Video Games: Excuse me Sir, the machine ate my quarter

[Howdyphillip]

Continued from here as the thread is over 400, and I found the title of this one witty...

 

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/133604-video-games-console-war-never-changes/

 

I am actually looking for a good story based game right now as a PC gamer. I have played almost everything. Anyone have any obscure titles to suggest? 

[Jack Bauer 24]

Started Far Cry 4. Played about an hour and enjoying it.

[Fez]

I am actually looking for a good story based game right now as a PC gamer. I have played almost everything. Anyone have any obscure titles to suggest? 

 

I think these are reasonably obscure:

 

The Talos Saga- Puzzle game, sort of like Portal but different mechanics. Great story, though a little pretentious.

To the Moon- Pixel hunter I guess. Its barely a game at all, but one hell of a tale.

Sunless Sea- Rogue-like thats better if you turn off the Iron Man made and save at will. 

Valiant Hearts- Puzzle solving game, great art style. WWI story that's mostly solid.

Blackguards-- Turn-based isometric game. Weakest story of the bunch, but not bad, and has great mechanics.

 

And these are even more obscure (or new), but I haven't played any of them, they're only on my wishlist. So they're presented without comment:

 

Cradle

Never Alone

Expeditions: Conquistador

Dex

Blackguards 2

Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

[Guy Kilmore]

Not much to add, but I enjoyed the story lines for the recent Shadowrun games.

[Fez]

Not much to add, but I enjoyed the story lines for the recent Shadowrun games.

 

Yeah, those are great for their stories, and pretty solid gameplay. I wasn't sure if they were obscure enough though. If so, at roughly the same level of obscurity, is:

 

The Banner Saga

Wasteland 2

Pillars of Eternity

Divinity: Original Sin

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Child of Light

Valkyria Chronicles

 

All of those are really good games; although I never finished Wasteland 2 or D:OS due to lack of patience (just got bored 25 hours in on each), but that's on me. Also, Child of Light didn't work for me, but others might like it.

[KiDisaster]

Finished the main 4 acts of Diablo 3 and now I'm on to the expansion content. Bumped the difficulty up to Master now that it's unlocked but having a level 60 weapon in the early 50s is still just decimating everything. Reduced level requirements is such a weird stat. 

 

I'm trying to decide if I want to try this whole seasonal thing when season 4 starts (next week I think?) or just roll another regular character to level on adventure mode. I wanna make a Witch Doctor next. 

[Manhole Eunuchsbane]

Finished the main 4 acts of Diablo 3 and now I'm on to the expansion content. Bumped the difficulty up to Master now that it's unlocked but having a level 60 weapon in the early 50s is still just decimating everything. Reduced level requirements is such a weird stat. 

 

I'm trying to decide if I want to try this whole seasonal thing when season 4 starts (next week I think?) or just roll another regular character to level on adventure mode. I wanna make a Witch Doctor next. 

 

 I would suggest getting your main to 70, then running greater rifts until you have all the legendary gems. There is a leveling gem that once you get it to 25th level reduces any weapon with a socket to level one requirement. On top of that, it gives you a nice fat exp bonus per monster killed. You can level an alt from 1 to 70 in like 2 and a half hours. 

 

 If you want to speed up your current leveling, get a helm with a socket and slap the fattest ruby you can craft into it. If you have Leoric's crown, make sure to use that, as it doubles the exp bonus from the ruby.

[KiDisaster]

 

 I would suggest getting your main to 70, then running greater rifts until you have all the legendary gems. There is a leveling gem that once you get it to 25th level reduces any weapon with a socket to level one requirement. On top of that, it gives you a nice fat exp bonus per monster killed. You can level an alt from 1 to 70 in like 2 and a half hours. 

 

 If you want to speed up your current leveling, get a helm with a socket and slap the fattest ruby you can craft into it. If you have Leoric's crown, make sure to use that, as it doubles the exp bonus from the ruby.

 

Yeah I've been crafting bigger rubies with Shen to put in my helmets for the bonus exp. I have a Leoric's Crown in my stash but it doesn't have a socket. 

 

Just googled this gem. Gem of Ease. So I can use some level 70 legendary weapon on my level 1 toon? That just sounds ridiculous. Seems like it'll take a while to get it to rank 25 though. 

[Manhole Eunuchsbane]

 

Yeah I've been crafting bigger rubies with Shen to put in my helmets for the bonus exp. I have a Leoric's Crown in my stash but it doesn't have a socket. 

