It is almost friday evening here so :
Still on patrol in Greece (Assassins Creeds Odyssey).
I think i will focus on Polaris Sector for this weekend. Maybe watch the stream of Agressors: ancient rome tonight.
Mostly Fallout 4 but maybe some Battle Brothers, Warlock 2 and Victory and Glory:Napoleon. Panzer Corps has been whispering seductively to me as well, maybe I'll give in.
Warlock 2 is just such a great games, especially if you have all the DLC and the Renaissance mod, which almost makes it a new game. One of my 'Most Played of all Times' game. :bd:
Still on the RO2/Rising Storm 1 & 2 thang, so no change there.
Book-wise, still crankin' on horror (as well as binging on horror movies too; love this month) and reading up on All Flesh Must be Eaten RPG too.
Stay safe, folks, and have fun!
p.s. ...and Yui Metal has left Baby Metal?!?
Taking the family to "First Man" on Saturday. Trying to get some stick time on IL-2 BAT and working on a building a Swordfish mission to sink the Bismarck.
Not much for me. Taking the day off work to clean for a 30 person Seafood Boil at my home tomorrow.
Trying to spend as much time as I can with our elderly, senile 18 year old dog Zippo who will probably be taking the big sleep on Monday. We are really depressed about it. He was a wonderful dog until he lost his mind. Now he gets lost, lost his house training, gets trapped in corners, etc... But the end is here because he has become "bitey." We cannot board him any more. He comes really close to biting both of us regularly. He walks away from the petting hand. On the bright side, his previous owners either set him on fire or threw acid on him. He was terrified and bit six people in the shelter. He warmed up to us within 24 hours and has been an absolutely wonderful dog from 2006 to last Winter.
Sorry Airboy.
We've three elderly rescues who're starting to show some issues now, so I empathize.
Sorry to hear about your dog Airboy. Zippo is a great name by the way. :2funny:
Our dog Lucy is 15 and has inoperable cancer on her face, so I can empathize as well... :(
Sorry to hear about your dog, Airboy. I will say a prayer for Zippo.
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 19, 2018, 08:48:51 AM
Still on patrol in Greece (Assassins Creeds Odyssey).
I'm still in Black Flag south of something that looks kind of like Cuba...Finding Mayan ruins on the Isle of Pines, where there never were any. I'm on a mission to stop illegal archeology it seems.
So that and Post Scriptum and probably some Elusive Victory and maybe some FoGII.
Quote from: MengJiao on October 19, 2018, 10:18:56 AM
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 19, 2018, 08:48:51 AM
Still on patrol in Greece (Assassins Creeds Odyssey).
I'm still in Black Flag south of something that looks kind of like Cuba...Finding Mayan ruins on the Isle of Pines, where there never were any. I'm on a mission to stop illegal archeology it seems.
Are you sure you are not playing a bootleg version of Tomb Raider :).
I'm still on my Skyrim obsessed kick. Here's a creepy Dwarven statue I found in an even creepier abandoned Dwarven city.
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 19, 2018, 10:26:09 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on October 19, 2018, 10:18:56 AM
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 19, 2018, 08:48:51 AM
Still on patrol in Greece (Assassins Creeds Odyssey).
I'm still in Black Flag south of something that looks kind of like Cuba...Finding Mayan ruins on the Isle of Pines, where there never were any. I'm on a mission to stop illegal archeology it seems.
Are you sure you are not playing a bootleg version of Tomb Raider :).
I've never played an Assassins' Creed game before. They definitely drift pretty quickly into the totally surreal and inexplicable. For example (and this nutty synopsis will make a lot more sense than the game ever does), the "Assassination Contract" (which I got off a pigeon on a ramshackle dock) specifies "English Grave Robbers" as the target. The target location apparently has half the Spanish Navy and most of the Army guarding a big guy on top of a "Mayan" pyramid. What they are doing there is hard to fathom and I use the word almost literally. Moreover -- while I can buy massive naval ordinance for about 700 reales, a pair of swords costs about 10 times as much. And people wonder why we don't still live in the 18th century. Or they do at Absurdo HQ -- or do they?
