I played Darkest Dungeon. Quit after the game became a job. I can tolerate only so much bullshit in a game and when the game is clearly built towards 'you only succeed when you get a lucky roll' the bullshit intolerance builds up quick. So the final straw was in a battle where my arablest who had crit chance of 52 didnt score a single crit and a houndmaster who rocked a 50+ dodge didnt do a single dodge i was done with it. I mean if i'm playing a game I want to be part of the game not watch some random comic unfold.

I finished Watchdogs 2. Boring. The biggest problem was the 'oh i'm this jolly funny hacker and then i go and mow down people with a machine gun.' Ridiculous.

I played Atom RPG. Fairly decent but so damn slow i quit.

I signed up for origin access for 1€ to play Tyranny. Mixed feelings on this one. Somehow I cant bring myself to give a sh*t about the story or the characters but I'm still at the beginning.

Scratch that remark on Tyranny. It got a whole lot more interesting.

Man, Peltz, I'm starting to feel a bit of blooming in you. Derf would be proud.

I am still playing Kenshi... I'm not going hardcore.. if I do something stupid or someone dies because I'm not paying attention to the right group, I reload. That's the kind of game I'm playing right now... I'm very much considering starting a new game though and I'll probably be a bit more hard core. So yes, you are still alive and your skills are much higher. I'll see if I can make some screenshots. I also added a few mods... I bumped up the limit on how many characters you can have, made it so you can recruit prisoners, and I think that's about it right now. I'll probably add some more quality of life mods at some point.

Currently I've got a few squads... my "main" squad is all my tanks (including Ox, I think there are 4 or 5 now), two bulls for pack animals, and then Shiny, Satis, Peltz and one other guy who are more lightly armored. Shiny uses a wakizashi we stole from a slave trader boss that's the highest possible quality.. Satis, Peltz and the other guy are martial artists still. Satis is up to 80+ strength with a toughness in the 60+ range. I've seen him punch people's limbs off and do over 200 damage in a single hit. It's glorious. I have my farmer squad that takes care of the base. I also have a ranged squad that all have crossbows. Once I've trained them up enough, I plan to use them to hunt the really powerful end-game creatures, like King Gorillo and Leviathans. The idea is I'll have a tank or two kite it around while the archers wreck it from distance. I screwed up positioning at one point and one of my guys shot off another of my guy's arms with a single bolt. Hopefully with some practice the damage will go up and friendly fire will go way down. Lastly I have a noob squad. I've currently got these guys just running around the base doing chores until they build a little athletics and strength.

Recently I began building a new base, one much closer to the ashlands, which is like an endgame area. I hope to be able to raid inot that regularly without having to slog across the whole continent to get there. Getting that up and running will take awhile, but I recently unlocked hydroponics, which helps since the ground is dead and won't grow stuff.

Err, other than that, Shiny and I started playing Divinity: Original Sin 2. We're on the starting island, but either we chose a bad combination of classes or the difficulty level is really uneven. We're pretty close to just quitting because some of the fights are absolutely ridiculously difficult.

More recently we picked up Astroneer and are playing that together. It reminds me a lot of No Man's Sky, actually, but a tiny bit less grindy. It still requires a lot of tabbing out and searching on how to get/create various resources so I can build widget X, but so far it's fun. The fact Shiny forced me to skip the tutorial may be part of the issue on this one.

Still playing whatever the hell tomb raider I was working on. Not super into it, so it's kinda languishing. It's not a bad game, but a bit grindy at times.

Here are some newer pics of Ox's stats and gear. Stats wise, strength is up 2 points, which isn't much. However, toughness is up 13 points to 61, which is quite good and dexterity is up a bit. You exclusively use a plank (a really big area attack sword) and your heavy weapons skill is up by 13 points to 57. Melee attack, melee defense and dodge are all up a good chunk (11, 17, and 11 respectively).

Gear-wise, you're wearing an assortment of specialist and masterwork armor. The masterwork helmet you took from a Holy Nation high inquisitor that no longer needed it. I'm pretty sure that guy was a one-of-a-kind boss kind of dude. I can't recall the quality of the plank off the top of my head... either edge type 1 or 2 (which Shiny makes) or meitou, which is the highest grade possible and can only be looted.

