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01 Oct 2015, 11:14 pm

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Are there any good action games on the PS4 that are not set in the future or excessively violent?

The three PS3 Uncharted games will get a re-release on PS4 and a fourth game is coming. They are basically Indiana Jones in video games format, there is a lot of action served by good pacing and the violence is rather tame (At least compared to other games; you do shoot down a lot of peoples.) and on a PG-13 level; though there is a level in the first game that is survival horror like.

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02 Oct 2015, 5:45 am

World of Warcraft...

I'm installing Wildstar out of morbid curiosity.

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02 Oct 2015, 6:25 am

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Been playing quite a bit of Etrian Mystery Dungeon on the 3DS, and have found it surprisingly fun, it really does seem to take the elements that are in Etrian Odyssey and have it with game play that is Mystery dungeon like the Pokémon Mystery dungeon. Well really I have only played some of the story part of Etrian Odyssey Untold, so even the total freedom to create your team is a bit new for me. I have so far been using the standard attack based tank (landsknecht), with a healer (medic), mage (runemaster) and shooter (gunner), which is apparently the recommended beginner party, but with so many other classes it is tempting to switch some members out. Most of my back up members that I have not had the chance to really use yet deal with buffs, with a Dancer (Support fighter), Hexer (Debuffer), Sovereign (Supporter), and I have a Defender (defence based tank). My current team has worked so well that I am worried about switching out, but I know that others are viable, so far the extra team I am not using is just getting auto-levelled so if I lose my team in a dungeon then I can send in the other to rescue them to avoid losing items and money.

It is a really good dungeon crawler, which comes from a weird fusion of the two game types it comes from. Mystery Dungeon's kind of random layout which is freedom of team movement in the dungeon, and Etrian Odyssey's careful planning. The first boss I got my butt totally kicked, levelled up with some side quests and managed to do very well, and when I reached the second boss had almost the same thing where it became a case of using tactics to get out of the battle. When I got back to the second boss he still was really difficult, but I realised that these battles are meant to be hard, it really is EO game with bosses in how you need to make everyone's attacks fit into one strategy, mixed now with MD's positioning. Makes me really want to try out more of these difficult dungeon crawlers.

There's ALOT of games like that, though it depends on which type of "dungeon crawler" you're after.

The Mystery Dungeon games are Roguelikes. A popular and very common genre on PC, but nearly nonexistent on console (this fact annoys me), they're typically associated with very high difficulty, complexity that sometimes goes overboard (this can vary wildly though), and of course, permadeath (die once, and that's it. No reloading or anything. Total restart, from the very beginning, in most of these). Mystery Dungeon though takes all of that and dials it down a few thousand notches and makes it much more friendly. They're still nice enough games, but they're pretty much "roguelike-lite", essentially. I've always seen them as an entry point into the genre more than anything else. They perform that role pretty well.

It's a good genre, but it can seriously depend on which games you're playing. And again, nearly all of them are on PC-only. They usually arent exactly all that concerned with graphics, either; these games are often more than happy to use ancient ASCII graphics (I generally like this anyway, so that works out well enough), or just static tilesets, so that might bother some people.

And then of course there's about a bazillion games nowadays that combine that genre with others. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth might be the most well-known of that sort; bloody MASSIVE game, absolutely fantastic, and is now on not just PC but some consoles and such as well. I know it's on the Wii U and 3DS ("new" 3DS only though). Or something like Spelunky.

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03 Oct 2015, 9:41 am

A few hours of playing Alien: Isolation has served as a reminder as to why I rarely play video games. I am terrible at them! I find myself perpetually lost, and when my character is not wandering around aimlessly she is being killed by humans or synthetics. Presumably when the xenomorph appears more frequently (it's only been seen twice in the first four levels) my survival difficulties will increase further.

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03 Oct 2015, 10:00 am

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Eh, it might just not be the right sort of game for you, in terms of matching with your strengths and such.

I can be very, very good at some sorts of games... I'm a bloody master at fighting games, and nearly as good at bullet-hell shmups... but if you were to put ME into Alien Isolation or any similar game, I guarantee, I'd probably be doing quite a bit worse than you are. Or alot worse. I cant do stealth. Never could. Or, well.... most of the situations in that game, really. Everything I've seen of it is stuff I'd be bloody terrible at. That rampaging monstrosity would be on me over and over and over and over and over and over, and only through luck would I pass each section.... not to mention the general flailing that'd happen as I try to confront basically anything else. Cant aim worth a crap, never could, and half the areas look mostly the same, and everything is dark, and... ugh.

