Yakoob on 23/3/2020 at 03:35
I just bought Octopath Traveler and it suffers from a.... what the fuck is going on syndrome. I got dropped into a menu to select a character with no context - ok - so now I selected some dude and I'm solving a mystery of a missing tome in a library, and for some reason now I have to go into a cave.
It's been half an hour and I have no idea who I am, what I am doing and, most importantly, WHY I am doing any of this stuff.
Hopefully it picks up soon, because I have little motivation to keep going....
henke on 23/3/2020 at 18:08
Just finished
Wide Ocean Big Jacket.
[video=youtube;cAaGxw2N8Ns]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAaGxw2N8Ns[/video]
It's good, and I'd recommend it to folks who like Night In The Woods. It's a similar kinda chill game where you mainly just hang out with cool characters.
(
https://turnfollow.itch.io/wide-ocean-big-jacket) On a -40% sale on itch.io right now!
Or if you need convincing it's gonna be worth your hard-earned $4.79 USD, play Turnfollow's earlier, free game (
https://turnfollow.itch.io/littleparty) Little Party.
Thirith on 24/3/2020 at 13:06
Since it was less than a tenner, I got it on your recommendation, henke. If I hate it, you owe me CHF8.75, man!
How did you find out about it? I'd never heard of the game.
henke on 24/3/2020 at 15:54
Following Turnfollow on twitter. Tho RPS and Polygon have also posted about it.
Anarchic Fox on 24/3/2020 at 18:56
I very much enjoy the "historical tourism" aspect of Asscreed games... it's something I can't find anywhere else. I'll be loading Assassin's Creed 3 the next time I hit a block in DKCTF. But yeah, it is strange how consistently blind Ubisoft are to certain poor gameplay decisions.
reizak on 30/3/2020 at 07:36
The impending early access release of Bannerlord inspired me to install Warband, and based on the dates on my achievements it's been a full ten years since I last played it. Still a lot of fun unsurprisingly, although the combat controls in particular haven't aged well. Anyway I decided to try the total conversion (
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-last-days) The Last Days of the Third Age, sometimes referred to as the best Middle Earth game ever made, and I'd say it beats any I've played at least (which is probably most of them). It cuts out all the M&B mechanics other than fighting so it is a bit one-note, but the Middle Earth flavor brings enough to the table that I at least didn't have time to get bored. You can play as pretty much any faction you can imagine on either side of the war, and I have no idea if the evil side is any easier but it was pretty rough going for the good guys. The factions in the north (Erebor, Dale, Beornings) couldn't deal with all the goblins, Rohan got quickly overwhelmed by Isengard and was about to fall, Gondor was doing fine against Mordor but once Rohan fell it'd be game over for them, and all the elves in the middle just faffed about. So I decided to RP using the One Ring against the enemy, and enabled cheats. I figured I'd just take out the goblins quick so the rest of us could go south to help Rohan before they're wiped out and then disable them again, but the lure of such power corrupts and I just kept them on. The teleporting in particular was just too convenient. Anyway, the world was saved, by coincidence the very same day it happened in the books, March 25th, as I learned browsing Reddit afterwards.
The Bannerlord early access opens in about two hours and I haven't quite decided if I'll get it right away. I generally like to wait for full releases, but in this case there isn't much story to spoil–although apparently there is a story campaign now–so it's less of a concern. And there's a 10% off "because of the pandemic" and another 10% off from owning a previous installment, so I'll probably fold. And it might just end up being in early access for another eight years anyway.
Tony_Tarantula on 30/3/2020 at 16:33
Deus Ex GMDX. Somehow I never found out that thing existed and it's great. Brings back a lot of the tension from playing the first time.
henke on 31/3/2020 at 16:44
This is some gooooood space-sim stuff here.
[video=youtube;qcnyAiFEbEA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnyAiFEbEA[/video]
You like Lunar Flight? Are your favourite moments of Elite Dangerous when you're flying into and out of space stations? Then you gotta check out (
https://whilefun.itch.io/space-valet) the Space Valet prototype! It's a game about parking space ships.
BR4ZIL on 1/4/2020 at 04:25
Thief 2's Dracula Reloaded, The Dark Mod, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Borderlands 3 (whenever my 2 friends want to play) and Post Scriptum/Squad
I keep juggling those games around... its way easier now that i dont even leave home due to the Corona outbreak.
Thirith on 1/4/2020 at 08:06
I've been playing around with some of the Arma 3 missions that we've been using or are thinking of using, especially the dynamically generated ones to figure out what works well and what doesn't. Yesterday I played a Dynamic Recon Ops mission set in Fallujah with an AI squad of eight - and I was surprised to find that it was a lot of fun. I was ordered to contact a informant and then find another civilian that was under threat from the local militia. Perhaps it's that urban combat offers better cover *and* visibility than when you're out in the countryside and there are trees and grass and other visual noise. In any case, while the mission proved tough, it was also exciting and never felt unfair - I did go down a couple of times, but the AI medic actually patched me up. The only thing that was perhaps a bit more frustrating than necessary was that towards the end it wasn't clear if there were still bad guys around I needed to kill or if a script had got stuck, so I spent about ten minutes checking the area in increasing circles, but eventually we found a few more enemy units and took them out, at which point I was able to call in the extraction chopper. Just as we were getting in, a truck with more enemies drove up and they started firing at us, while a badly wounded soldier on our side limped slowly and painfully towards the helicopter, but we managed to defend ourselves, the wounded guy finally made it, and we flew off into the sunset.
If the mission had gone like this during our multiplayer sessions (perhaps with some additional AI units), it would've been a great mission, and even like this it was tense, exciting and fun. I'm hoping that my getting to know these missions and the various parameters a bit better will help us run more enjoyable coop sessions.