Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Jarkes  
Besides very repetitive, its very long and its feels like an eternity to go throught it. Not to say the massive spawn of enemies around the room.

@E-123
 
Oh, I guess the massive enemy spawns WOULD contribute to the difficulty.

@Jarkes  
In Legendary, if I can remember, it takes you two shotgun shoots to kill an Combat Form Flood, and those things are everywhere in that level.

@E-123  
The flood themselves are easy to take care of, it’s basically like throwing waves of grunts at you. Instead of sword elites and jackal snipers.

Yoku’s Island Express is kind of an interesting little game, the demo is short, but I did enjoy it a little.

Finally got my preorder of Power Rangers Battle For the Grid from LRG. Cheap presentation aside(it’s only a $20 game so it’s not surprising) I’m really surprised at how well this game plays. It’s pretty fucking good

Alright, killed that one boss in Vesperia, that annoying wolf thing, now onward to more story for this one (maybe I shouldn’t be playing this after TotA, but eh).
 
Edit: Also, feels a little funny seeing Lupe Fiasco tweeting that he’s playing Death Stranding.
 
Edit 2: And Star Fox 2 was added onto the NSO service too.

@Meanlucario  
That’s incredible.
 
Remember this next time somebody bashes the Wii-mote.

State of Decay sounds like exactly what a zombie game should be.
 
But is it good?

@Dustcan  
I will admit, it can be better. I played all three State of Decay games.
 
The shooting is great and the enemies are fun to kill but I spend most of my time scrounging for supplies than anything else. It is a survival game first and foremost and while there are story missions, it’s not that engaging story-wise. Characters have some personality but other than one or two, really it’s just bullet points.
 
The maps are expansive and empty which means you need to get a car to travel anywhere. This also means you’ll die if you’re left in the middle of nowhere. I don’t expect a fast-travel system but I really want a way for easier travel. The sequel fixed the problem regarding fuel by actually making them necessary (1st game, cars can last forever).
 
Early game, you fight mostly with melee weapons and later on, get guns and such. The good news is that you can craft bullets and I do. The bad news is that bullets are expensive take up inventory space so you’re giving up two slots for guns, and you don’t usually bring only one gun.
 
You also have a limited number of places you can take as a safe house. Tip: You want to take resource areas as safe houses such as power plants or water treatment plants. This helps reduce the number of resources you need to survive. But that means you give up other potential places as safe houses.
 
Zombie variants suck and will kill you, even on Normal difficulty. Screamers summon zombies to fuck you up, Ferals will fuck you up and Juggernauts just fuck everything up. There’s also that stomach acid zombie but really, that’s more of a road hazard than anything else.
 
Zombies are actually dangerous in this game so that’s neat.

Playing The Witcher (1)
 
and was getting ready for the end of Part/Act 1 which culminates in a full on boss battle against a Hellound called The Beast.
 
the fight comes at the very end of the act after triggering the final steps the rest of which is fighting bandits.. and then making a choice of whom to side with/save
 
but in the end its still a full on boss fight with you vs the thing and its unending waves of minions (and from what all the guides said was quite hard) so I did heavy prep.
 
bought the recipe for and made a spcial blade oil to do deal extra damage against it, ground an extra level or two and spent the points on combat and made a few extra potions for boosts just in case…
 
and ended up wasting the oil and not needed any of the rest of it due to sheer dumb luck.
 
the ‘how to’ for the fight said to use the Aard sing ‘a force push type spell’ to push the minons away and down so I could focus on the boss -as if you kill them he not only summons replacements but feeds off them to semi-replenish  
and tried to save the chick heling me and ended up blatsing the Beast itself… and scored a knockdown.  
One Finish Stab and the whole fight is over.

@Meanlucario  
Omg that’s hilarious, someone needs to make homebrew creepy pasta game to go with cultist ritual effect of running your Wii in the dark with candles surrounding it.

