Tale

Finished Corpse Party. It ends with some unresolved plots and no PC port of the sequels. That's disappointing. I'd still consider getting them if my backlog wasn't huge already, because it got pretty good towards the end there.

Tedious is my biggest complaint about ME1, not ME2. Have I mentioned just how much I hate the Mako today? We're talking the ending of Old Yeller at this point, and I'm not entirely sure that the frothing beast that needs to be put down isn't me. Anyway, Corpse Party seems to pick up in Chapter 3. Of 5. To such a degree that Chapter 3 is when they finally have the opening credits. This seems like a weird decision.

Zootopia, pretty good film. And now I see that Kung Fu Panda 3 is also on Netflix, so that's next.

I actually found that article really interesting.

I hit it up whenever I'm dogsitting over my dad's. He's got the premium channels. This is also my primary source of Game of Thrones and Ash vs Evil Dead.

A little more Corpse Party. There's this one part in chapter 2 with instant death stuff going on. Got kind of sick of all that. And so I did more Shadows of the Empire. Looks like there's a bug in it, one person says it's due to running over 30 FPS, where you slip and slide when going downhill. This makes one level with lots of slopes and ledges ridiculous. So I'm not thrilled with that either. It's really killing my nostalgia.

I wouldn't hate it if it turned out the player was an aspect of Kyros. A piece split off to explore her empire. Amnesia, on the other hand, "hilarious" is not the word I would use.

VB's ending was you picking a target to save from nukes. This is the ending of Lonesome Road, with the difference being that it's from the ground, not satellites. Many ideas in New Vegas and its DLC originate in that same design document, ultimately. That the final result is so different doesn't really change that, it's more a reflection of the passage of time. Developers with changed interests, working in a different engine, with different limitations, budgets, and schedules. I'm not saying they're the exact same thing, Van Buren and New Vegas. I am saying New Vegas is the end result of Van Buren, following a much longer journey of development. Like how we can see that the only reason Ulysses wears that mask is because they couldn't get the lip sync on his custom face working right, we can see that New Vegas is the result of time, compromise, and change upon VB.

I wouldn't say it takes basic elements, it takes very important elements. But important elements that have changed substantially over time to be distinct from the Van Buren originals. Like the burned man, MT, and the ending.

Six. Verse, Barik, Lantry, Eb, Kills-In-Shadow, Sirin. Which one is the cutie pie? I'm asking for Hoonding. I'm still crossing my fingers that Kyros is a some sort of otherdimensional monstrosity.

How many companions do we know of?

Maybe slowly moving away from post-apocalypse? In Fallout 2 things were moving away from the bombs into a new wild west of sorts. I believe Chris advocated for the opposite at one point. He wanted to re-nuke the world. That I can buy. I felt New Vegas was very wild west, so I can't parse the idea that it was ignored if that was the desired direction. Sad to hear all this, though. I've been thinking this time that Avellone simply didn't like being in the management role where he was supervising others instead of working on content directly. Sounds like there's more to it. I'm also disappointed, but not unsurprised, to hear Obsidian is looking to be bought. It would bring some financial stability, but I've seen too many studios turn into shadows of their former selves after such a thing.

Tale Plays Free Games On Steam This time, Electric Highways. Weird little mazes with an electronic soundtrack that sounds like it's midi. I gave up three stages in, it's just not entertaining. In other games: I tried playing Shadows of the Empire gain. It has not aged well. The controls alone are awful. Edit 2: Also started up Final Fantasy VI on Steam today. The font's crappy, the UI is crappy, the character sprites are crappy. Amazingly, the environments and enemy sprites are superb. How'd they get that right, but screw up the rest?

I hate to admit it, but I've decided to abandon Pillars of Eternity. Steam says I got 46 hours out of it. I'm in the last act I think and the start of White March part II. But I'm just not motivated to see what's next. Still, it's not all bad, I do recall enjoying those 46 hours. And even Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 required a second playthrough from me before I ever finished them. Maybe I'll give it another whirl after Tyranny. To pass the time until then, I'm only playing shorter games. 8-12 hour long. First up is one Halloween sale purchase, Corpse Party!

Apparently I still have Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World to give away. There's just no interest here in cheesy no budget JRPGs. You guys need culture. Also Cogs.

It's free to play in browsers. On Steam it costs a little and comes with some of their in-game cash to make up for it.

That list is insane.

Another installment of Tale Plays Free Games on Steam This time it's Blameless. Experience badly written exposition, wander around a house, look for arbitrary objects that help you open doors so you can repeat this again in the next room, run in circles around a small dirt yard trying to figure out how to open a freaking lock, abandon the game entirely.

Gave Transformers: Devestation a shot. I did not like it. Quit after about 40 minutes and don't care about going back. It's technically competent, but that's all I can say about it. It's mechanically average and there's no hook. The only thing I was looking forward to while playing is to remove it from my list of games to play.

I think I'm at the end of Ultra Despair Girls: Danganronpa. It's pretty weak. The dialogue scenes really drag.

The online MP is just something they're going to do with DLC. Doesn't sound too bad. Just like something that's going to stop me from getting the season pass.

I know my excitement for Final Fantasy XV should be more restrained, but it's simply not happening. Also it went gold.

It's Mafia/Werewolf. Which is commonly a party game. When I used to hang out at GOG.com they would regularly do a play-by-post in the general discussion. It's nice having a visual/electronic game version. And it's free to play.

I had an interesting experience with Town of Salem last night. Was the vig and was blackmailed every night. Which means I'm a good guy who can shoot people three times, but I was silenced so I couldn't speak. I see one guy making ridiculous calls that only get themselves or innocents lynched by the town. So I shot him. Turns out he was a Jester, one whose goal is to get themselves lynched. And I completely forgot to leave my name in the note left when I killed the guy. This would have revealed that I was a good guy. Next round people start accusing me of being weird for not talking. I pick one guy to shoot, then change my mind at the last second to another guy. The bad guys are the ones keeping me from talking and they like to use this as a way to get town to lynch their own. I add my name, but forget to include that I'm blackmailed. And it turns out I killed a good guy. I die next round to suicide and the town (good) loses. Turns out my original choice was the mafia (bad).

I got hooked on Town of Salem last night. The only time I survive to the end was when I played Jester as a bumbling newbie bodyguard. That got me lynched my first game, why not this game?