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EmperorNorton said:
I've now gotten even further in ACVI. I've beaten every mission, seen all three endings, beaten all the arena matches, collected all the in mission collectables... the only thing left to do is grind a bit of money to buy the last few left shoulder weapons I don't have (which will put give me the trophies for all weapons and all parts), and S rank all the missions (which I may or may not do).

Anyway, here is my current AC the March Hare.

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So much envy!

I still can't afford it! Aaargh.

Soon, I hope.
 
Starfield aka No mans Skyrim

Greatly enjoying - so many aspects to it. Excellent voice acting/interaction, ridiculous number of quests. You do need to do some levelling up for all the different sub systems to become fully available, but have enough fun stuff to do, and I havent got sucked into crafting grind like I usually do with Skyrim, so perhaps as well that that is gated.

Have had to seriously upgrade my pc, but hopefully that will mean it will be a few years before I have to look at it again.

Open worlds, I can see it being a big time sink.

Also, pro tip - styrofoam cups as loot - amazing weight to value ratio :smile:
 
I'm enjoying starfield. Is it a perfect game? Absolutely not. The UI is pretty bad, the whole system of getting from planet to planet could be cleaned up from a UX perspective. Does Sam Coe's beard keep retracting into his face in my playthrough? Absolutely.

But it is a Bethesda game, and Bethesda makes games that are truly unlike any other when it comes to just inhabiting the world and doing your own thing. Also I might have stayed up until 5am Friday getting the interior of my ship to configure how I wanted it to.
 
The UI definitely can be a bit messy. I generally do the 'jump to mission' thing - sometimes I am right outside the location, other times, I am rambling around killing alien fauna for quite some time before I get there.

Also feels like you need to get to at least level 15 before you can start specialising as you have a lot of basics to cover, but enjoying the mix of stuff. If its in an SF movie, its in Starfield it seems.
 
My oldest has been enjoying AC6.


My wife and I have been playing Diablo 4. I've always liked the series, and this one is not disappointing.
 
I would really like to be playing Baldur's Gate 3 or at least Street Fighter 6 but I somehow broke my fucking CPU moving my computer (about ten inches) to make room for my new monitor setup.... and the computer repair guys sold me a replacement processor that is not quite enough to run either game.

So I'm running some experiments in Vampire Survivors, since I've already unlocked everything and figured out a handful of IKEA tarrasques. Mainly setting up Avatar Infernas for a stupid Growth build to see if I can find the edge of Moongolow.
 
I just ordered the Bioshock collection. So I'm looking forward to going through the lot when it arrives. :smile:
 
I'm playing HuniePop, because I am a loser and own that shit.

Real conversation with partner the other day.

Me: "OK, I'm playing HuniePop and enjoying it. Is that a social step up or down in relation to all the anime figurines, the anime dolls, and the anime girl pillowcases?"

Him: "No comment."
 
Gabriel said:
I'm playing HuniePop, because I am a loser and own that shit.

Real conversation with partner the other day.

Me: "OK, I'm playing HuniePop and enjoying it. Is that a social step up or down in relation to all the anime figurines, the anime dolls, and the anime girl pillowcases?"

Him: "No comment."
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But have you played Hunie Pop 2? :tongue:
 
Rob Necronomicon said:
I just ordered the Bioshock collection. So I'm looking forward to going through the lot when it arrives. :smile:
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Bioshock and Infinite are two of the best games ever, in my not-so-humble opinion. Bioshock 2 is still fun to play, but not intellectually on the same level as its predecessor or successor.

Enjoy them!
 
bleys21 said:
Bioshock and Infinite are two of the best games ever, in my not-so-humble opinion. Bioshock 2 is still fun to play, but not intellectually on the same level as its predecessor or successor.

Enjoy them!
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Cheers! I'm a huge fan... As you say, the story is deep! I'll always remember getting that first Bathosphere down into, Rapture. :smile:
 
Jetstream said:
But have you played Hunie Pop 2? :tongue:
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HuniePop 2 isn't as good as the first one. Sure it adds double dates and threesomes, but I find the girls even more cliche and stereotypical than in the first game. They did make the match-3 part a little more difficult at launch, but then got tons of complaints about it so lowered it again, I think.

