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Great choice of keycaps too. Currently rocking MT3 on all my boards at home.Late to the keyboard talk, but 60% all the way.
Having said that, I'll probably need the TK if I ever want to replay PC-98 Brandish again.
Yeah, but why do want those boring monkeys on your harddrive?
The video explains exactly what a nft is.. and its not what most people think they are.. (its much worse lol)
My first impressions of web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...
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The whole post is worth reading.
Well, if you insist on talking about Kingmaker... Kidding, but having played this many hours I have observations.
Firstly I think this is an excellent game, and also a game of excess so massive that it is also a very bad game.
Let's give credit where credit is due. Kingmaker is a great TTRPG adaptation. Not sure you can do more faithful than that. That comes with our first sign of things not being perfect: when you read spell descriptions or what have you, they are just that short of telling you to ask your GM if he is ok with that.
I also imagine it's both a perfect adaptation for fans of the system, and a fucking min-maxer wet dream.
It can be super hard, but again, no surprise, the enemies use the same ruleset as the characters and aren't shy of going ham with their spells or skills.
Performance is horrible, no two way about it. At the beginning all is flowers and unicorns then saves keeps getting made and potentially useful items stashed in the party chest. At the end of the games every save/load is a tad long and my chest was barely usable (I may or may not have thousands of items in it).
The writing is super meh, not to say mediocre. I'm not that hot on the main plot, but it has great moments... but that's a legacy of the original TTRPG campaign. The original writing for the game, the dialogs, the narration, is not offensive but there is really nothing to write home about. And for a game this long it's not helping keeping the flame of interest alive.
Did I fucking mention it is a game of excess ? It unfortunately shows even on the map. There are dozens of minor locations with copy pasted layout. Some of them are also laughably evidently there just to pad up an already bloated game. No big deal, but when you finish a location and say to yourself 'well, there was a single just above average mob and that's all', it's a clear sign you are in a game that loves to just pile up shit upon shit. Quantity over quality. Not to say the quality is not there, but the quantity certainly is.
The game is so dense, so rich with shit to do, that I have no shame (quite annoyed though but what can you do) to admit I missed a whole fucking region. I was so preoccupied by my kingdom affairs, the occasional companion quest etc that I ended up going to the point of no return by traversing a region that... wait... I have never been here ? Fuuuuuu...
We talked about it the other day, but this is also one of those game that I feel is unreasonable to play without several guides on the side. There are far too many opportunities to fuck your playthrough, it goes beyond wanting a particular ending. I mean toward the end there is a chain of event that I suspect could wipe most of your characters. You can create other party members, but yeah. The day I finished the game I lost half my open bookmarks. And believe me, you will make love to the stupidest one, a calendar of the game world.
It's quite horrible, it's a terribly draining experience and I'm super not surprised so many people drop the game partway. Infuriatingly it's also one of the best CRPG I played in years. The best and the worst, I can't decide, that's super dependent on the player. Certainly not for newcomers, it's just too dense, too long, there are far better introductions to the genre. But on the other hand, you can't do more CRPG than this.
The game shines all the way through Chapter 1 and 2. It's a wonderful experience. But there are
And it's pretty evident that after having been so brilliant, the game is all can't stop, won't stop.
Firstly I think this is an excellent game, and also a game of excess so massive that it is also a very bad game.
Let's give credit where credit is due. Kingmaker is a great TTRPG adaptation. Not sure you can do more faithful than that. That comes with our first sign of things not being perfect: when you read spell descriptions or what have you, they are just that short of telling you to ask your GM if he is ok with that.
I also imagine it's both a perfect adaptation for fans of the system, and a fucking min-maxer wet dream.
It can be super hard, but again, no surprise, the enemies use the same ruleset as the characters and aren't shy of going ham with their spells or skills.
Performance is horrible, no two way about it. At the beginning all is flowers and unicorns then saves keeps getting made and potentially useful items stashed in the party chest. At the end of the games every save/load is a tad long and my chest was barely usable (I may or may not have thousands of items in it).
The writing is super meh, not to say mediocre. I'm not that hot on the main plot, but it has great moments... but that's a legacy of the original TTRPG campaign. The original writing for the game, the dialogs, the narration, is not offensive but there is really nothing to write home about. And for a game this long it's not helping keeping the flame of interest alive.
Did I fucking mention it is a game of excess ? It unfortunately shows even on the map. There are dozens of minor locations with copy pasted layout. Some of them are also laughably evidently there just to pad up an already bloated game. No big deal, but when you finish a location and say to yourself 'well, there was a single just above average mob and that's all', it's a clear sign you are in a game that loves to just pile up shit upon shit. Quantity over quality. Not to say the quality is not there, but the quantity certainly is.
The game is so dense, so rich with shit to do, that I have no shame (quite annoyed though but what can you do) to admit I missed a whole fucking region. I was so preoccupied by my kingdom affairs, the occasional companion quest etc that I ended up going to the point of no return by traversing a region that... wait... I have never been here ? Fuuuuuu...
