I’ve got my hands on Indiana Jones and the Big Ol’ Ring and loving it so far. It’s rapidly joining the ranks of Fate of Atlantis in ‘great Indy adventures that you play’.
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Been playing some Caves of Qud, the huge open world roguelike that finally got a 1.0 release after 15(?) years of development. It’s an interesting world to explore, but the open world scope and “roguelike” are inherently contradictory. The game acknowledges this, providing save slots, but potentially endless grinding just ruins any roguelike for me. Great game, not really my thing, maybe I’ll play through it once for the narrative beats.
I now have 3 heads, a couple of extra hands/phyta, 4 legs, and wings. I’m mostly charging around and hacking things to death with four axes.
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I look at the minimum requirements and feel like I have to upgrade my PC.
First time that happens to me because usually the games I am interested in require not that much.
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My old PC wouldn’t handle it but the Xbox is enjoying it.
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Oh interesting, this has been on my wishlist for a while but I wasn’t sure what it would give me the Nethack/Angband etc don’t.
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Argh you just reminded me that Angband exists
Does not install very specfically Angband 3.3.2
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Fairly sure I played Moria on some kind of black and white Macintosh LC from the 90s.
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Well, I just consumed a very specific mushroom to trip see the “coral road” that led me to a recluse that hid his house in a mushroom forest half a dimension away, to convince him to help build something to climb the space elevator. He agreed, only after I let him infect me with himself and spread him to some far away places and other sentients. So, that’s something, I suppose.
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Sounds like a fun guy.
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Literally a fun guy (fungus). One of the quirks of the game is that just about everything is sentient and can communicate with you, it’s just that lots of them don’t want to.
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Jumps on the bandwagon 5 years after everyone else, probably influenced by Efka at NPI reviewing the boardgame
Yeah, okay, Slay The Spire is pretty good.
And currently £6.79 on Steam.
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is it already steam sale again? is the steam sale train ever stopping?
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Looks like it’s not even a particular sale, just their current Specials.
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When I was recommending Tabletop Simulator to people, my rule of thumb was that it would go on half price about three times a year.
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There’s not many games I play that I think are truly great, and even fewer that are Triple A games, but oh my gosh Indiana Jones and the Big Loop is one of them. It’s genuinely better than at least 3 of the films in the franchise as far as a wonderful pulp action adventure. The gameplay is solid - I’ll admit, I don’t often play first person games any more, but stealth was always my preferred version of that, and that’s how this one plays.
Okay, as a game, there’s far more mechanically interesting things out there, and when I’m done I won’t be rushing back. But as an experience, as an Indiana Jones fan, it’s pitch-perfect flipping awesome. I loved Fate of Atlantis, all those years ago, and I’m so happy that my favourite whip-cracking archaeologist has knocked it out of the park again. Loving it and don’t want it to end.
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It’s okay, NOW Steam has a Winter Sale on.
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I’ve been enjoying Indiana Jones and the Chuffin’ Great Loop so much, it’s reminded me of the sole survivor of my 3.5’’ disk days - I kept this as a wonderful reminder of what a great adventure it was. My mum used to use it at her school to help teach kids to read.
Really great game and many happy memories.
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Also note the random 3/4 disks from Sid Meier’s also classic ‘Pilates!’
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Bought Valheim and it’s good.
Am resisting buying Balatro because that would be the end of my spare time.
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In between continuing Indiana Jones and the Flabby Ringpeice, I have started a new Stellaris game. Gosh, this is my favourite 4x ever and every time I play it theyve added a tonne of stuff and it’s just better. Great stuff.
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I’m playing a six player async game of Civ6. I expect to be doing so for all of next year.
The main thing that bothers me about Civ games, well, specifically Civ5 and Civ6, is that the computer can’t play Civ. So I’m interested to see if playing against intelligent opposition changes things up in interesting ways.
Things that already concern me:
How much of the game is determined by starting position.
The high variance in hut rewards (some are clearly 5 times better in cash value, and some are even better than that).
The speed with which barbarian threats become overwhelming at online speed (250 turns for a full game, I think that’s double normal?), which again ties into starting position differences.
Will slowly see how it all pans out.
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