What are you playing this weekend/these days?
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ElPoco
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Recently finished all 3 episodes of Doom 1 on the Pandora, with the ZDoom port.
I wonder why people kept making video games after it.
I wonder why people kept making video games after it.
fusion_power
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I checked the Overwatch open Beta, just because it is currently free and I follow that game since some time. My first FPS Shooter in years, I'm a little bit rusted but the great thing about Overwatch are the many different characters, you also can play a supporter or a character that don't need much aim etc. Very nice concept and surprisingly fun. Also runs decent on my old PC. I may buy it in the future but for now I skip. It so or so needs a decent premade team and I have none. Otherwise you play with randoms which is often...well... "difficult"... ^^"
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Been playing Fallout 1, it's absolutelly outstanding how they picked up the pen and paper RPG games and made their own system with such an immersing lore and art direction that still looks charming to this date. The other fallout games since fallout 2 are way too action oriented, way too user friendly sacrificing complexity and just pale in comparison to how much the first fallout offers (Im yet to play fallout 2).
I'd recomend anyone to pick the Fallout games on Gog, I have never liked modern RPGs (I dont like most computer/console RPGs anyways) and I absolutelly loved Fallout 1.
I'd recomend anyone to pick the Fallout games on Gog, I have never liked modern RPGs (I dont like most computer/console RPGs anyways) and I absolutelly loved Fallout 1.
Yep, one of the best games ever made and still pretty today thanks to this excellent HD patch:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/hi-res-patches-for-fallout1-2-the-bis-mapper.181743/
Consider the fixes as well:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/resources/categories/fallout-1.2/
I rediscovered some beatmups today: http://www.playretrogames.com/3738-gogetsuji-legends
very funny, also challenging.
very funny, also challenging.
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Garrett
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My two birthday gifts.. Uncharted 4 & Doom, really enjoying both but Uncharted is just outstanding the attention to detail is simply breathtaking it's been quite a while since I've played something that left me open mouthed and it's happening on a pretty regular basis with this game, It doesn't hurt that it looks stunning too I'd love to know what alchemy Naughty Dog are using!
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I finished Fallout 1 a few days ago, and I've got to say it was one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've had in a long time, there is so much into it and the ending is just plain sublime ( I got the good ending 
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It had the perfect lenght too, nowadays most RPG's are grinding fests with lots of time consuming garbage that doesnt add anything to the experience while Fallout 1 goes straight to the point while being purelly a Post Apocaliptic game with it's own ruleset system and lore that actually allows you to take your own liberty to build the story around your character without spending unnecessary time doing stuff you dont want to spend your time into giving you lots of freedom to shape your way through the game in a meaningfull way, with so many paths to reach your goals!
Its a very modular game, I could easilly add it between a pen and paper RPG collection cause it would stand proudly between those.
I never expect to like a computer RPG game as much as I liked the first fallout game and I tremendously recomend it to anyone that likes to be immersed in something worthwhile of your precious time, it's that good.
Gotta give props to gog.com to allow me to get some invigorating escape during a bad while I was going through.
BTW I've been playing Fallout 2 and personally it lost all the good traits regarding the story, it could be so much more than it is and what they sacrificed for plain wickedness made it lackluster in comparison to the first Fallout, wich is a pitty cause the original Tribe theme of the game sounded and started very promissing, untill it went from the drain down as you unfold the world and a bit more of the story.
Plus it is a much bigger game, it's kinda overwhelming to me.
).It had the perfect lenght too, nowadays most RPG's are grinding fests with lots of time consuming garbage that doesnt add anything to the experience while Fallout 1 goes straight to the point while being purelly a Post Apocaliptic game with it's own ruleset system and lore that actually allows you to take your own liberty to build the story around your character without spending unnecessary time doing stuff you dont want to spend your time into giving you lots of freedom to shape your way through the game in a meaningfull way, with so many paths to reach your goals!
Its a very modular game, I could easilly add it between a pen and paper RPG collection cause it would stand proudly between those.
I never expect to like a computer RPG game as much as I liked the first fallout game and I tremendously recomend it to anyone that likes to be immersed in something worthwhile of your precious time, it's that good.
Gotta give props to gog.com to allow me to get some invigorating escape during a bad while I was going through.
BTW I've been playing Fallout 2 and personally it lost all the good traits regarding the story, it could be so much more than it is and what they sacrificed for plain wickedness made it lackluster in comparison to the first Fallout, wich is a pitty cause the original Tribe theme of the game sounded and started very promissing, untill it went from the drain down as you unfold the world and a bit more of the story.
Plus it is a much bigger game, it's kinda overwhelming to me.
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I'm not alone!
Everybody says Fallout 2 is better than the first one but I have exactly the same complaints as you besides the horrible bugs that prevented me from finishing it the first time (and which are fixed now thanks to community patches).
It's still an excellent game and better than most current RPGs, but Fallout 1 has managed to still be my favourite game.
ElPoco
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There's actually a big rift in the Fallout fan community between those who prefer 1 and those who prefer 2. Most of them agree that they hate 3, though.
I don't hate Fallout 3, it's a solid and fun ego shooter with RPG elements and the GOTY version sold here was practically DRM free (unlike New Vegas...).
Thou shouldn't compare current sequels/prequels to past's glory!
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LuSimon
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My problem with New Vegas (I havent played and dont plan to play fallout 3 and 4) is that while the game is great in it's own right, it is way too action oriented, the story is as much plagued as fallout 2 was... If you ask me that is an example of how a great series was raped into a franchise for (excuse my english) consumerist shit, it lost all the most cerebral and strategic elements of the game to make it more mainstream and console friendly, it is basically braindead second class entertainment compared to what was so outstandingly delivered in the first game, dont get me wrong the producion values and content of New Vegas is huge but unfocused on what matters.
I do however agree that a game series, just like any other form of art should differ from what was made by the studio, but the direction the series took was way too action oriented with not as many RPG elements for my taste, and if I buy an RPG game I do want to play a pure RPG that makes me immersed and that brings something new, the new Fallout games or even most modern Roleplaying PC games are dumbed down, linear or way too focused on action to make me interested at all...
ElPoco
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My friends told me that New Vegas was better than F3, so I played New Vegas, and while I liked some stuff, I found it to be nothing exceptional. Then I read that F3 had more of what I liked less and less of what I liked more (and none of what I'd have like to see) so I didn't bother playing it.
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