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Mondo Bungle 05-09-2015 03:19 PM
"Hardcore mode" and "difficulty" pretty much have nothing to do with each other. all hardcore mode does is make it slightly more fun.

There should be one hit kills.

Black Francis 05-09-2015 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle (Post 1587779)
"Hardcore mode" and "difficulty" pretty much have nothing to do with each other. all hardcore mode does is make it slightly more fun.

There should be one hit kills.
You're a bit of a masochist, aren't you?

Oriphiel 05-09-2015 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 1587786)
You're a bit of a masochist, aren't you?
No no, he's right. I would love to see a "realistic" mode where every character (yourself included) dies after only a few shots/strikes (with headshots being one-hit kills). It'd be insanely easy for the developers to make it, since all they'd have to do is set everyone's health to a certain level (in fact, i'm pretty sure there are already one-hit kill fan-made mods for Fallout 3 and NV) and tweak a few numbers here and there.

For people who like the RPG-esque vanilla version where you can shoot a raider in the face but he doesn't die because fuck you he's just better than you, they'll still have the regular mode. But us masochists will finally have the extreme stealth challenge we've been waiting for. Especially if they make it so that you can only save in certain places, so reloading every five seconds isn't an option (however, they'd have to fix the freezing issues before they could expect us to play a mode where we can't save all the time).

The Batlord 05-09-2015 04:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 1587793)
No no, he's right. I would love to see a "realistic" mode where every character (yourself included) dies after only a few shots/strikes (with headshots being one-hit kills). It'd be insanely easy for the developers to make it, since all they'd have to do is set everyone's health to a certain level (in fact, i'm pretty sure there are already one-hit kill fan-made mods for Fallout 3 and NV) and tweak a few numbers here and there.

For people who like the RPG-esque vanilla version where you can shoot a raider in the face but he doesn't die because fuck you he's just better than you, they'll still have the regular mode. But us masochists will finally have the extreme stealth challenge we've been waiting for. Especially if they make it so that you can only save in certain places, so reloading every five seconds isn't an option (however, they'd have to fix the freezing issues before they could expect us to play a mode where we can't save all the time).
I have no particular issue with the gameplay, but I would like it if the difficulty curve didn't drop off so steeply as the game progresses and you get better abilities/equipment. At the beginning you had to be cautious around just about everything, but now that my level is in the mid-thirties and I can afford pretty much anything, along with keeping my equipment fully repaired at all times and my ammo stocked to ridiculous proportions, I'd have to up the difficulty setting to get any kind of challenge out of the game at this point. Although it helps that I gave myself a ridiculously high endurance, just so I could use all the implants.

If I wasn't so far into the game, I'd consider creating a melee only character, just to see if I had to use more strategy than simply, "Creep around enemies, find sniping position, annihilate".

Oriphiel 05-09-2015 04:40 PM
^ Try playing through the game as a boxer with no weapons and no armor. There's nothing quite as satisfying as beating a deathclaw to death with your bare hands, whilst naked.

Here's a random question for the gamers in here: When you play a game that lets you choose your gender, which do you most often find yourself playing as?

The Batlord 05-09-2015 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 1587806)
^ Try playing through the game as a boxer with no weapons and no armor. There's nothing quite as satisfying as beating a deathclaw to death with your bare hands, whilst naked.

Here's a random question for the gamers in here: When you play a game that lets you choose your gender, which do you most often find yourself playing as?
Almost always a chick. Don't know why. I've never had any cross dressing tendencies, and even in a first-person game where I can't really perv out and my gender is almost irrelevant I still do it.

Oriphiel 05-09-2015 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1587819)
Almost always a chick. Don't know why. I've never had any cross dressing tendencies, and even in a first-person game where I can't really perv out and my gender is almost irrelevant I still do it.
Makes sense. After all, we're the Buffy Generation. :laughing:

The Batlord 05-09-2015 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 1587823)
Makes sense. After all, we're the Buffy Generation. :laughing:
I've noticed that with the rise of boys being raised by single mothers has come a rise in notable female protagonists that are clearly aimed at the male demographic: Lara Croft, Xena, Buffy, etc. Sure, there is some objectification going on, but they're still treated as legitimate characters. I kind of hypothesize that women are becoming more and more dominant as male role models, even if they are being altered in pop culture to suit our dudeness.

Black Francis 05-09-2015 05:32 PM
I mainly stick to male characters if i have a choice but if not i don't mind a female mc

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1587803)
I have no particular issue with the gameplay, but I would like it if the difficulty curve didn't drop off so steeply as the game progresses and you get better abilities/equipment.
^ exactly how i feel.

