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Silver is the one I played the most, but I also actually enjoyed Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness.

I finally got around to playing The Last of Us (with the sequel coming soon). I just got to part where there's a clicker and a bunch of regular zombies and I keep dying to the clicker so I took a break. I'm still fairly early in the game, maybe like an hour or two in.

They thought you had to pay for all the apps.

ah, okay, that makes sense. LG is also making some of the best 4K TVs as well. They're just a little more expensive. If someone wanted to upgrade from a TCL, the LG line would be it.

At work we just started selling an LG 4k OLED that's somewhere around $3000 but holy crap is the image amazing. My coworker and I just stood there and stared at it for like five minutes in awe.

Gaming is my biggest hobby, but I do also play D&D every Monday night with a group of friends. My current character is a Tiefling Ranger.

Any generation!

I think back to Champions of Norrath on the PS2! Loved that game.

Agreed on this. My wife and I played it a ton as I recall.

I'll say that most Mario games are included as well.

Co-op Gears of War was fun, too.

@Mai Valentine What is Animal Crossing Pocket Camp?  I cannot believe I haven't heard of this Animal Crossing game.

It's an Animal Crossing game for your cell phone. It has a lot of interesting features but I feel like it lacks the charm of some of the console releases. Mostly because you can play those for hours at a time, but Pocket Camp was designed in a way that you run out of things to do quickly if you play too much. It's meant to be a time waster, play a few minutes here and there while you're in between doing other things. They've added a ton of stuff since it came out, but I just can't get back into it.

I'm actually quite fond of the soundtracks for the games in the FFXIII series. I'm hard pressed to pick a favorite, but Sunleth Waterscape is up there.


Tales of Legendia has a great soundtrack as well. My favorite from there is Short Circuit, the theme that plays in the lightning based dungeon.


But my still favorite!! Is "Karma" by Bump of Chicken from Tales of the Abyss (aka "i'm not crying, you're crying" the song)

Thanks everyone! I had a pretty good day! I had to work for a few hours but I got off fairly early in the day. I swam for a few hours at home, and then I went to a party (which was actually a friend's party who shared my birthday) and ate lots of cheese and also played "What Do You Meme" which is a pretty good party game.

Also where is my other birthday twin Creepin? 

Samsung Galaxy S7. It works well enough for what I use it for. The charge port is getting really finicky though, have to make sure it stays in when I put it on the charger and some cables just flat out don't work even though they are micro USB. I wouldn't mind upgrading but I think it's kind of weird how the S8 is skinnier and taller, it seems like it would be weird watching stuff on it.

Sword0fStorms (note that the "o" in "of" is actually a zero)

There's a patch for FFXIV this month so I've been trying to finish up my relic armor. Got warrior and white mage done, and now I'm almost done with red mage.

Animal Crossing New Leaf. I'm pretty sure you just hit both shoulder buttons at the same time and that's how you do it. It's been a while, though, so I could be wrong.

I bought into it because I still have a good bit of friends that play on Xbox Live and I honestly prefer playing shooters on the Xbone. The Xbox controller feels more oriented to shooters, IMO.

I definitely agree with this. I still prefer the layout of Microsoft's controllers over the Dualshock in general.

Ok so admittedly I've only played the very first God of War and I don't think I ever finished it. How much would that affect playing this game? Is it friendly to people new to the series, in other words?

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I still haven't renewed my PSN+ though so I'm not up to multiplayer yet.

I saw it last night! There's a lot going on in it! I don't want to spoil it but I'll say, it definitely leaves me wanting part 2 to come out already.

I think they really just need to look out for artificially creating demand for cash shop items.

I stopped playing Animal Crossing Pocket Camp because so many furniture items require absurd amounts of cotton, and there's not enough villagers that give that out, and the ones that do give cotton don't give a large amount, so you end up gated behind having to wait until you get enough cotton. Unless of course, you're willing to pay real money. Which I wasn't.

Pokemon Go makes it easier to get stuff if you play enough without having to pay. If you run out of Pokeballs you just hit more Pokestops and eventually you'll get what you need.

There's five levels of difficulty if I recall correctly:

Story
Easy
Normal
Hard
Ultra Hard

Story mode is specifically meant for playing through if what you really want is the story and you're not keen on combat. It makes everything easy, although on the flip side you also don't get access to some gear and weapons that are only available in Normal or harder difficulties. You're still going to have a hard time if you just wade into a giant group of machines, but most of the scripted, unavoidable fights become a lot more manageable. You could probably walk to up to anything except a Thunderjaw and live past one hit.