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03 Oct 2015, 11:01 am

Misery wrote:

JakeASD wrote:

I do admit that the spy/stealth genre does particularly trouble me. For example, the Metal Gear Solid series - a franchise loved by many - is another that caused me tremendous grief. I am still to defeat the overweight guy (he may have been aptly called "Fatman"?) who glides around a heliport on roller skates while setting bombs off.

As a digression, can someone please tell me how much a good gaming PC would set me back?

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03 Oct 2015, 11:45 am

JakeASD wrote:

Misery wrote:

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In Alien: Isolation, you generally want to move very slowly. The artificial intelligence is not good, but the human AI has impressive hearing and visual range, and the Alien gradually homes in on your position. The protagonist can't move fast or precisely enough to escape anything. As for aiming, it is of marginal importance at best. Its hard to win a gun battle, and once the Alien appears the human enemies will take some of the heat off you. The thing to do is to creep around slowly and immerse yourself in the environment. I completed Alien: Isolation but was thoroughly sick of it by the time I finished. Recently I replayed certain parts and had fun, but its a long, tough game and the holes really show by the end.

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03 Oct 2015, 12:10 pm

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As a digression, can someone please tell me how much a good gaming PC would set me back?

This depends on just what you mean by "good" in this context. And how much use you're intending on getting out of it.

I paid like, $1200 for mine, but in my case I had no troubles affording this at all, and moreso it's also my main gaming device, with gaming basically being my special interest to begin with, so the price paid works out to be very worth it. And I've got hundreds of games on there. Unless you count the roms (mostly arcade), which would bring the total up to 8000+. Needless to say, the thing gets alot of use. It's built to be able to handle anything without needing to be upgraded for some time (I hate doing that).

But if you're only after a few specific games, or wouldnt really be using it all that often, it's probably not at all worth that kind of money. Of course, weaker machines wont be able to push the graphics of AAA games all the way to max, but... the ability to do that isnt worth the big pile of extra money if you're just not going to use it all that much.

And of course, that also depends on what kinds of games you're after. Only the biggest games with the loopiest graphics require a major gaming rig in order to max them out. Many other games, particularly indie titles (though this varies wildly) have such low requirements that practically anything can run them without the slightest trouble.

So the key is to determine how much you'll use it, for what sorts of games, and of course what kind of price range you're able to afford.

If you can give a bit more info on what you're looking for in a gaming PC, people here can probably give you some good details that might help a bunch.

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03 Oct 2015, 12:43 pm

Due to my road trip coming up in one more day (I leave on Monday) I haven't been playing anything time consuming. While we are at my grandparents house and around my aunt I should probably keep my games as casual as possible in case someone were to see one of my rated M games.

I've been playing Hatsune Miku Project Mirai DX because when I'm not reading I will probably play that the most during our visit.

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03 Oct 2015, 4:27 pm

Misery wrote:

JakeASD wrote:

As a digression, can someone please tell me how much a good gaming PC would set me back?

ourse, that also depends on what kinds of games you're after. Only the biggest games with the loopiest graphics require a major gaming rig in order to max them out. Many other games, particularly indie titles (though this varies wildly) have such low requirements that practically anything can run them without the slightest trouble.

So the key is to determine how much you'll use it, for what sorts of games, and of course what kind of price range you're able to afford.

If you can give a bit more info on what you're looking for in a gaming PC, people here can probably give you some good details that might help a bunch.

That's difficult for me to answer because I don't understand the meaning of a computer's specifications. My knowledge on most topics is poor and technology is certainly no exception.

Take the "Fusion Scythe 2" for example. It's available for a modest £359, but I can't determine whether its features are impressive or not. This particular machine's specifications are listed below.

Thermaltake Mini Chassis - Core V1- Mini ITX case
Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Dual Core Processor
Asus H81I PLUS Motherboard
4GB PC3-10666 DDR3 Memory
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 1GB Graphics Card
500GB SATA 7200rpm Hard Disk
Aercool 500W PSU
Onboard High Definition Audio
Windows 10 64 bit

Ideally I would like a contraption with an excellent graphics card which will run smoothly and quickly with minimal effort.

