Video Game Thread 2.0

[RavynousHunter]

Like I said, that's almost the ebtire point of the Tau.

Basically, the lone island of near-sanity in a rolling sea of utter, complete madness?  At least, that's the impression I get from 40k.  Never actually played it...  >.>

[Cloud3514]

Actually not a bad way to put it.

[Art Vandelay]

Getting back into Crusader Kings 2, this time starting as a two-province earl within an Anglo-Saxon petty kingdom 769.

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I have to say, I'm quite proud of myself this time. Not only did I take the petty kingdom itself for my dynasty in less than one generation, but I did it in the most underhanded and stupidly lucky manner yet. After snapping up a lone independent county and another from a neighbouring earl within the petty kingdom, I had nearly the same military strength as the petty king himself (I think slightly more when you take liege levies into account). Most importantly, I'd had my heir betrothed to one of the king's daughters, figuring an alliance could be handy later on. This turned out to be extremely handy. My heir managed to die at the ripe old age of 20, leaving two infant sons behind. The eldest of whom was not only my new heir, but also a direct descendent of the king.

Meanwhile, the king was getting fed up with my bullshit, and decided to try and throw me in jail. However, this failed miserably, leaving me no choice but to rebel. My decently sized military plus a few mercenaries later, and I won the war, forcing the king to abdicate to his heir. With the king off the throne, all of his direct descendents  suddenly had a strong claim on the petty kingdom itself, including my current heir, being the son of the former king's daughter. Not only that, but given that I'd just won a war, I still had a handful of soldiers at my disposal while the king himself had absolutely fuck all that weren't my liege levies. Needless to say, the new king didn't even last a month.

So yeah, now it's just a matter of waiting for my current character to die and I'll have the entire petty kingdom under my control. Ah, feudalism is so much fun.

[Askold]

The first Shantae game came out in 2002. The next was 8 years later, the next 4 years after that and the latest game is coming out now, 2 years after the last one.

I am seeing a pattern here, next Shantae game will probably come out some time next year with another sequel 6 months later. Then it will be only 3 months before the next game is out and pretty soon we will start to see several of the games being published within a month.

*Insert reference to Pacific rim*

[RavynousHunter]

The developers are Time Lords with a malfunctioning TARDIS.  It is the only explanation.

[chad sexington]

Getting back into Crusader Kings 2, this time starting as a two-province earl within an Anglo-Saxon petty kingdom 769.

(click to show/hide)

I have to say, I'm quite proud of myself this time. Not only did I take the petty kingdom itself for my dynasty in less than one generation, but I did it in the most underhanded and stupidly lucky manner yet. After snapping up a lone independent county and another from a neighbouring earl within the petty kingdom, I had nearly the same military strength as the petty king himself (I think slightly more when you take liege levies into account). Most importantly, I'd had my heir betrothed to one of the king's daughters, figuring an alliance could be handy later on. This turned out to be extremely handy. My heir managed to die at the ripe old age of 20, leaving two infant sons behind. The eldest of whom was not only my new heir, but also a direct descendent of the king.

Meanwhile, the king was getting fed up with my bullshit, and decided to try and throw me in jail. However, this failed miserably, leaving me no choice but to rebel. My decently sized military plus a few mercenaries later, and I won the war, forcing the king to abdicate to his heir. With the king off the throne, all of his direct descendents  suddenly had a strong claim on the petty kingdom itself, including my current heir, being the son of the former king's daughter. Not only that, but given that I'd just won a war, I still had a handful of soldiers at my disposal while the king himself had absolutely fuck all that weren't my liege levies. Needless to say, the new king didn't even last a month.

So yeah, now it's just a matter of waiting for my current character to die and I'll have the entire petty kingdom under my control. Ah, feudalism is so much fun.

I can't play CK2 any more - it won't save

[Dakota Bob]

So the new Doom game comes out this Friday and I've pre-ordered it. Which I hate, since I'm squarely in the "never pre-order" camp. I watch one single-player gameplay livestream and my brain goes "Bruuuuuuh". I hate that I can be easily manipulated like this, especially when a new Souls game comes out.

Oh well, at least my pre-order comes with a poster. That's nice.

