What game are you wasting time on?

[TheEntitledOne]

I've been trying to get into Aquamarine (turn-based, adventure, survival game of sorts), mostly because of the visuals, but the current beta is too buggy.

Game is pretty, has a distinct Moebius sci-fi comic touch to it, but there are some nasty fount errors that fuck up the tutorial. There might be a few bugs here and there that prevent me from advancing, or just I don't know how to advance because the tutorial is fucked.


If it picks your curiosity, wait for fixes.

 

[Krivol]

Don't worry, they're gonna fix Aloy in the sequel to make her less likable and human-looking.

I don't see John Gonzalez in HFW credits, so you may be right.

 

[laclongquan]

Modded NV a bit, lots of quests mods. Mostly bounties. New Vegas Bounties I, II, III. The Inheritance. Headhunting. The North Road. The Depths of Depravity. Headhunter. The Collector. All of these are great, though NVBIII has problems by the climax.

Other quest mods didn't grab me as much. A Difference of Opinion, New Vegas Stories, Fortune Canyon, A simple Package Delivery, Sweet Home, The High Desert, Boom to the Moon, and fucking Autumn Leaves - meh to ugh. Might try out the New Reno stuff. See, what I think it is, is that modders are some creative people, but finding something that complements or adds to New Vegas is hard. All those above mods barely fit New Vegas for one reason or another. Added too many new factions, big ideals, or whatever. Or languished for too long, or the tone was just too off. The High Desert has you make a new brothel-inn in Primm, then shoves you into a religious commune-cult, cursing all the while. Eh. But Bounty Huntin'? That's easy. It's combat, with some lore, maybe some choices, some fucked up set up. Voice Acting goes a long way too, but it's easy to find something that works with just killin' folk than musing on something bigger. Treasure huntin' might be good, too, but what treasure is worth it to a level 50 Courier already with high end weapon mods and damage mods and 300,000 caps?

Mods that expanded the wildlife and so on almost always tacked on some BS I didn't care for. A World of Pain, I remember, did not have a huge Underground Faction thing going on before, but now it does, and I hate feature creep like this. I just wanted more shit to shoot or come across that felt organic/natural to be there. A huge underground city and a faction of tech raiders doesn't fit that. Faction Reloaded mods were the same. Legion, Followers, Raiders would bloat too much. Radio mods were fun. Radio Mayak, Radio Ghosts, Radio Indigo, Combined Syndicates of America, Conelrad, Surf Radio, Pacific West, OWB Expanded, People's Radio of China....

There might be some house mods that add quests, but I dunno. I liked a little hotel mod for the courier and that was it. No bullshit mods about the Enclave, Brotherhood or Steel, or whatever, either. I killed the Enclave in 2 and the BoS got killed by their own stupidity by 2 and I sent the rest of them packing in NV, but nooo. Everyone loves the goddamn Brotherhood of Steel or wants to bring back the fucking Enclave. I would get it if the Enclave was supposed to be like, the whole sum of Post-War America's government, but they were a bunch of deluded asswipes on a rig and Navarro. Dead and gone, stop trying to shove them into everything.

But hey, there's always new New Vegas mods at least. I finished another house ending, but my character is beefy and when another good quest mod comes along, I'll reuse 'em. Or just need something to shoot. Maybe I can try TTW...?

Have you tried Functionl Game Past Ending and the The Living Desert? I would consider these mods absoutely essential for every playthrough.

What about The North Road and Depths of Depravity? Never heard of them. Are these quest mods well integrated into the main game (quest givers not living in horrible placed shacks somewhere in the desert [one reason why I never liked Bounties to begin with]) and could be considered as original content?

My FGPE turned the Mojave into a empty desert, and I do have The Living Desert. In that House Ending: Only Goodpsrings, Primm, Jacobstown, Vegas and co are still settled. The NCR has abandoned everything but the Mojave Outpost. The BoS are destroyed, the Khans fled to Montana, the Legion is gone. The Kings are dead. Fiends are gone. Novac was abandoned due to the Rockets falling back on it. There's some trade still at 188.

House will get his future...in 50, 100 years time. Until then the Mojave is now quiet, peaceful, and the Casinos attract tourists.

The North Road and The Depths of Depravity take you mostly to a new worldspace (for the North Road), the quest giver is either in a shack at the most isolated Ranger Station or by Westside. They don't impact the Mojave itself much, but are well-written and atmospheric. And voiced well worth a damn.

