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Played through J.U.L.I.A: Among the Stars A first person point and click adventure game with a variety of puzzles. And overall just kind of meh. You're uncovering what happened to a lost expedition, but the problem with that is the majority of the interest in that story is played out in the tutorial. The rest of the game is a dragged out and vague telling of what lead up to that point. And where the tutorial intrigues you with a whoddunit mystery, the rest is 90% alien history and myth. I don't recommend unless you're hard up for a sci-fi adventure game. And since I'm on a SPAAAAAACE kick, I'm also toying with Space Pirates and Zombies and Rebel Galaxy. SPaZ being a game I tried playing twice before when it first released and got stuck on a boss. Rebel Galaxy being a 3D graphics on a 2D plane space sim where you're using broadsides. And it is pretty engaging so far.

3030 Deathwar Redux The main plot was 75% other characters talking elsewhere while the main character just did his own thing, but it was a fun game that ended right before things got too tedious. I'd say that's a win. It bills itself as an adventure game and 2D space exploration hybrid. But I'd say the only thing it owes to adventure games is a Monkey Island joke and a side perspective on stations. Running around blowing up pirates was fun enough. That and a fantastic soundtrack.

I use Redbox for games I'm interested in, but not sure of. I rented DOOM 2016 from there and I'm sure a couple of other things.

Split the difference, maybe they're working on a game about juicing watermelons. They already have one indie horror game on Steam. Looks pretty decent.

I played a small bit of the remake of 2. The bundle I bought included 1, 2, and 3 in addition to origins and the DLC. Too good to pass up.

I splurged on all three The Room games, Gris, and Star Control: Origins. The Room games are pretty fun on their own and super cheap. Gris has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews and I've been eyeing it a while. I've waffled about Star Control: Origins, but I know we have a couple people here who really liked it. And it was surprisingly cheap. Got the bundle with the DLC for less than the cost of the DLC alone.

The Room Two In this surprising sequel to the film, Johnny must solve puzzle boxes to find Mark inside an eldritch nightmare. But seriously, these are fun games. I binged through the first one last night. They're puzzle boxes with fairly simple logic. Ones that couldn't exist in the real world for a few reasons. And at like $1.50 in the sale, much cheaper than even a single box.

Finished Detroit Become Human. The first genuinely good Quantic Dream game. Some have come close, but they crapped themselves at the end. This one does not.

I went to the ER. The meds they put me on cleared up the pain from the kidney stone right away. The pain hasn't even returned yet. I'm the last person in my family to join the club. My dad's was as big as a thumbnail according to him.

I've only had one DM (out of 3) use a module and it was like the starter stuff from 4E. We were all pretty new then. During 4E I used to buy modules because I was a sucker who thought I'd ever get to use them.

Bouncing between three games. Still doing Diablo 3, I basically just try to hit one of the remaining season items a day. Detroit Become Human, I hear so much good stuff about it despite not liking Quantic Dream's stuff that I decided to give it a chance. It's really good so far, but that tends to be the way Cage does thing. Really good then something really dumb happens. Lastly is Doom 2016. I rented it at release as an old Doom fan and wasn't thoroughly impressed. Playing it again now I remember why. The platforming is garbage. Accidentally slipping a jump to die really does nothing to add to the experience. And scouring every corner of the map for the hidden path to a collectible certainly isn't contributing to exciting demon shooting.

The real annoying part for me is I don't even like bone armor. I dropped that ability a long time ago. I like summoning mages and ripping blood. But if I went back to that I'd be pushed so far back. So I went back to my mage and I'm actually playing around with different builds on her.

Got my season set in Diablo 3. And now I can play Torment VI and just walk through enemies so they die. I'm basically not even playing anymore. I'm just walking around refreshing bone armor. Some particular strong Elites can one-shot me, so I have to keep walking and make sure I use the bone armor stun to hit them. Which usually kills them in one or two shots.

There's a season buff where each Ancient item you have gives you a 750% buff if you don't have an item set bonus. So beating 1600% is quite possible. The numbers really are insane. They've just lost all meaning at this point. My Necro has 6,708 Intelligence and regenerates 23,242 HP per second. She has almost half a million health. Her strength is 77. I've been at the endgame for barely over a weekend!

Diablo 3 So I've got Ashbringer apparently. And am almost done with the first 4 parts of the season journey. I guess that ancient helm I upgraded from a rare is really helping me out. 750% damage buff! Only thing left to do to get the pet is a single greater rift.

Bioware's copyright is almost certainly with regards to the Infinity Engine. I seem to recall that being brought up around the Enhanced Editions. Minsc has been used so liberally by Wizards and licensors I don't think Bioware kept any rights on characters.

Is he stated to be a greater deity anywhere? He was only an intermediate before. And the FR wiki just lists him as a god. The last two Bhaalspawn killed each other and he came back. Gorion's Ward (though I hear there was some hand wringing about how it might not actually be him) and the teleporting dude, Viekang. No idea why Viekang picked that fight, he was a coward.

I was waiting on this. When they announced it and that it'd have new stuff I dropped my old game. And since it broke custom portraits, I guess it might have to start new...

5E I'd mostly describe as a mash of 2E and 3E, but with 4E's resting rules. Feats are rare, only taken in lieu of stat gains, instead of 3E's feat deluge. And there's multiclassing, but I've not played around with it. The Fighter in my campaign took a level of Cleric. Otherwise familiarity with 3E serves well aside from class changes. Like Warlocks don't do that shape/essence thing at all. It's Eldritch Blast, some utility abilities, and some limited spellcasting. I've got like 8 spells I picked, but I can only cast two a day. And it still likes doing the kit thing that 4E did. My Warlock is Infernal, we've got a Wild Mage (Chaos Sorcerer), and our Barbarian has some sort of elemental rage thing going on. Oh, and you don't assign points to skills at level. You just have proficiency and bonuses.

That's not how 5e works. There's no trees. Sword Coast Legends was not really 5e faithful if that's where you're getting it from.

Am I the only one hoping the main bad guy turns out to be an Illithid Bhaalspawn?

I've only ever finished Original Sin 2 and found myself thinking "that's it?" at the end. No real complaints beyond thinking it was kind of bare in the story department. Anyway, there's a teaser trailer out. Interesting direction. I was hoping for more ties to the saga, but I can't really complain about this. Aside from the fact that they're cheap buggers that I hated fighting.

I just hit Act 2 in Diablo 3. No more skeletons and ghosts to rip the blood out of. Got a nice little playstyle at work here, though. Singularity Skeleton Mage is kind of ridiculous. All of this is ridiculous. I'm playing Hard and Butcher went down in like 10 seconds. There's only one difficulty left to raise to and I'd have to start a new game to get it.

Ended up buying Diablo 3 Eternal Collection. All the while thinking "why am I wasting $10 more on this version when I'll never use the Necromancer?" Then I saw there's the whole seasonal thing and rolled a new character. Anyway, now I'm ripping all the blood out of ghosts and skeletons. Edit: I didn't realize Ancient Relics was coming out today. Else I wouldn't have bought Diablo 3. I don't have time for both!

Trying out action RPGs after Steam's spring cleaning. Grim Dawn, Path of Exile, and Diablo 3 For a casual action RPG player like me who hates lootfests and grinding, Diablo 3 comes across as the one with the most going for it moment to moment. Like my Wizard shoots freaking laser beams. The upgrades look more interesting than +10 int or +10 lightning damage, too. I feel like I played a bunch of Path of Exile, but all my character does is lightning fingers and the occasional fireball. Where's the laser beams and lightning strikes?