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Caves of Qud

played several hours of detroit become human the other day
i must admit i found myself becoming engrossed in david cage's latest dookie. i sincerely can't tell if he or hideo kojima write worse. cage's characters at least seem like people and not from shounen anime. you have a girl on the team who you abruptly fall in love with after you share memories with her and she doesn't have to prove she's capable the entire time or talk about gender which is better than 90% of western devs

played Marvel's Spider-Man. its boring

played crash nitro-fueled. im bad but it feels good

Timonk wrote:Caves of Qud

A man of culture you are. That game is fucking epic. Probably the best turn-based roguelike out there - a ton of lore and interesting stuff happening.

Istoprocent1 wrote:

Timonk wrote:Caves of Qud

A man of culture you are. That game is fucking epic. Probably the best turn-based roguelike out there - a ton of lore and interesting stuff happening.

The reptilians are loved by the robots for leading them to water(I actually don't know if that is a possibility)

finished david cage's latest odyssey last night
the moral of the story is always pick the nice options regardless of how dumb they seem because they're nearly always the most beneficial choice. he's like the reverse gaspar noe, i.e. a french humanist hack instead of a french misanthropic one

Been doing another playthrough of Terraria in anticipation of the upcoming update, this time stacked up with lots of fun mods. I've been playing on Expert and I gotta say that it was pretty clearly not intended for one person to finish, at least not the mod content. Just beat the moonlord and the Thorium mod adds a new final-final boss that is just impossible to do alone. I need a healer or a bard or something.

Uncharted 4 is the longest game of all time. Just when you think the last two hours will lead to a meaningful milestone they shift the goalposts on you. And they do this again and again. They did this shit in Half-Life and it sucks. It also has far too much climbing and shitty repartee between you and your brother. I'm in this for shooting and the action set pieces like an Indiana Joe movie. Later on in the story your wife joins you and they have her prove she can jump and murder just as good as you can even though you know that this is what's going to happen as soon as she replaces your brother as your companion. But the back and forth between her and you is actually somehow less tedious and agonising than with your brother. Probably because you've spent half the game with the guy at this point and the developers' need for the tone to be relentlessly upbeat at all times leading to constant asinine "witty" banter between the two of you means it has well and truly worn thin.

Pathologic 2 is tedious. I want to do everything but there's a lot of walking and I feel if you don't have a route mapped out in advance from previous experience you'll fail to do everything you need to do in a day. I don't have the patience to reload obsessively.

In Reignited, I beat Gnasty Gn***a in Spyro 1 and The Sorceress in Spyro 3. Now it wants me to 100% them to unlock the last dragon head in Gnorc Gnexus and The Super Bonus Worlds in Midnight Mountain. I don't think I ever got that last head as a kid (and I was gettin plenty ) and it took me years to get to the Super Bonus Worlds. Can't decide whether I can be bothered. It'll take like 4 hours probably. I still have to go back and collect orbs in the second game to fuck Raptor.

I played some Frostpunk the new DLC The Last Autumn but then I turned it off. im gay

I want to get back to Detroit and try to fill out the flowcharts to get the other endings in each scene but it loads so slowly when you want to restart from an earlier checkpoint I probably will. You get morse code modules that let you unlock character skins (and gay concept art) to stare at so you can see just how old Clancy Brown's getting if you want. It's not pointless shit and a useless attempt at incentivising further playthroughs either, I actually quite liked looking at the character models and animations. They aren't action figures like the ones I think in Arkham City are, they each have their own idle animations. And the texture resolutions and art design are leagues ahead of what anything written by David Cage deserves. And if you encounter them in the game in the spooky dark or rain (because when you're sad it rains and when a place is evil night falls) it adds that so as to not interfere with the mood by placing them under fluorescent showroom lighting. You can look at the snow collect in their hair. I dunno, I liked collecting humans. Is this how I become human?