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 19, 2018, 10:41:15 AM
I'm still on my Skyrim obsessed kick. Here's a creepy Dwarven statue I found in an even creepier abandoned Dwarven city.
Ah, yes I recall the dwoemer (or however they spell it). There's a whole underground open-air territory to mess around in, too, eventually, lit by fungi.
Stiil under the weather with some bug I can't seem to shake...but will try to play more Armored Brigade Beta, Executive Assault 2 and Assassins Creed Odyssey.
Still playing (and loving) Histwar:Napoleon. Takes time to learn because of some language translation issues and a manual that isn't great at explaining stuff. But what a beautiful game! And I don't have to watch my regiment coughing over each other and facing in different directions (Although I DO love SoW: Waterloo with the KS mod)
Edit: if you guys have an interest in grand-tactical Napoleonic war fare then I really recommend make the effort to dig into this game. It's got issues but it's quite good once you learn how to do it.
Also, some Graviteam Tank Warfare 1943: Tunisia. GREAT GAME but good lord... is it necessary to constantly change an already complicated UI? There was a new UI made for Tunisia but that was updated and the new version installed in the older Mius Front as well. As soon as I learn one, I have to deal with a new one. If You're not going to make it easier why change it? but regardless... fun game
Not much time this weekend but probably will spend what time I can with my endless legend game and continue my redive into Horizon Zero Dawn.
Also looking at starting up a new Rimworld game now that it's gone full release.
Warframe of course. Not sure what else - maybe some more Carrier Deck and GemCraft.
Airboy I'm sorry to hear about Zippo. 18 years is an excellent innings though. Take comfort in knowing you gave him a good home for a long time. :)
Veil of Crows went into full release yesterday, so I'll be messing with that somewhat this weekend, I expect. (It's on sale for less than US$14.)
My Europe abandonment strategy for StratCom's duel against Shelldrake continues to pay dividends to the Soviets -- who have launched Sealion against me now. #:-) French Algeria has become Soviet Algeria a little sooner than in real life, I think... :buck2: It's a harsh October 1945, although at least we won a land invasion of Japan... off map... so there's that. I guess.
The GROGPUBLIC OF ROME has won their second War, this time against the Volsci, led by Cincinnatus, who just can't seem to catch a popularity break. Marcus Furius Camilus tried to beat the Veia, too, but only earned a stalemate -- with no losses, luckily enough. He'll now be the Republic's first Proconsul, as his campaign extends into the next game Turn. Odds are reasonably good we'll get into the Italian Era this weekend, but what other challenges await on the way there?! (Still two slots open in the game for new players, by the way.)
Quote from: bob48 on October 19, 2018, 09:41:30 AM
Warlock 2 is just such a great games, especially if you have all the DLC and the Renaissance mod, which almost makes it a new game. One of my 'Most Played of all Times' game. :bd:
Does MD approve?
Finally started Vampyr - parts of it I like, for example the era, atmosphere and writing, and parts of it I hate, like the locked-in difficulty system (uneditable after starting a campaign) and the automatic save system. The background info and sidequests are good too, so I am soldiering on. Want to start a vampire counts campaign in Warhammer: TW this weekend too.
You fellers above have my interest piqued in Warlock 2 - gotta start that at some point, as well as Endless Legend.
And I really miss Skyrim. Someone please tell me that Elder Scrolls Online has some of that Skyrim magic...lie to me if you must.
Quote from: bob48 on October 19, 2018, 09:41:30 AM
Warlock 2 is just such a great games, especially if you have all the DLC and the Renaissance mod, which almost makes it a new game. One of my 'Most Played of all Times' game. :bd:
I do have all the DLC's and I am running the Renaissance mod as well. It's yet another game I bought on a Steam sale and let it sit marinating for another year before I got to it, but I'm enjoying it now. I only played Warlock I once through and never picked it up again, but I think 2 has some legs. Not to mention a recommendation from Bawb as well!
