I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Honkai: Star Rail is the long-anticipated latest release from HoYoverse (previously miHoYo), the developers of several games, but arguably best known for Genshin Impact.
Like Genshin, H:SR is an gacha-driven third-person RPG. Like Genshin, H:SR you collect multiple characters, 4 of which can be added to your active battle team.
I could create a list of parallels, because H:SR fundamentally feels like a sci-fi-themed reskin of Genshin Impact, right down to the button locations on the UI - but for one critical change.
The main menu is on the right, instead of the left.
Seriously though, while that IS true, it's the combat system that's fundamentally different.
Instead of the frantic character-switching active combos of Genshin, combat is a turn-based attack system from a fixed perspective.
This change does make the game feel significantly different, at least in the hour I played it. There are still character synergies at play, but with all characters in play simultaneously, it becomes a question of how you form your team to balance defense with offense.
While I'll need to play longer to give a more in-depth review, initially, Honkai: Star Rail feels:
Sarah Jane Avory nos trae este fabuloso "Briley Witch Chronicles" para #Commodore64 una vídeoaventura llena de acción y de magia con un acabado gráfico lleno de detalles que hacen que jugarlo sea una auténtica maravilla.
Sigue las aventuras de Briley, una chica moderna perdida en un extraño y mágico mundo …
Cuando Briley Forester es arrancada de su vida en la ciudad y arrojada al retrógrado y atrasado pueblo de Maepole, descubre que ser una bruja es difícil y que Smokey, su gato gruñón parlante, sabe más sobre los hombres que ella.
Con la ayuda de un antiguo grimorio y aprendiendo a controlar los poderes de la brujería espera poder sobrevivir...
Pero no es algo tan simple ya que la poderosa familia Whitehead, que odia a las brujas, no se detendrá ante nada para deshacerse de ella.
Y por si fuese poco, el espíritu oscuro acecha en lo más profundo del bosque, listo para atacar…
El juego cuesta unos 10€ en descarga digital y está disponible en https://sarahjaneavory.itch.io/briley-witch-chronicles pero merece la pena ya que es muy entretenido y con un argumento muy bien desarrollado y un acabado técnico, sobre todo en el aspecto gráfico, espectacular 👍😊🕹️ #retrogaming#retrocomputing#retrogames#retrojuegos#videojuegos#videogames#videoaventura#rpg#rol
This panel by @davidrevoy captures my ultimate #tabletop#RPG fantasy. I've had plenty of sessions online, but I would kill for a comfy weekend playing #PenAndPaper with a bunch of friends.
After attempting to explore secret paths in the first two Dungeons, the party made it to Mt Bur-Omisace. Vayne murdered the Emperor and now rules Archades. What now? Epic anti-Nethicitew sword of course!
I started playing a Star Wars rpg game recently and I ADORE my character so much. Shes a rancid lil twilek mechanic that doesn't know when to shut her mouth :ms_100_lesbian:
Dragontorc es uno de estos juegos que dejan un buen recuerdo y son una mezcla entre arcade y aventura con muchos elementos de los juegos de rol.
Ambientado en la Gran Bretaña medieval tomaremos el papel de un poderoso mago que debe liberar a Merlín del encantamiento que lo tiene cautivo tras la desparición de las gemas del Dragontorc, enfrentarse al cambiante brujo Morag y restituir las joyas a su lugar.
80 personajes con los que interactuar en un mapa de más de 200 «habitaciones» y cientos de objetos garantizan horas de juego, conjuros y deducción.
Gráficamente está a la altura de lo que cabe esperar de un juego del #ZXSpectrum con unos decorados efectivos y personajes bien definidos.
Una delicia que recuerda mucho a los gandes clásicos de Ultimate.
Un gran programa que si bien fue alabado por la crítica no fue un éxito de ventas. Merece la pena recuperarlo desde https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/dragontorc-hewson-consultants-ltd si te gustan los juegos tipo Knight Lore.
