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Post by LadyofNemesis on May 3, 2021 16:43:00 GMT
Bought Baldur's Gate 3 earlier today, currently just trying things out Think I'll play Druid for now...at least until they add Bards
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Post by colfoley on May 4, 2021 1:53:13 GMT
BioShock InfiniteThis is where things start to get a little on the whacky side and for the most part its good but I have never exactly bought that this is how multi universal transport worked. I mean this is probably the second best look at actual multi dimensional travel after Rick and Morty but there is a couple of weird niggles. I do not think, for instance, that people would remember being killed in another universe like that and would be all...stuck. That's not how that works. In general it seems like they get a lot of the other stuff right but then it also just...bothers me...that Elizabeth always says that there would be no way back. Something to keep track of if they ever do get back to the original universe somehow during the course of events. But Booker...has no issue with this...of course he probably does not understand but man the implications are not pleasent, first and foremost though and most bassically Daisy's deal would be no good to anyone because in this universe she did not even make that deal in the first place. Of course it is also interesting that I did find the main differences between the original universe and this one. Chien married a white woman who was the sister...I think...of Fink's head of security who himself was corrupt, got Chien out which then led to a whole bunch of other problems. Though since they did confiscate Chien's tools...I think that is another universe if I am remembering the plot right. A really weird bit happened to me opened a door with a Handyman and they trapped me in a building and without room to manuver killed me, but then when I came back to the door outside was a leave are thing. Anyways I got the next guy and away I went. Also had fun at the Police Lockup sniping people from a distance for a change with the sniper rifle. Bullets exploding the massive rocket baloon things, and then anyone who was trying tog et down to me.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on May 4, 2021 9:32:25 GMT
Wanted to share a pic of my current BG3 protagonist...and her mystery 'lover' my character is human...though might re-roll as something else lover/seducer dude is a high-elf
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Post by Curious Crow on May 5, 2021 1:15:15 GMT
Been poking the Yakuza series again. Did a bit of disco dancing in 0 and realized all my skill has been yeeted out of the window. Which is a pity, but the music is still fun and it's just a matter of finding the beat again I guess. Also did a few substories and got a nice fur belly warmer, which is pretty neat. Have also managed to secure a zap gun for Kiryu, so just wait until we meet again Mr.Shakedown... Also did a few climax battle and managed to clear like 4 of them. So hurrah for that.
Also started the legend run in Yakuza 3 and was quickly reminded why I wasn't particularly excited for it. The combat is not what I'm worried about, even if I don't like it. It's the bloody chase sequences. Eugh. And like they wouldn't be so bad, if it wasn't prefaced with a long, dull combat encounter with no save in between and no retries on the chase. So bleh. Forsee much venting in future if I persist.
But on the brightside, decided to pick some other options for trying to befriend Mame the dog. Usually just pick that he needs dog food and a ball, but went kinda cheeky today and suggested the hamburger (supposedly it's the bun that drives them wild) and cat toys (except Kiryu tried to find a poisonous straw or something and was thankfully saved by his neighbor, who gave him a cat toy since "His wife's obsession with cats has brought him more toys than he knows what to humanly do with". ) So that was fun.
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Post by shaqfu on May 5, 2021 2:44:40 GMT
Played some SWTOR today and finished up the main Smuggler story. It's a pretty fun one to do, though overall feels less impactful then some of the other plots in the game. Though the character def wins in the most ridiculous banter. Got a nice team shot at the end as well
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Post by colfoley on May 5, 2021 3:37:18 GMT
BioShock Infinite
On the note of this game handling its multi dimensional travel...and well in hindset it makes a little sense because Booker starts having his nose bleed and then a new set of memories gets put into him...so I guess it could still be a bit of a stetch but I can buy it because it does seem like this could fit into that whole thing and it is a bit of a storytelling device.
Speaking of which I also think I have figured out the whole 'once we go through this tear there is no going back thing', I mean this might not be the most sense but I suspect it could be over engine limitations or something in that vain because every time you leave an area it says leaave the area.
