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Minecraftungeons. It's honestly a pretty awesome game. Its got relatively simple, straightforward mechanics, but there's enough permutations that it creates a bunch of depth. And the "No class, only equipment" thing makes it very easy to try out different playstyles or comboes on a whim. Sort of 'Path of Exile', but without the spreadsheets.

And the equipment has nice, straightforwards descriptions of their effects- both in terms of 'what's this do', and in numerics.

Doing a bit of Rimworld. It's great fun. Managed to tame a Trhumbo! Now I'll explore what my mighty unicorn/giraff/bear monster can do.

Setting your animal pen along the sole entrance path to your base is usually a winner.

Voss wrote:
Setting your animal pen along the sole entrance path to your base is usually a winner.

I usually pull my animals back to protect them when I get attacked. Got some muffalo for wool, horses for hauling and world map travels and the Thrumbo. Playing in a Boreal forest so need the muffalos for warm clothes. I guess setting the Thrumbo pen by the entrance wouldn’t be a bad idea. Currently have three entrances to my base though two overlap and can be easily defended. I’m not exactly new to the game but I’ve yet to survive past 2 years. Got screwed by radioactive fallout in previous playthroughs and once by my tame boomalope herd catching fire while getting raided and having manhuter cobras eating people in the medical room.

Some more Stardew Valley with a fellow mod. So close to completing the community centre in our first year, most of it is sorted, aside from a ruddy red cabbage that you can't get until the Summer of the second year, or a very lucky cart visit.

Also revisiting Brigador, which put me in a mech game kind of mood, so during the Steam sale I've also picked up the Brigador audio drama, Titanfall 2, BE-A Walker and the non-mecha game, but still one that tickles my sci-fi bone.. Crying Suns.

Still on Total War: Warhammer 2. After the defeat of the last campaign, I decided to have another go of Vortex using Tyrion. Naggarond got way too strong last time so I invaded them, taken most of their northern fiefs including Naggarond itself disrupting their ritual. Naggarond builds their power ridiculously quickly, they owned most of Naggaroth by the time I attacked which was like, 100 odd turns in. I'm hoping that my AI allies will help and they slowly seem to be. Too late to save Nagarythe from being wiped out, though. I bet Alith Anar's campaign is pretty darn hard.

M&M

Minecraft and mordhau.

Gotta admit i am in search for Netherbase ideas and how to build them the most efficently.

Also Netherite searching is dangerously stupid and stupidly dangerous without fireresistance potions.

In other news in mordhau you now got the creepiest helmet efer.

Farcry 5 was on special, so I bought it on the weekend. I recently bought Farcry 3 and 4 so I've been on a bit of a spree.

Finished Gears 3, way more, somewhat downbeat, fun than I recall the other two being and grapically quite spiffy for a game knocking on a decade old

Got 3 races left on Ridge Racer 6 but beat the end boss race so calling it done enough

Current getting grumpy with Bayonetta, so sure I was betterer at button smooshy games

Tried out Barotrauma after getting it on Humble.

If anyone told me this would be Space Station 13 underwater, I would have bought this MUCH earlier. Doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of Space Station 13, but it can at least be played solo. Glad to see the modding community is quite large as well. There’s an armada full of submarine designs to use for a round.

 SkavenLord wrote:
Tried out Barotrauma after getting it on Humble.

If anyone told me this would be Space Station 13 underwater, I would have bought this MUCH earlier. Doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of Space Station 13, but it can at least be played solo. Glad to see the modding community is quite large as well. There’s an armada full of submarine designs to use for a round.

I remember wanting to try that game with a friend. I might get it on steam. Are you able to play multiplayer just fine that way on steam? I'm not sure how that all works. I might play the game with you in co op if you are up for it.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
Tried out Barotrauma after getting it on Humble.

If anyone told me this would be Space Station 13 underwater, I would have bought this MUCH earlier. Doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of Space Station 13, but it can at least be played solo. Glad to see the modding community is quite large as well. There’s an armada full of submarine designs to use for a round.

I remember wanting to try that game with a friend. I might get it on steam. Are you able to play multiplayer just fine that way on steam? I'm not sure how that all works. I might play the game with you in co op if you are up for it.

I haven’t tried multiplayer yet, but it seems to be the usual “choose/host a server” type of deal. Seen a lot of videos of a few friends playing together, so I imagine it’s working okay.
I also appreciate your offer for coop! I don’t plan to play online at the moment since I’m still not sure how everything works (steered my first three subs into rocks after just leaving harbor), but maybe we can give it a shot sometime.

