What game are you wasting time on?

[Unkillable Cat]

I wonder what else I missed?

:notgonnagothere:

The game is versatile enough to allow for variable playstyles. Don't feel bad because yours didn't work so great.

Signed,

The guy who crouched in a remote corner to win that same boss-fight.

 

[Kabas]

I am done with Ion Fury. Can kinda see now what Roxor was talking about.

Enjoyed this game at first but after the feeling of novelty weared off the small gameplay issues really started to pile up. Reached the point where i am forcing myself to continue.
Sometimes you will get a pretty cool level later in the game, especially in terms of visuals.

It's not enough to break the pervasive feeling of monotony however. Ion Fury has no right to be longer than 10 hours.

Still in a mood for shooters so i am finally trying Duke Nukem 3D.
Plenty of cool stuff to find on first level already like the jetpack that allows you to go straight to the level exit.
Also, the immediate difference compared to most of the modern boomer shooters i noticed is the scarcity of ammo. Chose the 'come get some' difficulty and the game is actually forcing me to be a bit careful with my shots.
First impressions are pretty great.

 

[Catacombs]

Deciding that browsing forums so much isn't a good use of my lunch breaks

You're right: Lunch breaks are for eating. Forum browsing is better before and after lunch, preferably on the clock.

 

[Abu Antar]

I bought Football Manager at 00.30AM, November 3rd. Today is November 5th. I have 21 hours played.

 

[Tweed]

Been getting owned by rathounds since a friend picked up Heavy Duty for me, I've been away from Underrail for too long.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

I'm currently stranded with a PSP, so I've decided to try GTA Chinatown Wars, the one glaring gap in my GTA resume. At first it feels like a throwback to the first games with its pseudo top-down perspective (it's actually fully 3D, the perspective mainly serving to hide the nonexistant draw distance), but it's far closer to the 3D era games and GTA 4. The map is actually the GTA 4 Liberty City minus one island, which is an impressive technical achievement given this game was also on the DS. I feel it's way too intricate and busy for this kind of game, though. The early top-down GTAs gave you a lot of room with its wide streets(even if you could barely see in front of you), not so much here. Riding a bike is for masochists only. Racing collect-a-thons, taxi missions and so on are considerably harder. You're also too dependent on the mini-map and GPS, which I don't like. Looking at the full map, which in the other games could be achieved simply by pausing, here requires you to navigate menus, which is rather inconvenient. Since I'm playing on a real PSP with a disc, I spend a lot of time doing this.

The main innovation seems to be the drug selling mechanic. There are various drugs like heroin, acid, ecstasy, etc. that you can buy and sell from dealers. A certain dealer will sell heroin at a discount and buy acid at a premium, for example. This is the only way to make real money in the game, as the missions pay about as much as selling your school's newspaper to the neighbours. This is a cool mechanic for a little while, it's certainly more fun than the extra activities in GTA 4, but it's way too casual. Supply and demand is fixed, some routes are optimal and can turn fantastic profits for little risk. I went from being broke to having nearly 100,000 in a couple of hours, which should last me for the entire game(if I don't buy every house), so at least it doesn't overstay its welcome.

I still need to play more missions, but it's basically what you'd expect from a GTA from the era. I like the characters even if the edginess is a little too try-hard. Rampages are back and that's cool. For a GTA it should definitely be more popular, it's a rather fun game, but I'd still place it below the Stories games and the main entries(except 5, of course).

 

[Krivol]

I bought Football Manager at 00.30AM, November 3rd. Today is November 5th. I have 21 hours played.

And still in pre-season... That's why I like CM 01/02 more - after 21 hours your shithole team from the 3rd Bulgarian league already has 3 champions leagues won.

 

[Axel_am]

Log 8:
It's over. I've finally completed Pillars of Eternity. Path of the damned indeed.

The first time I played this game was back in 2017 and back then I wasn't able to finish it. There was a save file glitch where the loading times were getting longer and longer. They've since taken care of it and this time I had no excuses of not completing it.

I really enjoyed... well everything to be honest with you. Even the annoying parts. The game made me work for it and that's the way it should be when playing on the hardest difficulty. I loved how every dragon introduced a new different challenge, a different weakness to exploit. And I simply cannot imagine the same kind of tense atmosphere being achieved with turn based combat.

