Tale

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?

I finished Spirit of Justice. A solid Ace Attorney game. If they move to Switch, it'll probably be what gets me to buy one. My prediction on the DLC case ended up being solid, but a much earlier twist than I expected. Though I figured out the killer early by the visual clue. That's probably the only bad things about these. The bad guy is imminently predictable 4 times out of 5. The question of how exactly they did it and the charm of the characters is what holds it together. Now I'm on to Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. Finishing it up after a hiatus, currently in chapter 3. I'm in a stupid area where I have to avoid lasers or Monokumas get sent after me.

I really liked Fallout 4 around the time they started releasing DLCs and I can't tell you really why. I played through it once at release, and deleted it. Then they announced Automatron, I reinstalled, and I played just about straight from that announcement all the way until Far Harbor's release. Promptly beat Far Harbor and thought "what am I doing?" I was addicted to building little forts with their own personalities. Like this one is on the waterfront, so now it's a resort and everyone runs around in their underwear, even the guards! And this one is at a place called crossing, so you're dang sure I gave the supply run bot a stop sign for a melee weapon. Raider themes, vault themes, farms, outposts. I built all the time. But Far Harbor just killed all that momentum for me. And I don't even want to go back for the rest of it.

I know you guys don't play Ace Attorney, but I need to record this theory for future reference. I just got done with the investigation sequence in the Spirit of Justice DLC.

It looks like some sort of alternate timeline/bad future. I sincerely hope that one blurb floating around where it's only one year after DOFP isn't true.

I've always thought Jackman was too much of a Hollywood leading man for Wolverine, so I can easily imagine someone else doing it. But he's just so genuinely charming and a decent enough actor that we all got over it. And going back to the first couple films, he's downright boyish compared to where he is now physically. He's grown into it.

There's also a red band trailer, which features him put his claw through a guy's head. Only difference.

Back when I played it, the only "missions" to do were deathmatch and races. Also races where you shot at each other while racing. The rest of the game was other players just chasing your dot down to shoot you and steal your car. Who the heck plays GTA for arena deathmatch? The grind to even unlock other activities, let alone cars, apartments, or anything else looked to be an absolute slog. With Rockstar selling in-game currency to try and make it bearable. I know they've added stuff since then, but I've got better games to play that don't treat me like that at any point.

After the success of GTA Online, I fear this game will try to go a step further.

I'm not sure I'll fathom the love for that game. Maybe because I came to it so late, but it felt remarkably light on actual gameplay. And I voice that complaint as a fan of visual novels and JRPGs.