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[Kiln]

I actually saw a Vectrex game system played recently. Very cool old system I'd never even heard of. Arcade projection style screen with a joystick type controller.

It demands a ridiculous price though.

[mirocu]

I know of the Vectrex slightly though I have never played it. And yeah, the price on it and other systems now. Just think, all these old gaming systems and games skyrocketing in price these last few years. Even games that weren´t a big of a deal in the first place.


Collectors, eh?

[Callidus Thorn]

Been playing some Mass Effect 2 the last few days, having some fun with the various classes.

But, I'm going to be firing Oblivion up again later, since I've a character waiting.

[mALX]

Aw, Thorney and Treydoggie! You all are the kind ones! Thank you so much!


For anyone interested, Epic Games is looking for Beta players for its new game Paragon.





This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 11 2015, 04:23 AM

[mirocu]

For anyone interested, Epic Games is looking for Beta players for its new game Paragon.

No can do for me, I´m still testing Oblivion...


Last night I played some Super Mario Land 2: six golden coins on my Gameboy. Still a great game

[mALX]

No one may see me for a while, I am BANISHED !!!!!!! Thank you SubRosa !!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!

[mALX]

OMG, I just finished all the tutorials !!! WOO HOO !!!!!

[mirocu]

Sounds like you´re having fun with the game, mALX

[mALX]

Sounds like you´re having fun with the game, mALX

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

[SubRosa]

Sounds like you´re having fun with the game, mALX

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

mALX the Destroyer!

I am glad to hear you have having such a good time with it. I know I would not have had even half as much fun.

[Decrepit]

Sounds like you´re having fun with <Banished>, mALX

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

Glad you enjoy it!

As for myself, I'm pretty much focused on Oblivion now. Minecraft is on hiatus until I think up a building project I feel up to tackling. As for Daggerfall, I tend to go longish stretches of time playing either it or Oblivion, but not mix the two.

[Acadian]

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

Were you trying to clear trees from your settlement by inviting friends from a neighboring settlement over with chainsaws and beers?

[mALX]

Sounds like you´re having fun with the game, mALX

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

mALX the Destroyer!

I am glad to hear you have having such a good time with it. I know I would not have had even half as much fun.

I stayed up all night playing last night - wiped out 3 full towns, but the last (fourth) one was still alive when I finally fell asleep in front of the laptop! (I woke up upside down under the keyboard, lol).

I lost 3 full villages so far to starvation and freezing; but still having fun. I can't understand how they are starving to death when there is fat chickens running around at their feet; or when I have fields of food planted all around them how are they starving? But having a blast playing anyway!

My prettiest town didn't survive, but boy did it look great !!!


Thank you so much, SubRosa!!!

So far I've wiped out two entire towns - starvation and froze to death, lol. Urk. But yes, I'm having a blast !!!

Were you trying to clear trees from your settlement by inviting friends from a neighboring settlement over with chainsaws and beers?

Really need to try that next, lol.


I noticed before they all starved to death, they were pretty unhappy with their lot in life - a few beers may have given them a rosy outlook,





This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 12 2015, 05:17 PM

[Decrepit]

I consider Oblivion my primary active game, having spent the bulk of my play-time in Cyrodiil for the past month or two. That said, either yesterday morning or the day before I fired up Banished and loaded my ongoing village for the first time in well over a year.

It was immediately obvious that I am too rusty to continue on without an extensive refresher course. Yesterday afternoon I created a new game. Drat the luck, my villagers were plopped down in a very unsuitable area. No water immediately nearby other than a stream too small to fish. That stream also blocks access to workable forest to the east. I can eventually bridge the stream, but attempting it this early would likely end in multi deaths I can't afford. There 'is' suitable water to the south, not as close as I'd like but not prohibitively far. Sadly, it abuts the one accessible nearby forested area suitable for hunting lodge, gathering hut and herbalist. I'd rather not clutter it with fishing piers and (eventually) trading post, but will likely have no choice. Did I mention that west and north or blocked by hills? They can eventually be breached with tunnels. As with bridges that's not something to tackle until all necessities are met. I wasn't feeling well at the time so did no more than contemplate all this and pick a site for the forester hut before calling it quits.

This morning I entered Minecraftia and harvested wood at the fortress' main and auxiliary timber farms. A bit of cosmetic surgery was performed on a road outside the fort proper.

Speaking of which, here is a link to the Minecraft forum thread devoted to my primary Minecraftian world. Be warned that it contains many embedded images. Also, accompanying text is in major need of correction and revision. Both images and text in the section devoted to Autarch Neglect Village are woefully out of date.

[mALX]

I consider Oblivion my primary active game, having spent the bulk of my play-time in Cyrodiil for the past month or two. That said, either yesterday morning or the day before I fired up Banished and loaded my ongoing village for the first time in well over a year.

