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I recall playing subnautica in VR and doing all that diving gave me the spinning pukes really fast , LOL
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Replaying Dying Light (first one). Crazy how an 11 year old game looks and feels better than most new AAA(A) titles. Also playing Elden Ring with randomizer mod. Fighting heavy archers while wading through a swamp is... interesting. Had to re-randomize.
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Played through deadspace 2, and while I liked it it felt like a pretty big step down to me. The biggest issue was the level design/setting, there’s no back and forth like DS1. I really liked playing in the Ishimura, where you had the tram as a central hub and you revisited different wings of the ship throughout the game. You got to actually know the ship, while in DS2 you are always going forward to the next room/hall.
Also, I liked the tuning in DS1 better, where there weren’t endless waves of necros like in DS2 but getting hit by them took much more life. I only died in combat a few times, but it was almost always due to some exploder that dropped literally on top of me, which I don’t remember ever really happening in DS1. There were some pretty cool encounters though, the room with the tripod guys where you have to throw a bunch of canisters to overheat the hydrogen tanks was fun.
Early game inventory management in DS2 was awful, you get guns pretty quick and so start getting multiple types of ammo, but suits come slower.
The graphics do hold up pretty well though for a 15 year old game.
Also, I liked the tuning in DS1 better, where there weren’t endless waves of necros like in DS2 but getting hit by them took much more life. I only died in combat a few times, but it was almost always due to some exploder that dropped literally on top of me, which I don’t remember ever really happening in DS1. There were some pretty cool encounters though, the room with the tripod guys where you have to throw a bunch of canisters to overheat the hydrogen tanks was fun.
Early game inventory management in DS2 was awful, you get guns pretty quick and so start getting multiple types of ammo, but suits come slower.
The graphics do hold up pretty well though for a 15 year old game.
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Playing Soul Reaver 2 Remastered, from the remastered bundle they released some months ago that included Soul Reaver 1+2. I'd played Soul Reaver a bunch of times on PS1 in my youth and love that game, but I'd somehow never played SR2.
So far it feels like a big step down from SR1 in most aspects except the dialogue and cutscenes voice acting that's still great, and supposely the story is awesome too but the game feels a lot emptier and more linear without any relevant exploration than SR1 even though it came on the next generation of consoles.
So far it feels like a big step down from SR1 in most aspects except the dialogue and cutscenes voice acting that's still great, and supposely the story is awesome too but the game feels a lot emptier and more linear without any relevant exploration than SR1 even though it came on the next generation of consoles.
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How the fuck have you never played Diablo 2? I remember going to Hastings back in college the day it dropped that summer with a group of buddies and everybody picked up their copy in an actual box with CDs. We played it all weekend.
I mean at this point at least you would get to experience the remastered version for the first time which I guess is a plus.
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I never played that shit either. I was deep into EQ and AO back in them days. Single player games like Diablo were like 1 out of 10 interest to me after experiencing multiplayer EQ/AO worlds. In fact with EQ/AO/WOW I was exclusively playing mmorpg until like 2006?
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I understand that, but you missed out. Bunch of us played UO together and then played DAOC which was after D2's release. We played Diablo 2 multiplayer, that's why we all went out and got it to play together that summer.
But I mean we were playing starcraft, quake 2, COH, PlanetSide, and all kinds of other late 90s - early 00s games if they were multiplayer. We typically had a LAN party during the Christmas holiday at somebody's apartment, back when you could install games with just a CD key, and there was no online verification or whatever it was. How I think starcraft and Warcraft and games like that used to have the ability to install something specifically for LAN. You just needed one person with the physical copy.
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I was deep in EQ as well but I played D2, Neverwinter Nights / etc with my EQ pals.
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Well back in them days I was working 50+ hrs a week, had a wife and a kid on the way so gaming time was at a premium.
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Not bragging - seriously , I was supposed to be running a construction company and I was working that much and I was playing games. That is finally what broke my EQ habit. I'm not proud of it, but it happened , lol .
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Being in a bleeding edge EQ guild and the military don't mix.
