games

Just finished the first act of Clair Obscur. I'm absolutely loving the game, the combat is immaculate and the story has me utterly gripped, but I'm having to play it in 15-30 minute bursts because it keeps crashing. I think I finally found a combination of cpu and gpu settings that keep it stable last night (a whole hour and half of uninterrupted play!), but I don't understand at all why they work. The gpu is heavily underclocked with the minimum clock turned way up, while the cpu is slightly underclocked and undervolted. For some reason this hasn't affected my framerate at all, just made it run without crashing (either just the program or the entire computer).

Anyway, the act 1 to 2 transition and story and gameplay consequences have blown me away yet again. It's such a ridiculous game, no element of it is really new as such, it draws them all from other games, but every element is so perfectly executed and integrated with the other elements that it's almost awe inspiring. The art, body language, the voice arrangement (if you can name another game that has characters talking over each other that isn't Lost Odyssey I will give you a brownie point), the unique character mechanics and abilities, the dodging and parry, the pictos and lumina, the exploration, and now the story and mechanical integration of a new character joining has me questioning the entire character interface and what it hides. It's almost enough to entirely distract me from how much I hate the French

pokemon red version

im old

Morrowind, It’s really good.

Tamriel rebuilt is pretty okay. I think there’s a bunch of stuff that sticks out and feels wrong but it’s hard to follow vanilla.

I managed to get Cities Skylines 2 running on my PC by overriding the anti-aliasing controls to disable MSAA in my Nvidia x-config settings, so I've dumped around 18 hours into that this week and will probably dump another 6 or so tonight into it.

I love city builders 🤤🤤

i think i will play my bg3 honour mode save again today. i stopped for a while right before grym bc it's my least favourite fight in the whole game

I finished Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) for the first time yesterday. i feel like a changed person. im scared to try any other RE game because they're (reportedly) nowhere near as good and i dont want to sour my memories.

I've been hooked to Vampire Survivors for the past couple weeks, and this weekend was no different 😬

Still on my oblivion remastered cloud gaming gamepass bullshit. I usually end up playing a stealthy type character in all RPGs so this time I said fuck it and just made a big tank who hits things with a sword (or mace!). It’s been fun but I’m like level 26 now and there’s basically no challenge left in the game. Not that challenge is what we really come to a bethesda rpg for!

i have gone hard into train sim world 5
as in i watched an hour long presentation on how german signals and safety systems work
send help

Im fucking around with Crusader Kings 3 ATM. I started in France but later switched to a relative whos a Crusader King in Spain. Its going well, but Im not sure how long I will stick with this save.

I tried out Drova again, Starcom again, the Precinct, RoadCraft, Oddsparks, and Aviassembly over the past few days. I think at this point I don't really like playing games so much as I like just trying them and then deleting them.

Played a bit of the earth defence missions in Helldivers 2, they were pretty cool. I expect them to become regular content in some way in the future, because otherwise it'd be kind of a waste of devtime. Unfortunately, my performance (at least in Illuminate missions, never tried bugs or bots) has gotten drastically worse, from solid 60fps to mid-40s with dips under 30. Seems to be maxing CPU.

More importantly, got to MR30 in Warframe. Now I'm just kinda doing whatever I want, going for various weapons, and getting ready for the prime resurgence next week with Baruuk and Revenant Prime because I don't have either.

ive been playing tainted grail lately. its a pretty good skyrim like rpg. performance is dog shit but its not unplayable for me (many report it is tho)

I reinstalled Far Cry 2 after malding my shit off over a wrong video essay and one thing I never noticed before how well the game incentivizes you to just give off a salvo at something you saw in the corner of your eye or through some cover. Your guns are a bit inaccurate so you mostly can't just line up headshots and click once, might aswell spray at that bush you think you saw some muzzleflash in. If you played any of the original STALKER games they work kinda like this, too, but Far Cry 2s enviroment is a hell of a lot more interactive, it really makes for a spectacle

Been having a great time with the Bazaar, its freemium but damn its such a fresh game with great art.

Jumped into Kenshi again for no reason; letting it swallow my entire weekend

Still playing Breath of the Wild on my PC and taking it slow. Kinda want to play Monster Train 2 but I'll probably wait for a sale

Got 99 slayer on rs3, my next rs3 goal is 96 herblore for overloads and I should be well on my way to high level PvM.

Don't starve together, its my favorite game and after like a yearish without a computer I've been loving playing again

Recently played a few times with my friend but wish I had someone who was also into it that could play more often :/

The Talos Principle. Over the week I got to a point where I could put up a graffito, and I chose the "Frogs are people, too" one. Then I had the option to stick to those guns in conversation with the admin and...well I'll save the spoilers for anyone who hasn't played the game yet but I'll just say it worked.

