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I am really enjoying Battle Brothers. It seems to have taken the formula of Darkest Dungeon, replaced the lovecraftian madness with unforgiving combat encounters and more of an open world feel to it. It is a game that doesn't really care if you quit or not- it's just there, beating your carefully created party up. If it were a paper and pencil RPG, it would be Hackmaster.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Grabbed Watchdogs 2 because it was heavily discounted on Humblebundle. I thought the first game was okay, but got pretty dreary and I just gave up after a while. Also the hacking stuff was pretty undercooked for a game that sold itself on that aspect.
Watchdogs 2 is so completely different. Better characters, more interesting city. Hacking still feels a bit undercooked, but the remote vehicles are pretty fun.
Been thinking of getting Angels Fall First. It seems exactly what I’m looking for: a team-based war game, where you can replace the players with offline bots. The variety of roles looks rather tempting as well.
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!
Been on a Fallout 4 kick again. . . this play through, for the sake of trophy hunting, I'm either going with RR or Minutemen. Also, completely avoiding ALL Nuka world stuff until main story is done, so that I can utterly smash the "state" that I built
Something something the lord giveth and the lord taketh away
Also, wife headed out on a business trip, and will be gone during my birthday, so got my stuff early, and as a result, am re-playing Black Flag after so long. Oddly, I think that my fleet actions in that game are account based, rather than save file based, I unlocked the fleet "tutorial" mission, and made like 50k Reals, and a bunch of goods, all the ships I remember (after reading names) having were there, etc. etc.
So, its been Fallout4 sniping/rifling everything, or being a bloody pirate in the Caribbean.
Decided to pay for the full version of Fortnite, it's kind of a crafting & horde mode game. Pretty fun so far. I think it was worth the $40.
Still doing the Battle Royale mode too, got first place last night, never thought that would happen. My girlfriend was playing and hiding in a bush the whole time. Circle closed all around and the last guy was sniping from a tower but he had to move out of the tower, she saw him coming and handed the controller to me so I stepped out and shotgunned him.
Necros wrote: Decided to pay for the full version of Fortnite, it's kind of a crafting & horde mode game. Pretty fun so far. I think it was worth the $40
Fortnite was a game I was super excited for but man did it go downhill fast. When they released the Battle Royale stuff, it got toxic real quick on XB1.
Necros wrote: Decided to pay for the full version of Fortnite, it's kind of a crafting & horde mode game. Pretty fun so far. I think it was worth the $40
Fortnite was a game I was super excited for but man did it go downhill fast. When they released the Battle Royale stuff, it got toxic real quick on XB1.
Really? That's a shame. It looked like quite a nice PvE game.
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Hmm, I dunno, everything I've seen in Fortnite has been pretty fun. The Battle Royale mode was a lot more fun than PUBG, and looks way better. PUBG was so boring and laggy compared to this. I've only been doing the PVE stuff for 1 day, but so far it's been pretty fun. There is a LOT of crafting and unlocking of stuff and it seems a little overwhelming for a noob, but not too bad once you start figuring out how stuff works.
Necros wrote: Hmm, I dunno, everything I've seen in Fortnite has been pretty fun. The Battle Royale mode was a lot more fun than PUBG, and looks way better. PUBG was so boring and laggy compared to this. I've only been doing the PVE stuff for 1 day, but so far it's been pretty fun. There is a LOT of crafting and unlocking of stuff and it seems a little overwhelming for a noob, but not too bad once you start figuring out how stuff works.
And right there is the issue.
The "figuring out how stuff works" part is great for people getting into the game now...but those of us who played at launch got royally screwed over. Not to mention that, as I said, once the Battle Royale mode launched--the PvE side of things basically got sidelined.
Stellaris... Stellaris is a rabbit hole I can see myself falling very far down. I picked it up in the Humble Bundle and, after being impressed that my PC could actually run it, spent about 5 hours this morning playing it, losing track of time completely. As first impressions go, it's pretty striking.
Having seen various Youtube playthroughs, I expected to be entirely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, but it's explained well enough (and presented with such an accessible UI) that it wasn't an issue at all.
That said, there are clearly still plenty of lessons for me to learn. Like, for instance, 'when you spawn in one arm of a Spiral galaxy, remember that leaves precisely 2 directions to expand in'... I realised this after making non-aggression pacts with a powerful Empire on each side, and am now very boxed in... This was only a test run though, tomorrow I shall start over and think things through a bit more now I actually get the workings of it.
Picked up Tales of Berseria on a whim, not disappointed. Sure, the main character went from normal girl to grim dark Vampirella cosplaying edgelord in no time, but at least we have Magilou to keep things light.
Yesterday I finished the latest Hitman. Very disappointing.
I loved Absolution and this episode of the franchise has basically no plot and only 6 levels plus tutorials. All those levels are very similar, huge sandbox arenas, while Absolution had much more variety and longevity.
