Video Games: Join us... It is your Destiny

[fuseprime]

I finally got around to beating story mode in Destiny. I have absolutely no idea what the game is about though. Kill waves of bad guys, hack something, kill more waves of bad guys. It's fun playing with a friend, but for a game that's online, it sure gets lonely when you're lone-wolfing it.

My favorite line in the whole game (and probably ever) was when the Robot-Chick says to you, "I don't have time to explain, why I don't have time to explain." Hilarious.

[Muttering Bill]

Does the 'farming' take away from your enjoyment? I personally found it much less enjoyable now that there are several locations where you can farm your way to glory. My 'farm' level was that moon mission where the Hive runs out of the temple. I liked getting the extra gear, but...what's the point?

Yeah, it was really boring. I haven't tried any of the other farm spots, and probably won't. I just needed the 3 Coins so I figured I'd try it out. Would have rather done the weekly Strike for them.

I ended up getting the last Coin as a Public Event reward, so I haven't been back to the cave.

Since then I got my Exotic gloves from Xur, snagged a Legendary Scout Rifle "Crusader I" for leveling the Cryptarch, then bought Legendary chest and pants with my Vanguard Marks. And I've got an Exotic Bounty for the Hand Cannon "Thorn" that's going to have me spending a lot of time in the Crucible to complete.

Much more enjoyable way of gathering gear than farming the cave (which didn't even have that good of a drop rate on Engrams) and hoping to get lucky. Yeah, what's the point of having all the nice gear if you're not playing the game to use it?

Also, Legendary Warlock armor makes you look like a space cowboy. Awesome!

[Werthead]

Wasteland 2 is excellent. You have to use some old-skool RPG skills, remember to make sure you're giving the right loot to the right characters and specialise each character in certain areas, but it's a total blast to play, quite clever in places and with some excellent reactivity and nice writing.

I also have to say, and I suspect this will be a common comparison going forwards despite their different settings, I think it's a bit better than Divinity: Original Sin, and I liked D:OS a lot.

[Azzanadra]

Slowly trudging through DA2 in preparation for DA3. I don't want to, but I really want to import over my save. I originally played DA:O and DA2 a long while back on the PS3. I got a gaming PC a couple years ago, however so I felt the need to play DA:O and DA2 again in preparation for DA3. DA:O was still great actually and I discovered a lot of things I missed on my first go. DA2 however.... god, so boring. The only thing I like is the character of Hawke, best protagonist out of all Bioware games IMO.

[Jabronius Maximus]

Yeah, it was really boring. I haven't tried any of the other farm spots, and probably won't. I just needed the 3 Coins so I figured I'd try it out. Would have rather done the weekly Strike for them.

I ended up getting the last Coin as a Public Event reward, so I haven't been back to the cave.

Well the gear rewards seem randomly generated, which I find very strange. shouldn't the tougher missions yield better rewards?

For this reason, I've mainly stuck to Crucible (which is great). I get the occasional blue or legendary engram, and I'm playing something that I actually enjoy. I'm just not a fan of grinding.

Also I've heard rumblings that this game was supposed to be very different, with much more story and depth. But for whatever reason Bungie and whoever else either nuked it or set it aside for DLC. Is there more info on this?

Edit: nvm, found it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vRGf-C2psGIJ:www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2gfg9i/spoiler_time_to_wear_the_tinfoil_hats_i_have/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[The Drunkard]

Field Medic, Surgeon, Lockpick, Brute Force, Demolitions, Outdoorsman, Perception I would say are absolutely critical skills. The game gets really fuckin' hard without them. Make sure you have one character with about 2 levels in Surgeon that's not your main healer, so they can revive the healer if they go down.

Mechanical Repair, Computer Science, and one of the speech skills (Smart Ass, Hard Ass, Kiss Ass) are next in line in terms of priority I would say. It's enough to focus in a single speech skill.

Alarm Disarming, Toaster Repair, and Safecracking are nice to have but they're not critical. They will just allow you a few more options for getting around the maps and getting access to a bit more loot.

