Mamoulian War

Actually this really tempts me to create fig account and do Slacker Backing for PoEII and Pledge for this game at the same time. The promise of GOG version is really luring me and my money :'(

I would not consider that as a bad thing.

Ars Technica is teaming up with GOG. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/ As a start, if you have Ars account, and don't have Witcher 1, you can get your copy. In the next weeks and months, more goodies will be going our way )

Well I think we both can agree, that CoD will nnever offer anything similar to that experience :-P

Well it has a pause button, but no manual saves during race. But in real life, the team at 24 hours race event consists of 4 people, each of them driving for aproximately 6 hours. Therefore racing game, where you have to drive whole 24 hours is IMO less realistic than a game, which allows you to have AI team mates. And that's on of few things which I like about PCARS more than on GT6 *shrugs*. Still GT6 beats PCARS in Single Player, and in Lobby Management in MP races. What I like more about PCARS is the weather management, which sucked a lot in GT6 :-/

Actually the codriver AI is not as bad as opponent AI. This is the biggest issue for me. And it is hard to race in 24hour race in real-time without codriver (be it AI or real person :-P ) The opponent AI is in this game simply terrible :-/

I was finally able to advance to LMP1 championships in Project CARS career. The game brings to me very mixed feelings. In one way, I love driving in the game, on the other hand, the AI and bugs, which were not squashed until now can make my blood boil. Especially if you are in middle of real time 24 hours race with your AI co driver, and after 14 hours, your car explodes after hitting invisible wall. Or the car with your AI driver just get stuck in PitStop after 2 hours of racing :-/ I am not even starting to speak about how bad programmed the AI is... Gran Turismo 5 and 6 might be little bit more arcadey at the moment, but I had much less issues racing against AI.

That's why I like to watch his show. He goes overboard a lot, sometimes more than is comfortable for me, but as you said. He talks about issues in the industry, that very few other "magazines" have guts to talk about. And the thing, that he was one of the few people (along with Total Buscuit) invited to Valve, after they killed off Greenlight shovelware, says that the big players are listening to him as well...

EDIT: Nevermind. I need to read more posts before I start with my posting.

And introductory sales of Saints Row 4 (4.99 EUR where I live) and other Deep Silver games

Finished Tales of Xillia 2 with True Ending. It took me over 60 hours to reach the end credits. Unfortunatelly I was unable to defeat the final boss on Hardest Difficulty as all others, so I had to lower it for this last fight. What I really like about japanese games and movies is, that they know how to make proper sad endings, which you still enjoy, because they make sense in the way how the story unfolds. Actually ToX 2 had no happy story ending at all :-D If you want to see happy end, you have to go deeply into post-game and finish a lot of optional content. I still have to pay off 14.5 million of Gald out of my debt to see again the obligated spa ending (another typical japanese thing, which I like about their games :-D) The game is currently 88% complete, and I am still missing two most time consuming trophies. The hardest bossfight in coliseum and reaching lvl 250 with all characters. Also there is lot of hidden stuff in the game. I am currently using two english and two japaneses guides to see all the stuff, and I Have still missed some stuff. If a player wants to see all content and fill up all the item/monster/skit encyclopedias, he has to play the game at least three times. My completionist OCD will be really itching after I get the Platinum in this game, but I have currently such a big backlog, that I probably will have to be satisfied with 99.5% of the content explored, and just go and jump right into Tales of Berseria or Platinum run of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.

I've always been meaning to go back and play Final Fantasy XII, since Akitoshi Kawazu is a mad genius and even his bad games have something worthwhile to experience in them. I've also liked the stuff that Yasumi Matsuno did with the Ivalice games. You have your chance this year with FFXII Zodiac Job getting remaster. I have absolutely loathed FFXII when played for the first time, but I somehow fell in love with the game during second playthrough. Sometime one look is really not enough. For me, no touch will always be anything made by EA and Ubisoft. And currently on my never touch list is also FFVII Remake. From what I have read and see so far, well it will be hell lot of disapointment. They turned the third best FF game into hack and slash game, where you will be controling only one character... *puke emote* Oh and whenever I see a game being advertised as open world game, it is very likely that it ends up on my No Touch List as well.

