What Games Are You Playing?

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[Officer Genious]

Sept 8, 2014 22:16:10 GMT -5 slayernz said:

Sept 6, 2014 9:34:30 GMT -5 Cg said:

I've also started playing ST 1 on Hard.
Scream!!!
Everytime I think I have it sussed, either a pirate or an alien, combat encounter, puts paid to my Captain. Lol.

I'm shocked - I thought you were playing crazy difficulty at least Cg! If you have learned your lessons well from earlier difficulties, playing up to Crazy only hair-raising in the first couple of hundred turns. After that, if you build your captain up well, you'll find yourself pretty tough and dominating


I'm still playing Diablo III ... stupid Diablo. What sort of game designer makes you invest hundreds of hours building up your characters so that you can run them over large diverse maps hunting for even more gear. (Not looking at the TB's for doing exactly that with HoS ...)

All I have to say is that I named my Javat smuggling ships The Treasure Goblin after Diabolo III for their ability to outrun everything.

Cg- I know, its rough! Once you start to take a bit longer in doing your regular contracts, then you know you need an upgrade. If you see a great ship early, raise the funds and buy it anyway- always nice to have an extra ship all ready in the bag so you don't have to track one down later.

Don't stay in red zones for more than 6 squares at a time and invest in warrior when your pilot skill is high enough that it feels excessive. When all else fails, you want to at least smack the captain before you go.

[slayernz]

Officer Genious, have you seen the update for D3 - if you're lucky, you can go into the goblin's vault!! On T2, you can rake in around 30m gold coins! Evil EVIL game.

[Officer Genious]

Sept 8, 2014 22:43:15 GMT -5 slayernz said:

Officer Genious, have you seen the update for D3 - if you're lucky, you can go into the goblin's vault!! On T2, you can rake in around 30m gold coins! Evil EVIL game.

WHAT? I've been busy with stupid school and education! I want in on that!!

... But Mathael and the flamethrower boss of Act V killed 2 of my near 70s, and that was on Master. *_* My WD is 70 with a handful of Plvls, but I'm not risking T-anything until I build my crew back up.

Only 40-odd levels to go on the next highest one. D;

[slayernz]

I don't play Hardcore with D3 - to many random things happen that make you dead without warning.

[rabidbite]

Sept 8, 2014 21:43:22 GMT -5 Officer Genious said:

I played Minecraft on the Xbox 360, and Creative Mode always bored the tar out of me. Building is nice and all, but without the added dangers of wildlife threatening to destroy my buildings or compelling me to make functional buildings in the first place, I lose interest very, VERY quickly.

I drag some friends into survival mode because of this boredom on my end and for the sick kick of hearing them whine/panic as night falls and they can't get their wonder mansion done before the monsters come out (mud huts and digging to pass the time til morning FTW). I love the challenge of building a moderately nice house AND making it safe from monsters too. I don't even mine/fight much, just build and monster-proof buildings while exploring all I can so I can eventually connect all my outposts together (Xbox does have a limited world).

But thats just me, and I sense that I'm something of a minority in Minecraft. Well, to each their own.

That's probably my problem right there.

I DO NOT have a group to play with. I've been busy for many many years. Its only in the past few months that I suddenly have time to do much of anything.

I wonder how I can find a gaming group?

rabid

[rabidbite]

Sept 9, 2014 0:13:50 GMT -5 slayernz said:

I don't play Hardcore with D3 - to many random things happen that make you dead without warning.

I've never played Diablo III. It was mostly my solidarity against the draconian DRM attached to it, at the time. Plus, I did buy Starcraft II and -THAT- DRM pissed me off so much I didn't see the point of submitting myself to the torture.

I'm actually trying to get off STEAM. Exploring DESURA among others.

I also tried to play Star Traders yesterday. WOW, I have forgotten so much. Got my arse kicked in *Drumroll* Demanding. DEMANDING! *facepalm* I never knew playing ST was a perishable skill. Have to work myself up to Impossible again.


rabid

[tenbsmith]

rabidbite, my younger son got deeply into Minecraft and did creative mode and just built cool things but also got involved in competitive game play, some of it on private servers. I seem to recall team-based fights as well as every man for themselves free-for-alls last man standing wins.

[Cg]

Sept 8, 2014 14:08:35 GMT -5 tenbsmith said:

Cg, I see Space Corsair has IAPs and one reviewer described them as pay-to-play. I dislike games where IAPs create an uneven playing field allowing you to pay your way to success. I also dislike games where you have to either grind endlessly or pay IAPs to progress.

Hi.

The IAP is buried. You can get a LOT of game mileage out of it, without paying anything. I don't do IAP except for TB stuff.

Also. I ALWAYS switch my mobile network off, while playing games. So no ads.

[Officer Genious]

Sept 9, 2014 0:13:50 GMT -5 slayernz said:

I don't play Hardcore with D3 - to many random things happen that make you dead without warning.

Heh, don't get me started! I've died to lag, potions not activating and going onto cool down anyway, teammates attracting attention while I'm trying to get out to heal, and biting off way more than I can chew. But I can't play on Normal mode now- too much of a war of attrition. Though I did love watching my poor character's body go flying in a random direction.

rabidbite, I believe Mine raft on the PC has open servers people set up rules for? Maybe trying some team-oriented servers (TDM, team war) and chatting away would net you buddies. I can't convince my friends to jump into survival with me often (or without drama), but its nice to have someone watching your back or taking on some of the work sometimes. I'm not great at combat or mining, but I can typically find places of interest and build a solid stockpile of resources pretty quickly. I have at least one buddy who roflstomps in combat and lives to mine- on a world, I mark out areas, get supplies and build infrastructure to transport goods while he goes in to kill, mine and dungeon-delve.

It works out really nicely- we can work alone on our own worlds, but we also have a world we split work on and get to focus on what we do best. Everyone wins.


... Now I kinda wanna play Minecraft. :/

[abysmal]

Sept 8, 2014 11:22:38 GMT -5 beuns said:

Getting back at Final Fantasy 13. I tried it 2 years ago and was...enjoying it actually. I know lots of people has said it was really rigid, not open enough but...it's a Final Fantasy.
I fell in love of FF since the 7 (like many people in western countries) and played every one that has been released after that one, except for MMO ones (11 and 14) because I'm not found of MMORPG.

Pfft... ff4 and ff6 forever.

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[beuns]

abysmal : I had played the 6th on emulator and I must admit it's a great one. As I didn't played 4 I can't tell if I like it.

Did you played 13 ?

[slayernz]

I've never played a FF game before. Played Secret of Mana, which had the same game engine at one stage didn't it?

[beuns]

slayernz : don't know about the engine but as they are both Japan RPGs, they have a lot in common. Though I encourage you to try one FF (especially the 7 and more the 10 or 12) IMO those are good RPGs. Of course, they are strongly scripted and you don't have much freedom to roam around like you can have in games like Skyrim but they really good.

I even invite anyone to try Suikoden 1 or 2 which are some piece of masterwork.

[slayernz]

No time to play new games - buffering my spare time for the future ST2 ...