Quote from: tenbones;792059Currently playing: Battlefield 4. I just made Division 2 in the world as an Engineer and Recon (I can't snipe worth a damn. I'm in deep with my carbines)

SWTOR - Currently raiding with a Republic Guild - "Rebel Scum" (I'm really an Imperial - my guild is slumming on the other side because we're top-end on the Imp-side).

I'd swear that I've seen that guild name around, tenbones. What server are you on?

Quote from: flyerfan1991;792162Well, that's pretty typical of most RPGs that I've played. It's a limitation of the genre that you can't go back to town, round up a dozen guards, and go wipe out an enemy camp.

But...you can in Origins. You just can't get them all at once. They're there, they're available they want to come with. But you can only bring three of them to the battle that's 100 yards outside of camp.

But they're available.

Quote from: Doom;792217But...you can in Origins. You just can't get them all at once. They're there, they're available they want to come with. But you can only bring three of them to the battle that's 100 yards outside of camp.

But they're available.

I started with a Dalish Elf, and I discovered on the intro questline that I could have an extra person come with me if I wanted, but I figured that was made available if I felt that the encounter was going to be too rough.  Well, and they integrated his addition into the story well enough that I figured it was a one off. Is that the sort of thing you were talking about? I've not gotten beyond becoming a Grey Warden yet, so I've not completely finished the intro.

I've just installed Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel! and played for an hour or so.

It's fun, with the jumping and O2 kits and character-specific voice bits from NPCs, not to mention Handsome Jack's "year zero" storyline, but so far (remember, just an hour into the game) it's more of the same. No skin off my nose; I loved the previous game, I'll certainly enjoy this one as well.

In any case, the wife and I have decided to, at very least, finish Borderlands 2 (close to wrapping up the main story; just picked up the Eridium Blight quest line) and the BL2 DLC in Normal mode, before shooting for the Moon.

Not to mention that there are other games queued (Divinity: Original Sin, looking at you) and that when Warlords of Draenor comes out she'll want to play WoW again, with a vengeance.

I do most of my gaming with my wife these days, I barely get the time to play Skyrim (which is single-player) and Guild Wars 2 (MMO, but she didn't like it; pity, really).

Quote from: flyerfan1991;792347I started with a Dalish Elf, and I discovered on the intro questline that I could have an extra person come with me if I wanted, but I figured that was made available if I felt that the encounter was going to be too rough.  Well, and they integrated his addition into the story well enough that I figured it was a one off. Is that the sort of thing you were talking about? I've not gotten beyond becoming a Grey Warden yet, so I've not completely finished the intro.

Oh, you're still pretty early in yet. It gets really obnoxious when you're attacked by, say, 10 bandits (so there's no cultural restriction against groups larger than 4 or whatever the limit is on YOU), and the fights are incredibly brutal simply because you're arbitrarily outnumbered.

Eventually you'll start using mass stun-locks to make most fights trivial, but the whole "stupid brutal or stupid easy" fight system I found just too annoying.

I grabbed Awesomenauts over the Steam freebies and good god is it awesome. It's like DOTA (which I don't like ) meets Soldat ( which I love) and actually through this hate - bang, produces an excellent game.

I just scored a cheap origional Xbox so I'm looking for a couple good titles on that system if anyone has suggestions.

My wife and I are also going to start luigi's Mansion soon.

So, WoW patch 6.0 (for Warlords of Draenor) dropped today. Logging in to see what the fuss is all about. Here's hoping the wife won't abandon our current Borderlandsmania for good ol' Warcrack.

Quote from: The Butcher;792925So, WoW patch 6.0 (for Warlords of Draenor) dropped today. Logging in to see what the fuss is all about. Here's hoping the wife won't abandon our current Borderlandsmania for good ol' Warcrack.

I considered resubbing, but decided against it. It's not like the BG dynamics are going to change with the new version.  Same assholes, different patch.

Quote from: Piestrio;792916I just scored a cheap origional Xbox so I'm looking for a couple good titles on that system if anyone has suggestions.

My wife and I are also going to start luigi's Mansion soon.

Halo (it really was good), TimeSplitters 2 and 3, Phantom Crash, Conker Live and Reloaded (Although get the N64 version instead if possible).

I'm wondering about playing my first replay game for ME1. I'd vowed not to go back to it after getting both male and female characters through the game, but there's still loads of uncompleted achievements and I want some different major decisions for my male Shepard.

Quote from: Piestrio;792916I just scored a cheap origional Xbox so I'm looking for a couple good titles on that system if anyone has suggestions.

My wife and I are also going to start luigi's Mansion soon.

Gauntlet, which is a lot of fun for two (or up to four) people. There's a more modern sequel, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, but it isn't as good as the arcade-style original.

There's quite a lot of good co-op games for the old XBox.

So, Spore. Yeah.

Heartbreaker game, given what unbelievably stupid clownshoe fucks Maxis and EA are.

My son found the booklet long after I had given up on the game, and was really keen on playing it. And hey, the kids love making little critters and doing stuff, though I do the 'driving' at this point.

But once the week or so of trying to figure out how to properly install the fucking game was over (I have Cute and Creepy pack AND Galactic Adventures, oy), I'm actually finding the game kind of fun to play on my own.

Granted, the game is stupidly buggy. The first patch required me to go find a proper patch online, since Origin just shrugged at the idea of patching it. (Fucking Origin fuck ea fuck fucking fuckfucks)

Also, it doesn't autosave. So you have to do Esc, select 'save', then return to the game periodically. Because it also tends to crash, and you can easily put 5 hours into the game and WOOPS CRASH and back to being a single cell.

Fuck.


Anyway, despite all the fucking annoyances... it's kind of cool making a critter with arms coming out of its knees or a violently psychopathic blind slug monsters.

If anyone is curious about my Spore stuff, search for Zahinder here. (You want to check 'browse (all)')
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=all

Still on a huge Borderlands kick.

Finished the main story, playing through the Borderlands 2 DLC with the wife in release order (can't wait for Assault on Dragon Keep) and playing Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel! on my own.

I'm saving Wilhelm (a character that pretty much looks, talks and feels like at least half my PCs in every tabletop RPG I've ever played -- close enough to an old AD&D 2e character named Tauric that one of my friends refers to him as Space Tauric ) for the inevitable and more tactical playthrough with the missus, so I'm running Claptrap and let me tell you, not knowing what's gonna happen when you hit the special skill button is a hoot.

Gameplay is pretty much the same as BL2, plus low-gravity oxygen-jet hijinks (extended jumps and slams), more jumping puzzles, plus Australian jokes. I like it well enough.

I'm rather enjoying the Pre-Sequel as well, though I'm still trying to find my footing with a non-siren character. I think I've pretty well settled on Athena for now, though I may try out Wilhelm at some point in the future. Unless the rumors turn out to be true and Baroness Whatshername turns out to be a siren. Then it's back to phaseverb goodness and ALL the Maliwan SMGs.

Having had the extraordinary luck of finding a legendary siren mod early in my second play-through of Borderlands 2 I'm also finding it really odd to suddenly have to actually look at the skills on character mods again.