Current collection:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NsrKthZqsws/Vqie99pws-I/AAAAAAAAAgA/Ulr3SavOd34/s1600/nagel.jpg

1 with boon for neph rifts, one with lightning for grifts, 1 each for the 3 followers, and 3 spare for, errr, fun. 

Have they Changed the game so every single enemy has a 1 in 3 chance of dropping a Nagelring (sometimes two of them), now? 

 

This is starting to sound like the best copy protection ever. 

that's quite the collection. why don't you dust them? also what's up with those little yellow and green stars on item icons? i don't have it enabled, probly something new since the last patch? 

I wish they dropped puzzle rings at the same rate. Or unity, I've been after a 2nd fucking unity for ages.

You can craft Nagelrings by upgrading yellow rings in the cube, not that I was actively trying to.

Von, orange and green stars are just legendary and set respectively, you nub ;). I enabled a lot of info in settings, that might be it. BTW see that I got Hellfire and green gem on weapon, like u said. 

Just got a 9th via blood shards (11th in total counting the two I salvaged after Kinn said they were broken). Still no unity nor 5th puzzle ring. 

ya just didn't know they added those stars to the UI.

and pro move by adding proper gem to weapon, i see u storming greater rifts now ;)

and i've built insanely tough wizard, doing grifts 62-65 on him ;) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13GKrC0Nc8

Kona, you like CCC on-rails shooters with vomituous headbob, did you play the first version of this?? I have vague recollections of an unimpressive demo but I might be mis-remembering... 

They're vague because it's a pretty unmemorable game, barely above average 7/10. I think it had too many arenas combat situations and lame reptitive enemies. Linear design, but the
graphics were pretty good.

Sequel trailer looks cool though. Guns and big ass sword = yes please. 

barely above average 7/10 

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2016/01/dark-souls-iii-screenshots-artworks.html 

barely above average 7/10 

Sunless Sea is having a free weekend on Steam. Recommend checking it out, bought it during the holiday sale and need to play a lot more of it... Apparently can get repetitive when you die often, but I'm still alive in my playthrough and enjoying it. 

i really like sunless sea, but i found the simple 'click this with a % chance' mechanic to be tiring after a while.

having played darkest dungeon, i was thinking yesterday it would be cool if you took your crew on missions with similar mechanics. 

Anyone else playing this? I'm a few hours in and having a great time. Absolutely incredible environment art... i'm struggling to think of any game that looks better than this. 

It's excellent in it's environments, use of first person perspective, and use of a single simple mechanic for it's puzzles over the entire game. It's a large island of puzzles with no hand holding or narrative, and a ton of shit to find. As long as you aren't completely turned off by the idea of a game that is mostly wandering around solving line puzzles, it's fucking fantastic and can be hard to trying explain why without ruining anything. 

That thing finally came out did it? Yeah looks like I'll be playing it then :} 

I meant to also say... about 20 hours in atm, believe I completed all the main goals, just secret hunting now mostly. 

Looks ok.... But just on Windows.

I bought "Back to Bed", which is a cute little puzzler with Escher / Dali ispired artwork.
Hmmmm - but only 30 levels apparently, but i got it for $3 on special.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/308040/ 

Milkstone, who made Ziggurat, have a new game in Early Access. It is a side-scrolling action RPG called Pharaonic. After enjoying Ziggurat quite a lot, I'm curious to see what they've made in a different genre.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/386080

This post shows what is currently done and what is unfinished.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/386080/discussions/1/458607518208421890/

This video shows the combat gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_k_N62uPw 

Yeah does look good.

But does have it a point to anything, like, a story or explain why you're there, some progression?

Or is just mindless wandering and solving puzzle? 

Finished the main game yesterday (still plenty of secrets to hunt down), it's really good, Steam says it took me a bit less than 20h.

I'm really happy with the difficulty level, lots of people complain that it's too hard, but I found it just right.

Kona, it will feel like mindlessly wandering and solving puzzles for most of the game, if you want some kind of story in it you'll really have to dig deep down into the hard secret stuff. The progression is basically only you slowly expanding your comprehension of how different puzzle mechanics function.

Oh and it's very pretty. 

looks nice but I think could benefit from being sped up a tiny bit. 

Wicked atmosphere part-aliens/part-The Thing. 10/10 for that, the score and sound effects. Some areas looked really damn cool, especially in the first half of the game when you first go up the mountain, or leaving the base for the first time, or finding the hidden original colony base.

8/10 story, which is a prequel to the first 2 games.

Everything else is not so good though. Gets lots of comparisons to Deep Space, which it is similar to. Main cons are:

� Upgrades are all useless as I only use one gun for most of the game
� Walking around in your stupid robot suit is slow as hell, takes forever and far too much of the game. Even on foot, your character is plodding snail. Deadspace and Bioshock caused this!
� Apart from the last level, the entire last 1/3 of the game takes place in areas you've already fucking played. All linear environments so it's not like a sandbox type of thing. So lazy.
� Keyboard mapping is a mess. You'll have almost the entire keyboard mapped out. The developers could have done a much better job in this area.
� QTE boss battles. I've never seen entire boss battles just be a giant QTE. It's terrible. Most were pretty easy, one was a total cunt.
� Shoot the glowing orange part of the enemy, type of combat. Honestly.

I did enjoy the game because of the design aesthetics, but it does feel like the developers bowed out in the last part of the game. Even the human enemies that finally show up for you to kill (instead of insects) have non-existant AI and just stand there getting shot at.

Overall, despite all those cons, I think 7/10. I'm a sucker for a good unique, creepy atmosphere.