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I've given up on Borderlands. Too many times you're fighting enemies that just soak bullets and take forever to kill, so you spend ten minutes running and kiting and shooting and switching weapon when you run out of ammo, just waiting for it to finally die. It got boring.
Instead, yesterday I started Papo & Yo, which was recommended on Anita Sarkeesian's latest video. Really excellent puzzle platformer, and also an extended metaphor for a child dealing with an abusive alcoholic parent (you solve puzzles by interacting with a giant beast called Monster, who is usually docile but becomes uncontrollably violent when it eats a certain food - in this case frogs). Just finished it today (it's a pretty short game).
Now I need another new game...
Instead, yesterday I started Papo & Yo, which was recommended on Anita Sarkeesian's latest video. Really excellent puzzle platformer, and also an extended metaphor for a child dealing with an abusive alcoholic parent (you solve puzzles by interacting with a giant beast called Monster, who is usually docile but becomes uncontrollably violent when it eats a certain food - in this case frogs). Just finished it today (it's a pretty short game).
Now I need another new game...
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Waiting impatiently for Far Cry 4.
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I loved the original on the Commodore 64. So does this mean a full 3D update like Fallout? I simply could not get into the Fallout update, sadly, but then again I have other commitments unlike I did back in the day. I could just smell "time-suck" when I started playing that, and gave up after a day or two of playing.
I kinda hope Wasteland is more like the original, but as I probably won't be playing it anyway, my opinion hardly matters.
I kinda hope Wasteland is more like the original, but as I probably won't be playing it anyway, my opinion hardly matters.
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So... gog.com (Good Old Games) had a promo last week, and I got a free copy of Mount & Blade, an oldish medieval RPG that I'd never seen or heard of before.
Decided to try it out late Friday night, and ended up spending almost the entire weekend glued to the damn computer.
Just bought the sequel, Warband, and it looks like it's almost exactly the same but with updated graphics.
This is the most fun I've had since X3 TC. A medieval elite-like RPG.
I'm busy charging around with a band of nomad horse archers raiding caravans and burning enemy villages.
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Decided to try it out late Friday night, and ended up spending almost the entire weekend glued to the damn computer.
Just bought the sequel, Warband, and it looks like it's almost exactly the same but with updated graphics.
This is the most fun I've had since X3 TC. A medieval elite-like RPG.
I'm busy charging around with a band of nomad horse archers raiding caravans and burning enemy villages.
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Picked up Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning on a Steam sale and downloaded it this weekend. Meh. Fun enough I suppose but the game play isn't great. Can't even step down a 3-inch high ledge. Will probably do the main storyline, but 100 hours, this is not.
On that note, still playing M&B Warband. Downloaded a 1.2GB overhaul mod for it (3x bigger than the actual game) and started straight off with that. I'm currently the Marshall of the Khergit Khanate, and off to war with the Nords.
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On that note, still playing M&B Warband. Downloaded a 1.2GB overhaul mod for it (3x bigger than the actual game) and started straight off with that. I'm currently the Marshall of the Khergit Khanate, and off to war with the Nords.
--A