What video games are you playing? What video games are you excited about? Let's hear it.
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Just beat the first world of the Croc Remaster, and I'm full of nostalgia.
I never posted about Mass Effect 1, which I beat for the first time in August.
I tried Mass Effect 1 when it first came out in 2007. I couldn't get into it. For some reason, I bought the sequel anyway and became a superfan of the series.
When I bought the Legendary Collection on Steam (for like $3, too, totally insane), I wanted to try my damndest to finish it. It doesn't hook you as well as 2 or 3, but once you get into it, it's phenomenal. It's a classic for a reason. I'm glad I gave it another chance. Shepard isn't as three-dimensional as she is in the sequels, but everything else holds up incredibly well.
I tried Mass Effect 1 when it first came out in 2007. I couldn't get into it. For some reason, I bought the sequel anyway and became a superfan of the series.
When I bought the Legendary Collection on Steam (for like $3, too, totally insane), I wanted to try my damndest to finish it. It doesn't hook you as well as 2 or 3, but once you get into it, it's phenomenal. It's a classic for a reason. I'm glad I gave it another chance. Shepard isn't as three-dimensional as she is in the sequels, but everything else holds up incredibly well.
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I'm an awful gamer. Like I'll play GTA but I've never done the quests. I can build a park for five hours in sandbox mode on the Jurassic World game and be really happy. I think it's some kinda attempt at having control if I wanna analyze myself. But I play a lot of COD with my son, mostly zombies, though I really enjoy the campaigns on the Modern Warfares.
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I'm currently playing through the Silent Hill 2 remake but it gets me super anxious and I have to take a few days break after playing for even part of a day. Breaks right through my anxiety meds so in hindsight probably not the best choice of games for me.
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As I said in the previous forum, I'm continuing to go pretty hard on Space Marine 2, and it's not just the satisfying gameplay or the fact that I really love Warhammer. I realized that toy collector mentality hits me in video games, too. Grinding away to unlock more cosmetics so I can dress up my digital space marine action figure is weirdly rewarding. Thinking it over, I do this in basically any video game where it's an option.
Even in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which I'm also playing right now, I maintain a collection of different unique armors and weapons and I genuinely enjoy cycling through different options in the inventory and just seeing how cool they look even though I know I won't use them anymore because they're sub-optiminal to the point where it's just not going to be fun. But I also can't bring myself to sell off items from my coolest outfits because sometimes I just want to throw them on and see how cool they looked again.
So weird. I'm literally a collector right down to my bones.
Even in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which I'm also playing right now, I maintain a collection of different unique armors and weapons and I genuinely enjoy cycling through different options in the inventory and just seeing how cool they look even though I know I won't use them anymore because they're sub-optiminal to the point where it's just not going to be fun. But I also can't bring myself to sell off items from my coolest outfits because sometimes I just want to throw them on and see how cool they looked again.
So weird. I'm literally a collector right down to my bones.
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I remember when I played Little Big Planet, I'd change my costume depending on the theme of the level.
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Hell yeah. I'm endlessly weirded out by people that played Red Dead Redemption 2 and never changed Arthur's pre-set costume. I changed that dude's costumes literally every game day for the most part.
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I probably shouldn't tell you that on City of Heroes I only ever used the 1st costume I designed in the character creator and didn't even use the other slots.
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That's only weird if the costume sucked. I'm a big proponent of superhero costumes NOT changing frequently because that's what makes them iconic and being iconic is sort've part of being a superhero.
What I did do, however, was create like five different characters so I could still experiment with the character creator without having to change a given character's costume ever. My main, Caliburn, also had the exact same costume from beginning to end, with the exception of adding a sweet cape once I was high enough level to unlock capes. I don't remember anymore what that was - level 10 or something?
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Level 20. And you had to do that pain in the ass cape mission where you had to prevent the Lost from smashing the memorial or something.
But yeah I like for them to have one look and I had so many different characters that it was stressful enough getting one good look for each of them. I surely couldn't have done two or more.
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20, right! Yeah. The funny thing was - the cape didn't really even fit my original idea for my main character. I just wanted to do it to do it and then ended up really liking the look of it.
I think I only ended up running 4 characters -- 3 heroes and a villain. But I MADE a LOT of characters. Ultimately I'd either end up not really liking the design I'd gone with, or not liking the power/ability choices I'd made, so I'd just overwrite and start over. I made a Punisher/Deathlok combo character like six different times before I got it right and really enjoyed playing it.
Man, that game with modern graphics would be the fucking best. I had so much fun. Still haven't had the time/energy to start it up again on my computer. But it's on my list of things to do.
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Missing Worlds Media is working on a spiritual modern successor to CoH called City of Titans. They had a successful Kickstarter a while back. They do updates every now and then but I haven't really been following. I need to read up and see if they actually have a beta date yet.
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Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on this, myself.Missing Worlds Media is working on a spiritual modern successor to CoH called City of Titans. They had a successful Kickstarter a while back. They do updates every now and then but I haven't really been following. I need to read up and see if they actually have a beta date yet.
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten more into the idea of rewatching, rereading, and replaying the best stuff I've seen/read/played. I never used to have patience for it.
RDR2 is by no means one of my favorite games, but I respect the hell out of the craft. I'm thinking about giving it another shot. I know you're super high on it.