bugarup

New Vegas. Again. With INT 2 (initially 1, but couldn't resist "the plant") and CHA 1 character (and yet who somehow resembles an actual not too hideous human being instead of potato head, got really lucky here). The hoops NPCs make you jump through when you can't schmooze your way past speech checks. Met some new people this way though. Discovered an annoying double cursor bug that got solved by getting a new mousepad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also, playing on that hardcore mode and Arcade died to snakepuppies, so instead of reloading I decided to double down and sacrificed Cass to the Van Graffs, also thinking of serving someone to the fellow cannibals White Gloves. I wonder if they'd prefer Boone or Veronica? And yet, with all the dickery, long pig cuisine and stupiding, I still cannot force myself to do the Legion run. Wish I could understand how to play that bloody Caravan too.

It is very vague, super generic heroic fantasy trailer. "Thar be meanies, and we gunna fight'em!" Not much material to speculate on, save for "Sure looks like Skyrim". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Japan is so...well...Japan.

Played "Life is strange", a Telltale-esque walking sim with even more "You choices matter...NOT, sucker!" attitude and the stupidest protagonist (save for Fallout 2's/Arcanum's low INT ones, even the idiot of New Vegas was smarter) I ever played, also the most irritating. Still, the game have some charm as the atmosphere reminded me of Philip K. ****'s works at places, albeit it was mostly unintentional -- I suspect characters were not supposed to be this unnatural and juuuust enough off to give vibes of creepy button-eyed doppelgangers from the Other World. Note to any gamemakers: do not try emulate teen slang. Thing's more mutable than flu virus and even if you somehow get it right without steering into cringe territory, you still date your game.

Playing "Graveyard Keeper". It's kind of like black humour "Stardew Valley", except not really. Much less polished, extremely grindy until you research zombies and automate a lot of stuff, then it's just very grindy. And while you can farm veggies, it's just a side hobby because mainly you farm corpses and run corpse parts-based industry. Love game's casually blase attitude about desecrating the dead (and selling corpse burgers and beer during witch burning events) and how it somehow makes sense in that world. There's amnesiac skull buddy and I think I killed Geralt who expected easy side quest money. Love the voice acting in the game.

Deadfire, methinks. I didn't find the way to use my food either when I wanted useful buffs in SSS instead of default crap. 'course, inns IRL do not appreciate when you bring your own food, but I don't think this level of realism is really needed in the game.

This was the dullest, most boring game ever that I yet somehow sunk 60 hours into. It's amazing how it managed to be so colorful yet completely lifeless.

Finishing Shadowruns, though I'll deffinitely do moar playthroughs of "Hong Kong" which is my favorite of the three. You guys were right, games good.

Same, although in my case it was partially because of hype backslash. Everyone around was like "OMG Firefly teh bestest thing on TV ", so I watched and was all, "Meh. Farscape did it better".

James Fridman's whole twitter is hilarious in "Careful what you wish for" way.

That was a bait. In order to understand what it means you'll have to read the whole essay.

A woman who's a nip too much into smoky eye make-up, too. Also, I think anime is the perfect visual medium for "Choose a boy, a girl or a neither" protag, because you can't tell either way.

Well, I'm sold. Not sold enough to get a Steam account though, but if this comes to GOG then absolutely.

If I ever felt a tiniest, slightest, most minuscule pang of conscience about ing TV stuff, this right here would be my justification. Well, that and "This content is locked in your region" bullsh†t. Whenever I see that thing, I feel irresistible urge to find and download locked content even if I had no initial interest to ever watch it.

I've read this was related to number of savegame files, as in loading times increasing along with that number. It indeed got a little better for me when I wiped majority of saves.

You'd think it be easier to chew and sort tasty bits from yuck bits if food's gibbed, but noooo, gibs be invisible and inedible. Barbarians should not be this picky about their food as if they were some pampered mage or somethin'

It's kind of like "Stardew Valley" -- you want to grind, you can crack those spreadsheets open and do so, or you can water your patch of 15 turnips in a minute and go have fun in town. Environment's v. easy on eyes and fishing minigame better than in Valley IMO. Music's a bit bland though.

I checked my library and what do you know, I actually own it! Even moar, I vaguely remember trying to play it too, but I had no idea what was happening and why and then I think some orcs came and bashed my tower in and I quit.

Your first two Obsidian games, I take? Otherwise you'd know they don't exactly do epic fantasies with the "Mary Sue McWishfulfillment the Spawn of Bhaal, the Fusrodah of Big Huge Lizards, the NPC of the GM etc etc yadda yadda" type of protagonist. Even their most bog-standard fantasy game's, "Neverwinter Nights 2", protag isn't that much of a power fantasy vessel (unless you go full hog on being Eeeeevil in MOTB, but even then it's arguable if there's any "you" left in that thing). So, no, you cannot fight a god in such a setting, let alone crush him with all the might of your Twenty Levels of Experience, because he's ancient construct of ineffable power and you're a temporary iteration of substance those constructs have been manipulating since their creation -- and were created with precise purpose to manipulate it. Your opinion having a sway on him is big enough. I do trust Obsidian won't start making power trip fantasies just because Deadire did not sell well, but still...fingers crossed.

TGIF!!!!

I boarded them all the time before and decided to try something new. Or fruit (that you get I imagine by raiding orchards on those islands you visit like a true pirate!) and water which cancels each other, but then you give them some lager sometimes and it's all good. Anyway, I'm getting the hang of it and what do you know, ship sinking is actually fun ! Unfortunately I couldn't sink any of those fatass armored galleons yet, at least with a sloop. Loaded a save with a better equipped dhow and sank that pain-in-the-ass galleon full of fighters and goldpacts, albeit with some luck since few lucky shots with events stunlocked AI so bad it never even fired on me. Also found out that on slaver ships only the captain has the level that's on the ship and the rest of crew are pushovers so that red skull means nothing. Would have saved me much time dodging that prick who always spawns and beelines to you when you try to get to Neketaka for the first time. Unfortunately current weather has fantastic synergy with Deadfire's attempts to fry my video card so I'm postponing experiments with ship sinking until better, colder times.

Thanks a lot guys, with the help of mixed tactics just dropped Well-weathered Cormio (Beggar With Fruit wasn't around) Although he did land a few hits on me and I won basically by facing the side of his ship with only one cannon where I had two and going full speed-hold-shoot. Tried that jibe thing, still can't quite get it but ah well, it's just the first battle where I more or less knew what I was doing and with a crew straight outta Port Maje to boot. A question though -- how do I know if the enemy is about to fire? By counting turns since their last salvo or is there any other way to tell? Because that bastard always chose to fire right after my hold position.