melkathi

Been playing Desktop Dungeon. I am facing the harder maps and quests now and it is becoming a real challenge. Last night I went on a rampage through barbarian/berserker territory as a sorcerer while not allowed to cast any spells. Fun times.

I'm backing Woolfe, a platformer with some combat, some nifty enviromental puzzles, great atmosphere and graphics and (I got to play a demo) sound controls/gameplay. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/45588301/woolfe-the-red-hood-diaries It is 94% funded and needs just the final boost. Nifty: backers will get to create their own custom tin soldier opponent for the final game. As a trick to get attention to the campaign they put up an early version of the tin soldier editor: http://army.woolfegame.com/ (you can change colour scheme and stats). For that, here is my referal code: 10199 (I am soldier 199 of the Woolfe army)

Can't remember what Keyrock had already posted.

Declare independence and use your Solomon Sardaukar orbital drop marines to take over the world?

May include spoilers

Tried a few minutes of Archeage. Yet another boring MMO...

Sorry to hear that Hope you manage to fix it though as it is an amazing game.

http://www.desktopdungeons.net/ In the process of gathering gold to unlock more stuff. Just not sure if I should unlock more classes or save up for the last remaining race unlock...

Also, apropos BruceVC: Bought Desktop Dungeons and been having fun with that. Devs are from South Africa

Hi Melk "waves " Where have you been? It seems like you haven't posted in ages? Was out of town for a couple of months. Didn't remember my password and didn't have the energy for a password-recovery

Bought Child of Light in the UPlay summer sale. Enjoying it a lot.

Of course the age groups also matter. PoE had people of all ages playing, including a lot of 30+ I guess. For the big titles I saw large bands of teenagers who don't have IE nostalgia.

Also, me getting to play is proof of everything that is wrong with gaming: AssCreed etc 1.5 hours queues if people were lucky. Not that I'd try some of those games if there was no queue. I walked past Pillars of Eternity and there were only 4 people waiting to play. Got in line, had a nice chat with the guy in front of me and before you know it we were both sitting at a PC. And we got cool Pillar of Eternity flasks. But people were queuing for shooters and swarming Riot instead of grabbing cool flasks and relaxing with some BG...erm I mean Pillars

The character promptly died in her first encounter with monsters

Meh, taking a break: Tried the DLC for Van Helsing 2. Don't like it. Loved the game. Don't like the DLC. Walk onto bridge, aggro ranged mobs from offscreen, die trying to charge them. Rince repeat. Mobs spawncamp the portal into the zone. Tried doing some Van Helsing 2 scenarios to maybe become more powerfull. Shouldn't be necessary. If DLC is made for after finishing the campaign, thena character who breezes through the campaign should be able to do it without long farming of scenarios. Or at least they should note that it is only meant for the hardcore crowd. Loved the game. Seriously dislike the whole scenario thing. Bad enough, when you open the menu to select a scenario, you can't leave without finalizing the settings for the scenario. I just want to quit the game, not click stupid buttons... feth off. I hate bad UI design. Tried playing Echo Prime. Remembered that I have done everything and the last three echos I am missing are a minute random chance after killing thousands of enemies. Meh. Tried playing Dungeon of the Endless. Remembered that the update was seriously bugged. The hotfix only made the bugs it supposedly fixed worse. Meh Sunday I'm off out of town and may stay away for a month. Will only take my tiny notebook with me that has no games on it. Work all day, write all evening. And maybe monitor the steam sale just in case something I actually really want goes on sale.

Nothing on sale yet that I am remotely interested in. The whole Team thing seems pretty stupid. The winning team is rewarded with extra cards, making it easier to craft more badges, granting more tokens that gives bonus score... those who get tem change tokens will use it to go to the winning team. Seems like a recipe for making a no contest. Meh. Steam had one fun summer sale and that was a few years ago when you actually had to achieve stuff in-game. Since then the "stuff to do" was just meh.

Finished Faery - Legends of Avalon. Yes, I can understand the people who are furious about the abandoned plans for the rest of the trilogy. The game is great. I enjoyed it a lot. But just cutting the story off at the major decission and even prompting players to save their choices for the next game... argh. I spend 9 hours on it, though that includes getting lost...

(not a forum)Troll Flying around portside Goblin doing the Crane Kick

Played 6 hours of Faery and seem to be in the final bit of the game. So overal it will probably end up as 8 hours of gameplay, including me being unable to find some npcs and searching for them. Enjoyed it a lot so far, so it is a shame it isn't longer.

I'll let you know how annoyed I am at the cliffhanger once I get there

Damn steam releases messing with my sense of time

Whoa, where am I? Yeah, let's not make a goblin of myself... Because I really don't think this would be a good look for me: (awesome detail: as an attack animation the goblins take the fish out of their mouths and wack you with it) Companions have an affection system? Morrigan probably disapproves... And with some of the questions I ask, even my character facepalms...

Playing the new Spiders Studio rpg. Woot woot Faery - Legends of Avalon I haven't gotten far yet but so far I love it. The grim and gritty: Turn based combat, similar to jrpgs. You wait your turn and then act. There is a front and a back row. When you get your turn, you can act based on your action points (you start with one and quickly get a second one) - each normal attack costs one action point, more complicated or powerful ones can cost two or more. You can split your actions between targets and create combos, using for example a weakening spell as your first action to open the enemy up for your damaging follow up attack. My character at the moment has a spell that reduces the damage of the next attack, so she finishes off the enemy damaged by my companion with her first attack, then weakens the boss with her ssecond so the retaliation has less oomph. Or she could tag two enemies with her weakening spell. your character levels up and gains skill points. Skill points are spend on metamorphoses. So I got myself butterfly upper wings which give me a lightning spell. When I fly I leave behind an ice track (little snowflakes), giving me the aforementioned ice missile weakening spell. I now unlocked a wisp aura, giving me a party heal. If I got Ram Horns I think I could deal increased damage, while various facial markings would increase HP etc... Also you gather various equipment, like boots etc. completing a set obviously gives increased bonuses. Story: When mankind stopped believing in faeries and magic dwindled, the faeries retreated to remote locations of strong magic. You awaken from stasis, where you apparently retreated when magic started to weaken, to live inside your own dreams, to find the faery kingdoms nearly gone completly. Oberon sends you on a last hope quest to save them. I haven't gotten much further and wouldn't want to spoil. character creation: You select gender (male/female) and then go wild on sliders for noses, ears, chin, cheeks etc. You can play around with skin colour, hair colour, adjusting magenta, green, yellow, red etc saturation, brightness and contrast. Party: your first quest is to recruit two companions. I don't know how many you get in the game (I hope more). So far my companion really likes me as I selected the nice dialogue choices. Voice acting: This was something that people were rather unhappy about apparently with Mars War Logs. Don't fear, Faery does not have bad voice acting! It has no voice acting whatsoever Graphics: the main character is really nice. So are other character models (goblins at least are awesome). The environment in the starting area seems bland. Overall: loving it so far

That is a shame. With your game it actually motivates to look things up. Especially that specific battle against Rosbjerg's countryman.

There is one thing left to truly complete your playthrough: Do a They Live movie night.