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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
That game had so much potential. Completely ruined for me by the extremely stupid rest/healing. Devs who's approach to development is "lulz we iz hardcore lulz" deserve a punch on the nose. -
The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
melkathi replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
And then you poor souls will end up reading Chapterhouse. My condolences in advance. -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
It is being patched. There are still numerous minor bugs (like rumours not clearing out of quest log) but overall it is playable and enjoyable. There seems to be at least at times importance to the order in which you do things. You are given options on how to do things. The system works, but some class choices seem complicated for the sake of being complicated. Some things have been hit with the nerf bat. I think the current verdict is, if you have waited this long, might as well wait another month for the big patch. Writing wise? Jae is annoying as feth. Don't feth up and get even near her fething romance. It doesn't fething belong in 40k. Fething Jae should Not be in 40k. If we wanted annoying as feth smuggling scoundrels we'd watch star wars. Though what sort of war dat sposed ter be? A propa waaaaagh is not just wun, too, tree lettarz. A propa waaaaaagh has lotz of lettaz. Lotz of Boyz and lotz of dakka. Neva enuff dakka. Star Waaaaagh would be a good name. -
Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
melkathi replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
Biggest Obsidian release of the decade! -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
Owlcat's writing improved a LOT in Rogue Trader. Goes to show what a comprehensive setting with a detailed lore bible can do. Owlcat is doing a better job at it than a lot of Games Workshop's own Black Library authors. Which is not much praise, come to think of it, taking into account my opinion of those authors. -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
Without profanity filters, discussions about ancient Egypt would be boring. With filters, the story of queen Neferbreasti has completely new dimensions. -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
I also left out Tyranny. I think the phone rang edit: mind you, I played through tyranny once and have nothing to say about it -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
I played Kotor 2 completely once, but unlike many I did not enjoy it as much as the original. I felt it was trying too hard to be edgy and moral grey. I finished FO:NV once. I played quite a lot, but again, Obsidian's way of writing "moral dilemmas" I find meh. Obviously, humanity has proven time and time again, that Obsidian has a better understanding of humans than I have. People really do believe that between state funded healthcare and Caesar's Legion, the raping mass murderers are the lesser evil. PoE1 I played. I enjoyed the beginning. It got so tedious, I could not see myself to complete it, and it killed my interest in the story. NVN2 I enjoyed and found one of the better written RPGs. I also think that it fell into the post- Planescape Torment trap of every NPC having to be this unique out of the ordinary, breaking conventions of NPCs attempt, which made me long for plain boring party members. Which Outer World had and which made the game so refreshing. I think I finished Dungeon Siege 3 twice... -
Obsidian Entertainment: My Thoughts on most of their games
melkathi replied to jeffreystocks's topic in Computer and Console
I did not know people were actually posting in Obsidian General... -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Team bonding is important. Can't rob a train without proper preparation. The percentage of course counts all the optional activities for your criminal empire and the murder app. Not sure if it counts hidden collections, photo hunts and tourist attractions. By the way, the contract to kill the Necromancer was my favourite. -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
How far in are you? Has the larp started yet? Edit: Saw the picture thread, I see you summoned the mighty bowelrod and smote thine enemies. -
I really don't play anymore. I feel I never am in character and just try to push teh story forward and save it from the rest of the party. That said, I still like looking through interesting books, so buy some for that. My most recent purchase was: Household, by Two Little Mice It is about fey folk (called Littlings) living in an abandoned mansion, after the human residents disappeared 100 years earlier. The different rooms of the house represent different biomes and are home to different states. In the bathtub there is a Venice like city, the toppled christmas tree is the forest in the living room. How the water in the bathtub keeps flowing, stays fresh and the whole thing doesn't just overflow? Eh, I guess a setting with faeries should come with some magic leeway for such details. I basically got it because I like faery settings and settings where tiny people live in a larger scaled surrounding. I would totally enjoy playing a CRPG based on the setting. Before that I had done two purchases: Labyrinth the RPG Dark Crystal the RPG They both are these small 200 page books with simple rules in the first dozen or so pages and a campaign for the majority of the book. In Labyrinth you basically do an alternate version of the movie - all players have their own reason to reach the castle, but they are not limited to the experience Sara had - when the hands are asking up or down, you could say up. The most fun of course is playing a quirky character that fits the setting, and they even made "worm" a choice of race/species. Dark Crystal plays in the Age of Resistance, thus follows the events of the Netflix series. Players can be from any Gelfling tribe, but as this is a much darker setting than Labyrinth, player death is something that can happen and there are special rules that trigger when a player does In both of these you can tell that they were made with a lot of love, and they are possibly the only settings other than Changeling, that would get me to the table. I am flirting with getting the new edition of Hunter: The Reckoning. It may be the first time a new edition of a campaign setting did mostly good changes, everyone seems to like.
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Gaza - conflict, war, land, water rights, bad colonional legacies...
melkathi replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
The "they all voted for" is rather ironic coming from "the only democracy in the middle east". -
Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
melkathi replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
I watch Bloomberg "Brilliant Ideas" which is a surprisingly good series of art documentaries. -
Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
melkathi replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
I may watch that later actually. Looks like something that I can have running while painting. -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
I have had that on my wishlist for years. -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Mender Silos is as trustworthy as Morty the skull. -
Early on the cards were selling well. A friend sold a few for $50 each. My personal record was $5... Then it normalised and settled to what it is now. You can still sometimes get a dollar or two if it is a super popular game and you sell a rare card really early, but the crazies who threw cash at the system have moved on to throwing cash at something else.
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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
I tried out the Underspace demo. It is a Freelancer type of game. You fly about in a terrible rust bucket, earn money to get a better ship, earn money to equip the ship and buy an even betterer ship. It is lacking some quality of life features that Freelancer had - no cycling targets for example or goto button when selecting a waypoint. What it does have is weird space storms where you fight eldritch monsters while dodging tentacles. -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
That may be something they added late in the game's life. Homecoming is a bit wacky though, as a lot of events throughout the game's life are active at the same time. You have the council attacking the fifth column in the streets of Atlas Park, while Faultline has already been flooded by Arachnos. I am not sure if all stories are still accessible. At least some early arcs may have gone when the meteor crashed into Galaxy City, destroying the second hero starting area, to have the players concentrated in one busier zone. -
Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
melkathi replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
I ain't afraid of no ghost -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Ok, that I did not do -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Saving for both achievements goes without saying But my head-canon choice is saving the soul -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
melkathi replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
What choice did you make in the end? My cleric stayed behind. -
What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments
melkathi replied to ShadySands's topic in Way Off-Topic
Today I got a website! forkcat.com I am really happy with it. Very happy I got the domain name. Then again who else would have wanted that? The internet is full of all kinds of weirdos...