December 2024 General Game Discussion Thread

[Frindis]

@Frindis
how long it take you to kill all bosses?

Way longer, that is for sure. I have only seen three of them.

 

[Johnway]

I really should play more Resident evil 2 but damn it POE is just keeping me busy as i grind and continue to work towards challenges that seem like miles from completing. I may have 14 and working towards maybe 3 or 5 of them (so it makes 19) and its unlikely i'll get the 35/40.

That said, I did play some Resident evil 2 remake, even on standard the game is pushing me to the limit, bullets/ ammo is extremely tight even if i had 24+ bullets they disappear very quickly. A most notable zombie that seemed practically indestructible taking 10+ bullets, 4 shotgun rounds and a knife stab before he finally succumbed. Where as other zombies drop after 4-5 bullets. I'm missing a beat here, i thought i had to just aim for longer and eventually good things happen, but so far nothing fruitful came from it.

i would like to just run/dodge past them but it doesn't seem to be an option most of the time. There's no dodge mechanic and if there is more then one of them it becomes a nightmare. I could take out the legs but that is not much better then headshots at this point. mercifully the Cerberus (zombie dogs) mercifully take 4 shots, bad news is that there is a load of them. I'll probably play a few saves back and see if i can conserve some ammo.

MR X hasn't arrived yet, but... soon.

 

[ZedClampet]

My new co-op partner is annoying as f**k. He's about to be my former co-op partner.

Without asking he joined Guido and me in our Darktide game and died moments later, thus screwing up my weekly missions where I need to have 6 missions with no deaths. Then he starts chatting like he's the God of Darktide, dismissive of our need to do the weekly missions, etc. Then he admits to not knowing there were weekly missions. Thirty minutes after we quit the game, he's still sending me chat messages in Steam about how there's nothing useful to be gained from the weekly missions. As far as that goes, he's correct if you already have your highest tier weapons, but we don't, and it's much easier to get them through the weekly missions than to hope they will drop for you via the Emperor's gift at the end of each mission.

I can't stand the whole attitude he's bringing with him.

 

[ZedClampet]

Guido installed over 1600 mods on Skyrim. I'm not sure if he's got it working or not.

 

[BeardyHat]

I really should play more Resident evil 2 but damn it POE is just keeping me busy as i grind and continue to work towards challenges that seem like miles from completing. I may have 14 and working towards maybe 3 or 5 of them (so it makes 19) and its unlikely i'll get the 35/40.

That said, I did play some Resident evil 2 remake, even on standard the game is pushing me to the limit, bullets/ ammo is extremely tight even if i had 24+ bullets they disappear very quickly. A most notable zombie that seemed practically indestructible taking 10+ bullets, 4 shotgun rounds and a knife stab before he finally succumbed. Where as other zombies drop after 4-5 bullets. I'm missing a beat here, i thought i had to just aim for longer and eventually good things happen, but so far nothing fruitful came from it.

i would like to just run/dodge past them but it doesn't seem to be an option most of the time. There's no dodge mechanic and if there is more then one of them it becomes a nightmare. I could take out the legs but that is not much better then headshots at this point. mercifully the Cerberus (zombie dogs) mercifully take 4 shots, bad news is that there is a load of them. I'll probably play a few saves back and see if i can conserve some ammo.

MR X hasn't arrived yet, but... soon.

You're best off avoiding them as much as possible. Kill the ones that are really in the way so that you can run past the others. Yeah there's no real juke or dodge, so you need to kill off enough that you can make it past them. Also beneficial to try and get them on the ground with a few bullets to the head and then knife, but of course, your knife may break, but still.

It's secretly a resource management game.

My new co-op partner is annoying as f**k. He's about to be my former co-op partner.

Without asking he joined Guido and me in our Darktide game and died moments later, thus screwing up my weekly missions where I need to have 6 missions with no deaths. Then he starts chatting like he's the God of Darktide, dismissive of our need to do the weekly missions, etc. Then he admits to not knowing there were weekly missions. Thirty minutes after we quit the game, he's still sending me chat messages in Steam about how there's nothing useful to be gained from the weekly missions. As far as that goes, he's correct if you already have your highest tier weapons, but we don't, and it's much easier to get them through the weekly missions than to hope they will drop for you via the Emperor's gift at the end of each mission.

