Looking for Gamers

Originally posted by Surtur
Yeah, I'll admit in the past people had more of a valid claim to roms. Stuff was harder to get ahold of back then.

Still I'll always feel nostalgic about playing Chrono trigger on a laptop. I used ZSNES.

Don't feel guilty about it, even devs admit they play MAME all the time.

I pay when I can, but it's pretty obvious companies gogue the hell out of the consumer without putting in the effort to properly emulate the software.

Maybe people wouldn't be so quick to use third party emulators, if the rights owners weren't such shit at emulating their own software compared to hobbyists.

Oh shit I played Mame back in the day too.

Me and my friends would plug in multiple controllers and play that D&D game

I think it was called shadows of mystra

Originally posted by Surtur
I think it was called shadows of mystra

Awesome game. 👆

The game Castle Crashers wanted to be, but was never close at being as fun as.

You should look into Alien vs Predator and The Punisher. Virtually impossible to buy, but two of the best beat 'em ups ever made.

Actually, if you know any friends who do online stuff, get FIGHTCADE.

Uses good net code, and runs most popular MAME games. If a game isn't in the list there's a trick to use it, but it's not that hard if you look it up.

And I admit I'd just look through the Mame library to see if there were other good games too to download. I remember getting altered beast.

Also the simpsons arcade game was fun to play with people.

Oh and guerilla war on nes

Originally posted by cdtm
My SNES works great. 👆

I actually only just beat Armored Core Project Phantasma's arena mode on PS1 hardware, played through the original Armored Core (Never did beat Nineball though), and started playing Final Fantasy 9.

My 360 is reliable enough, but occasionally has online issues which affects certain games.

It is a crying shame Einhander hasn't seen a digital release yet. You either have to emulate or own a PS1 to play it. 🙁 I also played Parasite Eve waaaaaay late, using my PS1 in 2012 for it.

I'm currently playing through Final Fantasy games I missed out on on phone, and I highly recommend just buying the phone versions. FF9 was handled by this obscure Thai studio, but they ****ing nailed it in every way imaginable. The graphics were smoothed over, so you're not looking at jagged polygons all day, there's quality of life features like a fast forward and autoplay buttons. The random encounters in JRPG's is a largely outdated mechanic, so it's a beautiful to have your party members squash them without you needing to do anything. You can even straight up disable random encounters if you want. I only used that feature when traveling on the world map, as it felt so unnecessary when you can already slaughter everything around you. It was just wasting time imo.

My original 360(the old 20GB ones), was the only one I had problems with. I fixed the RRoD myself, but it eventually came back later anyway. I got a 360 Slim and, in addition to looking sexy as hell, it never gave me problems.

Originally posted by cdtm

The game Castle Crashers wanted to be, but was never close at being as fun as.

Similar to Borderlands or Left 4 Dead or X-Men Legends/Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Great games, but I've never even halfway completed one alone. I always play through with a full squad of my bros, and sometimes...sis's? What are female bros?

Either way, some things are just meant to be played with others.

Originally posted by Surtur
Unfortunately all my older consoles (snes,Sega, nes) don't work.

Thank God/the empty void for emulators

It's also why I embrace the digital era so hard. The more of these things we get digitally, the easier it is for us to both find and support these things, especially games that didn't do so well the first time around. The success of Beyond Good and Evil's digital release is part of the reason it's getting a sequel.

It's kinda like in comics. Ms. Marvel's(Kamala) paper sales aren't the greatest, but her digital sales are always impressive. I remember one particular issue only making top #150 in physical sales, but being in the top 10 digitally. It's that stark of a difference for some properties.

Originally posted by BackFire
PCs break just as often or don’t even work out of the box sometimes. Any piece of advanced electronics is going to have a failure rate.

I like PC gaming a lot. I do it a lot. But I don’t like the elitism that people sometimes have with it. I think people just use whatever they’re comfortable with. They both have pros and cons. They both offer a good experience. Just comes down to what you want.

The separation is private going to get smaller soon though. Both the PS5 and the new Xbox are going to be absolute beasts and it sounds like console games will be getting a greater deal of customizable options for next gen.

I have owned virtually every console. I currently own a Xbox 1X and PS4.

My friends only played PC. I made the switch and never looked back.

I honesty don’t know the next console game I will play is a new assassins creed I have purchase online and need to download. We’ll see how it goes

Big sale ob steam for Pinball FX 3.

