The Video Game Thread - anything and everything...

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Yeah, I watched a couple of videos but they haven't helped. I think that it might a combination of being crap, like The Mighty Jingles, and not having the optimal build for taking him on.

I would look through your potions, if you unlocked them all, because there might be some more helpful things, if your character can handle them in addition to the ones you listed. Thunderbolt is one I remember that boosts your damage (I think), then there's some that boost your heath, and I think there's one that if your health gets low it boosts it back or damages the attacker. There's so many potions in this game that half the time I stick with a handful because I forget what I have!

 

[publiusr]

Never enough ship models based on games.

 

[Solo4114]

Follow-up: I picked up Robocop and have enjoyed the first "pre-credits" mission and the parts of the second one that I've done.

It's very much NOT a AAA game. It's good, but it's clearly made on a budget. Faces look great when they're static, but when they speak, you can instantly tell that it's budget work and they didn't really do mocap. Coming off of games like CP2077 2.0 and BG3, it's...uh...well, the difference is pretty stark. BUT, you can tell there's a ton of love in this game.

They nailed the look of the "1997 OF THE FUTURE" that was Robocop (1987). They got Peter Weller to come back and do VO work for this. The sound design is solid.

Gameplay wise, so far it feels...just about right on Normal mode. Robocop doesn't jump. He doesn't even really sprint, but he can move at a faster clip in some instances. Most criminals pop off at you with 9mm handguns, Uzis, and AK-47s, and while sustained fire will damage you, and individual criminal poses no threat. Your Auto-9 is a beast with unlimited magazines, but 50 rounds per mag. If you got the version that came with the OCP Shotgun, it looks the part, hits hard at close range, and is otherwise kind of an afterthought. The usual "aim down sights" thing instead does that CRT overlay where you outline a guy in green. And there's an achievement for killing a dude with a crotch shot a la the first film.

Robocop is a walking tank. He can repair himself with repair kits or -- if you unlock the ability -- by grabbing a circuit panel and zapping yourself healthy again.

There's some RPG elements which, I think, will make people wish for a New Game + mode where you come back with all upgrades and can keep building. I don't get the sense that there are enough points to fully upgrade every aspect.

Anyway, it's solid. If you're a fan of the films, it's very solid. Is it $50+ solid? Well, that's up to you, but I had a steam credit after refunding COD: Vanguard, and this feels like money better spent.

 

[Riceball]

I would look through your potions, if you unlocked them all, because there might be some more helpful things, if your character can handle them in addition to the ones you listed. Thunderbolt is one I remember that boosts your damage (I think), then there's some that boost your heath, and I think there's one that if your health gets low it boosts it back or damages the attacker. There's so many potions in this game that half the time I stick with a handful because I forget what I have!

I did take a couple more potions last night and at point I did actually make it into stage 3 and took out one heart and was busily working on a second before Detlaff killed me. Even though one video said that the best tactic was to ignore Detlaff and just focus on the hearts, I was actually doing pretty decent damage to him just from hitting him by accident. So the next time I get to stage 3 I'm just going to focus on him more. Whenever that might be. Of course, it was just like I was afraid and there was no autosave in stage 3. But I'm determined to beat the game to see how it all ends.

 

[JediMichael]

This was a saver. I will be sharing the crap out of this one.

Was wondering, are you a Final Fantasy 6 fan (or any other Final Fantasy game?) Or just liked this but never played it?

Mainly, because just for fun, I'm making a new video with FF6 where I scrapped all the audio, and am redesigning it with more realistic sounds, Hollywood style, and no music or any of the cursor sounds. Just picked out a handful of scenes lasting up to 5 mins. Just that much sound designing has take like 3 days....almost finished.
Its pretty nuts and I'll definitely post it when finished.

 

[greenmachines]

Was wondering, are you a Final Fantasy 6 fan (or any other Final Fantasy game?) Or just liked this but never played it?

Mainly, because just for fun, I'm making a new video with FF6 where I scrapped all the audio, and am redesigning it with more realistic sounds, Hollywood style, and no music or any of the cursor sounds. Just picked out a handful of scenes lasting up to 5 mins. Just that much sound designing has take like 3 days....almost finished.
Its pretty nuts and I'll definitely post it when finished.

I love pretty much everything they ever produced except the hand helds and the online. The older the better, with the exception of 7.... the best ever produced. I would love to hear your remastered version.

 

[JediMichael]

I love pretty much everything they ever produced except the hand helds and the online. The older the better, with the exception of 7.... the best ever produced. I would love to hear your remastered version.