Thanks for this. I'm about 8 hours in now and I sort of learnt the hard way, setting off every bloody trap in the AG lab and barely being able to open anything.

Wasteland 2 is excellent. You have to use some old-skool RPG skills, remember to make sure you're giving the right loot to the right characters and specialise each character in certain areas, but it's a total blast to play, quite clever in places and with some excellent reactivity and nice writing.

From what I've seen, :agree: .

[The Anti-Targ]

Slowly trudging through DA2 in preparation for DA3. I don't want to, but I really want to import over my save. I originally played DA:O and DA2 a long while back on the PS3. I got a gaming PC a couple years ago, however so I felt the need to play DA:O and DA2 again in preparation for DA3. DA:O was still great actually and I discovered a lot of things I missed on my first go. DA2 however.... god, so boring. The only thing I like is the character of Hawke, best protagonist out of all Bioware games IMO.

Because DA is going cross gen and there is no such thing as importing saves from 360 to Xb one or PS3 to PS4 I believe they Bioware are implementing a fairly comprehensive "chose what happened in the previous games" system so that you can set the world up exactly as you want to. What class/race/sex was your grey warden, who you romanced, who you supported for the throne etc, what class/sex was Hawke, who did you support in the final battle, etc. So you probably don't really need to trudge through DA2 on your gaming PC if you really don't want to. The one thing I do wonder is whether Awakening events will form part of the set up for DA:I if you are not able to carry over game saves.

I'd probably like to play DA:I on PC because my brother plays it on PC and I'd like to do the co-op thing with him. But my PC is not beefy enough to handle DA:I, and as I have a PS4 I can't really justify spending money on even upgrading the graphics card on my PC just to be able to play DA:I. I think all it would take is a graphics card upgrade. Assuming because it uses the same engine as Battlefield 4 it will have roughly the same spec requirements as BF4, it appears my PC meets the minimum CPU (easily) and RAM (just) specs, but the graphics card is too weak. Although aside from the inteminable area transition loading times, I preferred playing DA2 on PS3 (I did one play through on PC) using the controller and the big TV screen. So for the straight single player aspect of the game, as long as PS4 loading times are much better than the PS3 loading times for the previous 2 games, PS4 is my preference.

[Hutch]

So that Sherlock Holmes game I mentioned buying, avoid at all costs. I've played about two hours of it, and it's been absolute garbage. Audio randomly cuts out until you reload. Graphics suck. Figuring out the case specifics is almost childlike. All in all, I wouldn't recommend that anyone pay money for this.

As too DA:I, they are doing something called The Keep. As Anti-Targ mentioned, apparently your pervious games don't matter so much as just putting the settings where you want them. Since I just bought a refurbished ps3, I'm a supporter of this.( I don't really have the time to do multiple playthrough's these days.)

[The Anti-Targ]

So that Sherlock Holmes game I mentioned buying, avoid at all costs. I've played about two hours of it, and it's been absolute garbage. Audio randomly cuts out until you reload. Graphics suck. Figuring out the case specifics is almost childlike. All in all, I wouldn't recommend that anyone pay money for this.

As too DA:I, they are doing something called The Keep. As Anti-Targ mentioned, apparently your pervious games don't matter so much as just putting the settings where you want them. Since I just bought a refurbished ps3, I'm a supporter of this.( I don't really have the time to do multiple playthrough's these days.)

That's it, The Keep. It'll actually be kinda fun manipulating the history this way. I certainly failed to play enough times to set up all the permutations through DA:O+Awakenings+DA2 to have my dream runs available going in to DA:I.

Ugh. Don't get it on PS3/360 unless you really have no other option. Load times for DAO and DA2 were bad enough. Load times for DA:I are likely to be unbearable, unless of course the Frostbite engine is a far more efficient code. OTOH it appears that areas in DA:I will be much larger, so area transitions may be considerably less frequent, which might make the game more tolerable.

And of course PC/PS4/Xb one will look a helluva lot nicer.

