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Against the Storm. Picked it up way back in early access and kind of thought it sucked. Saw some people talk about it recently and decided to give it another go, and it doesn't suck anymore! I suck at it, having lost every round, but I keep going back in, so I guess I like it now.
Resident Evil 4 Remake. Just recently became a fan of the series
Back on my Rimworld addiction.
Balatro!
Playing "Thief: The Black Parade"
It's a fan mod released this year, for a game that was released in 1998. It was a labor of love that took 7 years to complete and is the most stunning mod I have ever seen for any game period.
They push the engine to its limits, the scale, creativity, level design and story are near perfection. The story and playtime are so good it feels like an official game. You forget it's not canon.
I can't believe this came along, it was truly refreshing. It won the 2023 ModDB mod of the year.
Mandalore did a great review, and mini tutorial about how to launch a 26 year old game on modern systems.
I'm playing persona 3 reload and like a dragon gaiden just now. Both really good games!
Sea of Thieves. Revisiting it after several years of not playing it, and finding it just as much fun now as it uses to be.
Helldivers 2! Played the first one a bit but not nearly as engaged with that as I am in this. Bought on launch day and had a blast until the massive player spike killed the servers, that’s seems to be better now as I was able to get in fine and play for a few hours last night.
It’s 100% worth the price and hype but I recommend waiting a few weeks to a month from now while they fully deal with server load issues and they say mechs are pretty much ready to be added now and are just getting polished.
For background, the first game peaked at ~7000 players, this one had 480K on steam alone and that number again on PlayStation this past weekend. They didn’t expect this level of success and so didn’t plan to have server capacity and robust network code for it, they are putting in the long nights to fix it though and we’re already seeing improvements only a couple weeks in
Balatro and Helldivers 2
I can't play any game
Hopping between:
Still just a heavily modded Skyrim playthrough that still remains perfectly lore-friendly. But I'm strongly considering playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance soon. Unfortunately for me, the prospect of modding the hell out of Morrowind again is also calling to me.
Why walk when you can ride?
Finished my first a BG3 run, blind. Was considering starting a second run, with "perfect" choices (and mods) but it seems that patch 6 broke quite some things.
Gonna spend time playing "dad games", then. I don't know what's so appealing about those "X simulator" games, but I can absolutely get lost in them.
~~Patch 6 only really broke the script extender (well hotfix #18 really)~~
nvm, just checked, it's up to date! (hotfix #19 is supported!)
pretty much everything is up to date!
But reports about bugs introduced by patch 6 are still pouring in :( the two hotfixes helped, but I'm still gonna wait.
Elden Ring and Dark Souls 1. And I intend to play them forever. Wish bb was on PC :(
Depending on how far you wanna go, it is IIRC (emulation)
Archmage Rises on Steam. It's in Early Access so there are some parts that are rough especially since it has generations history and quests (go see SoAndSo in NewTown. How do I find NewTown? Ask SoAndSo, he knows the area. 🤪). But it's fun and not as difficult as I was first afraid it was going to be.
The UI is decent but doesnt feel quite there yet: close button for shopping doesn't feel like it's on the correct place, font size for time of day is a bit to small for my 15 inch laptop screen at 1080p (not sure if changing resolution would help but non-native resolution on laptop never looks good IMHO).
I'm on my first character playthrough. It's a perma death open world RPG that has a story to it. The story so far (I'm a few game months in) seems to wait for you but certain missions have time limits once you accept them.
The economy and the cost of things...seem weird. Not bad, but not like other games.. And I'm fine with that. I like the ability to haggle with merchants when buying/selling(?) certain items.
Developing relationships give you little bonuses (according to the interface).
When attempting skill checks you get a d20 from that uses your bonuses. A 1 seems to always fail even when you get enough to pass by your bonus. I'd rather see the Pathfinder 2e system than the D&D d20 system when it comes to rolls so that there isn't a guaranteed 5% chance to fail even an easy check but that's not game breaking.
I definitely need to start away from gambling. I suck at it.
Content warning:
As an open life simulator, the finished game allows the player and NPCs to participate in a vast range of human experiences both bad and good, including: slavery, murder, cannibalism, sexual activity (non-graphic), pregnancy, and religious worship.
