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General Video Game Thread
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@tsar said in General Video Game Thread:
@Pyrephox said in General Video Game Thread:
treasure that sets your whole storeroom on fire
…go on
Just remember this: You asked for this.
Okay, so ACS is set in the ‘cultivation’ subgenre of Chinese high fantasy, where your main characters are martial artists trying to speed run into enlightenment and immortality, usually by ingesting a variety of weird substances and punching dragons in the face. Which means that in the world of ACS, Feng Shui is a real, measurable thing and the ‘elemental energy’ of items can absolutely have effects on the world around them. This means a room with good Feng Shui will help people be happier and heal faster.
A room with bad Feng Shui can cause people’s hearts to explode. It’s a thing.
But, moving on! Out in the world you can find various treasures that can help in your cultivation - either by gathering qi that your cultivators can absorb to grow more powerful, or by being useful to make into medicines that they can eat (which can also make their heads explode). Fire qi and Water qi in particularly have effects on the surrounding temperatures. A fruit infused with large amounts of Fire qi can reach upwards of 500 degrees F. When your cultivators go out adventuring, they will bring the things they find back to the sect and dump them in your storage room (if that’s where you direct them to do so). If you dump something that is 500F next to your, say, wood and fur supplies?
Fire. Fire everywhere. And when I first started playing the game, I had no idea why my storeroom kept spontaneously combusting, because I did not realize that this fruit this guy found out in the wilderness was actually a self-fueling, ever-burning furnace of death.
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@Pyrephox said in General Video Game Thread:
Fire. Fire everywhere. And when I first started playing the game, I had no idea why my storeroom kept spontaneously combusting, because I did not realize that this fruit this guy found out in the wilderness was actually a self-fueling, ever-burning furnace of death.
… writing that down for future shenanigans.
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Been on the fence about this one for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages. Thank you, I am so gonna grab it now.
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@Pyrephox said in General Video Game Thread:
Fire. Fire everywhere. And when I first started playing the game, I had no idea why my storeroom kept spontaneously combusting, because I did not realize that this fruit this guy found out in the wilderness was actually a self-fueling, ever-burning furnace of death.
Glorious. I know what my next game is going to be. Thank you.
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Ended up in the space of like 10 days sinking 54 hours on Mount & Blade II: Bannerlords.
Has a decent RPG vibe to it, although can get a bit grindy at points and the campaign is a bit meh. But with the 3rd-person battles, and a very healthy modding community, good fun.
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Inspired by the Cyberpunk anime, I decided to finally sit down and give Cyberpunk 2077 a shot now that I’d heard it’s stable and bugs are squashed. And… it was good! I had a great time, even if I had quibbles, which I’ll touch on below.
For the PC version, modifying the major movement and ‘action’ keybinds is still a bit of a chore, but there are mods out there that help with it. If you use a controller, it’s likely absolutely painless.
Sidequests: I felt slightly betrayed that my obsessive completion of smaller sidequests never really amounted to a tangible reward.
(So, protip: Almost every ‘Gig’ in the game which is denoted by a green icon? Absolutely no part of the story gives a crap about it, and they’re generally unrewarding. Only the yellow sidequests are worth doing unless you just feel inspired to get more immersed, because the green ‘gigs’ felt pretty copy/pasta and I rarely left a gig feeling like it had enriched the world in any particular way.)
Story: I felt an extreme attachment to Judy Alvarez, and her questline was just beautiful. She’s only interested in female-presenting characters romantically, but goodness gracious.
Also, without spoiling anything, several of the choices of endings require sidequests completed to select, and every ending that doesn’t? Kinda sit between ‘unsatisfying’ and ‘WELP’. So, again. Yellow sidequests are your friend. Go in to the home stretch with options.
That’s all! I’m looking forward to more time in Night City when the DLC drops.
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I quit the game after finishing the Judy romance because it was beautiful and I knew the ending would not be as good.
Do wish I’d been able to romance Pan-Am, tho. Judy was lovely, but not really my type.
bird's still the word
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@IoleRae said in General Video Game Thread:
Been on the fence about this one for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages. Thank you, I am so gonna grab it now.
Fair warning for you and @tsar : The translation is dodgy, and this game is DENSE.
Like, super dense. There are three ‘broad’ categories of cultivation and they each have their own ruleset. And then there are Formations, which I have not figured out and I’ve had the game for years. And a social system that is hilariously wonky. It’s a weird game. But you can have a lot of fun with it.
And if you’re lucky, a pile of poop which has turned sentient might wander into your sect, and you can eventually turn it into a magical human.
Edit: All that said? I love talking about this game, and if you do get it and want to chat about it HIT ME UP. Because I adore it and am happy to give tips or just talk about the crazy things that happen.
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@Rinel Pan-Am was a good runner-up! Just too much of a temper for me.
That and she had no interest in me (Because she has her own preferences, and she be straight). I didn’t know that, and it really brought up some painful oofs when I tried and failed to get something going. Props to them for letting me still try to flirt, because the oofs actually felt better than just no dialogue options. Staring at you, here, Bioware.
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Whelp.
The new WoW xpac has me excited like I haven’t been since Legion, and that’s after playing a good chunk of the pre-xpac event, not just the hype surrounding it. The new hero class is chefkiss.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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The catch-up mechanic was pretty decent this time around, and I’m really elated at the possibility that this one might be more friendly towards alts. No borrowed power to grind (Artifacts in Legion, Azerite in BFA, Covenant, Stygia, Shards, etc in Shadowlands) will at least mean some flexibility. I hope!
Now to see what on earth they do with the story, because gosh it’s in splinters after all that Jailer nonsense.
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Unfortunately, my enthusiasm is swiftly dying on account of not having been able to log in yet. Between “World server is down” and forever initializing, I haven’t been able to connect yet. I am not invested enough to hang in there.
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@IoleRae I also experienced some launch-day blues. Finally connected today, and finding it was well worth the frustration. Hope you’re able to stick it out.
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I’m trying. Tried during lunch today, still didn’t work.
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got in
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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The rotation:
- Project Zomboid: honestly I had to stage my own intervention.
- Overwatch 2: you don’t have to tell me I’m basic, I know.
- Valorant: see above.
- Pokemon Scarlet, which I arbitrarily picked over Violet because it has Tyranitar and I think he’s a boss.
- Dead by Daylight: frustrating fucking game. I’m addicted.
- GTFO: this game really requires me to be patient while incentivizing me as much as possible to not be patient.
- Phasmophobia: I play this exclusively with my friends because there’s less guilt when we get one another killed (than if we did it to a complete stranger, I guess). If I find a Tarot deck, we’re all fucked.
- Okami: this is just a gorgeous game that I recently started playing through again. Big puppy sun god.
- Have a Nice Death: a very sassy sidescroller about Death, the CEO.
- Back 4 Blood: You like L4D? It’s that.
- Death’s Door: you’re a little crow whose job it is to ferry souls once their time on the mortal plane is over. Sometimes those souls don’t want to go peacefully. You have a tiny sword, clear eyes, full heart, and a very LoZ feel.
I wish you would.
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@IoleRae I had some day one difficulties but I hit max level last night. Some AMAZING quests!
Haven’t done the endgame yet too much due to work stuff but I had a blast leveling, which I can’t remember the last time I did.
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Roadwarden. It’s like an old-school adventure book from the '80s. Reminds me of Lone Wolf, it’s on steam so amazing.