As for my WFRP group, they're entering the back end of their careers and that means I have to build more NPC's than I had originally expected, since most of them get access to apprentices. As for the adventure, they picked up the pace after like a month and a half of sidequesting, but they're at most a 3rd of the way done. We started in January

Still playing SNES romhacks, they're some of the best options for a quick 5 minute session between taking care of the baby.

Total war warhammer 3.

I hate mangler squigs. I hate power creep in a single player game. I hate that they ran out of ideas so they added a unit that literally doesn't interact with infantry except by dealing damage. They just play their idle animation as all my infantry dies.

Nine sols, feels like sekiro meets hollow knight. The story is a bit sus, feels like vaguely anti-China, but I'm still at the beginning of the game

Balatro controls my life.

I finally have a win on gold stake, and I have most of the challenge modes done. I think I intend to 100% complete it which will take some time.

Finished another level in Celeste: Strawberry Jam Collab - Forest Rush. This one is neat because you get a skateboard. I've also made it most of the way through Toggle Theory.

I also started playing Doom again. Set up dsda-doom, dicked around with Fluidsynth to use a classic Gravis Ultrasound soundfont, and grabbed a couple new wads. Boomer: Beyond Vanilla and Down the Drain.

Boomer in particular is fucking sick. Original MIDI soundtrack, some of the most detailed vanilla-compatible (limit removing) maps I've ever seen, and the ambushes are devious, clever, and relentless. Constantly getting flanked by demons appearing where I least expected. Every time a trap springs and the room fills up with demons, you backtrack towards the way you came in only to find a wall of imps or pinkies blocking your escape. There's a lot of back-tracking in this wad, and you can never trust that you're safe just because you cleared a room earlier. I go to a "safe" room, let go of my mouse to take a drink of water, and then there are like six new zombiemen hitscanning me.

Down the Drain is a pretty wacky oldschool sort of map pack. Very organic layouts, very not over-detailed, sets the SSG aside and gives you tons of rockets right from the beginning. I've only played the first level, but it seems fun. The type of wad that will throw a cyberdemon at you on MAP01, but not in a slaughter map kind of way. It's also pretty sneaky, because it's tucked away in such a way that you say "I'll come back around and deal with him later," Then you forget about it and it pops up rather far from where you last saw it and kills you. Takes just long enough for that hoof stomp sound effect to fade out of consciousness.

Blue Prince finally clicked and I haven't been able to stop.

I'm a masochist. I recently got back into Path of Exile 2.

I finished Super Metroid recently and haven’t really doing much gaming since. Thinking about starting the new Fantasy Life but I’m lacking motivation. I really liked the 3DS one but I dunno. If not that I’ll probably start Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow again and try to actually finish it this time

Nightreign. I find it hard to binge, which is a good thing for sure. Got a new PC to actually be able to play it. Like, each play is a serious time and energy commitment.

Finished Dark Souls 1 for the first time last week. Started Dark Souls 2. Played the games on release but I didn’t have the gamer patience to really get through them. I know DS2 is the black sheep but I’m honestly really liking some of the changes so far, the menus in particular.

Enjoying the lethal company update while simultaneously sad about my mod pack being broken by it.

Hexbear comrades shouted out "Catgirl" and "MOUTHOLE" as freebies through Steam a while back.

CW: MOUTHOLE - Bodyhorror, Flashing lights

I have a pathological fear of "Adventure" style games. It always seems I get stuck in some spot that and when looking through a walkthrough the answer was embarrassingly obvious or frustratingly obtuse. MOUTHOLE is weird enough, short enough, and there's no way to get "stuck" so messing around in it has been enjoyable. (Not sure if its me playing on a Linux box but it crashes fairly frequently.)

Catgirl has been cute so far. Panic'd a bit when the rhythum gamn sections came up ( to the devs for having a "Press P for Godmode!" prompt. It vibrates at the same frequency as most of the non-serious posts/comments.

I just finished getting my last two Steam cheevos in Stardew Valley last night, and now I'm kind of at an impasse. I spun up a Valheim server several weeks ago, so if my spouse and/or kid are interested, we'll probably be doing that. Otherwise, I have a BG3 Dark Urge Honor Mode run with maybe 3 hours into it, and I still haven't finished Sea of Stars. Sea of Stars will require less tearing down and cleaning the dust out of my PC, so I'm leaning in that direction at the moment.

They gave away tiny Tina's wonderlands last week so I put about 2 hours into and it's pretty much a borderlands game with some differences. The overworld is a massive improvement over the shitty open world of the prior games. The writing is mostly forgettable so far, which might be good? Who knows?

Horizon forbidden west I've crossed the mountain and I guess this is where the real game begins? It's good, the combat has a good flow to it, the story so far is interesting, but we'll see if the whole strangers from space thing works out or not.