And if we don't go back to the original time line line at all this one is quite ironic because we get our airship...just by killing Daisy. Oh and I had a devil of a time with the airship because well couldn't get off of it and I was wondering if you would die after awhile...and you do. But that also proved to be the most effective way off the airship as I woke up with Elizabeth reviving me on the ground.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 5, 2021 11:09:13 GMT
Been continuing my adventures on Fif a19 and dominatin gthe Italian scene so far with Fiorentina as I'm abou t4/5 points clea rat the top o fthe table. Mus tadmit the Italian League is quiet easy compaerd with som eothers given they focus mostly on defence and rtying to nick 1-0 wins which hasn' t really worked against me given that when I have the ball I always look to go on the offensive. I've also managed to get to the Coppa Italia semi final and the second round of the Europa League again hopefully unlike with Paderborn on Fifa 20 I won't get knocked out in the second round.
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Post by Curious Crow on May 6, 2021 0:11:32 GMT
Yakuza series, more hopping around. Decided to chill instead of suffer in legend mode for nr 3. So instead loaded up premium adventure and spent way too much time at the Karaoke, managing to master three songs and coming oh so short but not quite on the rest. But it was fun none the less. Also tried my hand out at golf and found my hand wanting. Which is a pity since I apparently need to do good at golf to get the final substory. Which will then lead to Amon, so going to use avoiding him as an excuse for being bad at hitting small ball with metal stick.
Then spent some time in nr. 4. Took Haruka out on the town to do some singing, eat some ice cream and aaaalmost succeeding at her arcade request. Just one level short of 20. So sad. Then tried out the Amon's in this game. Did win the first one, not with ease but it went well enough. The second one stumped me though, since he has an exploding hammer and a regenerating health and I just had Saejima's fists and alas the break between the punches healed Jiro Amon right up. Which is probably fine, since Tanimura is still not bullet proof and his Amon kinda requires that I think. So back in the later pile they go.
Then ended with some Yakuza 5. Spent some time finding out if the game would let me drop the difficulty if Akiyama was repeatedly beaten to death on the streets. It did not. Sorry Akiyama.
So took him to the colosseum instead, to get repeatedly beaten with a chance to hit back. Actually did kinda decent. Won a match in 6 of the 10 needed and currently suffering in the Deathmatch 100 and only worse things to come. Yay. But think I got pretty far in the last attempt. Not to the final round, but I like to think close. Too bad you can't see how far you made it if you don't win. But it was amusing. To me at least, don't think Akiyama was too impressed.
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Post by colfoley on May 6, 2021 0:51:05 GMT
BioShock Infinite
I don't know what it is, of course this could just be my dumb ass memory too of course but I am really making a few different connections that I believe I haven't made before. This game is quite awesome but there is some interesting through threads developping that I either wasn't aware of or didn't understand the implications.
Chief amongst these is that I believe the same man who was Fink's security chief in the OG universe and was sacked for corruption/ incompetence, then in the second universe got Chien Lien off because of the connection to his married sister...well the universes just continue to revolve around him because in the THIRD universe he went to go confront Booker at the Hall of Heroes and Booker spoke Sioux so he was able to talk to this Indian kid down in the slums...and well from there he also decided that Comstock and co wasn't worth protecting so he ended up joining up with Booker and the Vox instead, making the insinauation that he would scalp Comstock. Oh man this game is confusing sometimes lol. But then of course the other big revelation was that...well not big I guess but more amusing...I knew that Lady Comstock blamed Rosailand Lutece for being Elizabeth's mom, what I missed is that I am pretty sure that Comstock actually tried to get Lutece to go in for that offer in the first place before they started with the whole temporal plan.
