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Oops, I misread that. Thought you said you didn't know there was a Sonic 2. But, yes, Sonic 2 is tits.

But why does Tails follow Sonic even if you play one player?

Yeah why run around behind sonic when he could do the helicopter tails thing?


All this talk about 16bit games makes me want to go play Super Castlevania IV!

Because he's Sonic's partner, not just player 2.

But does he actually do anything? I didn't see him do anything useful, really.

Not in 2, but he's necessary in 3.

How so?


And what, he was just an introduction in 2?

Certain levels require him hold onto Sonic and fly. You can also play as him in 3, and fly around.

Pretty much.

Playing the For Honor closed beta. Having a blast.

They've added 3 new classes since the alpha, so each faction now has a good balance of classes to explore. The Knight's Warden is still my favourite though.

A new feature has also been added, which introduces a persistent global faction war. As you fight in regular multiplayer matches (both PvP and PvAI) you will earn war assets for your faction which can then be assigned to a region of the world map. At the end of every turn (6 hours) the assets of each border region will be tallied and whichever faction has the most assets will claim that region.

It's really cool to see the frontlines shifting as you fight, and trying to figure out where other players might be putting their assets. Each faction has a stronghold on the map, and I'm curious to see what happens if the stronghold falls - I might find out soon since the Samurai are only two regions away from the Knight stronghold.

Perhaps you can tell Khajiit what reason they came up with to throw these factions together?

From a game dev point of view?

Well the combat is the main focus of the game, so the factions (knights, samurai, vikings) were chosen because they represent very different styles of combat. Each faction is also very famous and recognisable. Oh, and they're all really really cool.

From story point of view?

That's not 100% clear yet. Something to do with a massive cataclysmic event that forced everyone to fight for their survival. They haven't showed much of the singleplayer campaign yet.

Yeah Khajiit doesn't care about mechanically. They could've chosen factions that actually belong together for that.

The trailer sort of shows the backstory.

Next Khajiit is going to say that Pirates, Ninja, and Robots do not belong together! Sacrilege!

Lol, well, Pirates and Ninja could happen very easily. Pirates in the seas around Japan were quite common after all (perhaps not the traditional European pirates, but even their presence in Asia could be easily explained given European interest in Asian trade/exploitation). Now, Robots are lot trickier, since this one guesses you are talking about robots similar to the droids from Star Wars (especially the cool ones like IG-88, HK-47, or the one from Rogue One), or maybe giant mechs. For these, then there would need to be some kind of time travel, mad scientist steampunk kind of thing (Khajiit thinks this could be an interesting idea!), or some other fantasy/sci fi element. So yeah, still not totally believable (but fun!).

This one isn't trying to ruin people's fun. He just thinks they could've came up with 3 factions that are contemporary to, and would've had contact with each other, so they wouldn't have to make up some cockamamie story to bring them all together. On the other hand, Khajiit knows most of the decision came down to marketability, and Vikings, Knights, and Samurai are one of the Triumvirates of Cool/Popularity.

I'd say they're contemporary, more or less. They're all pretty vague terms, but 'Vikings' were active until at least the late 11th century, Knights are more difficult to pin down but the first crusade was in 1096, and the first use of the Samurai O-yoroi armour was around the time of the Genpei War in the early 1100's.

You're right about marketing though. There aren't many other groups of warriors in history that are as famous/popular/recognisable. There's a manga with a not-too-dissimilar setting, called Drifters. Seems this sort of thing is quite popular nowadays.

Heh, well Khajiit thinks maybe he is overthinking it. It's just a game after all. Given in to the cooool

I've decided to fire up Banished again.

It's immensely infuriating, because at present it has me waging war on my own uneducated villagers who think that they're qualified to be blacksmith or tailor, even going so far as to take the jobs away from educated villagers!

BWAAHAA! I love that game! SubRosa gave it to me, and it is so much fun! So far none of my villages have survived more than 8 winters, lol.

("Winter is coming...")

Well, I'm only playing on a small map, and with a medium start, but I'm currently in my ninth year with the town of Vikingford. Because with a name like that, there was no way I was rerolling, even if the terrain wasn't great. Having a pretty mixed game so far. Got a school built right off the bat, thanks to the starting resources, so I don't have to put up with uneducated workers, but I lost one of my original ten to a falling tree soon after. That really hurt.

Things had been going well until about ten minutes ago. I'd just bought some chickens, set up some farmland, and had not long finished my second forest hub when the damn thing caught fire. And I hadn't built a well. Two of the three building were destroyed

But at least I've got the spare workers to rebuild. Vikingford will prevail!

I'm tempted to try Stardew Valley. My wife bought it for our PS4, and it is now addicted to it.

I have a pic to prove it happened too...

