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I do have both an auto crit purgator and a falchion interceptor. With my slow and steady approach the boss got enough crit immunity that even the 100% crit power went down to like 70-80%. Thanks for the input, I'll try again. Someday.

The third one on your list, Munificus. I know how I'm supposed to fight it, I just don't know how to do it efficiently when I'm a: spammed with the bloomspawn, b: it jumps into a remote corner that takes several turns to run to even when I don't have to fight stuff on the way and bombards my guys all the while.

How'd you deal with the yellow seed boss? I got hammered by a bunch of negative events that happened to take away my best tools and the fight itself felt super tedious and I haven't mustered up the will to bang my head against it.

Water touches water, making water wet. Checkmate, atheists.

I was going to make the same joke but didn't see any listed.

I don't see anything enhanced about this.

Would I like more good adaptations? Sure. But it's not like the world is devoid of fun because of that. 😛

Picked up and finished Starship Troopers: Terran Command. It looked like a low budget - low effort kind of game from the first few trailers I've seen but I like the franchise so I waited and.... it's pretty good. You can tell it doesn't have the budget of Starcraft 2 but they put the money where it mattered imo. The story is a typical ST flavoured war story with a small cast of named characters hitting on familiar story beats, framed by the tongue-in-cheek propaganda news between missions. It won't blow your socks off, but it's a decently told story. The main part of gameplay is holding the line. A lot. Even when you're attacking you're holding the line. Figuratively and literally endless waves of bugs descend on your troops as you juggle positioning, (lack of) line-of-sight between squads, special abilities and a bit of rock-paper-scissors to inch closer to the next hive. It's probably not for everyone but I enjoyed my time with it and I recommend playing it.

Played some demos from the Summer Fest. SCP: Secret Files - It's... a walking simulator. Sometimes you press E. There's one whole puzzle and two chase scenes. Not even an inventory. It's obviously a low-budget title, for better or worse. SIGNALIS - A game harkening back to the old Resident Evil games, you play an android? on a crashed exploration vessel. It's more Japanese-style horror than Western but the demo ends with you picking up a copy of The King in Yellow. Agent 64 - A throwback to Goldeneye 64. It's simple, it's intentionally janky and rather neat. Selaco - A retro-shooter made in GZDoom. It's one of those kind of games that's made by adrenaline junkies who've exclusively been playing Doom mods for the past ~30 years, so it's super fast, you die in a couple hits, there's secrets everywhere, but it's cool. I've heard it compared to F.E.A.R. and I feel it's apt. Kind of like a tactical shooter but you're also a bit superpowered. It also promises to have a story but the demo barely hinted at things. Again, combat is brutal partially because of hard to see enemies but I had fun. Old Skies - The newest WadjetEye Games adventure game about a time travel tourist agency? I wasn't blown away by the puzzles or the writing in the demo, but the premise is interesting enough. And of course MORAL CHOICES.

Updated the thingamajig.

I read faster than the characters talk, I skip a lot of dialogue.

"How do you spell 'Aaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhh'?"

Spiritual successor by the same people, so yeah it's intentional.

Also the Resident Evil 4 remake got a release date for next March.

Okay-to-abysmal writing, tons of bugs, questionable design decisions, bad secondary mechanics. Plus what bothers me personally on top: balance leaning heavily towards munchkins, too ambitious for their skill, games too long. Also based on the teaser this art style suited Pathfinder really well, but for 40k it looks too cartoony.

Could we have someone else do the game? Maybe convince Obsidian to do that Dark Heresy game I've spent ages fantasizing about instead?

Also Fatshark teased a Bel'akor addon for Vermintide 2 but it's not much.

Greyhawk was the original default setting of DnD so that might explain why it feels interchangeable with Forgotten Realms.

So Nemesis: Lockdown is an Alien inspired board game and it's getting a video game adaptation. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1915550/Nemesis_Lockdown/ There's also a FPS version but I'd say that's a bit more niche? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343620/Nemesis_Distress/

Apparently Paizo denied it's Starfinder over on Reddit.

Long column on the left is the stuff I had before they implemented the monthly categories. Top row is the oldest year, below is the year after, then the year after, yadda yadda.

Greenman Gaming has a hueg 12th birthday sale.