Hello everyone. Hope your weekend was relaxing. This week i continued and finished my Attila Total War campaign as the western Roman Empire. I enjoyed it so much I have now started a campaign as the Eastern Roman Empire. Hope everyone has a good week!
Since no man’s sky added Pokémon battles, and it’s on sale I decided to finally give it a try
Partner and I bought a house in Lord of the Rings Online. Very comfy game that we’ve played on and off for years and are just now getting to the first expansion. It’s old, jank, and laggy as heck but it’s got a lot of charm.
Wow, LOTRO is still running? That’s impressive! I think I participated in the beta but didn’t get hooked.
…Dungeons & Dragons Online is also still running? And it got an expansion less than a year ago?? Damn, what a throwback. I think I had a demo disc, and I remember this weird bug where it would chug horribly unless I held down the right mouse button to free look, which would then cause the game to run perfectly smoothly.
There’s like 30 people total that split their time between LOTRO and D&D Online with a few main devs representing the team for one game. It’s still getting expansions and new content though. A new Monster class is getting added for the first time in like a decade. Class reworks are slow going but have been progressing. Some great, like Loremaster getting a non-pet spec, some bad. The main issue with the game really is the lag, which they’ve never been able to get a handle on. There’s just random rubber banding and skill delay that make playing certain classes near impossible or just not as fun as their concept might otherwise make them.
I think they got a bit of a player boost from the Amazon LotR MMO being scuttled, and now from the TurtleWoW Private Server going down and people looking for something different but still old school.
Even if it’s not perfect, it’s heartening to see that a game can chug along for a few decades without making a billion dollars a year.
didn’t get the chance… one of my ram slots up and died for no good reason and I spent most of the weekend trying to figure out what the fuck happened to my computer
whoever designed AM5 motherboards gets the wall – having to take your cpu fan & heatsink off to be able to get to the ram slots is pure aggravation
Darkest Dungeon 2. It’s super fun, though they got rid of most of the management stuff from the first game (it might be in the Kingdom mode, but I haven’t touched it yet).
The new Tomodachi Life. I’ve been hoping they’d make a new one for years.
So far: it’s hitting the spot goooooood.
Not huge into the drawing to customize everything aspect like they have in Animal Crossing, I think the lack of 3d detail really cuts into certain things, but using it to add a thing or two where I can to round out what they give you is real real clutch and fun. (I have a Ghengis Kahn mii and he lives in a yurt).
Going to try and make the island look like something out of Yokohama Shopping Log. Put some sunken skyscrapers in a bay maybe. I’ll have to see when I get there.
Oh yeah and I dusted off ACNH while waiting for Tomodachi to get my fill since it patched recently. Still pleasent and perfect for winding down.
Hooked with Digimon cyber sleuth. Never grew up with Digimon but have always found myself wanting to give it a proper go. Disappointed that there’s not many English titles. I’ve played Digimon World DS, Dusk/Dawn but maybe not that properly, guess I could give it a go on my phone on the side coz I’m travelling and can’t use my PC anyway.
Hope somebody cracks time stranger in a way playing on Linux becomes possible.
Tried the demo of Pragmata. It’s good, but it’s not $100 worth of good. I’ll pick it up eventually.
Isn’t it cracked already?
Only if you count the hypervisor bypass as ‘cracked’, which most people probably shouldn’t.
I haven’t bothered to check. My crackwatch sub is on my other instance, which is still down.
Smoochin’ all the monsters in Look Outside
I like that Lyle becomes a party member if you smooch him twice. I don’t like that he stole your door key. That’s sus Lyle.
I wish we could recruit this fella as a proper party member. I know you can get him to live in your fridge but I want to take him with me dammit!
You can become the second Fred, becoming Sam-Fred! That way there’s always a fred with you
Little bit of pokemon champions whenever I can’t stand looking at the godot editor for a while. I’m trying to get all of the eevees together cuz I saw a hilarious team that uses them all and i want to play it.
If you don’t wanna rely on the gacha stuff I can trade you some of them if you want
Beating my head against the wall that is Terraria Calamity Infernum mode. Some of the most difficult bosses that I’ve ever fought in any game, but it feels so good to finally master it.
Played through persona 5 again (first time with Royal) They somehow made the game even more repetitive with text. People say the same things over and over again; first time when you are in person, then they all text each other, then they meet up in various locations throughout the day. Like good god it takes forever for the plot to advance.
I didn’t really like any of the new additions in Royal; i mostly ended up skipping the SLs with the new characters, not really anything interesting happening in them. Otherwise still a decent game overall.
Planescape: Torment, working on this one so I can finally stop trying to avoid spoilers for a game that’s been around since the Clinton years.
I’m finding that if I get high enough, old games are just as much fun as new ones. Normally long dialogue trees bore me, but pop an edible and I’m down to grind some paragraphs for XP.
About to start RE9 with my GF. She wants to get a bit more into gaming and i am trying to find games that are fun to watch (Expedition 33) or are still fun if you are terrible at controlling the game world (low stake 2D games) and of course coop games that are “little brother/GF friendly” (it takes two, split fiction).
Recently i also have been playing “lost and found co.” With her and it has been a lot of fun. She really helps me in enjoying some of these games that I would never touch otherwise.
My laptop sucks and nearly exploded when trying to launch wotr so been plillars 1 and its great (the ACT 1 could have been less dry tho)
