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Lophosaurus
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: TheDoubter] 2
#25911488 - 04/02/19 12:00 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow, that game looks pretty cool and I like the art. I still have to finish dragon quest and then Morrowind, thanks again for letting me get it free by the way, after that I'll try Tropico if I don't get sucked back into rimworld.
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Tantrika
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: TheDoubter] 1
#25911526 - 04/02/19 12:15 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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TheDoubter said: I've been thinking of jumping into a tropico game for a couple years now, just never pulled the trigger. Any one in particular good to start with or can you just jump into 6? ...
Had never played previously watched about 3-5 hours of a Tropico 5 playthrough and about an hour of Tropico 6 then had to jump in
did benefit from knowing about things like building settings -- like to set up a bunch of plantations all over my main island and set them all to multi-culture setting 4 different types of plantations makes it even out, 7 makes the setting buff every plantation on the island
the game does have a robust sandbox mode but am presently working through the missions the missions help to contextualize the different eras the game goes through whereas Cities Skylines unlocks more buildings based on population, Tropico unlocks them when advancing through eras and advancing each era has different requirements; such as going to war with the Crown or buying Liberty from them in order to move from the Colonial era into the World Wars era and buildings
also there is a pretty constant stream of tasks to do in order to unlock little 'quests' in each mission, so it helps to orient in terms of which buildings will cheer up or benefit the population (and thus promote them to vote for me in election time)
the absurdity of some of it gives it a charm that makes it win over cities skylines right now both let me build tourist destinations but Tropico lets me steal world wonders from real-world places and bring them to my island am currently playing a mission to make the most hyper-communist state and out-commie the commies in the Cold War so stole a Islamic wonder that lets me give everyone a free High School education without having to build high schools anywhere and a Japanese castle that buffs up the defense of all my buildings so when invasion finally happens the enemy tanks will have to waste more time chewing through my guard towers
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Lophosaurus] 1
#25911540 - 04/02/19 12:22 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lophosaurus said: Wow, that game looks pretty cool and I like the art. ...
Yeah, the bright colourful palette with tropical music playing for hours and hours really seems to lift my spirits just by virtue of being all bright and pleasant to sit and watch between receiving export payments to build moar
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Barnaby
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: CookieCrumbs] 1
#25911733 - 04/02/19 02:25 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Tried playing Civ and NBA2k19 at the same time and was really difficult. Will buy the show tomorrow. Though there will be no counter on hours on it their is going to be a lot of them I will add up happily.
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Barnaby
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Barnaby] 1
#25911740 - 04/02/19 02:29 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Also want to buy Resident Evil. To many games bought at once one gets bored. If they are good it is like trying to read two or three books at a time, God I don't miss college, and trying to get back in that mindframe.
Then going on two vacations, one for 23 days and coming back and it is like what is this? The memory of the controls and strategies go after awhile and I find myself trying to use the controls/buttons for different games. And yes I do get fucked up a lot, lol.
Enjoy the warm weather months gamers. However one chooses.
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Barnaby] 1
#25911808 - 04/02/19 03:16 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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I haven't owned a show since 07 but I'm dying for another baseball game. Anyone know of the new nhl is good? The last few have gotten terrible reviews. I want to get into NBA2k. Even with sports i don't really follow, I love playing the games. Had rugby08, that game was so freakn fun, and I learned most of the rules of rugby haha. Madden19 is awesome. I am eagerly awaiting the day when they bring back NCAA football =[ or make a good NCAA basketball game. I wish they would remake NBA and NFL street. The first ones of those were incredible.
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Lophosaurus] 1
#25912049 - 04/02/19 05:34 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lophosaurus said: after that I'll try Tropico if I don't get sucked back into rimworld.
rimworld
Ive never raged about NPCs quite like I have in rimworld. the game really knows how to get my blood pressure up, but sometimes its worth it.
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Barnaby
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: TheDoubter] 1
#25912599 - 04/03/19 12:34 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Are you sure you are old enough to be on the Shroomery? What the fuck are you talking about 2007 sports games? Or do you live in Brazil or something?
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Barnaby] 1
#25912622 - 04/03/19 12:57 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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I had a question (I know nothing). I supposedly got an 1/8 of an oz of shrooms. how much should that cost on the street (ballpark). And would anyone have a pic of about how much that would look like. and how much should i take?
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Barnaby
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: squids me] 1
#25912675 - 04/03/19 02:13 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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The rapper that just died.
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Fiddlesnitch-17
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Barnaby] 1
#25922403 - 04/08/19 05:30 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Witcher 3 Pathfinder - kingmaker League of legends but I swear to god everybody in my team is on bad trip. Solo ranked. I follow a lot of streamers when I'm off work.
