What games are you currently playing?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

The TESO beta got me back into playing Tera. Makes me worry for TESO really since Tera does everything it does, but a LOT better and is F2P done right. It hides nothing behind a paywall and the bonuses for subscription are attractive enough to tempt you to sub (Bonus Dailies, bonus XP and gold from quests, Xp boosters that recharge daily, free fast mount), but are things you can play without.

The combat system in Tera is awesome and makes melee classes very fun to play because of all of the movement and action oriented combat. It's probably the closest thing you will ever get to an actual Sword Art Online MMO (it actually kind of makes me wish for a version of it on the Occulus Rift) as well. I dislike the aesthetic of armour and weapons in Korean MMOs, and the music tends to be pretty generic and limited, but I can look past that due to the sheer fun factor of the combat system.

This just reinforces my belief that ESO is destined to out-do FFXIV in the category of Spectacular Trainwrecks. Tera is garbage so if it's doing things better than ESO...well I've got this nice shallow grave already dug and waiting.

In completely unrelated news: I've installed Skyrim again because I needed a game where I could find some solitude to lose myself in.

[Malacite]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Bless looks like it might be a decent MMO, even though it's Korean.

[Firewind]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

The TESO beta got me back into playing Tera. Makes me worry for TESO really since Tera does everything it does, but a LOT better and is F2P done right. It hides nothing behind a paywall and the bonuses for subscription are attractive enough to tempt you to sub (Bonus Dailies, bonus XP and gold from quests, Xp boosters that recharge daily, free fast mount), but are things you can play without.

The combat system in Tera is awesome and makes melee classes very fun to play because of all of the movement and action oriented combat. It's probably the closest thing you will ever get to an actual Sword Art Online MMO (it actually kind of makes me wish for a version of it on the Occulus Rift) as well. I dislike the aesthetic of armour and weapons in Korean MMOs, and the music tends to be pretty generic and limited, but I can look past that due to the sheer fun factor of the combat system.

[Malacite]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Taking a break to try out Arkham Origins - the game is shit.


Review: Batman: Arkham Origins - Destructoid


100% agree. Also this:


Arkham Origins: Combat Ruined - Steam Users' Forums


Seriously they completely ruined the combat from the previous 2 games, there was no need to mess with any of it. Furthermore, once you get the shock gloves enemies become entirely trivial (or so I read on IGN) as the damn things are beyond OP. So you have a broken combat system that doesn't work right, and then you can compensate for that with 1 blatantly OP piece of gear? WTF?!

Nevermind how ridiculous and nonsensical the story is (yeah OK, so Batman's meeting all these dinks for the 1st time in 1 night? lolwut?)


Even more jarring was the opening... so, it turns out Gotham DOES perform executions, which begs the almighty question that's been boggling my mind for years: WHY IN THE SWEET **** HAVE YOU NOT PUT ALL THESE CRAZY ASSHOLES DOWN YET?!

[Malacite]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Seriously, Lost Odyssey is awesome. LOVE IT!

Though the 2 kids are clearly Palom & Prom 2.0, I still really enjoy the whole Mortal & Immortal aspect of the game. It feels like a modern version of FF9 in so many ways. Playing this game makes me wonder all the more just where the hell SE went so horribly wrong, because Sakaguchi's proving that the magic's still there, just the company is ignoring the lessons of his example.