I've got another Kenshi update in the works but I really need to play less Kenshi and study more for NCLEX. Problem Kenshi is one of those long games you get sucked into. Something more bite size like Wildfire should help when I need to take a break. Thanks again!
Kenshi Part 3: We're Going on a (Very Deadly) Adventure!
Well there's a lot of world out there to still explore. We're going to need food though, @Pixelated Pixie and @Talus9952 being Shek have a hell of an appetite and Beasty` is a big eater as well.
In fact, I don't know why but it's Starving Bandit o'clock. The local ninjas help keep us safe and a nearby wandering Garru heard (the same species as Beasty`) provides plenty of food (plus a mauling) for our future adventures. They rest up before starting the long trek which will be through the very racist Holy Nation lands before we even think about getting to the desert.
We skirt around the main Holy Nation valley and encounter a number of Holy Mines (regular mines occupied by Holy Nation forces) but we do come across an abandoned mine that gives us a nice amount of building supplies and iron. We can sell these in a pinch if our food starts running low, even if that means sending Evma into a holy nation town on his lonesome since he's the only party member who isn't kill on sight.
Nearing the entrance to the desert, we come across this Holy Nation monstrosity. No way we're sneaking through that. Looks like there are some valleys on the side--with giant metal spiders and acid rain. We have a little acid rain protection and it isn't too bad but I'd rather not tangle with those spiders and seeing Holy Nation going at full tilt to take out a skeleman Techhunter was alarming. We'll find another way.
Thankfully there is a nearby mountain pass we find and OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! The hell is a Skimmer? Well I guess it's that, and now we're in the Skimmersands, these things are everywhere but we've mastered the ancient art of running away very fast. There are some massive Holy Nation patrols out here but seems the Skimmers don't like them either. Alas they overtake the Skimmer, we could have used the loot, this hasn't been the most profitable enterprise thus far. Still, we'll take the meat and claws, something is better than nothing though we're doing fine on food.
Finally we encounter a different faction: the United Cities. The Samurai Squadleader is nice enough and are being bodyguard for us until we run into some Bloodraiders and take care of them for us, leaving us with plenty of loot. It's nice to meet some good guys in this world at last.
*Nervous laugh* Maybe there are some nice people in the bar? Sure enough we find some NERD female Greenlander, talking about RESEARCH, but only costs 2.5k, so we'll take her along. Izumi huh? Thought we'd get to change that when we hired you, oh well we know a plastic surgeon in the Hub who can fix that. Yes you can plastic surgery names, duh.
The next area sadly I had no pictures, despite having readily used the pause button. Basically we entered a land of Poison Cloud pain. Just like Acid Rain it isn't too bad--except for the ninjas. The god damn ninjas. We were trying to get Izumi's strength up but when these bastards started chasing we loaded what we could on to Beasty` and start sprinting as fast as we can. Somehow Evma gets slowed down, to where he's surrounded by ninjas and I think he's a gonner. For some reason they ignore him, so I send him on a different path to meet up with the group. Izumi isn't so lucky, so Evma is sent back around to heal her up and carry if need be. Talus, Pixie and Beasty` are at full sprint--when we wind up back in the land of metal spiders and acid rain. We run past a metal spider, hey this isn't too bad, I should have done this sooner. Thankfully the ninjas aren't so lucky. A couple of stragglers keep chasing but we peel them back on the metal spider that shreds them. Beasty` and Pixie runs back to the main group while Talus relieves the downed ninjas of their blades. With enough swords to make multiple animes blush, the group goes back to the mountain path we took before.
We go through the main Holy Nation valley but there are just some farms and River Raptors--maybe they'll be good combat practice? Unfortunately they come in swarms of 10 so maybe not. Let's just get home to The Hub.
We're pretty flush with money and have bought several books but need larger facilities for our new tech bench, so we buy and refurbish a storm house in The Hub. We're learning a lot but we can't build a lot of facilities in town so we'll have to strike out at some point, but we're gonna need a lot more research. Mugsley and Pixie get to work learning some basics but without raw materials it's most preparatory move. Still, if it gets some form of industry we might make some steady income at some point.
