What game are you playing?

[DemoGraph]

shekels are forever.

The first thing I saw was dat ***.

[Manny V]

Game is Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition. Remember lads, God may be dead, but shekels are forever.

why is Lara Croft in a fantasy RPG

[ThulsaDoomer]

why is Lara Croft in a fantasy RPG

It's a long story, and I haven't finished the game yet. Lara Croft is one of the last highly inbred female descendants of the guy who killed God and all his male heirs, barring one, was killed at the start of the game. Basically, you're a pawn in a secret atheist order (ADL) that wants to keep the world without religion. Hence the shekels, as this is in essence, an endgame jewish hellscape simulation. I imagine they'd just kill God if given the chance instead of having to trick him all the time. If they didn't give you the choice to side with the atheists I'm sure this would be the most anti-semitic game of the early 2000s. It's alright so far, combat ******* blows however.



You said it, Miller.

[Tangerine]

I'm sure this would be the most anti-semitic game of the early 2000s.

This sounds like material for the JAG.

[GhostCow]

I've been playing Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Really **** good game. I haven't had this much fun in a while. I'd rate 9/10. I'll take one point off because it's kind of easy

[Vaako]

octopath traveler 0, feels like I played this one already there was at least one annoying quest I could remember from a lvl 20 town. And the towns also seem familiar. Havent read anything about this one and tried so I guess they use the old zones from previous parts 1 and 2 and even some quests. And just added some other quests and changed the game mechanics that you dont have to play an introduction story to every new party member (thankfully). Only good thing this game has going for it the combat mechanics and the progression mechanics when it comes to character building with all the job skills and passivs you can equipe. But the game is painfully linear and against any kind of exploring and freedom. And force feeds you long boring quests constantly.

[jdcp]

octopath traveler 0, feels like I played this one already there was at least one annoying quest I could remember from a lvl 20 town. And the towns also seem familiar. Havent read anything about this one and tried so I guess they use the old zones from previous parts 1 and 2 and even some quests. And just added some other quests and changed the game mechanics that you dont have to play an introduction story to every new party member (thankfully). Only good thing this game has going for it the combat mechanics and the progression mechanics when it comes to character building with all the job skills and passivs you can equipe. But the game is painfully linear and against any kind of exploring and freedom. And force feeds you long boring quests constantly.

Why did you even bother when you already know this is what it's gonna be?

Do you enjoy suffering?

Not trying to offend, just confused, why would you start a game when the previous 2 were already like this?

[methoxetamine]

I've been playing Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Really **** good game. I haven't had this much fun in a while. I'd rate 9/10. I'll take one point off because it's kind of easy

Yeah it really needed another difficulty but otherwise I had a ton of fun with it

I'm playing Kurohyou atm (PSP Yakuza spinoff)

[Vaako]

octopath traveler 0, feels like I played this one already there was at least one annoying quest I could remember from a lvl 20 town. And the towns also seem familiar. Havent read anything about this one and tried so I guess they use the old zones from previous parts 1 and 2 and even some quests. And just added some other quests and changed the game mechanics that you dont have to play an introduction story to every new party member (thankfully). Only good thing this game has going for it the combat mechanics and the progression mechanics when it comes to character building with all the job skills and passivs you can equipe. But the game is painfully linear and against any kind of exploring and freedom. And force feeds you long boring quests constantly.

Why did you even bother when you already know this is what it's gonna be?

Do you enjoy suffering?

Not trying to offend, just confused, why would you start a game when the previous 2 were already like this?

I didnt know that it was that similar, went in blind. I like the music/artstyle and combat still. Also I had forgotten most of the bad things. These games are like these generic mid tier animes you dont hate them and you spend like 30-50hours with them but then you forget about them a week later once you are done. And they certainly improved that you dont have to beat one these mini dungeons for every character you pick up and have to listen to all their background. At least for most characters, the merchant companion Tressa still had a little quest tho.

[jdcp]

octopath traveler 0, feels like I played this one already there was at least one annoying quest I could remember from a lvl 20 town. And the towns also seem familiar. Havent read anything about this one and tried so I guess they use the old zones from previous parts 1 and 2 and even some quests. And just added some other quests and changed the game mechanics that you dont have to play an introduction story to every new party member (thankfully). Only good thing this game has going for it the combat mechanics and the progression mechanics when it comes to character building with all the job skills and passivs you can equipe. But the game is painfully linear and against any kind of exploring and freedom. And force feeds you long boring quests constantly.