This is the reason I dont do FGPE even with lite version. I dont want to trade a world full of living things with an empty one just for the satisfaction of completing Mojave~ Even if I take a train right afterward to Capital Wasteland

 

[Zlaja]

Yesterday, I went back to my long abandoned Daggerfall playhtrough and ended up spending 5 hours looking for a painting in a castle dungeon. Ended up missing this little hole you have to crawl through beneath the water, which fucked me over. And that's on top of taking the wrong turn in the beginning from the castle (two dungeons on seperate side of the castle). And the water was of course crawling with enemies, including ice atronachs. And this wasn't even randomly generated, because it's part of the main quest.

 

[Zlaja]

Here's my next Daggerfall tale. In the next assignment in the main quest, I'm tasked with retrieving a cursed claymore. The task is going well, untill I reach what I'm looking for. Unfortunately for me, right outside the room where the claymore is stands a vampire ancient (which I believe is one of the toughest enemy types in the game). And I'm lv.9. With willpower of 50.

First I try to take him down using my main weapon (dwarven longbow), but he doesn't take damage from this weapon type so I switch to my secondary weapon (adamantium war axe) and go toe to toe with him. After getting buttraped in 3-4 seconds about 10 times in a row, I realize my only chance is to try run past him and hope for the best. Unfortunately, he not only stands pretty close to my objective, but he's also blocking the fucking entrance, so I keep getting stuck trying to get in. After countless failed attempts, I finally get inside and run for the item, only to be met with the message that I can't pick up any more things.

I now start panicking, and enter my inventory only to realize I have barely anything on me to throw away since I was only picking up gold in the dungeon. So I'm forced to throw away some of my gold. I throw away 3000 g on the floor, but I still can't pick it up. I throw away another 5000 g, and finally I'm able to pick up the damn thing. While vampire ancient is breathing down my neck, I quickly access my spellbook and hit recall which teleports me back to the entrance. I look at my health and it literally states that I have 1 hp left.

 

[Kabas]

One of the good things you can say about Daggerfall is it's sound design. You quickly learn to recognise the sound the vampire ancient nearby.

 

[Puukko]

I used to play Skyrim with the Daggerfall skeleton voices modded in... as a necromancer with a permanent gang of skelly bros.

 

[somewhatgiggly]

Modded NV a bit, lots of quests mods. Mostly bounties. New Vegas Bounties I, II, III. The Inheritance. Headhunting. The North Road. The Depths of Depravity. Headhunter. The Collector. All of these are great, though NVBIII has problems by the climax.

Other quest mods didn't grab me as much. A Difference of Opinion, New Vegas Stories, Fortune Canyon, A simple Package Delivery, Sweet Home, The High Desert, Boom to the Moon, and fucking Autumn Leaves - meh to ugh. Might try out the New Reno stuff. See, what I think it is, is that modders are some creative people, but finding something that complements or adds to New Vegas is hard. All those above mods barely fit New Vegas for one reason or another. Added too many new factions, big ideals, or whatever. Or languished for too long, or the tone was just too off. The High Desert has you make a new brothel-inn in Primm, then shoves you into a religious commune-cult, cursing all the while. Eh. But Bounty Huntin'? That's easy. It's combat, with some lore, maybe some choices, some fucked up set up. Voice Acting goes a long way too, but it's easy to find something that works with just killin' folk than musing on something bigger. Treasure huntin' might be good, too, but what treasure is worth it to a level 50 Courier already with high end weapon mods and damage mods and 300,000 caps?

Mods that expanded the wildlife and so on almost always tacked on some BS I didn't care for. A World of Pain, I remember, did not have a huge Underground Faction thing going on before, but now it does, and I hate feature creep like this. I just wanted more shit to shoot or come across that felt organic/natural to be there. A huge underground city and a faction of tech raiders doesn't fit that. Faction Reloaded mods were the same. Legion, Followers, Raiders would bloat too much. Radio mods were fun. Radio Mayak, Radio Ghosts, Radio Indigo, Combined Syndicates of America, Conelrad, Surf Radio, Pacific West, OWB Expanded, People's Radio of China....

There might be some house mods that add quests, but I dunno. I liked a little hotel mod for the courier and that was it. No bullshit mods about the Enclave, Brotherhood or Steel, or whatever, either. I killed the Enclave in 2 and the BoS got killed by their own stupidity by 2 and I sent the rest of them packing in NV, but nooo. Everyone loves the goddamn Brotherhood of Steel or wants to bring back the fucking Enclave. I would get it if the Enclave was supposed to be like, the whole sum of Post-War America's government, but they were a bunch of deluded asswipes on a rig and Navarro. Dead and gone, stop trying to shove them into everything.

But hey, there's always new New Vegas mods at least. I finished another house ending, but my character is beefy and when another good quest mod comes along, I'll reuse 'em. Or just need something to shoot. Maybe I can try TTW...?

Have you tried Functionl Game Past Ending and the The Living Desert? I would consider these mods absoutely essential for every playthrough.

