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For making what could arguably be the best game of the year. Certainly the breakout hit game of the year at least.

This woulda been the 400th post in the last thread, so I thought I'd make it the first of the new thread.

See, from what I hear about the Souls, they are really built around this concept. And I also understand that the loot is not lost and the bosses you have killed remain dead if you die. I.e. you don't have to redo everything - there is a sense of progress. So, while this is not a game that I am likely to pick up, I absolutely see the point and can imagine how it could be great for people who enjoy "mastering" games.

That's very different from shoving the savepoint systems with infrequent savepoints and without "save anywhere" into the games that don't benefit from it at all. Just because "it has always been done that way" (on consoles). Like Trine. Or the first Mafia. A trully brilliant game, but I have nearly put my fist through the monitor on a couple of occasions. There was that race that... Aargh!
Or even GTA. Well, at least it is because it became really popular on PS2. But put "save anywhere" into your PC and mobile ports, for Pete's sake!

The bosses are the last thing of each level, so while it's true they remain dead if you die, you still have to reach the end of the level for to defeat the boss. In Demon's Souls at least there are very few boss encounters mid-level. There are certain characters you can encounter and if you defeat them once they are defeated. But they are like side quests, rather than mid-level road blocks.

The only "loot" that gets dropped are your unspent souls, and if you die while trying to get back to where you died before then those souls are permanently lost. Fortunately soul farming is a thing so the consequences of losing minor souls is pretty much zero. However you really don't want to lose a boss demon's soul, because there's no getting them back. I did once drop a few stones and shards before facing a boss demon, and both I and the boss demon died at the same time (phew!). When I went back down through the dungeon all those shards and stones were gone which was a moderate frustration.

I generally don't like a lack of save anywhere in a game. But I haven't come a cross a game where the lack of that feature makes the game unplayable or unbearable.

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I am enjoying Mordor a lot, but I am real sick of having 2+ additional captains wander into my fights that I've carefully picked with very specific captains. I need intel, dammit, and I do not want to deal with two or three more bigtime assholes in addition to the huge mob of regular uruks.


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I noticed in the last thread someone else is playing Dead Money too. I just started playing it for the first time too. I picked up two players now. One of them, as he ran off to the meeting point was like "hey if you have me you can go through a shortcut" but he was way too far away to catch him at that point. Bastard.



Oh well. I like God.


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Just hit Fall in The Last of Us Remastered.

I don't know that there is one specific person here that I can thank for the rec... But this game is f'ing fantastic. Takes all the sneaky stuff I like from Metal Gear, toss in some fungus zombies, and add the best voice acting I've ever seen in a game and I'm just loving the ride.

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Just hit Fall in The Last of Us Remastered.

I don't know that there is one specific person here that I can thank for the rec... But this game is f'ing fantastic. Takes all the sneaky stuff I like from Metal Gear, toss in some fungus zombies, and add the best voice acting I've ever seen in a game and I'm just loving the ride.

That's one of those games I wish I could forget, so I could play it again. Winter is the best part, so brace yourself.

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Got to Damonta in Wasteland 2. Some of the robot enemies are really freaking tough.



This game is enormous. Passed 30 hours and apparently only half the game content is on the Wasteland map, is the rest is on a separate world map.


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If you subscribe to swtor (star wars the old republic) and pre-order the next expansion, class quests now give 12x xp, meaning until 1st December characters can reach lvl 55 doing class quests only. Great for alts :)

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If you subscribe to swtor (star wars the old republic) and pre-order the next expansion, class quests now give 12x xp, meaning until 1st December characters can reach lvl 55 doing class quests only. Great for alts :)

I found that it never took much more than the class quests to level up anyways. If I did all the quests on a planet before moving on, I was always over-leveled for the next class quest destination planet. :dunno:

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Played through about an hour of Charlemagne, as Karl/Charles. Here are the events I can remember:




- My brother, king of Middle Francia, and I, king of West Francia, become bitter rivals due to our shared crowns.


- Our mother chooses me over my brother as her preferred ruler and gives me advice (usually this is about disloyal councilors).


- I could choose to legitimize my son, Pepin, who is a hunchback, but I decided not to.


- I can choose whether or not to marry the Lombard king's daughter in order to seal an alliance against anyone who might challenge me (I think this referred to my bro). This causes discontent among my lords. I chose to marry her, she's 25 and has bad stats.


