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I finished God of War. It was fun. As a complaint, it's way too sure of its own success and that it'll get sequels. This feels like Chapter 1 of a more interesting story.

I really liked it. Only complaint I have is that early Hulk/Banner scenes feel like badly out of place comic relief.

Everytime I see the title of this thread, I imagine a desktop tower in a bikini.

It's pretty great. I just wish it was a tighter experience. Open world with lots of gating systems where you get new abilities that unlock treasures and bonuses in old areas. And apparently a bunch of enemies I'm not high enough level to fight yet. So dying while exploring a bunch takes me out. But when it works, it works well, and the narrative of it has me gripped.

It's at least alluded to. I'm not far enough in to say how much.

The weight of his backstory is pretty important to the game, or at least my feelings towards the events and Kratos' personality. I won't say it couldn't have been done without a completely original protagonist. But I will say I'm glad they are using this one. It feels like Kratos. From the way he opens gates, doors, boxes to the personality that has changed a lot less than I expected. With it seeming like Atreus is the only thing holding him back from being completely his old self. He's not going around swinging Blades of Chaos or anything, though. The combat itself is wholly different, but pretty damn awesome in a new way.

God of War It's pretty good. A bit heavy on loot for my tastes, though. On the plus side, the non money loot tends to have a real identity instead of just being +1s. On the negative side, the majority of loot is just money and crafting materials.

Try the Goblin Slayer LN. I hear that one's pretty dark. I was thinking about trying So I'm A Spider, So What?.

As the self-proclaimed King Weeb of these boards, I've been fulfilling my duties by reading Light Novels the past couple weeks. 4 volumes of Konosuba so far. The anime is quite a bit better, but the novels are fun. And 2 volumes of Re:Zero. I couldn't say if the anime or the LN are better, but I love them both to death. The anime is faithful and the scenes are brought to life wonderfully with fine voice acting, the LN goes into a bit more detail and gets you better into Subaru's mind, enhancing the highs and lows.

The 'enhanced' part is supposed to be patched in later. There's quite an uproar about it, too. The only thing that's "later" is they didn't have the digital deluxe up at launch. Unless you're talking about how they want to do additional content. The enhancements are relatively minor. Iit feels like an update, not a remaster.

Me neither.

Mastery of Nature was changed for 2.0. It's no longer for tile blockers, but increases the size of a planet. The utility of that I've seen arguments around, but it's now at least consistent throughout the game.

Stellaris made some changes in the latest beta that were very relevant to my current game. Namely they stopped Driven Assimilators from getting Machine Worlds and merged Ringworlds into Galactic Wonders. I loaded up my save and saw that I still had Machine Worlds, but Ringworlds is gone and I had a perk freed up. I want to say to anyone interested that if you're playing beta, or if you're waiting for it to hit a release version, don't play on Ensign difficulty. It's kind of a joke. Until last night's update, all of the AI empires were starving on both food and power. And even after it, none of them can actually afford a fleet of more than a handful of corvettes.

Some Curse of Monkey Island, probably too much Stellaris, and I hit up some Geometry Wars 3 to kill time. Better in some regards than other adventure games of its time, but I do so prefer adventure games that highlight or shine interactable objects. Nothing more frustrating than checking every room over only to miss out on a single glove.

Curse of Monkey Island is out on GOG and Steam! https://www.gog.com/game/the_curse_of_monkey_island http://store.steampowered.com/app/730820/The_Curse_of_Monkey_Island/ SQUEEE

I started up Nioh last night. I wanted to play with the big katana (Odachi) and found out it was much bigger and clumsier than I expected. Geeze, is that even a real weapon? (Looking at wikipedia now, it doesn't look like they were quite that big.) So now I've switched to a regular Katana instead. I played the last beta they had and remember it being the toughest Soulslike I'd ever played. But playing now, and getting to the same area as from that beta, it's seeming much easier. I'm definitely glad they got rid of weapon degredation, though.