 

Just googled this gem. Gem of Ease. So I can use some level 70 legendary weapon on my level 1 toon? That just sounds ridiculous. Seems like it'll take a while to get it to rank 25 though. 

 

 Good deal. You can craft a socket into the crown once you open up the Mystic. I think you get her in Act 5.

 

 Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. You pretty much just one hit everything until you hit level 50 or so, but that comes around pretty quick. If you combine it with Leoric's Crown/Signet, leveling is just superquick.

 

 Getting a gem to 25 is pretty easy, just so long as you can run higher grifts. Level 25 grift is more or less equivalent to Torment 6, so once you get your gear up to the point that you can run high Torment levels, gem leveling is pretty quick.

 

 Good choice on taking a Witch Doctor as an alt. They are far and away my favorite class.  

[Relic]

 
Yeah, those are great for their stories, and pretty solid gameplay. I wasn't sure if they were obscure enough though. If so, at roughly the same level of obscurity, is:
 
The Banner Saga
Wasteland 2
Pillars of Eternity
Divinity: Original Sin
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Child of Light
Valkyria Chronicles
 
All of those are really good games; although I never finished Wasteland 2 or D:OS due to lack of patience (just got bored 25 hours in on each), but that's on me. Also, Child of Light didn't work for me, but others might like it.

I own six of those games. I only finished Banner Saga. got bored with all the rest. However I played the Shadowrun games twice each.

[MerenthaClone]

Hong Kong just came out if you liked shadowrun.

[KiDisaster]

 

 Good deal. You can craft a socket into the crown once you open up the Mystic. I think you get her in Act 5.

 

 Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. You pretty much just one hit everything until you hit level 50 or so, but that comes around pretty quick. If you combine it with Leoric's Crown/Signet, leveling is just superquick.

 

 Getting a gem to 25 is pretty easy, just so long as you can run higher grifts. Level 25 grift is more or less equivelent to Torment 6, so once you get your gear up to the point that you can run high Torment levels, gem leveling is pretty quick.

 

 Good choice on taking a Witch Doctor as an alt. They are far and away my favorite class.  

 

Weirdly I've had the mystic the whole way through this campaign. Then in Act 5 you "find" her hiding so I guess that is where you're supposed to get her. I've never played a character further than the beginning of act 2 before this and that was before the expansion even came out. Dunno why I had her unlocked from the start. 

[Manhole Eunuchsbane]

 

Weirdly I've had the mystic the whole way through this campaign. Then in Act 5 you "find" her hiding so I guess that is where you're supposed to get her. I've never played a character further than the beginning of act 2 before this and that was before the expansion even came out. Dunno why I had her unlocked from the start. 

 

 Even better. Then you should be able to have her roll a socket into your Leoric's Crown, as long as you've leveled her up with gold and such.

 

 

 Let me know if you want some help leveling or whatever. That's another way to speed up that process. You just tag along with someone who's running high torments or grifts and you get the equivalent exp.

[Jace, Extat]

I think I'm done with my Frankish campaign in TW: Attila. 

 

The main story, if you will, apparently ends with the fifth chapter, which starts in the year 445, and has as main objective to fulfill one of the victory conditions. As it happened I had already achieved the minor victory condition (and I am one goal short of achieving either a military of cultural victory), so that 5th chapter was over as soon as it began.

 

My greatest achievement has been to slay Attila in battle, which deflated the Hunnic faction greatly.

 

Of course I could continue, but the climate has gotten even colder, and for the first time I am faced with a general food shortage. I wonder how long this mini ice age is supposed to last.

 

Are you going to continue on? At this moment, my Ostragoths have liberated and burned everything from Thrace to the Mediterranean, where a fleet of a thousand ships set out with 50 thousand men to stab at the heart of Rome.

 

In other words, I just finished assaulting the city of Rome and I can't decide whether to occupy it or burn it to the ground. Decisions...

[Talleyrand]

Did they take out the god awful civil war thing from Rome for Attila? Nothing pissed me off more than in my Parthia playthrough when all I had to do was take Rome and I had won then all of a sudden sixteen bloody stacks of high level soldiers appear in my capital and all my veteran armies are busy in northern Italy and Africa.

Started Far Cry 4. Played about an hour and enjoying it.

I liked Far Cry 4 its a shame it didn't add much since 3 but the formula was still fun, the locale was nice and I quite liked the story.

