LMAO! My Wife is a Farmville and Café World addict (Although she smacked me last time I accused her of this!) I swear she adds a new facebook game every week.Originally Posted by Daph
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,” I said. “We have a protractor. Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
Thanks for the Nostalgia impressions Torcer, think I'll ask Santa to pick it up for me.
I'm sure I/we can think of something. What was it you liked about Hellgate? There are a lot of Diablo clones, although not many that are also fps games.
I liked that it was user friendly in the mechanics of how you played (somewhat similar to WOW), could be played as 3rd person, and had decent graphics, though no where near as good as WOW. I didn't like the lack of variety in the quests really, but put up with them until I got through it once. I'm soooo NOT a gamer, and lack a lot of coordination necessary to accomplish much if I can't just do it in my own time/fashion.
What I like about WOW is the ease of use. I don't do keystrokes :P If I can't play with the mouse alone, I'll lose interest. I like good graphics, and I like variety. I like questing, and don't mind occasional battles. I also like playing solo, but like WOW because I can play along side other people, without having it interfere with my play.
I did look at EQ once, but didn't like the way the game looked, nor the difficulty I had in moving my character around.
If that makes any sense to you, I'd be delighted to hear any suggestions you might have.
Oh...and my current computer is kinda suckey too. I can play WOW-WoTLK just fine, but I only have 1G RAM atm, and a mediocre video card. I do hope to upgrade it soon though.
I'm curious what you consider "good graphics", because Hellgate was light years ahead of WoW in terms of visual quality. Now style is another matter...
If you're looking for a Diablo-esque single player game, it might be worth checking out Titan Quest, or Sacred (the first one, the second would kill your computer).
Well, perhaps if I could have SEEN what was going on in Hellgate, the graphics would have been betterEverything was kinda dark though. But maybe I do mean style. I'm not sure how I'd describe it beyond that.
Is Titan Quest more than just a 'shoot-em up' game?
I don't like to use keystrokes either. Generally they are something you want to learn if you want to be master blaster extreme, but I'm content with merely being awesome.
Borderlands might be good, but I'm not sure your computer can handle it. Supposedly it's more fun with friends as well. RPG shooter with a lot of simple quests.
Titan Quest is the most popular Diablo clone I know of. Diablo is like Hellgate but from an overhead view.
You could try Warcraft 3. It's a Real Time Strategy game, which might be intimidating at first, but you have already seen how user friendly Blizzard makes their games, and it does have an amusing single player campaign.
League of Legends is a free game that just went into open beta, based off of a warcraft 3 user created game type. It's pretty simple so you might get bored, but it's easy to play. There really are no quests or exploration, just character building and combat.
Might be a good time to cut your teeth on a Bioware game. They require your attention more than Hellgate, but they have better variety. I would recommend Mass Effect for something simple, Knights of the Old Republic for something a little more meaty.
Just off the top of my head.
I haven't played Titan Quest, but the Diablo aspect of Hellgate is more in reference to the gameplay type than the perspective.
In a Diablo game, you choose a character class and level them up while doing quests. Each class gets unique abilities and one of the primary motivators is to upgrade your equipment.
Since it's from an overhead view, you probably click on the ground you want to walk to, instead of using arrow keys like in a shooter. You then click on enemies you want to attack.
There are usually quests to direct where you go next, but the focus is always loot and killing.
The Bioware games I mentioned feature more non combat gameplay, generally dialogue trees with npcs.
Edit: New game that I've been seeing get some buzz but don't know much about myself yet is Torchlight.
Last edited by Wool; October 27th, 2009 at 04:14 PM.
Thanks for the info. I'm not sure the overhead view is something I'd like, but I'll check into it, along with Bioware. At least now I have a couple suggestions! :-D
Just for clarification, the Bioware games are the only games mentioned that don't have an overhead view (haven't seen Torchlight, but would bet on it). Mass Effect plays almost like a shooter that you can pause to select abilities, Knights of the Old Republic is behind the shoulder 3rd person, but instead aiming like a shooter, you click on enemies and then click on abilities (like WoW I guess).
Now it's getting confusing. You want a game that you can play using only the mouse, but it can't have an overhead perspective?
Titan Quest is strictly fantasy, btw (based on Greek mythology, to be precise). No shooting aliens there.
Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2 distracted me from Dragon Quest 5, but I've begun a push to finish it off so that I can start the newest WoT book.
Also starting playing Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time, hopefully finishing it by this weekend so I can start Dragon Age in turn.
