OK, after trying both Monster Hunter World and Rise over the past couple of weeks, I can confidently say: fuck Monster Hunter. Fun combat, but the game insists on being a slog.
Anyone who claims this franchise is more action than RPG should STFU.
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Palworld. Just finished Legends Arceus and Legends ZA is too far from being released so I wanted something to scratch the "pokemon but it doesn't suck" itch.
I’ve been replaying the Pokémon series lately. I’ve finished all games Gen 1-4 and am currently playing through Pokémon X. Gen 5 got put on hold but I’m a couple hours into Black too. I don’t own a switch and haven’t found a decent switch emulator yet so I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it past Gen 7, unless anyone here knows of a good switch emulator and ROM site. My go-to site for ROMs only goes as far as the 3DS
GreemDev's fork of Ryujinx is pretty good. My R5 5700/RX7600 is able to perfectly emulate SV at 36 fps*. It also runs okay on the Ally X. It mostly stays at 30 fps but stutters hard when showing new animations, like when using a move for the first time.
As for the older Switch titles, I've only played Legends Arceus and it runs great on the Ally X. I also tried it on my Ryzen 5 4500U laptop and it runs pretty well over there too, so Let's Go, SM and SS probably run great as well.
* Why 36 fps? Because the animations in the game are slow as fuck and tied to the framerate so you can't go any higher unless you use mods but disabling VSYNC and capping it at 36 fps makes it run 20% faster, which is honestly a much better experience.
With the Oblivion remaster hype, I decided to go back to the original and so I'm playing Nehrim now.
It's kinda buggy, crashy and puzzle-y, but it's both new and old so it works for me.
Currently working through the Talos Principle. Really fun + there's a really cool shader to render ripples on water.
Terra tech world. Playing since launch.
I've been playing Blood Typers with a friend after finishing The Textorcist from last week (what can I say, I like typing lol).
Apart from that, I got the itch to play some Titanfall 2 / Northstar, so that's been fun as always
With Cyberpunk 2077 "complete and fixed", I'm finally checking it out. Been using the Welcome to Night City modpack. Act 1 and all the content in Watson (starting area) was amazing. Very immersive. Completed all of that, about halfway through Judy's missions, and most of Panam's missions. I think I'm around 40 hours in.
Quality starts dipping outside of the main story missions outside of Watson. Nothing so far has been anywhere close to bad, and there's still some absolutely amazing things sprinkled here and there, but it's frustrating how just good some of it is given how strong the start is.
It's incredibly obvious that the game was meant to be much more. Like Watson district's fixer (person who gives you missions) has 39 gigs, and she has Cyberpsycho fights across the whole map. I don't think any other fixer has more than 15 gigs for their own area, and most don't have any other "gimmick" missions like the Cyberpsycho missions.
I'm already planning to replay it with mods that add more gang activity and give the gangs "memory" so they hold grudges if you keep doing missions against them. Also, unscaling the stat checks. Stupid that I go from being able to comment on certain topics (the psuedomyth of Rache Bartmoss specifically) in conversations to not being able to because I got too high a level and the stat check jumped from 10 to 15.
I don't know how to put it. The great stuff is some of the best gaming experience I've had in a long time, where I can't wait to get back to it. Most of the game is good, but not "can't wait to get back into it". But there's a big feeling of missing "what could have been".
Like the Watson Fixer Regina has extra rewards for you capturing Cyberpsychos alive, but in any of the actual fixer gigs with Cyberpsychos it doesn't matter if you kill them or incapacitate and Regina has no comments on it. There's a lot of emphasis put on customizing your character for you to not see them outside of a few cutscenes (most are first person) and driving a motorcycle. Lots of NPC visual cyberware just isn't available for the player character.
Maybe it's just residuals from the collective overhyping of the game, but I feel it hard when stuff like that pulls me out of things.
I'm currently playing Astrox Imperium. The dev was out of communication for a while and is now back, though he is going to finish it up as best he can and then later on make it open source since I guess he's burned out on it or something. It's a game I really like. It's a sandbox space trading/combat single player game that is often referred to as "Eve Offline".
I'm playing Wylde Flowers. It's a farm sim game with witchcraft, but I mostly like it because it is extremely low-stress. No inventory management, no time pressure to do things, just building a farm and talking to / romancing people.
