I started playing CK3 the other day and I didn't move for like 7 hours. Afraid to open it again
Completely new to the game/ gerne ?
Yeah. I got way too into it.
I've been doing a Skyrim survival mode playthrough since I had it on the bucket list. I decided to cheese it as a stealth archer due to a combination of the increased difficulty from the hunger/fatigue/cold mechanics and the fact I haven't done a sneaky pew-pew build since like 2016. I'm using the alternate start mod, so there are no dragons in my world yet (except for the one in Blackreach, which I already killed so I could unlock Bend Will early). I pretty much just broke out of haunted prison and made a beeline toward Morthal for the homestead with the fish hatchery, broke the game's economy via alchemy, and right now I'm one Ahzidal's piece away from unlocking my doomsday weapons. Only then will I bother to acknowledge that Helgen exists and start the main questline.
except for the one in Blackreach, which I already killed so I could unlock Bend Will early
i did something real similar i started on solstheim and cleansed the stones first, it was hardmode because of the level disparity in the dlc, but getting early stalhrim & black book buffs worked wonders
I just finished cyberpunk 2077 the ending was bad. I liked the characters and the moment to moment gameplay, but the overall narrative was weak and very lib brained.
I just felt like Jeff Goldblum's character in Jurassic Park playing that game. "Now eventually you do plan to have cyberpunk in the cyberpunk game, right?"
I haven't been able to play video games for a while now (severe long covid) but I just started a new solo TTRPG and I'm really enjoying it! It's called Apawthecaria and it's about being an adorable little woodland creature who travels about, harvesting herbs and mixing remedies for the animals you meet along the way.
My character ended up being a pine marten traveling with her fuzzy bat friend, both of them taking to the road as a way of running away from something - for my protagonist, I know it's a near death experience she never really processed, but I have no clue what my bat buddy's deal is yet. When I last left off I was foraging for herbs to help an injured otter at a small lakeside settlement.
Still slowly grinding out Persona 3: Reloaded. I am really tempted to get Unicorn Overlord even though I have plenty of hours left in P3 because it's an Atlas game and odds are they didn't make enough copies.
I've never tried persona. How is it? I'd really like to get into the series, what's a good starting point?
I am playing through P5 Royal right now for the first time and it is awesome, already on my all time list. On top of all the positives you will hear over and over again about this game, it does a good job of introducing all the gameplay elements one-by-one and spaced out enough so that it never feels overwhelming. I am not a JRPG guy so I really appreciated it, and I am glad it didn't turn out to be a game that you have to restart a few times to understand it.
But yeah, just a really good story, characters, super stylish in every aspect of the game, amazing music. The story definitely goes off the rails at times but the way it talks about societal themes are overall pretty good (especially in the beginning IMO) but suffers from liberalism and anime sexualization at times.
about to start Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue with some friends. I don't think I ever finished it back in the day.
I caught Stardew fever and I made a new meadowlands farm to check out the content from a fresh run. It's been a few years since the last time I played, just long enough where I can tolerate another playthrough.
Before that I was on a mission to play all the SaGa games this year (except maybe Unlimited) which I'll continue to do, probably just switch off what days I play which. I am on Romancing SaGa 2 (remaster), which might be the hardest SaGa game I've ever played. After gaining an understanding of the game systems I'm having fun but it'd been nice if they added a few tutorials in the remaster.
My current empress is a pretty nereid named Pherusa and I'm gonna be sad when it's time to jump to the next generation and pick a new one.
I wish the pixels were less janky though. Thanks for the lazy mobile port Square Enix.
Openmw is a lot of fun, I got to play through most of it with a friend over TES3MP a few years ago. The only thing I change usually is getting a leveling mod, and I'm good to play forever.
My friends have been doing a group run of BG3 with the MC being The Dark Urge. It's been cool seeing the stuff I missed, like the area with harpies behind the grove and the docks below Moonrise (don't even know how I missed that one tbh).
Been playing Ultrakill, but it's getting a bit too hard on some of these bosses.
A friend suggested Pseudoregalia as both of us like really good movement in games. It's a 3D metroidvania platformer with some fun movement options that tries for the N64 or Playstation era feel. Almost done with it, but interest petered out as I'm at the point where I have to search the map for the last remaining things. It was still a lot of fun.
Picked up Kenshi again. Project Kathun is actually a lot of fun, Star Wars is a surprising fit with the Kenshi aesthetic Or maybe not surprising, lol.
