Hello everybody. Hope you all have had a good week and weekend. This week I’ve continued my Elden Ring Seamless co op mod playthrough with my brother, and finished my OG Rome Total War campaign as the Scipii with conquering the entire map. I have put 1000s of hours in RTW since I was a kid, but while taking stock near the end of my campaign I noticed I had a governor in Spain that was 95 years old, which to my memory is the oldest character I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately he died right before I conquered the final region.

Anyway, hope you all have been doing well. Happy Gaming

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    4 days ago

    I just got to gold rank in 2xko. But my appartment internet has turned shitty so I can’t get good matches. I was just going to play the arcade mode to practice my BnB combo but that requires good internet to play one player. It is upsetting.

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    7 days ago

    Roguelites are now officially bourgeois decadence.

    (I died on the last level before winning in Streets of Rogue copium )

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    25 days ago

    Subnatica below zero. Just finished FF16 and was pleasently surprised by it. It was nice to play a true to form final fantasy game again, though while the combat was fun I do miss the classic open world turned based combat.

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      25 days ago

      Lost Planet 2 also has a benchmark and may be playable. It’s my favorite in the series.

      If you have any emulation-related questions feel free to hit me up ideally through replies here in case it also could help someone else

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    007, did play it to the first mission but it is not for me. Now playing Gothic remake, got cheeky at the first gate and got my ass handed to me swiftly. Another go tonight.

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      9 days ago

      Did you play the original gothic? I want to check it out but I’m worried I’m not going to stay interested without some level of nostalgia for the original.

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    25 days ago

    Playing through the dishonored series, currently finishing Knife of Dunwall and then on to the Brigmore Witches. Very solid game and honestly love playing the DLC since I never tried that. Trying out some new demos on steam as well, Burn-9 seems interesting you play as the operator for a Solid Snake style figure in a mission that’s gone FUBAR. It’s by the same peeps that did Citizen Sleeper so the writing seems to be good/going somewhere

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    25 days ago

    Warframe has its hooks in me, man.

    I’m thoroughly impressed by the balance of power fantasy gameplay, grimbright world building, and just enough spreadsheet simulator to scratch my autism. Even rank and file daily quests feel satisfying and useful. Do rebind crouch to Caps Lock, though. Your pinky may fall off otherwise.

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    25 days ago

    After finishing first light i went on a 007 binge and completed a bunch of games in the series but burned out half way through 007 goldeneye reloaded

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    24 days ago

    Anyone have any recommendations for mobile games? Burnt out on Balatro, would rather not slough aimlessly through the microtransactions/ad-slop games to find something decent. Don’t mind shelling out some money to buy the game if it means avoiding that.

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      11 days ago

      What types of mobile games are you interested in?

      Edit: just realized I’m in the wrong thread because this one was pinned lol. But if you’re still looking for suggestions my question still stands

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        I do like roguelikes, I’m really into variant sudoku so puzzle games along those sort of lines. I tend to play a lot on public transit so I prefer games that are turn based.

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          I’m on iOS so if you’re android idk if all these options are available. Monster train is a pretty fun rogue like deck builder. If you have a Netflix account into the breach is a really fun puzzle game. Since you mentioned sudoku Hashi is a fun puzzle game that has apps and ways to play in browser. If you are on iOS and into 4x games starbase Orion is a pretty good game and even has an active asynchronous multiplayer player base. And lastly since you’re probably aware if you’re into sudoku variants, cracking the cryptic is a YouTube channel that does a lot of sudoku variants and you can play puzzles in browser or they have a dedicated app

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    25 days ago

    shadows of colossus, i never finished it back in the day so i’m just going for a fresh start run through. i like the lack of mook bashing and the focus being on these singular puzzle fights, nice to play with my mind half focused on other stuff.

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    25 days ago

    Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood : Solid buy if you get it for $5 or less. I knew going in that it was supposed to be mediocre, but I what I didn’t know was it’s relation to the Vampire: The Masquerade series, so that was a fun rabbit-hole to explore.

    The gameplay is very sloppy but mostly decent fun, split between very bland stealth segments and gigantic hulking werewolf action segments that kind of remind me of the combat in games like Prototype, if people remember that game (you’re a super-hero / bio-horror in an open-world setting).

    The premise of the story is great, in that you’re a band of werewolf eco-terrorists who … do werewolf eco-terrorism. The game was either unwilling or unable to fully actualize this vision in the actual plot. Might have been publisher squeamishness, might have been EU arts funding stipulation.

    Most of the other characters you have relationships with have models that look multiple console-generations older than the protagonist (who to the game’s credit looks pretty good in human and werewolf forms), and this makes some of the attempts at emotional cut-scenes very funny. One of the main allies you have looks like she was purchased from the Unity asset store and they forgot to add anything to her model.

    Environments look great though, shout-out to the environmental artist. The first area is my favorite: pacific northwestern forest at night with a full moon looking gorgeous, realistically rendered but with some stylization in its presentation to give it a more mystical vibe, but then inter-cut with scenes of a devastating logging operation, oil-rigs visible off the coast, hastily build roads carving through to facilitate the continued extraction.

    It’s alright.

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      vtm/werewolf/mages are some of the most fun ttrpg’s to play with people you know and trust and perhaps the worst to play with randos in all of gaming. i did like earthblood well enough though, i agree with the plot compromises and gameplay clunk but like you say it was a decent romp for what it is, the background lore is a lot of fun, and the game world is pretty.