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

[AdamCrock]

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I thereby bow my head to You ! Oh the great Game Breaker !!
Later I might not have a choice , so I bow now I bow to the "bug" in the sky !

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm on a rotation of:

SMAX as the Spartans. Started with crazy Miriam as my close neighbor, then aliens landed on the other side of her after I cut her off from enough of the continent for me to exploit. War with aliens allowed me to pact her briefly so I could turtle, and it took a good while for her natural hatefulness to get all the way down to attacking me. Unfortunately she got pretty big feasting on the aliens and exploiting her own cut off part of the continent which is bigger than mine. Morgan is scruffling with a few sea bases having been run off the other continent by the other aliens, and I'm now pacted with Diedra and Aki-Zeta 5 as they try to maintain humanity's edge over there. Getting dome slow push on the believers and trying to resist getting overextended.

X3AP, just sort of meandering. Working through the main Argon plot, but not hurrying. I've got two huge Mistral SFs with low rank CLS pilots that get them fully loaded with e-cells so they can jump them in whenever I find a big delivery mission. Other than that mostly scouting the map with my Adv Discoverer and taking patrol and protection missions that I jump in my Centaur to carry out.

The remastered Bard's Tale, I mindlessly grind at this when I...well...want to mindlessly grind for a half hour or so to let my brain unwind. My adventurers are rounding about tenth level and thus far are still exploring the third level of the sewers.


And I'm setting up to host my first game of Mafia right here on CFC.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I figured out how to spawn in another boat so I didn't have to swim all the way back.

Anyways I made it to Kaer Morhen. I found the room from the prologue.

Spoiler :

Sadly there's some weird hitbox issues with the bathtub so I can't get Geralt to jump into it. I did make him jump off the balcony again though.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sadly there's some weird hitbox issues with the bathtub so I can't get Geralt to jump into it. I did make him jump off the balcony again though.

How does the water in the bath tub turn into the surface of a raging sea? Is there a teapot somewhere with a tempest in it?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I was at 50% to reach level 90. Then I took on a metamorph I shouldn't have. I'm back to 30% Quite sad really.

 

[Takhisis]

Aimee, is there any game you can't destroy?

I'd love to see what aimee can get up to with Tetris.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'd love to see what aimee cang et up to with Tetris.

I tried Tetris once (a third-party version with a weird name). It crashed.

 

[Ajidica]

Going back to Borderlands 2 because why not?

 

[yung.carl.jung]

cel shading is just great

 

[Manfred Belheim]

My entire point is that tightly scripted tutorials are a bad idea because they represent a very bad tool to teach anyone anything for the reasons I explained.

I mean that's kind of how manuals work isn't it? You can't really say that anything other than interactive experimentation is useless for teaching you anything. The tutorial is to teach you the basics of the UI etc. You then learn the details and nuances by actually playing the game, as always. You're basically asking for what the latter provides anyway, but for the primer to be removed.

I ran into a weird glitch in the Witcher 3 every game I ever played.

I think you meant that.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think you meant that.

Yes

 

[Manfred Belheim]

If I were approaching that game with zero experience, as in if it was the first video game I had ever seen, what exactly could I have learned from said tutorial? The answer is nothing.

No the answer is "what the buttons do".

A good tutorial teaches you how to think in the context of the game. It teaches you what you need to know in order to make your own choice.

Or you just learn that stuff from playing the game. Again, you just seem to be asking for the tutorial to be the same as any regular mission, so you can try things and learn from your mistakes and successes. What would be the point of that? Just play the game to do that. The tutorial is basically just a manual, teaching you how the UI works. That's perfectly valid.

The XCOM 2 tutorial offers very little of that. It arguably does have a demonstration of what you can do with your units. But that's it.

That's all it's meant to do.

It does not offer you the time or space to experiment and get familiar with the skills you are supposedly being taught.

That's what the game is. And I think you're wrong in supposing what the tutorial is trying to teach you.

And in the end it has no test of those skills

The rest of the game is the test.

 

[HEF]

Pillars of Eternity: The White March (parts 1 & 2)

 

[EgonSpengler]

In the case of XCOM 2, I think the tutorial also has the first bit of the story. Something about 'the commander' being freed from a stasis tube..? If you've played XCOM before and you want to skip the tutorial, you wouldn't really miss anything, story-wise.

 

[Commodore]

I just realized that I haven't truly sat down and played a strategy game in forever. Of course that might have something to do with the fact that I am in desperate need of a new PC.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

So I'm a little worried....in the Witcher 3

Spoiler Plot spoilers :

I took Uma to Kaer Morhen and lifted the curse from him. So now I have to get a bunch of allies for a big fight and go to the Isle of Mists to find Ciri, which I guess is close to the end of the game. But I'm only around level 26 and there's a lot of sidequests and areas that are too high-level for me to do.

 

[caketastydelish]

I'm going to complete the desert treasure quest in Runescape later today. It's a very long (and important) quest and I'm looking forward to it. The rewards for completion are significant.

edit: I am using this to do it and I've already completed every suggested quest on the page to make it even easier, + crocodile tears so I don't have to worry about desert heat, + my levels should be comfortably high enough for the quest. I might steam this tonight when I do it.

 

[Ajidica]

So I'm a little worried....in the Witcher 3

Spoiler Plot spoilers :

I took Uma to Kaer Morhen and lifted the curse from him. So now I have to get a bunch of allies for a big fight and go to the Isle of Mists to find Ciri, which I guess is close to the end of the game. But I'm only around level 26 and there's a lot of sidequests and areas that are too high-level for me to do.

That quest segment is fun, don't worry too much about it. If you have completed all of the sidequests to within a level of your character, you should be good.

I found the main-quest battles easier than many of the side quest battles. CD Project clearly took in the feedback to Witcher 2 with some of the main quest battles being absurdly difficulty (like the first battle with the Kingslayer).

 

[cardgame]

@caketastydelish That was one I never did

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That quest segment is fun, don't worry too much about it. If you have completed all of the sidequests to within a level of your character, you should be good.

I found the main-quest battles easier than many of the side quest battles. CD Project clearly took in the feedback to Witcher 2 with some of the main quest battles being absurdly difficulty (like the first battle with the Kingslayer).

I actually had enemy upscaling turned on for a while because I was doing the main quests too high-level, but then I kept getting murdered by rats. So I turned it back off.