Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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Helldivers is my main game. Been playing since about 2 weeks after launch and it has never been a better game.
Slowly making my way through South of Midnight. Its pretty good, kinda basic, and sometimes the memories and such are a little hokey, but its cute and i adore the art style.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY SPACE CROISSANTS!!
Good-bye, my little babies!
Playing the new God of Weapons DLC and going through Blue Prince with my SO.
If you like cryptic puzzles and games that encourage you to take notes and follow multiple plot/puzzle threads at the same time, Blue Prince is like the best thing that exists.
Nier Automata
Never played it before, went in blind. Love it.
Been grabbing a bunch of psx games from the internet archive and playing them on my ps1 today.
So far I've played: A bug's life, Intelligent Qube, Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill, and I downloaded Gran Turismo 2 but I wanna finish with the first one before I play it.
Styx: Master of Shadows, even though I suck at stealth games. I have like 20+ hours in this game and I just started level 2. I've also been enjoying Showgunners and I'm back on my WWE 2K universe mode alt-history bullshit.
As for my weekly WFRP group: The players salvaged a boat a while back and only just got around to using it for business. They also sunk all their money into a single barrel of crude oil. Today's adventure is finishing clearing the mines they got to last week.
Pokemon Go. Now that I'm biking I can cover ground and tackle park routes. I don't have to deal with that 12:59 pm "your Pokemon is knocked out and you have your max coins for the day.
More CK2 with my Indo-Norse achievement omnibus run. Already got 3 of the 5 I'm shooting for but the last two are the most difficult. Also thought I was hot shit with 35k troops kicking around India and Tibet, then one of the turkic conquerors appears with 65k! I think I'll be okay since supply limit will force them into smaller, more manageable stacks but still quite the shock
Yeah turns out they were chumps. Only slightly challenging due to three simultaneous peasant/religious revolts at the same time
I played a like 3 hours of old Oblivion recently and it just made me want to play Morrowind again. So now I’m playing Morrowind as an Argonian conjurer. I’m also playing Super Metroid for the first time, it’s a pretty cool game so far! The controls are kinda messing me up after playing Zero Mission first, but I’m getting used to it. My wife was saying I should just play the Redux hack but I’m stubborn and want to play it normally first.
Me and my best mate finally hopped onto darktide after a few years of vermintide 2. Seems like the game's in a good place now, as I mostly find complaints about old systems when instead of the info I want about the current systems when Im trying to look stuff up.
Anyway, the ogryn with the grenade launcher gauntlet has me absolutely hooked, because the size of the character and weapon make it feel like you're playing scorch from Titanfall 2. I miss my big thermite boy so much.
Grabbed a newer copy of V Rising and started over with it after stalling out on the penultimate boss last time I played a year or so ago, it's pretty fun. I just moved my vampire castle to a new, more central location and started rearranging all my production into proper rooms instead of one big mess.
Stardew Valley Expanded - I’m being constantly bombarded with all kinds of emotions lately, and playing that game really helps calming me down.
tears of the kingdom. 'ate the story, luv the gameplay. simple as
Replaying Deltarune in preparation for chapters 3 and 4 next month, it's still so much fun. I've forgotten a lot of the jokes so they're funny to me again. I've noticed this time that I really appreciate the visual design of chapter one a lot more. The music is obviously amazing, I don't get annoyed running into fights accidentally because Rude Buster is like a top 5 Toby Fox song. Field of Hopes and Dreams is also up there.
chapters 3 and 4 next month
wait WHAT
Deltarune tomorrow! By which I mean June 5th
Specifically June 5th at midnight Japan time, so effectively June 4th for a lot of people
Clair obscur expedition 33. Loving the game. Hope exptert difficulty gets a bit harder. Loved the early difficulty. Game is already my favorite game of the year and I hope a jrpg type game can win gory although that really doesn't matter that much
I just started playing MTG in real life about two months ago - solely commander (EDH). I got introduced to Tabletop Simulator and a dope module for MTG Commander, then I found a discord server that hosts games constantly. So I'm playing that this weekend.
