There is something so wonderfully well animated to Leland's expression at the end of Alpha Protocol in those seconds before the bomb disguised as a PDA goes off.

So, Mordheim...

- I forgot to equip my dudes before a battle so two of my archers came in armed with daggers. Yay!

- I misread number next to a skill and suddenly, all of my money was gone

- I lost a mission because I had no idea what is it that I was doing

 

Good news is that I somewhat learned the ropes, so it's time to start a new Warband, this time properly.

Edited February 12, 20178 yr by Fenixp

And there always are the tutorials that seem to help people quite a lot

 

edit:

don't train people early on. Those skills are expensive.

Edited February 12, 20178 yr by melkathi

Yea I finished all of the tutorials. I'm doing pretty good on the battlefield, I just have to figure the metagame out. And yes, I noticed the thing about dem skills :-P Incidentally, I won the mission with daggering archers.

Edited February 12, 20178 yr by Fenixp

I always had people untrained with available skill slots. It comes down to the risk/reward idea. It's nice to spread out some skills, but one character stacked with skills is more powerful that three characters with one early skill each. However, if you get your great character with wonderful skills, then you risk losing the centerpiece in your warband. The first thing I always do is to take the warband skills that save me money on training, hiring, healing, and whatnot. I don't even train anyone until I get the first discount for training because even a small amount of money helps. Same with hiring. Take the warband skill that allows you to hire for less first and then make your first hire. When I finished the sisters campaign, I think I had most people trained at least somewhat and a few people, like the leader, were trained to the max.

 

I'm thinking I'll just bite the bullet and purchase Darkest Dungeon right now, then I'll second guess myself until I purchase Kona also.

Though since this is Fenixp's very first warband, he doesn't have any veteran skills for discounts

So far, Emily's been a butcher.  But who can blame her?  She got betrayed by these people, so naturally she's going to want to stick a knife in their heart rather than just knock them out.

Though since this is Fenixp's very first warband, he doesn't have any veteran skills for discounts

Oh, I thought you got one veteran skill at creation of a new warband, but it's been a while since I played. I should pull out the mercs and do a few missions with them just to remember what the hell I'm talkin' 'bout.

Never got to play Mordheim the board game. Did get to play some Necromunda though. Still got my House Cawdor warband (fully painted) in storage somewhere. Would love to see a PC game version of it.

Never got to play Mordheim the board game. Did get to play some Necromunda though. Still got my House Cawdor warband (fully painted) in storage somewhere. Would love to see a PC game version of it.

 

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I got half my party killed in Darkest Dungeon. You have to be a gamer to enjoy a beatdown like that.

Edited February 13, 20178 yr by Eumaios

I'm playing Metro 2033 with russian audio and english subs. 

 

 

 

oh man, how I love HINDs, most badass copters around

More Dishonored 2.  These bloodfly nests are annoying as all hell.  Sure, you can use those immolation darts on them.  But that gets expensive since there's usually 4 or 5 of them in one apartment you want to go into, and the payoff usually isn't worth it.

 

I'm finding the Emily play through is geared toward lethal takedowns on a few of the open maps.  Too many guards, too much open space to be able to take them out the non-lethal way and hide the bodies.

Too many guards, too much open space to be able to take them out the non-lethal way and hide the bodies.

When going for clean hands run, I found sneaking around the guards as opposed to taking them out more efficient anyway

so I bought Banner Saga on GOG. I must say I have pretty mixed feelings about it. I love aesthetics and storytelling so far. But I am quite tired of fighting dredge forever, battle tactics seems pretty limited, character development seems almost non existent and that travelling animations seems pretty slow after a while :/

I always wished there was more game in that ... Well, game - the first one at least (still got to try the second one.) Like there's the whole survival metagame which essentially boils down to 'Choose your own adventure' book moreso than anything. Sure, you travel and can run out of resources, but... You're never really informed of any estimates of how many resources you'll likely need to arrive to a destination and while you do sometimes get alternative destinations, this is extremely rare as opposed to being a core part of metagame (which it certainly should be.)

 

That said, music is amazing, aesthetics are amazing and the story was strong enough to carry the game for me. But the experience is certainly very limited.

I mean, some abilities doesn't even make sense, there is 'stone wall' ability which adds armor for next turn, but it doesn't force enemy in any way shape or form to actually attack that character so it always ends up as wasted turn, I really struggle with that combat part of the game, quite disappointed to be honest

Fate Stay/Night

 

Up to just starting the final part, Heaven's Feel. Overall it's been a fairly typical high school boy that all the girls like gets magical powers and fights type of story, but there's a few interesting ideas in it that keep me engaged. The Unlimited Blade Works route in particular was exceptional, despite the groanworthy attempts at analyzing relatively simple life philosophies. But you pretty much have to be numb to that to even enjoy these stories aimed at teenage/young adult demographics.

 

Negativity out of the way, I have enjoyed it. Sure, there's it's issues with dissecting philosophies that aren't even worth dissecting and the whole thing where

in Fate route, the guy basically ends up in a romance with teenage girl King Arthur

, but the characters are fun and their conflicts provide tension and emotional resolutions.

well apperently after 5 or so hours I have finished banner saga, i must say still extremly torn about it, and now when I finish it I think its pretty short and that 'story' is kinda short and I thought I would learn more about fellow travelers, kinda disapointed I must say :/

If it's that short, maybe I should finally knock it out this weekend.

 

Too many guards, too much open space to be able to take them out the non-lethal way and hide the bodies.

When going for clean hands run, I found sneaking around the guards as opposed to taking them out more efficient anyway

 

 

I try that when I can, but even then it seems like there are open spaces where no matter where you skulk/hide, a guard will see you if you make a move to a spot you need to get to.

 

Or I might just suck at stealth.

 

Either or.

 

 

Too many guards, too much open space to be able to take them out the non-lethal way and hide the bodies.

When going for clean hands run, I found sneaking around the guards as opposed to taking them out more efficient anyway

 

 

I try that when I can, but even then it seems like there are open spaces where no matter where you skulk/hide, a guard will see you if you make a move to a spot you need to get to.

 

Or I might just suck at stealth.

 

Either or.

 

 

Part of the trick with Emily is to use the other abilities and gimmicks to distract guards and pull them out of their position, and then you can take them down.

Managed to grab myself a copy of TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan. I heard it was removed from all of the online stores so I'm glad I secured myself a copy before it went out of stock. I'm a huge Turtles fan and I especially love the early 90's series. This game comes pretty close to capturing that vision. I have no idea why it scored so bad. It's a fun and simple hack n slash game reminiscent of the 90's 2D side scrolling beat em ups such as TMNT Turtles in Time or Final Fight. You go from stage to stage and beat up baddies, alone or with a friend. Shame, the game has been pulled from the stores and now it's effectively dead. Goddamit, Activision...

Just finished SR:HK bonus campaign. More CRPG should have high leveled campaigns I always like those the best.