Apeman42

joined 2 years ago
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For all its flaws, one thing I absolutely loved in that game was flinging people and goblins off cliffs and walls. So satisfying.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Abelard, upvote this man for his excellent taste.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I just started Pillars of Eternity again last night.

I'd played before up to like the big port city where you can find paladin girl, but the RTWP just wasn't clicking with me.

Now that they added turn based, I'm giving it another go with my Moon Godling Chanter. Reny Daret's ghost is a fucking beast.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, Molly grew up way too pretty to be Miles' daughter. That girl's half-Riker for sure.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Christ, I had a feeling it was slop, but then oh god the teeth

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did mean the older style they're emulating, yeah. Maybe I wasn't looking for old enough music, or looking too hard toward jazz. I'll check those out, see if I can figure out what I heard before that sounded like this.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

This is fucking brutal disrespect of Jimmy Olsen's Blues and I won't have it!

 

I'm talking about the fast, bouncy singing that the main vocalist does underneath all the electronic stuff.

I'm fairly certain I've heard it in other jazz or swing songs before, but there's gotta be a more specific search term I can use, cause those are some pretty broad genres.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

X-Men (let's say Evolution because it has one of my favorite versions of Kurt) evolves into a mostly Star Trek future but with mutants, who are now the predominant form of humanity. When you die it's the reformed version of the afterlife from the end of The Good Place.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I only discovered sweet potato pie like two years ago, but it's definitely a top contender. It's everything pumpkin pie wishes it could be.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The Rufus Wainright version of Hallelujah from Shrek 1 (but the Jeff Buckley and John Cale versions are even better)

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

How does this compare in efficiency to casting Xagyg's Planar Binding and simply using a standard verity geas to question a daemon from one of the higher hypergeometric dimensions?

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

I don't remember where I read this recently, but if you have access to their home, inject a slurry of watered-down raw egg into the padded parts of their furniture. It will take a little while before it stinks like rotting shit, and will be impossible to ever clean.

 

Through a little research, I believe RT is the only RPG currently, which is unfortunate because I think it's a great way to soak up the setting.

I have my eye on Mechanicus, because it looks very XCOM influenced. I like the smaller-scale squad-based tactics much more than the army-scale grand strategy/RTS style.

Any other suggestions? I know because of what the original game is, the RTS ones are probably going to be the majority of the PC titles, but there seems to be some representation in just about any genre. I even saw an Ork dogfighting (planes) game.

 

Obviously that means Gonzo plays Fonzie, breaks the jukebox worse when he hits it, then says something about "picking up chicks" and leaves with Camilla.

Kermit is probably Richie, Scooter is Potsie, and Fozzie is Ralph.

I haven't thought out the rest of the casting, but Ted McGinley should definitely come in as the token human to end out the bit.

 
 

I know a little about Orks and their weird group psychic thing where painting their ships red to go fast really makes them faster, and their tech only works because they think it should. But then I guess Orks aren't even in this game.

I get that it's a violent, black-vs-grey universe. I think it's the originator of the term grimdark? The emperor is some immortal Mr House asshole who's worshipped as a god, which powers some of their tech and protects them from chaos via his psyker shit? And he's kind of a fascist, but it's that or bloody chaos?

Rogue traders seem like somewhere between a privateer and a baron, plundering tithes in their castle-ships and acting as an arm of the Imperium in backwater space?

There are more wizards than I expected. Not sure if these mechanicus dudes are pulling "Temples of Syrinx" thing, or they know how the tech works but not why so they worship it? Or if it's actually machine spirits?

Anything super foundational that I'm missing?

 

Nothing with too many hearty belly laughs, it was abdominal surgery.

 

I understand there are novels and comics where they both make appearances after their shows, and maybe I read that Wesley is in Picard?

I'm familiar with none of that material, so I'm just curious, does going Pact of the Traveler or Pact of the Wormhole give better spacelock spells?

 

I think I played whichever one was on my Amiga waaaay back in the day, and whichever one was on PS3 for a bit. I was also a big fan of some of the Might and Magic games, which I feel were something of a bridge between the old dungeon crawlers and something like Morrowind.

Anyway I was thinking of trying one out again. Any recommendations, maybe one with modern QOL features to ease in?

I see there's a remake of Wizardry 1(?) and remasters of the Etrian Odyssey games in the past couple years. I'm also kind of intrigued by Undernauts, which looks like it might throw a little Shin Megami Tensei flavor in?

 

I played 1-4 back in the day, but my memory of the details is pretty fuzzy. Something something Umbrella releases a new virus like iPhones every few years, something something, somehow Wesker returned.

Anyway, I hear 7 is kind of a soft reboot? Is that a good one to get back into the series with, and not have to know 12 games of plot?

And if 7 is good, does 8/Village follow directly from that without needing too much prior game knowledge?

 

Lowest price yet according to gg.deals.

I'd been waiting for this to drop under $30 so I could scratch my Shivering Isles itch without spending 6 hours installing mods first.

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