Video Games

[JiveTurkey]

It won’t win any awards for the highest resolution, frame rate, etc. as Nintendo’s focus has always been on the content and not on specs. And I honestly only play the Zelda franchise, but the ones I’ve played are damn good.

I'm probably going to talk myself out of it tbh. I just like the looks of it and it feels the least out of my league so to speak.

 

[Whizzinby]

ER Progress Report:

Finally got the SS#2 to do a Claymore upgrade and then was able to immediately upgrade again since it then wanted 3’s which I had. +8 with the Claymore now. Decided to go mix it up with ice ever gaol dude and finally beat his ass. Realized I was losing because I wasn’t punishing him after he did his ice breath thing. I stayed a little more in contact with him unless flasking which kept me in a striking distance. (I have like 8 flasks now which helps too)

With that loot putting me halfway to a level up I begrudgingly went back and grinded runes with the soldier + caravan troll stack by elleh for the 97th time. Level 51 achieved. I dumped it into strength. Sitting 30-24-26-15 for V-E-S-D.

My daughter came in to watch, so I decided to show her the giant bear and then I stumbled into the portal for Sofia River. So cool with that extended lift ride down. Makes for a grand entrance. I ground my way through some of those Vechna looking dudes, but realized that one magic guy was respawning them and just decided to try to run past them. Made it to the forest area where the green transparent knights are. They roll to deep so I just Torrented around and opened a few graces down there. Need to explore it more thoroughly.

Not a bad session. A little momentum is good to keep you coming back. Still need to beat the demon cat-dog and crucible knight gaol. (I’m pretending the fire shitting alligator doesn’t exist for the moment) I noticed I have some incantations that in theory I could use if I had 18 int so I’m wondering if having a little INT might now be bad to diversify my attacks. But then again the lvl ups are getting so costly now that level progress seems increasingly further away.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Playing Sim City Built it

Highly addictive

 

[the swede]

ER Progress Report:

Regarding you adventure downstairs...

Have you met a npc dude that has the looks of a wolf? A very early hint from another npc dude mentions a "howl at night" at a place... this is the start of a beatiful and magnificent adventure... "downstairs" but early on its mostly on top. All this starts early in the game but extends through a large portion of the total playtime.

I say its worth going down the road of certain side quests inbetween you main story progression. There are a bunch but my favourite is that of the wolf dude, wich then extends to a certain lady you already met only once i Elleh church at night, if you find her again at another place (hint Liurnia). And this "downstairs" adventure is easily the coolest.

 

[laxu]

Not a fan of the design. I loved the colors on the controllers. The extra size is probably not too much of a bother, but that new controller hook up system seems more fail prone than the old one. I hope Nintendo at least releases an adapter to use Switch 1 joycons on it.

 

[laxu]

Is the Switch any good? I used to do games back in my Colecovision days

I have kinda thought about dipping my toes into the waters. I like horror/mystery stuff and retro styled games. I don't want to play with other assholes online and that seems to be the big dealbreaker for most games these days

Yeah it's good, and has plenty of good titles. That said, games tend to be a bit expensive. Nintendo's first party titles are almost all really good tho, obviously many of them Mario/Zelda games so it depends on how you like those.

Steam Deck is also worth considering because it would give you access to an absurdly massive library of PC games, and games can be cheap to buy. It's more techy though as not everything will just work on the Steam Deck.

I don't play any multiplayer games myself. My primary platform for gaming is the PC, but I'd probably recommend the PS5 for a "don't need to think about it, just use it with a TV" setup.

 

[the swede]

Not a fan of the design. I loved the colors on the controllers. The extra size is probably not too much of a bother, but that new controller hook up system seems more fail prone than the old one. I hope Nintendo at least releases an adapter to use Switch 1 joycons on it.

The "danger" with the og was that it took some time for the kids to really learn the correct way to attach and detach the cons... a big fail was that they made it possible and easy to attach them wrong. And then it was brute force to detach... wich led to them becoming slightly loose and woobly.

 

[laxu]

The "danger" with the og was that it took some time for the kids to really learn the correct way to attach and detach the cons... a big fail was that they made it possible and easy to attach them wrong. And then it was brute force to detach... wich led to them becoming slightly loose and woobly.

The new system looks like that connector could get bent or damaged easily tho.

 

[the swede]

I'm probably going to talk myself out of it tbh. I just like the looks of it and it feels the least out of my league so to speak.

Id say Switch can be alot of fun for adults to, especially the "social" playing games when youre 4 people or such. Maria party/superstars etc

 

[JiveTurkey]

Yeah it's good, and has plenty of good titles. That said, games tend to be a bit expensive. Nintendo's first party titles are almost all really good tho, obviously many of them Mario/Zelda games so it depends on how you like those.

