@Voltan Yeah, it's all sounding promising so far and sounds like the under 30s turned out in numbers more than the over 60s which is quite unusual, especially in the UK.
@colonelkilgore Hey mate, how goes things? how's the missus and life in Wales? Banking and whatnot? Any news in any of those depts? On the gaming front, I am still grinding in DeS going for a truly op build before tackling the main campaign properly. Have you much to say about Lords of the Fallen? Thought you might be playing it and could provide some info?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman hey buddy, yeah all good mate… hopefully the same can be said for you also. I haven’t picked up the new Lords of the Fallen yet tbh… but i do like the look of it (same for Lies of P too). I did just start playing Nioh 2 yesterday though and it’s absolute class.
Where exactly are you in Demons Souls atm anyway, I seem to remember that you beat Flamelurker… who is one of the later bosses in an optimal playthrough?
@colonelkilgore The order I am planning to do it in is more or less as follows: Upgrade End & Int to 25 & 18 - last levels I've got to go. Kill Dragon God. Kill Tower Knight. Kill Penetrator.
Upgrade my Dragon Bone Smasher & get Curse Weapon around that time too. Get a couple of health regen items to mitigate the Curse Weapon's health drain - then do either Shrine of Storms or Valley of Defilement and then take on Latria and then almost finally the 'true' final boss of the game and then the boss that comes after that - game complete.
Hope Nioh 2 goes well for you. Did you beat the first one?
Edit: Currently farming the skeletons at the start of Shrine of Storms, to answer your question. Haven't got that far yet. It's all about making the perfect op build.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman yeah I played through the original Nioh in 2017/2018 and really enjoyed it. It was my first non-from souls-like, so it’s interesting going back to the franchise after having played so many others.
I usually don’t, but I had a weird dream last night where I was at an event and the guys sitting in front of me were playing Final Fantasy 15. I watched them play for a while and I thought to myself “That looks pretty good. I should play that.” 🤔
The fact that I had played FF16 right before bed certainly factored into this. But admittedly, I haven’t thought of FF15 for a long time. It’s the single mainline entry that I’ve skipped since FF7. Are the gaming gods trying to tell me something? Or is it just random neuronal discharges in my brain caused by Clive and company?
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Coincidentally, I had a bit of a strange dream last night that I was a guitarist for a band and we played on a stage in front of a small crowd in a dimly lit theatre, but we didn't actually play any actual instruments. We just played the game Rock Band and pretended we were one. On stage. In front of people. It was... something.
"A corpse... should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well. How the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity." - Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
@Th3solution When I'm really into a game, I sometimes dream about the game I'm currently playing. Either where the story is going, or how I could tackle something a bit different if the game is more open world.
I can't remember the last time that happened though, and I very rarely remember my dreams.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@Th3solution I've dreamt about Hyrule. This was back when Ocarina of Time came out. Another dream had me waking up with my arms outstretched holding an invisible pad, no idea what game I was playing though 🤣
@Th3solution I dream in the style of a game if I play the game to the very moment I go to sleep. Which is something I don't really do any more to be honest!
Like if I fall asleep playing a game, my dream will take the form of that game but with my usual dream contents if that makes sense? My dream will be usual but I'll be experiencing it like I would be experiencing whatever game I was playing as I fell asleep. So for example, a disembodied third person view with a HUD (or whatever the third person HUD is called) or something.
The worse ones come when I was playing Picross games late at night, both as a video game and in the paper Picross magazines. My dreams would have this horrid grid overlay with numbers at the side and top. Not sure if the image of my dream underneath the grid was incomplete like if I was halfway through a picross.
It’s been really fascinating reading everyone’s weird gaming related dreams. Glad I’m not the only one who has my favorite hobby invade my sleep time. 😄
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Another random question on my mind that I wonder if anyone has opinions on —
When we get a sequel to a game, do you prefer it to just keep the original game title and follow with a number “2” or do you prefer an original name for the game?
I’m not sure if I’m explaining my question well, but with the release of Spider-Man 2 I’m a little disappointed that was the best they could come up with for a name. I felt the same about The Last of Us Part II, and Red Dead Redemption II. At least give us something with a subtitle, a la Uncharted 2: Among Thieves or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
I appreciate when there’s something unique about the game invested into the sequel’s title: God of War: Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Batman Arkham City, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom_, etc, etc.
In the case of Spider-Man, I realize that with Spider-Man: Miles Morales they had set a precedent that a named title indicated an offshoot expansion and they probably put the “2” there to really highlight the fact this is a large scale fully fleshed mainline sequel.
Still, when we get Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Tsushima 2, and Bloodborne 2 (…. we can hope…😄) I would like to see more creativity in the naming, personally.
@Th3solution I'm not fussed about 2s or 3s, subtitles or other naming conventions.
Maybe there are some weird numbers to finish on before restarting a numbering system, like 11 before going back to 1 for mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat 12 has a certain ring to it so I guess it's sort of a shame we won't get it?
I do quite like when number systems get rejigged or subtitled entries get counted like with Mario Kart. Waiting on Mario Kart 10 now! (If they count Tour as 9)
My favourite series numbering is probably for the Doom games which go (I think):
Doom
Doom 2
Doom 64
Doom 3
Doom
Doom Eternal
Now I know people on here are generally clued up and aware that the 64 is because it was specifically designed for sole release on the N64 but now they're all available on PS but for any casual gamers and youngsters ... well I guess that's what Wikipedia is for. And then after 3 (4?) they just restart at Doom without a care. I hope the next one is Doom 2 again.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Yeah, the Resident Evil games and the Final Fantasy games have made a really confusing convention of sometimes mixing in mainline numbers along with sometimes having a separate name for an entry. Even when it probably needed to be a mainline entry, like RE: Code Veronica, or when it probably didn’t need to be a mainline entry, like Final Fantasy XI. And then you have the double numbered entries like Final Fantasy XIII-2…. 😵💫. I prefer what they are doing with the FF7 reimaginings where it’s been Remake, followed by Rebirth, with Reunion in between. That’s clever.
@Gremio108 Or like the Die Hard movies, simply Bloodborner.
…On second thought, that looks too close to another word and would easily be confused for a AO rated vampire dating sim.
@sorteddan I intended to tag you on my comment above about series like Doom that mix numbers and non-numbers to the sequels.
But it also reminded me of one of my most embarrassing Push Square moments:
In an article about Farming Simulator 19, I commented about how surprised I was that the franchise was popular enough to have justified 19 installments. I was assuming the 19 meant it was the 19th game in the series. @kyleforrester87 made sure to correct me. 😂
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