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That on some extra difficulty setting or something? I only ever got one mystery; it gave me new decorations. I loyally play as Europe because the only important thing is to RESEARCH EVERYTHING! So I did and am now researching money because there's nothing else left. I also was lucky to land on top of water and discover unmanned fusion reactor aka easy-cheesy mode very early so now I'm mainly observing terraforming numbers go up so very slowly. Not much above drying paint in terms of entertainment if you ask me. Brazil's shtick seems useful though, those piles of rock are really ugly and irritating.

Haven't done the Heart dude yet, he can't be worse than the Diamond who made me ragequit, can he? Please share your impression of the Diamond guy when you get to him. All in all, out of the three I played the Club guy was the most normal and well-adjusted, and he's a control freak with emotional range of android and Victorian approach to dating. I guess I'm not quite the target audience either.

Oooh, I played that one a little! Wasn't too fond of INT4 extreme doormat heroine, but kinda semi-scored with one dude, parted amicably with another when he admitted we weren't to be but then another dude's story made me go "WTF, you serious, game?! " and ragequit. Not sure if I ever pick it up again, since the mystery of what really happened to Miss Doormat McGee is locked behind getting every "happy" ending, and me and the game seem to vehemently disagree about definition of "happy". And I think I'd rather date that other Amnesia's monsters than some of these dudes. In other VN news, I finished Telltale's second Batman game and just like with the first I liked playing as the rich boy Bruce better than the vigilante in silly costume. Rich Boy Bruce went double agent in this game and I do love my double agent stories, there are not nearly enough of them in games. It's also funny how Telltale plots show their smoke and mirrors when you don't play by their rules -- here, the game obviously wants you to be mean to Joker and hot for Catwoman. Do it the other way round and the story falls apart. I also picked up Divinities again. Almost done with the third map of DOS and finally left the tutorial prison of DOS2 but writing and acting are halting me again. Oh, and puzzles. Divinities love a puzzle here and there and that wouldn't be so bad if solving them did not require reading game's writing and I don't want to do that, skimming is painful enough. Well anyway, since I progressed rather nicely this time, I found yet another off-putting thing about writing, that is schizophrenic tonal shifts. Most of stuff is ye olde super-hammy slapstick comedy with cat marriages and barrels-on-legs disguises, but then you get a ghost who sticks around because afterlife is not kind to necropedophiles (yes, seriously) and there's a guy forced to serve drinks to orcs (pure comic relief otherwise) who killed his child and made him watch. Like, there are sorts of comedy that mesh well with grimdark or morbid, but slapstick isn't one of them.

Yes GOG. At least I'm seeing the ad with 'Soon' and everything.

Hey, try living on one small continent crammed with 100+ other countries, see how you fare. 'sides, it's not like we hatin' on everyone indiscriminately, just on the neighbours mostly. That's normal.

I dusted off my Surviving Mars savegame too. My but the game is slooooooooow. Like, year 77 and I only have, like, 150 schmucks and six domes. Good with research though but need to get even better so I can grab fertility and depend on locals more than imports who constantly get Earthsick and try to run away (that's why no high education for those quitter bastards! ) It seems they think I'm building this colony just that they could drink and gamble away. Well b†tch please, if you can't do with just a park and a grocery store like my retirement dome, don't let the airlock hit you on your way out, we don't need you party-hard types here on Mars. I remember how in Aven Colony -- another space city builder -- I could distribute drugs of happiness and productivity via ventilation system. Good times.

The game has a pretty cool setting ruined by prose that couldn't be purpler if it was a "Saints Row" character dressed for respect and singing "Start wearing purple". Also, the protagonist is a personality vacuum who can only pester other characters with "Tell me about X" endless lists. Combat was so rare I didn't even bother to understand it beyond "It sucks".

I've been playing "The Council", adventure game kind of like Telltale, only not really, because, a) no pretty artsy style, b) choices actually matter and lead to noticeable story branching, I got vastly different results from two playthroughs and from what I saw there's ton of ending variants. Oh, and there is skill system like in RPGs. Always nice to get better at breaking and entering. Pros -- story and characters, con -- backtracking. Ouch so much of it. Character-based game, I understand, blah blah, still, to be confined to several rooms for entirety of the game is a little too meta right now. Looking forward to their next game, apparently based on VtM. Gonna be good, given how much abuse can be inflicted on the poor protagonist of "The Council", the studio know their gore and morbidity.

As if

That's Firefox's aggressive social distancing then. Not even an image of one or more people, especially outdoor, slips through!

Using quarantine to plug holes in my edumacation -- watched "Frozen" so that I have something to talk about with small humans of my family tree. Really boring film and way too much singing in it. Don't get why small humans are so infatuated with it.

Huh? You mean she didn't shiv him and didn't throw the corpse down the well?

We still on Dragon Age Origins? Good. So -- Fade is absolutely fantastic. Like, you get to play as a golem, as a floaty creepy thing, as a burning skellie and all they use different approach to stuff, it's fun! I really don't get people who use "Skip the Fade" mod instead of, I dunno, "Skip half of Deep Roads, they're next to identical anyway".

That sphinx sounds more EPIC battles than riddles. As in, for those who thought House at the end of fun was easy. Don't really wanna be a naysayer, but aren't those guys committing themselves to colossal coding nightmare? Reactivity, mounts, HOMM minigames, evolving beasties? Also, LOL "Woljif Jefto" Where does this dude think he is in, Star Wars?

I don't remember where I saw it, Something Awful forums I think, opinion on DOSes -- "it's like every character is Minsc". So true.

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed with Frictional's reveal. They're still one of my top favoritest studios and of course I'll don my brown pants and buy the game on day 1, it's just...well, after "Soma" I kind of expected they''ll go for something new again rather than "The sequel with a colon in the name"

I bought Rimworld on GOG for my "When retired" folder, but that game looks real interesting, not sure if I have willpower to wait that long, especially given how game's UI and wiki ain't half as intimidating as Crusader Kings' one.

No idea, dropped it early as well, 'sides, picked a skelly to play and I don't think skellies make for good romances. (Haven't lost all hope to get into either DOS yet, I kind of liked that skelly. But not right now with "Disco Elysium" still fresh in the brain, contrast between writing could easily kill that hope)

D&D grogs: "romances in RPG are icky or for girls which is kinda the same thing and thusly has no place here!" Also D&D grogs: "Woooo lets throw our money and rush social goals to get moar booty in this supergrog-tailored game!" Anyway. Cannot wait to see Larian's take on romances. They are not expecting they'll be allowed to make Baldur's Gate of all things romanceless, are they?

You say it like it's a bad thing. Me, I'd love if everyone had Scottish or Welsh accents (I play with subtitles anyway, so). Like, what DA:O did with their dwarven society was pretty great and refreshing. But yikes them accents.