The regular Sunday mega hasn't been posted yet so I'm posting this one instead
Started Citizen Sleeper 2, so far I'd say it's pretty good but lacks the same sense of place and permanency that the first game had. Also not a huge fan of having one stat you can never level up. The dice health mechanic feels annoying because your RNG can get you into a situation where eg you have every die at 1HP but can't repair them until they're broken, so you go to your next contract and break three immediately. Also the lack of something to do with low rolls, due to almost every check being Risky or Dangerous, means that I typically end the day with some wasted dice.
The dice health mechanic feels annoying because your RNG can get you into a situation where eg you have every die at 1HP but can't repair them until they're broken, so you go to your next contract and break three immediately.
Honestly, I also was worried about these kinds of situations, but never actually ran into a bad enough situation that it was a huge concern. It does provide the game a decent amount of tension.
I played through on the hard difficulty and didn't have any points where the struggle was too hard/oppressive.
sense of place
I felt this way at the beginning, but changed my mind towards the end.
Been on Kenshi quite a bit lately. I've put together a posse of freed slaves who go and free other slaves and kill nobles 
I tried to play this years ago and couldn't get into it, it was very confusing to me but seemed like something I would typically like
yea i first started it in '22 and gave up after 2 hours, recently saw some vids on YT about it and felt the urge to try again, now I'm 100+ hours deep haha
I'll have to watch some videos and try again
i've read about it before and it sounds both goated and incredibly overwhelming
like, it seems like you can just be dealt a bad situation and mcfucking die within minutes
That's what happened to me and it happened so fast I didn't feel like I could figure out what to do differently. I should watch some videos and try it again, I've heard it is great
kenshi really isn't like that (i mean, it definitely is, i've had several playthroughs fail because my sole character died immediately to a goat or a beak thing lol)
but it's more forgiving than you'd think - if your character gets beaten in a fight, 9 times out of 10 you're just unconscious and will wake up eventually and live to fight another day - that's kinda the whole point. the toughness skill is levelled up specifically by being beaten up, heh.
in any case, when you start a playthrough you can adjust some difficulty sliders, like reducing the chance to die
survival pro tip: recruit at least another member to your party asap - this immediately gives you the option to apply first aid to a downed character and reduce the chance they bleed out or something
Silksong
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this week, it will come out
Theres a chance it will get announced at gamescom. Im not even a Hollow Knight Fan but I feel a bit bad for the fans that are thirsty af for the game.
I’ve fully jumped back into Baldur’s Gate 3, almost finished with the Gauntlet of Shar.
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I convinced a demon to kill himself and avoided a huge fight which was great
Also been playing Pokémon Unbound, a GBA romhack, on my phone. Great before bed or during slow time at work. I’m not usually big on fan made Pokémon games but this one’s really good
It's been a rough weeks 6 days in a row of work after my vacation ended so just played a little of titan quest 2.
I started Laika aged in blood, and it is a very cool furry motorcycle Metroid/dark souls type games where front and back flips are core skills for reloading your guns and abilities. I'm eager to play some more but have been wiped out from work.
I'm curious about titan quest 2 but was thinking I should stay away until closer to release. What do you think so far, and how much content is there?
It's very light on content now, 4 classes, 2 magic and 2 physical. I haven't played through it all yet (the work has kept me busy as mentioned) but I think I'm almost done with it after ten hours on my first character. But it has a good feel to it, not fast, fairly slow. I really adore the bright colors of the game which it feels like no hack n slash games ever do so it's lovely to have bright color while I smack some big crab people.
It is going to double in price once they near release, so buying it early might be worth it if you know you'll get it later.
I jumped back into RDR2 this week. It's summer so I'm only playing sunny games. Fellas is this the Greatest Game of All Time? I think it might be 
It is immaculately built, and I wish I cared more about the story. But I did spend over a hundred hours exploring the world in chapter 2
So it clearly did something really really good to keep me there for so long.
