What game are you wasting time on?

[Jack Of Owls]

Jagged Alliance 1 Gold was free on Steam this week so I added it to my library just for shits and giggles. I tried playing it years ago on MS-DOS (not DOSBox) but I must have had a buggy build because it kept crashing on me. in fact, I think it was the only game i ever played on DOS hardware that crashed to the command line which was a nice change from crashing to bluescreen on Windows 95, and crashing to desktop on Windows 7 and greater. Will I be playing JA1? Nah. I heard you can only move around on the maps while in TB mode whether you're near an enemy or not. Sounds tedious as fuck. Within a couple of years we'd have Fallout 1 which at least had free movement until an encounter.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly mod: This has been a pretty good one so far probably my favorite stalker mod so far, I prefer the mishmash abomination that is StalkerSoup in terms of content but the cleanness and improved stability from Anomaly's modified xray engine makes for a much better game experience. Out of the dozens of hours put in so far I haven't any saves corrupt which I can't say about another certain stalker mod, and I've only had about 3 CTDs.

As for content Anomaly adds almost all of the stalker series maps to its playable areas. Nothing groundbreaking, but it does add a new post CoP storyline of questionable quality. I just wish it incorporated more non generic side quests coming from my last stalker mod played being StalkerSoup the mission content in Anomaly can feel a little barren sometimes.

 

[BruceVC]

GTA 5 and Gothic 1. Playing both for the first time.

Gothic 1 seems like a neat RPG. It's a little dated, but does most things right. The atmosphere is superb, the characters and factions are appropriately made for its down-to-earth fantasy setting. The colony the story takes place in is really small, I expected a much bigger world. I'd like to see how the rivalry between the factions will progress, and how the story will carry on to the sequels. My only complaint is the inability to modify your character's gender and appearance, which is a little weird for an RPG.

GTA 5 is a vast improvement over San Andreas. It lacks a meaningful story, but it makes up for it by being a fun to play action game. Thankfully the developers didn't push their shitty online service to the game's single-player story.

Excellent choices, I have played both those games and even though completely different they great. Gothic 1 is obviously the beginning of the great PB design journey in RPG and the mechanics get replicated, improved and continued in future games. For example your relationship with factions is standard PB design but yes you cant change your character model in any PB game as far as I know but its a small " design flaw " and shouldnt detract from your overall experience in any meaningful way. You must continue to play the series and eventually play ELEX 1 if you havent already because that is the culmination of everything that PB learnt about RPG including the whole faction joining

And GTA 5 is just the best GTA IMO. Rockstars games just get better and better. I love the way they create " living " cities with so much to do outside the main quest and all the fun activities.

I spent about 200 hours on single player RDR2 and over 300 hours on RDR2 online as far as other Rockstar games go

 

[Darth Roxor]

I heard you can only move around on the maps while in TB mode whether you're near an enemy or not.

That's true if there are enemies on a map. Once you've cleared them out, it switches to real time.

(it can still be pretty tedious however)

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I caved to the ads and played Hero Castle on iphone. Lordy its stupid. Some randomness and you can regrind old areas. Click the extras boring ads get more gold upgrade different elements gear. Its meh as hell.

 

[fork]

I caved to the ads and played Hero Castle on iphone. [...]

It's time to commit sudoku.

 

[DeepOcean]

Was playing Encased.

Started with me wanting to play a fun slav made Fallout clone.

Ended with me discovering people were leveling up 15 levels by killing a single merchant, a single time, and looting his stuff.

There are even people optimizing this tactic to see how far they can go by killing merchants and stealing their stuff and become better at cutthroat capitalism than George Soros.

Also opening trash cans give more XP than quests.

So, no, I'm not playing Encased anymore.

Wait until maybe it becomes a real game by 2023 or something, maybe.

 

[Machocruz]

ADOM. From home site. Graphical version. Started with human ranger.

First attempt, got to 5th floor of druid dungeon, ran out of food, died in the field coming back from druid dungeon, couldn't outrun group of wolves

Second attempt, died in the field on the way to the druid dungeon, couldn't outrun group of bandits.

Third run, wtf tougher enemies kept spawning on the 5th floor. Wasted.

Fourth, died on 7th floor, jump in monster strength.

Fifth run, retreated from 7th floor because of tough enemies again, but ran into more tough enemies on the 6th floor , died.

Sixth attempt, took time to do beginner dungeon first, got poisoned by snakes on 4th floor of druid dungeon, died of poison. Starting to feels bad man, but challenge accepted, ADOM

Seventh run, stupidly trying to fight bears on 7, ded. Afterwards, decided to do no more than one attempt in a day, for my own sanity.

Eighth run --did I mention I haven't been using the tactics mechanic until now?-- delved to 7th floor, maybe I'm not supposed to complete this quest first, so left and did puppy dungeon for puppy quest, almost killed by ants, got to bottom floor, puppy already dead, took corpse and returned to town, went to thief guild to assassinate master thief, didn't use detect traps skill at all, died to traps.

