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Post by XAsstCoach on May 4, 2019 22:13:15 GMT -5
Do most of the "gamers" here use consoles?.... I'm not going to use the search function for this. No PC Master race? Was strictly a PC gamer, but my library was limited to Sim City, Star Wars, Origin Ultima series, Railroad Tycoon (I do wish they will do a refresh of RRT...even in 2D map), and Civilization. Got a PS3 in 2007 or so just to see what the hype is, and played some Star Wars, Medal of Honor, Dead Space, Call of Duty and Resistance. It got burned out after a strange electrical surge in the building and was left console-less for about 1-2 years until I bought the PS4 a year or two ago. At first I stuck to the same old games...Call of Duty. But CoD3 left me kind of jaded, like asking myself why am I playing crap games like this? Stumbled on this thread and found the Tomb Raider discussions to be interesting so I gave it a shot. DAMN! I've been missing out for a long time. Bought a bunch of games recommended by Wolfgang, mln59 and mikegarrison...ones I played so far from their lists haven't disappointed, looking forward to the ones I haven't played yet. Seriously, if they do a redux of Railroad Tycoon for the PC I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. Even if they refreshed Railroad Tycoon 2 (my favorite, I'm not a fan of RRTC3) for Windows 10 I'd buy it.
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Post by caliburrito on May 4, 2019 23:34:09 GMT -5
Do most of the "gamers" here use consoles?.... I'm not going to use the search function for this. No PC Master race? Was strictly a PC gamer, but my library was limited to Sim City, Star Wars, Origin Ultima series, Railroad Tycoon (I do wish they will do a refresh of RRT...even in 2D map), and Civilization. Got a PS3 in 2007 or so just to see what the hype is, and played some Star Wars, Medal of Honor, Dead Space, Call of Duty and Resistance. It got burned out after a strange electrical surge in the building and was left console-less for about 1-2 years until I bought the PS4 a year or two ago. At first I stuck to the same old games...Call of Duty. But CoD3 left me kind of jaded, like asking myself why am I playing crap games like this? Stumbled on this thread and found the Tomb Raider discussions to be interesting so I gave it a shot. DAMN! I've been missing out for a long time. Bought a bunch of games recommended by Wolfgang, mln59 and mikegarrison...ones I played so far from their lists haven't disappointed, looking forward to the ones I haven't played yet. Seriously, if they do a redux of Railroad Tycoon for the PC I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. Even if they refreshed Railroad Tycoon 2 (my favorite, I'm not a fan of RRTC3) for Windows 10 I'd buy it. Sucks to hear about the PS3 electricity shortage, I had issues with mine as well, just not to that extreme. Mainly used to game on consoles playing racing simulations, and COD, BF. I could never get into the the WWII era type shooters like Medal of Honor. Tomb Raider on PS3 was a very good game. I never would have played that game if my disc reader never went out and I only played the monthly free games Playstation plus released and lucky enough Tomb Raider was one of them. Also I jumped on the The Last of Us bandwagon late, didn't play it until it was remastered on the PS4, such a good game.
Railroad Tycoon, my buddy couldn't stop talking about that game and Civilization. I've never tried it myself but heard good things. I used to play CS:Go with old buddies on PC, but now I just stick to ports such as the Fallout series/GTA and a bunch of others one being Formula 1. I have a bunch of PC games in my library now that has 0 hours, haven't made time to play. Those steam deals man, that's how they get you lol.
I might pony-up and get the latest Red Dead Redemption, but I want to play the original game first.
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Post by caliburrito on May 4, 2019 23:36:32 GMT -5
mln59 is obsessed with "beating the game", particularly on the hardest setting. it's true. i'm stuck in a particular scenario in god of war. many enemies, not much room to move, and my lock-on skills are bad. i can get hit maybe 3 times before i'm killed. This reminds me of a guy I know who would play and replay his games on the hardest level on the ps4 and try to collect all possible Platinum trophies for the game that he is playing. Dude coudn't stop talking about the Dark Souls series.
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Post by mln59 on May 5, 2019 10:14:53 GMT -5
it's true. i'm stuck in a particular scenario in god of war. many enemies, not much room to move, and my lock-on skills are bad. i can get hit maybe 3 times before i'm killed. This reminds me of a guy I know who would play and replay his games on the hardest level on the ps4 and try to collect all possible Platinum trophies for the game that he is playing. Dude coudn't stop talking about the Dark Souls series. the dark souls series is one of the most rewarding series i've encountered. can be incredibly frustrating but clearing an area is soooooooooooooo satisfying.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 5, 2019 15:27:45 GMT -5
Seriously, if they do a redux of Railroad Tycoon for the PC I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. Even if they refreshed Railroad Tycoon 2 (my favorite, I'm not a fan of RRTC3) for Windows 10 I'd buy it. I've only played RR Tycoon 2. An outfit called Loki ported a bunch of PC games to linux. Since I only had linux at the time, these were the games I played. I played Myth 2 Soulblighter, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Railroad Tycoon 2 so much that I knew them forward and backward. They also included all the expansions, which for RRT2 was the "second century" where you play in a future world where they first drain the Mediterranean, then have an environmental disaster that raises sea levels all over the world. The map where you can only use steam engines on Antarctica was a favorite of mine. IIRC, the E111 was the magic bullet train, with good all-around performance and reasonable costs. Alpha Centauri was a great Civ game. In some ways better than other Civs that have come after.
