Forumer Chat Thread

[The Hound]

So a little off topic but still about video games, I think I've gotten to the point where I'm no longer a gamer. I can't remember the last time I was really excited about a game or even the last game I've finished and it really bums me out. I don't know what the shift was but I think it's been a slow trend since I lost my old group of friends 6 years ago, add on that I became a PC gamer and started buying less and less AAA games since my computer could rarely accommodate them. I'll still play the occasional Binding of Isaac or Civ 6 game but my days of trying to keep up with the latest games seems to be way behind me. I also feel like when I started watching more Let's Play also added to my lack of interest to pick up new games.

Anyone else worried that they'll someday not be a gamer or at least not someone who plays current games? I never thought I would be this person.

 

[Requiem]

It's just part of getting older. You start having less free time and you have to focus on actually important stuff that hobbies tend to go by the way side, even if only a little. I try to do a little whittling any chance I get, just working on some walking sticks I've got, but honestly I just haven't had the time. I game, but that's only because I make time for it, and even then, I don't always put my full focus on it.

I pay more attention to my phone than to my games, sometimes, if I'm being honest. Who knows the full reason behind it?

 

[Easy]

Definitely take Drack with you next chance you get though, just let his party banter with everyone play through. He quickly became my favorite character.

Drack was my favorite character, despite that I'd forgotten his name for a while there. It just bummed me out that he turned out to be equally incapable of putting his personal feelings aside and getting down to business when shit got really real, compared to all the other characters that I'd never really even expected that of to begin with. "Drack, he's not a perpetual fuck-up like Liam or an insecure runner-up like Cora, he'll understand" I thought, as I resolved to sacrifice his scouts to save a very particular group of fast-talking amphibians. But no, hell, he ended up fussing even more than Cora did, when I turned her thing down on the Asari ark mission. Bunch'a cheap drama, man. My bro Garrus, he wouldn't have given me all of that.

Anyone else worried that they'll someday not be a gamer or at least not someone who plays current games? I never thought I would be this person.

At the other end, personally. I used to have hella time and no money, so I'd really wish that I could do lots of gaming but lack the means for it. Now, it's more the other way around. Money's not really an obstacle anymore insofar as picking up the games that I want, but time is. I end up doing about as much gaming as I can manage, nowadays, with other hobbies and pastimes accounted for after actual obligations.

 

[Requiem]

Eh, Drack is justified more than the others, I'd say. He's the oldest Krogan in Andromeda, far as we know, and the Krogan only have about 2,000 of themselves in the galaxy, so even a single loss is a hit to their viability for future generations. They have better odds for having kids than the Krogan in the milky way, but the genophage really has them fucked up. Speaking of, Drack fought in the Krogan Rebellions and knows that Salarians are the ones who made him sterile in the first place. I'd be pretty pissed too if I had to live over a thousand years like that.

All things considered, he just wants a better chance for his people than the Milky Way ever gave to them, so anything that actively harms that is a big deal. Not to mention he hand picks his scouts if they manage to survive their way to him in the wilds of the heleus cluster. He shares a bond with them, a meaningful one, at least when compared to Cora's awful one sided love of the Asari, Liam fucking up almost every chance at Angaran relations he can, and Vetra's endearing but still pretty basic family life.

But it all just comes down to perspective really. That's what I like about these games, they're different depending on who's playing them. Makes me wish they had gotten this side of the game just that much better.

 

[Colonel Thunder]

I heard Andromeda doesn't have Mordin Solus.

0/10 will not play

No Garrus either?

-10/10

 

[Requiem]

Okay.

 

[Chickenspleen]

Garrus should be in every game.

 

[Easy]

Eh, Drack is justified more than the others, I'd say. He's the oldest Krogan in Andromeda, far as we know, and the Krogan only have about 2,000 of themselves in the galaxy, so even a single loss is a hit to their viability for future generations. They have better odds for having kids than the Krogan in the milky way, but the genophage really has them fucked up. Speaking of, Drack fought in the Krogan Rebellions and knows that Salarians are the ones who made him sterile in the first place. I'd be pretty pissed too if I had to live over a thousand years like that.

