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After cruising through the first 3 bosses in Hand of Fate, the 4th one kicked it into gear. I defeated him with only 13 health left. Admittedly I was rather ill-equipped to take on the boss but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I really like this game. The enemy voice acting.... let's just say the budget was spent on the dealer.
I am slow rolling my way through Hand of Fate, taking on the next boss every few days. Feel like I could burn out on it pretty quickly otherwise. Still loving it - it's so cool to see what new cards do and the narration and text are just spot on. Combat is probably too easy as even I am good at it, but honestly that's refreshing for me in an action based combat. But it's starting to get harder with mages and ranged attacks and they add a whole new dimension to things.
I have stalled out on my Witcher 3 playthrough. Everything is just so bleak. Well done! but damn if I don't really want to be in that world any more. I haven't quite made it to Triss yet so maybe she opens up something other than death and destruction.
I installed the new DLC for Super Smash Bros last night (one of the best Wii U games and probably one of the best games out right now period) mainly because it has Bayonetta as a playable character. Although I've bought most of the others too just because we play that one a lot. Bayonetta is awesome, they did a great job on her. It feels like Bayonetta yet it's all 2D obviously. Fantastic job at keeping the feel the same despite the huge change in setting and format. The other stuff is just ok, I probably wasted 20$ on the stupid thing but I had to have Bayonetta and we make a LOT of Mii fighters at home because my son loves the creation process probably as much as the fighting itself. Every family member has a Mii fighter in the game, Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Uncle Chris, his girlfriend... the list goes on.
I also picked up Endless Legends thanks to some of the people here talking about it. I love Civ type games but was very sick of Civilization itself and this is a nice substitute. It's a little more complex than I normally like but I'm having a good time with it. I only ever have one or two games a year on my laptop since it's supposed to be just for music creation. Last year it was Tropico (3 or 4 or .. something) which I was digging but it's gotten kind of boring now so the timing was right. Endless Legend it is. Interesting game if you can give it a chance. Strangely I normally prefer games with epilepsy warnings, flashing lights, non-stop action, living mazes... it's kind of a bench mark for me, but if I'm not playing those I like Civ type games or TBS games. Which are almost the polar opposite.
iguanaDitty wrote:
I have stalled out on my Witcher 3 playthrough. Everything is just so bleak. Well done! but damn if I don't really want to be in that world any more. .
You know what? I never could figure out why I stopped playing Skyrim. I really enjoy those kinds of games but I just stopped playing it all of a sudden and I think you nailed it. I think I got sick of being in that bleak winter. I live in Canada after all and those aren't the months you're walking around with a big smile on your face.
I never got sick of Oblivion's world cuz it was so beautiful, both day and night. But other than the long climb to the Mages' guild, I didn't enjoy walking around the snowy Skyrim world that much. I wonder why I didn't get sick of Fallout 3's area at all. Must be because of the urban areas and rivers which I always found fun and challenging.
Black Barney wrote: I think I got sick of being in that bleak winter. I live in Canada after all and those aren't the months you're walking around with a big smile on your face.
I grew up in Sault Ste Marie Michigan which is, as you might expect, just across the river from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. I can't tell you how happy I am now to not deal with those winters any more.
As for Fallout, I couldn't get into that either partly I think because of the unrelenting grays and browns. Also I am starting to think I just have a time limit to enjoy any open world game.
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I put about 5 hrs into Xcom 2 last night. What a great game, lots of improvements over the already excellent Enemy Unknown. The maps are all randomly generated, they changed the strategy layer so you are building your underground network all over the globe. I like this much better than defending countries and being forced to put up satellites from the first game.
The game is graphically impressive, although you might have to turn down a few settings. I'm getting around 60fps with a 970 with mostly high settings. This is by far the best tactics game I've played over the past several years.
Just when I was starting to have fun with Endless Legend the game starts to break down. It's really not well balanced, I barely understand the game and I'm finding trivial to snowball like crazy because a lot of stuff is overpowered. Luxuries stack and you can buy one that gives you 50% science, another that gives you 20% on all resources and another that gives you +50% gold. It's ridiculous and gets crazy when you stack it with the three or four +10-30% science buildings or the two different techs that give you +100% science. Same with gold. Actually it's even more powerful with gold, because it's more versatile.
The AI also doesn't seem to update his armies. I thought it was just because I was playing on Normal but I raised the difficulty and find that researching a couple weapon techs is enough to wipe out everyone. Weird. :/
Black Barney wrote: Make sure to level up your sniper....and name him after me
I'll name him Black Barney and make him look like Richard Simmons.
Gary Sax wrote: I have heard great things about xcom 2---I'll have to try it. Though I don't know if my video card can handle it.
Minimum is 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better.
Recommended is 2GB ATI Radeon HD 7970, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or better.
If you have a decent card you should be able to run it, might have to lower some settings. It's a turn based game so sub 60 frame rates is not as big a deal compared to other games.
Black Barney wrote: Make sure to level up your sniper....and name him after me
I'll name him Black Barney and make him look like Richard Simmons.
Gary Sax wrote: I have heard great things about xcom 2---I'll have to try it. Though I don't know if my video card can handle it.
Minimum is 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better.
Recommended is 2GB ATI Radeon HD 7970, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or better.
If you have a decent card you should be able to run it, might have to lower some settings. It's a turn based game so sub 60 frame rates is not as big a deal compared to other games.
Well, looks like my 6 year old machine won't run it... Sitting on a 512 MB video card. Enemy Unknown ruled.
Finished The Witness. Well, not 100%, but finished anyhow. I liked it; it was a nice change of pace for me. Wait for a sale, though, and if you don't like the journey on it then definitely do not hang on for the destination.
I then bought the Uncharted collection and will start on it tonight.
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