Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

Just now, xFalionx said:

Shush, they're called Na'vi.

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HEY! LISTEN!

[DamagingRob]

*Reaches for a flyswatter* Anywho,

 

Day 2

 

Day two, and I am falling in love with this game.  It is fucking hilarious. Last night I even got to play as Godzilla! ...Okay, not Godzilla, but it may as well have been. Raz(the character you play as) became huge, and you rampaged through the city with him. Meanwhile, tanks, planes, boats, and more try to shoot you. Loved it. 

 

I gained a new power to turn invisible. Lets you sneak up on enemies, but it has a limited amount of duration. And fought some crazy boss battles. This big, giant mutant fish had me running away from it, but I had to stay in its little bubble. So, I couldn't venture too far ahead. And I would break open boxes of nails when it tried to suck me in to hurt it. 

 

The only thing I don't like about this game, is the figments.. There are so many every level, and they're kind of transparent. And some move around. You need to find all of them every level, if you want to reach max rank(and achieve the Plat). So, I have had to go through some of these levels multiple times looking for these things. A few times, getting to the point where I just needed one, and it becoming a "find the needle in the haystack" scenario...

 

There are other collectibles in the overworld and levels, so these are pretty much overkill, in my opinion. But as you rank up, your abilities get power boosts. Like now my Psi Blast does a chain reaction, hitting multiple targets with one shot. So, it does pay to find everything. 

 

But yeah, highly enjoying this one. Other than it being a PS2 platformer with a fairly easy Plat, I don't think I knew much else going in. I read there's a sequel coming, so I'm gonna have to get that. 

 

Time played: 8 hours

Trophy progress: 12/38 for 20%

Edited March 15, 2017 by DamagingRob

[NebbyLunala]

7 hours ago, Mendant909 said:

On the PS4 I'll assume that you can see the perks menu by pressing/touching whatever the large thing in the middle of a PS4 controller is(sorry I don't own a PS4 so I don't know what that button would be called).

 

It's called the touch pad.

3 hours ago, BillyHorrible said:

What do those big blue elvish hippies have to do with anything?

 

Not THOSE Avatars. My god, how do people mistake that disgusting live-action movie with the anime The Last Airbender?

25 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

I read there's a sequel coming, so I'm gonna have to get that.

 

Are you talking the Rhombus of Ruin? That sequel is a VR title. :(

[DamagingRob]

15 minutes ago, NebbyLunala said:

Are you talking the Rhombus of Ruin? That sequel is a VR title.

No, there's an actual Psychonauts 2, supposedly coming next year.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

43 minutes ago, NebbyLunala said:

Not THOSE Avatars. My god, how do people mistake that disgusting live-action movie with the anime The Last Airbender?

 

I'll stop doing that when you all stop calling Link "Zelda"!

 

... And Avatar is not a live action movie, it's a computer animated movie. The Last Airbender, on the other hand, IS a live-action movie, not an anime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Airbender

 

 

47 minutes ago, NebbyLunala said:

Are you talking the Rhombus of Ruin? That sequel is a VR title.

 

30 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

No, there's an actual Psychonauts 2, supposedly coming next year.

 

Correct, Rhombus Of Ruin is a small title created to bridge the gap between Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2.

[DamagingRob]

48 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

... And Avatar is not a live action movie, it's a computer animated movie. The Last Airbender, on the other hand, IS a live-action movie, not an anime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Airbender

To be fair, he could have just as easily been referring to that, with the disgusting live-action movie comment...

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

21 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

To be fair, he could have just as easily been referring to that, with the disgusting live-action movie comment...

 

I thought about that too but then again we were talking about James Cameron's Avatar movie versus the Airbender series, adding M Night Shamalamalan's whatever thingie (seriously, I never watched the series but I didn't bother with the movie either even though I watch most high profile epic movies) would be kind of... OUT OF THE BLUE! HAH! GET IT?

[Hemiak]

Game 5, Malicious, Final thoughts 

~2 hrs, 3/11 trophies - 20%

 

I got another hour or so with the game last night, failed against the same boss again (but came really close) Then fought each boss once. I know I have until midnight to play tonight, but if I'm honest I know I won't go back. It's not a bad game by any means, it just didn't grab me at all. I saw everything but the final boss, and I probably won't be able to reach him anyway. 

