Partner and I bought a house in Lord of the Rings Online. Very comfy game that we've played on and off for years and are just now getting to the first expansion. It's old, jank, and laggy as heck but it's got a lot of charm.

Since no man’s sky added Pokémon battles, and it’s on sale I decided to finally give it a try

didn't get the chance.. one of my ram slots up and died for no good reason and I spent most of the weekend trying to figure out what the fuck happened to my computer

whoever designed AM5 motherboards gets the wall -- having to take your cpu fan & heatsink off to be able to get to the ram slots is pure aggravation

The new Tomodachi Life. I've been hoping they'd make a new one for years.

So far: it's hitting the spot goooooood.

Not huge into the drawing to customize everything aspect like they have in Animal Crossing, I think the lack of 3d detail really cuts into certain things, but using it to add a thing or two where I can to round out what they give you is real real clutch and fun. (I have a Ghengis Kahn mii and he lives in a yurt).

Going to try and make the island look like something out of Yokohama Shopping Log. Put some sunken skyscrapers in a bay maybe. I'll have to see when I get there.

Oh yeah and I dusted off ACNH while waiting for Tomodachi to get my fill since it patched recently. Still pleasent and perfect for winding down.

Hooked with Digimon cyber sleuth. Never grew up with Digimon but have always found myself wanting to give it a proper go. Disappointed that there's not many English titles. I've played Digimon World DS, Dusk/Dawn but maybe not that properly, guess I could give it a go on my phone on the side coz I'm travelling and can't use my PC anyway.

Hope somebody cracks time stranger in a way playing on Linux becomes possible.

Little bit of pokemon champions whenever I can't stand looking at the godot editor for a while. I'm trying to get all of the eevees together cuz I saw a hilarious team that uses them all and i want to play it.

Darkest Dungeon 2. It's super fun, though they got rid of most of the management stuff from the first game (it might be in the Kingdom mode, but I haven't touched it yet).

Smoochin' all the monsters in Look Outside

Tried the demo of Pragmata. It's good, but it's not $100 worth of good. I'll pick it up eventually.

Planescape: Torment, working on this one so I can finally stop trying to avoid spoilers for a game that's been around since the Clinton years.

I'm finding that if I get high enough, old games are just as much fun as new ones. Normally long dialogue trees bore me, but pop an edible and I'm down to grind some paragraphs for XP.

Played through persona 5 again (first time with Royal) They somehow made the game even more repetitive with text. People say the same things over and over again; first time when you are in person, then they all text each other, then they meet up in various locations throughout the day. Like good god it takes forever for the plot to advance.

I didn't really like any of the new additions in Royal; i mostly ended up skipping the SLs with the new characters, not really anything interesting happening in them. Otherwise still a decent game overall.

Beating my head against the wall that is Terraria Calamity Infernum mode. Some of the most difficult bosses that I've ever fought in any game, but it feels so good to finally master it.

About to start RE9 with my GF. She wants to get a bit more into gaming and i am trying to find games that are fun to watch (Expedition 33) or are still fun if you are terrible at controlling the game world (low stake 2D games) and of course coop games that are "little brother/GF friendly" (it takes two, split fiction).

Recently i also have been playing "lost and found co." With her and it has been a lot of fun. She really helps me in enjoying some of these games that I would never touch otherwise.

My laptop sucks and nearly exploded when trying to launch wotr so been plillars 1 and its great (the ACT 1 could have been less dry tho)

Valheim, just got to the mistlands. Gotta find some black forest and get the magic going.

Still doing TOTK but I started a no-evo run in Pokemon X/Y to get my mom to try the game. Haven't played XY since it launched, I think. Like 9 hours in and just getting to the 2nd gym.

Create Aeronautics is a mod for Minecraft that is itself an addon mod for Create.

Create Aeronautics adds a whole physics engine to Minecraft that somehow manages to be stable, intuitive and survival-friendly to interact with. You can now make planes, cars, airships and giant robots that are fully mobile, large enough to be your whole base and that barely scratches the surface of what's possible now (people are already experimenting with making magnet-powered artillery cannons). The developers are also some unbelievable paragons of virtue because they worked on this mod for 4 years and outright refused donations for that entire time.