Why did you even bother when you already know this is what it's gonna be?

Do you enjoy suffering?

Not trying to offend, just confused, why would you start a game when the previous 2 were already like this?

I didnt know that it was that similar, went in blind. I like the music/artstyle and combat still. Also I had forgotten most of the bad things. These games are like these generic mid tier animes you dont hate them and you spend like 30-50hours with them but then you forget about them a week later once you are done. And they certainly improved that you dont have to beat one these mini dungeons for every character you pick up and have to listen to all their background. At least for most characters, the merchant companion Tressa still had a little quest tho.

Fair enough, I can agree with that. Good to see those changes.

I only played the first and felt like I already knew what the whole series would be about.

Tressa was fun, ngl.

[logincrash]

Playing Watch Dogs 1 with mods right now. It's much better than the vanilla version.
This is what I'm using:
https://www.nexusmods.com/watchdogs/mods/273
It took me less than five minutes to install the mod (including the download time).
It looks much better and runs very well. The only complaint I have is with how often **** happens. There's a random event going on literally every 5 seconds. You can ignore them without worry, though the constant buzzing of icons on the mini-map is annoying. The other recommended mod pack had fewer events but it wasn't up-to-date with all the mods.

[DrSneed]

Still, for my tastes, the best of the telltale genre is Tales from the Borderlands and I guess the first 2 Walking dead (in terms of mechanics its probably the worst but well, the story was effective). Dispatch would be fighting for 3rd place.
And yes it is very pozzed, the diversity stuff is obvious.

Have you tried The Council?

The Council was bizarre and bad

[ThulsaDoomer]

I have now finished Kult: Heretic Kingdoms or the US version, Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition. I have been bamboozled, and the Godpilled ending resulted in a strange apotheosis of a woman messiah merging with the blade that killed God into a Goddess. The other endings were either jewish status quo or some other form of hellscape. There was never any good option. I thought I was gonna resurrect God, not create a foid pretending to be God. Ah well, that's the kind of disappointment you can only get from an early 2000s RPG.

At least most of the dialogue was amusing to read, but man, what a ******* waste of time.

[rusty_shackleford]

I have now finished Kult: Heretic Kingdoms or the US version, Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition. I have been bamboozled, and the Godpilled ending resulted in a strange apotheosis of a woman messiah merging with the blade that killed God into a Goddess. The other endings were either jewish status quo or some other form of hellscape. There was never any good option. I thought I was gonna resurrect God, not create a foid pretending to be God. Ah well, that's the kind of disappointment you can only get from an early 2000s RPG.

At least most of the dialogue was amusing to read, but man, what a ******* waste of time.

The game sounded familiar, so I looked it up and it's part of the same series as this game:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/113036/s ... awakening/

It was decently enjoyable enough for a subgenre I don't like. Didn't finish it but I put 15 hours into it and gave it a recommended review.

[ThulsaDoomer]

The game sounded familiar, so I looked it up and it's part of the same series as this game:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/113036/s ... awakening/

It was decently enjoyable enough for a subgenre I don't like. Didn't finish it but I put 15 hours into it and gave it a recommended review.

I beat that game before I got around to trying out its prequel, it's alright for a diablo clone. One of the more competent, and the switching mechanic was an interesting attempt to keep the grind lively. I would say for anyone to play that over Kult, sometimes sequels are indeed vastly superior.

[Mortadela_Viva]

I'm playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, didn't expect it to be so much easier than 1, where I got my *** kicked even on Ninja Dog difficulty.
Executing dismembered enemies is fun.

[Orvas Dren]

Recently finished Mohrta. At first thought it was just a troonslop boomer shooter but the player is an undead elf war machine/witch hunter and not a foid so I gave it a try. Glad I did, art direction, story, and music were all quite good. It's a souls-lite which isn't normally my type of game but aside from that I enjoyed it. Just be aware there is a few nude/ anthromorphic characters in the game.

[Tweed]

tl;dw

[J1M]

I'm sure this would be the most anti-semitic game of the early 2000s.