The entire Marvel line is up for 10 bucks. As is the Star Wars line, most of which I have on FX 2 on a 360.

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
I have owned virtually every console. I currently own a Xbox 1X and PS4.

My friends only played PC. I made the switch and never looked back.

I honesty don’t know the next console game I will play is a new assassins creed I have purchase online and need to download. We’ll see how it goes

Regardless, this will all be moot soon enough. Phones/Cloud gaming are changing the entertainment landscape in ways we never imagined. They already basically killed handheld consoles, and it appears they will play a similar role with consoles/PC's.

Have y'all seen the Project xCloud stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=312&v=thTW3GpyWVI&feature=emb_title

Originally posted by NemeBro
Two bosses, so I assume you're talking about Gundyr and Vordt?

I can't imagine finding someone like Asylum Demon and Taurus Demon harder than them tbh, in terms of first boss difficulty neither are hard naturally but Dark Souls 3 beats 1 by miles.

Dark Souls 2's Last Giant is also much easier, but Pursuer might be the hardest second boss in Dark Souls proper.

Pursuer ended up being my fourth boss in DS2, as I fought Dragonrider first, then went back and did Last Giant, then Flexile Sentry, then went back again and fought Pursuer?? Just realising that DS2 deserves more credit than I usually give it.

So, nobody plays WoW? It's not what it was, but it's still one of the most popular MMORPGs out there.

I find it a good time filler.

Originally posted by Mindship
So, nobody plays WoW? It's not what it was, but it's still one of the most popular MMORPGs out there.

I find it a good time filler.

I loved wow enough to create 3 accounts and sell them all🙂 Also if anyone remembers ebay used to let you sell EQ accounts and I made a bundle on a hobby doing that🙂

No games on the PC now.

Originally posted by Mindship
So, nobody plays WoW? It's not what it was, but it's still one of the most popular MMORPGs out there.

I find it a good time filler.

I play wow off and on. I’m going to play it when shadowlands comes out.

Right now I’m playing final fantasy 14. Really enjoying that.

Fallout TV show in the works from Amazon and Bethesda, apparently the Westworld showrunners are on board.

Originally posted by cdtm
Big sale ob steam for Pinball FX 3.

The entire Marvel line is up for 10 bucks. As is the Star Wars line, most of which I have on FX 2 on a 360.

Bought 30 tables.

And there goes my entire summer sale budget.

Pinball FX3 is worth getting even if you don't want to buy anything, because its a free download and you get two tables with it.

Personally I'd spend 3.99 on all three Aliens tables, if nothing else. It has movie audio and everything, unlike Star Wars with its fake voice actors.

Almost done playing Rebel Galaxy. Game crashes when I put up my deflector shield, sometimes. Stopped playing it earlier today.

Finally ran into giant powerful armadas in 5-7 sytems. Yeah, I "border patrol" those giant armadas and slowly kill them all with 0 hull damage. it's getting to where missions earn you 1-2 million credits per mission. And I needed those credits. I have all level 6 equipment, now. It costs over 3 million credits for one device. I'm running the long range heat seeking missiles with particle beams or something for broadsides. Using the Black Gate. Tier 6 equipment is extremely powerful.

The game is far too simplistic, the audio recording was done without a pop-mic (I'm an amateur and even I can tell they needed a pop mic shield), the acting was terrible, the story is terrible, but I'm still playing it. It's like the game I wanted to play but just isn't quite there. It's a 4/10 game, for sure.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Almost done playing Rebel Galaxy. Game crashes when I put up my deflector shield, sometimes. Stopped playing it earlier today.

Finally ran into giant powerful armadas in 5-7 sytems. Yeah, I "border patrol" those giant armadas and slowly kill them all with 0 hull damage. it's getting to where missions earn you 1-2 million credits per mission. And I needed those credits. I have all level 6 equipment, now. It costs over 3 million credits for one device. I'm running the long range heat seeking missiles with particle beams or something for broadsides. Using the Black Gate. Tier 6 equipment is extremely powerful.

The game is far too simplistic, the audio recording was done without a pop-mic (I'm an amateur and even I can tell they needed a pop mic shield), the acting was terrible, the story is terrible, but I'm still playing it. It's like the game I wanted to play but just isn't quite there. It's a 4/10 game, for sure.

Sorry you didn't like it.

True, it's pretty arcade simple. Essentially a souped up Privateer.