Whew that longer to type then I thought. Like I said, need to play less but it's rather compelling? It's hard to recommend to people without a butt load of time but if you wanted a game that refuses to hold your hand and sets off to explore a world from the bottom of the barrel, Kenshi is for you.
This doesn't include some of the failed adventures like the time Talus and Pixie were knocked out by starving bandits and Evma broke his arm while in Holy Nation land. It did not end well.
Project Cars 2 is on a gargantuan sale. I picked it up because its also a VR game. I am terrible at car sims and I never finish them, not that I don't know how to drive properly in a sim. The mid game of Gran Turismo always kicks my ass. At a price this low, I'm happy to derive some entertainment from it for a while.
I don't know what's going on with my bank account. My wife and I have made more big discretionary purchases in the last hree months than ever and paid off all the credit cards and bills are paid two months ahead for the fuck of it and we doubled what goes into savings and the numbers keep getting bigger. Today my computer did something funny while she was on Facebook and she jumped to, "There's like $2600 in the safe we were going to use for insurance that we won't need, why don't you build a new one?"
This is highly irresponsible spending and we shouldn't do it, but... Uh... Well, AMD 5700 vs. NVIDIA 2060 opinions?
My desktop is now in the hands of the movers, and eventually on a boat, so I may be back in business in...8-10 weeks. Which, amusingly, is the boundary of the child-delivery zone.
My desktop is now in the hands of the movers, and eventually on a boat, so I may be back in business in...8-10 weeks. Which, amusingly, is the boundary of the child-delivery zone.
My desktop is now in the hands of the movers, and eventually on a boat, so I may be back in business in...8-10 weeks. Which, amusingly, is the boundary of the child-delivery zone.
Is... is the child on a boat too?
I won't tell the Mrs that you compared her to a boat. I think we'd both like to live out the rest of the day.
Also, been noodling around with Fallout 76 again, and it's still quite fun for an hour or so at a time (which is what I have available while sharing a laptop!). Weight is still stupidly limiting, and while the quests are nice, I'm not sure they'll go anywhere, because we can't really change the world when it's always online. But it's fun for now!
Hey look. How else do you test the durability of a crossbow?
Hevach I recommend 2060
I'm leaning that way mainly on budget, 5700 seems to win on almost every benchmark, but just barely. Price, on the other hand, is $150 apart and for that price difference I can switch the 256g SSD to a TB one.
Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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So two (well kinda three) games I played and completed in the last week: Everreach: Project Eden, essentially a professional Mass Effect fan game, and Gene Rain, essentially a professional Gears of War fan game. Been mildly curious about both for a while, and they were both on more-or-less half price sale, so what the hell.
Everything about Everreach's aesthetic screams 'budget Mass Effect', right down to the fonts and the UI. Sometimes it's just about genuinely good enough to hold up to the original,
and other times the cheapness is more obvious, like the way talking animations look way shonkier on everyone else than on the main character.
Gene Rain's Gears-clonery is more in its shooting mechanics and feel than its visuals, although that's partly just because Gears is more generic to start with. The graphics can seem a bit Unity Store Asset-y, but it does at least offer this, the single most cyberpunk screenshot in videogame history:
GUNS! SUSHI! IMPLANTS! Orion Technologies! Asian girl with a gun! Top that, CDPR.
Story wise, Everreach is also pretty unoriginal - I basically guessed what was happening about half way through and spent the rest of the game waiting for the characters to catch up - but it is never less than competent, as are the vocal performances, although the main actress is no Jennifer Hale. It does have genuine story-changing decisions and moral dilemmas, and its best idea is probably also its most original: Your robot companion is not a wisecracking humanoid, but a featureless floating ball whose jokes are all openly awful because its personality was installed wrong.
