What are you Playing Now? Volume XIX: The New Beginning of the End of the Middle

[Tale]

The Last of Us Part 1

Maybe my third or fourth playthrough, but first time on PC. Never actually finished Part 2 and decided it's time to do it. It's been long enough that I really don't remember some of this.

[Wormerine]

I didn't know there is a new Heroes of Might and Magic in works, and there is even an early demo to try out. 

It looks like it's being done on budget, but it is actually quite snappy, and seems like could be a nice entry to the series. As the series have been in limbo for a while, it is nice to see a return to form, though it might be a bit too conservative. HoM&M3 die hards might not be willing to move on at this point, and I am not sure how much new blood with a budget title like this one attract. 

[melkathi]

I have a game breaking bug with New Arc Line where the game crashes if I try to leave the area I am in. 

Personally I believe it is some resource leak that corrupts the character's save files. But I am not a dev.

 

I have put it aside for now and hope they fix it.

[Hawke64]

I have finished Promise Mascot Agency. I stand by my initial assessment - Saints Row without combat and all your gang members are mascots. 

I have started and finished Fear the Spotlight. It is a horror game, it is (surprisingly) shorter than I would like (~5 hours), but it does not overstay its welcome, so fine, I guess. It looks nice, the pacing is good, the puzzles are on the easier side. 

[melkathi]

I messed around with the graphics settings in New Arc Line and now it doesn't crash.

 

Which means I now had a "choice that matters" and I hate those. For me, ethically it is an easy choice - don't force the factory to replace the workers with automatons, because I don't want people to loose their jobs. But, that is the choice that benefits a magic playthrough and this is my Diesel Engineer...

[Theonlygarby]

I started over "those who rule" due to FOMO.  Turns out one of the people i thought was receuitable was not.  I did save him and let him live though, so maybe there will be a call back to it at some point.

 

I am stuck on a level I struggled hard with the first time.  If I just wanted to beat the level it would be no problem. It is the side objectives.

Main mission is "survive for 12 turns"  easy. 

Side missions:

"Save the villagers" this one gets me occasionally but for the most part it's easy to save them unless you get some bad RNG

 

The hard part comes with there being two boss type characters on opposite sides of the map.  These boss characters are holding useful items.  You don't have to kill them but FOMO.

 

You have to defend a church from waves of enemies coming from two directions.  All while pushing forward towards the item holding boss characters.  These boss characters are standing behind where the waves of enemies spawn in.

 

Even all this would be doable.  But 12 turns makes it very difficult.  You essentially have to get close enough by turn 11 to have the boss come out of his spot and attack you.  While hoping that does not kill any of your characters.

 

I have gotten close so many times but then an archer comes out and kills one of my characters and I have to restart.

 

The worst part is that you can't skip the enemies turn, so after failing my self imposed mission, I have to watch the rest of their dang turn before restarting.

 

Edit: also the AI is not stupid so they will attack the person closest to death

Edited 1 hour ago by Theonlygarby