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Yeah, Rebel Galaxy came pretty close. But because of the space setting, it mostly just made me want to play X3 again instead. God I hope X4 doesn't suck as much as Rebirth ...
orionquest
Ars Praefectus
I don't understand what you mean. I have only played AC2 and AC4 because they seem highly talked about so I was curious. I couldn't put either one down once I got into them. I found them to be very good games, something interesting about the story, some history, unique concept, interesting play style, and exploration. I have AC3 waiting in the wings when I get to it.
What games do you find fits your critique?
My struggle with the AC series is not that the premise isn't fun, once or twice. They just haven't done enough to differentiate the game play, and had a new title out what seemed like every year for a long span. Combine that with all the other games that gave you infinite counter combat, and it got stale. I would say they are a victim of their own success.
From a story perspective, I liked the tie to the current/near future. I lost interest after a spoilery thing happened. Several years later I tried one of the pirate ones, and sailing was fun, but I still was burned out on the exploration and foot combat.
I just don't enjoy the minute to minute gameplay in AC games. Traversal, stealth and combat all feel very bland and uninteresting to me. Couple that with the story framing, which completely ruins the immersion for me, and you have a series of games that I'm happy to skip.
I gave AC4 a longer shot because it kept being brought up as "the one that's different", and it is, just not quite enough. If you enjoy them, more power to you. I wish I could, because I find the settings interesting, but that's just how it goes sometimes.
I thought the naval combat bit was fun in AC 4, and actually liked the diving bell missions too. In other AC games (particularly starting with II), I just love the "virtual tourist" aspect. When I get around to playing Unity at some point, I'll be bummed that there's no Eiffel Tower yet. 
I thought the naval combat bit was fun in AC 4, and actually liked the diving bell missions too. In other AC games (particularly starting with II), I just love the "virtual tourist" aspect. When I get around to playing Unity at some point, I'll be bummed that there's no Eiffel Tower yet.
I dunno if this is a spoiler, but I think they couldn't bear the thought of making a game set in Paris and not putting the tower in it. So they contrived a mechanism where you go through portals to the future and do missions on the Eiffel Tower during WW2.
orionquest
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I thought the naval combat bit was fun in AC 4, and actually liked the diving bell missions too. In other AC games (particularly starting with II), I just love the "virtual tourist" aspect. When I get around to playing Unity at some point, I'll be bummed that there's no Eiffel Tower yet.
The virtual tourist is a very good description. It was fun playing AC2 and seeing some of the locations. I have actually been to some of them, so I was curious how much detail they might put into the game. It was impressive. Origins looks interesting for the Egyptian location, which I am curious about.
orionquest
Ars Praefectus
I think you are expecting too much from a game, and you didn't answer what game can reach your expectations?
And wanting immersion from a game. I've heard this comment before around here, I don't think it is going to happen. You want immersion go into real life, explore, do something, get a motorcycle, get out there.
I thought the naval combat bit was fun in AC 4, and actually liked the diving bell missions too. In other AC games (particularly starting with II), I just love the "virtual tourist" aspect. When I get around to playing Unity at some point, I'll be bummed that there's no Eiffel Tower yet.
I dunno if this is a spoiler, but I think they couldn't bear the thought of making a game set in Paris and not putting the tower in it. So they contrived a mechanism where you go through portals to the future and do missions on the Eiffel Tower during WW2.
Cool!
Is there a quick way to check the value of your steam inventory in various games?
Is it that time of the year again?
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I have several Clicker games in my list, which have unfairly high hour counts (due to being left on for extended periods). So I won't be listing those. =>_>=
The top online, multiplayer games on the list are Atlas Reactor, Gems of War, the now-dead Marvel Heroes, Rocket League, TF2, Robocraft, Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas, and Town of Salem.
The top (mostly) single-player games are Terraria, XCOM, Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas, Dungeons of Dredmor, XCOM 2, Rimworld, and Invisible Inc.
