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On a very different note (and I realize I'm a year late on this), I finished playing Butterfly Soup: https://brianna-lei.itch.io/butterfly-soup
It's a "pay what you want" visual novel about a bunch of teens who play baseball. The humour can be puerile (they're teens), but it made me laugh out loud multiple times. I think anyone who enoyed Life is Strange will like this too.
It's a "pay what you want" visual novel about a bunch of teens who play baseball. The humour can be puerile (they're teens), but it made me laugh out loud multiple times. I think anyone who enoyed Life is Strange will like this too.
Yeah, I have the Death Adder. Haven't noticed the health changing color, but I do know it goes into Rave mode while the game is loading.
BFV Open Beta is the first game I recall where my G910 Keyboard has a default lightning scheme. It lights up most (but not all) primary keybindings.
I am a HUGE DQ (previously DW) fan. I am holding off on it for now only because my backlog is so big. Maybe I will try and pick it up around Christmas/New Years, but I am very stoked for it and all the good things I keep hearing about it!
I was bored the other night and decided to boot up D3, and created a new seasonal character. Great way to burn two hours.
I miss Marvel Heroes.
I miss Marvel Heroes.
Yeah, I enjoy the loading rave mode as well. It's a good mouse. Can't say I'm a fan of having to have an online profile for my mouse software, but this is the way of the future I suppose.
Is Marvel Heroes gone?I was bored the other night and decided to boot up D3, and created a new seasonal character. Great way to burn two hours.
I miss Marvel Heroes.
I thought I saw a name change, Omega or something a while back. I played at the beginning, I just thought omega was like an expansion or something.
Yep Marvel Heros is dead, although I see adds on the TV for some other sort of Marvel game online.
I miss Marvel Heros. For a free to play game they had a lot of content, and i have a big weakness for the Diablo sort of gameplay (kill things, bet slightly better stuff so you can kill tougher things. Repeat Add-nauseum)
I miss Marvel Heros. For a free to play game they had a lot of content, and i have a big weakness for the Diablo sort of gameplay (kill things, bet slightly better stuff so you can kill tougher things. Repeat Add-nauseum)
The corporation went under. How they managed to do that with a steady funding of Marvel fan money is beyond me.Is Marvel Heroes gone?I was bored the other night and decided to boot up D3, and created a new seasonal character. Great way to burn two hours.
I miss Marvel Heroes.
I thought I saw a name change, Omega or something a while back. I played at the beginning, I just thought omega was like an expansion or something.
Yeah, I read the wiki on it. Crazy how they just dropped the ball with Disney backing them..The corporation went under. How they managed to do that with a steady funding of Marvel fan money is beyond me.Is Marvel Heroes gone?I was bored the other night and decided to boot up D3, and created a new seasonal character. Great way to burn two hours.
I miss Marvel Heroes.
I thought I saw a name change, Omega or something a while back. I played at the beginning, I just thought omega was like an expansion or something.
On another note, reading the wiki of our it started and stuff got me reading about Cryptic Studios, which led to Champions Online. Which apparently is still a thing, so I may go try and see if its any good still. I played right after release for a while, but kinda lost interest. Nothing can scratch that City Of Heroes itch yet...
Disney took back the license from them. Something about the CEO being a total douche bag. Don't recall what exactly it was he did. I had thousands of hours and about 35 characters.
I was somewhere near the 30 character mark, myself.
As for City of Heroes, not a week goes by that I don't think about one of the scenes from that game, or run into a discussion about it, or a friend brings it up...
For a dead game, it really drives a lot of unsatisfied fandom desire. I'm amazed that the CoH-imitators haven't managed to get their shit together yet. At this point, something that only mimicked CoH would be too dated to be usable.
As for City of Heroes, not a week goes by that I don't think about one of the scenes from that game, or run into a discussion about it, or a friend brings it up...
For a dead game, it really drives a lot of unsatisfied fandom desire. I'm amazed that the CoH-imitators haven't managed to get their shit together yet. At this point, something that only mimicked CoH would be too dated to be usable.
FWIW I tried Champions Online recently and the main difference is a ton of kits are paywalled since the game went F2P. That said, almost nothing has changed about the early parts of the game, that I've seen. For better or worse.
Not sure if you're on reddit, but there are some on the r/cityofheroes page that are close, apparently.
I follow that subreddit just for nostalgia. I had 3 accounts, 30+ max level characters across 4 servers. My main character had about 2500 hours on him alone. I miss it.
Thanks. I'll try to remember to check that when I get home. I'm still relatively new to the Reddit scene; I avoided it for ages. So I don't tend to think of checking it for information I can't find easily elsewhere.
As for the idea of a CoH successor being close to completion - until I see it, and can play it myself, I'll continue to assume that it's just a Nemesis plot. :devious:
Edit: I did try one of the supposed successors - Valiant, I think? - in its pre-alpha state, and it brought my video card close to a nuclear meltdown. I have a better video card now, but still... =>_<=
Edit2: And while taking a peek at /r/cityofheroes/ on company time, I just discovered that Wildstar has entered its final stages, and will be shut down before the end of the year. =>_<=
I need to get a copy of their original trailer. So much character in the characters and the world.
I fired it up myself recently and I don't know if I'm just getting old but I died in the first big room playing on normal ("Hurt Me Plenty" in DOOM-speak). Any pointers? Should I switch to shotgun for the baddies hanging off the columns that I can't melee?
