Games

Palword. Good brain dead fun.

Since release I've been playing BG3 every week with a friend and we finally beat the game on Saturday. Great game, but man we've been playing it for a long time.

Picked up Viewfinder yesterday. Fun little indie puzzler. Very cool concept, don't know how much I care about the plot or anything but it's got some of the same trippy fun as Superliminal.

Oh, and I played a couple hours of Against the Storm and have been hesitant to pick it up again because I'm pretty sure it's going to be problematic for my already busy schedule.

Guardians of the galaxy currently

GTA V offline, of all things. Haven't played it in years and found out its carpool grew quite a lot, matching the forza games and currently scratching my itch for an offline open world car game with a crapton of cars.

It was BG3 still with Palworld, but enough of my friends started playing and we made a dedicated private server. It's now consuming me. I'm sure the obsession with subside in a bit, but right now it's just dumb fun. Currently riding around on a panda mount duel weilding rocket launches and just laying everything to waste.

Palworld and factorio.

Prince of Persia is awesome

I recently set up a Xbox 360 emulator using Xenia to play all Gears of War games in my PC, and had a lot of fun setting things up (Xenia is way harder to set up than any other emulator I've used): patching, tweaking and testing stuff, modding some files, and obviusly playing.

Lots of fun playing, and the games have aged pretty well, IMO.

Still Baldur's Gate 3. I don't know if I commented last week but I finished my first play through (chaotic neutral). Was really fun and already started 2 other runs 👀, one githyanki run with custom Tav, Lae'zel and the gith hireling and a lawful good run with my half-orc monk oc.

I am loving the new Prince of Persia game. About half way through and every minute has been great. Honestly enjoying it more than Metroid Dread or Hollow Knight. Movement and combat are both so crisp. Strong recommend for any fans of metroidvania type games.

I've been really enjoying Roboquest. It's a solid movement shooter rogue like that really nails flow state. It's got solid style, but the story is just kind of tacked on and can be ignored. You good bot. You kill bad bots. You kill bad bots gooder over time. Do again until bored. Good for genre fans.

Necesse has also been in my rotation. This is a weird one to pin down. Top down terraria / rimworld gets the basic idea across. It looks very newgrounds flash game but has some surprising depth and it gets its claws into you, eating away time. I'm only still in the beginnings, but I'm sure I'll be putting more time into this one.

Dawncaster on mobile. An expansion comes out tomorrow and it's the first mobile dlc I'm legitimately excited to throw money at. Excellent developers with an excellent game. Think Slay the Spire, but designed for mobile.

Caves of Qud on Steam Deck. It's been a few years since I last played and it's very different from what I remember. Combo that with using a controller for the first time and it's been an enjoyable but challenging experience.

Hell Let Loose on PC. This may be my favorite multiplayer shooter of all time. I was a competitive counterstrike player back in 1.6 (Cal-M), so unseating those memories is an incredible achievement. It's just so good.

The learning curve is steep and there's plenty of room for frustration, but once you're over that hump it's legitimately a terrific experience.

I recently got FF7 (original) for Switch and have been playing through that hard. KotR was nearing mastery and I figured I'd double check to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I missed Ramuh. There's no way to go back and get it and my only earlier save is just after Temple of the Ancients. I won't be able to make my own Master Summon Materia. I was just settling into the final grind/side quests. Guess I'll have to slot another full playthrough sooner than I had anticipated. On the plus side, there's so much more information readily available than when I had played decades ago and I've learned a few new tricks. And being able to speed up most stuff to x3 speed has been great.

I just got my first gaming laptop, so I've been going ham on Planet Coaster when I have time. Such a fun game and I am loving every single second - it's like a grown-up RCT3, but 10x better.

I've been working my way through the Career section and I hope to finish it!

After leaving it in my backlog for close to a decade, I finally started playing Fallout 3. Yeah. On a technical level it's mostly fine, save for some shocking framerate dips and the way it sometimes repeats my movement inputs. Other than that, it's a pretty good game, particularly for loot whores like myself.

Final fantasy 7(orginal) & kaizo mario rom hacks

Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I've been meaning to get to it for a while. Still early on in the game when it's still introducing new mechanics, but I'm enjoying it so far. I was kind of skeptical if I'd enjoy a turn-based RPG Yakuza game as much as I'd enjoyed the previous ones, but the combat is winning me over. Being able to summon a flock of pigeons to peck enemies unconsciously certainly helped.

Slowly working my way up to harder difficulties in Against The Storm. Up to Prestige 6 now. Really nice difficulty curve.

Also got and finished Chants of Sennaar, and loved it! I'd really love a hard mode dlc without the journal some time, for a new language. I still need to finish Heavens Vault.

