Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

I don't even know why Humble still bothers to have a 'beat the average' tier. Just make that shit top tier already because it's always just cents away from the top tier price.
#Humble #Games #Rant

If you haven't yet, you can get Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, Syndicate Plus, and Syndicate Wars for free over at GOG. Offer available until 3 September.

https://www.gog.com/promo/rerelease_ultima_underworld_and_syndicate

Good classics!
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I let https://www.whatshouldiplayonsteam.com decide for me, and it suggested that I go play EvilMorph, a hardcore platformer.

So I did.

Ye gods, the controls suck! Ye gods, movements are inconsistent! Ye gods, I die so often! Ye gods, the fucking game's cheating! Ye gods! YE GODS!

I stopped when I managed to get 50% of its Steam achievements (which was mostly dying X times), that's probably the best I can do because I refuse to 'git gud' for that stupid first boss. ;)
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There we go, solved all 50 puzzles of the game Leashed Soul. Not a difficult one, though I did wish they had an undo move feature. It was fairly relaxing.
Just wish there was an ending story, since they bothered to have some sort of intro story. Also wish there were achievements to show off with.
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Whew, I finally finished it, I've completed Tales of the Neon Sea. I'll 100% achievement-mop it up another time, but the story's pretty great, a neat cyberpunk adventure game. Just dislike the time trials a bit but thankfully it's unlimited tries and easily back into the action.

I found it pretty unique. Nice blend of stories there, nice view from the cat as well. WASD controls (well, in reality just AD controls), so not a typical point and click adventure game. Though it'd probably still be categorized as one.

You know it's a good game if the story draws you in and you just want to continue playing so you can unravel the plot. Also partly why I dislike time trials, they're just distractions from the story, just lemme continue the game already without having to quickly finish some random puzzle first! Though I have to admit that the puzzles in the side quests were pretty good! Especially the ones in the wine cellar was nifty.

The game ended with a cliffhanger, and I pretty much do want to play the next game if they plan to have a sequel. Damn yeah, let's unravel more plots!
#Games #Adventure

This is what your cats are secretly doing when you're not home. So if you still think that cats won't take over the world someday, think again!
#Games #Cats

What cats think what humans do in the bathroom...
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Tried to play a basic deck of Ascension via Tabletop Simulator. That was a terrible experience because of the godawful GUI of TTS. It's also 1000 times slower than playing via the official game, heh. I think it'd be more fun to do this IRL than to do this via TTS, but kinda hard to do when your buddies live overseas.
#Games #Ascension

Kitty party, jeuj!
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Hell yes. If Covid doesn't do it, my Zombies will! :P
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Current Google Doodle is a little JRPG style adventure game with an Olympic theme. ;)
#Games #GoogleDoodle

*Snickers at the disastrous result of picking up those printers in 7 Billion Humans*
(At level 17)
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Played some Railway Empire again and actually finished the first chapter for a change. I'm still trying to get to grips with its signalling system. I'm used to facing an arcane type signalling like you'd find in Transport Tycoon Deluxe (more specifically, OpenTTD).

But here I have to remember a few things:
- Trains will never collide with each other.
- The trains can see in one go whether a track's in conflict and will simply wait until it is not anymore.
- That means signals don't need to be as detailed as in TTD, they're purely for the efficiency.

I'll continue playing with chapter 2 soon and see if I can do the tracks a bit better.
#Games #RailwayEmpire

Oh boo. I got to the endboss again in Caveblazers, but he's cheating! :( I did get a lot further this time, but he has a stage 3 which is basically omnipotent bullshit!

Someday! *Shakes fist*

(It was a great run though! Lots of blessings for my archer! Just the endboss was more OP than I was! :P)
#Games #Caveblazers

Ah darn. Buddy and me tried to hack the lua files of Ascension in order to play with a higher honor pool.

At first it didn't quite work out until we changed some more code, and then we could play. But we did hit the game's internal limit of 60 honor, so stuff just... stopped working beyond that point. (We've set up for 400 honor initially).

And I had such a great insane card draw too! 😭 60 honor is way too short for some of those decks!
#Games #Ascension

My GitHub is full of release updates of RimWorld mods because of the impending update to 1.3. I probably should check out that game again.

The upcoming DLC is also very much in tune with the current state of affairs in the world with the Ideology expansion. Half tempted to get it, though I see plenty of idealism already IRL. ;)
#Games #Rimworld

Pfft, 7 health left... needed to drink something hoping it's a good one.. potion of -20 health.. 😞
#Games #Caveblazers

Oh, let's hope so. Lord of the Rings Online is considering improving its business model.
https://massivelyop.com/2021/07/15/lotro-considers-improving-its-business-model-as-players-present-weatherstock-xiii/

When the game was still subscription-based, the storyline was good and the gameplay challenging.

After the release of Mines of Moria expansion, the game became free-to-play and quality dwindled with every new expansion. Their Store was very aggressively marketed, it really got annoying. It was sad to see the decline.

I hope they manage to fix that shit and improve the storyline and quests which was my major reason to stop playing. Nobody wants to muck stables or fetch simple stuff anymore near endgame.
#Games #LotRO #MMORPG

Huh, I just stumbled on this:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Didn't know Valve was working on a handheld console which can be docked. (maybe same idea as the Switch there?)

It does look fairly interesting, especially if you have a large Steam library and can use this as a console.
#Games #Steam #SteamDeck

For people who still don't have Syberia I and Syberia II, those two games can be claimed for free at https://www.gog.com now!

In my experience, those are very fine point and click adventures with great art and storytelling. I enjoyed them a lot. Just don't bother with Syberia 3...
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