Yeah I always go with GoG first cause I'm hip.

On that note, Bastion (which I bought on Steam) is completely unplayable on my PC, specs not being an issue. To be fair, it's a shitty unfixable (except MAAAAAYBE reinstalling the OS) Vista problem, but it still sucks that I can't get my money back or play the game.

Just bought Dragon's Dogma. I had a $10 off coupon for Gamestop and since I'm a member I got $5 off. So $15 off is a good deal.

Since a lot of people who played Demon's Souls or Dark Souls seem to be playing this one I'll give it a shot and let all you Dark Souls fans know how it is.

If it sucks I can always swap it out for a different used game. But we'll see. I'm hoping this will be fun.

Yeah my big Souls fan hated it. lol

I'm slightly interested, but I hate Capcom so much nowadays I don't want them having anymore of my money.

I don't know about that, but the Steam version runs fine out of the box for me. Certainly not always the case with GOG games in my experience.

Hey man, the Steam version of Doom was horrible.

I played Dragon's Dogma demo for a while, dunno how much it represent the actual game but combat felt mindless hack n slash and there are these weird black blocks on top and below of the screen (which seems to be in the final version too, what hell Capcom?). Bought the game really cheap some weeks ago, still wrapped on my shelf, i'll check it out too when i finish other time wasting games (in other words: Xenoblade). Only thing that reminded me of Dark Souls was dark graphic style, but combat, not at all, not even close. Either way, i'm interested but like Xeogred already said above, fuck nowadays Capcom!

Dragon's Dogma so far feels like a jack of all trades RPG. It doesn't do anything extremely well but it has bits and pieces of everything.

Your pawns travel with you and it's really cool how they talk to you and it feels like you're adventuring with people. And they even give you advice and try and help you out. They go off and do their own things but don't wander off too far and in combat they'll help you. So it's sort of like Skyrim in how NPCs talk to you and do their own thing but not as in depth.

Getting herbs and food and combining them feels like Monster Hunter. Also the combat sort of feels Monster Hunterish. Like in Monster Hunter, fighting Barioth for example, it's strategic to go after its wings cause the thing is so damn fast. So when you break its wings it's less agile and will be more vulnerable. But what this offers beyond Monster Hunter is that you can climb on monsters to do damage. Like I climbed on a cyclops and stabbed it in the eye over and over. I also did this for the goat head on a chimera's back.

The poor character models remind me of Dragon Age. That's really not a good thing. The environments are pretty. I've seen Capcom make realistic looking humans with Resident Evil. I don't know what went wrong here.

So far my favorite thing to do is picking up people and throwing them. Or like tossing corpses off cliffs and stuff. Messing around with the gameplay mechanic that lets you pick up living things and throw them around. That's new and it's the same button that lets you climb up on monsters. So that's probably the most fun thing to mess around with.

The most fun new RPG element is the pawns. Like I can pick out pawns that people on my friend list made and see how they leveled up their pawns and what skills they have. And sort of make a party based on all my friends' playstyles. You can switch them out if you feel like trying different combinations. That part's nice. You can also do a global search and find random strangers' pawns based on various parameters. So you have your main character, your main pawn, and you can pick 2 pawns from anywhere else.



I mean so far it's a good RPG, but there's nothing that makes me say "Wow!" Skyrim's sheer size, attempt at realism, and diversity in game play styles is impressive. Dark and Demon's Souls have such awesome combat and is so dark and cool and threatening. Bioware games let you have all kinds of dialog choices to change the story and it's just fun to make choices in those games.

Dragon's Dogma......? It's just a good RPG that's all. I mean I just see it as an RPG that doesn't suck. These are first impressions so I'll see if a little later on it gets significantly better, but yeah it's playable and alright for now.

Yeah sounds skippable to me. Think I'll have to hit up Witcher 2 sometime for my next RPG fix. And even if the combat for that one looks pretty weird and awesome to me, still looks like it won't compare to the Souls game at all in that regard. Who knows though.

*tries it* Um yeah, admittedly that runs pretty crappily. :/



It's a vast improvement over The Witcher 1's combat system, but still rather clunky overall. There's quite a way to go before it can match Demon's/Dark Souls in terms of combat gameplay. Despite that though, it's still a pretty good game that's no doubt worth playing.

I think The Witcher 2 might be the only thing you could call a big budget or triple-A kind of game I actually bought at full price in like 2 years.
Fuck yeah it's worth playing. A nice combat system's just the tip of it.

yeah Witcher 2 is pretty decent. I wouldn't say it's among my favorite RPGs, but it's better than a lot of the recent big ones.