I can't stand the whole attitude he's bringing with him.

Honestly why I can't stand co-op, even with my friends or my kids (maybe I'm a bad father). I just hate going at other people's pace (faster or slower) and having to prioritize their needs. I do that all day and it's the last thing I want to do when I finally have time to game.

Sounding a bit curmudgeonly here, but I have some guilt associated with it, I suppose. My friends always want me to jump in Discord and play something with them, but it's just draining for me most of the time, rather than being relaxing like I want my gaming time to be.

Guido installed over 1600 mods on Skyrim. I'm not sure if he's got it working or not.

If it works, will he actually play? Modding Skyrim is a hobby unto itself...

Finished The Grand Palace in Dishonored 2 tonight. Ended up spending maybe like 3 hours on that level in total (forgot to look) and while it was one of the most challenging levels, it was definitely a blast to explore. I'm finally officially past where I quit 7 years ago and now it looks like I'm about to begin the final mission.

 

[ZedClampet]

You're best off avoiding them as much as possible. Kill the ones that are really in the way so that you can run past the others. Yeah there's no real juke or dodge, so you need to kill off enough that you can make it past them. Also beneficial to try and get them on the ground with a few bullets to the head and then knife, but of course, your knife may break, but still.

It's secretly a resource management game.



Honestly why I can't stand co-op, even with my friends or my kids (maybe I'm a bad father). I just hate going at other people's pace (faster or slower) and having to prioritize their needs. I do that all day and it's the last thing I want to do when I finally have time to game.

Sounding a bit curmudgeonly here, but I have some guilt associated with it, I suppose. My friends always want me to jump in Discord and play something with them, but it's just draining for me most of the time, rather than being relaxing like I want my gaming time to be.



If it works, will he actually play? Modding Skyrim is a hobby unto itself...

Finished The Grand Palace in Dishonored 2 tonight. Ended up spending maybe like 3 hours on that level in total (forgot to look) and while it was one of the most challenging levels, it was definitely a blast to explore. I'm finally officially past where I quit 7 years ago and now it looks like I'm about to begin the final mission.

I love co-op and would happily play only that with the right people.

I told this guy that someone who launches the game and immediately hits quickplay every chance he gets is going to be incompatible with my playstyle. I like to tinker with my build, with my talent points, etc. I like to experiment. Rushing from one mission to the next as fast as possible will not work. Then I told him to leave me alone said I would contact him if I want to play something. Hopefully he'll take the obvious hint and just leave.

And, yeah, Guido will play Skyrim. He plays it quite often.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Sounding a bit curmudgeonly here, but I have some guilt associated with it, I suppose. My friends always want me to jump in Discord and play something with them, but it's just draining for me most of the time, rather than being relaxing like I want my gaming time to be.

I have a similar problem, after working all day and then being with my family all evening 9/10 I definitely would rather use the hour I have to myself to actually be by myself. Luckily the guy I play co-op mostly with gets it and isnt offended or anything.

 

[Frindis]

Guido installed over 1600 mods on Skyrim. I'm not sure if he's got it working or not.

Do you know if he installed those through the Wabbajack mod? I had some success with that one when modding Morrowind. It installed tons of mods with the click of a button and then you could adjust some settings as you saw fit, like sharpening, higher resolution, etc.

 

[ZedClampet]

Do you know if he installed those through the Wabbajack mod? I had some success with that one when modding Morrowind. It installed tons of mods with the click of a button and then you could adjust some settings as you saw fit, like sharpening, higher resolution, etc.

I'm not sure. It almost had to be at least partly a mod pack to have that many mods in it. I'll ask him today.

 

[ZedClampet]

One sad thing about getting old is that some games I would love to play just aren't possible for me anymore. I had to give up on Elden Ring, and I just refunded Path of Exile 2 after throwing myself against the first boss over and over and never even getting him down to 2/3 health.

And I absolutely loved every minute of it, but if I can't get past the first boss, then I can't play. I could try mods or wemod, but what would I really be accomplishing? A few years ago, I could say I'd never failed to beat a game. Now I have to try them out and make a decision on whether to refund them or not.