I keep playing Mario and Luigi brotherhood since i finally had time, I finished the 3rd sea which was kinda slow the main plot of the islands was about a couple (an ice dude and a fire girl) from diferent islands and also about the glom which turn people negative but it was ok
i really liked the start for the 4rd sea which starts with Bowser and his army attacking the main bad guy flying castle and then seeing Mario and luigi in the ship island and ordering his army to bomb it.
the m&l games are always at their best when bowser appears, I finally change one of marios items which was a scarft that gave him a bunch of extra defence and hp for one that gives him more damage and bp for less hp, which was great because now mario can one shot most enemies, i gave luigi a glove that give him more attack the more money i have and its been slowly getting stronger
i think im at the point were i do so much damage i can pop any boss, specially since the bowser fight was fast because of the damage i did, not all i have left is going to the lighthouse and then to the final sea
Down to 7 jokers for Gold Stake difficulty and 2 challenges in Balatro. Once I have those, it will be a 100% competition for achievements.
Debating how involved I want to get with a new game shop in my town. It's a leftist space, but I fear they have anarkkkidie NATO YouTube brainworms.
Do you take advantage of anaglyph deck + negative joker tag for getting gold stickers or are you a true sicko
I used this with pocket pack skips in pokermon to find all the mega evolutions
I rarely use that deck. I mostly use Magic, Ghost, Abandoned, Checkered, Painted, Plasma, and Erratic. It depends on which jokers I'm trying to get. Plasma makes all the +chips jokers a lot easier, for example.
Trying out different abandonware games I've found, so far I have like close to 40 some odd games bookmarked to try out.
I'm actually playing Yugioh The Power Of Chaos and Dynasty Warrior 4 Hyper. I love ygo and playing against an ai that's at least somewhat competent is fun, and DW is great, it's funny because I used to hate musou games but I'm learning to enjoy the hack and slash fun.
Still on a Dragon Ball kick so now I'm playing through Xenoverse 2 again. God damn there's a lot of content for this game, unfortunately it's all kinda shit - just samey button mashing and super spamming for dozens and dozens of hours. If this game didn't have a character creator it would be completely forgettable - but since it does have a character creator I've played through it multiple times.
Seriously every game should have a character creator. All you need to do is keep the details of your custom character vague enough to allow the player to fill in the blanks (this is where Avowed dropped the ball by filling in too much of the player's backstory). Other mid games I've played a zillion times just because of the character creator include Code Vein and even Sonic Forces.
was that the one with the open world? i remember liking that game but it being rpg-lite just made me want a real full fletched dbz action rpg
You're thinking of Kakarot, which I was playing last week and unfortunately does not have custom characters. My ideal dragon ball game is basically Kakarot with a new story, custom character, and a massive focus on side quests. Like the game should open on a shot of your character standing next to one of those cool ass motorcycles Bulma rides in the early manga chapters, and the only tutorial is one that tells you how to look at your dragon radar and how to mount your vehicle, and then the game is a completely open ARPG from that point on.
Been playing Warframe a lot again. Since the new creative director took over, the game has been making a ton of improvements. Really digging the way they're taking the game.
The last game I started playing was Breath of the Wild on my PC. Turns out that emulators have gotten really good, both the graphics and performance are amazing 
CEMU or one of the Switch emus?
I'm using CEMU, the best part is that I didn't need to spend a bunch of time to figure it out, I found a preinstalled torrent with everything already configured
Finished Rogue Trader recently, shit goes so incredibly hard. Going back for my first real BG3 playthrough since release and while it’s still great, it REALLY highlights the strengths of Rogue Trader
Worth trying the Pathfinder games if you liked Rogue Trader. Bit more complex in the character build department, but similar size to the story and strength of lore.
Already played wotr (twice). What really impressed me about RT was more the mechanics. Writing and all was great too (better than wotr imo) but the mechanics are truly excellent
Mmm, that's very true, the combat in RT is definitely a lot more elegant and tactical than Pathfinder's. I'm hoping that when Owlcat eventually make a PF2e game the combat feels a bit more like RT's.
