What are you playing now?

[melkathi]

Made an adventuring party in Card Hunter:

Battlebiscuit the Warrior

Wizwaffle the Wizard

Clericalcookie the Priest

 

It's an all dwarven party called SlowFood. Ok, you can't give parties names but that would be its name if it had one.

[Bokishi]

Has the combat improved for GTA V?  IMO, combat is the weakest and most annoying/frustrating aspect of GTA games.  This wouldn't necessarily be such an issue if combat (especially shooting) wasn't such a huge part of a lot of the missions.  I gave up on GTA IV for this very reason.

 

Yes it feels more fluid, especially the run and gun makes you feel like you're playing a 3rd person Call of Duty game. The cover system also makes a return

[Keyrock]

Made an adventuring party in Card Hunter:

Battlebiscuit the Warrior

Wizwaffle the Wizard

Clericalcookie the Priest

 

It's an all dwarven party called SlowFood. Ok, you can't give parties names but that would be its name if it had one.

Nice.  Mine is:

 

Sven Bjorntorg - Human Warrior

Anvilor von Hammerstein - Dwarf Wizard

Grizzelda Lil'Rock - Dwarf Priest

 

If I could name the party it would be called Norse & Carnage.

Edited September 19, 2013 by Keyrock

[melkathi]

You got yourself a second wizzie?

[Labadal]

I somehow have 44 hours played of Skyrim. I'll probably end up with a 120 hour save file and then come here complain about the game.

[Keyrock]

You got yourself a second wizzie?

No, it was a typo.  Grizzelda is a priest.  I changed the post to make it accurate now.

[Amentep]

 

 

So i'm the only one who won't pick up a GTA  game? ever?

Nah.  There are probably some people in Siberia that have never played a GTA game also. 

 

 

Yes I'm sure there are also some people on the moon who have never played a GTA game before

 

 

 

I don't live in Siberia or the moon and have never played a GTA game.

 

I'm not against them on principle, but there's nothing that I've ever read about them and no trailer I've ever seen that makes me think I'd actually like them. 

 

It doesn't help that I haven't really liked the other Rockstar games I have played, either.

 

[BruceVC]

 

 

 

So i'm the only one who won't pick up a GTA  game? ever?

Nah.  There are probably some people in Siberia that have never played a GTA game also. 

 

 

Yes I'm sure there are also some people on the moon who have never played a GTA game before

 

 

 

I don't live in Siberia or the moon and have never played a GTA game.

 

I'm not against them on principle, but there's nothing that I've ever read about them and no trailer I've ever seen that makes me think I'd actually like them. 

 

It doesn't help that I haven't really liked the other Rockstar games I have played, either.

 

 

What !!! Seriously...no Rockstar games?

 

And you aren't even mildly interested in GTA V ?

[Amentep]

What !!! Seriously...no Rockstar games?

 

And you aren't even mildly interested in GTA V ?

I have no interest in GTA V.

 

For the record the only Rockstar games I've played was The Warriors and Red Dead Redemption, neither of which I'd recommend.

 

EDIT: actually thinking about it, I played a preview of Red Dead Revolver and thought it terrible too.

Edited September 19, 2013 by Amentep

[melkathi]

I only played Vice City for the music. Bought the Vice City soundtrack on CD(s) so now I don't need to bother with anything else from Rockstar again

[GhostofAnakin]

 

Has the combat improved for GTA V?  IMO, combat is the weakest and most annoying/frustrating aspect of GTA games.  This wouldn't necessarily be such an issue if combat (especially shooting) wasn't such a huge part of a lot of the missions.  I gave up on GTA IV for this very reason.

 

Yes it feels more fluid, especially the run and gun makes you feel like you're playing a 3rd person Call of Duty game. The cover system also makes a return

 

 

That might be enough to convince me to buy it.  Though I still have a backlog of games, so it won't be immediately.  But if the combat is better, then at least it's on my radar.

[AGX-17]

Disappointed by the Wii-watered down version of La-Mulana, which I only bought because A.) 256 deserves money for all the fun I had with the original free Windows game and B. the original free Windows game doesn't work on versions of Windows higher than XP.

 

One of the best aspects of the original game is that there was no apparent story except "loot some ruins," but as you explore further and further things get weirder and more haunting as you pick up every little clue hidden around the ruins.

[LadyCrimson]

What !!! Seriously...no Rockstar games?

 

And you aren't even mildly interested in GTA V ?

Haven't played a single Rockstar game yet, myself. And GTA always seemed to be a game series with little appeal to my tastes, since I'm not into the whole underworld/gang/mob boss type scenarios, let alone vehicular gameplay.

[Zoraptor]

GTA: San Andreas was highly educational and helped me learn a new language. I used to be an ignorant redneck cracka but now I'm down with the homeys, know what an OG is and can impress people by discussing Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube and their place in popularising the rap and hip hop oeuvre. Also very useful for watching that documentary series on urban and police life in Baltimore, without it I suspect I would have been trying to set the DVD language to english.

 

So Rockstar games are not just over the top chav simulators, they're also culturally enriching.