As a bit of a theme with this PT I didn't have as much trouble with the Lady Comstock Boss fights as I did...still have not had to turn down the difficulty despite some close calls I guess...but I do find it relatively poor from a game design perspective. Given her resurrection powers it makes SOME sense I guess that you just kill someone and she brings them back to life...but it does not help that it does seem like her waves of cannon fodder she can summon are quite endless, really helps pad out the run time of the conflict.
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Post by colfoley on May 7, 2021 0:42:47 GMT
BioShock Infinite
On the bit where Booker and Elizabeth are assaulting the 'Hand of the Prophet' and racing towards the end of the game, I think I will be finished with the main campaign at least tonight, or something.
Anyways though a couple of more story notes. This part in the story is really where the action starts to come to a head and the whole plot points turn towards the final objectives. This is more or less where things begin to get...dicey and the emotional stakes are certainly never higher. It was a master stroke taking us out of time so we could see the consequences of the actions of what would happen if we failed Elizabeth and then I always tend to go a little bit...rambo...and just very angry because that context certainly sets up a very artificial 'race against the clock' situation which encourages aggressive action and its hard for th eplayer to not be pissed listening to her torture. Though I did notice this time out the enemies seem to be a lot tougher and I did a lot better job sneaking around the asylum where Elizabeth was past the...whatever the heck they are called. Hell I think I only triggered the introduction one. It is also worthy to point out though that I have been musing on the difference between this and the previous BioShock games and one of those things where I am not sure what the reaction would have been since I am not plugged into that fandom too much but the first two games were a lot more of a survival horror, even if the elements were light there was definitley a restriction on the amount of supplies and stuff whereas Infinite is more of a straight shooter...until the asylum level where they take the survival elements and the horror elements up to eleven. There is actually though a lot of supplies apparently available as long as you are not triggering the...things.
But yeah its always something to off handedly wonder about this sequence too. See I have been actually paying attention to what is happening where and well Elizabeth's powers are worthy of multi dimensionalism...but time travel never really seemed to be in her balliwhick, now they are close enough where they might be some cross over from the concepts but as Rick and Morty's creators pointed out...there are differences. And well I also find it curious given the repeated emphasis given over 'we can't go back' when they go to a new universe...and yet Old Elizabeth can pull Booker to and fro like a yo yo. Hmm.
Also same thing it does bother me slightly is that there is never any reference of them actually being able to return to their OG universe... so they are still in the universe with the Vox are ascendant and are butchering Columbia left and right. And yet this is the same universe where Comstock is able to buy himself six months in order to torture Elizabeth and break her in order to lead his attack in 1984...so clearly he wins...but how? I mean the Vox seemed to be taking the fight all over Columbia to the Founders even with the death of their leader so it was a bit of an...interesting choice.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 7, 2021 11:44:09 GMT
Finished my Fifa 19 seasonwraped it upby winning the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and the Europa League. Hopefully will addthe Champions League to this on my next season on the game when I play it.
Started a 2nd season of my Fifa 21 save with QPR and whilst we did win our preseason tournament we haven't had what you might call the best of starts losing 2 of our opening 3 games. I expected to lose to Arsenal given they are one of the top teams in the English Premier League but losing the opening game against Bristol City hurt. Thankfully though my main objective is just to avoid relegation bu tthe problem is we need to try to beat the teams that are going to be around us if we're to achieve that objective and I suspect Bristol City will be one of them so losing to them even this early doesn't help. I did manage to beat Brighton though so we do have 3 points on the board but so far that's the only bright spark. It's a tough opening to the season but I shouldn't expect anything less from the PL. Especially as my next league game is against Spurs and I have Man U coming up in September as well. This is going to take either a lot of hard work or a miracle possibly both.
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Post by azarhal on May 7, 2021 12:54:50 GMT
SWTOR I started the Makeb arc (sorry Rise of the Hutt Cartel) on my Bounty Hunter. The first cutscene has Mako showing you bounties before being called by Darth Marr for a job. Two of them are Republic characters companions. I think another one is a guy you meet in Shadow of Raven on Rishi. Not much to say about that. Makeb is kinda boring even if I prefer the Imp story to the Republic one. ---- Still doing map completion. 4.5 maps left to do. Yeah!