This sounds like material for the JAG.

How many times do you think that bait will work? Last time it was enough to get Raven's Cry selected.

[Tangerine]

I'm sure this would be the most anti-semitic game of the early 2000s.

This sounds like material for the JAG.

How many times do you think that bait will work? Last time it was enough to get Raven's Cry selected.

I won't be nominating it. Two Worlds II is going to happen. I don't even have a strong feeling about it, I'm just committed to the bit.

[rusty_shackleford]

I never finished it, but Two Worlds II was a pretty decent open world jankfest. Probably in the underrated territory 2bh

[maidenhaver]

I remember it taking place on an archipelago, instead of a single land mass, and that seemed like padding an already padded world.

[Cassidy]

The desire to keep playing a CRPG, immersed in it for as long as possible, I haven't felt since Underrail had its Expedition expansion pack released and when I played ATOM:Trudograd, the last CRPGs I really played through and through for hours whenever I could. These are the games I play lately mostly, none CRPGs unless roguelikes count as belonging to the genre too.

Crusader Kings II with the foid warrior and homo removal mods hosted in here, my preferred Paradox game together with Victoria II, and both had ****** sequels. CK III, like most modern ultracucked EA-like Paradox releases is inferior to II in all but graphics, and only arguably. Still one of the best Paradox Development Studio games ever made.

Rimworld with a lot of mods including "-4 STR for foids" and my own DEI remover in the form of splitting the "baseliner" Lysenkoist ******** into separate races with a flair of alternate history which was done through a lazy use of another existing Biotech DLC custom xenotype exporter mod that allows replacing default Biotech races including the "baseliner" and so I did a nice replacer mod for personal use including giving due respect to the extinct Neanderthal race by using Cleveland Mark Blakemore as the source for Neanderthal lore and stats in Rimworld, yet it has some bugs I have yet to fix like people with white skin tones in their genome being spawned with blackface because Rimworld was done by a Canadian yet way less woke than the average for his ****** ****** up country*. This lazy mod isn't ready to be published yet anyway. Rimworld is what Dwarf Fortress could have been like but the latter then would be more complex and with z-levels if its developer wasn't completely autistic and went bonkers since the 1 FPS every leaf falling from tree while *** dwarves kiss each other and more wokeshit pandering hyper lame and gay specially due to the medieval setting since then release many years ago.

And finally Cataclysm: Bright Nights, sometimes Dark Days Ahead too despite all the cringe, annoying "realism" **** and bloat in it when compared to the Bright Nights fork. And mentioning it. Really. Forking a 100% free software game into a new based fork with an equally based license like GPL-****** would make a lot more sense than modding DEI removal on **** copyrighted by woke corporations with the caveat your mod might motivate someone to buy it who'd not do it otherwise and give profit to these **** pozzed businesses. Of course I get it it is a huge undertaking too and when the cancer runs deep in a source code it might be easier to start an open-source game from scratch, yet really, I wish there was more interest in making based games using 100% free software licenses and forking with use of politically incorrect anti-CoC, ***** and woke repellent variants of these licenses.


*I've read a "review" posted by a leftard whining about Rimworld being secretly based because womyn in it by default prefer older males and some other dumb whining and that, plus knowing it's DF but in a future setting with much less autistic game design convinced me to play it.

[TND]

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They really wanted to make a game in Vegas I guess, unique setting I'll say but there's nothing special about the game.

If you've played a third person shooter you probably played this game in some fashion already so don't waste your time on it.

[rusty_shackleford]

should be allowed to put people who care about "metroid lore" in asylums

[Tweed]

should be allowed to put people who care about "metroid lore" in asylums

Woman shoots big brain, planet goes boom, space dragon comes back and gets killed again. Also, life-sucking jellyfish.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

My friends want me to come back to Warframe and play Steel Path with them (go through the star system missions again but on hard mode). To unlock Steel Path, I have to complete The New War, the long awaited next main story quest after The Sacrifice and the conclusion to the story. I have heard mixed reviews about it.

► Show Spoiler

It begins us seeing Ballas again. He appears to have been horrifically mutilated for unexplained reasons. Last I saw him in The Sacrifice, he was whole.




