Hello everyone. I hope everyone has had a good week and has been staying cool in the summer heat. I have been playing more Nightreign. I have not attempted Purple Fulghor yet because I hadn’t beaten regular Fulghor until last night. I hope to try him tonight but I’ve been busy. Hope you all have a good week.
I’ve almost beaten Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines for the first time. I can see why it’s as revered as it is, because the game is excellent.
There’s one line of dialog that stuck in my head as being really dumb though. I was talking to the Anarchs early in the game while trying to get the lay of the land for vampire politics. One of them said “Communism always fails for humans, but it would totally work for vampires”. Gotta love media from the 2000s.
That’s a great game.
Death stranding 2
The madman is cooking so hard
I'm still working on my first playthrough of Disco Elysium and made some decent progress yesterday
- Had the title drop moment in the church/dance club
- Uncovered that the 8th Hardie Boy is connected to drug running
- Learned a civil war might break out from a planned extrajudicial assassination by PMC jackboots
- Talked to an insufferable European politician
- Attended my first communist reading group
No spoilers please.
I’ve gotta get back to it! I put maybe 10-15 hours into my first play through of it a few months back but then fell off
Highly recommend getting back to it! I’m around 30 hours in and the game feels like it opens up after the first couple in-game days and there’s a lot more story threads going on
Kerbal Space Program. I saw it in summer sale for steam for something crazy like $5 and had always wanted to play.
the physics engine and mechanics of advancement in “science” mode are addicting. the tutorials are good for learning the system and it depends my appreciation for the knowledge and achievement of actual space programs.
I have successfully left the atmosphere and have had successful/safe multistage suborbital flights and recorded all of the associated data, but now I finally understand the mechanics of achieving and returning safely from orbital flight.
what a great game.
Borderlands 3, much to my shame.
Why did I do this? I vaguely recall liking the previous games when I was a child. Do not follow the swamp lights of nostalgia my friends, it will drown you.
Its humour is cringe and Reddit brained to an uncomfortable degree, but I’m actually kinda liking the gameplay.
I’ve already played through with a gunner, and now I’m trying a melee siren build. Don’t know If I’ll have the patience to try out the other classes, though. The game’s starting to wear thin already, and the writing certainly isn’t keeping me invested.
In fairness BL3 has the worst writing in the franchise by far, and the other games aren’t exactly a high bar.
Damn I barely made it through one playthrough of the game. The gameplay is good, but they constantly are burying it under horrible exposition, and what passes for a joke to gearbox, and terrible pseudo open world levels that make you learn for the days of the corridor shooter. Don’t even get me started on that God awful home base hub ship that seems designed to frustrate you. it’s not big but suffers from one of the worst cases of “big town problems” than most RPGs with actual big towns.
I do love me some numbers go up though so maybe I’ll dip into Tina’s wonderlands some more.
I’m helping a friend move today, but I did finish Super Mario 3D World with my nephew last week. I’m sure we’ll tackle Bowser’s Fury next.
Picked up Citizen Sleeper yesterday and played a good amount of it. It’s a pretty great narrative game, though it’s a little short, and it gives up on the idea of your resources being extremely pressed and restricting pretty quick.
Other than that, been playing a lot of Operation Eight Claw in Warframe. Already have all the legendary arcanes, so now I’m just working my way through the less rare ones. I really like the new event, when it isn’t buggy, though IMO the Steel Path version should really give Duviri arcanes because as-is there’s not really a reason to do it.
I’ve been playing The Finals recently and holy shit it’s a hidden gem. It’s an fps with fully destructible environments and a great movement and the utility system is a lot of fun. But since I’m away from my PC this weekend, probably Love and Deepspace for me.
I grew tired of Finals eventually because I’m just not a competitive fps type of girl but yeah it’s truly a gem. All the same live service bs but at the same time u can always buy the next battle pass off of the currency you got off of the last one and I think that’s pretty neat.
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I finished Ori and the Will of Wisps. The story is nu-pixar-tier emotionally manipulative libslop which might sound surprising for such a simple family-targeted game but the villain is one of those “I was rejected by society as a minority so… I will destroy everything” types. The platforming and bosses were really good though, it just didn’t grab me as anything beyond a good toy I guess. So it was an 8.3/10 for me.
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I played Minishoot’ Adventures and shelved it after beating the true last boss. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good twin-stick shooter and decent metroidvania with addicting exploration, however I find the artstyle a bit bland and the story is pretty much non-existent, so I can’t be assed to do the optional post-game battle challenges without any exploration in new areas sprinkled in. It was a 7.5/10 for me pretty much.
