(re)-playing Dragon Age Inquisition! With DA4 around the corner I’ve been replaying all of them. Inquisition is definitely my personal favorite, both play-wise and lore-wise. Worlds get a bit boring, but the lore and the storytelling are top notch IMO. DA:O I know was a “proper” RPG, but all that tells me is that I’m personally not a huge fan of “proper” RPGs then. With my progress I should finish this playthrough right around DA4’s release!
Um, Chess
I’ve been watching that on TV lately! We call it Ba-dook :) I do really wanna learn it, but it seems sooo complex
Baduk is the Korean name for it, I believe. Also known as weiqi and igo, it is the longest continuously played board game at around 2500 years old.
At its core, Go is actually quite simple. Played on a 25x25 grid, stones are played on the intersection of the lines instead of the spaces. The goal is to fence off and create territory, zones of control where you expect to capture any stone your opponent might play in that area.
Stones or chains of stones are captured when surrounded. Empty spaces (intersections) adjacent to a stone or chains of stones are referred to as liberties. Once all liberties are occupied the stone(s) are captured, removed from the board, and held by the captor. A single stone has 4 intersections connected to it, so 4 liberties. 2 connected stones have 6 liberties and so on…much easier to grok that with a visual aid or a better writer than me.
If a player does not see an advantage to making any more moves they can pass. The game is concluded when both players pass. Scoring is done by each player using their captured stones to occupy their opponent’s territory and then counting what remains.
TLDR this cartoon probably does better than me at explaining it: https://www.britgo.org/cartoons/index.html
Dragon Quest 8 - The Journey of the Cursed King
I‘m finally doing the fists only run I wanted to do 15 years ago! I even named the Hero "meFisto“
Age of Mythology retold. One of my favorite games of all time and they actually did good with the remake!