#other-games | No Man's Sky | Page 349

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:31 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/qf6e1nV.png

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limber harness Mar 20, 2018, 2:31 AM

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Windows troubleshooting:

Reboot
Reinstall

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:31 AM

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Don't opt into windows insider

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:31 AM

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Yeah, it was just being stupid because I was trying to access shadowplay as it was updating lol.

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Here we go. These are all the options it has:

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That's it.

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Nothing but full screen capture.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:33 AM

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lol.. well i fixed some recording problems, i only clip 1 min rocket league videos... but streaming is fine too if i wanted to do it.. by completely shutting down xbox dvr in regedit haha

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really odd

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:35 AM

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@light cairn you ever play Bound?

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:35 AM

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i have not, but i think i got it through ps+?

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:36 AM

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Sorry, we spammed Leon's query up a bit: https://i.imgur.com/PsO2oMQ.png

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cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:37 AM

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Haha, no worries

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Also I know not to mention anything Souls/Bloodborne related to Skip when it comes to choosing games, as I'm pretty sure Skip will opt for Souls/Bloodborne content

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:38 AM

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i highly recommend the old hunters

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 2:38 AM

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posts that

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teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:38 AM

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Hahaa

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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The new bosses are a good challenge and not cheap (cheap in Souls/Bloodborne terms, that is)?

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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The old hunters is amazing

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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i'd go so far to say it's probably one of the best parts of the entire game

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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well fuck

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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I wish my biases were as clear-cut as that. I tend to make things annoyingly (and stupidly) overly complicated.

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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Anyone get Sea of Thieves?

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:39 AM

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I'd Cree with skip honestly

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If agree *

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I'd **

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God

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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Guess it's probably Statik & Old Hunters then...Which is still a good as hell combo I think

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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And that's why you don't use a phone to chat. <.<

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.>

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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Lol

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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especially if you like expanding your build roster old hunters adds some really cool weapons

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WHIRLYGIG SAW BAYBEEEEEEEE

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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Yas

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:40 AM

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Although I'll probably dig about some more for reviews on Statik & Bound, as I dig the style of both of them

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:41 AM

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@primal rover, we were discussing Sea of Thieves, earlier. So far, I think @shy badger is the only one who said they played it.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:41 AM

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I'm kind of fixed on Old Hunters + something or Statik + something, but I should certainly review reviews of each, lol

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 2:41 AM

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Cool, thanks for the recap 😃

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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i'd be lying if i said i realized that sea of thieves released

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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Bloodborne is one of my favorite games of all time so I'm bias but you'll love it

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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I've still got an hour and a quarter until it really releases for me

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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Yeah, I dug the core content so I'm sure I'd probably dig it

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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Bloodborne is probably my favorite of all the souls games

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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Same here

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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I didn't even know Sea of Thieves existed, until Leon posted this link: https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-system-requirements-revealed/

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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Maybe tired with ds1

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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If I had more spare cash it wouldn't be such a decision, lol

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:42 AM

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i'm looking forward to portable souls so much ❤

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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But I'm keeping myself capped at $20

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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you can get a lot of play out of the old hunters

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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Me too skip. Oh yeah I did add you on switch

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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yes indeedy

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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I just got Kirby today

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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I'm frequently juggling whether I want a lot of play from something or just a really wild experience

winter yew Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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Good so far.

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:43 AM

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nice!

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yeah old hunters has both of those covered 😛

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:44 AM

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Lot of times short games pull off the latter much better than the former, but it's definitely not a mutually exclusive thing

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 2:44 AM

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The Microsoft Store shows you the minimum and recommended requirements for games, and also compares your PC to the requirements to show if you meet them. Cool little addition so you don't have to use systemrequirementslab all the time lol

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:44 AM

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@cinder vessel

insert free GoG game archive sites
The games that GoG releases for free still exist, and still work - despite not still being hosted on the GoG site. Just gotta find a copy. Since it was legitimately released for free from GoG, it's not pirating. <.<

limber harness Mar 20, 2018, 2:44 AM

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Er...

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:44 AM

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wat, lol

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:45 AM

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wrong ping?

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:45 AM

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I, uh, dig the advice but cool stuff?

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:45 AM

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Nope. https://i.imgur.com/xyeKpQX.png

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It was about that.

light cairn Mar 20, 2018, 2:45 AM

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ah

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:46 AM

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Was thinking that was it, I'm just talking in terms of buying from the PSN sale atm

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:46 AM

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Ohh, okay.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 2:46 AM

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Gotta budget ya hobbies & all

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:47 AM

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A copy of GoG's free 2016 release of NMS was how I got the game at first, but I later purchased it for $60 on Steam.

