Still on my anime games kick but I took a break from Dragon Ball on the famicom to read some comic books.

Cassette Beasts! I finally burnt out on Pokemon and had the time-slot for another monster collector. Great music, story, art direction, etc.. It officially dethroned Darkest Dungeon as my favorite game.

I'm playing Potion Craft and I love it, it's the perfect relaxation game

I decided to replay Green Hell but it's been so long since I played through it I'm having to relearn stuff

Finished ac6. Game fun, occasionally bullshit.

Making another attempt to play Planescape: Torment (original from 1999... still have the four disks). I've tried to beat this game several times over the decades, but something would always happen to make me lose interest before completing it.

Managed to get lutris to install the game so that's promising. Also, its probably going to take me a year with the limited about of playtime a day. So this might wind up being another unsuccessful attempt. (Also also, I'm remembering that I have a pathologically hard time playing a roleplaying game as a "bad" guy.)

Been playing lots of UFO 50, the dino tower defense mostly and enjoying that.

Been continuing my persona 5 playthrough, and it has really grown on me, the mechanics and plot have gel'd nicely and I'm happy to do either. Just finished the summer break. Just met the gamer kid who teaches us how to shoot better lol.

I've been at the new Project Zomboid build. I've settled into one of those big houses with tall fences in the south of Muldragh and I'm trying to set it up for long term. The late game stuff seems a lot more developed now with significantly more complex agriculture, smithing, and crafting. It's kind of all too much for single player though, like it could take months if not years of ingame time to master all of it and it's also easy enough to loot that it's like why bother?

Idk I'm having fun at least.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), I found this cool mod that adds in new eras based off The Clone Wars. Commando droids are overpowered and it's cool to have a magnaguard with a proper shock staff instead of the weird grenade launcher that vanilla swbf2 has.

Trails of Cold Steel. Compared to the other games in the series the writing is closer to light novel slop, but I am still enjoying the worldbuilding, combat and character interactions so I don't know what that says about me. I have heard that the fourth one is abysmal though so I might suffer when I get there. I really want to play the games after Reverie though so I will have to manage

Played a decent bunch of Brotato's new DLC. The second map seems quite a bit harder, but I'm having fun.

Just finished a Total Warhammer 3 game as Chaos Undivided, in the Realm of Chaos campaign. The RoC campaign SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS. Worse than TW2's Vortex. I don't know how CA keeps doing this, but the completely randomly spawning armies is still just as infuriating. Guess I'll just play Immortal Empires from now on because goddamn.

Also been playing a good chunk of Darktide. Ogryn good, throw rock at specials and laugh.

Picked up Mass Effect trilogy remastered on a lark because it was cheap and I didn't know if my computer could run it. Turns out it does. However, I can only muster the motivation to play it late at night and stumbling into ridiculously deep dialogue trees when I want to sleep is really having an impact on my enjoyment of the game.

I'm replaying The Witcher 3, after finishing Cyberpunk 2077 last week I decided to replay TW3 to see if my nostalgia was wrong and TW3 wasn't that much better than Cyberpunk and no TW3 is much better than C2077.

Currently playing through Heretic which is fun but I'm a sucker for Doom clones.

Playing through the telltale games, just finished wolf among us and batman season 1. Playing batman season 2 right now. The quick time events have gotten pretty old pretty fast. But the stories are fun and choices feel important.

Been playing CK3 the last couple of weeks. I just moved into a new place and I don’t have most of my stuff set up so I’ve just played a bit of that on my laptop. I think I’m getting an itch to get back into deliverance: kingdom come again once I have my Xbox set up

Path of Exile 2.

Echo Point Nova showed up on my radar. I watched a few vids with my kid and we were both like, "get it."

EPN is a game that even the devs describe as Titanfall/movement shooter mixed with Tony Hawk Pro Skater. You get wall running, a hover board, a grappling hook, and about 25 different guns to play with. You also get a perk system to modify how the game plays. For example, shooting the ground launches you in the air, wall riding refills ammo, last bullet explodes, shooting airborne ememies make them explode, etc. The guns also level up as you use them, so you get like a double shotgun with a silencer, for example. The game world is huge, the bosses are huge, the enemies are plenty and the gunplay and combat feels really good.

The game has an accessibility menu where you can turn stuff on and off on the fly too. If you need auto-aim, it has that. It also has an extra auto aim option that does leading shots, so you shoot where the enemy is going instead of where they are currently. You get infinite bullet time and a few others. It's a bit cheaty but for a game like this, it's really nice for a crappy gamer like me because I can just have fun.

Oh, also you can grapple your own RPG rockets when you shoot them to fly across the world. You can use this to reach the stratosphere of the game world. I tested last night but at a certain height, the game physics starts to mess with the rockets and they sort of just lob out instead. But yeah rocket grapple. Also the speed runs of this game are insane.

So yeah, Echo Point Nova.

Just started playing Pacific Drive. I'm not really a car person but I am enjoying taking care of my jalopy. Also tourists are the worst.

Against my better judgement I started playing Magic: The Gathering Arena again. I've not played a single other live service game for any sort of extended period of time, but Magic has gotten to me (Magic might as well be the original live service game after all), I've probably played like 2000 hours of that game.

helldivers 2 is fun

also finished going through all of the no more heroes games, funny enough I think I liked the top-down spinoff-ish one the most. perfectly serviceable beat-em-up but you can really feel that there was a decade of pent-up vibes being poured into it, wonderfully weird shit if you're into it

I'm still playing wow, cataclysm classic specificly. Nothing quite like gathering up a crew of 24 other dumb nerds and fight big bad evil things.

If it wasn't for being able to buy game time with in game gold I probably would've stop playing forever ago. Blizzard will never see a dollar of my own money again, but fuck me the game they built just tickles my brain in all the correct ways

Managed to get cities skylines 2 to stop turning my computer into the elephant's foot by throttling the cpu to 95%. It also only usually crashes after a while except when it does right away now.

I've got pretty nice little city now, with what I think is a pretty natural and pleasing density gradient - mostly midrises. Spent a while to retrofit an elevated highway and interchange along one of the city's axes and it works pretty nicely now. Not even a monstrosity except for a pretty suspect bridge and a truly terrifying merge scheme that has merges immediately before and in-line with exits.

The tools for drawing roads etc. definitely work and can achieve nice results with a little forethought, but they remain cumbersome and fiddly (especially if you have OCD). Moveit is basically indispensible as a tool to scooch things around if you want things to look a particular way.