games

I'm playing Cookie Clicker and have been playing Cookie Clicker for over a decade and have no plans to ever stop playing Cookie Clicker.

Been emulating a lot of PSP games lately, and also inexplicably on a racing game kick. I think cause they usually have lots of things to unlock, and unlocking shit makes brain go brrrrrr.

To that end, Burnout Dominator has been my mot played the past week, but also slowly playing the X Men Origins game, and have OutRun 2006 to start in a little bit here.

Continuing my playthrough of Fallout: London. I'll save my full thoughts so far for a future possible review. By and large, this is a full-scale Fallout spinoff. There are certain game design issues, and problems with some of the writing. Quality is varied, some of the game is fantastic, and other parts miss the mark. However, if you're starved for Fallout content, this is the best release in many years.

If you want to give it a go, maybe wait for one or two major patches, there has been a hotfix but it's still rough around the edges.

The biggest takeaway though is that it makes me crave Fallout 4: New Vegas' release, and has me stoked for Fallout: Miami and Fallout: Cascadia, all 3 of which are under heavy and active development. It also has me wanting to replay New Vegas, but with a personally built mega-modpack.

Tips for Survival: sleep often, go to west rather than east when you first emerge, and consider focusing on Gunslinger or Rifleman for a build. Early game pistols are strong. Do not take Kamikaze without high investment in a full VATS build, because stacked with Survival you will die in a single hit frequently.

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord

Picked the game up again from a few months ago. After a few more days my paramilitary company grew enough to turn it into a kingdom, allowing me to pass edicts/policies, a few of which can greatly increase maximum party size. I have been running around with 410 of my closest boys and girls demolishing any size of army from castles and up to 700 man armies in open field fights. No multi-party army necessary. My enemies keep replenishing only to be destroyed while their armies are mostly recruits and level 2 pushovers. I have 3.3 millon denars. Just think how much I'll be able to buy after the reval!

Just beat Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. I started after FE: Blazing Blade decided to have a level that seems to be luck-based in order to beat. It quickly became the only game I was playing, and I finally beat it today. It was a really great game, and it felt really fresh and different compared to many of the other FE games. Would highly recommend if you like tactics RPGs or Fire Emblem in general, it was quite the experience. In terms of story, it was better than I expected. It seems like a pretty standard plot, but it becomes a little more as the game goes on. If I had to give one criticism to the game, it would be some of the main antagonists. One of them is done very well, and the other is more of what I was expecting. Also some of the minor antagonists are really annoying, and you'll know them when you see them.

Giving Turtle WoW another go, got my bear druid Hexbear to 20 last night on HC mode.

Last night I drank a bit to much beer and went on a bit of a gaming binge, played about an hour of Stardew, fifteen minutes of Brigador, half an hour of Workers and Resources and then did one Hades run. Overall pretty fun night but I hit the hay a little late and woke up mildly hungover.

i've played through New Vegas Bounties (1, 2 & 3) in the past few days and it was kind of strange:

spoilers, CW SV regular violence

overall I & II are decent diversions for extra money & xp in a normal playthrough if you can ignore the edginess and sexual violence, III is a pointless and fairly buggy slog. I'm going to play the 'conclusion' quest 'Better Angels' next, it's about a slave rebellion against caesar so it might be good, the first ranger you meet actually has this fantastic 'i just work here' energy but i swear if its all about abused women i'm gonna be pissed

My partner and I got into Diablo IV on Xbox because it is on game pass and can be played split screen. Probably more of that and trying out the Hexcraft server later

I've been doing a playthrough of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for a bit, and that will probably take awhile to finish. I'm doing a playthrough as a chaotic good Aasimar warpriest of Gorum. I'm thinking of going with the angel mythic path, but I might do golden dragon. I haven't finished act 1, so I have some time to feel it out still.

Same as last week, I'm about to make these threads boring as hell. Continuing SWTOR, trying to achieve a faux Legendary status by finishing the stories on two servers

Snowrunner! I'm doing it IRL rn and when I get home this evening and get settled for the night, I'm playing actual Snowrunner

Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES. It’s good, folks. I don’t want to hype it up too much, but I’m pretty stoked for it. It has a lot of cool systems, some of which are pretty different from other total wars, like the resource system. From a technical standpoint, it runs buttery smooth, with large battles hitting over 100 FPS.

Plus I consider the Bronze Age just a super underused setting. I legit think this could become a top 3 historical total war for me.

