Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (4 Viewers)

[Todem]

Im 2 games into my 82 game season and my hometown Washington Bullets are 2-0.Nba2k13 is fantastic.

The NBA 2K series is always good fun. I'm still playing NBA 2k11, but I've thought about getting 13, but may wait for 14. I love My Player mode.

In year 4 of my Heat Association on NBA2K11 plus have loads of classic rosters.The AI on 2K11 is not been matched IMO.

Do you play it on a console or PC?

PS3

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Im 2 games into my 82 game season and my hometown Washington Bullets are 2-0.Nba2k13 is fantastic.

The NBA 2K series is always good fun. I'm still playing NBA 2k11, but I've thought about getting 13, but may wait for 14. I love My Player mode.

In year 4 of my Heat Association on NBA2K11 plus have loads of classic rosters.The AI on 2K11 is not been matched IMO.

After a winning the first two the Celtics and then Pacers brought me back to reality and 2-2. Four games and 4 straight victories later the leagues leading scorer, Bradley Beal has the hometown Washington Bullets at 6-2! The NBA - it's FAN-tastic

 

[Chaka]

I saved chose to save the geth in ME2 and help them in ME3, plus I didn't want to kill EDI who was a good squadmate (voiced by Tricia Helfer and killing her would be just plain wrong) so I went with synergy instead of destroy.

I saved the Geth in 2 and 3, and thought about them. But it just seemed to me, after all I had gone through, I wasn't going to back down at the last minute and dilute the human genome with synthetic DNA. So, had to do it. I did forget about EDI. But I don't think I would have changed my mind based on her.Edit: After watching the other videos, I'm glad I chose the ending I did.

My impulse was

Spoiler

"Destroy", particularly because it allows Shepard to live. but it didn't feel right to save the Geth and then condemn them to die, particularly after what Legion did and how the Geth responded to the Quarians after Rannoch. Control just felt like restarting the cycle, most likely with Shepard leading the way on the next cycle. While I didn't like synthesis on many levels I viewed it as taking an inevitable evolutionary step and being the guy who brings peace to the universe and causes immediate evolution for all species

made it the best option for my Shepard.

 

[Insein]

I saved chose to save the geth in ME2 and help them in ME3, plus I didn't want to kill EDI who was a good squadmate (voiced by Tricia Helfer and killing her would be just plain wrong) so I went with synergy instead of destroy.

I saved the Geth in 2 and 3, and thought about them. But it just seemed to me, after all I had gone through, I wasn't going to back down at the last minute and dilute the human genome with synthetic DNA. So, had to do it. I did forget about EDI. But I don't think I would have changed my mind based on her.Edit: After watching the other videos, I'm glad I chose the ending I did.

My impulse was

Spoiler

"Destroy", particularly because it allows Shepard to live. but it didn't feel right to save the Geth and then condemn them to die, particularly after what Legion did and how the Geth responded to the Quarians after Rannoch. Control just felt like restarting the cycle, most likely with Shepard leading the way on the next cycle. While I didn't like synthesis on many levels I viewed it as taking an inevitable evolutionary step and being the guy who brings peace to the universe and causes immediate evolution for all species

made it the best option for my Shepard.Not to get too sidetracked but...

Spoiler

I felt that at a basic level all the good guys have been fighting and dying to destroy the reapers. Illusive man has been going on about control for awhile and the reapers ultimate goal stated by saren in me1 has been synthesis.To me since the catalyst is the reapers, he's trying to dissuade you on destroy while hard selling synthesis. He allows control as a lesser option because he can still change shepards mind over a few millenia.

So that's why I did what I did.

 

[SlaX]

Im 2 games into my 82 game season and my hometown Washington Bullets are 2-0.Nba2k13 is fantastic.

The NBA 2K series is always good fun. I'm still playing NBA 2k11, but I've thought about getting 13, but may wait for 14. I love My Player mode.

In year 4 of my Heat Association on NBA2K11 plus have loads of classic rosters.The AI on 2K11 is not been matched IMO.

Do you play it on a console or PC?

PS3

One big thing I like better about the console versions is the ability to edit the stadium sounds. I have sounds and music that makes each arena authentic. I have the playlist on my PC, but it streams to my 360. I was surprised to hear that the PC version doesn't allow this. That's one of the reasons I won't buy it on a PC.

 

[biggamer3]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

 

[Insein]

You have to go through most of the final sequence again to see different endings. Id just watch it on YouTube.