We talked about it the other day, but this is also one of those game that I feel is unreasonable to play without several guides on the side. There are far too many opportunities to fuck your playthrough, it goes beyond wanting a particular ending. I mean toward the end there is a chain of event that I suspect could wipe most of your characters. You can create other party members, but yeah. The day I finished the game I lost half my open bookmarks. And believe me, you will make love to the stupidest one, a calendar of the game world.
It's quite horrible, it's a terribly draining experience and I'm super not surprised so many people drop the game partway. Infuriatingly it's also one of the best CRPG I played in years. The best and the worst, I can't decide, that's super dependent on the player. Certainly not for newcomers, it's just too dense, too long, there are far better introductions to the genre. But on the other hand, you can't do more CRPG than this.
The game shines all the way through Chapter 1 and 2. It's a wonderful experience. But there are
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So if I am reading that right. The current internet is more decentralised than WEB 3.0.
Plus, again if I am reading it right, NFTs are nothing than a receipt and a hyperlink. It is actually impossible to store actual jpegs, gaming assets or whatever on their.
however the one thing I am certain off is that 99.9% of the above is a scam and should be ignored.
Plus, again if I am reading it right, NFTs are nothing than a receipt and a hyperlink. It is actually impossible to store actual jpegs, gaming assets or whatever on their.
however the one thing I am certain off is that 99.9% of the above is a scam and should be ignored.
That reminds me that I still have to resume my Xenoblade Chronicles 1 playthrough, tote a short and lean experience 
The other day I looked where I'm at in a walkthrough...
The game is not without quality but it better ramp up the plot soon because it's just too dull. I suspect it will, I'm off to
The other day I looked where I'm at in a walkthrough...
The game is not without quality but it better ramp up the plot soon because it's just too dull. I suspect it will, I'm off to
Prison Island
Soon.That reminds me that I still have to resume my Xenoblade Chronicles 1 playthrough, tote a short and lean experience
The other day I looked where I'm at in a walkthrough...
The game is not without quality but it better ramp up the plot soon because it's just too dull. I suspect it will, I'm off toPrison Island
Random indie sales picks of the day
Pawsome deal for 2 meowtastic games.
Pawsome deal for 2 meowtastic games.
My recommendation for XC1 is to really just skip all the side-quests. They are garbage fetch or kill quests that might as well be random generated and the game is full of them. I don't say this lightly because I'm generally someone who wants to complete and see as much of an RPG in one playthrough (cause chances are I'm gonna play the game exactly once and never go back, especially if its massive) but XC1 broke me.That reminds me that I still have to resume my Xenoblade Chronicles 1 playthrough, tote a short and lean experience
The other day I looked where I'm at in a walkthrough...
The game is not without quality but it better ramp up the plot soon because it's just too dull. I suspect it will, I'm off toPrison Island
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So you are saying 2 is better on that front ? That would be a wonderful news.
I’m losing my interest and my memories of the plot really fast now. 50 hours in and it’s becoming nearly physically painful when my shitty quest giver disappear, because he only appears on super random days, to give me insufferably written excuses for a quest.
I’m venting, played some hours today and I still haven’t put a foot on my plot destination.
On the bright side I have now zero other quest, for now
The last few hours were especially excruciating now that I think about it. I was struck between the disappearing quest giver and some kill mob for loot (32% chance and there are only two fucking mob of this type, you need several items, so yeah, hope you have brought a book to read between repop).
Currently considering these, if anyone thinks I should not buy any of them, please write so, I know Souldiers has mixed reviews, but I really liked the demo:
Souldiers
Far: Changing Tides
FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch
FAE Tactics
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Souldiers
Far: Changing Tides
FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch
FAE Tactics
Dragon Quest Builders 2
XBC2 has only like a quarter of side quests that XBC1 has, but they are not great quality either. They give a lot of exp and that's the only incentive to complete them.
No, I haven't played enough of X and haven't played 2 at all so I can't judge those, which is why I specifically referred to only XC1. Sorry! (But maybe they are better about it!)So you are saying 2 is better on that front ? That would be a wonderful news.
I’m losing my interest and my memories of the plot really fast now. 50 hours in and it’s becoming nearly physically painful when my shitty quest giver disappear, because he only appears on super random days, to give me insufferably written excuses for a quest.
I’m venting, played some hours today and I still haven’t put a foot on my plot destination.
On the bright side I have now zero other quest, for now
The last few hours were especially excruciating now that I think about it. I was struck between the disappearing quest giver and some kill mob for loot (32% chance and there are only two fucking mob of this type, you need several items, so yeah, hope you have brought a book to read between repop).
But yeah, forgot about the side quests in the game. They are a miserable experience.
I thought Sunbreak would do 2 million in a week, not a weekend.
Fae Tactics gets extremely hard after a few hours to the point where it isn't very fun. FIST and Dragon Quest Builders 2 are both very good. I cannot say anything about the other games.
Perhaps time to uncork Steam sales today. Have been waiting the Humble Choice day to see if any games are there.
