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[King Zultan]

Why limit yourself to a few when you can have them all?

[ThtblovesDF]

A alternative playmode (like speedrunning) can create a difference expierence - just like some people like the punishment of rogue likes, some enjoy the closer connection nuzlock provides - a bit like playing like when you where a kid.

[Iduno]

But that doesn't sound like gotta catch 'em all at all

It's for people who really want to play Digimon, but can't handle the complexity.

A alternative playmode (like speedrunning) can create a difference expierence - just like some people like the punishment of rogue likes, some enjoy the closer connection nuzlock provides - a bit like playing like when you where a kid.

I remember that trying to get the speedrunning achievement certainly made Doom Rl seem more like actual Doom.

[scriver]

A alternative playmode (like speedrunning) can create a difference expierence - just like some people like the punishment of rogue likes, some enjoy the closer connection nuzlock provides - a bit like playing like when you where a kid.

I certainly didn't play anything like that when I was a kid

[Robsoie]

It's been a very long time i hadn't played Elona+, so i checked what was going on with current version.

I remember when they introduced an annoying feature (hydration i think it was called) in which there was much peeing and other kind of things that i was so happy a coder made a version without that ( Elona+ Custom-G was the name) kind of thing.

From what i read Custom-G hasn't been following the Elona updates, not much of a problem to me as Custom G was good enough at the time and will do for now again.
Still i was curious about how Elona+ has evolved since those years.
so i checked the changelog for the newest version ( 2.03 ) and ...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

    nyoi mimikaki
        24 hours cooldown time. Can be used on adjacent tiles on any NPC (even hostile ones) as long as their Impress is at Fellow or above.
        The inside of the ear is gross so it's been blurred out.

    Cleaning an NPC's ears:

    Option 1:
        Put in carefully -> Put in all the way -> Carefully scrape
        The player character's Dexterity and Perception and target's Constitution and Will are rolled against the target's base Speed. This option is displayed only if the roll succeeds.
        If you manage to reach the 3rd stage, then the player character's Dexterity is rolled to determined the level (1 to 5) of earwax removed.
        Round 2 then begins. Succeeding again will end the ear cleaning.
        This won't give you any earwax items, but the greater the level of earwax removed, the greater the amount of Dexterity and Perception experience (for the player character) as well as Constitution and Will experience (for the target) received. Even for low levels [of earwax], the amount of experience given is comparable to herbed food.

    Option 2:
        Size adjustment
        An option that shows only when the player character's Will successfully rolls against the target's Will. Resets Size expansion.

    Option 3:
        Size expansion -> Size large expansion -> Rupture of ear canal
        Going all the way to the 3rd stage will roll to apply a fixed amount of bleed and end the session. Impress decreases by quite a bit but this is not considered an attack.

    Option 4:
        Thrust -> Stick in the ear -> Break through the eardrum
        Going all the way to the 3rd stage will deal player character Strength-dependent sound damage.
        Impress greatly decreases but is not considered an attack, so this can be used as a legal form of assassination.

    When used on the player character and getting an NPC to clean your character's ears:

    If the NPC is hostile, it deals Strength-dependent sound damage and ends.

    Otherwise, it rolls NPC's Dexterity and Perception and player character's Constitution and Will against player character's Speed 3 times.
        Upon success, it rolls the NPC's Dexterity to determine the level (1 to 5) of earwax removed.
        The higher the level, the higher the experience given to the NPC's Dexterity and Perception and to the player character's Constitution and Will.
        All of this happens twice per use.
        When the roll fails, bleed is applied and it ends.

.... Ok, back to Custom-G then

[AlStar]

I like how they specially call out ear cleaning as a possible "legal form of assassination."

"Oh, that guy? Yeah, you might want to avoid getting any ear cleanings from him... I've heard he killed the last dozen people whose ears he cleaned. Nah, nah, no legal trouble - that's just the risks of ear cleaning, you know?"

