What Video Games Have You Been Playing #15: Computer not on fire yet? Better add more mods!

[Timsup2nothin]

Okay, despite being over thirty years old Bard's Tale still offers totally addictive grinding gameplay.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

After not being able to play the game for over a decade, I've finally finished Shenmue.

 

[cardgame]

Huzzah! Did you enjoy it?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I enjoyed it, but I don't know if I would recommend it except maybe in a historical sense. Like a lot of Sega games, it has ideas that were innovated and ahead of the time but now will seem dated.

 

[HEF]

Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia

Erathia has been restored! I've still got that magic touch.

Total Time: 323
Base Score: 1335
Difficulty Level: Hard
Final Score: 1335
Your Rank: Vampire Lord

 

[Takhisis]

Okay, despite being over thirty years old Bard's Tale still offers totally addictive grinding gameplay.

Is it like the original UFO: Enemy Unknown game, which in spite of its limited-colour, pixellated gfx and its clunky controls is still very much one of the worst addictions I've ever had and am always a candidate for relapsing on?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Is it like the original UFO: Enemy Unknown game, which in spite of its limited-colour, pixellated gfx and its clunky controls is still very much one of the worst addictions I've ever had and am always a candidate for relapsing on?

Sort of. In the remastering they removed the "pixelated" and maybe the "limited color" too...not sure on that. The controls are still a little clunky, but honestly they were way ahead of their time for the mid eighties and aren't really bad. The play is that perfect cusp between mindless repetition and occasional surprise where you are lured into just grinding along...forever.

If you've never played it and don't have the nostalgia in the balance making it a pre-existing weakness I can't say how you would react, but for someone who went through it when it was new it is a hard relapse just waiting to happen. The mid-eighties for me is back on the submarine, and there was a stretch of a couple years when if we were in port I could count on half my division showing up in the morning with "I was still up playing this game when my alarm went off and I really gotta get some sleep..." on any given day. Fortunately I didn't have a machine that could play it so I was spared for a while when it was brand new, but about the time I got out of the navy I had my own crash.

 

[Ajidica]

@Timsup2nothin wait, you played video games while on shore leave? I thought the only thing Navy guys did on shore leave was get blackout drunk and hope the officers didn't see them passed out in the gutter.

Although that could just be a Marines thing.....

 

[Takhisis]

Who the hell says that you cannot play videogames while drunk?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

@Timsup2nothin wait, you played video games while on shore leave? I thought the only thing Navy guys did on shore leave was get blackout drunk and hope the officers didn't see them passed out in the gutter.

Although that could just be a Marines thing.....

"My division" means the electronics technicians of Reactor Controls Division. We were young geeks with cash, which put us on the cutting edge of home computers and gaming. Every barracks room had at least one gaming rig, if not more, and when we were at sea the debates over the merits of the Apple II v Commodore 64 v various IBM clones v Tandy Color Computer would fill endless hours with no resolution to be had.

Now, when we pulled into a liberty port and didn't have access to our homes and stuff...yeah, blackout drunk was pretty much the norm.

 

[Takhisis]

Tandy Color Computer

Wooooah. I still remember setting Commander Keen and Dune II on DOS, including choices between VGA and EGA graphics, or B&W monitors. Good times.

 

[HEF]

The adventure continues in Pillars of Eternity: The White March (parts 1 & 2).
If anyone objects, it will be noted in my log.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Wooooah. I still remember setting Commander Keen and Dune II on DOS, including choices between VGA and EGA graphics, or B&W monitors. Good times.

My first ever national publication was in the pages of Rainbow: The Color Computer Monthly Magazine.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In the Witcher 3

Spoiler Plot spoilers :

The lady witch and Geralt were snooping around a laboratory looking for a mask. Then it started filling with poison gas, so the lady witch teleported them out. And then they had sex on the back of a taxidermied unicorn. WTH?

Other than that I've just been riding around Skellige looking at the pretty scenery and pissing off random leshens and things like that. Also I decided to upgrade the cool-looking Cat school armour to the level 23 enhanced upgrade while still at level 22 and came out of the shop window to find Geralt had stripped naked. I ended up using the Wolven Hour potion to put the new upgraded armour on. I hope he doesn't strip naked again when it runs out.

Also in Stardew Valley I blew up my farm fields by accidentally trying to plant a cherry bomb. Oops.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The minigun in the vertibirds of Fallout 4 kind of sucks. When you aim down the scopes of a minigun, the targeting reticle goes away. This is usally fine because the accuracy of minigun rounds is so bad that there is not a lot of point in aiming down the scope. But when you're flying around, you only have a few seconds to put rounds into a ground target before moving out of range and the lack of reticle doesn't help. I've sunk some points into the heavy gunner skills to help compensate with that but as a Survival player, this is sort of a loser for me because the heavy guns weigh to much for me to lug them around. And while the heavy guns are well, heavy, their ammo is made out of neutronium or something. A missile is 7 pounds, a fat man round about 30 pounds.

 

[cardgame]

If you really want to use heavies then dump all your points into str/end instead of the weapon skill. I literally never used any heavies because the mediocre damage output isn't worth the extra 900% weight over a standard gun and ammo. Missile launcher? No thanks, I have grenades for AoE and a sniper for ranged damage. Minigun? No thanks, I can do the same or more damage with literally any other weapon that only weighs 10% as much.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah I'm pretty close to max in strength and have multiple other strength-related perks. I'm at level 70 and still regularly getting fragged by minor enemies. Survival is brutal.

 

[cardgame]

minigun is fun in theory it's just tragically underpowered in the default game.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In Fallout 3, when going to Paradise Falls I went to my house and got the nuclear gun out of the locker first. That was the only time I really used it.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

minigun is fun in theory it's just tragically underpowered in the default game.

Yup, which is why door-gunning with it isn't as fun as it should be. If you miss 9 out of 10 shots, and that 10th shot only does like 5 damage, it's useless.

It took 10 minutes to take down a super mutant goliath and a small squad for one of the story missions where you hover over it.