Oh yeah and I defeated The Outer Worlds and it was shit. Don't have a lot of motivation to go back and do the side-quests knowing the ending (at least the one I picked, the good one) is anticlimactic shit. You go through Nova Prospekt (albeit much shorter and easier) where level assets are similarly recycled, finally get to the threshold of facing the CEO and the unexpected additional obstacle you've been anticipating is one unique robot that is piss-easy to kill with a bunch of drones you've already encountered for support that die when it does. Then the guy himself doesn't talk to you, doesn't try to beg/bargain/reason with you or try to justify his actions or convince you that what you're doing is wrong (i.e. Tell me Dr. Freeman if you can: you have destroyed so much. What exactly is it that you have created? Can you name even one thing? I thought not), immediately opens fire, has a normal amount of health for a human and no armour and dies instantly. You free Doc Brown (actually a good character, well-written and performed, somehow) and then the low rent ending slideshow plays. No gameplay afterwards. F to spit. It's a shame too because I can see a lot of effort was put into it. It looks good, there's a huge amount of variety in environments and a tonne of side-quests. The world and lore is fleshed out. The art design is great. You almost don't notice they lifted most of the gameplay mechanics and some of the UI design from Bethesda.

I've just been playing Mordhau
Both in ranked and in frontline/invasion my performance varies from 'free kill' to 'collects salt and insults from enemy team', and I don't have a clue why or what makes the difference. Sometimes within the same day it's both. Fuck if I know what changes. I've played ranked against the same guy twice in a row, first getting slaughtered effortlessly 0-5 and the second winning 5-1 without changing playstyle/ I don't understand why the second time it worked out while the first it just got me wrecked

Game is pretty good though, fun base gameplay means I can keep coming back and have fun even when I'm in free kill mode

posting here to say: play disco elysium

PKPenguin321 wrote:Been doing another playthrough of Terraria in anticipation of the upcoming update, this time stacked up with lots of fun mods. I've been playing on Expert and I gotta say that it was pretty clearly not intended for one person to finish, at least not the mod content. Just beat the moonlord and the Thorium mod adds a new final-final boss that is just impossible to do alone. I need a healer or a bard or something.

I actually managed to beat it on my own after hours of attempts so yay

I got a psmini for christmas and thought "fuck it I've not done a playthrough of ff7 since 2002"

so far I got to the bit where aerisn't

120% the first one. Never did that as a kid. Wasn't sure what to expect.

done 2

put a decent amount into disco elysium today, writing is really good

finished the last autumn in frostpunk, got the generator built but a bunch of people died and i became hitler

made some progress in pathologic 2, died like 4 times which comes with various penalties and you can't reload either

someone else post or i'll kill you

persona 3 run is going well, might actually max all the social links this time
escape from tarkov is pissing me off more than ever and i might just wait until the next wipe at this rate cause the grind is just getting annoying, fuck jaegar
the terraria update still isnt out and it makes me sad, planetside update delayed until next week
i have enough money in my wallet to pick up all of the march releases i care about
been playing elite dangerous in vr and met my first thargoid, absolutely fucking terrifying
yeah thats it

oh boy I remember my first thargoid encounter

it was before you could actually interact with them and they were just cutscenes basically

I was milling about in the area they'd been sighted and got a random message from a nearby faction asking me to go salvage a black box, it was for a small fortune by the standards of my bank account at the time so I jumped at it

dropped on the signal, saw a wreck with spooky green smoke, then my ship got shut the fuck down and this thing loomed into view and scanned me

10/10

On the one hand every post I make should be in the cuck shed on the other hand I really don't want my multi paragraph rant about how don't starve is a masterpiece unintentionally combining elements from ss13 pathologic and lifeweb to be deleted after 3 days of people not looking at it because I have had this rant sitting in my head for days

write it. people will read it and possibly nobody will respond. it doesn't matter

doom 4

Screemonster wrote:oh boy I remember my first thargoid encounter

it was before you could actually interact with them and they were just cutscenes basically

I was milling about in the area they'd been sighted and got a random message from a nearby faction asking me to go salvage a black box, it was for a small fortune by the standards of my bank account at the time so I jumped at it

dropped on the signal, saw a wreck with spooky green smoke, then my ship got shut the fuck down and this thing loomed into view and scanned me

10/10

Mine was even worse, I got randomly dropped from fucking hyperspace by this thing and everything shut down. Yeah a cutscene basically but dropping from hyperspace was pretty scary

Grazyn wrote:

