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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.

I was really looking forward to playing that, it's on PS+ this month. But it turns out it's not PSTV compatible. There's lots of comments from the developer around saying he doesn't think it's a good experience sit down on a screen, it's better on a mobile device. But he released it on Steam...

Jennifer Lawrence just isn't a very good Mystique in general. She was decent in First Class, but she just can't pull off the seductress/spy thing. She did very well in Days of Future Past, I thought.

I finally watched X-Men Apocalypse. I didn't hate it. But I ultimately thought Magneto was the only strong part of the film. Jennifer Lawrence's performance felt phoned in, too.

Got an MRI. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic, just fidgety. My body still feels stiff.

I wanted to get into it, but it's super grindy. Very little turns me off like grinding.

But when you have too many tools that are too powerful, it stops becoming a challenge and starts becoming about figuring out the way to get all the best XP. In Dishonored (and even worse in last two Deus Ex games) I felt like I could just walk into the room, knock everyone out, then run around freely. The challenge was gone. But if I did that, I also wouldn't get all that sweet extra XP either. That doesn't feel like that level of micromanagement and metagaming is what my mind should be focusing on. I should just be trying to figure out how to get into the next room without getting shot up or getting into a major fight. In Metal Gear Solid 1, you had a bunch of tools, but they all came with risks. And that's what I loved. None of those shooting a guy with a tranq from across the room and just waiting. That's why I dislike Twin Snakes, it brought that into it.

I feel like I'm the only person who didn't really like Dishonored. Only got around to playing it a couple months ago as a free PS+ games. And I stopped right around the start of the third act. Maybe it's because I refused to kill anyone out of fear of the things I heard about the chaos system. But I saw absolutely nothing special in it. Felt like all the other stealth games I've ever played. Walking up behind people, shooting them with tranqs from a distance, save scumming to avoid being detected. I was left maintaining the opinion like that entire genre peaked back with Metal Gear Solid 1. Where you didn't have a billion tools and every room felt like a puzzle that required rhythm and movement. Edit: Mark of the Assassin was great, too.

Mainly playing Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice. But I'm also trying to get back into Dangaonronpa Another Episode, and checking out Trails in the Sky. Just kind of jumping around, hoping I'll hit the point in one of them that wows me.

Still playing Battlefront when I should be playing Ace Attorney. Now I have my scatter gun and jump pack. All is right in the world.

That sounds suspiciously like magical thinking. Correlation does not equal causation. He said nothing about cause

I told myself I was done with it, but I just reinstalled and bought the season pass for Battlefront. I had lots of fun with it before the DLCs came out, and decided to check out all the new stuff. So far so good.

I played a bit of Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness. meh. I got one ending and got myself on the path to another ending, but I'm not really interested in doing it. So back to Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice!

Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice I might switch over to Psycho-Pass Mandatory Happiness later, since I hear that one's fairly short.

well there were some hidden stashes here and there, but I liked it very much But that's hardly the same as "loot every other step" :> Really, Oblivion and especially skyrim I'll remember very well here: so many containers everywhere and all of them got a gold coin or other random junk nobody needs. Fallout 3 does the same, and so even New Vegas in big parts. Basically it's a typical Bethesda thing. tl;dr - In Gothic you feel rewarded when you find something. In Skyrim it's just another coin. /edit: from open world to loot distribution. Does anyone remember the horrible loot in Mass Effect 1? God damn that was bad. Switching your main weapon every half an hour with a different color that had slightly better stats. That was so not rewarding in the end. I'll always remember sneaking to the bottom of a tough dungeon in Oblivion to find a bunch of rusted hammers. Great reward. Loot in Mass Effect 1 is probably the number 2 reason I hate that game after the Mako.

But you thought X held up? Tidus is the angstiest teen, spending all game complaining about how his dad didn't love him. That's why I'm no fan of X.

The game was principally famous for being a generation's introduction to fantasy. This is largely the same reason why X is popular, too. It has likable characters and a decent fantasy story with interesting turns.

I almost skipped out on the latest Ace Attorney. Glad I didn't because I'm really enjoying it so far.

You can takedown exo suits if you stun them first. EMP or stun gun.

My understanding of Battle Chess was they licensed some dudes to do a Kickstarter. But that was before the Black Isle relaunch. This became one of the major reasons people speculated that Obsidian's mysterious "a publisher tried to get us to do a Kickstarter for them" was Interplay.

https://80.lv/articles/star-wars-scene-production-in-ue4/ Don't get too excited, interview says it's a personal project of 17 people, but it looks wonderful. Read the article and scroll to the bottom for download links.