I don't have HunieCam so can't say whether it's good or not.
 
For fans of the chinese civil war period, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 is on sale. If anyone gets interested, just remember the "Fame & Strategy" expansion is mandatory.





Coincidently, KOEI just announced the remake of ROTK 8, which is considered the best of these "playing just 1 guy" entries, like 13 above:

 
Just started playing BG3 on my Steam Deck and it runs really well! I wonder how many people used OOC knowledge to kill the baby intellect devourer when they encountered it. I know I did... those things give me the icks. I also destroyed a lot of the brains, though I stopped because of the caustic stuff they were in.
 
chuckdee said:
Just started playing BG3 on my Steam Deck and it runs really well! I wonder how many people used OOC knowledge to kill the baby intellect devourer when they encountered it. I know I did... those things give me the icks. I also destroyed a lot of the brains, though I stopped because of the caustic stuff they were in.
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You know ... you didn't have to do that..

We are not going to the helm... *sniff
 
Taelin said:
You know ... you didn't have to do that..

We are not going to the helm... *sniff
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I didn't have to, but I react to Intellect Devourers in the same way that a lot of people react to spiders...
 
chuckdee said:
I didn't have to, but I react to Intellect Devourers in the same way that a lot of people react to spiders...
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To be fair I did the same thing the first time I played through that scene, but my restartitus enabled me to find out that there is another way, with (minor) consequences immediately and later on...
 
Lessa said:
For fans of the chinese civil war period, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 is on sale. If anyone gets interested, just remember the "Fame & Strategy" expansion is mandatory.





Coincidently, KOEI just announced the remake of ROTK 8, which is considered the best of these "playing just 1 guy" entries, like 13 above:

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I loved playing RotTK2 on the Genesis and SNES back in the day. To me, installment 2 is the perfect balance of the fun against the number crunching and micromanaging. Installment 3 just cranked things up to where I didn't enjoy it anymore. Installment 4 on the SNES looked extremely good, but I just couldn't get into it.

Which one was the installment that was released in english on the PS1? That was the one where I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that the series had left me behind. I kept buying them, though. I think I had #8 on the PS2 at one point. I seem to recall my partner really enjoying it. I think that's the one where he would tell me of his strategy to make himself a loyal vassal of a ruling lord, and then play most of the game in that mode, then when the ruler died, he would become leader and play out the rest of the game.

I think #9 was the installment where everything was realtime. At one point I got into that one. I had created all custom characters and had been having fun. Then the dreaded doom of stepping away from the game for months because of real life happened, and when I got back to it I didn't know what I was doing and didn't want to start over.
 
So in Baldur's Gate 3, I got to that first encounter with the other party that everyone was talking about. I first stumbled into it and died. This second time, I'm separating them. The guy in the other room, I snuck up on and straight up murdered. Now I have to figure out how to take the rest of the party- Barbarian first, I'm sure, then mage, then the other one (two?). Still seems really like a hard fight!

Any suggestions?
 
Gabriel said:
I loved playing RotTK2 on the Genesis and SNES back in the day. To me, installment 2 is the perfect balance of the fun against the number crunching and micromanaging. Installment 3 just cranked things up to where I didn't enjoy it anymore. Installment 4 on the SNES looked extremely good, but I just couldn't get into it.

Which one was the installment that was released in english on the PS1? That was the one where I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that the series had left me behind. I kept buying them, though. I think I had #8 on the PS2 at one point. I seem to recall my partner really enjoying it. I think that's the one where he would tell me of his strategy to make himself a loyal vassal of a ruling lord, and then play most of the game in that mode, then when the ruler died, he would become leader and play out the rest of the game.

I think #9 was the installment where everything was realtime. At one point I got into that one. I had created all custom characters and had been having fun. Then the dreaded doom of stepping away from the game for months because of real life happened, and when I got back to it I didn't know what I was doing and didn't want to start over.
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I hear you. I also have fond memories of RoTK4 on the SNES and agree later entries got more and more complex. Can't blame the devs though as it seemed an industry trend in late 90s and 00s (see how the Civs and such got more complex too). I actually think they're coming back to that early simplicity though? Both RoTK14 and Nobu15 were simplified, and the more recent one, Nobu16 is only deep in it's point of focus (personel management with the "living officers" scthick) but very basic everywhere else. So, I think KOEI may be swinging back to the "old times". Which is good imo, these days I don't have patience for micromanagement anymore.

