It's got an enormous wait until you can actually play but I find the rp really in depth and there is some really fun world building going on in some places.
I'm #2 in the birth queue. I've been waiting like....3 months+.
I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei VI.
You wait THREE MONTHS before you can START PLAYING? Well, there goes my interest.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
It's got an enormous wait until you can actually play but I find the rp really in depth and there is some really fun world building going on in some places.
I'm #2 in the birth queue. I've been waiting like....3 months+.
I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei VI.
You wait THREE MONTHS before you can START PLAYING? Well, there goes my interest.
I did say enormous wait time. You're born into the world and to be born into the world someone has to get pregnant. So basicly how long you're waiting for depends on how fast people are at making babies which isn't very fast and that's on top of the 100+ wait line.
It's got an enormous wait until you can actually play but I find the rp really in depth and there is some really fun world building going on in some places.
I'm #2 in the birth queue. I've been waiting like....3 months+.
I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei VI.
You wait THREE MONTHS before you can START PLAYING? Well, there goes my interest.
Yeah, waiting to be born is an idea that sounds like a cool idea, until it's actually implimented...
I've been playing Fallen London, a browser game set in a Victorian London that has been stolen away to live beneath the earth, lit by fireflies and the crystalized residue of broken dreams, as a result of a deal Queen Victoria made with a group of cloaked entities known as the Masters of the Bazaar. It's a story-based game doled out drip by drip; you play cards from your hand or take actions made available by your qualities to gather items (like secrets, which are one of the forms of currency in Fallen London) or connections with the various factions active in the city-- Bohemians, Hell, the Church, Society, Revolutionaries, and even the Masters of the Bazaar themselves. There's a labyrinthine backstory viewed only in bits and pieces; you have to piece much of it together, and a lot of it is still a mystery to players.
It's fun because you can, for instance, compose a symphony for the Traitor Empress Victoria based on a series of alien glyphs which break the brains of humans:
Getting the instruments properly tuned was difficult, but it wasn't as hard as acquiring the glass drums that your piece requires. Where did you read about those? No matter. The courtiers are bewildered by the bassoon players dangling from the ceiling and your seven one-eyed xylophonists.
And you begin. To describe this piece as challenging is a vast understatement. You have spare musicians ready to replace those who start smouldering or flee screaming into the garden. The audience bursts into a cacophony of shrieks and recriminations that counterpoints your second movement nicely. You have barely played through two of the Correspondence symbols before the audience rushes the stage to smash instruments and musicians alike. You are soundly beaten by the mob, but you notice the Empress before all goes black. She is tapping her foot happily, and her expression is wistful. As if she recognises the tune.
Jadice, the Frost Queen says to you, "Constant vigilance."
I also sporadically partake in the awesome that is Fallen London, and so does @Darvellan. Very seriously eyeing their Sunless Sea after a Choice of Robots.
It's got an enormous wait until you can actually play but I find the rp really in depth and there is some really fun world building going on in some places.
I'm #2 in the birth queue. I've been waiting like....3 months+.
I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei VI.
You wait THREE MONTHS before you can START PLAYING? Well, there goes my interest.
I did say enormous wait time. You're born into the world and to be born into the world someone has to get pregnant. So basicly how long you're waiting for depends on how fast people are at making babies which isn't very fast and that's on top of the 100+ wait line.
So you start as an infant or something? That does not sound fun at all.
Mayor Steingrim, the Grand Schema says to you, "Well, as I recall you kinda leave a mark whereever you go."
So you start as an infant or something? That does not sound fun at all.
Sure it does, if someone pisses you off, you can piss on them, and nobody's going to be mad accept the person pissed on. Everyone else will just be like "aww look at the baby being a baby, I think it means they like you!"
I found it fun the first time but after the novel feeling of it went away and now it's a bit annoying being a baby. When you start actually being able to talk things get more interesting and it's even funner when you have siblings to terrorize. Ah... I mean play with.
@Drocilla pull the trigger on Sunless Sea. All reports indicate if you liked Fallen London you will like Sunless Sea.
@Ileein Fallen London is great. It is a rare original setting.
As Tarkenton pointed out, 80 days is fantastic. How fantastic you ask?
Awards from TIME, New Yorker, Metacritic, Apple, Pocket Tactics, IGN, theguardian, and the list goes on. Also inkle keeps updating it. Latest was a North Pole Christmas update.
It has about half a million words of story, 150 cities and ten thousand choices. I enjoy studying its structure. If my memory serves the inkle team wrote 80 days as a fun project in between Sorcery adaptations and it just sort of exploded.
