Hey everyone. Hope you all had a good week and relaxing weekend. I actually didn’t game much this weekend as I was preparing to move apartments and also went on a weekend trip with friends, but I did squeeze in some Xcom 2 today. Hope everyone has a productive week.
I’ve been meaning to play some old Japanese games to test my language learning, so I booted up a PC Engine dungeon crawler called Brandish and ended up fistfighting dinosaurs that look suspiciously like a sitting US president
It’s been pretty fun so far and I enjoyed some of the ridiculous mechanics that screw you over, like how there is an “HP poison” item that looks completely identical to “HP potion” in your inventory and if you try to stack it onto your normal potions it ruins them lol
My kids talked me in to playing minecrap. I’m 46 and I’ve never played it once before this weekend. Im mining, then I’m crafting.
Also playing the usual, GTA:SA multiplayer. I’ve been playing it since it released in 2006 or 2007 i think. And i suck at it still.
Im not a g#mer, let alone a G*mer. Ever see people who cannot pass training levels/skill building levels? Where every single jump is a trial by fire for the person holding the controller?
That’s me. I grew up w a single button and an 8way joystick. Then i got a Nintendo, which has two buttons. Thats 100% more buttons. I never got past this level of skill. I bought both Zelda TOTK and BOTW because of how cool they looked and how much fun i might have. And Im so bad at those games. I can’t remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
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And Im so bad at those games. I can’t remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
This is what I do when I play a fighting game.
I just don’t have the skill to pull off those timings. Makes immensely frustrated
Started Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and I’m enjoying it
Bald AND Gay 3
Blue prince continues to consume me, I am working on what I think is the final big puzzles which require quite a bit of learning the lore of the world to solve which I’m really enjoying.
I’m there too although I’m starting to cool on it. I’ve done the ‘main story’ and most of the big puzzles. I’m avoiding using guides or hints or anything except one tool to speed up a repeated puzzle I can do but gets crazy time consuming the more you do it. But I’m 99% sure there are only 2 specific things I can do / work towards and the RNG is getting rough now I can’t just be distracted by different puzzle threads and new hidden lore if luck doesn’t smile on me.
I won the crab game.
Just installed STALKER Gamma the other day, doing a one life play through as my first
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Thx 😁 I really got into Stalker when Stalker 2 came out (I saved gift card money to be able to afford it) and my love for the setting keeps on growing. Whats your history with the game?
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Thats fair, at release 2 was pretty rough but its gotten significantly better, and will continue to do so. What specifically didnt you like about it?
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Thats fair I feel like progressing in Gamma will be way way harder than in Stalker 2. Also, have you read Roadside picnic the old Soviet boom Stalker was based on?
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Finished main storyline missions on No Man’s Sky. I was heading back from second galaxy to my main base, flew to a space station and while I was doing stuff, a squiddy boy landed, I did a quick search on the rarity and bought it off the pilot. Turns out, it’s the most rare regular exotic in game and some people have been playing for thousands of hours and haven’t seen one. I clocked 40 hours at the point that I saw it. Lucky as fuck. It’s ugly and I probably will only use it to show off on the Anomaly but it’s really cool that I snagged one.
I’m almost through Chrono Trigger for the first time in 25ish years.
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How is it wrt tedium compared to Long War, which imo often felt long for the sake of length itself?
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Lol you’ve confirmed all my worst fears, I’ll steer clear and maybe watch a let’s play at some point. Thanks!
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Nice, thanks for the rec, might check it out when I get home
Blue Prince is pretty good ngl
Oblivion is as good as it was when I was in high school.
unsure if good or bad thing.
i just got off work and made dinner but then I played a game of Super Mega Baseball 3 and listened to “Type 56: The Story of China’s Army” youtube channel
Finished up the main campaign for Battletech (2018) and now I’m kinda bouncing between things trying find the next thing to stick with.
Andor hype had me playing Partisans 1941 a bit. Set up a PS3 emulator and played a little MGS4. Just plinking away at games until something grabs me lol.
Would you recommend Battletech? I’ve heard a lot of people hype up Roguetech, but not much about the base game itself.
It delivers on the whole “running a mercenary outfit” fantasy imo. The tactical combat is pretty similar to the tabletop game, and there’s a light management layer. The pilots have little to no interaction (just random single choice events), but there’s a support cast that have a little more flavor.
I had to restart once since it felt like some of the pilot builds were a lot more useful than others - it took quite a few mistakes to figure out what worked well. The mechs are simple enough to respec, so it invites experimentation - pilots can’t respec and are kinda annoying to replace (maybe I was running too lean of a crew idk)
Overall, if that sounds appealing, it’s probably worth it on discount or
Playing Pokemon Silver because it dawned on me that I never ran Sudowoodo for more than one gym, despite it being a major player for a large chunk of your quest. Also tired af after a long work week and plenty of exercise.
Currently seeing if I can make Ledyba work, but even Sunkern has been more reliable on story modes. Why is Ledian’s evolution so far away? It’s not like it evolves into a good Poke? Great visual design, so I soldier on.
Taking a break from Baldur’s Gate 3 on the urge to play War for the Overworld DLC. I beat the main campaign years ago, so this was an effort to finish up the rest of the game.
