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Mr. White wrote: Hopefully, I'm nearing the completion of Earthbound. The kids are still loving it, but I'm about sick of it. _This_ is why I never got into the Final Fantasy or JRPGs...I tire of the menu based combat. Especially with random encounters. *press*, *press*, *press*, *press*...in the hopes to finish the battles quickly...
Shame too as the story and characters are a lot of fun.
I feel the same way. Even when the combat is challenging and using skills and character and such at the right time is important I still get a bit annoyed with those types of combat systems. I have some pretty solid 3DS games in the genre that I struggle to get myself to keep playing, which is a bummer because otherwise I generally enjoy the other aspects of these types of games..
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Am also going to grab Ratchet and Clank. I love that series from my PS2 days and miss it terribly. I've heard only good things about it.
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Gary Sax wrote: Got my Twilight Struggle KS game. It's not bad, I'm satisfied if the online works well. AI isn't great and thinks a bit too long but for beginners I think it'd be a fun way to learn. Haven't played online yet.
I just purchased it for my Mac. I've never played TS so I'm using this to teach me how to play the game.
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The AI isn't so bad that you can't learn with it. It makes weird moves but is generally very good about spreading over the globe and forcing you to make choices in any given turn. If you know where the important parts of the map are, though, you'll realize that the AI does not emphasize them enough. So a real game between two players would focus much more on a few key areas of the map that would see heavy contest. The Soviet AI also sometimes struggles to coup as often as it should and realigns too much. It also tries a bizarre opening in response to my usual favored US setup (4 Germany/3 Italy) by placing couping in the Philippines? The AI gets more logical as the game goes on from the 2-3 games I played.
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Gary Sax wrote: Got my Twilight Struggle KS game. It's not bad, I'm satisfied if the online works well. AI isn't great and thinks a bit too long but for beginners I think it'd be a fun way to learn. Haven't played online yet.
I want this, but I think I'll wait for the iPad version. I'll probably get more playtime out of it that way.
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And I finished Uncharted 3. Was it me or was it much shorter than the other two? I really enjoyed that series and am looking forward to the fourth one. The biggest compliment I can give them is that I enjoyed the cutscenes. I also want an Elena Fisher spinoff game about journalism.
After playing all three Uncharted games, the last of which came out in 2011, I am even more angry about that stupid damn Tomb Raider game from 2013. YOU HAD THREE SOLID MODELS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND *THAT'S* WHAT YOU CAME UP WITH? Uncharted 1 came out six years previous and was a better Tomb Raider game than Tomb Raider. I thought that TR game was lazy af before, and now that I know what else was out there, it's even worse.
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I FUCKING LOVE RATCHET AND CLANK
I loved these games on the PS2 and I love this one as well.
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Holy crap is this game ever good. i get emotional when playing it. Like i totally want to be a good guy but I got so angry at one point that I killed a major character out of rage when i could have totally let them live. How is the game evoking that kind of response? The voice acting is TOP shelf too. Bigby is great as are many others but toad's kid, TJ, is fantastic. holy crap.
Playing a little bit of BATTLE ISLANDS each day. it's fun when you save up enough (and defend your resources enough) to be able to upgrade your command centre which unlocks all sorts of new buildings and upgrades. It's good clean fun. BATTLE OF AGES just came out for free too and I'm sure it'll be more of the same.
Still grinding out MAGIC DUELS. They had a double expansion and boy are the cards ever more powerful. There are so many cards now that the deck variety is great, both playing against real people online and the AI. I've got 4 decks on the go now and am really enjoying it. Still need to grind out enough gold to buy half of the remaining expansion but that's ok, I'm playing Magic.
My buddy is super mad at me that I didn't buy DARK SOULS III. I don't think the problem is that I don't own it, it's that I wouldn't play it right now even if I had it. Too many other games to play. If I get to the point that I go back to Guacamelee, maybe I'll pick up DSIII. But then again, i really want to replay GTAV.
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