Poopfeast420

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on that World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria grind. I just finished upgrading all my gear, so now I'll focus on unlocking all the cosmetics and stuff. I also started a second character, a Priest, but I don't really enjoy it right now. So, I'll probably just use this mode to speedlevel a few characters, that I'll never touch again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been playing the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria mode since it came out. It's fun, but extremely grindy at max level. I really hope Blizzard improves the balancing, since right now it feels like you gotta decide between spending the special currency on cosmetics and mounts or upgrading your gear. I chose a druid, just for the flexibility of potentially playing every role, but am currently Balance, which I never really played before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm really waiting for Rebirth on Steam. I've been thinking about replaying FF7R, but am putting it off until Rebirth comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still World of Warcraft and won't be stopping for a while. I'm mostly finished with the gazillion different campaigns of the Dragonflight expansion, although as I said before, I've skipped all quest text and cutscenes, so I have no idea what the story is. Then, I've run through a few dungeons, some with friends, but it's kinda meh right now. Lastly, I've spent a lot of time doing Pet Battle related stuff. I'm doing the different dailies, so I can get the currency to buy more pets, or went back to old expansions to unlock some zones I've never been to, to capture missing pets. There are a couple of hundreds I'm missing, although I'll have to look up how to get many of them, since it's not just finding them in the wild or going to a vendor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In preparation of the Mists of Pandaria Turbo Mode in like 10 days, I'm playing World of Warcraft, and catching up on all the stuff I missed in the last three years. So far, I've leveled two characters to 70, although I skipped all dialogue and cutscenes. I just don't care at all about this stuff in this game.

  I gotta be honest though, while the quest progression while leveling is fine, once you're done and max level it becomes a complete clusterfuck. Since this is the tail end of the expansion, all the story content that has been released in the last 18 months, just gets dumped on you. You just get tons of new story quests. One third of which you can't start, because you need some reputation level with a faction or something. Another third needs a previous story to be done first, and the last third you can actually do. Your quest log is full of all that useless bloat, and it becomes a nightmare to sort through. Then there are tons of quests that are supposed to introduce you to the various new mechanics that were added, but those basically drown in the sea of all the other shit. I'm not the biggest fan of the forced story and gating of everything behind it in FF14, but at least I never needed a guide to find out which campaign quest I should do next. Also, important quests that unlock stuff are usually marked with a different color indicator, so they aren't hard to miss. That's something Blizzard should definitely copy. Luckily I have a bunch of friends, who play the game continuously, who I can ask about the most important stuff, otherwise I'd be lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 28th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally finished Horizon Forbidden West, only the base game though, not the DLC, which will have to wait. I definitely enjoyed my time with the game, but I gotta say, the story is complete trash and the antagonists are garbage as well. I liked the companions that hang around in your base, as well as a few of the smaller NPCs scattered around the world though.

  Then, I started playing World of Warcraft again. I read about the Mists of Pandaria Turbo mode, that's coming next month and really want to try it (since that is my favorite expansion), so I'm taking a few weeks before to play through the current expansion, Dragonflight. It's been about three years since I played the game, so there are a ton of things I have to learn, but for leveling those don't matter, so I'll just go through the main campaign for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 21st⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still playing Horizon Forbidden West. I'm close to exploring everything of the base game map. Once I'm done with that, I'll focus on the rest of the side quests and finally the main story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More Horizon Forbidden West, just exploring, killing, looting. While I think it's the best looking game I've played (on a technical level), it does have some super ugly effects, mainly the water reflections and the steam that comes out of the big doors, when you open them for the first time. Those look like ass. Also, climbing is pretty much brainless like the latest Assassin's Creed games, but has a few too many bugs to match it. Regularly you'll get "stuck" on a cliff, because Aloy doesn't want to get to one of the dozens of handholds in arm's reach. Same with climbing up on top of a rock or cliff, sometimes Aloy just refuses to do so, unless you move slightly to the side. Those are pretty minor issues, but are still annoying.