[Fez]

I finally reached lv.21 in Destiny, getting those light drops is hard. I've heard though that the first light level can be the toughest, since the drops don't start getting more regular until the lv.22 content, but at lv.20 that's stuff's still really hard. I'll see for sure soon enough. I've tried the Crucible a bit too, but I just don't find it fun; and I don't see the point in playing if its not fun, even if, supposedly, its the best way to gear up.

I also picked up Wasteland 2. Damn that game's hard. I think I've got a well-balanced team, and when the RNG goes my way, i can clear fights pretty quickly; but when it doesn't, things go south quickly. I've died a whole mess of times. My only complaint so far is the camera. Having to spin it around regularly to see if there's anything I missed is rather annoying, particularly since it seems there's no hotkey to highlight items of interest (or if there is, I haven't found it yet).

[Rhom]

What's the purpose of the different ships in Destiny? Over at the shipwright, she's got 5 ships or so available for about 2K glimmer and then a green quality ship for 4k. Does it change anything in the game at all other than what you're looking at when transitioning areas?

[Fez]

What's the purpose of the different ships in Destiny? Over at the shipwright, she's got 5 ships or so available for about 2K glimmer and then a green quality ship for 4k. Does it change anything in the game at all other than what you're looking at when transitioning areas?

I got an Uncommon ship as a mission reward once. I can't tell any difference beyond it being something different to look at it. However, once you hit 20, there don't seem to be any uses for glimmer beyond buying upgrades for gear you already have, you'll start getting a lot of glimmer dropping, and there's a cap of having 25K at any time, so you might as well start purchasing vanity items like that at that point.

[kungtotte]

Wasteland 2 is excellent. You have to use some old-skool RPG skills, remember to make sure you're giving the right loot to the right characters and specialise each character in certain areas, but it's a total blast to play, quite clever in places and with some excellent reactivity and nice writing.

Assuming your characters don't all share the same type of ammo etc. you can get really far by hitting "Distribute all", the game takes their skills into account and will give the right ammo to the right person based on what weapons they are equipped with, and things like medkits etc. only go to characters with those skills. And even when two (or more) characters have to share an ammo type, it's fast enough to just distribute ammo first manually and then hitting "Distribute all".

The way I've got my characters set up is the following:

Leader/Healer/Support Attributes are average across the board except for Charisma, I put that at 8.

Primary weapon: SMGs

Secondary weapon: Energy weapons (only 2 points in, picked up the herbicide gun)

Skills: Field Medic, Surgeon, Computer Science, Smart Ass.

Sniper/Ranger High Coordination and Awareness, everything else average/low

Primary weapon: Sniper rifles

Secondary weapon: Shotguns

Skills: Outdoorsman, Lockpicking, Safecracking

Facesmasher/Mule Awareness, Strength, and Speed through the roof, everything else low/average.

Primary weapon: Blunt weapons

Secondary weapon: Unarmed (only 1 point, really just a fallback)

Skills: Brute Force, Toaster Repair, Surgeon (2 points in case my medic goes down)

Scout High Coordination and Awareness, everything else average.

Primary weapon: Handguns (.38s, because it's cheap)

Secondary weapon: Assault rifles

Skills: Perception, Demolition, Alarm Disarming, Mechanical Repair

And I'm keeping Angela Deth around as my companion, she's alright except she flies off the handle a bit too often for my taste.

[Ashara]

I am SWTOR, SWTOR and some more SWTOR. Trying MMO/PvP for the first time (hey, it has BioWARE's name on it), and it is fun so far, noobishness and all. Probably the least troublesome game I have played, and now 6+ months into it I finally don't have to suppress the modding instincts, and play it the way it is. Love how it is updated all the time, and all the events etc. Cool stuff.

I started DA in an efforts to close the 7 years gap in gaming history, but I can't play it the way I play SWTOR, I need time and space for it (it is beautifully stylized and dialogues are long), rather than romping on for whatever minutes I can squeeze gaming into.

[The Drunkard]

Wasteland 2...

I'm sure I'm missing something, but these prison turrets are a pain. I've given up on this quest for now, but has anyone else managed it?

