Mamoulian War

It's on my wishlist as well, but the price is not right yet for me, because I have pretty big backlog atm.

If some game is on GOG and not steam, it most likely means, that the game was broken, and the GOG made some custom made executables, so the game can run on newest OS and HW. A lot of older games, are much better products on GOG, than Steam, and they are working most of the time "out of the box" and older Steam games needs some manual fiddling. Anyway, GOG probably solved my problem, and offered me 77% discount on Mechanicus - Omnisiah Edition, which I will most likely use instead of the NWN2 50%

Well, that was long before they purchased Activision. With all of the IPs in their hands, they have in some genres almost a monopoly, which can impact very negatively their previous promises...

I am in a same boat, still I am unable to decide if, that price is right... Although NWN2 is almost never on sale...

THAT'S FORBIDDEN!!!

Maybe they finally stop censoring stuff to get more sales from Japan and gaijins like me, to be more competitive again.

No one is saying it is bad to do and play something different... Though moving completely away from such type of games is bad... I enjoy these type of games, and I would miss them again, if they would disappear again, like they did after IWD2...

It's not, it is just different from other games, I am really tired from the open world stuff like DA:I or Skyrim... So games like PoEs and PF are really nice to play once in a while...

Well, even though PoE2 apparently under-performed, I wish this will not stop them to make part 3 in isometric view as well I have enjoyed the games and the setting

Well, all indices says to me, that it will not be PoE3. And believe me, my biggest gaming wish at the moment is, that my intuition is wrong about this one...

Obsidian. With their purchase, there is no more isometric RPGs planned. That's worse for the game industry as a whole, because Obsidian was one of the very few companies, who could still offer this kind of content

Microsoft was one of the companies, who pushed hardest for the microtransactions and lootboxes on their platforms. Acti and EA just rode the wave...

Dopitche...

Do not hope for that. If it is the same, as last Hitman, then you can play in offline mode, but everything you achieve is not stored on your PC, so every new mission starts with nothing. IO after publishing it in that state on GOG, received a big backlash, and instead of fixing it, they rather pulled the game from the store.

And it will be an NFT ridden mess

What is your favourite Yakuza game?

That means, that you are indeed still a gamer, because you still know, how good game looks and plays

Just finished the Platinum Run of Super Neptunia RPG on my PS4, which became my fastest Platinum Trophy so far (4 days and 17 hours). It really helped, that we had state holidays and the weather was awful and my wife was at work .

Aaaand Super Neptunia RPG has been finished . The game was pretty enjoyable, although not as much as the mainline games. It was also much less grindy. The story was little bit cheesy, but it had it's bright spots as well . It took me some time to get used to the combat, and how to properly set up the party for each area, to exploit the weaknesses of enemies, but after I got into it, I started to have much more fun with the game. The biggest challenge for me were the Magic Stone Challenges, where I spent a lot of time, because I am not much of a platform player, but it was a nice fresh air in between the typical RPG fetch quests, and I was able to get all 500 of them

More Super Neptunia RPG. Getting slowly to the end of the game, to save the 3D games from vanishing

I have started this week Super Neptunia RPG, a spin-off in the Neptunia series, which is 2D platformer and RPG, so far it is not as much fun as the main series titles, but I am slowly moving forward. Writing is also a little bit lower quality than the main series, we'll see how it goes. So far 11 hours or so spent in the game.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a free giveaway on GOG for next two days https://www.gog.com/news/our_winter_sale_is_coming_to_an_end_with_a_fantastic_giveaway

There are lot of games in the series, but if you really enjoyed it, I recommend to you to check out the other two games in the Trails in the Sky arc of the storyline.

January 2, 21:30 – First finished game of 2022 is Platinum Trophy run of Hyperdimension Neptunia VII on my PS4. I just needed to get out of my way last 8 trophies to finish the game on 100%. Some of the trophies were grindy, some were just awarded for item creation, and one was needed to be finished in platformer dungeon Neplunker Zero, which had some RNG obstacles, which made me go berserk few times, and then I needed to take some break, to be able to go on further . In total, it took me almost 160 hours to finish all the prerequisites for all of the trophies in the game.

