Oh, it was the absolute pits, from the inane puzzles, the glitches, the nonsensical story (especially as it progressed), and horrendous acting.
I still have a soft spot for it.
I still have a soft spot for it.
Add it to the list of games that have self-destructed saves on you. Minecraft, Skyrim/Morrowind/anyBethesdaGameReally/ etc.My gnomoria save corrupted itself!!
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
It's really irritating to me how the final version of Gnomoria had more bugs than the few previous versions, and now that the game is "released" the author has vanished off the face of the earth.
The Gnomes got him.
GasBandit
Staff member
I really like pokken tournament, but you have to like fighting games to really get the most out of it. Some people just don't.
There are fighting games I like and fighting games I don't. It probably stems from not liking Tekken, since it's the same developer. I like Soul Calibur and ... um ... I know there are others. I have a soft spot for Injustice. Dammit, I know there are more.
Picked up Arkham Knight to try to see if I'd have any issues with it. Seems to run fine, though it has crashed once (since I've been using Windows 10, this is a common occurrence with fucking all games now). I still have 9 minutes of time till I hit the two hour mark and can't get it refunded.
Seems fun so far.
Seems fun so far.
GasBandit
Staff member
After my save corrupted, I started Gnomoria over again. Thought I was doing well, but apparently my rapid growth came from me neglecting to build a guard military unit that wore actual armor. I'd been training all my gnomes in unarmed combat and they'd managed to kill armored goblins with no casualties, and the resources I saved from not having to dig deep for the copper and tin to make bronze meant bumper crops of food and trade goods. The trade goods brought the interest of more goblins, which my gnomes killed. But at the beginning of year 3, the huge amounts of food stored attracted mants.
Mants are these fuckers right here.
Man-sized ants. If you aren't wearing armor when fighting a mant, you're gonna have a bad time.
So, naturally, the mants systematically moved throughout my gnome fortress turning the happy, prosperous community into a blood-drenched formic nightmare of chittering mandibles and screaming midgets made even smaller from having their arms and legs bitten off.
Such is the way of playing a dwarf fortress type game.
So I started over AGAIN.
This time, I made sure to have a squad of guards training at the front gate every night, and made sure they were wearing bronze armor ASAP.
Last night I had my first mant attack.
Shortly thereafter, we started making scale armor from the collected mant chitin
Mants are these fuckers right here.
Man-sized ants. If you aren't wearing armor when fighting a mant, you're gonna have a bad time.
So, naturally, the mants systematically moved throughout my gnome fortress turning the happy, prosperous community into a blood-drenched formic nightmare of chittering mandibles and screaming midgets made even smaller from having their arms and legs bitten off.
Such is the way of playing a dwarf fortress type game.
So I started over AGAIN.
This time, I made sure to have a squad of guards training at the front gate every night, and made sure they were wearing bronze armor ASAP.
Last night I had my first mant attack.
Shortly thereafter, we started making scale armor from the collected mant chitin
Here's hoping you continue to climb the polysaccharides until you can move up to something more protein-based.we started making scale armor from the collected mant chitin
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Mant chitin armor is the second strongest leather-type armor there is after excepting 2-headed ogre leather (why it's so much tougher than 1-headed ogre leather I have no idea). 2 headed ogre's almost as good as steel plate armor, albeit with different damage type resistances (Leather is better at absorbing blunt damage, plate is better at stopping slashing damage, both are good vs piercing. Swords really get a raw deal in this game, nothing is weak vs pierce except bone armor, which nobody uses because it is awful), and it has the advantage of not having the plate armor movement penalties.
It had to bear the brunt of the insults from it's 1-headed fellows. This gave him a thick hide, literally.
GasBandit
Staff member
It'd actually be possible to mod that stuff in. The item data carries over through the manufacturing process, so you have an animal which drops (animal) (hide) which is processed into (animal) (panels) which are then used to construct (animal) (armor piece)s. Of course, you'd have to provide pixelart of whatever (animal) it is, too.
Mants weren't actually something you could make something useful out of in the original vanilla game, the ability to combine mant chitin with the hide of another animal to make mant hide is part of the overhaul mod I'm using.
Of course, it has some bugs. Any item you make is supposed to go "This is a (quality) (type) (item), made by (creator)" (as in "Poor bronze helmet, made by Robert") and the mod has goofed a little in that sometimes it mixes up the fields... and so from time to time I'll be going through the food stores seeing "yak sandwich, yak sandwich, yak sandwich, Robert sandwich, yak sandwich, wait what?"
GasBandit
Staff member
Of course, if the game LET you butcher the corpses of gnomes, the internal logic would LET you make a Robert sandwich (corpse -> meat -> sausage + bread -> sandwich)... but for some reason the butcher station refuses to process gnome corpses.
But damn do I got a lot of goblin sandwiches.
Looks like I won't be playing No Man's Sky tomorrow, as I haven't seen an email from Gamefly saying they sent it.
