Thraeg
1851
It’s in the March bundle.
I just looked up Cultist Simulator for the first time. It looks like it’s some kind of card game. But it’s by the studio that did the games I’ve never played but heard Tom go on and on about in the Games Podcast with regards to their excellent writing. So Cultist Simulator must be a card game with excellent writing.
(But still a card game, which makes me uninterested in it).
I confused it with Re-legion which just came out.
It’s not a card game in the sense that something like Hearthstone or Magic is a card game. Cards are basically how it represents game entities, be that people you know, jobs you hold, occult knowledge, conditions you’re experiencing, personal resources, etc. You then feed those cards into verbs to take actions, and after a specific amount of real time you’ll get back an output of cards, some of which may be new.
Also it’s by a new studio founded by Alexis Kennedy, who was one of the main writers at Failbetter, who do the games you’re thinking of. So there’s a lineage but it’s not the same studio.
To be fair, that’s every card game, in Magic and others they always represent characters, events, locations, actions…
What you want to say, I guess, it’s that isn’t a confrontational game where you fight in combat against another deck during some rounds. It’s a single player rpg with exploration, as a you explore new cards that represent places appear on screen so you can ‘visit’ them, for example.
Well, also that the cards don’t have stats or rules on them, they’re basically just tokens. And they don’t directly interact with each other. They’re fed into verbs to create actions, and that’s it.
EDF 4.1 (with many DLCs included, apparently) and Vermintide 2 are primarily games to play with other people, right? Cultist Simulator doesn’t really interest me much, so given that I’m not much of a multiplayer guy and have a backlog from hell I’ll probably pause this month (gotta do it today or tomorrow, since Friday is the last Friday this month).
Vermintide 2, yeah. I played through it all alone on the easiest difficulty, but wouldn’t recommend it that way.
Anything harder was too hard for the bots. I’d even say some of the random bosses (can appear in any level) seemed impossible solo without a cheese strategy. Chaos Spawn, &%#@.
I haven’t played V2 in a while but there is a fairly high skill ceiling. I’m no where close but it’s definitely possible to solo the bosses with bots, I’ve done a couple of Champion levels with them (though luck does play a big role, sometimes you get an unfair combination of specials thrown at you.)
There are people who solo higher than Legend difficulty without bots.
Bots level up with you, actually. I played in Champion with the bots filling in some players, and it wasn’t that bad.
rhamorim
1863
Yeah, it’s tempting me too.
Next week’s games might’ve been leaked if anyone is undecided about buying it.
There’s also a 20$ store credit promotion for buying a 12m sub.
I watched a bit of those and I would’ve died almost every minute, haha. I take back what I said, maybe I’m just bad at Vermintide :)
Yeah, if you’re gonna mention it, share with whole class…
malkav11
1869
Sounds like a great month to have paused. The headliners are good but I own them. The list you just posted? No thank you.
