Saturday!
Well, one of the upsides of having a new computer is going back and looking at games that I bought a million years ago but didn’t really run very well.
Games like: War For The Overworld!
North told me a while back that this was the unofficial Dungeon Keeper 3 (they even brought back the more than deliciously evil narrator!) and while I had a little bit of fun playing it at the lowest levels of graphics, it got frustrating.
Well, golly! It’s freaking awesome!
If you remember the original Dungeon Keeper, you remember that it was made back when Peter Molyneux was not yet completely crazy. He flipped the whole “dungeon crawl” thing on its head. Instead of being the brave knight delving into a dungeon to rip out the heart of the evil creature in charge of it, you were, instead, the evil creature in charge of a dungeon and you had to take out the brave knuckleheads coming down to take your stuff.
All of joys of being in a dungeon, all of the joys of the clash of steel on steel, none of the guilt of wondering if that goblin wasn’t just trying to do his job and get home to his family. Because, hey, he’s working for you.
Trying to run this on my old workhorse was a bit of a pain in the tuchus which was too bad because, hey, it was the awesome sequel to an awesome game (well, eventually… before patch 1.2, I understand, it was closer to a “noble failure”). But now I can play it! For reals! And it’s awesome!
So… what are you playing?
(Photo is “Untitled,” by our very own Will Truman. Used with permission.)
Serendipity, baby! It came out with an expansion pack this weekend! It’s even on sale! Which is good! Because 7 bucks is all I can afford!Report
I enjoyed it too… it has an interesting sort of twist on the story for sure.
An expansion? I am definitly going to look into that. Something has to be able to drag me out of Crusader Kings 2.Report
The first major patch for Stellaris is due out in a few days, so I’m looking forward to that.Report
So, a space version of Crusader Kings II… so do you need an alien intelligence to learn it or do they have a decent tutorial for it @james-k ?Report
I’ve not played a Paradox game before, but people who have say it’s more like Europa Universalis, is that means anything to you.
It does have a tutorial, and because it’s mostly a 4x, the gameplay naturally scales over time.Report
Gotcha, thanks.Report
Overwatch!
I’m such a sucker for Blizzard games, but it’s a ton of fun if you’re interested in a pretty casual multiplayer shooter.Report
Fallout 4
The best RPG ever made (yes, even better than Skyrim).Report
If only they had included RP.Report
Raided in World of Warcraft other than in Looking for Raid for first time this expansion. Might have a connection to an active guild that will be doing actual things going forward.
Paradox pushed a hotfix for the Stellaris beta 1.1 patch on Friday, and we all know how that was going to end – no software released on Friday has ever worked in all of history. Unfortunately the previous release was broken in the early midgame, so people can’t play it through. I like what they’re doing in the big picture, though. Tried a couple of new games with the new balancing rules.Report
@el-muneco
I’m just going to wait until the actual patch releases.Report
Ah, dungeon keeper. The game that ran on bugs (it ran faster that way!).Report
Witch 3 expansion Blood and Wine came out, so I’ve tabled Doom for now. After that, back to Doom and maybe Fallout if the rest of the DLCs are out.
You want old school. Bungie Marathon series. Rocks.Report