Gene Rains story... Look, if you've heard of Gene Rain, it's probably because it was made in Hong Kong/China and has a truly rotten stuff-it-in-Google-Translate English translation, which isn't well served by being read out by a cast mostly made of Chinese people who have no idea what they're saying (and at least one woman who sounds suspiciously like a text-to-speech bot), but I am confident that even if the translation was perfect, the story would still be utterly incomprehensible. It jumps around in time and place and never explains anything. It's one of those stories that's heard in media res openings are cool, but doesn't understand that at some point you have to explain who everyone is, what's going on, and why people should care.
The weak point of both games is the shooting, which is a problem given that's the main thing you do in both. Everreachs combat mostly consists of peaking round corners to fire, because every enemy has near-perfect aim and can shred your shields and health in a couple of seconds. By the time you've upgraded enough to fight back properly the game is practically over. Gene Rain is also unbalanced, but the main problem is the controls have the clod-hopping lumpiness I dislike about Gears of War, but far far worse. It doesn't help that your three guns all look so identical that you keep forgetting which is which.
They're both pretty short games, particularly Gene Rain - Don't be fooled by the size of the upgrade/skill trees they both have, you'll barely half-fill either by the end. If you can get Everreach for half price like I did and you really miss Mass Effect, I'd say maybe give it a go. I can't recommend Gene Rain at any price, except perhaps if you can get it for like 90% off and you fancy a cheap laugh.
I also got Gene Rain's sequel, Gene Rain: Wind Tower. I'm happy to report the controls and shooting are improved and - augmented by a little dash of shooter-looter mechanics - flirt with being genuinely fun, whilst the translation is slightly better and they've sensibly dispensed with the bad English voiceover. Unfortunately everything else is even worse. It's shorter (barely two hours), the levels are smaller, boxier and all the same, and there is literally no characters or plot except you and a computer voice exchanging endless back-and-forth technobabble about your boring and repetitive objectives.
Blah blah blah blah. I am now two games into a supposed trilogy about 'Gene Rain' and I still have no idea what Gene Rain is or what it does.
Can i get gentle help with riven? Yes i have never beaten. I solved a puzzle. But do not know how. I do not want to read a walkthrough thoufh.
Recently played it for the first time in at least 20 years and working up the patience to start Exile next, which puzzle are you stuck on?
And don't say "fire marble dome" or so help me!
I have not tackled that one yet. I know of marbles. And grids. But that is not my concern here.
The spinning domes. I got one to stop with a button. But it did not always stop? I failed to see what did or did not cause it to stop or keep spinnnig.
And i am sure there is more that one. Can have not found the other one again.
Can i get gentle help with riven? Yes i have never beaten. I solved a puzzle. But do not know how. I do not want to read a walkthrough thoufh.
Recently played it for the first time in at least 20 years and working up the patience to start Exile next, which puzzle are you stuck on?
And don't say "fire marble dome" or so help me!
I have not tackled that one yet. I know of marbles. And grids. But that is not my concern here.
The spinning domes. I got one to stop with a button. But it did not always stop? I failed to see what did or did not cause it to stop or keep spinnnig.
And i am sure there is more that one. Can have not found the other one again.
Every spinning dome has a little zoetrope viewer nearby. It's looking at the eye symbols across the dome in such a way that it looks animated. Each dome has one "frame" of that animation colored differently. Pushing the button on the viewer in time with that symbol coming up will tell the dome to stop spinning and flip over.
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Everything about Everreach's aesthetic screams 'budget Mass Effect', right down to the fonts and the UI. Sometimes it's just about genuinely good enough to hold up to the original,
Given the presence of Starcraft's Nova, speeder bike troopers, and excessive ENB, I would have guessed this was heavily-modded Skyrim. All it needs is a hardcore hunger/thirst meter in the corner and Lydia in a bikini.
This is a weird feeling, but I finished a game today! XCOM: Chimera Squad was a good time from start to finish. I never really felt like I got the hang of choosing my breach order to better serve the mixed team timeline system, but there's enough other good here to make up for it. Specifically, I love the scavenger market and how it wasn't just a leapfrog to tech I hadn't researched yet. As far as I saw there was no other way to get some items like fragmentary and plasma grenades. I really like the special weapons that impart additional skills on your soldiers so that I could make broken boss killers with a gun that grants serial and putting an extended magazine on it. It's also a super good time to tailor my squad to the current threat. Do I need a hacker? A mind taker-over? A healer? Well, always a healer but the game only gave me one so I had to do my best to keep her safe, and it stung any time she was training. And then when she got out of training I discovered that even though she had access to three utility item slots that I could only have her carry one grenade. And that stinks. Overall though? Highly recommended, will most likely play again.
