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  3. Posted

    I have been a huge champion of The Journey Down ever since the first part came out five years ago. I completely fell in love with the style, the atmosphere, the music, the characters, just everything about it was really fresh and interesting. The puzzles weren't especially complex but maybe another good thing was that I never lost momentum and stopped playing.

     

    Part Three finally came out and to be honest I'm a bit disappointed. I feel as though I spent more time watching cutscenes than figuring out puzzles. It is extremely straightforward and the climax didn't much make up for it. It blew out into this large scale action epic that took it from charming to trite pretty fast.

     

    That wouldn't stop me from recommending the first two! They will still hold a special place in my heart. Just write your own ending.

  6. Posted

    finally started playing arena regularly recently and got my first 12 win out of it! even though the meta is healthier than it's been in a long time i've been laddering less and less because it's so much harder now it seems, what with the new ranked rewards. but my go to decks right now are handlock, midrange paladin and midrange druid. the only competitive deck that i'm missing cards from now is control warrior, which i'm missing 3/4 legendaries from. i prefer control/midrange decks in general because i love just throwing down huge minions that do crazy things and having the game in my control. there's nothing like getting to turn 10+ against an aggro deck with minimal health and coming back to win handily

     

    and my highest rank is 5, a couple of seasons ago, which i got to with a pretty standard midrange paladin deck and some druid thrown in. again, if anyone in EU wants to add me (posh#2133) i'd be happy to play, especially with tavern brawls being a thing now. i have about 60 friends that i don't know who just spectate me when they need to for the quest

  7. Posted

    I think you can buy the first adventure (Naxx) and complete quests every day for a few weeks to have enough dust to craft some staple cards for a couple of classes to have a chance in ranked mode up to about rank 10, which is pretty good. with the exception of Grim Patron, there's no cards from the second adventure that really found their way into the meta. what got me to buy the second adventure mode and spend a tiny bit more on packs is that I just find this game to be really fun with the right cards, and those two adventure modes are really well put together on their own. I don't doubt however that there's still big problems with the game and that it clearly wants you to keep spending more and more money on it to get to legend, which is a pretty big flaw if you compare it to other big competitive games like DOTA, which I'm fairly certain you don't have to pay any money for to stand a chance against top players. 

     

    I've been playing consistently for about 5 months now, I've bought about 10 packs with real money and paid for both of the adventures. I try earning enough gold every day to open a pack, very rarely will I do arena. I have about 4 or 5 decks that are very close to ones that get played in tournaments and at high level these days, and if I tried really hard (or if I was good at the game) I could have gotten pretty close to legend, if not legend. it took a lot of time, but I still love the game, love watching tournaments and streamers, and will continue to spend as little as possible on it. the money I do spend is because I want to play with more fun and crazy cards and decks, not because I care about winning. 

     

     

    in other news, a new mode got announced today that sounds really fun! "Tavern Brawl", a tournament mode with modifiers and deck building challenges, so that's exciting. 

  8. Posted

    i'm at the point now where i have a couple of decks that win consistently but i get bored of them so easily that I don't want to play them. so while last season i got up to rank 12, i've been having fun at around 17-18 this season with weird (and mostly inconsistent) zoolock, value mage and deathrattle druid decks. playing warlock really makes me wish i had the cards for handlock, such a fun class to play with cool class cards. i find flamewalker to be a huge asset to my mage game, especially if i get too many from chromaggus or duplicate.

     

    i notice i've gotten like 40 friend requests in the past couple of weeks too, i assume a lot of them from here? because i don't remember posting my tag anywhere else. so if you see me online, feel free to challenge me to a game, i'll be happy to play my stupid decks against you!

  10. Posted

    after getting bored of playing the same mage and warrior decks as i was seeing everywhere else, i threw together a paladin control deck and found some success with it. been more consistent than any other decks i've played so far, and way more fun. lots of combos in here that are really satisfying to execute. it's not perfect (still make revisions every few games), and there's a few cards i don't have yet that i wish i did, but i like it

     

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  11. Posted

    bump! anybody here looking for HS friends? I've been playing on and off for a while and got into this a lot more fairly recently. I usually get to about rank 16/17 in ladder matches so not that great. also i'm european, so I play in the EU region. battletag is posh#2133

     

    would be nice to resurrect the conversation too, since the new expansion just came out and I don't really know of any decent places to discuss HS outside of the die-hard community

  13. Posted

    I totally understand why they didn't want to bring it up because it's definitely something outside of justin's control, but it might've been nice to hear them all discuss the idea of review scores when they were talking about justin's 7 for grim fandango. the whole part where he mentions having difficulty quantifying his review - why does it have to be this way! because now he feels like he has to apologise for his 7 because of the connotations the number has, not because of the way he actually felt about the game, which has even been echoed by people who love it dearly. again, the answer is probably business related. a number resonates quickly and easily with the majority. sucks though!