Other honorable mentions that I think are worth trying even today are Just Cause 2, FTL, Crossout, Pinball Arcade, Mini Metro, Recettear, and Subnautica.
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I have several Clicker games in my list, which have unfairly high hour counts (due to being left on for extended periods). So I won't be listing those. =>_>=
The top online, multiplayer games on the list are Atlas Reactor, Gems of War, the now-dead Marvel Heroes, Rocket League, TF2, Robocraft, Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas, and Town of Salem.
The top (mostly) single-player games are Terraria, XCOM, Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas, Dungeons of Dredmor, XCOM 2, Rimworld, and Invisible Inc.
Other honorable mentions that I think are worth trying even today are Just Cause 2, FTL, Crossout, Pinball Arcade, Mini Metro, Recettear, and Subnautica.
Damn... HL2 is 14 years old.... now I feel old...
Top hours in games is already PUBG, but I know that doesn't count the countless hours of DODS, CS1.6 and MWO that were either pre-Steam, or pre-counting (only showing 44 hrs in DODS and I KNOW I played a LOT more than that).
Steam's accounting of hours played is really wonky (and I've seen it change even when I'm not playing anything). I wouldn't really use it as a metric for much except for roughly gauging the ratio of time spent playing one game to another.
Not bad. I would've figured more time, but I guess this doesn't count time spent in LoL or Starcraft. Adding both of those would probably increase my time 3x-4x.
Arma 3 is my most played game (But a significant chunk of that is leaving the A3Launcher open, so I'd probably drop 100 hours off the top and it's still my most played game.
PUBG Finally overtook my long time most played game, Shogun 2.
3rd is Payday 2 which is funny to me, and 4th is DotA which is really perplexing. Next after that is Borderlands 2 and the rest is just sparse hours. But most games that I would consider my favorites or ones that I enjoyed playing I seemed to put at least a full day's worth of gaming into, and considering that 99% of my steam inventory is Steam Sale and Humble Bundle purchases, I think that's a pretty good ratio of money spent to time consumed.
Heh... those clicker games really screw with your time played.
My top non-clicker is Everyday Genius: Square Logic, still, with over 700 hours of math and logic.
Gems of War is right behind at a hair over 700 hours, now.
Sorry, I meant checking your digital item (e.g. cosmetics) inventory against current market prices.
You mean like TF2 hat prices? Steam's Market does that, if the game in question has linked their in-game items to the Market. Not many have. =>_>=
Edit: Although the list of games that HAVE has improved noticeably since the last time I looked.
Steam Inventory Helper on Chrome can do that, and it can help you mass list all your garbage you don't want. I found about $35 worth of garbage throughout DotA, TF2, and trading cards.
There was a bit of a kerfuffle over SIH (or maybe it was the enhanced steam addin) a few months back. It needed the 'access everything' permission in chrome to be able to do the auto-listing and price history, but that's a pretty big security hole so maybe don't keep it installed all the time.
Why am I seeing the new Wolfenstein called "leftist" in user reviews on sites? Is it the rejection of Nazis?
I mean, Nazis now consider themselves to be normal sooooooooooo...
*pulls cable*
*ejector seats out of the thread*
*parachutes to safety*
Vermintide. Currently for freesies on Games with Gold, but I can't play FPS games for shit on a controller. Worth a punt at £20 for the PC version?
Do you like Left 4 Dead? It's a game like that, just set in the (Gorgeously gross) setting of Warhammer Fantasy with some Diablo like loot mechanics (not anywhere near the amount of stuff that you get in Diablo, just random rolls and varying levels of rarity).
I install it every couple of months and play for a few hours before setting it back on the shelf. There is a new one coming out. I don't know if I would pay that much for the PC version when it'll most definitely be on sale in a week or two during the Steam Sale.
Oh, let me count the ways the alt-right hates Wolf2:
- It's about killing Nazis. Nazis are people too! They have a right to have their point of view heard!
