What game are you wasting time on?

[Erebus]

Finished playing Legend of Kyrandia 2. I guess I should have played LoK 1 first, but to be quite honest, having a smexy alchemist lady as a main character was more appealing to me than having the rightful heir of Whateveristan.

I had a really good time ! The game's easier than the average adventure game from the 90s, which I found rather relieving. Zanthia's a nice heroine, the places she visits and the creatures she encounters are quite imaginative, the plot has several funny twists and there are many entertaining situations.

Spoiler

WOOOHOOO !!! I'M RIDING A FREAKING T-REX AND IT'S AWESOME !!!

 

[Stabwound]

LoK 2 is much better than LoK 1.

Also, LoK 3 is excellent, one of my favorite adventure games ever and very underrated. If you haven't played it, do yourself a favor and do so.

 

[RedScum]

Bought Saints Row 3 a couple of days ago on a gamersgate sale.

Pretty fun actually, feels like there was more content in the second one tough.

 

[Ulminati]

Crusader Kings II.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TOTALLY AVOID GAINING THE KINSLAYER TRAIT IF YOU WANT A SEMI-SENSIBLE SUCCESSION IN CKII!

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Soldat.

 

[Quilty]

Riise of Flight. It's an amazing WWI flight simulator, dogfighting is loads of fun. And it's free!

 

[Admiral jimbob]

The BG marathon is go. Here is the party. No idea if it's optimum, but I think it'll make for an interesting experience nonetheless. Any real duds can be dropped for whatever NPC suits/wants to give me quests at the time.

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Anders Breivik, noble fearless Paladin, Inquisitor and party leader for the three occasions where charisma matters in the series. Standard build, aiming to get Carsomyr in BG2 and tank unimaginatively through BG1.

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Average Steve the Kensai/Mage. Don't think that needs much explanation.

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Hatman the Swashbuckler. Primary thieving abilities as well as ranged combat and melee where required. Might dual class him to cleric in BG2, seeing how it goes (old screenshot, recreated him with 17 WIS)

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Faggotron McGay the Elven Archer. Ranged combat, aiming to get him the shortbow of Gesen or whatever it's called once BG2 rolls around.

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Dr Chouffe, the mighty gnome Cleric/Illusionist multiclass. Hoping he'll pack enough of a punch to be my primary healer and buffer.

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COVERED IN BEES the sorcerer. Nuker. Aiming to get the Robe of Vecna and that amulet and turn him into a magical machine gun.

After taking a break at the end of BG1, the party is in full swing in BG2. Much as I enjoyed BG1's low-level adventuring style, it quickly boiled down to a rather uninteresting game about wiping giant foresty blackboards clean to find the one rudimentary quest encounter per wilderness area. BG2, on the other hand... it was my first CRPG, and has still never really been something that's clicked with me. Just don't like the combat. But something about it has really shone this time through. Anders has heroically slain the Demogorgon, and we proceed to our final reckoning with Irenicus. Is ToB good? Probably going to play it regardless at this point, but I'd like to know if I'm in for a disappointment.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge.

 

[betamin]

After taking a break at the end of BG1, the party is in full swing in BG2. Much as I enjoyed BG1's low-level adventuring style, it quickly boiled down to a rather uninteresting game about wiping giant foresty blackboards clean to find the one rudimentary quest encounter per wilderness area. BG2, on the other hand... it was my first CRPG, and has still never really been something that's clicked with me. Just don't like the combat. But something about it has really shone this time through. Anders has heroically slain the Demogorgon, and we proceed to our final reckoning with Irenicus. Is ToB good? Probably going to play it regardless at this point, but I'd like to know if I'm in for a disappointment.

It's even more combat oriented, I had fun with it and it felt extremely polished. Are you using tactical mods? If combat feels easy some of those are great.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Mount and Blade : TLD

I beat the shit out of Saruman's armies but Theoden refuses to besiege his outposts. So fuck Rohan, imma gonna go help Mirkwood.

 

[RK47]

Lionheart. I'm liking my annual replay session with Black Isle's classic.

 

[Turjan]

Crusader Kings II. It's more fun than I thought, although it's a real time eater. I decided just to start as the King of Scotland from the tutorial. Succession crises are really tough, especially when the king became really old. Once, it ended up with some doom stacks from England crushing my demesne. This last time, the result was a bit more surprising to me: The new king seems to be well liked, and the war ended with one county more in the Kingdom than before (no idea how that happened). I'm not sure I should have drawn it out that much.

