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Sam & Max Dating Sim MMORPG I, of course, would join the Max faction.

Almost certainly not enough.

Spent too much time on a second run of Subnautica. Took me forever to find the Vehicle modification console, which made things kind of interesting. And made a second base down over by the 500m Degrassi base. Those suckers just didn't know how to build 'em! Of course, my Cyclops ran out of power when I left the silent rigging mode on. And I was stuck 500m down! All in all, kind of a failed pointless expedition. But at least when I deconstruct it and rebuild it at the Lost River I know I'll have most of what I need to start that up.

Are people praising FFVIII? Don't make me go get some Cheetos and Mountain Dew so we can have ourselves a good old fashioned cheesy fingered internet argument. I will bust out some overly jpeged image macros and you will know I am for real. Or I guess I could just accept that people like things I don't.

I finished the Heroes Rise trilogy. Lots of fun on that one. It was a bit too gamey for my tastes, constantly telling me about points and scores, with guides for perfect legend scores, and the third title going so far as to tell you about bonus power ups you can get if you take certain choices. What kind of interactive novel has freaking collectibles? Anyway, I only ran across two so it wasn't that bad, just annoying. What was more intrusive was it constantly telling me about my health and power scores. Or regain points. Or you get a bonus because of your unleash score! It was good aside from that, but geeze does it need to lay off it a bit. I find myself sorely tempted to do a second playthrough of Subnautica. Since I know where everything is already I figure it should take as long. And I'd like to do a run where I build multiple bases instead of just the one.

Heroes Rise: The Hero Project Heroes Rise: The Prodigy was pretty interesting, not as good as Fallen Hero, but it eventually hooked me. I'm enjoying these enough that they've been my major bunch of purchases over the sale. Also I won Sundered. Had my eye on that, so pretty excited.

Subnautica NEED MORE TITANIUM

Did a boss battle in Saliens. Played the entire health bar and went from level 7 to 12. Took me an hour, I think.

Ahhhhh...the demo for Book 2 is out..just saying XD check the forum ! when you are done teehee... Finished the first and it was simply incredible. I don't think I'm going to touch the demo, though. Don't want the tease hanging over me before release.

I'm nearing the end of Higurashi Chapter 1 and things are picking up. I'm really hooked. But I'm also splitting time with more Choice of Games titles since Choice of Robots was so good. Just started Fallen Hero Rebirth, which is about a mind controlling supervillain that used to be a hero. And it's pretty nice too.

I've used a wired XBox 360 controller for PC games ever since Overlord released. It was the first time I ever used one. And it's worked comfortably anytime I've wanted to use a controller.

I played the first re;birth on PC, but with gamepad. I thought it was delightful. Kind of been putting off the second only to dredge through the rest of my overfull backlog.

I played Choice of Robots a whole bunch over the weekend. Probably takes about two hours for the first, but then you can pump out replays on like 40 minutes. I like what these guys are doing. I got kicked out of grad school, started up my own company in Alaska, lost it when the Chinese invaded, got arrested for trying to help a friend avoid the FBI, and built myself a robot wife.

Kingdoms of Amalur was fun-ish, but I thought it really dragged. It's ridiculously full of stuff to do, but it's designed like an MMO where you go quest zone to zone as you level instead of just set off and explore. But I was amazed at how huge it was. I got bored after the second area or so and decided to try training (running, letting the monsters aggro behind me) through to wherever. And it still took me forever until I hit a dead end.

If anyone hasn't got this one yet, you better grab it on sale. It was the best game I played in the last year. You're cutting into my liquor budget, I'll have you know.

I ended up grabbing Oxygen Not Included, the latest Higurashi chapter, and Choice of Robots (been eyeing it forever). Oxygen Not Included is a fun little colony management game, like Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld. Except Rimworld is like twice the price and ONI seems delightfully quirky, with more danger being from all of your oxygen escaping instead of getting overrun by monsters.

I just spent the past couple days pulling my hair out debugging Calibre trying to get some books from Humble Bundle onto my kindle. Oh no, it's crashing whenever I convert! Oh, maybe it's only crashing whenever it's over a certain size... All the google results about this blame the PC running it. So I try their troubleshooting stuff, but none of it applies to me or seems to work. Then I try something else, I try other books than the specific series I want to convert. Even if they're larger, it doesn't care. Turns out it just hates that one series... And that's because this one comic series are all saved as 8k X 12k pngs. This might be related. I converted one from png to jpg and the file size increased 20x. So however Calibre is choosing to convert these, it might be running into a problem.

Every time I look at a game and think about adding it to my cart, I stop and think "didn't you just buy like a hundred games at the last sale and only play 3 of them?"

I played a game yesterday that I'm literally not allowed to tell you about. But I am allowed to puff my chest out and feel a bit superior for having the secret. I'm still not at the part of Higurashi where things are worse than merely foreshadowed. And I find myself browsing my backlog for something that's easy to drop in and out of for some quick action. Coming up short. Maybe I'll look for something in the Steam sale.

In addition to Higurashi, which is consistently freaking me out with foreshadowing as I wait for the shoe to drop, I'm also playing a bit of Just Cause 3. I'm not feeling like it's doing anything interesting over what Just Cause 2 had. But I can waste an hour at a time with it for some brain dead flying around in a helicopter.

Steam is launching its creator pages where you can follow and get announcements of new games. Obsidian doesn't have one, neither does Bethesda for that matter. CD Projekt RED does, on the other hand. Paradox has two! One for developer and one for publisher.

I started up Higurashi When They Cry. It's a horror VN that I'm going into almost blind. Kind of excited.

I cried the first two times I played through Tales of Monkey Island, therefore it is the best. Who wants to fight me?

I can't imagine playing it again without the mod that removes timers. It was so frustrating to lose your entire team because you had to rush against it. I especially can't imagine any of the DLC boss fights that randomly pop up in missions. I had to save scum to not get completely wiped by those guys without a timer. I would have thrown controllers, probably.

The title of the game makes me very nervous.