Hades II had its full update, so now I'm back on it to find out what happens in the story
Samesies.
I am hopelessly addicted to Hades II. Didn’t play during early access at all, it’s been a lot of fun so far
I've been finally playing BG3 with my brothers, over the last several weeks/months since we only get a few hours once a week if that.
We're in act 2 and I'm really enjoying playing a light cleric. Game is fun would recommend playing with others.
Trying to finish up Harmony of Dissonance, started playing Metroid Fusion and Aria of Sorrow for the Metroidvania itch. I gotta hop back into Animal Crossing Wild World.
Played a bunch more Persona 5 R. Did the 5th palace in a day (as per usual), almost ran out of SP against the boss which would have been a problem given the gimmick. And sure, I had like 200 SP restoring items in reserve, but I'm not going to use those, what if I need them later? I now have more money than god from running over demons in the subway and the economy lies broken at my feet. It's also weird how the opportunity to start getting real fat stacks unlocks after the time I would have needed it last (unlocking Fortune). Sadly the game will not let me use my ill-gotten gains to buy Faith a new phone. :(
Also still playing some Warframe on the side. Gotta get and level every Kuva weapon, obviously. It's that kind of pointless stubbornness that got me where I am today! 
it's been a hot minute since i've played, how's the valkyr rework?
I don't notice much of a difference tbh, the new meter that lets you ignore death builds up so fast that she's basically permanently invincible. In terms of abilities, her 4 is still the main thing, 1 is still useless, 2 is a solid buff, and 3 has to be cast so often (due to how quickly you blend the effected enemies) that I only rarely use it. That said, I really dislike EDA and ETA so I can't say how she does in more difficult content.
never did play her much myself, too weapons-platformy for my tastes, but the 1 becoming a grouping tool is an enticing change i want to try out eventally
About 90% of the way through Silksong
I just ticked from 91% to 92% myself today...thats shit is getting hard. At least I finished the "path of pain" segment for this one apparently. Now its just endurance combat thats kicking my ass.
wait where's the path of pain?
spoiler
Up past the top of the citadel at the cradle. You go close to the far right side of the platform you fight on, then use the super jump to go up. There's a long path up to the surface there, it goes to Nameless Town which just has a new type of passive bug you can afford to the bestiary and a memento. Tough but I dont think as tough as hollow knight? I haven't played that since it came out so big grain of salt.
Hell yeah
I don't think it's half as hard as the path of pain. It's a difficult climb up. But it isn't path of pain difficult. There's usually a wall to grab so if you have the piton equipped you can catch your after every jump.
Took me about 30 minutes. Now the ant queen, she kicked my ass for over 6 hours.
I have started playing Dredge. About 5h into it. Really chill fishing game with a lovcraft theme.
Doesnt really feel like a proper horror game so far but it has this whole spooky vibe so perfect for the season . Its kind of a slowburn but not bad at all. I think I will finish it next weekend.
more mechwarrior 5 mercs, finally made it to the new dlc and it's fucking sick
really did a good job on making the clans scary and expensive as hell to fight
Doing another playthrough of Wrath of the Righteous. Doing a halfling air kineticist with the Azata mythic path.
My D&D group wants to take a stab at playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a team on honor mode, so I've been replaying that game to familiarize myself with it.
I still dig the absolute hell out of how this game plays. I've tried and bounced off of Divinity 1 & 2 multiple times but BG3 gets the whole "semi turn based immersive sim" feeling just right 
. It's sometimes janky and dumb, especially around surprise mechanics and party members going in and out of "combat mode", but its got so many more options than you think it does and it makes your interactions feel really deep even though at its core the whole thing is just a tactical miniatures game.
My dream RPG is something like this but set in the Warmachine/Hordes universe.
Totally agree with this. I'm done my second playthrough and this time doing all the things I missed first time around, having lots of people in camp that I can swap out, upping the brain worms, it's so much fun.
I'm back on that Blue Prince bullshit. I'm far enough in that I'm decoding whole letters written in a conlang and doing really frustrating math ciphers. I get the sense that I might be out of fun puzzles and should probably call it good.
Maybe I'll buy Silksong already.
Still working on Returnal. Finally got halfway through the game and that felt like a mission from God. Its so good and so god damn aggravating at the same time.
Playing with a friend makes it easier because you can milk them for an extra life hahaha.
Today I hate this game with the fire of 1000 suns so I doubt anyone would want to hear me scream obscenities at the tv repeatedly.
I've been sinking my teeth in "Nightmare Reaper" a boomer shooter with some roguelike elements (guns you can find). Also a somewhat skill tree, game is fun! My only bémol is if only I could change the variety of the combat music.
Silent Hill F
Incredible game so far, great ambience and I really enjoy the new silent hill puzzle systems.