My problem with the story is the ludonarrative dissonance - I'm 50 hours in and the story so far has been "We need to do more crime in order to make money so that we can start a new life". But you earn a lot of money very soon in the game so this motivation is not believable to me
Haha yeah very fair, it's like I've gathered thousands of dollars in my exploring so it definitely has removed any trouble I could potentially run into and I could find us buying a new life super easily.
ARTHUR!
I need to get another playthru of that going. Or should I just finish the one I had? Idk, extremely comforting game in a lot of ways. Camping in the rain, cookin food, just riding around in the sun.
Another weekend playing Blue Prince.
It's really fun not knowing how deep this game goes. Every time I solve a mystery I end up with two more, and my handwritten journal is turning into some mad scrawling necronomicon shit. I spend time away thinking about these puzzles. I bring my journal to work so I can overanalyze the in-game books I've copied down, illustrations and all. I think some of these puzzles I've created solutions for, might not actually exist.
Game is hard (the fuck you mean I gotta use math?), but also hits that rare itch I've had since beating Outer Wilds, where I figure out a puzzle or two and it ends up completely recontextualizing the game and making me want to go back and look everything over again.
I feel like howtobasic with the amount of hallways i'm slapping down lmao
Kerbal space program
Stranded jeb and bill on the mun so I sent val to rescue them but ran out of fuel shortly after reaching orbit so I sent another rescue to get them.
They all made it home safe
Ocarina of Time! I’ve had the PC port sitting on my computer for a while now but finally got around to actually playing it. It’s been a while since I’ve played OoT but it definitely still holds up in my opinion, I love this game. I beat the Forest Temple last time and now I’m collecting items before I move on to the next dungeon.
Gonna try and finish Death Stranding
My partner wants to play the sequel, but never played the first one, so she had me load it up so she could get caught up
I started 9 sols. Game combat feels odd. Enemies have tracking way later into attacks than youd think, punishing early rolls. Lots of attacks will have pretty comical amounts of pushback even if you perfect parry them, making forcing an opening much harder. Even mobs that youll fight hordes of at a time will have several patterns making the complexity of mob fights a little absurd at times. I just played hollow knight and this game feels like it starts at like grimm1 difficulty and quickly passes anything in hk.
Remains to be seen if it's skill issue tho.
BF6 beta (edging nearer to yet another "fell for it again award), which I presume will be done while i'm at work
otherwise, started/made early progress on Blue Prince. I've got the outdoor shed on the west side unlocked, have some ideas as to where else to progress (I have no idea if i'll ever get good RNG to have the boiler room and lab next to eachother), think i know why i can never get into the antechamber, but any other tips on things to progress? I have no idea as to what the combo lock code for the orchard could be and feel like i need to get that unlocked
That fucking boiler room - lab connection! The hardest part of this game is when you think you figured out a puzzle but just need things to line up just right so you can test your theory.
As for tips, start a physical journal if you haven't yet. Take tons of notes. Draw pictures. Copy whole books if you need to. The lore matters so learn it. Don't be afraid of time limits in reaching the end, just keep making progress and taking good notes to review later.
Magnifying glass is one of the coolest items.
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Yeah, the first time i got the magnifying glass it immediately helped as I could then figure out the network password
Have just started getting into the lore via two visits to the fortune teller machine and unlocking the time safe in the bomb shelter to read Red letter 7. I could be way off, but i'm starting to think that the theme of '8 things but one is missing' might come up more often than expected idk
How much hints do you want?
I'll say the usual visit every room you can, ideally with the magnifying glass to examine documents and pictures more closely.
Some of the room puzzles are also less involved than you might expect, but getting power to them might be harder than anything.