[Art Vandelay]

Getting back into Terraria. My god, they've really piled on the free content since I last played it. It feels more like I'm playing a sequel than the same game I really sunk my teeth into back in 2012. I swear, I'm seeing more new stuff than stuff I remember from back in the day. It's crazy, considering it cost me a mere $10 (would've been more like $2.50 had I waited for a sale) and even just the base game was stupidly good value. Add several years worth of free content updates and I'm wondering just how the developer ever managed to break even, much less turn a profit.

Well, if anyone needs me, I'll be off conquering the world with the power of yo-yos.

[Askold]

People are complaining about the newest Call of duty being set in space. ...It's not like we haven't had any good scifi shooters have we? I mean Halo's were liked, Doom and Quake had a few good games, Marathon series, Prey and so on. I mean, it's not guaranteed that the game is good, the last few in the series have not exactly been inspiring, but damning it based on a single trailer is a bit silly.

Similarly, everyone getting so excited over Battlefield 1 being set in WW1 even though all we have so far is a trailer is silly. Yes, this is probably the third shooter based on WW1 (Iron Storm was an alternate history where WW1 lasted for decades and the game was just bad, Verdun is trying to be simulationist and has mainly good reviews but the studio is small and the game is not well known.) so at least it's a reasonably fresh idea but there is still a chance that they ruin the game somehow.

[RavynousHunter]

I really hope they don't cock Battlefield 1 up.  I've been waiting for a good WWI game since Red Baron, yet almost nobody has done anything with it.  I mean, you get tonnes of shit for WWII because Nazis are sexy, but WWI was every bit as horrifying as its successor, though for different reasons.  It basically saw the first large-scale use of machine guns in war, as well as chemical weapons and the very first tanks.  It was an era of some insane battles, and some truly horrifying shit that would fucking freeze your blood.  That it isn't explored more is a damn shame.

[Askold]

I don't have a computer that would run the latest Doom but the game certainly looks fun. Not to mention that I love how ridiculously seriously they take the premise. "Yes, I know. We have been pumping energy straight from Hell to use it as a clean energy source. BUT JUST THINK HOW MUCH PROFIT WE ARE MAKING! And we have single handedly solved the world energy crisis! The only downside to this project are the occasional demonic invasions and mass possessions of workers but trust us when I say that we are taking all the necessary precautions."

Well, it's a lot better than the current system of waging wars over oil which causes occasional terrorist attack.

[Dakota Bob]

I'm about 4 hours into the new Doom campaign and lemme tell you this shit makes my cock hard as a rock, they fucking nailed it the absolute madmen. The combat feels great, the levels aren't just linear (they are more linear than original doom, but they aren't just straight lines to the exit and the design encourages exploration for secrets and collectables) and the graphics look great, the iDtech6 runs alot better than the last iteration of the engine (no more constant texture pop-in)  It's a shame the season pass is exclusively new multiplayer content when the MP is kinda generic (seriously, loadouts? why?) and I'm not sure it'll have a thriving community for very long, especially considering how they managed to kill off Quake Live. Haven't tried out snapmap yet so I don't have an opinion on that but apparently people are building cool stuff with it.

[Sigmaleph]

I don't have a computer that would run the latest Doom but the game certainly looks fun. Not to mention that I love how ridiculously seriously they take the premise. "Yes, I know. We have been pumping energy straight from Hell to use it as a clean energy source. BUT JUST THINK HOW MUCH PROFIT WE ARE MAKING! And we have single handedly solved the world energy crisis! The only downside to this project are the occasional demonic invasions and mass possessions of workers but trust us when I say that we are taking all the necessary precautions."

Well, it's a lot better than the current system of waging wars over oil which causes occasional terrorist attack.

to be perfectly fair if we can extract energy from Hell (and possible bypass the first or second laws or thermodynamics) dealing with the occasional demonic invasion and mass possession is a very low price to pay. A+ realism.

[Askold]

I talked about this with a buddy and in his opinion tens of thousands of deaths in the experimental phase of a new green energy source is totally worth if. In fact it would be the safest energy source in the world even with the occasional daemonic invasion being in the equation.

[RavynousHunter]

I AM FULLY ERECT.  Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 was announced today and that fucker is coming this year!  I can't fucking waaaaaaaaaaaaaait!  One of the very few times I'm considering pre-ordering a game when I'm able, because god damned Xenoverse 2, motherfuckers.