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Lol AS a horse? Hmmm... gonna have to play that again sometime, horse archer is so amusing.

Picked up no mans sky because im a sucker for space games.....

its honestly not that bad. very same eeee but bearable.

i didnt jump on the hype train so i dont think i was nearly as disappointed as some people.

 toasteroven wrote:
Why can't I find a mount and blade mod that lets you play as a horse.

I remember one where you could play as a centaur...? There's ones which make you invisible whilst you ride a horse, or make your horse invisible and change your model to an animal.

Point - there probably actually is one out there.

Replaying DA: Inquisition since I never finished it

Finished ME3 in time before Legion.

All is good.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
Why can't I find a mount and blade mod that lets you play as a horse.

I remember one where you could play as a centaur...? There's ones which make you invisible whilst you ride a horse, or make your horse invisible and change your model to an animal.

Point - there probably actually is one out there.

But none where you can play as a horse, riding on another horse? Oh well. I shall continue my quest.

Been playing space games after watching the NMS disasters got me back in the mood.

Was playing X3: Terran Conflict + Albion Prelude, and FTL until I found Astrox Hostile Space Exploration on steam the other night.

Astrox Hostile Space Excavation is by a one man indie dev who got sick of there being no singleplayer EVE-style space game so he decided to make his own.
Im having alot of fun floating around mining and shooting the occasional pirate.
The game provides a tonne of options as you start a new game that cover number of sectors, whether theyre in a linear path or not, your goal, number of stations, asteroids, and enemies and a heap more options to fine tune them too.

Astrox Hostile Space Excavation is currently $4 USD on steam sale til the 9th of september. As someone whos always wanted a EVE style singleplayer game, I highly recommend it.

Xcom 2. I have made it to february of the next year on hardest difficulty on Ironman mode. I may actually beat this one as i'm now fairly reliably winning. It can still go either way and this is really exciting and stressful. For those not in the know xcom is like dark souls. It's super hard and on hardest difficulty it's hardest of all esp. on ironman mode where you get one constantly updating save.

I just finished a low chaos run of Dishonoured. It would have been a bloodless run through but Capt Kurnow died for some reason (every single human in the entire level was asleep) so I'm assuming that was a bug.

I am currently in the middle of bouncing of Divinity:Original sin for the second time. Its a game I just can't seem to enjoy.

As sick computer is now at the hospital. I bought a couple of games for ye olde Xbox360. X-men Destiny and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. As I'm normally a PC gamer I was amazed that Ultimate Alliance, a 10 year old game for an outdated system, is retailing for £12 Second Hand.

This better be the best game ever made...

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I just finished a low chaos run of Dishonoured. It would have been a bloodless run through but Capt Kurnow died for some reason (every single human in the entire level was asleep) so I'm assuming that was a bug.

I am currently in the middle of bouncing of Divinity:Original sin for the second time. Its a game I just can't seem to enjoy.

Capt Kurnow is the uncle you have to save, right? Did you take his unconscious body to the designated safe spot? If you don't, the game counts him as dead. I think its implying that after the mission, the overseer's goons find him and kill him if he's just lying around.

Current playing the new Deus Ex. Having fun so far. As an avid fan of the original, it was great that I recognized the names of everyone in that opening scene at the meeting table. I may be in the minority, but I'm hoping they're building towards doing a grand remake of the original (in a good way, that is).

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I just finished a low chaos run of Dishonoured. It would have been a bloodless run through but Capt Kurnow died for some reason (every single human in the entire level was asleep) so I'm assuming that was a bug.

I am currently in the middle of bouncing of Divinity:Original sin for the second time. Its a game I just can't seem to enjoy.

Capt Kurnow is the uncle you have to save, right? Did you take his unconscious body to the designated safe spot? If you don't, the game counts him as dead. I think its implying that after the mission, the overseer's goons find him and kill him if he's just lying around.

Aye more or less this. Also congratzs on doing such an playtrough

That's X-Men Destiny completed. It was fun, short but fun. Well worth a fiver.

 Desubot wrote:
Picked up no mans sky because im a sucker for space games.....

its honestly not that bad. very same eeee but bearable.

i didnt jump on the hype train so i dont think i was nearly as disappointed as some people.

It honestly wasn't that bad of a game to me either... but after a week or two, I literally hit a wall where the game became so much less than fun. Part of what killed it for me was the repetetiveness of everything, plus, when I have A Thing that breaks and it gives me the recipe to repair it, and one of the items to repair says "create in inventory tech" but I can't do that because I apparently don't know how to make that thing, plus I have to rely on super random element generation on each planet/system in order to fix The Thing it stopped feeling so much like a game to me, and a bit more like "work"


OT: I traded No Man's Sky in last week and picked up Mad Max again. While it apparently pulled a save file from near end game out of the cloud or something in which I have a near maxed out ride, I decided to restart a game to clear everything the "right" way and see where that goes.

