Eternal Darkness is one of the very few horror games I’ve played AND completed - well not 100%'d but played through twice, once on GC and once emulated.

The game kinda waters down the whole sanity thing as you can just magick your sanity back up. Same for health, and magick goes up by just running in a circle for a bit. So essentially you can just max all meters all the time.

Either way, it’s a neat game. Even for those who are not really into horror games, as the game isn’t really that spoopy - and this is coming from someone who just generally can’t with horror games.

Both seem reasonable. The banning is (AFAIK) mostly to prevent cheaters from making made-up familymember steam -accounts, and cheating in games as them. Once one made-up family member is banned, make another.

so, what I’m hearing is: for the price of 1€ per head, makes an okay timewaster for friday night beer-fueled gaming for 40-something coop-folk.

so how is the coop in this game? Racing as a team? How does it work? My friendgroup is VERY coop focused and 1€ is peanuts.

Oof, well, that does sound bad. But, still kinda interested. Wishlisted for sale, waiting for fairly deep one

went in expecting a space-skyrim with typical Bethesda jank, and that’s exactly what we got.

This is exactly what I’m expecting as well, so it’s fairly likely I’ll enjoy it. Wishlisted and waiting for a reasonable sale, I’m still kinda stuck in fallout: London for the foreseeable future - so not really hurting for content

so, how is starfield in current state, the pc version specifically? I do enjoy bethesda-style games (fallout 3, nv, 4, london, skyrim, etc.). I’m aware that at launch starfield was, apparently, quite the shitshow.

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles … but with the caveats that a) it’s only PARTLY like stardew/portia/harvestmoon and b) For the life of me I can’t remember if the game had money or not.

The game is partly farm-life-sim, but the other part is “zelda-like” adventuring and getting rid of “dark smoke thing” that does bad things to the world.

iirc their previous post about it mentioned refunding everyone.

this looks gloriously stupid, but dunno how long until the joke becomes stale… oh well, wishlisted and will re-examine the situation once it releases.

Okay, sure, when given the fps camera, closest things to the camera are getting noticed. Duh?

But all things considered, who cares about a single goblin toe? Im much more scarred about the thongs happening in nearby shed. Bleach please.

But at that scale there’s always gonna be compromises. Duh. Does somebody actually expect full fidelity between 3rd person and closeups all the time? Might be showing my age but I sure don’t. What kind of madnes is that?

Games don’t need the show everything, leave a bit to imagination. Sure visuals ate cool, but don’t let that be all there is to it.

afaik yea, and yet every time:

edit: apparently the image was pretty crunchy. basically most of the boycotters are playing the game they’re boycotting against.

Yep. Apparently outlook does this and afaik because some kind of link sniffing/scam detection/whatever, but it does it by changing the first characters of each query argument around.

We spent amazingly long time figuring that one out. “Who the hell has gotten Microsoft service querying our app with malformed query args and why”

Yea, Wild West is pretty dope. Haven’t finished it yet, played few hours and then for some reason managed to forget about it. :|

I might need to get back on it.

With roguelite dating sim features

okay, you got my attention, the entirety of that headline pressed basically all my feel-good receptors.

Do want, hopefully it’s good.

ooooh, this is a must watch. Indy:atlantis is pretty much my favorite game ever.

Got the game when I was a kid, it came bundled with a soundcard & cd-rom drive. I had seen Indiana Jones movies but didn’t know they also came in game form! I struggled through the puzzles - english being a second language and I had just started learning it - but I did it, I managed to beat the game… and then started it again because apparently there were branching paths with different puzzles in in! Good times. I’ve played the game so many times, probably interacted with every possible thing in it, love it to death.

I just wish we’d get a new Indiana Jones point & click -adventure, instead of platformers and fps games. But, p&c is a niche genre, I know. :/

OpenTTD, easily. The next two I’m having difficulties deciding.

I’m sure I want some rpg-ish imsim for sure, but dunno which one it should be. Probably picking next two games randomly from this group: DXHR, DXMD, Cyberpunk, Fallout 3/nv/4, Skyrim… I don’t know what to pick from these :|

it’s been multiple eternities since I’ve played 3 or NV. 4 I’ve played more recently, but that was … basically when the last dlc dropped? So… memory of those games not really the sharpest.

London is mechanically almost identical to 4 (duh? because mod, duh.). The parts of the main-story I’ve done has been great. I recall preferring side and dlc missions over main-plot in 4, but I was pretty into the main stuff (dlc or not) in NV.

some thoughts about it in no specific order:

• I’m around 20 hours in, and it feels like I’ve only started. Plenty of map markers opened, but VERY little of actual land area explored.
• there seems to be less emphasis on settlements, haven’t had a permanent residence (storage, bed) so far, been storing my junk in some friendly town crafting stations which don’t seem to de-spawn stored stuff (as tipped in the mod’s discord).
• but settlements are apparently still a thing (not sure how I feel about it, they were the worst part in 4, imo) - haven’t aquired a settlement yet.
• it’s bit more difficult than 4, ammo is a bit scarce and some enemies are ridiculously tanky, even at normal difficulty.
• the early game can be a bit brutal, but eases off as you get levels (ref: at ~10-15h or so in, I was finally able to take enemies down with confidence)
• The city is HUGE and dense (requires some more grunt from the computer than base-game), there’s things to do and see in every corner, a lot more buildings to enter.
• “level design” is mostly great, but there have been places where the route forward/mission critical progression item was hidden by all the clutter and generally darker lighting.
• the level design also contains surprisingly deep puddles here and there on the streets, and those build up radiation QUICKLY. Bodies of water in this game are dangerous.
• Food and other non-stimpacks seem to be in quite a big role, at least in early game. IIRC fallout 3/nv/4 basically showered the player with stimpacks.
• Voice acting is pretty good, if a bit hammy at times.

I recall enjoying all fallout games, some more than others. I mostly mod for convinience (eg. busywork, carryweight) so I’m not really playing the game(s) as intended. And this one is great… if a bit buggy here and there - but not any more so than actual Fallout games. :D

I totally recommend London, but it comes with an asterisk: the mod requires tweaking, and depending on your computer-skills it can be either “man, this is obvious” to “wtf am I doing”. Config-file editing and extra mods are required to get it actually working. Def recommending Mod Organizer 2 as well. Also, if your base fallout 4 (and dlc) are from steam, you need to downgrade from the “Next gen update”. I’m fairly sure there’s good step-by-step how-to’s to get it set up at this point.

I guess patient with documentation. Out-of-the-box experience is very crashy, and recommended stability mods require some ini-tweaking to make them stable. But the how-to guides keep evolving, I started my trip through the stability-minefield when the mod was released x)