What about The North Road and Depths of Depravity? Never heard of them. Are these quest mods well integrated into the main game (quest givers not living in horrible placed shacks somewhere in the desert [one reason why I never liked Bounties to begin with]) and could be considered as original content?

My FGPE turned the Mojave into a empty desert, and I do have The Living Desert. In that House Ending: Only Goodpsrings, Primm, Jacobstown, Vegas and co are still settled. The NCR has abandoned everything but the Mojave Outpost. The BoS are destroyed, the Khans fled to Montana, the Legion is gone. The Kings are dead. Fiends are gone. Novac was abandoned due to the Rockets falling back on it. There's some trade still at 188.

House will get his future...in 50, 100 years time. Until then the Mojave is now quiet, peaceful, and the Casinos attract tourists.

The North Road and The Depths of Depravity take you mostly to a new worldspace (for the North Road), the quest giver is either in a shack at the most isolated Ranger Station or by Westside. They don't impact the Mojave itself much, but are well-written and atmospheric. And voiced well worth a damn.

This is the reason I dont do FGPE even with lite version. I dont want to trade a world full of living things with an empty one just for the satisfaction of completing Mojave~ Even if I take a train right afterward to Capital Wasteland

At the very least, Red Rock looks fertile enough it should become full of wildlife. NCR military bases should be getting picked over by prospectors and scavs. New Vegas should wipe out the fiends, sure, but there should be massive reconstruction efforts to turn things into hotels, expand the walls, integrate Westside. But yea, it was just so, so, so empty.

 

[samuraigaiden]

I got a lot of gaming time this month.

I put aside Just Cause 2 on PC and started playing Control, which I got for "free" on GOG via that Amazon Prime gaming thing. Control is pretty fucking dope, y'all. I played little more than an hour of it, so I don't have much to say but what I've seen so far is very interesting.

Played several hours of Just Cause on the PS2. Got all the collectibles and took over many settlements. The last story mission I did was Broadcast News. The story missions in this game are so short, if I only focused on those I could beat it in one sitting. I have more fun with the side stuff so I'm taking the long road.

I'm slowly doing progress on Tecmo Secret of the Stars in my RG350. I almost only play this game when I have insomnia and it does the trick every time. Probably the worst translation of any SNES RPG. Makes me wonder if the half baked and underdeveloped ideas and mechanics in this game made more sense in Japanese. For anyone familiar with the game, I just got through that boxing match in a circus tent.

 

[Zlaja]

started playing Control, which I got for "free" on GOG via that Amazon Prime gaming thing. Control is pretty fucking dope, y'all. I played little more than an hour of it, so I don't have much to say but what I've seen so far is very interesting.

Control started off ok, but all those endlessly respawning enemies made it an absolute chore to explore the levels. And there's a fair amount of backtracking you have to do there to complete sidequests. Got so fed up I uninstalled halfway through. Hated the look of the protagonist too (designed to cater to feminists). Look at this ugly mug:

 

[†††]

Look at this ugly mug

Christoph Waltz with a wig

 

[samuraigaiden]

The protagonist looks exactly like Courtney Hope, the actress that played her

 

[Catacombs]

Got so fed up I uninstalled halfway through.

The same thing happened to me. The premise seemed cool, but it got repetitive fast, and navigating through the building was a big pain in the ass, thanks to an unreliable map.

 

[Caim]

The protagonist looks exactly like Courtney Hope, the actress that played her

Good to see that the Bogdanoff bloodline continues.

 

[Gaznak]

Being on the break from PRG playing I now enjoy my acquaintance with two gems of Ye Olde Gold Tide - Extreme Tactics (quirky futuristic RTS with units customization) and Hardwar (also futuristic, gloomy dystopian Elite-like action/simulation).

And I keep wonder: seriously, who needs moronic modern games when there are such treasures lying around?

 

[Zlaja]

The protagonist looks exactly like Courtney Hope, the actress that played her

Good to see that the Bogdanoff bloodline continues.

They certainly made her uglier in the game. Not that the actress looks great exactly, but the character in the game definitely looks a bit more tranny-like. They did it on purpose.

 

[Puukko]

Blood Omen... I imagine most are familiar with it, so not much new to add, but it has lots of upstanding elements. Great music, atmosphere, voice acting and art. Mediocre melee combat with some neat and powerful spells. Good dungeon variety too, though the towns all kind of blend together. 3D cutscenes that aged like milk left in the sun. And that old game sense of mystery where you can't be sure if you missed something or if you'll find it later.

 

[BruceVC]

I got a lot of gaming time this month.