In the back you can see Gorillo, who's another one of my tanks. He was the head of a bandit faction (The Gorillo Bandits), but I defeated him and then recruited him thanks to a mod. He didn't appear to mind that I had lopped off one of his legs in the process. It's cool, I gave him a robot leg. The guy's built like a gorilla. His strength is 88, which is pretty nuts.

I think i haven't played a PC game in ages now. The few game time i have i'm currently spending in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on Nintendo Switch. Slowly getting aquinted with the game mechanics, way too many options on weapons (16!) and weapon styles to try them all, so i went with a big hammer, just trying to smash everything into the ground.

Finished Tyranny. Good game. Although I would advise not to choose a tank for the main character. Mine was a two-hander wielding hp juggernaut but i was so busy managing my other teammates I rarely used his abilities or the team skills. Go with something that can move around the battlefield. I liked tyranny more than pillars of eternity series.

Glad to hear you're still alive man! I gifted you a copy of Sokobond for Christmas but you never accepted it, so the gift came back and the money was refunded to me. At least it lines up with your story though.

@ Satis thanks for the pic! Lookin' good. Feel a bit intimidated by Gorillo though, he sounds as if he could break me in two. Does he also look super duper buff or is it just a stat? Chuckled when I read the story about the guy with the crossbow shooting off one of his buddy's arms. Let's hope for your sake that their damage levels up equally with their aim, or you might be setting yourself up for a clusterfuck. You're still digging the game clearly, which is cool. I tend to bounce off hard on games like these after a while (usually after a brief but intense period of OCD obsession with them).

I'm slowly playing through Original Sin 2 with a friend as well and you're not wrong, the early game combat is pretty difficult. We are in the 2nd or 3rd area now in our game and combat is a lot easier than it used to be. I think it's one of the drawbacks of being a really open game where you can do and kill almost anyone, there are some enemies and areas that are just really not realistic for you to fight right away, but there is no real indication of that beyond the (I think) red font used for their names. So you kind of have to pick your battles at first, but BECAUSE it's an open world it's not always easy to find the 'right' battles to level up in, and what order to do them in. Like you I was a bit disappointed that they hadn't come up with a solution for this difficulty curve in the "definitive" version. But I remembered it was the same in the first game so plowed on, and now it's all ok. If anything it was really satisfying to go back and commit genocide on a faction that previously would have been a challenge if they just fought us one at a time. Anyway, if you feel like giving it a second chance I'd just turn down the difficulty for the first chapter and see how it goes. It's a really fun game beyond that initial frustration.

@ Peltz mmm I actually liked the Pillars of Eternity games (well, that is to say I liked the original after March of Winter) so maybe I should give Tyranny a spin then. What would you say are the biggest differences/similarities with PoE2? On a sidenote, they released a (beta) turn-based mode for PoE2. https://eternity.obsidian.net/news/pill ... -mode-beta Could be interesting.

I personally just finished Sunless Skies...mixed feelings. I loved the predecessor Sunless Sea, so I kickstarted this and was hoping for the best. And it's good, but it just felt a bit...off. For one, the setting is now a skyfaring one vs. a nautical one, and while they are in practice identical (fly/sail around in the sky/ocean filled with islands and beasts) the underground sea just worked more for me. The game is also MUCH bigger than Sunless Sea, with instead of one large map 3 medium sized ones and one small one. Not a problem in itself but I felt like I was wasting tons of time travelling from one to the other. You also can't travel from area A to C, you ALWAYS have to pass through B. And that...takes a while. Which brings me to the biggest issue: all vessels you can use have the same exact top speed. No matter if you use the smallest or the biggest ship, whether it's fully loaded or manned, it's always the same (leisurely) pace. And it starts to grate very quickly, as a lot of the game is travelling back and forth to places. On the bright side, the writing is usually delicious (if a bit verbose at times), as is the worldbuilding, and the combat has been improved versus Sunless Sea. So I have fond memories of the stories and adventures, strange places and mysteries I uncovered. But also a sort of slow mo PTSD from how slowwwww everything went, and you need to grind quite a bit to build up a decent fortune to fund your travels and adventures. Now that my current captain retired to a life of wealth and it passing on a fully decked out ship, looots of starting cash and a fully explored map I will at some point start a second game with my offspring, for one of the more story-based goals (immortality, fame). Should be more fun with most of the exploring done, and less need for grind. But not yet.

