Games

Been playing a lot of Black Ops 2 Zombies w my friends and brother lately, mostly the map with the lava all around. Other than that on my free time I play a lot of GTA 4. I fucking love GTA 4, I could spend hours talking about it and all the little tricks and exploits that aren’t as obvious in game

I’ve been playing quasimorph, mtg arena, and dragons dogma dark arisen (late to the party there).

My favorite Ludo-hauntology is if Dragon Age had more than one good game in the series, origins alone is my favorite series. I also have discovered the Like A Dragon series and appreciate the compassionate way it portrays working class, un-housed peoples, and everyone else on the periphery of society.

The last game I finished I was BG3, it was awesome how reactive it is.

I have been summoned I see.

Playing Currently:

Stellaris (I just bought the Astral Planes DLC on sale)

FFVII Rebirth

EDIT: Desynced - I forgot I was playing this one, hah. Scifi factory builder with modular buildings and programmable unit behaviours.

Favourite Genres:

Factory Games

City/Colony Builders

RPGs (MMOs or JRPGs mostly)

Completed Recently:

I just finished my latest Rimworld run, where I did a Neolithic/Tribal to Spacer tech run. Rimworld is my favourite game ever made, I do runs through it very regularly, but wanted to finish up my current game before the latest DLC hits in a month or so.

I have at least a thousand hours in Rimworld and I can't imagine that pace slowing down a whole lot. The funny thing is I actually hated it the first couple times I tried to get into it, before something just clicked.

Been into Civ 6 lately. Sometimes I kind of have to go like "ok, this is a strategy game and that's what I'm treating it as" because the way they portray civilization can be a bit... I think maybe colonial-centric is the phrasing I'm looking for. I feel it's very in need of a win condition that comes from deep alliances and not just faux forced diplomacy "only one person can be the winner" kind of thing. But if I treat it as a competitive strategy game with a civilization-based outfit on and don't take the cultural influences too seriously, it's fun enough and has a lot of depth to it for improving at the strategic elements over time. So I can really sink a lot of hours into it, if I let myself.

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, Pokémon emerald, and sonic the hedgehog 1. I’m stuck on marble zone act 3, I keep falling in the fucking lava, I miss a jump and I fall three levels down, it’s so hard for what 😭 I want to beat the original sonic games before playing frontiers.

I've been playing Victoria 3 and a bit of Oxygen Not Included. I mostly play strategy and city builders these days. But I still have Zelda in my backlog (I'm about half done), as well as Assassin's Creed: Mirage.

I guess my most recently completed game would be Dave the Diver, as most of what I play are infinite time sinks. It's a fun game, and I loved the cast of characters. It was about the right length I think, and the game ended right when I was starting to get a little bored of it. I might pick it up again when the DLC is released though.

Just finished Bioshock and I'm on to Bioshock 2.

I'll always love Bioshock, a great shooter on console. The storylines are really thoughful too. I wasn't a big fan of the third one however. They really broke the oeuvre.

I finished up the Link's Awakening remake, this week. Was playing it in tandem with my 8-year-old. I hadn't played it in like 2 weeks because I couldn't figure out the gimmick for the second-to-last phase of the final boss, so I figured I'd wait for my son to catch up. The kicker is that HE actually figured it out, before I did. So proud...

Also been slowly working through on Horizon: Zero Dawn, but I keep finding I have 0 desire to play it. Nothing significantly wrong with it, but I have yet to feel actually engaged, 21 hours in.

I went back to finish Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. When that game came out I said that the best thing about it was free-flying through the Toriyama-verse - and that's still true! More games need to just straight up give the player Superman-like flight, it feels so good in that game and in Xenoverse 2. That said I really wish that the "tenkaichi"-derived DBZ games could come up with a fighting engine that wasn't just mashing light attack and spamming out your super moves whenever your ki refills. It doesn't have to be as tight as DBFZ but something with customizable combos would be cool, maybe take inspiration from the likes of Godhand.