I feel like I can talk about Pillars for ages but sadly I'm a few years too late on that one. Yeah, the game has flaws. But guess what. It has more than enough style to compensate for each and every one of them.

With finally clearing Pillars I can finally put my gaming endeavours on pause. Even my DotA MMR grind will be put under maintenance mode. And so too will my logs.

It was fun experimenting with a biweekly posting format and it gave me a lot of ideas of what I can do with it in the future. But for now I will be putting my attention and focus elsewhere.

Spoiler

 

[Abu Antar]

I bought Football Manager at 00.30AM, November 3rd. Today is November 5th. I have 21 hours played.

And still in pre-season... That's why I like CM 01/02 more - after 21 hours your shithole team from the 3rd Bulgarian league already has 3 champions leagues won.

I do agree about the newer ones taking too long to get going.

At 23 hours, I am only on the start of the second season. This amount of time in the older games, you have several seasons under your belt.

 

[Krivol]

I bought Football Manager at 00.30AM, November 3rd. Today is November 5th. I have 21 hours played.

And still in pre-season... That's why I like CM 01/02 more - after 21 hours your shithole team from the 3rd Bulgarian league already has 3 champions leagues won.

I do agree about the newer ones taking too long to get going.

At 23 hours, I am only on the start of the second season. This amount of time in the older games, you have several seasons under your belt.

Have you tried that "We Are Football" game? Reviews are rather enthusiastic about how close to the old CM formula it is, but I didn't have time to try it.

There are real names and teams to download somewhere.

 

[Abu Antar]

I bought Football Manager at 00.30AM, November 3rd. Today is November 5th. I have 21 hours played.

And still in pre-season... That's why I like CM 01/02 more - after 21 hours your shithole team from the 3rd Bulgarian league already has 3 champions leagues won.

I do agree about the newer ones taking too long to get going.

At 23 hours, I am only on the start of the second season. This amount of time in the older games, you have several seasons under your belt.

Have you tried that "We Are Football" game? Reviews are rather enthusiastic about how close to the old CM formula it is, but I didn't have time to try it.

There are real names and teams to download somewhere.

I haven't heard of it. Might take a look.

 

[Kabas]

Just completed the episode 2 of Duke Nukem 3D

Levels are pretty great so far.

 

[BruceVC]

I completed Arx Fatalis last night after about 45 hours, it was good fun and an appreciated CRPG experience. Its gets a solid 72/100 on the globally followed " BruceVC game rating system "

I particularly enjoyed the random exploring and finding things and I thought the magic system was unique and worthwhile. I did use some game guides like with the crypt wheel puzzle and the creation of the meteor sword. I found some of the accents and Goblin dialogue hilarious

And I thought the final battle was unreasonably hard but I defeated Akbaa after about 2-3 hours by running away from him and using fireballs and my trusty bow

 

[Ezekiel]

Deciding that browsing forums so much isn't a good use of my lunch breaks

You're right: Lunch breaks are for eating. Forum browsing is better before and after lunch, preferably on the clock.

I eat my lunch, do my pushups, urinate and use my locker in maybe twelve of the thirty minutes.

Ended up doing two more dungeons and almost completing the first Maiden dungeon over my weekend. Now I'm one boss short of where I was about ten years ago, that scorpion with the shell over its face. TV crushes a cell phone. Still plan to play outside, though.

 

[Ezekiel]

Beat the scorpion. Ether medallion seems useless. Got killed quicker using it, and it didn't even damage it.

Turned into a beast in the dark world, hears the music from his flute, turns into a tree... I'm impressed.

 

[axx]

Just completed the episode 2 of Duke Nukem 3D

I'm in minority here but it's my favorite episode. This was actually supposed to be episode 1, but Broussard didn't like it and they made LA Meltdown.

 

[Kabas]

I'm in minority here but it's my favorite episode. This was actually supposed to be episode 1, but Broussard didn't like it and they made LA Meltdown.

