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Star Wars Battle Front 2, I actually quit and uninstalled after taking this screenshot.

Can you imagine making a game so bad that hacking in it is not fun?

I know what you are probably thinking: games shouldn't be fun for hackers. But if the experience sucked for me, it definitely also sucks for the people who don't have the advantages I had.

The aimbot isn't so great in this game because the pace is too fast and there is too much going on with upgrades and shields and other crap. People are jet packing all over the place, you can shoot someone a bunch of times from a distance and they can just activate one of their lootbox shields, and kill you. It is really obvious that that is not a good design. There is too much going on. It's overwhelming. It doesn't feel like a battle but instead just a bunch of people running around trying to get a kill before dying. The battlefield games have moved more and more into that direction and away from the feel of actual battles with frontlines and objectives. It's really obvious when you can see people's outlines from the other side of the map and they are moving around like roaches in every direction.

Other thoughts: why are they stripping independent servers from all online FPSs? Does anyone here actually like this waiting in a queer system? I don't like it at all.

Anyone playing XCOM Chimera Squad? It's interesting and different, but I am finding parts of the "timeline turns" frustrating for when I'm trying to plan a series of actions. Also, I did just like customizing my dudes in the earlier games.

The lack of the wounded recovery time (for the most part) is a strange thing to get used to. Unless I'm mistaken, I seem to lack information such as trying to figure out who has what Aim skill when I'm sequencing them for a breach. Also, it seems you can't see your ammo if there's no targets, which makes it difficult to know whether to reload or overwatch when reinforcements are incoming. It's still very satisfying, and I'm not super far in, so I don't want to be overconfident and say it seems easy.

My main gripe is that the APC ramp is not centered with the garage door in the animation, though.

I played a few minutes of Black Mesa Xen. I enjoyed it but didn't have the willpower to continue on knowing where it goes. If I was completely ignorant of what happens or if this was available the first time I played Black Mesa, I would have continued.

The picture doesn't do justice to how well the team who worked on BM did with Xen by the way. The first minute of the video below is where I took the screenshot. I recommend you look at that.

A few minutes of Halo 2 was fun.

Both games were good for the 20 minutes I gave each. The games are wonderful but I don't have the energy to sit through each of them knowing what happens. It works the same way for books, movies, television etc.

I rather blow up colorful people with backstories.

I only played Empire and Napoleon TW. Had some time with free weekends playing Rome or Shogun and I didn't like those as much even though they're the more "classic" ones.

Thrones of Britannia is widely regarded to be the worst Total War game. Empire and especially Napoleon are known to be good games though the type of warfare doesn't work too well with the engine. Napoleonic battles had hundreds of thousands of men. It bothers me that in the age of 16 core CPUs, the size of Total War battles hasn't grown in two decades.

I did fail at Crusader Kings when playing it once, and tried to play HoI4 during a freekend and after about a dozen hours still was pretty confused, so you seem to be right there.

EDIT: It seems you meant to reply to Pochsy and not me, but I'll keep my undoubtedly important input regardless.

Last edited by DesertFox- (2020-07-21 18:12:04)

Haaaaaalo 3
Poor AI drove up there right after we set off the self destruct

yeah I played a bit when the beta dropped

it's like the an amalgamation of 4 games, done poorly, with forgettable normie-safe characters and tired mechanics.

it's not hugely offensively bad, just lacks substance.

re: hoi4

One of the better ways to learn HoI is to play a game on one of the smaller scenarios, or console-cheat in your resources just so you can get a lay for what things cost, along with learning the billion non-economical aspects. Learning curve is probably like a week to familiarize yourself to where you can play a legit game.

I do think HoI4 is probably easier to get the hang of than HoI3.

Dead horse, but I think people in game development have become increasingly hostile to cheating in any form over the years, maybe as a result of being victimized by script kiddies and hackers as far back as junior high. So now there's this umbrella of "our way or the highway," with achievements used as an excuse to extend it over people's single player business. Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for keeping cheats out of multiplayer (unless it's a toggle in a private match like very few games have).

But even those sometimes had a place. There was a cops vs. robbers meta going on in Jedi Knight where self-deputized anti-hacker hackers would pop on from server to server making things miserable for bully hackers. The game was so easy to tweak that it wasn't all that uncommon seeing people fight more like Dragon Ball Z than Star Wars. It did keep me playing until (iirc) that Microsoft game service shut down.

It's a pleasant surprise now when a game has cheat codes just to squeeze that much messing around out of it, but sadly the codes don't always do all of what I'd like to see. Or sometimes it's in a beta state where your save might not even last from one week to the next. So I make my own way by digging for memory addresses with Cheat Engine.

Dude has the shoulder span of Optimus Prime.