Just practice (killing demons is fun! - practice a lot) and keep constantly moving and jumping
Champs Online has its charms, and character creation is fun, but yeah... the game has changed very, very little over the years beyond them adding new vanity stuff to waste money on.
Shotgun helps. Never forget to just run in and pop some skulls when enemies are glowing. Even if you don't need the health right now, they'll stick around for at least a little while (can't recall if they despawn or not). Imps are crazy mobile so early on you're going to have your hands full just learning how to read their movements. Later you'll have some better weapons to deal with them and be familiar enough with their movements that they won't cause you much problem.
Early on the pistol charged shot is very helpful. Plus the enemies spawn based on location not time so you can take *your* time and snipe with the pistol to whittle things down, then go in guns or fists blazing.
In retrospect, playing in VR during a thunderstorm may not have been the brightest idea. No, nothing went zap, no magic smoke came out, etc, although now that I think about it, those were possibilities. Pretty sure there's a surge protector there, but still.
No, every time lightning struck, I would lose tracking and the whole (virtual) world would fade to a featureless grey. Then as the thunder started a few seconds later, tracking would pick up and I could re-orient myself and resume play. A few times it happened at inopportune moments, and I nearly fell.
Since I couldn't actually see the lightning, it took me entirely too long to figure out what was happening.
No, every time lightning struck, I would lose tracking and the whole (virtual) world would fade to a featureless grey. Then as the thunder started a few seconds later, tracking would pick up and I could re-orient myself and resume play. A few times it happened at inopportune moments, and I nearly fell.
Since I couldn't actually see the lightning, it took me entirely too long to figure out what was happening.
I haven't decided if I want to get it on the PS4 or PC. Now Spiderman has me sucked in so I'll wait till I finish that to pick it up.
Watching the extended game play video about Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. Some of you may remember that I was stupidly stoked about the original Rebel Galaxy, mostly about it's soundtrack.
This game, from what I've seen and read, looks MUCH different. Think Wing Commander: Privateer.
Link to short gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5PR5locpU
Link to the 1 hour gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfQetVBJrQI
This game, from what I've seen and read, looks MUCH different. Think Wing Commander: Privateer.
Link to short gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5PR5locpU
Link to the 1 hour gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfQetVBJrQI
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The first one was more capital-ship (or at least corvette-sized) play, right? I like the more fighter-y feel of at least the first gameplay trailer. I've got House of the Dying Sun sitting in my backlog (tried playing the first mission and had no idea how to effectively fight, I'm gonna need more practice) but more Wing Commander-style games is definitely a good thing.
Yeah, first game was capital ships. I like it, but I've been yearning for a good space sim that wasn't Elite for a while. Plus, they are saying full HOTAS support.
I liked the idea of Rebel Galaxy a lot, and then when I finally got it on sale, I only played it for a couple of hours because the 2D combat in space turned me off. More like playing battleships on the high seas than space combat. I liked the universe and concept, so hopefully this will deliver.
That's what got me 10 hours of it. The devs made it because they liked the execution of the ship combat in Assassin's Creed Black Flag so much they wanted to do something akin to that.
You forgot the somewhat entertaining original announcement video.
Yeah, that's what got me into it. I liked the naval combat in Black Flag, but disliked pretty much everything else about that game, and I'm also really into anything space-related, so Rebel Galaxy was a natural fit.
It had some flaws and could get a bit repetitive, but I enjoyed it overall.
At the same time, I'm also not too bothered that they're changing the core gameplay for Outlaw to something more traditional. As long as the devil still calls, I'm gonna ride that train.
My old XBox 360 controller has seen better days.
Microsoft Xbox One Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10
Microsoft Xbox Wireless Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10
Which one of these would I get as a replacement (for use with Windows 10)? Amazon says the second one is newer, but it's listed under XBox 360.
Microsoft Xbox One Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10
Microsoft Xbox Wireless Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10
Which one of these would I get as a replacement (for use with Windows 10)? Amazon says the second one is newer, but it's listed under XBox 360.
I don't know exactly, but I would buy the cheaper one. My suspicion is that is the same item.
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The issue with the listing is that the photos are all over the place. The description is for the newer model, but some photos show the older, bigger dongle. Either way, there's no Xbox 360 controller bundle for Windows 10.
I wonder what's the reason for the sale. A new revision in the pipeline?
The first link is being sold by a third-party (J.F.J in California), but fulfilled by Amazon, so he's already put the items in the Amazon warehouse. The second is straight from Amazon, who got it direct from Microsoft. Chalex is right - those two are the same item. The cheaper one is also the safer bet; there's no question on which way to "jump."
Best Buy also has Xbox One gamepads + adapter for the same cut, if you're out and about:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft- ... Id=6185207
Also, I believe the latest Xbox One controllers have proper Bluetooth support so you could possibly buy one from that side of the aisle and use it without the adapter.
Price wise, that's functionally the equivalent to buying the $55 Amazon listing (which appears to not be sold by a 13 year old kid at the very least) but MSRP is $5 more expensive (unless it's on sale). I'd go with the cheaper of those two listings and you have a wireless adapter. You don't need it if you have BT on your PC but BT has some issues with the XBO controller (I can't recall specifics right now) but you've got it just in case. You can also use the controller wired by plugging it in with a USB cable.
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How long do they last, by the way? I've been using the Logitech F710, and it generally last a little more than 2 years - which is helped by the 3 year warranty. The Xbox One controller has only 3 *month* warranty though.