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Recently, I've played three games: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Anniversary Edition, modded Minecraft, specifically the TerraFirmaGreg modpack, and survival Fountain of Youth.
My favorite video game genres are Survival and shooters, the thing I'm most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming is the release if ARK II, and I'm not excited for the Nintendo Switch 2, because I'm not much of a Nintendo fan.
I've been playing Marvel Rivals and the new Dynasty Warriors game as of late! I also just started Shantae on GBC which is fun so far!
I AM looking for a good RPG to play. Anyone care to give some advice? I'm thinking it's going to be between Secret of Mana, Golden Sun, and Chrono Trigger. I'm leaning towards CT.
I'm looking forward to playing more with friends :)
I'm most likely going to get the Switch since Nintendo puts out good exclusives. We'll see how long it takes to get good, though.
Love the new Dynasty Warriors Origins game!
I've only ever played DW4 back in the day, but I've been loving it! I've geard the series took a sour turn, but I'm glad it's returned to form!
Mafia trilogy, great stories in those games
Yo, I love those games.
Been replaying the Mass Effect trilogy, on the 2nd game so far. The game looks a lot better on new ports, but the create a character always looks a bit off imo. Really cool dialogue choices and side missions. Also replaying Mad Max and while I still really enjoy the game, the missions are all kinda similar, props to them for making the different camps and scavenger areas different enough but it’s ultimately a very simple game. Upgrade your character, upgrade your car and upgrade your safe houses. Probably like a 6, a 7 out of 10 at best but still fun.
Enjoy!
Just started playing Citizen Sleeper 2. Really enjoyed the first one, and the second one seems to be pretty similar. Great writing and a pretty good adaptation of some TTRPG mechanics. My only real complaint has been that it can be hard to track what is going on at locations you aren't currently at.
I am looking forward to Civ VII and Monster Hunter Wilds...both which hit this month, unfortunately for my free time. I have no idea if it comes out this year but I am very interested in Endless Legend 2 as well.
My Switch 1 was probably the least used console I have ever bought, it basically existed as my girlfriend's animal crossing box, so I doubt I will consider the Switch 2 honestly. Especially since I have a steam deck now.
Oh, I forgot that Citizen Sleeper 2 has just come out.
It has decidedly pro-socialist themes (as did the first game). Which should not be remotely surprising coming from a studio named Fellow Traveler.
There are at least two worker co-ops/revolutions you can assist with.
That's good, at least.
tried playing call of duty zombies becausr hakim liked it. ended up spending so many hours shooting nazi zombies (this is a hint on an upcoming post when i come back home! any questions about "what cod did you play" will be answered there! i tried black ops 2 but i generally don't like cod. the fact that it's funded by the us army doesn't help!)
i played a ton of beta minecraft. yes, i know about better than adventure. yes, i know and use beta unleashed. i built a castle yesterday.
to be honest, i didn't play much as i focused more of my time on exams
my favorite genre is still sandboxes. i played beta minecraft for half an hour trying to make a statue and many hours on a barn (tree farm!) and a castle. juggling blocks in my inventory has never been this easy and this fun
i am looking forward to more homebrew on older consoles. the ps3 recently got gamemaker games like undertale, sonic mania is fully playable and minecraft b1.7.3 is partially playable on the wii. i want MORE. if i knew how, i'd port an underrated indie game (and a friend of mine's favorite game) known as "aquaria" to the ps3, it already has a switch port and a psp port, why not the ps3?
switch 2? nah, we'll already have the switch 3 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OZpH-1Qin-U
jokes aside, the only consoles i have are the ps3 and the wii. if it can be emulated and jailbroken, and it will, would be really neat. nintendo dmca-ing emulators kinda made this hard
Hakim as in the YouTuber? Nice!
Also lol about the Switch 3.
Revisited Planet Crafter recently, love it. However, once I take a break from it, I can't really get back in, because I have to acclimate to that style of uh, camera control? I really easily get dizzy/disoriented with similar 1st person POV games, not sure why but having your character model on screen has always reduced or eliminated that effect on me. I guess that's my one gripe, I really wish Planet Crafter (or even Subnautica, another big fav of mine but can't replay it much for same disorientation reasons) had a third-person player model, even as an option.
Anyway, been on a break from video games since then, aside from occasional "social hours" dota. Looking forward to any more news from The Bustling World, hopefully we'll be able to play it this year? fingers crossed
edit: don't really pay attention to console games unless interested enough to look into emulators, hehe. sorry switch
I was never really able to get into planet crafter. It feels too empty and like I'm just waiting around for the stats to build up. What tips would you give?