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When it comes to iOS games I appreciate the analysis of the reviewers at Pocket Tactics (UK based).
It starts out as space survival-horror and breaks into the genre Grim Awesome, which is a mix of Grimdark and crowdsurfing with your favorite metal band while electrified and on acid. Think of the theme as a bit of The Last of Us (without the zombies) and Heinland's Starship Troopers.
I was addicted to 'A dark room' last night. Anyone played?
Yes. Once the amusement from the "press button to get dopamine rush" wore off and I opened the map section I got bored and read a synopsis of the game. Glad I did. Saved me time and the programmer is a bit of a pretentious dick given his opinions since 'A dark room' is more a low hanging fruit Skinner Box and barely a game. If you are going to have grandiose opinions of yourself, accomplish something difficult, novel or both.
80 Days also handles romance far better than Bioware ever did, save perhaps for Iron Bull.
Hmm. Are you talking about the Orient Express arc? I've played two full playthroughs of 80 days, which means I've only seen about 10% of the content. If its the Orient Express then yes that romance was just brilliantly written. Nuanced and subtle from a personal interaction standpoint and gorgeous in how it wove in backstory details. The "star" the Mongol lady invited him to see was an extremely well done scene.
Finished ME2 a while ago. Now making my way through the Dishonored DLC before I decide to start on 3 or kick more shorts plays off of the list. I really loved Dishonored, the world is just so appealing and at the same time brutal. It's a really great stealth game too, and some of the abilities you get are just, well, you've got to see them for yourself really.
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Finished ME2 a while ago. Now making my way through the Dishonored DLC before I decide to start on 3 or kick more shorts plays off of the list. I really loved Dishonored, the world is just so appealing and at the same time brutal. It's a really great stealth game too, and some of the abilities you get are just, well, you've got to see them for yourself really.
If you ever do finish ME3, make damn sure you get the (free) Director's Cut DLC beforehand. Just saying.
Dishonored was way too hard for me to finish, personally, even if I did like the setting. Someday I'm going to have to try that one again.
Mayor Steingrim, the Grand Schema says to you, "Well, as I recall you kinda leave a mark whereever you go."
Finished ME2 a while ago. Now making my way through the Dishonored DLC before I decide to start on 3 or kick more shorts plays off of the list. I really loved Dishonored, the world is just so appealing and at the same time brutal. It's a really great stealth game too, and some of the abilities you get are just, well, you've got to see them for yourself really.
If you ever do finish ME3, make damn sure you get the (free) Director's Cut DLC beforehand. Just saying.
Dishonored was way too hard for me to finish, personally, even if I did like the setting. Someday I'm going to have to try that one again.
Yeah, I got the DLC sorted as per recommendations on that.
As for Dishonored, don't feel bad about playing it on the lowest difficulty, especially if you are going for low chaos / no detection. I always do that one first because I am weird like that. Does mean you have to sacrifice some runes and all, so the game automatically gets harder. I love the thrill though of being in a new unknown area and looking for all the hidden passages and stuff. Then later on I'll run it again on normal and go high chaos and just murderize everything in the most horrible fashion because duh chaos! I loved how the main game changed based on your chaos level, I expect it to be the same for the DLC.
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You have received a new honour! Congratulations! On this day, you have shown your willingness to ensure a bug-free Lusternia for everyone to enjoy. The face of Iosai the Anomaly unfolds before you, and within you grows the knowledge that you have earned the elusive and rare honour of membership in Her Order.
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Dishonored was way too hard for me to finish, personally, even if I did like the setting. Someday I'm going to have to try that one again.
As for Dishonored, don't feel bad about playing it on the lowest difficulty, especially if you are going for low chaos / no detection. I always do that one first because I am weird like that. Does mean you have to sacrifice some runes and all, so the game automatically gets harder. I love the thrill though of being in a new unknown area and looking for all the hidden passages and stuff. Then later on I'll run it again on normal and go high chaos and just murderize everything in the most horrible fashion because duh chaos! I loved how the main game changed based on your chaos level, I expect it to be the same for the DLC.
You have received a new honour! Congratulations! On this day, you have shown your willingness to ensure a bug-free Lusternia for everyone to enjoy. The face of Iosai the Anomaly unfolds before you, and within you grows the knowledge that you have earned the elusive and rare honour of membership in Her Order.
Curio Exchange - A website to help with the trading of curio pieces in Lusternia.