I could buy a copy for Guido and let him carry me through, but we rarely play anymore. Oh well, back to my chill games, I guess.

 

[Colif]

its in beta/early access. Its possible the difficulty of bosses will change when its actually released.

I haven't looked at it myself, I can't afford to fall into a game right now.

 

[BeardyHat]

I have a similar problem, after working all day and then being with my family all evening 9/10 I definitely would rather use the hour I have to myself to actually be by myself. Luckily the guy I play co-op mostly with gets it and isnt offended or anything.

My friends get it too, thankfully. We just like to give each other a hard time; but I also see them semi frequently and we all regularly text, so at least there's that...

One sad thing about getting old is that some games I would love to play just aren't possible for me anymore. I had to give up on Elden Ring, and I just refunded Path of Exile 2 after throwing myself against the first boss over and over and never even getting him down to 2/3 health.

And I absolutely loved every minute of it, but if I can't get past the first boss, then I can't play. I could try mods or wemod, but what would I really be accomplishing? A few years ago, I could say I'd never failed to beat a game. Now I have to try them out and make a decision on whether to refund them or not.

I could buy a copy for Guido and let him carry me through, but we rarely play anymore. Oh well, back to my chill games, I guess.

Have you looked at different builds? I usually end-up going for Pet/Minion builds in ARPGs, which is maybe why I usually end-up bored with them, but they are pretty friendly to slow/no reflexes.

 

[ZedClampet]

My friends get it too, thankfully. We just like to give each other a hard time; but I also see them semi frequently and we all regularly text, so at least there's that...



Have you looked at different builds? I usually end-up going for Pet/Minion builds in ARPGs, which is maybe why I usually end-up bored with them, but they are pretty friendly to slow/no reflexes.

It's the first boss about 5 to 10 minutes into the game, so there really aren't any builds at that point. This summer when the game goes free-to-play I may download it again and bang my head against it for awhile to see if I can get better at it.

 

[Rolfil]

It's the first boss about 5 to 10 minutes into the game, so there really aren't any builds at that point. This summer when the game goes free-to-play I may download it again and bang my head against it for awhile to see if I can get better at it.

I heard that PoE 2 is a lot harder and the bosses are more souls like. This is why I'm waiting for it to go free to play. If it's that hard then it's not a game for me. Still another season of Last Epoch is meant to happen before that so I'll give that another go.

 

[DXCHASE]

The more i play Path of Exile 2 and then switch gears to Diablo 4 the more i wonder why Diablo 4 A. Got a 9/10 from PCG and B. why its such an inferior ARPG compared to others that aren't even fully done.

I could go into the myriad of examples i have, but my biggest one is that in Diablo 4 i really feel like im just wasting my time doing nothing. I feel no joy in any loot because the RNG is broken (so never getting any loot worth something) and finding better gear on a poorly balanced class is impossible. I hate how every piece of loot thats not gear (modifiers for dungeons/hordes/bosses/undercity) says something like "increases chances of getting this really rare item/material". Its the biggest lie and its a big lie about very trivial stuff. Ugh, it saddens me what D4 is.

 

[Pifanjr]

I finished another Adventure run in Arcanium and I did an Arena run, which is just a series of boss fights in a row instead of getting access to a map. It's a good game, but I'm a bit done with roguelike deckbuilders.

However, none of the other games available through Netflix seem particularly fun either. Most look like trash, some look fun but are badly ported PC games and the ones that are playable are mostly of genres I don't really care for.

Maybe I will buy Balatro for my phone for Christmas anyway.

 

[ZedClampet]

Do you know if he installed those through the Wabbajack mod?

He said it wasn't Wabbajack. It was Gate to Sovngarde.

 

[Johnway]

You're best off avoiding them as much as possible. Kill the ones that are really in the way so that you can run past the others. Yeah there's no real juke or dodge, so you need to kill off enough that you can make it past them. Also beneficial to try and get them on the ground with a few bullets to the head and then knife, but of course, your knife may break, but still.