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Post by XAsstCoach on May 5, 2019 21:17:55 GMT -5
I've only played RR Tycoon 2. An outfit called Loki ported a bunch of PC games to linux. Since I only had linux at the time, these were the games I played. I played Myth 2 Soulblighter, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Railroad Tycoon 2 so much that I knew them forward and backward. They also included all the expansions, which for RRT2 was the "second century" where you play in a future world where they first drain the Mediterranean, then have an environmental disaster that raises sea levels all over the world. The map where you can only use steam engines on Antarctica was a favorite of mine. IIRC, the E111 was the magic bullet train, with good all-around performance and reasonable costs. Alpha Centauri was a great Civ game. In some ways better than other Civs that have come after. My favorite map in RRT II was the MidEast USA...covering Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio. Was able to build up a pretty good railway system all around Lake Michigan. Alpha Centauri was a great game, too bad it was short lived. Don't recall any more followed. There was another game where we colonize planets and we would use the resources from the planet to build a fleet of ships to defend our worlds as well as conquer others. I forget the name, but it was addictive to play.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 6, 2019 9:49:25 GMT -5
There was another game where we colonize planets and we would use the resources from the planet to build a fleet of ships to defend our worlds as well as conquer others. I forget the name, but it was addictive to play. There are a lot of games like that.
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Post by XAsstCoach on May 6, 2019 10:01:50 GMT -5
Master of Orion....the race Psilons popped into my head, did a quick search and found the name of the game.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 6, 2019 10:31:50 GMT -5
Master of Orion....the race Psilons popped into my head, did a quick search and found the name of the game. Never played it, but it seems to be the game that the term "4X" was actually coined to describe. 4X: "explore, expand, exploit, exterminate".
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Post by mln59 on May 6, 2019 18:59:29 GMT -5
cranked up god of war again. still dealing with tanky units. so far it's been two waves: 2 heavies then 1 heavy + 2 lights.
but the 2nd wave comes when i kill one of the heavies from the first wave. i'm trying to attack the 2 1st wave heavies in a way that they go down almost simultaneously.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 6, 2019 19:33:38 GMT -5
F*ck! I went back and tried to fight Medusa again. Got through the first wave. Got through the second wave. Got through the third wave of henchmen, and was nearly finished with her, but I ran out of fire arrows and poison arrows and explosive arrows and my regular arrows just weren't doing damage fast enough. She killed me when I was so close to finishing her off -- and the only checkpoint was way back at the beginning of the fight. This is the sort of BS that makes me ragequit games. I'm thinking of pulling out the nuclear option and changing the game difficulty to easy for this fight. I'm tired of fighting the same fight over and over and over again. So, this game has easy-normal-hard difficulty levels? Assassin's Creed games never had multiple difficulty levels. It was always one unchangeable level, as far as my experience was concerned, which goes from AC to AC4.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 6, 2019 20:11:12 GMT -5
F*ck! I went back and tried to fight Medusa again. Got through the first wave. Got through the second wave. Got through the third wave of henchmen, and was nearly finished with her, but I ran out of fire arrows and poison arrows and explosive arrows and my regular arrows just weren't doing damage fast enough. She killed me when I was so close to finishing her off -- and the only checkpoint was way back at the beginning of the fight. This is the sort of BS that makes me ragequit games. I'm thinking of pulling out the nuclear option and changing the game difficulty to easy for this fight. I'm tired of fighting the same fight over and over and over again. So, this game has easy-normal-hard difficulty levels? Assassin's Creed games never had multiple difficulty levels. It was always one unchangeable level, as far as my experience was concerned, which goes from AC to AC4. Yes it does, but reports vary as to how effective it is at making much difference. Easy-Normal-Hard-Nightmare. I am playing Normal. Some boss enemies are just grindy as hell in "Normal"; I don't wanna know what they would be like in "Nightmare". I prefer to assassinate the enemies when possible, because that's usually a one-shot kill. I like the idea of stealthing around and striking from the shadows more than the regular fighting. But you can't stealth the Medusa. You also can't run away and break contact, allowing for another sneak attack, which is my normal go-to when fighting tough enemies. You are in a locked area and can't escape the combat. Anyway, I have,'t gone back to play that again since I made that post. Instead I installed Hitman and have been playing that. It's more what I would consider a true assassination game -- almost all 1-shot kills or subdues (sleeper choke) from behind. The idea is not to fight, not to be seen, not to be recorded, etc. The main gimmick is that when you knock somebody out (or kill them) you can take their clothes and pass yourself off as whatever they were -- security guard, doctor, janitor, etc. Different outfits get you access to different places. But you have to watch out because some people are more observant than others and they will spot you even in disguise.
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Post by mln59 on May 6, 2019 20:13:37 GMT -5
So, this game has easy-normal-hard difficulty levels? Assassin's Creed games never had multiple difficulty levels. It was always one unchangeable level, as far as my experience was concerned, which goes from AC to AC4. Yes it does, but reports vary as to how effective it is at making much difference. Easy-Normal-Hard-Nightmare. I am playing Normal. did you use the nuclear option?
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Post by mikegarrison on May 6, 2019 20:22:51 GMT -5
Yes it does, but reports vary as to how effective it is at making much difference. Easy-Normal-Hard-Nightmare. I am playing Normal. did you use the nuclear option? See edited post. I've been playing Hitman instead of going back to Odyssey.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 6, 2019 20:28:30 GMT -5
I played Hitman Absolution on the PS3. I played it 3X, not because I loved the game but because I wanted to kill my targets in different ways. It was okay. My favorite part of the whole game was trying to kill these some assassins in the middle of a cornfield. That was incredible!
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