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    If anyone really liked some of the elements of the Valkyrie Profile games, there is this free B game on Android that took a lot of the same elements and made it into a weird resource-management RPG.

    It's called Valkyrie RPG.

    The graphics are garbage, but the game is really solid. Basically, you take on dead heroes and level them up. The catch is that your Valkyrie's level is equal to the average level of your party's heroes, and each hero has a limit as to how many dungeon rooms they're allowed to clear. The better the hero is when you send them to Valhalla, the more points you get to permanently upgrade your Valkyrie and souls to spend on better low-level heroes. Plus, the heroes you send to Valhalla are used to fight in Ragnarok with the same equipment you sent them with.

    So you're constantly being strained between having to balance your party between leveling several "children" with a single high-level babysitter, trying to make sure you don't get rid of all of your best gear (but giving away your second best gear), and figuring out which set of dungeons are the best challenge for your party.

    At first, you're fine having a bunch of leveling heroes, as long as you aren't shuffling them out too quickly. I've hit the endgame where the best strategy is to have two babysitters while a single hero levels up beyond them and replaces the worst of the two.

    Great game. Give it a shot.
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    So I'm kinda torn on the Post-100 battle pass skins in fortnite.

    See, while super-sellout-y the Marvel Heroes skins are really nice this season. Doom and Storm are particularly top tier IMO. The rest aren't bad, though I don't particularly care for the Jennifer Walters or Tony Stark models (the She Hulk and Ironman transformations look good though). Once you have some of the skins, if you beat 10 certain weekly challenges you get to unlock a new version (Red SheHulk, 90' Punk Rock Storm, God Emperor Doom, Mystique in sexy leather and 2 different Wolverine skins: Classic brown/yellow and Logan in ripped jeans/wifebeater). They look great and I dunno who's decision it was, but my hat's off to whoever picked the best alternate for Storm. You have my blessings to keep making those choices.

    I do find it's cool that you're given further reason to keep playing and doing the weekly/daily/special missions and collect the XP coins, but some of these skins look... very meh.

    This trend started a while ago, with a few specific skins slowly unlocking a new form and then being locked at that % once the season was over. It took forever to grind them and wasn't much fun. A nice bonus for the people who keep playing, but grinding for it was tedious and only the most die-hard fortnite players (or those that exploited the systems) could get them. Not something a casual like me could really look forward to.

    Fast Forward a bit, and this season is probably the best implementation of it: each skin has 3 post-100 versions: Silver, gold and foil. it cycles through all 8 skins, unlocking a one tier for it every 5 levels, then going to the next tier. So you need to be battlepass lv220 to unlock all 3 bonus skins for all 8... this is actually less levels needed then the last season... but dang if they're not ugly. the last few ones were rather lazy, simply replacing the texture with a flat gold colour, but these ones still aren't really that nice to look at. Silver Ironman is actually cool because I can use it as a War Machine alternate, Silver Storm is more like a sidegrade and Silver Mystique is very OK. Gold Doom is nearly redundant because his normal alternate is God Emperor Doom... who's already heavily gold and a solid Gold Groot is somehow pleasingly gaudy.

    All the Foils ones look absolutely hideous though IME and outside of bragging rights, I don't see myself putting the effort unlocking them.

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    Quite accurate to reality, then!

    I'm onto Tales of Cold Steel 3 at the moment, and I wish that Falcom would make up their minds whether they want arts to be useful or not, because we seem to be back to the Cold Steel 1 system where arts simply don't do enough damage to make them worth using in 90% of situations, considering their disadvantages--especially since they seem to take longer to cast than they used to. I mean, Cold Steel 2 maybe took things a bit too far in the other direction, what with a master quartz that flat-out doubled arts damage for a 50% additional EP cost--my Emma would regularly hit upward of 40k damage with some spells. Weird thing is, Trails in the Sky was pretty much perfectly balanced in this regard, so I wish they'd go back to that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    Quite accurate to reality, then!

