Love/Hate Relationship

[SckizoBoy]

Haha, all the fucking time on both counts, though I have got better at judging my charges. I kind of like how quickly things can turn around though (so long as my opponent's not a dick about it, of course). Sounds weird, but it kind of reminds me of close, fast-moving sports like tennis or fencing

Yeah, at the moment, I really abuse the measuring control area thing... I haven't played much, having only started it a couple months ago, so I'm still trying to twig timing (order of activation is another one that Retribution can be tricky with). So when it comes to me playing, it ain't fast-moving! =P

I'm pretty sure you're the first I've met. We seem to be a rare breed.

Are we? I'm part of another two forums who have quite a few WarMachine players... lots of folks to bounce ideas off of... =.=

Hopefully, I'll be taking part in a Journeyman Caster Campaign in a couple weeks' time... ought to be fun, so long as the Gatormen stay away (apparently... >_> )

I started out with Deneghra, then moved on to Iron Lich Asphyxious, but Lich Lord Asphyxious (the Epic Warcaster) is my homeboy, and not just because I love the miniature (though that definitely helps...):

Spoiler: Sweet as fuck miniature, if a complete pain in the ass to keep intact

I've had a lot of luck teaming him up with my Cankerworm - as well as being generally awesome and possibly my favourite unit in the game, it has Affinity Asphyxious, meaning it can make a full advance if it ends a turn within Gaspy's control range. That little guy covers a huge amount of ground in my games

Yeah, that was one of the reasons I was drawn to Cryx at first. Theirs was the first faction book I read and a lot of the character and mechanical designs and artwork appealed to me... except those blasted Bonejacks! The miniature for Goreshade the Bastard was particularly awesome.

I'm getting a lot out of the Ghost Snipers & Kaelyssa's Backlash. Not an especially great combo, but it's delightfully simple and makes the assassination run a little easier if the enemy caster's being scratched a few times. Think it'll be a while before I come up with some really nasty ideas...

I don't have much experience with Retribution, but they do seem cool from what I've seen. I think most people have a "theme" - for me it seems to be the unapologetically evil factions (Dark Eldar are far and away my favourite 40k army). It's odd, because I always play sickeningly good guys in video games.

Their synergies are a little harder to spot and exploit than in other factions, and Epic Haley can end us, majorly... but overall, I opted for them over Cryx because their aesthetic was what I went for in general. Most of Retribution's casters and solos and well everything, pretty much, is very squishy, but hard hitting. I need to use Arcantrik Bolt more! ¬_¬

Anyway, I wouldn't call Dark Eldar 'unapologetically evil'... they're plainly sadistic is all!! XD And oh... 7th Ed... still battle brothers! You still play much? It's another system I have a love/hate relationship with. Love the miniatures and the hobby, hate the company, though to be honest, I haven't played 7th at all, since they've wrecked the concept of Ancient Doom by allowing the Farseers a better chance than most other psykers of safely summoning a unit of freakin' Daemonettes! WUT?!

Yeah, the scene around me's always been very GW heavy. It was my ex who got me and a bunch of his friends into Warmachine, and I wasn't really aware of many others in the area. Plus, where I am at the moment (rural Somerset), there are no clubs or shops at all Still, it's been really nice just to think about it in detail again typing all this out, so cheers for that!

Ah, pity... if you ever come up to London, just set up a campsite in Dark Sphere (Waterloo) for a month and it'd be paradise, I think!

And you're welcome... could always do with another opinion regarding tactica/list building, even if we play different factions. Though I'm likely going to do what I did for WH40K and codex-creep...!

 

[The Wykydtron]

I wouldn't say I "love" DOTA 2 but I do enjoy playing it. I just wish the barrier to entry wasn't so stupidly high. I can't stand the game engine but I can look past that easily enough. I basically stopped playing because everyone in my shitty ELO was running either creepy pedophile kiddie fiddler Pudge waiting in the trees or Cold Snap/EMP Invoker and I have had it up to here with them. I just snapped after one particularly obnoxious game and sort of never loaded up up the game after that.

I can't go back to that evil place until that shit dies down. Which it won't. People even tell me Invoker is more popular than ever and i'm nowhere near surprised.