I picked it up after I got to the point in Subnautica where you have too much contact with leviathans, and I need something calm and relaxing. Maybe I'll make more Subnautica progress soon, though :).
Edit: Spelling
Farming sim? No stressful management? Witchcraft?
You caught my interest and my attention.
With the release of the final content patch (and a steam sale), I finally picked up Baldur's Gate 3. Only 3 hours into it but enjoying it greatly. It's different enough from Divinity Original Sin 2 that it doesn't feel like a re-hash.
Mostly "Disco Elysium" (translates from Latin to "I learn [the world of] Elysium" btw. OFC it's disco AF too)
And yes, it's been 6 years since release and 4 years since "The Final Cut".... ((:
I love this game SM. It's such a welcome break from the neoliberal postmodernist slop, being a genuine piece of art. I love it's materialist and politeconomic perspective on society; in general, the writing is just superb (there is no going back after it too, most games and art in general (including novels and films) might just seem mediocre afterwards)...
The writers did their research about basically everything they wrote about (even racial """science""", OFC depicted negatively), with a focus on psychology, political economy, sociology and philosophy.
Initially played it in 2021 (but save scummed a lot :/ ). Both me as a person, and my understanding of political economy and philosophy have grown quite a bit since then.
I tried replaying it in 2023, but didn't get very far (mostly due to mental health)
Recently my interest in the game rekindled and I'm trying to play as a progressive social democratic superstar hobocop this time lol
I've also been getting back into Counter Strike 2 the last few eeks, but it's taken a major backseat to Disco Elysium (a large factor being: I want to make a deck of Anki flashcards to memorise util lineups of the current map rotation; but I just can't summon the motivation for it, so it "blocks" me from playing)
Recently booted up DE as well! My first few playthroughs were save-scummy and involved glossing over huge walls of text (especially when encyclopedia speaks). Taking my time now to read and immerse myself in Revachol has been a wonderful experience.
But I'm always save-scumming to get Kim on the dance floor no matter what
Luckily I've always kinda seen (at least aspects of it) as an interactive book on steroids, which is why I always read everything lol
But I rly regret save scumming in my first play through, took quite a bit of magic away as in "I'm bending the experience to my will and not enjoying it fully" which I'm trying to remedy now
But ye, it is truly a masterpiece and a wonderful work of art. The experience is just 👌.
The fact that we'll never get a true successor might just be the most disco thing about it all....
But I'm always save-scumming to get Kim on the dance floor no matter what
"understandable, have a nice day"
After a few failed tries I started doing a serious play to win run of XCom UFO Defense with OpenXCom. The game can seem daunting but it's honestly pretty fun!
Then I looked into other open source games and got distracted big time by starting Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 for my first time EVER with OpenRCT2! I now fully understand the hype and it's crazy that I haven't played it sooner
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor a lot. Got it on sale for like $7 and got quite a few hours. My husband and I love roguelites.
Caves of Qud. I don't even like it much, but for some reason I can't stop.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
I have this tendency of just playing stuff I already know and don’t enjoy most new game for like six or so hours while I have to „learn“ them - exception are simple things like platformers or racing games where it‘s crystal clear what to do.
So I have finally decided to really sink my teeth into MGSV and after the warm-up phase, I now can‘t put it down. It‘s crazy how good it looks even nowadays while spitting out triple digit fps at 4k on reasonable hardware. Also 60 fps on the Deck native at high settings. Mindblowing.
I approached the game wrong at first. I‘ve learned that I should be crawling when I think crouching‘s enough, and crouch when I think I can walk lol, also judo throws are more silent than whispers.
I‘m inching towards 100% completion. I liked side-ops and the open world more than any main mission. Main missions always felt too stressful with super human ninja zombies in some of em as well. And fuck „A Quiet Exit.“
Side-ops and the open world really let the games’ more fun mechanics shine for me. With like 120 hours for 100% I also think it has a good length. It‘s starting to wear itself off a bit and it‘s almost done, so it‘s not overstaying its welcome for me. Honestly? A masterpiece.
Although… for me the story was barely holding it together, just wild stuff that made me go „wait what“ more than a good number of times.
