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Steadily trying to play S.A.L.K.E.R. as I unfortunatly can't play much as of now. Plus I've got a copy of Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 on sale and can't wait to give it a spin.

Voss wrote:
I'm looking forward to Cyberpunk, but as RPG systems, both Cyberpunk and WW are mechanically terrible.

Cyberpunk tends to be a meatgrinder, with a much too long creation process for the death rate, and a skill system that does too little.

For the time it was made, some of its mechanical flaws can be forgiven (though that doesn't apply to WW), as it was it came out the 80s and people were still learning how to write effective RPG mechanics.


Most of the flaws shouldn't apply to the computer game, though. They seem to be borrowing atmosphere and tone, and not bothering with dice systems, just borrowing a few game terms for stats.

You might be right. I was doing loads of Role-play back in the teenage years and loved it. Most systems were good but what I do remember is that the most fun were the actual 'Story-telling' ones with minimum dice rolls required. Such as Vampire/Werewolf for example. We had a brilliant 'game-master' who preferred using imagination and fantasy instead dice so even Cyberpunk (heavily based on stats and dice rolin) was most enjoyable. Our characters tend to survive bit longer then

Anyway back to the topic. I personally think Cyberpunk is going to smash it. It will be brought out to the next gen consoles, so obviously graphics but also the amount of content, game size etc and already looking at the pics/videos you can tell it will have the right climate and feel to the original RPG system.

Into my second year of Stardew Valley, finally got the cellar, so time to start making some money at long last.

GTFO came out late last night as well, so hoping to get some expeditions in with that soon.

 BrookM wrote:
Into my second year of Stardew Valley, finally got the cellar, so time to start making some money at long last.

GTFO came out late last night as well, so hoping to get some expeditions in with that soon.

My daughter is on Stardew.
She got a full upgraded house and two kids already.
Game opens up when after you start making some serious cash

 Blooddragon1981 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Into my second year of Stardew Valley, finally got the cellar, so time to start making some money at long last.

GTFO came out late last night as well, so hoping to get some expeditions in with that soon.

My daughter is on Stardew.
She got a full upgraded house and two kids already.
Game opens up when after you start making some serious cash

No kids yet, but there is one on the way.

And agreed, once you get good sprinklers and the rather convenient cash cow that is the greenhouse with a few fruit trees and loads of cranberry bushes, you're set to start raking in cash and start work on the more tedious aspects, like fishing. I hate fishing in this game.

I cannot for the life of me, get into Stardew. Normally I'm all for clicky time wasters, but the sudden ice bucket of fifty different open ended (but still timed) quests, with no clear direction, makes it incredibly hard to stay interested in.

Also, I tried looking online and it seems like the game will end very badly unless you do a perfect run from the start, so my first game of 6 hours was a wash. Am I missing something or do I not have to complete everything, talk to everyone, and do everything before nightfall?

The ending has been retooled and mellowed out a bit due to user feedback, it is less harsh now. Plus, you can shove a (IIRC) diamond into the tomb stone at any later date and have him reevaluate your life again, so not all is lost straight away. Which is for the best, as the only way I'm getting fish is through Krobus and the travelling cart, as I personally still really, really hate the fishing minigame and I do want to get the community centre done at some point, so I can replace the trailer with an actual house.

Hooked pretty hard on Warthunder.

I tried World of Tanks out, and was incredibly dissapointed by it, then got into WT, and loving it.

Believe, me , War thunder is great, until you hit certain br's with certian nations.

True. BR1-4 is (was) best for me (Airplanes only, Spitfires FTW) Does the LaGG3 still dominate the skies, despite how horrible plane it was IRL?

I don't pay that much attention to aircraft, but I'm finding my most enjoyment in the BR 4.7-5.3 range. Bought a couple premium American vehicles in that grouping to help grind out RP/Lions. Almost have a full 7.0 American line up now as well.

I do have a couple beefs with the game, I don't like the prevalence of prototype tanks all over the place, and how they can seem to dominate. They never went beyond prototype stages for a reason, and it's cause they weren't good.

Eagerly awaiting my DL of MW5 to complete. Broke my rule, finally bought something from epic. But, having watched close friends stream the game for several hours this week, I knew I couldn't pass it up.

 Togusa wrote:
Eagerly awaiting my DL of MW5 to complete. Broke my rule, finally bought something from epic. But, having watched close friends stream the game for several hours this week, I knew I couldn't pass it up.

My wife bought it this morning. It's always been her favorite game series.

 djones520 wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
Eagerly awaiting my DL of MW5 to complete. Broke my rule, finally bought something from epic. But, having watched close friends stream the game for several hours this week, I knew I couldn't pass it up.

My wife bought it this morning. It's always been her favorite game series.

It's been 20 years since their last Single Player game. I'm counting down the hours until work is over and I can go play.

Dune 2000.

Still on Inquisitor Martyr (trying to get rare trophies on PS4) and got Space Hulk Tactics PS4 on my agenda ;-)

Been playing Talisman: The Horus Heresy, downloaded it on a whim after rage quitting it months back due to the dice rolls being FAR too in favour toward the NPC enemies. But now it seems the rolls are much more balanced and I got to beat the ever-loving crap out of Erebus, fun times.

