I am super dumb when it comes to game mods, so I'm playing Descent in all its pixelly, low-res textured glory. Lol

I'm surprised at how well it holds up after all these years! I haven't played it in like 24 years when I had the shareware disc long ago...

Yep, the PC original from 1995!

*hugs*

Thank you, my good sir! How is life (and Baklaag) treating you these days?

Cheers on your Backloggiversary, Pally!

Its been 12 years since my battle with Backlog started. Many casualties have been sustained, and many great allies have come and gone. But through it all, the community has stood by me. Thank you again to Drumble and Try4ce for making this amazing community, and to all my fellow everymen for being along on this ride. Heres to another great year.

Thanks!

It was just a learning curve mostly. I'm used to playing strategy games where you must carefully consider how to utilise each member each turn, and as a Fire Emblem fan, also playing very cautiously. Also, the need to use a variety of troops to share experience equally.

Valkyria Chronicles is very different to that though - the character classes are not all made equally, and it took a while to get into the mindset that it's OK to use the same characters multiple times a turn, as you don't really lose out on exp or anything. Also, it's fine to run head first into danger sometimes because permadeath is rarer, and good rankings (and thus more exp) are based on playing quickly. Often the best tactic is to utilise scouts heavily to rush through the final push to the enemy base on many missions - blow up the soldiers there with a grenade and seize the flag for a much easier - and more lucrative - win then carefully blowing up tanks with lancers and bunkering down behind sandbags would.

I like playing slow and steady, but VC really expects you to be aggressive.

Oops, even more games I have to play.