Can i get gentle help with riven? Yes i have never beaten. I solved a puzzle. But do not know how. I do not want to read a walkthrough thoufh.
Recently played it for the first time in at least 20 years and working up the patience to start Exile next, which puzzle are you stuck on?
And don't say "fire marble dome" or so help me!
I have not tackled that one yet. I know of marbles. And grids. But that is not my concern here.
The spinning domes. I got one to stop with a button. But it did not always stop? I failed to see what did or did not cause it to stop or keep spinnnig.
And i am sure there is more that one. Can have not found the other one again.
Every spinning dome has a little zoetrope viewer nearby. It's looking at the eye symbols across the dome in such a way that it looks animated. Each dome has one "frame" of that animation colored differently. Pushing the button on the viewer in time with that symbol coming up will tell the dome to stop spinning and flip over.
When in doubt just mash the button until it stops. Actually timing it is frustration incarnate. There's a total of 5 of the domes, one on each island. One of them has a broken zoetrope and you'll have to mash it anyway.
Note the gold symbols (you can see the gold one on the domes surface when it stops for the broken one) and geography of the location for a future puzzle.
Just bought an entry level gaming pc. Haven’t really owned a pc capable of playing anything since like 2004. I’ve got a Gfx 1660 ti, 8g ram and an i5 9400 4.1ghz processor. I think those are the specs.
I do most of my gaming on my Xbox and will continue to do so in the future. So this will basically be to try out stuff that isn’t on that. I’m hoping Total Warhammer 2 runs on it even if it’s on low settings. Any other recommendations? Basically stuff that’s not on Xbox and doesn’t require a beefy comp to run. I’m hoping FF14 runs on it but I’m not sure if it will
I’ll be setting up a steam and epic account when it arrives so any recommendations for deals on those stores too?
Just bought an entry level gaming pc. Haven’t really owned a pc capable of playing anything since like 2004. I’ve got a Gfx 1660 ti, 8g ram and an i5 9400 4.1ghz processor. I think those are the specs.
I do most of my gaming on my Xbox and will continue to do so in the future. So this will basically be to try out stuff that isn’t on that. I’m hoping Total Warhammer 2 runs on it even if it’s on low settings. Any other recommendations? Basically stuff that’s not on Xbox and doesn’t require a beefy comp to run. I’m hoping FF14 runs on it but I’m not sure if it will
I’ll be setting up a steam and epic account when it arrives so any recommendations for deals on those stores too?
I think you're underestimating your system - should have little to no problems with either, as you've got a bit better CPU and comparable graphics card to me and I can crank that shit up nicely. Your weakness is in the RAM, but that's a cheap after-the-fact upgrade, depending on the slot situation you could double it for around $30-40 and put medium to high settings on nearly anything in reach. 16 is what I'm running now and I've yet to encounter something that I can't keep in mostly-high settings if I sacrifice something like lighting and shadows.
Set up an epic account now if you're going to, Borderlands 2 is free this week and rumor is Witcher 3 goes free on Thursday. Don't need to be able to play them to claim them, hell my account's threatening to pass my Steam account just from free shit and the first one I actually touched was GTA V a couple weeks go.
@Prohass once you get your Steam account set up, let us know your account name so you can get an invite into the steam group for chat!
Awesome will do. I think I have an ancient steam account from like when I first bought half-life2, and I sometimes get warnings that people are trying to login, but I always just thought it was scams. I don’t think I ever put any payment details into it or anything. I’ll have to figure out if I can reactivate that, though it may be easier to just make a new one
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My birthday was 10 months ago FYI.
Not that it stopped @LD50 from dunking on me. Thank you.
