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[Mephisto]

Backpack Hero - play as a mouse delving into a dungeon (for now; later updates will introduce meta progression and a village improvement thing). You can only use what you can fit in your backpack. Everything goes into that backpack - melee weapons, armor, healing items, accessories, wands, bows, arrows, trader fodder, all of it.

Demo

I backed at a level that gives me two copies of the game. If you like the existing demo and want the full game (eventually) and, in the meantime, a more up to date demo, let me know and I'll ship a Steam key off to you.

[AlStar]

If no one else claims it, I had a really good time with the demo; and would love a copy of the full game.

I actually managed to win the current demo on my third try - a bow that gave +1 to all arrows it shoots, about ten arrows with a +2 damage diamond in the center that buffed everything touching it, then two boss relics: +1 action (when not touching armor) and another that gave all my arrows an additional +6 damage as long as none of them were touching any armor. (I basically went 100% berserker - kill everything before it gets a chance to fight back - and it worked!)

[Mephisto]

Sent.

I used to think I needed to have loads of armor. That's one way to play but it's so much more fun to mess around with items and see what's possible. Archery builds are definitely fun and can do massive damage.

[Robsoie]

Jagged Alliance 2 , it took many, many saves and reloading to keep her alive through the many battles, but it looks like after getting more skilled at it Flo is starting to enjoy the mercenary work

Spoiler: maybe a bit too much (click to show/hide)

[AlStar]

I've always had an unhealthy obsession with buying up the MERC mercs and making them work.

The only one that I absolutely could not make work was Biff, mostly because all the AIM mercs hate his guts, but also because he's got 0 medical skill, which means that he can't even bandage himself, and can never learn the skill, ever.

[Robsoie]

Poor Biff, he survived Jagged Alliance 1 and Deadly Games and still none have respect for him
At least Nails that dislike strongly Biff died in my game to unfortunate serie of grenades and bullets landing on him before bullying Biff too much.
Biff and Flo are the pillars of my Squad 1 , or so they think .

[Folly]

V Rising launched a few days ago and is quickly gaining popularity.

VR is a survival game at the core; so harvest wood and rocks to craft axes and hammers to harvest more wood and rocks so that you can build a base where you will craft better axes and hammers that let you harvest more wood and rocks, and so forth...

VR has drawn comparisons to Valheim, another survival game set apart by PvE content with dungeons and bosses which yield tools and resources required for progression through the resource tiers. Compared to Valheim, VR has significantly more bosses, and each time you defeat one you gain a new vampire power which can dramatically expand your options when customizing your combat style.

Official servers have PvE, PvP partial loot, and PvP full loot options. You can also host your own locked server to play alone or with friends. Encounters seem to be oriented towards small 2-4 person groups; so you can get by solo if you like a challenge, but it will feel more balanced with a friend or two.

After playing for just a few days I'm really enjoying this one. The low purchase price and small download size make this an easy one to try out. Definitely recommend if you're into this sort of thing.

[Il Palazzo]

^It kinda looks like a by-design tedious grindfest. Mining stone and chopping dozens of trees to make dozens of planks to make next tier equipment to be able to mine better rocks to make better equipment. I'm not sure I dig it.

[Folly]

Most, if not all resources can be looted from humans. If you need wood, you can go to a human lumberjack camp, kill them and smash their crates, walk away with an inventory full of wood. If you need rocks, go to a human quarry and do much the same. Just the collateral damage from hunting bosses is often enough to leave piles of resources all over the ground.

If for whatever reason you want to build a majestic castle much larger than necessary, and you want to avoid combat while building it, you do have the option of just going out and chopping trees and smashing rocks yourself. But the game definitely encourages and rewards a more aggressive approach.

[Kagus]

A more aggressive approach that apparently involves spending a good 60% of your time just running back and forth across the map...

Just unlocked bear form, was hoping that "can break large resource nodes" would actually return some resources. Smashed a couple huge boulders, and got... Nothing. I'm basically just trying to find some way of farming good quantities of stone so I can actually build something more than two tiny rooms out in the woods, while also re-killing the V bosses in the hopes of unsullied hearts so I can finally build a chair big enough that I can tell my sworn underling to actually do things (things besides getting himself killed by the local golem, anyway).


...yeah. It's a bit grindy. And painfully slow starting out. Gonna keep with it a while longer to see if/how much it opens up later on, but the beginning is definitely... Woof.

[Frumple]

Just from watching some vids, the grind doesn't actually seem that bad... if you use the tools available to crank the resource yields up hard. Bear-drops-500-hide hard. There's still grind at that point, but it seems much more tolerable.

[Il Palazzo]

Nah, it's a refund for me. There's some nice mechanics in there (lovely sunburn effects) but overall feels like playbour.

