[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

Winter holidays are mostly behind us now. And it is not only the time for joy and cheer and food and presents and all the festive things and family, but also some free time to take a breath and prepare for the next year and all it will bring.

So at least some part of the holiday free time I spend playing games. This year, I finally got to Assassin's Creed Origins in my list:

@Saka and I had a conversation about it before, and it's been on my list but I kept pushing it back in favour of more exciting games, but as I got more time to play during the holiday, I finally managed to do it. Though there was that issue with the audio not playing properly that I had to spend a couple of weeks resolving. So during that time, I played Griftlands:

It's a deck-building game, one of those that are good to have installed as it has high replayability, and it is quite good for the overall holiday season when you are looking for light fun and not something too immersive. But then I fixed AC Origins, spent time before and during the Christmas holidays playing it and was done with it by the end of the year, so moved on to the next part, the Odyssey:

I thought I might as well do it now while I am on the roll. Not sure if I will play Valhalla next or not, though.

@GoLLuM13 may remember me being excited about Cyberpunk Ultimate Edition and Rogue Trader and ask why I did not play them. For Rogue Trader, I thought it needs a bit of polishing still, and I am waiting for a roadmap to see if any DLCs are planned. As for Cyberpunk, I am still waiting for a few mods to catch up to Cyberpunk 2.2, but I am excited to try it as soon as that happens, hence me not being sure if I will play Valhalla next or if Cyberpunk modders will deliver. But as soon as that happens, I will definitely turn to it.

What about you, what did you play this holiday season?

[GoLLuM13]

This holiday I mostly played Ganshin Impact and a little bit of Overwatch 2 👀

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 I am gradually getting more and more tempted to try Ganshin Impact one of these days. Maybe. If I find the time.

[GoLLuM13]

@DoctorEldritch but be careful it is addictive and you can easily spend money of you're the kind to collect characters even if you don't play them 👀

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 Oh no, if I spend my hard-earned dough on in-game purchases, they would have to be something extraordinary. But do characters come with their exclusive missions, or is it more of a "skin+abilities" type of thing?

[GoLLuM13]

@DoctorEldritch at some point you'll have to build 2 teams of 4 characters, during exploration and events, you have in-game money called "Primogems" and sometimes what I call "wishes" you can buy, those "wishes" with "Primogems" and when you do "wishes" you can have characters (gashapon/lootbox style, which means you can do 10 or so wishes and you won't have characters) and this is how I do (no money involved). Now characters you can have, are already in the main quest, and some are on secondary quests too, but having the characters doesn't change anything about quests, but like you said they look different and obviously different strength and powers, some are better than others, some goes better with some others, and you can level them up, change the weapon and level up the weapon ... RPG mechanics in its finest

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 Thank you, this makes it a bit clearer. I was really just trying to boil it down to this question: do you pay for content or stuff? This is the main question I always need to answer before paying for extras in games.

For example, if paying gets you a new storyline, quests, locations, missions, that sort of thing (like in a proper DLC), then I can...begrudgingly...pay...

DoctorEldrich paying gaming companies for extra content at 1:00-1:53:

But if extra is just skins or weapons or characters with no story impact or resources (Ubisoft, I am looking at you), then I'll pass.