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Picked up pillars of eternity. It's awesome if you're into old school text heavy fantasy rpg.

 Nerak wrote:
Picked up pillars of eternity. It's awesome if you're into old school text heavy fantasy rpg.

You sir get a cake! Pillars of eternity is indeed awesomness. What characther you running?

Went ahead and got some five characters killed right of the bat because I'm to stubborn not to play trial of iron mode. Resetting every time is a bit of a chore. Currently following a guide I found and doing a paladin death goodlike with a spear. I'm terrified of dying everytime and the world has gotten a little bit messed up due to some poor choices but mostly things have worked out. Just won the war at Caed Nua (which was awesome) and wondering what I'm supposed to do with the endless money I have. by now I have some 50.000 coins and nothing to spend it on.Oh and I lost quite a few characters in the first wraith dungeon, and was very close to lose this one in endless path quest. Think I've assembled the entire party... last I found was "the grieveing mother".

How about you? NPC party or custom one?

Sounds like the adventure of a real man that dose! Caed Nua is a good area to level your gear and party members. And its also an amazing location me thinks.
I tend to run a plain figther or a Paladin with varied specilizations from time to time. And well the Grieving mother is good if you want to have a colorful and varied NPC parrty, but if I aim for a more blunt and direct party I custom make my members as then you can really go to town so to speak, since a few of the classes are stupidly overpowerd when used by a custom characther

Doing my level best to play a game of Stellaris all the way, instead of reaching a certain point and just starting a new game.

So I started this new game, and bam! Fallen empire right on my doorstep. Will this make things more or less interesting?

Taking a break from painting like a machine to spend some time on Stardew Valley. Into Summer of the second year now, with most of the community centre tasks now done (aside from the bulletin board and those annoying fishing tasks), making a nice and tidy profit every few days when it's time to harvest. I've also build a shed and started collecting the ingredients needed to build a few batches of kegs, so I can mass-convert hops into ale, that will later down the line be aged in my cellar, something I'm hoping to get done before Winter arrives once more.

Up to tier 4 in world of warships.

I still just don't understand why Pillars decided, "hey you know what class we don't need as a NPC companion, a rogue/thief."


Cause that's like not a class that's important at all in RPGs.

Wow seems like you'd have to make your charname one, or can you generate extra party NPCs too? Of course they wouldn't have fun scripted interaction.

 toasteroven wrote:

So I started this new game, and bam! Fallen empire right on my doorstep. Will this make things more or less interesting?

That depends on their ethos. It may well make expansion difficult.

I'm waiting for the Heinlein patch to hit before I go back to Stellaris, it has too many broken features at the moment.

They're the holy fanatic type.

 Compel wrote:
I still just don't understand why Pillars decided, "hey you know what class we don't need as a NPC companion, a rogue/thief."


Cause that's like not a class that's important at all in RPGs.

Because most classes can scout? Or something very similar at least. And because well no one wants to play a thief?

Dont we all play thieves in RPGs? I thought nicking everything that isn't stapled down is standard procedure.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Dont we all play thieves in RPGs? I thought nicking everything that isn't stapled down is standard procedure.

Guards like to call me a thief, but I prefer Professional Redistributor.

If none wants to play a thief/rogue then surely that's the class you would be certain to have available as a NPC.

It just boggles me that an RPG computer game wouldn't have a rogue, cleric, fighter and wizard as the bare minimum for fully fledged default voiced NPCs.

I might be salty because my design-your-own NPC Rogue is the leading cause of me reloading saves due to a terminal case of death.

 Trondheim wrote:
And because well no one wants to play a thief?

Um, what? Is this your first day in RPG worlds? Perhaps you've never heard of Bilbo Baggins?

I don't mean to be rude. There is a long and storied history of the Thief/ Rogue as a major part of the adventuring party, however.

I'm playing the waiting game.....


Seriously, it's taking forever for Mafia 3 to load its thing on my playstation.