I've always thought that the dev(s) behind Elona+ has to be high on something... and this is not changing that opinion - not even a little.

[Aoi]

Want more spreadsheet simulators? Derelict Void is basically like Out There, in that you're a ship cruising hostile space trying to desperately survive against rapidly dwindling resources, except with a more streamlined interface, more fiddly, and less intriguing narrative. I kind of like it, but oh boy is it overpriced right now.

A few major caveats though-- has a lot of RNG (though I guess cruising around derelict space is pretty luck-dependent...), unpredictability in a bad way (How much of what resource do I plan to lose if I void a warehouse fire? Oh look, there goes all my food, the only resource I was short on.), and getting forced into narrative decisions with no chance of survival.

I'm pretty sure it was the endgame sequence where... (non-narrative lategame warning)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

once you reach the McGuffin, you have a series of unescapable decisions culminating in being forced to survive for ten days without hunting for new resources (at this point, I had 19 days survived total). There's no warning you're entering this huge lockdown phase, and you can't get out of it even if there's no mechanical way to pass it... I had enough resources to last 8 of the days, whereupon I game-over'd.

[Robsoie]

You probably know Age of Empires 2 , it had some re-release remaster thingy named Definitive Edition .
And apparently there's a mod for this AOE2 DE named Overreign that does something rather impressive :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5ZhkfPczA
https://old.reddit.com/r/Overreign/

[Frumple]

... but. Why? Why in the world did they make a dungeon keeper possession mod looking thing for AoE2? It's impressive, I guess, I just... don't understand.

[Robsoie]

Why not ? There are many RTS in which you can play as an unit and join the fray , games like Carrier Command, Battlezone, Urban Assault, Sacrifice, etc.. so with more development (as it's still still far from being Mount&Blade within AOE2), there's a lot of potential in this.

[Frumple]

I mean, there are, but you'll notice from that list you just rattled off they're all more interesting on the ground level than age of empires

[Kagus]

I...

Y'know, honestly, it's not even a matter of "why" for me. I'm just stunned at HOW the absolute fuck they managed to stitch that shit together


Also that's going to be horrifying if they ever get around to trying to implement the Escher-esque geometry of AoE cliffs.

[Aoi]

Warriors of the Nile is a surprisingly entertaining lightweight steamlined tactical game that I wish was either a freemium mobile game or a lower PC price point. (Steam has a demo available.)

Battles move fast; your typical match is your 3 units against ~8 hostiles on a fairly small grid and, takes me about 15 minutes to, er, die at the first boss, on 1-9. Health persists through encounters, but your units can be revived after each round... at the cost of your unit upgrade.

So a kind of notable downside is the RNG-hell this game involves. As a tactical game, you want agency, but can often end up in battles are are mechanically impossible... and the RNG this game has exacerbates it. Your one-upgrade-per-stage, across all three characters, is RNG. Your occasional piece of equipment is RNG. The chance of the trader showing up is RNG, and the goods they have is RNG. The selection of perks you can buy in-run is... you guessed it: RNG. Oh, and the boss of each 'world' is also RNG. At the same time, trying to overcome a mediocre (but not downright bad) hand is something nice.

You've got your usual assortment of persistent unlocks and, allegedly, alternate units, but that appears to be contingent on not being awful and being able to at least pass the first boss (which I suspect will be something feasible once I get a few more of those unlocks). All in all... better than I expected. (Much, much better than the boredom that Magic: Legends I checked out yesterday on request, at least. Seriously, don't touch it. Only one person needs to waste their time with it. -_-)

[Aoi]

Oooo, Circadian Dice update!

https://shuffleup.itch.io/circadian-dice/devlog/237900/version-20-big-content-update

[DeKaFu]

Oooo, Circadian Dice update!

https://shuffleup.itch.io/circadian-dice/devlog/237900/version-20-big-content-update

Excellent! I've been waiting for this since they announced it in October. Means the Steam release is coming soon, hopefully.