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One thing I'm noticing about Borderlands 3 is there doesn't seem to be as many side quests.. there's the main story and each zone seems to have 1 maybe 2 side quests plus an occasional wanted poster. I thought I remembered the old game having big boards were quests would be posted. But then a lot of those quests were just busy work kind of stuff, but still added some extra flavor. Still enjoying the new game a lot though.

Got Greedfall last Friday, and booted it up and sunk around 14 hours into the game over the weekend, and well. As much as I like the astetetics and looks of the game, as well the concept. I can not get myself to like the combat, cut scenes and dialouge. The camera is also a real negativ thing at times as it works against you. But one very posetiv thing is the wealth of customisation you can do with weapons, armour and cosmetics. But I will not sink more time into it before it has been patched a fair bit to iron out the major technical issues.

 Necros wrote:
One thing I'm noticing about Borderlands 3 is there doesn't seem to be as many side quests.. there's the main story and each zone seems to have 1 maybe 2 side quests plus an occasional wanted poster. I thought I remembered the old game having big boards were quests would be posted. But then a lot of those quests were just busy work kind of stuff, but still added some extra flavor. Still enjoying the new game a lot though.

I don't know about it, I'd like to enjoy the game. But they do not sell it on Steam.

A lot of my friends have reported that the game is pretty mediocre, and that if you played BL2 a lot, this is worth passing on as its just more of the same. Other friends pointed out that the jokes and story are pretty cringey too.

 Togusa wrote:

 Necros wrote:
One thing I'm noticing about Borderlands 3 is there doesn't seem to be as many side quests.. there's the main story and each zone seems to have 1 maybe 2 side quests plus an occasional wanted poster. I thought I remembered the old game having big boards were quests would be posted. But then a lot of those quests were just busy work kind of stuff, but still added some extra flavor. Still enjoying the new game a lot though.

I don't know about it, I'd like to enjoy the game. But they do not sell it on Steam.

A lot of my friends have reported that the game is pretty mediocre, and that if you played BL2 a lot, this is worth passing on as its just more of the same. Other friends pointed out that the jokes and story are pretty cringey too.

Is this a trend with the epic games store games? I swear what I've heard of phoenix point sounds kinda iffy. I mean it doesn't sound terrible but nobody on twitch is playing it pretty much.

More xcom 2: long war for me. God this game likes to troll me into oblivious. Do you have full cover and the enemy is disoriented. Lulz take a critical hit (or any hit) against you anyway. Seriously the likelihood of hitting an enemy in full cover while disoriented is supposed to be super terrible (like 10% or so bad) and yet they still hit. Seriously this long war mod is gonna give me an aneurism due to rage....or maybe i'll have a heart attack since my whole body is in sorta poor shape.

Samurai Shodown and Battle Garegga on the Pro.

Gunstar Heroes on the MegaSg

I am currently playing Astral Chain. It's actually great and was able to live up with its hyped. It's also a good game to play while still waiting for Platinum Games to release a 3rd Bayonetta game.

Borderlands 3 mostly, having a blast playing it with a bunch of friends with whom I've basically played the entire franchise.

Battletech in between BL3 sessions, working on an alliance with Marik.

Wondering if I'll have the time to dip into Destiny 2 when it goes F2P at the end of the month.

I recently got into the Horus Heresy: Legion TCG. Pretty nice game I have to say, I did invest around 5€ for a starter deck deal the game offered to get started (Night Lords Mawdrym deck, should anyone be interested. Love spamming it because the Mawdrym voicelines are hilariously campy: "You will scream as I vivisect you" is vocalized in kind of pseudo-serious bordering on ironic manner.
It feels pretty nice game so far! The grinding and progression feels really nice, and much less tedious than in Hearthstone. Game has weird free 3 card/item crate every 6 hours, encouraging you to drop in every 6 hours, but as the game is available on mobile I don't see this as a huge problem. Fire up the app, check out the free 3 cards and go on with your day, it doesn't force you to play for the free crate. Also I wouldn't call the game pay to win, free grinding is rewarding enough and the changing deals means that if one works with a certain plan it's easy to make progress on one's deck.

Personally I don't find it a big deal to drop 5-10€ for a 30 card deck if there is good and interesting deal and it's a deck im interested in, although I'm not planning to do this often. The game has daily 3 decks in sale for around 10€/$, which is expensive in my opinion, but I think it's ok. For example if you were interested in Kharn deck and it became on sale it's probably easiest to get it started like that. Anyway I have gotten already 3 new warlords (like special characters from 40k) you use to build your deck around, it's a bit similar to Commander/EDH format in MtG, so the warlords seem to drop at good enough rate from free grinding.

Also the balance feels nice, if you think a little how to play your deck and then plan ahead it seems easy enough right now to make progress and not get your ass handed to you. Most losses I can tell were because I'm missing a few specific kind of cards to leave me ilequipped against certain deck styles, but the game so far seems to lack these extremely powerful super cards that just run you over leaving you feeling powerless. I know I hated Hearthstone as free grinding when opponents would drop these insanely powerful rares that were nearly impossible to deal with.

Now that Iceborne is out, I've started playing Monster Hunter World again. I only started playing earlier this year, and I'd had to set it aside when my schedule got busy. That set aside coincided with me deciding that the long sword wasn't going to work against Kushala Daora, so I've switched over to the Light Bowgun. I was able to figure out the new weapon fairly quickly, and I just took Kushala down last night. Teostra is my next target, which means it's time to start gearing up again. Fortunately, I'm already halfway there.

