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Shadow Wolf · Jun 28, 2015

I'm about to try the new Gauntlet game.
I'm also going to be trying today to get the PC Steam client working on my Linux laptop, and if I am successful I might play some Everquest.

Shadow Wolf · Jun 29, 2015

I couldn't get Gauntlet to work...hopefully that promised Linux support hurries up. But, the release of the Steam Machine has boosted the number of games that work on Linux, and hopefully it will become more of a standard (which, of course, will require the Steam Machine to take off).
As for Everquest, I keep getting an error when I try to install the font-packages required to launch it, and I haven't figured out how to do away with the error yet.
So, I am playing Dante's Inferno for the first time in awhile. The only problem is I beat that game so thoroughly when I first got it that there isn't much of a challenge anymore, and so far I've only missed two silver coins. I even remembered how to get through the one super-weird puzzle where you have to run and jump along the side of couple of pillars.

dgirl1986 · Jun 29, 2015

Elder Scrolls Online!

1137 · Jun 29, 2015

How did I not know there was a gaming forum here?! I just finished up another Dark Souls 1 run and am restarting Scholar of the First Sin since my character went hollow. Also replaying the original splinter cell trilogy.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 4, 2015

I'm giving Mass Effect another chance. Especially now since I don't have school to keep me from being able to put more than an hour or two into a game at a time.
I also started playing Disgaea 4. It's been awhile since I've played any games in that series, and it quickly came back to me that, damn their is a ton of stuff to do in those games.
I beat Dante's Inferno, and I forgot that game does have some legit tough fights and challenges in it.

1137 · Jul 4, 2015

Shadow Wolf said:
I'm giving Mass Effect another chance. Especially now since I don't have school to keep me from being able to put more than an hour or two into a game at a time.
I also started playing Disgaea 4. It's been awhile since I've played any games in that series, and it quickly came back to me that, damn their is a ton of stuff to do in those games.
I beat Dante's Inferno, and I forgot that game does have some legit tough fights and challenges in it.

My like first year of college all I played was Mass Effect. It was all my spare time, got me into gaming, and now I can never play it again. Can't even get past one. I can't decide if I overplayed it or if it just led me to vastly better games.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 4, 2015

1137 said:
My like first year of college all I played was Mass Effect. It was all my spare time, got me into gaming, and now I can never play it again. Can't even get past one. I can't decide if I overplayed it or if it just led me to vastly better games.

My biggest hang-up with Mass Effect, at least the first one, is it is too much of a KOTOR shooter. And the elevator announcement of the Elcor putting on Hamlet, which is supposed to allow humans to judge Hamlet through his actions rather than emotions, I can't tell if that is supposed to be a joke or someone not realizing there pretty much is no Hamlet, at all, without his emotional reactions driving the play.
Yesterday I stopped in at Gamestop, saw they have a buy 2 get 1 free sale, so I got Disgaea 4, Eternal Sonata, and Hyperdimension Neptunia. At least the Playstation is still going strong with releasing RPG titles, even if 2 and 3 hasn't topped the classics of 1 such as FF7 and 8, Legends of Dragoon, Xenogears, and Chrono Cross.

dgirl1986 · Jul 5, 2015

I loved mass effect even though I am not a big shooty bang bang game lover. I got half way through ME 2 right after playing the first one. I seem to overdose on a game and then come back to it ages later.

lewisnotmiller · Jul 5, 2015

Have to admit, I love Mass Effect and Dragon Age, even whilst acknowledging the somewhat forumalaic nature of the character interactions.
Finished the Witcher 3, so currently working my way through Batman : Arkham Knight, whilst awaiting Fallout 4.

dgirl1986 · Jul 5, 2015

lewisnotmiller said:
Have to admit, I love Mass Effect and Dragon Age, even whilst acknowledging the somewhat forumalaic nature of the character interactions.
Finished the Witcher 3, so currently working my way through Batman : Arkham Knight, whilst awaiting Fallout 4.

I loved the romancing in Dragon Age and Mass Effect lol

lewisnotmiller · Jul 5, 2015

dgirl1986 said:
I loved the romancing in Dragon Age and Mass Effect lol

Yeah...it had it's good points. But it just seemed too linear to me. Do good deeds for someone, get them presents = relationship.
I prefer the Witcher 3 handling of it, in so far as it felt more realistic to me (even given that Geralt is a philanderer).

