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[Kagus]

Dark Messiah is great fun. The multiplayer was also a hoot when it still existed... Unbalanced as all hell, but definitely high-octane.

Things you will hate:
The little squidboy facehugger bastards
Spiders
Weapons not doing what they're supposed to do
SARETH, MY LOVE
Spiders
The better necromancers who can freeze you into a Sarethsicle punching-bag
Stealth mechanics being fucked
Even more cocking fuckleg spiders
That one bit with the infinite goddamn spiders
Those flying assholes

[AzyWng]

Infinite spiders?

Oh no...

[Folly]

I remember loving the combat mechanics in Dark Messiah, but also wishing that it was a dynamic open-world experience rather than a linear heavily scripted affair.

[Kagus]

I remember loving the combat mechanics in Dark Messiah, but also wishing that it was a dynamic open-world experience rather than a linear heavily scripted affair.

There are parts of the game that seem like they really wanted to be exactly that. I think that the developers really wanted something more open-worldy, but they didn't have the time, the team, or the money (also, Source probably isn't the greatest engine for doing particularly open games). There was also a lot of talk when it first came out about releasing the SDK for it and letting the modders have their way. However, there was apparently some part of the contract with Ubisoft that prevented that from happening.

And, I mean, Arkane Studios made their name a long time ago with a significantly more freeform game, Arx Fatalis, and Dark Messiah has several bits and bobs that indicate that heritage.

Then they went into hibernation again, before eventually coming out with Prey. Which, despite the bizarre history behind its name, is also a pretty damn neat little title.

[AzyWng]

Didn’t they also make Dishonored 1 and 2?

The chain-climbing, at least, seems quite similar...

[nenjin]

Yep, that's them.

Digging back in to Darkest Dungeon again after the Color of Madness update. Simply needed a break from Cultist Stimulator. (Seriously CS, just give me what I need so I can finish already.....)

I think? I'm digging the mechanical changes. I like the crit bonuses specific to each character class. Not sure I like so many abilities being made "X # of times per battle" abilities. Even though I know it's not THAT big of a limitation, the hoarder/conservationist gamer in me thinks....it's too much to gamble a whole slot on? What happens if you miss? Or some other dumb thing happens? An entire slot, now useless. What's more is many of the buffs these limited abilities give also have durations on them of combat rounds. Sometimes as few as 2. So I've been sticking with the "less flashy" moves on all my guys are things are going swimmingly for the most part in the early game.

[AzyWng]

A number of the actions that are limited are buffs of some kind and now last the entire battle (Plague Doctor's Emboldening Vapors or Leper's Revenge), which prevents players from stacking them like mad and, say, killing the final boss with just one blow.

Dunno which ones are limited in duration aside from ones like the Grave Robber's Shadow Fade.

Crit bonuses and more frequent crits are nice enough.

Dunno why they made Jester's Solo usable two times, though, given that Finale can only be used once...

[nenjin]

It's not clear from the descriptions which have durations and which last the entire battle. Shadow Fade and Tracking Shot read the same but function differently.

[AzyWng]

You know what, you're right about that.

For some reason I was thinking the Hellion's exhaust debuffs now lasted the entire battle until I used Breakthrough and saw it wasn't.

I guess we'll just have to use all the skills and then figure out for ourselves.

Or we could make a fresh save file for the purpose of using and figuring out the skills...

[JimboM12]

playing fallout 4, heavily modded of course.

im currently playing a 2x damage (as in everyone and everything does twice the damage to each other; fights are faster and bloodier for everyone!), with slightly increased spawns and experimenting with Fallout Commander and We Are the Minutemen. its fucking fun. i called in a flare squad to start our assault on a very fortified corvega factory.

we took the outside pretty handily though i lost a few troops fighting to clear the roof. my honor guard of regulars (i didnt spawn the special minutemen cuz i dont feel ive earned them yet; we're only a handful of settlements deep so far) took only a single loss.

then saved and closed the game so i can take a shower after that intense battle. i came back to steam updating Fallout 4 and now my F4se and version dependent mods are fucking broken. Fucking leave fallout 4 alone, bethesda, and get cracking on fallout 76. stop breaking my damn game!

[Mephisto]

Not using img tags and scaling to reasonable dimensions because you need to see this in its full glory.

What am I currently playing? This absurdity.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours. Noob mode. Because I suck.

[Yoink]

Playing IVAN. You know, the classic roguelike?   
Anyway, I was guzzling water out of a fountain (I'd like to say this was because it was early in the run and I wasn't very attached to my character, but truth be told I tend to lack much self-control when it comes to fountains) and before long I fell in, was sucked into the plumbing, and then burst out of a pipe... seemingly embedded in the middle of a wall?

It took me a moment to realise what had happened. Of all the open squares in the level the game could have chosen to spit me into, I wound up on the still-buried staircase to a certain highly-dangerous secret area. Hahaha, uh-oh.

I don't have any gear capable of breaking through walls, so... I guess the only way forwards is forwards. o____o
On the plus side, at least nothing can follow me up the stairs from below, due to there literally being no damn room for them. Well, they can, but I can see no sign of those that did so I'm guessing they spawned outside these walls on the nearest open tiles.

Wish me luck, haha. I probably could have left off for a few minutes and had myself a HDYLD post instead...

[Telgin]

Started on Spyro 3 recently, and I'm really enjoying it.  I wasn't sure how I'd feel about the other playable characters at first, but I think it was executed pretty well.

Some of the eggs feel a lot more fiddly and irritating than the orbs from Spyro 2, at least comparing the early ones between games, and some gems are way harder to locate.  I guess I'll see if I like the increased challenge as the game progresses.

[King Zultan]

Spyro 3 was always my favorite one as a kid, and if you are playing them in order that means you are almost at enter the dragonfly, and it's just as bad as people say it is.

[Majestic7]

I've been playing Star Traders: Frontiers lately. It is a space trader simulation where you control the ship, the officers and the crew. You upgrade ship and crew gain experience etc. It is strangely addictive, although with several annoying bugs. Still in EA and on sale in Steam.