I also heard it has a lot of fucking. I always have a hard time taking games loaded with fanservice (male phantasies) like that seriously. The first part didn't need to be taken seriously fortunately. The second part I'll probably buy as soon as it's <10 € on steam.

I want to imagine there's a bit more substance to the fanservice than say like, God of War's retarded minigames. Who knows though? lol.

But yeah I won't go into anything expecting Souls level combat from here on. The precision and timing is just too perfect. But yeah that said, Witcher 2 still looks really awesome itself. I'll definitely have to get it eventually.

Just letting you know. Act I and II are very good. Act III is the letdown, and that's when you find that you never have enough money and that the game is over before you know it.

To address this, the demo is a poor representation of the game. It's basically the beginning tutorial level. Hack and slash to me implies enemies with high HP that are a very little threat to you. So they're mostly helpless things that you just button mash your way to success. Dodge a few times.

I started off with a strider class but I"m thinking about moving up to another class. Maybe ranger. But with just that one class if I'm about to fight a cyclops I can stay back and shoot it with bows and arrows, mash away with dagger combos, or try climbing up on it and stabbing it in the eye. And add your pawn involvement and seeing how they approach the situation is gonna affect how you go about fights. So there is quite a bit of variety in combat to make it feeling fresh and fun. I'd like to think the other classes offer more unique gameplay approaches too. I'll probably switch to a ranger or assassin soon so I'll report on how varied combat is.

I'm finally seeing the appeal of Dragon's Dogma now. At nighttime it becomes scary and intimidating and really cool.

So you wanna have all your stuff prepared, sleep at the closest inn to your quest location, and then wake up and immediately head out. If you aren't back in a town or city by daylight, then you're screwed. That's not to say the game is impossible, it just becomes a lot harder. The coolest was when I was lost at night and then I see this huge health bar and realize I ran into a nasty monster. I barely made out of that alive.

Nighttime in other RPGs is when you look up and see the pretty stars. No other game that I know of treated nighttime as a real threat with lower visibility and scarier monsters. Not to this degree at least.

So here's what makes Dragon's Dogma interesting:

1. Pawn system.
2. Nighttime is actually scary.
3. Throwing, grabbing, and climbing onto living things.

Sucky stuff:

1. Bad and boring character design and animations.
2. Uninteresting dialog and story.






Yeah I hate when games try to disguise fanservice and pretend the game is a serious game. If the game is over the top and silly and has fanservice then that's fine.

There are probably hundreds of RPGs with better combat than Dark Souls. Don't give up on your quest!


Regarding low visibility at night, there are many games that do this. They require torches or light spells to be able to see things. There are also quite a few games that change the encounter table at night to provide more appropriate enemies to fight such as wolves and undead. The first game I can think of that did this was The Bard's Tale in 1985.


It's not really fan service when the books are (apparently) the same.

Name one.

Wizardry 8.

No. Try again.


(Actually, the only correct answer is, "Demon's Souls". )

I think combat wise I definitely like Dark Souls more. Seems more complex and intricate, just way more enemy types and patterns I guess. But I'm still pretty unsure of which one I like more. Finally got through Anor Londo so I'm at the Demon Ruins now.

Capcom is a weird company and I don't know much about game companies. Like is there a division that works on fighting games? And some division that works on RPGs? Like EA is almost 100% pure greed. I can say that. But Capcom seems to experiment and do some really greedy or dumb moves at times. And it seems to be mostly with their fighting games as of late. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 being released so shortly after MvC3. They didn't bother to just give us DLC and a patch? Street Fighter vs. Tekken having DLC characters on the disc. Yeah not really downloadable content if it's on the disc itself.

Resident Evil Mercenaries on the 3DS had a save file lock. So you can't delete save files. And it wasn't even a game. Just the mercenary mode you unlock after beating the other Resident Evil games. Yeah who's gonna want that?

But wow Resident Evil Revelations has to be the best game on the 3DS out now. A full Resident Evil game with an unlockable challenge mode, thereby rendering Mercenaries completely obsolete.


But if Capcom has a seperate RPG division or something I'm definitely happy with what they're doing. I like Monster Hunter and Dragon's Dogma is fun. It's like they found a good niche there. Not sinister and tough like the Souls games. Not an anime feeling JRPG. Not peaceful and calm like Bethesda games. And not an intricately woven story like Bioware. Just emphasis on action in action RPG games.