Gus, I tried Elder Scrolls Online maybe a year back and was disappointed. I probably put more time into Skyrim than any game I've ever owned and I badly wanted to love ESO but it just wasn't there. That being said, MMO's can change quickly and maybe someone with more recent experience in the game can kick in an opinion.
You were supposed to lie!!
What about it don't you like?
I've read a lot of comments on how it is easy to play ESO as a single player game, which is exactly why I bought it.
Would also be good to get more info on why you like Warlock II - I also got it at a Steam sale and spent extra money on DLC just to get the Bawb-recommended Renaissance mod.
Still have to fire it up :/
Quote from: Gusington on October 19, 2018, 12:42:52 PM
And I really miss Skyrim. Someone please tell me that Elder Scrolls Online has some of that Skyrim magic...lie to me if you must.
I liked it quite a lot -- some recent reviewer has called it the best Skyrim sequel you're not playing, which I think is accurate as far as it goes. But you have to get used to the usual public busyness and crazy-ness going on around you when you aren't in a plot instance, with colorful characters lining up to get the same plot you're getting. After a while it just broke the immersion for me. Which wasn't helped by being escorted by a much higher level friend who didn't care about the plot (and probably never did).
At least some of the costumes are... aesthetically interesting. ^-^
Right now, I might suggest Lord of the Rings Online instead. Halloween around the western early-game entry areas is fun, and there's a little less random PC population making it obvious that they're running the same plot as you all the time. In fact, last time I was on looking around, the Shire area was pretty empty of human players. It's absolutely free now, with most of its income being made off cosmetics or extra character slots for running different character builds, and if you're a patient methodical guy like me you can wander the area draining quests and unlocking the plot as you go. Or you can buy cheap upgrades from Steam which unlock more of the main plot immediately. It isn't nearly as colorful as Skyrim online, but it isn't as overtly insane either -- you won't see dark elves with a succubus build and feather-mail bikinis or the equivalent, when you're hanging around smithies working on your xp, and you may consider that a plus or a minus. It's easy to find a server where people seriously role-play their experience, and so don't do trollish things. PvP is restricted to one area (the Troll Fells if I recall), which players never have to get involved with unless they just want PvP. I enjoy letting the nieces trot around the Shire occasionally using my bard (who looks a lot like me). The devs care enough about the lore to keep out pumpkins, for example; but on the other hand, bards are the wizards of the game in effect (since there are only three active wizards per the book series).
I've been thinking about letting my update run tonight and then hopping on over the weekend to wander around. I've long since finished Bree (the human start area), and have been just meandering the Shire as one of the honorary sherrifs, in no hurry to get to the plot which after all can take care of itself. But the game features the largest contiguous game area of any ongoing game -- there are subtle boundary loads, but you don't go into loading screens, so I rode to the Shire from the Bree area, and could walk to the Blue Mountains, or to Mordor by now if I wanted. I'm not sure the game's plot has finished up the War of the Ring yet but they're getting close.
ESO at the time just felt too "grindy". I had played WoW for years and truth may be that I'm simply burned out on MMO's and ESO wasn't offering anything special. I would read some more recent reviews if you're thinking about taking the plunge. And speaking of....sounds like JasonPratt has a little more positive experience than myself.
I'm not deep enough into Warlock II to give it a grade or worthwhile opinion yet, but so far I find it to be an excellent CIV style fantasy kingdom builder with good variety while hampered by a few annoying design choices....such as too-strict a limit on towns you can own (although you can turn some into specialty towns which don't count against your ceiling) and the typical weak diplomacy from your AI opponents. They do put up a decent challenge in a fight however.
Also, unlike ESO, you can play an actual dwarf, from the guy who created fantasy novel dwarves. :coolsmiley:
Nice posts above, thanks guys. I never play MMOs, ever. ESO would be my first...so maybe there is hope?
And I play as a dwarf every single day. Believe me when I say it's nothing special.