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Post by saandrig on May 7, 2021 13:20:45 GMT
Played some SWTOR today and finished up the main Smuggler story. It's a pretty fun one to do, though overall feels less impactful then some of the other plots in the game. Though the character def wins in the most ridiculous banter. Got a nice team shot at the end as well The smuggler makes it out like, umm, a bandit I guess, compared to the other classes. Both Jedi and the Trooper - big heroes, here's a medal, go do more dirty work. Inquisitor - member of the Dark Council with resources. Ok, this one is rivaling the Smuggler. Warrior - a puppet for a silent master. Bounty Hunter - most famous hunter in the galaxy...living from paycheck to paycheck by the looks of it. And the Smuggler - owning a big pirate empire, independent and doing whatever one desires.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 7, 2021 18:06:00 GMT
Wanted to play a good old shooter again and realized that I still had CoD: Infinite Warfare in my library and never played it. So I went through the campaign and .. Oh. My. God. Even for a CoD it's so CoD that it hurts. I mean, they start out with a fairly interesting setting, kinda almost feels like a rip-off of "The Expanse" which, as you'll guess if you know my posting history in the TV/Movie sub forum, I consider a very good thing. However, where The Expanse draws this very well thought out and believable picture of how economics, politics and simple physics might shape a civilization, spanning the solar system, CoD: IW just goes with "you are an Earther, those are the good guys, the bad guys are the Martians and they are the REALLY bad guys". I mean, I didn't expect a CoD game to do anything remotely on the level of a multi year book series like The Expanse here but this is just over the top. It's like you are really never supposed to get into any conflict with your conscience when shooting the bad guys by the hundreds. After all, your people always are concerned about evacuating civilians or saving comrades or whatnot, while the Martians just shoot everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) on sight. Kit Harington is a complete madman (which he portrays nicely though) and you and your people are such goddam heroes that by all rght you as the player should really just stand there and salute them the entire time if you didn't need to have your hands on the mouse and keyboard every now and then to shoot stuff. I also don't think I heard a single sentence in this game that wasn't either just half of the sentence (because all these people are too busy and too cool to actually say an entire sentence when the other party can just guess the rest) or had at least three military acronyms stuffed in there. That's how serious their business is. Also, - spoiler alert - I was really waiting for some kind of plot twist, maybe that all we've seen was just Earth propaganda and the Martians are just "misunderstood" or whatever (though arguably, that would have been tough after you see them murdering civilians left and right for no reason in the first mission) but they actually play all the cliches straight. I actually didn't expect that so I guess I have to give kudos for that to some extent. Interestingly though, despite all the over the top BS in the story, IW is actually one of the only CoD games where I feel like I might remember some of my squad mates for more than 5 minutes after the credits roll. Despite (or maybe because of) all the cheese, and there is A LOT of cheese, your faithful friend Salter and especially your robot buddy Ethan (E3N) are pretty well established and sympathetic characters and even the rest of the marines and ship's crew get enough screen time in between the action to make them somewhat distinguishable. Not bad for CoD standards, I have to admit.
Oh yea, lest I forget, visually I really enjoyed this one. It's CoD, so it doesn't exactly win awards for most shiny graphics but the planet hopping provides a lot of visual diversity, especially if you do all the optional small side missions, that bring you to the outer planets as well. Pretty cool set pieces in there. And speaking of planet hopping, they blatantly stole Mass Effect's galaxy map for this one, including planet descriptions that go into the chemical composition of the crust and atmosphere, tidal lock and so on and so forth for every planet and moon. Almost felt like home for a BioWare fan. So in the end, playing this game, I pretty much got exactly what I expected but on steroids. Dumb cliche story with dumb cliche characters but somewhat cool anyway. Nice distraction for a few hours. 8/10 playing cards with Martian most wanted pictures on them.
