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Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN DECEMBER 2016?

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From: Zaghadka
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:33
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:31:30 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Ho-ho-ho!
>
>No, wait; wrong thread. This is the "what have you been playing"
>thread, not the Christmas give-away, although that "game" took up an
>unexpected amount of my time this month. But between that, actual
>Christmas and, you  know, real life I still managed to get in some
>time to play some games.
>
>Since we all know the drill, let's skip the rest of the preliminaries
>and get right to the list.
>

So here's my list:

Fallout 4 (DLC)

Playing the Far Harbor add-on. I really like the character of DiMA.
Much cooler than anything in the base game.


Fallout Shelter (new)

Still trying to complete my collection of legendary guns and outfits.
It's a nice casual game to check in on from time-to-time.


Temple of Elemental Evil (replay)

I'm on this weak-ass laptop for a week or so, so I fired up this old
classic, this time with the Co8 extra content mod and an evil party.
I'm too weak to really start busting out the evil right now, and I'm
sure I can't take on Terjon yet, but I'm waiting for all the new
content in Nulb.


Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars (replay)

Playing the campaign of this, again because my weak laptop can handle
it in DOSBox. Just got my ass kicked in the last scenario. I really
want to get my hands on the CD expansion, The Price of Loyalty. Maybe
I'll just buy it from GOG and get it that way, but I really appreciate
having the crystal clear Redbook audio that came with HOMM2.


Shadowrun Returns (new)

Finally started playing this in earnest several years after buying it.
The dialogue is nice but the gameflow is very linear so far. I don't
feel like I'm RPGing so much as taking a curated tour of a cyberpunk
universe. Hope it gets better. I'm worried about that show-stopping
bug Xocyll mentioned. I usually set off bugs in software. I set off
bugs that no one can reproduce, in fact. Makes me a good beta tester.

-- 
Zag

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