That's what foresters get for sleeping on the job!


The town of Vikingford is now done. The adult population's hit 100(about 150 with kids and students), and I've nearly run out of room. My food production hasn't kept up with my population growth, and while I think I've got just enough room left to address that, it's only a temporary measure.

Had a good bit of fun with it though. And some of the trends in the town were endlessly amusing. Like the number of guys in their mid-to-late twenties moving in with 16 year old students

I think I might try a medium size map next time.

BWAAHAA!!! At least yours were breeding, mine wouldn't move out of their parents houses and no one was giving birth, even after they had a schoolroom set up and teacher!

You did have enough houses, right? You won't get any babies until you've got couples living in their own homes.

Yeah, they wouldn't move out even with empty houses! And they were plenty old enough to. I finally got some to move out by making stone houses instead of wood; and two of them finally procreated.

That's odd. I've seen villagers move out as soon as there's an opening, even if it means moving in with a student/child(single parents?), sounds like a glitch to me. I didn't even start building stone houses until fifteen or so in-game years had passed.

It may have been glitched, because out of the total 5 children that ever got produced in my game, only one of them found their way to the schoolroom so the teacher there was being wasted when she could have been gathering.

And the instructions said they would be happier if they had a place to bury their dead, so I built a graveyard - a bunch died every winter, but none ever got buried.

Oh, and I had a big stash of coats for the winter - a bunch froze to death and the coats were never touched!

Maybe my town was a bit slow? Drunk/on drugs or something? I don't know, but it was still a blast to play!

Wow, sounds like your entire population had a death wish.

"Kill us now, before she comes back to play again ... "

I imagine my Oblivion characters say something similar

SPEW !!!

Playing Skyrim Special Edition for the PS4. I can also do remote play on my Vita and oddly enough works just as great.

Skyrim on Vita .

I'm currently trying to play an Altmer Atronach in Morrowind. Over 300 magicka at level 4!

She now has an Amulet of Divine Intervention, and can use an Imperial Cult altar (for 0 gold) to charge back up, but has yet to buy Mark and Recall spells, so she can just go back where she had to leave off.

The rest of the char gen left her low on health as well as vulnerable to magic, so I'm having her use a bound spear to raise endurance, to raise health. She could also use some more strength, as she's frequently overburdened, even without carrying any armour. So she's constantly short of gold, spending it all in training her misc skills to raise ones that provide strength and endurance (and sometimes intelligence, too).

We just grabbed Magebane, which she can't use because of long blade at 5, but don't yet have any lesser items such as glass boots, to do a bartering session at the drunken mudcrab. She didn't have enough levitate to grab the greaves at the same time as the sword, which would have helped. Mind you, she might not have been able to carry them, either.

She has real problems with skeleton archers that use magic arrows, as those seem to avoid the absorption, but of course do extra damage. Summoned help seems to stand around until she's nearly dead before doing anything. I'll try getting more powerful ranged spells, once we figure out how to cash in Magebane.

I played some C&C Renegade over the weekend. It never gets old, and I was surprised to see so many folks still playing after 15 years.

MechWarrior4: Mercenaries!!

Skyrim.

Started a Dunmer; a stealthy mage/archer, named Baltis Drethan(Tis to his friends, because no Dunmer would accept being referred to as "Bal", for obvious reasons).

Also been playing a Yu-Gi-Oh! DS game(WC2011)

I started a new town in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, too. I forgot what a pain it is in the beginning.

Fun fact about Chip's Challenge: It was apparently originally released for the Atari Lynx. I never knew that!

Atari Lynx? Hadn't heard of that one. I have fond memories of playing my grandparents 2600, though. Old school at it's best.

Never got around to any Atari console. In fact, I never ever heard about them really. It was all Nintendo or Sega over here

Atari was a special thing, only available at their place. At home, all we had was a Sega Genesis until the PS1 came out.

Got to play NES at my aunt's house, though. Many sessions on Super Mario and Duck Hunt.

Oh, man. I still remember when I was at a friend/relative's house and played Duck Hunt. I never had the Zapper as a kid so it was quite exotic to try it out at his place

He also had Kung Fu which I also never had back then. Only five or six levels and they're quite short but also quite difficult if you don't know what's coming and stay on your toes.

The zapper was so much fun. Never played Kung Fu, but she had a Star Trek game that I always struggled with. Can't remember the name of, though.

I 'membered! It was Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.

Chips Challenge !!!!!

Bet you can download it from somewhere, mALX

That damn dog. Khajiit can still hear it laughing at me...

I don't know, from Dos to 64bit Windows 7 Pro? Maybe they have an upgraded Dos Box, but the Chips online is not the original version that Microsoft put out.

I actually bought Chip's Challenge off of Steam...ahh the memories.