games

I'm ready to go back to spreadsheets and play CK3. It's been a while (never played 3 alot, spent many hours on CK2) k read the current play modes and stuff, and looks fun but now I need help deciding my run between either:

• Viking warhungry adventurer going to exotic lands for loot and pillage before being landed back in the northern lands (classic choice)

• Scheming west-African adventuring matriarchal lineage, trying to take over Spain and southern france + west Africa afterwards. (Cool anti chud choice)

I’m bored with modern games, so I went back to playing Dark Souls Remastered with a tank sorcerer build.

I'm still grinding through Cyberpunk out of sheer sunk cost fallacy. I'm currently 14 hours in.

It's not a good open world game since the open world is not very engaging. It's not a good RPG game since most of the choices don't feel meaningful. It's not a good FPS game since the enemies are bullet sponges.

They should have called this game Yapping Simulator 2077. And the yapping isn't even that good

I got Kerbal Space Program. I still really suck at maneuvers and Mun is yet out of reach, but I've figured out how to get a dude into orbit (and sometimes even get him back home!)

I'm rocking Morrowind on the steam deck with openmw. Up scaled textures, AI voice acting and audiobooks, and I finally got custom shaders working on flatpak so I have volumetric clouds & mist.

Playing some Tomb Raider on the TR1X open source port, Final Fantasy VII (2013 steam) and Resident Evil 1 (GOG)

I got back into KSP which is why I've barely posted for the last like two weeks

The System Shock 2 remaster: Lots of fun so far! Def scratches that BioShock itch after so long

I've been working my way through Hades 2, the new extra difficult bosses are indeed extra difficult with any of them able to clip a death defiance off me. The final bosses in particular are extra rough and I'll have to learn how to fight them a bit better. The new aspects have been pretty fun to play with as well.

Slowly making progress on horizon forbidden west as well. It's not mind blowing but it certainly is one of those explore big map and get more powerful type games. The plot is quite fun as far as sci Fi future stories go and I find myself always enjoying the story beats when they happen.

I have been playing Lies of P and I've started the DLC before beating the main game cuz I read that the dialogue changes in the rest of the main game if you do.

I'm finding it very obnoxious because every enemy has 12 hit combos and just never stops attacking.

Makes me feel like dodging is not viable and you're supposed to play entirely like Sekiro and master perfect parrying or else you're screwed.

Only one joker to go on Balatro to get every joker on Gold Stake. Then two challenges to complete every achievement.

Been playing 9 Kings. The devs have been listening to a lot of feedback and making updates. The latest change to skill trees has been kinda "meh" compared to the old system. There's also a lot of units that could use rebalancing. Some are auto-picks, others are a waste of space.

Next week I'm going to the game club to show people how to paint and convert models. Not sure what projects of my own I want to bring. I've been stripping the paint off a bunch of stuff (mostly Mage Knight models and some unlucky person's 40k stuff they left in the lost and found for like 6 months years ago when I was in uni).

Been doing balatro and umamusume, loving rogue like summertime.

However death stranding 2 arrives today so likely I'll be starting that this week

Rimworld Odyssey DLC baybee

Im starting to lose interest in tf2 (probably burn out)

I’m thinking of going back to euro truck simulator 2 (yeah ik, Europe) but it’s just a cozy game that I can’t put my finger onto as to why

I got back into Warframe and I don't know why

Replaying hollow knight. I only have the flower quest, the pantheons and a few charms left. I like the game but idk why they made the double jump so terrible on purpose

I started MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries a while ago. Im not a big MechWarrior guy, but this is legit a fun game. You build up your little merc outfit, starting with a bunch of scrappy 20 to 40 ton mechs, and gradually replace them with 100 ton death machines.

If I had to compare it to something, it's a bit like Mount and Blade in space, with giant mechs duking it out. Lots of tinkering with the mechs loadout and reparing them after battles and keeping an eye on your pilots and cashflow for your merc unit.

Oh, and it has co-op, which is a big reason I ended up playing it more than I planned to. I’m currently over 20 hours in, and I’m definitely going to keep playing it with my buddy as we collect bigger and badder mechs and take jobs from anyone offering a good payday.

Also has a great modding scene with some really huge ones that add a lot of stuff and content.

I got the new rimworld dlc on Friday, so I been playing that a lot this weekend. Its pretty cool playing a high-tech nomad. You have limited time in each tile before the mechanoids find you n assault your base, so you gotta just stash as much shit as you possibly can into your gravship and leave before they come. Its such a fun way to play the game, slowly building up your ship and leaving to new areas of the map, or raiding orbital stations or mining out an astroid.

Your eventually supposed to take out the mechanoid cluster that's hunting you but I haven't gotten that far yet

So many great games these year I feel a bit overwhelmed. Been mostly playing Dune Awakening, but also picked up Nightreign with a friend of mine, and almost finished my first run of The Alters.

Playin Deus Ex. I guess it's cause American politics have not changed significantly since it released but it still feels very topical. One of the baddies is the director of FEMA. The UN soldiers are openly disdainful of nonlethal methods. A prison guard will try to sell you ammo as you escape. It's a very funny game.

I saw an interesting teaser trailer for a Frostpunkesque city builder (Dark Switch) so I played some indie city builders since then.

Foundation - I played this way back when and came back to it again and it is not quite my jam since it's wants to be more flowy and organic but then has these clear gates that just create friction. At least for me it just still doesn't quite click.