    I'm onto Tales of Cold Steel 3 at the moment, and I wish that Falcom would make up their minds whether they want arts to be useful or not, because we seem to be back to the Cold Steel 1 system where arts simply don't do enough damage to make them worth using in 90% of situations, considering their disadvantages--especially since they seem to take longer to cast than they used to. I mean, Cold Steel 2 maybe took things a bit too far in the other direction, what with a master quartz that flat-out doubled arts damage for a 50% additional EP cost--my Emma would regularly hit upward of 40k damage with some spells. Weird thing is, Trails in the Sky was pretty much perfectly balanced in this regard, so I wish they'd go back to that!
    So, Steel 3 is a lot like Steel 1. Your Arts are trash... For the first third of the game or so. By the time you get access to the third tier of spells from decent Quartz and a couple of Bells and cast time reducers, plus the Arts-boosting Master Quartz Arts... Really aren't useless. At all. Even without Brave Order shenanigans (and Divine Song is deeply, outrageously powerful for an Order you'll always have access to, much less one that's only 2 BP), Musse or Emma packing a good setup can get to the point that top-end Arts are only 16-20 time units total cycle time, and hit for similar numbers to CS2*. One of my favorite tactics was just popping Divine Song after using big, Delay-heavy Crafts on all my melee fighters and getting 8 turns in a row with Musse, fully refilling her HP and EP every turn and dealing heavy damage to every enemy. By the time you're out of Divine Song the enemies will probably all be either dead or in Break state, allowing your melee squad to wail on them for a while.

    But at the start of the game, when the closest thing to a caster you have is Altina (note: She's a hybrid at best, and really more of a tank/support than anything) and your available Arts are all garbage? Yeah, maybe avoid the ATS builds. Generally speaking, around about the time you get to play with Musse and/or Emma is when Arts are starting to be useful. And no, I don't consider 'Musse joins the party' to be a spoiler. She's on the damn box art, and she's not present at all before this game. Obviously she's joining the party.


    *So, this is a lie, but only because damage stacking in CS2 could reach much more absurd extremes. 30k on the right enemy isn't hard to reach in that game. My first Art of a battle usually hit for 80-100k by end-game. More if I got lucky and hit Casting Cost 0 and got to throw a Lost Art for free. In CS3 you're probably looking at about 30k by endgame, maybe a bit less if you don't have a high elemental multiplier.
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    Most people probably don't even look at the box art for their games. I can't even tell you the last time I even bought a physical copy, much less paid attention to the box art. That's probably not a good criteria for deciding if something is a spoiler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anteros View Post
    Most people probably don't even look at the box art for their games. I can't even tell you the last time I even bought a physical copy, much less paid attention to the box art. That's probably not a good criteria for deciding if something is a spoiler.
    Fine. Then she's also prominently featured in the intro movie, has a mechanic from the prologue chapter onwards that's exclusively limited to playable characters, and happens to be all over the promotional materials. Oh, and unless I'm forgetting, the very beginning of the game is a flash-forward to a point in the game where Musse is a member of the party. It's about as much of a spoiler as 'Harry Potter is an orphan' or 'Bilbo Baggins leaves the Shire to go on a quest'.
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    I've just got to the point Musse joined, and she clearly does seem to be some sort of arts specialist, so I'll obviously have to concentrate on speccing her that way and see if it works out. At the moment she's sitting on the bench with Altina because neither do as much damage as Ash, Rean etc.

    Emma is good, yes, but she always was--and I do wonder just how much of the inclination to use Arts with her is because her weapon, the orbal staff, sucks so hard. Mind you:

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    Her magic-absorbing Order (whose name I forget) made the McBurn fight in chapter 2 an absolute joke--I think the only person who even needed healing during it was Rean, because he spent most of the time on fire and was getting constant damage every turn! None of McBurn's abilities did anything beyond that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    I've just got to the point Musse joined, and she clearly does seem to be some sort of arts specialist, so I'll obviously have to concentrate on speccing her that way and see if it works out. At the moment she's sitting on the bench with Altina because neither do as much damage as Ash, Rean etc.

