Hey everyone. Hope you all had a good week and relaxing weekend. I actually didn’t game much this weekend as I was preparing to move apartments and also went on a weekend trip with friends, but I did squeeze in some Xcom 2 today. Hope everyone has a productive week.
I did “A Servant No Longer” in CK2, taking a young eunuch duke under the Abbasids and ruling an empire of a certain size before he died. I just took over the Abbasids because that was easiest. After I became caliph I became a satanist and grew my dick and balls back but died in battle before I could sire an heir. Still a good time
Now I’m trying to do a bunch of achievements in one run:
- “Never Start a Land War in Asia”: Starting in Western Europe, control the eastern steppe
- “Norse-East”: As a Norse character, become king of Mongolia
- “Legacy of the Indo-Norse”: As a Norse character, have a kingdom in India as your primary title and a capital in India with Norse culture
- “Viking Ummah”: Have a capital with Norse culture and Sunni religion
My start of choice is the classic Haesteinn in 867. On my current run I’ve got my kingdom in India set up but having second thoughts about the routing because it’s more toward the south of India, so it’ll take longer to get to Mongolia. I also only lumped Viking Ummah into this because islam would get me out of gavelkind succession and I don’t want to spend tech on increasing legalism until I get my capital settled
Might restart with a slightly more optimized route and defensive pacts off so I can carve a path north easier. Only gotta hope the Western protectorate doesn’t blob like it did in my Aladdin game
Hell yeah, Multi-Achievement Sniping is my favorite thing to do in CK/EU/Vicky. Good luck!
Yeah this looks like the way I want to do it because I can lump another cheevo in from taking over Rajasthan
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I have been obsessed with vintage story recently. I have been trying to search for mature fruit trees to take saplings back to my base AND trying to insulate my wooden home from lighting strikes by covering it with cob.
I won the crab game.
I’ve been meaning to play some old Japanese games to test my language learning, so I booted up a PC Engine dungeon crawler called Brandish and ended up fistfighting dinosaurs that look suspiciously like a sitting US president
It’s been pretty fun so far and I enjoyed some of the ridiculous mechanics that screw you over, like how there is an “HP poison” item that looks completely identical to “HP potion” in your inventory and if you try to stack it onto your normal potions it ruins them lol
Started Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and I’m enjoying it
My kids talked me in to playing minecrap. I’m 46 and I’ve never played it once before this weekend. Im mining, then I’m crafting.
Also playing the usual, GTA:SA multiplayer. I’ve been playing it since it released in 2006 or 2007 i think. And i suck at it still.
Im not a g#mer, let alone a G*mer. Ever see people who cannot pass training levels/skill building levels? Where every single jump is a trial by fire for the person holding the controller?
That’s me. I grew up w a single button and an 8way joystick. Then i got a Nintendo, which has two buttons. Thats 100% more buttons. I never got past this level of skill. I bought both Zelda TOTK and BOTW because of how cool they looked and how much fun i might have. And Im so bad at those games. I can’t remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
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And Im so bad at those games. I can’t remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
This is what I do when I play a fighting game.
I just don’t have the skill to pull off those timings. Makes immensely frustrated
Blue Prince is pretty good ngl
Finished main storyline missions on No Man’s Sky. I was heading back from second galaxy to my main base, flew to a space station and while I was doing stuff, a squiddy boy landed, I did a quick search on the rarity and bought it off the pilot. Turns out, it’s the most rare regular exotic in game and some people have been playing for thousands of hours and haven’t seen one. I clocked 40 hours at the point that I saw it. Lucky as fuck. It’s ugly and I probably will only use it to show off on the Anomaly but it’s really cool that I snagged one.
Blue prince continues to consume me, I am working on what I think is the final big puzzles which require quite a bit of learning the lore of the world to solve which I’m really enjoying.
Terra Invicta
By the same people who did the Long War XCOM overhaul mod. Anybody into 4x sci-fi solar system simulation/management should check it out. Still in EA but has come a long way from release.
How is it wrt tedium compared to Long War, which imo often felt long for the sake of length itself?
It is incredibly tedious, micromanagey, many confusing and/or obscure mechanics. I wouldn’t say its long for the sake of being long, but in the later game the micromanagement required gets a little ridiculous in my experience.
Still scratches a hard sci-fi itch that I haven’t found from a game in a long time.
Lol you’ve confirmed all my worst fears, I’ll steer clear and maybe watch a let’s play at some point. Thanks!
If you’re looking for someone who plays extremely well/efficient and edits their content so its easier to watch than just watching someone play a spreadsheet simulator, I’d go with PerunGamingAU. I think he’s considered one of the technically best Youtubers that make content by the community and he cuts out the long boring parts.
Nice, thanks for the rec, might check it out when I get home
Just installed STALKER Gamma the other day, doing a one life play through as my first
You’re hardcore
Thx 😁 I really got into Stalker when Stalker 2 came out (I saved gift card money to be able to afford it) and my love for the setting keeps on growing. Whats your history with the game?
GAMMA was my first Stalker game. I’ve spent probably a hundred hours in it and would still only consider myself a beginner. Stalker 2 was such a let down coming out of GAMMA, I un-installed 2 after maybe 10 hours and immediately reinstalled GAMMA.
Thats fair, at release 2 was pretty rough but its gotten significantly better, and will continue to do so. What specifically didnt you like about it?
I think the gunsmithing, crafting, base building, scarcity, and survival elements are what sets GAMMA apart. The Zone feels a lot more alive and punishing.
I love the setting and atmosphere too, I just think GAMMA does it so much better.
Thats fair I feel like progressing in Gamma will be way way harder than in Stalker 2. Also, have you read Roadside picnic the old Soviet boom Stalker was based on?
I have not, guessing it’s pretty good given it kinda spawned a genre.
I’ve seen both A Visitor to a Museum and Dead Man’s Letters but not Stalker itself. I’d guess both those movies were pretty heavily inspired by it.
i just got off work and made dinner but then I played a game of Super Mega Baseball 3 and listened to “Type 56: The Story of China’s Army” youtube channel
I’m almost through Chrono Trigger for the first time in 25ish years.
Oblivion is as good as it was when I was in high school.
unsure if good or bad thing.
Give more Mario party like games. I think most of my game related posts are rts related. But all I desire is a smash ultimate/mario kart 8 deluxe Mario party game. Give me 20 boards with 200+ minigames
There’s Fusion Frenzy on the original Xbox - I don’t remember it being particularly good though
