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[fscom]

Games thread!

[a_phoenixdragon]

Alas, my love of video games is EPIC...but I suck at them at times - and I super suck at reviews, lol!

But I also may be assuming much with the 'games' in this game thread. Are we discussing video games, board games, curling, etc? :D

[(Anonymous)]

Traditionally, the 'games' thread existed to play forum games in - so like, if you wanted to play twenty questions, you'd do it here so it wouldn't crowd the other threads

that's not much of a concern anymore so it's all sorta loosey-goosey. what kind of games do you like?

[a_phoenixdragon]

Ahhh. Well. Now I feel goofy, lol!

But hey, being rescued with a question - I'm down with that!

I like a wide variety: Tex Murphy, Resident Evil (and the Silent Hill franchise), Devil May Cry franchise (rather obsessed with DMC 5 right now), The Bard's Tale IV, Quantum Break. And that is just a few within a very long list!

Do you play any? What would you recommend and what draws you to certain games?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I have some mixed feelings on DMC5 overall, but god damn I would wreck V. Why is literally everything about him so sensual?? Hnnnnnng

[a_phoenixdragon]

I have not caught up with all the canon (books, anime) of DMC (which shames me deeply), but I am planning on DESTROYING canon with fics of the deepest, darkest, angstiest type. With wicked sexual overtones. All V based.

WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE MORE V??

Yes. Most of my obsession is V. They must think I'm an idiot online, cause all I seem to do is replay his scenes. But it is TOTALLY to get red orbs for the Ex-Provocation taunt. *Ahem* Yes.

Thank you for this. I was starting to feel lonely in my V obsession (though he seems to be well-loved online - I just...need some lovin in my Happy Places - LJ/DW - as well).

TLDR: His hotness is stupifying. I don't 'do' woobie-characters (never been my thing - I like my anti-heroes), but he ISN'T woobie to me. He is the penultimate anti-hero - and gorgeous in all the Ways. HE. JUST. WON'T. STOP. GOING. And his quiet pain is delicious. I plan to wallow thoroughly and shamelessly within it.

I am a terrible woman.

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh I wasn't invested enough in 5's story to seek out the extra canon materials (my #1 gripe with the game is honestly just that it was rushed as fuck, and how they basically made Lady and Trish "sexy lamps" bc of time constraints was criminal), but I might read V's manga once it's done/been fully translated. I do think there's a lot more to explore with him, especially his motives revolving around Vergil.

If you're terrible, I'm worse lmao because I'm 100% about exploiting that hint of vulnerability he has. He's not a woobie, but he sure has a couple of moments, and... man. Just. Would do awful things to him. :3

On the other hand, am I the only one who thinks he'd eat pussy like a beast? I just feel like he'd be an absolutely mindbending fuck, regardless of who he's with or what role he's taking.

[a_phoenixdragon]

I wasn't too keen on how they handled Trish and Lady...and honestly, Trish pissed me off in 5. Her sniping at V 'I'm not your Mommy' just rather made me see red. DUDE. YOU LOOK LIKE HIS MOTHER. Deliberately. No, he doesn't see you as his Mum, but why WOULDN'T he spill to someone who looks so much like her? Think he wouldn't miss her too? He never saw her after...the first invasion. He tried to talk with Dante - but Dante is a wall. As always, lol. (Think he would remember that about Dante).

I just thought Trish'd be less of an ass than that (faint hope) - and Lady...I just didn't know what to think with her. I glossed over 3, only played half of 4 - so as someone who has been following the series from the beginning, I rather suck at it. My overall knowledge of these two badasses is woefully thin. HOWEVER. V caught my attention immediately. The storylines with him just sucked you in - and was marvelously told. There are SO many ways to tackle this - from beginning to end. I look forward to beating THAT horse to death.

Maybe it will pull my Musie back from a two year hiatus. That would be nice. Though it would blow if the fictions were awful. UGH.

No, I will not talk myself out of this. Maybe.

His MOMENTS...OMG. Those few times when he slipped - when you saw the pain or heard it. The way he would wish with a few words. The details he would leak. Absolutely DELIGHTFULLY DARK. And sad. And wonderful. I should slap me, honestly.

Hell, I'm not a M/F shipper - but fuck yeah! I have had a few *ahem* M/M daydreams of him. With someone he doesn't know. With someone he DOES know. Yeah. Horrid person me. But ain't it great? He would fuck like a porn star's dream, methinks. Unnngghhh.

