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Accidentally spending four hours walking along the single tracked road which goes around Vvradenfell in The Elder Scrolls Online with another player. We made it from Balmora to Vos, half the circumferance of the island. Hah, and who says Vvradenfell's tiny, its just that you're sprinting everywhere.
Walking does give you time to appreciate the little details the devs put into things, or what they missed out. We discovered a strange game the devs must have based on something - a cross between a roulette table and chess by the looks of it. Also that the town of Gnisis' temple is missing Vivec's Ash Mask (poor show). We got to thinking at one point, "here's this shelf. It has all these little details on it. Youknow, are we the first people in this game to actually look at what's on this shelf?". Probably.
Been playing Destiny 2 on the PC. hella fun, but as usual now that I finished the main campaign and the extra bonus quests, the game is winding down for me. I'm not into doing the same thing over and over again to grind for endgame content (same problem I have with WoW), so I'll just go play once in a while off and on till the expansion happens in December.
Thinking about picking up Batthefront 2, but I may just wait and save my cash to get an XboneX in a couple months. Haven't decided yet.
Jumped back into Dragon Age Origins, playing the Awakening expansion. It's actually pretty good so far, the plot and character progression seem to be moving along at a somewhat faster pace than the base game which I greatly appreciate (there's a good chunk of Origins I find tedious as hell. The Fade and Deep Roads segments especially). Given that my initial reason for playing it was to do some 'research' as I'm currently running a DA pen and paper RPG campaign set in the aftermath of Origins, I'm definitely enjoying it more than expected... Though I do miss my Marbari hound, the true Hero of Fereldan.
I'm also playing a bit of Battlefront 2 on the EA Access trial, still not convinced that it's something I want to buy at full price. Yes, there's more content than last time but the game's commitment to asymmetric game modes is not something I'm keen on, it means that even though there's more maps you're doing the same thing on them every time. Needs a proper, traditional symmetrical Conquest/Domination mode.
Trying to do some research on Quake 3 to see why people seem to love it so much. I adore UT2004, but Quake 3 just isn’t getting to me quite yet. Heard something about learnign the game’s physics system to properly understand how it works, which seems like it makes sense.
Wyrmalla wrote: Accidentally spending four hours walking along the single tracked road which goes around Vvradenfell in The Elder Scrolls Online with another player. We made it from Balmora to Vos, half the circumferance of the island. Hah, and who says Vvradenfell's tiny, its just that you're sprinting everywhere.
Walking does give you time to appreciate the little details the devs put into things, or what they missed out. We discovered a strange game the devs must have based on something - a cross between a roulette table and chess by the looks of it. Also that the town of Gnisis' temple is missing Vivec's Ash Mask (poor show). We got to thinking at one point, "here's this shelf. It has all these little details on it. Youknow, are we the first people in this game to actually look at what's on this shelf?". Probably.
Hah! I remember doing something similar in Skyrim and Just Cause. Really does help you appreciate some of the details while you’re on your “road trip.”
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Paradigm wrote: Jumped back into Dragon Age Origins, playing the Awakening expansion. It's actually pretty good so far, the plot and character progression seem to be moving along at a somewhat faster pace than the base game which I greatly appreciate (there's a good chunk of Origins I find tedious as hell. The Fade and Deep Roads segments especially). Given that my initial reason for playing it was to do some 'research' as I'm currently running a DA pen and paper RPG campaign set in the aftermath of Origins, I'm definitely enjoying it more than expected... Though I do miss my Marbari hound, the true Hero of Fereldan.
I'm also playing a bit of Battlefront 2 on the EA Access trial, still not convinced that it's something I want to buy at full price. Yes, there's more content than last time but the game's commitment to asymmetric game modes is not something I'm keen on, it means that even though there's more maps you're doing the same thing on them every time. Needs a proper, traditional symmetrical Conquest/Domination mode.
I think Awakening is my favorite iteration of DA. It has some nice refinements and interesting characters, and hasn't been 'streamlined' like DA2 and DAI. Also, there is a mod that skips the whole Fade segment of DAO - you should play it once but after that it's just annoying.
I kinda liked the Fade bit when I replayed the game not too long ago. There was the puzzle hunting for upgrades and yo ualso got to learn a lot more about the personalities of your party members, without them actually telling you...