 

For starters the game gave me a serious El Shaddai vibe. The cinematic opening with the washed out water colors was very similar, though the actual gameplay artwork is quite different. The premise of a dude who really doesn't know what he's doing sent to destroy a bunch of evil powerful beings is spot on. The battle itself actually feels a bit similar, even though the mechanics aren't really that close. 

 

I didn't go into the mantles last time. These are basically your attack forms or weapons. They're actually different cloaks you can switch on the fly that have different powers. You start with two, a homing Lazer one, and one that is split in half and forms into two giant fists. As you kill each boss you get a new one that expands your arsenal. There's a sword, a Lance, a shield, wings, and an upgrade for the fists. Learning I could access the fists from the start completely changed the game and I went from almost 13 minutes to kill the first boss to less than 8. 

 

There's a remedial combo system that gives some interesting options. You can hit square x3 and triangle for the basic combo, or square x3 and a d-pad direction to change weapons for the final blow. This opens up some interesting options, though I never had more than 2 or 3 at a time so I didn't get to experience it fully. 

 

As I said previously, the bosses get harder as you kill each one. Combine that with the fact that you get three continues and you're back to square one, and this game is pretty rough. You only have one life per continue, but you can lose 3 body parts, and then your torso ends the life. The body parts are always lost in the same order so it's easy to tell how close to death you are. You can spend your aura(mp) to heal all your parts as long as you're still alive though. Healing takes the same amount of aura no matter how bad off you are. There's a trophy for beating the game without a continue, and another for not healing. I'm sure it's doable but at this point that's a long way away. 

 

After each battle you are ranked in 4 categories. Time, enemies killed, max combo, and body parts lost. There's a trophy for earning S ranks in all 6 fights in one run, which is pretty damn tough. My best so far was a B when I replayed the first boss again, though D is the common score so far. 

 

Each location and boss seems different which is nice. The worst is the woman with the flamong sword who teleports and can grab you from pretty much anywhere. The giant unicorn dog thing I fought first seems to be the easiest by far. I said that the later in the order the bosses come the harder they are, and this is one thing the game got right. I stead of just slapping on more hp and damage, they get new abilities depending on how deep in the order they are. Not sure if the abilities are specifically dependent on which bosses you've killed, or just what number they are though. 

 

All in this game was decidedly OK. I personally think it really suffered from following Terraria in my order. There's two reasons for this: first, I wanted to keep playing Terraria obviously. Second, because I was so addicted to Terraria, I skipped playing Destiny for a couple days, and I really wanted to finish that off. I'll probably pick this up again at some point to see if it clicks better, but it's pretty low on the priority list. 

 

Ranking because Hey, it isn't Epic Mickey.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2017 by Hemiak

[DamagingRob]

34 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

I thought about that too but then again we were talking about James Cameron's Avatar movie versus the Airbender series, adding M Night Shamalamalan's whatever thingie (seriously, I never watched the series but I didn't bother with the movie either even though I watch most high profile epic movies) would be kind of... OUT OF THE BLUE! HAH! GET IT?

 

You should watch it, though. The series, not the terrible movie. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

8 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

 

You should watch it, though. The series, not the terrible movie. 

 

Yeah but I should watch Steins;Gate as well, and Code Geass, and and and... There's just not enough time for me to watch all this stuff in!

[crimsonidol38]

41 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

Yeah but I should read Steins;Gate as well, and Code Geass, and and and... There's just not enough time for me to watch all this stuff in!

FIFY

[DamagingRob]

1 hour ago, Crimson Idol said:

FIFY

But the game has no English voices.. 

[NebbyLunala]

4 hours ago, BillyHorrible said:

I'll stop doing that when you all stop calling Link "Zelda"!

 

I never did that. The game series references the princess, not me.

 

Anyways, I saw a commercial on TV for a Walt Disney world park addition based on Pandora, the world of Avatar.

[Alpsmile05]

Game 5, Day 3: Wolfenstein: The New Order: Final update

 

 

Time played: about 10 hours?

 

I finished the game (well my first playthrough anyhow) and I have to say that even though I played on very easy I had some troubles with the boss fights, this makes me scared for the überplaythrough. After finishing the game I restarted hoping to get through the first chapter to unlock wyatt's timeline and I just made it in time, I got that trophy on 11.56PM, 4 minutes before the deadline

 

All in all this game is a nice surprise for me, seeing it's a FPS I had very little hopes but I really liked it, I'm even sad the 3 days are over and I have to stop killing nazis now. I'll give this game a  trophy because it was better than expected. It wasn't as good as Knack but a very decent game nevertheless. I'll probably come back to it after the event to try to get the plat if I manage to get through über difficulty.

