🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6/1/2017 10:17 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Well, it's been a busy month for me, although you wouldn't be able to
> tell it by my playlist. Although I only played three games this month
> - not the fewest I've ever played, but far below average - one of
> those games hogged so much of my time that it's a wonder I found any
> time to play any other games. Plus the addition of some fun new
> computer hardware and, oh yeah, real life and I'm amazed I managed to
> squeeze everything into one month.
> 
> Anyway, it's the end of the month (well, slightly past but as I said,
> I've been busy) and we all know what that means. I tell you guys what
> games I have been playing, you guys tell us all what you have been
> playing. Maybe we share our thoughts on those games too, or maybe not;
> it's all good. Anyway, let's get right into things.
> 

I was waiting impatiently :)

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> Short and Sweet
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> * Fallout 4 (new)

There's some decent quests there, the first museum/deathclaw fight was 
hell, and took me a long time to get past.  The newspaper ones and the 
flying ship one were somewhat memorable.  But yeah, nothing much 
compared to the cool stuff of 3 - I reread a post of mine on when I 
first found the 3 way battle at the capital.  Seeing Harold again, etc.

> * Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga (replay)

My son hasn't been interested to actually start playing this, which is 
surprising.  I'm not sure what he's got against star wars.  He seems to 
love everything else Lego, but not star wars for some reason.  I 
remember not much caring for this when I played it years ago.

> * Minecraft (replay)

My son has this too, I've tried, but I just don't get it. Kind of like 
Dwarf Fortress.  Sounds fun, just can't get it.

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For me:

9 this month.  I feel a bit sad I didn't complete the DLCs of Dark Souls 
2, but I'd just had enough.  I was almost tempted to jump right in DS3, 
but decided I'd better not.  You really need a breather after a DS game.

I've posted on some of these already, so I'll make those short.

Rocket League (new)
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (new)
Limbo (new)
Nyquest (new)
Star Wars Rebel Assault (new)
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II (new)
Dirt Rally (new)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II (new)
Fallout Shelter (replay)
Fallout 2 (re-re-re-replay)
Brutal Legend (new)

* Rocket League (new PC car-soccer)
Did this on the free weekend, just seemed like it was worse than either 
playing a car game or a soccer game, found it frustrating as games went 
into overtime as neither side had scored.  Seemed a bit more sparse than 
I was expecting from the pictures I'd seen.

* Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (new PC multi-player bullet hell)
This seems like a fun game, but it's obviously made more for 
multi-player, you can do it with an in game AI, which I even hesitate to 
call AI as you have to direct them to the station to use, and they can't 
use the thrusters, so that means you're pretty much stuck doing the 
thrusters, which isn't as much fun as shooting at things.  It's a bit 
too much to direct the AI where to go and do the thrusters and whatever 
else you need at the same time.  I'd like to try this with my son, but 
it's not lego.

* Limbo (new PC Puzzle platformer)
It looked cool, but I got stuck quickly, and gave up after less than an 
hour.  I should know better than to even try a puzzle game, they aren't 
my thing.  I probably played this less than an hour

* Nyquest (new PC Platformer)
I liked this a bit better, still puzzles, but I could figure them out. 
It got a bit stale after a couple hours

* Star Wars Rebel Assault (PC new)
I probably shouldn't even mention this, as I didn't really play this for 
more than a few minutes.  I didn't give it a chance.  I just wanted to 
play something else.

* Star Wars The Force Unleashed II (PC new)
Ho hum.  I haven't played the original in ages, but after a couple hours 
I got bored with this.  Seemed like a totally uninspired sequel. I 
didn't even complete my escape.

* Dirt Rally (PC dirt car new)
I ran through a couple courses.  It's a pretty cool realistic dirt 
driving game, but I think I prefer a bit more arcade, and I missed 
actually racing against others instead of just vs. times.  I liked the 
navigator giving my directions, that was a cool feature, I'd love that 
in other racing games.  I wasn't very good at it and kept careening off 
the road.  If it had some actual racing, I'd almost definitely be into this.

* Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II (new, RPG PC)
Bleak.  The asteroid mining operation was boring and uninspired, 
definitely not feeling the Star Wars here.  The robot had more 
personality than either of the companions I did get, not a good sign for 
this game.  I did manage to get to Talos, but found the situation there 
also boring and quit before doing much there.

* Fallout shelter (replay - PC genere?)
I had gotten frustrated playing on my phone, as it just slows down once 
you have a lot of dwellers, so decided to play on the PC.  It is way 
smoother. I'm not sure what genere you would call this. It's fremium, 
but really there's no reason to spend money on it... well I could see 
buying quantum as waiting for things to finish is highly annoying.  The 
price on them is way too high for the utility though.  I tried using 
cheat engine to speed it up, but it seems to have a weird effect and 
doesn't really work.  I've read of changing your computer time, but 
don't want to mess with that.  I might try it on my old laptop to do 
that, but not sure it'll run well there.  I got my shelter to 100... and 
then felt 'now what?'  There's quests to do which is new from my last 
play, but like other things you have to wait for hours for your dwellers 
to get to them.  The combat in the quests is interesting, it's kind of 
like turn based, your guys fire at enemies every few seconds.  There's 
not really much you can do other than give stimpacks when needed though. 
I did start a survival shelter, I'm doing fine with, but the time delay 
means I stopped going back to it.

* Fallout 2 (re-re-re-replay, PC TRPG)
The near turn based nature of Fallout Shelter just made me want to go 
back to Fallout 2.  I posted quite a bit more about it on CSIPGR.  I'm 
using the Restoration Project which is awesome, it fixes a ton of bugs 
and re-adds some disabled content, and seems to include everything 
that's really necessary to play, it's all you need, it's Werner's 
quality, great stuff, I'd call it absolutely necessary if you want to 
play FO2.  It really feels like it's finally polished... for it's 
original time anyway.  I set it to 2x speed which makes it feel much 
slicker too.  I've going back and forth in a roller coaster - some times 
I'm really into it and other times I'm feeling like I'm just finally 
done forever with my favorite game of all time.  I'm trying to get 
through the game with two characters I always wanted to, but never 
could.  An unarmed specialist and a stupid character.  I'm actually 
finding the unarmed specialist far harder as stuff runs away then you 
can't use unarmed on them, and bursts are really dangerous up close. 
I've probably made over 20 characters restarting to hone their stats as 
I tried things that didn't work out well.  I still love watching the 
burst death dance :)

There's a couple other complete overhauls too I might eventually check out.

While I was digging around trying to refresh my memory of what things do 
I stumbled upon FOnline 2, which seems to be some sort of free Fallout 2 
based MMO I'd never heard of before.  I may need to check that out.

I may have to go back to FO3 after I'm done here too - I never did get 
to the DLCs, but I found going through the base game again a bit too 
much to get to the point I could do those.  I suppose I could pick up an 
already maxed out character as my originals are long gone, but that 
sounds meh.  Last time I replayed it it seemed the mods I liked 
originally were no-more and the current ones just weren't that good.

* Brutal Legend (new PC)
I started up this when I was getting frustrated with FO2, but went back 
to FO2 after a day or two of this.  Jack Black has a game where he's a 
roady for a metal band and get sucked back in time/another dimension 
where demons rule and he tries to set free the humans with ROCK!  I'm 
not really into metal, but it's a bit funny.  The game seems like it's 
an older console port, and reminds me a bit of Overlord.  The controls 
are pretty clunky and the animations aren't smooth, it plays almost well 
enough to get through to the funny bits, but not quite.  I might try 
slogging through it for all the funny once I get bored enough of FO.