What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

djchameleon · 04-21-2013, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by eric generic

What does your to do list look like?

I have a list to go through myself. Almost finished with Fire Embelm Awakening(3ds), Paper Mario Sticker Star(3ds), Tales of the Abyss(3ds), Ni No Kuni, Army of Two: Devil's Cartel(I feel like I'm almost finished with this one), Tomb Raider(pretty close to the end with this one also). I'm going to stay away from buying games til Last of Us comes out.

**Yac** · 04-22-2013, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

FTL: Faster Than Light

For whatever reason this game has been on my mind a lot lately. It's perplexing as I'm not a big fan of these kind of roguelike games because I am a story based gamer and there's not much to get invested in if my crew keeps dying every 10 minutes. Then it struck me, I actually get a deeper look into the game universe by dying so much that the game never repeats itself. Each of those lives was a little glimpse into the same universe from different perspectives. Perhaps I'm reading too far into things, but as far as strategy games go, this one has some really unique and intuitive ideas, like being able to suffocate pirates if your ship gets boarded, or open up various doors around your ship to help put out fires. Great game, I'd suggest buying it if it comes up in a sale.

FTL is amazing. Have you actually managed to beat it on normal ? Normal should be called, if compared to most other games, ,very hard. Easy is just hard.
I managed to defeat the mothership a couple of times on easy, on normal though ... I haven't even gotten close to blowing up it's 1st of 3 forms ..

Guybrush · 04-22-2013, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Yac

FTL is amazing. Have you actually managed to beat it on normal ? Normal should be called, if compared to most other games, ,very hard. Easy is just hard.
I managed to defeat the mothership a couple of times on easy, on normal though ... I haven't even gotten close to blowing up it's 1st of 3 forms ..

I beat it on normal, but it's not easy. The shields on the last ship is a sucker so I've mostly done it by boarding and taking out weapons with crew members and with large amounts of rockets. I will often keep some missile weapon on storage that I don't really use until the last boss fight.

Great game by the way

Musico Nova · 04-22-2013, 03:21 AM

Hexon the old vesrion 3, used to my fav, again installed after a long gap

LoathsomePete · 04-22-2013, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Yac

FTL is amazing. Have you actually managed to beat it on normal ? Normal should be called, if compared to most other games, ,very hard. Easy is just hard.
I managed to defeat the mothership a couple of times on easy, on normal though ... I haven't even gotten close to blowing up it's 1st of 3 forms ..

No I find my ship gets destroyed from the inside more often than not, through the enemy teleporting units onto my ship or fires breaking out an destroying my ship that way. It's been more than once I've had my engines out near a star that was solar flaring and had to watch my crew die a slow and painful death.

I think I've made it about halfway through the game though, which is not bad considering I'm still pretty new to the genre.

**Yac** · 04-23-2013, 03:17 AM

FTLs main flaw imo is it's main asset - the randomness. Sometimes you get lucky and find a ton of crewmen and great equipment on the way to the last sector, sometimes you find nothing. And no matter how skilled you are, you need that def drone mk2 to even think about surviving a barrage of missiles from the mothership.
Pete - improve the blast doors if you haven't already - they stop both the fires and boarding parties. Upgrading them also gives you manual control over them so you can for example seal off a part of the ship where the enemy is, or where the fire is raging, or both - and vent atmosphere by opening the outer door.

The Batlord · 04-23-2013, 09:09 AM

^^^

Dude, this game sounds amazing. So, do you just control a warship in space? And I'm assuming its a computer game?

LoathsomePete · 04-23-2013, 09:26 AM

Yeah it's a computer game, but I wouldn't really say you're controlling a warship. The story is you're a messenger vessel and you have to try to get to the end of the map before the Rebels find and kill you. You don't directly control where the ship goes, but you do control the inner workings and weapons. Every new star system you visit has a random encounter that kind of plays out like a board game in a sense. When you die you have to go back to the beginning as a new ship trying to deliver the message.

It's a pretty good little game and a shining example of the booming indie game market, as well as the success of Kickstarter for financing cool little games like this.

Circe · 04-23-2013, 04:07 PM

I recently bought Crusader Kings II on the advice of someone who told me it was Medieval II Total War crossed with Game of Thrones, and it's as good as that combination sounds. The aim of the game is basically to be a complete bastard, murdering children and your own family members, forging claims to territories you have no right to, committing religious genocide to get on the good side of some old fart in Rome and whoring your children out to foreign lords all to advance your position in the world. It's difficult as hell but worth learning just so you can unleash your inner Tywin Lannister.

I also bought Surgeon Simulator 2013, which would be really fun and amusing if I could actually complete the mandatory first mission and play all the stuff like open ambulance brain transplants. I know they need to give people a motive for actually trying to succeed, but is it really a good idea to lock all the missions except the first (which ypu can get in almost the same state for free anyway) in a game that prides itself on being insanely difficult? I'll manage it some day but for now it's just been me ineffectually trying to break a guy's ribcage open without cutting him and then taking a drill to his face when I inevitably mess it up.

PoorOldPo · 04-23-2013, 04:13 PM

I am playing Shogun 2 again. PLaying everything on very hard, I know it is no comparison to the real thing, but I really think I would have been a good general, or at least strategist.

And Fallout NV right now as well.

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Musico Nova Groupie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: India Posts: 8	Hexon the old vesrion 3, used to my fav, again installed after a long gap

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Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	FTLs main flaw imo is it's main asset - the randomness. Sometimes you get lucky and find a ton of crewmen and great equipment on the way to the last sector, sometimes you find nothing. And no matter how skilled you are, you need that def drone mk2 to even think about surviving a barrage of missiles from the mothership. Pete - improve the blast doors if you haven't already - they stop both the fires and boarding parties. Upgrading them also gives you manual control over them so you can for example seal off a part of the ship where the enemy is, or where the fire is raging, or both - and vent atmosphere by opening the outer door.

04-23-2013, 04:07 PM	#5669 (permalink)
Circe Blunt After Blunt After Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: In a French-ass restaurant Posts: 337	I recently bought Crusader Kings II on the advice of someone who told me it was Medieval II Total War crossed with Game of Thrones, and it's as good as that combination sounds. The aim of the game is basically to be a complete bastard, murdering children and your own family members, forging claims to territories you have no right to, committing religious genocide to get on the good side of some old fart in Rome and whoring your children out to foreign lords all to advance your position in the world. It's difficult as hell but worth learning just so you can unleash your inner Tywin Lannister. I also bought Surgeon Simulator 2013, which would be really fun and amusing if I could actually complete the mandatory first mission and play all the stuff like open ambulance brain transplants. I know they need to give people a motive for actually trying to succeed, but is it really a good idea to lock all the missions except the first (which ypu can get in almost the same state for free anyway) in a game that prides itself on being insanely difficult? I'll manage it some day but for now it's just been me ineffectually trying to break a guy's ribcage open without cutting him and then taking a drill to his face when I inevitably mess it up.