 

With that last trophy obtained I managed to get 16 trophies from this game out off a possible 51, good for 37%

 

Stats after game 5:

 

Total trophies earned: 3792 +16

Platinum trophies earned: 53

Games played: 142 +1

Games finished: 65

Completion: 67.24 -0.25

Unearned trophies: 1509 +35

 

Next up: Bully 

[xFalionx]

Well, I guess I'm off to Dirt 3 now, this should be refreshing. I played some more Batman by the way, but I'm still not done with the story of that game.

 

3 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

But the game has no English voices.. 

That's a good thing. 

Next you're gonna tell me that you watched Dragon Ball dubbed in English.  

 

6 hours ago, BillyHorrible said:

Yeah but I should watch Steins;Gate as well, and Code Geass, and and and... There's just not enough time for me to watch all this stuff in!

Just make sure you know that Avatar: The Last Airbender is gonna be a bit different from the ones you listed because that's actually a western cartoon.  

[Kevvik]

10 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

*Reaches for a flyswatter* Anywho,

 

Day 2

 

Day two, and I am falling in love with this game.  It is fucking hilarious.

 

The only thing I don't like about this game, is the figments.. There are so many every level, and they're kind of transparent. And some move around. You need to find all of them every level, if you want to reach max rank(and achieve the Plat). So, I have had to go through some of these levels multiple times looking for these things. A few times, getting to the point where I just needed one, and it becoming a "find the needle in the haystack" scenario...

 

But yeah, highly enjoying this one. Other than it being a PS2 platformer with a fairly easy Plat, I don't think I knew much else going in. I read there's a sequel coming, so I'm gonna have to get that. 

 

Psychonauts is hands down one of my favourite games of all time. I've owned it on PS2, 3 and 4.  Which makes Rhombus of Ruin all the more frustrating that it is a VR only title. Sorry, I don't have $600+ lying around for a peripheral.  I'll just have to wait for Psychonauts 2 next year and hope they include some form of the storyline into that.

 

The figments can be a bit of a pain but they are all reasonably findable as long as you explore everywhere. Note that to actually get to max rank, you have to complete the target minigame near the start of the war zone as well.  You need to replay it after the initial run through to distort advancement. 

 

So continue to enjoy. I do every time I buy it again.

Edited March 16, 2017 by Kevvik

[MarkusT1992]

Game #5: Enter the Gungeon (Day 3)

 

 

I suck at this game. At least at the moment. I tried every character and have my favourite one. Remember me saying that the Pilot could be the easiest one? I think he was the hardest for me.

Most of my runs I played with the Marine and I managed to rach chamber 3.

There's not much I can say. I freed two people from a cell in the gungeon, who opened a shop I can unlock new guns for the gungeon. Therefor you use a special kind of money you get after killing a boss. Then I met a guy who wants to repair the elevator because it only moves for one floor. He's basically opening shortcuts to later floors, so you don't need to start from chamber 1 every time.

 

That's all I can add to my first review. I feel getting better as I can finish most of chamber 1 without getting hit but I still have problems with some bosses.

Rogue-like are games I only can play for two or three runs befor I have to stop because it's getting boring after too many runs. Because of that I'll give this game a rating.Don't understand me wrong. It's not a bad game but just fun for a few runs. If you like hard game and/or rogue-like games you should try this one out.

 

Trophies: 3/52

Completion: 4%

Time played: I have no clue. Several runs lasting between 15 and 25 minutes.

 

 

32 minutes ago, xFalionx said:

Next you're gonna tell me that you watched Dragon Ball dubbed in English.

What's about dubbed in German?

I hate watching things with subtitles. That's the only reason I haven't watched DB Super yet.

[xFalionx]

41 minutes ago, MarkusT1992 said:

What's about dubbed in German?

I hate watching things with subtitles. That's the only reason I haven't watched DB Super yet.

Huh, I wouldn't have guessed that going by your profile pick.

