03-27-2025, 09:06 AM
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#8741
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ontario
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Started playing The First Berserker - Khazan yesterday. Really fun first couple hours, really excited to put a bunch of time into it this weekend. Would recommend it to anyone who enjoys soulslikes.
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03-31-2025, 12:11 PM
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#8742
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitch
Played a couple hours of AC Shadows - meh. Ghost of Tsushima came out 5 years ago and still feels better to play imo.
I also tried out 'Factorio' on Friday... ended up taking over my weekend. This game is like crack. Factory. Must. Get. Bigger.
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This really should go down as a bigger deal. Tsushima essentially ruined every sword game in existence and a half decade later nobody has come close to it.
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03-31-2025, 02:02 PM
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#8743
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: An all-inclusive.
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Tsushima was great, don't get me wrong, but I completely fell in love with Sekiro after the combat clicked. AAA gameplay right there but hard as nails.
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04-01-2025, 08:52 AM
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#8744
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. George's, Grenada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitch
Played a couple hours of AC Shadows - meh. Ghost of Tsushima came out 5 years ago and still feels better to play imo.
I also tried out 'Factorio' on Friday... ended up taking over my weekend. This game is like crack. Factory. Must. Get. Bigger.
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Ah yes. Cracktorio lives up to the name
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04-01-2025, 12:15 PM
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#8745
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Lifetime In Suspension
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Do you love grinding? Leveling up weapon after weapon, learning new skills, and leaving thousands of dead footsoldiers in your wake? Becoming a god?
You do? Then Dynasty Warriors Origins is for you! It's the best.
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04-01-2025, 01:33 PM
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#8746
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kybosh
Tsushima was great, don't get me wrong, but I completely fell in love with Sekiro after the combat clicked. AAA gameplay right there but hard as nails.
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Yeah I don't see how anyone could say that the sword combat in GOT is better than Sekiro or Ninja Gaiden Black which are the gold standard for sword games.
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04-01-2025, 08:48 PM
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#8748
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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<--- stuck in the sword combat in KCD2
I didn't play 1 so the combat was kind of interesting for the first little bit but once I learned how to master strike it's all kind of trivial.
Which is fine I'm not playing for the combat, there's so many interesting quests.
I was on a wagon helping escort some ladies to new jobs at a bathhouse (i.e. prostitutes) and one of them asked me if I was a t**s or a** man! Lol!
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
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04-02-2025, 08:03 AM
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#8749
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
<--- stuck in the sword combat in KCD2
I didn't play 1 so the combat was kind of interesting for the first little bit but once I learned how to master strike it's all kind of trivial.
Which is fine I'm not playing for the combat, there's so many interesting quests.
I was on a wagon helping escort some ladies to new jobs at a bathhouse (i.e. prostitutes) and one of them asked me if I was a t**s or a** man! Lol!
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My biggest gripe with KCD2 is how trivial combat becomes after the first half of the game. It became insanely easy to kill some bandits, sell their gear, save and buy all the best gear. Once I realized there weren't any other upgrades I could aim for, I lost interest.
It is a great game though, those first 30-40 hours were incredible, as immersed I've been in a game in some time (also did not play KCD1).
Experiencing KCD2 voice acting and then going to AC Shadows is super jarring lol.
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04-02-2025, 12:38 PM
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#8750
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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featured in the Switch 2 trailer presentation today:
fiiiiiiinally.
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04-02-2025, 01:02 PM
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#8751
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitch
My biggest gripe with KCD2 is how trivial combat becomes after the first half of the game. It became insanely easy to kill some bandits, sell their gear, save and buy all the best gear. Once I realized there weren't any other upgrades I could aim for, I lost interest.
It is a great game though, those first 30-40 hours were incredible, as immersed I've been in a game in some time (also did not play KCD1).
Experiencing KCD2 voice acting and then going to AC Shadows is super jarring lol.
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As with you I never played the first game and as you say the first 30+ hours are incredible but it's also petering out for me as well. This game has to have the worst difficulty scaling I can remember. It starts off very difficult and at the halfway mark becomes trivial. You don't even need to use the master strike as you can win nearly all combat by positioning your sword high and then quickly dropping to a low jab, repeat, repeat. Everything from thieving to dice becomes so easy that I stopped doing the side quests out of boredom and just remained on the main quest to get to the end. It's still a very good experience as the storytelling is next level, but it's ultimately let down by poor balancing.
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04-04-2025, 10:19 AM
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#8752
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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04-04-2025, 12:43 PM
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#8753
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: An all-inclusive.
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New Fromsoftware game announced for 2026 call "The Duskbloods" 
It's a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive 
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04-04-2025, 12:49 PM
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#8754
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Kybosh
New Fromsoftware game announced for 2026 call "The Duskbloods"
It's a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive |
It's also a multiplayer only game from what it sounds like.
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04-04-2025, 02:01 PM
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#8755
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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If it's multiplayer then Nintendo can have it.
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04-04-2025, 02:10 PM
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#8756
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
If it's multiplayer then Nintendo can have it.
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Yeah, who needs friends!
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04-04-2025, 08:20 PM
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#8757
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Since1984
Yeah, who needs friends!
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Someone once said to me that Super Smash Bros was the only reason to have friends, which I still think is hilarious 20 years later.
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04-07-2025, 08:25 AM
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#8759
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: A small painted room
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Superflyer
I am late to the game but I just picked up Baldurs Gate 3 since it was on sale and it is great. Feels like I am in a D&D game and has a pretty good story so far. Already looking forward to restarting the story and choosing different paths
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I went through it and then started a dark urge campaign. It's actually quite hard for me to be evil lol! Still pretty fun though. I killed Lae'zel in the first 20 minutes loll
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04-07-2025, 10:47 AM
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#8760
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Superflyer
I am late to the game but I just picked up Baldurs Gate 3 since it was on sale and it is great. Feels like I am in a D&D game and has a pretty good story so far. Already looking forward to restarting the story and choosing different paths
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Where is it on sale? Seems full price on Steam and GOG
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