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Post by BLASÉ on Apr 16, 2021 2:09:20 GMT -5
For the gamers, anyone you follow on twitch.tv / facebook gaming and youtube??? It's probably obvious from my previous posts, but I enjoy the Outside Xbox / Outside Xtra crew. Also some of their usual partners in crime, like Eurogamer. Shoot! thats the only console that I never touched. Been a Nintendo/PS guy my whole life. If anyone is interested this guy is good in the link below, hes up to date on most sales/new releases, etc. Check him out if you have the time! www.youtube.com/c/SpawnWave/videos
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 16, 2021 2:16:42 GMT -5
It's probably obvious from my previous posts, but I enjoy the Outside Xbox / Outside Xtra crew. Also some of their usual partners in crime, like Eurogamer. Shoot! thats the only console that I never touched. Been a Nintendo/PS guy my whole life. If anyone is interested this guy is good in the link below, hes up to date on most sales/new releases, etc. Check him out if you have the time! www.youtube.com/c/SpawnWave/videosThey don't cover XBOX games in particular. The name is complicated. Andy Farrant used to co-host a Microsoft-sponsored channel called "Inside Xbox". When he broke away and formed his own independent channel, he called it "Outside Xbox" as a pun. But I've seen them play and review games from all the consoles, PC games, and even some mobile games. They also play some RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons and Blades In The Dark.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 16, 2021 19:15:20 GMT -5
the more i think about it, the more i appreciate hollow knight. i will likely buy the sequel, hollow knight silk song, if it's available for playstation
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Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 16, 2021 21:22:23 GMT -5
Playing Lords Mobile on my cellphone. It’s addicting, and I hate it because you either have to wait a long time to do stuff (building, research, gathering materials, etc), or you can speed things up by buying some packaged items.
Someone attacked me overnight, his castle was nearby because I had noticed he had attacked others close by the other day. Anyway, he attacked, my defenders repelled it and the chickensh!t moved his castle...ran away with its tail between its legs.
On an off-note, it’s hilarious reading the chats while the game is going on. Apparently players from India and US have a beef with the Chinese players.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 16, 2021 23:10:48 GMT -5
Playing Lords Mobile on my cellphone. It’s addicting, and I hate it because you either have to wait a long time to do stuff (building, research, gathering materials, etc), or you can speed things up by buying some packaged items. Someone attacked me overnight, his castle was nearby because I had noticed he had attacked others close by the other day. Anyway, he attacked, my defenders repelled it and the chickensh!t moved his castle...ran away with its tail between its legs. On an off-note, it’s hilarious reading the chats while the game is going on. Apparently players from India and US have a beef with the Chinese players. One reason I rarely play multiplayer is because I hate the idea of "free-to-play" games where you have to pay cash to get an advantage, so it's basically "pay-to-win". Too much like real life to be any fun.
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 17, 2021 2:00:28 GMT -5
I have a month of PS Now that I got for 99 cents, and I'm trying out some games just to see if I might be interested in buying them. I played through the first bit of Dishonored, but I despise the console control scheme. For example, R1 is used to attack, but holding R2 is used to block. And L1 is used for a secondary weapon. This is an absolutely idiotic way to lay out the controls (most games would use square to attack). Apparently, it's better with a mouse and keyboard. The handling of the controls also feels very imprecise. I decided to try Dishonored 2 instead, and I played through the tutorial. While the way the keys are mapped is still rather annoying, the controls do feel more precise and not nearly as dated. I'll probably just skip the first game altogether.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 17, 2021 3:24:03 GMT -5
I have a month of PS Now that I got for 99 cents, and I'm trying out some games just to see if I might be interested in buying them. I played through the first bit of Dishonored, but I despise the console control scheme. For example, R1 is used to attack, but holding R2 is used to block. And L1 is used for a secondary weapon. This is an absolutely idiotic way to lay out the controls (most games would use square to attack). Apparently, it's better with a mouse and keyboard. The handling of the controls also feels very imprecise. I decided to try Dishonored 2 instead, and I played through the tutorial. While the way the keys are mapped is still rather annoying, the controls do feel more precise and not nearly as dated. I'll probably just skip the first game altogether.
Don't you have the option to change how the keys are mapped? That's nearly automatic on PC games. I am trying to remember how Dishonored is mapped. I tried to avoid combat in general, and so tended to never block any attacks anyway. Mainly I would just sneak up behind people and choke them out. In Dishonored, I don't think people can be woken up, although it still tends to be good to hide bodies so that enemies don't go on alert. In Hitman it's especially important to hide unconscious bodies, because if they get found they will get woken up. Anyway, I would pretty strongly recommend playing Dishonored before Dishonored 2. It's not absolutely necessary in any way, but the plot, the characters, and the world are all established in the first game.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 17, 2021 10:09:38 GMT -5
picked up dark souls remastered from the post office this morning. i will not rage quit this time
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 17, 2021 16:32:22 GMT -5
I have a month of PS Now that I got for 99 cents, and I'm trying out some games just to see if I might be interested in buying them. I played through the first bit of Dishonored, but I despise the console control scheme. For example, R1 is used to attack, but holding R2 is used to block. And L1 is used for a secondary weapon. This is an absolutely idiotic way to lay out the controls (most games would use square to attack). Apparently, it's better with a mouse and keyboard. The handling of the controls also feels very imprecise. I decided to try Dishonored 2 instead, and I played through the tutorial. While the way the keys are mapped is still rather annoying, the controls do feel more precise and not nearly as dated. I'll probably just skip the first game altogether.