Honestly, I used to be like that too. Once you get accommodated to reading subs, it's a lot more enjoyable to have the original voice actors in my opinion. The last thing I watched in German was (the original) Full Metal Alchemist, which I kinda feel bad about in retrospect. I just feel like the original voice actors fit their roles the best, especially when there's a huge difference in culture between the original language and the dubbed one. For example Muten Roshi from DB feels like a completely different character in the dubbed versions.

 

But to each their own, I wouldn't skip DBS just because of that though. It might be hard to get accustomed to the different set of voices but the last arc and the current arc in DBS are pretty great. Can't wait to see what they're going to do with the current one.   

[Kevvik]

Game #5: Risen 3

 

Final impressions

 

So after playing this for the last few days, it is definitely an attempt at Elder Scrolls lite. Not as deep of gameplay, the dialogue is fairly cheesy (not always a bad thing) and its trying to do with pirates what ES does with fantasy.  That said, not everything hits the mark.

 

I haven't moved the storyline too much farther as I have a propensity to be distracted by almost any given side quest. Still, I have discovered that there are three factions I am trying to gain aid from for the pirates. Unlike ES I gather that I have to choose one for the remainder of the game.  The factions are Demon Hunters (warriors with ?rune magic), Guardians (mages) and Voodoo Priests/pirates.  I assume there will be slightly different storylines but with multiple side quests.  The quests aren't bad, some fetch, some kill, some with different ways of accomplishing. Not bad variety so far.

 

Combat. It runs OK but I find as the groups of enemies get bigger, I spend more time dodging than attacking and relying of my crewmate/henchmen to tank things. They never die but can be knocked down for the duration of the battle if they take too much damage. Still, they are pretty resilient.  Following you can be a chore for them sometimes. Climbing rocks and changing heights can result in them getting lost at times, which can be hazardous if you get ambushed at the top of a cliff side you have been climbing.  I've seen them rise out of stones as well which would look cool if it wasn't laughable.

 

The NPCs don't look bad and the voice acting is good, if cheesy. Female NPCs on the other hand, ugh. Given that you can bed some of the wenches (offscreen thank the gods)' the dialogue goes from cheesy to nauseating and on top of that it looks like they use male character models (sans facial hair) with different haircuts and boobs. If I never go down those paths again, I will be a happy man.

 

Trophies are straight forward for finishing quests, some stats/repeating quests which are straight forward and can be boosted through judicious save spamming.  That said, I've done 2 of the minigame trophies and you wouldn't think that doing them 10 times would be a chore but it is. The controls in the knife throwing and drinking games are serviceable but occasionally inconsistent, glitchy and unreliable.  Painful.

 

Overall, I will likely keep going later and get the plat but in bits and pieces.

 

Time played: 14.5 hrs

Trophies: 17/51 for 24%, C rank

Overall score: 5/10

 

Completion rate for event: -1.50%

 

Next up: Game #6:  Severed

 

Edited March 16, 2017 by Kevvik

[Melanogaster1987]

Game #5: Resogun

 

I've got a mixed record when it comes to ship shooters; I remember playing my friend's copy of Thunder Force IV back in the day, and being unable to beat even stage 1 on easy difficulty; but on the other hand, I was able to claim one of the most satisfying platinums in my collection with Velocity Ultra. Velocity 2X was a great experience too, although that platinum looks extremely difficult. So what would Resogun have in store for me?

 

First things first - that title screen music - I just sat there listening to it for 10 minutes, basking in its awesomeness. When I finally decided to actually start playing, I saw that there were only 5 levels, and was concerned that the game would be rather too short, however, the levels are a good length (about 10 minutes each), and as a result, the length feels just right - arcade-style games like this don't need an hours long campaign.

 

The gameplay works just as you would expect for a shoot-em-up; wipe out all the enemies whilst avoiding their gunfire. As well as your own bullets, you have three kinds of special attacks: bombs which clear out every enemy currently on screen, boost which allows you to safely jet through enemies and enemy fire without a scratch, and overdrive, which lets you shoot a very powerful laser for a few seconds. There are also humans to save in order to get power-ups; which leads me on to the only problem I have with this game - it doesn't explain its mechanics at all, with the exception of the occasional sentence on the loading screens.

 

Nowhere does it say that you need to destroy groups of enemies highlighted green before they disappear to free humans, or that some will die no matter what unless you've built up your score multiplier to a certain level. Also, the meters that need filling before you can use the boost and overdrive abilities are easy to miss small blue and green arcs surrounding your ship, not the big bar at the bottom of the screen (which in fact shows progress through the level, or the boss's health). A "how to play" section in the menus would have been a big help initally. However, once you get to grips with this, Resogun is a joy to play.

