Tale

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.

On today's edition of "Tale plays free games on Steam" we have Antenna. http://store.steampowered.com/app/443580/?snr=1_7_15__13 Eh. Feels like someone really liked Limbo's art style but couldn't come up with a good game to back it. It's a short side scrolling adventure with sound puzzles, and a senselessly obscure password. Three puzzles long.

Have you played Moirai? http://store.steampowered.com/app/496920/?snr=1_7_15__13 You should. It's short, free, and kind of neat. Don't spoil anything.

For all the peace and love of the Drakken espouse, they had no problems chasing an army of mine out of neutral territory, killing them as they retreated. On a semi-related note, yesterday I got a quest in my new game to settle a new region with something like 13 dust production. Easy enough, I thought, I'll just travel through my neighbor's territory and... they just closed borders. Okay, I'll explore this other way! And there's a giant lake blocking my entire eastern side. But hey, I can see unclaimed territory at just the edge of vision! Time to build shipy... and it gets claimed. Whatever will I do? The answer came in the form of one of my neighbor's stealing my tech. I need land, my neighbors are jerks, the solution is obvious. Conquer both of that one's cities, and find nice pristine unclaimed land on the other side. Feeling good. And now I'm thinking it's time to pay the Drakken back while I'm at it. Edit: I long for the day when videogame AI advances to the point that while you pillage their fields and siege their cities, they will ask "why are you doing this?" And when you tell them they brought it on themselves, they will briefly understand before they are ruined.

Nope, no plans to either. She's only really obnoxious between 8am and 10am. Wanting to play and be pet. After that she just finds a place to nap the day away.

This is what I have to put up with every day at work. Look at me, I'm an adorable kitty cat and I constantly need attention. Pet me. DIE HUMAN, DIE!

That's a negative, Ghost Rider. If 4x have taught me anything, it's that I'm terrible at economy and everyone hates me. I need the help.

Time for my Broken Lords play, then! What's the difficulty above Newbie? I'm feeling ****y.

I understood pre-orders more when we were talking about brick and mortar. Helps the store figure out how much they need to order, in addition to gauging interest for everyone else in the chain. In the age of digital, I'm sure it's still of value, but it's something harder to pin down. Still useful for gauging interest and a good item for the company to point to if they're making any deals, but don't know how much value that has or what happens beyond that point.

I expected a 2017 date at this point. That's close! And it's right in the middle of two other games I'll be playing.

Other 4x have me trained to not wage endless war. Either because I'm simply tired of it or because everyone ends up hating you for so much as defending yourself. So I've got to give the quests a shot, you know? It's stuff to do other than wait for a science victory.

Had my first bit of war in Endless Legend. I'm playing on newbie so it was easy. I like how it handles combat quite a lot. And I realized that you can't even put multiple cities in a region if you wanted to. Which makes me love regions all the more. I don't see how I could play Civ VI after playing this, at this point. The downside is I'm getting ridiculous quests that want me to travel to the other continent (and find out I forgot to meet the condition). Or find and destroy cities I've never seen before. Quests are a neat idea, but pursuing them is getting a bit tedious.

I was planning to do every faction's quest line. I hope Broken Lords' is like their faction trailer.

Speaking of the devil, 75% off for the base game and most DLC on Steam. Edit: Endless Legend Collection, which contains most DLC, is 80% off Edit2: Oh, Tale already noticed. That's what I get for not clicking unlabeled links. I got a few rounds in yesterday, right up to someone building a wonder two rounds before I was going to finish it. Savescum time! It feels like a very different beast from the 4X I'm used to. The region system and minor factions are great. I'm not spamming cities just for borders.

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/endless_franchise_sale/ Anyone want lotto numbers while I'm at it?

Hopefully they'll do a sale on the base game to celebrate the new expansion.

How is Endless Legend? We've got civ VI releasing soon, but I think I'd rather have something a little more interesting.