[The Drunkard]

Played a bit of the Third Age mod for Total War and it seems really slow going. Takes ages to amass soldiers which was a bit annoying as the nearest enemy settlement had like six/seven units in it. May have been wrong to start as Isengard though, heh. Going go try dwarves next.

 

Played quite a bit of the Americas campaign in Total War, as Spain. I almost immediately moved my capital to the mainland, allied with the Aztecs, and then started attacking the Mayans in the peninsula region to the south of Havana/east of Vera Cruz. They were really easy to defeat (especially with the king of Spain sending me money and soldiers every time I took some meaningless village) but holy hell was fighting in jungle terrain a pain. Started auto-resolving almost everything to avoid it.

 

Weirdly, England arrived on the far eastern side of that peninsula region after I had already destroyed the Mayans and taken practically every settlement in the area. They then marched the entire way across to the Aztecs and started fighting them on the New Spain/Aztec border, so I got to watch all their fighting. England is winning but there are so many Aztec armies converging on that area that I don't think they'll last.

 

I keep hearing spooky things about France, but have yet to see them, other than with my isolated stack of soldiers that are just chilling in a village in Florida.

[Corvinus85]

 

Are you going to continue on? At this moment, my Ostragoths have liberated and burned everything from Thrace to the Mediterranean, where a fleet of a thousand ships set out with 50 thousand men to stab at the heart of Rome.

 

In other words, I just finished assaulting the city of Rome and I can't decide whether to occupy it or burn it to the ground. Decisions...

What mod are you playing with, or are you just scaling up the forces in your mind?

 

Yes, I'm continuing on, but I also started a campaign in The Last Roman.

With the Franks, solved my food crisis, I destroyed the Huns, and there is one other enemy that I have not yet in full.  :devil: Also curiosity is keeping me going.

 

Did they take out the god awful civil war thing from Rome for Attila? Nothing pissed me off more than in my Parthia playthrough when all I had to do was take Rome and I had won then all of a sudden sixteen bloody stacks of high level soldiers appear in my capital and all my veteran armies are busy in northern Italy and Africa.

I don't know if they got rid of the civil war. I didn't have to deal with a civil war, though I have seen factions pop up called Separatists, like Sassanid Separatists.

There is also still a fair amount of politics, maybe even more, with the re-introduction of the family tree. And they've also added army integrity. When integrity is low, the army supposedly mutinies. But you can order a decimation to raise the integrity level. Right now the most annoying thing is the climate.

[Jace, Extat]

What mod are you playing with, or are you just scaling up the forces in your mind?

 

Yes, I'm continuing on, but I also started a campaign in The Last Roman.

With the Franks, solved my food crisis, I destroyed the Huns, and there is one other enemy that I have not yet in full.  :devil: Also curiosity is keeping me going.

 

Oh, that was supposed to be a reference to the Greek fleet that sailed for Troy.

 

It was just two hordes that I sent, but 40 ships carrying 4,000-ish men doesn't sound as bad ass. But the WRE is basically a non-factor now. I decided to occupy Rome, and I spent like 5 turns getting ready for the impending counter offensive, but it never happened. And when I looked at the Diplomacy map, WRE has no presence at all in Europe and their power has dropped drastically. I'm still wary of an invasion by sea, though. I imagine they still control at least some of Spain and their Mediterranean assets. 

[Rooster]

If anyone has ever been interested in sampling (as spectator) Counter Strike (yes, it's still alive), the final day of a "major" tournament is happening today, with the semi-finals at 11:45 (now) and 15:10, and the final at 19:00 CEST on the [url=http://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo]ESL Twitch channel[/url]. Although, you can probably add half an hour to each time for analysis and such, before the actual game starts. The game is pretty spectator friendly, I'd say.

[Werthead]

Shadowrun: Hong Kong is pretty good, but the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree here. It's fun, but I must admit the very limited amount of stuff to actually do in the games is starting to wear a little thin. With their success, I'd like to seem them do a full-on sequel to the whole Shadowrun Returns line, with more actual RPGing. It'd take more money but by this point I think they could raise it pretty quickly. I'm looking forwards to seeing what they do now with the new BattleTech games.

 

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is looking good. An isometric RPG focused on conversations and commentary (even mid-combat) with the voice talents of Jennifer Hale attached. It looks good, but a bit too heavily combat-focused. Hopefully that was just for the trailer.