Random game idea, reboot the power rangers story with a open world survival and crafting game. You start by yourself, Alpha 5 is broken and needs repairs and Zordon admits he’s flat broke and you must rummage for supplies to fix his base, repair Alpha 5 and build giant robots from spare parts.  
You get to travel to various nearby towns that all have their own problems that you get to solve and recruit the other power rangers from random high-school npcs.  
Your total charisma limits how many teenagers you can recruit and ultimately how big your robot can get.  
The npcs all have rpg stats that can help, like charisma to talk your way through problems (you can talk down Rita from fighting you, and if your teams overall charisma and luck points are high enough you can ship her with Zordon or another villain) or perception, strength, luck, etc.  
The giant robots have durability points and well placed attacks can disable weapons or limbs, and you can salvage parts from defeating bad guys.  
If the story is done right, Zordon will lead you to believe that his team is totally 100% the good guys, but in reality none of the characters are totally good or bad and you can form alliances with any of the other characters and gain access to their resources to help take down bigger foes.  
The other teams, like team Rita, are compose of monster teenagers, and if you talk your way through good enough, you can recruit them to your team and gain access to special robot parts unique to Rita.

And I’ve done a first run of every Inti Creates game I’ve bought on Steam during the Autumn Sales (Azure Striker Gunvolt, Blaster Master Zero 1 and 2, Mighty Gunvolt Burst and Gunvolt Chronicles). I gotta say, I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would (and I thought to enjoy them enough already) I think I did a good choice to bet on Inti Creates, I think I will support their future games, as long they don’t put too much focus on stuff like Gal Gun (I don’t like that one)…

I need to fully figure out how you attack via melee in TES Arena.

@Background Pony #9C90  
I have Blaster Master Zero for 3DS, it is really good, even though I never played the original NES game.  
Shame it doesn’t have all the original NES soundtrack remixed though. (Or so I heard, most of the music is brand new, rather then taken/remixed from the NES game, but still good.)
 
I even got the Shantae DLC in it.

@Beau Skunky  
Well we are getting Journey to Silius to Switch.
 
Journey to Silius was gonna be Terminator.
 
So the Switch is getting the good Terminator game.

@Scrabbleman
 
Hm, sounds about what I was expecting. Still I got it for $4 so it has to be more than worth the price.
 

 
So what, I have to pick and choose bases? I can’t just have them all?

@Background Pony #C59F  
I believe you have to hold down the mouse button (can’t remember which one), and then move the mouse left or right, like you were swinging a sword. It’s just as awkward as it sounds.

Masahiro Sakurai just expressed his appreciation for Death Stranding. As always, even thought they’re competitors, Nintendo and Sony have mutual respect for each other’s works. I just wish fans were this considered as well…. but instead you can’t express your love for a Nintendo game without risking to be clobbered by a decerebrated Sony fanboy, especially here in Italy. I hate saying it even more after what Sakurai said, but I really hope Death Stranding doesn’t win at the VGA or things could really get grim…

@Background Pony #9C90  
It probably won’t change things whether, or not it wins.
 
@igotnopicks  
Really? Is that the NES game that was almost a licensed Terminator game, but they lost the license, so they made it an original game instead?
 
Considering old classic licensed games rarely ever get rereleased, because of how expensive licenses costs can get, (this is why TMNT was the only NES licensed VC game on Wii, and why it was a dollar more the most NES VC games) so if it did get the Terminator license, then it wouldn’t be able to be on Switch now.
 
Things like the “Aladdin/Lion King” collection are a different story, because they can charge more money for a compilation game then for Virtual Console, to help pay the licensing fees. Same for the TMNT & Marvel Arcade1UP Machines.

@Background Pony #9C90  
People are gonna be upset with Death Stranding regardless if it wins or not at the VGA

@Background Pony #9C90
 
What kind of dystopian area do you live in where you can get physically assaulted in real life over a goddamn video game?