I got Black Desert Online for my xbox game pass and was playing that this weekend. Seems pretty cool so far, but there's a lot of stuff that I have no idea how it works or what it's for, and there weren't really any kind of noob tutorials like other MMOs have, so I'm mostly just running to where the quests are and killing stuff.

Hey hey, people. Ben here. Been playing Underail after Sseth Tzeentach recommended it https://youtu.be/SgAn68Uy2jQ and it's really frigging good.

Giving Knights of the Old Republic 2 another spin. Haven't played through it in ages.

Playing as Followers of Nagash in Warhams 2, Mortal Empires campaign.

My main priority is working my way over to the new Nagashizzar settlement, as it seems appropriate. About 2/3rds way there. Will be pretty upset if there isn't a badass unique building that gives some bonuses.

 nels1031 wrote:
Playing as Followers of Nagash in Warhams 2, Mortal Empires campaign.

My main priority is working my way over to the new Nagashizzar settlement, as it seems appropriate. About 2/3rds way there. Will be pretty upset if there isn't a badass unique building that gives some bonuses.

I saw a video by Indypride I belive a week or so ago, where he went over the new provinses. There is indeed a building waiting for you there
www.youtube.com/channel/UCID5aKswrcyFjLgDh4kRXYA

Yep, just got it!

It was abandoned, so I didn’t have to fight anyone for it, but that means I have to wait a while for that Tier V unique building.

I bought Amid Evil on the Steam Sale, and I am already sad. I am not that good on the best of days at shooters, and Amid Evil doesn't come close to holding my hand. It's fun at first, but the difficulty goes way up fast, and I was not prepared. I need to keep trying to get better.

The other minor gripe is, while the game looks beautiful, it's obviously meant to be played on a giant monitor, or a double monitor, because the UI is autoset to such a small degree, the already hard to read font is just impossible at a quick glance. I need to stop and focus on it. Which is hard in a strafe-shootemup.

I've been hunting Doom WADs lately, and found a good number of them. It would seem Doomworld isn't the only place to find WADs, and there is a whole other site that's been around for a while.

It's kind of cool when you think about it. Doom/Doom 2 are already decently-sized games, but a good WAD can easily have just as many maps. These aren't including the mods that outright change the weapons and gameplay. It's like finding a few decades' worth of free games.

I hope Quake or the build engine games have something similar.

Sales everywhere, so went and got some Inquisitor Martyr stuff, along with Warhammer Chaosbane, which is a decent enough Diablo clone. May pick up Inquisitor - Prophecy as well, but we'll see.

Also decided to give NieR:Automata another go, decided to start a new game, as it's been ages since I last played it.

Still playing NMS. I would say I definitely got my moneys worth from the game. I find myself really enjoying merely cataloguing things rather than shooting them as a game mechanic, it is much more mellow and much more what I would want to do as a space explorer.

It also makes the times you have to deal with hostility much more scary for their rarity. I was swimming around on a mostly oceanic planet, and saw something interesting underwater. I grabbed it, only to be attacked by a gigantic anglerfish monster. The thing was near invincible and pursued me relentlessly. All of the islands were sheer sided pillars rising out of the world ocean, and jetpacking onto the top of them was impossible. Some seriously scary stuff!

Some parts of the game are annoying, like how slow it is to get new inventory slots and how much inventory management is required in the game but it does let me inhabit the fantasy of being a space faring explorer-scientist pretty well.

 BrookM wrote:
Sales everywhere, so went and got some Inquisitor Martyr stuff, along with Warhammer Chaosbane, which is a decent enough Diablo clone. May pick up Inquisitor - Prophecy as well, but we'll see.

Also decided to give NieR:Automata another go, decided to start a new game, as it's been ages since I last played it.

You got Chaosbane? Been looking into that one myself. If you’ll pardon a question, how good would you say the loot and character customization (eg. stats) are?

I had a look at Chaosbane at EGX Rezzed earlier this year, and thought it to be so far towards Diablo-clone that it wasn't really worth bothering with. Thought I could do without paying that much for what felt essentially like a lightly WHFB-flavoured reskin.

I'll be glad to hear if it's actually unique enough to grab at a sale price.

Chaosbane is best bought at a steep discount, as it's a Diablo clone, but not a good one. I mean, it's a stable game and it does what it needs to do decently. Controls are a bit wonky, your only healing is a slowly recharging health potion and the skills use a point-based system, so whenever you get a new skill, a better skill or a passive ability, they cost a certain amount of points and you'll need to drop other things to get it onto your toolbar / active slots. You get more points as you level up, but not never enough. Though to be fair, so far a lot of the skills feel.. useless? Been playing as Wood Elf so far, so YMMV, but even if a skill gets better the output in damage is not that great.

As for the loot.. there's a lot of it, but mostly useless vendor trash, as with most other games of this type. So far though, no store found where I can sell drops or buy new stuff. Instead there's a "collector" you can dump your crap at for rewards, which is money. So, kinda curious what I can spend all the money on I've been hoarding for a while now.

fake edit.

Gold is used to buy some skills and to instantly revive if you die during a dungeon.