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RobertB wrote: Then I dragged out Skyrim for the sixth or seventh time. Once again I got about 20 hours into it and got bored. Maybe open worlds that are that open (Fallout 3/4 as well) just aren't for me.
This is where I am with WoW. I originally got back into it because I had friends that were still playing and were all geeked about Dragonflight, etc. But one of them got waylaid by another RPG that's taking all her time, one of them does nothing but raid with his guild, and another is swamped with real-life stuff that has kept him offline. So, I've spent the last three or four months, until recently, playing mostly by myself, outside of running dungeons with the LFG tool, which is precisely NOT what I wanted; hence, the "until recently" because I basically stopped playing two or three weeks ago and am probably not going back. It was fun while I leveled all my healers and a couple other toons, but now it's just doing the same stuff over and over and doing it alone in the MMORPG. The other complication is that I didn't realize that all of said friends play mostly Alliance, with Blizzard trumpeting the "war is (mostly) over" so you can actually play with your friends, cross-faction. But you still can't run dungeons or raids with them, which is mostly what I enjoy doing, so there went that. I tried logging on the other day and running one dungeon and it's kind of a bore and I'm just not interesting in doing rep grinds or the rather pedantic climb that professions have turned into.
I read somewhere that the WoW killer has been WoW, in the form of WoW Classic. BC is the best expansion that Blizzard ever did.
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hotseatgames wrote: I built a full-on MAME cabinet many years ago, and did a 4 player control panel, even going so far as to re-create the panel for Guantlet in Adobe Illustrator. I also made two of the joysticks standard, added an extra rotating 4-way joystick in the center (for Q-Bert and Donkey Kong) and the outside two joysticks were actually rotary sticks because I was determined to play Victory Road and Ikari Warriors as intended. They were a pain in the ass and overall not worth it. I would have been better off adding a trackball.
Yeah, I started building my 2P+6 button panel with trackball. Blew WAAAAYYYYYY too much cash on top of the line RGB buttons and sticks, but at least the end result should look flashy Turns out building a panel out of wood isn't as easy as it seems with all the measurements, cuts, and even the need to undercut for joysticks. I'm realizing this is actually two or even three different and not exactly overlapping or complementary hobbies all rolled into one grand title of "build yourself a MAME cabinet!". You got woodworking, software, and hopefully, at the end, something actually playable
I have a star wars yoke and tron controls coming, hope I can find a place to put them without needing to build something that could double as a coffee table art display. I originally was going to do 4 players but barring some intense desire for all the neighborhood kids to come and play, I could probably live with adding xbox controllers for the 3 times a year I can get 2, much less even 1, other person to play DnD or Gauntlet with me.
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After a few missions there are Showdown missions where there are 4+ targets on the map but only one of them is the leader you have to eliminate. You get a set of physical characteristics and behaviors and you have to watch them to find out who the real target is. If you fail on a Showdown you fail the campaign.
So far I’ve only made it about halfway through a campaign. Still pushing forward though. I really should actually finish the main story campaign so I am familiar with the rest if the maps but Freelancer has its hooks in me deep.
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That's a good thing.
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jason10mm wrote: I'm realizing this is actually two or even three different and not exactly overlapping or complementary hobbies all rolled into one grand title of "build yourself a MAME cabinet!". You got woodworking, software, and hopefully, at the end, something actually playable
Yeah, definitely with you there. I ended up buying a Tankstick panel from X-Arcade and the cabinet from the old RecRoomMasters site, and then just replaced the buttons and joysticks. That way I could focus on the software (now using Launchbox/BigBox) and games. Ended up working out pretty well. Added a couple Sinden lightguns last year - pain in the ass to set up, but once you do, they work well.
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But the atmospherics are great. This feels like a reversion to the original Diablo in terms of storytelling (lots of mystery, you have no idea where it's leading you but it's all very dark) and both that and D2 in terms of art design. One of the biggest complaints about D3 was that it was too bright. In D2, you could see things moving in the shadows at the edge of your screen, but couldn't always make out quite what they were. That's a horror element of a horror game. D3 lacked that almost entirely. So, style-wise, it's pretty cool. Mechanism-wise, eh... I got in for about 15 minutes in the afternoon and then got booted and left to get dinner and do other things. I got back on around 10 PM and played for about an hour and then put it down. I'm never THAT thrilled about betas because of the limitations mentioned above, but I also didn't find this particularly compelling, either. All of the gear I was picking up (the usual driving element of Diablo games) was nothing but stat sticks (I was playing a Barbarian.) There were no flashy abilities attached to them which, again, is probably understandable for a beta but still kind of disappointing. This is a famed element of the game; cool gear! And there's nothing here for the first few levels.
The skill tree is awkward. You can only see part of it and they borrow the "blood flowing from rune to rune" imagery that is prevalent throughout the early story but it only takes up a quarter of the screen, so it feels like you'll be spending a lot of time in the early hours of play staring at that, instead of actually adventuring, since you can't easily see the whole thing at a glance and decide where you're going to put your points (1/level so far.)
So, I dunno. Again, first days of the open beta so a lot can and will change. But I can't say I'm excited to jump back on in the next few minutes.
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- upon dying, I respawned completely invisible and had to trigger a climbing down animation in order to be visible again.
- a world boss that did not spawn on its schedule. It eventually spawned an hour later and we ALMOST defeated it
- a giant pink square very briefly appeared when I teleported back to town once
- stutters and terrible frame rate when I enter any new area
Yes, it is a beta ass beta
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