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[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Game ADD acting up. Brought home Oblivion and Fallout3 for the Xbox 360 from Khajiit’s town house (mom’s residence). Going to get Mrs. Khajiit to play those games for the first time this weekend. Should be a hoot!

[Decrepit]

(image link) Captures from a recently driven Train Simulator freight run with shunting (image link)

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

(image link) Captures from a recently driven Train Simulator freight run with shunting (image link)

Those are really pretty D!


Khajiit and Mrs. Khajiit are currently playing Fallout3: Game of the Year Edition on XBox360. She’s doing a medical/science character and I’m doing a talky/shooty character.

[mirocu]

Ahh. Nice to see the good ole 360 getting some attention, as well as Fallout 3. And a spouse collab to boot!

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Ahh. Nice to see the good ole 360 getting some attention, as well as Fallout 3. And a spouse collab to boot!

Weelllll, we ran into a problem. The 360 decided to red ring again.
So, until I get a replacement console, no Fallout3 or Perfect Dark remaster.

[Decrepit]

I've not poisoned the air with reference to my ongoing gaming activity, such as it is, in some time. Here's a link to a series of captures documenting a recent Train Simulator driving session.

[Dark Reaper]

Been busy playing Elden Ring and it's a great game and I even manage to get to the end game part of it ! Only downer is the last few bosses are REALLY, REALLY tough.

[Acadian]

Decrepit, nice shots!

Reaper, glad to see you're still enjoying Elden Ring, despite its difficulty.

[Dark Reaper]

Decrepit, nice shots!

Reaper, glad to see you're still enjoying Elden Ring, despite its difficulty.

Honestly Elden Ring isn't that bad in the difficulty department. With the right build and planning the early bosses are chump change. The difficulty starts spiking once you complete Lyndell the Royal Capital. The hardest bosses left are:
Maleina.
Malekith.
Godfry The First Elden Lord.
Radagon/Marika.
Finally, Elden Beast.

[mirocu]

I have now started another playthrough of Star Wars: Rebellion. As always I play as Empire and I'm again focusing on three sectors; abandoning the others for the time being. I did that way back in an attempt to up the difficulty, but I don't think it did much. But it's nice to scale it down a bit so I'm sticking with it.

I'm well underway building shipyards, construction yards and of course TIE Fighters whilst having Vader and Palpsie doing some recruiting and other character conducting diplomacy. I'm also doing what I can to sabotage rebel installations in order to hault their progress.

[Decrepit]

As chronicled in the appropriate sub-forum thread, I've resumed Daggerfall Unity from where I left off many months ago. One thing I've noticed this return is that my mind has definitely deteriorated since my last extended stay there. Some of that is hopefully nothing more than temporary rust due to neglect. Some of it, for good or ill, is likely that I'm just not as quick-thinking in the heat of damage as I once was. On a positive note, I . . . no, I'll save the rest for the proper thread.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Oct 28 2022, 06:59 PM

[Dark Reaper]

Maleina....I HATE THIS WOMAN! She has stopped me cold in my game! I really wished From Software didn't nerf Black Knife Tish and the Mimic summon. I could really use them at their peak for this fight.
Since they nerf those summons Tish just jumps around the area and does jack squat, and the mimic simply won't heal itself and its suppose to have EVERYTHING you have including having enough flask to heal itself when you summon it.
Yeah I've put the game on ice till they nerf her and the rest of the bosses. I don't like getting gamer rage I have no means of controlling myself when I lose it .

[mirocu]

Hang in there, Reaps. Some bosses in Vtm:B are also a b**tch but cool down before the fight and try working out a strategy. Worked for me anyway.

[Decrepit]

Been playing tons more Daggerfall Unity, which has been or will be chronicled in detail elsewhere.

On the Train Simulator front, here's my most recent contribution to the Official Dovetail Forums TS screenshot thread.

[Acadian]

Great shots, Decrepit. The train smoke and forest in the second one is really neat.

[Dark Reaper]

Hang in there, Reaps. Some bosses in Vtm:B are also a b**tch but cool down before the fight and try working out a strategy. Worked for me anyway.

Only thing I can do is grind levels and get my strength and health up so I can take more of a beating and dish out more damage. It'd help if From Software removed Melenia's healing when she does damage and buff your summons again.

Edit:
Forget it this game's not worth boiling my blood over, looks like I'm stuck at a difficulty wall, unless I can get some help online there's no way I'm going to be able to defeat Maleina.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Nov 1 2022, 04:22 AM

[mirocu]

Windows Chess Titans stats main computer:

Number of games played: 24942
Number of games won: 23311
Draw: 999

[Acadian]

Wow, that's a lotta chess!

[mirocu]

That's what happens when I want something to do while watching youtube for about five hours each evening for 14 years

[Decrepit]

Early yesterday I got a craving for a game I was once good at but haven't touched in decades, Spider Solitaire. No longer having tabletop space for physical cards, I first tried the version provided with Win10. As suspected, it worked well for a few games, then turned into a non-skippable ad-fest (with frequent hints to invest in the "premium" version). So much for that.

Several misleading search attempts later, I found what seems to be an honest free-to-play no-ad Spider. We get to pick between one-suit, two-suit, and four-suit variants. Ever a glutton for punishment with Spider, I cut to the chase and selected four-suit. Played it for hours on end yesterday, all the way up to bedtime. Didn't win a game. Most of the time I didn't even come close. Sometimes I did dismally. I began to wonder if maybe I played the two-suit version back in the day. (It's hard NOT to win the one-suit variant.)

This morning I played two four-suit games before breakfast, losing both. Returned for another loss not long after brushing my teeth. Game four dealt me such an abysmal initial layout and second deal that I abanded it early on. The fifth game was won! Took ages (40+ min) and a lot of effort, being one bad card exposure from defeat a number of times. Lots of fun.

For those interested in this sort of thing, here's the link.