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Got Fallout 4 from the Mother-in-Law for Christmas


Haven't had a spare moment to play it

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Got Fallout 4 from the Mother-in-Law for Christmas


Haven't had a spare moment to play it

Not to worry, You have not missed out on anything

Picked up Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky on steam since it was half off and looked vaguely interesting. I guess it was big in Japan or something, but this is the first time it's been in english. Some kind of J/RPG updated for the PC. So far it's been pretty bland but a lot of them start out that way, hopefully picks up soon.

One thing I'll say for i t though, it plays really well on the tablet. After discovering RMB is equivalent to back or cancel, the only thing I've found that you may want the keyboard for is scrolling the camera around to check for treasure or monsters somewhat out of view. Probably still want to keep the keyboard within reach, but certainly the game seems playable while my Chi is off it's dock. Of course, being a game, the computer burns itself at both ends to run the thing and it sucks the battery down meaning I'll be tethered by the power supply fairly often. But that's just how it goes, FFT:WOTL destroys my phone's battery in a couple-three hours when I could listen to pandora on it all day.

Aside from still playing FO4, I've been playing FO: Shelter.... And I'm noticing one extremely annoying trait that my people seem to have.

Whenever there's an attack, infestation, etc. They all bunch up in their room, making it impossible for me to heal ONE fething person, so that If I have the Objective of "Clear X with no casualties" I basically can't do it

Sunless Sea, I guess. Will I like it? Will I regret buying it? I played fallen london for a while, and found the way it was written... frustrating at times.

We'll see, as I set sail on the noble ship Woodchip.

Put some time on a new WoW alt... a human hunter... plenty of fun. Got her to 15 in 2 sessions of play. will probably spend tomorrow night going through some dungeons with her (*sigh* only if my love life sounded this great haha).

Finding myself having a good time with Final Fantasy, despite not being big on MMO's. I think it's the gratuitous costume porn. That and coming across the odd abomination, like this..

 djphranq wrote:
Put some time on a new WoW alt... a human hunter... plenty of fun. Got her to 15 in 2 sessions of play. will probably spend tomorrow night going through some dungeons with her (*sigh* only if my love life sounded this great haha).

Sounds rather kinky, "going through some dungeons"

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 djphranq wrote:
Put some time on a new WoW alt... a human hunter... plenty of fun. Got her to 15 in 2 sessions of play. will probably spend tomorrow night going through some dungeons with her (*sigh* only if my love life sounded this great haha).

Sounds rather kinky, "going through some dungeons"

Sounds more Fun than having six broken ribs and a busted up body anyways. That and being confined to the sickbed.

 djphranq wrote:
Put some time on a new WoW alt... a human hunter... plenty of fun. Got her to 15 in 2 sessions of play. will probably spend tomorrow night going through some dungeons with her (*sigh* only if my love life sounded this great haha).

Not gonna lie I'm a perv but some types of pervy stuff is horrifying. Seriously why do you need to get into all that bdsm stuff. If something is fantastic why does it need to be fixed?

Westeros and House Forrester are so completely screwed....

Gotten back in to Space Station 13 recently.

h0nk

 BrookM wrote:
Finding myself having a good time with Final Fantasy, despite not being big on MMO's. I think it's the gratuitous costume porn. That and coming across the odd abomination, like this..

Spoiler:

Fat chocobo mount!

I enjoy the game quite a bit.

My brother got me a copy of Aliens vs. Predator for the PS3 for Christmas, so I've started playing it. I like it so far!

Still playing Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I'm still waiting for the ball to drop. Or the other shoe. Or something. Anything. I dunno if I've ever had an RPG run this, i dunno, mundane for so long. I mean normally you start in the little small town and then some kind of crap hits the fan and suddenly you're part of the army/resistance, or everything is on fire because dragons, or some damn thing has gone awry. I mean, I know I'm still only 6ish hours in, or maybe 8..I forget.. but all I've really done is some pedestrian quests for my Guild of people that help people for money. I mean it's the guild that handles Justice, diplomatic relations, bodyguarding, and running errands. They do everything. The most exciting thing so far is tracking down some thieves from a robbery. I'm still waiting for an army to invade or some ancient evil to awaken... or hell some kind of machine to send me to another continent...something.