The "gameplay" of this segment involves blinking between spots while he monologues. It is annoying how his monologue keeps resetting and doing over lines, so what should have taken a minute winds up taking five. Ballas is an enemy so I have no idea why we don't just shank him or shoot him with an arrow. There is a strange graphical glitch with my character.




We then get another eavesdropping segment where you are blinking around while characters talk. Now Ballas is chained up by a brand new character named Erra. He appears to be the newly introduced leader of the Sentients? (TLDR Sentients were robots created by the ancient humans, the Orokin, who rebelled against the Orokin, went to another solar system called Tau, and the plot was building up to their return). Wasn't the Sentient leader Hunhow? A little late to be introducing a new big bad.






Cool visual




Wait, I wasn't already on the quest? And what is this content warning thing? This is a game where you bisect Grinner and Corpus clones by the millions. Who wanted this?




We get a zoom through space past a few of the major characters while a narrator talks. It does give the idea that this is the climatic end.







There is a Mass Effect invasion of Earth by the Sentients, which doesn't feel that threatening since there is hardly any civilization left to threaten. There is one village on Earth of about 300 people, three space stations populated by a few hundred people each, a company town of about 300 to 500 people on Venus, and that's about the entirety of functioning peaceful civilization in the entire star system. Less than 2,000 people. So these humongous carriers and armies seem ridiculous.




We get to play as Kahl, a mass produced Grinneer clone soldier. The facial expressions are pretty good. Unfortunately, you don't get quite the Grinneer experience since you don't get to advance up the hill alongside fellow soldiers. You are running around and shooting by yourself just like in regular Warframe gameplay. Strangely, the Earth boss Council Vayhek is talking, even though I killed him long ago when first going through the star map before the cinematic main story questline was added.






Kahl tries to blow himself up and take some invading Sentients with him, but the bomb doesn't work, and that's the last we see of him.




Another POV shift to a technician aboard a Corpus battleship in space. Like with the Kahl segment, you are running around huge empty hallways by yourself, seeing no one else. Strangely, the Venus boss Alad V is talking and is giving order, even though I killed him on Venus and then killed him again when he came back as an infested.








In that same space battle, the camera PoV shifts to your main character, the Tenno. At a glance it feels big, but then it quickly becomes apparent that the carriers are just noninteractible background models and the only thing that matters are the little starfighter adds sicced on you.




It is great that Teshin at my side. Warframe began with The Lotus as your mission controller and mentor. As you progressed through the star system and unlocked access to the Relay space stations, you met an old blademaster NPC named Teshin, who was in charge of the Conclave PvP mode. The when the first main story cinematic quest was added (The Second Dream), Lotus was revealed to actually be a member of the antagonist race, the robotic Sentients. The next big quest, The War Within, introduced Teshin into the main story and presented him as an alternative mentor figure for the protagonist to rely upon. And then the last main story quest before this, The Sacrifice, had Lotus apparently defect to the Sentients. So it seems Teshin is going to take over being our mentor and we are going to go kill Lotus.




We now get another PoV shift and get to play as Teshin as he raids the enemy flagship to kill Erra, kill Ballas, and maybe kill Lotus too.




We get to run through a cool evil space level that reminds me of Quake or some other multiplayer level from a late 90s/early 2000s PC shooter that I barely remember.


We get an annoying voiceover from Ballas about "truth" and such. It is legitimately annoying and makes me dislike the writers.




You get captured, and then Erra walks over to Teshin, and crashes his cybernetic helmet/skull and kills him. What?! Really? The only other hero in this game's main storyline got killed just like that?





I don't know the Lotus is being made out to be sad here. She willingly joined the bad guys and helped them launch an invasion of the solar system. She is not a "victim".




Didn't the Sentient invader Erra have Ballas on a leash earlier? Why is Ballas strutting around now? The kiss is also a little out of nowhere. Before The Sacrifice in which Ballas was introduced, we knew that the human children who became the Tenno were sheltered by a human woman named Margulius, who was then executed, and then the Sentient that became the Lotus adopted Margulius' appearance. But now we have this Ballas fella who apparently loved Margulius, and is now kissing Lotus... it's just out of left field.




This scene doesn't make sense. Why was Lotus kicked towards a portal? Where does the portal lead to? And why is my superhuman Warframe unable to hold on to Lotus, or to air jump away with her?