To be honest idk how to measure the fun i get out of difficult games, sometimes high difficulty makes the payoff sweeter but sometimes i don't need that especially if the game engrosses me with other features.

But my real contradiction is i prefer when the game controlls the difficulty instead of giving me the option to change it cause if it's up to me i'll set it on easy and breeze through it.

Unknown Soldier 05-11-2015 04:39 AM
Playing Fallout 2 the only Fallout I've never played before. Shocked though to find that my chosen character is savage that walks around barefoot and in skins with a spear. The tribe have that Gollum look about them and even have human skulls on polls :D Anyway as this is meant to be the best Fallout game according to all the things I've read I'm really intrigued to play it.

A real bummer with Battlefield 4 as I found I couldn't play it, as my 360 doesn't have a built in hard drive, I can remember about 6 months ago I couldn't play a Call of Duty game because I needed a flash drive or something, but as that was dirt cheap I bought one, but there's no way I'm buying a hardrive for the 360 and will probably wait now to I get a next gen machine later in the year to play it.

Instead now playing Saints Row The Third and the jury is still out on it.

Guybrush 05-11-2015 05:09 AM
There are some funny random type encounters that can be discovered on the world map in Fallout 2.

Spoiler for Like...:
F.ex Fallout-versions of King Arthur and his knights and the bridgekeeper from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail .. and even a crashed expedition from the Starship Enterprise.

Unknown Soldier 05-11-2015 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1588290)
There are some funny random type encounters that can be discovered on the world map in Fallout 2.

Spoiler for Like...:
F.ex Fallout-versions of King Arthur and his knights and the bridgekeeper from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail .. and even a crashed expedition from the Starship Enterprise.
I take it you've played Fallout 1 as well, how does it compare because the engine and gameplay format are more or less the same?

Guybrush 05-11-2015 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1588291)
I take it you've played Fallout 1 as well, how does it compare because the engine and gameplay format are more or less the same?
Yep, I have. It's been a while, but from what I can remember, the gameplay is the same. Fallout 2 feels like it's made with the same engine, the same editor, a lot of the same graphics etc.

So .. While Fallout 2 has got new perks, weapons and armors and so on in it, it is basically just more of what you got with Fallout 1.

Edit :

And yeah, Fallout 2 is also awesome :D

Yac 05-11-2015 07:32 AM
I think there were some minor interface fixes between F1 and F2, but nothing groundbreaking or as significant as they were between for example Baldurs Gate 1 and 2.
As for random encounters, my favorite F3 ones are
Spoiler for spoiler:
Going back in time and breaking the god damned water chip

and
Spoiler for spoiler:
the Holy Grail inspired bridge keeper

Goofle 05-11-2015 07:33 AM
http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:f...1428504692.gif

Five Nights at Freddy's

This shit is scary as shit. Took me ages to get used to conserving energy. I've also downloaded the second and third in the series.

Guybrush 05-11-2015 07:54 AM
The last game I played was actually Alien : Isolation. Awesome game! But ..

Spoiler for MASSIVE ENDING SPOILERS:
It was over too quickly, I think. Not that the game was short, but the ending came somewhat unexpectedly and was over too quick.

If they were gonna do a remake of the sort of ending that Alien and Aliens (the movies) had, I think Amanda should've gotten safely on board the Torrens with captain Verlain alive. Both Alien and Aliens end with Ellen Ripley getting safely away, seemingly, before an alien reappears. In the first film, the Alien reappears at the end when Ripley is preparing for hypersleep. She blasts it into space. In the second film, Ripley and Bishop escape the exploding colony and think they're safe, but the queen alien has of course hitchhiked ..

The drama of those endings work very well. They lull the watcher into a false sense of security before they set up the final confrontation.

In Isolation, they try to do something similar, but it's not very accomplished. You know something is amiss when you get on the Torrens because Verlaine is not responding. You don't really get lulled into a false sense of security and then they're there, you blow the hatch and the game is basically over. Disappointing!

You should have been reunited with Verlaine first, possibly gotten ready for hypersleep and THEN an alien should've appeared, killed Verlaine and you had to blow it out of the airlock.

Or they could've not ripped off those other two movies. Like, either do it right or do something else.

Black Francis 05-11-2015 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1588309)
http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:f...1428504692.gif

Five Nights at Freddy's

This shit is scary as shit. Took me ages to get used to conserving energy. I've also downloaded the second and third in the series.
Did you see the game theory on this game?

