Computer games.


Nymzee said:
Eventually I got it working plugged in. Turns out my desktop, or copied Windows 8.2, just doesn’t have Bluetooth capability. Plugged the controller in with an old Samsung micro USB which vibrated but then did nothing - kept showing as an unknown device in Device Manager. Had a scout around online and downloaded a driver for it, didn’t work, worked, didn’t work & then worked. Managed to easily do the NieR:automata prologue first try (after doing it all I know I definitely would never have managed on the keyboard past where I got to).

Hopefully tonight when I turn it on it’ll work from the start again as I’ve just downloaded CS:GO!
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Glad you got there eventually... not having Bluetooth obviously made it a bit more of a mission; I'd just assumed your setup had it. Funnily enough, before trying the Bluetooth setup on mine, I tried using a cable and all it did was vibrate once. Good you made some gaming progress with it, too - I'm currently barreling my way through the first Far Cry, which was impossible (at least to me) using the mouse/keyboard setup.
 
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Daz1878 said:
Glad you got there eventually... not having Bluetooth obviously made it a bit more of a mission; I'd just assumed your setup had it. Funnily enough, before trying the Bluetooth setup on mine, I tried using a cable and all it did was vibrate once. Good you made some gaming progress with it, too - I'm currently barreling my way through the first Far Cry, which was impossible (at least to me) using the mouse/keyboard setup.
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Tbh I didn’t even really think about Bluetooth and PC’s before you even mentioned it! I can imagine Far Cry being great visually on the computer.
 

Zezti said:
Beat Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice last night. 57 hours total by Steam's count for my first play through start to finish though there will still 2 optional bosses I missed and a couple mini bosses.
I got the Dragon's Homecoming ending, which actually seems like the most complicated ending to get, just by taking it slow and trying to learn as much as possible about the world.

Its hard. Its a damn hard game. But its very good. Not a masterpiece that some call it, but very good. I feel like the people who call it a masterpiece are getting carried away with feeling good over beating the game. It has some truly great parts but some flaws, and that's not considering its diffculty as a flaw as many would.

The world design is absolutely STUNNING. The lore is good. The story narrative is very good (surprisingly for a FromSoft game). The characters are good. The Japanese voice acting is very very good (I would recommend playing with Japanese VA to fit the setting, plus the English VA is pretty bad). There are some very, very cool cutscenes which get you hyped up every time.

There's basically two games in there. The boss fights and the rest of the world. The world exploration is almost like a sandbox. You're a ninja (or Shinobi) in feudal Japan in the fictional Ashina mountains. Getting to run along rooftops, sneaking around, hugging walls, getting instant stealth deathblows, using a grappling hook and throwing shurikens and utilising other Shinobi tools to gain an advantage. Its almost like a ninja sandbox. I think most people would not have much trouble traversing the world and fighting the normal enemies through combat or stealth and would probably find it quite fun. I should make it clear its not massively open like Skyrim or whatever but you are free to go where you please once an area has been unlocked.

Then there are the bosses and mini-bosses. You'll die. A lot. I found some bosses much harder than others and some streamers I watched had their own bosses that they had a harder time with. All the bosses are unique and the way you play will lead to some being harder than the rest. Against the harder ones you can expect to spend hours on frustrating attempts for a single boss. My thigh got some bruising from slamming my controller into my lap because of some of my deaths. I died not only to bosses, but to the funky camera and arena layouts due to not actually being able to see something in a particular moment. Some of the enemy tracking is total bullsh*t too.
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For many players, the bosses will be too hard. Bosses hit HARD and some have very short openings for you to deal damage in return if you aren't staying close to them, and you will end up dying having used all your healing and looking at the nearly full enemy HP bar and feel like "what's the point?". Its hard. Don't underestimate how hard it can be. If you aren't prepared for a serious challenge you will not like this game. I was sat at 1 hr 40 mins and on the verge of returning it (steam refund policy is under 2 hr played), because of how soul crushingly difficulty I was finding it. But I'm really glad I didn't because its a great game if you can overcome it.

My personal issues with it are how shinobi tools and combat arts are implemented. They nearly all cost varying amounts of Spirit Emblems to use and you get a total per life that you can hold. You also need to buy or find more in the world if you run out. It really put me off using them and actually most of them weren't worth trying to use in most boss fights. There's one particular shinobi tool which is great for a ~2 second stun on nearly all enemies but all the rest left me open to more damage and didn't do enough in return. Just felt like they were really poorly implemented for use in fights where you want all the help you can get. I would have preferred it if the player had a slowly regenerating bar like how magic in Dark Souls 3 worked as the resource for these moves, rather than 1 consumable you couldn't replenish until at a rest site.
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Still playing through myself and still loving it!

Completely agree with the camera issues though, 2 fights in particular (Blazing Bull and Lone Shadow Longswordsman) I died to more owing to the camera glitching out if I went anywhere near a wall.
 
Nymzee said:
Recommend CS:GO just standard keyboard & mouse? That’s how I played it as a kid anyway.

Dongle is good for wireless though! But I don’t need the range so the short micro USB cable is fine.
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On PC you would almost certainly get utterly destroyed if you were using a controller - it can't compete with the speed and accuracy of M&K control. It's a level playing field on consoles with the vast majority using controllers and the added helping hand of aim-assist making everyone think they can actually aim.
 
heatmeiser said:
On PC you would almost certainly get utterly destroyed if you were using a controller - it can't compete with the speed and accuracy of M&K control. It's a level playing field on consoles with the vast majority using controllers and the added helping hand of aim-assist making everyone think they can actually aim.
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Strange, I normally would do M&K I just thought maybe it would be easier with a controller? I do prefer FPS using M&K.
 
Nymzee said:
Strange, I normally would do M&K I just thought maybe it would be easier with a controller? I do prefer FPS using M&K.
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Yeah third person games and stuff are probably easier with a controller - but I guess it's personal preference. FPS games though, M&K controls are far, far superior.

Though it doesn't help that I'm beyond hopeless with a controller in FPS.
 

heatmeiser said:
Yeah third person games and stuff are probably easier with a controller - but I guess it's personal preference. FPS games though, M&K controls are far, far superior.

Though it doesn't help that I'm beyond hopeless with a controller in FPS.
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This. Aiming on controller is a bit like aiming on a mouse if the mouse were housed in 1cm perimeter fence. And you could only move it with your bum.
 
Did they ever fix the RROD before they stopped producing 360's ? I went through five of them and every single one got the RROD, worst designed console ever... which is a shame because other than it breaking all the time it was actually decent.
 

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