I put aside Just Cause 2 on PC and started playing Control, which I got for "free" on GOG via that Amazon Prime gaming thing. Control is pretty fucking dope, y'all. I played little more than an hour of it, so I don't have much to say but what I've seen so far is very interesting.

Played several hours of Just Cause on the PS2. Got all the collectibles and took over many settlements. The last story mission I did was Broadcast News. The story missions in this game are so short, if I only focused on those I could beat it in one sitting. I have more fun with the side stuff so I'm taking the long road.

I'm slowly doing progress on Tecmo Secret of the Stars in my RG350. I almost only play this game when I have insomnia and it does the trick every time. Probably the worst translation of any SNES RPG. Makes me wonder if the half baked and underdeveloped ideas and mechanics in this game made more sense in Japanese. For anyone familiar with the game, I just got through that boxing match in a circus tent.

I enjoyed Control, once you get use to the combat and special abilities its great fun

Im 30 hours into NWN EE and I am thoroughly enjoying it, the first time I played it was about 12 years ago so I have forgotten quite a lot of the narrative which makes it more exciting
Im loving the AD&D\D&D ruleset and as usual the Forgotten Realms lore and setting. I can see the MP design but its easy to mitigate the annoyances like I am Wizard and I have 1 henchman, Tomi, a familiar and I summon monsters so I have " a party" with me all the time which helps with this type of MP game

 

[Straight elf]

Played through BG1/2 EE, ignoring all the shitty nu content ofc. Immensely enjoyable even after all the years. I found out I actually prefer NPS acting like "Hai, my ring has been stolen by a troll. Please bring me back my ring, it is important. K, thx" to Pathfinder's "Hi. I was born a poor orc boy blah blah racism blah blah I am a tranny too blah blah blah here's some of my political opinions blah oh and I am missing a ring stolen by a troll (blah blah troll being a symbol of patriarchy) blah fetch it please blah blah. There must be a better way to integrate side quests than having a dude just stand somewhere for eternity asking random passer by to risk their neck from him, but having NPCs treating a dude with a big sword they just met as their therapist is not it.

 

[Catacombs]

Hi. I was born a poor orc boy blah blah racism blah blah I am a tranny too blah blah blah here's some of my political opinions blah oh and I am missing a ring stolen by a troll (blah blah troll being a symbol of patriarchy) blah fetch it please blah blah.

I don't remember this dialogue from any of the NPCs in the P:K. Who says this?

 

[Straight elf]

Pretty much everybody already in the first quest hub - the Defender’s Heart inn. I remember clicking through lengthy dialogues and being like "why the fuck does everybody tells me about their traumas"?

 

[Gibson]

Finished Naheulbeuk - got my ass kicked on numerous occasions, should have taken the Priestess instead of paladin I think. at least that's the plan for future replay.

Now back in my comfort-zone with Blasphemous. I fucking love 2D platformers/Metridvanias/what-have-you.

 

[Abu Antar]

I've been feeling shit for the past week and a half. Got a covid positive test, yesterday. Should I rest? Maybe, but I have played games.

Reached chapter 13 in Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Chapter 12 was all kinds of awesome. I am thinking about rushing for the main story, and then doing the side stuff that I have missed.

I'm progressing in Chronicles of Myrtana: Arholos. After 10ish hours, I'm in the actual city. Oh my, this place is huge. Having lots of fun, focusing in one handed weapons, and trying to improve or get all the non-combat skills asap.

My Betrayal at Krondor run is going well. I'm nearing the end of chapter 4. I miss James. I voted on this as one of five games in the "The Codex’s Best Computer RPGs (pre-Diablo)" thread, and replaying it now, I don't regret that vote.

Today, I started Ultima Underworld. Most of the current games I am playing are juggernauts, and I know this and the sequel don't require 50+ hours to complete.
Chose the druid. Killed the first rat, died to the first goblin, but I was just rusty. Things are going not terrible for now.

Other than these, I have a bunch of other games on hold, that I will give more attention.

Edit: Also The Last Remnant. I'm having a lot of fun with the PC version. Lots of cool units you can put in your unions, but most importantly, stable frame rate. While I did like the 360 version a lot, the frame rate in combat on that version was more or less piss poor.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

The Long Dark (continued)

210 days survived. Base at Mystery Lake Camp Office. Tons of food and gear. Went to Forlorn Muskeg to check for supplies, ran into a bear. Shot the bear, bear charged so I escaped out onto the lake. Fell into the ice and died.

Lesson here is when you've got things going well, keep doing that. Don't get greedy. Mother nature will rape you in the ass and then a bear will eat it.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I've finally started playing Dusk. Everyone seems to be creaming themselves about this but after 3 levels the only thing I have to say so far is that it's merely ok. You have to be super easily impressionable to call it anything amazing.