What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

Sculptor · 02-02-2014, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Player versus player, group player versus environment or against NPC/MOBs/Bosses, crafting, combat animations, system mechanics, and animations are very poor. Not much geography or diversity as most MMOs and most RPGs (1 city with stuff, 1 random port zone, 3 regions with the same scenery and 8 combat zones (all tiny). The overall population of the game is small and it's most likely going to get shut down in the near future.

But the reviews on Steam say it's great and more intelligent than other MMO's. You kind of turned me off it. Thanks for the warning I guess. I wish there was a demo for it or something. Might check out some YouTube walkthroughs.

djchameleon · 02-02-2014, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Sculptor

But the reviews on Steam say it's great and more intelligent than other MMO's. You kind of turned me off it. Thanks for the warning I guess. I wish there was a demo for it or something. Might check out some YouTube walkthroughs.

Yeah too bad they don't have a free trial but they didn't get successful enough to even be able to start offering free trials.

The Batlord · 02-03-2014, 09:32 AM

Technically this should be in the What Are You Listening to Now thread, but the meat of this post belongs here.

This **** brings back serious memories of battles past. I remember raising massive armies in the hundreds (not joking) of conscripts and sending them, one task force at a time (they could only hold fifty or a hundred or something units), into enemy bases to be slaughtered like cattle. This was best done in the Arctic Circle map, where you could cut bridges to leave all of the enemy bases isolated on their own ****ty little islands, leaving you to capture the twelve oil refineries, giving you an unlimited income. I would then spend the next thirty or so minutes building my army of between two and five hundred conscripts and march them directly, without any kind of armor or heavy infantry support, into the fire of the Tesla towers, pillboxes, prism towers, and grand cannons.

One by one my armies would shatter themselves upon the defenders, only to be replaced by yet another horde of faceless, nameless peons. They would die on the bridges as they were destroyed, to fall into the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean, or were cut off from their comrades on the wrong side of the bridge until an engineer could be brought up to repair it. But it didn't matter. My forces were such that no amount of bravery on the part of my enemies could ever prevail against me. One by one, over a period of many hours, they would be ground into dust by the cruel, pitiless wheels of my inhuman war machine.

You might ask yourself why I would take such time and effort for such a silly thing. It was simple. It was not my men's victory that pleased me, but the glorious carnage of their deaths. ****eth not with the Batlord, lest the Batlord ****eth with thee.

LoathsomePete · 02-03-2014, 10:37 AM

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

After Call of Juarez: The Cartel turned out to be the most racist AAA game ever made I was pretty much ready to call off this series. The first Call of Juarez game was one of the first Xbox 360 games I ever played and while it looked pretty, the stealth mechanics were balls and the shooting was also balls (although kind of cool how you could read bible verses while gunning down bandits). 2009's Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was another very pretty game that fixed a lot of the gameplay mechanics from the first game and had a pretty well written story and will probably go down as one of the more underrated games of last gen and there's not much else I can say about Call of Juarez: The Cartel that hasn't already been said in dozens of videos and articles ripping that game a new one. So it's no real surprise that when I saw the little mini game Call of Juarez: Gunslinger I wasn't holding out much hope.

Well... I was wrong. Not only is Call of Juarez: Gunslinger the best in the series, it may have also been one of the best FPS' from last year, along side Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, which came from the same publisher along with the same $14.99 price tag. Basically it's like an arcade shooter where you play as an old bounty hunter in the last days of the old west as he recalls stories of his past to a group of people in bar. The game does a voice over narration and parts of his stories become harder to follow as he gets more inebriated and you start to wonder if he made the whole thing up. It's a pretty cool framework for a story as it gets to explain away the weirder parts of video games (killing hundreds of enemies, surviving multiple gunshot wounds, etc.) as exaggerations of the truth from someone who's place in life no longer exists (the time period is 1910). There's also hidden collectibles that provide "nuggets of truth" about the people and events from that time period and were interesting enough to make me hunt them all down.

Definitely one of the more underrated games from last year and definitely worth the price of admission.

**Yac** · 02-04-2014, 06:18 AM

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger was surprisingly good, I agree! CoJ 2, it was fun too. CoJ3 I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole and CoJ1 has aged a bit and it's not that fun anymore.
Batlord - Hellmarch as well as I believe all of Red alerts music was composed by one Frank Klepacki, I remember re discovering his music a while ago (having played red alert when it came out) and it's just great.

The Batlord · 02-04-2014, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Yac

Batlord - Hellmarch as well as I believe all of Red alerts music was composed by one Frank Klepacki, I remember re discovering his music a while ago (having played red alert when it came out) and it's just great.

