Hello everybody. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. This week i was out of town so not much gaming, but I have put some time into more Elden Ring co-op. I hope you all have a great week ahead!
Playing CIV 7 with the Test of Time update. I need to play it more but I like it so far, I can see the vision. Currently playing as Napoleon and going for a military victory.
kinda loving the new Zero Parades game. Obviously not as good as Disco. Will likely finish it on Monday and have more thoughts then.
Please make a thread.
I would love a mostly spoiler free impression
Same. Despite all the stuff that happened with the company, people are saying it’s a good RPG. I don’t expect it to be Disco in that it’s a deep introspection on socialism, but it might still be interesting.
Downloaded some arcade roms, was playing MK 1 yesterday. The difficulty in that game is a breeze compared to the ball crushing ai in MK 2.
I saw some high-level MK2 tournament streams recently, after not having played or thought about the game since I was a kid (and was just button-mashing and losing to my friends). My jaw was on the floor watching the Jaxes and Mileenas successfully blocking so many sneaky and counterintuitive combos, pulling off wild upsets with just a chip of life left.
Started a new kenshi play through with a focus on hiver only and destroying slavery as far as possible.
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Almost 100 hours into Pathfinder Kingmaker since my last post . Most of things will be spoilers.
spoiler
Cascadia is now an officially recognized kingdom by the leaders of the neighboring countries. I have been crowned King and promised to rule for the benefit of the people. We are a thriving utopia compared to everywhere else. I have largely adopted the China policy of “trade with anyone, ignore what they do in their own lands, react harshly if they enter mine”.
I am a mediating force between two rival countries that have now chosen to enter into a three way alliance with me. I saved them both from a barbarian horde (literal barbarians, the class) led by the proclaimed reincarnation of a great hero. He was defeated, and is now my sworn brother who wanders and defends my lands with his tribe, striking back at those that manipulated him.
Hellknights entered my land to interrogate my subjects, and I promptly told them to return home. They did not, so I killed them by punching through their helmets.
Our kingdom not only has schools and a militia, but multiple libraries, teleportation circles in every town, goblin and kobold sanctuaries to protect the races others call ‘lesser’. We are lovers of art and culture, but reject the Shelyn cult so obsessed with beauty as to lay claim to one of mine own companions. They, the beast god Lamashtu, and all other cults have been banished from my realm. Only Erastil and the people’s folk religions remain.
The people have dubbed me “The King from Santa Monica”, as I am a holy Aasimar who roams shirtless, has a blonde manbun and goatee, and who is fond of stretching and practicing karate moves in front of my council.
My subjects are so in awe of me, they know not what to do but vibrate in place. I am literally the main character.
I’ve been playing a bunch of Timberorn this week. It’s got its hooks in me for sure
I’m nearing the end on my honor mode run in BG3, and for the most part I feel like I over-prepared for the big fights. Still had a close call with a certain boss that has massive Lightning AoE
Punching hard solves nearly all problems tho
I’m playing a monk in Pathfinder: Kingmaker and I love the convenience of not needing to swap weapons, but it’s also lame sometimes that I get all these cool things I can’t use. I feel like I should have at least gone monk weapons for kama, nunchucks, etc.
In BG3 you can actually equip weapons for their passive bonus and still fight unarmed, though it’s a hassle since you have to use special attacks that aren’t allowed under all circumstances.
It was a huge buff for my party when I realized you can equip shields on archers and bows on fighters just for the bonuses.
I get all these cool things I can’t use
That happens a lot anyway in these games, as most campaigns will give players something for every class.
I learned about this late too, like there’s a bow in act 3 that gives +3 to initiative which is a nice bonus for any caster, I always thought you had to have it in hand for the bonuses to apply but it’s not always the case
I can confirm that it works. There are other things though, that sound like they’d be universal but they aren’t.
also the tooltip situation in the game tells me they rushed the release towards the end of development because there are hidden bonuses not in tooltips like in wavemothers cloak or ring of feywild sparks, guess they figured doing a pass on this is low priority
It’s weird though how they did so many patches after release yet there are still a bunch of obvious bugs.