 

The game features a large variety of enemies, each with their own attack patterns. There are also bosses at the end of each stage; truly memorable monstrosities which I won't spoil here. The game is challenging but fair; if you die, it's because you messed up somewhere, not because the game threw you a curveball out of nowhere. This combined with the focus on high scores and keeping your multiplier high really does give Resogun that "just one more go" factor that's kept me hooked these last 3 days.

 

I started on medium difficulty, which was a bit too much to handle at first. Bumping it down to easy allowed me to really get my teeth into the game and figure out how to use each of the ship's abilities to greatest effect, whilst still providing a fair amount of challenge for the beginning player. Now I'm itching to give the higher difficulties another try, but alas, time has run out for this game. Also, I was playing the PS3 version, which is considered inferior by many due to performance issues and/or input lag, but I can't say that I encountered those problems at all myself.

 

There is plenty of replay value here. As well as that "just one more go" feel that I just mentioned, the four difficulty levels (with bosses that have extra phases on harder difficulties) will ensure that this game will take a while for anyone to master; and there are also three different ships, each of which requires a different play style - one ship that's agile but has weak weapons, one that's sluggish but powerful, and one that balances strength and agility.

 

I can see myself returning to Resogun many times in the future, to aim for ever-increasing scores as well as the platinum trophy.

 

My rating: After I got to grips with the mechanics, some of the most fun I've had on my PS3 - I just wanted to keep playing and playing, and actually increased my completion rate by the tiniest amount. Deserves a  Platinum!

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Trophies earned in this game: 27 (2, 6, 19) for 645 points
Total trophies earned in this event: 76 (2, 13, 61) for 1,485 points

 

Current completion rate: 63.36% [Down 3.31% since start of event; Up 0.01% as a result of this game]

[DamagingRob]

4 hours ago, xFalionx said:

That's a good thing. 

Next you're gonna tell me that you watched Dragon Ball dubbed in English.  

Damn straight. Wouldn't watch it any other way. We didn't have internet back then, so TV was the only option. Maybe that has something to do with it; it's how I started. I'd still like to play the game, because I'm sure there's content that isn't in the anime. But I feel like I'll enjoy watching the series dubbed, more than I will a subtitled-only game.  

3 hours ago, Kevvik said:

Psychonauts is hands down one of my favourite games of all time. I've owned it on PS2, 3 and 4.  Which makes Rhombus of Ruin all the more frustrating that it is a VR only title. Sorry, I don't have $600+ lying around for a peripheral.  I'll just have to wait for Psychonauts 2 next year and hope they include some form of the storyline into that.

 

The figments can be a bit of a pain but they are all reasonably findable as long as you explore everywhere. Note that to actually get to max rank, you have to complete the target minigame near the start of the war zone as well.  You need to replay it after the initial run through to distort advancement. 

Yeah, it's unfortunate.. Hope they do a good job of filling us in, or I may resort to watching a playthrough of it on YouTube. 

 

They would have been an astronomical pain, if I hadn't found a guide that makes it easy to find out where the ones you missed are. And ugh, don't remind me of that minigame.. That was just the worst. They don't give you enough time to react, in my opinion. I'd press  as soon as those targets popped up, and I'd miss. 

3 hours ago, MarkusT1992 said:

What's about dubbed in German?

I hate watching things with subtitles. That's the only reason I haven't watched DB Super yet.

 Glad I'm not the only one. Really find it weird, how so many prefer watching something they can't even understand, and say it's "better."

[wtru9]

Game #5 - CounterSpy (Vita)

Day #3 - Final Thoughts

Playtime - 4 hours

 

CounterSpy's a relatively short game (hence I'm only doing a single post on it), but that certainly doesn't mean it's a bad game. First of all, I knew next to nothing about the game going into it, other than that it was a stealth game. And let's just say that stealth games aren't typically my favourites, but this one certainly is!

 

Set during the height of Cold War paranoia, you're an agent of C.O.U.N.T.E.R., an agency set up to defuse cold war tensions should they get too high and thus are tasked with preventing all out nuclear war (or something like that, truth be told I can't really remember). At this present moment of time both powers are looking at launching nuclear missile strikes on the moon (because why not?), however what the superpowers neglect to realize is that the destruction of the moon would lead to pieces of moon crashing in to Earth! It's up to you to commit some good old espionage to find out about the superpowers' plans and put a stop to them!

