What videogames have you been playing? version 1.22: What's with that plural?

[Sommerswerd]

I'm trying to play Red Dead Redemption 2 but the game really doesn't want me to play it. Combination of game systems keep conspiring to ruin my games. I've already extremely tediously restarted my save from the beginning once after accidentally punching a guy's horse and then being murdered by him (i didn't fight back because I wanted to be his friend).

Now, i have a bounty higher than i can pay because I accidentally mounted an NPC's horse, got a bounty for horse-stealing, shot some lawmen, and then the game autosaved all of that into my save without me being able to do anything about it. Now I just want to restart again but I really don't want to because I already did.

Anyway the game needs to either have a save system that lets me reload when I ruin my save file due to not being familiar with the controls yet, OR game systems that are a bit more forgiving of not quite knowing the controls yet.

Lols then you'd love The Long Dark, which in "survivor mode", relieves you of that burden by helpfully and irrevocably autosaving/save-overwriting anytime you:
1. Enter a house/building
2. Move from one map/region to another
3. Take damage in an animal attack
4. Take damage from a fall
5. Injure yourself (sprained ankle, burned/electrocuted)
6. Develop a negative condition (like frostbite)
7. Eat something that makes you sick

and also... helpfully and irrevocably erases your entire game if you die, including your last autosave, rather than respawning you at your last save-point.

I will say though... it makes the game more exciting, because death is permanent... and I find that when I die, I am usually actually excited to start over, because of the nature of the game. You also get to fully use regular saves, scum saves and autosaves when you play in story-mode without having to worry about dying erasing your campaign.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm trying to play Red Dead Redemption 2 but the game really doesn't want me to play it. Combination of game systems keep conspiring to ruin my games. I've already extremely tediously restarted my save from the beginning once after accidentally punching a guy's horse and then being murdered by him (i didn't fight back because I wanted to be his friend).

Now, i have a bounty higher than i can pay because I accidentally mounted an NPC's horse, got a bounty for horse-stealing, shot some lawmen, and then the game autosaved all of that into my save without me being able to do anything about it. Now I just want to restart again but I really don't want to because I already did.

Anyway the game needs to either have a save system that lets me reload when I ruin my save file due to not being familiar with the controls yet, OR game systems that are a bit more forgiving of not quite knowing the controls yet.

Ahhh, you ain't RDR2ing properly until you've punched your horse (on accident), tackled an old lady (while trying to mount a horse), or shot someone while trying to say hello. What system are you on? I bought my first game console just to play RDR2 (figuring they'd never port it, since they didn't RDR1), so I was learning PS4 controls in general and RDR2's specifically at the same time. You should be able to save manually by going to the menu, then story, and choosing a slot. As far as the bounty goes...I wouldn't worry about it. You're going to get bounties again depending on where you are in the game, since some missions force you to get into raging firefights in town. Evading bounty hunters is pretty easy. The only time I've been killed by them was when I wanted to try to kill a large party hunting for me.

 

[Lexicus]

I tried The Long Dark a while back and couldn't find enough food to live longer than about 3 days, on the easiest difficulty, so autosaving didn't become a problem.

Ahhh, you ain't RDR2ing properly until you've punched your horse (on accident), tackled an old lady (while trying to mount a horse), or shot someone while trying to say hello. What system are you on? I bought my first game console just to play RDR2 (figuring they'd never port it, since they didn't RDR1), so I was learning PS4 controls in general and RDR2's specifically at the same time. You should be able to save manually by going to the menu, then story, and choosing a slot. As far as the bounty goes...I wouldn't worry about it. You're going to get bounties again depending on where you are in the game, since some missions force you to get into raging firefights in town. Evading bounty hunters is pretty easy. The only time I've been killed by them was when I wanted to try to kill a large party hunting for me.

The problem with it is that I can't grind for money by turning in bounties until my bounty is gone.

I guess maybe if I go to another "state" where I don't have a bounty I could turn in bounties there?