Hitman. I'm hitting men.
Going for the platinum. I have mastery 20 on all hitman 1 levels and I'm up to Mumbai in hitman 2.
I don't like this map. It's too big and sprawling.
I decided I am going to start playing the Metal Gear Solid series for the first time. Funny enough, I played all of V when it came out, having played none of the others at all prior. Also played a little bit of Death Stranding. V was a good game and got me interested in Kojima stuff. Because I wasn't already a fan, none of the disappointment people had with that game affected me at all really. Figured now is a good time with Delta being out. Hopefully by the time I get there, they've remastered 4, otherwise I'll have to see how it runs on RPCS3.
I'm anti-long game and anything over 30 - 40 hours max stops being able to justify itself to me, so it's always a treat when I go back to really old games like this and they're finished in like 6 - 10. They never overstay their welcome.
I agree about games overstaying their welcome nowadays. A lot of bloatware, meaningless chores, and boring traversal. It's pretty rare to encounter a 40+ hour game that's engaging for its entirety.
I played about 5 minutes of the original Metroid for the NES...and that's it for gaming this week lmao. I always want to play games but I never get around to it, somehow. The impetus for playing Metroid in the first place is that I was watching Subaru and Okayu from Hololive playing it and it looked like fun, but unfortunately I tend to have a lot more fun watching people play games than playing games myself 
I heard Super Metroid's a better entry point into the 2D games anyhow, so maybe I'll give that a shot at some point. But first, I still gotta beat Castlevania! I also downloaded a romhack of the Pokémon TCG Game Boy game that swaps out the existing sets for Neo (the Generation II cards), but I really ought to beat TCG2 before I start that one.
metroid zero mission is a really good GBA remake of the original metroid and probably the best entry point in the series for a newcomer IMO
That was the other opinion I saw, but I also saw people saying it's hard to go from Zero Mission → Super Metroid because you'll miss some of the quality of life features, and I definitely wanna play Super Metroid because it's so iconic
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Finished silksong, got most things, think I beat all the bosses. Spent about 70 hours on it. Really great game. Hard fights but I never got too frustrated with them because you can always see how you can improve your fight to do better next time.
Working on Hades 2 now. I already had over 100 hours from early access so I've just finished the main quest and am now working towards the epilogue. The story ending is probably going to run many people the wrong way. Not sure where I fall on it. Really fun gameplay regardless.
I've been itching to start something, my options are Trails in the sky first chapter (the new remaster), metaphor refantazio, or crosscode. Possibly even something else? I've got the next week off so we'll see what I get up to.
I've had some time off this week and whether it's just the spooky season looming or the fact that I never played it when picking it up cheap years ago, I've been playing through Resident Evil 2 Remake and really enjoying it. Admittedly I'm playing on a low enough difficulty to not worry too much about saves, ammo conservation etc, but that's letting me just soak up the atmosphere, small details, and ghost-train vibes of it when it does actually manage to surprise or challenge me. It's a great modern remake of a classic that I almost have more nostalgia than actual memory of at this point.
On the other end of the scale, I've been playing a bit of the new Skate with extended younger family members online. That core trick and control system that Skate always had is still really good and just skating around chatting (or occasionally listening to a podcast) until you find an interesting spot and then trying again and again to try and do a cool thing there or compete for the best line is still great and genuinely reminds me of what little skateboarding in my more youthful days.
The problem is everything else. It's riddled with AI garbage from board designs, to writing, to voiceovers, to dozens of "songs" all just credited to Universal Music Co instead of an artist amongst the actually otherwise pretty varied and good but much shorter soundtrack. The whole vibe is bland, corporate, and completely fucking souless. The new Stunt challenges built around ragdoll physics are obviously supposed to be a slightly silly streamer hook, but they still suck and are incredibly dull. It feels very feature incomplete too (it's Early Access but what does that even mean for a free live service game that already has founders packs and paid shops and live seasons?) even as a multiplayer sandbox too with the few things like co-op challenges that are in the game poorly implemented.
I love the Resident Evil remakes. 2 remake is the pinnacle of remakes I think because the graphics are great, the controls are great, it's different enough from the original but still keeps all the charm, the REngine is a miracle that seems to run so smooth vs. stuff like Unreal Engine 5 being like throwing your GPU in a blender.
If you're ever interested, there's a randomizer called Biorand that will let you mess with just about anything you want. The RE games are really good for that, I think, because there's lots of opportunity to run away and win fights in an alternate way. I beat the first RE2 boss with like 6 flash grenades and some knives because that's literally all the game gave me up to that point.
Honestly, despite having played the original two back in the day when they were new, this new one is how I'm going to picture them going forwards. Not just because I never liked tank controls, but because it feels like such a natural evolution, like the way the game would have been of they had the tech at the time.
