Favourite Video Games / Your Day of Gaming?

Hmmm , favourite games.

At the moment, I'm a sucker for any Turn Based Strategy games with RPG elements. In the past year I think I've played through all the western released Fire Emblems (PoR and RD at least twice) and some JP only, XCOM:EU and EW, Valkyria Chronicles (4 runs already) and I just finished Fe:Fates Conquest.

I love RPGs as well,  Bravely Default being the last one I completed, but I played Xenoblade Chronicles before that one (loved it). Add FF-X, 100% FF X-2  to the list. But I also like more action oriented  like Monster Hunter Tri and Monster Hunter 4G  (my playtime in this game is around the 500h mark) , and fast paced action  games like Metal Gear Rising or Shadow Warrior.  And I'll admit I played WoW for over 10 years... 4 of them on the "try-hard clean-all-PVE-content ASAP" level.

I've also sinked my fair ammount of hours in Dota 2 and Mount & Blade Warband.

VN's I didn't touch until...more less about a year from now, which was just about when I stopped playing WoW and started looking for single player anime-style games (that's when I found Sunrider , that had the TBS and difficulty elements I love in games) . The last one I played was Over the Hills and Far Away, and the two western released editions of Fault Milestone. 

Oh, and finally, I'm a huge Zelda fan. Favourite title being Majora's Mask followed by OoT and ALBW.

Current gaming projects : Have to finish playing..

- FE Fates
- Bravely Second
- Finish my actual XCOM2 run
- Hijack my friends back into MH4U

And then Lib Day and other games are coming out soon, so 2016 is going to be a gloriously busy year.

There's an update for Darkest Dungeon that should be going up right about now. Then, terror and madness.

there are 9 Rance main games so far and Sengoku Rance is the name of (best?) instalment in the series: Rance 7.

Sengoku Rance is also only volume that got fully translated to English. Why? Rance games are HUGE, usually 50-100 hours to finish game, so fans dont have enough power to translate it and official translation wont be done soon, cause its developers Alicesoft are greedy c*nts 
anyway Sengoku Rance is epic game, go play it. (it's in similar style to Sunrider: strategy combined with RPG and VN... and Eroge)


my favorite games on PC:
The Witcher 2 & 3, Mass Effect 1 & 2 (ME3 suckz), Dragon Age Origins & Inquisition (DA2 suckz), Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun Dragonfall, Shadowrun Hong Kong, Valkyria Chronicles, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2

my favorite games on consoles:
The Last of Us, Heavy Rain, Xenoblade Chronicles

If I had to pick a favourite game of all time, I guess I'd go with Baldur's Gate II. At the very least, it's certainly the game I played the most, even before I discovered those wonderful things called "mods".

More recently, I'm just getting out from an intense Witcher III phase. The first game disappointed me a bit, and the second was good, but didn't really manage to entirely convince me, but this one? That was the real deal. In recent years, I spent quite a lot of time on the Mass Effect trilogy too, though it had it's fair share of flaws. Still, good times. Older, but I spent quite a few hours on Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic too. Among japanese games, I have fond memories of Final Fantasy X and Tales of the Abyss, and my introduction to Fire Emblem via Awakening definitely worked out. Honourable mention to Valkyria Chronicles too.

Then, there are RTS. The Total War licence provided good entertainment ; I think the first Rome Total War was the one I enjoyed the most. And there's a strong nostalgia factor when it comes to Command and Conquer : Red Alert.

Finally, while Mount and Blade : Warband was good, the mod Prophesy of Pendor really pushed it in the "great game" category, as far as I am concerned.

Not much into VNs but always love games with a well built world, especially RPGs.

Noname already mentioned Balder's Gate 2, and it is fantastic but my favorite is actually Planescape: Torment, because it had crazy rules, bizarre events, very alien NPCs and played around with death like it was a joke but it made flawless internal sense despite that.

It has the most unique story I have ever played, every choice is pretty much referenced somewhere with actual meaning, you can find secret party NPCs, hidden story-lines, go digging in your own intestines and you can use your own petrified arm as a club.

(In contrary to most forum posts, this spoiler ACTUALLY contains spoilers

Other games I have a soft spot for are the old Xwing and Tie Fighter games along with the Jedi knight series (although I strongly disliked force unleashed). Mechwarrior 2 was great fun in multiplayer, if you fit a firefly (30tn) with lots of small lasers, no armor, an aiming computer, jetpack and some heat-sinks, you could actually 1shot heavy assault mecks (120tn+) if you hit them in the cockpit or blow off arms and be so evasive they struggled to hit you! The small lasers were so much more efficient than the large lasers .