I'm playing a bit of terraria, where i decided to start a new world, used an advanced character to jump it into hard mode, and then started a brand new character there. Will it be a new challenge? Will it just be annoying?
Got bit by the Skyrim bug again. BUT... having the ability to mod is a great and terrible responsibility.
I'm going on a small tear, rebalancing things.
For one, Wards are WAY too expensive- so I reduced the cost of the middle and lesser ones significantly- even then, they're still pretty expensive, so I think it was a justified, uh, buff?
For two- CORUNDUM ISN'T A METAL and it's certainly not used in steel production. So that's out- instead, Steel requires Charcoal. And so I also put in a charcoal recipe... I rather want to see if I can't get the Corundum Ore veins to only give rubies and sapphires instead of 'metal' ore.
Also, made it so that you can craft both male and female specific Forsworn headdresses.
But yeah. Dangerous stuff, having that much power.
I actually want to develop a whole major mod, adding... Bakers! Because seriously, there's so much bread everywhere, but nobody is baking it! I figure it could be a cool addition to the whole immersive world of Skyrim.
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Free weekend of Rainbow Six Siege, I like the terrorist hunt part of the game enough to buy it. No, I won't play it on-line, I dislike that sort of thing.
Finally finished Prey.
I would most thoroughly recommend it if you're into the system shock/bioshock/HL1/DX genres.
Really was a gem of a game - 36 hours all in and felt like an actual triple A title.
Pity it seemed not to have garnered more sales.
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Prey doesn't really need a sequel, the story told as is did a good enough job IMHO. It does warrant a replay somewhere down the line, now that the major plot elements are known to you. It makes you look at things like the tutorial in a different light as well.
I'm still working through my second playthrough whenever I feel like playing for a few hours, going for a non-psionic build on this playthrough, just calmly exploring everything this time around.
BrookM wrote: Prey doesn't really need a sequel, the story told as is did a good enough job IMHO. It does warrant a replay somewhere down the line, now that the major plot elements are known to you. It makes you look at things like the tutorial in a different light as well.
I'm still working through my second playthrough whenever I feel like playing for a few hours, going for a non-psionic build on this playthrough, just calmly exploring everything this time around.
RIP Prey 2:
I wanted that game. I wanted that game so hard. Worth mentioning that Prey(2017) is on the Black Friday games list for Xbox Gold in case anyone's interested in it there. It's $20.
I just finished the story for Battlefront 2. Enjoyed it. Really want the Corvus as a model for X-Wing though.
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I was playing Horizion Zero Dawn, but after having completed the game I find myself wondering just what I think of it, some parts I enjoyed to a high degree but parts of the game made me cringe with boredom as some sections just feel like padding on the plot. So I may need to sink a few more hours in it with a new game +
Currently well into a run of Prey on Very Hard. This game is amazing. Pacing, level design, variety of skills and enemies are all top notch.
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I bought this on release and then barely touched it up until a few days ago.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Back on board with The Witcher 3, I think I finally 'get it' and what it's meant to be. It took me the better part of 15-20 hours to reach that point, but having made some significant plot progress over the last few days, finished dealing with one of the most obnoxious characters in gaming (The Bloody Baron) and coming across some more engaging ones (who I find myself far more willing to invest in than I am in Geralt...), I think I'm back in. Though having just finished things off in Novigrad and headed to Skellige, I'm tempted to put it on hold and start the second game, which I picked up in the Xbox sale a few days back.
I really enjoyed Witcher 3, like, a lot. Witcher 2 was also great, (especially it's take on the classic Troll-under-the-bridge quest), but I found the world of 3 much more absorbing. The Bloody Baron questline was fantastic and disturbing in equal measure, and really drives home the "no real good or bad guys" theme.
The DLC for Witcher 3 is top notch, too. After what felt like rain and grey skies forever in Redania and Skellige, the sunny, not-France setting for Blood and Wine felt like a vacation.
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Death Guard 1.0: 8,500 points painted (Pics available in Gallery) P: 7 W: 1 D: 3 L: 3
Thousand Sons: 3,750 points painted P:1 W:1 D:0 L:0
Nurgle Daemons: 3,800 points painted P:2 W:1 D:1 L:0
Tyranids: 2,000 points painted
Primaris "Honoured Mastodons": 3,700 points painted
Tau 6,750 points painted 
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