Reinstalled Subnautica with a bunch of mods.

So I have this really severe phobia of baleen whales, have all my life. I turn into a crying snotty mess, it's bad. It's even happened a few times scrolling on this site! (People post funny memes that my lizard brain takes as a threat).

My bf was surprised to see me installing this. Had to explain that it's only regular underwater scary, and that nothing in the game could be nearly as bad as a a typical "inspirational" image of our irl sea monsters.

Satisfactory only baby

Still haven't actually connected this bridge, but once I'm done I'll have quartz being turned into goodies.

I am getting stoned 2 da bone and raising a gay army in mount and blade

I've been playing through Wild Arms lately. It feels pretty antiquated compared to basically any of SquareSoft's PS1 JRPG output, being essentially a standard tile-based top-down 16-bit RPG with 3D only being made use of in battles. It predated FF7 and playing it helps appreciate just how huge of a technical milestone that game was. Compared to games that looked like this

FF7's cinematic camera angles, 3D character models and FMV cutscenes FF7 must've felt like it was from another universe. Even the 3D battles aren't that impressive looking:

Though I will say that the battles do at least feature models with fully texture-mapped polygons as opposed to the flat shading FF7 mostly used.

Wild Arms feels and looks kind of basic and the storytelling and characterisation fall short even when compared to Square games from the previous generation, but the game has a quick, breezy pace to it that's kept me weirdly hooked. You move from town to dungeon to boss and back again very quickly and there's basically no annoying minigames or cryptic side content to slow you down. I actually played Wild Arms as a kid but I remember it much less clearly than Square's PS1 JRPGs. Playing it now I realise I must've made it at least a decent ways in but I have no memories of specific plot beats, boss fights and events, which can probably be blamed on the basic presentation.

My main memory of the game was of its FMV intro animation and the incredible song that accompanies it

The vibe of the intro might make you think the game has a heavy spaghetti Western influence but aside from a few Western flourishes in the soundtrack, there being guns and one character wearing a duster and another being named Calamity Jane that's not really the case- everything is fairly standard JRPG fantasy fare which feels like a missed opportunity.

I might check out Wild Arms 2 when I'm done with this

Just finished disco elysium. That game was as good as everyone says it is, if not better. I loved the ending. The political quests were all good too.

Definitely not playing the new zelda now. I would never play something before its official release date

If I were to do something so heinous, I would probably say the furniture assembly puzzles are interesting, but I'm worried they're going to get repetitive. I was worried the combat would be terrible, and so far it's just meh

Who would win: one fully grown adult with decades of gaming experience actually studying the MvC 2 move sets and ideal team builds, or one elementary-aged kid button mashing with Cable?

Continuing Crosscode! Lovely game

Getting a New Vegas urge once again...

Played Frostpunk 2 this weekend. Not as good as Frostpunk 1, and uninstalled it after finishing my first playthrough.

I played dnd with some friends :)

I got to play a new character because my normal character is the subject of a rescue mission rn. I played a lvl 8 chronurgy wizard owlin named Thalos Starseer who is stuck in multiple intersecting time loops that occasionally drag him through universes and timelines. The only person he knows of with a fix is one of our bbegs

Playing Final Fantasy 16 following its PC release.

It's a fucking mess. For some ungodly reason the dash is mapped to pushing down the control stick. There is no option to change it from a hold to a toggle. That's not even getting into the entire rest of the game.

I swear I'll play something that isn't Wayhaven Chronicles soon...

been playing the leaked Echoes of Wisdom ROM, it's on fitgirl (deffo turn off v-sync if you're using ryujinx, ctrl-u turns off the fps cap for suyu too if you're using that)

it's okay, i appreciate them trying to do a more puzzle-focused zelda game. so far as of the first dungeon the puzzles are definitely more of a sandbox finish the room your way kinda deal vs more in-depth and constrained puzzles. it is pretty funny summoning a bunch of bats and running around spamming dodge as they murder your opponent, that and setting things on fire solves 80% of combat situations. dunno if i'll finish it, but i see a leaked game i gotta play it y'know

Started Dragon Quest for the GBC, the remake of 1+2. So far it's great, classic JRPG goodness. Also started playing Romancing SaGa 1 for the super famicom, the fan translation. I'm only about an hour into it but so far it's neat. A non-linear JRPG is always cool to see.

