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(Among other things) Terra Invicta, have managed as Resistance to get two Moon bases, stations in Low Earth, Earth Lagrange, and Mars Lagrange orbits, and prospecting to get a Mars base. I started with a push to control France, Kazakhstan, Japan, and Russia. Servants got half of and control of Russia, Humanity First got half of and control of France. I eventually learned that the only way to get the US was just to keep spamming subsidized operations until I get lucky, because on average you will eventually get it. Then, after getting the foothold, the odds of success go up dramatically. So I managed to get control of the United States, then abandoned France to Humanity First. Now Humanity First and I are rampaging around, in an alliance, liberating Servant/Protectorate nations. But my long-term problem is that since the Servants do have Russia, I have to find a way to wrest control of it back before they start a nuclear war or conquer Europe.
 
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Finished Panzer Paladin, on to Rebel Galaxy.

Holy shit, how did this fly under my radar? It's a Freelancer-style fight/explore/trading game in space, except you control a capital ship (smallest flyable ships are corvettes). Has a very hard Space Western feel, helped with some great hard rock and country songs. I hate country and I love this shit.

Combat is mostly 2D so you can broadside more effectively. I'm a bit used to broadsiding thanks to Starsector, but the game has things like a fine aim system and an active deflector to block incoming heavy damage you can't dodge.

One small detail that actually surprised me was that they didn't skimp on the aliens' dialog. I was expecting about four or five "alien gibberish" lines that'd be spoken while you read the subtitles (you know, like BioWare!), but no, the spoken lines are all unique. I'll probably pick up the sequel after this.
 
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Finished up both Halo 2 and 3 via the MCC.

I forgot how genuinely great this trilogy was. It isn't perfect, but you can tell there is a lot of soul and passion attached to them. And I appreciate the nods to Christianity throughout, even if most of them are fairly surface level references. (Although I have read some interesting parallels with some of the game's story with certain parts of the Bible.)

The Arbiter was a great character that had a solid arc throughout 2 and even developed a silent comradery with Chief in 3. Had some of my favorite quotes in any game ever as well.

I seem to notice that there's a bit of contention in regards to how the Brutes were handled in 3. While I agree that they were made to be a bit more like Elites rather than how they were in 2, and that they aren't quite as dynamic or iconic as them. (Especially the first game's Elites. Those guys were awesome) They were still fun to fight and I liked how they seemed to emphasize overwhelming firepower and ordinance and crudely using technology via the equipment system as opposed to the Elites emphasis on finesse and movement.

And I know it should go without saying, but Marty 'O' Donnel makes absolutely amazing music. "One Final Effort" blew me away as a kid and it still blows me away now.

Overall, I would say 3 is still my favorite of the three, with CE very close behind while 2 kinda lags behind in terms of gameplay. Although in terms of story, they were pretty much equally good in my eyes. Halo 3's final levels and ending were still amazing.

I look forward to Ruby's Halo 3 Rebalanced Campaign mod. I was thinking of playing that right away but apparently an update for MCC from nearly two years ago made it nonfunctional. (Thanks 343.) Thankfully, he's hard at work with updating the first two games' campaign mods and will hopefully get to 3 sometime in the future.

Kinda sobering knowing what's happened to the series now. But hey, don't be sad that it's over, smile because it happened.
 
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Booted up a PS1 emulator and began to catch up on old RPGs at slow times during work, currently playing through Lunar: Silver Star Story, suffers from the typical weeb shit like knowing exactly what the cast is like just from the first impression, but its a serviceable game so far.

Writing is surprisingly witty too

Also find it ironic how worktime seems to be the best time to catch up on RPGs... Usually cant do that in my free time cause its too time consuming
 
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Psyduck said:
Booted up a PS1 emulator and began to catch up on old RPGs
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I really like vandal hearts on ps1, it's not a very popular game but it was one of the first TRPGs I played so I'm partial to it. After a short stint of emulating switch games and the WB smash clone I've returned to playing EvE online full time, a game I've been playing since its release because I've yet to find something as good as it.
 