Instead of grinding in MH Rise I’m now grinding in gacha
after using half of my summer break to conclude that "oh shit, i have nothing to do", i have now progressed again into my previous subject of vr'ing my room
here it is in somewhat, as my main and biggest problem is making the props (because they cost me money, and the next time i get money to use for this is in a month, right when uni starts again, so play the buwop sound from spongebob here)
still trying out photogrammetry, but this time on a budget with most of the eventual fixes happening in blender, this is an older image of testing it out
here it is in somewhat, as my main and biggest problem is making the props (because they cost me money, and the next time i get money to use for this is in a month, right when uni starts again, so play the buwop sound from spongebob here)
still trying out photogrammetry, but this time on a budget with most of the eventual fixes happening in blender, this is an older image of testing it out
I finally checked my bank account to see how much I spent during the Steam sale. Let's just say ignorance is bliss.
I just finished XC1 last night and the plot definitely does ramp up. Stick with the recommendations to skip side quests and only do them if you need quick XP. I got frustrated in the last few hours and turned on causal mode because the bosses were kicking my ass. I’m glad I did though because I think the world and characters were totally worth it. It feels nice to finish a big game you started a long time ago.That reminds me that I still have to resume my Xenoblade Chronicles 1 playthrough, tote a short and lean experience
The other day I looked where I'm at in a walkthrough...
The game is not without quality but it better ramp up the plot soon because it's just too dull. I suspect it will, I'm off toPrison Island
I can only talk about Souldiers. It got a balancing patch recently and addressed some design decisions that I really hated, like flying enemies that took too much time to get close to the floor, they also lessened the aggro range of some enemies that could be throwing things at you even when out of the screen.
I still dislike how you choose the secondary weapons, as you will get a lot of them through the game and needing to cycle through the whole list to find the one you want to use can be annoying. I could have preferred if you just equipped like 3 and circled through them.
Overall I like the game even though it feels like a love and hate relationship in some moments.
Might pick it up, but not sure.You left out DQB2? That was the best game in the cart!
I spent about £50 in the seal (which is what i usually spend) and got 23 games which i think is terrific value.
Also paid for the Deck so thats pushed the spend limit up.
Good seal overall though.
Edit - actually, looking at it, i spent about £100. Whoops.
Also paid for the Deck so thats pushed the spend limit up.
Good seal overall though.
Edit - actually, looking at it, i spent about £100. Whoops.
Spent 0€
I win Gaben
I win Gaben
actually I'm just waiting for the monthly reveal before hitting the confirm purchase button...
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Same here, although I wish Klonoa was on sale already.
I spend USD 50 on Black Desert Online
I think that will be it for this Steam Sale for myself
I think that will be it for this Steam Sale for myself
Steam :: Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition :: Update #1 is available now
Patch V1.0.1016 is available now, and fixes commonly cited issues. We'd also like to share what we're working on.
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Also holy shit I played this in C64
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Here's my haul.
Bit more than I usually pick up, but most of the discounts were deep enough to not feel bad about it.
If the keyboard doesn't have a numpad its not good enough for me. There are a select few games that need a numpad (Garry's Mod for instance) and I don't wanna be caught unable to play how I'd want.
EDIT: As for the Steam sale, I got Mistover and Halo 3: ODST.
No sense spending much when RF5 and Klonoa are so close for me.
EDIT: As for the Steam sale, I got Mistover and Halo 3: ODST.
No sense spending much when RF5 and Klonoa are so close for me.
Steam :: Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition :: Update #1 is available now
Patch V1.0.1016 is available now, and fixes commonly cited issues. We'd also like to share what we're working on.steamcommunity.com
They are getting added to the wish list. Takes me back to being a kid. Give me Uridium and I will be happy.
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Also holy shit I played this in C64
Was hyped but loads of the music won't be there and they're making the graphics more realistic
The worst thing is they coopted the term 'Web 3.0' to mean their flimflam. It is supposed to mean the semantic web which had nothing at all to do with blockchain, cryptocoins, nor NFTs. They took over the term to give their scam shit some air of legitimacy.
I understand the underlying math and economics of the whole thing and I am 100% that all of it is a scam. The only question is how many people will be bamboozled as at any one time more than half the population of the planet is being conned into at least a few things.
dont really care about the music as the orignal never was on pc so
as for the graphics i bet it just means never engine and better effects ... looking at the promo images they share ... i dont see it that changed
Choice leaks (2 of x)
Sadly no Steam key for last, would've been good imo.
Sadly no Steam key for last, would've been good imo.
might have to go back to twitter, i deleted my acc since I really wasn't using it for anything anymore, but I remembered recently that I used it as a login for fantia...
Nice Necromunda is a good pick.
Please note : Since Trudograd continues the story of ATOM RPG it is recommended to play the previous title before the sequel.
Was the the first ATOM RPG game ever bundled before? Why would they bundle the second game first?
Was the the first ATOM RPG game ever bundled before? Why would they bundle the second game first?
thats a good bundle for me, I have none of these games.
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