How is it and what are the changes? Haven't played bloodlines in like 17 years.

It was either it or deus ex for my current gaming choice. I chose dx.


So playing deus ex revision with revised maps. I have beaten the game in 2006. While I don't remember almost anything there are few moments I do. Remember sniping and sword being my go to solution to problem

Now I am doing more stealth and more non lethal. But lethal when I consider situation where it would be appropriate like danger to public or self defence when attacked first.

I'm currently playing Alien: Isolation.

Still just 2 hours in and I'm already hooked. The sound design of the game is just incredible. There have been multiple times where the ambient noises in my surroundings made me crouch and move slower. As for the enemies, I'm still not that far into the game that I've encountered anyone that I need to sneak past around or hide from. I haven't even met the alien, but I know I'm close.

First I have to point out that I play the plus patch.

The regular patch keeps the origina state of the games close as possible, and is in my experience much less enjoyable and also more buggy.

The plus patch is just so much better balanced.

They also added a single quest which personally I dont like much. Its very long and time consuming, you have to travel quite long distances, and the final boss is super hard because it cheats. But a little extra xp is nice of course.

No matter if you play the regular or the plus patch, many graphics problems have been addressed. For example its no longer a problem to enter and leave the Downtown pub.

Certain problems couldnt be fixed. There still is a memory leak in the game engine that forces a restart of the game every like two hours. Being in the game engine itself means that cannot be fixed.

I'm playing Pathfinder: wrath of the righteous right now, I'm liking it more than I thought

Right now, I'm playing nothing, but a week ago I've finally completed all 50 achievements in Tomb Raider (2013) in Steam.

Battletech

When i was playing last time it was still just regular patch with small changes. Actually wasnt aware of the plus patch existence.

not regretting my Deus Ex replay choice but bloodlines is my next game to replay then!



back in 2006 or so playing vtmb for the first time was one of my greatest gaming memories. few times afterwards but last time in 2009
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/games_you_finished_in_09/post81

it has been too long!

Years ago i bought a key from a reseller for Kings Quest (2015) , all chapters and the epilogue, and now it is their turn. A pitty that game is not on gog. I am enjoying it a lot. Sir Graham is one of my favourite characters since i loved the KQ5 box art.

To bump this thread up (which has fallen behind), I’ll say that I’m in the first Homeworld game, these past 3 weeks (when I’m not on short vacation periods/days that is!), BUT I got into a dead-end situation, so I had to restart after I was about halfway in it!

To explain a bit, in my first playthrough I reached the mission "The Cathedral of Kadesh" (I think it's the eighth, I haven't got the Word file which I write the game's plot into, in front of me right now), which I consider as the most difficult mission up to that point. So, in my first playthrough, I had a pyrrhic victory in that mission and I got into the next one with one or two fighter units alive and barely any money. Obviously, there could be no comeback in the game after that (units and income follow up in each mission), and I don't think I would fare better in that mission even if I replayed it. I guess it was something wrong with my choice of units created throughout the game.

So, I restarted about a week ago and I reached the point of that mission again. Let's see how that goes this time!

Helluva throwback! Even before my time.

Planning another Wizardry 8 playthrough.

I dont really get what people like about Wizardry 8.

You fight, then you fight, then you fight, then you fight.

This game literally has spells to avoid having so many random encounters.

I tried to find setups that would fight better (I dimly remember two Faery Archbishops as the center group, and one Valyr at each flank as the optimal setups, because the Valkyrs could help with frontal and backwards attacks, while the Archbishops could learn any spell in the game and Faeries can hardly physically fight, but are also really hard to hit), but even that hardly helped.

The combat really is the core of a CRPG, as that's the time where most of the game's mechanics come into play. All that exploration and NPC interaction is only minimally affected by your stats.

I find that I prefer the Elf race for Bishops, who have surprisingly decent equipment options.

One of the things I really like about Wizardry 8 that I actually wish more RPGs would do is that your skills improve through usage, so you keep seeing some improvement even in-between character levels.