Fun breaking games (because there is nothing better to liven it up if you've played it a few times):

Balder's Gate 2:
Get a warior with greatsword grand-mastery and 2handed mastery, then use a spell sequencer to store chill touch (or any weapon replacer)
Polymorph him into a sword spider and give him improved haste then use the sequencer and do 1 attack, this restores his weapon to the one he had equipped rather than his spider weapon

Now you have a warrior with great AC... haste, and 10 attacks per round with a double handed weapon that looks like a spider! (SwordSpiderMan)
Do the same with a rat to give him 90% physical immunity or a slime to give him total magic immunity and just destroy dragons as a critter

If you polymorph a dragon into a squirrel, it can still use firebreath and wing-buffet on you. Nothing like seeing your team of deadly warriors and mages being beaten to death and terrified by a grey squirrel.

Jedi Academy:
In multiplayer there was an awesome bug in Jedi Academy, where if you dueled, and were eaten by a rancor then broke the duel, you could kill the rancor and then have an invisible sprite to go on a murder rampage with!

Oblivion:
You can stack weakness to magic and poison vulnerability to give yourself infinite or negative stats, so by modifying athletics (the jumpy stat) you can either jump and die of fall damage, or leap over most of Tameril from the top of a mountain and take about 5 damage.

You can steal the Grey Fox's hood by reverse pick-pocketing him a helmet, starting combat with a summon and then stealing it from him after he equips the helmet.

Aren't we all genre savvy?

I never said that you're a bad guy! I'm just ... well, I imagine it like this.

King Mags: Knight Mirilene, I have a task for you. Purge the bad VN's from the land using your holy blade.
Miri: My King! I'm honored that you chose me for this important task. But what's up with this so-called armor? It reveals more than it covers!
King Mags: No no, knight Mirilene. This armor is to ensure maximum agility. It also provides ... service.
Miri: Forgive my mistake, my king! *Wanders off to fight the bad VNs*

Okay, probably I'm the perverted one here. No offense meant though, I'm just teasing you.
If you're feeling offended I'll apologize and remove that part. :]

I think the side effects of #1 - playing and #2 - hearing the feedback for Divine Slife of Life are starting to show their side effects.
We will have to be careful with future VNs, I wonder what should be next on the list...? 

PS. Best user status.

Man this King Mags sounds like a swell, relatable and totally respectable character - good on him for trying to help the VN landscape.



This is revenge for bringing up Kill la Kill last night isn't it? Embrace the art style Miri...

Haha it takes a lot to offend me do not worry, that is what working on an IT desk does to you.

It was either that or ask her to play Highschool Possession, I wanted to help her level up her VN slaying so giving her a low exp quest seemed like the best option.

true. Although I wouldnt mark those 2 games as "low exp quests", I would call them "negative exp quests" cause they will make you hate VNs. Better start with something good that will make you look forward... thats my personal oppinion.

np, you are welcomed.

about Highschool Possession score:
You should take any rating on the internet with a grain of salt. Not everybody likes the same stuff. 7 billions of people on the world = 7 billions of different oppinions, you know.
HS score 4.5 is pretty close to DSoL score 4.0 (both are really bad VN!) and based on such close rating you cant say "HS is obviously better than DSoL".

It would be totally different thing if you were to compare DSoL with Majikoi.
Majikoi has score 8.45 and based on that you can say "Majikor is much better than DSoL, its like heaven and hell". (though I wont claim, that you have to love it as much as majority of players did. Everything depends on your tastes.)
Long story short: Majikoi will grant you thousands of XP. Its really good VN


- edit -
from VNs on Steam I can recommend 2 really good titles (steam is not exactly famous for many good VNs)
The Fruit Of Grisaia (link to vndb and if you are interested adult content restoration patch)
and If My Heart Had Wings (link to vndb and if you are interested adult content restoration patch)

I think there might be some kind of misunderstanding here. I'm not actually new to VN, I just took the burden of saving King Mags curiosity. I played quite a few VN's (and Dating Sims) over the past few years.

There have been a few very good ones, while most of them have been laughable and well, there were one or two that I could only describe as utter misogynistic crap. But I'm not blaming anyone here, don't get me wrong.