 

[EgonSpengler]

I played the first chapter of RDR2, which I guess is really more like a prologue, and that was it. I couldn't tell if I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to learn a new game or if, yes, the controls [flipping] [stink]. Just riding a horse from point A to point B, not even very fast or shooting or anything, was frustrating. Searching an empty house was like being drunk, knocking into the furniture, struggling to open drawers, etc. I couldn't believe how difficult it was to do the simplest things. I wondered if I was in the early stages of dementia or something. This was on PC.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Well thats decided it. RDR2 is on sale atm but I don't think I'll bother with it.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh yeah @Smellincoffee I'm on PC.

I played the first chapter of RDR2, which I guess is really more like a prologue, and that was it. I couldn't tell if I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to learn a new game or if, yes, the controls [flipping] [stink]. Just riding a horse from point A to point B, not even very fast or shooting or anything, was frustrating. Searching an empty house was like being drunk, knocking into the furniture, struggling to open drawers, etc. I couldn't believe how difficult it was to do the simplest things. I wondered if I was in the early stages of dementia or something. This was on PC.

I'm pretty okay at Grand Theft Auto which has the same kind of setup but I just don't have the muscle memory for the right buttons, and when pressing the wrong button could easily mean being murdered it becomes an issue.

Also @Sommerswerd i don't mind restarting games usually but the early kind of semi-tutorial missions get old very quickly.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I tried The Long Dark a while back and couldn't find enough food to live longer than about 3 days, on the easiest difficulty, so autosaving didn't become a problem.



The problem with it is that I can't grind for money by turning in bounties until my bounty is gone.

I guess maybe if I go to another "state" where I don't have a bounty I could turn in bounties there?

I meant evading bounty hunters who come after you if you linger in an area for too long. The only reason I've ever paid off bounties was when they kept irritating me while hunting/fishing.

I played the first chapter of RDR2, which I guess is really more like a prologue, and that was it. I couldn't tell if I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to learn a new game or if, yes, the controls [flipping] [stink]. Just riding a horse from point A to point B, not even very fast or shooting or anything, was frustrating. Searching an empty house was like being drunk, knocking into the furniture, struggling to open drawers, etc. I couldn't believe how difficult it was to do the simplest things. I wondered if I was in the early stages of dementia or something. This was on PC.

I'm not familiar with the PC controls at all, but the game is MUCH more enjoyable once chapter 2 starts. Chapter 1 is really more of a prologue. With chapter 2 you have pretty much unlimited freedom, save for New Austin and south West Elizabeth where the player is shot on sight for the Blackwater business.

 

[Ajidica]

Also @Sommerswerd i don't mind restarting games usually but the early kind of semi-tutorial missions get old very quickly.

I know why more games have super long tutorials to ease you into things naturally instead of a wall of text; but I really wish they came with a popup saying "Okay, now the tutorial is actually over".
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was particularly bad with what. What you think is the natural place for the tutorial to be over is really only like a third through the tutorial!

 

[Sommerswerd]

Also @Sommerswerd i don't mind restarting games usually but the early kind of semi-tutorial missions get old very quickly.

Yeah I agree that the tutorial missions are pretty tedious, even sometimes when you are new to the game tutorials can be tedious. The Long Dark does not really have any tutorial that I remember, they just kind of throw you off the deep end, quite literally half-naked, in the middle of nowhere, with some matches (and sometimes not even that) and say... good luck, figure it out. That was part of what I really liked about the game. Even in the story mode, on the very first mission, playing on normal/easy difficulty I died twice before even making it to the first checkpoint (Gray Mother's house), but there was never any feeling that I was being given a tutorial... TLD hits you in the face with genuine difficulty right from the start. I think I've mentioned already on these threads that the first time I played Survivor mode, I immediately fell into a crevasse behind a waterfall and froze to death.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Long Dark tutorial:

Spoiler :

Try not to end up like the last guy! 'k? Good luck!

 

[Sommerswerd]

I tried The Long Dark a while back and couldn't find enough food to live longer than about 3 days, on the easiest difficulty, so autosaving didn't become a problem.