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I like that your birthday was 10 months ago instead of 2 months from now.
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But for me, it was Tuesdaym
I was also birthday'd by @LD50! Thanks for Ruins Seeker!
(but "greatest tyrant"? That's a heckuva thing to say about someone who is almost universally regarded as 100% innocent!)
Porn for the Porn Tyrant.
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Thanks @LD50 for Wildfire!
I've got another Kenshi update in the works but I really need to play less Kenshi and study more for NCLEX. Problem Kenshi is one of those long games you get sucked into. Something more bite size like Wildfire should help when I need to take a break. Thanks again!
Thank you @LD50 for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3!
This is acceptable.
Kenshi Part 3: We're Going on a (Very Deadly) Adventure!
Going out to get supplies @EvmaAlsar meets some friends, who chase him back to the Hub.
In fact, I don't know why but it's Starving Bandit o'clock. The local ninjas help keep us safe and a nearby wandering Garru heard (the same species as Beasty`) provides plenty of food (plus a mauling) for our future adventures. They rest up before starting the long trek which will be through the very racist Holy Nation lands before we even think about getting to the desert.
We skirt around the main Holy Nation valley and encounter a number of Holy Mines (regular mines occupied by Holy Nation forces) but we do come across an abandoned mine that gives us a nice amount of building supplies and iron. We can sell these in a pinch if our food starts running low, even if that means sending Evma into a holy nation town on his lonesome since he's the only party member who isn't kill on sight.
Nearing the entrance to the desert, we come across this Holy Nation monstrosity. No way we're sneaking through that. Looks like there are some valleys on the side--with giant metal spiders and acid rain. We have a little acid rain protection and it isn't too bad but I'd rather not tangle with those spiders and seeing Holy Nation going at full tilt to take out a skeleman Techhunter was alarming. We'll find another way.
Thankfully there is a nearby mountain pass we find and OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! The hell is a Skimmer? Well I guess it's that, and now we're in the Skimmersands, these things are everywhere but we've mastered the ancient art of running away very fast. There are some massive Holy Nation patrols out here but seems the Skimmers don't like them either. Alas they overtake the Skimmer, we could have used the loot, this hasn't been the most profitable enterprise thus far. Still, we'll take the meat and claws, something is better than nothing though we're doing fine on food.
Finally we encounter a different faction: the United Cities. The Samurai Squadleader is nice enough and are being bodyguard for us until we run into some Bloodraiders and take care of them for us, leaving us with plenty of loot. It's nice to meet some good guys in this world at last.
At last we find a United Cities settlement of Stoat. It's a jewel in the desert compared to the hellscape of skimmers and bandits thus far. Pixie seems a bit mocking of them but Evma is glad she has a little emotion for a change. We sell off our loot and go to check the facilities here and...
Oh.
Oh dear.
*Nervous laugh* Maybe there are some nice people in the bar? Sure enough we find some NERD female Greenlander, talking about RESEARCH, but only costs 2.5k, so we'll take her along. Izumi huh? Thought we'd get to change that when we hired you, oh well we know a plastic surgeon in the Hub who can fix that. Yes you can plastic surgery names, duh.
We grab Izumi some gear and head out where Pixie takes issue with Evma's signing. Evma tries to make peace by singing about battle. Pixie agrees, but still without the singing part. The revelations in Stoat have made sense of the patrols of rebellion farmers as we encounter bounty hunter group subduing them and taking them to Stoat, but we grab some gear and a crossbow for Izumi and take a chance to cook up some Skimmer meat.
We're feel like exploring but in a homesick manner so we're going to take a different route home. This was a bad idea, like many things in Kenshi. It starts off humorous enough with Pixie demanding battle from the leader--only for the group to realize they have no leader. But no one but Pixie wants it to be Pixie. She scoffs at them and calls them traitors. Heading south we come across a tower, the usually friendly United Cities forces tells us to stay the hell away. The Skimmers chase us off so we can't really get a good look but probably for the best.