[Akura]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker just made it's 1.0 release. Campaign storyline is finished, and, among other things, you can save your ship between game sessions now. They also swapped out some of the voice actors(originally the devs themselves voicing) for professional ones. I haven't heard it yet, but some of the comments are people being disappointed, partly because the original VAs were actually pretty good.

Obviously, since it's Hardspace, of course your save is wiped. Hopefully for the last time.

[Robsoie]

Finally managed to complete Borderlands 3 campaign.

I had of course to weak .ini and etc.. in order to have it run smoothly on my low end system (to the point it looked much worse than previous Borderlands games for a similar framerate, hinting at the thing not being as optimised as past games) but i was happy enough to have it run smoothly and enjoy the gameplay.

Now for the game itself it's very solid, i enjoyed playing a very lot of hours, maybe too many hours (probably why i managed to complete it in a week), the progression is very well done and i never felt stuck.
Some of the quests/side quests provide some variations in gameplay so it does not feel too repetitive (despite repetition is always part of grinding for better loot).
The levels are varied but there are some repetition, but still it provides different environments to avoid the grinding getting too boring.

Game balance isn't great tough : by example while i completed the game at level 36 (side quests gives tons of xp) but in my carried weapon list there was a sniper rifle i have been using since level 24 because (Firestorm i think it's called) it was simply much better than anything i found of higher level, killing things fast on large areas and murder elite troopers too better than higher end sniper rifles.

Now for the bad, and it's really very bad sadly :
My last played Borderlands was the Tiny Tina Assault on Dragon Keep standalone version of the old Borderlands 2 DLC , it was a hilarious parody of a D&D session, the NPC were fun and every dialogues and jokes delivered , and surprisingly considering the humour tone of the game, the under layer story of a young girl coping with tragedy was interestingly done... basically despite it was too short, it was very good in story and characterisations and in gameplay.

Then Borderlands 3 as a story ....  what the hell happened ? was it a different writer that wrote the story, the npc and their characterisation in Borderlands 3 ?
what happened to the humour that is actually funny ?
Because the NPC are all unlikable and utterly useless (usually people hate the very punchable Ava character as her stupidity lead to the death of an apparently beloved character, but man they're all as badly wrote as this one) , out of the guy in cape and speedo that should have been the NPC lead character

Then the 2 antagonists, they're not good at all, i understand they're a parody of social media edgelords with their followers and etc.. just more psychopathic with superpowers than the usual youtuber but everytime they start their dialogues it unfortunately simply never deliver anything good for the game, you simply think "will they shut up soon ?" not helped by the characters having no real charisma to play the villain role, Handsome Jack was far from the greatest videogame villain but he was much better at it.

About the death of the "beloved" character, as i had no previous attachement to that one as the gameplay of that character in B2 and Tiny Tina wasn't interesting to me, it also fell flat because the character not only died very stupidly considering the powers said character had to deal with the situation, but it was not helped by the fact B3 "storytelling" failed to to make me care (and the presence of Ava didn't helped ).

Finally that lead to the end game with the *spoiler* sacrifice and that "this girl is on fire" song that play after, a moment that should have felt like some big epic heroic with the song adding a nice touch over it, but in truth instead of achieving that again it falls completely flat because whoever wrote those characters failed completely to make you care about the guys involved in that moment.

Basically Borderlands 3 is a game you'll play -despite- its story and characters, as you'll enjoy it for its gameplay and mechanics.
Now if only they had made the caped guy in speedo the lead character it would have saved the story
 

[Rolan7]

Hehe whereas the doomed character was basically all I played in BL2, and I care about all the characters almost more than the gameplay XD  But I was always the only one in my gaming group who really seemed to care much, outside a couple of plot points in BL2 which hit everybody (and me especially).

I was late to pick up 3 because of the high system requirements but it wasn't quite as heavy as I expected, and an enby friend kept talking about how cool the robot druid is.  As a summoner they seem particular good for a solo run, with the pet even able to revive you.  It's also just good silly fun to summon a pet, who's constantly exploding, in the middle of an enemy group.

Also:  Pocket rakks! (shouted like "pocket sand!")  ehehehe. 
Actually that's something I think it did even better than BL2: encouraging, not merely allowing, periodic respeccing of abilities.  That also meant I got to enjoy all three of the pets, and their various subtypes.

Edit:  I just realized I have no idea who the other playable characters even are.  I don't change characters much.  Also my main character in BL1 was Roland, so I might be cursed

EditEdit:  I enjoyed the PreSequel too, particularly the gimmick of playing as bosses from BL2.  Though I don't remember fighting Athena, which is what I played (along with a friend who played the claptrap).  The energy-absorbing shield was fun...  I'm impressed at how many characters they gave unique abilities, particularly considering DLC.