Maybe I'm dwarfing it wrong.
Airboy I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. Spend that quality time with him this weekend and remember, he had a better life living with you and your family than he would have if you didn't rescue him back in 2006.
As for gaming this weekend I plan to play Phantom Doctrine, Stellaris, Nobunaga's Ambition: Taisho, Heroes and Generals, and maybe even setup Twilight Imperium fourth edition in my newly established man cave mwahahaha!
Quote from: Gusington on October 19, 2018, 01:53:35 PM
And I play as a dwarf every single day. Believe me when I say it's nothing special.
Maybe I'm dwarfing it wrong.
Nah, you win as a dwarf every day. I remember reading that somewhere.
@W8:Congrats on the new man cave! O0
@Airboy: I am sorry to hear about your dog. Sounds like you did a good turn by him. Hard as it is, try to remember some of the joy you shared with one another.
@Tuna: I approve of all things Warlock. Except for those damn Dremers. And the way they organize the spell list in I. And the way building cities are limited in II. And I don't have any DLC for II, so no Renaissance mod for me.
Game playing this weekend may consist of starting prep for a new p&p D&D game with my old crew. The rest will be football, football, and more football. Roll Tide!
Quote from: MetalDog on October 19, 2018, 04:00:17 PM
The rest will be football, football, and more football. Roll Tide!
:knuppel2:
...though honestly, it isn't like we're going to give you any trouble this year, so I can hardly fault your enthusiasm. I'll pull for Bama later when you're locking down another championship for the Southeastern Conference, or putting the boot to other teams outside the SEC.
Well I'd like to say I'll answer PBEM emails, playtest, and then.... but I know damn well I'll be lucky to get my PBEM files answered more than once and do more than one JTS playtest scenario.
Quote from: JasonPratt on October 19, 2018, 04:05:05 PM
Quote from: MetalDog on October 19, 2018, 04:00:17 PM
The rest will be football, football, and more football. Roll Tide!
:knuppel2:
...though honestly, it isn't like we're going to give you any trouble this year, so I can hardly fault your enthusiasm. I'll pull for Bama later when you're locking down another championship for the Southeastern Conference, or putting the boot to other teams outside the SEC.
Saban has a tendency to go easy on his former assistants. So there's hope. O0
I'm off this weekend.(?) except for a stupid-arse meeting at work on Sunday(!)
But it's a redo of my nephew's birthday so I am looking forward to seeing him.
As for me (Yes Gus I have figured out the combat in Witcher II)
I am still playing The Witcher II- I am in Chapter II and trying to figure out my next move. I even got a haircut after finding some serious armor and a steel sword named Arbitrator. I did turn down the difficulty on the QTEs (I have the enhanced version) so it made things manageable (but not super easy) it was still a challenge in Chapter 1)
Just left the vets office myself a couple hours ago. Elderly dog also that needed some quality of life procedure. Having put down my favorite dog two years ago I empathize with you. Although it's never easy, when it's time, it's time.
Here at the cabin again. Left the computer at home but have a bunch of boardgames to play with the missus while watching college foolsball. Cold and rainy outside, woodburner and toasty inside. Fine napping conditions.
You figured out the combat in Witcher 2?? Well out with it then! What is the key there?
Finally learning my next game in my "want to learn" series: Fields of Fire. Set up and playing via Tabletop Simulator and will punch/sort/clip(!) the real thing if I find that I'm digging this game.
Also continuing my solo game of La Bataille des Quatra Bras (Clash of Arms games).
I had a double Jack & Coke for Zippo at sunset, Airboy. There's one dog I would've liked to have met. O0
Quote from: GJK on October 19, 2018, 07:52:35 PM
Also continuing my solo game of La Bataille des Quatra Bras (Clash of Arms games).
Wow! Beautiful!!!!
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 19, 2018, 10:47:21 PM
I had a double Jack & Coke for Zippo at sunset, Airboy. There's one dog I would've liked to have met. O0
We have been giving him tasty dog things (bacon, dried liver treats, squishy food) for the last week. It is about the only thing that makes him happy anymore. His dementia has made him forget us.