Which for me, was part of the charm.

I run my laptop through my television, so that's probably why I didn't notice the popping.

So you never ran into the "undergeared" wall? The point where you can sit there all day and shoot them, and not put in a dent?

My play style was essentially to pick the hardest randomly generated missions I could. Just shy of impossible, intentionally putting myself as a disadvantage. And then beating the odds through tactics.

Just a personal play style. I also kind of like the courier missions using the fastest ship in the game.

Originally posted by cdtm
Sorry you didn't like it.

No, you misunderstand. It's a pretty bad game. But I'm still playing it because it's what I want...just not up to snuff. 😄

True, it's pretty arcade simple. Essentially a souped up Privateer.

Which for me, was part of the charm.

I run my laptop through my television, so that's probably why I didn't notice the popping.

Originally posted by cdtm
So you never ran into the "undergeared" wall? The point where you can sit there all day and shoot them, and not put in a dent?

No. And here's why: I had the Black Gate since the second system or something.

Ever new system where there is a gear level up, I would run missions and sell shit until I had enough money to mac my gear. Never went to the next system until that was the case.

Patience and credits credits credits. I did die to an armada on a 40 gold ingots delivery mission. The station is surrounded by multiple capital class ships, medium clas ships, and literally dozens of mosquitoes. I died because I was a dumbass and thought I could bull rush my way through. You can't. So I kited. Killed them all slowly, and used that method from then on out. It worked very well. The long range HS missiles are amazing, as well. I used the leech ones.

Originally posted by cdtm
My play style was essentially to pick the hardest randomly generated missions I could. Just shy of impossible, intentionally putting myself as a disadvantage. And then beating the odds through tactics.

You can beat anything with my kiting tactic. Just pick off fringe stuff. Jump to the next station, reload/repair, go back. Now, I don't really have to do this as the Tier 6 equipment is so powerful I could probably bum rush that armada and walk over them. I ran into a massive war between the Red Devils (or something) and the Sheel's (or whatever). Massive fight. Much larger than that system 5 armada that killed me. I walked over all of them. It was absurd. Far more ships. When you double your offense, increase range, lower cool downs, and more than double your shields, (that's about what it was like from Tier 5 to Tier 6), it becomes super easy.

Originally posted by cdtm
Just a personal play style. I also kind of like the courier missions using the fastest ship in the game.

Never tried that. I also never tried the economy manipulation thing. You can earn many millions in less than an hour with that trick. Never needed to. I did grind missions and cargo sales to earn millions, however. I currently have 23-25 million but I wiped out my credits to upgrade all my stuff. I'm still not faction maxed for the Militia. You know what, it feels like you can earn millions of credits in an hour just completing missions. Game really doesn't cap you after you get out of system 2.

It was a good recommendation, CDTM. I appreciate it. It was fun. Still not done with the game. Wish they had polish to the game. Wish you could have a fleet with you like a large scale space-RTS.

Originally posted by Scribble
Good point, Asylum Demon is a light stroll for anyone who's played even a bit of DS, and Taurus Demon is very easy once you've done it once before. Vordt was fun, though. Kept me on my toes a bit.

Pursuer ended up being my fourth boss in DS2, as I fought Dragonrider first, then went back and did Last Giant, then Flexile Sentry, then went back again and fought Pursuer?? Just realising that DS2 deserves more credit than I usually give it.

Notice that half of the bosses you named are some variation of "big armoured guy with a big weapon".

There are a LOT of bosses in Dark Souls 2 that fit that archetype, and it's a little boring.

Some of the actual mechanics of the bosses are also really lazy. Dragonrider himself was already very basic, then they have you fight two of them later on in a very anticlimactic fight. Drangleic Castle deserved better. There are a lot of gank fights in DS2 that tried to recapture the glory of Ornstein and Smough (and to an extent the Bell Gargoyles) but failed to. Ruined Sentinels are a little conceptually boring but at least you can cheese them. Belfry Gargoyles are just a really obnoxious retread of a better boss fight in DS1. Throne Defender and Throne Watcher are like O and S without what made the fight balanced (a large arena with pillars to help divide the two bosses to single them out) and just puts two bosses in one flat arena who try to do their own thing and **** you up.

There are definitely some gems in Dark Souls 2 and 1 had some stinkers as well (Bed of Chaos), but 2 definitely had problems in boss design. It also didn't have nearly the level design.