It was immediately obvious that I am too rusty to continue on without an extensive refresher course. Yesterday afternoon I created a new game. Drat the luck, my villagers were plopped down in a very unsuitable area. No water immediately nearby other than a stream too small to fish. That stream also blocks access to workable forest to the east. I can eventually bridge the stream, but attempting it this early would likely end in multi deaths I can't afford. There 'is' suitable water to the south, not as close as I'd like but not prohibitively far. Sadly, it abuts the one accessible nearby forested area suitable for hunting lodge, gathering hut and herbalist. I'd rather not clutter it with fishing piers and (eventually) trading post, but will likely have no choice. Did I mention that west and north or blocked by hills? They can eventually be breached with tunnels. As with bridges that's not something to tackle until all necessities are met. I wasn't feeling well at the time so did no more than contemplate all this and pick a site for the forester hut before calling it quits.

This morning I entered Minecraftia and harvested wood at the fortress' main and auxiliary timber farms. A bit of cosmetic surgery was performed on a road outside the fort proper.

Speaking of which, here is a link to the Minecraft forum thread devoted to my primary Minecraftian world. Be warned that it contains many embedded images. Also, accompanying text is in major need of correction and revision. Both images and text in the section devoted to Autarch Neglect Village are woefully out of date.

Holy Cow! You not only made a stunningly huge place, but your web page for it is about the classiest set up I've seen - for anything, even a blog! Holy Cow! You don't do things halfway, you put your whole into everything you do; and it shows in the end result! You have totally floored me with this and your vids!

[hazmick]

Just played a little bit of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, one of the free Games with Gold on Xbox One this month.

This action-RPG puts you in the boots of Van Helsing, son of the other Van Helsing who fought Dracula. I wasn't paying much attention during the long opening cinematic, but you're in a land called Borgovia and you have to fight stuff. Lots of werewolves, harpies, robots etc.

The art style is nice, with some parts looking suitably dark and mysterious. The game is made by an independent Hungarian company, and they seem to know what they're doing.

It's your standard top-down button masher, and you can use melee, ranged, and magical attacks to fight the various supernatural creatures that you encounter. You are also accompanied by a ghost named Katerina, who can assist you in combat. The combat itself seems pretty well balanced, with weaker mobs of enemies being easily dispatched, and their bosses being really tough encounters.

There are 3 classes you can play as, but 2 are locked behind paywalls.

The game's not bad, but there hasn't been anything thus far that really sets it apart from similar games like the vastly superior Torchlight and WH40K Kill Team. I might play a bit more and see if the story picks up, but I won't hold my breath.

[Kiln]

I'm playing Wasteland 2 right now. Pretty decent top down RPG in a post apocolyptic universe that inspired the first Fallout. The graphics are fairly good and the turn based gameplay is surprisingly fun too. Story is good enough to keep you playing and the skill system makes sure you pay attention when leveling up and creating your base team.

The random encounter maps get repetetive after a while and the voice acting isn't perfect but overall it is a very good game that plays like the old school top down RPG's of another era with updated graphics.

Hopefully it is successful because it was paid for through crowdfunding and as such may help the future of game development funded by fans.

[SubRosa]

I loved Wasteland 2! Did you play the original version, or the Director's Cut? I bought the original about a year ago and played the daylights out of it. Gog gave me a free copy of the Director's Cut when it was released a little while ago, but I have not had a chance to try it out yet.

Both Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity were kickstarter games, and both were extremely good. I think that bodes very well for crowd-sourcing, and for gaming in general.

[Kiln]

I'm playing the director's cut. Not sure how different it is. Very fun game though. There's a lot going on story wise.

[Decrepit]

Look where Banished plopped my villagers. What a mess! Hills to the left. A useless stream to the right, then more hills. North is little better, believe me. At least going north offers passage to better land, but that doesn't help in the short term. I was pretty much limited to a southern start, that being the logical spot of a 'forest node' and access to a useful waterway for fishing and later on trading.

As can be seen, the forest node is rather sparse on tree. Can't be helped. I've a Foresters Lodge there now, set to plant-only. That should remedy the situation before too many Banished years pass. (I removed no trees in the node except those on building lots.)

I started in hard mode: four families and a cart, no barn, no stockpile, no crop seeds. That, the general lay of the land, and the distance from my storage card to the river pretty much dictated going with a forest-node hub. (The cart is seen screen top.) With so little starter resources it was a race against the clock to build essentials before folk started dying off. A tight race. All's well thus far. Spring of year three and no losses . . . knock on wood.

I'm apparently not as rusty as I thought, unless this is a false start and the village dies off in a year or two. It's possible, but I see no glaring red flats. Leastwise nothing to panic over.