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Friday Fun Thread for June 19, 2026

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What are you playing this week?

I uninstalled Slay the Spire 1 and 2. I realized that the games (mainly sts2) took up a lot of time and capacity due to my need to play optimally, without giving me much joy in return.

Started and finished a Civ V game instead. I got around 30 wonders, because I was playing on a more relaxed difficulty than usual.

Tried out The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (demo) briefly. Dismayed to find it has no ultrawide support. And they call it HD-2D yet all the characters are pixel art style. Might play it in 16:9 on my TV at some polnt. They've priced it very highly, and it has denuvo, so I might wait for a deep discount further down the road.

Playing way too much goddamn Bannerlord inbetween going through the latest version of Voices of the Void.

Bannerlord is annoying in that you can get 13 million denars in to your first playthrough only to realize that your character really isn't optimized to play the way you'd enjoy playing, so you go back and start over from scratch.

I do find it amusing that you can basically play a social monster in a game that is basically about people smacking each other in combat and it works.

Also, I find it hilarious that after pursuing the wife I targeted in-game(tracking down moving NPCs is a goddamn nightmare in this game) and successfully woo-ing her, that she's currently giving me lots and lots of kids to secure my future dynasty.

One time I nicked a castle off a revolting faction and had fun making my villages rich, but I didn't have the influence to get other lords to join so while I mostly was out of the way enough to avoid getting squashed, I couldn't expand either. I need to join a faction and build relationships letting the best lords free after battles a bit more, but I never stick to the solo plan and usually end up on faction goals for the poor lords who don't get enough support.

Then I usually swap to Crusader Kings for a bit.

Warband the last days mod for lord of the rings is still my favorite, even though the graphics are much worse. Prophecy of pendor is great too.

Same. I assume one day that Bannerlord will get conversion mods of that level again, and I'm pretty much waiting for that to return. Vanilla was fine for a few hours but I didn't want to get stuck in the endless grind

It's been awhile since I booted up bannerlord, I always wanted to love the game but whenever I would try to get landed without starting my own kingdom it was nearly impossible. The AI leaders would almost never give you castles or land, and god forbid a city even if you took it in battle. Which itself was bloody difficult because the enemy AI leaders always seemed to prioritize beating me up. And they spammed wars non-stop even ones they couldn't win to the point that maintaining any sort of diplomacy with NPCs in other kingdoms was pretty much pointless. Did any of that ever get fixed or is this just my gitgud moment.

I honestly wouldn't know. I'm still stuck in the 'become Big Boss' stage of Bannerlord where I'm basically running around with a huge mercenary army, grinding up charm, stewardship, and trade so to support said army and clan.

This basically lets me wade into battles when my vassal-state goes to war, tearing through most groups without issue, unless the AI decides to do a fucky-whucky and all of a sudden I'm facing down a horde of 500+ NPCs swarming me out of the blue. And even then...

The above lets me recoup any losses either from troops the enemy AI has captured, or the enemies I've captured and slowly converted over. Donating over prisoners I don't want nets me influence that then turns into alot of cash via mercenary contract.

Once I get trade up to max for that lovely, lovely cap perk, I'll either vassalize and start buying up all the things or start my own kingdom and do the exact same thing.

...say what you want about Bannerlord, but good lord does it have alot of stuff to do. One of the things I stumbled across in my research pointed out that you want to get your dynasty started early, cause your main guy can die of old age, and you want good offspring to take over when that happens.

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