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[ConnSKINS26]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

Huh?? Player movement is literally the biggest gripe people have with Madden, ever since this generation of consoles started. It's horrific.

 

[biggamer3]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

Huh?? Player movement is literally the biggest gripe people have with Madden, ever since this generation of consoles started. It's horrific.

oh thats weird, I find the running game and receiver routes solid, but then again I barely play Madden. Fifa is great though, whenever I play NBA 2K, i despise everything about it, like i said, the passing feels horrid, and the players dont move naturally. I get the game because that is one of those games, I always play with my buddies since everyone likes basketball.

 

[Run It Up]

The player collision in Madden has been garbage since the early 2000's

 

[SlaX]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

When was the last time you played an NBA 2k game? I used to not like it either, but the game evolved to a whole new level on NBA 2k11 (several publications nominated it for Game of the Year. Not Sports Game of the Year; Game of the Year. That's the year that Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 won the majority of the GotY awards.)

I haven't liked an NBA Live game since around NBA Live 2000. And although I owned a couple of NBA 2k games in the early 2000's, I stuck to the College Hoops series, which, IMO was far superior.

BTW, I'm not saying that NBA 2k11-13 is perfect. The opponent AI is really tough to pass against, especially at harder levels. Sometimes, I'll have a clear lane and it seems that an opponent will teleport right in front of me. This happens on layups and rebounds. And sometimes on hard levels, it seems as if the opponents never miss, no matter how tight I'm defending.

The passing, I can live with. I think it's good that I can't throw a cross-court, no-look pass every time, or that I can't pass through two defenders to guy going in for a layup. I can could do that in NBA Live, but I don't want that in a basketball sim.

 

[biggamer3]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

When was the last time you played an NBA 2k game? I used to not like it either, but the game evolved to a whole new level on NBA 2k11 (several publications nominated it for Game of the Year. Not Sports Game of the Year; Game of the Year. That's the year that Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 won the majority of the GotY awards.)

I haven't liked an NBA Live game since around NBA Live 2000. And although I owned a couple of NBA 2k games in the early 2000's, I stuck to the College Hoops series, which, IMO was far superior.

BTW, I'm not saying that NBA 2k11-13 is perfect. The opponent AI is really tough to pass against, especially at harder levels. Sometimes, I'll have a clear lane and it seems that an opponent will teleport right in front of me. This happens on layups and rebounds. And sometimes on hard levels, it seems as if the opponents never miss, no matter how tight I'm defending.

The passing, I can live with. I think it's good that I can't throw a cross-court, no-look pass every time, or that I can't pass through two defenders to guy going in for a layup. I can could do that in NBA Live, but I don't want that in a basketball sim.

I played every one, even the recent one from this past year. Its the same game IMO from 2K 11 to 14, if you liked 11 you probably liked all of them, but for some reason I am teh only person who thinks the game is the suck.

 

[SlaX]

Am I the only one who hates the NBA 2K series? For me the passing is always horrible and choppy and the movement of the players doesnt feel natural at all. Compared to Fifa and Madden where the players seem to move realistically.

When was the last time you played an NBA 2k game? I used to not like it either, but the game evolved to a whole new level on NBA 2k11 (several publications nominated it for Game of the Year. Not Sports Game of the Year; Game of the Year. That's the year that Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 won the majority of the GotY awards.)

I haven't liked an NBA Live game since around NBA Live 2000. And although I owned a couple of NBA 2k games in the early 2000's, I stuck to the College Hoops series, which, IMO was far superior.

BTW, I'm not saying that NBA 2k11-13 is perfect. The opponent AI is really tough to pass against, especially at harder levels. Sometimes, I'll have a clear lane and it seems that an opponent will teleport right in front of me. This happens on layups and rebounds. And sometimes on hard levels, it seems as if the opponents never miss, no matter how tight I'm defending.

The passing, I can live with. I think it's good that I can't throw a cross-court, no-look pass every time, or that I can't pass through two defenders to guy going in for a layup. I can could do that in NBA Live, but I don't want that in a basketball sim.

I played every one, even the recent one from this past year. Its the same game IMO from 2K 11 to 14, if you liked 11 you probably liked all of them, but for some reason I am teh only person who thinks the game is the suck.

To each their own.

