Hello everyone. Hope your weekend was relaxing. This week i continued and finished my Attila Total War campaign as the western Roman Empire. I enjoyed it so much I have now started a campaign as the Eastern Roman Empire. Hope everyone has a good week!
Tried the demo of Pragmata. It’s good, but it’s not $100 worth of good. I’ll pick it up eventually.
Isn’t it cracked already?
Only if you count the hypervisor bypass as ‘cracked’, which most people probably shouldn’t.
Partner and I bought a house in Lord of the Rings Online. Very comfy game that we’ve played on and off for years and are just now getting to the first expansion. It’s old, jank, and laggy as heck but it’s got a lot of charm.
Wow, LOTRO is still running? That’s impressive! I think I participated in the beta but didn’t get hooked.
…Dungeons & Dragons Online is also still running? And it got an expansion less than a year ago?? Damn, what a throwback. I think I had a demo disc, and I remember this weird bug where it would chug horribly unless I held down the right mouse button to free look, which would then cause the game to run perfectly smoothly.
There’s like 30 people total that split their time between LOTRO and D&D Online with a few main devs representing the team for one game. It’s still getting expansions and new content though. A new Monster class is getting added for the first time in like a decade. Class reworks are slow going but have been progressing. Some great, like Loremaster getting a non-pet spec, some bad. The main issue with the game really is the lag, which they’ve never been able to get a handle on. There’s just random rubber banding and skill delay that make playing certain classes near impossible or just not as fun as their concept might otherwise make them.
I think they got a bit of a player boost from the Amazon LotR MMO being scuttled, and now from the TurtleWoW Private Server going down and people looking for something different but still old school.
Even if it’s not perfect, it’s heartening to see that a game can chug along for a few decades without making a billion dollars a year.
Hooked with Digimon cyber sleuth. Never grew up with Digimon but have always found myself wanting to give it a proper go. Disappointed that there’s not many English titles. I’ve played Digimon World DS, Dusk/Dawn but maybe not that properly, guess I could give it a go on my phone on the side coz I’m travelling and can’t use my PC anyway.
Hope somebody cracks time stranger in a way playing on Linux becomes possible.
The new Tomodachi Life. I’ve been hoping they’d make a new one for years.
So far: it’s hitting the spot goooooood.
Not huge into the drawing to customize everything aspect like they have in Animal Crossing, I think the lack of 3d detail really cuts into certain things, but using it to add a thing or two where I can to round out what they give you is real real clutch and fun. (I have a Ghengis Kahn mii and he lives in a yurt).
Going to try and make the island look like something out of Yokohama Shopping Log. Put some sunken skyscrapers in a bay maybe. I’ll have to see when I get there.
Oh yeah and I dusted off ACNH while waiting for Tomodachi to get my fill since it patched recently. Still pleasent and perfect for winding down.
Planescape: Torment, working on this one so I can finally stop trying to avoid spoilers for a game that’s been around since the Clinton years.
I’m finding that if I get high enough, old games are just as much fun as new ones. Normally long dialogue trees bore me, but pop an edible and I’m down to grind some paragraphs for XP.
Smoochin’ all the monsters in Look Outside
I like that Lyle becomes a party member if you smooch him twice. I don’t like that he stole your door key. That’s sus Lyle.
didn’t get the chance… one of my ram slots up and died for no good reason and I spent most of the weekend trying to figure out what the fuck happened to my computer
whoever designed AM5 motherboards gets the wall – having to take your cpu fan & heatsink off to be able to get to the ram slots is pure aggravation
Since no man’s sky added Pokémon battles, and it’s on sale I decided to finally give it a try
Darkest Dungeon 2. It’s super fun, though they got rid of most of the management stuff from the first game (it might be in the Kingdom mode, but I haven’t touched it yet).
About to start RE9 with my GF. She wants to get a bit more into gaming and i am trying to find games that are fun to watch (Expedition 33) or are still fun if you are terrible at controlling the game world (low stake 2D games) and of course coop games that are “little brother/GF friendly” (it takes two, split fiction).
Recently i also have been playing “lost and found co.” With her and it has been a lot of fun. She really helps me in enjoying some of these games that I would never touch otherwise.
Beating my head against the wall that is Terraria Calamity Infernum mode. Some of the most difficult bosses that I’ve ever fought in any game, but it feels so good to finally master it.
Still on my Assassin’s Creed Odyssey kick. I’m doing my first New Game+ and trying to hit level 99 so I can try out a damage glitch build. (I babbled about this last weekend, too; the TL;DR is that Ubisoft used a 16-bit signed integer for damage, and if you go negative, it loops back around to 16-bit MAX_INT, which is in the neighborhood of two billion.) I’ve managed to speed-clear all of the temples in the base game and most of the main questline, with a quick detour massacre cultists while
spoiler
the leader of the cult was aboard my ship. I made her ride along while I did the entire branch that are all ship battles. There are more members of the band The Cult than there are living members of the Cult of Kosmos in my game right now, and that’s just because they’re gated behind story quests that I haven’t done yet.
I managed to clear enough of the storyline to unlock the DLC questlines, so I’m shifting gears to do those for the extra ability points and the massively boosted XP. Once I hit level 99, I should already have enough ability points to do the aforementioned build, and then some. I can technically do it at level 91, but assassinations get unreliable below 99 with this setup. Either way, I should hit 99 partway through the Atlantis DLC; I’m looking forward to cheesing the ever-loving shit out of the Episode 2 end boss fight with integer underflow damage.
After this, I’m not really sure. Probably Octopath Traveler Zero or Clair Obscur. Or a quick Skyrim run if I can come up with a silly build concept to try (preferably with minimal mods).
I really liked Odyssey, though I feel like it’s controversial in the fandom (for lack of a better term) for reasons unclear to me
It’s a Witcher 3 clone with Assassin’s Creed characteristics moreso than it’s an Assassin’s Creed game. It was also my first AC game, so I came into it with a different perspective from most of the Ubislop fanbase. It scratches the same kind of open world RPG itch as an Elder Scrolls game for me, but with ship combat thrown in because fuck it why not.
Yeah but the best parts of assassins creed are the settings and the worst part is the incoherent meta plot, so I kinda thought it was a step in the right direction
edit: I played when the franchise was twisted and never got over how bad the end of the second one is. No idea how that became the iconic one. (These are the things we carry)
I mean, they had me at Lesbian Medusa
I just finished Queen of Knives a Warhammer 40k novel. Without spoiling much its about Dark Eldar.
I finished mastering every item in Warframe, so now I move on to the more esoteric grinds of Perita to get the two remaining Taurons, Descendia to finish Roathe’s story, the various weeklies, and the three remaining subsumes I’m missing.
Played some more Total Warhammer 3, my Cathay campaign as Yuan Bo is going quite well after uniting all of Cathay. I can finally focus on Lustria now. Skulltaker’s just running around destroying all my settlements and then running away, the bastard. And right when I was going to go after Rakarth. Also Mazdamundi destroyed his own gold mine to spite me.
