Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good week and weekend. I got my PC set up again after moving so I’ve been back on the Balatro grind, and also continued to dabble in Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Working on Main and MG questlines in Oblivion Remastered. Then I’ll do the SI expansion and “retire” my Hero of Kvatch-turned-Madgod (at least until Beth adds official mod support and people start making quest mods).
started Stray Gods recently, liking the story so far, the songs work well in between dialogue, I like visual novel type stuff and should play more in that genre (it’s also why I play ESO, the massive amount of quests and character dialogue, all voiced), I was also around 20-30% into Star Trek Resurgence and stopped a while ago and really should restart that and finish it
Tangentially-related, I was thinking about actually getting into ESO (instead of just obsessively skimming the lore) now that I have a decent amount of disk space and have been in need of a TES fix since Oblivion Remastered. I even got the Roads to Power DLC for CK3 so I can play an adventurer in Elder Kings.
He’s got his hooks into me yet again.that’s sort of how I got there too, wanted to play more stories in that world after Skyrim, the quests in ESO are simpler than the single player games but the lore and vibes are there, also the overland/quest enemies are underpowered so at some point you would have to self-nerf a bit to keep it interesting, they are also unlocking access to all other classes’ skills soon so harder story content (dungeons) will be easier when playing solo
Just started Persona 3 Reload. As a longtime fan of the series, I do find it a little strange. Everything is laid out exactly as it was when this game came out on the PS2, but it’s all shiny and high rez. They didn’t take the opportunity to redesign much at all, so you see stuff like the interior of the dorms that feels very much like a 2000s era video game building interior where the ceiling is unrealistically high on each floor because they didn’t know how to program a camera back then, but again, super modern textures and lighting on top of that. It reminds me a little of those YouTube videos by like beginner game devs who import a bunch of Nintendo assets into Unreal engine and label it like 4K realistic Mario or something. Thankfully the UI sells the authentic experience.
But boy, did they overhaul the main dungeon and combat. That shit is smooth as hell and just as engaging as Persona 5. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the new vocalist so far. She just doesn’t give the battle theme the swag it used to. Something about the way she over-pronounces “baby, baby” bugs me, I guess lol.
That’s exactly how I felt when I played P3R, as someone who last beat it back in… 2014. They kept it the same but perfected the visuals, improved the QoL dramatically and had a lot of unnecessary fat trimmed, particularly from the dungeon crawling aspect.
The rework of Mass Destruction seems to be polarizing but I absolutely fw It’s Going Down Now (I just wish it played at a 50% chance instead of every time you get the battle advantage).
Still playing V Rising, now on a Brutal mode PVP server. It’s been great fun if anyone wants to join us DM me and I can give you server details, it’s a relatively nice bunch of folks with the assholes either getting mercilessly hunted or banned if they say any bigoted shit.
Ive been playing stellaris for the new expansion but stopped cause the performance is bad.
Im gonna play Suzerain, the Rizia expansion. If yoy guy dont know I recomend taking a look at Suzerain, its a political sim, you play as the president in the main game and as a king in the DLC, you can choose how to run the country.
My first game I got assasinated by the capitalist because I nationalized their industries.
Warframe. I did it. I finally did it. I got every single warframe. Now, I can finally play the game.
By which I mean, start grinding out every OTHER thing!
I’m also a Total War head and have played just about all of them for at least 100 hours. I usually play on something like Hard Campaign/Very Hard battles.
Tried playing Civilization 6 today and have only barely played some of 4 a decade ago. I feel like I’m really straining my brain with stuff like that and Paradox games. People bounce off Total War for sure, but at least stuff like “surround the enemy” and a lot of what goes on in battle is intuitive. Cities have significantly fewer resources or decisions to make.
I got owned by a flood during the first era that took out one of my fighters and builders and that let barbarians overwhelm me. It’s so embarrassing how little game knowledge transfers with genres like this.
Keep at it. I believe you can do it
Trying to play the early game like Total War was not the way to go, I think.
I declared war on my first neighbor reasoning I could farm their units for XP and come out ahead. But with barbarians and other stuff going on, it just meant that I stopped them from doing anything, but also stopped myself.
I’m gonna try to be more defensive and focus on taking out barb scouts since I learned how they report the location of your city back home to their camp.
If I recall correctly, here are some vague tips for Civ 6 (I’m not great at the game, but I have won a few matches):
Conquest and warfare are legit tools but you need to know what you are doing. (Which you dont so you will probably fuck it up) Try to get a second city out very early, around turn 20 to 30, not later. You probably should get a 3rd and even more cities over time ( I usually go for 5-6 in my games throughout the game) Try to settle next to new ressources you dont control at the start of the game. Oh and settle next to rivers or next to the ocean.
It might take a few games to get the hang of it, but barbarians aren’t that hard to deal with. Try to stop barbarian scouts from reporting your position to their camps that helps a lot. Honestly, I’d just recommend fucking around and getting a feel for the game.
Rome with Trajan is a decent beginner CIV.
Even if you dont wage offensive wars you want a small military or the AI will declare war on you . Different civs have different weighted AIs I think so - some leaders will be more likley to be aggressive etc.
I would recommend making a beginner thread in the Hexbear gaming comm. Im sure there are CIV6 players that are much better than me that can give you advice.
I might have time to teach you the game if you are really interested send me a dm if thats the case
Dwarf Fortress. Recruiting large, tall women into my fort and having them take over all the official positions. Mods are great ^^
Balatro. My life is over
Still playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Thinking about killing Lae’zel
You monster!
She’s a space fash
The spoiler free version is she’s… (and all of the new party members, really) complicated lol
Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3
You can find documents that prove to her that the entire way her society is structured is based on a lie and convince her to oppose the Githyankkki status quo.
Sadly, it’s some great man “the good king was usurped and slandered and now the evil queen is in control” type shit instead of something based and communist, but what can you expect from most mainstream writers?
This week, it’s Enter The Gungeon.
Thats a funny lil shooty bam game
Played crossplay BG3 with most of my friends for 3 hrs on Wednesday and it was a delight.
X4: Foundations! Currently trying to build a scrap processing factory while also raiding VIG Ice Miners.
im playing torrent BattleTech and play that again for the 3rd time
Been playing a lot of Skyrim recently, modded out the ass of course. Played a good chunk of time as an Altmer light armor spellblade and now am playing as a beefy orc warrior who mostly uses two-handers and crossbows.
Do you have Legacy of the Dragonborn? I’ve been a fan of using console commands to add to the museum what I’ve done in other playthroughs as a sort of NG+ mechanic.
For quest mods, I’d recommend Beyond Reach if you haven’t played it. A dark fantasy questline written by Marxists that fits in beautifully into the world of TES.
I just played through the interesting NPCs blood of Kings questline on a previous character. I might have to check out that blood of the reach one. I think I tried legacy of the dragonborn before and it was just too much for me. I’m not playing Skyrim to go to zero budget Elseweyr