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Blue Miaplacidus said:
I really like vandal hearts on ps1, it's not a very popular game but it was one of the first TRPGs I played so I'm partial to it. After a short stint of emulating switch games and the WB smash clone I've returned to playing EvE online full time, a game I've been playing since its release because I've yet to find something as good as it.
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Vandal Hearts was great, my first TRPG too and i loved it, wasnt until very recently that i learned you can become insanely broken by the end of the game if you follow some specific steps


Might reboot it some time, try and get the OP class
 
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Vandal Hearts was great, my first TRPG too and i loved it, wasnt until very recently that i learned you can become insanely broken by the end of the game if you follow some specific steps


Might reboot it some time, try and get the OP class
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Oh yea by getting the vandalier class, I did it on my second playthrough. It's so broken. I printed out like 1000 pages on my parents printer from gamefaqs for a strategy guide. I think it came out before final fantasy tactics and before TRPGS were really popular. I've never met anyone who knows what it is. I've returned to it quite a few times in the last couple years. VH2 wasn't nearly as good unfortunately.
 
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Mostly ARK, while occasionally dipping into Tarkov to remind myself that life is suffering and everything sucks.

Also, a bit of Pokemon with my wife on the side.
 
Blue Miaplacidus said:
Oh yea by getting the vandalier class, I did it on my second playthrough. It's so broken. I printed out like 1000 pages on my parents printer from gamefaqs for a strategy guide. I think it came out before final fantasy tactics and before TRPGS were really popular. I've never met anyone who knows what it is. I've returned to it quite a few times in the last couple years. VH2 wasn't nearly as good unfortunately.
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I played it recently, really good game but it is a bit busted. I didn't get the OP class but became OP by accident. There is a level about mid game where you are supposed to run away because it throws all the bosses at you but a bit of tinkering and managing them into choke points and I obliterated them all and was horribly overlevelled for the rest of the game.

I keep meaning to check out VH2, is it worth playing or is it that much worse than the first game that I should skip it?
 
Pathfinder kingmaker. After wrath of the Righteous it's quite janky. No camera tilting and overall slower boil of the story are somewhat impede my progress through it. But I am determined to finish it
 
I finally got Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge to work on a Windows 64-bit system without randomly freezing up or crashing. It took a lot of patching, and even editing the config file in the game folder, but it works fine now.

You cannot install the games off of the original disks anymore because Windows 10 is not compatible with Safedisk DRM unlike previous versions of Windows. I will tackle installing Tiberium Sun tonight as it has the same Safedisk DRM issue, but I heard you do not have to patch it as much to get it to work on Windows 10.
 
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Local Degenerate said:
Mostly ARK, while occasionally dipping into Tarkov to remind myself that life is suffering and everything sucks.

Also, a bit of Pokemon with my wife on the side.
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Worth getting into for first time right now?

Bunch of World of Warships. I enjoy how it’s presented like a competitive sport and how it has five basic roles. Right now I’m getting used to playing Destroyers, torpedos are very awkward to use but the Cruisers are boring without having anything Destroyers don’t.
 
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Worth getting into for first time right now?
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Ark: I mean, I wouldn't know online wise. I'm just running single player.
Tarkov: Eeeehhh. I'm a bad person to ask, as I'm super casual with it. But the fanbase absolutely hates it, and the audio is broken right now. They're also mid wipe (basically server reset), so a lot of players have a lot of good loot. Up to you, but if I could charge this Russian piece of shit back, I would.
 
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I'm playing through the Amnesia games at the moment and i'm about mid way through the latest one.

I'm beginning to think that Dark Descent was the only game in the series that was any good and the rest are mediocre/occasionally incredibly boring.
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I just replayed Dark Descent / machine for pigs recently. Gotta agree DD is by far the only one worth much of a damn.

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Also playing Hell Let Loose, Eastward, and The Forest
 
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