Screemonster wrote:oh boy I remember my first thargoid encounter

it was before you could actually interact with them and they were just cutscenes basically

I was milling about in the area they'd been sighted and got a random message from a nearby faction asking me to go salvage a black box, it was for a small fortune by the standards of my bank account at the time so I jumped at it

dropped on the signal, saw a wreck with spooky green smoke, then my ship got shut the fuck down and this thing loomed into view and scanned me

10/10

Mine was even worse, I got randomly dropped from fucking hyperspace by this thing and everything shut down. Yeah a cutscene basically but dropping from hyperspace was pretty scary

Isn't that like the only thing that can just suddenly rip you out of hyperspace?

New Path Of Exile league next Friday so playing around with third party programs to crush the league and ignore my bodily needs.

Vekter wrote:

Grazyn wrote:

Screemonster wrote:oh boy I remember my first thargoid encounter

it was before you could actually interact with them and they were just cutscenes basically

I was milling about in the area they'd been sighted and got a random message from a nearby faction asking me to go salvage a black box, it was for a small fortune by the standards of my bank account at the time so I jumped at it

dropped on the signal, saw a wreck with spooky green smoke, then my ship got shut the fuck down and this thing loomed into view and scanned me

10/10

Mine was even worse, I got randomly dropped from fucking hyperspace by this thing and everything shut down. Yeah a cutscene basically but dropping from hyperspace was pretty scary

Isn't that like the only thing that can just suddenly rip you out of hyperspace?

It was at that time, don't know if they added new stuff, I haven't been playing recently

Playing Pathologic 2 and I have already learnt the art of scamming children

here's a needle, some raisins, a safety pin and some chestnuts now give me all your life saving medicine and a whole fresh fish amidst this plague and food shortage

Company of heroes, modded
Sid meier's alpha centauri, the setting just sucked me in

Deep Rock Galactic. Loving it so far, been playing since the free weekend.

frostpunk's the last autumn scenario still
trying to do extreme

the long dark. it's about surviving in canada

cacogen wrote:the long dark. it's about surviving in canada

just use the free healthcare, easy

roblox project jojo

help me im addicted to a lego jojo game

plague inc.

cacogen wrote:plague inc.

Spoiler:

i did this but with the poop virus
it is called "poop"

stellaris w/ the new dlc

created a federation of likeminded materialists with my neighboring empires and now we're in the middle of genociding a machine empire near us. galactic senate isn't too pleased with the war crimes but combined we have more political power than everyone else so we can just vote to make war crimes legal, hell yeah

FFXIV is real fuckin good.

They did a major rebalancing not too long ago and its fuckin good times. Been playing as RDM and its fucking wild.

BLM is like a magical railgun. It needs to warm up but once you have all your cells firing it drops NUKES.

Conversely RDM is about speed, using procs to spam a shitton of spells to build up charge for a big damage sword combo.

You also get to Cure and Raise people tho so RDM utility is off the charts for a DPS class.

Hitman 2 was 80% off on Steam so I bought it after initially just pirating it. It uses the GeForce bloatware to record your murders to jake to later

finished dicksuck elysium
did not savescum which meant i missed some easy checks i would've liked to have not have



didn't complete the FALN outfit either and frankly I'm depressed and ashamed

- the last of us
bought remastered in light of these leaks and the upcoming release to remember the plot. it's still good, actually. a lot better than what we've seen of the next game. the women don't have prime arnold bod and there's very little chip on the shoulder shit. you believe they could be that role and don't feel out of place

combat's better than uncharted 4, the more recent ND game. you can throw a brick in a guy's face and then while he's stunned punch him until he dies and then run away get a piece of plywood and come back with a beer bottle and glass a cunny trying to shoot you and then beat his shit in with the board. you can kill all the enemies, human and zombie alike in a given area with this manoeuvre and it's much more fun than stealth or trying to thumbstick headshots with five bullets. the only thing that sucks is clickers because you can't fight them with your god hands because they instakill you for reasons unspecified

Chimera Squad is Bite-sized XCOM.

Smaller in scale with quicker missions, Chimera Squad is a neat little spin-off with great world-building.