We get a timeskip. Ballas now rules over the solar system with Sentient forces (???), and almost everybody has a mindcontrol mask on. Apparently he is bored of having a populace of obedient slaves worshipping him.






On occupied Earth, at what was once a compound run by hostile Grinneer soldiers (basically not any civilized place we cared about), a ship drops off some infiltrator, and you get to play as him, rescuing prisoners inside before they get the mindcontrol masks applied to them. It is rather ridiculous since you are running around shooting Grinneer in extremely thick plate armor with your handgun and that kills them, while their humongous machineguns only scratch you.




A decapitated Warframe with a beast head appears, and you have to run from it. Pretty cool.






I return to an Tenno orbiter that has been lying derelict in the jungle. It is my orbiter, and it turns out that the masked man was the player character after the timeskip. Also, Ordis has a body now. Apparently, despite being able to craft Warframes in my orbiter and having a dozen to switch between, the main story wants me to think that I only had that one Warframe that was left behind on the Sentient capital ship.






Everything is under enemy occupation.






In a neat callback to the Fortuna intro cutscene where they are all singing in their debt slavery, they all have mindcontrol masks on and are worshipping Ballas. To blend in, you have to don a mincontrol mask (!?!?) and somehow you are not immediately overtaken when every other human in this solar system couldn't resist.




Very annoying section where you have to get past a guard, but I spent 15 minutes running around trying to figure out how you are supposed to get past him. If the guard sees you, he detonates your mask. Turns out you had to run into another direction and look for a pipe to get on.





Seeking help, the Tenno goes to the bottom of the ocean on Uranus to talk to Hunhow (neat call back to The Second Dream), who was Lotus' father and is also apparently Erra's father, but isn't leading the Sentients for some reason. Wouldn't he have been welcomed back by the Sentients and Erra as their high king and progenitor? Also, why is the Stalker here? In The Second Dream, he was duped by Hunhow into working for the Sentients and trying to kill Lotus, only to find out at the end that the he and the other Tenno are not robots but actually human children who are remote controlling the Warframes, and then he backed off and left to rethink his life. So why is he still hanging out at the bottom of the ocean working for Hunhow?






Hunhow talks about the decapitated Warframes called Archons. They look cool.










Hunhow gives me a bow that can shoot orbs that explode with a large AoE radius, which is quite nice.




We get our first flashback to the Zariman, the spaceship that the children were on that performed a warp jump, only for all of the adults to go insane and for the children to gain Void powers that would lead to them becoming the operators of the Warframes. This segment is disappointing as it portrays the Tenno being in a boring modern highschool environment acting petulantly, rather than in a more dignified manner as the setting was implied to be in earlier Warframe.




Back in the present, the hero sets off to kill the three Archons. I go off to kill the snake Warframe. This one is a little fun because it is constantly chasing you, so you are having to be on the move. Near the end of the fight, I fell to 0 HP, but then the Stalker teleported in and saved me and restored me to full, which kinda killed the tension knowing I couldn't lose. Strangely, the Stalker helps kill the first Archon, but then doesn't help out with the others. Wouldn't he want to help overthrow the system and save humanity? Why is he just doing nothing?




There is a new hacking minigame where your mouse cursor is mirrored on the other side of a line.




When you return to the Orbiter in between missions, the battlepass radio lady Nora talks about you. How did she evade getting a mindcontrol mask applied to her? Where is she broadcasting from?




By killing the Archons, we can restore Lotus, though I am not sure why I'd want to do that when she betrayed humanity to join the Sentients at the end of The Sacrifice and that led to literally everybody in the star system except me, the Stalker, and Nora to get a mindcontrol mask slapped on them. Sounds like I'd be better off just trying to get a Warframe and then me and Stalker go off to kill Erra and Ballas.






The Owl was a rather boring boss fight, as you can easily outpace him, and several times he would go invincible and began growing a spherical AoE around him that you can easily outrun and it lasts 30 seconds. So you are tapping your feet waiting for that ability to end before you can begin shooting him again.






Upon collecting the three crystals and restoring Lotus, she awakes but apparently has forgotten us and thinks she is still a Sentient trying to wipe out humanity, and tries to kill the Tenno.

