Computer games.

[ijjysmith]

Forgot how great Theme Hospital was. Been playing it all week. What a cracking little addictive game. Makes me realise why I love Tropico so much, you can see a lot of the same ideas. Easy 10/10 game. Got 2 free XBox One games on Friday and haven't even loaded them up due to not wanting to put TH down.

I've been playing this too! It's not aged at all!

So much fun. So silly. So awesome.

 

[Ashtonian]

I'm ace at Gwent and I love it as much as the main game itself so I'll chime in.

Essentially you play the opponent. Pay attention to the deck they have. E.g if it's nilfgaard, then they'll probably have loads of spy cards (which let them draw more cards). So you'll want to use your own and some decoy cards to claim theirs in the first round.

But yeah, it's best out of 3. The trick is that sometimes surrendering a round is the smart thing to do. If you go all guns blazing determined to win at all costs then you may win a round but have no cards left to win the 2nd round like you need to. That's why I mentioned nilfgaard decks. They generally surrender the first round to just accumulate more cards for the next 2. Whereas Monster decks will usually go all guns blazing for the first round.

Other than some special cards and abilities, you don't draw more than the 10 you have at the beginning. So just try and use the minimum necessary to win a round, keeping in mind that you have another round to win. You can challenge almost every major npc and trader, innkeeper etc to a game. Winning rewards you with a card. The Gwent questlines give great cards as rewards also.

It's worth getting to understand it as it's probably the best game within a game I've ever played. It's easy to understand and you'll get the hang of it after a few rounds. But the Ai is really good and human like so it will provide a fun and sometimes challenging extra thing to do throughout the game

Help!

Since starting the game i have found 1 person to play against and that is in the emperor's castle.

And i couldn't win at all! As soon as i would play to get the upper hand he would be dropping 10 card all over the show. I counted at least 3 or 4 different with one of them not being affected by weather cards, so i literally couldn't win.

How or what do i need to do to be able to play against hium? I mean literally my first opponent and it was like the game was rigged lol

 

[Tubey]

Currently causing a bit of a storm this video. Shady business indeed! lol

Not surprised by this tbh. I've been amazed at it being legal for years.

My little brother plays CS:GO and I'm constantly making sure he doesn't do it (I top up his Steam account alone).

For that reason, parents as well as these criminals are to blame. Like any illegal activity, good parenting can stop pre-teens especially from doing it if they pay a tiny bit of attention.

 

[gaino92]

Has anyone here played 7 days to die? Got a feeling I will be massively addicted to it over the coming weeks/months

 

[LostLegend]

Not surprised by this tbh. I've been amazed at it being legal for years.

My little brother plays CS:GO and I'm constantly making sure he doesn't do it (I top up his Steam account alone).

For that reason, parents as well as these criminals are to blame. Like any illegal activity, good parenting can stop pre-teens especially from doing it if they pay a tiny bit of attention.

My younger brother also spends most of his life on CS:GO and on sites like that. He is 18 though, so he's free to waste his state benefits on whatever he chooses, the lazy, bone idle git

 

[ijjysmith]

Has anyone here played 7 days to die? Got a feeling I will be massively addicted to it over the coming weeks/months

I've only read one review which said it was pretty poor mate.

But it was only one review.

 

[RFUS]

Help!

Since starting the game i have found 1 person to play against and that is in the emperor's castle.

And i couldn't win at all! As soon as i would play to get the upper hand he would be dropping 10 card all over the show. I counted at least 3 or 4 different with one of them not being affected by weather cards, so i literally couldn't win.

How or what do i need to do to be able to play against hium? I mean literally my first opponent and it was like the game was rigged lol

Yeah that fight is very difficult and though I think it's technically possible to win, you're meant to get schooled.

Keep playing innkeepers and traders and do the quests. That'll give you some practice and you'll get better cards. I believe you can also turn the Gwent difficulty down in the options. But to my knowledge that initial match is the only one like that. Every other one is massively winnable and fair.

 

[Ashtonian]

Yeah that fight is very difficult and though I think it's technically possible to win, you're meant to get schooled.

Keep playing innkeepers and traders and do the quests. That'll give you some practice and you'll get better cards. I believe you can also turn the Gwent difficulty down in the options. But to my knowledge that initial match is the only one like that. Every other one is massively winnable and fair.

Fair enough. Cheers!

There was me wondering why you spoke highly of the mini game when I was failing haha. I think it was like the 3rd attempt when I managed my cards beautifully so I could mount a strong 2 rounds and just when I was about to win he popped his third 10 card for the first time which meant my 4s and 5s I purposely had were all useless

 

[ijjysmith]

Yeah that fight is very difficult and though I think it's technically possible to win, you're meant to get schooled.

Keep playing innkeepers and traders and do the quests. That'll give you some practice and you'll get better cards. I believe you can also turn the Gwent difficulty down in the options. But to my knowledge that initial match is the only one like that. Every other one is massively winnable and fair.

ijjy Witcher 3 update - had literally no time to revisit!

 

[gaino92]

I've only read one review which said it was pretty poor mate.

But it was only one review.

I've started playing the Alpha on Xbox one, can imagine once they sort the bugs/graphics out it will be a good game. Good to play with mates as well

 

[Dylan]

Has anyone here played 7 days to die? Got a feeling I will be massively addicted to it over the coming weeks/months

I've only read one review which said it was pretty poor mate.

But it was only one review.

I've started playing the Alpha on Xbox one, can imagine once they sort the bugs/graphics out it will be a good game. Good to play with mates as well

Can't speak for the console versions, but the PC version is great! Although updates have been a bit slow coming. Look at the steam reviews and you'll see they are mostly positive.

Also remember it is in alpha/early access so it is an unfinished game.

I prefer Rust though.

 

[McBain]

Try locking on with the R3 button, this should keep you facing your opponent

You beautiful Human.

Still can't beat Iudex Gundyr after oh only about 4 hours playing it!

 

[LostLegend]

You beautiful Human.

Still can't beat Iudex Gundyr after oh only about 4 hours playing it!

Use your shield to block his early attacks (if you chose a starting class with a good one)
Then stay as close to him as you can when he changes into the snake thingy and just dodge roll away from his attacks.

There's a technique to most bosses, once you figure it out they become much easier!

Just finished the Ancient Demon King boss (which is in an optional area) and he was smashing me to bits until I found out you can beat him easily by:

Spoiler

spamming him with a bow and arrows from a distance

There's definitely a learning wall with this game (not curve) but once you get your head around it, you'll be kicking ass! (Until you get to Irithyll... (Which looks boss btw))

 

[Tubey]

Just got round to playing the Warhammer Total War game.

Bit of a missed opportunity. Not a patch on Shogun.

Shame.

 

[Dylan]

Just got round to playing the Warhammer Total War game.

Bit of a missed opportunity. Not a patch on Shogun.

Shame.

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