Tale

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...

So is that just like it says on the tin, only cosmetic? Meaning this race doesn't offer any species advantages/disadvantages like I assume the other base in-game species do? It's just a portrait you can use when creating a custom race. Traits (advantages/disadvantages) will be chosen from the normal lists. All races/portraits have access to that same list. I think the regular pre-order portraits are the best. But if you're too late for that and want to be spiders, the one from Nova is pretty sweet looking.

Up until past 1 playing Stellaris. Still haven't gotten far enough to make a judgement call. I barely met my neighbors yesterday, two moderately crappy groups who will inevitably try to destroy me. One xenophobic hive mind and one group of dudes who think the galaxy belongs to them. Here I am trying to spread safety to all races in the galaxy and I'm situated near these buttheads. The seemingly more hostile ones actually liked me a bit better since we're both arthrapoids. But the long term prospects of them not try to attack me are slim, so I'm cozying up to the other dudes who also have a stronger fleet. Other than that, I've got a nice big section of the spiral arm all to myself. Pretty much the entire limb. Perhaps more once my science ships decide to brave the terrifyingly peaceful space amoebas. Hostile, hah. So far, it just feels like Gal Civ with RTWP, leaders, and a bonkers tech tree. We'll see how it goes.

I've never actually played a Paradox grand strategy game, but I just ordered Stellaris based on the reviews, the premise, and the assurances that it's well written. Also to get that spider race. Don't you judge me. Now, that's not to say that I don't own any PDX GSGs. Crusader Kings 2 is sitting in my Steam library from some sale. How fair are their games, anyway? My 4x background is limited to Civilization and Galactic Civilation. And there the non-player civs always seem like they have advantages, allying with each other, hating everything you do, never having internal struggles unless I'm intentionally culture blasting them.

They were actually labelled Ferelden Deserters. Which, again, makes little sense. They deserted their homeland to make a suicidal attack on the city guard? Random thugs would have been dumb enough, but that makes even less sense. If ASOIAF taught me anything, it's that you can't trust deserters. They'll do anything.

Binged through Deponia Doomsday over the weekend. And then Undertale. Almost done with my pacifist run.

Thought I'd finally give DOOM 3 BFG a try, since it wouldn't run on an XP machine. DOOM 3 is every bit as tedious and a chore as I remember it. I barely made it out of the tutorial before this game's second chance had run out.

Oh good, so it's not just me thinking that. I suspect Blizzard's hooked on all the attention Starcraft esports got over the years. As an old TF2 dude, this is why I'm not that interested. I want to play Bastion. But my group has two Widowmakers and no support. So Mercy it is. I also really miss the big stalemates that go on for 10+ minutes until part of the assaulting team makes a surprise assault from the other path. But in Overwatch, the match ended like 5 minutes ago.

This is the third time I've seen Marvel tell the Civil War story. And it's the first time I've actually thought it was good.

Apparently there are people at my work, including my boss, who think that I play games at work. Does that mean I should start?

Shadow of Mordor needed either a hard mode or some sort of ultra-hard endgame area. It was lots of fun before you got abilities that let you cut a swath through hordes.

I spent several hours playing Overwatch today. I like it. But I do not love it. I can't think of any reason to come back tomorrow. It plays like they took a really incredible game and trimmed it down until it was just 10 people in a very pretty box, never letting off the trigger. The pace is simply too fast. There's never anytime to think, strategize, or just do anything but keep firing. Part of this is the abysmally low 5 minute round times. You're either crushing or being crushed. There's no time for players to search for any other groove.

Everyone knows it should have been a third person shooter. Now that's real skill. Puked in my mouth a little.

I've got the stronghold. It's only the second castle I've conquered in this game. But they wouldn't let me keep the first one. Which I totally did not expect to be my stronghold at the time. And anyone who tells you otherwise is a slanderer. Or libel, depending on medium. I'll sue!

Even in pong you're playing a role in a game!

I only enjoyed DOW2 enough to get through the campaign. DOW1 was an addiction. I'm glad they're bringing back base building, but they're going to need to reveal more than just a large unit to keep my excitement levels.

No, it's an Imperial Knight. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Knight The Warhound's baby brother.