What are you playing? (Redux)

[garbon]

You don't have to pay to have access to nexus mods.

[Syt]

Yeah, there's a free registration option buried somewhere.

[Razgovory]

I've been playing Wolfenstein: the New game.  Strangely, I'm half decent at deciphering written German.

[Syt]

The German in the game is actually pretty decent - very far removed from the original Wolfenstein 3D ("Mein Leben!"). They got native speakers for the dialogues, and except for some weird expressions in the letters and newspapers (not wrong, but not really how a native speaker would phrase it) it's rather spotless. I read that the Polish girl is also voiced by a native speaker.

[PRC]

Blackguards. It's interesting. Difficulty curve is all over the map.

I'm holding out on it, hoping it will be a daily special during the summer sale. I like the world of The Dark Eye, and they seem to have replicated the combat system of the p&p RPG very well.

It's -66% on Steam right now for the next hour.

[Syt]

It's -66% on Steam right now for the next hour.

And tomorrow. The "daily" deals are on for 48 hours (you find yesterday's at the bottom).

I picked it up yesterday (a day after picking up the Spiderweb RPG collection and starting Nethergate - thank you, Steam ).

[Razgovory]

The German in the game is actually pretty decent - very far removed from the original Wolfenstein 3D ("Mein Leben!"). They got native speakers for the dialogues, and except for some weird expressions in the letters and newspapers (not wrong, but not really how a native speaker would phrase it) it's rather spotless. I read that the Polish girl is also voiced by a native speaker.

I figured out that word "wissenschaft" meant "science" just by looking at it and guessing that the "wissen" aspect was probably a cognate of "wise" and "schaft" was probably a cognate of "ship".

[Syt]

ship as in, say, partnership, yes.

"schaft" as part of Wissenschaft is not derived from "schaffen" - to create (Wissenschaft = that which creates knowledge) as one might expect, but rather a indicator meaning "all that concerns" or something encompassing many things relating to an item, or "a bunch of".

Partnerschaft - partnership
Landschaft - landscape
Gemeinschaft - community
Gesellschaft - society
Herrschaft - rule (from to rule)
Kundschaft - clients
Wirtschaft - economy ... or pub
Mannschaft - team

[Duque de Bragança]

It's -66% on Steam right now for the next hour.

And tomorrow. The "daily" deals are on for 48 hours (you find yesterday's at the bottom).

I picked it up yesterday (a day after picking up the Spiderweb RPG collection and starting Nethergate - thank you, Steam ).

For some reason, gog.com does not have Nethergate: Resurrection though. One euro is cheap, i paid full price for the first Nethergate back in the late '90s by international money order, just before I had an international credit card.

[Syt]

GOG also doesn't have the Avernum remake. It's part of the collection on Steam, though.

[Syt]

15 hours into Blackguards, and I think I may call it quits, to be restarted at a later point.

The game is basically just tactical fights using The Dark Eye's combat system which is relatively detailed, using combinations of character values, talents, and weapon specializations. It can be a bit confusing at first. And the die rolls can sometimes be against you.

The combats are connected by a linear story and breaks for party management. Following the advice on the forums I specialized my characters (trying to be jack of all trades early on is a quick way to create an ineffective character).

I'm stuck at the end of chapter 2. Your party has to go through a series of gladiatorial fights. It's three days with three fights each, but you have no chance to heal/rest between them. The final fight has some of my characters near dead - I can either go back to an earlier save, or try to reach the healing wells placed on the far edges of the map. The main problem is that I didn't use the last fight to heal up (keeping one enemy alive while my party used the healing wells), so I lose the start of the battle using health potions. I could probably brute force myself through it if I try often enough.

What's worse, one of your party members gets killed during that fight.

Your party members at that point are:
- you (you can choose to be mage, warrior, or hunter at the start - I went with warrior, because that's what I do)
- a melee warrior
- another melee warrior
- a mage
- an archer/ranger

And they kill your archer, not one of the two melee NPCs. Which sucks, because she was one of my main damage dealers. And you get another caster as replacement. When I go back to this I'll most likely re-roll as an archer character.

On the plus side, the dialogue is (mostly) fun.

[MadImmortalMan]

I just went ahead and got SR1936.

I figured since I've logged 2900+ steam hours with SR2020 I'd probably get my money's worth out of it. Here goes.

[garbon]

Does anyone play GTAV online? I have to say that the few times I tried it, I found it rather underwhelming and wished they'd just release more offline story content.

[Ed Anger]

Yes. I play with my nephews and we annoy other players.

[garbon]