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Post by colfoley on May 7, 2021 20:23:04 GMT
BioShock InfiniteWell that was dissapointing. Its weird I am not sure I ever realized that the Hand of the Prophet when you are defending it has a health bar and a 'core' that needs to be defended...maybe? Anyways when I do realize it it of course explodes...I mean its weird but sometimes I get the feeling that they have honestly changed things since last I played...because it also does the thing where they now bull rush you to get to the thing. So when you have two angry Abraham Lincoln's charging at you...yeah. Anyways then it completly bugged out on me to where Songbird would not attack even with the prompt up and I even know it was accepting the input from the controller, but for some reason Songbird just would not attack. Anyways that was enough of that and I will ry it again, if it does not work...well I know how this game ends. NHL 16Just like riding a bike. Its been ages since I have played this, honestly, and well not sure I have ever even commented on this game on here... but yeah seems I remember all the controls of this game and a few other things. Granted it also makes me wonder about changing the difficulty or try seeing if there is a more realistic mode, though I remember that at least in terms of face offs the next highest diffulty...well the computer does to me what I do to it. Anyways two games. Avalange vs Flames were first...and I think the score was like 24-3 when I quit on it. Had like 5 hat tricks going, Duchene (see how old this game is?!) had eight points. Both my created players did quite well, I think Mitchell had like 4 points and Anderson had like 3 (1 G 2A) and then 7 hits. Second game was with the bruins against the...ugh I am not sure...no wait they were the Flames then who did I play against as the Avs? Ugh. Anyways only beat them 10-3 but Foley (yeah he's created) scored on all three shots he made, my other d man scored a goal, and Talbot had a pair. Bit difficult trying to figure out the defense too. Who knows maybe I know practice and tutorials...though this is not going to be a long term project given both the LE and Vahalla coming out.
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Post by michaeln7 on May 8, 2021 1:59:27 GMT
Skyrim, me and my army of cats.
It's hilarious.
"Bow before the Thalmor!" "HISS!" *multiple sword strikes, arrows, and magic bombardment later* "Pueuh! Gah!"
I swear, I don't even have to do anything. They just obliterate everything that tries to attack us.
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Post by SirSourpuss on May 8, 2021 11:38:14 GMT
Wanted to play a good old shooter again and realized that I still had CoD: Infinite Warfare in my library and never played it. So I went through the campaign and .. Oh. My. God. Even for a CoD it's so CoD that it hurts. I mean, they start out with a fairly interesting setting, kinda almost feels like a rip-off of "The Expanse" which, as you'll guess if you know my posting history in the TV/Movie sub forum, I consider a very good thing. However, where The Expanse draws this very well thought out and believable picture of how economics, politics and simple physics might shape a civilization, spanning the solar system, CoD: IW just goes with "you are an Earther, those are the good guys, the bad guys are the Martians and they are the REALLY bad guys". I mean, I didn't expect a CoD game to do anything remotely on the level of a multi year book series like The Expanse here but this is just over the top. It's like you are really never supposed to get into any conflict with your conscience when shooting the bad guys by the hundreds. After all, your people always are concerned about evacuating civilians or saving comrades or whatnot, while the Martians just shoot everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) on sight. Kit Harington is a complete madman (which he portreys nicely though) and you and your people are such goddam heroes that by all rght you as the player should really just stand there and salute them the entire time if you didn't need to have your hands on the mouse and keyboard every now and then to shoot stuff. I also don't think I heard a single sentence in this game that wasn't either just half of the sentence (because a;; these people are too busy and too cool to actually say an entire sentence when the other party can just guess the rest) or had at least three military acronyms stuffed in there. That's how serious their business is. Also, - spoiler alert - I was really waiting for some kind of plot twist, maybe that all we've seen was just Earth propaganda and the Martians are just "misunderstood" or whatever (though arguably, that would have been tough after you see them murdering civilians left and right for no reason in the first mission) but they actually play all the cliches straight. I actually didn't expect that so I guess I have to give kudos for that to some extent. Interestingly though, despite all the over the top BS in the story, IW is actually one of the only CoD games where I feel like I might remember some of my squad mates more than 5 minutes after the credits roll. Despite (or maybe because of) all the cheese, and there is A LOT of cheese, your faithful friend Salter and especially your robot buddy Ethan (E3N) are pretty well established and sympathetic characters and even the rest of the marines and ship's crew get enough screen time in between the action to make them somewhat distinguishable. Not bad for CoD standards actually.