Course, the flexibility of working out the type of relationship you want in terms of gender isn't there in the Witcher, since it's a male, hetero protagonist.

dgirl1986 · Jul 5, 2015

lewisnotmiller said:
Yeah...it had it's good points. But it just seemed too linear to me. Do good deeds for someone, get them presents = relationship.
I prefer the Witcher 3 handling of it, in so far as it felt more realistic to me (even given that Geralt is a philanderer).

Course, the flexibility of working out the type of relationship you want in terms of gender isn't there in the Witcher, since it's a male, hetero protagonist.

I started watching a gameply vid of hte first witcher, I should watch the first two and consider if I want to play the third lol

lewisnotmiller · Jul 5, 2015

dgirl1986 said:
I started watching a gameply vid of hte first witcher, I should watch the first two and consider if I want to play the third lol

It's changed a lot, and for the better, in my opinion. I liked the first, but the third is a much more polished and mature place.
Still, it's a very different feel from Dragon Age or Mass Effect. More Game of Thrones than Lord of the Rings, so to speak.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 5, 2015

lewisnotmiller said:
whilst awaiting Fallout 4.

That is one of the games I am eventually probably going to get a PS4 for, along with Disgaea 5, a TOS 6 (at least, there should-better-be one of those), and at least a few others I have seen that look interesting.
I may have to give Witcher 3 a try. I didn't really like the first one, and from what I've been reading 3 is a major improvement.
I also hope that if there is a fouth Fable game it is also on PC, and I wouldn't mind a PC release of 2 since I got tired of my 360s always crapping out on me (the last one, a few years ago maybe, was just after the warranty expired). My character on 2 is probably a millionaire several times over by now.

lewisnotmiller · Jul 5, 2015

Shadow Wolf said:
That is one of the games I am eventually probably going to get a PS4 for, along with Disgaea 5, a TOS 6 (at least, there should-better-be one of those), and at least a few others I have seen that look interesting.
I may have to give Witcher 3 a try. I didn't really like the first one, and from what I've been reading 3 is a major improvement.
I also hope that if there is a fouth Fable game it is also on PC, and I wouldn't mind a PC release of 2 since I got tired of my 360s always crapping out on me (the last one, a few years ago maybe, was just after the warranty expired). My character on 2 is probably a millionaire several times over by now.

I'll vouch for Witcher 3, but it obviously depends on taste. Still, I played and liked Witcher 1 and 2, but it was more drop in drop out. This one I finished within 2 weeks, and it's a frigging HUGE game.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 7, 2015

In Mass Effect I've barely done anything in the main story line, yet my crew is talking as if I'm close to the end. Other than the fan and finding stuff, as far as I know I am done with the side-quests.
I've also come to realize the soft piano playing in the background sounds abit similar to the Castlevania LOI song Dark Palace of Waterfalls.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 8, 2015

I made it to Benezia, and expected to mop the floor with her like everything else up to that point. But damn, I'm actually having to think this battle out. I've also went from mildly regretting specializing in the sniper rifle (my preferred gun in any other shooter I've played) to really regretting it because there are so few areas in this game where it's useful, and now it's not worth a damn.

lewisnotmiller · Jul 8, 2015

Shadow Wolf said:
I made it to Benezia, and expected to mop the floor with her like everything else up to that point. But damn, I'm actually having to think this battle out. I've also went from mildly regretting specializing in the sniper rifle (my preferred gun in any other shooter I've played) to really regretting it because there are so few areas in this game where it's useful, and now it's not worth a damn.

Trying to remember what I played as. I think...somewhat unusually...I played as a straight assault trooper (whatever they are called), then relied on allies for other functions.

Shadow Wolf · Jul 8, 2015

Well, I said that, and then I found a nice safe and comfy spot to pick off her reinforcements with the sniper rifle, and the pulled out the handgun and used assault to finish her off.

1137 · Jul 8, 2015

I'm about to start a left-handed build in Scholar of the First Sin, which should be interesting. I can't get tired of this game and haven't even finished it once! It's funny because I absolutely hated the original version, but they definitely got it right this time around. Makes me more excited for Dark Souls III.

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