Re: Having any advice to avoid internet access?
Posted on Yesterday, 16:49
Please seek help. VOGONS is not the place to ask for help about this.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Yesterday, 16:46
Tyranny Wow, I just cannot stop playing this one. I'm partway through Act II, and I'm 17 hours into the game. At this point, on the default difficulty level, the game is unbelievably easy, but who knows? It might get more difficult later on. More importantly, who cares? I'm having a blast exploring …
Re: What is Google Search doing?
Posted on 2025-06-11, 17:58
Google is just broken. I cannot count the number of times I've searched for a couple of words in quotes, and Google gives me results that have nothing to do with what I'm searching for (the results do not even include the exact phrase I've specified). It's worthless. It's like going to a library and …
Re: What is Google Search doing?
Posted on 2025-06-11, 17:39
It's depressing. I use Google for my business (email, storage, etc.), and they recently sent me an email saying they "have to" increase prices because of adding AI services. Of course, it doesn't matter if you opt out of those services (I seriously doubt that you can really opt out), you still have …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-06-11, 17:19
Tyranny is one of my fondest modern RPG experiences, I had a blast with it. The companions are really interesting, the world is very immersive and you have quite a bit of agency. I am really curious as to what kind of a path you will carve in that world. I wasn't expecting much going in, but it's …
Re: What is Google Search doing?
Posted on 2025-06-11, 17:06
I've found Google search to be increasingly useless over the last couple of years. It's nearly impossible now to find anything from small sites (in effect, to actually search the Internet). All you get is a million results of clickbait sites and fake Amazon reviews, even if you specifically tell it …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-06-08, 02:18
clueless1 wrote on 2025-06-07, 21:19: Do they address how he goes to the bathroom? They actually do, though only briefly and not in any depth (thankfully)!
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-06-07, 17:58
Tyranny I've had this one in my library for some time but never really spent much time with it. It's a party-based isometric RPG with real-time combat, and having now completed a bunch of similar games, I decided to give the game a shot. So far, it's pretty good. The most interesting thing about …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-25, 16:27
Morrowind Playing as a mage has been so much fun so far. The spell creation system is extremely cool and you can make some very powerful stuff with it, but the game wisely forces you to first learn spell effects by buying other spells, and some merchants will refuse to sell you spells unless you …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-24, 11:30
I don't remember this being the case with Oblivion, but with Skyrim NPC levels are capped aside of a handful of bosses so at a certain point generic enemies stop keeping up with the player. That's a marginally better option than what Oblivion did, but Morrowind still does it best. Yeah, I agree …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-24, 06:26
A lot of people still consider Morrowind the peak of the series. I'm no Elder Scrolls super fan, but I can see why. I think I spent more time on Morrowind than any other, having only dabbled in Daggerfall, and coming to loath Oblivion's level scaling. Never even bothered with Skyrim. Perhaps that's …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-23, 04:12
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind I've tried playing this many times over the years, beginning with the XBOX version and then the PC version once I upgraded my PC. I thought the game was very interesting, but never got very far into it because I wasn't very disciplined at playing games back then. That's …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-05, 06:40
As much as I like RPGs, I just couldn't get into those that kept throwing walls of text at me. A while ago, I tried Disco Elysium and that game is nothing but dialogue, with an occasional dice roll for some skill checks. I played it for about 15 hours, and then realized that it kinda started to …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-04, 18:16
Torment: Tides of Numenera I finished this last night, and I'm really not sure if I liked it or not. The biggest problem with this game is that it's heavily focused on the story, but the writing is almost always awful. What is most frustrating is that game ends up sidelining you toward the end, so …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-04-30, 17:44
UN-wishlisted. Thanks. :) Not so fast, clueless1! I may have misjudged the game (slightly). I put some serious time into this over the past couple of days, and while the writing is still pretentious and annoying, and the world a themepark of absurdity, once you've fully explored the hub area and …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-04-29, 08:11
Yeah, I found the writing crappy too. And to make it even worse the game absolutely drowns you in it. PS:T is like a book too but it has excellent writing that keeps you interested and willing to read on, while Numenera's writing makes you groan in agony. Yeah, this game becomes a real drag, real …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-04-25, 16:14
Torment: Tides of Numenera So far, this game is a total mess. It was meant to be a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment , even going so far as to have a similar sort of title. Unfortunately, the writing is a very poor pastiche of the writing in P:T , even going so far as to ape "Updated my …
Re: State of gaming nowadays
Posted on 2025-04-25, 14:14
Alright, I'm on board now. Your first post was sort of incoherent to be honest, but now it makes sense. I agree with you, there is a definite push to making games into some kind of Netflix experience, where you're part of a captive audience that is just consuming garbage because you've already paid …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-04-19, 17:50
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Finished! Although I gave the DLC stuff a shot, I didn't like any of it. One is a combat arena, which besides Oblivion horse armor is the lowest form of DLC, and the other was some town the game ranked as "normal" difficulty for me but included a sudden appearance …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-04-19, 14:17
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire It feels like its been ages since I've last played this one. I played through the first game back in 2023, and although it took many attempts over the years, it finally clicked and I became hopelessly addicted, and did nearly everything I could find in the game. I …
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