Diversity is our strength!

Literally, there's so much different stuff in that game to do, in different environments. You start with turf wars and petty crime in your home city, then you drive races in the countryside and drive over people with grain combine, help a hippy scum smuggle weed into city while shooting feds with his rocket launcher, help a nerd humiliate rival nerd by piloting toy planes dropping bombs, pass a drive school exams ( ), help chinese mafia rob a casino, get a flying license ( ) after stealing a private airfield, break into zone 51 and steal a jetpack.

Do you really not know how to do an average?

!g*mers discuss

Oh! I've actually been playing this one recently!

Considering how much GTA 3 doesn't hold up, this one's still really good. It's an enormous game - I've clocked like 20 hours and have only just got to the second city.

The combat can be pretty awkward, but the driving is good and there's an enormous variety of vehicles. And there's so much stuff to do! The story and characters are really fun too, not to mention the A+ soundtrack.

Also! Modern right stick camera control! At last!!!

Kino game Like with all the PS2 games there are some janky missions and some time wasting minigames. But this is still the greatest GTA in regards to premise. Being able to explore different cities and environments is still great and still elevates the game over modern GTAs in that way even if the newer releases have bigger and more technically impressive maps.

I can grind 100 hours on random open world slop no problem but I can't enjoy any rockstar game

Would be 10 no cap if it wasn't for those missions

You know the ones

The mere fact that there is a timed main quest that permanently changes the outside world is almost unimaginable in today's mainstream present. [...] All the redditors who spend 50 hours in the first act wouldn't stop crying.

PF:Kingmaker had something similar. And you're right people cried about it

I have no idea why people rate this one higher.

Because there's more stuff to do, and back in the day that was a really important part of the game's value. Today, when there are many more high quality games compared to then, this is less appealing, as you end up grinding through a lot of inferior content, to get to the good stuff. So tighter and more focused products are more valued today.

Yeah I've always been Fallout 1 > 2. Agreed that the consequences made the setting in 1 much more interesting.

The part after delivering the chip was initially also timed but people cried too hard so it was removed.

a timed main quest

You need to light a fire under the player's butt. These goddarn zoomers want to drift along at their own and always do the right thing, which the game makes obvious to you. With a time limit you gotta start being a little more ruthless, sacrificing others to get what you want. Those decisions become actually real decisions where it's not clear which is the right answer. A big part of life is making this kind of decision, is it worth hurting X in order to help Y or me. It actually engages you emotionally.

Fallout 2 has way too much filler and bloat.

As the other guy said, nobody was complaining about "bloat" back then. Also I gotta disagree with you because if you really dig down, you find that all these cities are linked to each other in some way. There's a whole story going on underneath what seems to be bloat.

Also the plethora of references is really annoying.

Chris Avellone is a gigachad who sued his #MeToo accuser and won, the guy behind KOTOR 2 and lots of stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. He also went to fricking RPG Codex of all places and spilled his guts about everyone at Obsidian and Black Isle in what is known as the "May of Rage". You would have to have been there. Somebody's gotta write that story someday. You could make a fricking book out of all the drama.

Anyway, Fallout 2 was his first job doing anything important on a game. He wrote a lot of New Reno. He's said that in hindsight he really regrets putting a bunch of pop cultures and stuff like that into it. So yeah, you're not alone. Even the guy who wrote it agrees with you.

I started playing underrail recently. Reminds me a lot of the OG Fallouts.

>Be a Gaius

>Discriminate against men not named Gaius

>Only hire more Gaiuses

>Entire staff is Gaius

>Everything and everyone is Gaius

>Take over Rome

>It's Gaius now

>Thousands of years pass

>Gaiusania is country in Eastern Europe

>American tourists complain about Gaiusani pickpockets

by the developer of A Legionary's Life

Sold.

I'm terrible at it

No you're not. I been playing X-COM since the real thing so I must be an authority.

The problem with NuX-COM and especially NuX-COM 2, is that it really comes down to one fundamentally r-slurred gameplay mechanic: Pod popping. The battle is all about what situation your guys were in when you hit a certain tile and the pod goes agro on you. You have no way to predict when this will happen. It's completely luck. It's not a game any more than a slot machine is a game. It's like going out on a patrol in real life where you might run into a booby trap IED at any moment with no warning. In NuXCOM-2 I'm not having fun, I'm feeling constant anxiety like that. I didn't buy it to play Worst Parts of Being an Infantryman IRL.

Also another very basic fundamental flaw: You have 4 on your squad. (Or am I confusing this with Battletech?) Anyway you have very few people in your squad. So if one gets killed, you've lost 25% of your force. That means you've lost the battle. You go back to base and it turns out that losing this one battle puts you behind the curve in the strategic game. So if you step on the wrong tile one of your guys can get killed which means the entire game is lost and you've gotta savescum. I dunno about you tards, but I don't find that fun.

In real X-COM it was legit fricking scary. The enemies didn't "go agro". They hid in the shadows, in buildings. You're watching the alien turn. You hear the pitter patter of little sectoid feet. Suddenly a plasma bolt comes out of the darkness and kills your pointman. I virtually never feel fear, but when that happens to me, yeah for a split second.

I kind of like how atmospheric those game are, even if it's a bit excessive with the slow mo sometimes.

It's a shame they never made any other.

No, Chimera Squad does not exist. Never play Chimera Squad.

other than maybe mercy who's nerfed to uselessness anyway

they need to leave something safe for women to play in their playpen

Idk what you're on about. Pure DPS is valid if you run dual tank. Early game you gotta rely on the healer but late game you can focus more on damage, when anti-barrier/anti-healing builds up. Most supports have a decent mix of healing, CC and damage. 2 healers or 2 flankers never work.

You shouldn't solo these games. Even 2 player parties work cause you can have your pal play flanker or off tank and come in for heals now and then. Even if your r-slur teammates pick 2 dps you can have him on point and punish the other healer.

@CamNewton stoked?

Similar, -10h. Spent a lot of time building up new nice walls anchored by lakes, only for the to suffer 0 (zero) attacks since the new walls are too far away from factory .

Starting to build rail system now. Thinking of making all lines elevated and only bringing trains down at stations and intersections.

SH Howitzer

How'd it go?

The best GTA ever made or will be.

Surely you mean Vice City?

@DWHITE___________DYNAMITE important comment

I mean I've played a lot of Skyrim, but c'mon, in 2024? Try something more avant garde, like A Legionary's Life mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It's only $8 and it puts the Role Playing back in RPG.

Now get the reindeer mount

I always thought that game had an easier parry system than most Souls likes