Started playing Jurassic World Evolution. It really is an amazing game that someone convinces you that the last 6 attempts at creating a deadly dinosaur park may have failed but you'll make it.

I've committed almost every boneheaded thing done in the movies, from splicing dna to creating a new carnasaur exhibit. Sure, a few people got eaten but we are making money, especially in selling Baribsol in the gift shops.

My only complaint is that everyone in the park knows how to do their job except for the rangers. They are union or something because they won't lift a finger without a work order. Lazy buggers.

After breaking Skyrim by Enchanting a ring that gave me 1,519, 235% increase 1 handed weapon damage I decided to shelve it for a bit and see if I can solo my way through the original Baldur's Gate. I've never successfully don it before so this should be fun

Coffee Talk. Odd game, but something different is good.

Got Prophet and the Warlock. Queek’s Vampire Crusade is barely lifting off thanks to Kroq-Gar, so here’s hoping Ratling Guns and Doom Flayers do the trick.

Also fell in love with the Vampire Coast. Really nailed the pirate feel to a T, and it’s awesome watching all those gunlines going off at once. The easy access to mortars is certainly helping.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
After breaking Skyrim by Enchanting a ring that gave me 1,519, 235% increase 1 handed weapon damage I decided to shelve it for a bit and see if I can solo my way through the original Baldur's Gate. I've never successfully don it before so this should be fun

Ooh. Which class? Heard solo spellcaster was extremely difficult, but rewarding if you make it to the higher levels.

 SkavenLord wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
Tried out Barotrauma after getting it on Humble.

If anyone told me this would be Space Station 13 underwater, I would have bought this MUCH earlier. Doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of Space Station 13, but it can at least be played solo. Glad to see the modding community is quite large as well. There’s an armada full of submarine designs to use for a round.

I remember wanting to try that game with a friend. I might get it on steam. Are you able to play multiplayer just fine that way on steam? I'm not sure how that all works. I might play the game with you in co op if you are up for it.

I haven’t tried multiplayer yet, but it seems to be the usual “choose/host a server” type of deal. Seen a lot of videos of a few friends playing together, so I imagine it’s working okay.
I also appreciate your offer for coop! I don’t plan to play online at the moment since I’m still not sure how everything works (steered my first three subs into rocks after just leaving harbor), but maybe we can give it a shot sometime.

Sounds good. I've never played but I could probably get a few friends involved.

Also on prophet and the warlocks dlc it was great fun as ikit klaw. Doom rocket nukes plus weapons teams ftw. A shame the shadow and the blade dlc was kinda disappointed with the skaven assassin. I suppose I was expecting a step up from ikit and his war against everybody but what little I played of the eshin assassin while he is cool his buff vs debuffs for faction items is odd and kinda crappy last I played.

 SkavenLord wrote:

Ooh. Which class? Heard solo spellcaster was extremely difficult, but rewarding if you make it to the higher levels.

Playing a Gnome Fighter/Illusionist. So far I'm level 6 (in both classes) and I just got out of Nashkel Mines after spending most of my time clearing all the side quests in the areas around it. Haven't really leveraged all my magic as yet but I'm rocking a -5 AC so bar a crit on a Natural 20 I can just walk through most encounters with ease. Not sure how the later game will go as I am determined to max out my levels as much as possible first.

I have Siege of Dragonspear installed so I believe it increases the EXP cap to 500,000 for the first game as opposed to the old limit of 161,000 with Tales of the Sword Coast installed. I also believe its cumulative so I think I can only max out to level 9, but I'm not super sure. As many times as I played through Baldur's Gate I've never tried to do it solo so we'll see how it goes.

 ChargerIIC wrote:
Started playing Jurassic World Evolution. It really is an amazing game that someone convinces you that the last 6 attempts at creating a deadly dinosaur park may have failed but you'll make it.

I've committed almost every boneheaded thing done in the movies, from splicing dna to creating a new carnasaur exhibit. Sure, a few people got eaten but we are making money, especially in selling Baribsol in the gift shops.

My only complaint is that everyone in the park knows how to do their job except for the rangers. They are union or something because they won't lift a finger without a work order. Lazy buggers.

It's a fun game, though practical considerations (from an "it was in the movies" standpoint) sometimes mean that you've got some *really* stupid options as head of the park.