  16. Posted

    so, apparently I have steam keys to gift (via email) for the following (in bold are games i really like):

     

    A Virus Named TOM
    Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
    Anodyne
    Awesomenauts Cluck Costume
    Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
    BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
    Brazen Prototype
    DEFCON Multiplayer 
    Dungeonland 
    Dust: An Elysian Tail
    Eldritch
    FEZ
    Fractal
    Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
    Gratuitous Space Battles Multiplayer 
    Greed Corp
    Guacamelee! Gold Edition
    Hammerwatch
    Incredipede
    Intrusion 2
    Joe Danger 2: The Movie
    Leviathan: Warships 
    McPixel 
    Multiwinia Multiplayer
    Nightsky Steam 
    Oil Rush
    Papo & Yo
    Amnesia Fortnight Prototypes 
    Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
    Starseed Pilgrim
    Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
    The Showdown Effect 
    Ticket to Ride
    Ticket to Ride 1910 USA DLC       
    Waking Mars    
    War of the Roses: Kingmaker 
    Warlock   
     
    if any of you PM me your email you'll get a link to add the game directly to your library. in return, i'd quite like any of the following:
     
    Volgarr The Viking
    Civ 5: Brave New World
    Total War: Rome 2
    Cannon Brawl
    Tetrobot & Co
    The Nightmare Cooperative
    Spacebase DF-9
    Door Kickers
    The Journey Down: Chapter Two
    Massive Chalice
    Gemini Rue
    The Blackwell Bundle
    Resonance
     
    PMing me might not actually be the best way to contact me, so my email address is turner.jack[at]me[dot]com

  17. Posted

    can anybody playing this game talk to how it treats the french revolution? i guess i don't expect it to be any more than just another AC with the setting as the backdrop, but there's so many side stories i can imagine being weaved that link directly to the revolution itself. does it take advantage of the setting by just showing executions and nobles being mean to proles?

  19. Posted

    just finished series 2 episode 2. think it's my favourite episode since s1e3. unfortunately accidentally bought it on the vita instead of the ps3 because my ps3 allowed me too, but it's not so bad. one thing i'm lamenting this season is (not really a spoiler)

    seems to be a lot more QTEs and with tighter timing, which on the vita isn't much fun.] in s2e1 especially, which i didn't enjoy a whole lot.

    really excited for this series after episode 2 now though, some excellent moments

  20. Posted

    loving this even though i've never played a TCG or anything like one. still haven't put any money into it and it seems to be suiting me fine, at rank 19 now and still winning pretty often. spent a whole bunch of time refining my decks between games and found that it's much better for me to have a lot of low cost cards and dominate the board that way, also making sure i can draw as many cards as possible. having fun with hunter, mage and druid right now, not sure if i'll touch some of the others yet. first game other than spelunky or dark souls 2 to really hold my attention recently. and it was free!

  22. Posted

    I think Skulls of the Shogun got hugely overlooked, maybe since the hype really died down after the game got announced so long ago, which was kinda disappointing because i had nobody to play online with. I think that game did a lot of things right just with its mechanics though, just a skirmish is pretty fun to play against a friend as long as they know as much as you about the game.

     

    also it seemed like not many people loved Injustice as much as me, even though I was ready to not like it. I thought the single player was lame but the way it plays is great fun even for people who don't play fighting games a lot, although i do. as though it's the skulls of the shogun of fighting games, in fact. also it's full of so many features that a lot of fighting games just seem to omit, like street fighter 4 doesn't even have that much content and it expects you to extrapolate all of your experiences from multiplayer

  24. Posted

    I've probably spent more money on GOG sales than I have on Steam sales at this point. it's worth mentioning now that every day throughout the sale you can claim a special deal from 1 of 3 boxes, one being a classic, another being a new game and the final being random. i don't know if it's the same for everyone, but the classic for me today was Sim City 2000 for $1.79. unfortunately i already owned it

     

    edit: picked up Crusader: No Remorse, Septerra Core, Shadow Man and MDK all for $11.36. all for my mac, too. the mac support is really great, god knows how much i'd spend if i had a pc

  25. Posted

    so this came out yesterday and I just picked it up, just done chapter 1 and most of chapter 2 so far but i'm really enjoying it. if you liked the first one at all there's no doubt that you should get it. this one appears to have a bunch more locations and contraptions than the first one too

     

    it does kinda play like a parody of the first game though, since you're constantly sliding and aligning bits and pieces to reveal entire objects, a lot of the actions seem really petty compared to what they reveal. and often you'll just slide a thing like 5 times in a row in different areas of the same box and it'll get you as many items or something. i think i got stuck for a long time in the first one because i wasn't sliding right. some of the interactions don't feel as intuitive as they're supposed to be, i think, though i've not had much of a problem with that in this one yet. nothing super puzzling yet either, after playing professor layton a lot recently and device 6 i hope it makes me have to write stuff down on paper at some point