 

[NCCommish]

So I finally feel like I am starting to get the hang of CK2. I managed to pass my duchy to an heir and am playing as him. I have expanded the duchy of Slavonia. It is now as big as what the King of Croatia holds. I expanded it originally but my heir lost some to younger brother and sister. I still don't get the way that part works. But it turned out he was heir for both of them. Two assassinations later the realm has been expanded and solidified under my heir. My next goal is to become King of Croatia. After my current characters wife died young(of natural causes I swear, no really) I was able to marry into the HRE. Hoping that gives me some usefull allies when the time comes to make my move. I am waiting to see how much longer the old king will live. Who knows maybe a well placed killing or two will be better than all out war and acheive the same thing.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Sounds like Remember Me is a big disappointment. Too bad.

Oh well, Last Of Us is out in a couple weeks, right?

 

[WampusCat43]

Alan Wake is one game that I feel like I missed out on for not having a 360. I know it gets spotty reviews, but it looks like the kind of game that I would have enjoyed.

As expected, Tomb Raider is pretty awesome so far. My wife and kids are out of town, so I plowed through a big chunk of it yesterday, and I'm guessing about 2/3 of the way through the main story. The obvious comparison is to Uncharted, but this game was also pretty clearly inspired by Batman. It has the same quasi-linear structure where you move along through the island, you can go back later and explore for collectables/puzzles, and as you get more gadgets you can access stuff that you had to pass by the first time. TR is definitely in the same tier as Uncharted or Batman in terms of overall quality.

Two minor complaints. First, the QTEs seem really messed up. I think it's impossible to pass them without knowing what the button prompt is going to be ahead of time. Second -- and I know this is a dumb thing to complain about but I'm going to anyway -- the trophy list kind of sucks. Way too many online trophies and not enough for the SP campaign. How do you not have a trophy for beating the game on Hard? But you know a game is really good when this is the only stuff you can find to nitpick.

If you have a decent computer, the Alan Wake games are on sale for $4 on Steam ($3 if you just get the original game).

Picked Wake up over the weekend and really like it, although I agree with one review that it's not something you play through in one setting. A little at a time.

 

[Sand]

So I got CK2 up on the new computer. Played the demo enough to know I was a interested in seeing more. On sale for 10.00 at Steam so I say let's go. Took me three days of playing(after watching some real good videos btw that Tekk guy rocks) to get to the point I actually got to age a bit and take some additional counties. I started as a king a couple of time in Spain. That was too much for me. To many things going on to many people after me. I ended up going with a duke that had no siblings, no parents, no grandparents, no one plotting against me to start with. I got my prestige way up and was really starting to build up my castle. When I got to a stopping point I didn't save as I realized there were so many things I could have done earlier and better. Man this thing is intense.

I started on my second try with a Dukedom in Wales. About 80 years in I managed to get enough together to declare myself king. (Wiped out my piety and gold, but well worth it).

It's good to be the king.

I went with a Dukedom in the Croatia/Hungary area. I had a lot of heirs available and I was doing well building up my tax base. I had ginned up some claims and taken a couple of duchys. But I just felt that there was so much I could have done better in the beginning that I didn't save it.

On another note my wife was cranking out the kids but man the gluttony thing was packing on the pounds. And really the only thing I didn't like about playing that character is that he was already married and she didn't really have any significant talents. When the game starts she's like 14 and her stats stay crappy.

Can always buy a divorce from the Pope with some piety or have her offed.

I was thinking about having her offed once I got a son. But she is a Hungarian Princess. The possibility of getting caught never dropped below 50% so it seemed like a bad bet. Hungary was already trying to get my lands with a ginned up claim. I offed their guy who was trying. I was kind of hoping for a natural death in childbirth. But no such luck. I didn't even get a son until she dropped literally a half dozen daughters and she was still going.

Daughters are better anyway.

Managed to marry my first daughter away to be the Kaiserin of the HRE.

Nicely done.

Yeah, evidently marrying and plowing my beloved daughter isn't enough to get him to come over and lend me a hand. Not like the ####### doesn't have 20,000 troops laying around...

 

[Drifter]

Finished my first play through of XCOM. Started playing again on Classic difficulty. Definitely a little more challenging with more critical hits happening. Not quite ready to take on Ironman yet.

