anakin78z

joined 1 year ago
[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Post breaks rule 3

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Playing Dragon Age Veilguard. Just finished the first quest, and it's a lot of fun so far.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've been playing the Ballionaire demo, which is pretty damn fun.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I miss good arcade racers. I don't remember the name of them, but I remember on the Xbox or 360 there were some really fun ones where you race around cities and nice landscapes. You could just jump in with friends and race. These days any racing game I try is like a job. Oh, you want to race? First drive to the garage, pick your car, talk to the mechanic, then spend 20 minutes driving to the race track. Mario Kart is about the only fun racing game I can think of, but I'd prefer something with real cars.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Our DM, a dentist, so not in tech, used it to put together a D&D campaign, and so far it's been fantastic.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I always have to do custom. It's shitty, but I'm not going to lunch to subsidize someone's pay, I just want a sandwich.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I disagree. Paying $25 for a family of 4 and having the added bonus of not putting up with theater bullshit (e.g. ridiculous candy prices and asshole people) seems like a damn good deal.

 
[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Flying cars and hover boards

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Posters like this always assume that their candidate is the other option if the person doesn't abstain or vote 3rd party.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Probably because there isn't a giant mini blind lobby, and people plastering stickers all over their pickup trucks yelling about their mini blind rights.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Strong 8 vibes today

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

At this point the screenshot thing needs it's own sub

 

OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

 

He gets very excited when we feed him

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