It's honestly something of a mess since it's unclear about what will corrupt you and how much of a corrupting influence it is outside of food, but at least in Fable 2 you can actually see your purity/corruption level. Apparently, it still exists in 3, but the meter is hidden for whatever reason. (It's also renamed to "Primal", if the wiki is to be believed) For all I know, though, it's probably a severe bug. Ah well.

That aside, I never did play any Metroid Prime games past the first. The light/dark mechanic from the following ones seemed interesting tbh.

Sounds like Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. That was an interesting game, I didn't care for the ammo mechanic for the light, dark and annihilator beam weapons but the rest of the game was neat.

Played some more System Shock 2. I am now just past the part I stopped at the first time I played, which was to purge the radiation from the coolant tubes on Deck 1. Yeah, I definitely know what I am doing now and paid more attention to the mechanics this time.

Dr. Polito (for anyone who has played the game, yes, I know who she actually is), told me after I got rid of the radiation that the Many were--to paraphrase--bringing out the big guns now. Oh boy, I can't wait for whatever fresh hell awaits me!

They say System Shock is like Deus Ex. Can you confirm, Rader?

Kind of? I hear others say the same thing. I have actually played very little of Deus Ex, but from what I have seen they are similar in some respects. Both are FPS-RPG hybrids (at least, SS2 and Deus Ex), both are cyberpunk and have similar aesthetics, and both seem to have some similarly functioning mechanics and controls (the extent to which I can't say for certain). But one stark difference is that System Shock is decidedly more horror-themed.

But since I have played a modicum of Deus Ex, I cannot entirely confirm the extent to which they are similar.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been hearing as well.




CONFIRMATION COMPLETE. QUESTIONNAIRE TERMINATED.

I fired up the Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition and created a party. That took almost 2 hours!

A neat thing I noticed that Mark Hamill does one of the voices added by the Heart of Winter addon! I had to use him for my Paladin.

Please tell me he said "I have a bad feeling about this.",

I picked up my first Fire Emblem game the other day Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. Once I get my 3DS out of layaway I'm going to play it, FE:Warriors and Metroid: Samus Returns.

I played a little more Icewind Dale EE today. I don't think I'll keep at it. The 2nd edition D&D rules that make spellcasters so useless really gets to me.

But I did discover another diamond. Another of the voice actors added by Heart of Fury is Vanessa Marshall (aka Hera). She does my favorite voice in the game.

A fine choice of game!

Having completed the Spire section, I find some of my enthusiasm for Fable 2 diminishing. Still got the dlc to do, so I might be able to push myself back into the game.

And having spent far too long talking about it elsewhere, I've fired up KotOR

All hail Lord Revan!

I FINALLY found the Amiibo I've always wanted. Meet Lucina, I've been wanting her for a LONG time ever since she was released for Smash Brothers on the Wii U.

Girl Marth

Nice! Always fun when you finally find what you're looking for

Totally---I'm also looking for other Fire Emblem Amiibos like Chrom, female Corrin and Marth. Honestly I wouldn't mind having an Amiibo of Camilla from FE:Fates if they made one. Well there's this statue of her that looks promising.

Yeah - *hrrm* - think I'll pass. Looks a bit too promising for me if I want to actually do stuff in my life...

I was going to say how uncomfortable that belt looks but then I noticed that her entire outfit looks like it's made up of scraps fished out of the local costume shop's dumpster. But then I've seen book skirts ruin an otherwise fine design so.

Anyways, tried a bit of Fable 3 before running over to ESO and it got me thinking about how much Fable 3 ended up disappointing me. I discovered the reason 2 felt more...home-y was because Fable 3 was a lot more railroaded (or 'streamlined'), with skill and other upgrades such as job promotions, expressions, and the ability to buy homes and businesses all locked behind the main quest progression. Because of that, it almost felt like you had to rush through half of the game in order to unlock everything. In spite of all the improvements, it was ultimately a less enjoyable experience. No wonder I was so hard on Skyrim, I went through that before.

Yeah, Khajiit was expecting Fable3 to be more like Fable2, but what we got was something different. This one couldn't ever put his finger on it, but something about the game just wasn't as charming as Fable2.

Tried playing the Division on my laptop, it works but I need to upgrade my video card. Looks like I need to take a trip to Best Buy Wednesday.

Make sure you read up on using video cards with laptops. It's not like replacing one in a desktop.

If I have to I can get Geek Squad to do it if they can.

Usually it isn't possible to upgrade a laptop's video card. That is one of the many reasons to never buy one for gaming.

Well, Khajiit has read that you can rig up a video card to run externally but the author admitted that it was not optimal.

My laptop was the only thing I could afford at the time. The rest of the specks are fine I just need to upgrade the video card and I shouldn't have to do anything else to it.

So the main quest of the Clockwork City DLC is challenging my knowledge of an obscure part of Elder Scrolls lore and now I gotta restrain myself from finishing it all in one night (though I suspect I'm near the end, or at least past the half-way point).

It's like...only barely related to questline at all but it would probably mean having to rework some characters as far back as Skyrim LMAO help

Update: I was right about there not being much left, but I was wrong about getting answers. Good? I guess?