    Emma is good, yes, but she always was--and I do wonder just how much of the inclination to use Arts with her is because her weapon, the orbal staff, sucks so hard. Mind you:

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    Her magic-absorbing Order (whose name I forget) made the McBurn fight in chapter 2 an absolute joke--I think the only person who even needed healing during it was Rean, because he spent most of the time on fire and was getting constant damage every turn! None of McBurn's abilities did anything beyond that.
    Emma's default stat array, default Master Quartz and stat growths are all extremely heavy on ATS, and all her Crafts are magic attacks that trigger on ATS rather than STR, so literally the only reason to give her any STR is if you really want to hit people with her staff attack; and why would you, when she's always the strongest Arts attacker in every game? Not to mention the fact that her Orbment setup gives her the highest innate EP of any character you have access to*, barely eking out Musse in that department. Everything about her kit is built around an Arts focus with her CP used for utility, healing and S-Crafts. And that's even more so in CS3, with her new S-Craft being such a potent defensive tool.

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    Speaking of the McBurn fight, Emma's S-Craft is also absolutely hilarious against him. It reflects his own S-Craft back at him, likely knocking off half or more of his health if he was dumb enough to hit your entire party with it. Emma's not quite as dominant in this game as in some of the others, thanks to Alisa's high-tier Brave Order and Heavenly Gift still being godlike support and Musse being basically exactly as good at Emma at everything, but against bosses with S-Crafts she's comedy gold with her 2-use absolute reflect on the entire party of an S-Craft.


    Honestly, I found Ash to be by far the most underwhelming of the new characters in CS3. Altina is a very interesting support character with a unique Order and some of the most efficient AOE Crafts in the game, not to mention maybe my favorite S-Craft animation. Juna and Kurt are the pain train tag team Order Spam squad who enable all the best things and have no weaknesses and a laundry list of good Crafts (Seriously, Juna and Kurt overshadow basically the entire rest of the cast if you use them together). Musse is Emma But Smol and Thirsty. Ash... Is trying really hard to be Rean, but just can't quite make it there? He's not bad- almost nobody in CS3 is actually bad, honestly- but when the entire rest of the new characters are busy being interesting or awesome, Ash is just 'Rean but without the versatility', or alternatively 'quicker Laura but not as hard-hitting or tanky'.

    *Again, this is a lie, kind of. Alfin has the highest innate EP possible. She's also very limited in availability, and has no options of any kind save Arts, where she only barely matches or marginally exceeds Emma, while having none of Emma's survivability or utility.
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    I don't know, Ash was okay as a S-craft spammer in my run thanks to his CP giving craft. Either the alpha striker, with Juna's order and other break damage shenanigans, or the omega striker with that "extra damage to broken enemies" gem.

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    I find the main reason Emma isn't so dominant in CS3 is down to one reason: no Pandora! That Master Quartz was absolutely sick for a magic-using character in CS2--double damage of every spell I cast for a 50% increase in EP cost, that can be largely mitigated with EP Cut and I also have a quartz that regenerates my EP ridiculously quickly between battles? Heck yes! Didn't give quite as ridiculous a first strike capability as the item giving 2x damage on first attack for Laura, because that and a 200 CP S-Craft would easily deal upwards of 100,000 damage in one hit, but the advantage of Pandora is that its benefit didn't go away after the first hit.

    Speaking of which, I have a quartz that gives 1.5x damage on first attack on Rean, and that makes fights pretty darned easy--against all but the toughest mobs a single Crescent Flash on the first turn will usually just break them all immediately and turn the rest of the fight into shooting fish in a barrel.
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    Bought and started Wasteland 3, after having read a few encouraging reviews.

    For now, it appears they were completely right: the sequel seems to have fixed most of the small annoyances that, added together, made me give up on every playthrough of Wasteland 2 I attempted. For now I'm finishing the main-ish quests around Colorado Springs (not technically part of the main quest, but I do need to restore my base, get people's approval and get my squad ready for it).

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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    I find the main reason Emma isn't so dominant in CS3 is down to one reason: no Pandora! That Master Quartz was absolutely sick for a magic-using character in CS2--double damage of every spell I cast for a 50% increase in EP cost, that can be largely mitigated with EP Cut and I also have a quartz that regenerates my EP ridiculously quickly between battles? Heck yes! Didn't give quite as ridiculous a first strike capability as the item giving 2x damage on first attack for Laura, because that and a 200 CP S-Craft would easily deal upwards of 100,000 damage in one hit, but the advantage of Pandora is that its benefit didn't go away after the first hit.

