In This Thread Krylo Talks About Games He's Currently Playing

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Originally Posted by Krylo

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Edit: Forgot the forums don't have support for chinese/japanese characters.

Guess that was pointless then.

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Interesting.

That showed up fine in the "preview post", but turned into all ? after posting.

My assumption is that one of our modifications -- at present I am assuming the dice roller -- has gone through the post looking for something and stripped the proper encoding as a result.

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Nope, that wasn't it. Herp derp, probably because the preview is handled without actually doing anything to the thread/interacting with the database. Hell it might even be cached locally in your browser client only. I forget.

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Right, so our database is still rockin' out with "Latin1" encoding instead of UTF-8 (for vBulletin; AJAXChat's tables use UTF-8), so when you actually make a post it's getting stored in the database with a character encoding that doesn't handle foreign languages.

Someone remind me to all official-like make a post in the appropriate section to inform people that I'll lock the forum down temporarily, back up the database, and convert it to UTF-8 globally. And then do that at some point with minimal disruption to you all. Because that's silly in the modern Internet world to not support multiple languages when it is possible.

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screw it, doing it in ~8 minutes from now

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also when I was working on this I caused a process on the server to hang that broke the connection to the database and, thus, the site for the day

sorry about that :/

I will legit work on this a more correct way another day.

[MuMu]

Nuklear Power Forums > Social > Playing Games > In This Thread Synk Enables Asian Characters Or The Whole Board Goes Down In Flames

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by MuMu

Synk Enables Asian Characters Or The Whole Board Goes Down In Flames

I'd play that game.

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It's not a game for casuals.

You're there, staring at lines in a terminal, when suddenly error messages flash across the console, rapidly followed by the screen greying-out and the text, "You died" taking center stage. If only you had saved up some Estus and ran bonfire.exe appropriately before engaging that miniboss.




In other news, back to the topic of the thread itself, I have been playing Sins of the Solar Empire a lot again, and I really want to get some multiplayer going or to possibly do a semi-LP of it if there was any interest. It's a neat little game, despite taking hours sometimes to complete a map. It's not a new game, but would anyone be interested in me borrowing Krylo's idea and posting a summary of the game and stuff in this thread?

[Ryong]

TIME TO DERAIL THREAD INTO GENERAL GAME THREAD.

I beat Sleeping Dogs today and it was pretty great.

I feel it could've been better handled at times and it goes too far into how much you get away with being an undercover cop in the mafia, but eh.

I also beat Muramasa Rebirth yesterday, also pretty great.

I wish enemies didn't scale so crazily and that, eventually, weaker swords got stronger so you'd still use them for their secret arts. Still, pretty fun even if it involves quite a bit of "run straight into a direction for five screen while appreciating the background because nothing is gonna happen" situations.

Now I must play the hell out of Totori+.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Dark Souls 2 owns my heart right now. Definitely streamlines weapon upgrades/management from the first game, and the bonfires are placed a lot more evenhandedly.

Otherwise, I prepurchased Transistor, the follow up game to Bastion which comes out the 20th. Excited to play that.

[MuMu]

I've been finally catching up with the Deponia trilogy with Chaos on Deponia which frankly isn't that good, it just feels like paddling towards the third game. Hope the last one makes up for it.

Also a bit of Defender's Quest once in a while, a pretty fun Tower Defense game, which looks very cheap but it's worth your few bucks.

[Krylo]

@Synk: Do it.

Neverwinter

I've been playing this one recently. Decided to grab it on Steam as it is completely free.

Lets start with what's good: it's an Action MMO. This means you can actually dodge attacks by moving out of the way or using your dodge (or, for guardian warrior, block) abilities. Attack timing is important, etc. etc. Basically the gameplay is a cut above the standard MMO, in that it has actual gameplay that's not 12345 repeat ad infinitum.

The graphics and character design kind of look like they're gonna be shit, but once you get in game they work surprisingly well, which is nice. Even managed to make my half-orc warrior lady look good, at least in my opinion.

Speaking of which: Character creation is pretty great, with sliders for all kinds of aspects of the face and body, that allows for lots of customization. What's more, racial choice also affects your stats which affects your skills and class just like a proper RPG.

It's also got a pretty decent storyline and setting. And by that I mean it's nostalgic of older DnD video games that I played as a kid. Things I bought from the bargain bin, mostly. So, I guess, less 'good' and more 'pushes buttons I enjoy having pushed because of nostalgia'.

But, unfortunately, I feel the game falls short in a lot of ways, too.

Firstly, on the gameplay, it's an action MMO, like I said, which is good. . . but they don't really give you the tools you need to avoid attacks properly. Every class gets one 'dodge' move which is slow to activate and can only be used about twice every five seconds (you have a stamina bar that is consumed by using it, and this is about how long it takes to empty/fill). It, further, moves you away from the enemy, except for guardian warrior, which means you can't, as a melee class, really use it all that often if you want to do damage. And, as a ranged class it doesn't move you far or fast enough to avoid being attacked again if you try to return fire.

