Gamer's Lounge: June Edition (E3 & more)

Have you run the Menagerie yet? It's pretty awesome.

EA isn't even technically at E3. They are having a pre-show event but no press conference. EA using the time to pump the new Star Wars game is the only thing I would count on.

If only...

Wish granted

So, when it comes to BRs, PUBG is your realism sim, Fortnite is the far opposite with a premium on building, Apex tends to be the middle ground and focuses on individual movement in fights.

Any BR will have the issue that if you land hot, someone will likely be a better shot than you and dome you. Apex has been fun this week especially with the release of the new event & challenges.

It was an emotional day for sure. So proud of Bungie and the direction they are taking this franchise.

I told a friend about 10 years ago, consoles were going to go the way of the Dodo because streaming games directly is where the technology is going. I don't like that, even with the subscription, you're still paying for individual games to be played over the Internet (so you don't really own a copy). Additionally, unless you're in a biggish city or college town, you're going to get choppy game playing because most places still have only 25 MB max service.

However, I'd say the next generation of consoles is probably the last, unless the consoles have additional features (PS Vue, ESPN+, other functionalities).

I'm pretty skeptical. I expect it will be at least moderately limited in the games available and without a stellar internet connection there's going to be enough lag and latency that it kills the experience.

I have it for xboxone. It is a lot of fun but can be pretty tough at times. Some of the bosses are not bad but some you will need to die a lot to learn their attacks. Im assuming it is the same for switch.

I am addicted. It's a dinner dose of nostalgia. The Merry Melodies retro cartoon style is right out of my childhood, v and it's probably the best insanely difficult side scroller I've ever played. You will die a lot, but it's isn't frustrating like Dark Souls because the levels are all about 2 minutes from start to finish and you hop immediately back in on a failure.

I'd say it's a must buy.

I picked it up since it was on sale for about half off. It hasn't disappointed thus far.

NSFW, but honestly, this embodied my reaction when I seen the trailer:

I am in my late 30s, and honestly, I am SO HYPED for this game! Day ONE buy for me, ironically my birthday is March 2nd, I know what I'll be doing March 3rd.

Moon's haunted. Must kill Crota.

It's been a few months since I've played but if you want to level up fast there is a way to power level to 650 in an hour or two. I think you need the annual pass for that. Otherwise, going through the story mode missions is the best way to level up. Once you've done that, there are bounties and weekly/daily events.

Knowing that I was never going to get 3 I just played a massive amount of portal labs maps. Some of the creativity is insane.

Just my experience so take it with a whole shaker of salt: The game was fun at release. Destiny 2 and Anthem were both falling flat. The looter shooter had a bit of a vacuum. Leveling felt good. There were all kinds of secrets and caches and the story was fun to progress to. There came a point where I realized that once the story ran out, the 3rd person was going to drive me insane. Opponents noticeably became spongier at the end game & play around gadget cool downs really slowed down the flow of combat from the former run, gun, and roll into cover. Activities became less soloable so I would find myself doing fairly mundane fetch quests until I could get some friends online. I never even made it to the raid. I have a good buddy on the dev team for TD2 but I really just found it lacking once the polish wore off.

If you really dive into everything that's there, you may get more mileage. I didn't really explore the dark zones and pvp. Just wasn't my cup of tea but I just found it a little bare.

NBA 2K19 is $3 right now. So if you're into those games, that's a pretty sweet deal. And if you need a new dualshock4 controller like I did from beating mine up playing Destiny and Titanfall 2, they are on sale for $40 instead of the usual $60 at most major retailers.

DredgenMoore if on Xbox. Always need more active people in our clan!

Make sure you pick up the pulse rifle (Blast Furnace) and the machine gun (Hammerhead) from Black armory if possible! They're both extremely relevant in this meta and two of my most used legendary's.

Bring a couple friends, and make sure you have all your energy weapons to break shields easy (arc, void, and solar) covered. A tether helps, but isn't entirely necessary as the shield break with the appropriate energy weapon causes a chain reaction that clears the groups of enemies in the final chamber.

If you have Arbalest, it breaks shields regardless of energy and makes them weak to kinetic energy, but doesn't have the same effect of causing the chain reaction. Makes it good for the first part, not so great for the final room.

I am, but never ran a raid since lack of interest by my friends. Closest I got I d2 was the last wish.

While not on Xbox, for everything but PVP, I've had decent luck with LFG from both destinylfg.net and Bungie's "Find Fireteam" function.

It's how I finally did Last Wish before the end of the Season of the Drifter as well as every other raid I've done in the history of D2 and D1, how I've done Heroic Menagerie, and done countless nightfalls. PvP is another thing altogether. Ask for help and get people who couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag, and rage quit after losing one game.

Hard to separate me from Bloody Tooth but this one pleases me as well

I have it. It's 18 tributes & a quest that is actually surprisingly forgiving. Gun is fun. Isn't snappy enough for my liking and I'm still running the Blast Furnace. If you are looking for fast progress on tributes, slap on all your Meng weapons and armor and hop into various activities and raids.

EDIT: For those looking to get it EZPZ, there are two strats:

1) Farm out the 4 daily bounties from ROBO CALUS to reduce the price of the tributes. It will take 20 days to get the prices at an 80% reduction.

2) The method I used, use your hoarded legendary shards to buy glimmer and planetary materials from the spider and turn in for the 15 bounties that ROBO CALUS has. Don't burn your bright dust till the very end, not worth losing all that doge.

Quarterly sounds about right. It's not like there were any/many major game releases or updates in the past couple months. That will start in September, end in November, and then start again in February through April 2020.

Of course, Gamescom is next week, and some announcements will be made.

I'm done with two sets and on my third. I will say, no engrams for events really puts a damper on them. Was always fun seeing what goodies you would get and now it's just a slog to burn through bright dust.

Overall sounds like a positive step forward. Not sure I like the armor/mods being tied by damage type, but maybe I just don't fully understand that yet.

Anyone know if there is a reddit graphic available similar to the old ones for D1 and early D2 that said what you should be doing at each level?

I don't get to play more than once a week and now up to 745 LL but without a fire team to play with. Had a gap in playing so find my myself just going back to old quests I didn't finish. I do the Menagerie a lot because its fun, but other times just bouncing around doing stuff that probably doesn't mean anything. Forged the machine gun in the Black Armory, but haven't really determined if it is worth it to grind the exotics.

After starting D1 late and then grinding hard to get up to levels with everyone else, I planned to try to stay on top of the development of D2, but fell behind when we had our daughter. Now I feel as lost as I did back in D1, but without a fire team to help explain.