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Playing Telltale’s The Expanse. Big fan of the show which seems to be over so have to get my fix here. Follows Telltale’s formula but is more ambitious with actual open world style exploration. Guess they people complained their games where to short so they added more content…

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Playing Telltale’s The Expanse. Big fan of the show which seems to be over so have to get my fix here. Follows Telltale’s formula but is more ambitious with actual open world style exploration. Guess they people complained their games where to short so they added more content…

Are all the episodes out? I saw this when it was first announced, but didn't want to play it drip feed, as I might lose my interest like their Walking Dead games.

Eumerin wrote:
In a non-historical game of HOI4, Germany has an even chance of overthrowing Hitler at the start of the game. If France is computer-controlled, it will always find an excuse to attack Germany, thereby triggering WW2 in Western Europe. This happens even when Hitler is overthrown and Germany goes Democratic, which is what makes it so blatant. But since your friend was controlling France, that didn't happen.

Sorry i tried to answer you a day or two ago but my computer's internet turned off.

I've never seen non-historical games where hitler didn't lose the german civil war it's just usually they're fascist replacements like how the soviet union got replaced by another communist nation in a civil war (i think it was Trotsky leading them but i can't remember). Oddly Italy seems to be stable and doesn't have civil wars but Spain LOVES to multi-faction civil war. Oddly Republican Spain came out on top this time which i think is communist i guess. Anyway fascist italy went down without much trouble but we think the Communist will be the biggest issue and we'll end up having to fight them. Wouldn't think i'd ever say this but it'll be nice to have Democratic Germany on our side versus the communists in a WW2 scenario. After we beat Italy i will say we carved it up quite well. Being the UK i took the islands and maybe some of africa because that felt most appropriate as the UK. However i didn't check where all the factories and resources were so maybe i should have checked more.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
[Oddly Italy seems to be stable and doesn't have civil wars but Spain LOVES to multi-faction civil war. Oddly Republican Spain came out on top this time which i think is communist i guess.

The Republicans always split into two factions. If Franco doesn't unite the Nationalists, then they fragment as well. And barring something odd happening, a split between the two Nationalist factions when the computer is controlling them will all but guarantee that the Republicans come out on top.

And yes, they're Communists.

've never seen non-historical games where hitler didn't lose the german civil war

He always does. The question mark is on whether the civil war happens in the first place. Anyway, the important part is that regardless of how Germany turns out as a result of the civil war, computer-controlled French are pretty much guaranteed to go to war with them, even if the French have to start the war.

And last but not least, Paradox has released a short new video for the game. It's not particularly fancy. It shows a jungle (probably in the Pacific, since there's a warship visible in the background), and displays the date January 25. So it appears that something new will be announced Thursday next week.

decided to play through some games i have that i had set aside for whatever reason and never completed.
Just finished up World of Final Fantasy, which was fun given i enjoy monster collection games, but felt rather short for a final fantasy title
Not sure yet what i'll start on next

 nels1031 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Playing Telltale’s The Expanse. Big fan of the show which seems to be over so have to get my fix here. Follows Telltale’s formula but is more ambitious with actual open world style exploration. Guess they people complained their games where to short so they added more content…

Are all the episodes out? I saw this when it was first announced, but didn't want to play it drip feed, as I might lose my interest like their Walking Dead games.

Yes, whole thing is out plus a bonus episode. Just finished episode 4.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Playing Telltale’s The Expanse. Big fan of the show which seems to be over so have to get my fix here. Follows Telltale’s formula but is more ambitious with actual open world style exploration. Guess they people complained their games where to short so they added more content…

Are all the episodes out? I saw this when it was first announced, but didn't want to play it drip feed, as I might lose my interest like their Walking Dead games.

Yes, whole thing is out plus a bonus episode. Just finished episode 4.

Nice! Gonna buy it when I get back from Arizona.

Camina Drummer was such a great character. Its wild that they knocked it out of the park with her, considering that she was apparently a composite character made to simplify/consolidate multiple characters from the books. I could be wrong though, as I never partook in the novel series.

I took Palworld out for a spin. It's fun so far. Domesticating not-Pokemon to put them to work for you. You can have them work on your base. Or you can have them fight for you, just as in all the other monster-collecting games. And all of this with a survival game setup with crafting recipes that you unlock as you level up.