I was just listening to the Red Alert 2 soundtrack yesterday and it is pretty awesome. I like that it does Rammstein better than Rammstein. Not that that's hard, but it still amuses me.

Sequoioideae · 02-05-2014, 04:57 AM

I've jumped a few times so far, mostly at randomly encountering a hybrid. I put off playing this for a long time because of some graphics issues I was having trying to get this to run, it's running pretty much perfectly now.

LoathsomePete · 02-05-2014, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Yac

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger was surprisingly good, I agree! CoJ 2, it was fun too. CoJ3 I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole and CoJ1 has aged a bit and it's not that fun anymore.
Batlord - Hellmarch as well as I believe all of Red alerts music was composed by one Frank Klepacki, I remember re discovering his music a while ago (having played red alert when it came out) and it's just great.

Like I said, it was a really pretty game, and apparently one of the earliest games to use DirectX 10, but I just had a tough time playing both characters. I'd say it was probably the best western game till Red Dead Redemption came along. I can't wait until that's released for PC.

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I've jumped a few times so far, mostly at randomly encountering a hybrid. I put off playing this for a long time because of some graphics issues I was having trying to get this to run, it's running pretty much perfectly now.

Yeah, when System Shock came out on GOG last year I played for about 8 hours until I got to a part where I didn't have the necessary skills to go forward and nothing I could do to reallocate my skill points. Definitely a great game for atmosphere and horror, but honestly I don't know if it's a game I'll go back to any time soon. If it got a Black Mesa style remake I might give it another go, but there are just some really outdated mechanics that I have a hard time looking past.

Anyways. Yesterday the second episode of The Wolf Among Us came out... and holy crap is it dark. It was also a little frustrating because it always makes you feel like you're playing catch up before the next horrible thing happens. Ultimately though I am really looking forward to the next episode, but it does share a problem I had with episode 1 of The Walking Dead: Season 2 with it ending really abruptly. That could just be that the story and pacing reels you in that you're not even thinking about the ending, but because this is a kind of middle part of the story, it feels a little... meandering, like we didn't really accomplish anything.

Key · 02-09-2014, 09:51 PM

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A very cool puzzle/role playing game. Got it on sale on Steam for a very small amount, definitely worth a few plays. The soundtrack is pretty sweet, too.

Wpnfire · 02-09-2014, 11:32 PM

One of the tags for this thread: "Calibrations"

02-03-2014, 10:37 AM	#6274 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Call of Juarez: Gunslinger After Call of Juarez: The Cartel turned out to be the most racist AAA game ever made I was pretty much ready to call off this series. The first Call of Juarez game was one of the first Xbox 360 games I ever played and while it looked pretty, the stealth mechanics were balls and the shooting was also balls (although kind of cool how you could read bible verses while gunning down bandits). 2009's Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was another very pretty game that fixed a lot of the gameplay mechanics from the first game and had a pretty well written story and will probably go down as one of the more underrated games of last gen and there's not much else I can say about Call of Juarez: The Cartel that hasn't already been said in dozens of videos and articles ripping that game a new one. So it's no real surprise that when I saw the little mini game Call of Juarez: Gunslinger I wasn't holding out much hope. Well... I was wrong. Not only is Call of Juarez: Gunslinger the best in the series, it may have also been one of the best FPS' from last year, along side Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, which came from the same publisher along with the same $14.99 price tag. Basically it's like an arcade shooter where you play as an old bounty hunter in the last days of the old west as he recalls stories of his past to a group of people in bar. The game does a voice over narration and parts of his stories become harder to follow as he gets more inebriated and you start to wonder if he made the whole thing up. It's a pretty cool framework for a story as it gets to explain away the weirder parts of video games (killing hundreds of enemies, surviving multiple gunshot wounds, etc.) as exaggerations of the truth from someone who's place in life no longer exists (the time period is 1910). There's also hidden collectibles that provide "nuggets of truth" about the people and events from that time period and were interesting enough to make me hunt them all down. Definitely one of the more underrated games from last year and definitely worth the price of admission. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

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02-04-2014, 06:18 AM	#6275 (permalink)
Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	Call of Juarez: Gunslinger was surprisingly good, I agree! CoJ 2, it was fun too. CoJ3 I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole and CoJ1 has aged a bit and it's not that fun anymore. Batlord - Hellmarch as well as I believe all of Red alerts music was composed by one Frank Klepacki, I remember re discovering his music a while ago (having played red alert when it came out) and it's just great.

02-09-2014, 09:51 PM	#6279 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	10000000 A very cool puzzle/role playing game. Got it on sale on Steam for a very small amount, definitely worth a few plays. The soundtrack is pretty sweet, too.