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Some Idle Master during the day ;)

And I'm still really, really enjoying Dishonored. Just completed the party mission which had some fun detective elements to it.
 
Playing some Battlefront on PC, enjoying it so far, but doubt it has much longevity.

Also continuing with Elite: Dangerous with it's Horizon update. Still loving this game.
 
Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone. This is way better than the base game, the jump in quality is strange. It fixes almost all the issues I had. Wall of text incoming. :p

The combat is a lot more challenging (thank the pope), and the 3 boss fights I've done are very unique. Funny how a Frog and a Gardener put the King of the Wild Hunt to shame. :p I died twice on the last boss, playing on Death March. They have special AI and move sets, it's a lot of fun. I'm usually not a fan of spiders, but I like what they've done with them. Their smaller spider AI is interesting, they'll try and run away from Geralt until they manage to hit you with a web, then they all swarm in. I would've preferred them to be a new type of Endrega though. The standard tarantula design has been done so many times in western RPG's.

The dialogue! It's so good, and there's a lot of it. In the base game, things felt very rushed to me. People mainly say two or three lines to Geralt, then he's off to do what they want. Here, people can talk to you for upwards of 10 minutes. It feels so much better, and closer to TW2. I do have mixed feelings for the new voice actress for Shani though. Her delivery is good, but that accent. :/ What's going on there? On the flip side, Olgierd and Gaunter are perfectly voice acted.

There are some issues. I think the Rune/ Glyphword system is underutilized. On armour it's all right, I like the one that automatically gives you a Quen shield, but on swords it's downright useless. Your standard runes are better for the majority of builds. I've also noticed a few areas with strange performance drops, like the sewers under Oxenfurt. Speaking of Oxenfurt, I'm still disappointed that we don't have full access to the Academy. The city feels so small, and having access to the Academy would have made it feel a lot bigger. Unlike Novigrad, I think that Oxenfurt still feels more like a collection of buildings, instead of an actual city like it's described in the books.
 
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Forum's dead yo'.

I finished HoS. Going to play Valkyria Chronicles next.

People should buy it, it's cheap and worth a lot more than the asking price. I do wish that the parts with Shani had lasted longer though. On that note, some people on the team obviously had a lot of fun with that "scene" on the boat. :p Talk about risqué. I guess they took the criticism from the base game to heart. I also like how all the POI on the map are connected, and tell one story that the player has to figure out. At least there's a payoff for doing the bandit camps and treasure hunts now. The wedding quest is fantastic, and breaks up the utterly depressing and dreary tone that the rest of the game has.

Hearts of Stone just adds to my opinion that the game needs an Enhanced Edition, Not only to rebalance everything once the other expansion is complete. I'd like cutscenes at the end of the main game too about what happens to Shani and Olgierd. Hearts of Stone gave me that bittersweet feeling from TW1 and 2 that the rest of the TW3 simply didn't. The quality does dip a bit in some areas, and I still don't like the over-reliance on the Witcher sense mechanic, but I got that feeling 100% throughout this expansion, just like in TW1 and TW2.

I wish the rest of the main game was of this standard. It's so good, I need more messed up Slavic folklore! I'm still disappointed about the Academy though. CDPR obviously put effort into designing it, but you're only there for 5 minutes. I think closing the Academy because of the war was a mistake, so many interesting quests could have taken place there. Also, Gaunter O'Dimm (I just realised that his initials are GOD :eek:) is a better antagonist than the Wild Hunt, he even gets more screen time. :p

I think that TW4, or whatever the next Witcher related thing is that's being done by CDPR Krakow, should be a collection of short stories, similar to The Last Wish book. I think Hearts of Stone shows that CDPR is at their best when they're making smaller, more linear and "closed" stories.
 
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Still busy playing:

The Witcher 3 - assume I'm in the last leg of the game. Filling random side quests at this point. Don't have to as my armour and weapons are at max and my skills are good enough. Just trying to make the game last longer.

KoA: Reckoning
 
Subnautica

Wow. what a sleeper. This is unfortunately (or maybe not) a single player game right now, we might see multiplayer at some time, but if you remotely like ARK/Rust, you have to check it out. Looks so good i want it as my screensaver ;). Even though the trailers make it look like a FPS, it is still a survival sim , you build underwater habitats, and submarines by gathering materials etc.

 
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Today's as hot as a gay pig on fake steroids, anyway. :D

Started playing RDR GOTY - giving my PC a rest from this nightmarish heat.
 
Gave Dark souls a shot last night and ended up requesting a refund. I'm done jumping through hoops to try and get games working like they should. The cam keeps looking up when using my gamepad and i'm not playing it with kb+m.

Back to playing Homeworld, Grim Dawn and Grand Ages Rome.
 
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Gave Dark souls a shot last night and ended up requesting a refund. I'm done jumping through hoops to try and get games working like they should. The cam keeps looking up when using my gamepad and i'm not playing it with kb+m.

Back to playing Homeworld, Grim Dawn and Grand Ages Rome.
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Did you install the mod with Dark Souls? I know it's apparently unplayable on PC until you install the mod that makes it work well.
 
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