Mamoulian War

In a world where like two western companies are still doing RPGs, it would seem to be irrational to pass out on any game, just because the setting does not 100% fit my taste. *shrugs* What else to play? Either fantasy RPG or just another open world cover shooter...

Ubisoft just being Ubisoft again :-D

Nothing new. This already happend long time ago with NWN1 and healing kits. They had to remove red crosses from the game as well.

This might be a point of debate between the younger generation and the older one. Once you have a 9 to 5, a family and all the other obligations, your time becomes very valuable. Rather than play a 60 hour game that's been padded with grinding and meaningless collectibles, I would much rather have a shorter game that really delivers. Since it is very likely that I won't finish the former but will definitively enjoy the latter. Well I'll have all of that, and still I was able to put about 150 hours in Tales of Zestiria and about 90 hours in Star Ocean 5 in last 2 months of last year. Star Ocean had kind of dull but still I had a lot of fun playing it. And besides these two, I have also spent as much time with Demon's Souls, Soulcalibur V and Europa Universalis games. All in all I have finished 16 games in 2016.

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I jave finished today 24hours of Le Mans in Gran Turismo 5. It took me almost 2 weeks :'( But at least I am now level 39. It looks like, I need to race for at least 6 more hours to be able to get level 40 and with it finaly the Platinum Trophy for this game \o/

This shounds like much better implementation of "urgency" than hard coded limits.

24 hours of LeMans in Gran Turismo 5. Just got over 10 hour mark in the race O.o

You do not need to go very deep to achieve fun questing... anything deeper than shallow MMO type questing is ok. That pest has to go. I love how everybody jumps on JRPG hate train, but WRPG is more and more turning into mindless "bring me 10 rat pelts in thousands of variations" in sterile open world environment... /rant_end

In between doing quests in Star Ocean 5, I have finally managed to beat the hardest challenge in Gran Turismo 5. After aprox. 10 hours of retries, I was able to beat the required time od 2.10.000 by 0.120 seconds and with it, I have unlocked the Golden Standard trophy for achieving gold medal for all races, licenses and special events in the game. Yesterday I have spent about 3 hours driving and achieved the best time of 2.10.137. I also managed two faster runs, but both times, I have ****ed up the last chicane on the track. Today, I have managed to beat the dream time after 20 minutes of driving. 2.09.880 is not the best among the Gran Turismo players by a long shot, but for me, the Golden Standard trophy tied to this challenge, was the hardest "exam" in any game, I have ever played and managed to acquire :-D When looking back, Gran Turismo 6 Platinum compared to this trophy was just a walk in the park full of kittens and puppies... All that I need for GT5 Platinum is to get the A-Spec level to 40. Currently at 48 and half so few hours of driving in Endurance event should do the trick and my hardest Platinum will find it's new rightful home :-D

Still at Star Ocean 5. And it is still fun ) Although, I kinda do not like, that the enemies are removed after each bigger event in game. Though I do understand, that it was the easiest way how to manage the game to be at least little bit challenging in how they have made the story progression. Story is not the best but still interesting. The best stuff in the game are the optional funny private actions, which make me smile almost every time )

Started to play 3 days ago Star Ocean 5. Its combat system is not so refined as Tales of Zestiria, but I still have fun. I actually love Private Actions, lot of them are making me laugh, and there is tons of them. The story is little bit slowpaced, but that's probably because of me being obsessed with side quests :-D

Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix Disgaea 2 PC on Jan 30th I'm probably alone in this, but my excitement for the Final Fantasy XII remaster is off the charts. Rest asured, you are not alone :-D

I have finished the Alisha's Story DLC for Tales of Zestiria on PS4. The final bossfight was pretty easy compared to main game boss. You have to kill two Hellions and both of them at the same time. I have enjoyed it less than the main game, but got the DLC for free with the preorder in 2015, so no bad thoughts on it Today I have retried Gran Turismo 5 Vettel's Challenge on Suzuka. During few hours, I was able to improve my time by 2 seconds. My best time is now only 0.554 seconds behind the gold medal. Delta of my best times is better than the gold requirement, but I make almost every time big mistake at the Spoon turn, so as soon as I learn how to drive through it, I should be able to get the gold medal. We'll see if I'll be able to get it this year

Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix

Man, I really wish that Squeenix would still use such nice graphics for Final Fantasy games as well. I am so tired of their "ultra-realisticness"

I have started few days ago Alisha's Story DLC for Tales of Zestiria. It is much more dependable on equipment fusion and grinding. Compared to the main game, it is more dungeon crawl than anything else. I play the game on normal and I had to run away from few encounters to stay alive.

Yooka-Laylee preorders available on GOG \o/ https://www.gog.com/news/preorder_yookalaylee

Seriously, if anyone wants it... I can't even give this game away! Try to post it here as well: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/69942-the-great-game-giveaway-tuesday-edition/page-21 I think most of the people here already have it, too. Because as you said, it's great :D

Well, possibly. I couldn't find a reliable source on this. I saw it on Kotaku although I'm not sure what their source is. Article on this: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/12/after-cracks-developers-remove-denuvo-drm-from-their-games/ Looks like Doom is not the only game which dropped Denuvo. Rumours say, that Denuvo refunds publishers, if the game is cracked in some timeframe after release of the game.

I have finished blind walkthrough of Tales of Zestiria. The final bossfight was kind of interesting, but It was pure Gear Check. Because I have not spent much time with gear grind, I had to go through few Retries. In the end, I was able to beat him after 45 minutes of trying, where I have put the best DPS gear on my party and used All-divide item, so my party would not end up one shotted. I have really enjoyed this game. It took me over 122 hours, but the funny thing is, that this game counts even time in menus when you adjust your gear and skills. To my surprise, I have spent over 40 hours of the game doing that lol... Still, I love that game and I am eager to go for the Alishia DLC Chapter

"Virumor is doing a decent Volo impersonation, at least" No.

I played Drakensang long time ago. I have kind of liked it, but I was confused with rules. So I have never finished the game. I have probably picked the wrong skills, so the fights became to tough for me.

Still Tales of Zestiria. Got the 2nd hardest equipment fusion Trophy (only 1.2% of game owners were able to get it) and then, I have killed my first Dragon (Tiamat), which have decided to intervene in war between two kingdoms, and in a few minutes obliterated half the soldiers from both sides. During the fight, it healed up from fear of the soldiers, but after showing them, that this beast can be defeated, they amassed archers around the place of the fight, and were slowly helping me out with rain of arrows. After almost 20 minus of fight. The Dragon boss went down, and my two protagonists went to their old hideout for three days long nap :-D Slowly trying to get equipment for the hardest fusion Trophy. It's pretty random, so I will probably have not all the required gear for it before NG+

Man, everybody knows, that you have to invest hundreds hours of gameplay, to be able to have valid oppinion, if the game is **** or not! Now go back to the tutorial campaign and don't come back, before you replay it for 10,000th time!