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03 Oct 2015, 8:08 pm

I played Pokemon Blue Rescue Team and Explorers of Sky a few months ago. They are two of my favourite games! I'm playing Rune Factory 4 and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call right now [or, as I call it, that FF rhythm game with the impossible name]. My epic team of Cosmos, AC Tifa, AC Cloud, and Yuna just wipe out boss after boss after boss once they reach Lv. 99! :nerdy:

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04 Oct 2015, 1:38 am

JakeASD wrote:

As a digression, can someone please tell me how much a good gaming PC would set me back?

It depends. Do you literally want a PC that can play games? Because if you have any sort of computer in your house, I would wager money that it can play games. I bet you could even upgrade the hardware in it to play games at a better framerate (although I have seen at least one motherboard that had one PCIe slot and nothing else).

If you have absolutely nothing at all, and need a mouse, keyboard, wireless monitor, speakers, desk, and one of those overclocked towers with bright blue LEDs and blacklights and liquid cooling and keys that light up and eight terabytes of RAM and a touch screen on the side of the case that controls the MP3 playback of your fridge, then that might set you back a bit.

It really depends on what you're into and how cool you want to look at LAN parties or whatever kids do these days.

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NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 1GB Graphics Card

Sarcasm aside, 750, not super great, the "50"s are their budget line: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop ... erformance

But it should be enough to play newer games with. What I've got is only a little bit more powerful (according to 3DMark scores), and I can run something like Dead Island at max settings at a pretty decent framerate. I haven't tested the STALKER games yet, or RAGE. I mostly play older games, so GPU power isn't something I frequently need a lot of.

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04 Oct 2015, 7:28 am

I own a PC but it isn't used for gaming.

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04 Oct 2015, 3:44 pm

Vega conflict - not a well known game it is a free online MMO sci-fi space war game, you have a base and build fleets and defenses, get resources, medals etc and complete events and fight the way you want, with an alliance or not. I joined the game back in closed beta so I am one of the early guys. Level 41 on it!

Hearthstone: Heroes of warcraft - Play this now and again and have got fairly good at it. best rank I have got to is 19 and my best hero is the Mage class.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Went on to this game from the original TBOI game and I love it! I can not wait till I get the Afterbirth DLC.

Minecraft - I play this now and again, not as much as I use to. I normally check it out when a new update hits or I am just really bored.

Terraria - Now and again when I am bored, gonna check out the new 1.3 update at some point, looks cool.

The Simpsons Tapped Out - I have been playing this awesome game for a couple of years now, currently level 56 (nearly 57) and have completed most of the events. Add me if you have the game (techguy010) and I am really looking forward to the upcoming Halloween event which should hit sometime next week

Family Guy: Quest for Stuff - Not as into this as the above game but the Halloween event is drawing me more into the
game, level 41 at the moment.

Empires and Allies - Another online war strategy game on mobile, typical base builder and attacking and similar to Clash of Clans but I find it more fun. level 30 on it at the moment.

And that is all the games I am playing currently, going to start playing Mario Maker soon as well. Looking forward to it. EDIT: Also I am new, so hi to all

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05 Oct 2015, 1:00 am

Fallout: New Vegas

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05 Oct 2015, 2:57 am

A game called 20XX.

Somebody, some wonderful genius, went and made a game that's a combination of Megaman X (complete with dashing and wall clinging!), and a roguelike. It's just... it's just amazing. It's soooooooo good. And it's not even finished yet. I freaking LOVE it already.

It's got the usual "steal the powers from the bosses" mechanic (and the bosses are very well done), but it also adds in the focus on items that's often found in roguelikes. There's tons of different passive items that you can pick up, that do all sorts of interesting and useful things; these are pretty important, and you often have to explore a bit in order to find them. They are a very satisfying element of the game. There are shops you can buy items from, and all sorts of other things. The different special powers are all very well made, and they're all useful (and of course certain bosses are weak against certain powers). I *think* you can only carry 3 powers at a time though... so you gotta choose carefully. When a boss is defeated, you have the option of either grabbing the power, grabbing 10 "nuts" (the currency in the game), or grabbing a passive item. Often not an easy choice. You then choose from one of three bosses/stages to visit next, you cant just pick from all of them at once.

The game controls EXACTLY like Megaman X. I really do mean "exactly". They really nailed it.

Levels are randomly generated (of course) and are very well done, but this means that you cant use memorization to beat a level! Tons of different enemies and traps. It is a *difficult* game. But what else would you expect, from something like this?

I cant wait to see where they go with this one... it's already fantastic and stuffed fulla content even while not being finished.

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