Papers please. Having fun so far doing the story
It‘s such a unique game, I‘d rate it way higher if bleak/depressing stories weren‘t a turn off for me, but I liked it regardless which should say a lot
Playing Occupy White Walls occasionally. Playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon on my phone. Pondering buying that uhhh roguelite 'poker' deck building game whose name has gone out my head now
Balatro. It's good. I love making cursed poker hands with aces that count as every suit and granite blocks and then racking my score multiplier up to 86x with stacked jokers. It's a fun game.
I watched someone get like 15k with a single 5
Amazing, a great game you can make insane!
Been alternating between replaying Elden Ring on my PC and the original Ratchet and Clank on my new (to me) PS2. Making good progress in both.
Currently working through the last level in R&C and I forgot how brutally unforgiving that game is with the limited health and scarce checkpoints.
I'm almost through the academy in ER. Fixing to fight whatshername with the giant baby and the kamehameha attack. Already beat that god-damn OP knight guarding the entrance to her boss room.
Monster Hunter World. This game‘s got me in an iron grip. I‘m looking forward to playing the Tales of Arise DLC which is discounted rn to 20 bucks which is the kinda price I would‘ve expected to begin with.
Mario Kart on the side, playing the expansion pass courses, currently at „Mirror.“
Currently have over 100 hours in Persona 3 Reload and I haven't even completed the game yet.
Always wanted to dive into P3P/FES until Reload was announced, and I'm so happy I waited. The game is very polished and I've heard it is a faithful remake of the OG P3. Definitely going for a NG+ afterwards!
Looking forward to diving into it as well. The price tag for a remake isn‘t worth it for me though, so I‘m gonna „patient gamer“ this one.
I'll be house sitting for 2 weeks away from my normal stuff, so I'll probably dip into game pass and play it then.
Just finished streets of rage 4 . still playing through super Mario wonder l, and also GTA 4 dlcs.
I'm still jamming on PalWorld. Set up a dedicated server and have 4 other people who hop on randomly and play, it's great to come across them while exploring. It feels like an alive world. Almost level 50 and breeding all the uber monsters with 4 legendary stats. This game just scratches all the right itches, and it doesn't even have the quests, raids, or other content they are planning yet. Too fun.
Persona 3 Reload. Only played a bit of the original but I'm loving this remake. The QoL updates make it feel more fun and less of a slog. And I love the newer graphic style.
Did a bit of helldivers 2 with friends. Good fun but between work and kids I don't have a lot of multi-player game time anymore.
Helldivers 2 with friends. But the 1.0 of Last Epoch released Wednesday evening. Can't wait for the weekend !
How's Helldivers been? I was a big fan of the first game but I'm having trouble justifying the full price purchase with a lot of the reviews talking about crashes. I'll still probably end up buying it though.
I'm also a big fan of the first game. It's literally the same game but with a huge graphic upgrade. You will not be surprised by the gameplay loop.
But the big plus is the ambiance. I feel like I'm in an action movie (the fog, the effects, the music) and with friends it's awesome to share that feeling.
I don't have experienced any crashes so far on PS5. But we had long queues at the release. It's far better now (1-2 minutes yesterday). However the quickplay is still broken for me (tried yesterday). So if you don't have a group of friends to play with, it's gonna be rough without matchmaking.
Assassin's creed 3 remaster, Tomb Raider Trilogy, Just Cause... Its just a coincidence all im playing right now are old games, lol.
I thought Just Cause was pretty meh, Just Cause 2 was incredible regardless of the jank though (played it revently). If you decide to play the second installment, I recommend installing the grappling hook mod that lets you grapple from waaay farther - otherwise traversel becomes a pain since the world‘s insanely big. Also, you gotta turn off a few graphic options on modern PCs or the game crashes randomly (and will still crash regardless when you get close to the skull island, at least for me).
Palworld was on game pass so I gave it a shot. It’s actually pretty fun for a simple time waster. After this run I don’t think ill ever play it again unless they work in a really good story mode
Finally getting around to playing Disco Elysium. I know I'm late to the party but holy cow what a trip