Everything posted by melkathi
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AGE OF WONDERS III
Interesting. They had said that they had some interesting funding.
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AGE OF WONDERS III
I posted about this a few days ago in the random video game news thread but then people turned that into a Wasteland 2 discussion so nobody noticed I'm a bit disappointed that the game will have fewer races at release. It means frostlings may not make the cut and that would be a shame. It is good to see them re-thinking sea battles. The new classes and culture based units sound very interesting.
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But the Superbowl or World Series parties you could have! It would be dah awesome! Screw superbowl parties. I want to play a strategy game on that. Some city builder like Anno 2070 or some 4X game like Endles Space or Imperium Galactica or Master of Orion: Reloaded (one can dream) or even Civilization. Now that would be awesome.
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Trudging Through the Mere - NWN2OC
No worries. As long as typos don't turn it into something like pawnoplies or even ponypleas
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Pictures of your games
I had been wondering about the logo on every screenshot
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Pictures of your games
Yeah, right
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Know the feeling. Though I woke up because I dreamed John Travolta had kidnapped me (among other people). He wasn't very good at the kidnapping thing, so I told him that if he was going to waste my time this way I'd just close my eyes and sleep 'til the kidnapping was over. That made me wake up...
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Pictures of your games
Was playing Anno 2070 (yeah, how original of me...) when I got a message I never had gotten in 150+ hours of game-time: Tornado detected Eek!? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125733078
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Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK
Yes thats is a concerning development, its makes it hard when David Cameron says the Conservative party "is a progressive party for change " How can anyone seriously describe a group that labels itself as conservative as progressive and for change ?
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Not by choice. I'll have a sip if really pressured, but do not like it. Had a sip of commandaria in December because it was a going away thing at the office and saying "Yeah, well I am touched you are all gathered to wish me farewell, but you know, I don't actually drink." Before that I had half a glass of vodka in June because it was the goodbye party of the masters and one of the erasmus students from the previous term drove all the way from another country to celebrate with us. Before that I had two sips of vodka in December 2012 at a birthday party after having been pressured into it. I have not forgiven people One sip of punch or something similar in summer of 2012 at a friend's wedding. 2008 - 2011 four weddings. A sip of champagne at two of them... Eh, you get the picture.
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Books we've been reading V2.0
Eeek! And of course Amazon plays along.
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What are you playing now?
I seriously tried to give The Cave a chance. It just is not a good game. They tried to mix platformer with adventure. As a platformer it is terrible. The controls are bad (and apparently worse when played with a gamepad as it was originaly intended). As an adventure it may have had potential had mixing it with a platformer not turned it into an Adventure Lite. Pushing a block onto a pressure plate is not the quality or depth of puzzle one would expect from the maker of games such as Monkey Island. Some of the character areas may have interesting bits in them. Thus the Time Traveler level is a nice touch back to Day of the Tentacle. But even those nice moments are plagued by the game's tedious running back and forth. Artificialy trying to make it appear longer than the couple of hours of gameplay it has, is a major design point of the game. Thus there are 7 characters of which you choose 3 for your playthrough. Each character has 2 endings, so to see them all you have to play through the game 5 times. The endings only depend on your choice at the very end though, making both playthroughs with the same character identical. Autosave and Save & Exit though are meant to keep you from simply loading the game again at the end. You have to start from scrap if you want to see one different ending screen. And every time you start the game, you have to listen to the intro speech. There is no skipping it. It may have been (kinda) witty and cute the first time round. The second time was still ok as one remembers that it was fun the first time. The third time round though... In the end, there is not enough story to justify not playing the game and watching a youtube video of it instead, but there also is not enough story to truly make it worth enduring bad, reptitive gameplay. Good thing the game was cheap.
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what do I need?
We played a campaign at some point. Things started with the southern province of the kingdom going all quiet. No traders, travelers or messengers... Thus the queen sends an expedition to find out what happened. Part of this expedition the PCs, including yours truly. Turns out we are playing some sort of zombie apocalypse scenario. Undead swarm us from everywhere. Our cleric was playing for the first time ever. The more experienced players asked her to use her Turn Undead ability. She tells the DM that she'll do just that. DM replies "Sorry, but the deity you chose does not grant that ability." I think there was some sort of point I was going to make... ech, just make sure that if the players know less of th system than you, that you give them a fair chance to build a character and that they know if a choice they are making is important.
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What are you playing now?
Started on The Cave. Can't realy get into it though. Something about the game rubbed me the wrong way.