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#522

Anyone interested in a tactical shooter game/simulator? Because the Arma franchise is on sale now on steam. I have to admit that nowadays I am quite hooked on Arma 3, known for its tactical and realistic combat. Anyone who likes tactical shooting games/simulator should try it out, I really recommend it. Even on my potato PC (Windows 7 gtx770, I3 core) I am able to play decently, that is in non-overcrowded servers on smaller maps :umu:.

@Who_ci I remember having spent so many hours playing Age of Empires during car trips, during the evenings and during time when I should’ve been studying, just to try and perfect strategies for factions on certain maps.
@LAPB Although I can’t remember which game of Age of Empires I have played (it was on the nintendo DS) I also greatly enjoyed the unit portraits and encyclopedia. It was because of that I actually learned about historical figures such as Richard Lionheart, Jeanne d’Arc etc.

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#523

@Lionpaw I spent 20 bucks on that game and haven’t had anyone to play it with, so add me on Steam or something and we can play. My name is Ye Olde Hardscoper.

#524

If that is a potato… what is my AMD Athlon X2, GT 440, and 4GB DDR2 RAM PC? is it a toaster?.. is it a coffeepot?..

So yeah… that’s why i haven’t played more than single player :sweat_smile:

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#525

Life is strange: Before the Storm Part 3 will be released on Dec 20th, just in time for the Christmas break!

#526

Your PC is an unplugged cell phone charger.

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#527

Well the Steam winter sale has started, immediately bought a bunch of games including Age of Mythology and Little Busters, will probably get started with the latter very soon. The Little Busters discussion topics seem to be quite active so I will finally be able to participate there as well! I’m really looking forward to the VN as I know very little about its story.

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#528

Clannad 65%, STEINS;GATE 50%, Little Busters 30%… Umineko Answer Arc 0%. :naze::naze::naze::naze::naze:

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#529

Heh that reminds me that I should get started with Steins;Gate at some point too… Busy times haha.

Hopefully Umineko Answer Arc will go on some kind of sale too in the not too distant future!

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#530

At the moment i only play ELDER SCROLLS LEGENDS…it’s a card game of my favorite fantasy world. And i read A SKY FULL OF STARS, it’s a Moenovel/Pulltop VN. I have over 1500 games but not much time to play or read…time is money.

#531

‘What Remains of Edith Finch’ has scored an upset, winning the top prize at the Bafta Games Awards.

Pretty surprised at that, I played it over Christmas/New Year and though it was quite good in parts but with some irritating elements.

And from the multi award winning Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice’s Creative Director:

“Right now in gaming there’s a big movement towards making games that are more meaningful in nature, that reflect our human experience,” Tameem Antoniades, the game’s director, told the BBC ahead of the ceremony.

Coughs VISUAL NOVELS! coughs

It’s a sad fact of life I suppose that VNs will never be considered for this awards nominations all but a very few are released in Japanese only years before the English language translations slip under the radar.

I think ‘Life is Strange’ is the only game that can even remotely be considered as only strongly VN influenced that has been nominated.

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#532

Marketing and finding an audience for Visual Novels in the west was the biggest struggle preventing them from making any kind of impact here. Non-targeted advertisement for almost anything on the spectrum of anime has been a colossal failure in all but memetic status. (See the old Sakura-con commercial and Crunchyrolls newer TV advertisements for some great examples.)

Even with Manga and Anime taking off in the west stronger than ever, people still have trouble detaching Visual Novels from the “lonely person dating simulator” stigma. With such a niche medium already, not many people are there to clear up these misgivings. It’s just currently not feasible for visual novels to break into the more mainstream without some kind of puzzle game elements or mass marketable gimmicks. I wonder which two visual novels I’m talking about. I much prefer puzzles if you catch my drift.

There’s also the unusual debate of whether these even count as games at all, but that’s probably not worth getting into :sad:

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#533

Well, I been playing Fifa 18, in fact I usually play daily. Its definitely the best Fifa game so far.
Also, I go back and forth with the Mass Effect trilogy. I love it. Up there with my favourite games of all time.
I only have PC for now, but, I am planning to get a PS4 at some stage. I really want to play The Last of Us Part 2, when it comes out eventually (hoping for end of the year, but I doubt it).

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#534

I hope everyone has had some fun with games lately! It would be so much easier if the sleep schedule wasn’t 9 hours a night. :confused:

It has been a very long while of course, but my playthrough of Etrian Odyssey Untold is now down to two floors (15 and 25) since I want very little to do the postgame dungeon (if one were to take a look at the maps of floors 26 through 29 you could probably see why).

Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires has taken a good amount of my time as well, so poor Tales of Xillia hasn’t been started yet. To be honest, there isn’t a good reason why either.

It will soon get much warmer where I live so there will a lot more time playing games and reading VNs during lunch hours. Norn9 is very likely and some other musou-style game look like good candidates, for whatever a candidate is worth nowadays. :slight_smile:

To also note, there are so many strategy games left to tackle too such as Master of Orion 2, the better games in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Age of Empires…and yet they keep sitting there collecting dust or digital space. That really needs to change, but I’m worried I would disappear from the net if that happened.

#535

I play FGO JP and I did the paid anniversary draw today (FGO’s 5 star rates are 1% but New Year or Anniversary 1 time draws are 100% chance for a 5 star); during the 2018 New Years draw I managed to get a Jeanne Alter out of a 1/27 chance. Now today I did the anniversary draw and got a Jeanne Alter dupe out of a 10% chance from the pool so was pretty let down, but it didn’t end there because then ANOTHER Jeanne Alter appeared. How insanely unlikely this happens mostly made up for my initial disappointment of getting a duplicate. And I can also tell myself getting three copies is only because of how much the tsundere Jalter loves me :umu:

(Sorry for the potato camera quality, I just took the pictures from when I streamed it for a friend.)

#536

Anyone else here a fan of RPG Maker horror games?

#537

Extremely, although more so RPG maker games in general than just horror. I’ve played way too many RPG maker games to list them all here so I’ll just put it in a pastebin https://pastebin.com/krjWCJQm

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#538

The horror and exploration stuff definitely. Not tried much outside of those genres though.

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#539

I need help again!

  • PS4 for Spider-Man
  • Switch for Smash Ultimate

0 voters

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#540

Switch it is, then!

Forgive me, Spidey…:sad:

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#541

Both games are good choices (and if you like something then it is never a bad choice), but we may never see another game with as much meaningful fighting game content as Smash Ultimate in our lives, and the Spider-Man game will probably drop in price faster. There may be availability issues to contend with if you think Spidey will be hard to come by in a few months or so, but this is assuming that you won’t have to worry about that.

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