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[Axe99]

Well that's a light and happy conversation .

Still playing more ESO - been a bit buggered this week, so almost exclusively playing it as a single-player RPG, and it's pretty solid at that.  Almost done all the quests and locations I've found in the starting 'main' region for my area (Auridon), and then it'll be onto the next region (there are three regions for each of three factions, then what looks to be a central PvP region - I've played about 40 hours in one of the nine SP regions, so there's oodles of content).

[Aromaci]

I wanna try Destiny 2.0 but MGS....

[spectre51]

Finished Hexcells Plus(PC), definitely a set up from the original. It has 36 levels overall, took me just under 13 hours to complete them all perfect. Most of the levels I got perfect first attempt but a few had a few miss-clicks or miss-judgements which required me to do them a few times. So its provided alot more mental stimulation than the first and is a good step up with the amount of information thats now possible to be presented to you in each puzzle.

Had one occasion right at the end of a puzzles where I had to guess, entirely through my own fault I got a serious case of tunnel vision going, got stuck for a long time that I figured I will just guess the last little block and while doing it I saw the vital information I needed.

Other than that even though some took a good long while to do ive managed to complete all the others logically with out help. You really do need to use the entire screen worth of information some times. A few times a single turn would take 10's of minutes trying to figure it out, to see that piece that tells you what to do.

2 negatives for me, no cloud save and no puzzle save, you have to start over if you exit unless I am completely missing the option.

Other than that I'm loving it, being able to reason for and against each move, just enjoying it greatly, that I've played it foe 12 hours in just over 1 and half days shows that. Love that everything is entirely logic based with no guessing needed as in minesweeper.

Am looking for to Infinite now, it will be interesting to see how the generated puzzles hold up to the hand crafted ones.

[Axe99]

Nice one Spec, good logical puzzles are good .

[SmokeyPSD]

Aromaci, on 11 September 2015 - 12:15 AM, said:

I wanna try Destiny 2.0 but MGS....

I just deleted Destiny for the time being lol. Was not prepared to pay how much they're asking for the Taken King (full game price) and the mandatory update was going to make the install too big for my already struggling HDD. With Phantom Pain I really didn't agonize over it

[spectre51]

Finished the crafted puzzles of Hexcells Infinite(PC) took just under 11 hours went smooth for the most part but a few did give me a bit of trouble. There are now 1billion generated puzzles to do of which I will not complete but will give a bunch a go to see how they are since ive enjoyed the others so much but no point in doing completed ones a go, plus an achievement to play 60 of them.

Infinite also fixed my two negatives by adding cloud saves and also puzzles saves, so you can exit a puzzle and have your progress saved.

Well worth the $2.69 for all 3, looking forward to giving the generated ones a go.

[Axe99]

spectre51, on 13 September 2015 - 10:12 AM, said:

There are now 1billion generated puzzles to do of which I will not complete...

Haha, aye, that's a bit much, even for a committed completionist like yourself .  According to Google there are around 25 million seconds in 80 years, so you'd need to knock over 40 puzzles a second for the next eight decades to get through that lot!  Sixty is much more sensible .

[GraphicX]

back to playing mad max after a week of no gaming, still has my interest.

[GasClown]

GraphicX, on 16 September 2015 - 03:20 AM, said:

back to playing mad max after a week of no gaming, still has my interest.

Yeah - I should get back into MGSV after having a few days off.

[SmokeyPSD]

Yeah just had a look at the beginning out of interest and a break from MGS. Honestly was pleasantly surprised. Wasn't expecting too much which was probably best.

[Axe99]

Still playing ESO (and likely will be for months) but took a break from my 'usual' strategy games to have a tilt at Homeland Remastered, and it's very good.  It's a little buggy, but nothing game-breaking, and the gameplay holds up very well.  The only thing against it is that it's got an odd difficulty arrangement - there are no difficulty settings, but there's a certain point at which the strength of your fleet means the opposition's fleet gets much, much stronger.  However, the game doesn't actually tell you this.....  So after I struggled (I 'just got by', but thought my fleet too weak to get through the next mission) in the first half of mission eight, I went back to my 'end of mission 7' save and built up a stronger fleet, only to go into mission eight again and get absolutely flattened.  So while the core gameplay is great, the idea that you need to go to a walkthrough to get an idea of a fleet strength that'll give you a 'normal' difficulty is a bit crazy imo, and punishing players for managing resources well (without telling them they'll be punished) is also odd design.

In short, I'd recommend a walkthrough for the game, particularly after mission 7 (but earlier if you get a strong enough fleet for it to gank you before then ).  It's not the kind of game a walkthrough would spoil, as you'll still need to be organising all your ships through the mission and the like, and it is more of a 'real-time puzzle' than a 'real-time strategy' game, in that there tends to be only one or two 'right' ways to play, so a walkthrough will also cut back on the trial-and-error built into the game design .  I definitely recommend giving it a look, it's unquestionably a classic, but recommend going in 'informed' .

