games

I'm playing stardew. Apparently the 1.6 update is a big deal but it's like my 2nd time playing it and I never got past the second year so I know fuck all about the game. It's at once a fun chill relaxing game and also very hectic getting all my farm chores done in a day. I have a friend who actually knows what they're doing and it's very fun to insist on having them help around the farm but not be allowed to teach me the deep lore.

I'm revisiting New Vegas

I went through Mega Man X and was probably going to go through them up to 4, from what I hear the series took a nose dive after that and they even made a 3D one? Gotta pace them a little bit because it's brutal on my hands.

Helldivers mainly

Even with all the chuds and chodes

Game is fun

Disco Elysium, I can see why its popular around here lol.

Helldivers II: Just picked this up to play with some friends from a former job. It's a ton of fun with a good group, and the hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer Western imperialist satire adds a lot.

Soulstone Survivors: Vampire Survivors with more active combat and build variety.

Dead Rock Galactic Survivor: Vampire Survivors with mining and aiming.

Splatoon 3: Tracking down the final uncollected palette chips in Side Order. Team Baby Chicks will win this weekend, mark it down.

Still mucking around with my old mmorpgs, I have Everquest, Ultima Online, and Final Fantasy XI in rotation. I tried to play some MGS Peace Walker but either I suck or the controls are wonky and I ended up not really liking it. Feel like as I get older RPGs like mmos or JRPGs are more my speed now.

Mario Wonder. I find it's kind of a weekend only game cause it's hard to play when tired after work

no man's sky, i've been trying my best to polish up our hexbear space commune

bought darkest dungeon (1) cause it was $3 and its been great, no deaths yet so overconfidence will definitely be my slow and insidious killer

Been playing some modded Minecraft. Working on my rail network . I automated iron production but need far more gravel supply to keep up with the amount of iron for rail and machinery for more factories. The productive forces must grow

I am up to 3 ships with victory cleared on FTL Advanced Edition on Normal difficulty. This was impossible for me even a few years ago.

Im still playing pokerogue, my current run started with a clodsire, cinderbunny and a turtwig all with good stat and natures thanks to eggs and catching them.

I think this week im going to do a endless to see how far i get, with a meowstick with good ivs i got from an egg

Yakuza 0

I've been playing Stationeers. It's interesting but also frustrating. It's a space survival crafting game which focuses hard on realism, especially gas handling. So you need to make an atmosphere with the right proportions of nitrogen and oxygen to breathe in your base, and you need a breathable atmosphere to open your spacesuit helmet to eat and drink, and you also need to add some carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to grow plants, and you also need to keep the atmosphere at the right temperature range for both the plants and yourself.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I started playing as a ranger but it was boring so I switched to conjurer and now it's more visually interesting.

Also Mordheim: City of The Damned, to get hyped to play WFRP in the near future.

I found the Mohole in FlightGear

feel free to shame me, but Diablo 4 since it went on game pass

I needed the nostalgia

I just bought a PS5 and playstation plus yesterday so I'm going between the FF7 remake for when I want to pay attention, rocket league when I feel like getting angry, and Far Cry 6 for while listening to a podcast.

Tangentially related, I learned today that the seemingly chill guy next to my stall at the Farmer's market that sells homemade fudge streams COD and gambling on kick almost daily. He also sells basically embezzled golf balls under the table for dirt cheap lmao.

Elden Ring, Darkest Dungeon pvp, Patron, and might dip into Hinterland for a bit. My attention span isn't quite there and I'm just lazing about on my day off. My issue is wanting to play a little of everything at once, despite not being into games that much. Anyway, off to hop into Kingdom: New Lands.

I replayed Psychonauts so I could finally play Psychonauts 2 without any hang-ups about not completing it. I had never actually beaten the Meat Circus as a kid, and this was the first time I cleared it. I think the difficulty was largely a product of being much younger and worse at games, but it was still the hardest and imo the worst part of the game (for being annoying and a bit clunky to play through). Either way, the game holds up very well all these years later.

Psychonauts 2 was fantastic. Just fantastic. Absolutely great game, and humorously it runs better for me than the first game, which freezes constantly (GOG versions for both). Gameplay feels better in basically every regard, story is excellent, combat is excellent (particularly for a platformer), voices and characters are excellent. 100%-ing levels seems less daunting than it was in psychonauts 1 as well, so I'm slowly pursuing that.

I've also been playing Dawn of War: Soulstorm with the Unification mod, which has finally been finished (I think?). That mod is like 3 or 4x bigger than the base game files because it adds so much fucking content. New maps, new factions, new gameplay modes, etc. Soulstorm is finally better than Dark Crusade (except the story, I still like DC more for that).

Helldivers II- Get on for a few matches and have fun. Thankfully no overtly cringe teammates on random yet. Got to play with a friend from an old job and it was a blast.

Rimworld- Base game was on sale on steam and its been fun so far.

Baldur's Gate 3- Been sitting in my backlog for a while. Opened up the game two or three times and never got past the character creator. Finally started a week ago and its been good. Feels a bit intimidating with the amount of information available, but I also haven't had any trouble in the battles I've had so far.

I just loaded 450 mods in to Kenshi. Bought a wreck in The Hub, repaired it, plopped a couple of straw beds and a chest down. Currently breaking rocks and stealing stuff to get some cats and get my starting characters strength up.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1721530/The_Captain/

I found this game on GGN searching for point-and-click games. For me, it hits just right. I'm not to far in, but it's extrmely well done from the prospective of someone who grew up on 90's adventure games.

Armored Core 6, really loving the game loop so far. Working on beating the chapter 1 boss right now

Doing another Rimworld dip with the new DLC out. Naturally, haven't touched that at all yet, but I finally realized how absolutely piss-easy it is to pirate the DLCs and still use the workshop, so I'm enjoying an even more streamlined process of modding it until it takes ten minutes to boot.

My current run is a monastery of pantheistic star-worshippers and I'm just taking it real easy and focusing on the architecture. Monasteries are actually a great pattern for a rimworld base, because they're already kind of defensible compounds with lots of different rooms next to each other.

Humble had a bundle of boomer shooters and idk why but I tried super hard all week to not buy it until I caved on Friday.

So first up is Prodeus. Prodeus is a game that teenage me would have adored. It's what I feel like Doom 3 should have been. It's like one of the Doom wad mods like Brutal Doom cranked up to 11. It doesn't throw any movement tech at you like modern games so you can focus on the dumb "mowing down hordes of enemies" with your over the top guns and over the top gore/gib animations. Everything explodes. Blood and guts go flying and paints the floors, walls, and ceilings with red. It even has blood squish sound effects when mobs blow up. I will say it does get a bit monotinous after a while. I was hoping I was on the last level but just checked and I have 7 more to go.

I also wanna check out Turbo Overkill after. TO is sort of like if you take modern movement shooters with slide and jump tech and plop it into a retro shooter. But also when you slide, your legs turn into chainsaws. Idk, it's fast, crazy fun. It's dumb and I have enjoyed what I've played so far.

Ultrakill is finally in my library too. I played a bit and like it so far. Donno if I love it yet though. Gonna try and get through it though and see what the hype is about.

Other than that, I am still trucking along in Dyson Sphere Program. I have 2 spheres made now and am trying to ramp up my white science. I am stuck on a bottleneck issue so my max potential production is about twice what I am actually making. I think it's tied to my proliferator, but my prolifs need nanotubes that need graphene, and it's just been a mess. I've been working on it for a few days and donno what to do. I wanna get it fixed for when I ramp up to my goal of 5,000 science per minute. Then once I can get that going I wanna dump a sphere around a O type star and probably call it done.