- I can later choose to divorce my wife given the discontent it causes. I did, married a Byzantine princess instead, and the Lombard princess went back to Italy, apparently scheming against me, and so I got a random claim on the entire kingdom. I haven't pressed it yet, but I intend to (you can't claim the HRE without Italy).


- I can declare war on the Saxons for being general shitheads. I do, I win the Saxon crown, but soon after an army of 14k rebellious Saxons appears (attrition did most of the work in beating these guys). I think that you can eventually desecrate a sacred pagan tree, but I haven't received that event yet. I saw it in another game, but I was in England so I don't know how that happened.


- My mother appears strangely determined and asks to resolve the conflict with my brother. I give her permission, and about a month later my brother dies of natural causes and I inherit Middle Francia. I'm unsure whether my mother is a master assassin or my bro just happened to die mid-event.


- Occasionally strangers, who I assume are historical figures, show up at my court. I had a guy called Roland, a great, loyal warrior, some Norse warrior, and some Norse prophet who saw me uniting the Christians.


- I embrace some sort of renaissance and my family and I become French, rather than Frankish. My name goes from Karl to Charles. We are the only ones to do so at the moment, so I'm unsure what the benefit is.


- A Spanish Emir approaches me and asks me to sign a deal, saying that when he rebels against the Umayyads, if I help him win, he'll swear fealty to me. I signed the agreement and shortly after he declared a war for independence. I joined in, and that's where I decided to leave it.




All in all, playing as Charles was very fun. I assume there'll be a lot more events to do with actually making the HRE after I take Lombardy. I'm also interested in whether Charles' brother has as many events.


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New Civ game looks pretty 'meh' to me. Looks exactly the same as Civ 5 without the evolution in tech - which is the key part of the game to me. Plus I never really enjoyed the modern/futuristic portion of the game as much as the earlier periods. My favourite mod for Civ 5 (other than start with scout of course) is the one that allows you to stay in classical/medieval/renaissance ages once you've reached them. I think it gets pretty boring once it's all rocket artillery, fighter jets and fucking XCOM soldiers.


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Yahtzee gave Shadows of Mordor a pretty good review. Imight have to get this one.

He gave Alien Isolation a pretty good review too. Rather shocked he was, giving 2 AAA movie tie in games good reviews back to back.

They might both make his top 5 for the year.

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I was pretty excited for the new Civ, but after seeing the first impressions, I think I'll hold off for a bit. It sounds like it actually is pretty different from Civ5, but severely imbalanced and with an AI that can't properly use all the mechanics available. Also, I only just bought Endless Legend, and getting two 4x games so close together when so many other games are about to come out doesn't seem like the best allocation of my gaming budget.


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Getting well into FIFA 15. Built up a very strong League 1 team on the cheap by buying up the Man City youth team from this (real life) season. Smashing it. Will be playing a few online games soon I think to hone my skills against other real life humans. Can't wait to call some American teenager a cunt. Haven't played online console games for 4 years but I hear that's the done thing now and I'm eager to join in.


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Gawd... that's awful. I've seen porn with better dialogue.

I'm okay with it, so long as its intentionally bad. As in, Bioware is tired of their fans wanting their games to be taken over by damn dating sims, and so decided to make the romances just incredibly horrible (except for the one or two that make storytelling sense) as a way to drive people away from that part of the game.

I've got no evidence that's the case, but I hope it is.

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I've got no evidence that's the case, but I hope it is.

I think that's extremely unlikely. it might be intentionally terrible as part of a joke, but it's certainly not unthinkable that it's entirely unintentionally bad. While Bioware has generally decent to good dialogue, it's not like they haven't put their fair share of bad lines into their games.

I've had Inquisition on preorder for quite a while, with the idea that if I wanted to get it at release I'd get it slightly cheaper than if I decided to buy it right then (as of right now I'm saving 5€ compared to someone ordering it today...yay...), and if I don't I can always cancel. Problem is I haven't really followed the development at all, so I don't actually know if I want to buy it. I guess I better make up my mind in the coming weeks.

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So in that article, it mentions a site that will be going live in a week to input your prior decisions.

Will that site link up with my PS4? Do I put in my EA info or PSN ID or something and it can update it that way? Or is that something I will just have to do when I put the disc in the machine?

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