Played lots more Ultima VI.
I think the Ultimas (IV through VII, anyway) caught lightning in a bottle in the way they dispersed gameplay across numerous activities while maintaining a thematic/narrative unity to it all. That’s what any CRPG is supposed to do, really – merge combat, exploration, puzzles, inventory management, and narrative – but the Ultimas are particularly good at it. At any given time you may be doing very different things. There really is no ‘core game loop.’
A little of this:
A little of that:
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-519-cataclysm.aspx
Visiting the Family Back East - a semi-open world MMO. Good player community except for a couple of assholes.
For me, I’ve got work on the blog to do. I’m gonna do a series of this:
Revisit this so I can talk about the new expansion:
For myself, even with a massive wipe coming next week, I can only play more of this:
And I’m gonna try to get my Templar to level 15 in this so I can have two weapon sets, finally:
Plus some random time with some other Warhammer games due to the ongoing sale. Should be a great weekend. :)
oh man, so much good stuff to choose from. What I’ll be doing tho:
That looks awesome. But this weekend for me is attending one graduation party and paying for another. Man I’m old.
For a second there schurem I saw an F-8 Crusader in the upper left but then I knew it was just a Bug, so meh.
I’ll dig into the closed beta of The Crew 2.
That’s a very pretty Hornet, a level of pretty I 100% can’t access until graphics cards prices bottom out. Alas.
Going to play the Warmind expansion for Destiny 2. Kind of enjoyed the base game enough to pick up the season pass, finished the Osiris expansion, too, already. No interest in the endgame junk, so I imagine I’ll be ready to move on when I finish this expansion.
Our clan on Conan Exiles has grown too large. Myself and another person volunteered to split off. We took what we could from the existing settlement, mostly steel and leather to use to repair our equipment, and headed off into a new land - the jungles. It’s dangerous there, right away we were greeted by a very tough white tiger that chased us a long way along the river - at night, when we can only see by torches. We set up a small shack to protect our bodies when we logged off.
This weekend I re-establish a base in the jungle. I found a location with reasonable access to iron, and plenty of water, wood, stone and fresh meat. There is no coal or spiders, and I don’t have a wheel to break thralls on, so I plan to trade with my old clan for those resources.
It’s not all work though - I am building a beach bar along the front of the new construction, with nice wooden stools and a long wooden bar, and soon I will be making booze for thirsty travelers in the jungle. It’s also surrounded by ancient ruins, tribes of gorillas and I think I saw a pirate settlement, so there is plenty of exploring and adventure to be found once I have basic tool production up and running.
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I have so many options I don’t know what I’ll actually do. Such a great time for PC gaming!
Some of these will be played this weekend:
Path of Exile - new league
Steam World Dig 2 (good game!)
Raft (EA, and very good!)
Conan Exiles (honestly, I mean to get back in there. Sorry guys!)
Replaying the Batman Arkham series of games. So good! (thanks Steam Spring Cleaning event for this)
Surviving Mars (new patch)
Logistical
and lastly, I haven’t quite pushed the delete button on State of Decay 2 yet. I aim to give it 1 more go.
You mean Tekwar? Awesome!
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After reading the ESO thread, I went and bought the Summerset package. Fired up and ready to go. Now to see if it pulls me out of LOTRO.
It did for me. Canceled my subscription for LOTRO and reupped with ESO.
Haven’t had much gaming time lately but this weekend I plan on Mass Effect 3, Dragon’s Crown and Link Between Worlds.
This weekend’s about free stuff. Started the XBox game pass trial to see State of Decay 2 and have detoured to see what Gears 4 is like. (Nice firefights, but the variety of settings it opens with has dried up…) Also have the Crew 2 beta.
In VR land I have Everspace on the go, but it made me a bit ill last time I picked it up, so approaching with caution :/
This weekend I’m playing the Frop Bog backyard.