[Aromaci]

So I'm guessing you're finding ESO engaging? I heard the a lot of the quests were very MMO cliche. Would you agree with that?

[Axe99]

Aromaci, on 20 September 2015 - 12:23 AM, said:

So I'm guessing you're finding ESO engaging? I heard the a lot of the quests were very MMO cliche. Would you agree with that?

I am enjoying it, but it probably helps I'm moving fairly slowly at the moment health-wise, and there's a chance that if I was zippier I might find it getting a bit dull - hard to say, as if I was zippier I might get into the PvP and raids a bit more, which might counter that.  Solo-ing (which is 95 per cent of what I've done - other than that I've done one group dungeon with Live and Drags) it's a cross between standard MMO and Skyrim, and is fairly slow paced.  It's definitely more varied than my time in WoW or LoTRO (my only two references, and I only lasted about ten hours in each), but the nature of an MMO means that it can't be as deep as a single-player focussed game.  Played nearly fifty hours now, and still enjoy playing it every day or two .  They tend to do server maintenance in our evenings, which is an occasional drag.

[GasClown]

Been playing the Book of Unwritten Tales (the first one).... loving it, cracker thus far. Well written, great voice acting, excellent humour... some good little nods to other games/movies etc.

[Aromaci]

Just finished my first playthrough of Until Dawn. Really good game. I think it's better than what David Cage has been doing. It actually feels like your choices matter. So many stressful decisions but that is what makes it work. The graphics and face capture are also really high level stuff. One of the best looking games out there. I think this game works better than a film as it actually makes you care about what happens because you are in control, you're responsible for these people's lives.

If you are a fan of horror films like 'Halloween', 'Evil Dead','Scream' and 'I know What You Did Last Summer' then I think you will enjoy this. In fact I'd encourage anyone who likes horror to give it a go.

[SmokeyPSD]

Aromaci, on 23 September 2015 - 07:34 AM, said:

Just finished my first playthrough of Until Dawn. Really good game. I think it's better than what David Cage has been doing. It actually feels like your choices matter. So many stressful decisions but that is what makes it work. The graphics and face capture are also really high level stuff. One of the best looking games out there. I think this game works better than a film as it actually makes you care about what happens because you are in control, you're responsible for these people's lives.

If you are a fan of horror films like 'Halloween', 'Evil Dead','Scream' and 'I know What You Did Last Summer' then I think you will enjoy this. In fact I'd encourage anyone who likes horror to give it a go.

I'm really interested in it as I love the pseudo film/game genre but I'm not much of a horror person which held me back from grabbing it right away.

[spectre51]

Played 60 generated puzzles from Hexcells Infinite(PC), they were all quite easy from the 60 I played, they all also feel into a few groups of similarity and just overall lacked the charm of the hand-crafted puzzles.

Played and finished both Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: SpartanStrike(PC) after grabbing them on sale a bit back. I enjoyed them both, Assault did have a noticeable difficulty jump in that it was obvious enemies became stronger, Strike was definitely easier even though its enemies were more fleet of foot. Got 100% achievements in Strike but not Assault, played both almost the same amount of time but a few of Assault's Assault op requirements are quite grindy so I didn't bother.

Overall both fun, solid twin stick shooters and would look into any future entries if they were to appear.


Also started God of War: Ascension(PS3) played the first few chapters, not too bad so far, definitely has felt epic so far from what I have played. Started on hard and I do feel weak and having to be less carefree then I have been in past games on the same difficulty.
Camera at times has been atrocious though, hampering my view, on one occasion I really didn't have a clue what was happening, and on my second attempt on it somehow fluked my way through it while I was just waiting for my last bit of hp to get taken.

Other than that I am enjoying it, as I said it does give that feel of epicness that the series does so well.


Also installed Europa Universalis III(PC) to get around to next on PC.

[Axe99]

Nice one Spec .  I enjoyed GoW:Ascension a lot - I thought the story wasn't quite as tight as it could have been, but the action, pacing and the like of the series was as strong as ever.  Hopefully, if they make another one (and the rumours are quite strong, although I was hoping Sony Santa Monica would stretch their wings a bit), the PS4 will mean they can give it a free floating camera, as GoW3 and Ascension both had times where the camera created issues (actually, GoW 1 and 2 did too).

Top stuff on EU3 .  If you have any questions, let me know, hope you enjoy .  I recommend playing someone like England, France, the Ottomans or Castile first - strong countries, so if you make a few mistakes you've got a bit of space to recover.

[GraphicX]

i've got those two halo spartan games, finished the first but yet to play the second.  was worth the couple of dollars though.

[GraphicX]

started playing my b'day present from axe, this war of mine, last night.  what an awesome game, first try lasted 17 days, all fell the pieces when my fat cook guy got the sh!ts & beat up another resident, think it was because i wasn't feeding him enough smokes.

i'm on my second play atm & around day 20.  everything is looking really good with loads of supplies & everyone in good health.  does the game have a set finish day though ?  like 30 days or something ???