Resardiv
Herr Nordic Lost in Amerikat
I have yet to play BG3, but that's great to hear.
So far, I've enjoyed the depth of different cultures in Poe. The premise of Hollowborn and the general theme struck a cord with me.
General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?
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So far, I've enjoyed the depth of different cultures in Poe. The premise of Hollowborn and the general theme struck a cord with me.
BG3 is far suprerior in terms of combat and obvious technical advancements, but has a lot more simpler and straightforward story. It's more BG simply put, while PoE has shades of PST on it.
That being said, PoE kinda overstays its welcome at some point, with its somewhat uneven/slow pacing and occasional unnecessary walls of text.
Also I found those backer NPCs, although a minor detail, to be very annoying.
Resardiv
Herr Nordic Lost in Amerikat
I agree! I stopped reading the backer-npcs after I left Gilded vale, they add nothing. Thankfully a lot of the reading is optional, as you said, too many walls of texts.
Luckily it is quite obvious which ones are backer NPCs, but the fact that 90% of them are colorful Godlikes is annoying on its own.
Resardiv
Herr Nordic Lost in Amerikat
The golden frame is a godsend. Human fighter remains the best overall class in all RPGs, not sorry.
Exempli gratia:
Exempli gratia:
Norzan
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Started an Extreme playthrough in Terminator Resistance. Learned quickly that the game has a mechanic to avoid one shots, one shots from enemy weapons anyway. Yes, everything deals insane amounts of damage, even the weakest enemies.
Norzan
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Finished my Extreme playthrough. I thought it would be harder, but i guess the mechanic i mentioned above helps the difficulty feel a bit easier. You'll still get shredded very quickly if you are out in the open for like two seconds, specially against Terminators (they are hyper accurate and shoot like madmen). But overall, i still really like this game, and i think i like it even more than i did after my first playthrough last year.
But really all this game did was make me want to rewatch Terminator 1 and 2.
But really all this game did was make me want to rewatch Terminator 1 and 2.
Did you see that they released a new patch yesterday because the ten year anniversary? And they will add a turnbased mode later this year. That even makes me want to replay PoE and finally complete the White Marsch.
Turn based mode will make me want to replay it. I heavily dislike real time with pause.
Resardiv
Herr Nordic Lost in Amerikat
Yeah, I was surprised to see that the other day. Hopefully, they also fixed the issue with stronghold visitors not showing up, tis annoying. I haven't played the game in a week, bit burned out after almost 60 hours nonstop.
Norzan
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Rewatched Terminator 1, it's kind of astounding how well the Terminator Resistance game gets the future war shown in that movie. And the movie shows like five minutes of it at most, but yet the devs with a shoestring budget managed to capture the feeling of it quite well. They even managed to make the new music sound like it belong in the first movie, with the same synths and drum machines.
A team known for one of the worst games of all time (the 2014 Rambo videogame) managed to make a Terminator game that respects the license and captures the feel of it, all with a budget for a single potato. Definitely tells something about the AAA scene when even with the budget to finance a small country, they still fail quite often to do what this team with this game. Shows what happens when people just give a bit of a shit.
Now i want to replay the Robocop game they made (which is even better, a genuinely fantastic game), but i might just do that when the upcoming expansion comes out this summer. Do a full playthrough of the game.
Resardiv
Herr Nordic Lost in Amerikat
Finally beat Concelhaut in Crägholdt! He wiped the floor with me three times before I finally got him. I had to run back to Defiance Bay to buy some dragon meat for a much needed stat buff. It was definitely necessary—my priest and bard barely made it out alive. Onto the White March!
Norzan, have you also played Annihilation Line, the expansion for Terminator Resistance. What did you think of that.
Yes, its very impressive how Teyon based on a handful of shots was able to make an entire game that feels like it is set in the Terminator future war.
They probably had access to Cameron's concept art to give them an idea how the future would look like along with Skynet units we didn't see in the movie like the Centurion and the Silverfish.
I also liked how Teyon imagined the Skynet architecture to look like, very brutal and cold.
Extra cool in the Annihilation Line is that we get to see the future battle with Kyle and Ferro against the HK Tank followed by the chase with the Aerial HK, and we get an answer on how Reese managed to get out of the car (we helped him).
Previous game I felt came very close to a true Terminator game was Terminator Dawn of Fate, that despite its limitations gave us a cool Terminator future war experience, even if some elements were off. (the resistance outfits for one).
Main thing I wish was changed in that game are the forced camera views. I would rather prefer a shoulder camera.
I can't tell you why game developers previously couldn't get a Terminator game right. Maybe the designers didn't have the right mindset.
Yeah the Robocop game is also great, not sure if I would qualify it as 'better' than the Terminator. More like different as some of the gameplay is very different from Terminator Resistance.
But it feels like the Robocop game we have been waiting for a long time for as I can't think of a previous game outside maybe the Robocop arcade game and Robocop vs Terminator that was a good Robocop experience and those game were platform shooters.
I finished the game two times now so I am also going to wait for the expansion which looks very promising
Norzan
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
It was pretty good. One of the things i always found odd about the main campaign was the lack of Kyle Reese, so i guess they made that up with the expansion. Shame Michael Biehn didn't voice the character, but whoever did actually did a pretty good job.
That was pretty cool to see. In general the game expands more on the future war stuff, which is one of the things that makes it great (not just recycle Terminator 2 all over again).
Resistance is actually the only Terminator game i have played so far. I did heard that ironically the Bethesda Terminator games are actually not bad, but this is pre-Todd Howard Bethesda.
And the ones to do it were the ones that made that trash Rambo videogame. It's so weird.
The two games are different, but Robocop definitely has the better production values and more tight, better put together gameplay in my opinion. Both are great regardless.
It does capture perfectly what feels like to be Robocop. I was one of the people slightly concerned that Robocop's slow walk speed would be annoying, but the level design is made entirely around it. Plus you can unlock the short dash, making traversal quicker.