Laysara: Summit Kingdom - This one is actually really good imo especially for newcomers to the genre it has a really good tutorial it feels like just the right amount of complexity and just feels really good a bit too easy for my taste but honestly this one is sort of a recommend for newcomers.

Ancient Cities - I probably spent the most time on this and it is both good and bad the game almost always feels like it's just a few updates away from being good and a lot of the ideas are great it has some real potential to be a great neolithic city builder.

Open Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - Man this game is just so damn good there is just something about how it sounds how it looks that is just mesmerizing. You can't tell me that this isn't peak charm.

Grabbed Mycopunk on a whim and holy shit what a game. Scratches the itch left behind from when I quit destiny a while back. Game has so much personality, movement is insanely good, and the higher difficulties can get nuts.

Aside from that, working on my Kurohyou 2 platinum. Very last game in the franchise to finish up aside from Kenzan, which I'm waiting for the fan translation for.

playing some Marvel's Spider Man. Pretty fun action game but Spider-Man is too much of a cop.

the two friends i actually have wanted to play overwatch 2 the other night.. i hadn't played overwatch in years so I installed it and it sucked me right back in.. but then the 10 - 15 minute wait for new matches got me to uninstall it last night

also fuck any game where you have to give them a phone number to sign in.. im never doing that shit again

anyway, started playing Lost Judgement, which I bought eons ago and never even installed

I've picked up Dave the diver as my solo game and my group just switched to Len's Island.

I'm enjoying both, pretty casual games but still engaging at the moment.

Palworld or grim Dawn those are kind of my go tos

Shockingly, I'm actually playing some games this week!

I finished Case of the Golden Idol and started on the DLC. Highly recommend to anyone who likes detective/logic puzzle games—just check out the demo now, and wait till it goes on sale again in a month or two (GOG has a better deal for the bundle with all the DLC). The pixel art is really charming, and it's so satisfying when you crack some of the tougher levels. Bit of advice: taking notes outside of the game will help you a lot when things get more complicated, and it can often be useful to refer to notes you took in earlier levels. Will definitely check out Return of the Obra Dinn when I'm done with the two DLCs.

Continuing with the detective theme, I also resumed my playthrough the first Gyakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) game on DS in Japanese. I played through the intro case a while back, but since I've gotten back into studying Japanese again recently I wanted to take another crack at it. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I'm understanding—sure, there's plenty of words I don't know, but I can usually figure things out from context. To be fair, I played through the first two or three cases in English even further back, so I'm operating with extra context. We'll see how I do when I get into uncharted territory.

got a few smaller games from the steam sale based on recommendations here, so far tried ‘yoku’s island express’ and ‘please, touch this artwork’

also went back to my vampire alt character in ESO because the new multi-classing feature they introduced gives me access to some complementary skill lines from other classes like siphoning or daedric summoning, I can build around health sustain and ultimate generation (to turn into vamp lord more often)

It’s cozy DS1 run time, I got the non-remaster version set up on my steam deck with DSFix installed, locked to 30fps. Gonna be a SL1 run with the default pyromancer equipment, I’ve never used the hand axe before so it should be a good nostalgic time.

I finished Omori recently and I've been screwed up mentally ever since. Today I'm probably going to start Blasphemous. I'm looking for recommendations to games similar to Omori or Silent Hill 2 (I should avoid women named Mary for their protection) where the principal horror is that of losing your grip on reality; also games where it forces you to inhabit the psyche of the characters and plays with your emotions.

I've been obsessively playing the original Master of Orion for weeks now.

I started the series with the second one in the late 90's and looking at screen shots of the game had always made it seem a bit incomprehensible to me. Over the years I'd tried to find a cracked copy of MOO and get in to it but I could just never seem to get "stuck in" properly.

Fired up a copy a month ago or so. Found the ship building a hugely difficult hurdle to get over. Stumbled into some ancient "Let's Play"s for Huge/Impossible/Five Races that went into some of the mechanics of the game. Got a handle on things and really started playing properly.

Did some skimming through the internet about MOO race strategies, most of which boiled down to "good race to play/bad race to play" or "broken and overpowered / poorly balanced".

Things I've learned by actually playing obsessively (on two computers in two locations because I work a job without supervision):

1. The Races are less "classes" that are supposed to have a different play style and strategies and more ways to change the difficulty of the game. Klackon/Psilon/Sakkra reduces the difficulty. Human doesn't modify the difficulty that much one way or the other. Bulrathi moves toward increasing the difficulty. Mrrshan is for masochists who want to fight a protracted intergalactic war against everybody that ultimately sees you lose your worlds one by one or you just get voted out of the galaxy about the time you get enough of an industrial base going to start . Darlok/Akari I haven't spent any time playing yet as I'm stuck obsessing over the Mrsshan.

2. Anything that hurts research into the Construction field greatly increases the difficulty. Turns out, you absolutely HAVE to have regular upgrades in Industrial Tech (reduces the cost of building a factory to the number in the name) or else you are just turbo boned. Mrsshan being the only race that has a research penalty in the Construction tech tree is a huge handicap. Its hard to build a huge stack of tiny ships, its hard to get a large ship (like colony ships) built, its hard to get a new colony built up enough to be productive or defend itself with missile bases, its hard to invade other races colonies as you're behind on colonizing and building up your own worlds do such a degree that you're research is always lagging in one area or another. I don't think I've felt the need to constantly look at research and shipbuilding as an either/or proposition with the other races I've played as I have with the Mrsshan.