[entrerix]

red dead redemption is a game you might really enjoy  (this aimed at ladycrimson)

Edited September 19, 2013 by entrerix

[Hurlshort]

red dead redemption is a game you might really enjoy  (this aimed at ladycrimson)

 

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't think she has a console.

[entrerix]

that documentary series on urban and police life in Baltimore, without it I suspect I would have been trying to set the DVD language to english.

 

 

 

 

heh, this.

[Tale]

red dead redemption is a game you might really enjoy  (this aimed at ladycrimson)

I don't think she likes those kind of cats.

[Majek]

 

red dead redemption is a game you might really enjoy  (this aimed at ladycrimson)

 

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't think she has a console.

 

Heh  the only(or am i wrong?)  game that Rockstar didn't bring to PC.

[LadyCrimson]

Red Dead - yeah, if that one was on PC I would have tried it. It looked potentially fun. But it wasn't, so.... If GTA (or a lot of games, actually) was set in ancient Rome, with chariots instead of cars or something like that, then maybe. Just not into modern urban settings. Or modern-gear jungle combat. etc.

NW:Online - almost have 12,000 gear score now, and that's without having all lvl7 enchants. Divine and action points go back up sooper fast and I kick butt...for a cleric, anyway.
 

[Keyrock]

Started playing Grim Dawn alpha again since the B12 release came.  The B12 release fixes the framerate stutter, introduces new NPC faces, and has a bunch of balancing changes.  The beta should be out in a couple of months, and the next mastery is likely only a month away (Squee!).  For the time being, I started up a new character.  I'm going pure Occultist with this one.

[AGX-17]

red dead redemption is a game you might really enjoy  (this aimed at ladycrimson)

Red Dead is, like I mentioned before, Anachronisms: The Game. It's fun, but it's still got the staple Rockstar sense of self-importance and the delusion that they're producing a cinematic production on the level of a Sergio Leone Western. It's pretty sparse, though, it's not a crime game like GTA if you stick to the story. Of course, you're always free to hogtie a nun and drop her on the train tracks. And then wait 20 minutes for the train to finally show up to fulfill your moustache-twirling fantasies. It still suffers from myriad bugs, glitches and freezes, though. I feel like an open world Western game could be phenomenal if executed more properly.

 

The most enjoyable part of the game, for me, was just the scenery in Mexico, which was actually the scenery of Utah's Monument Valley. I still get morally questionable dreams imagining New Vegas with that graphical quality. Just trotting around in a poncho, killing the occasional obvious horse thief, was quite relaxing. Almost as good as a real vacation in the Southwest, albeit without getting to shoot the hundreds of horse thieves just sitting around trying to play the same trick over and over (guilt free killing at least.)

 

Bug stories from PS3: Audio bugs out, have to restart the game. Game freezes constantly, have to turn off the console. Mount horse, horse proceeds to walk off a cliff into water which John Belm-arston is allergic to, both of us die unceremoniously.

 

Rambling tangent: John Marston is certainly, without a doubt, a Belmont, given his reaction to contact with water (instant death.) Ironic, considering the desert setting of most of the game, where water is kind of vital to survival.

 

 

Red Dead - yeah, if that one was on PC I would have tried it. It looked potentially fun. But it wasn't, so.... If GTA (or a lot of games, actually) was set in ancient Rome, with chariots instead of cars or something like that, then maybe. Just not into modern urban settings. Or modern-gear jungle combat. etc.

 

NW:Online - almost have 12,000 gear score now, and that's without having all lvl7 enchants. Divine and action points go back up sooper fast and I kick butt...for a cleric, anyway.

I don't know about Grand Theft Chariot, really. Could be interesting, could be terrible. Well, it would be more like Grand Theft Oxcart, chariots were pretty primitive by the height of Rome. A Simcityish game set in the ancient world would be interesting, though.

Edited September 20, 2013 by AGX-17

[LadyCrimson]

I don't know about Grand Theft Chariot, really. Could be interesting, could be terrible. Well, it would be more like Grand Theft Oxcart, chariots were pretty primitive by the height of Rome. A Simcityish game set in the ancient world would be interesting, though.

GT Oxcart.

 

It would probably be a different sort of game in certain things, of course. And it doesn't have to be ancient Rome. Could be an alien planet,  too.

[Majek]

I never encountered any of the bugs AGX-17 mentions, and i've put around 200 hours into RDR. 

[BruceVC]

Red Dead - yeah, if that one was on PC I would have tried it. It looked potentially fun. But it wasn't, so.... If GTA (or a lot of games, actually) was set in ancient Rome, with chariots instead of cars or something like that, then maybe. Just not into modern urban settings. Or modern-gear jungle combat. etc.

 

NW:Online - almost have 12,000 gear score now, and that's without having all lvl7 enchants. Divine and action points go back up sooper fast and I kick butt...for a cleric, anyway.

 

 

Oh LadyC just to let you know one of options in GTA V is to play as a house cat that has to survive in the city against your typical urban challengers, like dogs and the SPCA who try to catch you and put you in captivity 

 

I BET now you interested in this game, am I right or am I right ????