Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
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@grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver You don't need multiple tanks. One extra, really, is more than enough. I have a cyclops and prawn suit made. I'm still exploring to mentally map out where stuff is. You'll want to make a lot of beacons!
Thanks for the advice.
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@grey I played Everquest for 14 years before pretty completely getting away from it. A little part of me died when the RP died on Firiona Vie where I had always played. Some of the best RP I've ever seen/done in any setting was on that server over the years. I did the raid thing, actually completed all content up to the point at the time, and then slowly got out after selling my gear and making back every penny I had ever spent on the game and then a little bit (both subscription costs and game/expac costs).
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@dafyre My old roommate from a few years ago actually had over 10,000 games in his Steam library as of like 2012. I'm sure he's gotten far more by now, as he had a habit of buying virtually every humble-bundle that came out, jumped on every significant steam sale, and still bought games he just wanted to play as soon as they became available. I can only imagine how many games he has now.. lol
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@dafyre My old roommate from a few years ago actually had over 10,000 games in his Steam library as of like 2012. I'm sure he's gotten far more by now, as he had a habit of buying virtually every humble-bundle that came out, jumped on every significant steam sale, and still bought games he just wanted to play as soon as they became available. I can only imagine how many games he has now.. lol
I've got a few thousand, but I'm picky even about the super cheap and free games. I have so many that my catelogue on Steam is a problem to go through as it just bogs down even a fast computer.
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@scottalanmiller I first played Seiken Densetsu 3 on a translated ROM about 15 years ago, and it's still one of the best RPGs I've ever played.
Another RPG series I'd love to see them port/remake is the original Phantasy Star games, which are not to be confused with the Phantasy Star Online games that blow goats. =P
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OK! Now that I've spent like 3 hours reading this ENTIRE thread from start to finish, I feel like I can start posting stuff besides the occasional response to something lol.
Total War: Warhammer is absolutely FANTASTIC! If you like any of the other Total War games, the Warhammer installment will likely make you happy. Unlike the previous Total War games however, they made a huge point of having a giant campaign map that mixes elements of city-building and tech-progression as well as just generally improving the overall complexity of the game without making it too nutty.
All races feel well done, with some being very difficult and very different from the rest, while the staple faction options all possess a specific quirk that makes them interesting and unique compared to the others. I rarely buy games, but I let someone talk me into paying full-price for Total War: Warhammer, and for once in a very long time, I actually don't regret shelling out $50 for a new game. I've got almost 500 hours logged into the game now, and there are still over half a dozen factions I have yet to even play yet. Has a multiplayer mode that can be coop or head-to-head in both campaign mode, or battle mode. Battles can be auto-calculated, or can be manually fought in real-time, per the usual for Total War. I highly recommend it, I've not had that much fun with a new game in ages.
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As an aside, I'm currently mostly playing Total War: Warhammer along with some Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone (Hearthstone only just enough for freebies and to kill a few minutes a day). I love Roleplay, and since my Everquest days, it's been exceedingly rare for me to remain satisfied with typical, linear RPGs that pretty much encompasses almost all RPG video games. =\
What I would really love though, is to get into a D&D game again, ideally using Roll20, since location becomes kind of a non-issue at that point.
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
... which are not to be confused with the Phantasy Star Online games that blow goats. =P
I think that that is an actual mission in Goat Simulator.
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Talk about a game that blows goats.
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@scottalanmiller I see what you did there, lol
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@grey I played Everquest for 14 years before pretty completely getting away from it. A little part of me died when the RP died on Firiona Vie where I had always played. Some of the best RP I've ever seen/done in any setting was on that server over the years. I did the raid thing, actually completed all content up to the point at the time, and then slowly got out after selling my gear and making back every penny I had ever spent on the game and then a little bit (both subscription costs and game/expac costs).
This was wow for me. I ended up selling my account for about 5k when I was done, (my main was named mugzirogue and was a top 10 rogue world wide).
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@quixoticjeremy Nice! I got up to being the top Ranger for about 6 weeks in Everquest, but since we operated with a loot council in my guild, I got bumped down due to others being more favored. I still hovered around top 10-15 for a few months, but I just got burnt out with the brutal 4-6 hours raiding 5 days a week after working 80+ hour weeks at work at the time.
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@quixoticjeremy Nice! I got up to being the top Ranger for about 6 weeks in Everquest, but since we operated with a loot council in my guild, I got bumped down due to others being more favored. I still hovered around top 10-15 for a few months, but I just got burnt out with the brutal 4-6 hours raiding 5 days a week after working 80+ hour weeks at work at the time.
Haha yeah it's rough. My guild (immortality) was always chasing world firsts. For example when black temple came out we hit that raid for 14 hours straight, ended up finishing I think it was 1 min 30 seconds behind Nihilum. After the BC expac it all went down hill though. They started catering to the casual player and that's fine but it definitely diminished the value of the game for me.
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@quixoticjeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
My guild (immortality) was always chasing world firsts. For example when black temple came out we hit that ... for 14 hours straight, ended up finishing....
Boy this is weird stuff.
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@quixoticjeremy Only for one, relatively brief period over the entire time I played MMOs was I ever in a guild that was pushing world-firsts. It was brutal, and part of what burned me out on Everquest, even though I up to that point had loved it.
Little-known fact - The lore and story for Everquest was actually pretty bloody good! It's the biggest reason I also played WoW for as long as I did too. Yeah, I was kind of a serial-MMO-player for a while... including dual-boxing Everquest on two separate characters, often in different raids while playing WoW simultaneously. I was pretty nuts back in the day lol. =P
edit: Also though no, I didn't bot.. I was just crazy lol
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@quixoticjeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
My guild (immortality) was always chasing world firsts. For example when black temple came out we hit that ... for 14 hours straight, ended up finishing....
Boy this is weird stuff.
LOL popular stuff when it happened. 14 million players was a big deal at the time! Plus as a Raid Leader it was like a constant puzzle, moving/instructing 40 different players to defeat massive Raid Bosses to race other guilds to finish. It was extremely competitive amongst top guilds.
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@quixoticjeremy Only for one, relatively brief period over the entire time I played MMOs was I ever in a guild that was pushing world-firsts. It was brutal, and part of what burned me out on Everquest, even though I up to that point had loved it.
Little-known fact - The lore and story for Everquest was actually pretty bloody good! It's the biggest reason I also played WoW for as long as I did too. Yeah, I was kind of a serial-MMO-player for a while... including dual-boxing Everquest on two separate characters, often in different raids while playing WoW simultaneously. I was pretty nuts back in the day lol. =P
edit: Also though no, I didn't bot.. I was just crazy lol
Still not so bad as when I was playing Shadowbane after that went free to play. 3 computers, 10 characters, nothing running on a bot.
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@travisdh1 Hats off to you travis, you can keep the trophy, the cake, and all that lol. I was working food service at the time, no way I was ever going to afford another computer (I did have a laptop and desktop at the time though). Hell, I got into playing MMOs because it was SOOO much cheaper to play them at the time than it was to play consoles or other PC games at $30-$50 apiece, and I would blow through 2/month or so.
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@tirendir said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@travisdh1 Hats off to you travis, you can keep the trophy, the cake, and all that lol. I was working food service at the time, no way I was ever going to afford another computer (I did have a laptop and desktop at the time though). Hell, I got into playing MMOs because it was SOOO much cheaper to play them at the time than it was to play consoles or other PC games at $30-$50 apiece, and I would blow through 2/month or so.
Yeah, my younger, much more ADD addled self.