As I mentioned, I played through about 98% of it on Normal and only hit a wall twice where I couldn't defeat the boss. The first time I backed out of the area and leveled up a bit and grabbed more kinds of weapons, and was able to beat it. If I'd had more patience at the final boss, I could have done the same thing, but at that point I just really wanted to see the ending because the story is so good. After I beat it on Story and was satisfied, I changed the difficulty back to Normal, grabbed gear I was missing, and went back and beat it again.

There was only one DLC and they aren't making more, so you can already get a version that has all the DLC included, although it's still between $40 and $50 depending on where you buy it.

Besides the combat, the story is really amazing, so I definitely suggest trying it on story mode if you just really want to see that without having to worry about being able to get through some of the harder fights.

For me, I had just finished playing Rise of the Tomb Raider, and HZD plays pretty similarly in a lot of ways. Combat and stealth and the environment puzzles are heavily influenced. So I didn't have a whole lot of trouble with that. But admittedly, I played through the entire game on Normal until I got to the final boss, where I attempted it but got frustrated enough that I had to set it down to "story" to finish it. I later found out it was because I didn't have the best armor.

You can kind of charge in and go Rambo if you're on an easier mode and have a lot of good weapon/armor upgrades. Tearblast arrows to their weak spots make it kind of trivial at lower difficulties.

I'm actually surprised there wasn't a topic about this game already.

Has anyone else played it? I picked it up on Black Friday last year after hearing that it was good and I was definitely not disappointed. It's easily in my top 10 favorite games.

I have several Amiibos but I won't lie, I bought them as collectible figurines rather than with any intent to actually use them in a game. Some are still in the package, in fact.

They are still packed until I can get a glass cabinet to display them in, but off the top of my head this is what I remember having:
Samus Aran
Zero Suit Samus
Marth
Wii Fitness Trainer
Charizard
Wolf Link and Midna
Wind Waker Link
Sheik

I still really want Lucina, Bayonetta, and Cloud.

Imagine being in Spartan armor that's identical to everyone else's Spartan armor and having someone say "You look good in red" because they realize you're a woman from voice chat, and then refusing to play the game correctly because they just want to follow you around and hit on you.

I had a lot of terrible experiences back in the days of Halo 2. Playing online games as a woman is truly an experience. I still avoid voice chat if I can help it.

I don't know that I would include trophies/achievements, since those really only started with Xbox 360/PS3. Personally I think saying whether you beat it or not suffices. Although I guess you could just put trophy/achievement options on games that those are applicable for.

On a somewhat related note, I've only ever platinumed one game.

I had it but now I can't remember if I traded it in or not. Whoops!

Really, I'd just love to play ODST again and I don't remember if that's on the Master Chief Collection or not.

I'm late to this topic but I would say definitely try out the Tomb Raider game, too. I've loved the reboots so far.

And yeah the Walking Dead games are really good. I never did get into the show but it's not necessary for enjoying the games. If you like that style of game, Telltale Games has another game called "The Wolf Among Us" which is also really good and I highly recommend it.

Personally I feel like samurai and red mage are probably the least complicated for dps. They have pretty straightforward rotations, even at 70. I'm not sure if you have to have Stormblood to have them unlocked, though. Of the original DPS, I'm not sure which would be the easiest. All of them got a lot of stuff added between level 51 and 70. Black mage takes some getting used to at 60 when you have to learn how to keep Enochian up for Fire IV rotations, for example. But other than that, it's not that bad.

Also, you might try out healing with white mage. Healing itself can be stressful but the process isn't terribly complicated.

Tanking as a paladin is another option. There's not really much to the rotation until 70 and that's if you're trying to maximize your dps output while tanking.

I think I put my character name in the general topic, but mine is Senah Kha if you want to try and look me up in game. I haven't been on much myself recently but I probably will at least tomorrow and Wednesday. I have all of the combat classes at 70 so I could take you through dungeons or stuff if you needed help with that. You can run dungeons unsynced so that might make it a little easier to learn the new bard stuff if you want to keep going with that.

The first game I really played that made other games unplayable for a while because they just didn't compare was the Tomb Raider reboot in 2013. It was just such an amazing game. I mean the story was not the best (it's certainly not the caliber of an rpg) but every other element was amazing.

Another game I recall fondly, though not for the same reasons, is Spec Ops: The Line. A friend of mine recommended it to me. As far as the gameplay, it's a pretty standard first person shooter. But the set up of the story is ...very thought provoking.

I mostly played with Legos, Ninja Turtle figures, and Matchbox cars when I was younger. They're mostly still around lol

I've been alternating between Lightning Returns and the usual FFXIV.

In FFXIV I just got two more Eureka relic weapons finished (red mage and samurai).

In Lightning Returns I'm currently on day 7? Or maybe 8. I'm trying to get sidequests done since I'm stuck a bit on a few of the bosses.