I have a couple of minor complaints -

1.). There's no combat tutorial. Finding the hotkey for the Roll (dodge) command required me to be aware that it existed, and go digging for it in the Survival Guide.
2.). The Tutorial walks you through the basics, and then sends you off to clear your first tower. I finished everything else in the tutorial, got a few extra levels for good measure, and figured the tower would be fairly easy. Boy, was I wrong. Even with the new weapons I'd unlocked, and assistance from the Pals I brought with me, I don't think I could have done enough damage fast enough within the time allowed for the fight. Not that the fight lasted for the full time, mind you.

 nels1031 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Playing Telltale’s The Expanse. Big fan of the show which seems to be over so have to get my fix here. Follows Telltale’s formula but is more ambitious with actual open world style exploration. Guess they people complained their games where to short so they added more content…

Are all the episodes out? I saw this when it was first announced, but didn't want to play it drip feed, as I might lose my interest like their Walking Dead games.

Yes, whole thing is out plus a bonus episode. Just finished episode 4.

Nice! Gonna buy it when I get back from Arizona.

Camina Drummer was such a great character. Its wild that they knocked it out of the park with her, considering that she was apparently a composite character made to simplify/consolidate multiple characters from the books. I could be wrong though, as I never partook in the novel series.

Yes, she was one of my favorites on the show too.
This Telltale series is a bit different than the others. Without giving too much away the open world/salvaging sections aren't just a time filler, they're important. The 1st 3 episodes have 8 pieces of salvage each. I recommend finding them all especially in episode 2.

Still plodding through Monster Hunter rise. Over 600 hours in, I've enjoyed playing this series of games for nearly 20 years now going back to when it was first brought over from Japan. It's not for everyone but I find it relaxing when I need a break from painting my way through my metal/resin/plastic mountain.

Tekken 8 is out and I been working on that, getting ready for stream games!

I am very happy.

I've been switching back and forth between Rogue Trader and Palworld. I'm not necessarily doing much with either, but I am making steady progress in both. I've cleared the first tower in Palworld. Since that was the end of the tutorial, and since the tutorial is currently the only overworld objective set right now, that means that the game more or less devolves down to "run around and do stuff". My Pal box (i.e. base controls and "not-Pokemon" management) gives me a handful of items to build in my base in order to level up the box (lets me have more Pals working in my base, and recently gave me the option to build a second base), but the blueprints are obtained by the usual survival game mechanism - level up and spend points on them. Otherwise, it's simply a matter of wandering around, seeing what there is to see, and catching new pals.

Gotta catch *THIS COMMENT HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY NINTENDO'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT!*

Um... right.

I've also been exploring in a dungeon. Got lost for a bit, which was annoying, The map only shows outdoors, and not indoors. And it was a pretty good-sized cave system.

As for Rogue Trader -

I'm still in Chapter 2. Left off with a fight when I got sufficiently irritated with my first attempt at it. The problem isn't the enemies, per se. The problem is that - as is often the case - the game puts you in a starting area that's largely devoid of cover, against enemies that move before much of your party. And as a result, I generally have at least half my party at half health before they even get a chance to take their first action. Meanwhile, right behind me and just off of the combat map, there's plenty of cover.

But I'm not allowed to deploy (or move) there.

It's artificial difficulty, and it ruins the gameplay experience.

Aside from stuff like that, the game is still fun - mostly.

Apple fox wrote:
Tekken 8 is out and I been working on that, getting ready for stream games!

I am very happy.

Burned through the Story Mode on this over the weekend. It's very short but completely devoid of the padded nonsense that made 7 and especially 6's such a slog. Pretty perfect experience and an extremely hype third act. Easily the most fun I've had with the franchise since 5.

Started Suicide Squad. Pretty entertaining so far.

 LunarSol wrote:

Apple fox wrote:
Tekken 8 is out and I been working on that, getting ready for stream games!

I am very happy.

Burned through the Story Mode on this over the weekend. It's very short but completely devoid of the padded nonsense that made 7 and especially 6's such a slog. Pretty perfect experience and an extremely hype third act. Easily the most fun I've had with the franchise since 5.

