Video & PC Game Discussion

progkidjoel wrote: I clocked 39h46m on this playthrough, and plan to put a few more into the main quest with other characters to say the least. After this I'll probably do some of the DLC though.

I did all the in-game DLC and all the side-quests and everything in about... 105 hours, I think? I was very thorough in my first playthrough. PC version, though. Spent a lot of time paused in combat because I really didn't use tactics at all.


It's... well... mediocre. I mean, if you're on the PS3, you'll at least have what amounts to somewhat-less-clunky combat. That said, any sense of strategy has been stripped wholesale from the game. Every twelve paces in hostile areas, you will encounter another group of 40 idiotic bandits or what-have-you trying to take your gallbladder without your consent. Every fight is the same: 10 or so enemies rush you, you kill them and 10 more fall out of the sky, kill them, more paratroopers, battle over. Rinse, repeat until you've killed about 16,000 people and the game mercifully ends. The story is disjointed and the characters are awkward and unlikable for the most part. Also, lots of egregious retcon.

Well the Wall of Flesh was much easier than I expected. I didn't even bother building a bridge or mining enough hellstone for molten armor. But now I'm getting slaughtered by all the random things around in hardmode because my defense isn't high enough.

Rockstar isn't big on graphics.

2 PC games I used to really enjoy were Cossacks and American Conquest. These games are pretty old now and wont work on Windows Vista which is a shame as I'd still play them. Anyone know of any other strategic war games currently available (similar era) that are more up to date? Cheers.

Just started playing the Magicka expansion, The Stars Are Left, with one of my friends.  It has some of the best enemies I've seen in a game. 

Just finished that off at 15h36m. Pretty lackluster ending, overall. The two main decisions of the end game were f**king hard, though.

Darkspawn Chronicles was pretty damn bad. Felt like a really bad gimmick. Short too.

^They might have fixed it; I was playing on hard although it still wasn't much of a challenge. Also, as James mentioned they nerfed the console build's difficulty to make up for the lack of tactical planning/hotkeys available.

It took me ages to kill The Harvester!

I ended up soloing him 'cause all my NPCs died.  The only way I managed it was to trap him against a wall due to a bug.

I think it was my build though.  I didn't really have a decent mage to help me and I didn't have the right spells either.  My main character was a sword and board warrior.

And yep, The Harvester isn't that hard himself but it was all his damned skeletons that whacked me to bits and they respawn too.

Maybe it's just harder on PC?

By the way, I'm fairly sure I read a few months ago that they're releasing (or have released) a final patch for DA:O so saves get exported properly to DA2.


Edited by James - February 04 2012 at 06:40

Been playing Metal Gear Solid pretty much for the first time ever. Excellent game, though the PS1 controls were a bit annoying since I'm so used to the more precise controles of 2 3 and 4.

Gamemako, have you tried the Legacy DLC for DA2? I thought it was great, if a little easy, and no more parachuting badies.