Tale

Played through Stasis. All the reviews had me expecting a near GOTY Sci-Fi Horror. Well, it's no SOMA. It's just okay.

Beat Far Harbor. Or close enough. I finished the final quest, but I'm not bothering to do the "talk to so-and-so" miscellaneous quests at the end. I think I've figured out why this DLC sucked all the motivation out of me. It's completely passionless. The DLC improves things by having more skill checks, choice, and consequence, but at the end of the day, there's this supposed three way conflict going on and barely anyone gives a crap. The only guy in Far Harbor who actually is pushing to fight the Children of Atom is a jerk and not a questgiver. The only guy in Acadia pushing for peace has two quests (find info out, now use info). And the guy in the Nucleus pushing for war is too busy sending you after his own people. Also he's completely insane and unlikeable. This is the great conflict? Three groups that seem fairly content to sit on their butts so long as nobody bothers them? Where's the "get us equipment to fight the coming war" quest? Where's the "sabotage the other guys" quest? Where's the grand third-act "oh crap, the war is actually happening, this is all terrible, what will we do" quest? There are quests that change the world, even. You get quests to help shore up the defenses of Far Harbor, but you're just doing it to protect against sea creatures, not the other factions. It's just a whole load of nothing that ends. The solution for peace was genuinely interesting, I'll give it that, but the conflict itself was virtually non-existent. And so it was ultimately boring.

Not enough reviews to say it's really getting slaughtered yet, but I never had high hopes for it. Everything I've seen has failed to impress.

The lawsuit isn't even them. The lawsuit is from an employee that supervised such groups. One who was called names by her boss for being transgender and then was fired when she spoke up about her belief that the volunteers were being misled.

They were volunteers who were supposedly told they could be graduated to contractors.

Viscera Cleanup Detail is quite a bit more frustrating than I expected it to be. Is that a good thing? Darn if I know. I also beat my first playthrough of Consortium, but didn't accomplish much. I was positive I knew who the traitor was, but I was wrong. And now in my next play, I'm positive I know again, based on minor details that can't possibly count for much.

Crow makes up for any ridiculousness of the puzzles.

I have 5 alts, 4 of them are in this thread.

Miffed! It's in the thread title, gosh.

Hi Miffed, nice to meet you.

They're making this to be a grand send-off. There's reason to believe that all the friends and stuff end up hanging out in the Vinyard, sort of as a response to all the complaints about how the world was empty in post-game.

I thought Widowmaker was fairly useless. But, then again, sniper players almost always are. I'm not saying that they're a counter to Bastion. I'm saying that my team had two defenders (ones that really can't hold any ground, no less), one tank, and an assault. No support. Me picking a third Defender would have left us wanting, bad.

I found those in the beta. Probably the number one reason I didn't buy the game. I want to play Bastion, dag nabbit. But with two people playing Widowmaker, one playing Reinhard, and someone else playing that guy with the pistols, that leaves me no choice. Mercy. This was the scenario in nearly half the rounds I played. Can't even play Symmetra because she's a terrible substitute for a healer. She might as well be a defender. Edit: I also just bought Viscera Cleanup Detail. I'm buying too many games lately, but I missed out on so much.

What level or at what point in the story can you access Far Harbor? It's been since release date since I last played FO4, and I'm not sure if I bothered keeping any saves from my play through (I did some PS4 memory cleaning recently). You can access Far Harbor right at the start. But the seed quest requires you to get Nick Valentine.

I gave up on Stellaris until some good patches are done. Playing Far Harbor. I think I've gotten tired of Fallout 4 at this point. Playing is feeling more like routine than enjoyment.

Bloodborne and Dark Souls 1 are the only ones that really became obsessions for me.

I loved Automatron so much.

I've never gotten so much as half the treasures in a single play of an Uncharted game. I gave up bothering. I unlocked Synthetics in Stellaris, woohoo. Now to fill all my empty slots with robots and conquer the galaxy.

And the season pass sounds like it's only MP stuff.

Me too, but as Paradox has said - compared to their other titles, it's a bit 'bareboned' at the moment. Which means it's got flavor coming out the wazoo of course, but if you're used to Crusader Kings 2 etc it can fell quite a bit shallow after the midgame. I'm just sitting around in game waiting for stuff to research. Took up an entire arm of a 4 arm galaxy, joined a Federation, liberated planets from a rival federation, and ran out of room. Oh, and enlightened three different races. Now the only thing that keeps me busy is trying to pick a planet to terraform just to see what it's like.

Finished DOOM. Meh, glad it was only a rental.

I rented DOOM 4 from Redbox. Almost bought it, but I'm still kind of worried that it'll be the type of game I get tired of halfway through even if it starts off fun. Edit: Played through a few maps. It's fun enough, but I'm not really motivated to go on. I see the game being more or less what I've already done repeated. It needs a hook. Creative and interesting environments could have done it. A bit more attention to the story could have (at least some mystery to look forward to). Maybe if the enemies looked a bit more colorful and less bland I'd be more excited. The core mechanics are solid. But the dressing needs a bit more to keep my interest.

And the crowd goes wild. Uncharted 4 finished. Naughty Dog's second best game, at least since I never really played the Crash titles. And I don't say that lightly. The fight for 1st was fierce and I think The Last of Us might have cheated.

I called in sick yesterday to play lots of Uncharted. So far I'd say it's the best one yet. They just need to stick the landing.

Uncharted 4 is waiting at home for me if I can just get away from work...