Videogames

I played it for like 8 or 9 hours and got really bored with Salvatore's writing - strange really, he is one of my favorite genre writers.  Thought I'd enjoy it more than I would considering how awesome the individual elements are - they just never coalesce into anything really special.  The character progression is kind of neat.

So when I got paid Friday I dumped 200$ into my Diablo 3 RMAH account.  Currently now sitting just shy of 750$.  More than tripled my money in 3-4 hours of work, and now that my Excel Spreadsheets are all set up and ready to be tweaked, I anticipate only making more money faster.

Gravel wrote: I played it for like 8 or 9 hours and got really bored with Salvatore's writing - strange really, he is one of my favorite genre writers.  Thought I'd enjoy it more than I would considering how awesome the individual elements are - they just never coalesce into anything really special.  The character progression is kind of neat. So when I got paid Friday I dumped 200$ into my Diablo 3 RMAH account.  Currently now sitting just shy of 750$.  More than tripled my money in 3-4 hours of work, and now that my Excel Spreadsheets are all set up and ready to be tweaked, I anticipate only making more money faster.

Gravel wrote: I played it for like 8 or 9 hours and got really bored with Salvatore's writing - strange really, he is one of my favorite genre writers.  Thought I'd enjoy it more than I would considering how awesome the individual elements are - they just never coalesce into anything really special.  The character progression is kind of neat.

Yeah I know what you mean. I think I'd be bored if I was an Open World RPG freak, but since I prefer mimimum RPG in linear story-based games like Dead Space and Mass Effect, I didn't get bored and was just able to enjoy the combat and leveling up. This game, more or less, introduced me to the Fantasy RPG world using the pen-and-paper/card style of game-play, which was something that I had always turned away from when I saw the 'dorks' at school playing it (Interestingly enough, about 2 weeks ago at the school that i teach at, I was walking around on duty and noticed some very young kids playing with cards in the same fashion - I didn't stick around. lol). Someone on youtube commented that it would have been as great as Skyrim if they had spent more time on it and I have to agree with that (though I've never played Skyrim): there are so many things wrong with it, yet, I guess because of my approach to the game, none of those things pissed me off; I just couldn't help being aware of them.

Edited by Warstub - 07/07/2012 at 18:10

Warstub wrote: - yellow location location rings over a yellow/tan map make them hard to locate - Saving before you go through a door that has to load to get through         * (so when you die, and the game reloads, it loads you in front of a door that you have to go through. 2x loading           screens straight after each other. And just to kick you in the teeth some more, if you fast travel out of that           location, that adds a 3rd loading screen to the mix - make sure you don't travel to a keep or cave, because that'll           be a total of 4 loading screens in succession!) - Your character not speaking a single word the entire game. - Maps have a very limited close-up view - The Map pointer getting 'stuck' over a location ring which blocks off the town that you want to fast-travel to.  - Jumping points to jump off a cliff face, instead of being able to jump off whereever the hell you like! (Assassin's   Creed totally mastered this aspect of gaming) - Turning off the subtitles but still getting subtitles when ever characters spoke to you.

NO ONE CAN EVER GET MAD AT ME FOR BEING NIT PICKY ABOUT UI ELEMENTS AGAIN!!!!

Just watched some trailers to End Of Nations, I must say it's the first modern game (both in creation and setting terms) that looks appealing in the last 15 years. Keeping an eye on it until it's out.

Currently sinking my teeth into Earthbound and Illusion of Gaia again. Meh@these new games.

I haven't played video games for a loooong time, I even sold my playstation 2 and sega megadrive because I got bored to them. But now for some reason I kind of longed for those old dos/pc games and downloaded a game called Nightmare Creatures. Basically this is is pretty enjoyable game but the gameplay ruins it all. Turning around is awfully slow and who the hell got this awesome idea that when you press backwards, the character will JUMP backwards, not walk or run or whatever. This+awful jumping in general+some "jump to these wooden planks which are really narrow and surrounded by water scenes" just kills the passion for me. Shame, it was kind of fun for a moment.

I have Mystic Quest on a rom but i heard it was dumbed down for North America when it was brought over as rpg's hadnt quite become popular yet here.After these 2 it's Secret of Evermore. All those Square/Enix games made in the early 90s are as enjoyable now as they were then

Edited by frod79 - 07/07/2012 at 12:28

Groomits wrote: Gravel, I still don't know what you think of this coming indie game. It looks really neat.