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danutz_plusplus said:
I think only did ultra-nightmare on Doom 2016 for the first level, for the achivement, and it was insane how difficult it was.
I can't imagine the level of learning the levels to be able to do that, and not die once. This seems on the level of no-hit Sekiro/Souls/Elden Ring runs. Kudos for having the patience for it.
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I'm decent at FPS games, what I truly excel at is smacking a wall over and over again until I develop the muscle memory to completely demolish said wall!

I've thought about doing Sekiro no-hits before, but then I decided that I'm not that masochistic (or skilled). Though I will say, out of all of the FromSoft games, Sekiro'd be the easiest to no-hit, atleast for me.
I'm pretty bad at optimizing builds in RPGs even though they make up a decent chunk of the games I play, and in most games where I've got the option I just go for a completely melee-focused build centered around the biggest sword I can find. Safe to say, that isn't exactly the optimal way to no-hit the DS games, or Elden Ring. Nobody will ever make me dump skill points into anything but VIG, END or STR in a soulsborne! (Berserk fanaticism go brr!)
With Sekiro I can definitely see myself trying to just bruteforce all the patterns into the fibres and fascia of my muscles until I get it, but only if I ever have to take 6 months off of being a normal, functional human being.
 
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As much as I enjoyed Doom and Doom Eternal, I never had any desire to try the Nightmare difficulties. I found Ultra-Violence to be a good balance of challenge and not taking forever to finish the games.
 
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JDR13 said:
As much as I enjoyed Doom and Doom Eternal, I never had any desire to try the Nightmare difficulties. I found Ultra-Violence to be a good balance of challenge and not taking forever to finish the games.
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Nightmare is a serious challenge, but to do ironman mode on Nightmare is just insane.

I watched a youtuber as he progressed through an ultra-nightmare run. And the way he did it was, since the game allows you to save and exit but if you die in a fight that save is done, he would run multiple practice runs on the next level he was going to try, on a separate save file that was on only nightmare (so same difficulty, but didn't lose his save on dying). And he did it until he nailed it down. And then he tried his luck on the ultra-nightmare savefile.

I can't imagine the level of stress and nerves to go through that. I know how I fare in Sekiro, towards the end of a hard fight, as my negative thoughts creep in, that I'm gonna screw it up somehow.
Well, to also lose your save is insane. Must be a solid piece of adrenaline. :D
 
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Jesus f-ing christ NWN and its stupid UI design. :mad:

I've reached the creator ruins in Act 3, and needed to go back in time at one of the sundials. I've got the time crystal and am next to a sundial.
Clicking on the sundial does nothing. No interaction, no hint as to what to do. Nothing.
Seeing this I assumed that maybe the game bugged out? I've had this constantly on interacting with various rock/corpses/books on the ground, where the character had pathing issues or something to get to the item and interact with it.

And for the past 30 mins I've basically been uselessly spinning my wheels trying to figure out what I'm missing. I started looking at guides or forum posts, and they say to interact with the sundial, but it's not working for me.
Finally I found a random youtube playthrough and the dude got close to the sundial and then interacted with the crystal instead, and chose user power on it and then targeted the sundial. And that seems to work for me.

I don't think there was any item that interacted that way until now. All of them either did this through dialogue, and I just had to have the item in my inventory. Or the item I needed to interact with acted like a storage unit, and I could drop whatever trigger item I needed into its inventory. Just infuriating ...

I wouldn't suppose anyone else remembers how they interacted with the sundials? Should just clicking them even work, or do you have to use the time crystal first and then target the sundial?

Anyway, besides this, pretty nice idea to use time travel. It more and more seems like hid the best quests for later in the game?
EDIT: indeed, the time travel quest in the creator ruins was among the best quests. Pretty cool stuff, especially compared to the rest of them.
I liked that going back in time even constrained you from using the town portal. But they didn't exactly respect the fact that they said you can't take items from the past into the present, when I did exactly that. Anyway, good enough.
 
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So I just started TLOU2 and got as far as
Joel's golfing lesson
. I made the mistake of asking google "Is Abbie from TLOU2 Shrek's wife?" and was horrified to see
she is described as a 'villain'
. Despite her freakish looks, Abbie is the character I like the most so far since I've hated Joel from the beginning, and now Ellie is 'grown up' she has lost the innocence and playfulness that I cherished in pt.1, and is simply churlish and/or apathetic.
 
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Finally finished the NWN campaign. Will probably try to write a review with my thoughts. All in all, it got better towards the end.
Not much better, but still better than the first 2 acts. And as long as I played it as more of a dungeon-crawler it was pretty solid.
Also helped that I had one helluva OP build, with cleric constantly keeping 7-10 buffs on me. I think the red dragon Kulath was the only one I could not beat, without poisoning it anyway.
Otherwise I just breezed through the whole campaign on D&D hardcore difficulty.

