Once you have the prawn suit, you can mine the larger Silver deposits.
GasBandit
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I have looked and looked and looked AND LOOKED and NEVER found a single large silver deposit. It was my second "this will make everything better" letdown (the first being that I expected the scanning room to help me find silver).
I'm swimming in fucking gold though. SWIMMING. I stopped trying to mine it once I got a locker full of it, but it keeps showing up in my goddamned sandstone.
I thought I found a large silver deposit last night, it turned out to be NICKEL. Which DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A USE YET.
GasBandit
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So last night, As I stood still (doing stuff in inventory) in my Cyclops submarine, it slowly "drifted" away from me, and when I looked up from my PDA I was outside the sub. I could then walk around on top of its hull as if I was not underwater. However, there's no access hatch to get into the sub from on top of it, and it was a good 40 foot drop to the coral shelf I was parked over. I took damage from the fall. And then couldn't jump up to the entrance hatch. I was also 200m down with no easy way to "walk" back to the surface. Fortunately, while I tried to walk around looking for a way, the game suddenly went "oh hey you're in the water, let's switch you to swimming and using your oxygen tanks" so that I could swim back into the sub.
This game.
So alpha.
This game.
So alpha.
GasBandit
Staff member
After hours and hours of trash loot and lead pretending to be silver, I was overjoyed to finally find what looked to be a real honest-to-god large silver deposit. There was just one... complication.
That asshole Reaper Leviathan continued to guard that (what I assume to be a) silver cache, bumping around my sub, trying to grind it against the rocks, never letting me get a step out of the launch bay before he grabbed my PRAWN suit and started carrying it around, shaking it for extreme damage. No matter how much I drilled and punched his face, it didn't seem to phase him. I ended up having to retreat for repairs.
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It's a Telltale game, it's always going to be linear.
If it makes you feel better, I'm inclined to think that wasn't a silver deposit. For me, silver has always shown up as a large white-ish chunk, which that deposit definitely wasn't.
GasBandit
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Odd, the small silver chunks I pick up were almost always dark grey. Well, I'll defer to you, because it makes me not need to try to go back and sneak a drill at it while King Asshole is on patrol in the area.
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below
Picked this up for 20 new at Gamestop because I finally have something that can play it. Yep, that sure is Dynasty Warriors meets Dragon Quest. Thankfully, it's two great tastes that go great together and they included enough new stuff to make it interesting. I'm having a great time.
Picked this up for 20 new at Gamestop because I finally have something that can play it. Yep, that sure is Dynasty Warriors meets Dragon Quest. Thankfully, it's two great tastes that go great together and they included enough new stuff to make it interesting. I'm having a great time.
I was really hoping for this to get a bigger discount on the Winter Sale. Glad to hear it's fun, I'll have to continue keeping an eye out for a better sale.
I've seen it as low as $12 on Amazon. And really, 20 bucks is a completely fair price for this NEW.
I'd like to get one at some point but holy shit at the $240 price-tag.
Target website tells me the New 3DS XL Black is in stock at my second nearest location.
GasBandit
Staff member
Stardew Valley
I'd been avoiding this because I thought it was farmville with SNES graphics. It's not. It's... more like Chrono Trigger: the retired years. It doesn't take long before every day's chores are pretty much done before 11am, leaving me free to hack my way through the monster-infected mines and bribe my way into being the most eligible bachelor in the one-horse-town.
So, yeah, it got its hooks in me. Good thing I bought this before a 4 day weekend, because here I am 31 hours later, almost a game-year in, making fat stacks of cash, just won the ice fishing contest (surprising me most of all, much less the local resident salty sailor, given how little I've fished over the year), and got Leah to be my girlfriend. I figure she's about 3 salads away from having my babies. It was actually a long process of picking who the "lucky" girl would be - I had 4 girls at max relationship value possible before busting out of the friend zone - Maru, Abigail, Penny, and last to arrive, Leah. But Maru just got there because she's easy - pelt her with cauliflower and suddenly you're irresistible. Penny had the hair color going for her, but the closer we got the more I realized the primary motivation I'd have for marrying her would be pity - just to get her out of her mother's trailer and into some kind of life, and that's no basis for a marriage. Besides, I'm almost to the point where the magic forest turdling spirits or whatever are about to magically fix the bus line so Penny's mom can get her job back, and I'm hoping that'll help their situation. That narrowed it down to Abigail, who had the moxy (and if your hair ain't red, purple ain't bad either) and came around faster, and Leah, who took her sweet time but had a lot of other stuff in her favor - the bod, the hair, looking less like a teenager, and from what I researched, the farm work ethic. So even though it took longer for her to come around (which I blame on her birthday not coming until late winter), Leah won out.