It's secretly a resource management game.

yeah my first tactic was to knock them down and then slash, stab and shank them to death. But the problem is that the Knife Does degrade doing that as well. Which is a real problem. Perhaps i'll find another pistol or upgrade it to more powerful. That said i do have the DLC and albert wesker's pistol, but i suspect its op and thats cheating.

 

[ZedClampet]

I found a game with the twin-stick melee that maybe will help me get more practice and maybe be able to play Path of Exile 2 when it becomes free this summer.

The game is Achilles: Legends Untold. It's okay. The writing is pretty bad, and I was really ticked off by the second boss fight. See, you are required to lose the second boss fight, but I didn't know that. The game doesn't do anything special to win the fight except to keep healing Paris. But I had 8 healing potions! I must have fought Paris for 20 minutes before he finally beat me down. Then it immediately goes into a cutscene and I learn that I had to lose the fight. Ugh.

Granted, in the real story, Paris kills Achilles with a poison arrow, so maybe I should have known, but this wasn't exactly going by the book. The story is completely different. They should have just had me die by poison the first time I was shot.

Also, there is some weirdness. Like Achilles sends his men to find a way into Troy. From a better vantage point, he can see that they succeeded, but they are being overwhelmed in the streets by Troy's soldiers. He, being the greatest warrior in history, takes off to try to join them and turn the tide of battle. But on the way he finds a stray cat and stops and pets it...while his men are dying in the streets of Troy...

 

[Pifanjr]

I saw a thread on Reddit where people were giving away game keys and decided to clear out my Humble Bundle library.

I asked people to DM me, but still got a lot of replies to the post itself asking for a specific game or just mentioning they sent a DM even though I didn't see one, so I figured they were probably bots. I gave a couple of them the benefit of the doubt and responded to them that I didn't see their DM.

Only after almost all of the games had been given away did someone clarify they sent me a message via Reddit's chat, which apparently doesn't work when you're using a mobile browser. Turns out I had 90+ people trying to reach me through the chat instead of private messages. I felt like an idiot.

Still, I made a bunch of people happy with games that had been collecting dust in my library for years and everyone was very pleasant, even the people who had just missed out on a game.

But on the way he finds a stray cat and stops and pets it...while his men are dying in the streets of Troy...

Most relatable video game character right there.

 

[Colif]

The more i play Path of Exile 2 and then switch gears to Diablo 4 the more i wonder why Diablo 4 A. Got a 9/10 from PCG and B. why its such an inferior ARPG compared to others that aren't even fully done.

POE 2 has more end game now than Diablo 4 has one year after release.
D4 with the expansion is at the level that D4 should have been at, at launch.

So one is already years behind the other and may not ever catch up... instead its claiming the other isn't really a Diablo like game... sounds like whining to me.

Different games, One made by people who know what they doing, other made by Blizzard.

I don't know if its for me without playing game. If its more souls like, it probably isn't.

 

[January's Ghost]

One sad thing about getting old is that some games I would love to play just aren't possible for me anymore. I had to give up on Elden Ring,

I'm old and I managed Elden Ring pretty ok-ish I think.

 

[ZedClampet]

I'm old and I managed Elden Ring pretty ok-ish I think.

I suffer from cognitive decline. My brain is far worse now than it was just 5 years ago. In fact, my wife and I have talked about her taking over my finances, as I keep ordering multiples of items off of Amazon that I have no memory of ordering.

I haven't been diagnosed with anything, and there is at least a part of it that is caused by nutritional deficits due to my kidney failure. I've been taking various supplements and seem to be doing slightly better, but it may not all be due to nutritional deficits.

I've had experimental treatments and am due for more soon. We'll see what happens. The neurologists think that I have some sort of mitochondrial disease, and I'm scheduled to go in for a muscle biopsy in January. I'm not sure there's anything they can do for most of those diseases anyway.

 

[Pifanjr]

My wife is now in the top 10% of Druid healers worldwide for World of Warcraft.

Since yesterday my wife is in the top 10 Druid healers in her realm and in the top 5% of Druid healers worldwide for World of Warcraft.

 

[January's Ghost]

I suffer from cognitive decline........... I'm not sure there's anything they can do for most of those diseases anyway.

May science find a way for you and if not, then a miracle.