Hey Guys!
Sooooo, what’s everyone playing over the weekend?
- Greywolfe (Twitter, YouTube): simon the sorcerer is now underway. i have...mixed feelings about that game. most of them are tied to how adult it's going to be. i remember it being...a little humorous in a pretty british way, but that memory is from twenty+ years ago. i'm also digging into spellweaver, which is one game i'm trying out to scratch my ccg itch since i'm no longer playing hearthstone. i love the card art. it feels a lot like magic, though, so...i dunno? finally, the king's quests are proceeding apace! i got a /lot/ done this week after neglecting it for a while, and now i feel like i'm about half way through the game. i'm past the worst part, too. so that's good :)
- Yoda0VGs (Twitter): Gnna be dipping into some more Rocksmith this weekend. As well as play around with Unreal Engine 4 a bit more. I also got into the Closed Beta for Paladins so maybe I'll check that out too.
- Hamilton: Still dealing with my withdrawl from Overwatch so I might try some more Stellaris or bite the bullet and get Doom
- Scroo: Well I'm still playing Dark Souls 3 because I can't tear myself away from it. Making more videos and overall just still having fun. I also started Doom and I really like the campaign game play so far. I wanted to record that as well from the beginning as a sort of "see it how I'm seeing it" reaction type thing, but OBS won't capture it, sadly. So I'll probably do a quick written first impression article. Anyway, it's fun, seems a bit slower paced at first but it only tends to be that way in between the hordes of demons.
- Dante: I think I'll play the Stanley Parable this weekend. Hearthstone dailies too.
- Andrew: Being that today is Friday the 13th and all I will probably play some Mortal Kombat X (as a certain machete-wielding horror icon). After that, Doom.
This weekend I think it’ll be a combination of DOOM and Bloodborne. DOOM’s campaign so far is everything I had hoped, plus it looks stellar on my PC. This morning I also finally installed the GTX 660 in my son’s Dell that he got for Christmas, so he can play it now as well.
Bloodborne is clicking with me in a way Dark Souls 1 never quite did. Maybe if (when!) I complete this game, I’ll go back and give DS1 another shot.
In about an hour it’s going to be time to go see Civil War.
Just don’t do the chalice dungeons…XD
Actually, my impression is that they were intended to be a means of pleasant co-op, that that somehow makes up for the dullness of their design. Playing them alone is a dreadful bore outside of the boss fights, which can get downright brutal down there. This is where bone marrow ash and lead elixir become clutch…I wish I had known about the latter, sooner.
I’m still trying to figure what all these items are even for. So little is explained in the game, and while that lends an air of mystery, it’s also made Google my best companion. I’m trying not to do too much online research and just enjoy the game, so far that’s working well. I have yet to interact with other players in any way at all, but after I’ve gotten some more experience under my belt I’d like to travel to other worlds and assist.
The problem is that the descriptions can be a little cryptic. You’re exactly like me, haha, and there’s no harm in approaching the game that way, if only to save time from beating your head against the wall too long. It’s a little bit funny though how I struggled on certain segments, only to have these “omg” moments of revelation that saved me some heartache.
For example…the bloodletting beast early on in the game? You can actually cheese that guy by drinking lead elixir and just wailing on him for about 1 min (I think that’s how long it lasts). You can’t be stunned for that duration and merely have to time when you drink it and manage your health vials. I only knew this b/c I’d read some youtube comments in place of reading the wiki. or was it on the wiki? I can’t recall exactly.
The main drawback with avoiding all outside references is that as with all the other souls games, NPC storylines are very sequential, so if you don’t do certain things by a certain time, then the questlines can’t be completed. which is fine with me, as I like things to unfold naturally, and precludes me from platting anything of them outside of bloodborne, which is also fine.
I just encountered him for the first time, and I couldn’t resist looking up strategy suggestions afterwards. One said to throw Pungent Blood Cocktails and he’d run to devour them, leaving you free to attack him from behind. Next time I might try that out.
I have one lead elixir, I think, and had no idea what it did. I’ll save that for a backup plan if the cocktail idea doesn’t pan out.
This is one problem you may notice about bloodborne. A lot of time can get devoted to farming for supplies. Lol…man, there’s one boss where I burned through a 100 blood vials without luck. XD
that’s something that in theory, should be alot of fun (assisting), but I’ve only done it once. Embarrassingly, I was one-hit-killed in less than a minute b/c the boss’ movements became harder to predict with more than just 1 person present.