qolelis on 31/7/2019 at 22:24
I got a couple of games in the latest Steam sale, but lost interest -- except for Lorelai, the latest from Harvester Games. Maybe later I'll be in the mood for the others (which aren't bad, really (except one)), but right now I wanted something immediately engaging with real story.
henke on 1/8/2019 at 06:08
I sleep very well, but when I can't sleep, I play an adventure game. For the past half year Primordia has been my late night game, and I just wrapped it up. It's a post-apocalyptic tale where you play a robot who sets out to retreive a stolen power core, but ends up getting entangled in the power struggles of a giant robo-city. It's pretty bleak, but your floating robo-comedy-sidekick Crispin lightens the mood a lot. I liked it! Up next on the adventure game pile: Unavowed.
PigLick on 1/8/2019 at 09:22
I recommend playing the Blackwell series first before you play Unavowed, it adds a lot more flavour to the game. Though thats a pretty big slog.
Tomi on 1/8/2019 at 10:04
I've been playing Moonlighter (still available for free for one more day at Epic Store!) a bit lately, and while I really liked the game in the beginning, I'm slowly losing interest in it now. For those who don't know the game, I suppose you could call it a rogue-lite with retro 2D graphics. You've got a shop called Moonlighter to run, so at night you venture out into the dungeon to find some stuff to sell, and during the day you open your shop and try to keep your customers happy.
At first I got the impression that there's a lot of things to do, but after about five hours in, the game is already feeling super repetitive and grindy. The dungeons are somewhat random generated, but there's not a lot of variation, and there are lots of rooms that always look like the same, they're just in different places. I think that there are four different dungeons in the game, so you might think that different environments would make things more interesting, but I'm in dungeon #3 right now, and I can say that the dungeon is still basically the same, but with a different tileset and slightly more challenging monsters. Not good.
Unfortunately the shop minigame isn't much more interesting. In the beginning of the game your shop is pretty small with only a couple of stalls where you can display your stuff. You have to set a price for each item that you want to sell, but at first it's hard to tell what the value of a certain item is. So you have to open the shop and customers start flowing in. They wander around the shop and if they find some interesting item, they stop and a smiley face appears next to them. If they look angry, you've set the price too high. If they look super delighted, you've set the price too low. And if they look somewhat pleased, the price is just right, and from that moment on, you can quite safely sell the same kind of items for that price. Running the shop becomes a bit of a chore quite soon, I can tell you.
With all the gold that you've acquired, you can expand your shop, and more importantly craft new weapons and armor and potions that will help you get through the more challenging dungeons. There's not really much else to do as far as I know. It's a worrying sign that I seem to spend most of my time in the game managing the inventory. It's not a bad game at all, just way too grindy for no good reason.
Yakoob on 2/8/2019 at 01:54
I just started Prey.
Yep, fashionably late.
Pyrian on 2/8/2019 at 04:07
Wow, even after me!
henke on 2/8/2019 at 04:55
Quote Posted by PigLick
I recommend playing the Blackwell series first before you play Unavowed, it adds a lot more flavour to the game. Though thats a pretty big slog.
I've already tried, and failed, to get into the Blackwell series. Nah, jumped straight into Unavowed last night. Do these games share a universe or something?
The only WadjetEye games I've played all the way through are The Shivah and Gemini Rue.
PigLick on 2/8/2019 at 06:04
Yeh they are in the same universe, some characters are from the blackwell games, for example the bestowers spirit guide.
Malleus on 2/8/2019 at 08:37
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Doing a 2nd playthrough of Dark Souls Remastered, this time on my Switch and as a caster. And...I'm still just really bad at this game. It's amazing how after falling to my death dozens of times in Sen's Fortress, I'm still willing to keep going. Can't wait for those archers in Anor Londo!
Well, at least as a caster, you wont have many problems with bosses. Spells may have weak tracking, but they hit like a truck. Pyromancies too. They dont save you from falling off ledges though. :)
scottrick on 2/8/2019 at 13:00
Doing a replay of SS2 right now! It's been a while since I last played through, and its every bit as fun as I remembered. Planning to play DX:MD next followed by Prey, both of which I have never played before so I am quite excited!