Its pretty nuts so far.
But yeah, since I first played Chrono Trigger in 1995, it got me hooked on the whole RPG thing, so for my birthday in 1996, I asked for Final Fantasy 6 (3). I actually had bought the first on NES, but never really played it, let a friend borrow it, and never got it back. I still have his Super Metroid copy. Of the Pixel Remasters, the first one is all I have left to finished, just kept getting caught up in all these other projects.
Of these PRs, there are things I like and things I do not like. But for now, its the best way for me to play, as my SNES controller port is acting up. Buttons not wanting to work, you tap on the part that plugs in, and it starts hitting random buttons. One of these days I'll get it fixed.
As for the online games, and handheld, also never played those.
I did have a Nintendo DS and did get to play through FF6 advanced, but it sadly got stolen many years ago.

 

[JediMichael]

I love pretty much everything they ever produced except the hand helds and the online. The older the better, with the exception of 7.... the best ever produced. I would love to hear your remastered version.

Finished. Thats always so much more work than you would expect.
I recommend to play on a good sound system or headphones if possible.

 

[JediMichael]

I love pretty much everything they ever produced except the hand helds and the online. The older the better, with the exception of 7.... the best ever produced. I would love to hear your remastered version.

Since becoming a mod on a FF6 group on FB, I've been enjoying replaying the game, and on the SNES mini, so its the original version called III, and making a ton of memes....which of course include some Star Wars ones, since the game is already full of references anyways.

I titled this, "All this time I was so busy fighting kefka and his troops, never noticed the battle going on way in the background."
And yet, this here downright fooled a bunch of people, thinking this could somehow be unlocked.
Some caught the joke, with one person leaving a comment of Luke looking through his binoculars. My quote to that, Luke is like, "is that a couple people fighting a clown?

A little later I made this when fighting Ultros the 3rd time.... Great way to combine two big franchises....lol.

 

[Nth]

2024 set to be a resurgence in the classic RTS genre. Here's a look at what's coming.

 

[JediMichael]

I love playing Starcraft 1 and 2, and really only play through the campaigns over snd over trying differnt things.
Right now, the level (New Gettysburg) in which Kerrigan gets captured by the zerg and therefore becomes the Queen of Blades, I set it up with a ton of tanks and battlecruisers, so once the final protoss building was destroyed and all the zerg rush in, which then ends the mission...well, I've set it up so they can never win. The game just keeps spwning zerglings, but die the second they enter the screen.
I've left it running for four days so far, and checking every now and then, my kills are almost at 1.5 million kills....lol.
Changing the timeline and not letting her get caught.

 

[JediMichael]

Heres a 4 screen shots put together in photoshop , although, I actually took them like 2 days ago and repositioned a few tanks, so this is already outdated....lol.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I played pretty much every RTS from C&C on in the late 90s-. For some reason I never played Starcraft (besides the demo). To this day I have no idea why that one didn't click with me.

 

[Nth]

At the time of the RTS boom I was not just obsessed with the StarCraft game but also the story and expanded universe content in the novels and comics. I even wrote an 88 page fanfiction novella back in the early 2000’s. As StarCraft started fading away I pretty much got into Warhammer 40k to replace it as my go to sci fi.

 

[JediMichael]

I played pretty much every RTS from C&C on in the late 90s-. For some reason I never played Starcraft (besides the demo). To this day I have no idea why that one didn't click with me.

Thats the one that clicked the most with me. I've never been able to get into any others now.

 

[JediMichael]

So the game has now been running for 5 days and 18 hours. About to hit 1.9 million kills.
I might stop it by tomorrow (later today now) and get final screen captures.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

There are several popular games that, for whatever reason, I skipped buying. Right off hand I remember Quake being one of them. I know I played the demos for a lot of them, so there must have either been something I didn't like or a game I liked better was coming out.

 

[Riceball]

I finally finished The Witcher 3 last night. But I wasn't able to finish Detlaff honestly, I got so tired of trying to beat him and dying in the process every time that I ended up resorting to activating the cheat codes and fought him in god mode. I ended up getting the ending with Ciri coming to visit Geralt at his home in Toussaint. I was hoping for the Triss ending, but I guess I didn't do something right along the line after defeating Detlaff to get that ending.

 

[cboath]

Im bulking up in level since i failed w detlaff at lvl 54. (I have gotten 2 hearts down). Going to push 100 and see how this mega aard build works on him. Theres a spot in velen you can open to heeep going in to quick level

 

[Riceball]

I'm bulking up in level since i failed w detlaff at lvl 54. (I have gotten 2 hearts down). Going to push 100 and see how this mega aard build works on him. Theres a spot in velen you can open to heeep going in to quick level

I think I hit Detlaff at 56 but could only get to the hearts once before I gave up and used the cheat codes to beat him It was getting to the point that I was nearly ready to rage quit the game and I would have if I didn't really want to finish the game and see the final ending.