I mean... it may almost be refreshing if the plot builds more slowly yet still escalates, but without something so grandiose as usually happens. I know something is coming, it has to be, but until then it's a little slow.

That it runs well on the tabtop while it's just the top tablet half helps quite a bit.

Finally got Xenonauts. It's pretty awesome so far. I like that they did away with the whole alien prison mechanic.

Playing Stasis, a point and click adventure/horror game.

Enjoying it so far, the voice acting is charmingly bad sometimes.

Played as Denmark against the soviet union in Wargame: Red Dragon. Lost a bunch of times and when I finally did win (not sure if the difficulty was still on very hard) the game crashes. I guesses even when Denmark wins in the games the computer refuses to accept the improbability of Denmark beating the soviet union. Jeez as if it wasn't hard enough playing against a decent army as Denmark in that game. It was only the Red Forces starter deck but it was still reasonably hard.

I did find out a new awesome tactic though. Stun the enemy with artillery or anything and then hit them with cluster bomb aircraft. It's not the best thing true but it did snag a ton of kills. I just wish I could've seen some of those kill streaks to admire my work and see how well everything really did.

EDIT: I'm probably looking too much into the response... maybe this discussion would be best served via PM's. Nothing to see here.


I'm thinking continuing a bit of Fallout 4... I uninstalled it but am in a much better place right now to try it out again.

So, Final Fantasy. So far I've travelled around a lot, killed a lot of animals, done the usual lazy NPC "I need you to take these five crates of rocks I just bought and deliver them to the next town over" BS, done some investigative work and I've learned how to do a Riverdance by a band of pirates:



I think afterwards one of the pirates had the everliving gak flogged out of him for stealing booze.

Right now I'm working towards getting a Chocobo of my own, a room at our guild house and a fat hatchling pet.

Thinks are starting to look up in Westeros in Game Of Thrones.

Which means, everything is about to go horribly, horribly wrong...

It's TellTale Game, chances are you'll be forced to make quite a few horrible choices before the game is over.

It's like, the first half of the episodes are, "things are getting worse. Things are getting even worse. You're all completely stuffed now. Things are really bad."

I've just gotten into the second half and things are starting to improve... Considering I've got half the game to go, I'm super suspicious...

Banished.

Quite a bit of fun. I've managed to successfully balls-up 3 consecutive villages.

I got bored of Banished not because it wasn't fun, but because it's a game where you don't win, you just delay losing. I felt that the only way I would ever 'win' the game is if I stopped playing when I reached a point that I was happy with how my settlement was. I've no reason to go back to it.

Well, isn't that all city builders? I can't really think of any city-builders that actually have a win state.

Pure city builders? I suppose not.
Like, Civ has the whole 'conquer the world' thing for it.

But then, 'the sims' type games don't have a win state either.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Well, isn't that all city builders? I can't really think of any city-builders that actually have a win state.

They're usually a lot harder to completely screw up by accident. Something like Cities: Skyline doesn't have a 'win' state, but you almost have to be actively trying to screw yourself over in order to reach a point where you can't recover, and there are many points where you have a 'successful' city that will not fail. Banished tends to be rather heavy-handed when it comes to punishing mistakes, and they're not usually things you can rectify without starting again or loading up a previous save. Add in the fact that sheer luck can ruin your settlements because the game felt like it, and it feels much more like you're fighting an inevitable loss, whereas a game like Cities feels much more like you're capable of creating a stable, self-sufficient city.

One other negative about Banished is that you will eventually run out of stone, metal, and coal. Unlike trees, stone and metal don't replenish in the open (for obvious reasons). And mines and quarries only have a limited quantity of material.

Pretty much a bit of everything.

Fallout 4
Subnautica
Banished
NHL 16, surprisingly.

I'm having a bit of problems with progressing on Subnautica. I can't find the materials I'm looking for, but a quick Google search will fix that, I'm sure. I am pleased to note that it isn't permadeath, like I assumed it'd be.