- One of the key protagonists is a woman. A strong woman. A strong black woman. A strong black woman who is also a single mother. You do the fedora-math.
- Another key character is a super-intelligent Jew. Oy vey!
- And another key character is someone with a severe brain injury.
- The main character
killed his dad because his dad was and is a massive racist nazi arsehole
- But her EMAILS (i keeed, i keeed. At least, I think I do)
There was also the "make America Nazi free again" marketing which got some on the right riled up as it was obviously co-opting/satirising Trump's MAGA slogan.
Good info, thanks. Sounds like the Steam Sale is the way to go.
Given that I've only got the one 'clicker' game on my list (and it's not even at the top of my list...), virtually all of that is actual playtime.
Champion of hours played is Dominions 4, at a crazy 916 hours. Don't get into complex multiplayer strategy games that can take months to complete if you value your time, people.
Atlas Reactor is second at 325 hours. 4v4 X-comish arena dual game. Recommended.
Blood Bowl would be second, but my play time is split between has 224 hours for Legendary Edition and 160 hours for Chaos Edition.
Other notables include Sword of the Stars, Terraria, ToME, Dungeons of Dredmor, PUBG, FTL, War Thunder, Kerbal Space Program, Spiral Knights, Enter the Gungeon, TF2, and Crusader Kings II - all over 100 hours.
I know some republican friends who that is their issue(mind you they still bought the game) but they thought that by saying Make America Nazi Free it was too close to MAGA which to them was a slight jab at Trump. Mind you, these people aren't alt-right or even really Trump supporters(I think one "held his nose" and voted for him) they just don't like what the perceive as anti-republican sentiment.
I've never heard any of the references CommanderJameson made except for the super alt-right who I think we all can agree are idiots.
/end politics.
Has anybody played They are Billions? It got recommended to me on Steam and it looks real interesting, but I always get scared of Early ACcess.
/but return to Wolf for a minute
I apparently lived in a cave for a while, I totally ignored the presence of The New Order and The Old Blood. They went on sale on Xbox a few weeks ago, but I failed to pull the trigger. So um... I think the last Wolf game I played was RtCW back when it was new. I think my question here is "So how good are these games, now that they're a little older?"
technophile
Ars Legatus Legionis
They're still very good. Classic shooters, but they (esp. New Order) layer on a pretty damn good story despite not really taking themselves seriously a lot of the time. There were a couple points in TNO where I actually had serious feels about a game character, which is definitely unusual for shooters IME.
Games with more than 100 hours in descending order:
Skyrim -- 621
Skyrim SE -- 246
Fallout NV -- 232
Titan Quest Immortal Throne -- 137
Age of Empires HD Edition -- 124
Borderlands -- 115
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes -- 110
Borderlands 2 -- 101
Most of the other games were bought in Humble Bundles and were mostly idled to get trading cards.
I have stopped buying new games as many of them are over my monthly broadband limit.
They're definitely good. Prior to Doom 2016 TNO was the closest that we'd gotten to a proper old-school shooter in ages. There's still definitely modern cruft in there (the Commanders are "encouraged" stealth sections and there are perks and character progression) but it's relatively minor and doesn't completely overshadow the goodness that is dual-gun run-n-gun at the heart of the game.
I have never played any of the Mass Effect games. I can't give you a good reason why. It all would devolve down to timing and priority issues should I try to, anyhow.
Decided to correct that finally, and picked up Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 over the past weekend.
About a third of the way through Mass Effect, as near as I can determine, and enjoying myself immensely, despite it's age.
Decided to correct that finally, and picked up Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 over the past weekend.
About a third of the way through Mass Effect, as near as I can determine, and enjoying myself immensely, despite it's age.
I would have bought the sequel to excellent TNO in any case, but I'll admit that part of my buying it was to stick it to the Trump supporters, karmically speaking. BTW some of the collectible "readables" you pick up in the game are clearly allusions to Trump/Bannon/"White Nationalism".