The next area sadly I had no pictures, despite having readily used the pause button. Basically we entered a land of Poison Cloud pain. Just like Acid Rain it isn't too bad--except for the ninjas. The god damn ninjas. We were trying to get Izumi's strength up but when these bastards started chasing we loaded what we could on to Beasty` and start sprinting as fast as we can. Somehow Evma gets slowed down, to where he's surrounded by ninjas and I think he's a gonner. For some reason they ignore him, so I send him on a different path to meet up with the group. Izumi isn't so lucky, so Evma is sent back around to heal her up and carry if need be. Talus, Pixie and Beasty` are at full sprint--when we wind up back in the land of metal spiders and acid rain. We run past a metal spider, hey this isn't too bad, I should have done this sooner. Thankfully the ninjas aren't so lucky. A couple of stragglers keep chasing but we peel them back on the metal spider that shreds them. Beasty` and Pixie runs back to the main group while Talus relieves the downed ninjas of their blades. With enough swords to make multiple animes blush, the group goes back to the mountain path we took before.
We go through the main Holy Nation valley but there are just some farms and River Raptors--maybe they'll be good combat practice? Unfortunately they come in swarms of 10 so maybe not. Let's just get home to The Hub.
Once there we visit the plastic surgeon where Izumi becomes @Mugsley ! Welcome to the team! I forgot to mention that you are actually our best field medic and researcher, I guess that NERD talk wasn't just bluster. Combat stats need some work and...Mugsley, crossbows do not work that way.
We're pretty flush with money and have bought several books but need larger facilities for our new tech bench, so we buy and refurbish a storm house in The Hub. We're learning a lot but we can't build a lot of facilities in town so we'll have to strike out at some point, but we're gonna need a lot more research. Mugsley and Pixie get to work learning some basics but without raw materials it's most preparatory move. Still, if it gets some form of industry we might make some steady income at some point.
Whew that longer to type then I thought. Like I said, need to play less but it's rather compelling? It's hard to recommend to people without a butt load of time but if you wanted a game that refuses to hold your hand and sets off to explore a world from the bottom of the barrel, Kenshi is for you.
This doesn't include some of the failed adventures like the time Talus and Pixie were knocked out by starving bandits and Evma broke his arm while in Holy Nation land. It did not end well.
This is highly irresponsible spending and we shouldn't do it, but... Uh... Well, AMD 5700 vs. NVIDIA 2060 opinions?
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Is... is the child on a boat too?
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I won't tell the Mrs that you compared her to a boat. I think we'd both like to live out the rest of the day.
Also, been noodling around with Fallout 76 again, and it's still quite fun for an hour or so at a time (which is what I have available while sharing a laptop!). Weight is still stupidly limiting, and while the quests are nice, I'm not sure they'll go anywhere, because we can't really change the world when it's always online. But it's fun for now!
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@Hevach I recommend 2060
I'm leaning that way mainly on budget, 5700 seems to win on almost every benchmark, but just barely. Price, on the other hand, is $150 apart and for that price difference I can switch the 256g SSD to a TB one.
I got Jayson'd while I was looking the other way. Can you believe?
Thanks @JaysonFour ... you monster!
Everything about Everreach's aesthetic screams 'budget Mass Effect', right down to the fonts and the UI. Sometimes it's just about genuinely good enough to hold up to the original,
and other times the cheapness is more obvious, like the way talking animations look way shonkier on everyone else than on the main character.
Gene Rain's Gears-clonery is more in its shooting mechanics and feel than its visuals, although that's partly just because Gears is more generic to start with. The graphics can seem a bit Unity Store Asset-y, but it does at least offer this, the single most cyberpunk screenshot in videogame history:
GUNS! SUSHI! IMPLANTS! Orion Technologies! Asian girl with a gun! Top that, CDPR.
Story wise, Everreach is also pretty unoriginal - I basically guessed what was happening about half way through and spent the rest of the game waiting for the characters to catch up - but it is never less than competent, as are the vocal performances, although the main actress is no Jennifer Hale. It does have genuine story-changing decisions and moral dilemmas, and its best idea is probably also its most original: Your robot companion is not a wisecracking humanoid, but a featureless floating ball whose jokes are all openly awful because its personality was installed wrong.