Ninth run, currently. Switched to dwarf paladin. Learned proper first aid usage. Held off on getting puppy quest*,went down to 7th floor of druid to set monster level(?), killed bandits in the field quest (which I was scared to do before because everything sounds like it can kill me easily.). Going to get puppy quest, complete it or die, then go finish off druid quest or die, then carefully kill master thief in thieves guild/die, then probably definitely die soon after because I'm not familiar with what comes next. A game of inches, I guess.

I must be at the super, super beginning of the game because in the same amount of time I've seen far less scrolls and potions than other RLs I've played.

I know about the cat quest later on, but had to kill a lion who wouldn't let me leave the dungeon.

*once you receive the quest, puppy has four days to live. Four days go zoom.

 

[gaussgunner]

POSTAL 2. It's edgy as fuck to be sure, but far from being the crude murder simulator I expected, it's actually a sophisticated self-defense simulator where you merely have the option to mass-murder innocent NPCs or even spare the guilty. I guess it's in a similar tier to GTA Vice City from the same era, which I've never played, but this isn't really quest-driven. Basically you're just a crackhead gamedev trying to run a few mundane errands, but SJW protestors and Allahu Akhbars keep attacking you for no reason, and you get to kill 'em all. It's also entertaining to sit back and let the cops and armed Arizonans shoot them. Good variety of melee and ranged weapons as well as alternatives like dogs and piss. Game was banned from cucked shithole New Zealand way back in 2004-5 for the urination mechanic, and Australia for the glorious violence alone.

The Waco Massacre reenactment was fucking based.

The original game is pretty cool but the Apocalypse Weekend expansion is a goofy low-effort corridor combat slog, which your character mocks in his self-deprecating voiceover, which doesn't change the fact that it sucks. I could overlook that, however, if the A-10 BRRRRRRTs at the end were anywhere near as loud and destructive as the real thing, not little Uzis.

There are a shitton of now-classic voice acting lines in this game... I REGRET NOTHING!! Here I was just minding my own business just enjoying my second amendment rights. Wouldn't it be more politically if I killed the women and minorities first? Excuse me while I push my entrails back in. Now THAT'S welfare reform! Chuck Heston IS my president! Guns don't kill people, I do. I'm not racist, these people really do look all alike!

Might finish Geneforge next, or make another attempt at Arcanum or ToEE, if I'm not still burnt out on turnbased.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Best thing about Postal 2 is you can set people on fire and then put it out by pissing on them.

 

[The Decline]

Best thing about Postal 2 is you can set people on fire and then put it out by pissing on them.

I dunno, pissing on them until they throw up and then decapitating them was up there. The vomit would keep coming out of the neck hole.

 

[Mark Richard]

Taking a bath and learning to read in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, where cleanliness and literacy are gameplay mechanics. I've never felt so connected to another place and time. The mad lads at Warhorse Studios worked with a small army of historians to digitally reconstruct 14th century buildings and geography, converted medieval martial arts manuscripts into a workable first-person combat system (one weapon has over 2000 animations), and then tied it all together in the context of an immersive sim where the player starts out as a feeble peasant who smells of shite. There's no easy difficulty level, and in hardcore mode you're likely to die a few times during character generation.

 

[Hag]

Best thing about Postal 2 is you can set people on fire and then put it out by pissing on them.

When I played it back in the days I was sure sometimes fire would burn the clothes of the people and they would be naked for a brief moment before turning to charred meat. So I set lot of people on fire and tried to piss on them with the right timing, but never managed to see the naked ladies (out of my numerous tries I did observe once or twice a texture change an instant before dying but that could have been a bug).

 

[octavius]

Best thing about Postal 2 is you can set people on fire and then put it out by pissing on them.

And if you're a liberal you can then wrinkle your nose and complain that they stink after having pissed on them.

 

[Catacombs]

you can then wrinkle your nose and complain that they stink after having pissed on them.

Nah. "It's too easy to kill POC and wimyn in this game."

 

[Darth Roxor]

I think I managed to catch the AI by surprise in Jagged Alliance 1. Half my team had to take a timeout after getting massacred on the previous day, so I was left with only Fidel, Snake and Eli on active duty. Figured I might as well do something retarded and attempted an amphibious assault (i.e. swam) to an enemy sector.

It turned out to be guarded by just 3 dudes. And then the one beyond it was the same. It's like the AI didn't expect to be attacked from that direction at all. Very lulzy.

 

[Kabas]

Just started Erannorth Chronicles - a sequel to Erannorth Reborn. A rather addicting rpg/cardgame hybrid.

Compared to it's predecessor chronicles has a completely reworked race/class system.
Instead of being tied to classes most of the cards are now to tied to skills. As an example, if you want to have illusion cards avaliable or gain additional benefits of certain cards you need to invest points into illusion skill.
The avaliable skills are determined by your chosen race, class, sub-class, background and organization(if you decide to join one). You can also forsake skills if you don't want to have certain cards as a potential reward to increase the chance of getting the cards that require your invested skills.

I am not that far into the game but it appears that you don't automatically get a few high-tier cards once you gained enough mastery and leveled-up anymore like in reborn, all higher tier cards must be either found or bought. Nice.
Also, instead of daz 3d models that remind me of those patreon porn games you now have a generic but unified artstyle for both your character portraits and enemy sprites.

