What game are you wasting time on?

[Jvegi]

Playing Slay the Spire again. Got deeper than before. Send help. Please.

My 7 year old also got into it, but for her it's a great reading and math aid. For me it's heroine. Also, regarding the subject:

It depends how you define value for money. I could not play a game as bland as Skyrim for 200 hours and feel I got any value from it

How is stealing houndreds of hours of your short live valuable?

 

[Vic]

How is stealing houndreds of hours of your short live valuable?

it's even shorter if you have AIDS

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Played the first level of Hollywood Holocaust from Alien Armageddon, a wild mod for Duke 3D that has everything, including the kitchen sink. Then I skipped to the first level of Duke It Out in D.C. in the same mod, and it was amaze-balls. One problem with these old FPS games based on alien invasions in their original form is that you're alone in the universe; it's just you against them - the alien badboys, and you never meet another survivor (except for the "Shake It!" babies, which I don't disapprove of). But in that first level of Duke it Out In D.C. Alien Armageddon-style, you're feeling like it's a real alien invasion instead of all that IGI nonsense, with the US military fighting and dying beside you. If you never played Duke 3D before or want to revisit it, this might be the way to do it. Amazed that these mods play at 120+ FPS with such smoothness considering they're still using old 32-bit-based engines. But I'll probably settle down for a long play with The Black Parade since I'm hearing great stuff about it.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I checked out the home page for the Alien Armageddon-mod for Duke 3D.

The 'enhancements' made me think of those images where you see 'Game' vs 'Game made by greedy megacorp' with all kinds of needless on-screen extras.

Not exactly earning my interest.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Played the first level of Hollywood Holocaust from Alien Armageddon, a wild mod for Duke 3D that has everything, including the kitchen sink. Then I skipped to the first level of Duke It Out in D.C. in the same mod, and it was amaze-balls. One problem with these old FPS games based on alien invasions in their original form is that you're alone in the universe; it's just you against them - the alien badboys, and you never meet another survivor (except for the "Shake It!" babies, which I don't disapprove of). But in that first level of Duke it Out In D.C. Alien Armageddon-style, you're feeling like it's a real alien invasion instead of all that IGI nonsense, with the US military fighting and dying beside you. If you never played Duke 3D before or want to revisit it, this might be the way to do it. Amazed that these mods play at 120+ FPS with such smoothness considering they're still using old 32-bit-based engines. But I'll probably settle down for a long play with The Black Parade since I'm hearing great stuff about it.

Looks like an interesting mod but RPG elements in a retro FPS can be pure cancer. Doom Roguelike is pretty good at managing it but that's crafting based levels not "you shot a pistol 300 times, level up!". How does it handle enemy balance?

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Played the first level of Hollywood Holocaust from Alien Armageddon, a wild mod for Duke 3D that has everything, including the kitchen sink. Then I skipped to the first level of Duke It Out in D.C. in the same mod, and it was amaze-balls. One problem with these old FPS games based on alien invasions in their original form is that you're alone in the universe; it's just you against them - the alien badboys, and you never meet another survivor (except for the "Shake It!" babies, which I don't disapprove of). But in that first level of Duke it Out In D.C. Alien Armageddon-style, you're feeling like it's a real alien invasion instead of all that IGI nonsense, with the US military fighting and dying beside you. If you never played Duke 3D before or want to revisit it, this might be the way to do it. Amazed that these mods play at 120+ FPS with such smoothness considering they're still using old 32-bit-based engines. But I'll probably settle down for a long play with The Black Parade since I'm hearing great stuff about it.

Looks like an interesting mod but RPG elements in a retro FPS can be pure cancer. Doom Roguelike is pretty good at managing it but that's crafting based levels not "you shot a pistol 300 times, level up!". How does it handle enemy balance?

I didn't play enough of it to take notice of enemy balance. One problem I have with these mods is the massive stolen assets, not for moral reasons, but more for the fact that there's that constant, "Oh, look. There's the serpent riders from Heretic... and over there the zombies from blood but with a bag over its head, and way over there, I spy with my little eye a monster from Powerslave, but now blue instead of gold!" I think I remember one of the artists for The AMC Squad saying that he went through many of the assets and re-drew them so no one would notice (as much) that they're from Doom or from Shadow Warrior or from Hexen or from...