About RoTK8, being an officer-based game it's simpler than the ruler-based ones. Well, at least if you stay at retainer level and never ascend to ruler, since you'll only need to manage your immediate day-to-day affairs then. This was my favorite way to play as it's basically a RPG at this level. Me and my brother used to create two brothers in-game and follow civil and military careers respectively, it was a blast. I hope they keep the "hot-seat" multiplayer component in the remake.
 
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Self Saboteur said:
Thoroughly addicted to BG3 right now to the point of ignoring real life responsibilities like a teenager. Reminds me of DA:O.
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Except that DA:O's camera didn't suck.

So many times in BG3 that I want to look up but can't. Makes me feel like I'm walking around with a low-brimmed baseball cap on my head.

Drives me nuts, to the point where it's been on the shelf for a bit. Only played about ten hours but that camera...:irritated:
 
G Gabriel , if you want to have a notion of the modern KOEI strategy games, this playthrough - "Francis' Ambition", a what if of Francis Xavier on a convertion spree in Japan lol - is pretty good and informative..

 
Urdlen's best boy said:
Currently iron manning BG1-2 with a gnome cleric (bloodstalker of Urdlen)/thief. Arrived at Baldur's Gate with somehow no one exploding. Crossing fingers.
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With the moving away I spent a lot of time away from this gamefile, and I wanted to redo my mod install anyway - it is a horrible thing, only holding together because I fix things myself with NearInfinity.

Anyway Nebrek had to be reborn.

Made my Nebrek, went on a basilisk hunt, killed some golems, some woodland spirits, murdered a few people, assembled the team and went to kill that bastard Driz'zt for his loot. I rest on his map to get all my stuff in order... and 4 Ogre Berzerkers jump on us! They're level 5 Fighters (berzerker kit), and Sword Coast Stratagems gives them a fitting high strength. Nonetheless, Nebrek isn't at his first fight, he got the gear, the hp, the whole hoopla, and is clearly the tankiest of the bunch.

Surely he can tank for a round, the time I reposition my toons for the battle ahead - I'll kite them once the aggro's on me, right? Wrong! I'm guessing I took 2-3 hits in one round and they rolled high for damage, because a second later poor Nebrek was but a puddle of blood.

So back to Candlekeep, another Nebrek has arrived, this time much wiser! He killed the basilisks, the golems, the woodland spirits, assembled the team, showed that douchebag Driz'zt who thinks he can coerce me into helping him fight some random gnolls. He adorned the mithral chainmail, pimped up with rings and cloaks and all the stuff... but something was amiss!

Such a hero needed a weapon. A weapon befitting the greatest weaboo of the Sword Coast : the magestic, vicious, legendary, modded in Katana of the Magi! Onwards to Flamewine Bridge! The crazy lady Carsa or something was approached and we pressured her into giving us the jar the bore, which broke in the tussle. She dies! Khark the Ogre Magi appears! "Muahahaha" whatever buddy Nebrek is here and ready to boot.

"Toons, in position! I'll facetank for a round while you summon me everything you've got!" Surely, surely, I can do that and then speed away from there, right? Khark rolls 20, Khark rolls 19, Nebrek gets downed in one round, again! Noooooooooo

Back to Candlekeep again, and this time Nebrek is more cautious than ever. Spamming summons and backstabs, he does the basilisks, the golems, the woodland spirits. He assembles the team. He kills Driz'zt no problem. Time for the Khark. This time we'll be so cautious he will have no chance. The plan is to talk to Carsa, speed out of there and hide in the shadows while Khark unloads his rage on some summoned kobolds, and then send wave after wave of summons from each side of the map. And it works! But he summons so many things himeslf, it is a wholescale battle, with Nebrek flighing in to buttstab some spiders, yetis, and everything else. Soon the summons have all murdered each other: toons, attack! And we murder his butt, right here right there!

