Serious dearth of games the last year and most of the new ones coming out turn out shite. The only games I've got my fingers crossed for at this point are Tales of Arise & Deathloop. FFXIV Endwalkers doesn't count because it's going to be awesome in the way FFXIV is awesome... which is to say, it isn't like stupidly mind-blowingly awesome, but just awesome enough in what it does to get maybe 200 enjoyable hours out of that expansion.

I love love love DOSII and an old school cRPGer here and I kinda hate what I played of BG3. That said, Solasta is doing what BG3 is doing (lot's of dice rolls, generic high fantasy etc.) and I think it does it better and feels more D&D too me at least.

I put down my WoW addiction many moons ago and would just run through the expansions in a month or two. Played the recent expansion too and was bored as all hell.
But, I picked up Final Fantasy XIV and I love it (once ya get into the expansion content).

They are just finding out that narcissism breeds aggression? I find that hard to believe considering a true extreme narcissist is usually very confrontational/aggressive and it's well documented that that is how they get their "narc supply" (energy vampirism). Needless to say, I feel like these people should be put on their own island to kill each other slowly.

I'd be into a new school Space Quest or Police Quest (and maybe a Hero's Quest aka Quest For Glory).

Yeah, I love that game. The last thing I remember doing was I bought a huge building in a town and at night time would go watch the trading caravans traveling by outside of town and then follow them out into the desert and watch em get attacked and steal all of their stuff.

It's a really good game that could be a whole lot better if whoever owns it at this point stopped with the stupid ass cosmetics and added some new game content.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Apr 7, 2021, 21:14:
Interstate '76 was one of those defining moments in gaming for me; it was great, and so different from anything I had played up until then.

I think it's locked in licensing hell though, never to be seen again.

Yeah, that's what I've heard over the years. It's really a damn shame because doing something on that vibe with today's tech would be awesome all over again.
Such an incredible game for it's time. Someone should at least try a knock off. And that soundtrack still kicks ass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayO7P3-uCRk&list=PL_txsRvghL9nrVS_y9uby7EiHA1CtzjLc

I really hope someone can snatch up the rights for Interstate '76 and do a remake. That and No One Lives Forever are my top for remakes (and maybe Ultima 6).

The game is shitloads of fun. I haven't had this much fun lickin and smackin some schtuff since DMC5. But, the connectivity issues are really bad still. I didn't notice it within the first 7 hours,
but now it's been nonstop. And it isn't just like the game disconnects you, it will be like "You have been kicked by the party", or it will say it can't find a game, try again? All of that forces you
into a loop of non-progression that makes it really aggravating, it might put you at the boss you just killed and then you have to kill it again, wasting time, then it crashes....

Once all that crap is fixed, it'll be a good time.

I have fun playing with randos. You are meant to die in this game and the penalty really isn't that harsh considering you can buy a new character with at least some perks and decent gear, so the faster you embrace death the faster you'll he having fun. I love the game though, it's the best sneaky/stealth multiplayer game I've ever played.

One thing I like about Final Fantasy XIV is that they bring you back to main cities and places you have been before to tie story elements. I'm not done with Shadowbringers yet, it has been in an entirely new land, but I bet by the end it too will tie back to the original beginning areas.

Dev wrote on Feb 22, 2021, 13:04:

heroin wrote on Feb 22, 2021, 12:59:
The EA game was developed by 5 people. Pretty amazing how it's taken off like it has and looks like they are adding more people to it's development now that is has gained money/following.

Yeah, now hopefully they will take better advantage of the popularity than PUBG did, they didn't do much except tiny changes with it for so long.

I hope so too, though PUBG seemed a little like a cash grab from the beginning. At least Valheim has objectives and a little semblance of world building to work with.
I really have no idea of how much a publisher helps in ensuring development continues to move forward in a positive light, but Coffee Stain studios publishes
good stuff like Satisfactory, Deep Rock Galactic etc.

The EA game was developed by 5 people. Pretty amazing how it's taken off like it has and looks like they are adding more people to it's development now that is has gained money/following.

I remember lugging big, heavy ass, computers to friends houses to LAN Diablo 2 well into the AMs, Lord of Destruction upped the ante with 800x600 resolution and it made a huge difference. A remake is just not even interesting to me since the market is flooded with Diablo clones, I played a lot of Diablo 3 but it just felt very shallow. Grim Dawn is a good Diablo clone though! Plus, Blizz just can't seem to do anything right... even the new UI for Battle.net. They are terrible.

I really like tanking in FFXIV and I never tanked before. I always played DPS in WoW - but, yeah - I could see how tanking in WoW would give a person anxiety.
Which is in part why I think I like tanking in this game - most of the duty's/dungeons are clearly laid out. It's difficult to get lost, it seemed like in WoW,
all the tanks had played the dungeons so many times that they knew where to go and could lead the group. Don't really need that sense in FF XIV.
I've only gone into new Duty's blind and it's been fine, sometimes a mechanic gets everyone killed, that's OK - and as a Paladin, if the healer
screws up, I can always heal myself. And for rotations, I like those too - but the rotation didn't really satisfyingly click into place until I got some new abilities
in Heavensward.

It's a great game. It took years to grow on me because the entire ARR portion is such a chore. But, I recently finished Heavensward and almost done with Stormblood to soon move into Shadowbringers, which is supposedly to be really good. Stormblood is generally thought to not have as good of a story arc as Heavensward - and I'd agree, but I found the zones to be much better crafted than anything that came before it. Also been enjoying the roguelite 200 floor randomly generated, Palace of the Dead.

Jivaro wrote on Jan 31, 2021, 22:58:

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 31, 2021, 21:06:

Jivaro wrote on Jan 31, 2021, 17:11:
I need to apologize to Lawbreakers. I mistakenly claimed it was the worst shooter I had ever played.

2nd worst.

But what about Paladins?

I know you are kidding but Paladins doesn't even make my top 5 worst. Paladins was derivative but it could be fun at times. The only joy I experienced playing Lawbreakers or Battleborn was when I uninstalled them. Battleborn in particular. I remember clearly loading it up, playing for about 10 minutes and thinking to myself "Is this a joke?".

I played Paladins a bunch over christmas. It was pretty fun.

Dacron wrote on Jan 30, 2021, 18:41:
Haven't played since Feb of last year, seen the review link, install started.

They really should just call it crack cocaine.

or satan, lol

Factorio, a game made by Satan, yet christ seems to love it too.