Also, I found a robot called Vax in a shipping container in the abandoned railway. I can't interact with him, and given the 540-health Slicer Dicers roaming around I feel like I've come here too early. I can use the computer science skill on him, but I'm at 0% chance right now. >.> Might come back later.

[Clueless Northman]

Wasteland 2 is excellent. You have to use some old-skool RPG skills, remember to make sure you're giving the right loot to the right characters and specialise each character in certain areas, but it's a total blast to play, quite clever in places and with some excellent reactivity and nice writing.

Awesome :)

Gives me hope Pillars of Eternity and Torment will be brilliant, and all will be fine in the world of CRPG.

I've alas got a shit-ton of games left to play, and won't be able to touch any of them before next year (and only after I've gone through Witcher 3, I think, since this one is already pre-ordered, while I've only back Numenera, coming late to the whole kickstarter scene...). Well, at the very least, my next few years of gaming look sweet.

[aceluby]

So I was thinking I'd finally upgrade Diablo 3 to get the Reaper of Souls and there's no upgrade option! I have to buy the full game at $30 after already shelling out $50 for the original. Absolutely ridiculous. So I went back to Dark Souls 2 and started a new character to go through the DLC I bought for that a 2nd time. Should be ready for tomorrow night to be able to play through the newest one with two different characters.

[Fez]

Wasteland 2...

That's pretty similar to my setup, although my squad are all only level 3 (I've only played a few hours), so they aren't well developed yet.

I've got..

1) The Leader, who is average in all things except Charisma. She's got assault weapons, handguns, leadership, barter, smart ass, mechanical repair, toaster repair.

2) The Sniper, with high coordination and awareness and average elsewhere. He's got sniper weapons, perception, outdoorsman, hard ass, brute force (which doesn't fit, but I need to put it on someone), and surgeon (in case the medic goes down). I need to figure out a good backup weapon for him still.

3) The Brute, with high luck, strength, awareness, and speed, and low everything else. He's a bladed weapon beast, and is my general non-combat guy, with demolition, safecracking, lockpicking, and alarm disarming. He also has a handgun as a secondary, but I haven't put points in it yet, and I'm not sure I will; I've never used it.

4) The Medic, with high luck, speed, and intelligence. She's got handguns, field medic, surgeon, computer repair, and weaponsmithing. I need to figure out her backup weapon as well; I'm thinking shotguns though, since I seem to get their ammo a lot, although I don't have any weapons for it yet.

It mostly works pretty well. Although there's so little sniper ammo that my sniper's not too useful right, and my first two level ups I needed to put more points in perception and outdoorsman so I haven't got a backup for him yet. Also my leader just seems to have the worst luck; lots of jamming and almost always the main enemy target.

But my brute is just dominant, and he almost never seems to get hit, while my medic more than carries her weight by being able to get two shots every turn with her handgun, unless there's healing that needs getting done.

[Muttering Bill]

What's the purpose of the different ships in Destiny? Over at the shipwright, she's got 5 ships or so available for about 2K glimmer and then a green quality ship for 4k. Does it change anything in the game at all other than what you're looking at when transitioning areas?

Yeah, no use really. Just something different to look at during loading screens.

Hit Lvl 26 last night. Time to find a Raiding party.

So I went back to Dark Souls 2 and started a new character to go through the DLC I bought for that a 2nd time. Should be ready for tomorrow night to be able to play through the newest one with two different characters.

Are all 3 DLC's out now? How are they?

[Shryke]

So I was thinking I'd finally upgrade Diablo 3 to get the Reaper of Souls and there's no upgrade option! I have to buy the full game at $30 after already shelling out $50 for the original. Absolutely ridiculous. So I went back to Dark Souls 2 and started a new character to go through the DLC I bought for that a 2nd time. Should be ready for tomorrow night to be able to play through the newest one with two different characters.

Are you talking about console or PC?

On PC it's an expansion pack. You pay for the upgrade.

On Console, well they don't really do expansion packs that way, but it's the same price as buying the expansion pack anyway so the distinction is irrelevant.