It's now time for the Stoneskin scroll. No Stoneskin scroll = squishy wizturd and bard will die on us in Siege of Dragonspear, and that's a big nono. North we go to Ulgoth's Beard, where the wizturd Shandalar offers us to go on some stupid quest in the middle of nowhere. Let's go. We get teleported to the snowy island, and immediatly kill a polar bear running right at us. Then we enter the dungeon, full of mad wizturds and winter wolves. First fight we lose Shar-Teel and Viconia and even Quayle! Disaster! Luckily none of them was frozen, burnt to ashes or exploded, and I had some res scrolls. No big deal. We become more cautious and get that quest done. Teleported back to Ulgoth's beard, time to report and get that reward.

Well, no. This wizturd, like all of his kind, is deceptive and arrogant and will give us almost nada, we know it from us hiding how dangerous it was! Time to spam traps around him, a dozen of traps. We sleep we trap we sleep we trap and so on. Time to kill this guy, Shar-Teel, shoot an arrow at him! The traps go off! Much damage! But not enough to kill this cheating scumbag with his 80% piercing resistance! Time to rearrange.

And there, everything goes to shit. He blasts chaos and confusion everywhere, hitting my toons, hitting our summons, which start to murder the whole town. Our reputation goes to shit so much that Quayle and Garrick, the neutrals of the band decide to leave mid fight, lost for ever. For ever! I kill Shandalar but at what cost! Quayle I can replace, although he had a lot of XP... but if I want another bard, the only choice is Eldoth, and he is a sex offender! Noooooooo

The realization sets in... It's time to go back to Candlekeep.

This time Nebrek rolls higher on his stats, kills even more basilisks, golems and woodland spirits, and murders everyone with the good gear. He assembles the team. That guy with the cloak gets katana buttstabbed, we kill Driz'zt, Elminster, we clear the mines, kill Khark, spam more traps at Shandalar, kill Elminster, again, clears the bandit camp, kill Elminster a third time, clears the other mines, Kill the fourth Elminster, and maybe a fifth one? Kill the Iron Throne party, and clear the Candlekeep underground tunnels, profiting of the occasion to finally farm basilisks with the scrolls. It's not a cheat, it requires a lot of micro, ok!

Look at him, this is Nebrek now. 10/12 Cleric/Thief. He has the super duper plate plus 3, the Weaboo Katana Supreme for extra fast spellcasting (casting through the billion times folded perfection of the katana) and is ready to cautiously murder everything in his path. Although Quayle died again, but whatever. Shar-Teel, Viconia, Tiax, Garrick and Edwin is a team I can live with. I'm not taking the sex offender, even Nebrek has standards!
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Beautiful. Perfection. And he now can summon bugs to eat all the dumbass wizturds! Surely he wont die in a stupid way!
 
Well... Garrick, my brave brave bard is no more. Cult assassin backstabbed him and he exploded. RIP. I'm not starting all over again this time tho.
 
Nebrek heroically considered lowering his standards but Shar-Teel is probably going to murder Eldoth for being a sex offender, so there's no point. I think I'll take Kagain the dwarf, since he's less level dependant of the evil companions I haven't taken with me.
 
I was deep into Starfield ( I say deep, what I mean is I'm level 26, I'm avoiding the missions and just visiting abandoned facilities and shooting spacers. Only everything's just leapt in damage values so I'm having to drop my rare and legendary faithfuls with their 27 damage rating in favour of the pedestrian drek that gives me 190!).

But Darktide just dropped on Gamepass so Starfield is getting dropped like a stone.
 
Stumpydave said:
I was deep into Starfield ( I say deep, what I mean is I'm level 26, I'm avoiding the missions and just visiting abandoned facilities and shooting spacers. Only everything's just leapt in damage values so I'm having to drop my rare and legendary faithfuls with their 27 damage rating in favour of the pedestrian drek that gives me 190!).

But Darktide just dropped on Gamepass so Starfield is getting dropped like a stone.
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Did you try the NG+ or just going on the one run?
 
I predict that once creator kit drops, we'll see mods that add the standard/calibrated/refined/advanced/superior upgrades for gear into the crafting stations. And mods that let you craft legendary effects.
 
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