You want merciless, try Etrian Odyssey. Those games hate you long time.

Finally picked up Doom for a tenner in Game. I was utterly lukewarm about the demo, but I found the game itself to be an excellent nostalgia fest. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually needed a map in a FPS. Or felt the single player game was a worthwhile experience. And the weapons all having a function and being fun to use, instead of just a tiered system where you never use the low end gear again.

Getting some screen tearing which is pretty unforgivable on a console version, I haven't installed the stupidly massive patch because I actually wanted to play the game last night so hopefully that will fix it. Don't plan to even touch the multiplayer as I've heard that it's appalling.

doom was great old-school dumb fun....took me back about 20 years or so when i used to play a load of pc shooters...

Fallible wrote:doom was great old-school dumb fun....took me back about 20 years or so when i used to play a load of pc shooters...

me...

See, I'm not sure now whether

a) US accidentally posted on Fall's account
b) Fall is trying to make out that she didn't really used to play loads of PC shooters

electricwhiteboy wrote:Finally picked up Doom for a tenner in Game. I was utterly lukewarm about the demo, but I found the game itself to be an excellent nostalgia fest. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually needed a map in a FPS. Or felt the single player game was a worthwhile experience. And the weapons all having a function and being fun to use, instead of just a tiered system where you never use the low end gear again.

Getting some screen tearing which is pretty unforgivable on a console version, I haven't installed the stupidly massive patch because I actually wanted to play the game last night so hopefully that will fix it. Don't plan to even touch the multiplayer as I've heard that it's appalling.

I played it multiplayer before the internet was fast enough. Five of us used the company's LAN on a friday afternoon/evening back in the 90's. We had for the time the fastest pc's around and it was great fun.

Why do I have far better time management skillz in P5 than I do in real life?

Scot Dutchy wrote:

electricwhiteboy wrote:Finally picked up Doom for a tenner in Game. I was utterly lukewarm about the demo, but I found the game itself to be an excellent nostalgia fest. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually needed a map in a FPS. Or felt the single player game was a worthwhile experience. And the weapons all having a function and being fun to use, instead of just a tiered system where you never use the low end gear again.

Getting some screen tearing which is pretty unforgivable on a console version, I haven't installed the stupidly massive patch because I actually wanted to play the game last night so hopefully that will fix it. Don't plan to even touch the multiplayer as I've heard that it's appalling.

I played it multiplayer before the internet was fast enough. Five of us used the company's LAN on a friday afternoon/evening back in the 90's. We had for the time the fastest pc's around and it was great fun.

Ah LAN parties. Those were the days.

electricwhiteboy wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

electricwhiteboy wrote:Finally picked up Doom for a tenner in Game. I was utterly lukewarm about the demo, but I found the game itself to be an excellent nostalgia fest. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually needed a map in a FPS. Or felt the single player game was a worthwhile experience. And the weapons all having a function and being fun to use, instead of just a tiered system where you never use the low end gear again.

Getting some screen tearing which is pretty unforgivable on a console version, I haven't installed the stupidly massive patch because I actually wanted to play the game last night so hopefully that will fix it. Don't plan to even touch the multiplayer as I've heard that it's appalling.

I played it multiplayer before the internet was fast enough. Five of us used the company's LAN on a friday afternoon/evening back in the 90's. We had for the time the fastest pc's around and it was great fun.

Ah LAN parties. Those were the days.

I sound ancient. But I enjoyed them. Doom was about as good as it got then. Of course we thought ourselves to be the bees' knees. It was a serial LAN and we had to check the connections on four floors before we could play.
This was in the Ministry of Transport (they always had the newest gear).

Animavore wrote:Why do I have far better time management skillz in P5 than I do in real life?

I remember asking that question with P3. Then you read an FAQ, and you realize that the way you're playing actually is like wasting your time in real life, so it evens out.

The Utopia expansion for Stellaris is amazing.
So many more ways to configure your empire now.

Fallible wrote:doom was great old-school dumb fun....took me back about 20 years or so when i used to play a load of pc shooters...

Duke Nukem was amazing too, I can't stop playing its hd version on vita. Good old memories.

Edit btw neither doom nor duke nukem real old school shooter title is wolfstein. They renewed that title periodically for the last three decades.