Coming Thursday well get a new announcement from Owlcat (almost certainly another warhammer/40k related project)
I had no idea! Exciting!
I been playing cs2 pretty regularly again. Shits fun but maaan the community is pretty ass
I have yet to have a good interaction on CS2 VC
Drop Duchy, it's Tetris mixed with a deck builder. You have to balance making lines to harvest resources with optimally placing military buildings to raise troops to win battles. Resources are used to upgrade your cards which makes it easier to get more resources and raise more troops. You also have to place enemy buildings to prevents them from gaining too much of benefit.
It's an interesting balancing act with bosses each providing a small or large twist on where you place your blocks.
I assumed Clair Obscur was going to be slop, I am so glad I gave it a shot anyway. I was so wrong. The intro hits so hard it sold me immediately. I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a games characters.
The acting and VO are incredible, the writing is top notch, and the gameplay is a modern take on an old school RPG.
I’m more or less finished but I’m just dicking around. I don’t want to leave, it similar to when you finish a good book and don’t know what to do with yourself afterwards.
Still working on FF7 Rebirth - I think I'm on like chapter 8 or so, and still enjoying it a lot. Seems like the right type of open world slop for me.
My kid has Hello Kitty Happiness Parade and wants to play as Kuromi, so I've been working on this since she's the hardest character to unlock. It's a cute enough game. 
Played the new Hondo DLC a bit for Star Wars Outlaws. Surprised to see they finally added some desperately needed QoL features like being able to shoot from the bike and being able to holster found weaponry. More proof that you shouldn't play a Ubisoft game until a year or two after launch lmao
Still trying to figure out Citizen Sleeper
...and Fortnite. I can't wait until the Star Wars month is over.
Citizen Sleeper is next on my list. Got it for Christmas, but there's been a bottleneck on the Switch since my child started really getting into Minecraft.
Been playing a lot of Enter the Gungeon lately, it's an awesome game to play local coop.
When playing alone, I've been hitting War Thunder. I know it's disgustang, but you gotta admit that playing Soviet tanks and destroying Nazi era / US cold-war era vehicles is satisfying.
My controller broke so im off fighting games for the next few weeks while the new one ships.
Playing tetris.
I'm a sicko, so I'm neck deep in Last Defense Academy. The choices actually do matter is super refreshing. The included story flowchart branching at your choices reminds me of Radiant Historia in terms of bouncing around trying things out. Thankfully Kodaka is not too precious about anything and so the melodrama works. I doubt I get all 100 endings, but I'm going to get way more than I thought I would when I first heard about the concept.
The tactical RPG gameplay itself is fairly straightforward, but as someone that plays every Fire Emblem game at launch, I enjoy it. I should maybe be playing on a higher difficulty than normal, I've gotten an S rating for every battle I've done outside of two of them, but honestly being able to just shred through it has it's own fun to it.
The visual novel type gameplay between battles is good enough. I wish it had just a little more depth, maybe some extra power-ups unlocked for getting friendship points ala Persona would be nice. But it doesn't punish you too much for not min-maxing, which I'm sure most people will appreciate.
I do appreciate just how many gameplay systems have in game lore and plotting attached to them. It doesn't feel like gameplay is divorced from story at all. The way your character navigates the flowchart to the way character death is handled during the tactics RPG sections all tie back into the main story, which makes it feel less discrete than some games that just sort of have story and have gameplay and never the two shall meet kind of stuff.
This seems super cool, I need to keep it on my radar
I personally think it rules, but I am aware that the hyper anime aesthetic complete with occasional fan service (though to a much lesser degree than other Kodaka games) is not for everyone. So, I don't blanket recommend it to anyone, but if you enjoy or at least tolerate that part of it, the rest of the game is tight.
One thing to know going through it is that the very first play through there are no meaningful choices (aside from a joke bad end choice). You don't get to the branching narrative until you experience the 100 days once through. But even that has an in game lore, characterization reasoning behind it, which I thought was pretty clever.