That’s awesome, I mostly been playing against friends. Story when I can sit and just play through it at my own pace.
Did do some arcade as well in bed at 3am.

I did also buy granblue Fantasy relink, But Tekken keeps eating playtime up.


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 Kanluwen wrote:
Started Suicide Squad. Pretty entertaining so far.

I keep being told it’s not good, but I am seeing people having fun. And it looks like fun.

Probably because game mechanicaly Fun but storywise not really.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Probably because game mechanicaly Fun but storywise not really.

Nope, story's fine.

It genuinely is fun. Lots of quippery among the squad, fun mechanics, etc

A Surge in massed refunds respectivly the googled question says otherwise kan .

 Kanluwen wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Probably because game mechanicaly Fun but storywise not really.

Nope, story's fine.

It genuinely is fun. Lots of quippery among the squad, fun mechanics, etc

Hard to say it's great when on launch they literally closed the servers within the day because they had a 100% completion bug for people signing in (lol for the people who pre-ordered to gain early access) which let everyone gain access to all the cutscenes and terrible writing they had in the game.

So that's a big nope from me, at the very least in the story department. Completely ruins Batman from the Arkhamverse and has incredibly cringy writing, I mean even the in-universe lore is shoddily written, this is how you think Lex Luthor, one of the biggest narcissists and capitalists in the DC universe, thinks about the Amazons? I'm pretty sure in the actual comics he says the Amazons are cowards for having sealed themselves off in the world:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/s/QYlCdTWYxJ


- there's no creative way in which the SS actually kills the heroes, each boss fight is literally "just shoot with guns till they die lol"

- they break the lore with how green lantern rings work upon the death of the bearer, you don't just get to wear it after the person dies, the ring chooses who wields it next

- Batman's boss fight, which should be the equivalent of feeling hunted by Kraven the Hunter on steroids since he's lost the "no-kill" rule, gets reduced to being a big hallucinogenic monster bat in the middle that you shoot at since Rocksteady was too lazy to do anything but lean into the Scarecrow fear toxin gimmick rather than mix that with a cat-and-mouse boss fight where he should be more like a human version of the Alien from Alien Isolation

- Literal plot armour from how the SS dead to rights should have died several times (especially against people like Flash/Superman) but get deus ex machin'ad to survive increasingly unbelievable encounters because reasons, at least give some marmy excuse like the Guardians of the Multiverse got from Strange Supreme protecting them, here it's just literal idiot ball throwing, the SS squad don't even try to use the element of surprise, they just walk up the front door each time. Hell, given that they're bringing in multiverse garbage into this game, they may as well just make it in-game that they keep bringing in variants/clones of the SS squad for every one that gets sent to die.

How you go from the superb Arkham series to....this live service drek? I guess looking at how many OG developers and staff that left Rocksteady, I feel like this is a Bioware type situation where it's Rocksteady just in name.

No offense Kan, but you don't exactly have a great history with adamantly defending looter shooters that don't end well. Remember how much you shilled for Anthem? How did that end up working out?

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I'm seeing wildly divergent opinions on the game. A number of people seem to like it. And a number of people seem to hate it, to the point where - as noted - there appear to be a very large number of people looking for a refund on it. That indicates that it's not just review bombing. These are people who have purchased the game, played it for a short bit, and come to the conclusion, "This game sucks!"

Personally, given what I've heard, I'm not inclined to play it.

WoW Classic SoD is pretty fun if you're not one of the 3-5 specs that sucks right now. Phase 2 looks even better.
Got Codevein and DLC for a whopping $9 after trying the demo. It's not Fromsoftware quality, but it's decent enough Soulslike combat.
Some of the artstyle is definitely questionable however...

I had that wintery urge to play Skyrim so I've been steadily making my way through it.

Makes me realise how much I'd like to play a new Elder Scrolls game.

Also trying out Palworld. Currently playing an awful lot like pokemon mixed with Fortnite Lego. Like the town mechanics are 3xactly the same.

Oh well it's fun to play with my son.

This is an entertaining overview video

Eumerin wrote:
I'm seeing wildly divergent opinions on the game. A number of people seem to like it. And a number of people seem to hate it, to the point where - as noted - there appear to be a very large number of people looking for a refund on it. That indicates that it's not just review bombing. These are people who have purchased the game, played it for a short bit, and come to the conclusion, "This game sucks!"