I have found it to be highly enjoyable so far, but aside from the story I think I am going to end up considering Tools of Destruction superior. The little things they added are a lot of fun, but nothing really that earth shattering. The weapon upgrade system from the last game is gone though, which was probably my favorite part about Tools of Destruction.
A few weapons have customizeable parts, and you can still level up their damage and such through use, but I haven't seen any means of upgrading a gun from sorta overpowered toinducing overpowered. I maxed out my standard pistol and haven't even noticed a graphical change, bah! With how gratuitous ToD was, this is kind of disappointed. Granted I am still pretty early into the game.
Again, I'm pretty early into the game, but it also seems a lot easier too. Not that ToD was the least bit hard.
My biggest gripe is that lock on strafing seems to be gone. Not particularly happy about that at all, it makes fighting large enemies a pain.
Oh right, I almost forgot the good!
As an example. Imagine a door you can't get past, a room you can't access without standing on a button, and said button. You would first record yourself standing on the button. Then make a recording of yourself going into the room after the first version opens it for you, which in turn opens the door you can't get past. You would then play both of those and run through the door. (this is simplified, details only matter if you decide to play it)
Last edited by Wool; November 4th, 2009 at 03:08 PM.
Batman Arkham asylum.
Having fun with it so far about 23% in.
I finally finished Arkham Asylum yesterday. My fun lasted about halfway through the game, at which the gameplay got a bit too repetitive for me and the game was only held up by the story. (Which, in turn, was supported by really excellent voice acting. Though the dude who voiced Batman sounded a bit too much like Laurence Fishbourne.)
Spoiler for boss battle:
I went through the PS3 demos for:
Trine - creative idea, not well implemented. I'd rather see a more "Gauntlet" approach than a "if the archer is dead, you're fucked." 2/5
Wolfenstein - mix of Batman ("Veil" vision, but sucky cuz it's on a mana bar) and Bioshock... without the comedy. Par for course, nothing to see here worth getting worked up. 3/5
Ninja Gaiden 2 (So hard it kills your OTHER friend) - play control is better, but still direction oriented, without a reliable targeting system. I'm a ninja, I'm supposed to not wave my sword at thin air while some asshole stabs me in the... asshole. Great graphics, but still frustrating to play. I finished, and was thankful I was done. 2/5
Punisher (Multiplayer). I'm not interested in a multiplayer. I removed it. */5
Fat Princess - nonstop comedy. Easy game play. Brawl, ping, heal, kite, snarky backdoor infiltrate, or just farm resources. Can play with custom friends in locked games online. Chat is super reliable. We had nonstop fun with the demo, bought the full version, already played through a lot of fun games. 5/5. I can't recommend this game enough.
Critter Crunch - another variant on a puzzle game. Slightly innovative, and slightly gross. Fun, playful, excellent play control. 4/5.
Brutal Legend - Hilarious commentary, smooth game play, lots of gore and variety (in the demo at least). I'll probably rent the full version over turkey week. 4/5.
Continuing to play: WoW, MUA (is MUA 2 any good?), GTAIV, and CrossworDS.
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Modern Warfare 2 for 360. Amazing
Medieval 2: Total War
Oh, and on a persistent world server for NWN2. It's a Planescape based campaign. The thread I posted down earlier is them pushing it all to a live play server (with alot of more zones being added). They seem to be a small population though. Like 30 people or something.
Thought it might be fun to check out and goof off with.
I'm playing Dragon Age on the 360. I'm addicted, it's terrific.
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A little WoW, a little CODMW2.
I go missing
No longer exist
One day
I hope
I’m someone you miss
MW2 for the PC and Demon's Souls, still. I'm hoping I can get through Demon's Souls by Christmastime - going to ask Santa for Dragon Age. This is a terrific time to be a gamer.
Last edited by Grindel; November 16th, 2009 at 08:22 AM.
After finishing the MW2 story, I went back and started on Veteran. Since there is no respawning enemies like COD4, it's not nearly as bad but it's still like 45% fun, 50% frustration, 5% ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, so I only play it in little bits while waiting for friends to get on to play spec ops (which is awesome) and MP.
So I need to pick a single player game amongst the ones I've bought or borrowed in the last year or so. I'm going to choose between Uncharted 2, Dead Space, Dead Rising, and Yakuza 2 and I'm not sure which. I considered a second play through of Dragon Age after spending way too much of my free time on the first play through but after starting a 2nd one, it wasn't that compelling. It's still an option though.
Uncharted 2 is something you wouldn't want to miss out on while it's still "fresh".
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