Back on my Baldur's Gate bullshit. Massively cleaned up my modlist, since there was still a bunch of kludgy bullshit from pre-patch 2 in there, and relishing this gunslinger mod I found. Like, I'm the thembo at the table who constantly drafts arcane cowboys for the pathfinding and dungeoneering; so getting to introduce proper revolvers to faerun is scratching such a heavy weird west itch right now.

Just got 2nd. place in the MtG: Duskmourn pre-release for Two Headed Giant after we went 3-1. Now I'm pretty worn out and probably won't do anything until tomorrow (just get comfy in bed and phone post).

We didn't win any of our games with our rares. All of our wins came from casting 6 mana cycling creatures and running over everyone's 2/2s.

I've spent the past week or so modding STALKER Anomaly the oldschool way (making a compatible mod manager work with it on Linux Mint has been less of a nightmare than sorting out compatibilities) with the intention of making a pacifistic run more rewarding and enjoyable. It has been less successful than I would have hoped, many of the artifact and task mods just aren't what I'm looking for and roleplaying as an ecologist might just be a boring experience at its core. I want Roadside Picnic: The Game rather than "Tarkov but single player and free" like the rest of the modding community seems to want.

I have a lot of feelings about killing people innazone and would prefer to keep that to a bare minimum you know?

Still playing dmc5. Doing a Dante Must Die run right now

We’re about 1 session away from finishing our first DND 5e campaign as a party and it’s going really well. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle for anyone who’s curious.

I beat the original 40k Space Marine game yesterday. Still playing through Tactical Breach Wizards. Gonna start a new game of Rogue Trader when the expansion drops on Tuesday.

I introduced the kids to Vampire Survivors which means I had to demonstrate Vampire Survivors so now I’m back to playing Vampire Survivors.

In turn, my daughter introduced me to Monster Train, which is just as good as everyone says and a great fit for tablet gameplay.

UFO 50. I have cherried the first game, barbuta.(basically beat it with a special condition that is revealed after beating it the first time).

I've tried about 9 games so far. Taking each game fairly slowly, there's a good mix of light games and thinking games already so I'm going to focus on beating them before I try the other 40 games. I have seen the demo reel of other games in the collection and am very excited to try them all out.

Oh and I'm replaying monster hunter rise currently. Learning charge blade. Just hit high rank and its going good, I have a backup dual blade if I hit a wall of a monster. But I only used it once already to farm some parts since I struggle with hitting specific location with charge blade currently. I have played entirely through sunbreak already and reached like anomaly rank 200 something. Not sure how far I'll get on this playthrough but I certainly want to farm some anomaly hunts.

been playing a bunch of Satisfactory, gotten myself to Tier 7 which is the furthest I've gotten

also been throwing in some Deadlock, been having a bit of fun with that now that I know what I'm doing

thinking about picking up Ultrakill or replaying some Doom 2016 for some level design inspiration for game dev stuff too :)

Baldur's Gate 3 mostly. Maybe I'll find time for Monstroscopy.

Played some Satisfactory, since 1.0 released. Still haven't made it to where I was last time (oil IIRC), so no new stuff to report.

Also playing Soulstone Survivors while listening to Blowback S5. It's okay but I've unlocked everything except for the big grind of hitting max level in every class so it's kind of unengaging.

Back on my advance wars 2 for GBA bullshit

Seems like the battery in my rg353 is dying, only lasts like 90 minutes playing gba now

i tried to play Download the Future on hard in pistol whip. I am not ready for the future, apparently

I'm just starting Grandia on an emulator on my laptop right now.

Been playing a fuckton of Satisfactory with a friend. Great game, easily recommend to anyone that enjoy automation/engineering games.

battlefield 1 is a fun, quality game. for me, it's the right balance of sweat and casual. i like the horse