In What Electronic Entertainment Have You Been Partaking #18: Reticulating Splines

[hobbsyoyo]

Did they mention that in the past year the universe suffered a serious devaluation of the currency and your billions have been
re-calibrated and now show a value of 100 New Coin?

Oh my god if that had really happened I would have had the most epic meltdown. It took over 200 real-world hours to accumulate that fortune and a ton of logistical planning and work. I even broke out pen and paper to keep track of my inventories and supply chains!

The good news is that my billion dollars is still a billion dollars. The bad news is that they dismantled all of my bases and broke my manufacturing facilities such that I pretty much have to start over. There are a few fragments of my complexes that remain - a mostly barren building here and there out of once sprawling hubs - but even these are worthless because they add electricity as a resource/requirement and none of the building fragments have power.

It's a bit upsetting but I do feel I got my money's worth out of the game. I'm just not sure it's worth sticking around to re-learn all the ropes seeing as the graphical and flora/fauna upgrades to the game are less than I had hoped for and insufficient to keep my interest. There are new vehicles I could build like a submarine but it's quite an effort to collect all the resources and I don't think I can bother.

Oh well, it was fun for a while.

 

[AdamCrock]

There was also a glitch where quicksaving, murdering a shopkeeper, and then quickloading could refill their gold.

I must bring You shopping one day ..... I'll take the bucket, You'll handle the daggers

 

[amadeus]

simadeusⅡhouse:

▲工事中▲
(under construction)

Spoiler the house :

I've reduced the size quite a bit starting over from scratch. It's kind of an amalgam of houses I've seen around the different neighborhoods. Right now it sits unfurnished; I just wanted to get the basic structure in first before I started putting in everything.

There's going to be a fence and garden around it, which I'll get around to in due time.

Spoiler ground floor :

As seen below the ground floor has a couple of living areas, a dining area, and a very modest kitchen. Oops, just noticed now the ground floor bathroom has no door on it yet. Anyway, lots of windows, some of which seem to make no sense, keeping true to the modern design philosophy of the 1970's and 1980's.

Spoiler third floor :

The second floor is not terribly interesting so I skipped up here to the third, where the master bedroom and small office will be. Unfurnished, perhaps it is not terribly interesting.

I'll have to post more once I get it all furnished to my satisfaction and the garden walls up, etc.

That's why it's under construction.

 

[AdamCrock]

Imho the Sims games have a bit of a trouble with right scaling. I like the house layout It's really nice and huge

 

[EgonSpengler]

American Truck Simulator: Driving my new Peterbilt 579 day cab from Fresno to Oxnard and this little baby came on the radio.

Spoiler :

 

[amadeus]

Imho the Sims games have a bit of a trouble with right scaling. I like the house layout It's really nice and huge

Well, there's no doubt that the game was designed with the American Super-Size House in mind.

My graphics settings are a little on the lower end because I want everything to run smoothly. I don't remember when I bought this laptop, 2013? 2014? Good performance for everything that I do since other than this browser and some office applications, nothing I run is newer than from whenever this came out.

Spoiler more house :

The front entrance. I need to put a some lights in here yet.

Dining room with lots of browns and yellows. By the window is actually a dresser but I put these in for decoration.

Peeking into the kitchen from the dining room. The passageway needs to be recolored to match the woods but other than that I'm pretty much finished with these two rooms.

 

[JPetroski]

I continue to dabble with The Isle, which is a dinosaur survival game. I think it costs about $20 normally and may well be part of a steam sale in the next few days. Even at $20, it's well worth it, but if it drops in price you should consider snagging it.

There is something completely satisfying about sneaking up on a raptor with your subadult t-rex, ready to sprint out from the treeline to ambush it as it walks across an open field, only to catch a glimpse of a gigantasaurus adult lumbering towards it as well, and then high-tailing it out of there before you become lunch yourself. There's a number of dinosaurs available with more coming in the remake "Evirma" which is building up steam (and which I believe is free to people who already own this).

Here's the wikia.