So, once I've got her watering crops and mending fences, I can focus on the hoops the forest turdlets want me to jump through to revitalize the community center, all the while thinking how damn easy it'd have been just to buy a JujaCo membership and bulldoze the place. But no, I'm doing this the "right" way, dammit.
Also, sprinklers are the worst cocktease ever.
I'd been avoiding this because I thought it was farmville with SNES graphics. It's not. It's... more like Chrono Trigger: the retired years. It doesn't take long before every day's chores are pretty much done before 11am, leaving me free to hack my way through the monster-infected mines and bribe my way into being the most eligible bachelor in the one-horse-town.
So, yeah, it got its hooks in me. Good thing I bought this before a 4 day weekend, because here I am 31 hours later, almost a game-year in, making fat stacks of cash, just won the ice fishing contest (surprising me most of all, much less the local resident salty sailor, given how little I've fished over the year), and got Leah to be my girlfriend. I figure she's about 3 salads away from having my babies. It was actually a long process of picking who the "lucky" girl would be - I had 4 girls at max relationship value possible before busting out of the friend zone - Maru, Abigail, Penny, and last to arrive, Leah. But Maru just got there because she's easy - pelt her with cauliflower and suddenly you're irresistible. Penny had the hair color going for her, but the closer we got the more I realized the primary motivation I'd have for marrying her would be pity - just to get her out of her mother's trailer and into some kind of life, and that's no basis for a marriage. Besides, I'm almost to the point where the magic forest turdling spirits or whatever are about to magically fix the bus line so Penny's mom can get her job back, and I'm hoping that'll help their situation. That narrowed it down to Abigail, who had the moxy (and if your hair ain't red, purple ain't bad either) and came around faster, and Leah, who took her sweet time but had a lot of other stuff in her favor - the bod, the hair, looking less like a teenager, and from what I researched, the farm work ethic. So even though it took longer for her to come around (which I blame on her birthday not coming until late winter), Leah won out.
So, once I've got her watering crops and mending fences, I can focus on the hoops the forest turdlets want me to jump through to revitalize the community center, all the while thinking how damn easy it'd have been just to buy a JujaCo membership and bulldoze the place. But no, I'm doing this the "right" way, dammit.
Also, sprinklers are the worst cocktease ever.
GasBandit
Staff member
I just NOW got a steel watering can. I'm barely in the high 50s for how deep I've gone, I haven't even found gold yet, much less iridium. Hence, cocktease.
Firewatch
I played it nonstop until I beat it last night. I enjoyed it for the most part, but I wish there had been more to it. I wish the days didn't skip so much. I wish there was more tasks to do and more places to explore. I wish the mysteries and stories throughout didn't all disappointingly and anticlimactically.
Still, I don't know. It was a charming, engaging game. There's a reason I played it from start to finish, which took about 4 hours. The scenery is gorgeous and I enjoyed traversing the area, despite the above criticisms. Kinda glad it was gifted to me because otherwise, I would've regretted paying that much for it. If it ever drops to around 75% off in future sales, I'd say check it out if it seems like your thing.
I played it nonstop until I beat it last night. I enjoyed it for the most part, but I wish there had been more to it. I wish the days didn't skip so much. I wish there was more tasks to do and more places to explore. I wish the mysteries and stories throughout didn't all disappointingly and anticlimactically.