A coworker started bringing dominos to play at break. I hadn't played dominos in over a decade. Then on Friday I picked up a chess board and improvised some pieces to play martian chess.

Pirated Lone Echo (which can only be picked up on the Oculus store if you don't pirate it lol) and it's pretty great so far. One of the closest things to a AAA VR game that isn't Alyx or heavily modded Skyrim.

You play a robot on a space station near Saturn and shit happens and you got to jet around and fix stuff. It has made it clear to me that in addition to deep water I am also quite scared of drifting untethered into empty space 👍

I bought and played a bunch of hours of 20 Minutes Till Dawn this weekend after seeing a single screenshot and knowing it was a bullet heaven game. It's pretty neat but definitely on the lighter end as far as content since I'm already past like Darkness 5 and have almost all the characters and weapons. The Dev posted a blog in March saying a pretty substantial update/overhaul is coming soon though.

The art style is so great and now I have a full set of avatars.

Trying to transition to mid-game in the new Oxygen Not Included DLC. Accidentally released a pocket of several hundreds of kilograms of oxygen into my base. At least I don't need to worry about breathability for many, many cycles

Live reaction of my duplicants (the little dudes that run my colony) looking at all the decor items I built to counteract their long-term perma-"popped eardrums" stress debuff:

I've been on Pokemon showdown, playing VGC. Regulation H is such a breath of fresh air, they banned every single legendary and sub-legendary. The power level is a lot lower and less focused on absurdly powerful legendaries one-shotting everything.

It's a lot like Regulation A except this time with Rillaboom, Incineroar, and the ridiculous Ursulana forms. If anyone has been curious about competitive Pokemon, now is a great time to give it a shot.

I tried an Excadrill-Tyrantiar team but it just lost to Incineroar. Two physical attackers and only one clear amulet is unfortunate. I've been having a bit more success with a Baxcalibur snow team, with Bax being my main setup and offensive mon and basically everything else to assist it. Hisuian Ninetails sets up snow and aurora veil, H-Arcanine and Meowscarada get rid of problematic matchups like Gholdengo, and Indeedee runs follow me to help Bax setup. Also I have trick room on Indeedee but never use it for myself, only to undo opponents trick room. It's so satisfying to predict your opponent to setup trick room and take it down in the same turn.

Didn't really like death sorceries when Elden Ring released, but I've heard Shadow of the Erdtree has some decent items for faith/int casters and some fun death sorceries so I'm blitzing through base Elden Ring to have a character ready to use them.

I completed BUMPERS & BROADSWORDS: MAXIMUM this week. Free, fairly easy/casual, short, fun mechanics, highly recommend

Tags Anime, Deck Building, GameMaker, Parody, Pixel Art, Retro, Roguelike, Strategy RPG, Top Down Adventure, Turn-Based Combat

Got 100% completion in Supraland the other day and started Six Inches Under. Might push for 100% on it as well just for completeness.

I'm playing Okamiden and it's so funny that it's a DS game. Everything is so crunchy and the open world is really just a long hallway, to account for the D-pad. Aside from the veeeeery slow text speed I don't mind though, it's charming.

I'm playing more and more indie metroidvania. I'm switching between "9 Years of Shadows" for the first time and once again playing "Blasphemous 2"

Got bored of Tarkov PvE and I've been revisiting some strategy games, playin some Company of Heroes 2, bought the Ardennes assault dlc on sale and now I seethe at every cutscene about the -oh so heroic Yanks and their toils- while I had to grimace my way through the main campaign which constantly villainized the very Soviets you were playing as, fighting against the fuckin Nazis who barely get any mention or condemnation.

My plans kinda fell through, so I got more time and money. Deciding to buy Tavern Master for my city-management fix.

EDF 6 does not disappoint if you happen to like the very specific type of game that EDF is. Obviously limited assets and an old engine still get used very inventively, and that's not even mentioning the writing. 5 really surprised me with its surprisingly clever and self-aware script, delivered entirely by voice actors who sound like they normally do translations of textbooks rather than fiction, which somehow adds to the vibe.

L4d2 I had this game in my library for way too long and I couldn't get into the multiplayer modes Turns out it's still enjoyable single player

I've started playing Jenny LeClue: Detectivu, which is one of those children point and click games that was crowdfunded in the early 2010's that is almost played exclusively by adults to feel like children again. it's a good game i doubt it'll be long but it's fun and cute.

probably gonna play submachine: legacy after it which is an interesting puzzler by the looks of it.