I am a big DQ nostalgia dude, so that adds to it for me, but even without it, it’s still pretty fun stuff.
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I played Pup Breeder!!!1111111