I'm toying with the idea of using god mode. Gathering resources is getting kinda grindy and having to beat Hades to advance the story takes a lot of time and we're getting into the fall games season.
It's kinda neat, it gives you 20% damage reduction against you, that's all. Then when you die with it on you get 2% more. Up to a total of 80%. Seems pretty fair.
I was starting to have more frustration than fun so decided to try God mode. Beat Hades on my first run with it - and I probably didn’t even need it as I still had two extra lives left on the final boss. A spear run but I built around Athena’s call (that makes you invincible and deflects) and fast god gauge charges. I think I got a full gauge three times in the Hades fight, which was huge (including when he did his beefy final attack near the end of his second form, just stood in front of him attacking lol)
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Just beat Horizon Zero Dawn. I realised as I age I’m getting worse at video games. This was really difficult even on easy level. I only managed to get through the final battle after remembering I still had some crafting resources in reward boxes.
I have mixed feelings overall. I haven’t been this engaged with a game in some time and the premise is just brilliant. The visuals and writing were top notch but the gameplay got repetitive and the open world set up felt aged. I wish they learned more heavily into the RPG elements, building characters and providing more choices, and less into the open world tropes. For example I found the bunker explorations very boring. It seemed like these were just included because it was an open world game and open world games are supposed to have cave explorations.
I compare this a bit to Spider-Man as another game with great visuals and story let down by an aged open world. Both are great first entries to a series though and I look forward to seeing improvements in the sequels.
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Just beat Horizon Zero Dawn. I realised as I age I’m getting worse at video games. This was really difficult even on easy level. I only managed to get through the final battle after remembering I still had some crafting resources in reward boxes.
I have mixed feelings overall. I haven’t been this engaged with a game in some time and the premise is just brilliant. The visuals and writing were top notch but the gameplay got repetitive and the open world set up felt aged. I wish they learned more heavily into the RPG elements, building characters and providing more choices, and less into the open world tropes. For example I found the bunker explorations very boring. It seemed like these were just included because it was an open world game and open world games are supposed to have cave explorations.
I compare this a bit to Spider-Man as another game with great visuals and story let down by an aged open world. Both are great first entries to a series though and I look forward to seeing improvements in the sequels.
I haven't played Horizon yet but I have heard that it's not an easy game and is quite challenging even on the easy level so it might not be an accurate indicator of your video game skills deteriorating. lol I really struggled with God of War and Doom 2016 on easy and apparently according to the internet they are easy games to beat.
Just beat Horizon Zero Dawn. I realised as I age I’m getting worse at video games. This was really difficult even on easy level. I only managed to get through the final battle after remembering I still had some crafting resources in reward boxes.
Did you make sure to get the ancient armor before finishing? That really helps in the final battle.
Did you make sure to get the ancient armor before finishing? That really helps in the final battle.
Nope. Actually that is another thing that annoyed me about the game. I collected the power cells to unlock the door but then was told nope you need another 3 cells to actually unlock the armour. I was like screw you game writers you big tease. At the end I was 2 cells short and couldn’t be bothered trying to find them.
I also didn’t bother completing all the hunting challenges to get the upgraded equipment. They were so boring although I did really enjoy the side quests to join the hunters lodge.
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I also didn’t bother completing all the hunting challenges to get the upgraded equipment. They were so boring although I did really enjoy the side quests to join the hunters lodge.
Yeah, I hated the hunting challenges so much. But I wanted the upgraded weapons so I suffered through them. I never did do all of The Frozen Wilds ones though.
I'm thinking of playing Eve Online, some of my friends can't recommend it enough, anyone play it? Is it thumbs up? Any tips for starters?
It's incredibly complex. There are lots of YouTube "starter" videos (that are ~1 hour long), and I highly recommend watching at least 1, but beware that it will take a significant time investment (even with friends helping) to understand/setup.
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It's incredibly complex. There are lots of YouTube "starter" videos (that are ~1 hour long), and I highly recommend watching at least 1, but beware that it will take a significant time investment (even with friends helping) to understand/setup.
I have to agree. I gave it about 6 hours before calling it quits. It sounds awesome at a distance but the reality is a little less exciting. If you want to get into the gritty details of player driven economies and making your own stories, then it's probably worth the time investment.
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Has anyone played Xcom2 since the new updates came out? I friggin loved Xcom1. Got me through some tough times in Iraq!
But Xcom2 was broken. Eventually you would get to a point where every mission your guys would be too injured to fight, or the enemies scaled up in hardness at a rate that wasn't matchable and there wasn't an appreciable way to train up new recruits and eventually you would have to restart all over. Or at least I did.
I would love to dive back in, but damn if I am gonna waste time if they haven't figured out difficulty balancing.
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Has anyone played Xcom2 since the new updates came out? I friggin loved Xcom1. Got me through some tough times in Iraq!
But Xcom2 was broken. Eventually you would get to a point where every mission your guys would be too injured to fight, or the enemies scaled up in hardness at a rate that wasn't matchable and there wasn't an appreciable way to train up new recruits and eventually you would have to restart all over. Or at least I did.
I would love to dive back in, but damn if I am gonna waste time if they haven't figured out difficulty balancing.
Really? I found XCOM2 quite a bit more forgiving than the first one. I have Chimera installed but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
I'm thinking of playing Eve Online, some of my friends can't recommend it enough, anyone play it? Is it thumbs up? Any tips for starters?
I hear you will be spending a ton of time learning about tools that are outside of the game. I also hear the game is very spreadsheet heavy tools wise.
From what I have heard, if it's totally your thing, there's nothing else truly like it out there for the level of immersion. Some strategies take years to accomplish.
But for the vast majority of people, my understanding is this game is far too complicated to be enjoyable and it's basically impossible to enjoy being a casual player for this game.
Just beat Horizon Zero Dawn. I realised as I age I’m getting worse at video games. This was really difficult even on easy level. I only managed to get through the final battle after remembering I still had some crafting resources in reward boxes.
I have mixed feelings overall. I haven’t been this engaged with a game in some time and the premise is just brilliant. The visuals and writing were top notch but the gameplay got repetitive and the open world set up felt aged. I wish they learned more heavily into the RPG elements, building characters and providing more choices, and less into the open world tropes. For example I found the bunker explorations very boring. It seemed like these were just included because it was an open world game and open world games are supposed to have cave explorations.
I compare this a bit to Spider-Man as another game with great visuals and story let down by an aged open world. Both are great first entries to a series though and I look forward to seeing improvements in the sequels.
I'm at the early parts of Horizon: Zero Dawn and the biggest thing that I noticed is how important the bow is but also how goddamn hard it is to actually accurately use it. I suck so bad at it. The game hasn't really drawn me in to be honest like others.