He should stop being delicious. Or maybe never stop.

Dammit...

(And when his hair is his natural color...it makes him THAT. MUCH. HOTTER.)

Spoilers? Maybe?

[a_phoenixdragon]

Just to revisit (because I'm tired, I miss things and my editing mania only highlights this) - I do think about tackling his involvement with Vergil - but I REALLY want to dig into the time the first attack happened at Red Grave. Just because there is such a richness of storyline and explanation of SO MUCH IN CANON from that point.

What was Vergil thinking all that time he was away? Why did he never contact Dante - did he know he was alive (I mean, Vergil's storyline gives away much as well with Nero involved) - and if so, did he deliberately avoid him? Think how Sparda he behaved during his time back here (at least, I assume he was back earthside). What happened when Dante was being hidden? Was Vergil even aware of what was going on? Did he think he had been abandoned? That he was forgotten? So much to tackle. Life in Hell is...HELL. And seeing as he was the 'thinker' twin - what torments did he invent for himself while there?

I also want to tackle V's almost allergic reaction to Malaphias (sp?). He went out of his way to make sure she did not see him. Why?

Define 'Would do awful things to him' *Grins* And then fic it and share it. Because YUS. WANT.

And here I went all slashy. Apologies. Yes, this man would be delicious being torn in half by a hungry woman...or vice versa. There are POSSBILITIES. So. SO. MANY.

Spoilers for DMC5

[(Anonymous)]

re: Trish-- to be completely fair, she didn't know who he actually was, so her comment wasn't super out of line. That aside, though, this has always been a group of total assholes who are all assholes to each other all the time, like any good family, LMAO.

For me, the question I was left with was like... I don’t understand how he went from “I need the sword Sparda so Nero can kill [my demon half]” to WELL WE’RE TOGETHER AGAIN BETTER JOIN UP AND REVIVE VERGIL :D It really felt like a few of the steps were missing, idk. Though I suppose DMC has always been a little quick and dirty with its plot.

Ah, and don't get me wrong, slashy V is all well and good too! V is very versatile, lmao. Top, bottom, slash, het, it all works for me. But he'd look really good totally wrecked~ Nero'd do a good job of it /SHOT

Re: Spoilers for DMC5

[a_phoenixdragon]

That was likely what got me. She, Lady, Dante and Morrison are family - and are bitchy family at that...but V confessed who and what he was to her - and she stomped him. They could have really explained that better. I want to see what happened the month Dante was not there. What was Nero doing? What was V doing? I guess Trish's reaction could have been discomfort, but they didn't really highlight that well. But then, they never really have done her character that much justice and my anger was rather knee-jerk. Sometimes I guess she forgets she is stuck with their mother's face. Wonder if that ever bugs her?

What really got me is that V reacts to the others, but quietly. That half-smile and chuckle, before abruptly finding someplace else to be when they notice him. He wears their suspicion like a comfortable old (wearying) cloak - and it hurts my heart and only makes them more suspicious. I can't blame them. He feels OFF to them and he is NOT part of their group - and he makes no move to TRY to be. Griffon did that for him in a way - but with how fast he spilled to Trish, I can kind of understand WHY he doesn't want to be around them. But he did play that last bit close to the vest!

I think that motive can be explained by Vergil's bitterness towards Dante and his 'newly' made family. V carries those memories. Watched them interact. And as he grows weaker, he sees he cannot live without his other half. He will be lost, but not completely. But maybe it was a weird form of suicide. He didn't want the very human pain of weakness, of separation from all that should have mattered anymore. No one was listening, asking questions, reacting to him. He was a ghost. And if onl Dante had never been...but that isn't fair either, is it? He loved his brother. He learned more about his brother and his family than I'm sure he wanted to know. And they would never be brothers again. Dante had moved on. As a complete human (with his life force draining away), that would hurt. Why not re-merge with the familiar, with the armor of his demon form. Truly one cannot live without the other.

