Video Games Thread

[itsshoahtime]

Yeah there was. I believe it was also on the PlayStation and a few other systems. The PC version is still the best version.

[itsshoahtime]

I just got MGS 3 on the 3DS. Titled MGS 3D for that port of the game.

It's ok. Controls aren't that great.

[Isolated]

Made (or being made) to work with Nintendo Switch and PC (via Bluetooth).

Tempting. I'm a sucker for nostalgia.

[Jagdpanzer]

Soon, fam. Soon.

[Jagdpanzer]

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[WhiteBaron]

Looks like a bad version of Cannon Fodder.

[WhiteBaron]

Company of Heros!

[WhiteBaron]

You can find me on there! I am at tier 8 though with the Mighty Hipper Cruiser!
Tier 6 on other ones.

[itsshoahtime]

I was playing WoT for a while but I also started hating that game. Teams of fucktards and shitty map design. It's a realy shit show. I also used to play War Thunder and that game is garbage. I tried War Thunder Ground Forces and it's fucking awful as well.

I did give World of Warships a chance twice and never got into it.

[Plato_Hates_You]

Yeah, the playerbase kills it for WoT, imo.

Way too much grinding too, with separate crew members and tons of ways for longtime players to have an unreasonable edge.

Played it for maybe two days and realized it was full of kids and people who treated levelling up like a part time job. One of the banes of the free to play genre, I suppose.

I didn't even know I enjoyed naval games prior to this (Warships), but the quality of average player really put it over the edge from 'enjoy it for maybe a week' to becoming one of the games I'll boot up on a regular basis. Same deal with R6: Siege, the only MP shooter I've played in 2016-2017 just because the average player can communicate or at least silently not be a compete retard.

War Thunder is just fucked because you can have multiple vehicles in reserve. If I knock someone out of the game, I don't want them spawning behind me 5 seconds later. That may just be a feature of the Arcade mode though, didn't spend much time with it.

[Plato_Hates_You]

Nice. Figured there would be at least a few longer time players here.

I'm finally on 6 with German Cruisers, big step up from the shitty Tier 4 Karlsruhe (love the way it looks but that was the worst tier, meta wise, I experienced yet with German cruisers). Haven't so much as touched another nation or ship class, outside the Dunkirk event going on at present (first playthrough on that I didn't realize there were anti ship mines in the water... whoops!).

I like to focus on one tech tree for these games, makes the grind more bearable when I'm not chasing multiple goals. But I guess the variety would keep it fresh, too.

[WhiteBaron]

You style has to shift once you get to Tier 7 though. Heavy Cruiser guns means longer reload times but harder hitting guns, the armor is very good, especially when you present bow / stern to the enemy.

[WhiteBaron]

I play WT a lot. You have to ditch Arcade mode fast. You don't earn the coin there. Realistic mode is where it's at.

Simulator mode is the hardcore one though, no indicators, no map markers (beside static ones) and your rear gunners are really nerfed too. It's not quite IL2 realism but close.

[Plato_Hates_You]

I'm pretty consistently up-tiered (noticed it happening most of the time past Tier 5) and some of the Tier 7 Cruisers can absolutely wreck my shit if I get caught out in the open ocean. Definitely learned quick to stick to the back, take high-arc shots over islands, use the 4km range torpedoes around curves in landmasses to fuck with overly aggressive cruisers. I love the tactical depth in this game, vs the World of Tanks style of 'oh, his gunner is leveled up higher? Don't even bother'.

The one benefit of playing German... the shitty side armour had me learn the 'don't present your side to literally any ship, ever' style of play really early on. Constant citadel hits otherwise.

If I had read a bit about the game before I got started, I may have picked a different ship line - but I just have to represent Germany whenever possible, even if their low level cruisers seem pretty flimsy compared to the French and etc.

Love the German accuracy at long range, though. Don't know if it's just my imagination, but the shells seem to be grouped far more tightly than other nations' cruiser volleys.

[Plato_Hates_You]

I still have WT installed, because I get the sense there may be some potential there in the future; at it's current state though, it's just not for me.

I actually like having no vehicles in reserve to dive back into the battle. I work from home and do a lot of other shit during breaks, so it's nice to be able to ALT-TAB and do something else if I get foolishly knocked out 4 minutes into a full-length round. Helps punish stupid decision for new players, too, which I appreciate as it ups the average skill level. Don't know if the 'reserve vehicles' are still an option in Simulator mode. That's my big beef with the game.

I've always been a last man/team standing type when it comes to multiplayer as opposed to deathmatch w/ respawn and reserves.

[WhiteBaron]

Yeah the cruisers that are German are bad ass IF you can play to their strengths. I have tier 6 German BB too and they are stronger the closer you get to the enemy, their deck armor isn't the greatest though.

American ones are slightly more all-rounder. I only have American for the Aircraft Carriers.

The problem with the game is that people try and play it lone-gun style as a BB when usually they need support, you also get random idiots messing around too. Overall it's miles better than WOT.

I want to see nation battles in the warships game, having all random nations on one side can get a bit mangy after a while.

[itsshoahtime]

War Thunder has been out for years now and nothing has changed. The same with all of these free to play games. They are all garbage. To most gamers free to play is synonymous with garbage. Especially pay2win garbage.

I uninstalled War Thunder a while back. I have uninstalled World of Tanks a few times. There was that game Armored Warfare that I hoped would take some of the market away from War Gaming and world of Tanks but that game pretty much just died. It's a dead game.

WoT is the only playable multiplayer tank game on the scene right now and it's fucking garbage.

I just stick to actual simulators. Like Steel Armor Blaze of War and I just bought Cold Water last night which is like a casual submarine simulator.

[GrapeJuice]

[itsshoahtime]

I play Stalker. I haven't played SoC in a while. I have Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. CoP was gifted to me on Steam. I bought Clear Sky and SoC myself.

I am using the Complete mod on all of them.

[GrapeJuice]

Yea villina clear sky isn't too great. The faction system was a good idea though.