Here's a link to a guy named Brakabore's youtube adventures of an allosaur, which I would recommend as a good starting dinosaur (it takes an hour to grow to an adult, and then I think 2 hours to reach full growth from there, but at least you can run and do some damage an hour in).

 

[Ajidica]

Does anyone have any experience playing Divinity OS 2 through Direct Connect, or co-op in general?
I'm going to try and play a coop game with my sister this weekend and want to try and head off any bugs/issues that may emerge.
Like, if I start a conversation with an NPC and she is nearby, can she 'listen in' on the conversation?

Also, for those who have done Divinity OS 2 co-op, is story mode way too easy? My sister has basically no experience with RPGs outside of some D&D with friends, so it is basically going to be us messing around with my character providing the bulk of the combat power. I don't want us to have to XP hunt or reload fights (except maybe once or twice for big boss battles).

 

[HEF]

American Truck Simulator: Driving my new Peterbilt 579 day cab from Fresno to Oxnard and this little baby came on the radio.

Yeah!

Definitely travelling music by today's standards.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Yeah!

Definitely travelling music by today's standards.

I'll admit, it was hard not to speed.

 

[Arakhor]

I've been playing Morrowind a lot. Though I'm a little directionally challenged. Even after staring at the signpost for five minutes I still manage to make a wrong turn and end up in some random town in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go.

It's fun.

You are quickly finding out why Morrowind is in my top two favourite games of all time.

 

[Ajidica]

You are quickly finding out why Morrowind is in my top two favourite games of all time.

Just wait until she meets NPCs that lie to you about where the quest target is.

 

[Arakhor]

Does anyone know of a decent game on Steam or GOG that I can get for less than 6.44 CAD? Prolific let me withdraw the money I had in my account when they blacklisted my ISP, but it's not enough to transfer to the bank.

Whilst I'm thinking about it though, Two Worlds Epic Edition, Populous: the Beginning, Ticket to Ride and both Dungeon Keeper & Dungeon Keeper 2 are available for less than £4 each. Hell, you could get all of them right now on GOG for less than £10 for the lot.

 

[Ajidica]

Two Worlds is a hilariously fun Oblivion knock-off.

Two Worlds II* loses all the 'bad game charm' from the original and tries too hard to be a Big Boy game.

*To quote ZeroPunctuation, the game has a title that suggests they didn't think they would get a sequel.

 

[Arakhor]

Oh yes. Two Worlds has cheesy graphics (except the scenery, which is genuinely good) and even cheesier voice-acting (varying between 'bad' and 'so bad it's good'), but the game play is good and there are some genuinely good ideas (stacking duplicate inventory items to make better items is one of them).

 

[JPetroski]

Every single one of you who still has a copy of Civ2 Test of Time MUST go check out this thread and see what @Knighttime has done. He's basically created an entire new game with the Civ2 engine that takes place in the medieval period. He's utilized lua to get every last drop out of Civ2 that's possible. It's absolutely one of the coolest things I've playtest in the past 20 years.

 

[GenMarshall]

After installing 16GB of Ram, I’m starting to dabble into modded Minecraft, installing mostly tech mods including immersive engineering, a remake of industrial craft, plus a few magic mods. I usually fire it up when I’m not on WoW.

You are quickly finding out why Morrowind is in my top two favourite games of all time.

Skywind when?

 

[Arakhor]

Skywind could literally make me hot buttered toast in the morning and it still wouldn't be a patch on Morrowind. If it's even half as good as it looks like it might, though, it will probably be worth playing.

 

[Zardnaar]

Every single one of you who still has a copy of Civ2 Test of Time MUST go check out this thread and see what @Knighttime has done. He's basically created an entire new game with the Civ2 engine that takes place in the medieval period. He's utilized lua to get every last drop out of Civ2 that's possible. It's absolutely one of the coolest things I've playtest in the past 20 years.

Think I do but idk if the pc will run it.

 

[JPetroski]

Let us know if you need any help. It works well enough on modern windows so long as you don't put the game in program files.