Some of the room puzzles are also less involved than you might expect
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yeah, i'm thinking that I might be overthinking the sheet music, because i read the sheet and the notes don't spell anything out lmao. maybe i just need to remember the bold word and i'll find more sheets.
either way, I think i know the lab machine answer for as soon as i can get the machine powered. the boiler room itself took a while to get the boiler running and both doors accessible, only for me to find out that the power doesn't then flow through the house lmao
That logic sounds good to me, you should definitely follow through on it. I'll say linking rooms with power is probably more rng than many people want to deal with, so if you find an upgrade disk to give a room power, you may want to take it.
There is some puzzles later that are crazy involved but they aren't the room puzzles. Most of the room puzzles are fairly simple. Ill say this about the sheet music and other books. You might want to take a picture of every page, and check them all with a magnifying glass.
Many things have multiple answers pointing to them though, and eventually you can often find an outright explanation for something's if you explore enough.
thanks for the tips. I did discover last night that the passageway has the power connections in all four directions which increases the chances for actually getting synergy - unless I accidentally upgraded it or some shit.
I then preceded to get owned by the dicerolls but so be it
also discovered the schoolhouse which is definitely leading to a set of decent puzzles and surely come together at some point, along with having some sort or lore hint i've been ruminating on. only got one classroom but even that took a while to work out and i'm assuming the solution comes up later.
The number 8 definitely means something big. Dunno what yet, but something.
Last question i guess: Lot of hints around the web specifically tell me to use the magnifying glass and that many things are solved within the room... so the Boudoir safe is sitting there, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what hints there could be in the room. maybe the number of coloured fairy lights in the Christmas photo? nothing else sticks out in the room as being particularly related.
The safes in a room can always be solved with everything within the room. There is one that you need outside knowledge to open, but there is rules all those safes follow that allow you figure things out slightly better. You'll slowly learn the hints to help you figure out those safes.
For the boudoir specifically I'll say do not think hard about it. What's in the room, how does that become a 4 digit code?
The schoolhouse rooms are really great at providing you a huge amount of clues to many of the puzzles of the game. Some of them present alot of information that can be difficult to parse, don't try to memorize it all at this moment but be aware it. Some of the final classrooms are very dense so if you want to spend time learning it all you may need an hour to try and absorb it.
The passageway is a tricky room, it's useful, but very expensive at 2 gems, and never provides anything other than power routing. I'd say use it sparingly unless you're very flush with gems. The resources become more manageable as you learn more of the manor and solve some puzzles.
The number 8? Might be important. This game is kind of about trying to remember lots of things and trying to smash them all to complete the proverbial picture. Alternatively keep a notebook and try to read through it and see if that helps you piece things together.
Still playing wow anniversary, joined a top guild on my server. Idk what the fuck is going on this shit is so fast.
Playing death stranding otherwise, twins are reunited and i'm dicking around in the mountains. still don't know what the fuck is going on in the story but that shower scene with GDT and daryl from walking dead was too funny.
I'm around the same spot in the story right now
My partner was like "Are they gonna fuck?" And i couldn't stop cackling
extremely funny scene esp given sam's dislike of being touched and the seriousness of what was being discussed, kojima continues to be a genius
Taking it back to my childhood and mucking around still with Tekken. Currently fixated on Tekken 2. 1 is just not all that fun with the ai reading your inputs on the final fights and fighting against the controls half the time. 2 is leaps and bounds better, with a smoother more responsive system that you can actually play around with. 3 is even better, much more snappier gameplay and it set the groundwork for what the series is today.
I’m on vacation, but I did play a bunch of Mario 64 on the plane out here, and will probably play some more at night before bed some nights and on the plane back. I love that game. Runs are 60fps on my emulator handheld and I can burn through the first 70 or so stars in a few hours at this point. 120 has only happened once and it took me years as a kid
I spent all day trying to bring back my old laptop to life so that I could play games plugging it into my TV, so I think I'll start a fresh melee run of NV and a meme run of Dark Souls
I've been playing battlefield 6 beta which, while better than 2042 beta (which is a very low bar) still needs a lot of work imo. I still have no idea why server browser is not a fucking thing with this dumb company.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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