I did everything except the torment boss fights that need the extra stones. Felt like that was enough for me u til an expansion. If I’m going to go chase impossible drops then I’ll do in D2c/D2Rc instead.
Alright, I think I'm done. They changed the Echo of Duriel fight to where he is now as much bullshit as Echo of Lilith if you're on the east coast. I got two shot with 10,000 armor, 85% poison resist, and 30,000 HP. The hit that killed me was...
For me, I didn't choose the game I enjoyed the most. I chose the game I felt had the overall biggest impact of the year.
And here's the thing. The biggest impact doesn't necessarily mean the biggest seller, or the most popular, or the...
Come up with your own metric that pushes one over the edge. In cases where I have trouble picking one I mention the runner up and why. For me it is usually coming down to those games that I come back to often if I have trouble.
Modern games introduced level scaling as a way to artificially increase play time. It also makes it easier to design encounters when you don't need to curate them. You can just say this type of monster or faction lives here and not worry about...
So, if I had to choose my games of the year:
1981: Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
1982: Ms. Pac Man
1983: Dragon's Lair
1984: King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
1985: Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
1986: Castlevania
1987: Double...
Sorry your are right. I got my dates mixed up for MM2 and DQ3.
I believe Zelda 2 gets a lot more appreciation nowadays compared to when it was released. I loved it when it came out.
We each have our own taste. A lot of people don't like Zelda 2, but it's my favorite Zelda game.
For some reason, I never cared for the first Zelda. But Zelda 2 was a very mature Zelda game, which I loved. I don't care if the manual says he's...
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Konami - Nintendo Entertainment System) / 1988
1988 ultimately came down to two games again, with the candidates being this and the NES version of Bubble Bobble (simpler and easier than the arcade version)...
So, CGA was 4 colors if you used an RGB monitor but could actually output 16 colors if you used a composite monitor via artifacting. (It could really get beyond that. There are demos of CGA outputting 1024 colors).
King's Quest on actual...
So King's Quest originally came out in 1984, and didn't include Green Sleeves. That was in one of the later variants. (Several things I enjoyed about the original version, such as the birds chirping, was removed in the later versions.)
This is a really good point, when I'm on the horse I'm just speeding past everything to get where I want to go. Then I stand in the boss area and fight the same boss in hell tide like 20 times in a group and that's the best way to get to 50 or...
The thing is, in later versions of Diablo 3, Rifts and Greater Rifts were meant to be sped through.
The Rifts are very compact in terms of monster density. Diabo 4 though is filled with a bunch of empty space. And sure, there might be monsters...
For whatever reason I enjoyed Rifts more than what I'm doing now, they honestly felt less the same to me than running helltide which all feels identical. We'll see I'm not that far in yet. I think maybe I just liked the game feel of Diablo 3 more...
Well, the leveling so far seems fairly easy compared to previous seasons. 2 hours in and already level 48.
Unfortunately, I still don't think the game's quite yet ready for primetime, so once again, will just focus on the season journey and...