General video game discussion

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I am back to playing Mass Effect 3, because I am also watching a youtube let's play and I am kinda itching for its gameplay. Legendary Edition this time. I am playing an Adept for this run for now. THough I kinda want to play Vanguard again, too. Biotic Charge is diametrically opposed to my typical play-style in games, but it was a lot fun. But I played that already a lot and have strong memories, I don't remember much about my Adept play. And nothing of my Infiltrator or Sentinel games (did I even do that?).

Also occassionally play Mechabellum, and paused an Expedition 33 and Cyberpunk game for a bit while playing ME3.

 

[MarkB]

I am back to playing Mass Effect 3, because I am also watching a youtube let's play and I am kinda itching for its gameplay.

A common pitfall / feature of the Let's Play genre. A recent / ongoing series on Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning got me re-playing that one for awhile, and I got quite into it, going through around 4-5 of the main regions. Unfortunately the game is not without stability issues, and a persistent series of crashes-to-desktop have stalled that playthrough, probably for good.

 

[Gradine]

I am back to playing Mass Effect 3, because I am also watching a youtube let's play and I am kinda itching for its gameplay. Legendary Edition this time. I am playing an Adept for this run for now. THough I kinda want to play Vanguard again, too. Biotic Charge is diametrically opposed to my typical play-style in games, but it was a lot fun. But I played that already a lot and have strong memories, I don't remember much about my Adept play. And nothing of my Infiltrator or Sentinel games (did I even do that?).

I'm basically always playing stealth archers/snipers in most RPGs, but Vanguard in ME2 & 3 was way too much fun.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

A common pitfall / feature of the Let's Play genre

Indeed. I have to watch games I’ve just played; or games I don’t want to play. If it’s new and interesting then I want to play it now, or if it’s one I know and they’re playing particularly badly I need to have a go to show them (telepathically, presumably) how it’s done.

 

[pukunui]

I'm basically always playing stealth archers/snipers in most RPGs ...

As usual, Viva La Dirt League have a video about that ...

 

[Mad_Jack]

I have this bizarre, unreasonable dislike of having to fight things in games... I like to run around exploring and rummaging through peoples' homes and pockets to steal their stuff.
Combat is often one of my least favorite things to do... Fighting things, anyway. I do like running around headshotting people and having them fall over, usually from an enormous distance or with some other high difficulty shot. So I usually play stealth archers.
When I was playing Skyrim I had a bow that could one-shot dragons.


On the topic of improving combat efficiency, Star Wars: The Old Republic is doing a subscriber event at the moment... The top gear in the game is item rating 344 Rakata gear, which you normally can only get by grinding for it (and the components to upgrade it) in large operations groups. Otherwise, you can only get as high as item level 340.
However, for logging in at least four days during the week, you can now get six "subscriber tokens" per week that you can spend at a specific vendor to get a piece of 340 Rakata gear specced out for your current combat discipline (dps, tank, heals) for a cost of two tokens, which you can upgrade to 344 with these things called OP-1 Catalysts (also available from the vendor for tokens).
So it'd take you three weeks to get a full set of gear (head, wrists, hands, chest, belt, legs, and boots), and another three weeks to upgrade it all to 344 gear. Which is a hell of a lot less time and effort than it would take grinding ops the old-fashioned way.

This is great for me, because I don't have a lot of playing time available, and I don't like having to play in large randomly-assembled groups. Not to slag on the game or anything, but most of the people running ops are hardcore guild raiders who've refined everything down to a to-the-second speed run, and will often leave you behind or kick you from the group if you can't keep up. Grinding ops is basically all they do.
Now, although you definitely don't need 344 gear for anything other than running ops or pvp matches, and you can basically get through the whole story mode with nothing but the random gear that drops in-game, it's gonna be really nice to have maxed-out gear on my main character...