Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries
clan dlc is out and i've been going hard into it
Started Persona 5 Royal. It's a JRPG alright. Fucked up (and not to mention shit writing) to have the first arc be about a teacher SAing students, and then to have the second arc require you to force one of those students to seduce someone against her will (and then when that seduction target joins you he never apologizes for being so pushy). The game also really suffers from a lack of MC involvement in dialogue. Like eg I don't even think you were told you couldn't tell anyone about the Velvet Room but I guess that's just not an option.
I find it increasingly funny when it snaps back to Sae in the interrogation room asking "ah so you phantom thieves were really good at eating burgers, you must have had the help of an american!" or whatever every time you get a new confidant.
E: it's also very funny that the politician guy was involved in three scandals that ruined his career, and calling a constituent an idiot is portrayed as an equal offense to embezzling millions of yen.
All the Silksong posting drove me to try out Hollow Knight for the first time. Before that, I've been doing some flight sim in FlightGear.
Got into a kick of playing some GBA games, taking a break from fighting games, currently working through CV HOD, almost done with it. The game is pretty cool, I can see why it's gets a bad rep because if you don't know the optimal route to follow you can get lost easy. I love some Igavania but I've beat SOTN so many times now I wanted to try something I haven't yet.
Silksong! I'm about 20 hours in, and am loving it. I do think for most people it's pretty obvious the early game is overtuned, and a lot of environmental hazards deal 2 damage that probably shouldn't, but I'd be lying if I said those were truly bothering me. I'm having a blast, it's the best game I've played in years so far, slowly exploring everywhere and getting everything I can.
Im definitely going to buy Silksong but im waiting for a bit
Prob a good choice! I can see it getting a balance passthrough.
LAD Gaiden, been enjoying it. Might do some disco eylisum for the vibes tonight
Silksong. It's everything I wanted from a hollow knight followup. Including getting fucking killed by terrible pogo skills rather than anything else lol. Great boss fights, amazing exploration, and awesome cute little bugs that make me want to help them and cry when I lose them.
Cyberpunk 2077 at an excruciatingly slow pace because I want to see everything!
When I'm in more of a relaxed mode, I boot up XCOM or Tactics Ogre
i started a new bg3 run a bit ago and i just started act 3. its an honor mode run so hopefully i can finish it this time
Silksong, and Monsters are Coming demo are new this week, still loving Death Stranding 2 and Hades 2
I finally bought the bullet and bought Baldur's Gate 3.
It's good, but I'm experienced with NWN-type games and the D&D 5e system, and I still can't quite figure out how the two have been reconciled here.
Also I've been playing for less than ten hours and I've encountered at least one quest-breaking bug already. In a game that's more than two years old.
This is why I usually avoid AAA titles.
I'm experienced with NWN-type games and the D&D 5e system, and I still can't quite figure out how the two have been reconciled here.
I'm in the same boat comrade. It feels really weird all around. And some of the adjustments made because the game designers working on Baldur's Gate 3 realized 5e's rules just don't work make it especially weird. Like how the changes to jumping make it practically the most effective method of locomotion in the game. Not enough movement to get anywhere near that enemy? Just jump, it solves all your problems.
And if you don't need to jump, then bonus action potion chugging makes you practically immortal.
I'm playing on the hardest difficulty because I knew my familiarity with the genre and with 5e would make the game too easy, but it's even easier than I thought. The game is straight up cheating, like every enemy gets like an arbitrary +10 to every roll (bounded numbers mean this basically guarantees every attack roll hits always) and the game is still too easy. My friend is a goblin ass barrel hoarder and if we ever run into a situation that's tricky to handle conventionally we drop 3 explosive barrels and autowin.
It's just a weird game from so many angles
Cataclysm DDA
I generated a new map with the urban density turned all the way up, the whole world is basically suburb and city and industrial parks with very little forest or plains. I managed to recruit my starting NPC and survive the infection I spawned with, and now I'm holed up in a two story house in the suburbs. Found a couple solar backpacks and hoping to turn the balcony into a solar farm, and there's a wrecked RV outside the house that I want to salvage the minifridge from. That's for later, though. Right now I'm hitting as many refrigerators as I can to scavenge for perishables to powder or dehydrate or can before it all spoils.
I'm wandering through my steam library trying some of the games that showed up there but never got played. I'm on Wizards of Legend right now and it's okay but I am struggling to really get into it.
love WoL, if you got any questions I can probably give answers
Thanks, I think the big problem right now is more that I kinda suck and take a ton of chip damage more than that I'm missing a skill interaction. Can reliably beat the boss/councilor for the first biome and then just scrub out on the following ministage boss
edit: scratch that, are multi-element builds viable or are you better off stacking single? Seems like they would be abut all the flavor text makes it sound like not
I've been playing more Skyward Sword HD and also Custom Robo V2. Also I've been a little hooked on UFO 50's Onion Delivery
I am almost done on Balatro. All I have left is black deck black stake and up, then completing gold stake with each joker.
That second part is going to be a lot.
i folded at orange stake. that game had a stranglehold on me for 2 solid weeks meaning playing everyday
The release of Gears of War: Reloaded got me to replay the entire series, or at least the ones Epic made. Actually, you know what, I might actually finally play Judgment too, fuck it. I'm currently playing 2 and I'm about to reach the GIANT WORM moment 
I just love these dumb Xbox 360-ass games. Every single molecule in my body was vibrating with Gears of War 2 hype back in 2008 and the campaign is still really fun and a massive improvement over the first game in every single department, making the first Gears of War feel like a slow, janky prototype.