    Speaking of which, I have a quartz that gives 1.5x damage on first attack on Rean, and that makes fights pretty darned easy--against all but the toughest mobs a single Crescent Flash on the first turn will usually just break them all immediately and turn the rest of the fight into shooting fish in a barrel.
    Yep, the first attack increasing quartzes are always OP in CS and has been my main way of playing since they quickly defuse the hours of fights the game has between its story. Though as it's mentioned above, there are new ways of quick victories in 3 thanks to Juna and Kurt.
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    Thanks for pointing out Musse's arts capability, by the way--I've got her built pretty nicely now and she's doing some decent damage. Only complaint I still have is that the multiple-spell quartz seems to be a *lot* harder to find and/or make in CS3, which limits how versatile I can make her for now.

    I guess I'm coming up to the point that happens in the prologue, but I seem to be quite a bit higher level than I was then--as I recall class VII were all level 35 then, whereas I'm into the 40s now. 50 hours played, no idea how long I still have to go.

    [EDIT] Oh, dear. If there's one thing I dislike intensely in a story, it's when plot happens because people are keeping secrets they have no reason to keep.

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    Couple of instances of that at the end of chapter 3: firstly, we have Musse Egret from Rean's class being revealed to be Duchess Mildine, heir to the Cayenne family lands. We know for a fact that Elise, Princess Alfin, Jusis, Patrick, Angelica, and Principal Aurelia all know this--yet for some reason it's kept secret from Rean, her *homeroom teacher*?

    More egregious still is Angelica heading off to do a little light midnight grave-digging without telling anyone, not even Towa, where she's going or why. End result of that one is that she's next in the grave--although considering we've already had a guy (Crow) punctured through the heart and apparently come back to life, because Azure Siegfried is definitely him, chances are she'll be back sporting a fancy mask and fighting for the Black Workshop before too long, I reckon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    Thanks for pointing out Musse's arts capability, by the way--I've got her built pretty nicely now and she's doing some decent damage. Only complaint I still have is that the multiple-spell quartz seems to be a *lot* harder to find and/or make in CS3, which limits how versatile I can make her for now.

    I guess I'm coming up to the point that happens in the prologue, but I seem to be quite a bit higher level than I was then--as I recall class VII were all level 35 then, whereas I'm into the 40s now. 50 hours played, no idea how long I still have to go.
    Yeah, Musse is great. She was a staple in my party pretty much from the moment she joined, unless I was doing something silly (if you ever want to do some really stupid stuff, grab the no-Speed squad and Altina, throw a bunch of extremely long casting time Arts and Crafts with massive recovery time, then activate Altina's Brave Order and go grab lunch. The enemy's going to be hitting themselves for a long time). It's not immediately obvious she's an Arts-user, what with her gun, so I'm glad I helped. Do experiment with Divine Song and Bells. Seriously. It's amazing. I called Divine Song the 'it's always Musse's turn now' button for a reason.

    Multi-spell quarts is present in CS3, and available around about the same point in the game it was in CS1; namely, you'll be getting your hands on it from chests in the next chapter or so. For someone used to CS2, though, it's obviously going to feel late. I do recommend making some yourself by trading at Neinvalli next time you're back at Leeves; you should have enough Sepith to do some manufacturing by then, though you'll mostly be in very short supply until you're getting close to the endgame. In the mean-time, Master Quartz often give you more and better spells in this game than in the previous ones once fully levelled; Musse's own gives basically every non-healing water spell in the game at max level, for example. For some reason my memory is failing me, but I think you also get all the spells from your Sub-Quartz? If I'm right on that front, Master Quartz is definitely your primary source of spell versatility.

    No spoilers on exactly how much game you have left, but I will say the prologue takes place more than halfway in. You'll note some other major changes once you get there. Suffice to say that, while the prologue is a glance at things to come, it's not an accurate one. Your characters have much better Quartz than they did then, more Crafts, better Bonds and perhaps some more help along the way. Expect the enemy to be a bit more formidable as well.
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    I added an edit to my post while you were posting that, so I'm past the prologue spoiler now. And I've already found the ability to manufacture multiple-spell quartz (you can do it at the advanced orbment stations you find all over the place as well), it's just it takes *huge* amounts of sepith to do it--e.g. to make *one* SR variant of a spell, which is what's required to make the multiple-spell version, requires 9 of the basic ones (3 of those makes one R version, 3 Rs to make an SR) plus a bunch of U-material, so I haven't got round to manufacturing one yet. I've just started chapter 4 so will probably have a look to see how much sepith I've got and what I can make.

