Suppa7 wrote on Apr 3, 2016, 20:04:

jdreyer wrote on Apr 3, 2016, 18:07:
Starpoint Gemini 2 is on sale for $7. Anyone play it? Supposedly Freelancer-ish.

I got it, it's extremely simple and you'll get bored. The base game has a good foundation but not enough work has been put into the game to make it interesting. No one really has committed to building a space game with lots of interesting things to do sadly.

Basically this, at least so far. I bought it during this sale also, and so far I'm not overly impressed. Not too much time into it yet though, to be fair.

I'm starting to think I should just declare a moratorium on buying new games for a year or so, and just burn through the Steam/Gog backlog... keep getting underwhelmed when I break down and buy something recently.

HoSpanky wrote on Apr 3, 2016, 20:59:
SO, I've been going through my absurd Steam library backlog. Installed and played through Grow Home, was pleasantly surprised. It'll take a long afternoon to play it from start to finish, with some achievements unearned. Not a long game, but also not priced as one...it's $8 full-price. Toss it on your wishlist for when it's half that, and enjoy accidentally killing your ridiculous climbing robot over and over. Ignore the Ubisoft bit, it doesn't phone home to Uplay, and it's absolutely not like their other games.

I remember seeing that and thinking it looked pretty cool, but then promptly forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.

SO, I've been going through my absurd Steam library backlog. Installed and played through Grow Home, was pleasantly surprised. It'll take a long afternoon to play it from start to finish, with some achievements unearned. Not a long game, but also not priced as one...it's $8 full-price. Toss it on your wishlist for when it's half that, and enjoy accidentally killing your ridiculous climbing robot over and over. Ignore the Ubisoft bit, it doesn't phone home to Uplay, and it's absolutely not like their other games.

The Division reminded me that I HAD the game (there's a safehouse inside the studio the game was made in, apparently?). I'm still enjoying doing the dailies, but my interest is wearing thinner each day. I've put 50 hours into it, that's less than a dollar an hour, and I enjoyed most of it.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 3, 2016, 18:07:
Starpoint Gemini 2 is on sale for $7. Anyone play it? Supposedly Freelancer-ish.

I got it, it's extremely simple and you'll get bored. The base game has a good foundation but not enough work has been put into the game to make it interesting. No one really has committed to building a space game with lots of interesting things to do sadly.

Starpoint Gemini 2 is on sale for $7. Anyone play it? Supposedly Freelancer-ish.

GTA5 is back again. That game is ridiculous. Rockstar must have made like a gazillion dollars by now.

How is The Division still #1? That game is a broken piece of boredom at the moment, and yet it still hits #1 every week without fail.

Seeing Stardew Valley in the top 10 list this far after release warms my heart :-]

Eh... I paid about $38 for it. I kinda feel like I got enough out of it. If you have friends you can play with, then it'll most likely be worth it. If you don't, I'd pass for now. I played with some co-workers, and had fun leveling up to 30 and doing some dark zone runs for a while. Haven't played in close to a week now though.

There's really not much you can do solo once you get to level 30. The challenge missions get boring quickly, as they are exactly the same every time and there's only about 5 different ones that rotate daily. Have to hope you get matched with a decent group, or you'll be spending an hour or more in the mission, and maybe not even finishing.

The dark zone is pretty rough these days for solo players. I think a lot of the higher level players are just bored and have nothing better to do than grief the noobs.

Crafting better gear should be an interesting endgame activity, but they've made the hunt for materials into the most tedious slog imaginable. Not only do you have to deal with the RNG when you open boxes to look for Division Tech (hoping for gold, but usually getting blue), but the boxes are shared by everyone in the instance, so if you don't get there first, then have fun waiting for the reset and hoping you get there before the dozen other people do.

To top it off, you can't even roll up blue Division Tech into gold like you can with all the other materials, so you can't even make progress if your RNG sucks.

Basically they have a whole lot of fixing and balancing to do. Right now most of the top people are fully geared out just from exploiting farming glitches. Good luck competing against them.

Oh, and the DPS stats they show when comparing gear are just plain wrong. Probably the number 2 thing they need to fix, behind the materials issue. Adding some random events to the missions would help a lot in alleviating the boredom too. There needs to be unexpected things happening along the way to keep people on their toes, rather than just going through the muscle memory of it for the 500th time.

This comment was edited on Apr 3, 2016, 12:35.

The division, is it worth it?

This comment was edited on Apr 3, 2016, 12:06.