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#25927867 - 04/10/19 10:50 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Emma: Ethereals Expire Doubly




then getting sir'd

Sekiro/Wolf is a pretty cool character, so may not actually keep the mod to replace him unless they update Emma's outfit with cloth physics but really worth a laugh every time Wolf's gruff voice comes out, or someone comments on my appearance so may keep it as a light-hearted answer to some of the more challenging moments corpses don't have the comical Dark Souls ragdolling, and the setting benefits from bits of levity
the game is not at all like Dark Souls, aside from being totally like Dark Souls
 fighting through everything really has not been my way to success tho; instead sneak attacking everyone, running from combat then flanking around and sneak attacking more enemies and, of course, using sneak attacks to knock off 50% of almost every minibosses health before actually fighting them has made the game feel like less of an upfront challenge than Souls
dodge frames are short in terms of distance and timing, but the parry window is pretty generous being able to pause and change equipment without interruption takes a lot of tension out of situations going bad Stealth is super powerful and the AI is a little spotty in terms of caution (walk into a pile of corpses? don't even look around as tho something may be unusual -- subsequently get drop-attacked like the rest) but being a ninja is so fun that everything else can slide
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Tantrika]
#25931960 - 04/13/19 07:29 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just started with Space Engineers, great game but a real time hole.
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Tantrika
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Tantrika]
#25941688 - 04/18/19 02:06 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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so after sinking some more hours into Sekiro, feel like the glaring place it struggles compared to Dark Souls is the limitation on weapon types did make use of the Uchigatana in Souls, so not fundamentally prejudiced against katanas but only having the one style of primary combat, even with the various unlockable skills and stuff, decreases some of my fun
tied to that, the fact that most items rewarding exploration are consumables rather than alternate armours or weapons (as they were in Souls), the shiny chasing does not feel as exciting -- some are really rewarding new skill trees but the majority are consumable sugar items
as an actual Sekiro-centric complaint find the Kanji alert in combat to be less beneficial than my initial perception early in the game when there are limited means to counter from a mechanic perspective the alert fairly consistently signifies the same style of attack as the game expands and more counters are added the alert symbol appears to remain the same across all sub types so it sort of serves as an alert to look at the character model and try and figure out what type of one-counter-only attack is incoming it would be nice if the three different types of attacks had three clearly different notifiers, and could thus be used to know what type of dodge is required at present, it feels more like a distraction from being able to pay consistent attention to the enemy character model
in terms of challenge and reward, have found the boss variation to be fairly nice hit a brief wall against Blazing Bull, so went down another path and beat on Madame Butterfly then used the skills developed in her fight to try a different approach to the Bull, and found success so have not found really frustrating levels of difficulty yet but a big part of that for me is flexibility of play
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Tantrika] 1
#25942217 - 04/18/19 06:52 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Skyrim.
For some reason it was in my xbox 'ready to install' list for months, no idea how it got there as I didn't buy it, but hey, not complaining 
I won't lie though, even with mods it feels and looks a bit dated... Still lovin it regardless.
That choose your own beginning mod is great.
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#25942860 - 04/19/19 02:55 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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CookieCrumbs said:
I'm about to bust out Limbo. If I remember correctly I stopped playing because the blow dart kids were wrecking me.
Did you ever end up finishing it?
What a fucked up last level/ending.
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Edited by LuSiD9 (04/19/19 02:56 AM)
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Barnaby
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Tantrika]
#25943754 - 04/19/19 01:34 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow. That really has changed. Axis and Allies, they really are branching out. Steam better still have this at 30 dollars. Fuck 50. Will wait for a price drop. Looks intriguing though.
Edited by Barnaby (04/19/19 01:40 PM)
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: Lophosaurus]
#25944167 - 04/19/19 05:09 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lophosaurus said: Cool Thanks!!!
I've played every elder scrolls except Morrowind and almost purchased it last week. I'm going to download now!
It's definitely my favorite one, the land you get to explore is so alien and weird, love it!
It is pretty dated though, I tried firing it up about a year ago on my old xbox and I couldn't really get into it, also had no mods to fix it up a bit, I'm sure playing it on PC with a graphic enhancing and a couple npc tweaks would freshen it up though.
I would be very, very happy if they were to do a remake with current gen tech, I'd take that over elder scrolls 6 any day.
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: LuSiD9]
#25944539 - 04/19/19 08:56 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Old School Runescape
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The Phleg
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Re: What Are You Currently Playing? [Re: wyrdjoy23]
#25944795 - 04/19/19 11:23 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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path of exile
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