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[King Zultan]

I don't know what's with people and doing that, if I remember a point in that thread where the drama had been over for at least a month and suddenly Toady shows up to remove part of it, I still don't get why it was such a big thing that needed Toady involved even after all that time.

[a1s]

Can we get a different moderator? I remember a while back Kitfox issued DF a community manager. Can't she do it? ToadyOne really has better things to do.

[Chiefwaffles]

This is dangerously off-topic but honestly I love Toady's nuclear style of moderating and the community it curates. If the rare loss of ability to make threads for drama-magnet games is a cost for that moderation, it's one I'm enthusiastic to pay, personally.

[EuchreJack]

This is dangerously off-topic but honestly I love Toady's nuclear style of moderating and the community it curates. If the rare loss of ability to make threads for drama-magnet games is a cost for that moderation, it's one I'm enthusiastic to pay, personally.

Agreed!
Hence why I created a thread elsewhere to discuss Cataclysm DDA.
It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[King Zultan]

I've always felt that adding more mods to the forum would rune what we have here and I'd rather that not happen.

Also what's stopping people from mentioning Cataclysm here in this thread?

[Robsoie]

It's ok to discuss Cataclysm and forks ... as long as you only whisper

[Jopax]

With AC6 on the horizon I finally decided to invest in a proper controller (tho I think it might be better with K+M but we'll see) as I've only ever dabbled in them since most stores here sell only the cheapest and shittiest non-brand crap (literally wrong input mapping, the analog sticks being glorified direction inputs and the like).

So with a proper x-box controller in hand I decided to give Elden Ring another go, and boy it's a completely different game, like I'm learning to play it all over again. Even if I know the enemies and what they do, it's an experience wrestling with the controls to do what I want.

[AlStar]

I picked up Planescape Torment off of a Humble Bundle for $1 a while back, but only just recently got around to installing and playing it.

The graphics are definitely showing their age - the overhead map, where you'll (luckily) be spending 99% of your time, has BG1-style pixel graphics, which work fine. However, for some reason they decided to go with 3D CGI for character portraits, and it's about as bad as 90's-era CGI can get.

Everything that I'd previously heard about this game is that the combat and gameplay generally take a back-seat to the excellent character interactions. I agree strongly that they've really managed to pack an amazing amount of characterization into just about everyone you meet and talk to - you really get the feeling like you're dealing with a bunch of eccentrics who are stuck in a city where the dead walk, horrors roam the streets, and just about any doorway can be an inadvertent portal to a different universe.

What I did not realize was that, when people said the combat wasn't the main focus of the game... they were saying that it's not very good, not that it wasn't constantly thrown at you. You can't walk through the city streets without getting beset by packs of brigands. Crypts are nonstop hordes of zombies, skeletons, bats, and rats.

Things have gotten easier now that I've found an enchanted dagger, trained up my skill with blades, and finally gotten my AC down, but at the start I was in danger of going broke, just because every fight ended up costing multiple healing items.

[scriver]

What I did not realize was that, when people said the combat wasn't the main focus of the game... they were saying that it's not very good, not that it wasn't constantly thrown at you. You can't walk through the city streets without getting beset by packs of brigands. Crypts are nonstop hordes of zombies, skeletons, bats, and rats.

So true. One of the worst games in the genre when it comes to filler combat

[Aoi]

What I did not realize was that, when people said the combat wasn't the main focus of the game... they were saying that it's not very good, not that it wasn't constantly thrown at you. You can't walk through the city streets without getting beset by packs of brigands. Crypts are nonstop hordes of zombies, skeletons, bats, and rats.

If you roll a spellcaster...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can learn Cloudkill which you can spam to get out of what felt like 90% of the combats in the game.

[Culise]

Final Fantasy XIV.  I've finally finished Shadowbringers, run through the final capstones for both the role and Crystalline Mean quests, and I'm currently doing the level 80 class quests. 

Spoiler: Class quest spoilers (click to show/hide)

White Mage definitely makes me feel like I've ended up becoming the team mom, which is...rather apropos for being the archetypal healer, come to think.  In hindsight, that was pretty much my role in dealing with both Sylphie and Gatty separately already.  I think the class quests for this were generally rather mediocre (30-50) or tolerable in outline but poorly paced (50-60), but the capstone quest did feel somewhat nice in bringing it all together.  I don't think WHM really deserves the hate it gets; it just gets a bit repetitive in the specifics, and it doesn't really do *enough* to show how Gridania is beginning to change as a consequence of your actions among the Padjal.  It's not like certain others (which do get even more flak, to be fair).

Scholar was very touching, finishing the Nym storyline.  Also, Setoto/Alka is absolutely adorable. 

Bard is what it is.  Guydelot asks, "What brings you here, and it better not be a tiresome errand," which really only left me one possible answer.  Guydelot/Sanson is always fun, though, and we had a nice little concert out in the wilds. 

Summoner bringing in Arenvald and Fordola for the quest was rather surprising.  Arenvald got rather puppy-like near the end there over Fordola; it was rather cute.

Dancer was pretty straightforward.  Ranaa comes into her own and steps forward, with some encouragement.  Nothing too bad, nothing too exceptional.

Ninja was...yeah.  Oboro is still Oboro, Karasu is still Karasu, and Jacke is still great (even if he would drive the Masked Rose to tears).

Since everything I have is at or almost at the level cap, I'll likely be running through the rest of the class quests over the next couple days since they're all unlocked.  After that, I'll start on the Shadowbringer postgame content as I find time to run through each in sequence: Eden, Nier, Bozja, and MSQ, likely in that order. 

[askovdk]

Stationeers!    https://store.steampowered.com/app/544550/Stationeers/

Visited an open server created by 2 other players I didn’t know before, and I’ve been spending most of last week there.
I really love this game. The focus on engineering over combat, and the (high) level of details when constructing setups fit very well with me. I can’t wait to get back and experiment with the phase changes NO2, - yes, the ‘puzzels’ this ‘game’ throws at you involves full temperature/pressure diagrams for various chemicals.
Step by step this gem is getting closer to ‘Space Station 13’ (which I’ve never dared to play).

[askovdk]

Stationeers!    https://store.steampowered.com/app/544550/Stationeers/
...

BTW: I will be happy to show anyone the ropes, if you leave a comment or manages to contact me. :-)  It would be great to have a Bay12 server some day, as the potential for catastrophe is only rivaled by Dwarf Fortress. ;-)

[MCreeper]

Ender Lilies, anime 2D Bloodborne. Thinking all the while that it would probably make a nice, if nonsensical, mod for Dominions. That i would never make, because i haven't enough patience to even properly recolor a unit sprite. Fuck my life. The game is nice, though.

[Micro102]

Stationeers!    https://store.steampowered.com/app/544550/Stationeers/

Visited an open server created by 2 other players I didn’t know before, and I’ve been spending most of last week there.
I really love this game. The focus on engineering over combat, and the (high) level of details when constructing setups fit very well with me. I can’t wait to get back and experiment with the phase changes NO2, - yes, the ‘puzzels’ this ‘game’ throws at you involves full temperature/pressure diagrams for various chemicals.
Step by step this gem is getting closer to ‘Space Station 13’ (which I’ve never dared to play).

I've been eyeing that game exactly because I want more of what SS13 has to offer, without the client from 1996. But I've been hesitant because it's in early access and who knows how much content will be added. Don't want to burn myself out. Any idea how close to "done" it is?