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Maybe should have waited for a sale lol.

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It's whatever, though.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:50 AM

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@primal rover Hey buddy.. if you're playing SoT then add me! Micklov1n is the GT

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hopefully this will curb my bordering on insanity addiction to rocket league

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:51 AM

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o_o

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I keep seeing posts about that game, and it's always spammed all over Imgur's public gallery.

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Never got around to trying it.

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(Rocket league.)

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:52 AM

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its hard to discribe now that ive played for like 3 years and have 777487987984 hours in it

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:52 AM

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Football, but with mini cars.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:52 AM

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I'm pretty sure that equates to more than three years

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:53 AM

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Or soccer if you're american.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:53 AM

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but its addicting because it has the best skill progression ive expereinced

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like you first get it and go this is easy .. stupid rocket cars with a big ball

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 2:53 AM

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Added, @shy badger. One hour left for me 🙄

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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That's

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That's like hundreds of years

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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then you get a little better and see people do things you didn't know were possible...... then it keeps going, when you practice and pull that shit off in a game it feels so damn guuuud

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me to Iron

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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Three years equates to 26280

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Hours

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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so i was off by a little

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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No

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You were off by centuries

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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i mean

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it depends on how you view centuries

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:55 AM

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I not to mention you wouldn't play that game for three years straight due to work/school sleeping and eating

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:55 AM

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Well, I have 1481 days, 16 hours on RuneScape...

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sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:55 AM

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So divide that number by like 10

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:55 AM

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I started in 2004.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:55 AM

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Or even more

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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mother of god @teal trench

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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Still a startlingly large number

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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YOU KNOW WHAT

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IT WAS THAT LONG

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/FYRqEhD.png

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shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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in my heart of hearts

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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So, I have 35k hours.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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i know it was

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yeah you got me beat

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i was an everquest guy

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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What

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WHAT

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:56 AM

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i never even played runscape

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google is a shill organization its fake news

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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What

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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lmao

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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Anyway

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/89dx9Ap.png

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sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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That counter probably isn't counting time played

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It might be years you've owned the game

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:57 AM

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Me?

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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how much of that play time was idle you think flan?

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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I started playing it in 2004, lol. I promise you it's accurate.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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gotta keep that into account

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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I would assume most of it is idle

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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Nope.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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No one

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No one has that much time on their hands

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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I played an average of 7 hours a day.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:58 AM

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hey man priorities

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 2:59 AM

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Yes, every Rs player on the /r/RuneScape subreddit has that much time.

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Most play 10+ hours

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I'm a nobody.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 2:59 AM

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if you like what your doing and you got the time it happens

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lol shut up. hes just a meany mean face

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 2:59 AM

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I'm not being mean

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I'm trying to stay logical

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:00 AM

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Well, it's highly illogical given the facts.

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Lol

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:00 AM

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wheres the logic in precieving how others spend their time?

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:00 AM

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I was using averages

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:00 AM

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I rarely run into a player who doesn't spend over 10 hours a day online.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:00 AM

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I can't guess accurately

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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My daily playtime of 7 hours gets laughed at.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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yeah runescape is also more accessible at say a boring job

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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Jeez you get ticked off easily tone it down

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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...no u

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for real

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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what?

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me?

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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Understandable dog ❤

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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Dalek lol

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:01 AM

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noo

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i mean the ticked off comment

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lol

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if i was ticked off it'd be pretty evident

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I'm just protectin mah boi here

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:03 AM

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@sleek shadow, I'll willingly admit that my total playtime is seen as absurd, but only because of my total experience. For the amount of time I've spent ingame, my total exp is extremely low. So I end up having to link people to this explanation, explaining that I wasn't just idle: https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/7wcfml/just_curious_who_here_has_logged_1_year_of_game/dtzj4km/?context=3

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:03 AM

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Understandable

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I mean I'm just assuming everyone just gets as busy as I do

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Balancing highschool with a job plus extracurriculars

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:04 AM

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Oh.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:04 AM

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highschool?!

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:04 AM

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I haven't been able to play NMS for weeka

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:04 AM

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sonny boy

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:04 AM

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completely unrelated, but Mick, is there more to the Sea of Thieves download than the ~20GB I'm seeing in MS store?