If you like the open world free roam stuff, I cannot recommend the Infinite Heaven mod/mod framework enough.
Main missions always felt too stressful with super human ninja zombies in some of em as well.
How did you pass those ? I quit the game because of the "let's put almost unkillable super zombies with superhuman senses in this stealth game" and make missions that quasi require you to fight them upfront/flee from them
I've been stuck at mission 16 for two years now, can't find the fulton specialist in previous missions (even with guides) and can't flee from the zombies
I run and pray. The fulton trick sounds easier though.
For clarification: You gotta press a button to hold onto the fulton when you do that (there‘ll be a prompt), or else you‘ll just slide off lol
I did it with the fulton trick: fulton the truck at the airport, then sprint like crazy to a cargo container, climb it, fulton it and fulton myself out with it.
If you‘re willing to give it another shot and have problems finding the „transport specialist“ hostage in mission 10: I‘ve read that there‘s a guard at the oil facility in mission 13 who has the skill as well. You can just sprint through the savanna to the facility and ignore all enemy bases, look for the guard, whack him, fulton him, wait a few seconds for good meassure, and then „Abort Mission (Return to ACC)“ and the guard should be in the brig regardless (doesn‘t work for hostages for me for some reason). That‘s how you also do the mission tasks without seeing the mission through to the end every single time. Or you could just finish the mission proper if you like.
Later you can fight the Skulls with a rocket launcher with a few upgrades and whatnot, but it‘s not very fun… Maybe you can do it now already and drive the truck out of the hotzone. I’d rather go get the specialist to upgrade fulton if I were you though. The upgraded fulton is mandatory later on anyway.
Anything „Skulls“ was my least favorite part of the game, the mech fight wasn‘t great either. If stealth is not an option, my fun nosedives.
I didn't know about the second transport specialist, thank you for pointing it out ! Youtube tutorials only mention the mission 10 one (I've already tried to extract every prisoner in that mission, he wasn't in the lot)
Hope you have more luck with the guard. Keep in mind that fulton’d guards stay in the brig for a while until they decide to work for you, and the timer only progresses when you‘re in the game (also when you‘re just sitting around in the ACC).
Another heads-up that might save you a headache: Don‘t do mission 25 unless you‘re prepared to rush a couple missions in a row (including one with our beloved Skulls).
stay in the brig for a while until they decide to work for you
Duuhhhhh it might be that. Damn you Kojima, you and your weird design decisions in your otherwise amazing game !
I’ll keep in mind the thing about mission 25 (forced “not going back” missions without forewarning are another design element I don’t like xD), thank you
It‘s not that you can‘t go back… you‘ll understand once you‘ve done it lol
Am scared boss 😬
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney! My partner and I each voice act half the characters. It’s been a HOOT! I think I’m at the end of the first game.
I recently got New Leaf installed on my hacked N3DSXL. I loved New Horizons but it got a bit stale. The villagers were all kinda samey and didn’t have much dialogue. New Leaf insofar feels like it has much more soul. But we’re only 30 hours in or so, so we’ll see!
I'm picturing a couple cuddled up in bed. Sitting up with a single DS. One person "driving" the game and the other backseating occasionally.
Then the dialogue hits and y'all dub it.
Sounds like an awesome time!
Hahaha that’s an adorable image, but we’re on the computer! My partner sits in the bed and I sit in my office chair next to the bed. I have my computer screen mirrored to a really big monitor for them to see. I click on things, and they do the brain-thinking.
We would cuddle while doing this, but we get REALLY into the voice acting, so we really gotta belt it out. We each have a solid set of unique voices for each character!
I don’t wanna get into spoiler territory just in case, but it’s fun that they are Maya and I’m Mia… I didn’t think that would come so heavily into play!
Hahaha magnificent. My partner is Phoenix, and I’m Edgeworth. I like to think my Edgeworth is pretty perfect. We’ll be switching for the second game, then switching back for the third. Assuming both characters still exist by then.
You two have fun and keep the games going. It's better than just binge watching a show together.
Oh heck yeah. We only binge watch shows a couple times a year when we get all messed up on MDMA hahaha
I'm practicing for a PVP VR sword fighting game tournament (the game is death duel VR on steam). This tournament is jousting so i need to practice handling the new horses and lance XD
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