I think Persona 5 is the only game I've ever played where I usually let the pre-titlescreen intro play most of the time.



Usually I'll watch it once and never again.

Character creation options are lacking a bit, but I still managed to make a good enough bloke.

Lighting fucking matters.




The game is fucking huuuge. I read we can only land on a handful of planets, but there is so much to do on just one that it's gonna take me weeks to complete my first playthrough. I fear.

Facial animation aren't that weird. Eyes are, yes. Waiting for a torrent for just the patch. Not that crucial.

Noticed a few bugs where lines are said and e-mail are sent that reference squad-mates who weren't met yet. A bit annoying.

Graphics, worlds, stuff...looks amazing.

Combat is fast. Still have yet to use and get used to profiles. Annoyingly, a few weapons that should pack a punch are oddly weak.

I never used other profiles. But maybe you need to on harder difficulty settings?

Thomas Eshuis wrote:I never used other profiles. But maybe you need to on harder difficulty settings?

Well, I'm limiting my own experience, because I'm only ever play Infiltrator types and some Biotics. With this I can do a mix between them. So...that's as far as I'll go. Not interested in Engineer or Soldier builds. Might use some aspects of them.

Thomas Eshuis wrote:I never used other profiles. But maybe you need to on harder difficulty settings?

I played on insanity, and you don't.

They made two significant mistakes with the profile system:-

1) You can't change profiles on the fly. In a game where everything about combat has been designed around making it faster, smoother, more non stop and action packed (right down to removing more than 3 powers for the player character and the ability to manually use squad powers) they made the decision to force you through two layers of pause menu to use even the "quick" shift profile changes. When you compare this to the live action version you see Alex Rider use in the early section of the game it's clear what the vision was and how they've fallen short. Incidentally I'd bet my bottom dollar this is a control scheme issue - they ran out of buttons on the gamepad (very obvious if you play an hour or two with one), which is obviously what the game was designed around. If they'd fixed the system and made it voice activated, like Alex Rider's version I bet it would have been hella fun.

2) You use the same pool of skill points for each profile. Rather than having separate skill points for each profile like you would in an MMO-dual spec, which would work by giving you multiple fundamentally different skill sets and builds of equal power, instead you can only use the same skills and passives that you've paid for out of your primary spec budget. Since there are always actives/passives to be bought until about level 70 for your main spec (depending how many weapons you want to master) you are not given a choice between multiple well balanced profiles where each one makes tough choices to sacrifice in some areas and excel in others, you're given the choice between having 1 all-powerful skill set and several slight variations on that, albeit much weaker, or weakening all your profiles across the board to have access to meaningfully different powers to set into the profiles.

Ultimately there's just no benefit from piddling about with the system. Pick one of the decent ones that gives you some extra shields or melee damage or something and don't waste more time with it. The only profile that's interesting for its own sake is the explorer for the teleport dodge, but the one time I really experimented with that I kept falling through the scenery so gave up.

Thommo wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:I never used other profiles. But maybe you need to on harder difficulty settings?

I played on insanity, and you don't.

They made two significant mistakes with the profile system:-

1) You can't change profiles on the fly. In a game where everything about combat has been designed around making it faster, smoother, more non stop and action packed (right down to removing more than 3 powers for the player character and the ability to manually use squad powers) they made the decision to force you through two layers of pause menu to use even the "quick" shift profile changes. When you compare this to the live action version you see Alex Rider use in the early section of the game it's clear what the vision was and how they've fallen short. Incidentally I'd bet my bottom dollar this is a control scheme issue - they ran out of buttons on the gamepad (very obvious if you play an hour or two with one), which is obviously what the game was designed around. If they'd fixed the system and made it voice activated, like Alex Rider's version I bet it would have been hella fun.

Wait a heck. Then, what's the use of the Favorite (F1 to F4), that you can map profiles to? That should allow one to open the wheel and switch between, at least 4, on the fly.

Tried some ESO as it's free for the week. What a cheap and nasty pile of dirt. FTP Neverwinter and Skyforge are better than this bilge. This is a game which once tried to charge a subscription!

The world needs a Dark Souls MMO.

So,

BAYONETTA just came out on PC out of FUCKING NOWHERE.