Personally, given what I've heard, I'm not inclined to play it.

I think there's just a demographic that's young enough to have social groups that are primarily built around hopping to a new grind and the free time to make that enjoyable regardless of what game they're playing. If you bonded over grinding Call of Duty but tired of the competitive nature of it, games like this provide a cooperative outlet of a similar social experience. Outside of that context though, there's a lot of people that bounce off the grind pretty hard. Top that off with a game that goes out of its way to be set in the Arkhamverse for little reason (particularly when Gotham Knights would have been a better followup) that kind of goes out of its way to trash the Arkhamverse and its a big recipe for disappointment.

My impression is its fine for what it is, but what it is doesn't really appeal to me. FWIW, Palworld feels largely the same.

Not just goes out of its way to trash the Arkhamverse, but DC and the JL in particular. Case in point, I saw someone mention the relationship that Flash has with the Rogues. The Rogues are super-villains, and dedicated Flash enemies, but there's generally a reasonably respectful attitude on both sides. The Rogues avoid killing people, and both sides are on about as good of terms as you could expect a superhero and supervillains to be.

Meanwhile, in the game...


In short, there are some strong hints that the writers involved in this game don't have the slightest idea about the characters they're writing. Given that this is a game with characters that have long-established backgrounds and characterizations, this is a slap in the face to DC fans.


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My impression is its fine for what it is, but what it is doesn't really appeal to me. FWIW, Palworld feels largely the same.

Palworld is memed as a Pokemon parody. But it's really more of a management game that uses the survival framework, and mons as what you're managing. I like it. But it's not really what the memes are claiming it is.

Eumerin wrote:
Not just goes out of its way to trash the Arkhamverse, but DC and the JL in particular. Case in point, I saw someone mention the relationship that Flash has with the Rogues. The Rogues are super-villains, and dedicated Flash enemies, but there's generally a reasonably respectful attitude on both sides. The Rogues avoid killing people, and both sides are on about as good of terms as you could expect a superhero and supervillains to be.

Meanwhile, in the game...

Spoiler:

Boomerang is one of the members of the Rogues, and is in this game. After Flash is killed, Boomerang unzips his fly and prepares to urinate on Flash's dead body. Deadshot starts to stop him, but there are arguments online over whether Boomerang still does it.

But Deadshot's actions are beside the point. The important thing is that such an action is completely out of character for an interaction between Flash and one of the Rogues.

In short, there are some strong hints that the writers involved in this game don't have the slightest idea about the characters they're writing. Given that this is a game with characters that have long-established backgrounds and characterizations, this is a slap in the face to DC fans.


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My impression is its fine for what it is, but what it is doesn't really appeal to me. FWIW, Palworld feels largely the same.

Palworld is memed as a Pokemon parody. But it's really more of a management game that uses the survival framework, and mons as what you're managing. I like it. But it's not really what the memes are claiming it is.

That's largely what I mean. I've not really enjoyed any of the survival crafters. They just haven't clicked with me, so Palworld doesn't really have any appeal.

As for the Rogues, I will say, of them Captain Boomerang tends to be the one who most resents their code of honor and is mostly kept in line by Cold. Most of the others have a lot of respect for the Flash, but Harkness tends to revel in cruelty. It's definitely not above him, though there's a point in these things where the nastiness stops being fun and I can certainly see it reaching that point for most people.

I played Grim Dawn with a friend while i was away in Arizona (he played a soldier while i played an assassin type character). I also played Terra Invicta which was a mix between boring and slow and then fun during space battles (mostly against the aliens).

Playing South Park The Stick of Truth and with some Civ6 on the side.

Helldivers 2, some random crashes aside, really scratches that manic coop itch.

The Millennia demo (its a Paradox published take on the Civ formula).

The demo is far too short (60 turns), but a lot of the economic and policy concepts are interesting. Ages zoom by too quickly (even compared to Civ). It has potential.

Lots of little UI problems. Combat is entirely passive, but has a pop-up window anyway. Menus are kind of buried behind small icons, and the city management screen is split in two in an obnoxious way.