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I also tried Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo after trying and liking the demo, but the actual game didn’t manage to grab me so I refunded it. I didn’t really like the yoyo combat which utilizes sloped walls to pierce through many enemies, also the town you explore throughout the game was a bit boring for me.
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Picked up Total War: Three Kingdoms a few days ago and will probably put a few hours into it until i have to make dinner.
if you haven’t played The Alters you’re missing out. it’s a really novel idea and the story is pretty cool
what kind of gameplay?
Thanks for making the thread
Im gonna start playing Legends of Amberland 2 in a bit. Its a dungeon crawler inspired by classics such as Wizardry and Ultima. I actually never played any dungeon crawlers but this one came recommend by a friend since its on the easier and shorter side. Hope to break into the gerne (dungeon crawlers) with this game.
I heard the devs behind Amberland 2 are working on a 3rd game as well. So I hope that turns out good for them
Hope everyone is having a fantastic Sunday.
Even though I’m an old head, I never played any of those early PC RPGs like Ultima or Wizardry since I was a console kid. I’ve always been curious about them though. I’ve been watching a YouTube series by Majuular he’s been working on for months and months where he’s playing through all the Ultima games and doing retrospectives including information on the development and all that. It’s really interesting IMO. It really feels like it was the bleeding edge of RPG gaming back then that I totally missed out on.
One of my favorite bits of gaming history is how much Japan apparently loved those old Western RPGs. The first JRPGs from the likes of Square and Falcom took obvious inspiration from them + D&D, and there were even Japan-exclusive Wizardry games made after the series ended in the West.
Falcom supposedly got sued for ripping off the Ultima III manual to make character artwork for Xanadu, their biggest hit at that point.
100%! I knew that D&D was influential on gaming from things like Baldur’s Gate, but I didn’t realize just how much of an influence it had not just in the US but in Japan as well. The divide between CRPG and JRPG was very narrow back then.
Yeah I never got around playing anything like Wizardry, so im curious about the gerne. Amberland 2 is very much oldschool inspired but a tad cleaner/ more user friendly . You have fast travel and other things that make it more modern in some aspects.
Yeah! I never heard of it, but I like the look. I might have to check it out. I’d like to get into blobbers more.
Looks cool! I’ve been getting into dungeon crawlers a little bit too, I’ll have to check this one out at some point. I feel like I’ve been seeing more and more people get into the genre recently.
I’m replaying Morrowind with openmw and the total overhaul modlist minus some stuff I didn’t like. It’s awesome!
I’m playing this cute little guy
With a custom “abolitionist” class and going around killing slavers and liberating slaves, with a never kill a beast race rule. He rizzes people up to like him and get good deals or info, or talks shit to start a fight, then stabs them with a spear that heals him. Desecrates dunmer tombs, sneaks around and will rob you blind if you’re a dick, and since all the locals think he’s a disgusting farm implement, he’s rich as hell. Big recommend!The more I think, the less I remember there being many beast race NPCs that are actually hostile. Its almost always Dunmer, Bosmer, Imperials, or Nords.
I really have yet to find one yet
I’m at the monolith in Clair obscur, might pause for another Victoria communism run. Or a bout in balatro. Or maybe a few days in the life of Dave the Diver.
I beat Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer on the DS a month and a half ago and moved on to playing the English translation of Shiren the Wanderer: The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on PSP. It’s the same base Shiren-style game but with more feature like equipment upgrades, runes for weapons, new items, new enemies and the ability to tag and retrieve lost equipment. A nice graphical upgrade too with it being on PSP.
I appreciate all the QoL features which streamlines the experience trememndously. Allies will now walkthrough NPCs without getting stuck behind them, there’s new revival and escape herbs that allow you to revive if you do or escape back to the beginning with all your items if you hit a difficult snag.
At this point, playing for over a month, I’d say it’s the best Shiren game I’ve played yet. I do have the new one that just released on PC and Switch but haven’t gotten to it yet. Honestly, the 3D chibi graphics put me off a bit too. I’ll play it eventually but I’m not in a rush. For me Shiren is a pickup and play handheld game. I play it in 15-20 min bursts on the bus.
Also contemplating playing Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura on my laptop, especially since I’m GMing a Steampunk tabletop game on Discord, but I don’t know if I have the stamina for an old school CRPG right now.