Drinking to absent comrads is always a good thing.
So sorry Airboy, dogs definitely become a true part of the family. That is awesome that you were able to rescue him and give him a very good life!
Quote from: JasonPratt on October 19, 2018, 01:19:08 PM
I'm not sure the game's plot has finished up the War of the Ring yet but they're getting close.
Checking in, I discovered that the LotR plot per se has in fact finished (with the destruction of the Ring), so you can play through all of that, supporting the Fellowship in various ways across Middle-Earth. The next large story arc will involve expanding things from the appendicies, concerning various dark forces trying to take over where Sauron lost.
Quote from: JasonPratt on October 19, 2018, 01:19:08 PM
Quote from: Gusington on October 19, 2018, 12:42:52 PM
And I really miss Skyrim. Someone please tell me that Elder Scrolls Online has some of that Skyrim magic...lie to me if you must.
I liked it quite a lot -- some recent reviewer has called it the best Skyrim sequel you're not playing, which I think is accurate as far as it goes. But you have to get used to the usual public busyness and crazy-ness going on around you when you aren't in a plot instance, with colorful characters lining up to get the same plot you're getting. After a while it just broke the immersion for me. Which wasn't helped by being escorted by a much higher level friend who didn't care about the plot (and probably never did).
At least some of the costumes are... aesthetically interesting. ^-^
Right now, I might suggest Lord of the Rings Online instead. Halloween around the western early-game entry areas is fun, and there's a little less random PC population making it obvious that they're running the same plot as you all the time. In fact, last time I was on looking around, the Shire area was pretty empty of human players. It's absolutely free now, with most of its income being made off cosmetics or extra character slots for running different character builds, and if you're a patient methodical guy like me you can wander the area draining quests and unlocking the plot as you go. Or you can buy cheap upgrades from Steam which unlock more of the main plot immediately. It isn't nearly as colorful as Skyrim online, but it isn't as overtly insane either -- you won't see dark elves with a succubus build and feather-mail bikinis or the equivalent, when you're hanging around smithies working on your xp, and you may consider that a plus or a minus. It's easy to find a server where people seriously role-play their experience, and so don't do trollish things. PvP is restricted to one area (the Troll Fells if I recall), which players never have to get involved with unless they just want PvP. I enjoy letting the nieces trot around the Shire occasionally using my bard (who looks a lot like me). The devs care enough about the lore to keep out pumpkins, for example; but on the other hand, bards are the wizards of the game in effect (since there are only three active wizards per the book series).
I've been thinking about letting my update run tonight and then hopping on over the weekend to wander around. I've long since finished Bree (the human start area), and have been just meandering the Shire as one of the honorary sherrifs, in no hurry to get to the plot which after all can take care of itself. But the game features the largest contiguous game area of any ongoing game -- there are subtle boundary loads, but you don't go into loading screens, so I rode to the Shire from the Bree area, and could walk to the Blue Mountains, or to Mordor by now if I wanted. I'm not sure the game's plot has finished up the War of the Ring yet but they're getting close.
I used to play LOTR about ten years ago. I remember organizing a group fireworks display in Hobbiton at the bridge by the mill (many of us had collections of useless fireworks accumulating and it was satisfying for everybody to shoot off everything at once).
One of the things that I didn't like about the geography of LOTR was what happened to the west of the Shire. When travelling in either direction you magically skipped over a large intervening area by going through a portal. That portal wasn't needed and it would have been much more satisfying to have seamless geography from the far east to the far west.
Orly? I haven't tried traveling west of the Shire yet. The only portals I've seen (so far) are into localized areas, like the suburb where characters can buy and stock houses.
Quote from: MetalDog on October 19, 2018, 04:00:17 PM
@W8:Congrats on the new man cave! O0
Thanks MD. It's not much but at least I have a secluded area of the house to setup my board games without fear of a pet trampling over them.