Tomi on 7/9/2024 at 03:42
The first Diablo was awesome. It was simple but addictive, the loot hunt was exciting rather than exhausting, and they really nailed the atmosphere indeed. Diablo 2 may have polished every aspect of the game, but it also added some annoying grindy stuff if I remember correctly, so I never bothered finishing the game.
btw, Titan Quest is still the best ARPG that there is.
Jason Moyer on 7/9/2024 at 15:39
I vastly preferred Torchlight 1+2 to the Diablo games. They did everything Diablo did with significant QoL upgrades and none of the bullshit. Titan Quest is in fact great, too, as is Grim Dawn.
Sulphur on 7/9/2024 at 16:33
Torchlight was fine except for one very significant problem: the low-poly colourful WoW aesthetic neutered any kind of atmosphere it could have had, and the narrative was basically Diablo 1's but as an afterthought. It played pretty well, but felt like an attempt at genre exercise for the sake of it that got stale by about midway through. And yeah, I know it was basically the key folks from Blizzard North that made it, so I respect it, but man did I find myself wishing it wasn't trying to evoke a toothless Saturday morning cartoon special most of the time.
henke on 7/9/2024 at 21:43
In addition to Star Truckin I am also still Star Warring. Outlaw style, BABYYYYY! It's good. Yeah yeah, it's entirely unoriginal and derivative. In addition to copying its gameplay from previous Ubigames, it also cribs things from plenty of other games. The focus mode of TLOU. The dead eye of RDR. The active reload of GoW. Outlaws is playing all the hits! And it works. I'm spending the weekend on Tatooine. Me and my robo-sidekick set down near a small town called Wayfar where I was supposed to do some mission, but instead I hopped on my speeder and went exploring. Did some sidemissions, found some treasures, met Jawas, was about to drive into the sand dunes but then I saw a friggen SAND WORM and got scared. Star Wars has sandworms I guess? DANK FARRIK TO THAT, I says. Kept driving, finally I see a big desert town in the distance. Drive towards it past small huts and moisture farms. When I finally arrive the game's UI confirms what I suspected: I have arrived in that famous den of scum and villainy, Mos Eisley. The Imps have barriers set up, monitoring anyone who goes in and out. I walk down the merchant quarter, pick myself up a dashing Thief outfit. Drop into the cantina and listen to some groovin JIZZ music. When night falls I head out into the streets and have myself some genuine Tatooine street food. I mostly like the minigames in this. The rhythm based lockpicking and Imperial Wordle are fun, but the QTE Street Food Eating minigame HAS to go. After enduring it twice I go into the options and turn it off.
Anyway, got into a whole mess with Jabba, fought a rancor, went into a Sarlacc pit, yada yada. Good game.
Aja on 8/9/2024 at 04:06
Nice.
Sulphur on 8/9/2024 at 05:15
While Assassin's Creed Odyssey has pounded my disinclination towards the Ubisoft formula into a quantum superposition of extremely grudging tolerance|profound boredom that collapses into either depending on which of its photons bounce across my retinas on a given day of the week, I'll say that Outlaws mostly looks like Star Wars porridge to me, except that on PC it has a stupendous path tracing implementation that looks like the de facto way to play it if you have the latest liquid nitrogen cooling block strapped to your bleeding-edge hardware procured from a time rift reaching into 2029.
I'll also say that Massive has never made a bad game, so I wouldn't be surprised if the 7/10 impression I get from henke's travels holds up for the majority of everyone playing it. I may have this wrong, but I think the game borrows from all over Ubisoft's oeuvre as well, including the factions system from FC2.
mxleader on 8/9/2024 at 05:53
I'm so bored right now that I've been playing solitaire on my computer. I'm bored with GTA V and a lot of other games. I played a Thief FM the other day for about 20 minutes before shutting it off. What the hell is wrong with me? Solitaire? Does this mean I'm getting old or are video games not quite good enough these days to hold my attention for very long? Burn out maybe? I did play Minecraft for a bit today with my daughter but that wasn't much fun because she's a teenager now and is slowly losing interest in that game.
Thirith on 8/9/2024 at 08:05
I have phases like that, where gaming simply isn't what I want or need. They've come and they've gone. I've heard similar from a bunch of people here. It might be like that with you as well.
Malf on 8/9/2024 at 22:17
@ mxleader, it usually hits me like that when I've finally finished a really big game that I've poured a lot of time into. For a few of those games, I've found the only "solution" is replaying them until something I've been waiting for comes out.
I spend so much time in some of these worlds, their absence leaves a hole that only they can fill; one of the big ones where I really was able to first identify this feeling of ennui was Witcher 3.
It's a good idea at times like this to have a creative or physical hobby to fall back on. For me, that's playing guitar. I find it kind of... recharges my batteries.
mxleader on 8/9/2024 at 22:46
Quote Posted by Malf
It's a good idea at times like this to have a creative or physical hobby to fall back on. For me, that's playing guitar. I find it kind of... recharges my batteries.
I have a number of hobbies. I was just feeling bored last night for some reason. One thing I did do today is replay the last mission I built years ago and made a list of about 50 items that need to be fixed or I just want to update/delete. That should keep me busy for a while, especially just getting Dromed set up again.