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    Ah, yeah, that definitely happened. Okay.

    Yup. Making Quartz is pricey, but you don't really have any other use for Sepith at this point so you might as well. Focus on the ones you like, you should be able to make a couple. But the trades at Neinvalli are where the really good stuff is. SR is fine, but named Quartz is where it's at.

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    Couple of instances of that at the end of chapter 3: firstly, we have Musse Egret from Rean's class being revealed to be Duchess Mildine, heir to the Cayenne family lands. We know for a fact that Elise, Princess Alfin, Jusis, Patrick, Angelica, and Principal Aurelia all know this--yet for some reason it's kept secret from Rean, her *homeroom teacher*?

    More egregious still is Angelica heading off to do a little light midnight grave-digging without telling anyone, not even Towa, where she's going or why. End result of that one is that she's next in the grave--although considering we've already had a guy (Crow) punctured through the heart and apparently come back to life, because Azure Siegfried is definitely him, chances are she'll be back sporting a fancy mask and fighting for the Black Workshop before too long, I reckon.
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    What do all the people who aren't telling Rean Musse's true identity have in common? I'll give you a hint: at the start of CS1, Machias would have hated all of them. Because there's a good reason that none of them are talking, that reason being that Musse told them not to. Admittedly, her reasoning for that is obtuse, and... Honestly, you'll just have to wait and see on that one. Musse has at least one good secret left in her at this point. I'll admit, for all I love her mechanically, she's not my favorite character in terms of plot for a couple of reasons. Not least of which being that people tolerate her constant sexual harassment of her teacher, but also the whole thing she has going on is just... A lot. I'll talk more once you're finished the game, assuming I'm not too busy playing CS4 by then.

    The second is much worse, and while I won't comment on your speculation... Yeah, Angie's a huge dunce for this one. "I have a hunch that could be incredibly important. So, instead of telling anyone, I'm just going to go off entirely on my own to verify it, while not being remotely sneaky. Oops. Somebody caught me. How unexpected." I totally agree with you here. This is just a character being dumb. If nothing else, she really should have told Towa (her best friend, with the possible exception of George) or Sara (who she was partnered with in this arc). This one's purely down to lazy writing.
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    Regarding Musse's constant sexual harrassment of her teacher, yeah, agreed on that one, although it's nowhere near as bad as Angelica, who seems to think anything female and with a pulse is a target--regardless of whether said person is underage or not. Apparently because she's a lesbian it's "funny" rather than "totally creepy and will you stop it already".

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    Regarding Musse's constant sexual harrassment of her teacher, yeah, agreed on that one, although it's nowhere near as bad as Angelica, who seems to think anything female and with a pulse is a target--regardless of whether said person is underage or not. Apparently because she's a lesbian it's "funny" rather than "totally creepy and will you stop it already".
    Ugh, don't remind me. I think it's a Japanese thing; I've certainly seen similar situations in other Japanese media, particularly with regards to unwanted female-on-female attention. By CS3 Angelica's either 21 or 22, and she's still hitting on 15-year-olds while everyone else shrugs and says 'oh, what a rascal'.

    Actually, IIRC Shirley actually straight-up molests Duvalie with no sort of consent, to Duvalie's obvious discomfort, and the game plays it for laughs. Pretty sure if a male character did that it'd get the game an M rating. Double standard firmly in play.
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    Couple of instances of that at the end of chapter 3: firstly, we have Musse Egret from Rean's class being revealed to be Duchess Mildine, heir to the Cayenne family lands. We know for a fact that Elise, Princess Alfin, Jusis, Patrick, Angelica, and Principal Aurelia all know this--yet for some reason it's kept secret from Rean, her *homeroom teacher*?

