I think DOS 2 is a better game because the companions and story are much more enjoyable imo, also and thats a personal thing perhaps but I feel like the DOS2 combat is swifter and more fluid which I liked. It was mostly the characters though, the companions actually had personal interesting stories and quests that I liked a lot more, I also think the gear (although the magic armour/physical armour is mwah) system and the leveling up system were much better with the divison in certain abilities (e.g civil abilities got something seperate).

that being said DOS1 is an excellent game and DOS2 might be quite pricey for now, for 12 bucks DOS1 is definitely worth it, you could just buy and play that and later on when DOS2 gets lower buy that.

Yurie

12149 Posts

July 05 2018 15:13 GMT

#13862

On July 05 2018 16:08 Silvanel wrote:
Thanks Guys i ended up buying X/X-2 remastered edition. I hope its not bad start. Based on Sm.ZIk comments and steam reviews.

I ended up cheating to skip combat after a while when I played it. Really liked the settings, story and characters though. Good game that takes too long to complete due to generic mob fights.

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

July 05 2018 15:25 GMT

#13863

I think I played it 15 years ago and it wasn't the generic mob fights that annoyed me. It was the 5-10 minute unskippable cutscene into boss fights that had a gotcha mechanic. There was one I messed up twice that I just cringed about.

CobaltBlu

United States919 Posts

July 05 2018 15:36 GMT

#13864

The FFX remaster on PC lets you set half / no encounter and speed up the game if the encounters bother you too much. It doesn't work for the cut scenes though.

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22213 Posts

July 05 2018 15:47 GMT

#13865

last minute purchase of metro 2033 and last light

Salteador Neo

Andorra5591 Posts

July 05 2018 15:50 GMT

#13866

On July 06 2018 00:36 CobaltBlu wrote:
The FFX remaster on PC lets you set half / no encounter and speed up the game if the encounters bother you too much. It doesn't work for the cut scenes though.

That sounds pretty good. I've replayed FFX twice since my first full playthrough and it's one of my favorite games (FF6,7&9 are still better tho). Some of the cutscenes are way too long. Speeding up the game in any way, be it less mob fights or faster fights should be a nice touch.

It's an easy game so it should be a good start to the FF saga.

Sermokala

United States14187 Posts

July 05 2018 17:21 GMT

#13867

I will admit my shame that I completed FFX-2. I was a young boy and was distracted by the plot. It really wasn't that bad. The story was pretty werid and most of the good stuff was in side quests and following other peoples stories through the main story as the entire map is unlocked from the beginning.

Silvanel

Poland4769 Posts

July 05 2018 19:55 GMT

#13868

Why shame?

Tictock

United States6052 Posts

July 05 2018 23:00 GMT

#13869

On July 06 2018 04:55 Silvanel wrote:
Why shame?

On July 06 2018 02:21 Sermokala wrote:
I was a young boy and was distracted by the plot.

I don't think the plot was actually his main distraction.

I can think of a couple other things that drew my attn when I briefly played that game...

AbouSV

Germany1278 Posts

July 13 2018 15:31 GMT

#13870

On July 05 2018 14:21 Sermokala wrote:
FF 9 is the one I'd say to stay away from until you've played a few FF's.

Why would you say so?

My preference order is 7 >= 9 > 8 >> 10 (I only played those four). What put the 10 that much behind is the gameplay system that really did not grow on me, and that is still my main criteria for a game. The story and everything else was still really nice though.

Mercy13

United States718 Posts

July 24 2018 02:40 GMT

#13871

So I bought Homeworld Collection: Remastered based upon the recommendations here and unfortunately I'm pretty disappointed... maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I've read a few guides and played about 6 hours, and mostly I've found it more annoying than fun. I don't like having to wait around afk after each mission to collect all the resources, and based on the videos I've watched the only real tactic is to keep your salvage corvettes alive so they can swoop in and capture all the enemy capital ships which for me is much less satisfying then blowing shit up. Most of my RTS experience is from SC2, so it could be that it ruined slower paced RTS games for me.

Anyone have suggestions about how I can have more fun with this game? I'm close to uninstalling.

Tal

United Kingdom1018 Posts

July 24 2018 09:06 GMT

#13872

On July 24 2018 11:40 Mercy13 wrote:
So I bought Homeworld Collection: Remastered based upon the recommendations here and unfortunately I'm pretty disappointed... maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I've read a few guides and played about 6 hours, and mostly I've found it more annoying than fun. I don't like having to wait around afk after each mission to collect all the resources, and based on the videos I've watched the only real tactic is to keep your salvage corvettes alive so they can swoop in and capture all the enemy capital ships which for me is much less satisfying then blowing shit up. Most of my RTS experience is from SC2, so it could be that it ruined slower paced RTS games for me.

Anyone have suggestions about how I can have more fun with this game? I'm close to uninstalling.

Strongly recommend you don't powergame or try and do things optimally. The game is easy enough that there's no need to collect scrap or salvage anything. IIRC it even adjusts difficulty based on your current fleet.

Just enjoy the atmospheric ride, build stuff that seems cool, take your time blowing things up, and drink in that Dune-esque ambience. There isn't really another game like it.

Mercy13

United States718 Posts

July 24 2018 12:15 GMT

#13873

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it another shot

Faruko

Chile34173 Posts

July 24 2018 12:34 GMT

#13874

Shadow Tactics is FAN TAS TIC

Yoav

United States1874 Posts

July 25 2018 15:13 GMT

#13875

I actually recommend playing without using salvage corvettes at all; they're totally broken in the vanilla game. Also, I thought the remastered version gave a button to gather remaining resources (or am I thinking of Homeworld 2?). In any event, as stated above, Homeworld is better if you don't powergame, especially because enemy difficulty scales to your fleet, so it's not really necessary (or even helpful) in the first place.

FWIW Homeworld 2 and especially Deserts of Kharak are more balanced than the original game, which is cooler on account of both story and certain complexities of control (strike craft vs. strike craft battles can be microed very intensely if you have the APM for it.)

Mercy13

United States718 Posts

July 25 2018 15:16 GMT

#13876

Thanks for the suggestions.

Miragee

8699 Posts

July 26 2018 23:24 GMT

#13877

Guns of Icarus Alliance is free on Humble Bundle for another 1 day and 17 hours as of this post.

St3MoR

Spain3256 Posts

July 27 2018 00:15 GMT

#13878

thanks miragee, got it now

Sermokala

United States14187 Posts

August 27 2018 02:13 GMT

#13879

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/24/the-last-remnant-removal-in-september/

In kind of a werid test for the thread The last remnant is being delisted from steam in about a week. I don't know why but its a pretty uniquely deep RPG from Square enix that has its own place in the RPG world. Not the best PC port but a pretty good game if you can put the hours into it.