That could have been the plan all along, you know. He just needed Dante to whittle his demon self down so he could be reunited -

Or maybe it was just a way to wipe it all away. It would suck to be so completely human and within reach, but never there. Becoming Vergil again would give him back his hate, his fire. The demon found a way to attain power that may have prevented the 'prophesied' fight between him and Dante for a little while longer. He was weak. He attributed it to the prophesy of the ultimate fight between the twins - and maybe the plan was an alternative to that fight. Only Vergil knew - but a 'complete' Vergil only knows pain, bitterness, rage, betrayal and loss. A stronger one should be able to defeat his brother - once he is whole again. Remember, only a demon could make that 'tree of life'. So whether it was a plan V didn't plan on following through (until the last minute), it was a plan he devised when he was separated and ALWAYS wanted to follow through on - or a last minute, last ditch desperate way to stop being so damned HUMAN...well, I see them as leaving that to the fans to determine. V's motives were always sketchy...but his very human pain was easy to see. I just...felt for Griffon, Shadow and Nightmare as well. They were tossed aside. Even if not deliberate, it just felt like V 'dying' all over again. Ach. My heart, dammit!

Soooo many possibilities.

And ye GODS, I can ramble!

He WOULD... That man looks like he was made for disheveled, sweaty and out of breath. And hooooowww did you know? (I was thinking more of a Nero or Dante look-alike, with a wall, in an alley, during the missing month...maybe more than once. Almost a love-hate sex thing. See where I am awful?? I hope to never stop. *grins*)

Thank you for indulging me here. You have totally made my evening, lol!

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly I stick to strategy games. I like action adventure games in principle but I don't have a console and I feel like action adventure games are way better on console. I'd honestly probably be really into DMC5 if I had a console but. Eh. And I feel like the replayability is better with strategy games than RPGs so I stick to strategy games. Right now my favorite is Europa Universalis IV - it's really interesting seeing the different histories and the way that the world develops.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Ohhh, I have heard of that one!! I DO love a game with good plotlines and stories. That is truly what fires up my own imagination - and consoles are not the ONLY way to go. :D Me and the PC are totally friends (when I have a cooling pad for my laptop - miss my Steam games, but she heats up too fast and I like to play for HOURS, alas). Alas, strategy can go over my head too often, but it requires a patience that I sorely lack (though I love WATCHING someone play such games...I'm a weirdo).

The replay value is high for DMC, but only if you like those kinds of games. I think you may like Stellaris. It is a new game that MIGHT be available on Steam as well as console. It is an empire-builder that requires strategy, understanding your world's history and governance - and it is a beauty to look at, as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Stellaris is actually by the same company that makes EUIV! I have played it a little, it's definitely fun and great-looking but it's also very different from EUIV - starting out from nothing versus starting out from an established, familiar world. It's an adjustment.

It's weird because I was kinda thinking that I don't have the patience for RPGs and you were saying you don't have the patience for strategy games. It just seems like it takes a while to get into the story and it feels a lot harder to tell whether or not the story and characters are going to be interesting, I guess? Which is also true of movies and books but movies and books require much less time commitment.

I did play the Shadowrun games, and I liked those a lot, although I think I never finished the third one. I like the Shadowrun setting a lot so that helped.

[a_phoenixdragon]

So THAT'S where I'd heard of it, lol! Ahhh, being tired means I track poorly - apologies!

True. Stellaris seems a little harder due to that aspect, though I'm sure there are a lot of strategy gamers that have been waiting a long, LONG time for a game that indepth to come out. Is is truly a marvel, but alas, a little much for me. I will have to check out EUIV, though. My hubby will love it if nothing else. He has a fondness for empire builders. I blame the original Dungeon Keeper (one of the better PC games in the early 2000's!)

Very, very true! I always thought of myself as someone who 'doesn't do platformers/RPGs', but that does not seem to hold true anymore. I like 'living' the story. The slower build and the discovery and falling in love with the characters (flaws and all) as I go. It takes longer, but can be more gratifying. Like with thicker books, you know? And they can be revisited again and again - sometimes being led through different scenarios that challenge you and the characters you love. That can be the best!

I will say I do not touch much 'online' though. DMC 5 has an online element, but you never really notice it. I do not do well with things like Warcraft. Too much to keep track of, too many people interfering with you (and not nicely). It just breaks the immersion. One day, I will likely eat THOSE words as well, but until that time, I do NOT do MMORPGS. :D

I heard good things about that game, but I think the graphics got to me. I will have to check it out, though. Gosh knows, I'm playing Bard's Tale IV - and the graphics are nothing to write home to Momma about, but it is a good, old fashioned dungeon-crawler that makes me happy for some weird, inexplicable reason. So testing Shadowrun should not be a stretch. Gosh knows I avoided Quantum Break FOREVER, only to give it a shot when bored and I love the darned game. :D