Recent content by Kalen

I like watching people play when I'm at work and can't actually play myself. Sometimes I'll have it on in the background when I am playing myself.

Who said I focus on other people's tastes? I watch to see how a game plays to determine if I'd like it. Once I decide I'm going to buy it, I stop watching videos on that game to avoid spoilers (for games where spoilers would matter) The point is I enjoy it.... not sure what else to say...

For me, survival means resource management. Resources can be food & water, medicine, weapons & ammo, tools, vehicles.... whatever. All these things should have to be managed meaning you have to decide when to expend them, when to horde them, and when to replenish them.

Ah, if that's what you think its about, no wonder you're not a fan. I watch youtubers play games for 2 main reasons. First, to see if a game is something I might like.... second, because I actually enjoy seeing how someone might play a game that I play. Do they do the same things that I...

No doubt.... currently there isn't a whole lot of incentive to enter POIs without having a quest for it. I have long accepted that the direction the game is going is not the direction I would've chosen.... I still enjoy the game, just not as much as I used to.

Have to disagree a little with this. For example, back in A12 I think, you needed to find a book to unlock the forge and I remember a playthrough where I didn't find that book until day 15ish. It completely changed the way I had to approach the game. Was it frustrating? It sure was, but...

I agree. The RNG made each playthrough a little different. Sometimes you got lucky, sometimes you didn't. The fun, at least for me, was learning how to take advantage of good luck and how to overcome bad luck. Now, just about every playthrough ends up, generally, the same. The only...

One of the things I'm most enjoying in my A16 game is the number of zombies.... they're everywhere. I really missed the wandering hordes of 20+ zombies.

I've been replaying A16 for a couple of weeks now, and I think you're thinking of A15.... A16 added crafting skills that required skill point purchases. There was no spam crafting to increase skill in 16. The only LBD skills were active skills like combat.

There are.... its just that none of them really do it justice. I'm playing an A16 game right now and I can say that, for me, other than the lack of polish present in 2.0, every other aspect of A16 is superior to 2.0. However, that lack of polish is VERY jarring.

IMO, the only thing that was worse, for CRPG, than the fall of Bioware was the fall of Black Isle

Accumulation isn't really in the game.... I'm actually in the midst of a 16.4 playthrough, so its fresh in my mind. When its snowing, the ground gains a covering of snow, but its just visual. It's still cool and immersive, but its not like its harvestable snow.

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with that.... granted this is anecdotal, but I remember far more awesome RPGs "back in the day" than I see now.

I also use 10 day horde night, actually.... but with a 2 day variance. So 8-12 Days to Die?

I agree with this. I've said before, I like the storms and I like the biome dangers. What I don't like is that the dangers can be, very easily, completely nullified, while the storms can't be mitigated at all. I want the biome dangers to be more dangerous and the storms to be a little less...