I could see myself rewarding Capcom's good behavior in RPGs and punishing them by never touching their fighting games ever again.


Edit: Speaking of Monster Hunter, Monster Hunter 4 on the 3DS looks great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXwp8YODTI

I'm thinking I could wait at the DMV or an airport for hours and not care with this on hand.

So after getting my new rig built (it's a beast) I've finally delved back into the realm of PC gaming after about a ten-year hiatus, punctuated only by the C&C Tiberium series. Been playing Battlefield 3 and Skyrim. Not a good idea---now I remember how it easy it was to lose hundreds of hours of time on Oblivion.


As a side note, the PC version of Skyrim does not look that much better than the console version, with the exception being the draw distances are a little crazy (particularly if you modify them). Battlefield 3, however, is unbelievably better on PC. I cannot believe how much better it is.

I was happy whenever Capcom were putting out old style Mega Man games. But they don't even do that anymore. Crapcom indeed.

Just started with Binary Domain. This game is pretty cool, although the voice recognition doesn't really work in practice. It reminds me of a slower paced Vanquish.

You sure? I saw my friend play Skyrim and it looked way better than the console versions, but I think he had some mods loaded up. The superior framterate alone makes it look so different... but I've seen him play tons of new big games and that's always the case it seems, games can run much smoother on the PC.

Anyone remember the old Tim Schaffer game Full Throttle? My dad had it and I played it as a kid, until we got windows XP, and couldn't run it. I have great memories of that game and Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. I'm getting a ROM of Full Throttle now

Hey guy, just get ScummVM. That shit will run all those classic LucasArts games.

Thanks, it was alot easier to find the full game compatible with Scummvm than DosBox. Got it running. Now, I relive my childhood

I got a new pc a little after Black Friday last year when I found a deal online. I sold my xbox360 soon after and came out even from that and christmas money. Even better, is it has hdmi, so I can hook it up to my receiver and play pc games on my tv. The most ive paid for a game so far is Batttlefield 3, which I got a one day deal on amazon for $30. Steam just had a big sale last week. I got Unreal Tournament 3 black, Deux Ex Human Revolution, and Left For Dead 2 for $25. Another big advantage is I download blu ray rips and when you open them with a media player, you can make make it full screen "16:9 enhanced".

Fuck. Shit. Apparently Bethesda bought the rights for making S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. I know exactly where this is headed. I don't want that shit. I want a new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. , not fucking The Elder Scrolls - Chernobyl.

I'm not too big on Bethesda making STALKER games too

Well they might just publish it, like they did with Fallout: New Vegas. But yeah, I really don't want Bethesda themselves making it.

Let's hope. It's bad enough to have seen the term "Fallout" become synonymous with that dumb Bethesda thing, but a Creation Engine Stalker?

Of course I would totally play it if Bethesda made it though because I liked Fallout 3, maybe because I don't care about the old Fallout brand, but I do care a lot about Stalker. I would play it and then bitch endlessly about how they killed the soul of the series like not even Clear Sky could. If they just publish it I'm totally for it though because it would mean that it gets published at all.

yeah they already killed Fallout's soul, hopefully they don't wreck STALKER too.

You forgot to mention it's still just a rumor, one which the lead PR rep for GSC claims is false.

So you can all breathe a (relative) sigh of relief.

You can't trust them. GSC may be denying it, but secretly they are already counting the money bills. I'm watching you Bethesda

Speaking of IP rape, I just recently quit playing Max Payne 3, where the second to last boss (the guy behind a riot shield) was giving me a huge amount of trouble no matter how fanatically I kept moving (as far as the shit controls and max's slow goddamn ass allowed).
But like most of it's 2nd half, the game kept punishing me for trying to play a Max Payne game like a Max Payne game, it would even trigger a bullshit instant death cutscene if you'd walk too far off or try to flank him.

Silly me, never leaving cover made it infinitely easier! And actually trying to kill the boss on your own? Fuck no! this is 2012! Just wait until you trigger the next cutscene and scripted shootdodge which will tell you what to shoot. Total shit. Didn't even bother with the last 5 minutes.

I should spend more time watching movies, or getting back into reading again. Anything but a medium where any IP you might get attached is so likely to be up for savaging
by whatever gang of chimps in suits are the highest bidders.

I've actually seen people say MP3 is the best one.

Max Payne 3 was great, fuck y'all.