 

[Kabas]

Already mentioned in the screenshot thread, completed the orginal Shadow Warrior and it's expansions, Twin dragon and Wanton destruction.
All of the big three build engine classics are now finally complete more or less. At the end it's hard for me to tell which game amongst Blood, Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior i liked best. They all have a lot of character.

I also completed this cute little game that is currently in early access with only one episode.

After the first few levels maps become a little too big to the point of making me feel exhausted. Too much barrel crashing, your basic mace could be a bit better and sometimes i had trouble telling that i am getting hit from behind.
Still, i like graphics and visual style. Levels while being on the longer side(last level had 400+ enemies) are choke full of secrets to find and explore.
Devs put a huge empasis on tool to create your custom levels.

Currently i am playing through this.

Not kidding, it's been a decade since i last played a 3D platformer or something that i assume requires a gamepad for comfortable play. I am struggling a lot with performing wall jumps.
It has a very good flow. Explore the interconnected levels, find secrets and movement upgrades and access more areas with them.

Managing to pull off an especially tricky jump feel immensely satisfying.

Also, the main character is a goat furry girl with a huge butt who doesn't wear pants most of the time.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I remembered I still haven't finished Captain Claw and I was just two levels from the end.

Turns out the two last levels are an absolute nightmare.

It took me 2 hours and a ragequit to get through the final segment (namely, starting at the second save point) and boss fight before I finished it. I hope whoever designed this got a raise because this kind of murderous psychopathy deserves recognition, holy fucking shit.

Also sure makes me glad that I hoarded all them magic claws and started the final level with 95 of them so I could just blast all those goddamn tiger guardians to hell on sight.

Pretty great game, finishing it feels like an achievement.

 

[HansDampf]

Currently i am playing through this.

Not kidding, it's been a decade since i last played a 3D platformer or something that i assume requires a gamepad for comfortable play. I am struggling a lot with performing wall jumps.
It has a very good flow. Explore the interconnected levels, find secrets and movement upgrades and access more areas with them.

The game was made by one person in one month for a game jam. And while it has great jump mechanics and controls, it's lacking in content and feels more like a prototype for a game which doesn't exist... yet. It's been quite successful on Steam (furry protag didn't hurt), so there is probably someone somewhere working on a proper PS1style-3D-platformer-metroid-game right now.

 

[NecroLord]

Been playing both Fallout 1 and 2 (the second game with the Restoration Mod).
For Fallout 2, I went with my favorite build - The Burst, Big Guns one.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It took me 2 hours and a ragequit to get through the final segment (namely, starting at the second save point) and boss fight before I finished it. I hope whoever designed this got a raise because this kind of murderous psychopathy deserves recognition, holy fucking shit.

Told you so fella.

 

[Machocruz]

Against the Storm

 

[Valestein]

Just finished clearing this game that's a mix of hotline miami style on foot action with airship combat and exploration.



Now i'm playing this one that's also like hotline miami but with stealth.

 

[KD6-3.7]

Kung Fury

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Playing Thief Gold's epic fan mission The Black Parade and it's pretty great so far. I think it took like 10 years to make from among the community's most talented FM authors and it shows. Very polished and professional in everything from level design, cut-scene artwork and voice acting (I don't know if SlyFox is in this but his voice acting of Garrett is the best I ever heard from an amateur voice actor). Only on the third mission so far but wow this is definitely up there with the all-time great fan produced mods. Important tip: be sure to use your maps and your compass so you know where you are at all times (keep in mind there's no auto-mapping or a moving icon of your character on the map), and be absolutely certain to read any notes or books that stay in your inventory (all the other letters, notes and books - and there are many - are there for the lore or to give color and personality to NPCs). If you don't follow these rules you will be chasing your tail for hours and each mission will be far longer than it needs to be which can lead to fatigue and tedium. This is GOTY material for me, with a massive sense of exploration.

 

[Kabas]

Completed Pseudoregalia. It was pretty great. Took me 9 hours to beat it because i am retard who can't orient himself without a map and i completely forgot about that small hole that leads to the last major key in the Underbelly.

I was running around for at least an hour trying to remeber there it is.

Now, for something a bit more prettier.

Liked the demo so now i am playing the full version.