Anyway, it won't get boring. One other noble managed to get two duchies and a few counties therein, on both sides of my current king's demesne. Plus, there's one other duke in Ireland with several counties, plus probably a de jure claim to another duchy. It will probably all crumble soon. And I wonder why England hasn't tried anything yet.

 

[Lunac]

Update: Still AIX 2.0 (SP) after all this time, although less regularly. Otherwise, most recently Legend of Grimrock although it got old pretty quick and some Torchlight every now and then (although Torchlight replayability is pretty nonexistent I must admit). Other than that you can throw in occasional rounds of C&C: Tiberian Sun and Close Combat III to scratch that "strategery" itch. Wanting to continue playing my D2 save now after all this D3 nonsense lately, but I keep remembering how boring Diablo games really are no matter what roman numeral is after the title. CoD of its genre really. Looking for Wiz8 copy on ebay rite now...


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[Admiral jimbob]

Average Steve has transcended averageness and now sits atop the Throne of Bhaal. For all its flaws, the saga was a pretty good adventure with a real sense of progression from level 1 shitheel to a genuine force of power, with encounter design and party customisation that nearly transcends the confusing and occasionally shitty combat system probably won't touch BG again, but I'm glad I've finally played through the whole thing after a rocky relationship with BG2. Feel I owed it to my first ever CRPG.

Need something dumb and viscerally gratifying to sate my lust now, though. Looking at a timesink open-world game - Precurors, Just Cause 2, Saints Row 3 and The Saboteur are the shortlist. Thoughts?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Armored Brigade.

 

[spekkio]

Abandoned Dark Heart of Uukrul due to severe fuckup.



Started Shadow Hearts 1

p. codexian adventure...

 

[Markman]

Spent a few hours in Puzzle Kingdoms, simple game but really a fucking time sinker. But those bonus puzzles suck IMO.
Also rolling a bit of Torchlight on hard, and its not that hard. My kitty kicks ass.

 

[Jaesun]

Taking a uh, break from the Guest For Glory series (III in particular). I and II were FANTASTIC. Really enjoyed playing all 3 pure classes in both games and the different solutions to things.

Playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (the GOG version) for the first time. The voice acting and MT-32 music is pretty cool. <3

 

[Phelot]

I am finally trying to learn Dwarf Fortress since I know it's a game I'll love. It's an OCD dream come true... or nightmare, not sure which yet.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I guess that depends on how you react when one of your dwarves murders her husband to make boots out of his corpse and then throws her child down a well in despair and goes on a destructive rampage.

 

[Sceptic]

Playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (the GOG version) for the first time. The voice acting and MT-32 music is pretty cool. <3

It's a sound canvas composition, you're missing out on the awesome piano. The soundtrack is all terrific though, no surprise sincer it's Robert Holmes.

 

[Jaesun]

Playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (the GOG version) for the first time. The voice acting and MT-32 music is pretty cool. <3

It's a sound canvas composition, you're missing out on the awesome piano. The soundtrack is all terrific though, no surprise sincer it's Robert Holmes.

Hmmm in the install screen for GK1 there is only a MT-32/LAPC1 etc.... option and a General MIDI (which technically a Sound Canvas would play just fine). Maybe I'll try General MIDI with my JV-1080. Mabye the GOG of GK1 is a different version without Sound Canvas?

EDIT:

READING IS TEH HARD!

 

[Sceptic]

Sierra always listed their SC compositions as GM in the installer, and I don't think they actually use any of the GS specifications (or the extra tones) but they were all composed on the SC-55. By the time the later (SC-88) modules came out they'd already moved to digitized tracks (Phantas 2, GK2, and so on)

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Finally playing Severance: Blade of Darkness. Completed the first level as the Knight. Fun game once you get used to the odd controls - not that they're bad, they're actually great, but they take a bit of getting used to - but I cannot for the life of me work out how to do the special combos. I only have the one unlocked so far, the level 4 Gladius one, but it just won't work. Am I supposed to attack, then press A and W at the same time? Attack, then A, then W? All three at once? Attack, then one of the two? Nothing works!

 

[RK47]

You should try freddy pharkas - frontier pharmacist, Jaesun.