I wonder if I have the patience to start the other two campaigns now. They've been on my list since forever, since I always heard the OC was awful, but the two expansions are solid. Will have to see how I feel.
I see that I can use my same character in the expansion, at the level he finished at. Or start with a char from scratch? I assume the game scales to both levels?
 
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2.5 hours into Clair Obscura Expeditrion 345.5. I'm playing it on Gamepass, and just wanted to see what it was all about, and I'm close to being hooked. Not sure about the dodging stuff etc in the TB combat, but otherwise it's good, and it looks gorgeous with the gfx turned up to Epic.

I'm also playing STALKER 2 and Lords of the Fallen in coop, and they're all really great. I need more spare time.
 
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Just out of curiosity I downloaded Morrowind and setup OpenMW, since I'm still on my laptop. Damn, what atmosphere. Such a beautiful game. And that music especially.
I doubt I'll have the patience to stick with it for a new playthrough (haven't played it in 15+ years) but it's such an open experience, compared to every other game that hand-holds.
 
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danutz_plusplus said:
Just out of curiosity I downloaded Morrowind and setup OpenMW, since I'm still on my laptop. Damn, what atmosphere. Such a beautiful game. And that music especially.
I doubt I'll have the patience to stick with it for a new playthrough (haven't played it in 15+ years) but it's such an open experience, compared to every other game that hand-holds.
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Very true. Some real creative unique design work was done in Morrowind. I remember being blown away when I first played it. Silt Striders!!
 
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Very true. Some real creative unique design work was done in Morrowind. I remember being blown away when I first played it. Silt Striders!!
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It was pretty cool from a technical standpoint too. Coming out of that ship's hold and seeing the pixel-shaded water for the first time was pretty awesome.

Too bad the gameplay isn't better especially the combat which is borderline awful. The exploration is really good though.
 
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JDR13 said:
It was pretty cool from a technical standpoint too. Coming out of that ship's hold and seeing the pixel-shaded water for the first time was pretty awesome.

Too bad the gameplay isn't better especially the combat which is borderline awful. The exploration is really good though.
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Indeed, combat is pretty awful. I've played some more and it was really coming back to me. Just spamming the attack button.
And to be fair, it never got significantly better in either Oblivion or Skyrim, imo at least. It's still as uninspired and lacks proper feedback.
I think a lot of it is due to the first person perspective. It's just not good for melee combat. Very few games have improved on this, and even then it's nothing I would call great.
I don't remember, but I kind of remember Dark Messiah doing somewhat of a better job?
 
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Encouraged by the recent conversation about Gears Tactics in the thread "Last game you bought" and @JDR13 buying it, I reinstalled the game (this time the Steam version since I'm not a PC Game Pass subscriber anymore) only to find that there have been a few changes since I last played it (like the addition of a bot called Jack and some other Deviant enemies).

I don't know how/if this will change the impressions/mini-review I posted about Gears Tactics here back in 2020, guess I'll have to find out for myself :p
 
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Encouraged by the recent conversation in the about Gears Tactics in the thread "Last game you bought" and @JDR13 buying it, I reinstalled the game (this time the Steam version since I'm not a PC Game Pass subscriber anymore) only to find that there have been a few changes since I last played it (like the addition of a bot called Jack and some other Deviant enemies).
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Yeah, I noticed there are two options (All Content or Classic) when starting a new game, so the changes must be significant that they kept them separate.

The biggest change seems to be that the robot you mentioned expands the squad size to 5. Let me know how it compares to the classic version after you've played a few missions.
 
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danutz_plusplus said:
Yeah, you can't really play the NWN expansions with the same character you played the original campaign. Then how do players get to the later levels? I read you can reach level 40? Is that just for multiplayer servers? You can't do that in singleplayer campaigns?
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You can't really take the OC character into the expansions as they start off at a lower level than your OC toon (from memory it's been a while). There's nothing stopping you recreating the character again as you can play the two expansions consecutively. Each expansion is a separate story but you'll end SoU below the level you start HotU. There was a competition to create an adventure to bridge to the two stories, you can find the best ones on the vault and these will get you to the level needed for HotU. You'll finish HotU at around level 36 from memory. It's generally considered the best of the official adventures. If you start a new character, most modules will auto level you to the minimum level required for the mod.

There are some single player adventures on the vault that will take you above level 30. I think those are in the minority, with most mods aimed lower than that.

In my experience, level 30+ is catered for more often online. World of Greyhawk is my favorite PW. Epic level content lets you really muck around with character building and to see the cool stuff like dragon shape, devastating critical etc etc. It's pretty amazing how far the devs went to with character creation in NWN given when it came out.
 
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Did a search. SoU ends around level 12 and HotU starts at 15 and actually ends from 28 to 30 according to google, so no not as high as 36.

I can't remember how long it took me to play through them compared to the OC.
 
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According to the "How long to beat"-website it takes 25-30 hours for HotU and 20 hours for SoU
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In my experience I usually need a bit more time than stated there, but I find it to be a useful indicator.
 
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