I played it while it was in beta/before full release and progress (terraforming %) did feel pretty slow. On my recent playthrough though, post-full release and having some understanding of the map/general progression, it went along much faster. My suggestion if you haven't played much of it is to explore the map, the random blue chests are nice (and so are the golden ones) but the real prize is access to new resources. Also, the map is actually much less empty than you think it is, and it changes somewhat as terraforming progresses :)
The default starting area is fine, if a little boring at first, as you're initially limited by how far you can explore by oxygen tank size (so at the very beginning of game you wanna focus on upgrading that first)
Never heard of this game.
Tbh, I think Switch 2 will definitely be an emulation powerhouse.
The Bustling World released a new trailer recently.
Um, it's a isometric/top-down SIMs builder?GTA-like?Stardew Valley-elements RPG??? I'm primarily interested in its aesthetic approach, certainly heavily influenced by famous painting Along the River During QingMing Festival, although I'm not entirely sure on core gameplay/gameplay loop yet.
And speaking of core gameplay... I will say, it does feel like the devs have kept adding more features since initial trailer so I'm hoping they don't get too caught up in those, borrow elements from too many things and end up incoherent mess...
I'm playing Advance Wars and I also started Disco Elysium. Damn, if I wasn't doing my thesis I'd play that all day long. I had finished the Zelda Oracle games and they were alright, Oracle of Seasons was definitely a lot easier than Ages
Yeah, the Oracle games are more famous than good.
A couple weeks ago I was having a hard time finding things to play. I went back to Kenshi and Rimworld for a bit but they weren't really doing it for me.
Then I got an emulator working for Breath of the Wild. Its pretty awesome. Its the spiritual successor to Daggerfall in that it has awesome climbing mechanics. I am really impressed by the openness of the world and the puzzles are really well designed so that sometimes I am not sure if I am solving it the way they intended or making up a work around. There were a couple spots where I had to spoof the motion controls through my mouse which was not great but otherwise everything has been working really smoothly. So now I'm looking at more wiiu games to emulate and I've got Skyward sword waiting for me.
I dont really care about switch 2. I haven't had a console since the wii but I do look forward to the next installments of the Zelda franchise. PCs may be superior to consoles but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for exclusive IP like Zelda, Metroid, and Sonic. (Mario is ok but he gets involved in too many dubious pursuits)
Daggerfall, my beloved...
I just picked up Heart of the Machine. It's a turn-based RPG/4X/city builder (which apparently also includes multiversal time travel) in early access. You play as a rogue AI trying to survive in a dystopian cyberpunk city. If that sounds insanely ambitious, that's because it is, especially for a solo dev. I played the (surprisingly full featured) demo and got immediately hooked. The different systems seem to tie together surprisingly well; the RPG elements provide a bit of drive to engage with the strategy side, and choices influence how you build out your tech tree. Probably not for everyone but the demo is free and worth checking out if it sounds interesting to you.
He estado jugando últimamente a la franquicia Saints Row.
Squad 44, Project Zomboid (b42) and Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, which is a MMO south korean logisitics/car game, really cool.
Haven't been playing a whole lot of games lately because sick, but been slowly getting through Yars Rising because it happens to fall exactly within my interests, I feel like the exact target for it lol
It's a Metroidvania from WayForward whose platforming and shooting is like Mega Man, with loads of hacking minigames that are literally Yars' Revenge (you know, the old Atari game), playing as a cute girl with funny friends in this Japanese-inspired cyberpunk city full of Atari references (the idea is hilarious I love it) as you investigate a tech company's shady secret
The soundtrack is a 10/10 and the girl you play as is currently one of my top fictional crushes lol, she talks too much and I never want her to shut up ❤️
It's such a weird combination of stuff though, and it didn't exactly get much marketing and was probably relatively low budget, so I get why it's so overlooked currently despite being a WayForward game, especially with the genre getting so many games lately (probably not helped by Ubisoft putting out a huge budget Prince of Persia one a month earlier)
Also, I'm glad the Switch 2 is finally announced, even Nintendo games often run like total ass on the current one, hopefully this one's size and being more round will make it at least slightly more comfortable, and hoping Switch 1 games will run more stable on it (even if target resolution/framerate stay the same without patches, I'd like games to at least keep a consistent 30)
Glad we're finally getting a new Mario Kart too for the first time in 11 years lmao
No gaming for me because school has started and this semester has been nightmarish lol. I did buy a steam deck for myself tho so thats nice.
Edit: I do not feel super strongly about the Switch 2.
Steam Deck is a good purchase and hopefully you'll have the time to use it eventually.
I wanted it because my poor laptop is not strong enough to play certain games well (baldurs gate 3 being the main one) and I wanted a dedicated machine to take up my steam memory, unfortunately th deck can’t play Silent Hill 2.
I haven’t played on it yet but I downloaded most of my steam library and I am excited to get to it. January was super hard but hopefully February will slow down for a bit for me to play.
Yeah, January was harsh on me too.
Still just playing Deadlock since I got into the alpha back in August. Haven't been into a game for this long in a while.
Really looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds later on this month.