What Video Games Have You Been Playing, Part 10: Or; A Shameful Display!

[GoodSarmatian]

Once again Stellaris.
Took a break from the game until they stopped patching it nearly every week.
Made the mistake of making a Fully Automated Pansexual Luxury Space Communism empire.
Problem is, Communism requires Democracy.
Democracy still sucks !

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Who the hell thought the planet scanning was a good idea? I tried looking for a mod to make it more tolerable, but the only one available also removes the two hacking minigames (which I find sorta fun).

 

[H4run]

during my dragon age gameplay I heard Wynne flirts Alistair heavily, the line involved Wynne finding Alistair right beside her in the morning and reminds him about his grand mother, even Alistair don't believe what he heard, lol I never remember to encounter any of this conversation before.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Soooo...the original incentive to install and mod Oblivion was the new giant monitor and the belief that with my current machine I could use all the hi-res graphics mods. When that fell on its face I couldn't leave well enough alone and basically just remade my long term known modded game (gutting basically every game mechanic down to the bare ground and rebuilding it) running the original graphics (admittedly, turned up to max settings for the first time, which is cool). I also, for the first time, added a bunch of content mods, along with the DLC package that I had never bothered with before, so I have a whole bunch more quests than I ever had before, in the game Bethesda Modding Skeletons should have made but didn't. If they were honest and just said "we don't actually make games any more, we just build worlds for people to mod a game out of" I'd have so much more respect for them.

 

[Akka]

My Shepard told him off for setting the trap and got renegade points. Apparently the paragon option was to agree with him. The morality system is weird.

Well, as we discussed earlier, you can often think of "Renegade" and "Paragon" as meaning "confrontational" and "diplomatic" in ME2, rather than "evil/good". Well, except when it isn't and it's back to "evil/good". Don't sweat it too much

 

[Broken_Erika]

Soooo...the original incentive to install and mod Oblivion was the new giant monitor and the belief that with my current machine I could use all the hi-res graphics mods. When that fell on its face I couldn't leave well enough alone and basically just remade my long term known modded game (gutting basically every game mechanic down to the bare ground and rebuilding it) running the original graphics (admittedly, turned up to max settings for the first time, which is cool). I also, for the first time, added a bunch of content mods, along with the DLC package that I had never bothered with before, so I have a whole bunch more quests than I ever had before, in the game Bethesda Modding Skeletons should have made but didn't. If they were honest and just said "we don't actually make games any more, we just build worlds for people to mod a game out of" I'd have so much more respect for them.

When you say DLC package, would that include Shivering Isles? Sheogorath DLC is best DLC.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Who the hell thought the planet scanning was a good idea? I tried looking for a mod to make it more tolerable, but the only one available also removes the two hacking minigames (which I find sorta fun).

I liked it but it can get tedious - in ME:A there are like 40 planetary systems or something ridiculous. I once spent an entire 3 hour play session just going to different planets to scan them so I could to 100% explored status for the galaxy. I always liked planetary scanning until ME:A and now it drives me nuts.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's pretty satisfying when you hit a big deposit of element zero, though.

There's a blank spot in my squad lineup, even though I got all the dossiers and I'm just going around doing loyalty missions. I guess someone else will be joining us at some point.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

When you say DLC package, would that include Shivering Isles? Sheogorath DLC is best DLC.

Yeah, all that. Shivering Isles looks like the only real substance in the DLC pack. Maybe KotN. Either way, back in the day I was concerned enough about Bethsoft's DLC disrupting my carefully balanced modded game so I ignored them, but all the required mods have been updated to incorporate them by now.

 

[Arakhor]

The Oblivion DLCs mostly add new homes and quests to get those homes, but they're actually involved quests, unlike Creation Club "quests".

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

If you get the DLCs, also grab Arthmoor's DLC Delayer. You need Wrye Bash to set it up right but it keeps you from inheriting 5 houses right as you leave the sewers. Or just disable them until you want to do them.

 

[Arakhor]

I thought that the refurbished DLC mods already did that.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This? https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/11474

 

[Arakhor]

That looks like them, yes.

 

[Synobun]

I'm kinda floundering around with games at the moment. I got the Borderlands remaster to work and so I burned through that pretty quickly. I tried The Pre-Sequel but I didn't like it. I'll probably let it sit for a few months/another year before trying again; I didn't like Borderlands 2 at first either.

Tried playing some more Rise of Nations but I'm still kinda burnt out on it. Went to Fallout 3 but it's been too soon since I last played it.

So now I'm replaying Borderlands 2 again. Before the remaster dropped I spent a bougie $2 and got all the DLC so I'm trying the Psycho class. The voice acting for the character seems good but I haven't gotten far enough to see what kind of skills he has.

As an aside, the performance for Borderlands 2 has improved, which is nice. I needed .ini tweaks before to make it run smoothly but now I don't, and I can even increase the view distance.

I've been waiting for Kitty Catsanova to release on Steam for half a year but they keep pushing back the release date. They did release Blush Blush, a male version of Crush Crush. I'll probably poke at that soon. It's been too long since I've played a clicker/incremental game that can hold my attention.

 

[Takhisis]

Open MW on my Linux Mint. Having to play Pure Morrowind Game of the year, no mods. Interesting change must be prepared for the first Dark Brotherhood attack with my first sleep.

Also trying out a 'No Iron' game, my weapons and armor must be 'Non Metallic", Chitin and Bonemeld, plus Enchanted items.

Runs natively on Mint? I'll have to check it out, even if Wesnoth is eating up all my free time.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Sekiro is good (great even) but its feeling even harder than Dark Souls. It is not possible to take a patient "shield'n'poke" style of play and make it work. If you give enemies and especially bosses room to breathe then they start pulling out their biggest attacks. Paradoxically the most defensive style of play is brutal onslaught to keep them on the back foot.

man I'm so jealous. too much of a cheapskate to pay full price on that bad boy. I'm itching every day. already got to play it 2 times at friends' and I thought it was amazing. the fluidity, the vertical worldbuilding, the choreographed encounters, it's like ballet.

Open MW on my Linux Mint. Having to play Pure Morrowind Game of the year, no mods. Interesting change must be prepared for the first Dark Brotherhood attack with my first sleep.

Also trying out a 'No Iron' game, my weapons and armor must be 'Non Metallic", Chitin and Bonemeld, plus Enchanted items.

we should do TES3MP sometimes. I think it'd be hilarious playing online Morrowind with all the CFOT elder scrolls fans.

Hot take: vanilla Oblivion and Skyrim are both fine.

this statement is half correct!

 

[Senethro]

man I'm so jealous. too much of a cheapskate to pay full price on that bad boy. I'm itching every day. already got to play it 2 times at friends' and I thought it was amazing. the fluidity, the vertical worldbuilding, the choreographed encounters, it's like ballet.

I sold some old counterstrike souvenir item so I've spare steam credit to burn. It'll be worth the wait. By the end it really has taught you to dance.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

While playing with a save editor, I found some entries called OffsetBones. Wanted to see what they were. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea

Spoiler :

 

[FriendlyFire]

Durango
Its Korean for making me fail like 20 times to tame a Zebra mount, the mounts only last for a few months as well
But it has other interesting things going for it, surviual, basebuilding, crafting and fun gameplay loops