Oh damn you, you rotten git
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Hexarchy is not bad at all as a quick Civilization game with cards (it’s a computer deckbuildery concoction). There is no way that I’ve found to do diplomacy. It’s all conquer the others.
Also Soulstone Survivor has emerged of my favorite from that genre. (I have also played original Vampire Survivor. Deep Rock Galactic Survivor. Net.Attack() and Nordic Ashes. I may have forgotten one.)
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Just finished up Robocop: Rogue City. Overall, it fit in well as a follow up to the first two movies, gangs are still running wild, Nuke is in the streets, and OCP is still planning Delta City.
You start out pretty weak, but level up both Robo and his signature pistol through the game to the point you are a certified badass by the end of things (assuming you got all the XP you could from side quests and finding notes and such). I started up a New Game + and I am just breezing through the opening levels.
It was cool hearing Peter Weller reprise the role, and seeing familiar characters from the movies, even down to a random interviewee from the first. It hit the Robocop aesthetic just right.
Overall, had a fun time with the game, recommended if you like a pretty involved FPS, or are just a Robocop fan.
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I got a Steam Deck for myself for vacation and also bought Deep Rock Galactic Survivor and Hades 2.
Both great games, DRG Survivor is their take on Vampire Survivor and I like it more because it isn’t just walking around, you also have to / are able to mine which offers more variety and ways to deal with the monsters.
Hades 2 is just amazing, it is at least as good as Hades 1 but way more different than I expected. It is so much fun!
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So I finished death stranding 2. Massive improvement on the first game and I loved it. There are moments where things have clearly been included because someone thought it would be “cool”. Sometimes these work (the scenes with tomorrow), other times they don’t the Charlie reveal.
I picked up Indiana jones and have started playing it. So far it’s fun but I am worried I’m not playing it right as I just keep bonking people on the head with spades. It’s making me feel very un-Indy like.
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Twilight Imperium the computer game???
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If it has a competent AI then Im game. Putting this digitally with human players who just faff around when it’s their turn isnt gonna fix my problem with it.
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Borderlands 4 on the lowest possible graphics settings is 20fps in single player on my 4 yo laptop -.-That’s as low as I am willing to go. I refuse to turn off anti-aliasing.
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I’ve been playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and even going back to BL2, but I refuse to pay full price for Borderlands 4 after buying BL3. Going to wait for a lot of patches and a big sale.
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Looks like it’s been a while since I posted here, so a quick roundup of what I’ve been playing in the last year or so:
- Octopath Traveler 1 & 2. Did I already talk about these? If not, they are pixel art turn-based JRPGs with a fantastic battle system that offers a satisfying amount of depth and breadth. Which is good, because the story (particularly in the first one) is inconsistent in its quality.
- Tunic. Wonderful action adventure / puzzle game. My wife enjoyed watching and helping with the puzzles too.
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. The writing was excellent, the gameplay was decidedly average. I lost interest, I think about halfway through.
- Marvel Rivals. Decided to try it because it is free. A hero shooter, à la Overwatch, I had fun for the month or so that I played it then stopped and felt no urge to return to it.
- Cyberpunk 2077. Was on sale, so I thought I’d pick it up and see what state it is in now. It’s really good? I went back and read some early reviews and, other than the story, my impression is that there isn’t much of the game that released left. I’m enjoying playing it like I play Deus Ex: sneaking around, hacking things and knocking people unconscious.
- Baldur’s Gate III. Just pick this up, so I’m very early on but I’ve tried to stick with my rolls. This means when my bard rolls a 3 followed by a 1 on Deception checks and I end up in combat with some people I don’t want to fight I’m resisting my instincts to reload and just sucking it up and seeing what happens.
- Borderlands 4. Also just picked this up. I have very fond memories of 1 & 2 after playing with friends. I played 3 and, while I think I had a better impression than most people who shared their opinion on the internet, the writing in the first half of the story was really quite poor. 4 seems much better so far, hopefully it continues. The gameplay seems to have noticeably improved, although the menus seem to have undergone a downgrade.
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Through multiple patches my single player performance is now consistently over 30fps which makes the game playable. With 2 players I get very rare dips below 30. With 3 I get a lot of 20fps and lower issues. Oh well…
In any case it’s fun. I did the first big (Vault) boss tonight by myself just to prove that I could. It took a while. My equipment keeps returning to suck state as happens with a loot shooter as you level.
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I can recommend going full hacker and stealthing around tagging one person with a Contagion, and then watching it spread to everyone else in the base while you just hide. Hacking can get very amusing!
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I have this one on my list too. Maybe after I finish BG3? But I want to do another run with a monk….
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I have sunk back into Slay the Spire recently, that’s a flipping good game - I had played a bit of Balatro and enjoyed it, but found it a little unsatisfying. StS is very much rescratching the itch that it started (sorry if that sounded weird).
I’ve being rimming a lot in Rimworld, because the new expansion opens up a whole endgame - but I decided to start with my characters in the stone age, so it might be a while before we get there…
I’ve also tried No Man’s Sky as it is on Gamepass, enjoying it a fair bit but it seems to have a -very- long tutorial and I suspect I might be finshed with the game before by the time I have finished it.
I’ve also played a bit of Capes - rather like a combination of Xcom and Into the Breach but with superheroes - really good fun, if that particular collison of games appeals to you. Slightly rubbish cut scenes, but good solid characters and 4-colour fun (one of the writers of Freedom Force is involved - although this game is much more 90’s comics than silver age).
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After 14 years, I decided to finish Bastion.
It was good! And a heckuva lot shorter than I expected. But glad I finally got around to playing it.
Also tried two old racing games: Burnout Paradise City (no on-screen prompts to help you navigate, uninstalled) and Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (grinding through races for better cars rapidly became a slog, uninstalled)
I used to love racing games, but they weren’t Open World… maybe I just got bad examples of the genre (they were extremely cheap when I bought them).
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The last racing games I played with any sort of seriousness were Midtown Madness (1 and 2, 1999 and 2000) and Midnight Club 2 (2003). In MC2 which I remember best, races were specified as a series of checkpoints you had to pas in order, but what route you took was up to you.
The next checkpoint would be a column of light and I think you had a compass pointing towards it, but that might well not indicate a good route.
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I’ve only played a bit of burnout, because it was free, but isn’t the lack of onscreen prompts basically the best thing about it? You drive around and stumble across cool things and it feels like your discovery instead of being lead around on a leash, or hoovering up icons.
That said, I didn’t play it much, a long time ago, so the hook wasn’t really there for me either.
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Bastion is really nice and you can see very well how Super Giant Games evolved as a company from Bastion to Hades and Hades 2.
All their games are great.
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Bastion holds the record for me playing through it completely twice, in order to choose a selfish option right at the end the 2nd time, and then not being able to be that mean to a fictional character and choosing good even though that was the whole point of the playthrough.
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Previously, kinda! But the open world means that a race from A to B is extremely difficult (I found myself constantly heading East when I needed to go North, or West when I needed to go North… very frustrating).
Previous Burnouts were more constrained? Like, you started HERE, and you have to get THERE, but there aren’t a lot of wrong turns on the way. Also, there’s no Quick Travel… I’ve finished this race and unlocked a new car… oh, I have to drive all the way over there to get the new car?
Anyway. I loved the Big Crashes in Burnout (where you smashed into an intersection and tried to cause the maximum dollar value of damage), and there were many hours spent playing. But this one felt like a stumble.
Maybe just me.
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