It is safe to say that Minecraft modding has entered a new golden age.

Still on my Assassin's Creed Odyssey kick. I'm doing my first New Game+ and trying to hit level 99 so I can try out a damage glitch build. (I babbled about this last weekend, too; the TL;DR is that Ubisoft used a 16-bit signed integer for damage, and if you go negative, it loops back around to 16-bit MAX_INT, which is in the neighborhood of two billion.) I've managed to speed-clear all of the temples in the base game and most of the main questline, with a quick detour massacre cultists while

I managed to clear enough of the storyline to unlock the DLC questlines, so I'm shifting gears to do those for the extra ability points and the massively boosted XP. Once I hit level 99, I should already have enough ability points to do the aforementioned build, and then some. I can technically do it at level 91, but assassinations get unreliable below 99 with this setup. Either way, I should hit 99 partway through the Atlantis DLC; I'm looking forward to cheesing the ever-loving shit out of the Episode 2 end boss fight with integer underflow damage.

After this, I'm not really sure. Probably Octopath Traveler Zero or Clair Obscur. Or a quick Skyrim run if I can come up with a silly build concept to try (preferably with minimal mods).

I just finished Queen of Knives a Warhammer 40k novel. Without spoiling much its about Dark Eldar.

I've been playing some Tomodachi Life, but not as much as I expected. I was so excited for it but now it's here and I don't feel like playing it that much lol. Instead I've been all about playing Sonic again. I did a Sonic 3 & Knuckles playthrough as Knuckles for the first time, and I went back and played just Sonic 3 as Sonic again. I might do one more run as Tails and maybe with AIR since I've never tried it before. I also got the Decomp projects for Sonic 1/2/CD/Mania all set up on my computer so I might play those too. I definitely want to try Mania but I think first I might do another Sonic CD run with the CD Restored mod and maybe go for Sonic 2 again as well.

I finished mastering every item in Warframe, so now I move on to the more esoteric grinds of Perita to get the two remaining Taurons, Descendia to finish Roathe's story, the various weeklies, and the three remaining subsumes I'm missing.

Played some more Total Warhammer 3, my Cathay campaign as Yuan Bo is going quite well after uniting all of Cathay. I can finally focus on Lustria now. Skulltaker's just running around destroying all my settlements and then running away, the bastard. And right when I was going to go after Rakarth. Also Mazdamundi destroyed his own gold mine to spite me.

Been playing MOUSE: PI For Hire

Pretty decent game. I like the combination of noir detective story with steamboat willie era cartoon artstyle, along with it being a nice mixture of serious and parody. There's also some leftist undertones to it, especially with a lot of the bad stuff going on seeming to be connected to the in universe fascist/nazi party.

The gameplay's a bit underwhelming though ngl. Haven't figured out exactly why, but something about it just doesn't feel as tight as other games in the "boomer shooter" category. Though arguably it should maybe be grouped in more with something like Bioshock rather than Doom or DUSK, so maybe I'm just coming in with the wrong expectations.

I've been playing Atomic Heart which is a fun little explore-em-shoot-em-loot-em-up

I've been picking up games and putting them down. I've started like 4 but nothing's really keeping my interest.

I did play Abzu the other day while tripping on shrooms and it was an amazing experience. I went in completely blind and almost cried at the moment you step out of the water. The game was incredible from start to finish. It's short and really easy so you can beat it in one sitting.

I started Fallout 4 like 3 months ago but haven't had time to get back into it. I've easily been clocking 3-5 hours in that game each play session though. I'm not far at all but I have like 60 hours in it already.

I picked up Far Cry 3, 4, and 5 but haven't played them much past just getting them to run on Linux. FC5 has a lot of micro-stuttering on my system which sucks because that's the one that interests me the most. FC3 runs perfectly though.

