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glennd said:
Is that like Leisure Suit Larry?
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If Larry ran around with fantastically overpowered weapons with near infinite ammo shooting the clothes off all the women he could find? Then yeah...

But no, the game is more like the original Doom, just scaled up with huge waves of enemies to shoot. If you want to walk into a huge field with thousands of bad things on it to run and shoot at... Serious Sam is the game for you.

It has a humor to it though that's very similar to Leisure Suit Larry, which made me about spew water all over my desk when you mentioned it. It's a fun romp. And both more and less kid friendly! ;)
 
Diggs said:
I never made it all the way through Serious Sam 3. I need to revisit 3 and see what put me off.
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The end of SS3 can be a bit hard the first time you try it.
Something about running through that canyon with endless enemies coming at you...
The Devastator is your friend here.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers"
Use the scrapjacks to your advantage. ;)

The very last part took me several attempts on a lower level to get the feel of the jetpack. Then I just went back to the highest level and found it a bit easier.
 
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frase said:
More tactical gamer here.
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Agreed, but when I get tired of the complexity of something like Metal Gear 5 (squad creation and assignments, base building, resource allocation, mission planning and execution, etc. etc. etc.) it's fun to game a thoughtless shooter. (...and after all these years I'm burned out on TF2...)
 
@Diggs TF2 lost its flavor for me when they made it free to play. The community just went straight to crap.

Of course I've "upgraded" by swapping over to World of Tanks, an subsequently moving on to World of Warships... which is horrifically toxic. But the game is enjoyable for the most part.

But yeah, I tend to go for the more strategic or tactical style games myself. But darn it... sometimes you just want to murder things. Serious Sam is great for that.
 
Bumpity, bump, bump -

It's mid-winter (at least in the northern hemisphere - heh!) which is when I do most of my gaming. I've looked at Cyberpunk 2077 repeatedly (it's in my Steam library even) and am not fired up. Since I'm a Far Cry fan since the original I'll get to FC6 on one of these winter snow-day blizzards but in the meantime I'm really impressed with Metro Exodus. I've struggled with the Metro series and just don't play/enjoy the dark, dreary underground with mutants/monsters. I don't like horror survival games at all. But Exodus is mostly real-world out and about and has a Far Cry(ish) feel to it. Huge open-world realism. Safe houses with weapons repair/upgrade and sleep for changing time of day. Interesting weapons. First person. Good story. I've really been enjoying it.

What's on your winter gaming agenda?
 
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Diggs said:
I've looked at Cyberpunk 2077 repeatedly
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If you want to see how glitchy a game can be then play Cyberjunk 2077!
A friend has it and bought on release. It was so bad it was unplayable.
12 months on she fired it up again (because there have been multiple updates released) to see if it was better.
Well, yes and no.
Gameplay is smoother, but it's still so plagued with glitches its disappointing to play.
 
I bought it on release and never had any issues whatsoever.
I am playing it again. as I purchased VORPX. It basically injects VR code into GFX drivers, so just about any game can be played in VR.
I own the Quest 2, have since release.
 
Interesting.
She was playing today and I was watching her stream.
We were laughing our heads off at some of the really bad glitches.
For example:
There was a car pulled out of a carpark and after it moved 10 meters it literally sucked an npc out of the carpark and it stuck to the back of the car while it drove away.
There was a cat eating (something?) from the bottom of a lake and while she swum around it - it seemed to be quite at home.
There were several npc's sitting around a fire but the chairs were missing.
Whilst travelling in a car with Jackie her bot looked around at him and his head was missing??
This also happened to another bot in an elevator.
A bartender was pouring booze from an invisible bottle into an invisible glass.

Pinning an npc under the wheel of a car makes the wheel move up and down rapidly like a battering ram until the npc disappears 20 seconds later.
People on the street randomly appear/disappear at odd times.
Whilst running across a rooftop suddenly the whole building disappeared. She stayed on the invisible roof though.
While driving to a meeting point the players bot had no hands or forearms. Like nothing from the elbows down. It didnt stop the driving action however.

There are many, many more funny moments like this too.
 

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I enjoy Cyberpunk 2077, but yeah it's pretty buggy. If you're doing a Nomad start, there's a quest called "These Boots are Made for Walking", and if you don't complete it before you meet Panam, a car that's mission critical won't spawn and you cannot complete the quest. Been bugged since the last patch, no known work around short of reload save and try again.

I've seen floating cars... had to stuff a knocked out dude into a floating limo's trunk... seen things warp through walls... it's pretty nuts.

Still, loved the ride, it's a good game.
 
I have been playing the following games lately

Stardew Valley (XBOX)
Dragon Age Origins (PC)
Nine Parchments (XBOX)
River City Girls (XBOX)

I have more to play but this is the list that I am playing currently I will be playing Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition on PC but playing through them in order for now.
 
I fired up Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 a few days ago as I remembered I enjoyed it when I played through it a few years ago. What I didn't remember is the prelude mission starts out with "Russian-Ukraine border 23 months ago". Hmmm.... That's a bit too prescient....
 
Diggs said:
I fired up Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 a few days ago as I remembered I enjoyed it when I played through it a few years ago. What I didn't remember is the prelude mission starts out with "Russian-Ukraine border 23 months ago". Hmmm.... That's a bit too prescient....
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Love that game. Played 141 hours now but haven't played for a couple of years.
Might wait till this conflict is over before revisiting.

If anyone is interested this is my steam profile:

 
Anyone play Red Dead: Redemption？ It is an old one, indeed. But I really love it and still enter in that world sometime now.
 
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