 

The gameplay itself has you choosing which superpower's facility to infiltrate based on the kind of rewards and number of missile plans. Once at the facility you move around a research facility in a 2D plane, avoiding and taking out soldiers and security cameras while you search for intel on the missiles, parts to various formulae which act as your typical kind of perks in games, and parts of weapons to use in future missions. The game features a cover system which can add a third dimension to the game such that you can pick off enemies in the background or just to hide and safely take out enemies without being seen. Good use of cover is typically crucial to a successful mission, even more so for me when I didn't realize that you could aim at all in 2D before finally having a revelation in the second to last mission . All that time I spent avoiding security cameras seems so pointless now that I know I could've just shot them out all along. I mentioned earlier that this is a stealth game, and this is because if enemies see you, a dead body, kill you or a camera spots you they raise the DEFCON level. Once the DEFCON level reaches above level 1 (the highest level) a timer starts counting down for the rocket to launch, which you have to get to the end of level to stop or else it's game over. Each superpower has its own DEFCON level which rises independently from one another, and also carries over from level to level, making it all the more paramount to stay hidden in the missions. The only way to lower the DEFCON level is forcing an officer to surrender to you or by purchasing a special perk.

 

However, eventually things are bound to go wrong, and thankfully the game is reasonably forgiving when it does. Good aiming with an assault rifle, be it at enemy heads or red explosives littered throughout the levels. Obviously the stealth method is the better choice as things get pretty tough pretty quickly when you're in a gunfight against 6+ enemies with rocket and grenade launchers, and I'm sure on higher difficulties it becomes all the more important (I've only played on the normal difficulty) to keep a low profile. Blowing up enemies with the red barrels is particularly satisfying as the enemies' bodies fly around the room. It's even more satisfying to do the same, but through shooting an enemy rocket out of the air as it hurtles towards you.

 

One minor gripe I've got with the game has to be the load times. It can take around 2 minutes for a mission to load, such that at several points I feared that my Vita had frozen . I do understand it takes a while to generate the random levels though (Oh yeah, the game generates random levels which makes it all the more replayable ), so I suppose it's only a minor problem in the grand scheme of things, and is nowhere near a deal breaker.

 

I ultimately enjoyed this game much more than I'd ever imagined I would, and if I hadn't joined this event I don't know whether I would've ever had the motivation to get around to booting it up. Easily the highlight of KYC for me so far, and it gets a from me.

 

Next up: Just Cause 2 (About as far from a stealth game as you can get...)

[dmland12]

Game #5: Fallout 4

Progress: 12/85 Trophies (11%)

Completion: 88.45% (-2.05%, -7.22% from start)

 

Wonderful game, at least what I got to play of it over 3 days.  It's the best I've played so far in this, and I doubt any of the remaining 5 will top it in my opinion.  My completion percentage didn't fair too well, however.  Down over 2% again for the second game in a row and under 90% for the first time in this thing.

 

Fallout 4 is a first person shooter with some RPG and city building elements.  I found you can actually switch the camera to third person, but in my experience it make things more difficult.  Perhaps it's possible to get used to it and use it as your default, I don't know.  The game is set in Massachusetts about two hundred years after a world wide nuclear war.  The Fallout world was more technologically advanced than our time before the war, although oddly so.  Nuclear fusion was powering everything.  Cars look like what people thought a futuristic car would look like in the 60's. Robotics and AI were somewhat more advanced, but again oddly so.  But now, after the war, everything's a mess...  animals are mutated, some people are mutated, some aren't and are just assholes... most of civilization is destroyed.

 

Gameplay

It's a shooter, first and foremost.  But you've got a wide, wide choice as to how you go about taking on enemies, provided that they don't surprise you first.  You can go stealthy.  You've got some heavy duty armor (if you can find enough fusion cores to keep it powered) for when you need the extra protection.  There's also a giant machine gun that you find fairly early along with the suit... very powerful, but the problem is that it chews through ammo.  There's a large variety of more normal guns too, and plenty of ways to customize them.  Some of them are less than normal, relying on laser technology etc.  You've also got a mode called VATS that slows down time and lets you plan out some attacks.  You can't do this all of the time however, since it uses Action Points... which take time to refill.  And the accuracy isn't the greatest in this mode... but probably you can make it much better by specializing in the right perks (skills that you can gain when you level up).

