Palum
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I dunno I'm enjoying LotRO if you are ok with retro mmos
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
tugofpeace
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I've been thinking about that one actually. How do you like that compared to SWTOR? SWTOR just wasn't that fluid in terms of combat.
I'm also thinking about Diablo 4.. got to lvl 25 and quit but might do it again.
Palum
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If you're looking for fluid combat more than the RPG part it's probably not for you. It's serviceable tab target. The strength is the world/story since it's absolutely massive.
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If you value combat over everything give BDO a try. Yeah it’s Asian but not as gay as FFXIV. Will last you a few months until you are bored. New World is good in this respect too. And it just had a relaunch too. I played the shit out of New World during covid lock downs and had almost 800 hours in the few months I played it. Supposedly now it has more content and more end game stuff to do. Although still not enough. But I still enjoyed the New world journey through the levels.
Why not try some of the great ARPG thats out there right now. Each one could easily waste 200+hours of your time. Baldurs Gate 3, Warhammer: Rogue Trader among others are great time wasters from build crafting perspective, party design etc... Most have a difficulty setting so you can make them easy and normal down to ball crushing hard including perma death if you want the challenge. these are sort of party based tactical RPG in that every fight is turn based. They are my jam now since im getting older and enjoy the slow burn chess type cerebral game play rather than rushing through a MMO and holding your dick at the end with nothing to do. I also like the raw power you gain through the levels with new skills, spells etc that just feels good in these games, way more than in an MMO. I mean, BG3 was personally my game of the decade. Yeah it was that good. all voice acted,, great story, great side shit to do. Exploration off the charts chefs kiss to the combat too....
Why not try some of the great ARPG thats out there right now. Each one could easily waste 200+hours of your time. Baldurs Gate 3, Warhammer: Rogue Trader among others are great time wasters from build crafting perspective, party design etc... Most have a difficulty setting so you can make them easy and normal down to ball crushing hard including perma death if you want the challenge. these are sort of party based tactical RPG in that every fight is turn based. They are my jam now since im getting older and enjoy the slow burn chess type cerebral game play rather than rushing through a MMO and holding your dick at the end with nothing to do. I also like the raw power you gain through the levels with new skills, spells etc that just feels good in these games, way more than in an MMO. I mean, BG3 was personally my game of the decade. Yeah it was that good. all voice acted,, great story, great side shit to do. Exploration off the charts chefs kiss to the combat too....
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tugofpeace
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I will check out BDO.
As for BG3.. I tried that, but felt like there was a large learning curve to the game. I got to the point where I exited the ship. Am I wrong?
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Yes, and at least for me the learning curve was part of the enjoyment of it. What works, what doesnt etc... I came into it as a noob too as to the whole ruleset and all that. But the more you play it the more you learn. There is also outside help too like youtube and others that can float you some advice. Dont sleep on those games bro. Youre missing out, Im telling you. Play them on EZ mode first to learn. Things will start clicking, trust me. Then play them again with all the knowledge you gain on hardmode.
Daidraco
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Like.. the ship in the very beginning? The alien ship? You didnt get very far at all, my man. You can fumble through the entire game on the easiest setting. Its got a lot of gameplay that is "available" to you - but you can honestly just concentrate on all the story elements if you so want to.
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Yeah thats another good point. The variability of the easy to hard in these games makes it so you can just learn the shit on EZ mode while things around you just die. Then apply all that you learned in a real play through later on. Knowing now how the systems work, what class you want to play, which party members you liked the most because you now know... You dont even have to play through the whole thing the first time around, just play on EZ until shit starts to click and then restart the game on a higher difficulty. The hardest part in these games is not really the ruleset or the combat per say, its knowing what the good skills and OP builds are. And Youtube can help with that. There is literally tens of thousands of videos on all these games in respect to builds and the powers/spells/skills that are the good ones.
Gavinmad
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Are you talking about FF11? Because if you're saying you tried FF14 then I'm calling you a liar.
Cybsled
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Maybe New World? They did a soft “relaunch” with an improved new player experience. Even if endgame is lacking, you’ll probably get at least a month of enjoyment out of it if you pick one of the new servers
Depends on what you want out of a mmo. As with any mmo end game is probably where you get the most fun.
There's a ton of content in gw2, not sure how far you would get in month, depending if you buy the expansion or use a f2p account, but if you're starting from scratch without help might take you a 3-5 days to level to 80? core levels tend to be a bit vanilla/boring, although if you get the expansions you can get the raptor mount early on. Then you get into the end game content of world vs world, fractals(dungeons), strikes, raids, world bosses, full map meta events, conquest pvp you can join from level 1(everyone is level 80 in there and you don't need pve gear), 5 expansions worth of more content, 5 living story seasons.
There isn't a gear threadmill like wow, leveling you will get greens and blues and yellow rares, but 80 you get exotics and ascended, exotics are easy to get, ascended a little more effort from certain places, but the stat difference isn't very much. Legendaries are same level as ascended for stats, they're mostly for looks and convenience to change stats whenever but require a lot of materials, and it's account bound so all your characters of the same armor class get access to it (the light set you can equip on your elementalist, mesmer, necromancer for example, trinkets like rings can be equipped on all characters but you only need to get it once for one slot). Raiding you would do for the raid legendary set which is animated when you go into combat, wvw and spvp and overworld have their own legendary sets too. Would take a few months to get those though.
Combat is pretty free flowing, you don't stand in place to cast skills (well other than a couple animation locked ones), it's one of the best parts of gw2, although class balance is something else in some cases. Wvw can be 70v70v70 combat during NA prime time, max squad size is 50 so you might find 1-3 groups of 40-50 players running around in the maps at a time, but there's room to roam and do small group stuff. Although the game mode isn't as rewarding as pve, and it's been slowly degrading with it's recent developments, it's turned from siege warfare more into team deathmatch between zergs.
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I really miss having a server going and a handful of forum folks playing, the This Is Valheim! days were fun.
I built some crazy shit in that game, shame I don't have any of the world saves anymore. I had a large keep that I walled off along with a pre generated village, and had port just down the hill with a big dock with a "lighthouse" at the end. Had big island base I tediously built with a hoe and a portal to a random area to mine stone, out of rocks jutting out of the ocean. This was before I discovered mods that made water building easy.
I have so many survival type games like that on my list I just can't get into because they suck to play solo. I'm a complete autist when it comes to building shit, but its even more fun building shit people will use. I think I had a pretty bad ass 100% safe swamp base at one point, that a lot of people used as a safe start into the swamp. Wouldn't believe the deaths to leeches just to break that base lol
If people ever wanted to do another fresh server, without a big rush on progression I'd prefer, I'm always down for it, give me heads up lol. Maybe something newer/different. We need a FoH Survival Games "Guild" lol
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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I got my friends to buy into a monthly 'Survival Saturday' and got them to dedicate the first Saturday of the month to playing these games for a while - all so I could get this fix. Have taken a break from it for a bit, but will resurrect it after our January LAN probably.
This would be rad.
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Palum
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We'll see everything seems to be positive so far. It can't possibly be slower than the GeForce Experience at least. Why is takes 20 minutes to express install a driver is beyond me.