All things considered, he just wants a better chance for his people than the Milky Way ever gave to them, so anything that actively harms that is a big deal. Not to mention he hand picks his scouts if they manage to survive their way to him in the wilds of the heleus cluster. He shares a bond with them, a meaningful one, at least when compared to Cora's awful one sided love of the Asari, Liam fucking up almost every chance at Angaran relations he can, and Vetra's endearing but still pretty basic family life.

But it all just comes down to perspective really. That's what I like about these games, they're different depending on who's playing them. Makes me wish they had gotten this side of the game just that much better.

Hey, that's... great points. Fair enough. Guess I was being a little too hard on that ornery old cuss, after all.

I heard Andromeda doesn't have Mordin Solus.

0/10 will not play

No Garrus either?

-10/10

Mordin didn't even survive my ME3 run, in the first place. =(

 

[Tirin]

At the other end, personally. I used to have hella time and no money, so I'd really wish that I could do lots of gaming but lack the means for it. Now, it's more the other way around. Money's not really an obstacle anymore insofar as picking up the games that I want, but time is. I end up doing about as much gaming as I can manage, nowadays, with other hobbies and pastimes accounted for after actual obligations.

Exact same thing here. Most of the vidya I play during the semester is Hearthstone and Overwatch, since I can hop on for like half an hour and make progress that I feel like I can't in just about anything else.

When this hell is finally over, I will go ham on D&D, RP, and vidya. The summer will be glorious.

 

[13thforsworn]

Saints Row 2 is free on GOG. Having actually played this game, I'd highly recommend it, especially if you can find someone to play co-op with. It's a much wackier GTA IV, grounded in street crime, but not as balls-to-the-wall as Saints Row 3. I really enjoyed knocking out each street gang, which each had a unique theme and feel to them, instead of some generic enemy.
https://www.gog.com/game/saints_row_2

 

[Requiem]

Anyone know where Jeroth is? He kinda disappeared off the map, eh?

 

[AndyM03]

Saints Row 2 is free on GOG. Having actually played this game, I'd highly recommend it, especially if you can find someone to play co-op with. It's a much wackier GTA IV, grounded in street crime, but not as balls-to-the-wall as Saints Row 3. I really enjoyed knocking out each street gang, which each had a unique theme and feel to them, instead of some generic enemy.
https://www.gog.com/game/saints_row_2

It's seriously the best co-op game ever made, it's just so fucked without going too far. And the sound track is tops.

 

[Colonel Thunder]

I loved watching Rob and Roamin play SR2.

Jerroth is on my stream all the time. Haven't really noticed him being absent on the forum

 

[13thforsworn]

It's seriously the best co-op game ever made, it's just so fucked without going too far. And the sound track is tops.

I completely agree with this. I liked that it still had that gritty street feel, but was also goofy at the same time.

I loved watching Rob and Roamin play SR2.

Rob's let's play is what made my friend and I buy it. That being said, I stopped watching after a couple of episodes because I started playing it myself.

 

[Easy]

Anyone know where Jeroth is? He kinda disappeared off the map, eh?

Busy writing up the best ever continuation of an evil-aligned D&D campaign for the summertime, maybe?

 

[Requiem]

One would hope. I just ask partly for selfish reasons since he offered that free pizza to me, but that's mainly why I noticed he's not active here on the forum. Just wanted to make sure everything is okay.

 

[Tirin]

Busy writing up the best ever continuation of an evil-aligned D&D campaign for the summertime, maybe?

We can dream, but I'm not sure if that hope is worth holding onto.

On an unrelated note, how did everybody enjoy their degeneracy day? I thought it was pretty fuckin' good.

 

[13thforsworn]

On an unrelated note, how did everybody enjoy their degeneracy day? I thought it was pretty fuckin' good.

First time in four years I haven't had an exam on that day. My university is downtown across the street from where everyone gathers to smoke copious amounts of marijuana, you could usually smell it blocks away. So I'm kinda glad I didn't have to deal with that.

 

[The Hound]

I gave up smoking a while ago but even when I did I never particularly cared about 4/20, probably because I viewed it as a sleep aid and not a fun recreational drug.

 

[Tirin]

4/20 has coincided with the end of exams at my university for my entire career, so it's really the timing for me more than anything. Myself and all my friends end up stressed as fuck and wantin' a day to relax and fuck around, and... that's the day.

Mind you, not the only day, since I'm gonna go ahead and get fucked up tonight anyway.