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Xanthippe
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If a person were to start SWTOR having never played it, where would you point them for need-to-know info?
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Ironwood
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Google.
And I'm serious. All the actual sites I found were equally shitty in one regard or another. Like, SERIOUSLY shitty.
What I would say is that Reddit has an EXCELLENT 'returning player' database and a wiki, so maybe start there....
That said, it's not a hard game to play and the Codex pretty much holds you by the hand.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Sky
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I just play and don't use any sites at all. Probably very suboptimal but meh, I play for story and immersion, not mmo-style powah.
I was having fun with my togruta knight, almost made it to the end of her story last time!
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Merusk
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That's the interesting thing about old MMOs. The fanbases are so small that there's no good resources anymore. Information is years out of date and isn't being updated because the fans have moved-on. Devs don't release information because they've been complacent and relied on that fan crutch for nearly 2 decades now.
Try looking up information on Star Trek: Online sometime. Or decide which way to spec in LOTRO if you went back to those games. Good luck!
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apocrypha
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What I would say is that Reddit has an EXCELLENT 'returning player' database and a wiki, so maybe start there....
I know Reddit gets a lot of hate (and justifiably so often) but this is true for almost any game of any kind anywhere ever. I have learned so much about the various games I play from the appropriate Reddit subs. Case in point, I'm still playing RimWorld because it's fantastic, and /r/RimWorld has been invaluable. If you like survival type games and you're prepared to embrace some chaos then RimWorld might be right up your alley. You can put it on easy settings and make huge bases and stuff, which is fun, or you can put it on OMGWHYYYY settings and revel in the misery and suffering inflicted on your hapless colonists and all their personality defects. Glorious. Oh and vibrant modding scene. Bonus.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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I want to have a meeting with whatever remnants of Bioware exist and explain how to stop making an enjoyable game unenjoyable.
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Xanthippe
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Thanks for the pointers - started playing a Jedi Consular Sage, and am having a blast. I did throw a month's subscription to them (to remove slow traveling). It is very fun so far (level 12) just following the story.
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Jeff Kelly
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Took a break from my 100+ hour Breath of the Wild game to play Thimbleweed Park and it seems like Zelda will be on hold for a little while.
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Jeff Kelly
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If you are a fan of Lucas Arts adventures, especially Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken and Monkey Island you should play Thimbleweed Park. It's easily worth the 20 dollars.
It's a good game but not great. It's very in-jokey and the call backs to old games, fourth wall breaking and referential humor make it so the tone of the game is all over the place at times. If you expected this to be like a Twin Peaks or X-Files episode in style and narrative going by the trailer and demo you'll probably be disappointed. It's clearly going for that but it's at the same time too silly and self-referential for that, it almost feels like a parody of the genre even though it isn't meant to be (at least I think it isn't)
It's also a game where I found the shoutouts to the kickstarter backers oddly distracting. For example: This threw me out of the game completely for a few moments.
The game also made me laugh, feel nostalgic and made me miss point and click adventures and it has an internal consistency to its puzzles that is refreshing for a genre that usually has cryptic and drawn out solutions.
People who grew up with adventures will probably really like Thimbleweed Park but it's not without flaws.
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Ironwood
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I know Reddit gets a lot of hate (and justifiably so often) but this is true for almost any game of any kind anywhere ever. I have learned so much about the various games I play from the appropriate Reddit subs.
Not from me in this regard. All the games I've played lately have live and thriving reddit communities that are always helpful with a ton of information. While it's not a site I browse, when I go looking for games info, I find it fairly quickly.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Yeah, the individual communities are usually really good, it's the overall hive mind that sucks. A comment on society at large if you like.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Gimfain
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Still playing furi, haven't gotten my ass kicked this badly since Fume Knight and the Nameless King. My timing sucks and I also suck at bullet hell. On the upside my timing is getting better.
I really enjoyed that game. It just had a style and feel that really worked for me. I've been debating the DLC, but I just have no time for it at the moment. Currently trying to finish Horizon and Nier so I can start Persona 5 soon. I've also been trying to avoid everything Zelda. I'm figuring I'll be getting a Switch closer to the holidays but I'm not sure I want to wait that long for Zelda. I might get the Wii-U version... maybe. Started on furier mode now, its interesting how much you can improve your timing as you play these types of games. Wonder how far I can go until i reach a wall.
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« Last Edit: March 31, 2017, 09:09:36 AM by Gimfain »
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Merusk
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Yeah, the individual communities are usually really good, it's the overall hive mind that sucks. A comment on society at large if you like. Make an account, unsub from the defaults, do a search for what you're interested in then sub to those and you'll never hate Reddit. Add RES (reddit enhancement suite) so you can tag/ filter shitposters, save comments, hide child comments and use the Dashboard then the whole experience becomes just lovely. Just my experience, though. I like larger, vibrant communities and I know most of you don't. :)
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Rasix
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Yeah, the individual communities are usually really good, it's the overall hive mind that sucks. A comment on society at large if you like. Make an account, unsub from the defaults, do a search for what you're interested in then sub to those and you'll never hate Reddit. Add RES (reddit enhancement suite) so you can tag/ filter shitposters, save comments, hide child comments and use the Dashboard then the whole experience becomes just lovely. Just my experience, though. I like larger, vibrant communities and I know most of you don't. :) That's some good advice. A while back, I unsubbed from all of the garbage that was annoying me, and it made the site so much better. Good-fucking-bye "Advice Animals", Politics, Atheism (I'm one, but goddamn, the posts were garbage), etc. Sure, it means my meme-game suffers, but I'm ok with that. I really should use RES, but I just haven't gotten around to even trying it. The gaming specific ones I follow are just /games and /leagueoflegends. Games has nice review threads, and some decent news. It's like a less personal version of what I get out of our remaining gaming related conversations. The LoL subreddit is just because I like the game as an eSport. My son lost interest (plus he's too young for the game, honestly) so I don't pay much attention to the playing aspect of it anymore. Back to the thread at hand, still mostly playing Stardew Valley with my son. I did talk myself into buying Persona 5 for my PS3. I'm a strong man; I resisted doing that for less than a day. Even if the performance and graphics are a bit worse, it's still Persona.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Make an account, unsub from the defaults, do a search for what you're interested in then sub to those and you'll never hate Reddit. Add RES (reddit enhancement suite) so you can tag/ filter shitposters, save comments, hide child comments and use the Dashboard then the whole experience becomes just lovely.