Been trying to get into final fantasy XIV because of a friend. Kind of fun and I like that I can customize the HUD and the control scheme between the in-game systems and the steam deck controls. I feel like I've tried MMOs in the past and didn't enjoy them, but this one seems all right.

The Talos Principle, Road to Gehenna DLC. Such beautiful and hard game

got some free time so i made my mission to beat all zachtronics games. right now i'm playing EXAPUNKS. finishing the levels are doable although requires a bit of trial and error, but getting good scores let alone perfect ones is a nightmare. highly recommend it to anyone that wants a great challenging puzzle game.

I'm going on a long plane ride, so I have my phone loaded with Zelda Link Between Worlds and some Mario 3d Land for 3DS. I have Titan Quest and Baldurs Gate 2 on my Chromebook. I'm probably going to be tending to kids the entire flight, realistically.

I just started up Spiderman Remastered. I hate the militarized police propaganda, but as an action game, zipping around on webs and aerial combat is entertaining.

Jumping around, Arma 3 with Antistasi mod, Saints Row, Dragon's Dogma, Grim Dawn coop, and just bought Void Destroyer 2 for a very low price.

Since I blew up my Skyrim by accidentally updating and rollback doesn‘t work for me, I‘m just playing some Spiral Knights and GRID (2019) while waiting for mods to catch up again.

Mainly Genshin/HSR/Arknights

Just finished Yakuza Gaiden so not much to do. Was great to play Gaiden though, it was invigorating to not feel like I was on a daily grind.

A lot of my gameplay is gated by friend availability atm, and they have not been available.

Man, I have been so into EVE Online lately. I don’t know what it is, but it’s got its hold on me. Slow, incremental improvements that pay off later, with inventory/time management and a solid corp (EUNI) just ticks all my MMO boxes.

Just beat the Telltale Expanse game (plus DLC). Just goooooood fun.

Beyond that, trying to wrap up Grounded.

Xenonauts 2 alpha 3 released. Playing that.

And Factorio, but's that's like answering "what are you doing this weekend" with "I'm going to do X... And I'm going to be breathing."

Baldur's Gate 3 on the desktop because it's so good and Bayonetta on my Steamdeck because I got it dirt cheap from humble bundle and it plays great there :)

I'm taking a break from BG3 to replay Doom Eternal. I got the DLC for it a while ago and never played. I also need the space back on my Steam Deck lol so I need to finish it so I can uninstall.

I've been glued to BeamNG.drive, ever since I finally broke down and decided "it's not gonna get much cheaper than this" during the Steam sale.

It's exactly, precisely what I thought it would be. Half completely freeform "let's crash cars and watch them crumple in slow motion" and half "let's do these scenarios." Flip back and forth between the two, and it's suddenly "oh, SHIT, how did three hours go by already???"

I'll get around to poking my nose into the modding scene, soon enough, too. I haven't even touched that side of it, yet.

Also, the game apparently has VR support, which I didn't realize until I bought it. I haven't bothered trying that out, since I also don't have my driving wheel set up, at the moment. Driving games with a controller are basically the only category of VR content that can give me the ol' lunch-launch-itis.

GRID (2019), there seems to be a lack of decent arcade track racers nowadays but this is a good one.

Getting back into Zelda TotK. Mapping out the depths...

Tried playing Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time using RPCS3 on my laptop. Didn't get far into the tutorial before it completely froze. Gave up and completely removed RPCS3 because it was also causing my laptops fan to work hard.

Otherwise, I at least started to get back into Krosmaga by playing a single match in a very long time on my phone last night.

Playing 5 games right now....

• Mega Man (original NES version) - fast paced and better than I expected platformer

• Lonely Mountains Downhill - calming and chill mountain biking game

• Voices of the Void - silly and mildly aggravating at times but fun once you get into it simulator game

• Sam & Max Hit the Road - funny point-and-click adventure game with puzzles that are fair and logical

• Skies Of Arcadia - classic turn based RPG with an entertaining story can't believe I never played it years ago

  My game tips for each game

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  • Mega Man (original NES version) - keep shooting while jumping forward, keep distance from the bosses, time jumps based on audio cues
  • Lonely Mountains Downhill - take the shortcuts whenever possible
  • Voices of the Void - upgrade your server stability stat as soon as possible, use the toilet to restore stamina, buy shrimp packs
  • Sam & Max Hit the Road - read the game manual for minigame instructions, check each screen very carefully
  • Skies Of Arcadia - use gear grease in ship battles, use increm magic to increase attack, red and purple magic are strong against each other

im more of a casual gamer but: please try cats are liquid

a better place comes first in the story, and then a light in the shadows

Splatoon on Wii U

Kenshi