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It’s just a weird game. First is the best.

I decided to play Dark Souls 2. Difficulty seems all over the place at times. Boy do you drink estus slow. I’m not very far in. Beat Forest of Forgotten Giants and Freides Tower of Flame so far. I got decently far in the game in 2014 on release but never finished.

I thought the combat was pretty fun. I did one hand and pistol, primarily, and pretended it was bloodborne :emb: Enemy variety was definitely lacking. Some good movement based exploration though.

I’m looking forward to Outer Worlds 2. Will play via game pass which I can only assume is the reason the game is $80. First game I played maybe a dozen hours but it didn’t really stick for whatever reason. Felt pretty clunky and dated, but a lot of these first person RPGs lately have. Avowed...

Yeah it’s just wild how the pendulum has swing the other way. Streaming overall just sucks and has for several years.

Armor begins as a novel of far future combat against the hordes of insect-like aliens dubbed the ants. It’s a gripping (anti-war) combat narrative dealing with one man’s struggle to live, while wearing his powered armor, on an alien and hostile world. But there is a lot more to the book than...

Armor by John Steakly is a true banger and you nerds should read it. Apparently he has only one other book of note called Vampire$ which was adapted in to film as John Carpenter’s Vampires. I’ll write a review of Armor later.

Considering playing Nioh 2. @jro you’ve played these games? Worth my time or skip? Looks fun but after Consort Radahn I don’t know if I want to punish myself further lmao.

Just kidding!

Finally finished Kraken by China Mieville. Really struggled getting through this one. The worldbuilding was great (unique take on Urban Fantasy set in London) and creative but took me forever to get through. Started and stopped a few times. Kind of felt the same about Embassytown which I read...

What’s the deal with the hurricane he spawns? I know you need to get to the eye of the storm - do you need to use the slipstreams that spawn? Sometimes I can run in with minimal damage. Other times it just almost one-shots me.

Yeah it’s very, very lame. At least we are guaranteed this way to get a coherent ending. I think we’re going to get a TOS reboot following this. I’m not stoked on that but if it’s as good as SNW then I’m okay with it. I am not interested at all in the Starfleet Academy show.

I agree with that as well. Saying I cheesed it is more of a reflection on my own skill: I wish I was better at the game and could have beat it a different way, but hey Radahn is dead (again) and Miquella too, so win win for me, lol.

Overall the DLC was excellent. I thought it did drag on a bit at the end and some of the vast areas, while beautiful, were simply devoid of anything of interest to find. Frustrating given how difficult some of them were to get to in the first place. (The map was also useless at times and more...

I 100% cheesed him btw. I used Golem Smith Taylew and equipped a seal and repeatedly cast Heal From Afar to keep him alive. While Taylew had aggro I would cast Terra Magicka and then Comet Azure on Radahn :emb: Gaius and Radahn definitely the hardest fights for me just because of how aggressive...