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:05 AM

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im 31.. believe me it gets worse

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:05 AM

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Not to mention

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It's going to get worse

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:05 AM

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@sleek shadow about the job thing:

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sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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Huh

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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I think next year

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Once I start my first year at uni

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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Hey Mick, were you able to predownload SOT?

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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I might give up gaming for a while

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Still keep in touch though

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But yeah

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:06 AM

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thing is though man, you'll start noticing that people are in different situations in life. so someone you think has no life cause they play that many hours might be on disability or have something else going on. People have that whole different life thing going on

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:07 AM

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College is like a new chapter

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:07 AM

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i havent yet iron

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:07 AM

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raises hand I'm living off of disability payment lol.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:07 AM

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ima check

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:07 AM

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I didn't say someone didn't have a life for playing games for a long times

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I just assumed that people just have lots of stuff they need to do

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I remember freshmen year all I did was play PC because my classes were extremely rudimentary

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:08 AM

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I'll be turning 27, this April.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:08 AM

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they do. of course.. shits hectic, people get it done there way

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:08 AM

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^

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I have a lot that goes on in a day.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:09 AM

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Sometimes I feel like I have too much

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:09 AM

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yeah i have 1000000 things to do lately

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:09 AM

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I already wake up an hour earlier to take an extra class at 7 am which is the name of my existence

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So no breakfast for me

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Sometimes I just want to slow the hell down

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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but i am going in for a big surgery soon so i have some time too kill. I find free time, if i didn't my wife would slap me lol

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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I hope it isn't something bad

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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you're in highschool ? Dude live it up

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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On a different note... @blazing torrent, when you see this, please don't forget to close doors to people's homes, when you go exploring. You left mine open, and a creeper wandered in. I had to repair my floor. https://i.imgur.com/YpRyUbL.png

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shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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i loved high school so much

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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I hate highschool

tough heron Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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highschool was fun

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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well my school was a shit show

tough heron Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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but uni is soo much better

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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I want college now

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Yee

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I'm ticking down the days

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Spending my time in these dreary halls

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Wasting then my summer

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Begging for agust to come

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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you know where your going?

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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August*

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UC Santa Cruz is for my 4 year bachelor's

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:12 AM

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good stuff little buddy!

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:12 AM

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Then I hope to transfer to Caltech for more advanced studies

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:12 AM

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santa cruz is beautiful

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:12 AM

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That's a hope though

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It really is

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The only problem is

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I love out of state

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And they don't give any financial aid to out of state

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:13 AM

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Maybe I don't have the right to say this, but may I mention that this is #other-games, and a general discussion about non-gaming and stuff might belong better in #off-topic-bond-james-bond?

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<.<

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:13 AM

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haha i pulled us way off topic

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:13 AM

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I did the same thing with the computer stuff.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:13 AM

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This conversation took so many turns lol

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 3:14 AM

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i got a new keyboard. so really im rambling cause i like the sound hahahah

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ill be back though

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:14 AM

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Lol

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Speaking of which though

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It's getting late

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And I don't want to wake up tommorow feeling like hell

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I'm going to catch some sleep

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:14 AM

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Sleep well.

sleek shadow Mar 20, 2018, 3:14 AM

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Thanks

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Good night all

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:17 AM

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@teal trench, huh, you don't do the standard pressure plate auto-open/shut doors in your structures?

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:17 AM

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Nope. I'm a weirdo who doesn't use those on doors.

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I like closing them manually.

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If I use pressure plates, then it's going to be a piston door.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:19 AM

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Gotcha, I thought maybe it was an aesthetics thing

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Btw, anyone here get into Warframe?

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:21 AM

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ps4 warframe yea

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:21 AM

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Lol, Warframe... I had an aussie friend, years ago, who loved that game. He would always try to get me to play it. It was that, and PoE. I finally caved in, and tried PoE, but ended up not liking it.

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I've still yet to try Warframe.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:22 AM

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its fun

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but quite grindy

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its not for everyone

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:22 AM

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I've tried Warframe but haven't kept up with it, so every time I pop in I'm going, "Wait, what is any of this"

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:22 AM

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PoE, being 'path of exile'. Different game, unrelated to Warframe.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:23 AM

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I was just watching the first part of the Noclip documentary on how Warframe came about, hence the thinking about it

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:24 AM

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I know Lloyd (my friend) said that I could use a sword and be a "melee" character, despite it being a Sci-Fi game. That was one of the main things that made me consider playing it. Normally, I don't like Sci-Fi games (NMS is one of the handful of exceptions, along with Starcraft.), and I can't stand shooters. But... hack and slash is another thing. I quite like those kinda games.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:24 AM

