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I think Dark Souls has gotten back at me. After we beat the Pursuer we went straight to the Bastillon or whatever it is called, bypassing a large part of the game. It was quite tough there, but in the end we cleared it all out and whatnot.

When we went for the part we bypassed, I found out that I may or may not be a bit too strong for that part all of the sudden. Aside from the dragon, we killed everything with some ease and a lot of patience.

Now however, I need to go through a forest with zero visibility due to fog and a lot of those ghost-like foes that cannot be targeted. This is hell, probably paying me back for breezing through that other part.

Don't fight the ghosts, just run past them, they give very few souls and don't drop anything IIRC.

Also, if you hit the trees with a weapon it attracts them.

It is a short area tho. A cool merchant is hiding there, nice guy but his white phantom is beyond useless.
If you just run it you'll get to some forest ruins with lion warriors and whatnot. And curse pots, be careful with those.

Yeah, I powered through it, though I did stumble upon a decapitated talking head that taught me the "Decapitate" gesture.

I'm at the point with the lions and the laughing pots now, quite annoying that I've lost my humanity so easily without dying, but at least I didn't fall into the basilisk pit.

I jumped in.

Oh well, may as well stay Hollow for now, less chance of getting fethed over by an invasion. If there is one aspect I dislike about the game, it has to be that.

Fitting a Cruiser in Eve, to scare rats off the miningfleet....

How do I set up Dark Souls for PC? I tried using DSfix, but it either crashes at start up or crashes a few minutes into the game.

At this rate I might have to refund it.

Ps3 master race!

Also, the Rhineland is mine! Glorious Imperial Austria!
I also built and currently hold the Suez Canal.

Next step: Killing Russians! With American help!

I really like Victoria II.

Good news, I found the culprit. Turns out the xbox controller emulator doesn't like it when there's no controller plugged it.
The game works just fine so far with DSfix and the mouse keyboard fix.

Just beat Taurus demon, and now I have to work out how to get past that damn dragon.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Good news, I found the culprit. Turns out the xbox controller emulator doesn't like it when there's no controller plugged it.
The game works just fine so far with DSfix and the mouse keyboard fix.

Just beat Taurus demon, and now I have to work out how to get past that damn dragon.

Just go left, down the stairs.

Started Skyrim again a week or two ago. Steam helpfully loaded all of my old mods onto the new rig (well tablettop thing but anyway, old rig is dead hail the new default rig, I guess) which I think has the dragons turned off. Kind of an odd choice, but maybe I was mad about them back when? Mods also changed it so I can pick a class more like oblivion and just starts you randomly in the world.

Settled on a Dark Elf arcane assassin or whatever you wanna call it. Got a mod that enables modest sneak attack damage for destruction spells and rune traps, still end up doing a fair bit of knife work as it's quieter.

Decided to run the dark brotherhood quests because they were a lot of fun in Oblivion. Sheesh, those gloves they give you... 30x sneak damage on daggers just feels so dirty. Quests so far have been a mix of bland and interesting, only one really memorable assassination quest but I'm hoping for a couple more before it's all done.

My poor guy contracted vampirism but I figure since he mostly works during the night, actively uses the things being a vampire buffs, and has a passive flame resistance roughly equal to the vampire's flame weakness... it's a pretty good fit.

Playing China in HOI4 is a bit like the Imperium. I could use tanks, but it's much more efficient to throw 5 million men at them.

Working my way through pillars of eternity God it's massive

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

Why?

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

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

Why?

It's set in not-New Orleans in the 60s.... a time period notorious for its racism

I "beat" the capra demon. I used fire bombs against him without entering his death trap. Is it bs? Yes, but so is that boss fight.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Playing China in HOI4 is a bit like the Imperium. I could use tanks, but it's much more efficient to throw 5 million men at them.

Spoiler:

Remember to pick the right side doctrine on Mass Assault and go to Scraping the Barrel for that 30% of recruitable population.

Actually, if you go fascist we can get that up to 37%. Just so you don't run out of men.

I cleared blightown. Its not as bad as people make it out to be, once you get your bearings and kill the snipers.

Quelaag was a hell of a boss fight, and the kind I like. Huge arena, huge boss with no friends to help her, needs a lot of concentration.
I think I needed a +10 weapon, as I was dealing little damage. I had to use all of my gold pine resin and summon the maneater, and even then it took like 3 tries to beat her.

Now trying sen's fortress. The difficulty spike is real.

Sen's Funhouse is the fun. So many falls and traps. It is also the place where the game really starts IMO.
And a +10 weapon in Anor Londo is nearly mandatory, you can't deal real damage there without one.
Unless, of course, you kill the mimic in Sen's and use the Lightning Spear he drops, but that will only work for so long before getting outclassed, so better get something useful quick.
I once got there with a +15 weapon (and another time with a Chaos +5), it isn't that difficult if you know where to go.

Its pretty hard the first time around, but once you reach the roof and find the bonfire it gets easier.

I really hate it how they place the short cut entrance in front of a snakeman on that pendulum bridge though. Wtf fromsoft?

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

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

Why?

It's set in not-New Orleans in the 60s.... a time period notorious for its racism

Thanks for clarifying. Looked it up and didn't get a good answer.

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

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

Why?

It's set in not-New Orleans in the 60s.... a time period notorious for its racism

Thanks for clarifying. Looked it up and didn't get a good answer.

Basically, there's a crap-ton of overt racism, from the obvious usage of the N-word to the much more common and "benign" forms we saw, such as calling out to someone as "hey, boy"... wherein we basically know that "boy" is a stand-in word.... Also, one of the latter game trailers showed that players have the option of crashing a KKK rally/cross-burning (in the video at least, the PC has an M-60 with which to effectively crash said party)

I beat Ornstein and Smoug took a few tries, but I ended up beating them solo.

Fallout 4 DLC Far Harbour and SuperMega Baseball

Overwatch. Glorious, glorious Overwatch

Starting to put more time into my Blizzard games... at the moment mostly Diablo III and Overwatch... every once in a while I'll level up an alt in WoW. I'm saving StarCraft II for a special occasion or something haha.

Also Eve Online... just really super less than casual Eve Online... not even in a corporation or going to low sec areas...

Oh also Warframe but on the Xbox One. I mostly got back into it just to check to make sure the system was working and I'm still playing it. I should check on my account for the PC version.

I'm thinking of starting up Diablo II again. Was watching some speedruns- apparently the 'pro strats' for speedrunning Barbarian is to pour your points into Warcry and Shout the enemies to death.

Lol shouting enemies to death is 'almost' as cool as the old frenzy/dual throwing barbarian from diablo2. It wasn't the best but it was hilarious.

Xcom 2 on console.
Im having fun, even if im a save scumming Overwatch spamming commander.
Some fun things I learned, if your landing zone is destroyed, it will respawn closer. I once overdrived my Spark, Hit it with a rocket, then it spawend two feet away. Everyone Dashed and said goodbye to the Sectoid, Gatkeeper and like two Mecs.
But I did loose the spark recently sadly, Second one, Had to destory the Tower, so I sent him on a suicide mission.
Still, I almost failed this playthrough. Got one point away, then I hit two blacksites, and a story missions, got it down to nearly zero, and I can assault any blacksite now that pops up.

Horse game, of many beautiful horses.

Also called Mount and Blade.

Picked up AC4 Black Flag for the PC on Stream for 20 quid.
So far darn fun. The ship combat is juicy and the free running parkour stuff is very refreshing!

Picked up Rise Of The Tomb Raider on Ps4, I am not impressed so far, who thougth it a good idea to not bug proof the game before release?