Instead of the usual cards you get dice here and instead of killing enemies you're purifying them while trying to manage your own corruption.
Most dice apart from Epic and the ones you start with come in three varieties - Safe, Balanced and Risky. Safe dice are weak but don't come with any sides containing corruption, Balanced are stronger but half of the sides are corruption and Risky contain the strongest abilites with most of the sides being corruption or all of them containing a strong abilitiy with a drawback. So, even within the same class you have a good variety of builds you can pursue.
The Mooni you start with and this dinosaur guy are my favourite so far. Still trying to figure out a working strategy for that Cellarius guy.

I won't be relying on you ever again you floaty bastard

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

>unforgeable
>can't be forged

 

[Kabas]

Cellarius can get a fancy dice with an ability to counter heartbreak.
My dice pool was poorly thought out though and didn't include enough of those.

 

[cvv]

Against the Storm

This game has been swallowing ALL my gaming time for the past 2 weeks.

Goddamn Potato and their addictive gaymes.

 

[Azalin]

Finished We Love Katamari Reroll,like the first game it's weird and good, the only problem is that it's short

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I think at the of the day, TBP might have been designed to be more accessible and a bridge between old fans and new, which may be why the levels and design seemed too familiar for some hardcore fans of the series who played dozens of FMs and re-played the original campaigns multiple times. It probably doesn't take chances or try something new but that's okay. I predict it will win Mod of the Year. The only other fan made project with this level of polish I played was Black Mesa. Haven't played a Thief FM in several years so it feels relatively fresh for me and a good way to come back, plus I'm doing it at 4K, 120 FPS with positional audio this time. I also tended to shun Expert mode because I like to kill bad guys so it's an entirely new play-style for me to be forced not to fatally neutralize humans. There's a Hammerite in the 2nd mission wearing a Great Helm so you can't bring him down so it's kind of fun to play a game of cat and mouse with him as he lumbers around the priests' compound. The voice acting as he chants hammerite dogma to himself is amusing (who does the voice acting for him or is that from stock assets?).

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I think at the of the day, TBP might have been designed to be more accessible and a bridge between old fans and new, which may be why the levels and design seemed too familiar for some hardcore fans of the series who played dozens of FMs and re-played the original campaigns multiple times. It probably doesn't take chances or try something new but that's okay. I predict it will win Mod of the Year. The only other fan made project with this level of polish I played was Black Mesa. Haven't played a Thief FM in several years so it feels relatively fresh for me and a good way to come back, plus I'm doing it at 4K, 120 FPS with positional audio this time. I also tended to shun Expert mode because I like to kill bad guys so it's an entirely new play-style for me to be forced not to fatally neutralize humans. There's a Hammerite in the 2nd mission wearing a Great Helm so you can't bring him down so it's kind of fun to play a game of cat and mouse with him as he lumbers around the priests' compound. The voice acting as he chants hammerite dogma to himself is amusing (who does the voice acting for him or is that from stock assets?).

Hammerite 1: Fenphoenix
Hammerite 3: Mattdistraction (who is credited for much voicework in the FM)
(There is no Hammerite 2 credited for some reason)

There are also some SFX taken from other games, so there's a chance it may come from there.

Finally, the Hammerite-mission is the 3rd mission of the FM, not the second.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Those Hammerites are a riot. "THOU ART THE NAIL!" *charge* Fen Phoenix is the gentleman who created the excellent Thief 1/2/3/TDM frontend AngelLoader, I believe.

 

[NecroLord]

The Crusade Against Evil in the Wasteland continues...
I now have my hands on some Hardened Power armor, courtesy of Miles in Adytum and a Turbo Plasma Rifle from Smitty, also in Adytum.
Things should be smooth sailing from now, though there are still many dangers and trials ahead.
I have Ian with me, equipped with a .223 Pistol and Tycho, equipped with a Sniper Rifle. Not being able to control or direct the combat behavior of your companions is a downer, especially since I am more used with Fallout 2, generally speaking.
Recovered the water chip for Vault 13, but now there's the super mutants to deal with. I need to do some more quests and get some more XP before finally going full genocide on them.

 

[Gibson]

the fuck I shan't; you know what - I'm going to rob even more now.

playing on my 10 yo kitchen laptop, gonna play the first two before starting TBP