    More egregious still is Angelica heading off to do a little light midnight grave-digging without telling anyone, not even Towa, where she's going or why. End result of that one is that she's next in the grave--although considering we've already had a guy (Crow) punctured through the heart and apparently come back to life, because Azure Siegfried is definitely him, chances are she'll be back sporting a fancy mask and fighting for the Black Workshop before too long, I reckon.
    About the not telling Rean part, you're absolutely right, that's definitely the devs trying to pull a JJ Abrams on us, the players. The only reason it wasn't too egregious to me was that it was a mostly non-mandatory bit of secret in the big picture. About the Angelica thing, though, I can totally imagine her just confirming for herself before telling Towa. It fits her character to be protective of Towa, all the more in such a sore subject.

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    Actually, IIRC Shirley actually straight-up molests Duvalie with no sort of consent, to Duvalie's obvious discomfort, and the game plays it for laughs. Pretty sure if a male character did that it'd get the game an M rating. Double standard firmly in play.
    Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. It's kind of weird, because Rean's relationships with the various possible female love interests is treated rather respectfully in ToCS2, whether it's the underage girls (where it ends up as a sort of big brother relationship with maybe a hint of "I'll totally marry you when I grow up" from the female side) or his older teacher (where she basically flat-out tells him to come back and try again when he's a grown man).

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    So I started playing this game called 'aegis rim: 13 sentinels', and so far (just cleared the tutorial of the combat and the prologue of most of the story, so about 3 hours in) it's been pretty interesting. It's as if someone took the basic premise of 'into the breach' of 'time-travelling mecha-pilots fighting an existential threat to humanity' and decided to add (even) more anime, and focus heavily on the story and the things leading up to the events, rather than the actual war.

    So far there are a lot of intriguing story snippets and mysteries happening and I'm very curious to see where everything leads. The art-style is also pretty great, with a muted, water-color aesthetic. The combat so far is functional, but the somewhat bare-bones interface means that it doesn't have quite as much visual weight behind it as mecha beating up monsters should have.
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    Playing Persona 4 Golden again. Have it on Vita, but the Steam release is just so much better. Really hoping that after SMT V comes out we get some more persona games on PC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tonberrian View Post
    Playing Persona 4 Golden again. Have it on Vita, but the Steam release is just so much better. Really hoping that after SMT V comes out we get some more persona games on PC.
    I'm personally hoping that some kind of ultimate edition for P3 is in the works, with the extra content from both P3:FES and P3P (or even just P3P but with better graphics and all the cutscenes and stuff).
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    Dragon Age II and Dragon Age Inquisition are on sale on Steam, so I'll pick them up once I get paid.
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    Been playing Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus. Really loving it. It's like xcom but a bit different. And the people who made this also know their stuff. They really nailed how the Adeptus Mechanicus behaves.

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    Been playing Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus. Really loving it. It's like xcom but a bit different. And the people who made this also know their stuff. They really nailed how the Adeptus Mechanicus behaves.
    Yeah, Mechanicus is pretty good, and deviates enough from the XCOM template to provide something fresh and interesting. And the writing/dialogues were not too shabby for a tactics game as well.

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    Playing Outer Wilds a bit. I'm liking the general idea and atmosphere, and zipping around the various weird planet-esque things is a lot of fun, but I don't really know what else to do. There's texts to read in the ruins about how the precursor species screwed everything up and I'm following them around, but I honestly don't find them all that interesting.
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    Playing Outer Wilds a bit. I'm liking the general idea and atmosphere, and zipping around the various weird planet-esque things is a lot of fun, but I don't really know what else to do. There's texts to read in the ruins about how the precursor species screwed everything up and I'm following them around, but I honestly don't find them all that interesting.
    As far as I understand it the entire point of that game is exploration and finding out the story of what happened to the ancients, so if you're not enjoying that, I'm not sure the game has much else to show you.

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    I've still been playin Genshin Impact. It seems like there's enough game here for a solid 30-40 hours of gameplay for a F2P player. Not bad if you're the type of gamer who enjoys the open world ARPG type of games. There's probably no viable endgame for a F2P player but oh well.

    On the plus side, the gacha side of the game is so obviously predatory and greedy that there's no desire to spend money on it at all. They've got a lot of different currencies and stuff designed to obscure how bad it is, but after some rough math it's something like 27 dollars to ensure a 4 star character or item and 270 dollars to ensure a 5 star one. And you have to pull a character 5 or 6 times to actually max them out. I have a ton of disposable income, but you'd have to be a millionaire, insane, or insanely stupid to bother with rates like that.

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