System Wars Lounge V.67: The Bias Against Xbox One Is Real Edition

Difficulty in FE Fates is quite consistent actually, it doesn't usually feel unfair- unless the game keeps throwing reinforcements your way, which doesn't happen often, and even then if you strategize you can always make your way out of the situation unscathed.

Classic + soft reset can be frustrating at times, but it also makes for some hugely satisfying payoff moments. Anyway, I wouldn't suggest Casual for Fates, since the writing and the story aren't anything to write home about. Mediocre at best, atrocious at worst (pretty sure I've used these exact words to describe the story and the writing in Fates before, and several times too :P ).

Does anyone want to buy an XCOM Enemy Unknown Steam key for $3? I mixed it and Within up.

@Blabadon: but I thought I was your Alt? :o

@khoofia_pika: oh I had no idea about Fates difficulty, I just assumed it was like Awakening in regards to difficulty which is according to people very inconsistent on high difficulty. I still haven't finished awakening so I'm not qualified to give a well informed opinion about it. But good to know that fates fixed that issue and thanks I'll make sure not to care enough for its story when I play it and just focus on the RPG element.

@Blabadon: Getting Fire Emblem Fates?

On Chapter 10 of Conquest. Wow, I didn't expect the gap in quality between Conquest and Birthright to be so noticeable. It's almost like Birthright was just easing me into the Fire Emblem experience, and Conquest is now letting me play the full, proper game. And not just in terms of gameplay and difficulty- everything, the characters, writing and mission objectives are much better here. And I'm beginning to understand why so many people are Team Nohr. Almost every single main character in Conquest is better than those in Birthright.

Birthright almost seems like a half-baked experience in retrospect when compared to Conquest. But I guess on the flipside, I'm liking Conquest as much as I am because I've already invested like 30 hours in the FE Fates universe. Either way, I'm enjoying Conquest a great deal more than Birthright.

Yeah, Awakening wasn't a very balanced game in terms of difficulty, especially on Hard (never played it on Lunatic, but I'm assuming from what I've heard that it was absolute bullshit). Fates is much more balanced in that regard.

You should definitely play it. I finished Birthright yesterday and thought it was really good (would land between 8/10 and 9/10 for me personally), and started playing Conquest today. I'm enjoying the latter much more.

@charizard1605: no

Played a little Doom that was included with the Doom 3 BFG edition. Its my first time playing Doom on a PC. That game still holds up and feels fantastic.

The first game? Hell yeah. Really good, although I was, and still am, more of a Wolfenstein 3D guy (another game that holds up remarkably well).

Yea, I've only played Doom on Nintendo consoles. The weapons are still really satisfying to shoot.

That, plus it's not a game that likes to hold your hand. You can go off the beaten path, explore, get lost.

I really used to like that kind of thing in shooters. Hopefully the new game is more along those lines, and less Call of Duty.

Just fell through the floor in Silent Hill Homecoming, can already tell this game is going to be buggy crap.

Also the nurses are....weird.

It's surprising on how much sprite based FPS hold up. Despite one control hitch with looking up and down, here's another that holds up very well (something I can't say for the first sequel like I can the other two):

This game was doing things before Duke Nukem (jumping, voice acting, looking up and down; hell, I even called this a Duke Nukem 3D prototype with a Star Wars skin) and Goldeneye (objectives).

@nintendoboy16: I think a lot has to do with just how well designed these games were. They had some real, honest to goodness, good level design back then, not the glorified corridors that passes for level design these days.

@nintendoboy16: I tried to play Dark Forces a few years ago because I loved Jedi Knight 1 and 2 but couldn't get it to run. Might give it another go after I play through these Doom games.

Maybe. I know people say this next example doesn't hold up, but even Goldeneye (and other shooters like Nightfire and TimeSplitters 2 on the GameCube) still has moments where you ask why most games in this genre try things like this anymore.

Damn Daniel

Does that version run better on PC? Like at 1080p and all that jazz?

The Ultimate Doom is more of a dos thing. Does it also have Doom 2?

I mean, its full screen, couldn't tell you what resolution it is. It comes with Doom, Doom 2 and Doom 3. Im sure there is tons of things wrong with the package that Doom purists hate but the 30 minutes I played of the first Doom ran and played fine.

This is all you need to make Dark Forces work perfectly and with several modern graphical options. Works for a number of other older games too.
If you´re serious about playing the classic Doom games look at the source ports(ZDoom for instance),it will probably be a lot more fun for you to play them like that. Works for all the new and old wads(Doom,Doom 2,Hexen,Heretic,Strife,etc)
Brutal Doom is fantastic,even if it is for a first time player,unless you really,really want to have the original experience.

I cant even remember the last time I played a vanilla wad,probably still in the 90´s lol.

We need a new lounge. Anybody want to do it?

@darkspineslayer: thank god

@Blabadon: Is that volunteering?

About time for a new lounge as it is and I think it's time for Charz to ditch that ugly guerrilla and go back to Chie, at least I hope he does.

@davillain-: The smear campaign gorilla must live.

@darkspineslayer: I'm sure Charz is desperate to switch back to Chie, I can smell it lol.

@darkspineslayer: would an anti-khoof lounge work? Otherwise, no.

I'll make the new one if no one else is claiming it.

What if yah don't make a new lounge, since nothing of value is gained out of actually making a new lounge all the time?

Then the old lounge stays, and eventually starts glitching out :/

So wait till it starts glitching out lol, it's not a hard concept.

In the old days it took a certain amount of pages depending on post count, and that's how we knew when to start getting a sticky thread round 2.

lol. I guess there is also a certain appeal to always having (or attempting to, anyway) a topically relevant lounge.

Alright people, apologies for the short notice but there isn't much more I can really tell you.

Something is bit crazy right now and people are getting false positives for basically any and everything. Try to keep going as per usual, if anything happens you're gonna have to wait (out of our "league" per say).

In any case, if you (or any other user you know) does get randomly banned out of the blue do try to give us a heads up if you can.

Mods, plz don't un-ban Azati :3

I want this

@khoofia_pika: you need to make this.

I don't have the chops to make that kind of a thread, you know that very well.

I'd help you if you want to make it though :D

If I get randomly banned, then it's on GS. I mean I probably deserve it, but screw you!

@khoofia_pika: no

Laying in bed listening to music after getting my ass handed to me in Street Fighter V lol.

I guess we're out of ideas for a new lounge then, guys.

@Desmonic: my old Theguardian account already got banned due to this sites stupid bugs last year. It didn't help that I couldn't access my email and lost all progress made in that account.

If anything happens I'll contact you on PSN if you don't mind. :)

@khoofia_pika: persona themed lounge or p5 not coming out lounge lol.

can't make a lounge about a game that might never exist ;__;

@a-new-guardian: Sure, no problem.

Again, unfortunately it's something that we as mods don't really have any say in. We're just gonna have to keep on marching while we can I suppose...

@khoofia_pika: it does exist but only in the realm of SW lol.

But yeah we need a new lounge. Maybe welcome back mmmwksil lounge? Or his other name swimskills ( sorry mmmwksil that's A nickname Xvision gave you lol)

I don't know what just happened, I got banned out of no where, all of my threads disappeared and now I'm unbanned? Damn Glitchspot? I almost got a heart attack!

@FireEmblem_Man: It's all @Desmonic's fault. Just cuz.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... they don't know...yet >.>

I was gonna blame @charizard1605 AKA COWizard1605 and his Xbox Smear Campaign of banning all Xbox Fanboys (me included)