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

[Birdjaguar]

@Sarin Yeah one has to open massed strongboxes carefully and perhaps in a specific order. I ID them all before opening any. I always carry a "can't be frozen" flask to switch out for yellow boxes with the freeze mod. In addition, for yellow boxes that explode, I always leap slam away as soon as I open the box.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I was playing a heavily modded Fallout: New Vegas. The game played without any problems at all, until I entered The Strip, then it constantly crashed whenever I reached The Tops Casino.

 

[Arakhor]

Now I am playing No Man's Sky. Not entirely sure how to feel about it yet.

Interesting! I'm playing the same game!

That makes three of us.

 

[Zkribbler]

My Civ 4 went into hiding, and so I bought a replacement on Steam.

I started with the Arabs, but could find neither bronze nor iron, and thus my melee troops were lame.

I started another game with the Spanish. For no particular reason, Montezuma has just declared war on me.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Loaded Crossout again

Its gone through a lot of changes since I last played, when I rage quite over the repeated nerfs to everything that I spent ages crafting.
Lot of new weapons, its fun to build vehicles but Gajin they have a stupid battlepass paywalling an entire faction is just bad. I see a lot of people using the new bulldozer blades which I cant get puts a downer on the game

It takes about 60-90mins to do all the daily / weekly missions with decent resources rewards
You can play matches against AI which makes clearing missions where you have to win battles a breese, where as before you could end up with a losing streak and it would take ages

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How...majestic?

 

[thecrazyscot]

I started another game with the Spanish. For no particular reason, Montezuma has just declared war on me.

I can think of a few reasons the Aztecs might have for declaring war on the Spanish...

 

[amadeus]

Pie-yay-yeah is pretty good.
Also ability to spell Spanish is pretty bad.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Long Dark. Those swaying rope bridges made me genuinely queasy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I tried to get back into NMS recently and couldn't do it. But I did spend over 200 hours in it to begin with so its not like I didn't get my money's worth. And a lot of my hesitation was that I am tired of relearning the economy and crafting trees and rebuilding my bases due to the massive upgrades and patching the game keeps getting.

New players won't have any of that baggage.


Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and XB1 is reportedly a hot mess of bugs and glitches right now. So much for a year of crunch....

 

[EgonSpengler]

Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and XB1 is reportedly a hot mess of bugs and glitches right now. So much for a year of crunch....

I've felt for a few years now that a game's initial release is basically an extended beta test - or a gamma test, if you prefer - and the games that do an "early access" release with warnings and disclaimers are just being more honest about it. And I'm finding that the tsunami of media coverage for Cyberpunk 2077 is eroding my interest in it. I even heard it mentioned on NPR this morning, which made me want to get back in bed and pull the covers over my head. I might save myself $60 and play Deus Ex again.

 

[Akka]

Yeah, not going to get Cyberpunk for a few weeks/months. I'll let them finish and polish it first.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Epileptic Reporter: I had a seizure during a certain scene in Cyberpunk 2077 which manages to pretty much replicate the sequence of lights that neurologists use to induce seizures, and there was no real warning about it. If you have problems with flashing lights, here's what to avoid. CDPR kind of messed up here.
Gamers: SNOWFLAKE!!!!!! IT WAS CLEARLY IN THE EULA!!!* YOU JUST WANT TO RUIN OUR EXPERIENCES!!!! Oh yeah, have some more videos with flashing lights.

*(Who even reads the EULA? And even then, when nearly every game has an epilepsy warning, it's about as useful as the California cancer warnings.)

 

[aelf]

Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and XB1 is reportedly a hot mess of bugs and glitches right now. So much for a year of crunch....

The mistake was buying it for console

 

[thecrazyscot]

Decided to do a fresh install of Civ 2 (classic, or rather MGE with the AI aggressiveness patched - not Test of Time, which I don't like as much) using the Civ2UIAdditions launcher and it works like a dream. I managed to also track down all the official scenarios that I missed from the Conflicts in Civilization and Fantastic Worlds expansions, which I look forward to exploring.