 

[NCCommish]

So I got CK2 up on the new computer. Played the demo enough to know I was a interested in seeing more. On sale for 10.00 at Steam so I say let's go. Took me three days of playing(after watching some real good videos btw that Tekk guy rocks) to get to the point I actually got to age a bit and take some additional counties. I started as a king a couple of time in Spain. That was too much for me. To many things going on to many people after me. I ended up going with a duke that had no siblings, no parents, no grandparents, no one plotting against me to start with. I got my prestige way up and was really starting to build up my castle. When I got to a stopping point I didn't save as I realized there were so many things I could have done earlier and better. Man this thing is intense.

I started on my second try with a Dukedom in Wales. About 80 years in I managed to get enough together to declare myself king. (Wiped out my piety and gold, but well worth it).

It's good to be the king.

I went with a Dukedom in the Croatia/Hungary area. I had a lot of heirs available and I was doing well building up my tax base. I had ginned up some claims and taken a couple of duchys. But I just felt that there was so much I could have done better in the beginning that I didn't save it.

On another note my wife was cranking out the kids but man the gluttony thing was packing on the pounds. And really the only thing I didn't like about playing that character is that he was already married and she didn't really have any significant talents. When the game starts she's like 14 and her stats stay crappy.

Can always buy a divorce from the Pope with some piety or have her offed.

I was thinking about having her offed once I got a son. But she is a Hungarian Princess. The possibility of getting caught never dropped below 50% so it seemed like a bad bet. Hungary was already trying to get my lands with a ginned up claim. I offed their guy who was trying. I was kind of hoping for a natural death in childbirth. But no such luck. I didn't even get a son until she dropped literally a half dozen daughters and she was still going.

Daughters are better anyway.

Managed to marry my first daughter away to be the Kaiserin of the HRE.

Nicely done.

Yeah, evidently marrying and plowing my beloved daughter isn't enough to get him to come over and lend me a hand. Not like the ####### doesn't have 20,000 troops laying around...

Maybe she isn't you know very good at "it".

 

[fasteddie_21]

Sounds like Remember Me is a big disappointment. Too bad.

Oh well, Last Of Us is out in a couple weeks, right?

June 14th

 

[Foosball God]

Just bought CKII on Steam

Good Christ, I can't even figure out how to have a kid!

 

[TxBuckeye]

Finished my first play through of XCOM. Started playing again on Classic difficulty. Definitely a little more challenging with more critical hits happening. Not quite ready to take on Ironman yet.

I think Classic is the perfect setting. Normal was just to ridiculously easy. Impossible sort of sucks in that it can be extremely frustrating early on. Classic is the sweet spot. Classic Ironman is the natural progression later on. But give it time.

 

[Silverbacks]

Just picked up a boatload of old games for $80. Not sure how much fun these are going to be, but I felt like it was too good a deal to pass up! Some are unopened.

Crysis 2

Darksiders

Darksiders II

Game of Thrones

Syndicate

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

The Walking Dead

Sniper Elite V2

Alpha Protocal

Warhammer SpaceMarine

Twisted Metal

Binary Domain

Heavy Rain

Dark Souls

Rage

Any of these any good?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Finished my first play through of XCOM. Started playing again on Classic difficulty. Definitely a little more challenging with more critical hits happening. Not quite ready to take on Ironman yet.

I think Classic is the perfect setting. Normal was just to ridiculously easy. Impossible sort of sucks in that it can be extremely frustrating early on. Classic is the sweet spot. Classic Ironman is the natural progression later on. But give it time.

Yep, Classic is really good. It's quite hard when you step up from Normal, and the meta-game is tough. I lost a country in the second month thanks to a UFO that I was unable to shoot down coming back and destroying a satellite, and I think I lost half a dozen countries overall. Honestly though, Normal is just too easy. I breezed through it on my first playthrough after a couple of early missteps, and that's as a novice to the franchise.

I don't know what others do here, but I skipped beam weapons entirely and went directly to plasma by capturing the first outsider (or whatever the early UFO boss is called) I could. That means that I was rolling with regular bullets for a long time, but by the time I got to the alien base I had a decent chunk of my team decked out with plasma weapons, and it felt like that game was won by that point. XCOM feels like you're just barely hanging on at the beginning but once you get a couple of Double Tap snipers with plasma rifles, the galactic battle is over.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Just picked up a boatload of old games for $80. Not sure how much fun these are going to be, but I felt like it was too good a deal to pass up! Some are unopened.