Steam Deck is also worth considering because it would give you access to an absurdly massive library of PC games, and games can be cheap to buy. It's more techy though as not everything will just work on the Steam Deck.

I don't play any multiplayer games myself. My primary platform for gaming is the PC, but I'd probably recommend the PS5 for a "don't need to think about it, just use it with a TV" setup.

We have a PS4. I feel like it's a boat I'm going to continue to miss I don't like Mario/Zelda stuff. I think imma just stay old

 

[Whizzinby]

This game is wild.

Beat cat-dog-fire breather and alligator-fire-shitter on the first try for the session. I’ve noticed with this game everything destroys you once, intimidates you so you don’t go back for days, but after you manage a few upgrades you go back confident and get then get job done and wonder why you were freaked out.

I wandered around Sofia River again, and still couldn’t find anything. I have met the wolf dude, but I’m not sure if he is supposed to make another appearance here @swede.

From the other side of the alligator-fire-dude I made it to Alta Plateau. After avoiding the HOLY SHIT THERE IS A DRAGON on this hill, I was able to torrent around and open a bunch of graces and find the map. This was the point I started thinking I don’t know if I’ll be able to beat this. The map is friggin huge, I haven’t unlocked all of it, and I’ve only beaten one major boss. This is going to be rough. lol

Side note, every time I scrounge together 5-6k I die somewhere that I can’t go back and get my loot. (At least not easily) I can’t friggin level up because I keep finding new cool areas (which generally means more deadly) and can’t survive long enough to save the 15k I need per level. I need to find the equivalent of the solider/caravan grind at Elleh, but on the other side of the map and for 2-3 the $ to offset the lvl cost increase.

I’m grindin though.

Crucible Knight is next on my death wish list. I’m ready.

Maybe. Haha

 

[the swede]

I wandered around Sofia River again, and still couldn’t find anything. I have met the wolf dude, but I’m not sure if he is supposed to make another appearance here @swede.

Have you met him once? In west Limgrave Woods? What did he say? If you’ve meet him you learned the finger snap from Kaleh in Elleh. Remember that with all npc keep hitting the “talk” option until all dialogue is done and they repeat themselves. Many times they stop talking but there’s more dialogue.

His quest line starts with a short thing in Limgrave involving an Evergaol, I think it’s called Forlorn Evergaol. Do that, and he should appear again, then his quest line takes a pause until you meet a certain lady in Liurnia basically when you’re almost done in Liurnia. You would then have done another main boss in Liurnia then explored Liurnia.

Blaidds quest involving Siofra River is about right to do when you’re done in Liurnia.

So basically… I think you really should “cheat” just a little and look up the very confusing and not making sense map that describes in wich order is “best” to do “things” and the main story. It should go something like this: Limgrave->west Limgrave->weeping->stormveil castle->liurnia->liurnia boss->

 

[mbenigni]

Also first game that I am 25 hours in with 0% progress



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That’s FromSoft for ya. Instant gratification and words of encouragement.

 

[mbenigni]

My girlfriend keeps calling it Aul One's Ring to annoy me.

Am I the only one who has no idea what this means?

 

[Jynx]

Am I the only one who has no idea what this means?

In Ireland your aul one would be your mother. Though old women are aul ones in general.

Aul or auld = old.

 

[dbagchee]

 

[laxu]

Finished Silent Hill 2 Remake. It was spoopy, but also so dark at times that I had to basically ruin the image quality (despite having an OLED) just to see shit. Overall pretty good.

Performance was pretty crap with regular random stutters on a very high end system.

 

[Aelred]

ER:

Ok, the alligator thing was a Magma Wyrm. You've made it to Altus, so if you go back to Impassable Greatbridge the teleporter should work.

You won't be able to get into Leyndell (big city in Altus) without activating two Great Runes. You get one for Goddrick but have to go to the Divine Tower in Stormveil to activate it. Another is automatically activated when you kill the Boss in the Academy. Those are the easy ones.

The areas of the map you have already opened are the size of a large game. You have another couple to go without the DLC.

It is huge.

 

[mbenigni]

ER:

Ok, the alligator thing was a Magma Wyrm. You've made it to Altus, so if you go back to Impassable Greatbridge the teleporter should work.

You won't be able to get into Leyndell (big city in Altus) without activating two Great Runes. You get one for Goddrick but have to go to the Divine Tower in Stormveil to activate it. Another is automatically activated when you kill the Boss in the Academy. Those are the easy ones.

The areas of the map you have already opened are the size of a large game. You have another couple to go without the DLC.

It is huge.

PSA: Magma Wyrm Blade is amazeballs.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]