I'm playing Dead by Daylight. All I have to say is that for a game that encourages the survivors to help each other, very few people actually try to help you if you get injured/hooked

Yeah, the lack of a thief NPC in vanilla Pillars is frustrating. There are a *lot* of locks and traps in that game, but none of your companions are optimal for training to deal with them because none of them are thieves. It got bad enough that I stopped my first playthrough just to go back and start over as a thief to deal with this short-coming.

(it's almost as frustrating as the "half of the enemies that you run into early on can teleport/burrow/fly past the front ranks of your party, and will insta-gib your spell-caster even if you have said caster stand around and do absolutely nothing" thing)

I *think* there's a thief in the first White March expansion. But that's a bit late.



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 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Up to tier 4 in world of warships.

Congrats! Now you can start working on the Arpeggio of Blue Steel ship missions!

I'm playing Ultimate Apocalypse for the first time, and it is amazing.

 feeder wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
And because well no one wants to play a thief?

Um, what? Is this your first day in RPG worlds? Perhaps you've never heard of Bilbo Baggins?

I don't mean to be rude. There is a long and storied history of the Thief/ Rogue as a major part of the adventuring party, however.

Nope, and why yes I have actually read the Hobbit

And yes I am well aware of that. Been playing RPGs for the better part half my life. Thiefs & rouges are as intresting to me as wet paper, but some people obviosly loves playing these sorts of figures

Last level of Doom (4).
Man it ramps up hard after you reach the Vega core
Still highly recommend it for a quick-gun n run story fun.
(maybe not at RRP though).

Dark Souls 2 was on sale over at Steam, so I got it a few days ago. Quite enjoyable when played in short bursts, to prevent frustration from building up too much.

Also diving back into Payday 2 now that they've finally wheeled out the new safe house. Bit miffed that the new features are locked away behind challenges and daily jobs, so getting there will take an awful lot of time sadly.

 BrookM wrote:
Dark Souls 2 was on sale over at Steam, so I got it a few days ago. Quite enjoyable when played in short bursts, to prevent frustration from building up too much.

I killed the Last Giant and--with some help--the Pursuer, then decided to retire from Dark Souls indefinitely before I burst a blood vessel.

Putting Stellaris aside for the moment, relaxing with Minecraft.

I had a classic moment when, while filling in a crater left by a creeper (yes i have to fill in the craters, shut up), I had another one jump behind me and make the dang thing deeper! And also kill me.

Sigh. More filling in to do.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Dark Souls 2 was on sale over at Steam, so I got it a few days ago. Quite enjoyable when played in short bursts, to prevent frustration from building up too much.

I killed the Last Giant and--with some help--the Pursuer, then decided to retire from Dark Souls indefinitely before I burst a blood vessel.

feth the Pursuer, we beat him today twice in coop (me distracting him with a shield while my brother shoots him with the ballista both times) and we're slowly progressing from there really. While I can certainly see why the game has a certain reputation, I do find myself enjoying it.

I'm still playing Dead by Daylight, and slowly feeling my faith in humanity slip away.

Victoria II.

I just asserted Austria's (well, the South German Confederation's) hegemony over Prussia. Now on to recover Elsaß-Lothringen from the pesky French. I should probably keep bullying the Italians and the Ottomans, but they provide a distraction to the Russians and the French that I'm not sure I want to lose, so they may be allowed to exist until I get some glorious Osterreich panzerdivisions.

On Dark Souls II, the Ruin Sentinels are going to be soo much fun to you. Also the double Pursuer fight .

I really should go back to it, but the story I just hate it sooooo much. I wonder if Katanas still have phantom range and ungodly damage

 toasteroven wrote:
Putting Stellaris aside for the moment, relaxing with Minecraft.

I had a classic moment when, while filling in a crater left by a creeper (yes i have to fill in the craters, shut up), I had another one jump behind me and make the dang thing deeper! And also kill me.

Sigh. More filling in to do.

D'ya know about the Dakka Minecraft threads? There's even a server!

Bouncing between Mafia 3, and the remastered version of Deadpool....

In regards to Mafia 3, the game opens with a fairly lengthy disclaimer/explanation of things.... and I can see why they "needed" it.