Started another session of Star Wars: Rebellion today but this time as the Empire. No longer shallst I be called rebel scum

Completed System Shock 2 last night. Plowed through it in the past couple weeks. Overall, I really liked the game. Great atmosphere, a few good scares, and mostly solid mechanics. However, a few of my criticisms:
-The game sort of dragged on towards the end, and felt a little too padded.
-Firearms degrade a little too fast. Are they made of paper or something? It never became an issue for me, mind you, but I think weapons should have degraded slower and disposable maintenance tools should have been harder to come by.

A couple of my sharper criticisms are getting into spoiler territory, so just in case somebody wants to play the game I will put it in spoilers:

I'm playing Splatoon 2 and Fire Emblem Warriors on the Switch.

Major battle over one of the planets in SW:Rebellion today. I was attacked by a large fleet with many capital ships and 44 fighters while I had no more than 32 fighters in my fleet and only five capital ships. Luckily though, I had many more fighters on the system itself and with some careful tactics, I won!


Should it be a problem that prior to this battle, the Emperor was captured...?

Death to the Rebel scum!

Who the hell captured the Emperor?! Lol, give that man/woman his/her own planet!

I don't know, but my protocol droid said it would look bad on my record..

I'd like to know how the Rebels did that .

BANNER SAGA

god this game looks so beautiful

The gameplay mechanics are out of the world as well

So I fled back to Fable 3 and tbh I found the part where you're given free reign to do a bunch of quests after meeting the Bowerstone Resistance to be the most enjoyable so far. It's the only time it feels, mmm, appropriate? After the halfway point it almost seems irresponsible unless you're sent on a quest for a relic to fill the royal treasury.

I would have gone to Oblivion, but now I'm not sure if I wanna do that, continue my years old Morrowind file, or FINALLY finish Daggerfall (I'm at the start lol). Guess I'll take some time to decide.

Khajiit votes for....
MORROWIND!!

Dark Reaper/Temmie votes for
SKYRIM!!! Followed by TES: Online .

Monkey already plays ESO! Like daily, lol

lol yeah, I also recently overdosed on Skyrim. I still have that save and plan on continuing it when the...stress wears off. So for now: TES II-IV.

Piers has been in Wolverine Hall for 3 years now, and come to think of it, Serabi left the Privateer's Hold and has been waiting at a backwater High Rock village for nearly the same amount of time. I wanna say Daggerfall because I never finished it (or even got past talking to Lady Brisienna), but I only really played through Morrowind once and I have a hard time staying interested in Daggerfall in spite of its mechanics.

Well, I'm a dumb-dumb. I just realized that I had actually NOT finished Painkiller. There was an expansion pack that I didn't get to. I only found it out because I felt like starting a new game for the original missions, and I saw it in the options for which part you wanted to start a new game for. I totally forgot about it. The expansion is called Battle Out of Hell. Time to mow down the legions of Hell again.

Also, I started the Shadow Warrior reboot from 2013 (or was it 2014?). I like it so far. It's got some fresh mechanics for an FPS and it's pretty fun. It got in a couple good jokes so far too, although admittedly some of the other ones were rather weak. On Chapter 4 or 5 of that game.

Wait till it comes out on the Switch, you'll be able to OD on Skyrim on the go .

From all the complaints about EA I am seeing on Imgur, I am guessing that the latest Battlefront game came out today?

NOW I've actually finished Painkiller. Completed the Battle Out of Hell expansion last night. A couple levels had totally unfair parts that were rather frustrating, but it wasn't too bad. Still enjoyed it. Didn't like the ending, but I know there is a true ending for the whole game that you can see on higher difficulties. I don't really feel like doing that though, so I just saw the ending on YouTube.

Oh, forgot to mention before that I started Hollow Knight a couple weeks ago. Wanted to add a Metroidvania game into my library. A couple hours into it, and so far it is pretty good.

I think I'll be getting an RPG back into the mix soon. It will probably be either Neverwinter Nights or Grim Dawn. Although I've had the urge to replay Divine Divinity too.

I have been thinking of going back to Neverwinter Nights 1 again soon as well. As either a Sorcerer or a Bow-based Ranger. Or maybe trying out one of the expansions for NWN2 (though I did not like NWN2 much over all, so maybe not).

Well, I decided to start a new game in Divine Divinity. But while I picked the male warrior first time, I am going as the female mage this go-around. I'm having just as much fun as when I started the game the first time. This game is so good and is just pure fun.

No Man's Sky. Loving it.

Phon! Where the Duck Hunt have ya been, man!?

So I recently went back to Fable and his time I'm having a better time with 2. Tryin to take this play through nice and slow with Girl Sparrow and her strange Treasure Found noises. She's less inclined to do labor for her gold, so she relies on playing Trader much more than my previous Guy Sparrow. Also there's gambling but she's bless successful at that.

She's currently a Ghoul :T (evil/corrupt) and she recently recruited Hammer.

Might do a magic inclined character next. I did that in 3 but somehow it wasn't as fun. Most things in that game aren't as fun.

Oh you know, here and there - mostly there...