melkathi

I'm I'll. Will be taking strong antibiotics for three weeks and using a turbohaler (some weird inhaler thing) for two months. Sinus infection. They shoved a camera down my nostril into my throat. To feel better I got Chaos Gate with a 25% discount. Now I can shoot nurgle cultists while in-game while fighting this infection out of game. Very meta.

The whole game with all the investigation options leads to one binary choice in Axis Mundi. Then you get out and you can't do anything but click what the game wants you to but you are given the same binary choice again. And again. And again. Which just tells me that none of my choices mattered, since they all lead to the same binary, which then also didn't matter because you have to re-commit to it half a dozen times.

Not sure I ran into that situation. Unless it is in the end armageddon phase which I found tedious, so I quit. Especially after the tedious Paradise Beach railroad. Scripted scenes that take over gameplay have never been an elegant or fun idea. We put up with them as sometimes story bits have to be given to the player and sometimes things have to happen within the game environment. But making the whole ending just one long script that the player has to pretend they are playing, when stripped of bare essentials like movement controls? It's like the cute friend I had at school of architecture who I had to explain to that buildings have walls. That just because its a summer home and you'll only go with good weather, furniture still will get ruined by bad weather the time of the year you aren't there. The difference, she learned these things before opening her firm and is apparently now pretty good at what she does and successful. These devs (and that is Gamedec, Encased etc etc) seem to all be working in a complete vacuum as if no game had existed before theirs and everything they decide is God's gift to gamers instead of bad ideas we have known to be bad ideas for over a decade.

Gamedec must have one of the most unfun, tedious endings in gaming history. I can't bring myself to click through that last bit of the game. If they had stopped just a bit earlier, it would have been a great game. But they ruin the experience with terrible design choices at the end. And in the end that is what people are left with - the impression of a game they had to force themselves to endure the ending.

Starfield looks like Star Citizen without the crowd funding and decade of questionable development, but with a dwemer ruin on every planet that falmer have tunneled into, and a quest sending you into a draugr infected tomb. Jumping to Lightspeed will trigger random events, but since there will be very few of them, jumping to Lightspeed will be pretty much a guarantee that the target system will have all vendor NPC eaten by space vampires before you manage to even land. PC players will fall back to the old habit of fixing everything through consol.

The Boss Creator is downloadable as stand alone on Epic. They have made a few changes. You can now have proper prosthetic arms and legs. You also don't have gender, the sliders for breasts and groin are there and you adjust them whichever way you want. The game no longer censors nipples, unless you want to. You can also adjust "modesty" by selecting how you want the game to censor - smiley face, googly eyes, pixelization etc.

Marvel Midnight Suns has gone up for pre-order at 59.99

Against The Storm should have a proper launch this winter. Phase of the Citadel ends tomorrow, and I expect phase of the Viceroy to be the last update cycle, as it revamps the tutorial, in-game help, UI - all the things that would have been affected by all the changes up to now.

Or Soft East, Normal East, Good East?

If you play on epic, try Against the Storm. Or when it releases on gog and steam.

You can have the sofa bed

Come to Greece, you can question me 😄

I think it exacerbates the already existing issue with the reactive nature of player activity. Thinks happen and the character reacts to them. Of course a player can't ever be completely proactive. They will always be constrained by what the Devs were able to predict, but sometimes the writing can try to make the plot be about the player taking the reigns. Alpha Protocol tried that. And it is part of what made it so memorable. You are coming for them. We experience plot in first person, but decisions aren't made in first person. Gamedec, with the noirish narration and the deduction, gives players the feel they are in charge of where things are going. Visual novels like heart of the forest try to give options that make the player appear proactive. But most RPGs rely too much on quest givers. Even Bethesda open world games don't give the player agency beyond choosing which NPC will tell them what to do. And time skips, which seem to always simplify the player's activity over that time, really underline how the player can't do anything without an NPC sending them out to fetch a Xander root and Broc flower.

@kanisatha Did you enjoy Dragon Age 2's time skips between acts? A lot of people did not. Expeditions Rome copies it but does it worse really. It does it worse, because your character comes out of Act 1 with a mission and very possibly political ambitions. So having your character not pursue their agenda in the downtime is very immersion breaking. And the writing in general deteriorates as the game progresses. While I could replay acts one and two, the thought of revisiting act three repulses me - they may have revamped some gameplay, but unless they rewrote the third half of the game, I do not see me ever revisiting this, just as I'd never play dragon age 2 again. I enjoy the companions well enough. They each have a short story arc. Nothing important really, but they work and add to the experience. I do not find the upgrades to the camp meaningful enough to recommend the game based on them. You will try to conquer all regions in each act to get more upgrades, but in reality it is just something to draw out the length of the game.

It seems likely that GW is trying to make 40K stand for the number of novels in the IP

Dan Abnett has written more than 10 Gaunt novels alone. Add his Ravenor and Horus Heresy stuff, there are far more than 10 novels. The truth is though that the vast majority of GW novels range from trash to garbage.

Necromunda truly wasted a lot of potential with the terrible game we were given.

There was a fan made adult battle brothers style Slaanesh cult simulator being worked on at some point. But it got abandoned because GW cracks down hard on Slaanesh themed games.

We haven't had a proper warhammer RPG. As Mal said, Inquisitor was a (dull from what I read) diablo clone. I hope they make it less annoying than Pathfinder where every little critter drained your stats on hit.

Like the npc I talked to about Harvest Time.

I did find one guy in the bar and we talked about Harvest Time. Specifically about PvP... in a farming simulator...

I finally wrapped up Harvest Time in Gamedec. I found all the cosmetic items for my farm from lockboxes and bought everything you can on a fr00b account. Even got a Midnight Express Ticket. I am now in a bar trying to blend in.

Well, Coteries is a visual novel which focuses on you choosing which subplots to explore in the given time of each playthrough. The sub plots have little to do with the main plot and when the main plot concludes the question is simply if you followed specific plots to the end and therefor can ignore them next playthrough.

Their map searches are worse. They don't use geolocation (properly) so if you put in the street name of a street 200m away, it may find a random street of the same name somewhere in the world.