Crysis 2

Darksiders

Darksiders II

Game of Thrones

Syndicate

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

The Walking Dead

Sniper Elite V2

Alpha Protocal

Warhammer SpaceMarine

Twisted Metal

Binary Domain

Heavy Rain

Dark Souls

Rage

Any of these any good?

I can't comment on all of these, but I'd say you got your $80 worth.

Darksiders is actually pretty fun. It's a GOW clone, but I enjoyed it. For a few bucks, it's worth it.

Bioshock is one of the best games of this generation. Bioshock 2 is underrated mainly because it couldn't live up to how awesome the first game was. You'll be happy with both of these.

The Walking Dead is a nice story-based point-and-click game. No replay value, but it's a good ride.

I only played the Twisted Metal demo, and honestly I hated it. I thought I would like this game, but the controls are just over-mapped IMO.

Heavy Rain is like The Walking Dead, only not as good. It's a fine game and I enjoyed playing it, but it's a one-and-done.

Dark Souls is sensational, but it's also the sort of game that many people will hate. It is seriously hard and features a nearly-vertical learning curve. I am a huge fan of this franchise. At the same time, it is a fact of life that some people will spend 3-4 hours never being able to get out of the starting area and will just throw the disc away. If this game clicks with you, prepare to sink 100+ hours into the most well-crafted world you've ever encountered in a video game.

 

[Run It Up]

Just picked up a boatload of old games for $80. Not sure how much fun these are going to be, but I felt like it was too good a deal to pass up! Some are unopened.

Crysis 2

Darksiders

Darksiders II

Game of Thrones

Syndicate

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

The Walking Dead

Sniper Elite V2

Alpha Protocal

Warhammer SpaceMarine

Twisted Metal

Binary Domain

Heavy Rain

Dark Souls

Rage

Any of these any good?

Games to avoid on this list:Crysis 2Darksiders 2 (not even close to Darksiders)

Game of Thrones (absolutely awful)

Syndicate

Sniper Elite

Alpha Protocol

Twisted Metal

Binary Domain

 

[Sand]

Just picked up a boatload of old games for $80. Not sure how much fun these are going to be, but I felt like it was too good a deal to pass up! Some are unopened.

Crysis 2

Darksiders

Darksiders II

Game of Thrones

Syndicate

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

The Walking Dead

Sniper Elite V2

Alpha Protocal

Warhammer SpaceMarine

Twisted Metal

Binary Domain

Heavy Rain

Dark Souls

Rage

Any of these any good?

If you wanted to get rid of (or sell after you played) Walking Dead or Heavy Rain I'd happily take them off your hands.

 

[Drifter]

Finished my first play through of XCOM. Started playing again on Classic difficulty. Definitely a little more challenging with more critical hits happening. Not quite ready to take on Ironman yet.

I think Classic is the perfect setting. Normal was just to ridiculously easy. Impossible sort of sucks in that it can be extremely frustrating early on. Classic is the sweet spot. Classic Ironman is the natural progression later on. But give it time.

Yep, Classic is really good. It's quite hard when you step up from Normal, and the meta-game is tough. I lost a country in the second month thanks to a UFO that I was unable to shoot down coming back and destroying a satellite, and I think I lost half a dozen countries overall. Honestly though, Normal is just too easy. I breezed through it on my first playthrough after a couple of early missteps, and that's as a novice to the franchise.

I don't know what others do here, but I skipped beam weapons entirely and went directly to plasma by capturing the first outsider (or whatever the early UFO boss is called) I could. That means that I was rolling with regular bullets for a long time, but by the time I got to the alien base I had a decent chunk of my team decked out with plasma weapons, and it felt like that game was won by that point. XCOM feels like you're just barely hanging on at the beginning but once you get a couple of Double Tap snipers with plasma rifles, the galactic battle is over.

Been debating on double tap vs In the Zone. In the Zone can be sweet when you get a bunch of guys out from cover

 

[Sand]

BTW, for anyone interested Red Dead Redemption GOTY has been dropped to $20 at Amazon. This is just about as low as it gets.

 

[Todem]

Ivan,

I have Demon Souls. I never really dived into it as after playing it for a couple of hours I realized I had to make a commitment to it like no other game because of the difficulty. I can handle it....but it is a game I would have to play almost exclusively to get into a groove and play it well.

Would you say skip to Dark Souls? Is it that much better or play through Demon Souls first.

