Recent content by Pale Violet Light

I rather like the segment where you travel with the ancient elf and she goes around complaining about how awful everything is and you’re all a bunch of primitive idiots.

Technically if you want to do the canon playthrough you should go 1/3 of the way through XCOM and then lose, before starting XCOM2. So that saves some time.

Folks on this forum have so much knowledge of obscure (or just old) RPG settings that they have a distorted idea of what “generic” is. And also some of them don’t know the difference between derivative and generic.

How does it hold up? I’ve always wanted to try it; I’m a big fan of Age of Wonders 1, which I believe was inspired by MoM. However, I find older games pretty user-unfriendly, usually with garbage UI - at least the ones I didn’t play as a lad (Which are perfect and unimpeachable). I heard there...

Wonderful game to be addicted to. I rather prefer the B-movie atmosphere in the first of the modern XCOMs, but the gameplay is definitely better in the second. I do miss the MECs, though.

The end of season 3 was where I reached this point, with the assault on the facility feeling like it was from a proper action movie. I still enjoy it, but I prefer things when they’re a bit more grounded. He’s so wonderfully repellent!

I couldn’t disagree more. Jabbercrombie may depict kings and warriors and whatnot, but he is profoundly cynical about all of them (and wizards, and mythic quests, and war, and revenge) and in fact actively undermines the myth of the “glorious past” almost constantly.

My apologies splattercat (and numerous others)! That guy has such good taste in games (i.e. similar to mine) but I happen to find his nasal, grating voice (i.e. similar to mine) almost intolerable. I don’t think I could handle a splattercat LP, even if I could get past the spoileracity.

Indeed. Especially the poor, ever-neglected rogue.

The original definitely a Fiat knockoff, though the guts were somewhat different. I was thinking more of the station wagon though; some models are extremely brick-like. In any case, the Lada is more communist, and therefore gets extra brutalist points, regardless of which effete capitalist...

The brutalist car was mastered in the 70s, and it was called the Lada. The Tesla is a pale imitation of the bricklike original.

If said in the right tone and with the right emphasis, I can see the former making sense. “I could care less (but not very much).” Though I also prefer the latter. Knowledge of modern slang has left me incapable of enjoying DeBussy any more, lest I be overcome by the irresistible urge to make...

Impressive! Not sure if I’m jealous or not. I’m down to one cup a day thanks to my stupid blood pressure. But at least I don’t get the morning headaches anymore.

Indeed. I have to watch games I’ve just played; or games I don’t want to play. If it’s new and interesting then I want to play it now, or if it’s one I know and they’re playing particularly badly I need to have a go to show them (telepathically, presumably) how it’s done.

Look Granny, what I do in the privacy of my own home is my own business, thank you very much!