Most of the combat is in quick and small bursts as your squad preforms breaches to clear the area room-by-room. It's more close-quarters, and the maps are comparatively smaller than the Main XCOM games. The lethality has also been toned down, abilities and critical hits have been nerfed across the board, but you can still feel quickly overwhelmed as your squad size also stays small and never grows larger than 4.

The reduced lethality was probably needed as losing any character is an instant loss and the game forces you to restart the mission. This got really annoying sometimes as the mission generator can sometimes give you some incredibly difficult situations. If RNG decides to fuck you over and you miss your target and hit something you were supposed to protect or you just didn't kill that one enemy fast enough, you failed the mission, hard restart. Actually kind of deflates the tension a bit since you know everyone has to survive or you get frustrated by all the restarts.

The unique characters were supposed to be a selling point but I don't think they are interesting enough to get attached to. Each of them is just another XCOM archetype build except the stripped away some of the stronger abilities and put them into rare late game weapons instead.

Just bought Noita.

Very Kino but also very BS.

yesterday i bought super hexagon and beat 5/6 of the levels, holy shit

A bunch of us randomly got back into Satellite Reign. Hasn't aged a day, great game. Co-op is fun as fuck.

copped guild wars 2 and have been playing the shit out of it

Ikarrus wrote:The lethality has also been toned down, abilities and critical hits have been nerfed across the board

Except for the fucking progeny bullshit, picked them as my third and there is all the bullshit that can fuck you over and doesn't ever miss. Soulfire? guaranteed you lose half your health

bullshit

games i played/finished in the last while

digimon cyber sleuth: i waited like 9 years to play a new digimon story after dusk/dawn and im so glad it happened, im going to do hackers memory sometime

gta4: my first gta, pretty decent, a lot more realistic and dreary than i expected, long as fuck

gta5: went free on egs just afer i finished gta4 so i played it, way better car controls, i liked micheal's va work a lot, i hate plane/copter controls so much, but honestly a fun game and i see the appeal in the series now

gta online: i cant wait for a hacker to give me 600 million dollars and ruin any incentive i have to actually play

dissidia nt: i played the tutorial and thought it was cool then went online and there were only 6 people playing it worldwide

civilization 5: i loaded up 80 mods and got into a three way war between jill from va11h4lla, leia from star wars and erika from girls und panzer, while master shake obliterated pantheon from league of legends and naked snake invented bill gates and then lost outer heaven to an overseas invasion, 10/10 would recommend

open fortress: pretty neat, i dont like arena shooter as much as what tf2 had going on but im glad someone is doing something with team fortress

If you think the grind for money is an incentive to play in GTA online, you'll be disappointed
It's incredibly slow and incentivizes not bothering unless you have friends to do it with
The real incentive is the unique content that isn't in single player, and how it works with other people to help you with it

We all got Friday the 13th for like $5 and it's pretty good/hilarious.

It's not the greatest game on earth but its way more fun that DBD, can be fixed with some house-rules in private servers, and lets you run around talkin' shit on mic with seven friends.

Problem with f13 is the lawsuit killed future development and 99 percent of jasons just dpsm head punch cuz its the fastest kill animation gets kinda lame. U gotta vary up them kills son!

i've been playing a lot of rimworld. if you set global work speed to 500% and movement speed to 250% the pace is actually somewhat bearable and more like it was in the alpha days. also tried re3, getting into underrail and ffxv but i couldn't maintain interest. also did planet coaster which i'm bad at design in but it's an ok game. i still want to complete pathologic 2 but needs are really intrusive to advancing and i'm too proud to turn down the difficulty. it seems as though the pay-off when i finally finish it will be big though. i've been meaning to finish it since before they announced the remake. for awhile there i was also doing the sims 4 (i got the urge from rimworld) which is as grindy as any MMO and a lot similar to rimworld than you might assume it just has the consummate sheen of professionalism associated with being made by a soulless corporate studio and deeper socialisation, interior design, building design and control over your surroundings and less being ruined by manhunting deer

i will edit this

Got back into FF14. HOLY SHIT.

Shadowbringers, bro.



Also Synthetik when I'm bored and need to feel something that isn't bipolar swings between mania and depression.

mmos are for people who like watching jangling keys