 

The game is very open world.  You may have some ideas where to go from what people have said, but it's really up to you.  Most places you'll want to go have multiple ways in or out and multiple ways to engage the enemies therein.  Sometimes you'll run into a quest.  Maybe you hear some fighting and get involved.  Or pick a a radio signal and check it out.  You can help people out and build settlements.  Frankly, the best part of this game is you never know what you'll run into next!  I'm hooked.

 

For example, I was exploring some abandoned place and came across a deactivated robot and a terminal nearby.  I hacked the terminal (there's a minigame for that) and set about activating the robot to see what would happen.  Up to this point, I had already met some other robots that were friendly enough.  First I chose it's personality.  I went with Subway Steward, since that sounded nice enough.  And, it's best if you watch:

 

Haha...  it flipped out because I didn't have any subway tokens.  It probably didn't help that it hadn't been maintained for two hundred years either!  I tried turning it off or switching it's personality, but in the end I had to destroy it (or run away...  but c'mon it was pretty weak).

 

That wasn't much of a fight compared to the rest, though it did catch me by surprise.  Overall, exploring this world has been a joy.  This is certainly one of those games I could get lost in for a month or more.

Edited March 16, 2017 by dmland12

[Fitzquaid]

Game #5: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

Day 3

 

So, Dear Esther was the first of the modern walking sims.  It's a remake of a remake of a Half Life 2 mod from 2008, made by a team of three people, and it's set on a remote Hebridean island.  The developers went on to make Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

 

Based on that, you probably already have a pretty good idea of whether you'd enjoy it or not.  With hindsight I feel like this was a terrible pick for a KYC event - it's too short (even for Billy's standards) and there's not much you can say about it without potentially spoiling the experience.  In my defence, I didn't have that many other unstarted games that I actually wanted to play.

 

For me personally it was a pretty great, unique experience.  While it isn't a graphical powerhouse (originally from 2008, team of three people...) the environmental design is really damn strong and I ended up taking far more screenshots than I normally do in games.  The audio design and music is also very good, and the atmosphere created between the writing, environment and audio was the strongest part of the game for me.

 

Right, that's about all I can say without getting into stuff that may or may not spoil things for people. 

 

A couple of more specific comments, including comparisons to EGttR and ending-related spoilers:

Spoiler

It's a smaller game in pretty much every way - it's shorter by far, and the explorable areas are smaller and more linear.  There's only one narrator, rather than a cast of characters (and the narration is way heavier on poetry and metaphor).  You have even less agency to interact with the world - you can't pick up objects, open doors, or choose what to interact with.

 

If you didn't like the ending of EGttR, I think Dear Esther might really infuriate you.  In the developer's commentary they mentioned that there's deliberately no stable interpretation of the story - every possible reading is undercut by something else in the narrative so there's always some doubt there, including about what's real and what isn't.  The important part is the feelings, maaaaan. 

 

Personal Rating: Feels odd to rate this, I dunno.  It's not trying to be fun. 

Time Played: 3 hours

Trophies: 10/10 (100%) - Rank S

 

Tonight I'll be starting the snappily-titled Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension, which should be something completely different.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

7 hours ago, xFalionx said:

Just make sure you know that Avatar: The Last Airbender is gonna be a bit different from the ones you listed because that's actually a western cartoon.  

 

Say what now?

 

Anyway, all of those series are less important than the first one on my list, which I watched a bunch of as a kid and want to rewatch entirely now:

 

Spoiler

 

 

1 hour ago, dmland12 said:

Game #5: Fallout 4

Progress: 12/85 Trophies (11%)

Completion: 88.45% (-2.05%, -7.22% from start)

 

Wonderful game, at least what I got to play of it over 3 days.  It's the best I've played so far in this, and I doubt any of the remaining 5 will top it in my opinion. 

 

(...)

 

Overall, exploring this world has been a joy.  This is certainly one of those games I could get lost in for a month or more.

 

I like all these big open world games but I never seem to be able to finish them, I get distracted in-game by side quests and exploration, and I get distracted out of game by other titles. Really determined to finish Zelda and Witcher III now, Fallout 4 might be the next big title I'll try to tackle since I still have it lying around, played about an hour or five.