Since it's been a while I started with Prince, and am wiping the floor with the AI. Knocked Rome out early while they only had 3 cities, then fought a long multi-stage war against England because they nabbed Leonardo's Workshop and I couldn't let their enormous empire get all the free troop upgrades. After grinding them to dust I turned my attention to the treacherous Aztecs sequestered on a small continent. A small amphibious force of riflemen, cavalry, and cannons was enough to defeat their technologically backward army (tell me if you've heard that one before...). Then everyone else declared war, except for Russia who spawned after Rome was destroyed.

By this point I had bombers and aircraft carriers and transports loaded with marines. India and Japan showed a pitiful level of resistance, but China had the UN and forced a ceasefire. I spent the next few turns massing my forces and planning out my tactics. A few well placed demands caused them to declare war on me, and I spread my bombers out to remove all resistance in a single turn, with a few cruise missiles helping. A single marine and alpine trooper then waltzed through all their cities (Civ 2 railroads are the best) in a single turn. Oh, and I razed the city with the UN in it out of spite.

All that are left now are the Russians, and they are so pathetic I almost feel bad for them. They just figured out industrialization...

Not sure if I'll bump up the difficulty next or try a scenario.

 

[Zkribbler]

For no particular reason, Montezuma has just declared war on me.

This remains a mystery. They killed 0 of my land units; 0 of my navel units; and only 2 fishing boats. I killed every land unit I came across plus their galley which had sunk my fishing boats; and I took one of their cities--again while suffering no casualties. They agreed to a peace.

I've built two caravels. The one I sent west is doing fine. The one I sent east has blundered into a labyrinth of bays. It may have to double back...a long way.

I was two turns away from building the Apostolic Palace when it was snatched away from me.

I'm hoping to be the first to discover Liberalism and thus get a free tech.

 

[Takhisis]

They killed 0 of my land units; 0 of my navel units; and only 2 fishing boats.

Found a womb level?

 

[Ajidica]

I've felt for a few years now that a game's initial release is basically an extended beta test - or a gamma test, if you prefer - and the games that do an "early access" release with warnings and disclaimers are just being more honest about it. And I'm finding that the tsunami of media coverage for Cyberpunk 2077 is eroding my interest in it. I even heard it mentioned on NPR this morning, which made me want to get back in bed and pull the covers over my head. I might save myself $60 and play Deus Ex again.

Yeah, the advertising has almost turned me off of the game, hearing about it so much. Plus, my 5 year old desktop started making angry computer noises when I looked to see how well it would run on my hardware; and if I'm going to upgrade my desktop, I'm going to upgrade it so I can get another 5+ years out it, and going to give it the full upgrade. And I can't justify spending $1.5k on a $60 game.

 

[Aabraxan]

We've haven't had a gaming console in probably 5 years. When COVID first started ramping up, the Little Aabraxan (who isn't really so little any more) talked me into buying a Nintendo Switch. School had shut down and she was absolutely bored to tears. She used Zelda: Breath of the Wild as bait, because she figured I'd like it. So we got BOTW, Civ 6 and a couple of other games. Civ 6 is decent, but it's a major time and energy investment for me to play decently. I got completely hooked on BOTW, though. It's easy for me to kill a few hours on that one.

As I was on my second time through (which was going much faster, by the way), she broached the subject of buying me (us) a new game for Christmas. She suggested either Dark Souls or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. She was more interested in Skyrim, and I really just wanted something we would both play. So we chose Skyrim.

Holy Mother of Gaming Goodness! I know I'm behind the times in the gaming world, but there's just a ton of stuff to do in Skyrim. Between the sheer number of side quests and storylines, and the variety of different types of characters I could play, I can already see myself coming back to this one several times over.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I read Cyberpunk 2077 is about 250 hours long. Who needs that? Having slogged through Mass Effect Andromeda and The Last of Us II at about 60-70 hours each, I have no appetite for something that big. Both of those were great games that were actually worse off because of the bloat.

I am going to write a much longer post about how C2077 handles women and transgender characters when I unpack my computer. From what I have read, it's really bad and I want to contrast it with ME:A.