¡Disfrútalo! 😃🕹️👍 #retrogaming#rol#rpg#videoaventura#retrojuegos#retrogames#videojuegos#videogames#retrocomputing#arcade
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I finished a game of Dungeons of Dredmor that I had started about 10 years ago. I had reached the last level of the Dungeon to the confrontation with Lord Dredmor, the final boss of the game, which is particularly difficult to defeat. I was stumped and couldn't find a solution. I decided to sit back and think about how I could finally defeat him. He can kill you in one go... it's complicated to approach him to deal damage.
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I went to explore other places I had been before, and finally found a solution. With patience, several hours, and with the right weapons (spoiler: various grenades, mainly, and other little miscellaneous and useful things), I finally got through it! 10 years later! haha
RIP Lord Dredmor.
For several years I worked as tech director at a local Seattle girls middle school where I also taught coding &, eventually, D&D.
I started off with an #RPG club of 6 girls that grew until, within 3 years, we had a third of the school in RPG clubs. I ran classes based on #DnD, we had RPG summer camps. It was a blast.
Doing some file cleanup just now and I found this audio we recorded for a podcast where some 6+7th graders intro'd their characters (level zero! because I ran it very old school).
Fanboys: Oh yeah Hasbro's learned their lesson and are less evil now.
Hasbro: Hires the actual motherfucking Pinkertons to steal Magic cards from people at gunpoint.
Wouldn't it be sweet if every #TTRPG setting and character and system could be used with every setting and character and system in an enormous #RPG#multiverse?
So many systems already have multiverse settings (#GURPS, arguably #BRP, even #DnD if they still have that planar thing going on).
Groups could team up for one-offs in the shared intersection of their usual settings.
EL ORIGEN DEL RPG Y LA HISTORIA DE LOS VIDEOJUEGOS QUE DEFINIERON EL GÉNERO: Dungeons & Dragons, Temple of Apshai, Rogue, Ultima, Wizardry, Dragonstomper, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy…
Muy interesante 👍 #libros#videojuegos#retrogaming#rol#rpghttps://amzn.eu/d/9SKeJ9r
Anybody got anything neat or fun to share? I'm trying to find more people #onhere to follow. Trying to avoid the toots about the doom and gloom of the world.
I guess i'm just scrolling again, trying to avoid working on a Monday. If you like any of the stuff below, holler at me!
I don't know if I should laugh or I should applaud.
I mean, it is understandable why they are doing this. That is good and all. However, #FPS games are, well, #games. FPS games are not #RPG, that's #RolePlayingGame not rocket-propelled grenade. 😅
In an FPS match, there is nothing to be gained in not blowing up buildings. On the contrary, it can serve as an advantage to do so because your enemy will have less places to hide, while you are waiting to snipe them.
NPCs are NPCs. They are not people. It doesn't matter if you shoot them, burn them, drown them, or whatever.
For example, in #GuildWars2, which is an #MMORPG, we get rewards healing a downed NPC, so, we do it without the need to ask us.
Lastly, heal your enemy? In an FPS game? If that is even possible to do, why would anyone do it? Even in RPG, no one would do it even if that is possible. A #PK / #PvP kill is a kill, let them spawn by themselves.
Again. Good idea. The intention is there, and I applaud them for that. However, none of it makes sense in games meant for competition and matches.
#Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist is Yvonne Clarinval (Salammbo Invoking the Moon, 1910)
This is a piece of historical romance, inspired by Gustave Flaubert's novel published in 1862. I find it intriguing because of the Art Nouveau style, the pose, and also because it deals with nature-centered worship, which is of course a major theme among Lashunta Religion.
It also occurs to me that much of Fantasy - be it High, Sword & Sorcery, or dare I say Planetary Romance - grew directly out of Nineteenth Century Historical Romance. Before we let our imaginations play wild among the stars or on different worlds, we first played in the past, such as this portrait, set in Carthage after the First Punic War was lost to Rome. Thus it is a tale inherent with tragedy, and as one would expect with Nineteenth Century Tragedy, along with paintings like this, there have been a few operas composed.