I'm kind of amazed at how good it looks too. There's nothing actually very flashy about it and obviously it's a very 'last gen' game but the smaller scope and really careful, subtle detail to the environments really sells it. Early on in the sewers I was looking around randomly after realising I'd been so focused on the water (for obvious reasons) that I hadn't really looked up, and where there was a little industrial light there were maybe four or five little moths just fluttering around each other, crowding it. The attention to detail like that, somewhere 99% of people will never look, is just great.
The randomiser thing does sound cool and I could perhaps see myself using it in the further future, but I doubt I'll be jumping in for another run once I'm done any time soon. One of the things I'm really enjoying about it is playing a bigger budget game that is a much tighter, busy parent friendly experience and I'll actually probably finish the same week or two that I start it.
There's so few of those these days. Yet the weird thing about this is that I always think I've been playing for longer than I have. Not in a bad way, but in an engrossed kind of way. Each time I think, oops I've been doing this forever I bet it's after midnight already, I find a typewriter to save and discover I've only been playing for an hour instead of the two or three I've assumed. I'm not sure whether it's an engrossing atmosphere thing, a pacing thing, the steady but simple pace of progress or what. It's a strange sensation but very liberating when you're old and busy.
Haven't been big on a single game right now. Just little bits of Void War, Dirt Rally 2.0, and Art of Rally right now.
Been trying to sort out Scandinavian Flicks without falling off the road lol
Done with skong but occasionally do a couple hours on my steel soul run. I give myself "checkpoints" by doing a backup of the save whenever I've done a big thing, haven't had to use them so far and I'm up to mid act 2.
Been getting back into Vintage Story latest update with a bunch of mods. Found a cool better ruins' abandoned village and used that as my place. Got a bunch of copper, started making bread and pies, pretty decent resources but lack of lime or alternatives for soaking pelts and making leather. I managed to sieve enough flax pulp to make parchment and craft my map finally (I play on wilderness, with craftable cartography so no directions, coordinates or map unless you craft stuff to get it. Makes you rely on your own directions, markers, etc. Easy to get hopelessly lost.) I need to find a source of lime or borax for leather making, and now I got a map I can travel far and do some prospecting.
I also started playing rain world! Cryptic, very hard, but I love it. Reached what seems to be a milestone/important step in the first campaign (survivor). Slugcats are cute :3
Also, I got Warcraft 2 BNE installed in lutris to play that again for some reason. Felt like playing Warcraft 2. I really want to do a full ratchet and clank thing at some point and play through all I can emulate. I only played like 1-4(?) I think so some others to discover if they can be emulated
Oh I'd tried cultist simulator too but haven't found time to keep going. It was really neat so I want to at some point.
Damn I'm back in gaming. Also want to get into Hades 1 for real, never really did when it was popular.
I decided to do another go of Path of Exile 2. Went with the warrior, focused on armor and shield block. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. Usually I play a glass cannon and die a lot, but I got all the way to tier15 maps and Pinnacle bosses.
I don't think there's much more to do, though. The sounds of "boom boom BOOM CLSH" from my attacking skills may haunt my dreams though.
Tower of The Elephant in Old School Essentials. I'm down with OSE/OSR but the adventure was like a 3/5.
Didn't really get the chance to play this week. I usually just chill in BeamNG these days. But I've been watching Arma 3 videos lately and thinking about getting it when it's on sale again. Are there any non-chud, based and gommunism pilled scenarios/mods for that game?
finished rise of the tomb raider and started shadow, I liked the puzzles and backtracking to collect all of the missing items in rise, getting to the last document in the baba yaga dlc was a doozy, didn't like the action/gunfight parts as much, too generic action game style, apparently shadow leans more into the exploration and puzzle aspects so that's nice, moving around/jumping feels more fluid in shadow and you can listen to the recordings/documents you find later instead of them being force played at time of finding
also playing the sonic origins plus pack on and off, debating if I should stick with tails or amy as my main character (amy is a playable character in all 4 main games in this pack), tails seems easier because you can fly around
Hades back on game pass, picked it back up and have needed a few runs to get back into it
also trying to complete a bunch of Hollow Knight DLC content
I finally rolled credits on Mario Kart World! I was slowly progressing through the Grand Prix tracks by three starring the 150cc cups. I managed to find a great Peach build and plowed through four cups last night. Apparently a recent update was implemented for marking and tracking free roam collectibles so I'll probably start working on that now that I'm done with the "main campaign."
Lord help me, I've returned to Dead By Daylight for spooky month. The new killer is actually a really cool, really disturbing Thai themed one (possibly also overpowered, but whatever). Kinda wish behavior would stop doing crossovers and just riff more often like this cause the original killers are usually really enjoyable.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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