Tale

Hnnng. Reminder that John Gonzalez of New Vegas appears to be the Lead Writer.

My grandmother passed. I find I'm less bothered by death itself than the sadness of the people I care about.

Ban Lexx for hate speach!

In their defense, the pretend Witchers might have just been interested in a round of Gwent.

Played a little XCOM: Enemy Within as a time waster before I went to bed. Was still in the tutorial when I stopped, but it seems promising so far. That's assuming the hand-holding and constant interruption by low FPS pre-rendered cinematics stops once the tutorial ends.

And apparently she's been going downhill since lunch. My mother says they don't think she'll make it.

I've got 8 games to redeem on that, but they seem overloaded at the moment.

So apparently you can just straight buy the Gwent decks by providing proof you've purchased the expansion pass. And its only $20. It's impossible for me to say no to that.

In the world of Tale: Grandmother had a blood clot Sunday. Doctors got around to surgery today, the clot ran about the entire length of her thigh. Impressive. They removed it. As a consequence of all this, though, I've been given reason to google up on "anesthesia induced dementia." A little terrifying to see that happen in an old woman that never had any such signs before. But don't worry, apparently there's no lasting effects.

Am I really the only one playing Blood and Wine? Shame on you people.

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.