Don't you have the option to change how the keys are mapped? That's nearly automatic on PC games. I am trying to remember how Dishonored is mapped. I tried to avoid combat in general, and so tended to never block any attacks anyway. Mainly I would just sneak up behind people and choke them out. In Dishonored, I don't think people can be woken up, although it still tends to be good to hide bodies so that enemies don't go on alert. In Hitman it's especially important to hide unconscious bodies, because if they get found they will get woken up. Anyway, I would pretty strongly recommend playing Dishonored before Dishonored 2. It's not absolutely necessary in any way, but the plot, the characters, and the world are all established in the first game. On PC games, yes. It's not as omnipresent in console games. In Dishonored, there is no ability to remap the controls. However, I just discovered that there are four control scheme options, and while none of them fit my preference, a couple do seem to be better than the default (at the very least, I would prefer to not have to use the same finger to both attack and block). I guess I can try doing it stealthily and see how it goes.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 17, 2021 16:38:44 GMT -5
Don't you have the option to change how the keys are mapped? That's nearly automatic on PC games. I am trying to remember how Dishonored is mapped. I tried to avoid combat in general, and so tended to never block any attacks anyway. Mainly I would just sneak up behind people and choke them out. In Dishonored, I don't think people can be woken up, although it still tends to be good to hide bodies so that enemies don't go on alert. In Hitman it's especially important to hide unconscious bodies, because if they get found they will get woken up. Anyway, I would pretty strongly recommend playing Dishonored before Dishonored 2. It's not absolutely necessary in any way, but the plot, the characters, and the world are all established in the first game. On PC games, yes. It's not as omnipresent in console games. In Dishonored, there is no ability to remap the controls. However, I just discovered that there are four control scheme options, and while none of them fit my preference, a couple do seem to be better than the default (at the very least, I would prefer to not have to use the same finger to both attack and block). I guess I can try doing it stealthily and see how it goes. I basically never blocked. It's primarily a stealth game (although it does give you the option to go on a rampage and just kill everyone if you want to).
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 17, 2021 17:10:16 GMT -5
On PC games, yes. It's not as omnipresent in console games. In Dishonored, there is no ability to remap the controls. However, I just discovered that there are four control scheme options, and while none of them fit my preference, a couple do seem to be better than the default (at the very least, I would prefer to not have to use the same finger to both attack and block). I guess I can try doing it stealthily and see how it goes. I basically never blocked. It's primarily a stealth game (although it does give you the option to go on a rampage and just kill everyone if you want to). Hmm, all right. If it's primarily stealth, it should be fine. Taking out all the enemies stealthily and hiding their bodies is similar to Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In that game, you could also play guns blazing if you wanted, but you got more experience for stealthy takedowns, so that's what I did.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 17, 2021 17:24:39 GMT -5
I basically never blocked. It's primarily a stealth game (although it does give you the option to go on a rampage and just kill everyone if you want to). Hmm, all right. If it's primarily stealth, it should be fine. Taking out all the enemies stealthily and hiding their bodies is similar to Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In that game, you could also play guns blazing if you wanted, but you got more experience for stealthy takedowns, so that's what I did. Dishonored tempts you with all these amazing ways to just rampage through the city killing everything, but rewards you for *not* doing that. Thematically, you should realize that the people you would be killing are the society you are trying to save, even though they don't know that's what you are trying to do.
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 17, 2021 21:55:47 GMT -5
In Dishonored, I came across a safe and a note of where to find the combination. I looked in the place I was told, and the number was 451. Of course. That is a code that has been used in a lot of games, especially early. I should have probably just tried that before I looked around to find the combination.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 17, 2021 22:45:30 GMT -5
In Dishonored, I came across a safe and a note of where to find the combination. I looked in the place I was told, and the number was 451. Of course. That is a code that has been used in a lot of games, especially early. I should have probably just tried that before I looked around to find the combination. The codes to most of the safes change every time you play in all the Dishonored games *except* the first game. Apparently 0451 was the combination to the door to Looking Glass Studios, who made System Shock and Thief. People who started there later made the Bioshock series. And the code was used probably as an homage by many other games. The first code of the second game is also 451. As is the first code in the Dishonored 2 DLC "Death Of The Outsider".
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 17, 2021 23:30:09 GMT -5
In Dishonored, I came across a safe and a note of where to find the combination. I looked in the place I was told, and the number was 451. Of course. That is a code that has been used in a lot of games, especially early. I should have probably just tried that before I looked around to find the combination. The codes to most of the safes change every time you play in all the Dishonored games *except* the first game. Apparently 0451 was the combination to the door to Looking Glass Studios, who made System Shock and Thief. People who started there later made the Bioshock series. And the code was used probably as an homage by many other games. The first code of the second game is also 451. As is the first code in the Dishonored 2 DLC "Death Of The Outsider". Yep, it's used in the Deus Ex games too. It seems to show up a lot in the " immersive sim" genre.
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