Start the game in Milton (Mountain Town), that's the easiest start. The game suggests that Mystery Lake is the easiest, but its not, because its too easy to get lost without any shelter.. Milton is literally an abandoned Town full of houses, with a paved road that snakes through about 2/3rds of the map, and has shelters and cars all along the road so you are never very far from some kind of shelter and someplace you can forage for food. Plus if you complete Episode 1 in story mode you will know Milton like the back of your hand by the time you finish.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I know why more games have super long tutorials to ease you into things naturally instead of a wall of text; but I really wish they came with a popup saying "Okay, now the tutorial is actually over".
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was particularly bad with what. What you think is the natural place for the tutorial to be over is really only like a third through the tutorial!

And it's doubly annoying when essential parts of the game are locked. Rockstar is especially bad about this: in San Andreas, CJ can't use a barber, eat, or buy clothes until he hits the appropriate missions that unlock them -- and in RDR2, wagon and horse fencing don't open until deep into chapters 2 and 3 respectively.

 

[Sommerswerd]

The Long Dark tutorial:

Spoiler :

Try not to end up like the last guy! 'k? Good luck!

An Easter egg that I wish they'd add to TLD is that when you die, the game swaps out one of the pre-programmed dead bodies on that map in the game for a dead body in the place where you died in the previous game, maybe even with a random item or two that you were carrying when you died.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I know why more games have super long tutorials to ease you into things naturally instead of a wall of text; but I really wish they came with a popup saying "Okay, now the tutorial is actually over".
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was particularly bad with what. What you think is the natural place for the tutorial to be over is really only like a third through the tutorial!

Older folks (like me) can remember the Arcades, then the original Atari/commodore then Nintendo/Genesis days when there were no tutorials... you just pressed start and off you went, trial and error, pays yer muney and takes yer chances.

 

[Lexicus]

and in RDR2, wagon and horse fencing don't open until deep into chapters 2 and 3 respectively.

Hence my aforementioned problem with money. I wouldn't care too much about having a bounty but when I tried to go capture a bounty to make a bit of cash it said you can't do any bounty hunting until you remove your own bounty.

 

[H4run]

I'm not familiar with the PC controls at all, but the game is MUCH more enjoyable once chapter 2 starts. Chapter 1 is really more of a prologue. With chapter 2 you have pretty much unlimited freedom, save for New Austin and south West Elizabeth where the player is shot on sight for the Blackwater business.

was trying to get into it, but everything feel so generic, the world is vast yet empty. It's populated with npc that really feel like literally npcs: no real interaction or dialogue except just trading "emoji". Ugh, it's like a better version of Fable, and I hate Fable.

 

[Lexicus]

LMAO. Yeah, I think I'm done with RDR2. Just loaded up the game again, not a minute goes by before I accidentally rob someone while trying to talk to them and then get killed by the sherrifs. Ridiculous.

edit: and this particular problem could be solved pretty easily by a toggle option to have a window that pops up "are you sure you would like to rob this person?" Wouldn't work for accidentally punching horses but would make the game vaguely playable.

I just restarted the game again, can't keep playing that file.

 

[H4run]

I remember when I tried to dismount from my horse, I accidentally press something that made Arthur or whatever the protagonist name is kick a street lamp. Then boy oh boy hell start to break loose from there, peoples in the street are screaming and running away from me, and when I entered a saloon they refuse to serve me, and a sheriff came inside and arrest me for vandalism, that is really really lame.

I choose a modded Oblivion any times and days compare to that game.

 

[Lexicus]

I'm liking it other than the issues i've mentioned already. Restarting i think was the right move, playing the tutorial 3 times i've picked up stuff i missed on previous runs (both plot/characterization points and items) and gotten a better handle on the controls etc.

 

[GenMarshall]

I’ve been browsing through Curseforge for some Minecraft mods. I’ve been picking some mods to bring in a Factorio experience into the game. So far Create, Immersive Engineering, and Mekanism have captured my attention (plus some mods to have compatibility with one another). The sticking point for me is which version to go for since I want to go for 1.18 or 1.19. But the mod that has the Factorio-like miners is only available for 1.16.