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I'm thinking I might try to get back into a bit, maybe, but always feels weird playing free games when I still have other paid games to finish

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Oh yeah, that's one of the interesting aspects of it, it's basically "space ninjas"

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So you can pick up some melee gear and do all sorts of crazy acrobatic style moves to take down enemies

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:25 AM

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o_o

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:26 AM

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Well, maybe not super crazy or anything, but still, ya can jump about/wallrun/etc.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:26 AM

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yea

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melee weapons are so fun

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:26 AM

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Is it anything like BDO? The combat in BDO feels ... "retro". I absolutely adore it. It feels like I'm playing an old SNES arcade style combat game, and having to use different combos. It's not just button mashing abilities, like so many other generic MMOs these days.

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Black desert online.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:27 AM

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more like spam circle as your running down a hallway and kill everything

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:27 AM

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o_o

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:27 AM

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circle cause ps4

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yea theres certain weapons you can run while using

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its great

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and stance mods to do a helicopter move

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now I wanna start playing it again

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:28 AM

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Um

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Okay, I have a question... can I play it like I would play Skyrim? Just do my own thing, killing stuff, exploring, and ignore storyline?

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:29 AM

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there really isnt too much story in the game

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:29 AM

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Okay, so... is it open world? Or what exactly?

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I've honestly never really... looked into it.

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Kinda tried to avoid it.

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:30 AM

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Oh, Warframe?

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:30 AM

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Yup

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:30 AM

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It's not typical MMO combat at all

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:30 AM

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it has missions style of gameplay

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:30 AM

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You get assigned a task and sent to a level?

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:31 AM

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more like you pick what you wanna do sort of thing

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its very hard to explain

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:31 AM

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Um. Have you ever played the old 007 console games? Goldeneye on N64, or Tomorrow never dies on Ps1?

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Those kinda levels.

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It's a pre-created map, made specifically for that mission.

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Is that what it's like?

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:32 AM

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If I remember correctly, maps are procedurally generated out of many set pieces (but I could be wrong)

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:32 AM

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No, that's right

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:32 AM

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Basically, you choose a tileset and a mission type

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:32 AM

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You select a mission and go off to the proc-gen level, basically

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Although they've since added some more open areas

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:33 AM

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It's not framed that way, but that's what it is

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:33 AM

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stuff like defending points or killing enemies

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:33 AM

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Okay, so in a sense it's like those old games, but the "level" is generated as you play?

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:33 AM

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Yeah

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You still go in, do a task, extract

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:33 AM

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Er, well you load into the generated level

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Depending on how ya meant that

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:34 AM

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That's likely what it was that was keeping me away from it, then. I feel like Lloyd explained this to me before, and I kinda recoiled when I realised it wasn't open world, or whatever.

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I knew I was avoiding it.

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Just didn't know why.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:35 AM

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theres like one "open world" type area

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that was recently added

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:35 AM

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Yeah, I kinda prefer stuff like NMS, Minecraft, and Skyrim. The one thing they all share, is a completely open-ended gameworld.

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Thank you for taking a moment to explain it to me.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:36 AM

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no problem

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:36 AM

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Skyrim frustrates me, but for the same reason all handcrafted open worlds do

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:37 AM

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Yup. Handcrafted stull will always be limited. That bothers me a bit, but I still like it.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:37 AM

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Which is largely that they don't take advantage of it with interesting systems to better stave off the exhaustive nature of it

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Worse still is that they clearly recognized that, and talked up radiant junk and all that, but frankly never really did much if anything with that concept

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:38 AM

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only open world game I've really liked is HZD

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:38 AM

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no NMS? lol 😛

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:39 AM

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prob second

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:39 AM

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googles 'HZD'
Huh, that's why I've never heard of it. It's Ps4 only.

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:39 AM

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HZD first

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yea sadly

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but its an amazing game

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:39 AM

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Horizon: Zero Dawn is crazy

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The mechafauna are brilliant

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Easily my favorite aspect of the game

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:40 AM

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I love the story

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:40 AM

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it feels sooo slooow

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Even as I've tried to focus through it

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:40 AM

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the story?

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:40 AM

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Yeah

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:41 AM

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I dunno it feels fine to me

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:41 AM

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To be fair I'm still around the start-ish of it all but bleh

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:42 AM

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start-ish where exactly?

