Junior Adventurer's Guild: November - Geneforge

[CornCake]

In the words of someone who has better taste than I (allegedly), I WIN. Badge when available please @Oyster Sauce.

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Played this when I was a wee lad, love how you can say **** it and just leave.

[J1M]

[rusty_shackleford]

What would a geneforge 2 badge look like?

[CornCake]

@J1M I like the helix, but you can also use the official icons

[Tweed]

@J1M I like the helix, but you can also use the official icons

Either of those or try and make one out of the mutant lizard fetus thing that features on both versions title art.

[CornCake]

@J1M I like the helix, but you can also use the official icons

Either of those or try and make one out of the mutant lizard fetus thing that features on both versions title art.

The top is the first game icon, the bottom is the second. Forgot to mention, apologies.

EDIT: Got them from here https://spiderwebsoftware.com/products.html

[J1M]

What would a geneforge 2 badge look like?

Sounds like a problem for future J1M.

[J1M]

@J1M I like the helix, but you can also use the official icons

Thanks for the reference images. I don't think they look as good as the helix at 19px high but maybe someone else can make it work.

[J1M]

What would a geneforge 2 badge look like?

Sounds like a problem for future J1M.

Future J1M has noticed the Geneforge 2 title is cyan blue instead of green, so he would lazily change the helix to cyan.

[Tangerine]

Anyone that sides with the Awakened is a ******* ***.

Edit: And a ****** lover.

[Tweed]

Awakened:




Takers:




Obeyers:

[Barntar who Plows]

Shame I missed the last Guild threads, would have liked those badges for playing the games I enjoy. Well at least this gives me another excuse to play Geneforge.

[Oyster Sauce]

Shame I missed the last Guild threads, would have liked those badges for playing the games I enjoy. Well at least this gives me another excuse to play Geneforge.

You can earn badges at any time. Beating a game during its month only entitles you to nominate a game for the next month.

[Barntar who Plows]

Shame I missed the last Guild threads, would have liked those badges for playing the games I enjoy. Well at least this gives me another excuse to play Geneforge.

You can earn badges at any time. Beating a game during its month only entitles you to nominate a game for the next month.

Post a screenshot showing you've beaten a JAG game to earn a badge for your profile. There's no time limit to earn a badge, but if you beat the active game of the month you can nominate an RPG for the next poll.

Ah..you did mention that. I should really lay off the sleep deprivation, it's affecting my ability to read.

[mercerxiv]

I should have been gothic or two worlds....

[WhiteShark]

I am here for my badge.

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[Finarfin]

I am here for my badge.

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How long did it take ya?

[WhiteShark]

How long did it take ya?

I don't know. The game doesn't seem to track it, and I don't remember. That was my run from 4.5 years ago. I did everything I could do in one run, including some experimenting with different choices and endings; my guess is around 30 hours, maybe.

[WhiteShark]

I'll quote some of my previous thoughts since I have nothing new to add:

I've only played Geneforge: Mutagen, the remake of 1, but I highly enjoyed it. Maybe I just expected it to look bad and was therefore unperturbed, but the graphics didn't bother me. The game is very free and open, which was refreshing. I played a shaper and had great fun wandering around the island and building up my mutant monster horde.

Another who finished as a Shaper here. That one challenge fight against the cockatrices was pretty deep. I also remember assaulting the fortress head-on and... well, that's mostly it, really. I didn't pick a side so I never fought any of the villagers. That probably saved me a lot of trash-clearing.

► Geneforge 1 ending spoilers

I was really annoyed that using the titular Geneforge on yourself somehow led to the evil ending that made you go mad with power and become a tyrant and murderer. I was being nice! I didn't even side with any of the villages of servitors or whatever they were called because I didn't want to kill any of them! I'd thought that the Geneforge just attracted the greedy and malicious, not turned shapers evil directly...

I probably said more in IRC, but I don't feel like trawling the logs.

[Barntar who Plows]

Probably should have asked this earlier but I can just play the classic Geneforge 1 to if I don't own the remaster, right?

[CornCake]

Probably should have asked this earlier but I can just play the classic Geneforge 1 to if I don't own the remaster, right?

Yes

[CornCake]

@Oyster Sauce You gave Whiteshark his badge and skipped me you limey *******

EDIT: Thank you mate

[Tadeusz]

Liking the game so far. It's not as deep in tactics as Underrail but it has its own neat things like an ability to create and recreate your own party. By the way, do the factions give something if I join them or it's just for the plot?

[Acrux]

There's minor benefits to joining each one. Some will require you to kill the leaders of other factions. A high leadership rank can override that.

[Tangerine]

I'm liking this a lot better than Exiles 3 by virtue of not having ******** like the golem factory.

[Tweed]

WIN!

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@Oyster Sauce GIB BADGE!

Post Mortem:

I don't know if I like Mutagen better than OG. This game is very B A L A N C E D, which makes combat bland and long. Instead of focusing everything into a few really powerful creations, you need to field a full group to take the beating and honestly, pumping up shaping skills seems to matter very little. The old power cryora rush doesn't work anymore and neither does having two cryo drayks to handle most of the game one you get them. Every battle becomes a slugfest and I found the most powerful creature is actually the base drayk with overload and quick action for the double damage and haste effect, cryo drayks fall to the wayside, battle alpha/betas are still almost as useless as before, and there's almost never a point in making ghlaaks.

New content is alright, I guess. Some filling out of the plot with the jerks on the eastern docks. The cockatrice isn't worth getting save for xp and completely worthless, even when fully roided out.

[Tangerine]

WIN!








@Oyster Sauce GIB BADGE!

Post Mortem:

I don't know if I like Mutagen better than OG. This game is very B A L A N C E D, which makes combat bland and long. Instead of focusing everything into a few really powerful creations, you need to field a full group to take the beating and honestly, pumping up shaping skills seems to matter very little. The old power cryora rush doesn't work anymore and neither does having two cryo drayks to handle most of the game one you get them. Every battle becomes a slugfest and I found the most powerful creature is actually the base drayk with overload and quick action for the double damage and haste effect, cryo drayks fall to the wayside, battle alpha/betas are still almost as useless as before, and there's almost never a point in making ghlaaks.

New content is alright, I guess. Some filling out of the plot with the jerks on the eastern docks. The cockatrice isn't worth getting save for xp and completely worthless, even when fully roided out.

I'm in the last quarter of the game and this is pretty accurate to my experience as well. Drayks don't seem significantly better than Cryora despite costing a lot more.

[WhiteShark]

@Tweed, did you do the cockatrices fight? I imagine that's where balance changes to the monsters would be most keenly felt.

[Tweed]

@Tweed, did you do the cockatrices fight? I imagine that's where balance changes to the monsters would be most keenly felt.

Yeah. I had a full group of drayks. The first two waves went down fast enough for me to save in the middle of the gauntlet. The third wave is a crapshoot because of how often creatures miss their shots and you get hit with terrorize and run off the pad. Overload is where its at, it's the only way to do any real damage and speed up fights.

[Tweed]

Helpful tip: you can serious **** up enemies with high hp (like Ouroboros) by using poison and acid.