Heard people saying that it's worse than the first episode but i thought it was just as good.
Fighting aliens in a movie theater or a strip club might be more fun than a space station or a moon base but the latter doesn't lack in cool moments, like running into a long hallway that collapses right in front of you or having to run away from explosions towards the level exit right after blowing up the generator.
Only thing i didn't like is the introduction of self-destructing drones. Hate them.

 

[Ezekiel]

Felt so dumb when I saw the room on the other side of the wall in the water temple, couldn't figure out how to get in there, got mad and finally walked through the falling water by accident. Frustration instantly switched to, "That's clever."

 

[Abu Antar]

I accidentally posted this in the screenshots thread, so I'm moving it here.

I beat a few games.

Yakuza 6 had been sitting unfinished in my backlog for many years. That is no longer the case. Watched the credits roll a few minutes ago. It was a fun and more straight to the point experience than Y4 and Y5. You get to meet some fun allies, and some new villains that you really want to batter. Overall, a decent finish to the pre-Ichiban games. They were doing a new engine for this one, so my guess is that is why some things like the gambling and arena are missing. There are still a decent amount of minigames. I beat all the meaty ones like spearfishing, baseball story, and the clan story. I..'m not sure if I will do the extra tough clan missions. I beat the first one, but to realistically beat them all, you have to download some extra good fighters. There are still sub stories left to do, so those will be done.
This was probably the easiest game in the series.

Gomo. Got it in the giftstravaganza thread. Short, and chill adventure game. Took me less than two hours to beat.

Football Manager 2024. I'll count it as "beaten" because I won the European Cup and the League with Liverpool. That doesn't mean that I will stop playing.

I went with a 4123 gegenpressing tactic. It was pretty solid, and not much else to say. I tried to tweak it to resemble how they play in real life. The rich Saudi teams are in, so I sold van Dijk for £89m, during the January transfer window. After the seadon ended, Salah didn't want to renew his contract, so he got sold for a whopping £175m.

I started a new save file with Leverkusen, playing 4231, but it needs some tweaking during pre-season. I score a lot, but the defense is leaking. It's a tiki-taka style, but I probably need some better passers. I did loan Emil Smith-Rowe from Arsenal.

I also plan to make a save file with Boston United, and try to get them promoted all the way to the English top flight.

Edit: wrong thread! Oh well, I'll post FM screens at a later date.

 

[Ryzer]

Started Disgaea on DS, pretty cool Turn based JRPG.
Completely underrated and forgotten by codexers, it has some very cool ideas that are missed in other games.

 

[Axel_am]

Football Manager 2024. I'll count it as "beaten" because I won the European Cup and the League with Liverpool. That doesn't mean that I will stop playing.

I went with a 4123 gegenpressing tactic. It was pretty solid, and not much else to say. I tried to tweak it to resemble how they play in real life. The rich Saudi teams are in, so I sold van Dijk for £89m, during the January transfer window. After the seadon ended, Salah didn't want to renew his contract, so he got sold for a whopping £175m.

Hopefully a sign of what is to come from this season. Not the transfer window tho. It's just bonkers to think that any of those transfers can happen.

 

[Ryzer]

Also I recommend for people who want to experience a Pokemon-like game to play the Dragon Quest Monster Joker games, they are very addicting despite the childish storylines (like Pokemon).
I think they are way better than Pokemon but never managed to be popular outside Japan.

 

[BLOBERT]

Sleeping Dogs is shit indeed, no idea how that trash could kinda take o

I'm currently stranded with a PSP, so I've decided to try GTA Chinatown Wars, the one glaring gap in my GTA resume. At first it feels like a throwback to the first games with its pseudo top-down perspective (it's actually fully 3D, the perspective mainly serving to hide the nonexistant draw distance), but it's far closer to the 3D era games and GTA 4. The map is actually the GTA 4 Liberty City minus one island, which is an impressive technical achievement given this game was also on the DS. I feel it's way too intricate and busy for this kind of game, though. The early top-down GTAs gave you a lot of room with its wide streets(even if you could barely see in front of you), not so much here. Riding a bike is for masochists only. Racing collect-a-thons, taxi missions and so on are considerably harder. You're also too dependent on the mini-map and GPS, which I don't like. Looking at the full map, which in the other games could be achieved simply by pausing, here requires you to navigate menus, which is rather inconvenient. Since I'm playing on a real PSP with a disc, I spend a lot of time doing this.