Oh yea, lest I forget, visually I really enjoyed this one. It's CoD, so it doesn't exactly win awards for most shiny graphics but the planet hopping provides a lot of visual diversity, especially if you do all the optional small side missions, that bring to the outer planets as well. Pretty cool set pieces in there. And speaking of planet hopping, they blatantly stole Mass Effect's galaxy map for this one, including planet descriptions that go into the chemical composition of the crust and atmosphere's, tidal lock and so on and so forth for every planet and moon. Almost felt like home for a BioWare fan. So in the end, playing this game, I pretty much got exactly what I expected but on steroids. Dumb cliche story with dumb cliche characters but somewhat cool anyway. Nice distraction for a few hours. 8/10 playing cards with Martian most wanted pictures on them. I got spoilered to watch the ending of Modern Warfare 2 and I just ... I checked out. This reads so much worse. Thanks.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 8, 2021 12:01:22 GMT
Been giong much better than I thought it would so faron Fifa 21 managed to secure a 2-2 dra wwith Spurs in the end and I managed t oeven bea ta few o fthe established PL teams including Leicester City.Currently sittin gin 7th place in the league with 18 points on the board. Whilst we did get knocked out of the Carabao Cup against Man U I am relatively pleased with how we've been playing fo rthe most part this season. Only thin gtha thas been a little disappointing is I wishwe were abl eto get on the front foot a little bit moe rand try to take on the bigger teams more whenwe've played them but I think that's just me nitpicking because I am playing this career on Pro difficulty as I d ofind i teasie rto launch and execute attacks on the lower difficulties.
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Post by azarhal on May 8, 2021 16:46:42 GMT
SWTOR My Bounty Hunter destroyed Makeb! Or saved it! Depends how you look at it. Also, less Hutts on the galaxies, this is always a big plus. I'm asking myself a few question with Darth Marr reasons to send my BH there thought. Everyone in the team had caused some crap for the Empire and this mission was basically their punishment/chance at redemption. Also, my BH is getting more and more pro-imperial too. Not really my choice, but I can't escape destiny... Next: Prelude to Shadow of Raven. I'm going to meet Lana soon. --- GW2 Base game map completion done on my Norn Renegade. Waiting for May 25th before starting LS2 content because Anet is adding more achievements. Hopefully you can finish them by playing an episode once... I also sold a bit less than half my collection of mystic coins. The price have grown to crazy level and I'm never going to use them. I was starting to cap the storage capacity too. "I'm rich you know" (<- tagline of a character in-game)
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on May 8, 2021 19:51:21 GMT
Surviving Mars
Got the last achievement. Yay?
WIll probably still play though. It's still a fun game.
Just not the colonies I made for achievement runs. The game options were no fun.
