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Comment on What games have you guys been playing lately? Yall stick to a certain genre or play anything? in ~games
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Comment on What games have you guys been playing lately? Yall stick to a certain genre or play anything? in ~games
EViLeleven Link ParentD:OS2 has been such a surprise hit for me. After seeing the multiplayer trailer I recruited three friends to play with me, but connection/performance/stability issues made us getting to about...D:OS2 has been such a surprise hit for me. After seeing the multiplayer trailer I recruited three friends to play with me, but connection/performance/stability issues made us getting to about level 4 or 5 and then we just kinda stopped.
In contrast to my friends the gameplay kinda hooked me, and so I kept playing. And damn, that was a good decision. I love love love the kind of freedom Divinity allows. My favourite thing was trying to "outsmart" and cheese the given situation to ease my way through it. Unchaining followers for certain parts, teleporting everything and everyone everywhere, and leaving nobody alive. Overleveling and coming back to decimate whole cities and shooting quest givers in the face with devastating fire lazers.
The fact that you can kill almost every vendor and quest giver made me live out Rivellon's worst source of nightmares. For me, this is absolutely a single player game. We may had fun in multi player, but no one would have wanted to suffer the setups and patience and reloading saves involved in my playthrough. It was an incredible experience. Definitely my favourite game of 2017.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games
EViLeleven LinkI run a Star Wars D20 group and I almost always use premade adventures and frankenstein them together, so that they fit the overall campaign. Changing character names, the loot they're after, how...I run a Star Wars D20 group and I almost always use premade adventures and frankenstein them together, so that they fit the overall campaign. Changing character names, the loot they're after, how the group got there, whatever is needed to make it work.
This is partly because I am to lazy to think of evening-filling stories myself, and partly because I know that even when I'd sit down and make same myself, they wouldn't be of similar quality. For the last meet-up for example I straight up lifted a whole section of Kotor in a flashback-style mission.
We already changed half the game with house rules (going so far as to create a new skill system on the basis of the one DSA uses) and aren't too strict with enforcing even those rules, so it kinda fits our whole game philosophy to modify other adventures to our taste.
I think this works for us, because the biggest part of the enjoyment of our game evenings stems from the fact that we only get to meet each other a few times a year and are all really good friends. Rules as loose as ours and all the hand waving and judging by what seems reasonable rather than what's written in the guide book wouldn't work as well for a group that "only" meets up to play the game rather than getting to catch up with all your friends.
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Comment on Using icons vs using words in ~tildes
EViLeleven Link ParentShould have used an icon for that, instead of hiding it in your text.Should have used an icon for that, instead of hiding it in your text.
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Comment on The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one in ~games
EViLeleven Link ParentI did something like that for a while! I have about ~300 videos on my youtube channel, with 0 to 4 views on average. They are in the typical "Let's play"-style of format, but I think that's...I did something like that for a while! I have about ~300 videos on my youtube channel, with 0 to 4 views on average. They are in the typical "Let's play"-style of format, but I think that's similar enough to streaming to no one.
I like to think that they helped me a bit with my anxiety and my organizational (is that the right word?) skills, because I had a schedule to keep (that no one but myself cared about, but that was good enough for me). Also I learned a bit about encoding, video/audio quality and all that jazz.
Good thing is: I went in with those expectations only. I can see how someone who wants to interact with people would be devastated when his broadcasting into the world is met with silence.
Because the other comment reminded me of it: Have you played Divinity: Original Sin 2? It's as complicated as you want to make it, and imho worth a recommendation do everyone that likes role playing games. The turn based combat turned me off at first, but it really fits the overall game feel and is an absolute necessity to not drown in actiony bits happening all the time while in combat.
It's not really open world or in any way sandboxy like Skyrim, as you are way more guided in the way your playthrough is structured and stuff like that, but it really is an awesome experience.
And while I'm at it recommending games. How about Dark Souls? Because it's my favourite game of, like, all time, I can't really be unbiased, and it certainly isn't a game where you can flesh out your character in-game and explore the world how you want to. It's more on the action side than the RPG one of action-role-playing-games. But the combat system. Oh my, the combat system. It's the most bestest awesome thing I ever played.
The game is essentially a concatenation of various combat scenarios that you have to overcome with the character you built. Be it sword-and-board, magic-balls-to-the-wall or flip-flopping halberd ninja, I just love the way the gameplay feels. Something that the later soulslike games, or any other game, sadly couldn't replicate it in a way that overall improved on it (as far as my opinion is concerned).