The main innovation seems to be the drug selling mechanic. There are various drugs like heroin, acid, ecstasy, etc. that you can buy and sell from dealers. A certain dealer will sell heroin at a discount and buy acid at a premium, for example. This is the only way to make real money in the game, as the missions pay about as much as selling your school's newspaper to the neighbours. This is a cool mechanic for a little while, it's certainly more fun than the extra activities in GTA 4, but it's way too casual. Supply and demand is fixed, some routes are optimal and can turn fantastic profits for little risk. I went from being broke to having nearly 100,000 in a couple of hours, which should last me for the entire game(if I don't buy every house), so at least it doesn't overstay its welcome.

I still need to play more missions, but it's basically what you'd expect from a GTA from the era. I like the characters even if the edginess is a little too try-hard. Rampages are back and that's cool. For a GTA it should definitely be more popular, it's a rather fun game, but I'd still place it below the Stories games and the main entries(except 5, of course).

BRO LOL STUCK WITH A PSP!?!

MOD THAT FUCKER I GOT TG16 NES SNES GENESIS GAMES ON MINE.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

BRO LOL STUCK WITH A PSP!?!

MOD THAT FUCKER I GOT TG16 NES SNES GENESIS GAMES ON MINE.

Dear Blobert,

I hope I didn't court controversy with my colorful expression regarding the PSP, a system I've held close to my heart for many years. Its moddability is, indeed, extremely impressive and I'm aware that for many this might overshadow its other qualities. The fact remains that, over the years, I've accumulated a prestigious collection of videogames I'm yet to play. I could say this of various platforms, not the least of them being the PSP. However, due to my habitual itinerancy, they are more adequately kept in my family's residence to be preserved in their pristine condition. There they lie like an unspoiled treasure, safe but unplayed. But what good is a collection, prestigious as it might be, with no one to play it? Therefore, whenever the opportunity presents itself I pick one of my old games from the shelf and play it. Naive affectation, some might call it, a bit ridiculous even(others, less inclined to generosity in what concerns other people's behavior, will see it as nothing but pretense). To these critics I will simply respond that the experience of playing a game in its original hardware cannot yet be matched in any other way, by any combination of means or artifice. Thus I've eschewed emulation on the PSP, in view of the fact that I've no lack of games for it, all orderly lined up on my shelf in perfectly playable condition with scarcely a speck of dust on their cases.

Hopefully my reasoning, thus explained, will bring you less cause for stupefaction. To the simple-minded all words are wasted, but to those who love incline no thoughts should be kept secret and I trust that even the most clumsy expression can find its way to understanding.

 

[Machocruz]

Dear Blobert,

I hope I didn't court controversy with my colorful expression regarding the PSP, a system I've held close to my heart for many years. Its moddability is, indeed, extremely impressive and I'm aware that for many this might overshadow its other qualities. The fact remains that, over the years, I've accumulated a prestigious collection of videogames I'm yet to play. I could say this of various platforms, not the least of them being the PSP. However, due to my habitual itinerancy, they are more adequately kept in my family's residence to be preserved in their pristine condition. There they lie like an unspoiled treasure, safe but unplayed. But what good is a collection, prestigious as it might be, with no one to play it? Therefore, whenever the opportunity presents itself I pick one of my old games from the shelf and play it. Naive affectation, some might call it, a bit ridiculous even(others, less inclined to generosity in what concerns other people's behavior, will see it as nothing but pretense). To these critics I will simply respond that the experience of playing a game in its original hardware cannot yet be matched in any other way, by any combination of means or artifice. Thus I've eschewed emulation on the PSP, in view of the fact that I've no lack of games for it, all orderly lined up on my shelf in perfectly playable condition with scarcely a speck of dust on their cases.

Hopefully my reasoning, thus explained, will bring you less cause for stupefaction. To the simple-minded all words are wasted, but to those who love incline no thoughts should be kept secret and I trust that even the most clumsy expression can find its way to understanding.

This is more like Lovecraft than any of the Lovecraft games we've seen in the past few years.