 

[bigmarc27]

About half-way through Alan Wake now. I think I'm done - its so boring. There's absolutely no variety.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

BTW, for anyone interested Red Dead Redemption GOTY has been dropped to $20 at Amazon. This is just about as low as it gets.

I picked this up at my GS recently for the same...great deal.The GOTY edition has a hardcore difficulty setting. Your regular RDR save files wont work with the GOTT edition. (Well mine didn't)

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Ivan, I have Demon Souls. I never really dived into it as after playing it for a couple of hours I realized I had to make a commitment to it like no other game because of the difficulty. I can handle it....but it is a game I would have to play almost exclusively to get into a groove and play it well. Would you say skip to Dark Souls? Is it that much better or play through Demon Souls first.

The story isn't a big part of the demon/dark souls games. If fact you really have to look for much of a story at all.

 

[Chaka]

I saved chose to save the geth in ME2 and help them in ME3, plus I didn't want to kill EDI who was a good squadmate (voiced by Tricia Helfer and killing her would be just plain wrong) so I went with synergy instead of destroy.

I saved the Geth in 2 and 3, and thought about them. But it just seemed to me, after all I had gone through, I wasn't going to back down at the last minute and dilute the human genome with synthetic DNA. So, had to do it. I did forget about EDI. But I don't think I would have changed my mind based on her.Edit: After watching the other videos, I'm glad I chose the ending I did.

My impulse was

Spoiler

"Destroy", particularly because it allows Shepard to live. but it didn't feel right to save the Geth and then condemn them to die, particularly after what Legion did and how the Geth responded to the Quarians after Rannoch. Control just felt like restarting the cycle, most likely with Shepard leading the way on the next cycle. While I didn't like synthesis on many levels I viewed it as taking an inevitable evolutionary step and being the guy who brings peace to the universe and causes immediate evolution for all species

Spoiler

made it the best option for my Shepard.

Not to get too sidetracked but...

Spoiler

I felt that at a basic level all the good guys have been fighting and dying to destroy the reapers. Illusive man has been going on about control for awhile and the reapers ultimate goal stated by saren in me1 has been synthesis.To me since the catalyst is the reapers, he's trying to dissuade you on destroy while hard selling synthesis. He allows control as a lesser option because he can still change shepards mind over a few millenia.So that's why I did what I did.

Totally get it. But I simply could not justify saving the Geth twice only to wipe them out and I saw the same outcome as you for Control.

I disagree that Saren's end game in ME1 was similar to Synthesis. He was indoctrinated and the reapers would not have spared him.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Ivan,

I have Demon Souls. I never really dived into it as after playing it for a couple of hours I realized I had to make a commitment to it like no other game because of the difficulty. I can handle it....but it is a game I would have to play almost exclusively to get into a groove and play it well.

Would you say skip to Dark Souls? Is it that much better or play through Demon Souls first.

The gameplay is nearly identical in the two games. If you didn't like Demon's Souls, you won't like Dark Souls either.

 

[NCCommish]

Apparently my heir(the character I am playing) is gay. I don't understand why they have that designation. My guy has "fallen in love" with both of his wives which seems to mean they both like each other 100%. He has worked those wives for a total of about 8 kids so far. If they wanted to just add a fertility penalty they could have gone with wounded or something. Just seems kind of silly.

Anyway I am now King of Croatia. I managed to get some plotters to help me gin up a claim and away we went. The old king couldn't seem to get any sizable reinforcements in time from his allies and had been depleted by his recent Holy War adventure. Maybe he should have been on better terms with Venice. He then went on to die in my dungeons. So in two generations I have gone from a Duke with 3 counties to a King. Now it's time to lay the foundation for taking all of Hungary. Probably take another generation to get there. Although I plan to start the assassinations now to prune the tree a bit.

 

[Brony]

BTW, for anyone interested Red Dead Redemption GOTY has been dropped to $20 at Amazon. This is just about as low as it gets.

Just ordered. Thanks!Now have red dead and uncharted 2 on their way to my house.

 

[Insein]

This board totally sucks. Can't even do a simple spoiler tag now? Come on.

 

[Insein]

Totally get it. But I simply could not justify saving the Geth twice only to wipe them out and I saw the same outcome as you for Control. I disagree that Saren's end game in ME1 was similar to Synthesis. He was indoctrinated and the reapers would not have spared him.

Well the way I saw it...

