games

I've been playing Dune: Awakening. The base-building and survival gameplay are really fun, but being ganked and/or dying in a way that costs everything you have with you is sad.

I found out that a bunch of years old CS boxes I had increased a shit ton in price so I sold it to buy some games. I bought Deltarune and I want to play that, but right now I'm playing 9 Kings and Nubby's Number Factory. 9 Kings in special is addicting as hell.

Also played the new Risk of Rain 2 DLC yesterday for the first time and it was super fun.

Recently I also played ENA's Dream BBQ and I absolutely loved it, can't wait to see the next chapters.

I started playing Battlefront 2, the newer one, with some friends because it was 4 dollars on Steam. I think it sucks, even with all the micro transaction stuff pulled out.

The visuals and sounds and vibes of Star Wars are excellent.

But heroes ruin any big game mode because they aren't a special powerful unit that shows up once or twice a match, there is almost no delay in someone being defeated as a hero and someone else being able to spawn as them if they have the points. So you get a constant stream of Jedi bullshit all game that let's the winning team steamroll even harder.

Factions are not balanced, especially with randoms. A few Droideka rolling into an objective wins half the CIS matches. Super Battle Droids are in every way superior to Empire troops.

Star Cards are still grindy to unlock, making small game modes also suck. You aren't winning a 1v1 against someone who just has 40% more health than you. Let alone a squad of them all working together with maxed cards.

Spawns are an issue where you can spawn in the line of fire and die instantly or have someone spawn immediately to your left.

For 4 dollars I got my money's worth but I think it's a bad game in almost every respect and I probably won't play it any more after this second week.

Started playing Age of Mythology after finding my old copy as I've never actually beat the campaign + the titans expansion. Age of empires/mythology really hits that RTS itch.

I came back to Lies of P after playing it for maybe 8 hours about a year ago. I remember getting frustrated with the mechanics but I was also playing a lot of elden ring at the time. I just don't think I realized at the time that rolling constantly is not what you should be doing. I honed in on guarding (and perfect guards which will stagger) and occasionally rolling, and went all in on a Technique build this time. I love it. I'm probably gonna crush the game in about a week, and then move right onto the DLC that just came out

My sister got me Cyberpunk 2077 as a belated birthday gift. I remember back in 2020, she tried to convince me to "trade birthday gift requests" so she could get Animal Crossing earlier than her birthday but the only video game I was willing to trade on was Cyberpunk and it had just got delayed again.

Umamusume. The grind feels good.

I accidentally deleted my armored core 3 data so I had to restart (again). And i'm doing much, much better the third time, especially once I got over my fear of selling the starter parts, which are garbage. I've got a super fast lightweight build and i stomped the arena so now i'm stacked on cash which is good because it feels like the early missions dont give you much. I've also gotten better at using the controls and it's very rewarding. Old gen is clunky as hell until you learn to move smoothly by not landing hard and not killing your booster on the ground. I love it.

I've also been playing armored core 6 multiplayer again and to be honest, after coming back from old gen I actually kind of hate the stagger mechanic (at least in multiplayer)

I fell off from Breath of the Wild after around 20 hours. It's a great game and I'll come back to it. But I started playing it as my spring game and now it's summer so I want to play something with summer vibes - I started playing Cyberpunk for the first time. I'm 10 hours in and so far it hasn't really grabbed me but I'll keep playing it

Breath of Fire IV. I've only just started it today, and it's... umm, it feels old, even by the standards of when it was first released. The translation is also pretty dodgy, of course, but... So far, I'm enjoying it. The music is alright and the villain guy is pretty engaging.

Beat my yearly Resident Evil 1 game yesterday, started replaying Final Fantasy VII today. RU Tracker and GOG Games ftw, so many games to choose from.

I've been playing a bunch of N64 romhacks and I learned the truth of who was behind Dirt_Owl

I'm replaying Morrowind with openmw and the total overhaul modlist minus some stuff I didn't like. It's awesome!

I'm playing this cute little guy With a custom "abolitionist" class and going around killing slavers and liberating slaves, with a never kill a beast race rule. He rizzes people up to like him and get good deals or info, or talks shit to start a fight, then stabs them with a spear that heals him. Desecrates dunmer tombs, sneaks around and will rob you blind if you're a dick, and since all the locals think he's a disgusting farm implement, he's rich as hell. Big recommend!

i keep playing jedi survivor, the combat is pog, hate the attempting of hub system, and don't know why they keep so many options for lightsaber customization, you can't see the fucking thing anyway, the story is so-so, but by starwars standards fine.

also latest vikky patch is halfpog half meh, treaties to buy out regions are nice as well as doing shenanigans with trade with subsidies, but still infamy gen and electricity gives headaches (why on earth demanding reparations while being attacked gives as much infamy as just straight annexing parts of countries ). electricity in big countries is just headache inducing. why demanding to ban slavery gives infamy in 20th century?

Maze Mice (by the creator of Luck Be a Landlord): if Vampire Survivors, Pac-Man CE, and Mystery Dungeon had a baby

Nubby's Number Factory: A paremovedo roguelike with 1997 CD-ROM game characteristics

Alternating between horizon forbidden west and my Kotor 2 playthroughs (playing along with more civilized age, so I'm doing light and dark side).

