the pitch for House of the Dying Sun is, “You’re a fighter pilot in Homeworld”, and buddy does that work for me
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unfortunately the real answer might just be homeworld oops
star citizen isn’t good
but uh, serious answer? FreeSpace 2 custom campaigns. From like 2007 to Elite Dangerous’s release, if you wanted a good space combat sim, you downloaded a mod for FreeSpace 2 and played that, or you just emulated wing commander privateer or even privateer 2 (I still haven’t played privateer 2 but I’ve heard good things about it)
The X series is just dire, though.
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save ammo by taking out their legs. after awhile if you have extra knives don’t be afraid to wear them down to finish off zombies in areas that you have to cross over frequently. grenades are very useful for clearing a large area of incapacitated zombies as well.
It certainly is beautiful, but I wouldn’t say there’s anything lonely about it - each little sector you enter is entirely comprehended, and you’re on a time limit.
That said, I played it a bunch more tonight and it grew on me. I think one of my big problems was that the weapons on the default ship suck ass, the other three (the other one you start with, and the two you buy) are all better and more satisfying to play. I unlocked the little stealth ship last and I like it the best!
yeah honestly there’s nothing more effective in terms of instilling dread in me than footsteps on a wooden floor and nothing else
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That does sound awesome!
So some days ago I heard of this game called Starborne that’s currently in alpha and you can already play. It’s a MMO 4X game. Yeah. Let that sink in. It looked interesting and I will try it out soon but it got me started on this quest where I’m looking at space sims like Everspace and things like that and then there was also the Privateer talk knocking around in my head…
So I tried out Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (RGO) and didn’t like it. And now I bought Elite Dangerous. It’s only 25 Euros and I mostly planned to play it for the 2 trial period and then see where we’re at, hoping I’d get my fill so I can get back to my backlog.
It’s really something. It’s got everything RGO is missing. It’s big and daunting. When you sit in that starter ship and are afraid to break something by hitting a button and then you choose to launch and the ship rocks a bit and the elevator starts to move at an uncomfortably brisk pace… Man, I could feel it all. It was like back when I put on latex cleaning gloves to play Wing Commander 3 as a kid because I wanted to stimulate being a pilot and pilots wear gloves. At least I didn’t put on a pot as a helmet. If I would have had access to my dad’s motorbike helmet though…
Then you’re out of the space station and you just see this gorgeous planet with the even more gorgeous rings… They’re glistening, like gold. Everything’s huge. It’s jaw dropping.
Before that, in one of the tutorials you fiddle around with the different monitors in your ship and the way the UI reacts when you’re cutting power to the shield system and rerouting it to your mining beams is just actual porn. It’s absolutely the way it should be and just feels so right and at the same time you feel dirty for living this silly space pilot fantasy in such extreme, glorious detail.
Back in the game proper and you do all the cool stuff that you do: plot a course, go into faster than light mode, come out of it and approach the space station. I started up auto docking mode because I’m trying to take it easy and what do you know, the game plays the blue Danube waltz as your ship is guided into the station. That’s one of those moments where you don’t know if you should laugh or shed a tear, it’s beautiful. Slowly the music fades and is replaced by space station radio chatter…
Alright, look. I know this game is a huge “grind” and it’s made worse because it’s a simulation and you stare at your screen without doing anything for minutes on end because you’re a space trucker most of the time but damn, it’s got me good. It’s got the feeling down and it’s so enticing to spend forever in this game to experience all the ships and all the sights and so on.
I’m still at the two hour mark, so I can still return it. I just don’t know if I want to. I know that if I’ll keep it I won’t play it for long because I just don’t do that, I’m not that consistent. However, it might still be worth it to play it for a dozen hours and have fun… It’s only 25 Euros, after all.
I should ask @Hache if they want to play with me. Hi!
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Seriously though how the fuck did Nintendo get away with these joycons. Why are we letting them do this to us
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I beat Aggelos today. It was great, and it had actually good skill challenges! Overall rec
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they fulfill the basic purpose of “two controllers come off of your handheld” kind of sort of well, like if you slide the top thing onto them and don’t grip too tight they’re basically alright for games that don’t have too many buttons
if you’re trying to play every single player game with a single joycon for some reason then yeah that sounds awful
No I’m talking about using both at once, with their tiny mushy buttons and flicky resistanceless sticks cradled in my sweaty palms. It’s a little better when you stick them on the wannabe-dualshock piece of plastic it comes with but jesus christ
oh like double fisting them? i.e. not using the switch as a handheld? I haven’t done that, sounds bad
the buttons and the pseudo d-pad are actually fine in my book but you might want to get something like https://www.amazon.ca/Hyperkin-Joy-Silicone-Thumb-Grips/dp/B06ZZ751NR/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=analog+caps&qid=1565760100&s=gateway&sr=8-8 for the sticks, I had to spend six bucks to make the dualshock 3 triggers usable, nbd
elite dangerous is regularly on sale
lowest price on record is 6 euros ( https://steamdb.info/app/359320/ )
when there’s a steam sale, it’s generally also on sale on the frontier store
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save ammo by taking out their legs
by putting three or four headshots into them, then using the knife while they’re downed? trying to do it with firearms simply isn’t cost-effective, at least from what I’ve heard.
if you shoot their leg they will fall down after a shot or two and be temporarily incapacitated. you can then knife at their legs and chop a leg off for not a lot of knife cost. in this state they can slowly crawl around and still grab you but are much more manageable to run past.
a good strategy is to run from them where you can but in areas you know you’ll have to backtrack through that might have a lot of zombie congestion, try to kite them around and de-leg a few of them as your supplies permit so that traversal is safer. sometimes it’s worth killing them too, like if I have to cross a small area many times and it just has one or two zombies I might kill them just to make it simpler.
After recently finishing Final Fantasy XII on Switch, I’ve returned to Dragon Quest Builders. I restarted chapter 2 because it’s been over a year since I last played, and I didn’t care for what I previously built. This game is so pleasant. I’m having a good time building an apartment tower right now.
I’m still learning the intermediate track in Virtua Racer for Switch. So far my ranking is in the high 2000s.
I’m not big on playing games with my phone, but the touch controls in Real Racing 3 recently clicked, and now I’m obsessed with playing this game. But I still psychically filter out it’s efforts to extract money from me.
With a similar attitude to free-to-play structure, but with far less enthusiasm for the gameplay, I’ve been very slowly picking at Dr. Mario World. I think it’s boring.
I have a new laptop on the way for work stuff. But it has an Nvidia MX150 GPU, and I’m interested to see if it’ll run the free Forza Motorsport Apex. Maybe further down the line I’ll pick up a controller for it and try some other games. I wonder if it’ll run Control on low settings (I know nothing about PC gaming).
Resident Evil 2 (PS4): Every consumable in this game triggers the “too good to use/but what if I need it later?” reaction. It’s gotten to the point where I’ll sooner eat the death and reload my last save than use a knife to escape a grapple or a spray to heal myself.
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While I play Breath of the Wild the thing that drives me nuts about the joycons is how stupid easy it is to accidentally hit the L3/R3 equivalents. It can really fuck you over!
I like the controller pretty well as a a handheld but it took me a few weeks to warm up to the overall feel at all.
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