  Then, some Dave the Diver, although that's been on the back burner this week, since I got really into Horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A very late "Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 31st"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see the writing on the wall last week, but after about 20 hours I've dropped Dragon's Dogma 2. Exploration felt just like a chore to me, and combat was super boring. This is definitely one of those games, where I absolutely don't see what reviewers saw in it to proclaim it such high scores and maybe even call it GotY. From what I've read, the online discourse has shifted a little as well, and not just because of the bad performance or microtransactions.

  I tried switching over to Horizon Forbidden West, and was going through the first small zone, when the game started crashing constantly with no error or hint on what the problem could be. It was weird, because it ran smoothly for almost 10 hours, and then it became basically unplayable. Crashes every 1–5 minutes. I tried a lot of things, but nothing helped, and was close to giving up. Then one or two days ago I had a breakthrough and I think I found the cause, something with the textures or my GPU memory. First, I reduced the memory OC of my GPU, which I haven't changed in almost 2 years, although it still crashed after an hour, which was definitely an improvement. Then I turned down the Texture Quality setting from Very High to High, I was finally able to play with no issues again. Today I'll check with my normal overclock again, if it's just the in-game setting or both.

  As for the game itself, I like it, it's basically Assassin's Creed Valhalla or something, just that controlling Aloy doesn't feel like you're moving through molasses. I don't play these open world RPGs where you're basically checking off markers on the map too often, but I do enjoy them from time to time. Because of all the problems I had with the game, I just made it out of the prologue / introduction or whatever (before you get to the titular Forbidden West), so I can't say too much about it yet, however I gotta say it does look fantastic, probably the best looking game (on a technical level) that I've played.

  I also played the new stuff, that was released in the first big patch of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. The new zone is really neat and I had a good time.

  Then I tried Halls of Torment, another Vampire Survivors-type game. I love the look and vibe while playing, but it feels like you have to grind the early levels somewhat for upgrades and stuff until you're ready for the later stages, which I'm not really a fan of. For now, I've shelved it, but will definitely check it out again later.

  I gave Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors another chance as well, this time on my desktop PC, since I didn't have a great time on my Steam Deck before. The game just loves throwing ranged enemies at you, so your screen is constantly filled with projectiles, which is just not fun, and the bigger screen only helps a tiny bit. It also seems super grindy, since there is sooooo much stuff to unlock and upgrade, although basically everything are just tiny passive improvements. Not really sure how I feel about it yet, but it's another game, which I'll check out again at a later time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I've heard, previous Capcom games already feature these types of mostly meaningless DLC. So it's not a first test, and so far the older games haven't been adjusted to make the microtransactions more appealing.

  I agree, Capcom aren't dumb, it's probably just a minimal amount of work, and if they can get even a few buyers they make money. Although, who knows if the hit to their reputations negates all of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it a year ago, and it was fun (playing as the male MC), but the side quests are complete ass, so I definitely recommend skipping them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was "done" with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, but a day later the first patch dropped, so I gotta go back to it.

  Death Must Die was my replacement for DRG, but the game is a bit boring, so I'll wait for more patches. It's basically Hades but Vampire Survivors. So far there are five characters in the game, but four are basically the same. The different spells or upgrades are also not really too interesting and barely change the gameplay, so all runs are extremely similar. I hope further updates can improve the game.

  Then, I started both Horizon: Forbidden West and Dragons Dogma 2, but right now I'll stick with DD2. The game is basically what I remember DD1 being, but with a fresh coat of paint, for better or worse. Back when I played the first game, I had a great time for like 70 hours, but by the end, I never wanted to see the game again (and never played the DLC). Even though it's been eight years since then, I still feel a bit burned out, so seemingly so few changes don't really help. I started out as the mage and just recently switched to the sorcerer, but imma be honest, it's pretty boring. I'll give it a bit longer, since I barely got any spells right now. The archer and thief look more fun, so I might give these a shot, if the giga wizard doesn't improve things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 10th⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm kind of in a gaming slump right now and nothing has really grabbed me for a couple of weeks.