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Post by colfoley on May 8, 2021 20:16:30 GMT
NHL 16So it occurred to me that the NHL game did have some very different options and they usually do have different modes based on how you want to play and stuff. Like different ways of playing making it more realistic or not. And well 'hardcore' mode thinks does make it feel perhaps a little better. I mean I only beat the Penguins 15-2 So yeah Rask actually had a very impressive game in net though. He gave up the first goal on like one of the first shots he faced to make it 1-0 Pitssburgh but then he didn't allow another goal until the last minute of the game making, I am quite sure, 45 saves between the two. But for the first 12 minutes it was a pretty tight game at least but then the flood gates pretty much opened when I chased Fleury to the game. Foley, Spooner, and Hayes all had hat tricks. The fun part though was Rask actually had 4 Assists so he technically had more points then he let in. And well after that wanted to see if my dominance on Rookie translated into at least holding my own on Pro...and it did not. Only played roughly half a game but it was 6-0 Red Wings at that point *grr* and went from winning almost ever Faceoff till only winning 3 of them. So...yeah the difficulty spike is pretty severe with this game.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on May 8, 2021 20:53:55 GMT
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Still playing around trying out classes and such, re-rolled my character as a half wood-elf Light Cleric today Think I might play a paladin once the game is fully released instead of a Bard...but guess we'll wait and see Light Cleric is a lot of fun so far, even if we have two clerics in the team atm.
I really like the characters, not sure I care for Lae-zel...but then I was never fond of the githyanki to begin with (bad memories from NWN2 ) had an opportunity to kill her today...after picking a different dialogue option then normal (I reloaded afterwards)...ah well
I'm not very far in the game yet though, atm. I'm in the Druid Grove having to speak with Nettie and later on to find Halsin
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Neverwinter Nights 2 Was able to get a fair price on GOG to get the complete set of Neverwinter Nights 2 (my disc version no longer seemed to work, and it was only 17 bucks for the complete set)
So after a re-roll I ended up making an Aasimar Favored Soul of Lathander At the moment she's level 3 and has just met up with Khelgar Ironfist, clearing out some nasties at an inn...next time we'll be meeting my favorite Tiefling Neeshka
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 9, 2021 10:10:43 GMT
NHL 16So it occurred to me that the NHL game did have some very different options and they usually do have different modes based on how you want to play and stuff. Like different ways of playing making it more realistic or not. And well 'hardcore' mode thinks does make it feel perhaps a little better. I mean I only beat the Penguins 15-2 So yeah Rask actually had a very impressive game in net though. He gave up the first goal on like one of the first shots he faced to make it 1-0 Pitssburgh but then he didn't allow another goal until the last minute of the game making, I am quite sure, 45 saves between the two. But for the first 12 minutes it was a pretty tight game at least but then the flood gates pretty much opened when I chased Fleury to the game. Foley, Spooner, and Hayes all had hat tricks. The fun part though was Rask actually had 4 Assists so he technically had more points then he let in. And well after that wanted to see if my dominance on Rookie translated into at least holding my own on Pro...and it did not. Only played roughly half a game but it was 6-0 Red Wings at that point *grr* and went from winning almost ever Faceoff till only winning 3 of them. So...yeah the difficulty spike is pretty severe with this game. |Yeah that often is the problem with sports games sometimes it can seem like you've got it set too easy other times too hard. Like Semipro is too easy and Pr oistoo difficult wher your skillse ti ssomewher ein between so you eithe rdominate on semipro or try and find ways to get better on pro difficulty. I have the same problems when playing Fifa. I think I am getting better at handling Pro though as I did beat Manchestre City 6-2 and I also got a couple of closer matches wher I only won by 1 or 2 goals. 6-2 is a realistic scoreline though as you do get the occasional crazy score in football (and City aren' t the strongest defensively). As I remembe rmy club Spurs beating Wigan once 9-1 irl. So long as they don't happen in every game you play then generall ythat's OK I think. But I think everyone has their own way they like to play when it comes to the sports games so I don' t think it matters too much as long as you're enjoying it.
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Post by azarhal on May 9, 2021 12:48:28 GMT
SWTOR I remembered that this was a x2 XP week and that I wanted to bring my male Inquisitor to 75. So I finished chapter 1 with him and now started chapter 2, aka back on Taris. At least this time I can flirt with Tana Vesh. Which piss her off just as much. edit: daily ended up being a warzone, I went in with my Darkness Inquisitor...way easier to survive as a tank than Arsenal. Ahahah. I also think I was the best player in my team. 4v4 team death match, last one to die in round 1, we won the last two and I never died in them.
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