"Indominus Rex? Indoraptor? I wonder what those are like?"

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:

Ooh. Which class? Heard solo spellcaster was extremely difficult, but rewarding if you make it to the higher levels.

Playing a Gnome Fighter/Illusionist. So far I'm level 6 (in both classes) and I just got out of Nashkel Mines after spending most of my time clearing all the side quests in the areas around it. Haven't really leveraged all my magic as yet but I'm rocking a -5 AC so bar a crit on a Natural 20 I can just walk through most encounters with ease. Not sure how the later game will go as I am determined to max out my levels as much as possible first.

I have Siege of Dragonspear installed so I believe it increases the EXP cap to 500,000 for the first game as opposed to the old limit of 161,000 with Tales of the Sword Coast installed. I also believe its cumulative so I think I can only max out to level 9, but I'm not super sure. As many times as I played through Baldur's Gate I've never tried to do it solo so we'll see how it goes.

Dragonspear doesn't change the XP cap in BG, only in the expansion itself. You're still stuck at 161k max to deal with Durlag's, the werewolves and Sarevok, so you'll cap out at 7th level in both classes. In Siege, you can get to 9/10 (at exactly max XP, which is 500K)

At 6/6 you've got 1 level before you're not progressing any further.

Just picked up a bundle of The Elder Scrolls games on the Steam summer sale. Included Morrowind, Oblivion, and the remastered Skyrim. My feelings after starting with Morrowind are mostly "What have I been missing?!"

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Just picked up a bundle of The Elder Scrolls games on the Steam summer sale. Included Morrowind, Oblivion, and the remastered Skyrim. My feelings after starting with Morrowind are mostly "What have I been missing?!"

Bad graphics, backwards mechanics and putting a rock on your spacebar to level up athletics.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Just picked up a bundle of The Elder Scrolls games on the Steam summer sale. Included Morrowind, Oblivion, and the remastered Skyrim. My feelings after starting with Morrowind are mostly "What have I been missing?!"

Yeah Morrowind is old and it really shows. I'd look into finding some mods to improve it by getting rid of some of those old systems which were removed from the games which followed, such as letting you run without draining your stamina.

Oblivion has potato people but is much easier to play for someone just trying to get into the series. The levelling system can be a pain, though, and if you don't plan your levelling then you can end up very underpowered against the enemies you face. Luckily you can tweak the difficulty in the options with a slider rather than set difficulty settings so you can balance it for your specific character. There's also a variety of mods out there which can change the levelling system to remove the requirement to plan out all your skill levelling and having to front end your endurance and strength/agility based skills to maximise your health increases on each level up and to increase your damage (strength for melee, agility for archery) and carry weight.

Yakuza 0, only about 7-8 hours in on chapter 2 but loving it so far. I really need to learn my buttons tho for all the mini games. Love the Sega Lands in it. Had to get the ps4 ver tho, couldn't play it on my PC due to the controls, its hard enough to do the mini games, its harder when the buttons don't like up with your control pad, and yes I tried to change them, doesn't change what shows up on screen to push.

Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, love the demo stages, love the graphics and gameplay so far, love the tutorial sections.

SF5 champion edition...meh its alright....I mean it's no Alpha/Zero 2, or SSF2T or even alpha/zero 3/MVC 2, but still SF5CE looks and plays ok I guess.

King of Fighters XIII, looks neat

KOF 98, KOF 2002 millionare, looks neat, takes a while to get used to the SNK controls coming from a SF background.

Battle Garegga Rev 2016.... one of the best shumps out there....just shut up and get it... do it now! M2 needs to see that shump players out there want old games on new systems like ESP RADE, Ketsui, and other CAVE games. (personally i'd love to have a Ibara/Pinksweets and Muchi muchi pork on western psn... please CAVE and sony....please I shouldn't have to set up a japanese psn account to play Ketsui/ ESP RaDE and other cave games on ps4 online.

Castlevania - Rondo of blood and SOTN package, both games are classics whats not to love.

Crimzon Clover... Dojin shump from Yotsubane (aka superplayer from japan) amazing game, so simple yet so complex when you get to unlimited mode. Great if you love bullet hell games ( I DO I DO!)

DoDonpachi (DOJ/SDOJ) best games CAVE has ever made play them...do it NAOOO and get prepaired for pain lots and lots of pain pain pain, you thought darkstalkers/bloodborn where hard HA HA HA they aint got nothing on Dodonpachi and its squeals.