This means you can only avoid powerful and slow attacks, trying to dodge normal attacks just means you fail to do damage and eventually run out of stamina and get beaten up, anyway.

There's also no hit stun.

All in all it ends up playing a lot like Tera but shittier. As far as gameplay goes, Tera's a much better game, with more dodges, the ability to avoid attacks by walking out of them without completely forgoing the ability to do damage at all, and more spaces for ability hotkeys allowing for more varied combat. Really just, all in all, better constructed from a gameplay standpoint.

These problems are exacerbated by the fact that most of the game is instanced, leaving one wondering why they couldn't go further with the action gameplay, like Vindictus or DFO does. The 'open world' portions are hardly important compared to the dungeons, and are still blocked off from each other by loading screens, anyway, so you still feel pretty lonely playing the game, most of the time.

Making all the combat areas instanced wouldn't change much.

If all you're looking for is a free open world action MMO, I suggest Tera over Neverwinter.

Also, for the character creation, you roll for your stats which is annoying in that it's completely pointless. There's a reroll option which is always fun, but your stats will always add up to the same number, and your most important 2/3 stats (depending on class, some have 2, some have 3), will get your best rolls. Which means the only thing rolling does is decide whether STR or DEX is going to have that 20.

It also means that just letting us start at ten and put points into stats manually across all six of them would both allow for more customization (and esoteric builds), and be less of a pain in the ass.

That's a pretty minor gripe, but you know. It's there.

And as I said, the storyline is only good if you get the same nostalgic feels as I do.

All that said it's not a BAD game and it's free, so if you're bored and feel like something vaguely DnD-ish, give it a shot. Or if you've already played Tera and don't want to do that again, but want another action MMO.


Sleeping Dogs

Originally Posted by Ryong

I beat Sleeping Dogs today and it was pretty great.

Yes.

Yes it is.

I really love the shooting and combat controls, which is rare in games of its genre. Particularly the way you activate bullet time--by doing John Woo stunts. It's just great because it incentivizes the most ridiculous shit.

"Oh a whole room full of guys with assault rifles, and there's convenient cover for me here? I'm just going to jump OVER the cover so I can shoot 3-4 of them in the head, then jump BACK over it to shoot a couple more, and then one more time over and we should be clear to go."

The brawling was also great, with all the various martial arts techniques you learn and can put to use, and using mostly that for the start of the game didn't feel limiting or bad at all. Which is something that's pretty rare in this type of game.

I also greatly enjoyed how the story line dealt with the way the protagonist's loyalty was being pulled in multiple directions at the same time. Sometimes it felt like even he didn't know if he was working for the police or the Yakuza.

I do feel like it needed more dev time, though. The relationship part, I feel, hurt the game because of how they were all dropped. If they were dropped in a way that seemed a conscious decision of the main character it'd be one thing, but eventually they all just disappear. Usually with no satisfactory conclusion (read: break up of any kind). It just feels like a very unfinished section that should have been cut entirely or finished. Either way would have served the game better.

I also feel like the game would have benefited from branching story paths dealing with the way it toyed with loyalty to the Yakuza vs Loyalty to the police. I don't know that it really feels unfinished without it, but I feel that it would add more to the game and extend the gameplay which. . .

Honestly, I don't feel like there was enough of it. The story didn't feel rushed or anything, but I was just done with it well before I wanted to be done with it. I want more side quests, maybe a few extra main missions. I don't feel that adding these would have made the game feel any more stretched out or diluted, and goddamn there should be more Sleeping Dogs.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

Otherwise, I prepurchased Transistor, the follow up game to Bastion which comes out the 20th. Excited to play that.

I got Bastion in a Humble Bundle. I wanted to enjoy it. I do enjoy the narration. I don't enjoy that most of the time my thought process was "Roll roll roll shit roll don't fall off how does this work roll roll shit why is blocking such an ineffectual trap roll." What should I do to actually enjoy this game? Am I rolling too much? Should I "get gud?" Should I use a controller if I suck with WASD+mouse?

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by phil_

I got Bastion in a Humble Bundle. I wanted to enjoy it. I do enjoy the narration. I don't enjoy that most of the time my thought process was "Roll roll roll shit roll don't fall off how does this work roll roll shit why is blocking such an ineffectual trap roll." What should I do to actually enjoy this game? Am I rolling too much? Should I "get gud?" Should I use a controller if I suck with WASD+mouse?

That last one, as I don't remember it being particularly hard at all, so I can't really give you too much advice. I'd guess your troubles, then, stem from just not being good with the control scheme.

If you have a 360, you can just plug the controller in and it'll work. If you have a PS3 you can find drivers for the PS3 controller online pretty easily.