cakes wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:06 am Anyone dumb enough to get wrapped up into Caves of Qud? The latest 1.0 just came out. It's a deep game that is much more than what it seems on the surface. I'm really enjoying it, even though I haven't been able to live long enough to finish the first quest.

https://www.cavesofqud.com/

looks intriguing.

I bounced off Qud pretty hard, but the fun is there after someone writes an unfocused Gamefaq style guide under the narrative guise of a DBZ character to teach me how to get past the first 15 minutes

Finally picked up the System Shock remaster for Playstation and finding it a bit of a mixed bag.

From a long-time SS2 fan, it looks great, but some of the controller mappings are diabolical, and the "you're on your own" element of figuring out which objectives are next (via the audio logs) can get frustrating. Think I'm over the hump, and enjoying it a lot more now I've put a good few hours into it.

I'm not motivated to grind through Chorus at the moment, stuck on a protracted battle/mission. Still intend to return to it at some point.

I picked up the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition trilogy (originally released starting in 2013) and am about halfway through the first one. I'm stuck on a battle in the towers above Shantytown. Previously, I was able to get through the big ambushes/battles in Shantytown by running away and then luring baddies to me and picking them off, but can't do that here. Sick of getting offed in brutal fashion. This is the first gorey game I've played and it's beginning to wear on me a bit.

I started messing around with Space Engineers with the little dude. Steep learning curve but he managed not to melt down and hang with it and build some simple structures in outer space yesterday.

I also started playing Minecraft with him in earnest and it's a blast. I mostly work on abstract shit while he builds more concrete structures. The combination works nicely. We're working away at our Arctic Sculpture Village. Once I realised you could basically go all stochastic on it, running around in circles dropping blocks while switching between different aesthetically pleasing materials randomly, I really started to dig it. I do that for a while and then zoom out and impose more structure on it if I like. Basically like doodling or abstract drawing and then fleshing out more concrete parts as they emerge. We make a good team.

Been on that Balatro tip for a few weeks and it has been very responsible for me staying up an hour+ past my bedtime.

defendyachtrock wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:56 pm Been on that Balatro tip for a few weeks and it has been very responsible for me staying up an hour+ past my bedtime.

I was into that briefly but the ease with which flushes win made it kind of easy.

So I moved onto the Scrabble equivalent of Balatro, "Letterlike". I'm hooked...

Both are available on mobile now. I have a 10 hour flight coming up and they'll make it fly by.

andyman wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:15 am

defendyachtrock wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:56 pm Been on that Balatro tip for a few weeks and it has been very responsible for me staying up an hour+ past my bedtime.

I was into that briefly but the ease with which flushes win made it kind of easy.

Maybe on lower stakes, but the score scaling becomes a real issue on Purple stake and above. At that point, it's really about joker management and making sure you can get a x-mult joker that can keep up with the scaling. That usually requires getting your money managed properly and sometimes deep rerolling to get a blueprint or brainstorm.

I've finished gold stake on about half of the decks so far.