In other old game is old news, I started playing Shadow of Mordor this weekend.
I already have a nemesis. Bûth the Wise. After killing him the first time in a power struggle, he showed up mere moments later as I was leaving the area. I would've killed him again, I had him weakened, ready to interrogate . . . just after I took care of the uruk still around. But before I could get back to him, he took me out with a poisoned spear. Sigh.
Then, during another power struggle, a trial of death for Búth, him pitted against a carragor, I could do nothing, watching from above, as the carragor was released from a cage and instantly slain. The bastard is a beast killer, he's immune to ranged attacks and stealth attacks. I couldn't even begin to close the distance before the whole thing was over. Bastard.
I haven't blown up anybody yet. I haven't even noticed the stuff that blows up. I know its there, because I bought the ability to blow stuff up right away. I mean that ability and the carragor riding one are the only early ones that looked any fun. Its my one complaint about the game so far.
Slain: Back from Hell (courtesy of @Frank)
Pretty decent Castlevania-style platformer. I'm not far along in the story to know the full extent of its mechanics and length, but so far it's very promising. The aesthetics are pretty great, and that alone makes it worth playing in short spurts. It does suffer from a few annoying gameplay quirks/bugs, poorly thought-out mechanics, and the interfaces/menus are glitchy at best.
Tharsis
Available on the Humble (Survive This) Bundle, and well worth the entire purchase price. This is a fantastic single-player turn-based resource boardgame that happens to be on a computer instead of cardboard. Fantastic graphics, well-though UI (with very minor nitpicks), solid mechanics, good voice acting, and great art. If you like resource management, stave-off-death-and/or-insanity games, or rolling dice on the screen (heavy nostalgia for the MacOS Monopoly right there), pick this up! At $5-ish bucks right now it's a steal.
Pretty decent Castlevania-style platformer. I'm not far along in the story to know the full extent of its mechanics and length, but so far it's very promising. The aesthetics are pretty great, and that alone makes it worth playing in short spurts. It does suffer from a few annoying gameplay quirks/bugs, poorly thought-out mechanics, and the interfaces/menus are glitchy at best.
Tharsis
Available on the Humble (Survive This) Bundle, and well worth the entire purchase price. This is a fantastic single-player turn-based resource boardgame that happens to be on a computer instead of cardboard. Fantastic graphics, well-though UI (with very minor nitpicks), solid mechanics, good voice acting, and great art. If you like resource management, stave-off-death-and/or-insanity games, or rolling dice on the screen (heavy nostalgia for the MacOS Monopoly right there), pick this up! At $5-ish bucks right now it's a steal.
Ok, so I've played more Arkham Knight and while I'm generally liking it, the Riddler stuff is the fucking worst of the series and I didn't think it could get any worse from how shitty his content was in Arkham City. RIDDLE ME THIS BATMAN! CAN YOU MANAGE TO DRIVE OVER THAT SWITCH, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND THROW A BATARANG?! I DOUBT YOUR FEEBLE MIND CAN HANDLE SUCH A MASTERFULLY CREATED CONUNDRUM!
Terrible.
Terrible.
I wonder if the servers are getting hammered. The PS4 version had server issues on.the second day, I think.
That should extend load times, but not affect in-game performance.
True. Might just be the PC version. I've seen some pop in but not much else of concern
You need to craft it, really, so what you need is the recipe.
Dave
Staff member
Actually, the first one an alien gives you. You don't get the crafting recipe until you hit your second star system.
Just bought my second ship and I'm at a space station where this one mineral is insanely priced. Just so happens that the planet below is lousy with the stuff. So I cleared out 6 inventory slots and I'm going mining!
Couple notes about this game so far.
All in all I think I'm going to get my money's worth out of this game. I like it so far. I can see why people are bored with it, though. It's like Minecraft in space where you explore but can't really build.
Just bought my second ship and I'm at a space station where this one mineral is insanely priced. Just so happens that the planet below is lousy with the stuff. So I cleared out 6 inventory slots and I'm going mining!
Couple notes about this game so far.
- The damned thing is already up on torrent sites! Since it's not really multiplayer you don't really have to be online.
- Framerates on this game SUCK! I haven't cracked 60 on high settings. I think only Terry Crews's computer could. I might try dumbing down the interface and see if that floats.
- This is not a really exciting game. It's like Eve if all you wanted to do is trade and mine. And guess what? That's all I did in Eve. So I like it.
- The interface is made for console and there's a few things about it that are driving me nuts. Like when you page through screens it automatically centers your pointer. GAHH! Hate that!
- So far I've only been attacked by one creature. I've been attacked by sentinels and have been killed by space pirates (the fuckers got me 3 against 1 with my starting ship!), but so far it hasn't been that dangerous.
- I hope I find something that makes the scanner last longer.
All in all I think I'm going to get my money's worth out of this game. I like it so far. I can see why people are bored with it, though. It's like Minecraft in space where you explore but can't really build.