 

[someone else]

The Pit Infinity

notepad for my current run incase I need to backtrack for stuff:

9 DH ne
10 L nw sw DC e
11 DH se m L sw
12 C 2sw
13 C 2nw R c L ne DH m gear
14 R s H C2 w DH sw
15 C ne DH se

Can U leet gaemers figure out what it means?

 

[Yeoman]

Just started Erannorth Chronicles - a sequel to Erannorth Reborn. A rather addicting rpg/cardgame hybrid.

I'm playing that as well, though I've never played Reborn.

At first the game was really tough, but after a few levels I find that I'm just demolishing challenges. I'm playing a Conjurer character and I have so many options to draw yet another summon card and spam attacks that most bosses never even get a round.

I love the character building system and equipment system. My character is equipped with a grimoire in his main hand and a shield in his off hand. The grimoire lets me draw 2 conjuration cards, and since it's an equip, I can use it every turn. Shit feels broken.

Also, summon cards being able to gain XP and level up is pretty cool.

All in all, it seems like a pretty crazy game that quickly goes off the rails with power levels. The gameplay balance is highly suspect but it feels incredibly empowering. The sandbox element is a bit meh though, I wish we could have a new deckbuilder with a more structured and tightly designed campaign like Etherlords II but less linear.

 

[Perkel]

Struggling with Pyl, being a (so very, very) Polish FPS from '98 which. It somehow manages to be both impressive and infuriating/mind-boggling in equal measure. It's oozing atmosphere and is immersive in its own way, which is the main reason I'm sticking with it.

Pyl is fucking great and i played it around 2011 so it is not some nostalgia glasses on stuff. It is a shame that you can't basically run it on anything nowdays. Even when i played it on vista i think i played mosly without music because for some reason music didn't work. Either way running it was a major bitch to begin with.

 

[Riskbreaker]

There's actually a package over at old-games.ru that lets you play the game right outta box with higher resolution and reasonable (for running a pretty advanced 3D game in high resolutions thru dosbox) framerate.
There's a lot about about the game that is impressive. It's like grimy Polish HL - more linear story-driven FPS with HL-like environmental puzzles - that was developed and released around the same time. But it's full of idiosyncrasies and is tough as nails, even once you adapt to its rhythm.

 

[Jvegi]

Kurwa, pierwsze słyszę.

Never heard of it.

 

[Hag]

Just finished Four Last Things, bought on a whim after it was showcased in the screenshots thread.
Game's short and quite limited. While the visuals are really good and the overall atmosphere as great, there is simply not much to do. The humour is hit or miss, luckily it hits most of the time but I was quite disappointed in particular with the ending. Game's author a bloody heathen, for sure.
Still, worth it for its beauty, but leaves a taste of "that could have been much greater".

 

[Tweed]

POSTAL 2. It's edgy as fuck to be sure, but far from being the crude murder simulator I expected, it's actually a sophisticated self-defense simulator where you merely have the option to mass-murder innocent NPCs or even spare the guilty. I guess it's in a similar tier to GTA Vice City from the same era, which I've never played, but this isn't really quest-driven. Basically you're just a crackhead gamedev trying to run a few mundane errands, but SJW protestors and Allahu Akhbars keep attacking you for no reason, and you get to kill 'em all. It's also entertaining to sit back and let the cops and armed Arizonans shoot them. Good variety of melee and ranged weapons as well as alternatives like dogs and piss. Game was banned from cucked shithole New Zealand way back in 2004-5 for the urination mechanic, and Australia for the glorious violence alone.

The Waco Massacre reenactment was fucking based.

The original game is pretty cool but the Apocalypse Weekend expansion is a goofy low-effort corridor combat slog, which your character mocks in his self-deprecating voiceover, which doesn't change the fact that it sucks. I could overlook that, however, if the A-10 BRRRRRRTs at the end were anywhere near as loud and destructive as the real thing, not little Uzis.

There are a shitton of now-classic voice acting lines in this game... I REGRET NOTHING!! Here I was just minding my own business just enjoying my second amendment rights. Wouldn't it be more politically if I killed the women and minorities first? Excuse me while I push my entrails back in. Now THAT'S welfare reform! Chuck Heston IS my president! Guns don't kill people, I do. I'm not racist, these people really do look all alike!

Might finish Geneforge next, or make another attempt at Arcanum or ToEE, if I'm not still burnt out on turnbased.

The Steam version is gutted. If you can find the Week in Paradise mod it's the best way to play the game.

EDIT: Week, not weekend. AWP.

 

[gaussgunner]

The Steam version is gutted. If you can find the Week in Paradise mod it's the best way to play the game.

It's in the GOG version, I played it on my first playthrough. You can play monday thru friday, Apocalypse Weekend, or Week in Paradise (both).

Paradise Lost is on the main menu but doesn't seem to be included... oh yeah it's a separate purchase on GOG, currently $6 USD. Any good? Most of the reviews say it's crap, the GOG version at least... I'll pass unless it's like 80% off. I still have to play Postal 1 anyway.