Haha, it's still the thought that counts. Thx anyway.

So.... yea... gorillo is pretty big. He might be able to rip your arm off. Here's a little pic to show the size differences. You toon still has a better balance of skills, but Gorrillo might wreck you. I may have to find a deathmatch mod so I can have you two fight.

LOL, that shit is redonk. He actually looks like a human gorilla. Is this even a human, really? Looks more like a mutant or a crossbreed or something. #noracist But yeah, looks like he would rip me to pieces.

I finished playing Sunless Skies and the first person Myst-like puzzler Quern: Undying Thoughts, both good games with some serious issues that grated with me - for different reasons of course, they're not exactly similar games. If you loved Myst then I would definitely recommend you give Quern a spin...I bounced off some of the late game puzzles, hard, but otherwise it was quite a relaxing and enjoyable experience.

Oh almost forgot: I picked up the classic adventure game The Last Express over christmas and...I really loved it. It was probably one of the most interesting games I've ever played in terms of setting, story and characters. of course it's a bit wonky now, 20 years later, but the remake really helps minimizining the frustration. Very much recommend it, it's a special game. May have something to do with my unnatural love for trains but hey.

Started playing Dishonored 2 now, which is a great game but I suck at it. Doing this playthrough without too much regard for human life, looking to do another one with the other main character in an attempt to not kill anyone. Also playing the old school Lucasarts adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Good fun!

I picked up the Divison 2 since I played the first one with Shiny for WAY too many hours. It's essentially more of the same with some variety... basically an evolution (but not revolution) of the original. Fun enough and worth the price of entry in my opinion. Not much time for other games.

Hey, games are more about quality than quantity anyway, so as long as you're having fun!

I just finished the Prison Architect main campaign which was fun but not much more than that. Checking with friends if the open play mode is worth it before I decide to give it a try.

I'm also playing Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, which is really doing it for me so far. I'm one book in (the game is based on a book series) and it's really good (and relaxing) to play it from the couch with the steam link + controller and a nice glass of strong beer. It's basically a mix of a point and click adventure and a Telltale game with beautiful hand-drawn graphics. Recommended if that is your bag.

Also finished D4 (Dark Dreams Don't Die) a few weeks ago and that was...very Japanese. Like, super duper fucking weird. But fun. Only shitty part about is that it clearly is unfinished (and according to its maker never will be finished). The game comes in 2 episodes and the second one ends on an extremely obvious cliffhanger. But meh, I kinda knew what I was getting into. That's why I picked it up for 2 euro on a sale, and it was worth the price of admission.

I did finally complete the second Tomb Raider game after way too many months of it languishing in my "started but not finished" pile. Not that it's a bad game, it just never really grabbed me and it's stuffed to the gills with collecting type quests, which I unfortunately have a tendency of falling into. Still, got it done, so that was good.

Moved on to Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. That was a pretty good game, though off the rails weird at times. Completed that just this weekend. Spoiler time...


After completing that game in a record 2 weeks (I think) I have now started on Watch_Dogs 2. It's fine so far. We'll see how the game play evolves. I tried doing some of the side missions and have a tendency to just die a lot, but I suspect that situation will improve once I unlock more skills.

Holy shit that clip That's just so weird on so many levels. Apparently they don't believe in wearing bras in Wolfenstein? Take of your jacket and you're instantly completely topless. Not that that was the weirdest thing going on there, but still.

Re: Tomb Raider collection quests, they fuck with me as well but not in the same way as you: I hate them so much that they overwhelm me and turn me off by bloating the gameplay and quest markers. I don't feel a need to go chasing after them, but it just annoys me that they're there.

I've had a few very busy social/family weeks and I haven't done much gaming.

I played Tacoma, which was very nice, if not much of a 'game'. It's also very short which is why it fit into my schedule. Other than that I've been playing Football Manager 2019 which I picked up during the sale. It's relatively easy to jump in and out of the game, and to do other stuff and alt tab while playing, so that helped. The game is annoying me with some very obvious compensation mechanics though (for me and the AI), taking away a sense of achievement and overcoming. So not sure how long I will keep playing it. I might move on to the more streamlined touch version, who knows.