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:42 AM

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I mean I also just really don't care all that much about figuring out the enemy group, since I'm more into the mechafauna, lol

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So like shortly after ya go & raid the ruined stadium

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:42 AM

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oh your actually quite far in

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:42 AM

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waitwat

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:42 AM

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relatively

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:43 AM

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This is like after your region is attacked and you're trying to trace down the attackers

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:43 AM

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I get what you meant by start-ish

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:43 AM

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That struck me as like first third still

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:43 AM

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yea its kinda far in but not really far in

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if that makes sense

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def first third

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:44 AM

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I'm guilty of dropping Path of Exile at an extremely early point. Right off the bat, the game angered me and annoyed me on several things when I tried it in 2015. A few months ago, I tried to play it again to give it another chance, and was irked by the same exact rubbish.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:44 AM

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lol yeah maybe, I'm guessing you may have thought I was still going through like childhood/first little bouts of training

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:44 AM

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yea I thought you were pre-proving

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:45 AM

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Path of Exile always struck me as too lootgrindy

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Since it's basically a Diablo-style game

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:45 AM

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I'm talking less than an hour after character creation.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:45 AM

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o_O

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did it have a really obnoxious UI because i can totally follow that, lol

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:46 AM

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No, it wasn't that. I'm searching to see if I had explained it on reddit, because I kinda don't want to type it all out again lol. It was kinda lengthy.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:46 AM

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lol

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 3:49 AM

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Grr.

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I guess not.

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I know I typed it out; it was likely in the old discord server I ran.

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Not in it any more.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 3:50 AM

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🤷 It's whatevs

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:50 AM

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just got a "slap stick" from a silver fish

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lol

lavish obsidian Mar 20, 2018, 3:51 AM

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You can also pick up a mute sword if you're lucky

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Mine was lost to a mob encounter

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 3:52 AM

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I'm very very proud of myself for the slap stick

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not much else though

agile raven Mar 20, 2018, 3:56 AM

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I have a slap stick

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 3:57 AM

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I just thought it was funny a silver fish dropped a stick

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 4:00 AM

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oh, Sea of Thieves is up

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...I think

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It's just giving me a grey screen

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:03 AM

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yarr that be the fog o' war!

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also i just went with my initial decision re: PSN sale, so Old Hunters & Statik were picked, for anyone interested, lol

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 4:04 AM

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I'm actually stuck on a loading screen now. I get this funny feeling that thousands of people are trying to sign in at once 🤔

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also yes statik looked good

rare coral Mar 20, 2018, 4:04 AM

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I dont miss launch days

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such a long wait to get into a game on launch day

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:06 AM

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Lol.

Hype up a game
Advertise it everywhere
Constantly show off the graphics
Make absurd claims about needing high-end hardware
Have a timed release date for servers to go online

... yeah. They succeeded in baiting all the high-end pc gaming enthusiasts out of their benchmarking circlejerks, to give it a test run. I'd imagine the login servers are being overloaded to an extreme.

lavish obsidian Mar 20, 2018, 4:07 AM

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I'm just going to wait a few months.

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It is fun, however.

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:10 AM

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Sea of Thieves is strictly online & multi, yeah? Not sure about the former, but if latter is true, wouldn't surprise me

primal rover Mar 20, 2018, 4:11 AM

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Yeah, GMR

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But you can choose to solo-sail

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 4:17 AM

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...Judging by the Reddit it appears that the matchmaking servers are completely down

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just uh fyi

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:18 AM

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Hit character limit again... yay.

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@cinder vessel Okay, about the PoE thing... I'm sure it's common knowledge now that I get stupidly angry about stuff, way too easily. Upon loading the game up for the first time in 2015, I was met with the character selection screen in the brig of a ship at sea. Rather than show me base stats, what each character can do and is capable of, it instead insisted on auto-playing an audio dialog of the character's background story every single bloody time I switched the cursor to another character. It had a long, annoying auto-scroll textbox which the game was reading from. No actual data about the class's stats or anything. Don't get me wrong, I love reading, and I love lore. This was just... absurd, and extremely annoying to me.

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@cinder vessel After finally settling on one, I was introduced to the gameworld, which... was not what I was expecting, after that cinematic intro. I don't mind the graphics at all - I actually liked them. What irked me, was the camera angle. It's locked at that weird isometric angle, and makes it difficult for me to see what I'm doing. I don't like that. Then, there's the inventory.... items that drop don't fill a single slot like any normal game. Instead, the item's shape dictates how many slots it takes up. It was bloody annoying, having my inventory fill up so quickly. Then, there was the combat itself. It's worse than Minecraft (in my opinion) with its constant spam clicking. It felt like I was playing one of those clicker cheap games where you're encouraged to use an auto-clicker software.

