Theonlygarby

Playing "those who rule" turn based tactics JRPG(style). I am enjoying it, but it's perma death for your units. So it takes me like 10 tries every level because I can't handle losing a character forever. MAYBE later when I stop liking a character, or have too many, I will allow some to die. The story is pretty basic so far, but im only on the third non training fight. You control some ranger group troops. Everyone is betraying everyone. You're very clearly fighting for the bad guys. I hope it turns out everyone is evil, just like real life. There is no world map or anything, just dialogue sections followed by a fight. There are lots of conversations between the different characters, which is kinda interesting because characters can die so you can definitely miss out on side objectives and stuff. My only real problem with it is that I'm constantly restarting fights due to perma death. Which is fine, but they make you go through the dialogue over and over which gets annoying after the 10th try. There are story choices you can make, but it kinda feels like those choices don't really matter. Example. Very early on you can choose to surrender or to fight. If you choose to fight it just cuts to black and you move on to the next section... I can't imagine choosing to surrender would give you anything different, though I have not tried. I dislike pointless dialogue choices. The only game I use a walkthrough guide with are the persona games. Mostly because there is a "correct answer" that has positive effects, and bad answers are just bad. Often there is no discernable reason for that answer to be correct. Or maybe it's just too cryptic for me to tell.

I kinda get it from a creative standpoint. It would be like making a movie and then having people want an option to remove parts they don't like. Not a perfect example but i could see people wanting their creation to be experienced as intended.

This very accurate. Even when I tell it to be more critical it ends up reverting to "wow great question you're so special"

I wanted to start a YouTube channel where every episode i burn a different countries flag... but then I realized I dont do things, so I decided against it

Well for one I'm not a dune fan so I think some of it is lost on me. However I did have fun with it at first so I don't think thats the main reason. I think it just has the same problems every survival building type game has, which is seemingly endless incremental upgrades, repetitive exploration and no real end goal aside from getting those little upgrades. I could see having more fun if I had gaming friends I could play with. I did have some fun with it, and it's probably something I will return to. It just felt like it was going nowhere.

Little bit of Dune Awakening but probably done with it. Franchise hockey manager 12 or whatever they are on now, this is definitely my relaxing game, not stressful at all. Then I have been fumbling my way through Victoria 3, 100 more hours and I should understand the basics.

Got a fancy new computer. Instantly stopped wanting to play video games. Decided to play Dune. It was alright, got bored. Now I am playing franchise hockey manager, which is basically an excel spreadsheet game... making good use of that expensive computer.

Playing Dune awakening. It's pretty fun so far. I would dread having to start over though, because the start really limits what you can do. Also I could see it getting pretty repetitive. The atmosphere is great. Trying to make it through a stretch of desert as a worm is closing in on you is very immersive. Not sure how popular the game is because I have yet to run into anyone... just abandoned outposts.

I dont really know for sure, but I have heard unreal engine kind if sucks for modding... so I wouldn't get my hopes up for Bethesda levels of modding.

Israel has a right to defend itself from threats real or imagined

I wonder if they will do something like rdr2 where they have the good bad scale but this time a relationship scale. Loyalty between the protagonists sort of thing

I enjoy Rockstar games, but the more they try to push "realism", the more out of place the combat feels. Rdr2 was the worst for this. Feed yourself, feed your horse, clean your horse, also drink an elixir while you are getting shot in the head repeatedly to heal. It always felt like they could just make your health considerably lower and drop 90% of the enemies you fight and the combat could atleast kind of match the rest of the game.... but I guess people like to feel like Rambo all the time in every game

Probably for the best. I ended up cheating and the end was pretty dumb. Can't really remember the details but I do remember being very disappointed.

I am definitely projecting. It happened to me in final fantasy 8 (I never stacked magic to raise the state boosts) I got to the end not needing it. My fault for not reading tutorials. The other was persona 3. Made it super far without bothering to combine personas at all. Didn't really understand the friendship mechanics. Again... my fault for not reading.

Sounds like it is holding true to the jRPG tradition of making you feel safe until the final boss gauntlet where you will figure out you played the game wrong and need to start over

I was so excited until I saw that it likely won't be RTS and an open world shooter instead... lame

My whole family, which usually votes NDP (far left, never gunna be in charge party), voted conservative this time around. So I am a little surprised conservatives didn't win. I still stuck to NDP because my riding is heavily liberal so it wouldn't matter. Im happy how the election went. I did not want conservatives but I also don't trust the liberal leader. Mostly due to him being a banker. Minority government will make him have to work with the other parties a little. Edit: also the Liberal party is actually the more "nationalistic" party in canada. Generally the conservatives want to be more like USA and Liberals cling to canadian national identity. However, if by nationalism you just mean ****ty to immigrants then yes... conservative is more nationalistic

I will be playing detective dotson as my next game. It's a bollywood styled pixel detective game. Looks cute. Hopefully its actually good, either way, it will at least be somewhat original.

Well if I hadn't just finished two first/3rd person RPG games back to back i might give it a shot, but i need a break so no Oblivion for me.

It felt like each new area got progressively worse. That first map i was having so much fun. By the time I got to the 4th map it was so desolate I barely bothered to climb and find new things. Story wise it did that thing where the player knows the mystery way before any of the characters. I imagine it would be less obvious if I hadn't played previous games. "It was ok" sums it up pretty well

Beat avowed. I enjoyed it. The worst part about is it that you are aedyran. Limits role playing. The best thing about the game is how they managed to make it feel like Eora. Don't want to go into particulars. Maybe I will write something in the avowed spoilers page. One thing is for sure. After playing kcd2 and avowed back to back, I am done with first person RPGs for a while.

Im surprised how much I'm enjoying avowed. It might just be my strong bias towards obsidian games. I also wonder if I had played this before KCD2 if my thoughts would have changed. Main character has a set role. Choices are pretty basic. Missions are very repetitive and yet... I am really enjoying myself. It could be that Eora is doing the heavy lifting.

I had high hopes for that game. I don't think I even made it 5 hours.

I finally started playing avowed now that KCD2 is done. It's a nice shift from realism to pure fantasy. Mostly ive just been exploring and jumping. It's a lot less stressful so far.

I should say that I like the game. Characters, dialogue and gameplay were all very good. I just have some issues with the pacing and overall narrative.