I'm a fan of the mechanics of the game so I enjoyed the release but IMHO Absolution was way better. After two weeks of playing I feel like I've done already everything, while I toyed with Absolution for months. Not to mention the politics of splitting the release into 6 parts, but I've played to the game only when the full release was out so that was not a problem for me, even though I hate the idea behind that.
The mission set in Italy was amazing though, definitely my favorite one
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Been getting into Rimworld lately. I gotta admit, I don’t really like this one as much as I like the spontaneously dark nosedive of Dwarf Fortress, but it’s certainly got its good points.
I do like the calmer pace of the game. DF was one disaster after another until you finally cracked. Rimworld seems to give you enough breathing room for things to calm down. Guess it goes without saying that the UI is much easier to work with too.
It seems there’s an ominous building near my base. Maybe the evil that will be inevitably unleashed will have enough FUN for the whole colony.
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Compel wrote: I've been playing a LOT of Injustice 2 tonight.
There's something... familiar about the new equipment I got in it.
I can't quite place it...
Did you get that through just regular crates, or are the timed Multiverse events to unlock the movie gear back? I got the full WW set first time round (and my god, at level 20 it's stupidly good!) but missed the Justice League skins for Batman and Flash. If the movie stuff is going into standard loot rotation then that's good, means I might have another chance to grab it when I get back in.
As for myself, finally finished The Witcher 3 yesterday... certainly have to say the game won me round. When I started playing last summer, it was basically to see what all the fuss was about (I got the GotY edition dirt cheap in a sale) and at first, I struggled to see it. Sure, the world was lovely and the combat slick and the voice acting good, but I didn't really get it. What sold it for me was when, after the start of act 2 or so, the old characters starting filtering back in; even as someone who didn't play the other games, and hasn't read the books, seeing Geralt interact with people he actually had a history with brought him to life a bit more. This then makes the third act the strongest, all those characters are pretty much present throughout and it's that last 20 hours or so that really convinced me it was a truly great story, as opposed to just a great game design.
Major spoilers for the whole game below, do not click if you intend to play it.
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Honestly, I think a lot of it hinges on Ciri. It's so rare that a game will set up a character with such a reputation before the character even appears, then actually deliver on that when they do, but Ciri manages it. From the moment you find her, Geralt is so much more alive and thus far more fun to play as, and Ciri herself is just a great character, you can absolutely see why everyone across the cast is willing to risk their necks for her, and it's not because of the whole prophecy thing, it's because she's one of the few genuinely good people in that world, and worth protecting solely because of that. So many scenes she has with other characters, she just elevates them beyond what they were before.
At first, I was kind of annoyed at the game not utilising her earlier, I figured, 'if you have a character that great, why not put them front and centre?'. Then it dawned on me, having those wonderful moments with Ciri, like the snowball fight or the mission to avenge Vesemir or the one where you conclude her unfinished business around Novigrad, comes as a payoff for the 50-odd hours you spend tracking her down. It's genuinely rewarding.
And then there's the ending... Oh, that ending. Having Ciri go into the White Frost was tough enough, but to then bring her back in the epilogue only (in the ending I got, which I feel is probably the 'best' option) to have her whisked away again to go and become Empress, that final scene was heartbreaking. And the genius thing is, that's probably the right thing to do. I know there's an ending where she can stay with Geralt and they just go Witchering together, and that'd be awesome, but it's ultimately quite selfish, I think. The game asks you to make one last sacrifice, and you kind of have to because it is genuinely the right thing to do.
That said, I'd happily play a sequel with Ciri as the main protagonist. Expand her unique combat style, get the same voice actress back, build a game world of similar quality and you'd have the perfect formula for replicating the success of (or even bettering) The Wild Hunt.
And with that done, off to Blood and Wine! Arthurian legend meets Fairytale France meats Gothic Horror Vampires? Now that's much more my speed!
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I'm still playing loads of Field of Glory II, it is just so good! Really love the theme and the mechanics.
I'm also going to try to get into Fallout: New Vegas again this weekend. I played loads of Fallout 3 but have bounced off New Vegas multiple times sadly even though it is lauded as the better game.
The big thing for me is that I don't like being a killing machine (breaks my immersion) and that stupid 'rescue deputy numb nuts' quest in the second town seems impossible to do without massacring about 20 dudes!
Fallout 3 was cool because you could do most quests without killing anyone. (Rescuing Red from the police station and stealing Mirelurk eggs stand out as particular highlights!)
Maybe I need to see it as a cowboy film. Don my cowboy hat grab a six shooter and just enjoy it for what it is.
Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 the other day, loved it.
Trying Final Fantasy XII now. I gave up on FFX after about eight hours or so, I couldn't really get into it and the main character was just too much of an idiot for me to handle. The main character in FFXII is, sadly, also an idiot, but is a bit more tolerable.
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! 
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