Hello everyone. Hope everyone has had a good week. I've had a busy week (3 job interviews) but still found time to play a lot of Binding of Isaac since a muscle injury has kept me out of the gym. Hope everyone has a good upcoming week.

  • Bureaucrat
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    15 days ago

    Partner and I are halfway through the North Downs in Lord of the Rings Online. We're like 10 levels overlevelled but this is where the main story took us and we decided to just finish every zone it makes us go to in its entirety. Except the Lone Lands, cuz even with 2 people on +3 Fearless difficulty, the group quests were a little difficult. Plan to come back later. Being overlevelled is a nice power fantasy and I feel like a sith lord zapping everything with lightning as a Rune Keeper. Game is so chill and I think it's going to take like 2 years for us to do all the zone at this pace or something.

    • Parzivus [any]
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      15 days ago

      Every time I see someone mention LOTRO I want to get back into it but I'm still in the middle of a few games already. There's too much to play this year!

      • Bureaucrat
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        15 days ago

        The game itself is so chill because you can tell the original vision was to have something where you felt like you were going on a journey.

        The game is like 17 years old now so it's pretty jank, balance is all over the place because different races/sexes have faster and slower animations for different classes, the PvP has never been balanced, etc. So like honestly as an MMO I wouldn't call it good if you're looking for deep and engaging gameplay systems. I'd recommend like Final Fantasy 11 instead if someone wants to go old school.

        But it's extremely comfy to just exist in and quest in, the environments with their outdated hyper realistic art style still look cool, etc. I wouldn't pay the sub fee, but because it's free, we like to hop on at least once a week to make some progress.

        • Parzivus [any]
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          15 days ago

          Oh I used to play a fair bit, ended up dropping it during Rohan because it's like two expansions of big open fields and very little else. Someday I'll at least get to the end of the books.