Spoiler

He was indoctrinated but he was stating what the Reapers wanted him to state. Also, the catalyst really hard sells the green as good. Like it's sliced bread that craps out ice cream good. Then he really deters you from red. All these negative consequences. "Even you are partly synthetic" and yet you live if you choose red. That just leads me to believe that the ******* is lying and the Geth and EDI are alive somewhere even if their bodies are destroyed. Because honestly, how could a magical beam destroy all the software in the universe? They'd have a lot more problems then just the Geth and EDI dying if that were the case.

 

[Insein]

Ivan, I have Demon Souls. I never really dived into it as after playing it for a couple of hours I realized I had to make a commitment to it like no other game because of the difficulty. I can handle it....but it is a game I would have to play almost exclusively to get into a groove and play it well. Would you say skip to Dark Souls? Is it that much better or play through Demon Souls first.

The gameplay is nearly identical in the two games. If you didn't like Demon's Souls, you won't like Dark Souls either.

I heard differently. Now I didn't play either extensively but my nephew swears by them. He told me to play Dark Souls because if I played Demon Souls first, I wouldn't like Dark Souls at all. He said it's way more confusing in Demon Souls to figure out where to go and what to do.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a PlayStation Plus free game starting today.

 

[Todem]

Ivan,

I have Demon Souls. I never really dived into it as after playing it for a couple of hours I realized I had to make a commitment to it like no other game because of the difficulty. I can handle it....but it is a game I would have to play almost exclusively to get into a groove and play it well.

Would you say skip to Dark Souls? Is it that much better or play through Demon Souls first.

The gameplay is nearly identical in the two games. If you didn't like Demon's Souls, you won't like Dark Souls either.

Oh I liked it a lot. I just knew though it would be a massive time sink and I have been sinking time into Skyrim, The Mass Effect Trilogy and XCOM on top of my usual MLB The Show addiction. So I will play through Demon Souls first and then move ont o Dark Souls...by that time it will be 10 bucks.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

So I finally feel like I am starting to get the hang of CK2. I managed to pass my duchy to an heir and am playing as him. I have expanded the duchy of Slavonia. It is now as big as what the King of Croatia holds. I expanded it originally but my heir lost some to younger brother and sister. I still don't get the way that part works. But it turned out he was heir for both of them. Two assassinations later the realm has been expanded and solidified under my heir. My next goal is to become King of Croatia. After my current characters wife died young(of natural causes I swear, no really) I was able to marry into the HRE. Hoping that gives me some usefull allies when the time comes to make my move. I am waiting to see how much longer the old king will live. Who knows maybe a well placed killing or two will be better than all out war and acheive the same thing.

Sounds like you have Gavelkind succession law. It splits the holdings between all heirs.

 

[E Street Brat]

Just bought CKII on Steam

Good Christ, I can't even figure out how to have a kid!

Step one. Put the game away........

 

[SlaX]

XBox Live Gold 1-year card for $20. It's from Buy.com via eBay. Here's the link.

 

[SlaX]

XBox Live Gold 1-year card for $20. It's from Buy.com via eBay. Here's the link.

Damn. Nevermind. Looks like they're all sold out. Those went fast.

 

[biggamer3]

LA Noir has been sitting on my shelf for a year, is it worth to time to play this game?

 

[NCCommish]

So I finally feel like I am starting to get the hang of CK2. I managed to pass my duchy to an heir and am playing as him. I have expanded the duchy of Slavonia. It is now as big as what the King of Croatia holds. I expanded it originally but my heir lost some to younger brother and sister. I still don't get the way that part works. But it turned out he was heir for both of them. Two assassinations later the realm has been expanded and solidified under my heir. My next goal is to become King of Croatia. After my current characters wife died young(of natural causes I swear, no really) I was able to marry into the HRE. Hoping that gives me some usefull allies when the time comes to make my move. I am waiting to see how much longer the old king will live. Who knows maybe a well placed killing or two will be better than all out war and acheive the same thing.

Sounds like you have Gavelkind succession law. It splits the holdings between all heirs.

I do have that and I have been trying to figure out how to change it.

Of course killing them when I moved to this character also fixed it for now.

 

[SlaX]

LA Noir has been sitting on my shelf for a year, is it worth to time to play this game?

I think it was worth playing once. It's not tremendously good, but it's decent. It plays more like a point-and-click adventure game, although it really isn't. You already own it, so you may as well play it.

 

[doowain]

Anyone played Metro: Last Light yet?