Still, I don't know. It was a charming, engaging game. There's a reason I played it from start to finish, which took about 4 hours. The scenery is gorgeous and I enjoyed traversing the area, despite the above criticisms. Kinda glad it was gifted to me because otherwise, I would've regretted paying that much for it. If it ever drops to around 75% off in future sales, I'd say check it out if it seems like your thing.
Huh. I'm watching videos by different YouTubers on the game and I'm finding their analyses incredibly insightful. I'm not sure if I agree with all of their theories, but it's making me appreciate the game more than before.
When I started my second play through I planted the bare minimum of crops and just spent all my days in the mine until I could get the second sprinkler (the first one is too shitty), and otherwise spent all my time in the mine. Also, the only tools I really updated were the pick and the axe (for the sweet sweet hardwood fence).
Life is Strange
I'm still early into it, but I'm really digging it. Interesting adventure game with a slightly frustrating (but not a dealbreaker) control scheme. There's a time-traveling rewind mechanic that makes some puzzles particularly interesting.
What I'm most impressed with the game is the diversity of the students within this...high school? College? I'm not sure. But every one of them differ from another, in looks, sizes, races, fashion, personality. It feels like a school setting.
I'm still early into it, but I'm really digging it. Interesting adventure game with a slightly frustrating (but not a dealbreaker) control scheme. There's a time-traveling rewind mechanic that makes some puzzles particularly interesting.
What I'm most impressed with the game is the diversity of the students within this...high school? College? I'm not sure. But every one of them differ from another, in looks, sizes, races, fashion, personality. It feels like a school setting.
It's technically a highschool, but only for 12th grade. And I loved that game.
Tyranny is fantastic. The world is really engrossing and the odd powerplay between different factions is fascinating. Combat was shaky at first because I hadn't played an RPG like this in a long time, but tonight I seemed to get the hang of it.
Very much the Dark Gunslinger look for this scoundrel. The head-tails going through the hat make me laugh though.
Finally some improved armor. This is the top craftable armor. Looks pretty good for a Bounty Hunter.
The version you have to reverse engineer to get the above. Also not bad.
So it's essentially a cegep. Neat.
Dave
Staff member
Still playing Grim Dawn and loving it.
But I thought Stardew Valley looked like Farmville as well, @GasBandit. Maybe I need to pick this up. I'm not really that big on the Farmville/base-building type of game.
But I thought Stardew Valley looked like Farmville as well, @GasBandit. Maybe I need to pick this up. I'm not really that big on the Farmville/base-building type of game.
Farmville is a piece of crap. Harvest Moon was brilliant until the beginning of the 2000s then it went to shit. Stardew Valley is amazing.
Life is Strange
Just finished it and wow. That was absolutely heart wrenching. Theming time-travel with photography was brilliant. Several moments left me a blubbering mess. Some decisions were harder than Telltale's Walking Dead games. I felt so horrible making certain decisions that I shut my eyes while pushing the appropriate button. There was one incredibly tense moment that hit way, way, WAY too close to home for me. I heard some players found it difficult, but for me, it was a matter of considering what someone with depression would most want to hear at that moment.
Is it perfect? No. The facial animations are incredibly stiff. Aspects of the story don't particularly work upon closer inspection. The main antagonist was a little too moustache-twirling for my tastes.
That said, it's definitely one I'll be thinking about a lot. I'll probably replay it and try collecting all the photos and make different decisions, knowing what I know now.
Just finished it and wow. That was absolutely heart wrenching. Theming time-travel with photography was brilliant. Several moments left me a blubbering mess. Some decisions were harder than Telltale's Walking Dead games. I felt so horrible making certain decisions that I shut my eyes while pushing the appropriate button. There was one incredibly tense moment that hit way, way, WAY too close to home for me. I heard some players found it difficult, but for me, it was a matter of considering what someone with depression would most want to hear at that moment.
Is it perfect? No. The facial animations are incredibly stiff. Aspects of the story don't particularly work upon closer inspection. The main antagonist was a little too moustache-twirling for my tastes.
That said, it's definitely one I'll be thinking about a lot. I'll probably replay it and try collecting all the photos and make different decisions, knowing what I know now.
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I literally got up and left the game paused at the final decision because fuck