Patient Gamers

I just reinstalled NFSU2 because of the new big expansion mod underground2.net Between this, my brother wanting to play Halo, and the new Linkin Park album coming out this week, I feel like I'm in 2004 again.

I dunno if I just discovered them but I was playing Sexy Parodius and Harmful Park. I'm really bad at both.

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night.

I earned my first-ever 1CC there three days ago, on the Easy difficulty (ignoring the perennial "easy modo" memes within the games' fandom), and slowly but surely, I'm learning both the fundamentals and the strategies towards passing various stages and spellcard patterns; hopefully, with enough practice, patience, and a bit of foresight, I can move up and do another 1CC on Mormal (both Finales), either with the Border or Netherworld team.

As for everything else, I found myself enthralled with the lore, story, and the music in this game, as if it were timeless, in a way. I'd say I like Eirin's boss theme the most, befitting for someone who's lived through time and knows everything diligently.

Planescape: Torment

I haven't played a lot infinity engine games and I've struggled with understanding what the game expects of me in terms of gameplay. Hopefully I'll internalize that eventually but I've been enjoying the writing and vibes so far even if the gameplay feel a bit frustrating and a bit like a chore at the moment.

Recently I've been playing Airline Tycoon Deluxe, Sims 3, Battle Brothers, Kerbal Space Program and Prey.

I think the newest is Prey, from 2018.

Airline Tycoon Deluxe is from 1998 and still fun (at the beginning, eventually you just make tons of money, use it to do more of the same to make even more money and it stops being fun).

By the way, they all run on Linux, though I had to literally pirate the Sims 3 to get it to work even though I own the game.

finally going back and playing dark souls remastered as someone who has only played demon's souls. so far it feels very familiar yet different. definitely has that from software jankyness.

Back 4 Blood.

You know what, it's not Left 4 Dead 3, but I love it. It feels like L4D meets Call of Duty. The card system really makes the game for me; building better decks to play higher difficulties with more chaotic corruption cards.

The corruption cards especially make levels so much more replayable than they already would be. Getting fog over a level or a different type of ridden mutation appearing spices things up nicely.

It's also extremely beautiful at points. I love the graphical style. It's colorful and a tad cartoonish at points, with some genuinely disgusting visuals and insane ruins thrown in for good measure.

I wouldn't buy it for full price, but the $9.99 I paid for the full game + DLC was more than worth it, in my opinion.

Not that old, but I've been playing some Far Cry 5 recently since it went on decent sale for 14 bucks on steam and I was bored.

I remember being amazed at how good far cry 3 had been all those years ago, and I know that pretty much every far cry since has been a similar game with a different skin and some updated mechanics.

The whole "home grown USA cult" does hit a bit more interesting these days, but I honestly keep finding myself shaking my head because it feels like reality is somehow more ridiculous than this far cry game in that essence.

Game is fine, I am enjoying doing the same shooting over and over as a little mental break . I feel like this game is a real missed opportunity not having a set, voiced protagonist. Choosing your blank, voiceless murder machine makes every cutscene awkward because everyone is just talking at you instead of having actual dialogue or growth.

Tomb Raider (2013). Played it once for a few hours with a friend on PS4, but we never had following sessions. So now I bought it in a bundle with TR 1-3 and play the first reboot game after finishing the remaster of the 1997 title (also for the first time) last week.

I've been playing through factorio

For the second time

...I don't have a problem

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Watch Dogs

Fun, but sometimes the difficulty seems to be all over the place, particularly with running from pursuit. Sometimes you can lose them in a minute or two, other times the game keeps spawning in new cars in front of you with no way to dodge them without the ones behind you catching up.

Echoes of the past!

incredibly fun.

I've only been playing a few hours, but I am having a blast.

Zen Pinball 2 on PS Vita. Got every single table, played few dozen and still got a ton left.

BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea 1. Not quite hooked yet because ammo is almost too scarce to call it a shooter. But I want to like it.

Also playing Dead Cells, which is great but the higher difficulties are very very hard.

Got my hands on a PS5 pro. Started playing Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (2015). Never played the original games, always wanted to. It's also funny to think that I'm playing a PS4 title that is a remake of PS3 games on a PS5.

My last week has been filled with Marvels Midnight Suns. XCom meets deck builder meets dating simulator-lite. I’m having a blast, considering none of those genres are my forte

Probably too new for the sub, but baldur's gate 3 since it was.on sale and my birthday's coming up

Tried Tetris effect today, last time I played Tetris was on the nds so this is quite the upgrade!

I've reinstalled Sims 3, because I wanted to play the Sims but just can't deal with the broken cash machine that is the Sims 4. It took a decent amount of effort to get it to run, and it doesn't run very well, but it mostly works. And... it's so good. I forgot just how good it was.

I'm amazed at how much there is to do, and just how well my sims can take care of themselves - when playing 4 I always just made 1 or 2 sims, so that I could control their every move bc otherwise they'd be stuck doing something useless on a loop. Here I can have a family of 4 and actively play just one of them, and the rest will cook, clean, do homework, and generally look after themselves while I'm not there. It's amazing how they had this figured out so many years ago, and regressed so horribly.

Haven and Hearth. It's apparently a fairly old MMO, and I think I picked it up after it's mostly dead, but it's still a bit fun. The low population left in the game honestly might be saving me from grief while still learning the game.

It got the visuals, difficulty, and finality of Zomboid, but more of a rust style game play where you're just a naked person with rocks and sticks building huts. I still don't know fully what I'm doing, the goal is still just don't die.

I've finally gotten around to Mindustry after seeing a post about it in a FOSS community here. Hell of a game!

Tooth & Tail. Bite sized R^a^TS

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Got it for free on Epic a while ago, tried it, and didn't finish the first mission (got stuck at the final part).

I picked it up again after upgrading my steam deck's storage, and this time I did finish the tutorial! It is fun to play so I hope it sticks for a bit :)

Monument Valley 1 & 2.

Quite short but excellent. I love good games that I can play with my 9-yr old daughter (like [email protected])

Deus Ex Mankind Divided.

Just getting started, but it's been pretty fun so far. Not really appreciating how much it echoes the current happenings in society, though...

A Mortician's Tale was a nice relatively short interactive experience about what it is like to work in that occupation and its ups and downs, and an opportunity to reflect a bit on the reality of death.