Druids in starry form for example have various glitches, but worst is that they are invisible and silent in dialogue.
Tried a little bit of Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era. I was never big into the lore of Might and Magic so I’m not gonna question why the devils are bugs and there’s a chtulhuoid elf faction in what is a prequel.
I don’t really get the gimmick of the Schism (The aforementioned squiddy elves), they build up some kind of resource each time they win but I genuinely don’t notice it doing anything. Their units don’t really have anything going for them.
I get the gimmick of The Hive (The bug devils) though. Have a bunch of fast bugs, build up momentum, spend that momentum summoning more bugs. But I haven’t played enough to really know if it’s any fun.
My PC’s firmware, GPU and Wine are talking properly now, so it is time to play Freelancer again.
It’s got a forgettable plot and stock scifi action-thriller cast, but I keep coming back for the very pretty nebulae and the enjoyable piracy. Zero attempt is made to make the star systems to scale. Also, it has incongruently historically materialist worldbuilding? Descriptions of every pirate/“terrorist” faction explain the historical circumstances and contradictions that gave rise to them, and it boils down to capital abandoning or squeezing workers in like every case. Unfortunately, the story is not about overthrowing the decrepit empires and bringing socialism to the Sirius Sector.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven’t been to before.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven’t been to before.
closest to freelancer that i’ve played is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Thank you for the recommend
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Good news!
Oh man I miss Freelancer.
It’s not 3D, but it’s open source: Endless Sky
It’s been a while since I’ve played one, but the X series (like X4 Foundations) might scratch the 3D itch. It lets you even build whole space stations iirc.
Appreciate the recommend
Edit: Oh hey, this looks a lot like Escape Velocity!
It is
inspired by Escape Velocity!
picked up Pseudoregalia on sale. It’s a 3d platformer with interesting movement mechanics, kinda reminds me of Celeste. It’s fun going back to previous areas after discovering new movement abilities and completing them in a different way. I like it a lot
also my RTT obsession continues. Decided to replay Men of War: Red Tide, god help me
Playing Subnautica 2 and it immediately recaptures the magic and mystery of the original. Below Zero faltered quite a bit trying to add above-ground content and going in a rather unsatisfying direction with the story (too direct, not enough mystery, AL-AN being in your head cut all the tension), though it was beautiful and added some excellent lore and quality of life improvements that have carried over to the new game.
What impresses me the most so far is the writing, suprisingly. The simple act of integrating respawning (reprinting!) into the actual lore and making it a big part of the story is a massive improvement over the bland handwave respawning in the first game, and the writers are actually grappling with the existential nightmare baggage that comes with it. They actually make use of all the Architect tech they reverse-engineered Below Zero and it paints a pretty bleak picture of the universe and your character’s place in it. Humanity might be extinct from the Kharaa, which was not just a bacterium but an intelligent being that manipulates entire ecosystems to spread itself between worlds to the point that it might have wiped out every civilization that’s ever reached the stars. Surprise! Subnauitica was actually a Natural Selection 2 prequel.
And holy fuck is the game tense. The only leviathan I’ve encountered so far is the one you’ve seen all over the place, the big squid. He grabs your Tadpole if you’re in it and tosses you around a bit, but straight-up eats you if you’re swimming. You have to dodge under cramped overhangs to keep away until it loses interest.
It’s so fucking good.
Started playing metal gear rising lately although I am somewhat bored? Thinking of trying out sonic generations which I always wanted to play as a kid
I’ve been playing Windrose and having a lot of fun with it. Always love a survivalcraft and this one’s got pirates and ship combat.
Also I’m way, way better at the ship combat than the melee.
Finally got around to playing Zeroranger. I finished White Vanilla on my second attempt though it was pretty close on my second to last life on my last continue.