  I'm still doing runs in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, which is fun for the most part.

  Then I think I finished the campaign in Kingdom Rush, a Tower-Defense game, which unlocked a bunch of super hard bonus levels, but I guess you're supposed to clear all the challenge modes for the regular levels before that, for upgrades, but I'm not really interested in that at all.

  I also tried getting back into Dyson Sphere Program, Last Epoch, and Satisfactory, but nothing really stuck.

  A few days ago I started Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and played through the tutorial, but still need to start it properly, but who knows if I'll do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking about giving Diablo 4 another shot… I haven’t played since release is the new season any good?

  I've only played the current season (season 2) and it's very fun. However, it's almost over and the new season starts on the 23rd, so that's probably a better time to go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also dumb with getting higher level Sigils. The first option at the crafter was for some special thing, where I didn't have all the mats back then, and the next one was 20-25 (incidentally my own tier, when I first looked), but I just didn't scroll down. I can in fact craft up to tier 100, so at least that part doesn't seem as bad. Skipping a bunch of these lower tiers should speed up leveling the glyphs at least a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean when your seasonal characters become non-season and your items are mailed to you? In the beginning I was sorting through stuff, still keeping some items, but later I just destroyed almost everything, since I don't play non-season anyway, so I'll probably do the same here.

  It sucks, that there's apparently no rebirth feature, like D3 had. I liked playing essentially the same characters over and over again from level 1, and not having to delete them and make a new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Diablo 4: Season 2 - Nightmare dungeons galore.

  I've only just started doing the dungeons, since I've only been playing for two weeks, but so far I'm not a big fan. It feels like there's only a few environments, not enough monster density, and the occasional backtracking is also boring (pretty short though, to be fair).

  Diablo 3 has technically even less variety with its rifts, since it's just kill demons until a boss spawns, but it's just packed, and I loved blasting through tons of enemies. Although in a multiplayer session, when one player is just destroying everything at mach 2, and you're just waddling behind them, that's arguably worse (I played mostly solo or some friends, doing public sessions to farm bounties or materials).

  The open world events, Helltide or Blood Harvest are a bit like the D3 rifts, just not as many enemies, but still really fun. It's a bummer that you can't just keep doing that, if you want to keep progressing your character.

  Getting better Sigils is kind of a pain, since it's just RNG drops. I could easily do higher tier dungeons, but have to wait for them to drop. At least you're kinda guaranteed to get at least one Sigil on your current level I guess, so you don't have to move down. Now that I'm writing this, I gotta check if I can craft some higher tier ones, last time I was missing some materials, maybe it's not as bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been grinding that Diablo 4 and enjoying it a lot.

  After I finished the campaign, I made it to World Tier 4 (highest difficulty) pretty quickly, and I'm now level 97. I fulfilled my dream of becoming a bear that punches millions of demons, so that's pretty cool. Although I can't be a bear all the time though, which is pretty lame. In town, I'm forced to run around as a boring human.

  The next season begins in 10 days, and I don't know if there's a short break in between. Level 100 should definitely be possible, and a few other "milestones," but I don't know if I manage to do everything I'd like to.

  In Diablo 3, I'd usually play at the start of a season for a few weeks, and then take a break until the next one, so I never burned myself out on it. Since I started Diablo 4 at the tail end of the season, I'll probably end up playing a lot longer than I'd usually do, so burn out is definitely possible for me. A new character should hopefully freshen things up enough, and a friend might also play with me.

  Network performance was much better this week, although there are still some hiccups here and there, mainly during the Legion events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year )⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's close between Baldurs Gate 3 and Nioh 2.

  BG3 is just that good, but Nioh 2 is one of my all time favorites, and I finally cleared everything in the game, early 2023.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row – free to keep today on Epic Games Store⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Were they? Their three releases since Saints Row 4 ten years ago weren't that well received. It's not like they were releases smash hit after smash hit (lately). Maybe they killed themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played that on Game Pass, when it launched, and really liked it. Although some of the movement could be a bit frustrating, since you are just a blob of meat.