And again Tales of Xillia 2. I have reached the "Bad Ending". Took me almost 66 hours and with it, I have got the Chromatus Control trophy, for not using the transformation skill after Chapter 13. Only 3 more Trophies to go, 2 of them are for different endings and one to get to maximum level, and then I'll have another Japanese Platinum One of the endings, which I still miss are to beat special Colosseum boss you need to fulfill some hard to do prerequisites for this fight to happen. I was able to meet them in my first playthrough, but I was unable to beat the superboss

Well no one said otherwise :-P

No One Lives Forever

Hard Reset for me was the game with most similarities, but narrower corridors and robots. For me 10 out of 10 on happy mayhem scale :-P

Yes, playing a bad game is hurtful. If your game crashes in middle of the mission, where you are unable to save/autosave, most people experience different feelings from rage to stress, and as we all know, these feelings might cause serious harm to the human organism. The exposure to stress even shortens people's lives in the long run... *shrugs*

Tales of Berseria is next in line after I finish Platinum in ToX2 :-P Yakuza 0 has to wait few more days :-P

Starting Chapter 12 in Tales of Xillia 2. 18 millions Gald still to pay off from my debt. Moving forward pretty fast on Hardest Difficulty. The hardest fight so far, was in Gaius' subquest episode 2. Had to beat all 4 guys from Chimeriad in Fractured Dimension. After getting kicked my ass 4 times, I have emerged victorious. Using Linked and Mystic Artes at the right time was key to victory. After the fight I got two levels :-P

I have just started Chapter 11 in Tales of Xillia 2 NG+. I have already full roster. I really love, that you can make your party from 9 characters, so I am always alternating and playing with different character. And all of the characters have their own quest stories. And still no need for grinding, unless you want to. I miss so much the times, when games still had lot of sidequest with stories around them MMO type questing just ruins the enjoyment of most games for me, most of the time

250??I did it in 80 or 90, I think. Are you going for all Grade stuff? Oh, my bad, I missed 2 in my message :/ I play Tales of Xillia 2. I have finishe Platinum in Original ToX in about 135 hours. ToX 2 is lasting much longer for me, because beside of Platinum, I somehow feel, that I should unlock all waepons, beasts and skits in the encyclopedia :-D I haven't played ToX2 yet. I hear the platinum is a pita, so I might skip it for the second game. I beat Dragon's Crown yesterday. I don't know if I will go for higher difficulty playthroughs. I played a bit on hard and it was fun, but playing alone has finally got boring. I played some random online games and it was decent fun. Actually it is not as much pita as it looked like, it just takes more time to do all the stuff, but keep in mind, that in my current 250 hours, I have spent at least 20 on completionist thingies, which are not required for Platinum. The hardest things are Battle Trophies, but if I was able to master them all, most of the players should be able to do them as well. I do not consider myself Uber Tales of Pro regarding to combat execution. Tales of Zestiria Platinum will be much bigger pita. The second issue I had was grinding Gaius' Chivalry support ability to 450. This one was time consuming, but in the end, I have found two enemies, which made the grind much faster. To bad I found it when I was at number 250 :-D The enemies can be found in Culmar Trail and Mon Highlands. I do not know their names, but both have models of female soldiers/bandits. So if you ever go for the platinum, do not forget about these enemies. It will save you few hours for sure ;-) Everything else was on par with original ToX. It has even the same recommended spots for some character related trophies and battle trophies.

Reign of Winter, Curse of the Crimson Throne or Jade Regent Adventure Path put into Turn Based isometric world with rules as close as possible to Pathfinder RPG or some true space opera based on Starfinder rules

He's definitely put in his time in the video game business. Can't blame a guy for wanting to relax and enjoy his life. I'd retire right now, if I could afford to, and I'm significantly younger than Brian Fargo. I'd retire immediately if I had the money to do so and I'm 30 years younger than Fargo. But then again I'm not creating anything else except tears and misery. I'm sorry but this made me laugh out loud this morning. I needed that. It was meant as such. My job isn't the sorta job where you make many friends Are you a tax collector? :-P

250??I did it in 80 or 90, I think. Are you going for all Grade stuff? Oh, my bad, I missed 2 in my message :/ I play Tales of Xillia 2. I have finishe Platinum in Original ToX in about 135 hours. ToX 2 is lasting much longer for me, because beside of Platinum, I somehow feel, that I should unlock all waepons, beasts and skits in the encyclopedia :-D

Finished Chapter 8 of Tales of Xillia in my NG+ run for Platinum. 8 more chapters to go :-P currently getting close to 250 hours mark O.o