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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2019 4:10:16 GMT -5
My wife will be out of town for a couple of weeks in November so I desperately need to buy a new game, preferably open world, that will take a long time to complete and totally fun. And on sale. Hope PSN comes through in the next two weeks. I will be playing pretty much non-stop from morning to late night, in between doggy walking. May have to wear a diaper. See if Middle Earth: Shadow of War is on sale. Its the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. It was but it's not low enough for me. I have my eye on it. Don't worry.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2019 13:41:01 GMT -5
Battlefield 1
I'm on the final mission/chapter. Can't get myself motivated enough to finish it. I don't think I like military games that much. The game design is well done and interesting, but military games don't give you superhuman powers.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2019 23:18:05 GMT -5
Shadow of Mordor
Now on my 3rd playthrough. The game teaches you basic stuff about the Nemesis system (Captain and Warchief hierarchy system), what to do, how to do it, and the like via main missions early in the game. But I already know what to do so I've been going around assassinating Captains before I'm even taught how to do it. So far, I think I may have killed 50+ Captains in two days. Here's an example of what happens: I'd target one and then a random one shows up nearby and attacks me so I dispatch that Captain, then another one below me at the foot of a tower so I do a Death from Above thing, then I get to my intended target and kill him stealthily. Bam Bam Bam. That's three right there.
On my first playthrough when things were new and I had to get used to the mechanics and controls of the game, I remember getting surprised by a Captain and getting killed, which resulted in a whole bunch of other Captains being promoted or increasing in power. (That's how the Nemesis system works. If you die, Captains get promoted or increase in power.) Then, I'd go off and try to assassinate another Captain, only to be foiled by a randomly spawning different Captain. I end up getting killed again, which then resulted in everyone in the Nemesis system getting even stronger. I really made a mess of things.
The game is not only difficult for first timers, but also difficult in the early parts because you don't have all your skills unlocked. Now in my third playthrough, it's super easy, even without all the unlocked skills. It's mostly from familiarity (experience) and confidence, of course.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2019 23:33:29 GMT -5
Shadow of Mordor
As far as melee kills are concerned, no other game is as satisfying as this game. They’re so over the top brutal. Lots and lots of decapitations, swords through the throat and up into the head, daggers to the gut, etc. And then, the lopped heads kind of roll on the ground in a funny and gruesome way. LOL!
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 26, 2019 12:33:10 GMT -5
Shadow of Mordor
Got killed by a lowly level 1 grunt Uruk soldier. In the Nemesis system, that means he got immediately promoted to Captain at level 2. He didn’t deserve it. I was surrounded and taking a lot of damage from a Captain who was shooting poisoned arrows/spears at me. That low level 1 grunt happened to get the killing blow. I got my revenge though. Within 5 minutes, I tracked that grunt (now Captain) down and cut off his head. I have to say it was more satisfying than I anticipated.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 26, 2019 14:20:15 GMT -5
still working on nioh. haven't played all week
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 26, 2019 15:31:01 GMT -5
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Post by mln59 on Oct 26, 2019 19:55:50 GMT -5
just beat a boss. big spiderlady. could shoot webbing onto the ground which would slow me down. that was irritating. at the end, i realized i had enough health to stand directly in front of her and swing
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 27, 2019 21:08:26 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 28, 2019 3:19:51 GMT -5
Shadow of Mordor
Toughest mission I've ever had in this game. I had to kill a Warchief. Almost always, I've been successful killing Captains and Warchiefs by thinning the herd of Uruks surrounding them or getting them alone for one-on-one battles. In the latest one, my targeted Warchief had, literally, hundreds of Uruk soldiers surrounding him, plus three randomly spawned Captains. It was so difficult to get up close to this Warchief. It was a near impossible mission. I spent the bulk of my time running around the stronghold eluding these soldiers and killing them when possible. I kept shooting at exploding barrels and stuff and that sort of thinned the herd. Through a series of events, I eventually got the Warchief on a platform surrounded by only 15 soldiers (the others were looking for me and were elsewhere, those idiots), so I fought and fought and kept hacking away with execution moves at the Warchief when I was near enough. Finally did it. I think it took me almost 30 minutes to finish that mission. Shadow of Mordor missions don't usually last that long.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 28, 2019 13:55:56 GMT -5
I played this nightmare-tough XCOM mission, managed to make it all the way through without getting any of my soldiers injured (but did lose an awful lot of the civilians I was supposed to be saving), and then on the mission exit screen the game crashed. The last save was back at the start of the mission.
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Post by bigfan on Oct 29, 2019 11:23:51 GMT -5
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games? Charlie Bracke in September at his home in Redmond, Wash., which he shares with friends he met at reStart, a rehab center for gaming and internet addiction.Credit...Damon Casarez for The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/magazine/can-you-really-be-addicted-to-video-games.htmlThe latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all — especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 12:01:10 GMT -5
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games? Charlie Bracke in September at his home in Redmond, Wash., which he shares with friends he met at reStart, a rehab center for gaming and internet addiction.Credit...Damon Casarez for The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/magazine/can-you-really-be-addicted-to-video-games.htmlThe latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all — especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive. He owns a lot of fantasy/sci-fi books in addition to one oddball Plato book. (I'm assuming they're fantasy/sci-fi.) My bookshelf is mostly literary (e.g., Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Charles Dickens) and history books. If anyone are prone to video game addiction, I'd say it would be readers of fantasy/sci-fi books. LOL! I myself don't know what addiction is like as I've never been addicted to anything.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 29, 2019 12:56:29 GMT -5
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games? Yes.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 29, 2019 13:07:04 GMT -5
He owns a lot of fantasy/sci-fi books ... My bookshelf is mostly literary (e.g., Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Charles Dickens) and history books. Wow. Unpacking some of the many wrong ideas here. 1) Science Fiction versus "literary": It can be just as "literary" as any other type of fiction. 2) Margaret Atwood: Um, Wolfgang, she's a science fiction writer. But due to people making statements like yours, she tends to not identify herself as such. 3) History: Many science fiction fans and writers are also history buffs. The predominant themes of science fiction are about history, politics and government, the military, and (of course) science and engineering.
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