I’m forcing myself to take a break from Age of Wonders Planetfall this weekend so I can come into Tuesday’s Invasion expansion feeling fresh. So instead of that, I’ll be playing the following games.
Arkham Noir: Case #1 - The Witch Cult Murders (Physical card game)
This is a physical card-based solo game I received a couple days ago. Games last about half an hour and it’s a crime-solving detective game with a Lovecraftian theme. I first discovered it when Tom showed it off on the Qt3 Youtube channel.
LevelHead: Super Mario Maker for People Without a Switch (Xbox One Gamepass)
The game is out on a multitude of platforms, and it was created by the team behind the Don’t Starve-like called Crashlands, Butterscotch Shenanigans. I haven’t played anybody else’s maps yet, I’m still fooling around with my own.
I actually own Super Mario Maker 1 and 2, but the level designers in those games are sadistic and just like to watch people suffer, so I’m hoping this title has content aimed more towards people who enjoy platformers.
Man, Ori 2 dropped right off my playlist the moment I noticed how much more focused it was on combat than the first game. Maybe I’ll get back to it some time, but all that waiting for release has so far turned out to be for nothing.
So in looking at this, it appears that there isn’t an actual, traditional Space Marine character you can play as, can you confirm this if you play? That would really bum me out if so.
I’m not familiar with Warhammer stuff to know what’s what. I know that when I created a character last night, I had 3 choices: Psyker, Crusader and Assassin. There was a fourth class, but it was locked, and you need the Prophecy DLC to access it. Crusader sounded like a good ranged class, so I picked it. It then gave me three more choices: Assault, Tactical or Heavy Gunner, and I picked the last one because it was focused on using the shotgun, which sounded good.
So would Space Marine be a class then? Like Crusader?
If someone who is seriously versed in the lore of WH40K should stumble across our conversation, they will no doubt be greatly amused. Because I guess if you were to pin me down I’d have to admit that I would have a hard time actually defining what a Space Marine is. I haven’t read any of the books, but I’ve played a bunch of video games - and I guess I’d say they’re human but built to much bigger scale, wear massive suits of armor and carry massive guns, and just shoot everything. So I guess if the question is, are there characters that fit this description and yet are not technically space marines in this game then I suppose … good enough?
Yesterday, I was explaining to an 18-year old intern/co-worker what Warhammer was. It was like the blind describing a painting he’s never seen.
“It’s a bunch of miniatures, you buy them and you put them on a table and you paint them in your spare time or something”
“Oh, so kind of like D&D?”
“yeah, kinda, except with miniature models”
“but there’s video games based on it”
“right”
For me, should be mostly God Eater 3, Monster Train, some dabbling with Space Haven, and likely X4: Foundations. Or I could play something else entirely! We’ll see.
My weekend started early this week with a few vacation days and a record flood and dam breaks here in town, but in between checking on/assisting friends and keeping up around my house, I have and will continue to play:
Terraria: Started over on a new Journey world with the new massive patch that dropped last weekend and been having a blast revisiting everything and discovering the new things. I don’t believe my wife and I have ever unlocked hardmode, so we will be trying that also, I hope. Getting close to being ready to try it! I found the golfer dude and may also create a new world and design a bit of a golf course!
Old World: I finally got some traction as Greece and have a city lead on the other leaders. I am really looking forward to finally pushing further into the research tree and maybe even winning a game.
Intergalactic Fishing: I just noticed there was a new patch! There are now steam leaderboards for daily tournaments and largest fish caught in unknown lakes. Logged on and got a quick 10lb fish in one of my previously explored and stored unknown lakes and only ranked like 45th out of 70th all time. I better find some better lakes and skills! I also plan to try the daily ranked tournaments, but would like to set up my lure lineup ahead of time. Can’t be spending valuable time building entire lures during a timed tournament! My current boat can support like 8 lures and has a livewell capacity of 12 (with a 4 slot expander), so I am just about ready.
Dominions 5: We are considering a new disciples game here, so I may design a pretender and mess around a little on that. I am also playing a personal MA Abysia game against the AI and it has been a challenging game that I am interested to pursue. It is a game on a random map against 15 Impossible AIs with lots of space to expand. It is nearing the end of year 3 and while I have maybe 45 provinces, MA Xibalba is running away with maybe 60+ and has declared war on me while I am working on finishing off Asphodel. Asphodel actually put up quite a fight and isn’t done yet and Xibalba has some massive armies. This should actually be a bit of a fun challenge for a while!
Don’t forget, we will be using Worthy Heroes and the balance mod.
But I too have been practicing with Dominions. Right now, I have been trying out Disciples Therodos because I am a glutton for punishment. And I think I finally got it to work, provided I have an awake pretender with an awesome bless.
Okay, so instead of building platforming maps in LevelHead this weekend, I’ve been building maps of France. I haven’t played the game in years, but I’m on a bit of a (digital) board game kick right now, and here we are.