Ordis dies. RIP

Lotus blast off to space.

Another flashback segment aboard the Zariman. I am led to what I think might be my personal hab. There is what I believe is my family picture... of two men holding a baby? Maybe one guy is a close friend of the family, but then where is the wife? Very odd. I don't think there is any way to spin this. This is homosexual propaganda.




My young self meets my older self. Sudden swearing. Now the story becomes unnecessarily convoluted. I thought I was playing my post-timeskip character, but now they're saying he comes from an alternate timeline, and if I chose to play as him it would replace this timeline's operator? It is confusing and didn't need to be there. Anyway, the older guy is more competent and awesome than the younger guy, so ofcourse I picked him.

Somehow, Ordis came back, even though he exploded 10 minutes ago.

We head off for the Sentient flagship. Interestingly, it is located at the Sun, the one place in the solar system that Warframe had never gone before. So it's a neat place to end the story.




You had to hide from solar flares behind wreckage.




Onboard the flagship, Erra appears, and has decided he wants to help me against Ballas. As solar flares destroy the ship, he holds open a corridor for me to pass through before being incinerated. I don't understand what was the point of this character if he was going to be introduced and killed off in the same quest having never been a boss and just wind up being a redundant to the current quest's big bad Ballas who apparently rules over the Sentient fleet and the solar system, and his dad Hunhow who was the leader and progenitor of the Sentients.






We reach Ballas' throne. What ensues is some sort of bizzare soap opera written by millenials as the two basically have a divorce, but the way it is worder and the characters act as if it a millenial's casual break up, written by godless people who don't understand what marriage is or what relationships are supposed to be. I don't want this **** in my games. Anyway, the final boss fight of the game's main story is very disappointing as you don't actually do any fighting with your Warframe or put your skills or understanding of the game mechanics or build to the test. You don't even use your Warframe. You just hop out of the Warframe, use operator mode to bait Ballas' beam towards a portal 3 or 4 times, and then that's it. You won.










Neat callback to the end of The Second Dream when Lotus carried you out of the pod to the orbiter seat. But where is this location? Where was Lotus performing mission control from? Inside the moon?






You get to pick between whether she will be Natah (her original Sentient name), Lotus, or Margulius. Well she was never Margulis in the first place so that's out, and after she betrayed mankind and caused everyone to get a mindcontrol mask on her, she is unworthy of the name Lotus which was supposed to be a rejection of her original Sentient name. So it'd have to be Natah. But apparently this choice is permanent, and I did research to see what people regretted, and it seems that people who chose Natah dislike that she gets stuck with a robotic voice, so I picked Natah.









The end

Overall lackluster. The first half was good-ish, but the apocalyptic threat of a Sentient invasion of the solar system feels hollow when there isn't much of a solar system to care about. There are just a couple of little villages, three space stations, and that's it, and the game never got me invested in any of them. Ballas and Erra are out of nowhere villains who do not feel built up like Hunhow was. Lotus gets off the hook, and her voice acting is rather irritating. The sun level at the end was a neat way to bookend Warframe as the final location, but the actual final boss fight is a let down. Lastly, it is frustrating that Lotus came back, rather than the Tenno standing on his own or alongside Teshin. Also, Ordis should have been left dead.

This is the first main story quest to not introduce a major gameplay system. The Second Dream introduced operator mode and paths, ie allowing you to become a healer. The War Within introduced riven mods which made the endgame into hunting or RMTing for RNG mods. The Sacrifice introduced the Sentient enemy type and Umbra damage to deal with it. But The New War did... ???.

Warframe's story had tidbits of interest going on, but 10 years after The Second Dream it's clear whatever magic that might have been there is long gone. Apparently a lot of the key talent had left like Steve the director, the original art director, etc. The writing is noticeably more juvenile and now there is a lot of swearing and so on. Overall seems like a classic tale of behind the scenes rot.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Goodness gracious

A new Warframe update came out, revamping the character creator. I didn't touch anything.




What did they do to my face?!?!?!

[ThulsaDoomer]

What did they do to my face?!?!?!

Trooned out by force.

[Norfleet]

Game is Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition. Remember lads, God may be dead, but shekels are forever.

The Shekel is apparently the oldest known named unit of currency, so yes.