Back on the Baldur's Gate train trying to finish it at least once (recently, I mean) before those newfangled 3.5 rules convince me to pick up NWN2, I hear the first expansion is supposed to be really good.

Finally beat xcom 2 on hardest difficulty (Legend) on Ironman mode. I'm so happy i could cry. All the effort it took and i have finally succeeded. A game that is so hard it ranks up with Dark Souls in difficulty. It feels like such a great accomplishment game-wise :=).

 GrimDork wrote:
Back on the Baldur's Gate train trying to finish it at least once (recently, I mean) before those newfangled 3.5 rules convince me to pick up NWN2, I hear the first expansion is supposed to be really good.

Enhanced Edition or normal?

Rimworld.

I am currently spending time on Dota 2 but I would really like to play Command and Conquer Zero Hour again. Has anyone managed to make it run on Win7?

Picked up a copy of Rayman Legends this weekend. Best platformer I've played in quite a while.

 jasper76 wrote:
Picked up a copy of Rayman Legends this weekend. Best platformer I've played in quite a while.

Yeah, that game is such a blast. Origins is pretty worthwhile too.

 toasteroven wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
Picked up a copy of Rayman Legends this weekend. Best platformer I've played in quite a while.

Yeah, that game is such a blast. Origins is pretty worthwhile too.

It's pretty cool that they embedded all the levels of Rayman Origins into the new game. I wish more franchises would do stuff like that.

The music levels on Rayman Legends are just fantastic. I'd be super happy to have an entire game with nothing but those types of levels.

Definitely, the music levels really surprised in just how fun they are to play. Apart from the one that makes the screen go all staticy, they're probably the ones I replay most.

Been playing a lot of Armoured Warfare, noting says screw you world as a squad of onself an two mates driving Challenger 2 tanks holding back a horde of t 90s and M2 Bradleys as friendly arty lays down a barrage.

@Somerandomevilguy Enhanced. Even with my great love of the BG series, I doubt I could put up with some of the annoying stuff like not being able to have weapon sets for two handed weapons and sword/shield at the same time that exist in the original games.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I just finished a low chaos run of Dishonoured. It would have been a bloodless run through but Capt Kurnow died for some reason (every single human in the entire level was asleep) so I'm assuming that was a bug.

Dishonoured Is one of my favorite games, along with The Last of Us. I got the Clean Hands, Ghost and Flesh & Steel trophies in my last playthrough. That took a lot of restarts.

I just picked up Witcher 3 GotY edition. I'll see you all in a few years when I'm finished.

ESO, oh how I have missed the silliness of PUGs.

Joined a group in the second easiest Raid. Its me, a guy with half my levels, and two level 30s. My and the other leveled guy are DPS, the low levels are a "Tank" and a "Healer.

The "Tank's" armed with a bow, no shield and heavy armour (armour and a bow is a crap build on a good day), plus doesn't have one taunt ability slotted. The "Healer" is armed with an Ice staff.

Queue the Tank yelling at the healer for being crap all Raid, and me, the DPS (who somehow has more health and armour than all of them, and I'm a glass cannon) acting as the tank (because it takes all of 10 seconds to slot a taunt skill as any class).

When I was a low level I didn't do Raids till I'd completed the main quest and reached at least level 50. I don't really get low leveled players, with no ability to resurrect other players, only one action bar, and the odd inability to know that red areas are death/ how to block attacks, find themselves in Raids.

Meanwhile...

Two new Raids have came out as DLC. I've only played one of them, and its nice to see the Veteran level complexity in a Normal level dungeon. Besides that though, some of those boss mechanics can go to hell. Spamming knockback, making you blind and then throwing insta-kill zones everywhere, that sort of thing. You get used to that, but with the new group finder its horrible trying to find players competent enough to run it (the game takes 20 minutes to find a group, which then disbands itself and you have to wait 15 minutes after that to find another group. No more find a group <1 min and then being able to join another one automatically anymore).

Finished the Witcher 2. Went the Roche route, didn't love it, but got a decent ending.

Thinking about picking up Wild Hunt GOTY edition, but don't know if I can afford the time investment yet...

Playing Warmachine Tactics.
Its probably most poorly designed game I have played, and I played Duke Nukem Forever.
It doesn't even look good, and I'm not talking about Warmachine's not-Warcraft aesthetics.