I finished Chaos;Child. I can tell that I really got attached to the character by how disappointed I was in the ending. I'm not sure what that means for my overall opinion of the game.

Because nobody else is quite able to catch the majesty of 24/7 2-Fort with max playercount, spamming the entrances to hold the line for hours at a time. So they need tricks and gimmicks to keep people playing.

Still on Stellaris. I eventually joined a federation with a Rogue Servitor and a Hive Mind. The League of non-aligned worlds hates me, sees me as a threat since I single handedly fought them all off in the War In Heaven and then wiped out four Fallen/Awakened Empires. The fifth was devoured by the Contingency. And once the Contingency was gone, the mutual threat modifier was gone, so even the "nice" members of the League hate my guts. And maybe for blowing up that one capital planet. But I've got allies, I've got vassals, and there's a purifier empire out there that's probably the second strongest empire in the game. The purifier is well situated with only one way into his sprawling empire, and his direct enemy is the same guy I've been exploding, so it's easy pickings. So it's not quite me against the whole galaxy. I'm almost at 2700 at this point, but I'm not quitting until I hit a victory screen. Also Chaos;Child. I'm really loving it, it's almost as good as Steins;Gate. Going through some side routes that are filler on the way to the true end.

https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/battlefront-2/news/progression-update Battlefront 2's progression update is almost here and it's exactly what I hoped they do. Raise your class level, get a skill point, use that skill point to upgrade or buy a card.

I wasn't a fan either. The ideas everyone says he had for how ME3 could end I thought were simply a different bad from the ending we ended up getting. The characters were what made ME2 for me, and that work was spread around various writers, not just the two leads. And you just had me search and find out there were two BG2 novels! A Shadow of Amn one I've heard terrible things about and a Throne of Bhaal one I had no idea existed.

Jessica Jones Jessica Jones Jessica Jones Jessica Jones! Season 1 is my favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe anything.

I said I'd do it. Belm, the homeworld of the Belmacosoans is now a fantastic mining deposit. 16 minerals! I kind of feel sorry, because this was the same empire I played the first time I encountered a War In Heaven, where I lead the galaxy to victory as the League. But they made an enemy of me. The Contingency hit, because of course it's the Contingency, I've only ever had the Unbidden once and the Prethoryn showed up for an observer game I wasn't playing. I'm like a Contingency freaking expert. If anything else showed up at this point, I'd get terrified and quit the game immediately. For the first time, it seems, they only had one hub in my territory. I crushed that and am letting the rest of the galaxy deal with it. I'm going to turn on the Awakened Empires in my borders and take all their stuff. Debating whether I should blow up the Xenophile's homeworld or not. The jerk made me a signatory! If I hit the Xenophile hard enough and fast enough, wipe him out in a single war, all his subjects should become mine. If I fall just a bit short, the subjects may rebel while I'm in a forced truce, then they'll join the League. Just makes the mopup more tedious.

It's good marketing. I would have bought Far Cry 5 and the season pass already, just to also get Far Cry 3, if I didn't already have such a huge backlog of games to prioritize first.

The Spiritualists did not awaken. They have been crushed and left with two pitiful planets I don't even want. The Xenophobes did awaken, however. They are on the far side of the galaxy. Then the Xenophiles awoke and they are one of two F/AE's fully ensconced in my borders. Oh boy. The other are the Machines. So when the War In Heaven came, I bent the knee. And honestly, I'd rather it be me against 4/5ths the galaxy of regular empires than me against the AE with 4/5th the galaxy supporting me. I am so crushing them. I have 3 fleets expanding in 3 different directions, destroying everything in their path. And I finally have the first claim against me of the game. It's 2430+ and someone finally hates me enough to claim a system I own. That I just stole from them, so I guess I should forgive it. Forgiveness comes in the form of me beelining for their homeworld to crack it into little pieces. It's time I stopped playing nice.