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Been playing a lot of Against The Storm. They added Seals at some point, which I guess are the city builder equivalent of boss battles. Every time you fix a seal, the duration of the cycles gets extended, allowing you to build settlements farther from the city, and the farther you get the higher the difficulty. I beat the Gold Seal which is kinda the story goal. Now I am pushing through Prestige difficulty to get to the next one. Last cycle I was one settlement too far away. This time I may just beat it if I get lucky and beat the next couple of settlements in good time. I kinda doubt it since I am at Prestige 5 difficulty.

I never realised the Devs behind Skylanders also made Starcontrol 1+2

They added a cat to Against The Storm with one of the updates. But with the rain setting, it is a shark cat

New Arc Line has some interesting ideas. But there isn't much content yet. And with the devs being Ukrainian, a part of the fanbase isn't certain they'll be able to complete the game. If/when the next update hits, I'll let you know how it is coming along.

So, 12th of March Greedfall leaves Early Access and Solasta enters Early Access. I;ll have to buy a second PC so I can play both at the same time...

I am re-reading Men At Arms.

The only Battletech author who could write a novel worth reading was Blaine Lee Pardoe, quiaff?

I have been under the weather, stuck on the sofa. So I finally felt lousy enough to waste time and watch The Watch. That show is a dumpster fire. The most amazing thing is, the people responsible for it were so delusional, they even wrote in the hooks for a second season.

So, should we schedule you for next month?

But only about a month behind me playing it, so you are good, carants. Just be careful that you do Old Countries in a New World before Mystery if the Ancient Ruins. Anything else in the game you can progress and leave as you wish (the few times things are timed it will tell you). But if you progress those specific quests in a mix, you can get the game breaking bug I got.

Hmm, Disco Elysium is today's free game on Epic. Maybe it is time to see what everybody was so excited about.

Though do we know who owns the rights to the IP after Troika went under?

With the trends, it is Arcanum II - an online multiplayer survival crafting souls-like.

I find it interesting that Bloodlines 2 has not gotten a heavy discount. The reception seemed worse than the Midnight Suns debacle, and that got hit with heavy discounts sooner. But the heaviest on that came after the holiday season, so it may still happen if it seriously underperforms with the -20%. I am watching just with academic interest at this point.

They started a few days ago with Hogwarts Legacy, which came as a bit of a surprise.

I always thought of trash mobs those that are defeated with ease, and who's only role is to have you do stuff, without ever standing a chance of putting up a fight. Such as the cultists in Chaos Gate who die the moment a space marine as much as points a bolter in their general direction.

I like this conversation. A number of people who dislike things I dislike, dislike things about BG3 I would be bound to dislike, were I to play it. So I guess I can skip it.

In 20 years when they are towards the end of milking DLC for it, and a lot of it will be discounted, I may look into getting this.

Hmm, I joined the imperials because I don't like the Thalmor.

We could have told you that for free. Remember what the goblins say: Time is money

With the companion quests it is especially Kurt's quest that really matters, I understand the ending is affected by a number of things but will always end in the confrontation with that one major choice. I get that people think the devs wrote a naive fairy tale ending, but I find it refreshing not to be driven from one forced binary choice to the next, like a Telltale game, to be given the illusion of choices that matter. Do you want vanilla or chocolate ice cream is not a meaningful choice - you still get ice cream at the end. It was simply arbitrarily decided I get to only have one flavor (I still buy two scoops, as I don't get refunded half the game's price for never playing the other choice).

I finished Greedfall. After that one big bug, it was bugfree. I enjoyed it. The writing improves over the course of the game. It felt a bit awkward in the beginning, as if it needed to figure out what the social position of your character is - npcs were acting as if random guard and your character were equals, making me long for a reply of "You seem to mistake this for a democracy. Oh, you don't know what a democracy is? It is the system in which your opinion and consent theoretically matters." They managed to give the impression of choices that matter well. Spiders' best game hands down.

I hear for Gothic like games, studios actually hire professional bug devs to add the right bugs to the games.

Dragons are easy with this foolproof strategy:

I toyboxed her personal quest. I found those hidden counters based on your dialogue responses stupid.