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3hitcombo wrote:

I was being sincere dude. 100%. Life's too short for this crap.
Tad and i made amends, Kommie and i seem good. Is Hammer still an active user?

Simon_Belmont wrote:

Do you still hold a grudge against dracula?

BloodPuppetX wrote:

I was like who?
and then i put 2 and 2 together.
well done sir

Did the first puzzle in Scorn. Incredibly stupid and annoying for no real reason. We'll see if it gets better or worse.

Started playing Persona 5 Royal on Game Pass and I've been pleasantly surprised how much I'm liking it. Usually JRPGs aren't my thing, but I'm really getting into it.

jgrant78 wrote:

i was thinking about it because EVERYONE talks about those games. I can't get into JRPG's save for like FF Tactics, Ogre Battle and some of the older FF games.
I'm trying to finish Death Loop so i can clear hard drive space, because I'm sure COD MWII will be on sale on Black Friday-ish. I haven't paid full price for a COD game...ever. I don't think I ever will.

Kommie wrote:

It's bad

DarkFact wrote:

Its fun to watch someone play it.
That's about it though.
It's INCREDIBLY visual.

Scorn is not that great. Once I beat a puzzle I say "that was dumb" and move on. I'm at 2-2, I think.

since I busted out my 360 I am going after these Call of Duty Collections like Modern Warfare Collection, the War Collection, etc. . And one thing I've noticed. Call of Duty really hasn't done crap in the last 10 years. There's advanced warfare (also on 360), Infinite Warfare, WWII, Cold War, modern warfare remaster, modern warfare remake, and that's about it. Guess the 360 was the golden age.

Kommie wrote:

Yeah I went into this game with apparently really high expectations, and after my first session, I haven't even tried to play it again. It LOOKS nice on my 3090, but it hasn't pulled me in at all.

Scorn tips:

Once you get Weapon 2 and use the Station with all the weird Orbs, you need to reload (X) In order to use Weapon 2.... Yeah. I got pretty far in Act III thinking Weapon 2 did nothing. It's like a small shotgun and Weapon 3 is a bigger shotgun.

I'm in Act 5 so this is the last one... I have some opinions on this game, boy howdy.

Hold up, did halo infinite co op finally come out?

Scorn - Do not play this unless you want to give it a shot. When you complete a Puzzle your response to beating it is more so "Well, that was dumb/annoying" and not "Wow! Great puzzle!" Puzzles are "brute force" with no clue what to do other than figure it out.

The game gives you no hints about anything. There is no lore, story, or anything. "Lore" implies there are documents to read or things to interact with. Nothing here. All you do is wander from place to place, pulling levers or finding dead ends and running away from the awful enemies. Apologists could argue "Well, your character has no idea what's going on, so you shouldn't either!" Even in the From Software games there are tutorials. Nothing here. Need to figure out what a button does? Pause menu. There is a "healing" station and an "ammo" station. In order to even use Weapon 2 (which looks like a pistol) you have to hit "X" to reload it in the first place after getting ammo. I got to 3-2 before realizing this. I did beat the entire game with no guide, but it gave no real satisfaction. The combat is awful and should be avoided at all costs and the only Boss is a Two-Phase boss and you can run out of ammo for it. Honestly, the combat made me quite angry with how bad it is. Like the whole game. Even the aesthetic isn't really that interesting as it's just a stolen art style. I can't imagine how anyone could like this game unless you also consume the smell of your own farts. Maybe Kojima fanboys might like this "art" garbage but that's about it.

I think I'm the only one here who's beat this, it seems?

Probably gonna play A Plague Tale Requiem next on GamePass while doing Ragnarok on PS5

SilverOwl wrote:

Supposedly but i haven't tried it yet

I really enjoyed A Plague Tale: Requiem. It starts slowly but ramps up by the end.

Kommie wrote:

Welp A Plague Tale is way better than Scorn so far.

Probably because it was designed as a video game game

Congrats on beating Scorn! I haven't heard of a single other person, even those that like it, who have beaten it.