Just my experience, though. I like larger, vibrant communities and I know most of you don't. :)
Yup, precisely what I did about 3 years ago which led me to suddenly see the value of Reddit :)
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Khaldun
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Started messing around with Rimworld. Kind of like a fewer-features Dwarf Fortress with ok graphics.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Reddit has some great subs, especially for niche hobbies and games, it's everything remotely related to politics and ideology that will make you weep for the state of humanity.
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Xanthippe
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Isn't that always the case with any kind of internet forum/app/social media/etc, though? Forums for shared interests/hobbies work great and are fun.
I never got into Reddit. Finally subbed for game and hobby stuff, but don't use it even daily.
Rimworld is on my Steam wishlist. Looks like a lot of fun.
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Nebu
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Just bought Playerunknown's Battleground on Steam. If you like H1Z1, it's a much better version of the survival + shooter aspects. It is a limited 3rd person, so the FPS purists may not like it until they add the hardcore (first person only) mode.
This is the first game that got my heart pumping in a long time. I'm really enjoying it.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Jeff Kelly
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Finished Thimbleweed Park. Contrary to my initial impression I'm now pretty disappointed with how the game turned out.
It's very short. It took me about 8 hours to complete the game on hard mode. I find this rather disappointing for a game that was in development for 2 1/2 years and that was pretty much overfunded through kickstarter. The "Neo-Noir" setting that the game opens with is almost entirely abandoned about half an hour in and replaced with a ridiculous sci fi plot that telegraphs it's conclusion pretty heavily.
All of the initial story threads are abandoned and remain unanswered even the initial murder remains unsolved and the person framed for the murder remains in prison. The puzzles lose their internal consistency at some point and become standard point and click fare. You go from solving a murder with the tools available in 1987 to pouring glowing radioactive waste into a puddle of mud or using the ghost powers of one of your characters to solve puzzles. The fanservice, self referentialness, constant fourth wall breaking and eager "look, we made a reference, did you know we made a reference, hey look!" attitude of the game becomes really grating. Like the guy at a party who only communicates in pop culture references.
Given how the game ends and how many plot holes, open threads and underused locations it has it feels unfinished in a sense or rushed. The Pixel art is top noth and the game doesn't have any bugs I can think of but it lacks in content and story and hinges entirely too much on the "hey do you remember adventure X from your childhood" factor and forgets to deliver a consistent story or at least humor that is not rooted in 80's nostalgia for Lucasfilm adventures.
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Merusk
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The problem with things being over-funded is human nature tends to waste resources rather than conserve or deploy them more artfully.
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Jeff Kelly
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This game serves as another example why producers and directors are important.
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Rasix
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Thanks for saving me some money, Jeff.
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Jeff Kelly
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Finished up Thimbleweed Park. Would have loved to play the Twin Peaks style "Neo Noir" adventure game the demo and the first two acts promised, absolutely loathed to play what that game turned out to be instead. A fact driven home by the absolute embarrassing and ham-fisted 'conclusion' to the story: Still playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Broke down and bought a Switch. (Yeah, I'm a weak individual) I'm now at a cumulated play time of over 120 hours and still not finished. Plan on finishing it up this week.
Persona 5 will be next on my list.
I swear 2017 is just chock full of games and great ones at that.
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Sky
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Gaben gave me a coupon for Inside, so I decided to check out the demo. Instant buy, really cool, simple game. I mostly go for atmosphere in games, and this one delivers in spades.
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Rasix
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Did you ever play Limbo? You might like that as well.
Persona 5 has me and will for quite a while. I'm sure the son will bug me to do Stardew Valley stuff.
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Sky
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My coupon was for being a Limbo owner. I started it but it didn't click. For some reason Inside clicked immediately and the only reason I quit was because the demo was over and I had to exit to apply the coupon.
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apocrypha
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My coupon was for being a Limbo owner. I started it but it didn't click.
Interesting, that's exactly what happened with me with Limbo. I'll give the inside demo a try then.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Quinton
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Gimfain
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My coupon was for being a Limbo owner. I started it but it didn't click.
Interesting, that's exactly what happened with me with Limbo. I'll give the inside demo a try then. Inside is part of this months humble monthly.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Yeah it didn't bite me unfortunately. Loved the atmosphere, gameplay not my cup of tea. Not a criticism, just personal preference.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Sky
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I barely notice the gameplay part of it. I mean that in a good way, normally I don't like platformers and the gameplay always bugs me to the point that I can't play it anymore. The mechanics in Inside seem unobtrusive to me, letting me focus on the atmosphere.
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Quinton
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I enjoyed Inside, and afterwards tried Limbo seeing as it was from the same people, but Limbo didn't grab me.
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Persona 5 and Overwatch again, with some Enter the Gungeon.
Persona 5 is extremely good.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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apocrypha
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Have you tried the new Overwatch PvE thing yet Fabricated? Hoping they keep it around long enough for me to try it.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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