Finished lies of P Overture, and it's really great. The initial release was insanely overtuned and boss would basically kill you in a single hit. They added difficulty modes so turning it down did result in you surviving two attacks but that was it. The patch that came out after week basically fixed them below new game plus 3, so you didn't have to perfect parry their entire movement to win the fight. I liked it and it establishes some more cool lore for that setting.

I'm playing Minecrap with my kids.

I'm not an actual g*mer.

A whole lot of Anbennar.

Arg-Ôrdstun is fun if you like a whole lot of noble rebels, assuming direct control of Aul-Dwarov, being completely out of touch and creating a monopoly of precious gems. Its certainly more fun than Orlghovar, whole thing was kind of a let down tbh, a whole lot of pain for some fairly strong buffs, but nothing quite worth the effort. Though my baseline of "strong buffs" is Ovdal Kanzad.

And the only other country to impress me was Feiten with its crazy modifiers (+6 movement speed to fleets? You can sail around the world in 4 months! Don't forget to click "the funny decision" to instantly win any siege with your special merc comapny.) I should play Feiten again.

Life stresses got me wanting a win... so I've gone back to Master of Orion 1.

Fuck the AI "diplomacy" to all the hells though...

Let me rock out (Silicoids) in peace. Its not like you're gonna get too much outta that irradiated planet Mr. Bulrathi, ain't to trees and berries for you bears, why you declaring war on me for "expanding" all the fuckin time.

I'm at the monolith in Clair obscur, might pause for another Victoria communism run. Or a bout in balatro. Or maybe a few days in the life of Dave the Diver.

I’ve been playing space marine remastered, some decent mindless fun. Definitely shows its age in terms of gameplay, not that it’s bad but definitely of its time.

Derail valley and openfront.io

Ultrakill. I hadn't played until now because I assumed it was super difficult, and I suck at fps aim, but it's actually quite easy so far

if you haven't played The Alters you're missing out. it's a really novel idea and the story is pretty cool

Death stranding 2

Picked up Total War: Three Kingdoms a few days ago and will probably put a few hours into it until i have to make dinner.

I beat Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer on the DS a month and a half ago and moved on to playing the English translation of Shiren the Wanderer: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel on PSP. It's the same base Shiren-style game but with more feature like equipment upgrades, runes for weapons, new items, new enemies and the ability to tag and retrieve lost equipment. A nice graphical upgrade too with it being on PSP.

I appreciate all the QoL features which streamlines the experience trememndously. Allies will now walkthrough NPCs without getting stuck behind them, there's new revival and escape herbs that allow you to revive if you do or escape back to the beginning with all your items if you hit a difficult snag.

At this point, playing for over a month, I'd say it's the best Shiren game I've played yet. I do have the new one that just released on PC and Switch but haven't gotten to it yet. Honestly, the 3D chibi graphics put me off a bit too. I'll play it eventually but I'm not in a rush. For me Shiren is a pickup and play handheld game. I play it in 15-20 min bursts on the bus.

Also contemplating playing Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura on my laptop, especially since I'm GMing a Steampunk tabletop game on Discord, but I don't know if I have the stamina for an old school CRPG right now.

No spoilers please.

I've almost beaten Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines for the first time. I can see why it's as revered as it is, because the game is excellent.

There's one line of dialog that stuck in my head as being really dumb though. I was talking to the Anarchs early in the game while trying to get the lay of the land for vampire politics. One of them said "Communism always fails for humans, but it would totally work for vampires". Gotta love media from the 2000s.

Borderlands 3, much to my shame.

Why did I do this? I vaguely recall liking the previous games when I was a child. Do not follow the swamp lights of nostalgia my friends, it will drown you.

Its humour is cringe and Reddit brained to an uncomfortable degree, but I'm actually kinda liking the gameplay.

I've already played through with a gunner, and now I'm trying a melee siren build. Don't know If I'll have the patience to try out the other classes, though. The game's starting to wear thin already, and the writing certainly isn't keeping me invested.

After playing Remnants all week with two buddies, we're going into the second one tonight and I can't wait ! I like the difficult aspect of it and trying together and find solutions.

The first one is already quite good, I really hope the second holds up, but I saw the name of gearbox as the publisher and I worry a little bit.

I'm helping a friend move today, but I did finish Super Mario 3D World with my nephew last week. I'm sure we'll tackle Bowser's Fury next.

Kerbal Space Program. I saw it in summer sale for steam for something crazy like $5 and had always wanted to play.

the physics engine and mechanics of advancement in "science" mode are addicting. the tutorials are good for learning the system and it depends my appreciation for the knowledge and achievement of actual space programs.

I have successfully left the atmosphere and have had successful/safe multistage suborbital flights and recorded all of the associated data, but now I finally understand the mechanics of achieving and returning safely from orbital flight.

what a great game.

Finished RF Guardians of Azuma yesterday. Very below average RF game. Hoping they eventually remake Tides of Destiny