My friend finally talked me into downloading Counter Strike 2. It's not my fav genre but it's fun to just jump in when him and his gaming friend group is on and just chill. Last time I played I even had a few match saving kills. I'm not the best at competitive shooters.

Other than that, a co-worker was talking up an old XBox exclusive title called The Darkness 2. It was $3 on Steam so I picked it up. I played the intro level last night and it's actually really fun. It's showing it's age a bit but I like it. You have these demon arms that let you grab enemies or throwable objects while also run and gunning. Think grav gun from Half-Life 2 but while you have regular guns out at the same time.

I'm playing In Stars and Time. So far I'm not really seeing what made everyone give it such high reviews. I'm not sure if I need to give it more time or if it made more sense when it first came out.

I bought a game called Sudeki on sale a while ago (it was two or three dollars) and finally got around to playing it. Honestly had a great time with it. The game itself wasn't even great or anything, and the ending was a huge disappointment, but it was hitting all the right JRPG beats and just kinda worked for me. It was originally released on the X-Box (the original), and the design is a pleasant relic of the time.

Worst part of the game imo is that the game is at its best when you have a full party and all of the characters are using all of their different abilities, but the devs decided to make literally every boss battle a solo fight with each of the characters getting one (multiple for the main character). That's fine for a few story / character specific ones, but doing that with every boss fight makes bosses the low points of the game.

There is also a very obnoxious sound bug in the last area (the snowy mountain fortress area), where the wind sound is absurdly loud and can't be turned down without basically just muting the game.

I wish there were more modern games that had this sort of scale, but with some more modern design sensibilities (especially with regard to quality of life features).

playing a lot of starfield since the free lanes update. hadnt really played much since release; mainly because it ran bad on my pc. finally decided to just power through some fps dips and have been enjoying it quite a bit. crafting and resource gathering is pretty tedious though. there isnt as much weapon customization as fallout 4, so it seems you can get by ignoring it until later in the game.

other than that ive done a bit of civ 7 here and there. waiting for the "test of time" update to really get back in it. honestly quite like the game. it is a little messy around the edges, but nothing that can't be fixed if the devs continue to support the game as they have in its first year. i am worried they are listening too much to the crowd that just want it to feel like a "traditional" civ game though.

Got to Master Ball rank in Pokemon Champions with a selfmade Mega Lopunny team, which I'm kinda proud of. Played competitive for a long time, but never VGC. My first self-made team was kind of a trainwreck, climbed to Ultra Ball with a copypasted Mega Starmie team, so pretty happy that a team I built myself got to Masters.

Didn't really play much last week but managed to unlock all the race types in Forza Motorsport 2 including the 1 hour long endurance races. I still have most of the career mode to complete but with each race type you have events accessible for each vehicle class. You are able to work through events with your starter vehicle while using unlocks to do events that those cars are eligible for. It isn't really a linear career mode which makes it much easier to pick up after a break.

I tried out Project Zomboid this week. Its very difficult and stealth focused but was enjoyable. Hopefully I can make it past 2 days with a character and start surviving at least for a week or so.

Playing Terra Invicta at the moment. Now that I've consolidated my power in and around India it's time to liberate Palestine

Started Animal Crossing New Leaf on the 3DS. I've pretty much done everything in New Horizons on the Switch, and I have a modded 3DS, so I'm using the "Welcome Luxury" mod that turns Bell bags black (as well as most buildings) and makes everything you sell roughly 10x more valuable. Day 2 and I already have 100K in the bank and I'm toting around something like 27K. I wasted my home expansion slot on a new mailbox (didn't realise that would lock me out of upgrading my home) so I gotta go back later and see if I can get that expansion.

Also played a little more Dragon Age 2 (Xbox 360, played on Xbox Series X). The combat is faster than the first one (DA:Origins) but the story isn't quite as engaging — maybe it just hasn't picked up yet. It's a fun game, but I don't care about any of the characters yet. Nice to see Kate Mulgrew is back, though (she played a witch in the first one and a dragon in the second one — it's the same character, though — I know her from Star Trek Voyager, as the captain; she was also the Russian cook in Orange is the New Black).