Also Hearthstone. I seem to have a completely different viewpoint on how these CCGs are supposed to work. My understanding is that you make a deck that you really like, I adore playing full Secret Mage deck (I mean FULL Secrets, Etherial Arcanist x2, Kirin Tor Mage x2 and i'm the only person i've seen who uses Spellbender) and i've made a pretty funny Priest deck that is all heals all the time. Every battlecry heal is in there x2. I started my Priest deck with the intention of not being scummy, hard I know. I start by removing all card steal cards (I figured that I dislike trying to mimic the other guy's deck and would rather y'know, just use more proper Priest cards?) Mind Control, Northshires (to be fair, they can end up doing more harm than good) the DS/IF combo, I removed all Lightspawns and so on. The idea of full heals just occurred to me and I had the extra card space to do it.

Meanwhile everyone is playing full optimal Miracle Rogue/Zoo Warlock shit and people just don't seem to get that i'm not going to join their legion of people who are playing the meta. People actually start arguments with me when I say I love Big Game Hunter and he's in every deck and I use Elven Archer in my Priest and Warrior deck just for lolz. Underrated card by the way. In a Warrior deck you can kill any card for 2 mana with the 1 damage battlecry into Execute.

Rag? Malagos? Deathwing? More like, dead lol.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I have a love/hate relationship with reality cooking shows. On one hand, a lot of them looks forced or even fake, but I just can't stop watching more Gordon Ramsay.

I also have a love/hate relationship with puzzle games. They always tend to have that one puzzle that makes you quit. You breeze to most of the game feeling smart and then.. It happens. You think "It's over. I've been wasting too much time on this **** puzzle". After a while, someone arrives and shows you how to do it. You look how easy it was to solve it, but you couldn't do it because you missed that one tiny detail. I'm looking at you Shadow of the Colossus and Portal.

 

[Nieroshai]

Pathfinder/D&D3.5
I LOOOOOOOVE the game, and RPGs as a whole. I cannot, for the sake of the very last shred of my sanity, find players who give a damn about plot. I say this as a player as well as DM, and I swear honestly the people I game with should honestly just play Warhammer Fantasy for how they play the game...

 

[Johnny Impact]

Warmachine, for all the reasons you mentioned. I play Menoth, mostly by process of elimination. My circle of friends had already chosen Khador, Cygnar, and Cryx, mercs didn't appeal to me, and Ret and Convergence didn't exist yet. I have come to love their fire-and-faith play style, even if I'm not as good at it as I'd like to be. (Of course, I usually play against my brother, who was state champ last year and pretty much runs the table wherever he goes, so maybe I'm better than I think.) I also have a Legion army because I wanted a second force that was radically different. You can't do better than dragons.

Before that it was 40k. I played Tyranids because I love everything about them: the model designs, the tactics, the weapon names. More than that, I love the totality of their nature: a primal consuming force of such power as to leave the dry bones of entire galaxies in its wake, to which hesitation, compromise, or negotiation are concepts so alien the Hive only understands them as bizarre forms of weakness. You aren't even their enemy, because they don't bother with such titles and wouldn't consider you worthy if they did. All shall be eaten is their entire philoshopy. Unfortunately the rules are unapologetically stupid and nonsensical, and seem to suffer a new edition every year or two. I am not buying that rulebook again, GW. Good try though.

Before that it was Magic. No matter how much you play/buy/strategize, it's never enough. License to print money.

 

[Riot3000]

I had a love\hate relationship in general with was 40K tabletop I loved the lore and history and Orcs were my favorite army then gamesworkshop got greedy but I still love the universe.

Dragons Dogma despite so many things it could improve a much larger world more dungeons more towns more enemy variety shoot take some note from Skyrim minus the clunky combat and grame breaking bugs and it should be a game I love so much. But I love it to death it is my favorite RPG of last gen more than Skyrim,Dark Souls or others. I just love it I put so many hours into it even after my save file got corrupted I made another one and made all those hours back. I enjoyed the pawns and the endless spouting, fire works well is a inside joke among my friends, saying aught in every sentence had a charm to it, and I refer to anything I enjoy as "master works all you can't " when I recommend stuff to people. Dragons Dogma captured what ran through my imagination when I was little playing turned based rpgs to a perfect T and it is just one of my favorite games not just rpgs but games in general. So Capcom skip that deep down nonsense Dogma 2 is where its at or a damn Steam release you put Street Fighter on Steam but a rpg on a computer that doesn't run work in your brains. If only I had the money to buy capcom I swear........