LockerK
5520
I had some friends in from out of town and got to show them VR. Everyone loved Beat Saber, however, Google Earth VR is still the MVP for newcomers.
kerzain
5521
I didn’t do much gaming whatsoever. I ended up watching two TV shows all weekend instead.
Columbo (IMDB TV on Prime)
I tend to rewatch most of the 1970s episodes every few years.
I think Star Citizen has raised 50x more money than actual the budget of this series.
Man I wish they’d put this on the Quest for when I’m visiting others, because I’m not lugging my whole Rift setup around with me!
I think Richie’s Plank Experience (with a real plank) is the Quest MVP for demoing to newcomers. An overpriced demo but it’s splendid for those first few goes - I’m planning to get my old mum on it tomorrow at our Christmas gathering for her first VR experience! :)
I’ve been playing this a bit, and I guess I’m still pretty early on - exploring level 5 wrecks at the moment. It still feels like a darkest dungeon, but…
- without the scary dungeons (you can walk out any time)
- without the scary boss mobs you have to beat to get through dungeons
- No town for the deep meta-progression of DD
- No loadouts to beat different styles of dungeons
- No swap out of different characters that are suitable to beat different styles of wrecks
It’s got cards for skills, which is sorta interesting I guess, but it feels like a far more shallow game. Do I need to play it more for it to “open up”?
[there’s no DD specific thread I could find here and your post was the most recent mention of the game, so I figured I’d ask.]
If you want it to be Darkest Dungeon you’re going to find it disappointing, it has no interest in being that. Speaking for myself, I’m very glad it’s not.
Besides cards, what’s it more of? On the surface they feel very similar. I’m just looking for games I enjoy - I actually had my fill of DD.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense to me. Darkest Dungeon is about grinding endlessly to upgrade your town, Deep Sky Derelicts is about exploring and developing your party - it’s basically grindless. The combat mechanics are completely different, the character development and equipment system is completely different, the exploration mechanics are completely different… I mean, I get it, the art is similar and they’re both about taking a party and exploring a “dungeon” but that’s where the similarities end.
Maybe this review is lying, but they say:
Thankfully, developer Snowhound games has done the legwork for me with Deep Sky Derelicts, which they describe as “a mix of Darkest Dungeon and XCOM with a pinch of Hearthstone and FTL: Faster Than Light added on top.”
So, yeah, there’s some similarities there, if the authors of the game are willing to cite it as one of their influences. I guess I’ll give it a few more wrecks to see if the game opens up any more mechanics/interest.
Yeah, I think it gets increasingly interesting as it goes along but it’ll either grab you or it won’t. Out of curiosity, do you have the DLC? I can’t remember what it adds off the top of my head but I remember thinking it was important. Sadly if the game’s not grabbing you you’re unlikely to want to throw good money after bad.
The equipment/upgrades and character skill choices are where the depth is, here - I guess that’s the XCOM influence. I don’t think the combat is particularly similar to any of the inspirations they cite, but what do I know?
Their most recent dlc , which I don’t own adds stuff to the space station from what I’ve read here:
I was thinking of New Prospects, which expands the character development and diversifies the derelicts in some really interesting ways. I have Station Life but haven’t had a chance to play with it yet.
kerzain
5531
This is a very straightforward tower defense game. It’s pretty mellow.
Holy crap I am bad at this game. I’m not very good at warning and subduing suspects in a pinch and I end up just blowing everybody away in an effort to stay alive. I still can’t decide if I prefer this game on mouse/kb or controller. Once I figure that out I should do a little better.
I would also like to start up one of the RPGs I have in my backlog, but I can’t figure out which one to go with. I have a few hours in some of them, but at this point I’d have to start them over because I don’t remember much about any of them. I plan to choose one from the following:
- Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition
- Baldur’s gate 2 Enhanced Edition
- Temple of Elemental Evil
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Pillars of Eternity
- Shadowrun Returns
- Shadowrun Dragonfall Director’s Cut
- Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
- Enderall: Forgotten Stories
- Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete
- Tyranny
I have some of those same games on my backlog and have completed none of them so my uninformed opinion is play Tyranny because I think it’s the shortest one but still has heavy emphasis on role-playing.
I will probably play Luftrausers while I wait for Forza Horizon 4 to finish downloading on my crappy connection. I doubt that I will ever fully complete it but after playing it for more than 6 hours total I have maxed out my level and am only missing achievements on a few components in normal mode. Fuck the SFMT mode :)
Crusis
5533
With what little free time I have I’ll try to squeeze in some more ELEX, and maybe a little Binding of Isaac on the Switch.
schurem
5534
I had this rarest of days, a whole day off, kids gone, wife gone. Just me and my computer. Spent most of it flying in VR. Good times!
robc04
5535
Fallen Order is my main game I’m playing.
I have several months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate now, so I’ll be playing Bloodstained and Untitled Goose Game via that.
All three of these have seen recent time with me. I like Pillars of Eternity, but haven’t been able to push myself over the finish line yet—the setting is a little anodyne, in my opinion. Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Dragonfall (which I’m partway through, and hoping to play more of today) are both great. They have a sense for what kinds of stories are best told in the Shadowrun universe, and hew closely to them. The character writing is great, and Dragonfall (my memory is a little hazy on Returns) has a cool little home base area with memorable NPCs out the wazoo.
Things that might push you toward Pillars of Eternity: it’s less structured in the ‘visit everyone at home base, go on mission, repeat’ sense, it has pausable real-time combat rather than the Shadowrun games’ grid-and-turn-based combat, it’s a classic fantasy CRPG in the old tradition, the journal/quest log in the Shadowrun games isn’t very good (so they don’t lend themselves to being put down for a while then picked up later, unless you have a great memory).
rei
5538
Just realized I can’t Even play Shadowrun Boston Lockdown since it relied on online servers that were shut off years ago.
kerzain
5539
Oh wow, I’m glad you mentioned this. I am so guilty of this it isn’t even funny. I guess I better be prepared to finish what I start when it comes time to tackles these.