Picked up a little game called Fictorum that is like a wizard destruction simulator with a FTL like map layer to it. It's janky and unstylish, but then you get a winning combination of spell setups and the game clicks. Good value, I think I got it really cheap but I don't see myself playing it extremely long.
I wanted to get a physical copy of Unicorn Overlord this week as my Switch has limited storage, and I had some cash lying around. The local stores didn't have it, so I had to order and now I won't get it until tomorrow, but I'll be obsessing over Dragon's Dogma 2 all day.
My vacation has started, so I decided to try my hand at Shadow Empire, a very complex 4x/wargame with a 400-page manual. You play as a regime on a post-apocalyptic planet after a large galactic conflict. Currently, I'm watching a 3-hour tutorial video. You manage various aspects of your empire, including politics, diplomacy, economics, and military operations.
There is a whole supply system; your units need food, fuel, or ammunition to keep fighting or suffer consequences. Supplies need to be sent via either trains or trucks, using roads or railways.
You also design everything your armed forces use, from tanks and planes to equipment your infantry uses. Most of which you first need to research, since it's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting.
Planets are randomly generated, and you can have anything from frozen hells to jungles teeming with alien life or even water or desert planets. Alien life / planets (if there is any) and history is also randomly generated.
Its a bit like a mix between Dwarf Fortress and Hearts of Iron
The game is made by a single developer and is available on Steam and GOG. In this case, I would recommend the Steam version because you get access to the new beta versions right away.
The UI and interface are archaic and cumbersome. It will probably take me quite a while to learn it.
Added a screenshot so you can marvel at the glorious next gen gfx
I found a game called Catizens where you manage a town of cats and they get high on catnip and fight bears.
Started Tunic and liking it so far. I enjoy the challenge and vibe of it. Kicking my ass a bit but I'm slowly learning what everything does. Collecting in-game instruction manual pages is a cool mechanic too.
tetris, but in real life (i'm moving)
I've been playing Wreckfest!
Actually a really fun game. If any of you are old enough to have played Destruction Derby, it's similar to that in one game mode, but adds proper racing as well.
Splatoon 3. The kids and I are getting all of the palettes in Side Order. I wish the stages in this DLC had a bit more variety, but the ones it has are very good, and the gameplay feels great as always
Also… Balatro
I've been obsessed with X4: foundations for a couple of months now. I was expecting it to be way worse than X3, but it's actually really fun
Hyped for Dragons Dogma 2. Maybe we should start a DD2 megathread once it launches?
I got that child-like Christmas Eve excitement for this one 
It's out today!!!!
Doing my last run through of Disco Elysium, then going into full gamer retirement until the Bachelor route of Pathologic 2 comes out.
I'm playing a physical detective Harry and it's funny how much you can just force your way through the world if you know where your going ahead of time.
Was feeling nostalgic for 90s RTS games and got Command and Conquer Remastered. Been playing that whenever I'm not playing Persona 3 Reload.
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Helldivers 2 is my current obsession, but I've been meaning to do another BG3 and DE playthrough
Slowly clawing my way through the "intermediate" lobby of the Celeste Strawberry Jam Collab. Just finished this one yesterday.
That looked extremely difficult. I need to finish celeste. I loved what I have played of it
It's brutal, but there are checkpoints along the way. In Strawberry Jam you can save your progress in each level and try something else when you get stuck. It is nowhere near as linear as the original game. The only thing which is progress-gated is the marathon "heartside" level at the end of each lobby, which requires clearing all the ordinary levels.
Getting really into Pacific Drive. STALKER with a station wagon instead of guns. Super atmospheric with a great soundtrack.
Bought Balatro the last day of my vacation and proceeded to play it for 10 hours, woops. It's a rogue like deck builder masquerading as a poker game.
Game is utterly incomprehensible if you haven't played but also is pretty easy to pick up. Can't help but think this is what mobile games could have been if not for capitalism demanding micro transactions and time gating. It's almost a perfect phone game except for the fact that it's also a time blackhole like factorio. Surprised it didn't release on mobile tbh.
Old World and Civ 6.
Morrowind is incredible. One of the most fun gameplay systems I've encountered in any game, in spite of some jank.
Have you tried Tamriel Rebuilt? That's probably the best mod ever made for any video game in terms of quality and quantity of content.