Gene Rains story... Look, if you've heard of Gene Rain, it's probably because it was made in Hong Kong/China and has a truly rotten stuff-it-in-Google-Translate English translation, which isn't well served by being read out by a cast mostly made of Chinese people who have no idea what they're saying (and at least one woman who sounds suspiciously like a text-to-speech bot), but I am confident that even if the translation was perfect, the story would still be utterly incomprehensible. It jumps around in time and place and never explains anything. It's one of those stories that's heard in media res openings are cool, but doesn't understand that at some point you have to explain who everyone is, what's going on, and why people should care.
Seriously, what the hell is going on here?
The weak point of both games is the shooting, which is a problem given that's the main thing you do in both. Everreachs combat mostly consists of peaking round corners to fire, because every enemy has near-perfect aim and can shred your shields and health in a couple of seconds. By the time you've upgraded enough to fight back properly the game is practically over. Gene Rain is also unbalanced, but the main problem is the controls have the clod-hopping lumpiness I dislike about Gears of War, but far far worse. It doesn't help that your three guns all look so identical that you keep forgetting which is which.
They're both pretty short games, particularly Gene Rain - Don't be fooled by the size of the upgrade/skill trees they both have, you'll barely half-fill either by the end. If you can get Everreach for half price like I did and you really miss Mass Effect, I'd say maybe give it a go. I can't recommend Gene Rain at any price, except perhaps if you can get it for like 90% off and you fancy a cheap laugh.
I also got Gene Rain's sequel, Gene Rain: Wind Tower. I'm happy to report the controls and shooting are improved and - augmented by a little dash of shooter-looter mechanics - flirt with being genuinely fun, whilst the translation is slightly better and they've sensibly dispensed with the bad English voiceover. Unfortunately everything else is even worse. It's shorter (barely two hours), the levels are smaller, boxier and all the same, and there is literally no characters or plot except you and a computer voice exchanging endless back-and-forth technobabble about your boring and repetitive objectives.
Blah blah blah blah. I am now two games into a supposed trilogy about 'Gene Rain' and I still have no idea what Gene Rain is or what it does.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Oh.
Or not.
/sigh/
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Given the presence of Starcraft's Nova, speeder bike troopers, and excessive ENB, I would have guessed this was heavily-modded Skyrim. All it needs is a hardcore hunger/thirst meter in the corner and Lydia in a bikini.
That goes with the car you didn't order right?
but I am stuck with TRUCK
Note the gold symbols (you can see the gold one on the domes surface when it stops for the broken one) and geography of the location for a future puzzle.
I do most of my gaming on my Xbox and will continue to do so in the future. So this will basically be to try out stuff that isn’t on that. I’m hoping Total Warhammer 2 runs on it even if it’s on low settings. Any other recommendations? Basically stuff that’s not on Xbox and doesn’t require a beefy comp to run. I’m hoping FF14 runs on it but I’m not sure if it will
I’ll be setting up a steam and epic account when it arrives so any recommendations for deals on those stores too?
I think you're underestimating your system - should have little to no problems with either, as you've got a bit better CPU and comparable graphics card to me and I can crank that shit up nicely. Your weakness is in the RAM, but that's a cheap after-the-fact upgrade, depending on the slot situation you could double it for around $30-40 and put medium to high settings on nearly anything in reach. 16 is what I'm running now and I've yet to encounter something that I can't keep in mostly-high settings if I sacrifice something like lighting and shadows.
Set up an epic account now if you're going to, Borderlands 2 is free this week and rumor is Witcher 3 goes free on Thursday. Don't need to be able to play them to claim them, hell my account's threatening to pass my Steam account just from free shit and the first one I actually touched was GTA V a couple weeks go.
Awesome will do. I think I have an ancient steam account from like when I first bought half-life2, and I sometimes get warnings that people are trying to login, but I always just thought it was scams. I don’t think I ever put any payment details into it or anything. I’ll have to figure out if I can reactivate that, though it may be easier to just make a new one
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