These things, and a number of other things just kept on adding up, and I got sick of it to the point where I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it at all. If I'm not enjoying something, then what's the point of playing it? A game is meant to be played for fun. So I dropped it after the first hour or so, and didn't return until a few months ago (like November 2017). The same exact things that bugged me last time, bothered me again. However, this time there also seemed to be alternate game modes and I couldn't find any form of ingame explanation as to what these do, or what I should choose. I had to resort to googling it, and then locating a tiny snippet - as if added by afterthought - to the Wiki, explaining briefly what the game modes are. I left again, and haven't returned.

limber harness Mar 20, 2018, 4:19 AM

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this is why you make sure your servers can handle 50x the expected load

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:19 AM

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^

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Always go overkill on hardware and network.

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Never try to guess a limit

limber harness Mar 20, 2018, 4:20 AM

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with any sane design, there should be absolutely no difference between 1 and 1,000,000 records

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 4:22 AM

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SoT discord is alternating between complaints and apologism for Rare

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nobody has a clue what's going on

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honestly, this is why I love launch nights

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:26 AM

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I'm really disappointed in Elite so far

primal inlet Mar 20, 2018, 4:27 AM

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I can easily understand why, but there's a wide variety of reasons

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so...why?

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:28 AM

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Oof, yeah, that's a whole mess of unwieldy decisions even before ya entered the game Quav, so I can follow being put off by it

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Too simmy? 😛

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:28 AM

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Well, I guess it's a few things. One of the biggest is that as I learn about the game, players who have been playing it are so pissed

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:28 AM

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FUCK YOU FOR LEARNING OKAPI

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SHOULDA BEEN HERE SINCE BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW ABOUT IT

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:29 AM

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It's like the more you play it the more you know why it's shit

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I've heard some of their reasons why, but it's just the kind of thing like

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one guy was saying he loved the game 200 hours in

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:29 AM

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sunk cost wooooo

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:29 AM

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and someone said "ahh you're still in the honeymoon phase"

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I don't know if I want to play a game 500 hours just to hate it

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:30 AM

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or invert and love, lol

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:30 AM

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Yeah @primal inlet im waiting a little bit to log in. I knew it would swamp the servers since its a huge release

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:30 AM

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The other reason is since today's patch it FUCKING crashes the gamewhen I try to enter a planet a la NMS

cinder vessel Mar 20, 2018, 4:31 AM

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😱

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:31 AM

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That's RuneScape in a nutshell, @gaunt hare. People who have played for thousands of hours have a love/hate relationship with it, whereas new players tend to be heavily put off by it at the get-go.

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:31 AM

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I've been playing it for 2 days straight basically

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:31 AM

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i love elite dangerous

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you stop that naughty talk sir

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:31 AM

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I'm having a lot of fun playing it

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but when you start to see the long term

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:32 AM

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in fact when i get the oculus soon ill never leave

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ive played for the long term hahah

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maybe i enjoy the pain

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:32 AM

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Some people love it 500 hours

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and never stop

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I don't know. I guess I've realized I'm gonna die one day so I want to be sure if I'm sinking that time in it feels worthwile

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compared to all these other games I have

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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yep if you get in with good groups of people and start doing serious exploring it can be really good for people who like that type of game

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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but on the other side go'ddamn elite is so much fun so far.

rigid haven Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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That's a depressing realisation

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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How does Elite: Dangerous compare to NMS and EVE? The gameplay and content.

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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hahaha i was just about to say that

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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Well I can only find time for so much video games!

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:33 AM

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totally different

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:34 AM

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@teal trench opposite sides of a spectrum

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:34 AM

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Elite is basically a simulator

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:34 AM

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arcade to simulation

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but their flow is really similar

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surprisingly similar

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:34 AM

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elite has what i need NMS to have

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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Travel from star to star

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visiting space stations

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grind

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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that unknown feeling of maybe possibly finding something

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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Land on planets drive around or walk/drive in nms

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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its beautiful too

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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Very realistic graphics

teal trench Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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Okay, lol. I look at it like this: Flying a spaceship through systems, exploring galaxies, entering/using space stations, landing on planets, and space battles. Does Elite have this?

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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Exactly

shy badger Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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you gotta just look up videos

gaunt hare Mar 20, 2018, 4:35 AM

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It is exactly that