Abiotic Factor!!
It’s so good!
I’ve been getting back into Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 again and am actually going for victories. Because I want to really understand the mechanics I’m just playing with the base ruleset and won a religious victory and am now going for domination.
The problem is that the one more turn mindset is consuming me.
Every time I try a newer Civ title, I end up just going back and doing a Civ IV playthough.
I somehow reached 200 hours in that game in just a few months. Civ 6 is a gem like that.
Is it aweful I turn off Domination victories? (and score victories but I assume many folks do this).
200 hours and I still have to look up how to gain a science victory because it takes sooo longg.
I picked up TMMT: Splintered Fate during the steam sale and have been going ham on it. That game is a ton of fun, definitely worth picking up on sale.
Snatched Flight Simulator 2020 in sale. Last time I played FS it was 2000. Back then, I always hopped into a big Airliner, cranked up realism, flicked random switches and could not get the plane to even move. If I started airborne, I just horribly crashed immediately.
So I thought: let’s do this shit again. Cranked up realism to max, but hopped into a Cessna instead. Turns out: it is not that hard in a small plane 😅 (or maybe I’m just not a stupid kid anymore). Granted, I’ve only been flying in good weather and low wind (and with a little bit of sidewind landing starts to get tricky immediately), but I’m satisfied. Only caveat: if you’re flying seriously, you’re looking so much for the instruments all the time, that there’s no time to enjoy the scenery.
After two days I looked how much a pilot’s license costs. Turns out: way to expensive 😅. It’s funny how a license for a boat is like 500€, but flying is 15k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
In the US you can fly an ultralight aircraft without a licence IIRC
You can even build your own in the US. I know, because I checked some 15 years ago, because I wanted to build one with my flatmates 😅
But ain’t nobody going to the US these days.
I’ve been in a bit of a gaming limbo since I beat my first playthrough of Bloodborne earlier this year. I’ve been trying out and revisiting a bunch of games and nothing seems to stick.
I’ve been returning to genres that I’ve really enjoyed in the past, like survival-horror and detective games, only for them to fall flat. But that’s cool, those genres were kind of the soundtrack to specific moments in my life and right now seems to be the souls-era. While there are a ton souls games out there, my plan has been to just focus on the FromSoftware titles first before I check out the rest. The ones I still have to play are Dark Souls 2, Sekiro, and Armored Core 6, which I guess isn’t really a souls game, but I can’t say no to a FromSoft entry at this point. Technically I still have things to do in Dark Souls 1 (put it down after Ornstein and Smough) and Dark Souls 3 (didn’t complete the dlc, but have since lost my save), but I think I’ll wait a while before I revisit those games.
I also picked up the Devil May Cry games while on sale. I love the og Resident Evil 4 so it should be fun to see how an early iteration of that game evolved into its own thing and spawned a whole series.
I was also impatient and bought some new releases that, while they seem up my alley, aren’t meshing with my current mood. Oh well, live and learn.
I absolutely adore Sekiro but going to it after a different souls game is gonna be tough. It plays very differently from every other souls game, to the point that a lot of folks would consider it to not be a souls game. The combat is just so unique and if you try to play it like a souls game you’re gonna have a bad time. With that being said, it also has my favourite combat system I’ve ever played and once you learn it, it’s so satisfying to play. I would still highly recommend it, but don’t go into it thinking it’ll play like Bloodborne or Elden Ring or something.
How bullet spongey are enemies? One of the reasons I have avoided eldenring is because it looks that every mob has a million HP.
I haven’t found the enemies to be bullet spongey in Elden Ring either as long as you’re sufficiently levelling and upgrading your weapons so I’m not sure I know what you mean.
But in Sekiro you don’t really damage health but rather build a stance meter, which once you fill all the way allow you to deal a death blow, but if you stop attacking or deflecting for more than a moment the meter starts to go back down. You can do health damage but it doesn’t usually make sense to do so.
so I’m not sure I know what you mean.
I was mostly basing it on videos I’ve watched. I haven’t actually played it. I’d kind of consider any fight that lasts more than 10 minutes to be well into bullet sponge territory though.
Having a stance meter instead of healthbars sounds pretty interesting though, I think I’ll check it out.
I’m not sure I’ve had any boss fight last 10 minutes in Elden Ring and I’ve played through the game 20+ times. Unless you’re doing challenge runs, that could obviously take way longer depending on the challenge run. But a normal playthrough? I’d be surprised to see any boss take 10 minutes to kill. One of you would be dead long before then I think.