Goofle 05-12-2015 05:47 AM
I did indeed. The only reason I even know about it.

Black Francis 05-12-2015 10:31 AM
:yeah:

Ive seen alot playthrougs of FNAF that made the game popular but Matpat to me made it interesting.

Im currently replaying Civilization II for the Ps1

I created Puerto Rico and we allied ourselves with the chinese and babylonians.
Also the statue of liberty is now in Puerto Rico, im rewriting history!

DwnWthVwls 05-12-2015 10:34 AM
Where did it come from? You're not friends with France. This is bullshit.

Black Francis 05-12-2015 11:34 AM
Dude, France is not even on the map, literally, i only added 3 countries to the map and already found 2 and i doubt France is the 3rd one but if it is, they gonna be jelly.

Michelangelo's chapel is also in Puerto Rico just imagine the money im making in tourism.

The Batlord 05-12-2015 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 1588678)
:yeah:

Ive seen alot playthrougs of FNAF that made the game popular but Matpat to me made it interesting.

Im currently replaying Civilization II for the Ps1

I created Puerto Rico and we allied ourselves with the chinese and babylonians.
Also the statue of liberty is now in Puerto Rico, im rewriting history!
So does it have a baseball glove instead of a torch?

Black Francis 05-12-2015 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1588761)
So does it have a baseball glove instead of a torch?
Yes and it's also modeled after J.lo.

LoathsomePete 05-13-2015 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 1587793)
No no, he's right. I would love to see a "realistic" mode where every character (yourself included) dies after only a few shots/strikes (with headshots being one-hit kills). It'd be insanely easy for the developers to make it, since all they'd have to do is set everyone's health to a certain level (in fact, i'm pretty sure there are already one-hit kill fan-made mods for Fallout 3 and NV) and tweak a few numbers here and there.

For people who like the RPG-esque vanilla version where you can shoot a raider in the face but he doesn't die because fuck you he's just better than you, they'll still have the regular mode. But us masochists will finally have the extreme stealth challenge we've been waiting for. Especially if they make it so that you can only save in certain places, so reloading every five seconds isn't an option (however, they'd have to fix the freezing issues before they could expect us to play a mode where we can't save all the time).
DUST Survival Simulator at Fallout New Vegas - mods and community

Here you go, the survival game that actually makes it about survival.

Unknown Soldier 05-18-2015 05:32 AM
Anybody played the Evil Within?

Guybrush 05-18-2015 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1590705)
Anybody played the Evil Within?
I wanted to, but then I read a review that changed my mind. I might give it another chance if I see it on a steam sale :)

Today is the release date for The Witcher 3 by the way.

Unknown Soldier 05-18-2015 06:24 AM
Well two people have said it's like a Resident Evil game but with an even more complex storyline. One of those two people said it was superior to the later Resident Evil games and the other said it was a Resident Evil wannabe ;) so two very different opinions.

Despite being Resident Evil nut, I recognize that the series has got tired and games like The Last of Us have set the new yardstick for survival horrors, so that's why The Evil Within appeals, playing it tonight so will give my first thoughts on it here.

RL Clown 05-18-2015 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1590716)
Well two people have said it's like a Resident Evil game but with an even more complex storyline. One of those two people said it was superior to the later Resident Evil games and the other said it was a Resident Evil wannabe ;) so two very different opinions.
That's so cool. That's awesome.

LoathsomePete 05-18-2015 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1590711)
I wanted to, but then I read a review that changed my mind. I might give it another chance if I see it on a steam sale :)

Today is the release date for The Witcher 3 by the way.
Honestly it's not very good. I played the demo and was pretty underwhelmed, and further on in the game it gets really weird. Not just the story, which is pretty stupid, but with the gameplay as well. It wants to be old school survival horror where you have to ration your ammo and health, yet the game puts you in situations where you need to attack.

As for The Witcher 3, I already have it pre-loaded and just have to wait until 4 pm for it to unlock.

Guybrush 05-18-2015 02:00 PM
I'm not a big fan of the Resident Evil games either so that's not a great comparison to me. Take Resident Evil 4 which is held in great regard. You can't sidestep and it pits a variety of manga-style secret agents against monsters in a castle in Transylvania or equivalent.

It's like James Bond meets Dracula. Possibly fun, but also very contrived.

