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PaperclipPerfector  27d ago (text post)   2496 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026

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What are you playing?

Dunno why I'm starting the thread when I'm barely playing anything but I finished an Ascension 2 and an Ascension 3 run in Slay the Spire 2 this week! :D

I saw that a Sims-like game released this week, called Paralives. Hopefully you can do horrendous things to the characters. That was half (all?) the fun in those terrible old games.

I wouldn't mind trying the new Lego Batman game at some point.

I played through Esoteric ebb and thought it was a really mixed bag. I liked the art and the music was OK, but I found the writing to be really uneven, and that's a problem when the writing is the centerpiece of your game.

It's like a low rent disco Elysium in D&D stage dressing. If you're going to vomit massive amounts of text at the player then it better be compelling. Here its mostly just OK. Some of the writing and worldbuilding was good but it's surrounded by so much just serviceable writing that it gets lost in the mix.

I tried EE as well, but it didn't really grab me either. The six D&D stats have always been a poor choice, and using them in a Disco Elysium clone is a double mistake.

I understand why he did this. Whether they are good or not, Strdexconintwischa are a D&D staple, and without them the game would have practically no link to the D&D at all. But this doesn't make the experience less clunky.

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