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Post by personman on May 2, 2013 14:55:02 GMT -5
Been playing the X-com remake. I've had a lot of issues getting this game to run properly... on the 360. My first file the little cut scene telling me to capture an alien kept playing over and over again and rebooting the game caused the back function in menus to stop working so I was stuck looking at a soldier's load out for the rest of eternity other wise. Started a new file and every time the mission started the aliens got a turn immediately before I could even act and usually killed my whole squad at once. I let this happen like 15 times just for laughs before trying yet another file. Things have been fine so far. Mostly.
I like the game and I am progressing at a decent pace but it just seems so stupidly unfair a lot of the time. I can't count how many times a group of enemies spawned right in the middle of a space where there was previously nothing making me have to scramble for new cover in a bad situation. For that matter everything I've read says enemies wont engage you till you enter their line of sight yet things are coming out from the dark corners of the map I haven't been to yet to cause problems. And why the heck do they get two free turns when this happens? Honestly things like this don't feel like strategy to me it just feels like bullshit. Also, Thin men. What the hell Thin men. Every time they show up I cringe since they seem to have perfect aim, hit like trucks, have a special move to force you out of cover, I think move farther than most units, and are very hard to hit and never seem to want to die when you do manage to shoot them between the eyes.
But I digress. When that stupid shit isn't going on I'm enjoying it quite a bit so I'm going to stick with it. Just seems like the game gets moody. One map everything seems fair and the next one it wants to use any little stupid excuse to kill my squad.
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Post by thethird on May 2, 2013 19:23:57 GMT -5
Can't say I experienced the issues you did on starting a file, though I was playing on PS3. As for the Thin Men - yep, they're a pain in the ass when they first show up. They're spit ability is a nightmare if your units happen to be clustered together. Once you get some units promoted a bit, they'll get easier - and once you move past ballistic weapons, you'll laugh in the face of whole groups of Thin Men. Of course, by then there'll be other worries, but still.
I agree that the aliens getting an extra move when you spot them felt pretty cheap, and in terror missions, aliens were killing civilians way off where I hadn't been yet so some of the specifics of the system escape me, too. Just wait until some units randomly fly through ceilings and walls to peg ya!
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Post by Snarboo on May 2, 2013 19:59:59 GMT -5
Beat Zeno Clash II last night after a marathon session lasting around 3 or 4 hours. This is the first game I've played in a long time where I felt satisfied upon beating it, rather than cheated or angry. I'm still not sure why that is, either, but I imagine the story having an actual conclusion helped. It also improved upon the first game in every single way, and finally getting to see most of Zenozoik up close rather than admiring it from afar was a real treat.
I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for something new or different from a video game.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 3, 2013 2:46:44 GMT -5
I haven't experienced those technical issues in the PC version of XCOM, but it does feel pretty unfair at times. It's annoying how often the best option for fighting enemies is to stay far away, in one position, so that you don't end up causing a million aliens to spawn at you all at once. UFO Defense and Terror From The Deep feel much more fair to me than the new game does.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 4, 2013 5:08:23 GMT -5
I'm playing the first Saints Row for the 360. I love how often pedestrians dive in front of my car as I drive by.
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Post by doctorallosaurus on May 4, 2013 19:26:37 GMT -5
I'm playing the first Fallout, it's been so long since I last beat it that I don't remember much of anything. So far all I've done is cleared out the Rad-Scorpion cave.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 4, 2013 21:23:20 GMT -5
I played through Fallout for the first time a couple years ago, and loved it It's really difficult, but it's one of my favorite RPGs I've ever played. I loved the sense of discovery that it offered.
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Post by retr0gamer on May 5, 2013 7:43:04 GMT -5
I have a confession to make. I kind of enjoy Castlevania the Adventure
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Post by Ike on May 5, 2013 8:23:54 GMT -5
I didn't hate it either. It's a friggin' B&W Game Boy game, what do you expect?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2013 15:05:36 GMT -5
I expect stage three to fuck the hell off and go to hell.
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Post by kisai on May 5, 2013 15:28:14 GMT -5
I started playing Fallout 1 too! My only complaint is that it takes a few tries to get on the "quest" train because of the open-endedness, but whatever.
I played Brutal Legend and I'm sorry to say I hate it. The combat controls are clunky and unresponsive, driving the car is like driving a drunk cow, and the RTS aspects are effin' unmanageable. I've just stopped most of the way through the game because I don't want to play it anymore.
And stage 3 of Castlevania Legend is the best stage.
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Post by muteKi on May 5, 2013 16:22:38 GMT -5
Its biggest issue is how laggy it is. The Color release on the Konami GB collection is a -little- bit better, from what I can tell, though not really by much.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2013 22:46:02 GMT -5
I mean stage 3 in Castlevania The Adventure, not Legends.
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Post by Scylla on May 5, 2013 23:18:37 GMT -5
Adventure is deliberately slow, not laggy. The controls, frame rate, and such are all just as good as on NES (or bad, if you happen to hold that point of view, but I'll argue to the death that you're wrong ). I'm guessing the slow pace was probably to minimize ghosting, seeing as it was a very early Game Boy release and all. But the game only has four stages and takes less than an hour to beat when you're good at it, so the speed matches the content pretty well. And even with the slow pace, it's definitely not lacking in action or challenge. So, yeah, I like Adventure a lot.
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Post by Feynman on May 6, 2013 0:24:12 GMT -5
For classic GB Castlevania, I though Adventure was okay for what it was. A game on primitive handheld tech that was decent, but not amazing. The sequel, Belmont's Revenge, is great though. Better graphics, better sound, better level design, better mechanics, better everything. Belmont's Revenge is by far the best of the classic GB Castlevania games. The third game, Legends, was fucking awful though. It's super clumsy, looks incredibly ugly, and has some of the most baffling level design I've ever seen in a Castlevania game... candles that warp you into trap rooms? Seriously?
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