Still playing Megadimension Neptunia VII. Having toruble with a platformer dungeon Neplunker Zero I have finished it once, but still there is one quest and one treasure chest for the Platinum Trophy Anyway here is the complete list of my finished games in 2021, which I've played in between racing in Assetto Corsa 2021 10 games – 5 GoG games, 1 PS2 game, 1 PS3 game and 3 PS4 games 1 - January 12, 23:30 – First finished game in 2021 is second playthrough of Tales of Zestiria – The Strength of a Knight DLC on my PS4. Pretty quick run this time. Just went for all of the treasure chests, remaining trophies, some equipment fusions and Lord of the Land Blessing upgrades. 2 - January 24, 21:00 – I have finished Shadowrun Hong Kong - Extended Edition Deluxe – Bonus Campaign from GOG. The bonus campaign was little bit more fight ready than the main one and less to talk. Despite me being more the guy who like to solve the things the peaceful way, I think the main campaign was to much verbose even for my playstyle So I've enjoyed this campaign more. 3 - February 27, 16:45 – In-between busy work life, I've managed to finish another game from my big backlog: Torchlight II from GOG. I picked Engineer class and decided to pick skills, which amplify the Cannon damage and use of bot summoning. All three Acts were finished in few 1 hour long sessions, while trying to finish all the side-quests. Unfortunately, I somehow missed at least one instance of Gathering the Robot Parts one. Anyway, the game was very good way to clear my head during the latest pandemic situation and I hope the third Torchlight will be released soon and as much fun as the first two installments. 4 - June 6, 17:30 – While alternating in-between few other games, I've managed to finish the Main Arc of Tales of Legendia on PS2 for a first time. At the beginning, the combat felt little bit awkward, especially against flying enemies, but after a while, I've got used to it. The game, despite not aging the best, was really enjoyable. The more I've played, the more I wanted to uncover where the storyline goes. It has few unpredictable plot-twists and at one point, it is making fun of predictable story outcomes in other games And because of the story, the game is currently my second favourite Tales of game, right behind Xillia. We'll see, if it will stay so high, after I start the post game content. 5 - June 20, 20:45 – After a short break I went back to Druidstone – The Secret of the Menhir Forest from GOG and finished my goal, to complete the game on Hard Difficulty. The difficulty is pretty challenging, and to get all the missions on three stars, the player needs a lot of patience. The only downside of the game is little bit cheesy storytelling, but it pretty much fits the art and the gameplay. I am still missing three star award on one mission, so the next goal to finish is already set . 6 - June 27, 23:45 – I've started and finished Deadlight: Directors Cut from GOG. Pretty nice and fun zombie platformer, with occasional shooting and for me very frustrating Second Act . Despite that, I've enjoyed the gameplay, even though platformers are not my cup of tea, and I tend to be very bad playing them . This game was not an exception, so the 5 and half hours to beat the game was perfect for me. 7 – August 22, 13:00 – I've started and finished Tales of Arise Demo on my PS4. I have preordered the game, and wanted to have some glimpse on the gameplay and visuals, and I am now very satisfied with that decision. Both field and characters are really gorgeous, English voice acting is high quality as well. Unfortunately, the combat is not as satisfying as in some of the previous Tales of titles. I hope that this will change in the final version of the game. 8 – October 30, 14:30 – After pretty long journey, I've finally finished main story-line of Rebel Galaxy from GOG. When I started it, I've really not expected, that I ever finish this game, but my long lost love for space simcades has successfully engulfed me and I moved slowly through all of the sectors pursuing the main story-line and missions to become neutral with local pirates . I was able to get all but one achievement. To shoot 500 torpedoes, which will be the most boring thing, if I ever decide to get it. Despite a lot of grinding for the Red Devils Pirates, I pretty much had a lot of fun with this game, and I am very sad, that almost no one is making these type of games . Thankfully Double Damage Games have released a prequel to this game, which I will be getting soon. 9 – December 11, 19:30 – After finally acquiring 100 million gold and defeating 10,000 enemies, I have finished my third playthrough of Fairy Fencer F on PS3. This time, I have unlocked Eryn's Ending, and with it, I have obtained the Platinum Trophy as well . I have arrived in final dungeon after just few days of playing, but to get the Platinum, I had to do loads of farming at the Shukesoo's Tower top floor, to get enough gold to get one crazy trophy. It became pretty boring fast so I spent more than 7 months playing the game for one or two hours in a week, while playing other games. If I do not count this grind, the game was fun enough, to play it three times . 10 – December 30, 14:30 – Just few days after finishing the last game, I have decided to boot up Hyperdimension Neptunia VII on my PS4, for a second playthrough. The goal was to finish the game with the True Ending and before the end of 2021, while unlocking at least one annoying luck-based trophy before starting the final Platinum Run. Luckily I was able to unlock both of them. The Card Master trophy, where you need to get 33 cards out of the virtual bags of chips, became one of the least favourite trophies, I've ever got. I had to open probably more than 1000, to get the 4 super-rare cards, to get this trophy out of the way. Still, this game is definitely the most enjoyable Idea Factory game, which I've played.