Hearthstone babble and other random gamesFollow

I didn't want to come right out and ask.."You realize this video is not a real trailer for this game"?

...because your post kind of seemed like maybe you thought it was.

That's all.

If you get a headache from reading a few lines of my drivel, those chan sites must cause cranial explosions.

Edited, Feb 6th 2015 6:33pm by Elinda

If you're just going to write off my ramblings as trolling there is really no reason to respond to me.

You posted a stupid youtube video, for no apparent reason.

Don't worry Pold, the rest of us understood.

Still liking Hand of Fate but it might be better as an after work small chunk game rather than a weekend bender game. So I bought FFXIV mostly because I found out you can play it with a controller.

I'm a bit skeered that I have done a terrible thing. Pray for me.

That will most likely happen to me as well. I don't really like to group in MMO's anymore. I just tool around, explore, try classes, and level up a while. Then I quit before I can get sucked into a no life end game again.

Honestly, I wouldn't have minded grouping. It just shouldn't involve sitting around for forever waiting to find one. Only way I'd go back is if several of my gaming buddies got into it too and we arranged play sessions.

True story. I once went to visit a friend out of town and crashed at his place that night. He tried to convince me that I should pick up FFXI. So, to show me the gameplay, he went LFP to find a leveling party. We watched a couple movies while keeping an eye on his laptop, then gave up. And that's when I decided FFXI wasn't for me.

Sounds like they got the concept from playing with video game tropes refrigerator poetry magnets.

A bunch of my Mechwarrior clan were playing it after they got fed up with MWO a while back. They all seemed to like it. I never took the plunge because I was ready for a non competitive game after my last MWO bender.

And also just hit my first forced group story quest dungeon at level 15 FFXIV... I thought I had until 30. Supposedly it's a stupid easy dungeon so I will probably just go ahead and do it since the game is still fun other than that so far.

Give me a heads up if you want to mwo shoj

Man, people who said that Far Cry 4 was just like FC3 weren't kidding. Compared to how distinct the original, FC2 and FC3 were from one another, FC4 is cast directly from FC3's mold. Pretty much like Saints Row 4 vs SRTT.

That said, if you liked FC3 -- and I did -- then you'll like FC4. The situation is about the same, though reversed: now you're an American kid in pseudo-India/Nepal fighting with rebels to overthrow the dictator rather than American kid in generic Indonesian island nation fighting pirates to restore the government. The basics are all there with outposts and radio towers and exotic animal hunts but they fluffed it up with captured outposts suffering counter-attacks and a karma system for saving those roadside hostages and disabled vehicles.

All in all, it's a win for me. I started playing because my kid started FC3 and it put me in the mood to revist the game and, hey!, here it is with a new setting. At the same time it's a little disappointing that they played it so safe versus the distinctness of the previous games. I only paid ten bucks for it though and it has a ton of content (almost distractingly so) so I can't complain.

The fluffed out nature of FC4 including its wildlife, missions and expanded NPC "lives" (they say more, you see them doing more stuff, etc) leads to some great unintentional humor. My favorite being a woman telling her companion "When I see the animals, I do not see them as 'fierce' -- I think they are more scared" then screaming a second later as an eagle tried to fly off with her head.