Unknown Soldier 05-18-2015 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1590759)
Honestly it's not very good. I played the demo and was pretty underwhelmed, and further on in the game it gets really weird. Not just the story, which is pretty stupid, but with the gameplay as well. It wants to be old school survival horror where you have to ration your ammo and health, yet the game puts you in situations where you need to attack.
Well I never got around to starting it tonight but it seems that I haven't missed out on too much. :)

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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1590831)
I'm not a big fan of the Resident Evil games either so that's not a great comparison to me. Take Resident Evil 4 which is held in great regard. You can't sidestep and it pits a variety of manga-style secret agents against monsters in a castle in Transylvania or equivalent.

It's like James Bond meets Dracula. Possibly fun, but also very contrived.
I pretty much loved Resident Evil 4 as it was the second game in the series set in a European setting (northern Spain here) and I really loved the first part of the game exploring a rural location. Admittedly the second half in the castle was pretty long-winded. It was also the first game in the series that functioned more like a arcade shooter as well and changed the original virus concept into a parasite concept. The series hit an all-time low imo on Resident Evil 5 the weakest game in the series, but I even enjoy poor Resident Evil games.

fiddler 05-18-2015 03:43 PM
I've been replaying the Assassins Creed series lately. Mostly because I had a couple out of the set but had played snippets of others so finally completed the set.

The Batlord 05-18-2015 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1590856)
pretty much loved Resident Evil 4 as it was the second game in the series set in a European setting (northern Spain here) and I really loved the first part of the game exploring a rural location. Admittedly the second half in the castle was pretty long-winded. It was also the first game in the series that functioned more like a arcade shooter as well and changed the original virus concept into a parasite concept. The series hit an all-time low imo on Resident Evil 5 the weakest game in the series, but I even enjoy poor Resident Evil games.
Granted, I've never played the pre-RE 5 games (no Playstation or Gamecube, but I'm sure I'll eventually get around to finding that **** at some game shop that sells old stuff like that), but I very much enjoyed 5 and 6. They weren't at all scary, but I just love third-person shooters. FPS games just have two-dimensional gameplay, dumbed down for the casual gamers, that gets old after about a half-hour (even the good ones), but third-person FPS usually have something else going for them, other than the shooting part: Tomb Raider is also a platformer, Mass Effect's power's and intricate conversation system, and the newer RE games make gameplay intentionally more challenging by limiting ammunition and making the shooting mechanics so that you can't just be a one man killing machine (Yeah, I know that's a staple of the series, but it still works in the newer games).

I'd play 5 and 6 over pretty much any non-Fallout FPS I can thin of, and Fallout has its own reasons for being more than just an FPS, so it doesn't count as far as I'm concerned.

Thom Yorke 05-18-2015 08:46 PM
I've played The Evil Within. To me, it was a lot better than the reviews suggest. A lot of people have said the game is "broken" but I never encountered any serious issues whatsoever playing it.

The story is needlessly complicated and there is some cringe-worthy voice acting, but if you were drawn to this from Resident Evil 4 (which I think a lot of people were), that shouldn't be a big issue for you as RE4's strong suits weren't its story or acting.

Like RE4, it does a great job building atmosphere and throwing a diverse set of creative enemies, bosses and locations at you. I think there may actually be a bit too much change in the environments to be honest; there is just so much packed in there.

Overall, really solid game. The frame rate looks a bit choppy sometimes, but all-in-all it's a great-looking game. It has some genuinely frightening moments as well.

Wpnfire 05-18-2015 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1590883)
Granted, I've never played the pre-RE 5 games
Wait, you played Resident Evil 5 and 6 before you played 4? Go get your credit card, and buy Resident Evil 4 on your 360 this instant. I, like you, thoroughly enjoy 5 & 6, but 4 absolutely destroys both of them.

Your life isn't complete until you play that game.

The Batlord 05-18-2015 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1591003)
Wait, you played Resident Evil 5 and 6 before you played 4? Go get your credit card, and buy Resident Evil 4 on your 360 this instant. I, like you, thoroughly enjoy 5 & 6, but 4 absolutely destroys both of them.

Your life isn't complete until you play that game.
Is it on XBox Live? If so, I don't have it, so... boned.

Wpnfire 05-18-2015 09:19 PM
Dammit Batty! Why are you so poor? Tell me where you live so I can send a box full of money to you.

The Batlord 05-18-2015 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1591022)
Dammit Batty! Why are you so poor? Tell me where you live so I can send a box full of money to you.
6931 Fuckyourmother Avenue.

Wpnfire 05-18-2015 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1591028)
6931 Fuckyourmother Avenue.
Know your role peasant!

I thought I could gift games over Live? Wait, that's Steam.

Janszoon 05-18-2015 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1591028)
6931 Fuckyourmother Avenue.
That's in Bumblefuck, VA, right?


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