I got close to major issues a few times. A few days a week I'd stay up all night playing EQ and would drag ass while on duty. I even got called in on the carpet once and asked if I had a problem drinking. I never told them that I was addicted to a vidya game and said that I had terrible insomnia. I was ordered to take a drug test and when it came back negative they more-or-less accepted it.
When EQ came out in early '99, I only had ~10 months left to serve and I got out just before Kunark released or I probably would have gotten in deep shit because I played EQ waaaay too much during the Kunark, Velious, and Planes of Power era.
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Everquest. I missed out on a ton of things at the beginning of the century (D2, KOTOR, Morrowind, the entire Game Boy Advance system/era, girls, getting laid, probably getting laid a lot if we're being quite honest)
Yep. All because I was glued to that fucking Everquest from 99-01 and then especially 04-08. GoD through SoD is my main area of knowledge with that game.
Closest I ever got to picking up D2 was in 2000 or so when a lot of EQ folks were "jumping ship" to it and saying it was the new thing. They all returned before long though. Baldur, Icewind, Neverwinter, and Asheron's Call were all things I missed, that people left to play and then came back to EQ.
Which is the reason for my whole crusade with CRPGs, trying to see what I missed out on. The Baldurs (1, 2, and Throne) were great.
Asheron's Call was the closest I got to actually jumping ship on EQ. It looked decent enough, the classes were interesting enough, and most importantly people could solo much more easily in it. Being able to solo to max level was very appealing to me, given how EQ was at the time. However I never got around to trying AC. I think Kunark dropped and it totally pulled me back into EQ.
Sometimes I wonder how things would have gone if I did jump ship (probably would have just jumped back). Or better yet, if I never played EQ at all. It would be nothing more than an Ultima Online type curiosity to me, no doubt, and I'd probably have a couple kids. Also I'd be really in the dark about current events without this board.
Diablo 2 I remember hearing all about the Necro class, and being a Necro in EQ, I was definitely interested. So that's what I'm gonna run with on the game, Necro. Not sure if I'm gonna do D2 or Planescape first, those were the two winners of the poll. Dammit, paralysis by analysis strikes again.
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I’m playing Where Winds Meet on my
iPhone. Massive expansive game free to play single player. I haven’t even tried multiplayer yet. Not interested in the multiplayer crap.
Very large open world. Similar to Assassins Creed or Witcher games.
Highly recommend it!
iPhone. Massive expansive game free to play single player. I haven’t even tried multiplayer yet. Not interested in the multiplayer crap.
Very large open world. Similar to Assassins Creed or Witcher games.
Highly recommend it!
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I understand. I was friends with a couple of guys that I met at work back in college who were heavy EQ players, and that's a whole different animal from UO. One of them sold his characters a few times to people over the years and got like thousands of dollars, andwas selling Platinum all the time.
I guess I always enjoyed UO because the gameplay loop wasn't about having to spawn camp raid dungeons or whatever, it was just freeform and it was hey let's go PVP in Territhan Keep or one of the dungeons tonight. And if you weren't home, just set up EZmacro and level skills in the comfort of your online house, until they cracked down on that. Once you got your character maxed out skill wise, it was easy to pick up and put down whenever, which is why we played other games.
Probably why we played D2 so much was because we all played Diablo back in high school. I remember pirating a copy of Windows 95 from my friends dad because you needed it to run the game on my potato PC. We were just excited as hell with the second one was coming out and you could actually have a bigger multiplayer party.
Like I said though, since you've not played it you're in for a treat especially with the remastered version. You'll really have a good time, it's still one of the all-time greats.
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I’ll be the one that pretty much missed EQ because of D2. I was also in engineering school then and knew after a month of EQ that I would flunk out if I did it.
Case in point wow got me dangerously close to losing a job. It was only being a high performer with high throughput that let me at least appear competently mediocre up through TBC. Wrath having an easier curve probably got me a promotion.
Case in point wow got me dangerously close to losing a job. It was only being a high performer with high throughput that let me at least appear competently mediocre up through TBC. Wrath having an easier curve probably got me a promotion.
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yeah now I only play single player games and I must be able to pause. Wife doesn't get it but she does support my habit. She knew I liked ES games and showed me ES online , I told her that was a divorce simulator.
Currently playing Tainted Grail and having a blast.
Currently playing Tainted Grail and having a blast.
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