I've been playing modded Skyrim recently. I did not like it when I first played it, but becoming more familiar with the lore after Morrowind showed me TES is pretty interesting makes it better. It's a fun game, but both the writing and gameplay took large steps backwards in complexity in disappointing ways since Morrowind. If there's one thing that can be said about Skyrim however, is that it can look gorgeous.
...I probably should have played Oblivion first instead tbh, but oh well.
The Balatro grind continues
Maybe we could have this thread every week ? I know there are a lot of 
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I ordered Yokai Watch. It should show up today. I got itbalmost entirely because of this creature:
She's so damn cute I had to see what this game was about
got back into Cyberpunk 2077 after finishing it 4 times back in 2021. The game is finally out of early access! Also installed a 1000 mods collection because why wouldnt I?
Still working on FF7 Rebirth 100%. 60 hours in.
I'm gonna play Unicorn Overlord next after FF7.
Started Honkai Star Rail a couple weeks ago and been grinding daily in that a little too. It's pretty fun. There's a character that I want coming back in a few weeks so just saving up for her.
in my m2tw arc, back on my tsardoms bullshit
its a mod for the 1300s balkans, covering the rise of the ottomans. i'm reading abt the ottomans right now so its complimentary. recently i've redone units for the beylik of aydin & bulgaria so i'm running campaigns with them. playing sensibly and soberly is old hat now so i'm going wildly overaggressive in pursuit of silly ambitions (Bulgaria must conquer 'Grand Vlachia'--Thessaly, because Asen & Peter said they represented Vlachs in the 1190s, we must rescue them from the Serbs and Greeks!)
I was trying to get a OpenMW mod list running but I can't figure out how to get the file merger to work and I'm kinda loathe to have to redo the whole 100+ mods by following the 6 1/2 hour long tutorial video. I'm now playing Salt and Sanctuary which is a 2D Souls like that's been sitting in my library for a couple years.
Been ass-deep in my heavily modded Minecraft surv lately to try and save my state of mind from terminal doomerism and find zen. Loads of Create stuff jammed into it, so I've spent 1500 in-game days becoming a fully-automated, 100% green-powered, luxury gay space factory lord. Only after 1500 in-game days did I finally have all the infrastructure in place to never run out of my favored building blocks for my actual house. Been doing all that building living out of a 5x5 rinky-dink oak ranger's outpost for about 5 in-game years lmfao
Working towards finishing Nioh 2 (just did the main quest where Nobunaga dies), playing a bit of Total Warhammer 2 (Nakai's campaign suuuuuucks), thought I was close to finishing Vtuber Survivors but I'm not so I'm probably dropping it for now (apparently you have to max rank every single character which is like another 40-ish hours minimum).
Occasionally playing some Monster Hunter: Rise when my friends are available, but I did a bunch of the MP-only HR quests solo (do not do this) so they're way behind me. Also did a round of Gunfire Reborn as the Yu-Gi-Oh Owl and it was... interesting.
OpenMW is a wonderful piece of software.
I've been playing, variously, Starcraft: Brood War, We Love Katamari Reroll, and McPixel 3. The first two games need no introduction.
The third game I saw a talk by the guy about how he programmed it in C instead of using a preexisting game engine and that was enough to interest me. For the $2.00 sale price it was more than easy to convince myself to buy it. I think it's an intriguing game. Not the best ever, but a sort of pleasant surprise. Maybe if WarioWare Inc were a little more like a point and click adventure style game.
Helldivers 1 because it was cheap and I’m a cheap bastard.
Replaying Subnautica. Damn that game is made so well.
Tomorrow I've got a game of High Frontier, a space exploration game. Features actual rocket equation stuff as you build up your spaceship and yeet your astronauts to various rocks around the solar system to set up advanced space-based manufacturing.
Friday I'm playing some 1849: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, where you compete as robber barons to build railroads in 19th century Italy. Features tons of stock market fuckery, like true capitalism!
Saturday will be a session of Dune, the classic game of war and intrigue on our favorite desert planet. I'll be trying out one of the newest expansion factions, the dastardly House Moritani.
I've been plowing through The Talos Principle 2. It's wild to me how much they expanded on the first game. The writing is great and there was at least one Marxist on the writing team because there's a lot of discussion of material conditions and ideology and how they shape societies
Playing persona 2 IS, Persona 3 reload and Persona 5 but I've been ill and progress has slowed down. So far I'm enjoying all 3 but Peronsa 2 actually feels quite unique
Finally trying Honor Mode in BG3. Wish me luck!
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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