I'm emulating 2 and 3 with Xenia because Microsoft sucks ass and still hasn't released the entire series on PC. People were speculating for years about a Master Chief Collection-style compilation of the Gears of War games but instead we just got a rerelease and a PS5 port of the 2015 UE4 facelift of the first Gears of War. Fuck youuuuuu
second silksong post. sweating my meaty claws off climbing mount fey
I'm 108 hours deep into Death Stranding 2, and am still incredibly conflicted about recommending it to anyone who doesn't have an identical taste in games. It isn't a walking simulator, it's a driving sim and a resource management game, but it's gorgeous and I love the ambiance.
Thanks to @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net I'm playing a game for the first time in a long while—the original Castlevania for the NES! I'd only ever played the post-Symphony-of-the-Night Igavania games, so it's been interesting to see where the series began, and it's a lot of fun! I really appreciate the simplicity of not worry about item drops, backtracking, or gear—just Simon Belmont, his trusty Vampire Killer, and a handful of subweapons. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the chance to play again since that first session, but I'm hoping to get in a bit of playtime tomorrow.
You gotta sorta watch out for item drops! Some candles have subweapons and often they aren't the holy water and if you pick one up you cant get your old one back. You wanna always try yo keep the holy water cause it stun locks. You're in for a real treat! I usually replay castlevania games each October for spooky season. Maybe I'll start esrly this year. Keep me up to date on the battle against Dracula and his friends. Stay patient and methodical and abuse the holy water on bosses, never ever turn around when there's Medusa heads, dont stop moving at the part where crows throw guys at you, and here's a cheeky move, its not hard to turn that massive knock back into a double jump by landing on the far side of an enemy (play the gsme right the firsr time tho). Im really excited for you! For other hard games that I'd consider totally doable are the Contra Games and Ninja Gaiden. Those ones are more fast paced but have a similar old school thing where if you know what makes what happen the enemy spawns become something you control instead of something that seems random
Edit: here's the rant thar spawned it since I was late to the thread and threw down paragraphs in a ghost town:
I finally finished Outer Wilds and I wondered what the echo of the eye was because i missed how to do it during the game and even though I loved most of it i think heart breakingly that i cant be arsed to go back and do the echoes of the eye part. I did the whole base game without looking anything up
i complain a lot and spoiler below. im going to cushion this by saying if you haven’t, go play the game blind. I know people were raving when it came out but it should still be talked about way more than it is all these years later. it’s a great game and deserves more praise.
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except right at the end i was getting fatigued and looked up exactly how to get into the ash twin project because i spent over an hour at the correct spot (the teleporter that gets covered by the sand column) without guessing that i had to hide in the cubby briefly before walking onto it while it was getting sanded. I think it’s an incredible game but i feel like a lot of people just end up looking up some of the puzzles despite all the hints.
I really like the concept of the game but i struggle with some of the execution. Every time I was at the end of a puzzle and got knee capped by the time loop i was so annoyed. Some of the puzzles can be solved by dumb luck but im really hung up on getting into the ash twin. most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but i think this sort of game without the time loop would be my favorite. if i just had unlimited time to bash my face against puzzles id be happier than being under that kind of pressure in a single player game. The writing is intelligent and funny, the movement is great too. Love the planets, love the art style. but i’m really torn about the time loop cap of 22 mins
Still playing Void Stranger. It's hard as balls, I was beating rooms in about two to five minutes, now it's taking me ten to twenty.
It's good money for content though. I'm at hour twentyish and the end still isn't in sight. I like that you can close out at any time and not lose progress so it lets you take it at your own pace.
there's lots of secrets in this game, you should play it blind if you can.
I learned there's a second chapter! The second chapter is hard mode! And at some point they did an ARG or something that added an EX mode that's even harder to the game!?
chapter 1 ends in a triumphant race to the finish after you get all of the metroidvania items and you can crush every single level in the game like it's nothing. You fight a boss, then make a breakneck sprint to the final level, and get the first main ending.
It's really unsatisfying, but I think that's intentional. The game seems to indicate that the main character passed her quest on to her adoptive daughter? I still haven't seen all the cutscenes for this part yet tho so maybe that's not it.
Anyway after blitzing the end of chapter one you're onto chapter two and none of the metroidvania items are in the same place that they used to be, even though some things like the shortcuts are the same as before.
I know that there's other endings beside the main one (I found two of them!) but once I beat the main story path I'm just gonna look that shit up cuz I want to finish this game and get on to its sister ZeroRanger.
Im reading the Nightlord Omnibus (40k books about pretty bad guys) but it came recommended. I enjoy it so far quite a bit ...but I do like stories with evil protagonists. Will finish it later I think .
If you know nothing bout 40k (The Nightlords are basically very evil space pirates in this)
Going through Silksong; currently on Act 2. My only annoyance so far is having to go through areas without a map. Makes me feel so lost. Also, check out my cheaty ass mod https://www.nexusmods.com/hollowknightsilksong/mods/24
Got Cronos on queue after that, looking forward to that.
I'm bad at silksong
Me tomorrow
Silksong,silksong, silksong!
I 100%ed Promise Masoct Agency earlier this week, that was kind of a fun 20 hours
Hollow Knight because of friends frothing Silksong and I never finished it on switch.
Now playing it on PC with an xbox controller and I get it. I don't even think I beat Hornet on switch lmao
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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