Not playing, but started watching a Let's Play of Stygian: Not Another Lovecraft Game. Wanted to see if it was any good.

The art style is neat if you like that kind of thing, but... I really think Mythos and Lovecraft stuff is done entirely wrong when its completely out in the open from the start. With no mystery or confusion (and sanity is just a pure gauge), it loses a lot. Gonna pass.


Here's a link to the let's play I was watching. Retcon Raider is pretty decent. No screaming or crazy thoughts, usually just genuine enjoyment of whatever's he's playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lmAo5_Evtg

HONK! HONK HONK HOOOOOOOONK!!!

Destiny 2 is on steam now apparently! Going to give it a try, never played the first one.

 LunarSol wrote:
HONK! HONK HONK HOOOOOOOONK!!!

Untitled Goose Game, I assume

More long war mod for xcom 2. Failed one campaign so I'm trying with this one. Hopefully it works out or I at least get farther this time.

Ghost Recon's open beta.

I'm really enjoying it. First open world game in awhile I've enjoyed.

Open Tyrian. Its awesome.

Overwatch, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Soulstorm, Injustice 2 (mobile version), and Destiny 2.

Overwatch - I love the role queues as well as the little incentives for queueing up as certain roles. Arcade 'Mystery Heroes' is still a big fave though.
Hearthstone - Started playing again this past week when I need something to do waiting for food to cook haha.
WoW - Giving my 'main' a break (Orc Fury Warrior)... started up an a couple Alliance characters, a human arms warrior and human demonology warlock. Haven't played this much with alliance side in a WHILE.
Soulstorm - maybe a third through campaign as Space Marines... killed off Orcs, Tau, Sisters, and IG so far. Working on Eldar or Necron next... going to save Chaos for last. Once that's done will move on to DOW II
Injustice 2 - Trying to build up a main 'multiverse' team to use... have Batwoman and White Canary... not sure who I want the third multiverse person to be... maybe Supergirl.
Destiny 2 - I've had this for so long... just decided to install it and try it out since the new expansion is coming out. Loving it so far! I like the little bit of part 1 I played on the XBOX One... not sure why I waited so long to try this one out. I have a ranger.

Got myself the Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.

Time to rebuild the socialist 'paradise' of Eastern Europe by plundering the nature, producing low-quality stuff and 'beautify' the landscape with boxy prefab houses.

 Hawky wrote:
Got myself the Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.

Time to rebuild the socialist 'paradise' of Eastern Europe by plundering the nature, producing low-quality stuff and 'beautify' the landscape with boxy prefab houses.

Oof, but what if you give it a human face?

Then hundreds of soviet tanks arrive.

 Hawky wrote:
Then hundreds of soviet tanks arrive.

Czech mate?

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Hawky wrote:
Then hundreds of soviet tanks arrive.

Czech mate?

Or bring a brood of pests, and make the locals Hungary.

Eumerin wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Hawky wrote:
Then hundreds of soviet tanks arrive.

Czech mate?

Or bring a brood of pests, and make the locals Hungary.

On that note, here is what i have done.
Altough i was more in the realm of pest extermination.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1877304009
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1877304027

Hasnt been any squad deaths in a while with my xcom long war team. Gonna start infiltrating the 2nd advent regional hq and destroy that to make the aliens and advent a bit nervous. May take time for a 3rd advent hq destruction. When and if it happens.

Been playing The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth 2! Found a working install on from a dude called Forshire.

Site's a bloody mess but the install works... http://forshire.blogspot.com/p/download-bfme-ii.html

Also, I put together all the files into one download and made up my own easier to follow instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NKBsxHoGrnBDHMvUyBAzcUvuRcIE1rcY

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
HONK! HONK HONK HOOOOOOOONK!!!

Untitled Goose Game, I assume

Indeed. Finished the main game last night. The final joke is pretty perfect.

It's probably a little overrated, and there's a couple puzzles that show how much more clever it COULD be, but as someone who lives it a town regularly overrun with geese.... I found it remarkably authentic.

Neverwinter Nights. Roleplaying Persistent World.

Currently NWN "Sword Coast Chronicles".

My favorite memory of the last week? Telling a friendly elf from Amn about how I was just almost eaten by a puddle! He was like "That's a Grey Ooze...", and took the time to heal me up and we chatted a bit.

We had met earlier, and he had given me a nice mace (+1 Mace at level 1 really helped), so it was great running into him again.

(Yes, I knew what a Gery Ooze was. But Andicar - my Fighter - did not.)

I read up on Arelith - sounds like it'd be tons of fun. But they moved to the EE, and I didn't feel like drop $20 on EE without knowing if Arelith would be solid/fun (I have NwN1/2 Diamond, and a few other copies).

I never did PWs or actual RP in NWN before. I just ran it as a dungeon hack.

RPing in NWN feels really awesome. Class and level aren't (directly) visible - so you communicate (in-character) and judge people on their words and actions. Not based on their stats and gear. And what they look like *he said, eyeing the drow standing behind you*.

NWN seems to do RP better than an MMO because the mechanics are all about RPing. Sure, a Lvl10 character can do a lot more than a lvl1 character. But there aren't many levels, and whether you can do something isn't really a matter of level (my low-level fighter in Full Plate with a Heavy Shield isn't going to be hit by random zombies and skeletons, but even a high-level mage, without protection, is gonna get hurt).

Breakpoint. Really enjoying it.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Breakpoint. Really enjoying it.

How are you enjoying the game with the most exploitative and outrageous monetisation system in modern AAA gaming?

If we could post replies or frame questions without resorting to personal attacks that would be great.