Have you ever played nuclear throne? That’s kinda my preferred pacing in a game, but there aren’t many. I’d love a soulslike where combat was that fast and frantic, and bosses are really difficult but also die really fast if you play it right.
No, I’ve never even heard of it before. I looked it up, it does look interesting but I think it would be too frantic for me. While I do appreciate a game that is quick, since I don’t really have any time for video games these days, something that requires me to have lightning fast reflexes seems a bit too much for me at this point. On the rare occasion I get to sit down and play a game I want it to be something I don’t have to stress over too much. I happen to be pretty good at souls games so I don’t find them stressful, and otherwise I tend to play slower paced RPGs and stuff.
I’ve actually played a bit of Sekiro before, I only got to Lady Butterfly, but I wasn’t meshing too well with the combat and put the game down. I’ve picked it up and set it back down a few times since, always starting from the beginning, but maybe this go around will be the one where I can see it through to completion. Fingers crossed!
The entirety of Hirata Estate is technically optional, so you could always skip it or save it for later if you find Lady Butterfly for example to be too difficult. Outside of there, how far did you get in the main part of the game?
Ah interesting, I didn’t realize that. And I’m not quite sure how far I got, but the one thing I remember was there were bird guys on the roofs giving me a heck of a time, it was my first time running into them.
Ah, the roof of Ashina Castle. The boss at the end there is sort of described as the brick wall that basically is the “final exam” that determines if you’re ready for the “real game” so-to-speak. I’d personally recommend doing that boss and Lady Butterfly around the same time, but you could do it in either order or avoid LB entirely if you wanted to. I usually reach both bosses before fighting either, then fight them back to back, that’s just the way that makes the most sense to me, but everyone’s different.
Thanks for the tips!
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Just bought myself No Man’s Sky
Slay the Spire
I noticed where 2.0 was just released, so I finally went to play the first one, and holy shit is it fun!
After it gets stale after a couple hundred hours try the workshop mods. You can play as a boss and work backwards to slay the hero its soo good
You can also try Chrono Ark if it gets stale, which I feel compelled to proselytize for every time roguelike deckbuilders come up now. Incredible game and super underrated somehow.
my friend wants me to play this, I really should
Hopefully gonna finish my first playthrough of Mother 3 soon. Just got to the final chapter.
I’ve had a lot of fun destressing on the way home from finals by playing Rhythm Heaven Megamix on my softmodded 3DS. So much easier than RH Fever. Been very slowly chipping away at that.
Also had fun with Sonic Lost World on 3DS until I got stuck on the green zeti snowman boss. I tried looking up what to do, but I have not even once been able to replicate it. Hate that boss so much more than any other boss in any other game I have played.
Just finished the second session of Raft with my friend and started playing AC shadows again.
I just finished Mass Effect Legendary, but, now, I’m playing Expedition 33 that I got on sale. I had taken a step back from RPGs, but this may have re-ignited my love of them.
Started playing Factorio 🤤
I would ask how it’s going, but I’ll just check back in 2027 when you come up for air.
Sekiro…I think I’m entering late game and I’m elated. It’s such an elegant game, from the aesthetics to the combat. What an experience it’s been.
I’ll share a lil meme I drew the other day. :P hope you guys enjoy
I forgot to ask the other day. What happened to your DS3 save?
Power went out while I was playing and the file got corrupted. No cloud saves. a bummer as I don’t feel the drive to be as thorough as on a first run and I’m pretty sure I was nearing the end game … Probably will speed run it but I don’t know when I’ll pick it back up. :/ It’s not the way I like to play.
Ah damn that sucks! :(
I’m sure there are save files to download at various points from the internet, but that’s not as fun either I suppose.
Could that be done for a console? It hadn’t even occured to me.
Oh… I didn’t realise you were on console. I highly doubt it :( I’m pretty sure save files are encrypted to prevent cheating, at least on PlayStation.
I’m exposed as a filthy console user XD yeah, I figured, but it couldn’t hurt to ask.
I’m exposed as a filthy console user XD
*glass shattering noises*
Sekiro is an all-timer. Enjoy learning and overcoming those final challenges.
It is, I’m relishing it.
Rolled up an Occultist in Grim Dawn a few nights ago. Good times, me and my partner finished the game during covid but haven’t played it since then.
Same! Just been tinkering around with commando builds lately. It’s a really solid game