Anxiouz wrote:

So people like this game and haven't beat it? It's not that hard.

I think unanimously people like the style but get bored and put it down. People are "speed" running this in 90 minutes and to think about the literal hours I spent wandering aimlessly for just the first half of the game...no thank you. I didn't find the wandering fun.

Started Vampire Survivors today. Thought it was gonna be dumb, 2 hours later, it's not dumb. It's a very basic rogue-lite but it's extremely addictive. The music and graphics are right out of late NES Era castlevania. Super stoked to unlock all the characters.

Also, The Legend of Tianding is great. Reminds me of Comix Zone on Genesis. Very polished with extremely fun combat and platforming. The fact that it's based in Chinese folklore is also great.

Has anybody tried Signalis? It's supposed to be a super old school survival horror game with retro graphics.

It's fun to watch the console kiddos get in on Vamp Survivors. I heard the guy who made it used to work with slot machines; I'd like to think this is sort of his gift back to humanity. Pay $5 once, you get all the dopamine

https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-dune-norco-gungr...

Insurgency Sandstorm and Gungrave?!
I'm in.
Apparently NORCO is supposed to be one of the best written games of the year but a point and click adventure on console doesn't sound so great.
That new Dune game looks great.

I've gotten used to the 30 FPS in A Plague Tale

I really want to build a PC for that Dune game for sure!! it looks awesome. I still love playing Supreme Commander 2 from time to time as it's my goto RTS... but I could see this maybe taking that over.

Kommie wrote:

Traitor

Finn wrote:

Which Dune game?

Spice Wars

i mean, he could be talking about Dune 2 but you can play that on anything today

DarkFact wrote:

Sounds like he was talking about RTS, and Spice Wars sounds like an RTS. Is that a newer Dune RTS game? I'm guessing it is.

Spice Wars is still technically early access, not sure how far along it is. It's gone on "sale" a couple times at this point.

Yes Spice Wars, it looks like an RTS though maybe a little more technical? Not sure. But I want to play it.

Archvale, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Mind Scanners, Mortal Shell, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulation, Undungeon, and Warhammer 40k are all set to leave GP at the end of the month.
I recommend Archvale, I beat it a while back, fun title.
I've been meaning to play Mortal Shell, can anyone speak to it, is it good, it's a dark souls clone of sorts, correct?

Also, @Simon_Belmont I tried NORCO on the PC and it was just okay, only did like 1 session and haven't gone back to it.

@Kommie liked mortal shell I think. It’s a souls clone with a “shell” mechanic where you change styles / class / weapons with these shells. Didn’t stick with it too long but it was intriguing.

Feeb wrote:

Yes, I enjoyed it. One of the rare clone like Souls that I liked. Thymesia is another one. Gotta get to Steelrising at some point.

Mortal Shell isn't too long either

Thanks, might have to give it a try ASAP and see. I'm not a big soulslike player, but I'd like to try to get into them more.

Finn wrote:

You can pretty much just play Alpha Centauri off GoG (I'm assuming they sell it) and you'll get the Dune Civilization experience, space worms and all, but that's turn based obviously

Spice Wars is coming to GPU this month, that's why I brought it up. I posted an article with all the stuff that just got announced for GPU.
The Black Friday sale on the Xbox store is pretty good...I just have everything that's on sale.
The Fallout 4 GOTY for $10 and the RE2/RE3 for $15 are must purchases for those that don't have them.
Might pull the trigger on Evil Dead but Gamestop has it for $20 new.
I have so many games to finish, took a break and I'm working on Hard West now. It's so good but it's super frustrating.

Saw F1 2022 for XSX on "clearance" at gamestop. Price sticker said $65 but they are still doing their 50% off clearance thing so it would be $33.

Would probably have bought it if it were PS5 (which is NOT on clearance), because I have a PlayStation compatible wheel and not an Xbox one.

Sony and MS make me mad with their proprietary garbage for controllers. It's USB - just let me use whatever controller I prefer. Even wireless headphones you have to choose between PS or XB. It's silly.