Loving the steam sale on right now, been picking up a few more games, need to give GG xrd rev2 a good honest try.

As Always if you love shumps get the Alltyanx Trilogy games from Siter Skain/Decia games, Kamuii/ Reflex/ Alltyanx second, AMAZING games but the music just blew me away in Kamui really really blew me away.

Oh yeah 'Wrecker' ( I think) its called where you are up in space dismantling old space ships for a multi planet company looks bloody amazing also. its in beta atm, ill wait until the final product tho... and

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Cyberpunks delayed again... imagine that eh? looks great tho although 10 years is a long damn time whats another half year eh?...

Cyberpunks delayed again... imagine that eh? looks great tho although 10 years is a long damn time whats another half year eh?...

Huh. I'd missed that. Ah, well, september to november isn't bad, and it is officially content complete.

I won't complain about 2 more months of polish. Or Polish polish.

Malus, dude... No. Don't do that to Morrowind.

Go for the graphics overhauls, and the one that makes accuracy better (it tweaks to-hits higher so that it seems more hitbox based and less die-roll based). But don't gut the Magicka or Stamina systems. Stamina management especially makes it a much different (and I think in some ways better) game than the later ones.

But if you've come from Oblivion or Skyrim (or most other modern fantasy games) I'd suggest putting those experiences out of your mind for Morrowind.

It is a much more immersive experience in a lot of ways. NPCs are less lively, but have more personality because there's so much more written dialogue than the later games have voice acted- and you're not stuck with the same 5 VAs for the whole thing (aside from basic "hello"s and stuff).

The map and journal system is MUCH more in-depth. You actually have to pay attention to directions, and navigate and orienteer yourself through the landscape, which makes you pay attention to things more- it's a much better way of doing things than the "Tunnel-vision on the waypoint!" method that later games use.

Magic, though less flashy (and mods might be able to fix that), is MUCH more flexible, and can honestly be a little weird. One of the biggest differences is that Enchanted items naturally regenerate their charge, while Magicka naturally does NOT- making even a simple enchanted ring of healing a much more valuable item than it would be in later games.

Oh, and the majority of enchantments are USE enchantments, not constant-effect ones. Any anything can have them. Daggers, rings, boots, belts... So if an enchanted sword says "Demon Katana" that means that you have to activate its enchantment for it to do anything.


But yeah. Slow your roll, don't expect everything to be handed to you, pay attention to what the NPCs say, and you might just fall in love with Morrowind as it is.

If you want to play Morroblivion or Skywind, just get those mods for their respective games instead. Don't do Morrowind dirty like that.

But be prepared to remake your character and start over a couple times before you wrap your brain around the absolutely backwards leveling system.

Basically, any skill that you actually want to use is the worst choice for a primary skill, since you'll be leveling up too fast, and not getting the right attribute boosts maxed out and at the right time.

And you don't want to make stuff you use constantly (because it will level you up when you don't want to). So your primary skills will be the stuff you don't want to use so you can hit the x5 in three attributes and control leveling precisely by the rare use of the skills you don't like and don't want for that character.

They did go to far in stripping the character system down for Skyrim, but there were really good reasons why some change was necessary. And the antithetical-to-roleplaying backwards logic leveling system was the biggest problem.

Having finished TLOU2 my wife and me are going back to the Witcher 3 GOTY. We have already completed main story and the Hearts of Stone expansion, only started Toussaint when TLOU2 arrived.

I also keep playing MTG:Arena. I would never spend money on paper MTG as I consider the business model abhorrent, but as Arena is free to play I keep coming back for some silly and random but quick and fun games of Magic.

I just picked up Doom (2016) on a huge discount. It had my jaw dropping early on with the gruesome finishing moves. It's so damn fun and frustrating. Playing through on Ultra Violence and sometimes it gets a bit hard and I have to take a break. But then I still think about it even when not playing. This is probably the best reboot of a video game ever. Everything is so well done. Just enough story to give you an overall purpose in the background as you just beserker your way through hordes of demons. And the exploration adds to game without being distracting. The combat is so frenetic. And they way you are rewarded with health and ammo for finishing moves encourages you to get up close and personal. And the Doom Marine is awesome when he gets his moments in scripted events. He gives no F's.

He's quite capable of emoting solely through his body language and being a nightmare to everything he comes across.