Of course the thing with the rating can't be taken too serious - especially with a very low amount of voters. For example this "Panzermadels" thing which god knows why is in my steam recommendation list is rated 7.67 on VNDB - but that's probably because there are only 3 voters so far. So it's basically the same with HP and DSoL. With very few voters it's just not representative. And most of my post was just ranting because I personally have an extremely low opinion of HP (not that DSoL was much better imho.)

Thanks for the recommendations - funnily I have IMHHW already on my Steam Library. That Grisaia thing sounds nice too, but I still got a lot of VN's (and other games...) to play - besides, some people are telling me over and over again to get "Kindred Spirits", so I'll probably get that game next (even though Yuri isn't exactly my thing) to silence these people.

@marx
The english voice acting was really, really terrible - I basically whined the first 30 minutes of playing at Magpie about it. Go and ask him if you wanna. And well, the sex scenes were awkward anyway, so it's not really a big loss. (In case you know it: Huniepop's VA is like a thousand times better in comparison.)

One of the other VN's King Mags "picked" for me is Sickness. Will take a closer look at that soon. Just not today, it's damn late here.

Well then, tell me about that Neptunia game when you have played it for a bit - I still have to play even one of these games. I'm normally a huge fan of JRPGs, but I kinda never got any time to play Neptunia.

Huh, so many levelups for playing two shitty VNs? Now that's a generous DM, I have to appreciate that. Still, no word on any new armor? Or comes that with the defence bonus? On the other hand, with Speed Running being improved, I doubt it.
And what are "Special Mechanics"? That sounds pretty weird here!

Okay, back to being more serious: Somehow I couldn't bring myself to play Sickness, so I put it on a hold and finally gave in to all the people wo urged me to buy Kindred Spirits on the Roof. While I never was much into yuri so far this game might just have sparked some interest in that genre for me. So far I like the game very much. The characters are fleshed out and very likable, the art is really pretty and the voice acting is very good, even though not all scenes are voiced. (Bonus points for Icari's VA voicing one of the characters in Kindred Spirits, even though said character is almost entirely Icari's opposite.)
Sadly I'm so far not sure if the dialogue choices you pick really matter - in that regard it felt pretty "kinetic", but maybe I'm wrong. I need to see this through and will probably update later.

On the other hand I got dragged into playing Civilization V with a few friends on the weekend. I have never been much into Civ I have to admit, but playing it together with friends is quite fun.

I'm still making my way through Storm Guard. They don't have the end boss yet (the dragon) so it's a bit difficult to tell where things stand but I'm finding character level progression a little truncated. Characters progress from L1 to L5 (with corresponding rise in trained skills) within about 14 days of in-game time, doing 1 dungeon/mission per day. After you hit L5, there doesn't seem to be anything more, apart from upgrading armor, which is a little disappointing. Combat is fun though, especially when facing a tough mix of opponents early on, so I still recommend it for turn based enthusiasts.

Also got myself Battle Brothers recently which appears pretty interesting and is rated pretty highly by a good many players. The quality of discussion on their Steam forums actually looks pleasantly high and largely gameplay focussed, so I expect it to be a game of considerable depth.

Finished DAO a long time ago and yes it was a great game. Certainly one of the best I've played in terms of storytelling. Played a good deal of DAI as well. Finished NWN1 and 2 so long back ago I can't really even remember the specifics anymore. KOTOR1 yea, finished it more than a decade ago and yes very memorable game. Played it for days at a stretch just to get to the end. Divinity Original Sin, again one of the best turn based titles in recent history.
Anyway yes all these are very nice games, AAA quality but I think they are also mentioned so much that many people already know about them.

The 2 games I mentioned aren't favorite/best games by any stretch of the imagination, but they are what I'm currently playing (thread title includes day of gaming) and I think it's worth getting the word out there for smaller/indie titles to other people who might be interested in turn based games. I've done the same in other forums/places for Sunrider.

I also think early access is a good time to give feedback and mould the game into a better product. Not asking people to get it now, but maybe to consider having a look at the finished product when it's launched.

And yes I've read and played enough of Battle Brothers to say they have an interesting system going on. Rather you stop assuming things and jump to conclusions if you have nothing to say. I have no interest in starting arguments on forums, so this will be my last reply to you if you can't remain civil.

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